The Last Gentleman

[Gathering Eye Disease]

Throngs of pilgrims disregarded the influence of the Grey Zone, heading towards the land of their faith—Greyrell Mountain.

As recorded in the investigation reports, they gradually got lost in the fog-shrouded mountain paths, unable to find the correct routes to ascend, and became trapped.

But all the pilgrims still maintained their composure, without any sign of panic.

They took shelter in a cave they found by chance, subsisting on the mountain’s pathological animals to preserve their vitality, quickly devouring every animal on the back mountain.

During the consumption of raw animals, their bodies underwent changes unbeknownst to them.

Some pilgrims who specifically ate the eyes of animals mutated to gain extra visual abilities, gradually seeing through the fog of the mountain, and discerning the correct path.

Moreover, they craved eyeballs themselves, to the point of being able to attract others’ eyes from a distance.

However, the pilgrims maintained the essence of their humanity; they didn’t forcibly plunder others’ eyes, but rather proposed the idea of a [Unique Pilgrimage].

Due to lack of hope for ascending, 90% of the pilgrims were willing to donate their eyes, allowing the unique pilgrim to take their eyes and witness the pilgrimage sights.

But the final candidate could not be directly determined, as 10% of the pilgrims had awakened abilities related to their eyes, and all wished to be that one person.

After a united discussion, it was decided to lock them all in a cave chamber, and the person who emerged with others’ eyes would be the ‘unique pilgrim’.

In total, 119 people were locked in the chamber, some even hiding rocks and sharp branches as weapons.

It was expected that such a large-scale selection would take over a day,

but just ten minutes passed and a lean old man wrapped in yellow rags walked out of the chamber… Curious pilgrims went to check the situation inside the chamber, but the scene they found made them retch non-stop.

Comparable to hell, as if tofu had been smashed on the ground and stomped over several times, there was not a single intact body to be found inside.

After vomiting, these pilgrims’ thoughts were stimulated, making them remember something.

They suddenly recalled that at the beginning of the pilgrimage, there seemed to be no such weird old man wrapped in a yellow robe—he appeared in the group during the ascent, 𝐫𝘼ŊȪＢĚ𝐬

The ideas of finding the cave, consuming raw meat, and the unique pilgrimage seemed to all involve his indirect or direct participation,

By the time they realized this, the yellow cloth had already wrapped around from behind, covering their mouths and noses, gouging out eyes… bodies were twisted and torn beyond their limits, then thrown into the chamber like rotting meat.

…

Old World

In the Mud Swamp Forest where a sheep’s head hung in the sky,

a girl with half her face covered in sheep’s horns suddenly woke from a dream, and with black ink, she immediately depicted the last moment she saw in her dream, a scene depicting the youth she longed for day and night,

but the youth, because he was in a dire situation, was forced to wrap an umbilical cord around his neck,

Hovering in front of the youth was a blurry yellow shadow, wrapped with numerous eyeballs, looking very dangerous.

She instinctively wanted to go to the portal, to pass through it and help the young man, but found herself immobile under a tremendous spiritual pressure the moment she attempted to get up.

§Do your own thing, Lene!§

Although worried, defying her mother’s will would mean immediate death, meaningless.

“Yes, mom…”

Unexpectedly, her usually reticent mother added, §If he can’t overcome such dangers, he doesn’t deserve to keep in touch with you, nor does he deserve to become the disease root.§

“I know, mom~ Big brother will be fine.”

…

In the cave chamber

Yi Chen, with an umbilical cord around his neck, wasn’t hanged like the Church members, maintaining a battle stance as he sank.

Rather than a noose for hanging, it looked more like an oddly shaped scarf.

A closer look would reveal that the umbilical cord had embedded completely into the neck, with streams of pure, ancient life essence flowing directly into the major arteries, spreading throughout the body.

“Little Grape, you handle the observation and perception… I’m going in.”

“Go.”

Recalling his running on the treadmill in paradise, the force accumulated in his lower legs burst forth,

Lowering his body, reducing his size, he became a black shadow that rushed at full speed towards the ‘Eye in Yellow Clothes’ on the opposite side of the cave chamber,

He had just taken two steps when Little Grape’s nearly screaming warning came:

“William, dodge!”

Yi Chen immediately tilted his body, executing a remarkably standard roll.

Crack!

The left leg that moved last still couldn’t avoid being hit, along with the ground, twisting into a strange stalagmite structure… his leg’s bones and flesh fused with the stones on the ground.

Yi Chen’s movement was consequently restricted, pinned to the spot,

The hovering Ruidento immediately made a downward pressing motion with his hand.

A spiritual shock descended from above, this time not twisting, but crushing.

At the critical moment,

Swung his axe down!

Yi Chen decisively chopped off his lower leg below the knee, and rolled forward with one hand propped on the ground.

Boom! The abandoned left calf was instantly crushed into a meat film, causing the ground itself to sink.

On Yi Chen’s end,

as he rolled forward to dodge the crushing, his severed calf rapidly regenerated during the roll,

Even though it had not formed a complete muscle and skin structure, but only a white bone and flesh leg frame, Yi Chen turned his pain into nourishment, lunging forward again the instant the roll ended.

Perhaps it was the unwavering conviction to kill the enemy,

or the full spiritual investment in battle,

even the gentleman’s clothes fully recognized their master, accommodating the regeneration and sprint,

The trousers clung to the newly grown left leg, directly providing it with a layer of skin that emitted an ancient aura,

The coat’s tail also transformed into a cape-like design, better suited for aerodynamics,

The most special was the collar structure, which surprisingly formed a temporary combination with the umbilical cord, interweaving the silken threads to turn the cord into a black scarf fit for a British gentleman,

[Five meters apart]

Yi Chen quickly drew his gun, his thumb flipping the conversion trigger, turning the shotgun into a rifled-slug.

He pulled the trigger… Bang!

The iron-headed rifled slug, carrying the traits of the Pathological, shot toward the target’s head,

Buzz!

It was still the Big Eye amidst the hood staring intently, the rifled slug was instantly frozen in midair, deviating from its path, and shot into the wall behind.

But the purpose of this shot was to divert attention in the first place.

As the rifled slug was deflected, Yi Chen had already taken his final step close to the enemy,

His body like a bow,

Swinging a full moon slice,

and Ruidento’s offensive gesture also changed at the same time, his palms both facing forward, indicating a “Forbidden” sign.

Buzz!

Two layers of spiritually visible barriers formed a hexagon in front of him.

However, the slash with Yi Chen’s right hand contained a portion of Moon Scar’s power, the dreamlike axe blade tore through the barrier, heading straight for Ruidento’s flesh.

The Moonlight Slash caused the opponent’s body full of eyes to tremble,

The yellow robe he wore immediately left his body and became the third barrier.

Hiss!

Even the yellow robe was slashed open about a third, finally stopping the slash.

The slicing of the yellow garb was akin to cutting into Ruidento’s flesh, and anguished screams emerged from various eyes,

Meanwhile,

The Big Eye amongst the hood, like a star system, stared unwaveringly at Yi Chen, who had inflicted injury upon him,@@novelbin@@

“Ten Eyes in a Row”.

As if ten planets aligned in a straight line,

Buzz!

Yi Chen had no chance to dodge,

His body was cut in half at the waist, and even the cavern walls dozens of meters behind him had a cut over a meter deep.

The lower half of his body fell to the ground, kneeling,

While the upper half flew into the air,

But Yi Chen’s gaze remained resolute, his whole brain emanating white steam, the book emblem flipping continuously, his index finger making a hooking motion.

“Plant Growth.”

The previously deflected rifled slug that hit the wall, its casing cracked open!

Roots as sturdy as steel and brimming with vitality burst forth rapidly growing like several Spartans wielding spears… Swish, swish! They pierced through Ruidento from behind, who no longer had the protection of his yellow robe.

What’s more,

As the roots pierced through, they also pushed Ruidento towards Yi Chen’s flying upper body.

Thwack!

His right hand slapped the Big Eye, with black threads burrowing into it, parasitizing the interior.

Seeing this, Yi Chen split his mouth wide, mocking joyfully:

“Blame your own greed, coveting the eyes in my brain, not willing to simply cut off my head…”