I've Become the King of Villains in the Game

Chapter 781: Chapter 480: Return to the Crystal Mountain Range

The white-haired old man in the painting, dressed as a traveler in a tawny robe and a pointed hat, lay curled up motionless in a corner of the ground.

His face still bore a petrified expression of fear, as if frozen in the last moment of being trapped inside the painting, his arms tightly clutching a backpack that partly exposed some scrolls from its side pockets.

“Mage Carmen?”

Chen Lun stood in front of the easel, calling out in a deep voice.

He wiped the bloodstains from his face with a handkerchief, deliberately controlling his gaze to avoid looking at the terrifying figure in a yellow robe on the canvas.

However, silence pervaded the surroundings, the old man in the painting showed no response.

Chen Lun furrowed his brows, unable to determine whether Carmen could sense the external disturbance; the only certainty was that the other party was still alive, otherwise the A-rank mission he had taken from Miss Fleurette would have been deemed a failure long ago.

‘How should I rescue him from within the painting…’

He suddenly felt it was a daunting task.

Chen Lun looked around and began a methodical search of the room, trying to find some clues, but the outcome was disappointing—there was nothing noteworthy anywhere.

He sighed in resignation and returned to the front of the easel.

But at that moment, Chen Lun seemed to notice something. His gaze shifted to the old man in the corner of the painting, his expression grew tense.

‘There should have been a scroll by the side of the backpack he was holding, now why is it missing?’

Quickly, he found the edge of a scroll that was pressed under the old man’s body, partially exposed and seemed to be inscribed with some extremely small text in blood.

‘Carmen can sense the disturbances from the outside world; he must have heard my call just now, and thus is sending me a message…’

Chen Lun realized.