The Gentleman at the End

Chapter 199: Chapter 198: Arrival

Simulated biological constructs, combined with steel, bones, and flesh, crafted the underground arena.

Moon Scar-Lorrian was invited as the ‘Quality Inspector’ to conduct live combat tests on ten monsters recently developed by Director Cao,

belonging to a special scenario that only appears in ‘Disaster Mode,’ with the danger level maxed out.

But… an hour passed.

The entire audience fell silent,

none of the teaching staff dared to speak,

The councilmen representing the orphanage’s senior management, their faces covered in black cloth, all radiated disappointment, seeming to plan on significantly reducing funding for Institute No. 1 through a special kind of brainwave communication.

On the field,

the elevator lady, affected by the specialization of Moon Seal, had transformed into a humanoid hunting dog, cloaked in black hair, slender, with pale skin.

Her spine was enhanced and extended through her hair, reaching a total length of two and a half meters,

and her limbs sprang out claws structured like surgical knives,

her head unchanged, still covered by dense black hair, which had become more abundant, more robust, and sharper.

The interior of her brain was branded with the Moon Seal, gleaming with a silver light.

The elevator lady, although injured in many places with her bones starkly revealed… yet she still circled around Moon Scar, viewing him as the absolute “Master.”

Lorrian was standing on an electric saw skull, performing surgery on himself, repairing the side of his body that had been cut open by the saw.

The whole person appeared slightly weak and even coughing up some blood,

but the ten subjects that had made Director Cao proud were all killed—quality inspection completed!

“How could this be!?”

Director Cao, sitting in a bio-metal chair, her face full of shock, had no interest in what was happening in other areas, even temporarily setting aside Yi Chen who was in the “Nursery.”

Director Cao stared at Moon Scar’s right eye, which had been suddenly unveiled a short while ago.

“What kind of ability is this!”

Five minutes earlier, the situation on the field had not been like this,

The premium subjects exhibited their traits and coordination, continuously suppressing the young Moon Scar, and the elevator lady had been torn in half.

Just as victory was within grasp,

Moon Scar suddenly uncovered the bandages over his right eye,

Instantly, the entire audience, as if drawn by some force, all looked up.

The moon, which should have been outside the building, hanging in the sky, had actually infiltrated the building, arriving at this underground arena deep beneath, suspended overhead.

‘Moon Descent’

Due to a betting restriction, his ability was limited to 90%.

Lorrian couldn’t truly use this move to its full effect, and the moon in the eyes of the audience only lasted five seconds… it also temporarily blinded Lorrian’s right eye, at least for the duration of this match.

But that was enough.

The elevator lady, having witnessed ‘Moon Descent,’ immediately had her Moon Seal activated, her severed upper and lower body connected through her hair, transforming into a terrifying canine structure, doubling her combat effectiveness.

The opposing monsters also began to slow down,

their vision impacted by something akin to ‘Mirrored Flower and Moon,’ always seeing two of the same things, unable to distinguish reality from illusion.

Instantly, the situation on the field was reversed, leading to what it is now.

Lorrian stitched up his sawn-open body, spitting out some bits of internal organs, re-covered his right eye with a bandage, and muttered softly, “The feeling of having abilities restricted is really uncomfortable… Winning tens of thousands of points from the Duke seems truly challenging.”

Gently stroking the caninized elevator lady, he looked towards Director Cao on the high platform.

“It’s your turn now, come on down.”

Click-click~

Director Cao began to sequentially release various metal tubes, flexible hoses, and cable structures connected at her back, with some green nutrient fluid even splashing on the chair.

She had one last chance,

which was to subdue Moon Scar on the spot, transform this young man into one of her experimental subjects… this way she could regain the trust of the councilmen and perhaps secure even more funding.

Just as Director Cao had fully risen, ready to jump down.

Boom!

A loud sound from the top of the building drew everyone’s gaze upward once again.

Numerous cracks could be seen rapidly spreading across the ceiling.

Boom!

Another, even more intense explosion occurred. There were more cracks and wider spread, with black liquid, symbolizing death, oozing from some of the larger ones.

Sizzle~ By chance, a drop of the black liquid fell onto the face of a teacher, instantly charring the skin and even corroding a black hole into the skull.

Boom!

The third loud bang.

It was the most powerful and loudest strike!

The top of the arena was directly pierced, and a figure, along with chunks of the building, fell together.

Clang!

Iron-chained fists and a right leg landed together,

The young man exuded an aura of death all over, his face painted with the eerie “Dead Man Makeup,” and even the breath he exhaled was black.

As he landed, Lorrian received a prompt from the betting ring:

“You have received a point transfer from player William -[50], you now have points -[118]. Special reminder, you now have enough points to redeem an ‘Exit Ticket’.”

Lorrian glanced sideways at Yi Chen not far from him,

The appearance with Dead Man Makeup was identical to that of a postman, or rather, the postman was a projected image of Yi Chen’s past self, specifically extracted by the Duke as an important intermediary in the betting ring.

“Can you control your emotions now, William?” Lorrian asked.

As Lorrian asked, Yi Chen, emanating an aura of death, raised his right hand making an OK gesture,

Fearing Lorrian wasn’t reassured, Yi Chen deliberately turned his head to show a sunny expression, though this sunniness was continuously infiltrated by black mist.

“Thanks, Mr. Lorrian, for clearing up the riff-raff on the stage—let me personally deal with the remaining Director Cao in the end.”

Lorrian nodded, although he wanted to kill the old woman on the platform, Yi Chen’s growth was more important to him.

He redeemed and used the ‘Exit Ticket’.

The silver-haired youth immediately disintegrated into a particle state, and the memories of Lorrian among the present personnel were all erased; the troublemaker was left to be only Yi Chen.

…

Swish~

Lorrian woke up from a body cavity filled with neural mucus, quickly adapting to his body and strength as an Open Source patient, and rapidly shed the weakness from within the betting ring.

However, he didn’t linger his gaze on himself for long but quickly turned to the mucus cavity enveloping Yi Chen next to him.

The previously transparent solution had almost entirely turned black,

and at the center of Yi Chen’s brow, a bullet-like opening had unexpectedly formed, with the densest, most potent substance of death leaking from this bullet hole.

“Does this guy’s ‘death’ originate from the brain?” Lorrian asked.

Lorrian slightly moved the gauze aside, letting his Moon Eyes permeate within and peering at the brain tissue entirely dyed black, along with the bullet hole left on it.

It wasn’t caused by a bullet shot,

but rather, an injury autonomously formed in the brain by Yi Chen through ‘subjective memory’,

Coincidentally, the position of the bullet hole at the back of the brain corresponded precisely with the center of the emblem of the book,

forming a direct association with the profession Yi Chen took on after becoming a gentleman, incorporating information about ‘death’ into the book.

The whole brain was undergoing a qualitative transformation under the influence of death, and the long-stagnant Intelligence Attribute was enhanced.

[Intelligence]has increased from [5+]→[6]

*Intelligence has reached its limit value

*Special note: The attributes related to ‘death’ in the individual are activating and are expected to fully manifest when reaching the next stage of ‘Rank’.