The Gentleman at the End
Chapter 416 - Chapter 416 Chapter 415 The Moon Circus and Humanity

Chapter 416: Chapter 415: The Moon, Circus, and Humanity Chapter 416: Chapter 415: The Moon, Circus, and Humanity The excursion into the Primordial Forest was a decision made by Lady Olayna after reviewing Yi Chen’s overall performance,

intending to fully cook the raw rice and bind Yi Chen to the Cancer Palace through a bloodline connection.

Who would have known that things would spin completely out of control? Not only was the raw rice not cooked through, but she even ended up getting herself involved.

She only remembered a flash of silver light, and the fruits and tree sap that shouldn’t have affected her rapidly took effect within her body, even revealing her once-abandoned human form as the disguise of a cat faded away.

As Olayna had been clear in her defense the previous night and hardly moved, she had preserved some physical energy,

now slowly awakening from sleep as she sensed the movement of Yi Chen coming out from between the bathtubs.

Jin was different,

his long-desired wish finally fulfilled, engaging in high-intensity cat petting throughout the night, even injecting himself with more than ten needles to improve his body’s capabilities at one point,

and even now, asleep, two needles remained unwithdrawn from his neck.

Jin, completely drained, slept almost like a corpse, the only differences being his body temperature and the intermittent snoring, unresponsive even when vigorously shaken.

Realizing she was in her human form, Olayna slapped her paw onto the table,

Smack~ the whole slab of the meat piece round table was fiercely lifted, blocking Yi Chen’s line of sight, and by the time the table fell, she had transformed back into the form of a cat.

“You are not to speak of last night’s incident to anyone!”

“Understood.”

Olayna waved her cat’s paw, a force field that couldn’t be discerned cleared all remnants of the fruits from the bud room.

After a long silence, once Olayna’s emotions had settled, she inquired about the bizarre events of the previous night.

“Why were you completely soaked in the tree sap bath, yet it was Jin and I who were affected in the end? I can still recall what seemed like a shaft of moonlight illuminating the room, compelling the atmosphere of desire here to have an impact on me.

What exactly did you do?”

“This substance, capable of inducing hallucinations, just happened to react with a certain attribute within my body…”

“Which attribute?”

To clarify, Yi Chen even let the Moon Seal emerge on his forehead.

The well-informed Olayna recognized the significance of this mark at a glance, incredulous in her cat’s eyes.

“How is that possible? That is the mark of the Moon God…the moon from the Old World, utterly destroyed early in that war, not even a residue left behind. How did you come by this mark?”

Yi Chen could only lay everything related to the Moon Scar bare, and Olayna offered her conjecture on the reappearance of the moon,

“As one of the fundamental attributes of the world, even if destroyed, the original concept of the moon was preserved deep in the pathogen. When ‘World Infection’ occurs, the pathogen, drawing on the rules and moon phases of your world, forms the ‘New Moon’ under certain specific conditions.

That person named Lorrian is probably the origin of the New Moon. Is he somewhere you can bring him over?”

“Generally, he contacts me, and it’s difficult for me to reach out to him proactively.

And we haven’t seen each other for a long time; that fellow should be in the ‘Path’… And Lorrian is also a valued customer of the Duke; perhaps you could use this connection if you wish to meet him.”

“Hmm.”

Olayna, well aware that a person directly related to the creation of the New Moon, would not willingly be constrained to the Source Epidemic Area, asked no further, leaving it to the future should an opportunity arise for a meeting.

Moreover, the moon is dangerous, not even she dared to approach it lightly.

In comparison with the arcane and unpredictable Moon Scar, William, equally related to the moon, clearly seemed more reliable.

A cat’s leap brought her back onto William’s shoulder, and the conversation shifted accordingly.

“Now let’s have a good talk about you and the human powers backing you, William.

Someone like you should be at the top in your human organizations, shouldn’t you? Although Ting Jin mentioned a human organization called ‘Gentlemen and Doctors,’ claiming it has nurtured some individuals even more formidable than those of your kind, I personally don’t believe it.

After all, your origins are nothing but a lower-class district directly subordinate to the Skin Factory, and the ‘media’ you use to link to the pathogen is merely the lowest grade of goods from the Skin Factory.”

“Raising humans like you and Jin has already surpassed the value of the Favored District itself.”

“As a medium, ‘Skin’ is not that great, but the Skin Factory hasn’t restricted our development, allowing us to combine various illnesses at will. Moreover, the skin given to us doesn’t enslave or influence our thinking and preserves the basic human nature we possess as humans… Maybe for these two reasons, we have many strong fighters there.

Even though I have gone Open Source, I still often get beaten up.

The reason I followed Jin to the Old World this time was because I was defeated in an important match.”

“Diversity in development and preservation of human nature, huh? That is interesting… But there must be other reasons that have fostered this special elite nature in your small group.

I didn’t expect you to have come here because of a defeat. So, does that mean there are a lot of strong fighters in that lower-level Favored District? How would you compare the strongest human you know to the three Honored Tumor Knights we just met?”

[The Strongest]

Yi Chen, having never seen the organization’s Founder in action, thought immediately of Zede, his teacher who had been guiding his physical growth all along, when he heard the term “the strongest.”

“It should be quite a bit more formidable…”

“How much is ‘quite a bit’?”

“Based on the aura alone, he should be able to barely manage a three-to-one fight?”

“Are you joking with me? Do you realize the value of an Honored Tumor Knight… Those three were polite to me only because I had helped them once, and they are all cancer patients recognized by the Lord.”

“I’m just estimating roughly. He’s the teacher who specializes in teaching me physical techniques, once putting a Circus member at a disadvantage.”

“The Circus? Is the Circus you mention the same as the one I’m thinking of?”

“It should be. Inside the Circus there is a core member who happens to come from the Cancer Palace, and as the main clown, he calls himself ‘Art.’ Jin felt the presence of malignant tumors in him, so it must be correct.”

Yi Chen then recounted the entire ordeal with the nightmare event, leaving Madame Oreina completely stunned.

“Your teacher was actually able to completely overwhelm an Assistant Clown and the third leader of the Circus… and moreover, your organization nearly had a conflict with that Magician who crawled out from the Abyss and a freak like Art.

You’re making me more and more curious.”

“Madame Oreina, you are always welcome to visit Zion if you ever get the chance.”

“We’ll see about that, the Cancer Palace has tight restrictions on people’s travel currently, I can’t leave for now… Kid, you really aren’t afraid of death, actually getting involved with the Circus.”

“Although Art is a bit off, the Assistant Clown and the Magician I came into contact with seem alright.”

“‘Fear Circus’ is a new organization in our Old World, emerging after the outbreak of war, made up of a mishmash of peculiar talents, touring and performing around the Old World while recruiting people.

The Circus never appears in the Source Epidemic Area or Neutral Cities, often showing up in some deserted suburbs, while the homes of the nearby patients often receive ‘tickets.’

It’s rumored that anyone who enters the Circus can hardly ever come out alive, yet people who receive ‘tickets’ still flock there incessantly.

I personally haven’t gone due to the risk, as I know too well what kind of person Art is, an organization that can keep him content must be extremely dangerous.

If you really want to contact the Circus, I suggest you ask the Duke’s opinion.”

“Okay, once I leave the Primordial Forest, I’m ready to set off for the Duke’s place.

By the way, Madame Oreina, I have one last question, you often transferred cancer to weak patients, letting your consciousness parasitize in them to visit our world, living in various human cities.

So, apart from humans like Jin and me who come from the Skin Factory District, have you seen any other humans, or has the Cancer Palace accepted humans from outside the Skin Factory District?”

“No, the humans I’ve come into contact with are either ordinary, sick from the Grey Zone, or the so-called ‘gentlemen’ raised by the Skin Factory District.

The humans accepted by the Cancer Palace all come from your organization, Jin is the only one who has survived, the others haven’t been fully recognized by the Cancer Palace and were eventually cut off.”

“Not any…”

Yi Chen frowned, the response making him speculate that perhaps only the Fourth Continent, where the G&D organization was located, still had human survivors in the world of five continents,

But he couldn’t jump to conclusions just yet.

After all, there might be human organizations on other continents that were interfered with by the Source Epidemic Area, but unlike the Skin Factory, they were under a form of slavery management.