CH 92

Lin Lei looked towards the source of the voice.

There, Diana was looking at Lin Lei with an unhappy look on her face.

Lin Lei couldn’t help but smile.

“Then I really must thank Princess Diana.”

“I wonder, Your Highness, why are you helping me?”

Hearing Lin Lei’s words, Diana couldn’t help but feel slightly stunned.

Why was she helping this fellow?

She used to be bullied by Lin Lei every single day, shouldn’t she have just watched him suffer?

Why was it that she couldn’t help but want to help Lin Lei?

Diana could feel her little face turning slightly hot. She couldn’t help but gently bite her red lips as she said to Lin Lei, “There’s no such thing as ‘why’.”

“You are enemies with that old b*stard of the Kazan Empire and the Seventh Prince of the Molmo Empire. In that case, we are friends.”

“Helping you, of course, is also helping myself. Is there anything strange about this?”

Lin Lei frowned.

Diana was just talking. Why was her face suddenly blushing?

Seeing the change in Lin Lei’s expression, Diana couldn’t help but feel her heart quicken. She was rather afraid.

That b*stard Lin Lei… could it be that he had discovered her identity?

Seeing Diana’s strange expression, Linley felt rather strange.

Princess Diana didn’t seem to be very intelligent.

“Right, Lin Lei,” Diana suddenly said.

“Do you want to form an alliance with the Melsas Empire?”

Hearing Diana’s words, Lin Lei pondered about it for a moment.

“An alliance?”

“I’m sorry, but I’m a lone ranger. I don’t really like things like an alliance, but if we need to help each other in the future, we can help each other out.”

Hearing this, Diana nodded.

At this moment, Lin Lei said to Diana in a soft voice, “Right. Princess Diana, you’d better pay attention to that fellow by your side, the Crimson Commander.”

Diana frowned.

The Crimson Commander?

How could this be?

The Crimson Commander represented the Shaq Empire. The Shaq Empire and the Melsas Empire had been on friendly terms for generations. How could he betray her?

Lin Lei seemed to have seen through Diana’s thoughts.

“Empires are empires. Individuals are individuals. I hope that Your Highness will not be confused between the two.”

After speaking, Lin Lei didn’t hesitate any longer. He immediately turned and left.

During the battle just now, the minor movements between the Seventh Prince and the Crimson Commander had been rendered visible by Lin Lei’s ‘Eye of discernment’.

The information Lin Lei had provided was enough to repay Princess Diana for helping him earlier.

But of course, whether or not Diana believed him was up to her.

Now that the vampire elder had died, the atmosphere in the area had gradually become much more solemn.

Everyone within the ruins was silent, moving towards the path behind the boundary.

“Kid, the next level of the ruins is right ahead,” The desolate sword sage said to Linley after walking for a while.

“As you know, the ruins are divided into three levels. We need that ring to enter the first level, but after that, we won’t need it.”

“In other words, entering the second level has nothing to do with the ring.”

Lin Lei frowned as he asked, “Could it be that there are other requirements for entering the second level of the ruins?”

Seeing this, Bud nodded.

“Right. As you know, the layers of space within the Beilageluoya Empire are becoming more and more unstable.”

“Although the first level can now completely accommodate us, once we reach the second level, it will no longer be able to hold so many people.”

“Last time, when the ruins opened, only thirty people entered the second floor. But now, the space within the ruins is even more unstable. Most likely, fifteen people or less will be the limit.”

Lin Lei nodded.

He looked at his surroundings. Right now, there were still nearly thirty people left.

Did this mean that only half of them would be able to enter the second floor?

Lin Lei frowned slightly. Another life-and-death battle was most likely about to begin.

However, Lin Lei didn’t care too much about this. After all, given his current level of power, there was no way he wouldn’t be able to enter the second floor.

But right now, Lin Lei’s eyes were narrowed slightly as he looked at the nearby Bud.

“Uncle Bud, something is wrong with you. You sound as though you’ve been here before.”

Hearing Lin Lei’s words, the corner of Bud’s lips couldn’t help but twitch slightly.

Lin Lei looked at Bud. The more he looked at him, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Last time, Bud had explained to him the relationship between the five great empires. In addition, he also knew every single level of the ancient ruins of the Beilageluoya Empire like the back of his hand.

Bud was merely a middle-ranked sage who had lived for thousands of years. How could he possibly know so much in detail?

Up until now, when they had passed through by boundary stone, Bud had been acting as though he knew what was going to happen.

For example, that there would suddenly be spatial turbulence, and there would be hurricanes.

Before even seeing the boundary stone, he had already told everyone in advance that they were about to reach it.

In addition, he knew what he had to pay attention to in order to enter the second floor.

If the five great empires of the God-blessing level had also known about this, Lin Lei wouldn’t care so much. After all, the five great empires had countless resources.

Ten thousand years ago, after the people then had finished their exploration, they had left behind all sorts of information to inform their descendants. They would always be able to learn some information from these ancestors.

But Bud, the desolate sword sage, was a native of the Beilageluoya Empire. He had never even left the empire before. How could he know so much about what had happened in the ruins ten thousand years ago?

Bud stared at Lin Lei. He couldn’t help but fall silent.

Bud could tell that there was a hint of coldness in Lin Lei’s eyes.

After a long while, Bud sighed helplessly.

“Kid, if I told you that I am a reincarnated person, would you believe me?”

“A reincarnated person?”

Lin Lei murmured to himself.

The words which Bud had said were out of Lin Lei’s imagination.

As long as one was able to reach the sage level of power, the soul within one’s body would be able to leave the body and survive.

Even if one’s body was destroyed, as long as one’s soul was still present, one would have a chance to survive.

But of course, a sage who had died of old age won’t be able to do this. Even a soul has its own lifespan. It won’t be able to forcibly extend its lifespan through reincarnation.

Hearing this, Lin Lei nodded.

“So, Uncle Bud, when the ruins began ten thousand years ago, you had been here once?”

Bud nodded after a long time.

“Right. Ten thousand years ago, I came to these ruins, entered the second floor, and even acquired the starcloud fruit.”