The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 110: Chapter 109: The Weeping Blood Moon

Even as his body was nearly embedded between the rocky layers and giant roots, Yi Chen’s expression bore a strange smile.

This was the first time he had used his weapon’s “Full Moon Form” against an enemy, and the sight of the Moon Seal on the Village Chief’s neck meant the attack had already taken effect.

He had never thought he could kill the Village Chief with a single strike—it was always meant to be a battle of endurance.

Being attacked in midair was also within expectations

A “Palm Strike” with a larger area of impact like the one just now was a luck-dependent option, Yi Chen could utilize muscle contraction and body rotation to perform a Receiving Body in midair.

Apart from a broken rib and a slight shock to his internal organs, the situation was still relatively good.

“Hmm? Strange… why isn’t the Village Chief attacking yet?”

According to Yi Chen’s estimation, he had to move quickly, or the Village Chief’s enormous boots would crush this place beneath his foot.

But as he found his footing among the wall craters and saw what was happening outside, his eyes widened in shock!

A lightning-fast white silhouette took advantage of the environment around the High Wall Base, switching positions by leaping off the dangling roots around, and launched rapid assaults on the Village Chief.

While her claw attacks could only create sparks across the Village Chief’s surface, they essentially pinned him down.

Yi Chen took the opportunity to look at the Village Chief’s neck, where the Moonlight faintly shone, even able to catch glimpses of the time-skipping rats scurrying across.

“The effect of the Moon Seal seems quite good… But to Break Defense on someone as hard as the Village Chief, I’ll need to carve a few more Moon Seals onto him.”

Without any hesitation,

Yi Chen immediately coordinated an attack with the girl Lene, joining forces against the Village Chief.

Perhaps sensing the threat of the weapon, the Village Chief started paying more attention to Yi Chen, even choosing sometimes to ignore Lene’s attacks in favor of pushing Yi Chen back.

Clang! Another resonant clang of metal striking metal.

The Round Moon Axe Blade cleaved the Village Chief’s waist, leaving a deeper gash than the one on his neck, and the Moon Seal lit up.

As the price for that attack,

the Village Chief’s direct kick landed squarely on Yi Chen’s abdomen, revealing a terrible bulge on his back, almost puncturing through his body!

Relying on instinctual Receiving Body movements and the flexibility trained into his Physique, he withstood the kick,

Boom! His body, spiraling through the air, hit the boundary wall at an even faster Speed and got embedded deeper.

Gulp—a large mouthful of fresh blood spat out. @@novelbin@@

Inside, the little grape also started cursing:

“Do you really have to risk so much for an effective attack? Do you realize that if that kick was a bit higher, it would have hit me here?”

“Grapes for you afterward~ I won’t mess up,” Yi Chen responded, then bit directly into a massive root beside him, ignoring the mix of blood and meaty taste between the roots, and swallowing forcefully.

Buzz! His vitality was immediately replenished.

At that moment, Yi Chen cracked an exaggerated smile of excitement, entering “Paradise State” and transforming the pain in his body into a stimulant, once again pushed off from deep in the wall and closed in rapidly on the Village Chief.

Clang clang clang!

Continuous clanging sounds echoed as Yi Chen took several direct hits from the Village Chief… the worst of which, snap! He failed to fully dodge a Direct Punch, which landed on his left shoulder, tearing his entire arm off and sending it flying.

In exchange, a total of “Six Paths” of Moon Seals were etched across the Village Chief’s body, with the Moonlight-constructed rats covering him entirely, gnawing all over.

The Break Defense effect had reached its peak!

The formerly impregnable muscles were riddled with tiny holes from the Moon Rats’ biting, losing their previous defensive capacity.

Even the Village Chief himself became weaker, his speed and strength far less than before.

At that moment, a white figure flashed in, crossing her claws over the Village Chief’s back…

The sound was no longer metallic slicing, but a real tearing of flesh—the Village Chief’s back was completely ripped open, exposing the mechanical structures inside.

“Lene! Go for the umbilical cord hidden inside the Village Chief first!”

Yi Chen, with his left arm severed not too far away, called out with this advice.

Lene rapidly searched inside the Village Chief through the torn opening.

A worm-like thing was wriggling among the intestines—she was certain that this was the “umbilical cord”… For some reason, upon seeing the umbilical cord, Lene’s thoughts became extremely chaotic.

Scenes she had never seen before, belonging to neither the village nor the forest, flashed through her mind.

Even her Pupils started to reflect some dark surrealist paintings.

Such hesitation was a taboo in battle!

Smack! With a twist and swing of his arm, the Village Chief struck Lene in the abdomen.

Even as his power was weakened by the moonlight, he still managed to send Lene flying, crashing heavily into the edge… The dust rose, temporarily obscuring the girl’s figure.

“Lene!”

Yi Chen shouted loudly, at the same time inserting a healing injection into his neck to replenish the life essence lost due to his left arm fracture.

He burst into full speed immediately, charging toward the Village Chief, ready to exploit the vulnerability caused by the moonlight to execute him and sever the umbilical cord inside his body, leaving no chance for any resistance.

However… he was still one step too slow.

Whoosh!

The umbilical cord drilled out from the Village Chief’s navel, just like the last time.

The cord wrapped around the Village Chief’s neck, forming a “hanging state,” as a renewed power not belonging to the Village Chief coursed through his entire body.

Not only were the torn openings on his back rapidly repaired,

even the Moon Seal scars that Yi Chen had painstakingly branded on the surface of his skin were slowly growing new flesh, rapidly closing up, and the moon rats covering the Village Chief’s body were also dispersing.

The rejuvenation that came with the umbilical cord was counteracting the moonlight.

Without hesitation, Yi Chen continued his charge, wielding the axe with his single arm, switching to the most aggressive “Slaughter Form”.

“The chance is only in the present. If the Village Chief recovers, both Lene and I will die here! I must cut off this nearly cheating umbilical cord before his body fully recovers.”

He leapt up,

his gaze firmly locking onto the umbilical cord around the Village Chief’s neck,

His body bent backward in a bow shape and tensed up, storing the power between his muscles,

Just at that moment,

The Village Chief, who had been bowing his head, suddenly turned it sideways, glaring at Yi Chen with crimson eyes,

His arms also lifted, his terrifying physical speed fully restored!

The exaggeratedly large hand blocked in front of Yi Chen, with spread fingers almost covering the view… The palms also regrew the structure of steel and rock layers, with hardness restored as well!

The Village Chief was very confident in his physical body,

He was sure he could block the impending chop and simultaneously catch Yi Chen’s head and crush it!

In that instant,

Yi Chen’s brain also completed the analysis of the current situation, deducing that he would likely die here, with no time left for lengthy last words, only managing to convey a brief message to the companion inside him.

“Little Grape, if I die! Remember to take my body back to the Twilight Clinic for burial; we might see each other again someday.”

After this message was conveyed, there was no verbal response,

but instead, a surge of extremely strong heartbeats came through, accompanied by an infusion of life essence throughout his body, even causing some black hair to grow on the surface of Yi Chen’s arms.

Simultaneously,

A strand of moonlight as thick as a finger actually managed to penetrate the high wall and seep into such deep underground roots, falling precisely onto the surface of the axe blade.

The Slaughter Form’s axe blade immediately wrapped in a strange layer of moonlight, as if merging two forms of the weapon into one.

Slice!

Like a pale moon dripping with bloody tears, it arced through the air,

cutting through all the hard substances in front, breaking everything,

The hand covered with a mixture of rock and steel layers and the entire outstretched arm,

The Village Chief’s shocked face and the umbilical cord looped around his neck,

The torso, muscle layers, and the organs hidden inside,

Yi Chen’s figure slid diagonally through the air, landing on one knee!

One second after he fell,

Thump! The Village Chief’s half of the body also slid down, splashing up a large amount of foul mud.

Perhaps it was through the joint training with the Twilight Clinic and this mission that his physical body kept growing while being damaged and fighting desperately,

Perhaps his physique had transformed and further sculpted through actual combat,

Perhaps it was the special life essence supplied by Little Grape that stimulated his relentlessly refined body in unprecedented ways,

Or perhaps it was the exhilaration from slaughtering the Village Chief,

In front of the retina,

Ancient information was displayed, writhing like maggots.

[Physique] increased from [3] to [4].