I've Become the King of Villains in the Game

"Huff!"

Chen Lun sat up from the bed, taking deep breaths.

Cold sweat fell from his forehead, dripping onto the back of his hand.

"I'm not dead?!"

He looked around and found himself unexpectedly back in the hut, lying on a simple bed.

"What on earth happened...? I remember I was by the lake, and that statue glared at me, then my Sanity fell to zero leading to instant death!"

Chen Lun's face darkened as he touched the sapphire earrings at his right ear.

"It didn't trigger protection..."

In his mind flashed the image of the last alert that had popped up, in scarlet letters.

Angel!

He had been glanced at by an angel at the end of the Sequence!

Chen Lun felt his skin crawl.

"No wonder... If everything that happened wasn't an illusion, being noticed by such an existence would surely mean death... But why am I still alive?"

He began to check himself carefully but found no injuries.

Yet on his panel, he unexpectedly discovered a new entry—

[Nature's Favor LV1 (Blessing)]

Blessing description: An angel of the Nature Faction, Maggie Milna, has noticed you and granted you a blessing.

Blessing effect: For [Sequence Nine-Beast Tamer], all Skill Levels +1, all Attributes +1.

It was true!

Chen Lun took a deep breath.

That really was the statue of an angel! And her name... Maggie! Maggie Milna!

"Philip's lover... is actually an angel?!"

Chen Lun was shocked by this information.

It took him a long while to regain his composure.

"Moreover, this angel even gave me a permanent Blessing, could She be well-intentioned towards me...?"

Blessings are a power possessed only by High Sequence Transcendents, even by the deities. It is one of the reasons why game bosses and players have such a huge gap. Transcendents with Blessings are often much more powerful than other Transcendents of the same Sequence.

After a while, Chen Lun found that a light suddenly flickered in his mind.

When he tried to touch it with his spirit, it felt as if he activated something—

[Angel Statue activated! Current stored Sanity Points: 378!]

Simultaneously, Chen Lun mysteriously understood everything that had just happened.

It turned out that when Maggie had looked at him, his Sanity Value had not fallen to zero, but had dropped to 1 Point. Immediately following, the Sanity Value stored within the statue replenished and offset his loss, restoring him to a healthy state.

This process was so fast that Chen Lun mistook it for instant death when in reality, it was not. It was actually a ceremony, one that allowed him to unlock a new "switch."

In this fictional world, this new "switch"—the Angel Statue—could store Sanity and was at the disposal of Chen Lun, its new master.

Each time the fictional world was activated, Sanity would slowly deplete over time, explaining why his Sanity Value was continuously deducted after his initial entry.

Now in control, he no longer had to worry about running out of Sanity Value and consequently running out of time. However, he needed to be aware that the statue's reserve of Sanity could one day be exhausted.

"A statue that can store Sanity Value? And there's the Safe Hut and that lake... What was this 'Immortal Realm' fictional world created for...?"

Chen Lun calmed down to digest the complex information.

"To fulfill Philip's last wish... to explore that real 'Immortal Realm'?

If that's the case, this place seems more like a training ground, designed to get accustomed to that environment beforehand."

He let out a sigh, seeming to have figured out some of the problems. Your journey continues at empire

But soon, he had new doubts.

Where exactly is that real "Immortal Realm" and how bizarre and absurd it must be that Philip was so cautious, to the point that even Maggie, as an angel, must protect and escort it.

"Forget it; this is beyond my understanding for now..."

Chen Lun put these puzzles to the back of his mind, to slowly unravel in the future.

He got up from the bed and once again left the hut, returning to the lakeside.

Maggie's statue still stood there, facing the lake, staring quietly. It seemed to have returned to its original state, just an ordinary statue.

But Chen Lun knew, Her gaze could be cast over at any moment.

"For now, this angel doesn't seem to bear any ill will towards me, or else I would've died a long time ago..."

He secretly felt fortunate.

He just didn't know whether his body had entered "Philip's Dreamland Adventure" or it was merely his spirit or spirituality.

"I'll find an opportunity to try..."

He thought to himself.

Looking around, there was dead silence, not a single sign of any living creature.

He took a deep breath and leaped directly into the lake like a fish diving into the water.

Splash!

The bottom of the icy lake was pitch-black.

Following the directions, Chen Lun swam towards the darkness.

When he emerged back to the surface after passing through the darkness, he found that the environment had changed.

This was a dim forest with tall trees growing densely, covering the sky. A breeze blew from all around, rustling the surroundings. No birdsong or insect chirp could be heard, nor could any signs of animal activity be seen.

The scene before his eyes was dismal and dark gray, utterly devoid of vitality.

Chen Lun climbed out of the small pool he was in, just about to take off his drenched clothes to wring them out, but he found that his clothes were not wet at all, not even damp.

He paused.

Turning around to look, the small pool too had disappeared, as if it had never existed.

"..."

Chen Lun remained silent.

He felt that everything was not right and was filled with a sense of strangeness.

Surrounded by endless trees in every direction with no points of reference, he could not determine which way to go for the time being.

Taking out the Silver Staff for Divination, but when he released it, he found that the staff spun in place like a top, apparently indicating nothing... Of course, this could also be interpreted as every direction being very dangerous.

With no other option, Chen Lun kept his guard up and began walking in a random direction.

Rustle rustle...

The wind blew continuously, and Chen Lun, stepping on dry branches and fallen leaves, made faint noises.

As he walked, he counted silently in his mind. After roughly over an hour, he had made marks along the way, confirming that he was indeed moving forward and not walking in circles.

But the environment had hardly changed; the same countless tall trees and obscuring foliage were all around. This caused a faint sense of irritation in Chen Lun because his Sanity was continuously being depleted.

He checked the Sanity Value stored in the statue, which had decreased by about 70 points.

It was roughly one point per minute.

"This won't do..."

Chen Lun thought to himself.

He stopped and tried kicking a nearby tree with one foot.

Boom!!

The powerful kick snapped the tree in half at the waist, making a thunderous noise as it fell heavily to the ground.

Another dull crash, the tree hit the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Chen Lun suddenly frowned.

As expected, things had changed!

The fallen tree began to collapse and disintegrate, then transformed into countless tiny particles that sank into the ground. Where the tree had stood, a new one began to grow rapidly.

The whole process was extremely quick, finished in just a few breaths.

Right at that moment.

Chen Lun's "Spiritual Intuition" suddenly flashed a warning!

Danger!

Extreme danger!

His heart pounding, he did not hesitate and dashed madly in another direction.

After he had fled several hundred meters, he looked back and his pupils contracted.

Rumble rumble!!

He saw a colossal hand, covering the sky, reaching down to where he had just been standing, scooping up mounds of earth and uprooting countless trees.

The Giant hand was covered with rotting, bizarre berries, each one marked with grotesque patterns.

Just one glance made Chen Lun feel dizzy.

"[Witnessing a mysterious contamination! Sanity -10!]"

"[By observing, you have gained the Supernatural Knowledge contained within the 'Waste Giant'!]"

"[Nature Faction, Sequence Six - Berry Picker (1/10)!]"