The Gentleman at the End
Chapter 379 - Chapter 379 Chapter 378 Skin Posture

Chapter 379: Chapter 378: Skin Posture Chapter 379: Chapter 378: Skin Posture Starlight twinkled.

Using the “Star Nebula Body” trait, Yi Chen executed a ‘Reverse Turn’ in mid-air, changing his forward charge to a backward one.

He then utilized the Star Nebula step and the pull of the Iron Chains to reach the edge of the Church, trying to put as much distance as possible between himself and the Insomniac Galon.

But Mandy’s situation was not so good.

Without the instant change of direction ability like Yi Chen, he had to use ‘Foot Brake’ to forcibly stop the forward charge, then twist his steps to retreat backward.

Even though Mandy’s skill was high and he had strong control over his body,

there still existed a delay between stopping and starting, which inevitably took time,

and it was during this gap that he failed to dodge in time.

Whoosh… Blood splattered.

Covering his left arm, Mandy retreated to the wall,

the wound showing the same sharp-toothed tear that Jessica had suffered earlier,

Without hesitation, Mandy transformed his other hand into a blade-like Hand Blade, shaving off a layer of flesh from the surface of the wound to avoid unknown infections and also removed the saliva that was smeared on it.

However,

Mandy’s gaze was not on his wound at all,

staring wide-eyed at the Insomniac Galon, he had just seen something–a something inside Galon’s body.

“Is that… another world?”

At that moment, something flew toward him at high speed, which Mandy easily caught with his hand.

It was a syringe filled with red flesh substance,

thrown by William, who was not far away,

Since Yi Chen was exempt from the draw, he had no chance to use the two doses of flesh substance left on him,

Such high-concentration flesh substance could be used at most once in a match; using it back to back could cause irreversible damage to the body.

So he gave one to the injured Mandy, to increase their chances of winning the joint battle.

Although Mandy was capable of ‘Cortical Regeneration’, regrowing an entire arm quickly would consume a lot of his energy. And next, they would have to face a completely unknown monster; he needed to maintain peak condition.

Without caring what was in the syringe, he thrust it into his neck,

Whoosh! A brand new arm grew out instantly.

His body erupted with red lupus, indicating a state of energy surplus.

“Hmm! What is this stuff… It’s even more potent than secret medicine!”

“Stay focused, Mandy!

There is a world inside the opponent that we do not know, inhabited by monsters we’ve never seen before. We are not going to fight a person, but an unknown domain.

Bring out your strongest stance.”

“Huh~ That’s right, there can be no more holding back.”

As Mandy took off his ‘gentlemanly’ glasses,

opened his mouth and looked up,

he swallowed his hanging tie into his throat and into his body.

“Restriction Removal…”

For a moment,

an unimaginable aura of slaughter burst forth from Mandy’s body–if used in the previous match, it could have easily overshadowed the presence of the Skin Stripper, and even utterly consumed him.

The slaughter even formed a red pillar of light that pierced through the Church,

and each of Mandy’s hairs was coated with a layer of red skin.

From the outside, it looked as if his hair had instantly turned red, and under the support of the skin, it appeared fluffy and stood on end.

His whole body was suffering from severe skin inflammation, presenting a thick, deep red skin condition,

with parts of the rash oozing blood that stained his shirt red.

He ripped the skin off his entire arm from his wrist, using it as combat bandages wrapped around his fists,

Mandy’s transformation also shocked Yi Chen, who was witnessing such an exaggerated form of restriction removal for the first time, “Mandy, that guy, can actually store his murderous impulses in the form of a tie.

No wonder during the first battle with Skin Stripping, the other party lost the ability to move just by being choked by the tie.

Let me try as well… Restriction Removal!”

This time, the restriction removal was initiated by Yi Chen himself,

It was the result of the special training he had undergone recently, especially in the last few days with Yellow Skin outside the city, under whose guidance he had completed reading the first chapter of the “Skin Sack Bible,” entitled “Hair Follicles.”

At the end of the reading, something strange and unexpected happened, something that even Yellow Skin, an old hand at the Skin Factory, couldn’t fully comprehend.

The moment he closed the book, the Plague Book resonated with the back of Yi Chen’s head, or more accurately, with the book imprint on the surface of his skull.

This resonance was clearly related to Yi Chen’s profession.

In the blink of an eye,

the entire Plague Book turned into a liquid state of skin and flowed through his nostrils into his skull, filling the grooves of the book imprint, achieving a true sense of book integration.

Yi Chen could read the Plague Book directly within his thoughts without having to take it out, and it also bestowed upon him greater control over the Skin Sack.

As the current “Restriction Removal” unfolded, the book imprint at the back of his head began to overflow with high-level cortical liquid, contributing to the transformation.

Everyone present felt a sense of oppression on a cortical level, including the First Gentleman.

On the observation platform,

the CEO Tailor, Spacy, who was treating Jessica’s injuries, spoke with a sense of helplessness, “No wonder he never came forward to talk about returning the book; he’s already integrated the ‘Skin Sack Bible’ to this extent… And without the side effects like I have.

Perform well, and if you can become the First Gentleman, lending you the book for a long time won’t be a problem.”

As the aura of the skin settled,

Yi Chen made an appearance in a brand new pose,

different from the physical combat pose he had against Zede and also different from the yellow robe pose when combating real undead outside the school, it was a more perfect, higher level of skin liberation.

1. A long, pitch-black leather trench coat was draped over him, with its hem resembling ashes; lined with flesh on the inside and engraved with dense ancient texts corresponding to the contents of the books Yi Chen had read.

2. A scarf transformed from a little grape covered his neck and lower face, with eyeballs appearing on the surface of the scarf, opening and closing from time to time,

3. A hunter’s tricorn hat sat on his head, an ‘expansion’ of the skin of his head, with the raised hat substituting for his skull, enlarging the brain cavity to give the Madness Brain more room for thought and release.

4. All of his muscles were slightly writhing under the skin’s embrace, with brain cells fully activated, exposing veins that resembled brain grooves.

5. The Dead Spine in his hand had been split in two, with the right hand shaped like a standard Hand Axe and the left hand like a saw.

6. A book decoration hung from the waistband by a long metal chain, representing the “Skin Sack Bible.”

This pose represented the results of Yi Chen’s relentless reading of books, balancing close combat prowess with mental perception, and was the best state he could achieve at the moment.

However,

he had yet to use his trump card, “Dead Man Makeup,”

for once applied it meant fighting to the death, and the time hadn’t come for that yet, at least until Yi Chen saw the true nature within Insomniac Galon.

Mandy, too, was attracted by this pose,

As a patient with a rare S-grade skin illness, he could distinctly feel the variety of different diseases wrapped within Yi Chen’s exhibited form, yet these discordant diseases were perfectly combined under the integration of the skin.

“No wonder Mr. Yuri thinks so highly of him… Indeed, the organization has always chosen people like me and Miss Jessica, who suffer from skin diseases, to take on the role of the First Gentleman.

To break the status quo and seek more authority from the Skin Factory, effective changes are needed, like promoting a hybrid talent like William.

Plus, this boy is quite likable, so let’s go all out. I haven’t been this excited for a long time!”

“William, let’s go.”

Yi Chen, suppressing the slaughtering desire brought by the twin axes, made an elegant bow, “Yes, Mr. Mandy! Let’s confront Fear together.”

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