The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 756 - 754 Tumor Mountain

As the largest logistics company in the Old World, Lu Pu was involved in the supply of resources to multiple Source Plague areas. The announcement of a 24-hour suspension of operations coupled with rumors of a New Moon rising naturally drew the attention of many in the Source Plague areas.

Even the conservative Cancer Palace took action,

The Lord who governed the whole Cancer Palace specially dispatched a "Tumor Servant" from her side to investigate,

These so-called Tumor Servants were selected directly from newly recruited knights of the Knight Order, especially adept at investigation, concealment, and swift action, and after a strict internal selection process, they became the special attendants serving directly under the Lord.

They followed the Lord’s orders directly, responsible for monitoring all organizations within the Cancer Palace, including the Venerable Tumor Knight Order, as well as external forces related to the Cancer Palace, with any intelligence to be reported immediately with remarkable efficiency.

This time, however, the situation was somewhat strange. A New Moon rising was considered impossible by the Cancer Palace, yet it coincided with the important city of Lu Pu, and considering the recent stay of the Duke’s Chamber of Commerce in Lu Pu,

It was the Lord herself who personally appointed a "Tumor Servant" to investigate,

This servant’s "Back Tumor Wings" were quite strange, not on the back, but on both shoulders. When the wings unfolded, two flaps of flesh would rise on either side of the shoulders.

Aside from enabling flight, these two flaps of flesh had an important function of attaching to the face for a "Perfect Disguise," even completely changing the aura of illness, so outsiders couldn’t detect his cancerous essence, hence he was also known as Cancer Face. Kamsky.

Disguised as an ordinary moon admirer, he easily passed the initial selection and went to Lu Pu, thinking the task would be fairly easy, yet upon seeing [Art], his whole body tensed up, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

Kamsky, who had been prepared to participate in the drama, also decisively gave up,

Currently sitting in the fifth row of the first layer of the theater as an audience member,

Of course, he too had not accepted the Chaos Transformation. He only had a simple understanding of the transformation’s intelligence. But in his eyes, Art was still the most important.

Approximately twenty years ago,

Due to the reproductive restrictions of the Old World, the total population of the Cancer Palace was also in decline (although new individuals could be obtained through cell proliferation, most were relatively inferior and rarely exhibited any talent).

The traditionally conservative Cancer Palace opened up its policy with two main points.

First, it began to recruit high-quality humans from the infected world who were suffering from cancer,

Second, it carried out a tally and a tentative recall of malignant tumor patients who had been exiled in the past,

The first initiative went very smoothly, producing special talents like Jin. Almeda, whom even the Lord valued highly, inviting Jin to her sleeping chamber on multiple occasions.

But the second initiative ran into problems,

Due to the diversity and uncontrollability of cancer,

The Cancer Palace had since developed a large number of malignant tumor patients,

Most could not control malignant proliferation and would soon turn into an indiscriminate mass of decaying flesh and be executed. Only a few geniuses were able to harness their malignancy, yet still living on the edge of potential uncontrollability.

Given the massive malignancy events that had erupted in the Cancer Palace and stability evaluations, these geniuses were exiled.

When necessary, the exiles could ask for food or necessary supplies from any organization related to the Cancer Palace, and would also retain the identity of a cancer patient, allowing them a foothold in the Old World.

This was also done considering a special moment when these individuals might come in handy, thus serving as an external force for the Cancer Palace.

However, when the Cancer Palace tried to recall this special group of patients twenty years ago, they found them all out of contact, with all covertly established links severed, and not even a corpse left behind.

There were few clues, just faint traces of fighting found at the residences of a few malignant tumor patients, leading to the assumption that they had been killed.

After an extensive investigation, all fingers pointed to one particularly unique exile.

[Art. Kramer], the Chief Clown of the Fear Circus.

While there was no direct evidence, the Cancer Palace was almost certain that Art had killed all of the malignant tumor exiles, perhaps even absorbed them, leaving none behind.

...

Currently, Cancer Face. Kamsky, as an audience member, was watching this drama, attempting to gather intelligence on Art’s abilities through the battles displayed in between acts.

But as the wet nurse was eliminated and the plot neared its end,

Kamsky lamented, "What a pity! If the Ancestor Primordial Body could face Art at full strength, we could have gathered much more intelligence.

However, the ’woman’ depicted in this performance is of great intelligence value, not a patient, not a physical entity, yet capable of threatening the Ancestor Primordial Body, one of the top echelons of the Silver Circle.

Now only the last actor remains, who has been hiding in the underground area since the performance began, probably with limited strength of his own.

The end should be the same as the guy who started with intestinal diseases, completely butchered.

I need to prepare to leave, leave immediately after the performance ends, once found by Art, death is certain."

Just as Kamsky’s thoughts had shifted from watching the performance to preparing to leave, the images brought by the Theater Viewing Skull suddenly made him freeze, the disguise wings attached to his face twitching.

His personal view of the performance was zoomed in quite closely,

He had assumed that Art would directly initiate the final slaughter mode, and the theater would be instantly stained bright red.

But instead... a breathing sound came through the surround sound from the Theater Viewing Skull.

Hu~Ha~

Then, a hard-to-see flash of black light passed, and Art’s head flew directly towards Kamsky’s viewing screen, startling him so much that he nearly dropped the Theater Viewing Skull.

"What’s happening!?"

It wasn’t just Kamsky, other viewers were stunned too.

As the director, William revealed an unnatural smile, "As expected... no one can wield the ’Purple Lung’ better than you... even with the concept of body missing over 50%, you can still exert 100% of your strength.

Deserving of praise, Mr. Yi."

...

Basement.

Yi Chen, playing the eldest daughter Jennifer, had taken off her coat and pants, which were too bulky for winter and impeded her movements, and even set aside her slippers,

Barefoot on the ground, her slender and fair long legs fully exposed,

wearing only black leggings and a white T-shirt,

With Nash wrapped around his waist and head resting on his shoulder,

holding a dagger embedded with a hundred skulls in his left hand, and rotating a hand axe in his right, he lowered his bowed back to lower his center of gravity,

his gaze fixed on the beheaded Art, watching the neck wound that had been bestowed with the ’Beheading Concept,’ waiting to see how the other would heal.

Then, a very exaggerated scene unfolded.

Something began to wriggle under Art’s swollen, oversized clown suit,

like a large mouth slowly opening, spitting out something from the bottom of the clown suit that was still smeared with foul saliva,

Splat! A headless body was vomited out from the bottom,

Afterward, Art, unaffected by ’beheading,’ quickly regenerated his painted head with yellow teeth and a huge hooked nose.

Upon seeing this, Yi Chen immediately analyzed the opponent’s ability.

"Concept Transfer! Transferring the concept of beheading to another body inside and ejecting it, so I no longer affect him with my beheading?

No, that’s not it, Art’s soul has long since lost its human form! The proliferation of malignant tumors has affected the soul; his soul has become as huge as a mountain, with countless human bodies embedded within it."

At that instant,

Yi Chen saw a flesh-red mountain full of throbbing tumors, and the mountain was covered with grooves where various living bodies were embedded,

including missing cancer patients, circus internal staff, the former assistant clowns, and individuals targeted by Art on each mission.

"The second boss, Art rarely kills people! All the individuals he targets end up absorbed into his body; I once had the misfortune to witness that process, which is more painful than death.

Be careful!"