The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 319 - 318 The Assault
Chapter 319: Chapter 318: The Assault
Chapter 319 -318: The Assault
Just as Yi Chen was feeling the closeness of his clothing, strands of yellow silk threads emerged between his retinas.
“I can sense the restlessness of combat emanating from the depths of your flesh and bones.”
“Indeed, I am about to face an opponent who is infinitely close to physical perfection, and I wish to confront him with the most primitive form of hand-to-hand combat.
Besides, I’ll need your help, Yellow Skin, to cover up the gentleman’s identity; there’s another gentleman with a Skin Content of 100% undergoing Skin Transplant in the dream.”
The yellow lines shifted, and the text changed.
“You wish to satisfy both physical struggle and identity concealment simultaneously? Then it shall be as you conducted in your previous slaughter training. I will make the necessary adjustments to ‘Restriction Removal,’ primarily enhancing the ‘inner skin.'”
“Thank you.”
“As long as it’s within the covenant period, I will do my best to assist you. Moreover, I am quite interested in this kind of primitive conflict.”
The simple exchange concluded,
Yi Chen began performing some bizarre warm-up exercises,
such as fully wrapping his arms around to his back for a vertical stretch, and a complete fold-forward waist bend, with his back and legs sticking together, and so on.
All of these exaggerated warm-up exercises were from Zede,
who always had to use such exercises to completely relax the body before going to the paradise gym, otherwise, one could likely pass out during the workout.
Catherine scrutinized Yi Chen’s awkward posture,
“William, why do I feel like you’re full of energy, even more pumped than when you first joined the Nightmare game? Don’t tell me you have a masochistic streak? After tasting the flavor of physical breakdown, you want even more?”
“You could say that.”
“Ah! Fantastic… I’m a bit of a sadist myself. Once I win this game, I’ll definitely take you back to the Circus, and we’ll have a lot to talk about then.”
“Let’s talk about that after you win; right now, your score is lower than mine. Let’s stop the chit-chat and move on.”
“All right!”
Catherine drew a [Door] connecting to Central Street. With a Skin Transplant degree over 80%, the choice of teleportation points was limited.
This time the [Door] corresponded to an elementary school in Nightmare Town, situated at the edge of Central Street.
The school building, made of red bricks and L-shaped, came with a playground and an indoor basketball court.
Even in the dead of night, one could still hear the clear reading voices and the squadrons of running footsteps.
The elementary students completed ‘Body Separation’ autonomously. Their heads were hung in the classrooms for reading, while their bodies were engaged in various sports on the playground; some even played basketball in the gymnasium with their heads.
Standing in the corridor, Yi Chen, upon seeing this scene, said softly, “Catherine, do you really have such a wicked taste?”
“What wicked taste? It’s but an artistic expression of reality from this lady. Don’t teachers in real schools want students to excel in both arts and sports? Wouldn’t their efficiency greatly improve by acting independently in this way?”
“Fine, but these teachers and students are of no use here. Zede can locate us purely through Physical Perception directly, and no matter how we camouflage ourselves, he’ll spot us instantly.
Let’s hurry and set up in preparation for battle.”
“Hmm! Makes sense. Since these teachers and students are useless, why not use them to replenish some energy?”
Catherine spread her arms, and all the teachers and students in the school transformed into nightmare material and were absorbed into her body… Different from last time, Catherine handed a small cloth bag to Yi Chen.
“William, this elementary school just happens to be on the opposite side of the place where we last died. It’ll take that guy a few minutes to get here.
This time let’s expand the battleground and use the entire school building to fight. Help me set up traps everywhere.
Last time, since you ran up to the roof alone, Zede didn’t get a chance to step on my Magic Boxes.”
“Okay.”
Yi Chen grabbed a handful of Scare Magic Boxes from the cloth bag, following Catherine’s lead, scattering them casually in various classrooms and the hallways.
Once everything was set up, the two gathered in a certain classroom, deliberately sitting in the very center, quietly waiting for Zede’s arrival.
Staring at the clock on the blackboard, their heartbeats even began to sync with the movement of the second hand.
Because they didn’t know when Zede would arrive or in what manner he would attack,
the impatient feeling brought about by the unknown intensified over time. Suddenly, Catherine reached out and crushed the hanging clock, then retracted her hand and gently patted her chest.
“Phew~ I haven’t felt this nervous in a long time! Is being the prey this thrilling…?”
“Catherine, steady your nerves~ Mr. Zede will seize any flaw that we reveal.”
“It’s just the destruction of a wall clock, there won’t be anything…”
He had only spoken halfway when
a pale arm suddenly pierced through the floor, gripping Catherine’s leg tightly.
This was no ordinary ‘grab’; the moment the five fingers clutched her lower leg, a sense of bodily control instantly spread, rendering Catherine completely immobile.
She was yanked downward… Boom!
The ground shattered completely, and Catherine’s body was instantly pulled downwards.
She plummeted through two floors without any sign of stopping, seemingly intent on dragging Catherine into the depths below, forcibly erasing her.
During the fall,
Catherine opened her mouth wide, making a vomiting motion.
She decisively abandoned her current physical shell and wriggled out a fresher, more tender body from her mouth, landing securely in the first-floor classroom.
On the other side,
seeing that he held only an empty husk, Zede grasped the thighs and tore the shell apart like ‘hand-torn chicken’, then slowly crawled towards Catherine.
“This guy… is very cautious, huh~ Always choosing to break us one by one, and now you decide to kill me first? Do you really think I’m that easy to kill?”
Catherine was also infuriated,
She jabbed a finger directly into her brain, embedding a “war thought” into her own brain. The body that received the thought immediately began undergoing structural aberrations.
More muscles, more bones, more senses, and many more structures that transcended the human body.
[Feet]: Supported by eight nightmare tentacles, they upheld a body about four meters tall.
It was not just about becoming taller, but an overall enlargement of physique,
[Torso]: It evolved into a kind of ‘female body meat grinder’, splitting vertically along the midline, with girls with ‘sharp wits and teeth,’ acting as saw blades embedded on both sides, ready to tear any prey to shreds with their serrated sharp teeth upon approach.
[Arms]: Four arms, or to be precise, two additional deformed arms growing out of the back,
The two in front were relatively normal, one holding a clown’s signature large hammer, the other clad in black gloves.
The two on the back were more abstract; one resembling a bone saw even had its chain teeth rotating at high speed driven by the muscles.
The other, like scissors, the split arms capable of high-speed shearing of the target.
Each arm was primarily controlled by a woman who excelled in that domain,
[Head]: Catherine sat in the brain like a commander, directing this physical-level war.
The corresponding head was equally peculiar; her black hair draped down just to her chest, exposing a woman’s face sprinkled with eyes to enhance observational capability.
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Furthermore,
Her occipital region along with her back were crowded with over thirty women’s heads, all used for vigilance, to not miss any of Zede’s movements.
However,
faced with Catherine in such a stance,
a thrill of excitement showed under the black cloth covering Zede’s eyes, and he didn’t hesitate to charge directly at her!
As he leaped into the air, ready to collide head-on with Catherine,
Boom!
The ceiling shattered.
A figure with yellowish skin suddenly descended,
Zede was slightly puzzled because the aura he remembered from the nightmare youth he had killed before was not this one. Relying on his perfect physique, he swung upward with a [Palm Strike] in mid-air.
The attack from the other was a [Hand Blade].
Crack!
The five fingers of the hand blade shattered with compound fractures, the wrist and elbow dislocated, and the yellow figure was slammed away.
But… Zede’s assault was halted as well.
The palm he had just swung was cut with an 8cm wound.
