The Gentleman at the End
Chapter 531 - 529: Tail Within the Wall

Chapter 531: Chapter 529: Tail Within the Wall

When she saw the teacher being swallowed whole, Thirteen’s mechanical body also trembled, anxiously wanting to light a candle to drive away the evil in the darkness.

But recalling the teacher’s reminder, she further thought and, through Madness Brain sensing, determined that the swallowed teacher was not in great danger, eventually suppressing her restless mood and quietly waiting inside the house.

Gurgle gurgle~

This giant rat skull, woven through the tail, did not form structures like tongues or teeth; its function was more of a ’transmission device’.

Swallowed, William slid towards the depths of the hotel, pushed and wriggled by the rat tails, being sent to a secret area, a place out of the light.

During the transmission, William even faintly felt the compression and folding of space, as if he were really being transported between wall gaps.

"This feeling is very similar to the circus tents. Is it due to the special construction materials of the hotel? Is it truly related to the abyss?"

Continuing to feign sleep,

he let the passage formed by rat tails carry him deeper, towards the dark entity behind the hotel.

In a pitch-black, profound unknown space, coated with slippery fluid, William fell from a nearly hundred-meter-high ceiling, crashing hard onto the ground... Crack~ He felt an arm break.

Ah! Pain forced William to wake from his sleep, screaming in agony while clutching his fractured arm.

He tried to calm himself as much as possible, looking around.

This rotten, foul-smelling underground space was piled up with limbs and bones in mounds, still covered with some digestive fluids,

likely an eating space of some unknown existence, and its appetite was alarming—any outsider staying at the "Black Tail Hotel" could be sent here during their nightly dreams as a midnight snack.

William appeared panic-stricken, running around like a headless fly trying to find an exit,

just then,

the ground trembled, something was about to emerge from the darkness, accompanied by countless rats’ shrieks and the sounds of tails swishing and whipping.

"This is the world within the walls, a space I have constructed with abyss power that I acquired through my devotion to darkness and constant sacrifices. Moreover, I possess an ’Abyss Power’ far beyond what outsiders can imagine, far surpassing my kind."

And you... are the weakest and most ineffectual Open Source I have ever seen.

The prey sent here previously could at least calm down quickly, even launching some decent attacks against me, displaying their Open Source illness symptoms.

And you woke up only because you broke your arm, and still haven’t fully calmed down. I really wonder how you managed to open your source.

However... your flesh looks very appetizing. If I’m not mistaken, you must be a human infected from the outside world.

Hiss~ Weak, but a delicacy I’ve never tasted before, truly something to look forward to."

The voice echoed through the wall world, the intense oppressive feeling forcing William to collapse on the ground, shivering, even feeling a certain disgust emanating from his pocket.

A rat the size of four adults emerged from the pile of corpses, who also happened to be the real owner of the "Black Tail Hotel."

The upper body still maintained a ’rat-man’ structure, with a sturdy, dark torso, a huge rat head as if the skin and muscles were stripped off, exposing the bones directly, ferocious and frightening.

His six pitch-black pupils stared at the young man in front,

his lower body had fully ’transformed into tails’, countless rat tails crowded together forming his lower body structure, slithering on the ground like a snake.

Those tails that spread across the hotel walls, growing in the gaps, all originated from this being.

He was indeed the true owner of the Black Tail Hotel, full of oppressive power!

Snap! The owner’s hand grasped William’s head, lifting it towards his face.

"Oh~ look at your frightened expression, how unsightly... Excrement will contaminate your flavor, let me clean that up for you."

A rat-tail-like black tongue stretched out from his mouth, cleaning the liquid seeping from William’s trousers.

"Mmm, that tastes pretty good~ You seem to have never participated in any acts of reproduction, very good indeed! In appreciation of your cooperation, I’ll break your head open and suck out your brain as an appetizer beforehand, so you won’t feel any pain."

The owner opened his mouth slowly moving William’s head inside it.

With the sharpness of a guillotine, his sharp teeth immediately clamped down... Splat!

Something was thrown into the air, heavily falling to the ground, and it wasn’t just one thing.

On closer inspection, it was a completely severed rat arm and the entire rat head... The owner had been beheaded and disarmed in an instant.

William landed steadily, his foot pressing down on the rat head, bending over to gaze, no longer with the previous timidity and frailty... but radiating a mysterious and menacing aura.

"How was my performance just now? Did it really give off the feeling of a weakling, presenting to you the impression of a cowardly and incompetent junior, right?"

"Tell me, have you ever harbored any doubts?"

"You..."

Seeing that Black Rat did not answer immediately, William suddenly glared, as if some deadly heat was about to be transmitted from his pupils, frightening the other party into responding quickly:

"No doubts! Absolutely no doubts."

"Very good... This trip is also a chance to hone my acting skills; after all, it won’t do if my strength advances but my acting regresses."

While William was muttering to himself,

the Black Rat boss remotely controlled his lower body, shooting out a multitude of rat tails, like spears piercing toward him.

However, William merely called out softly.

"Yellow Skin..."

The gentleman’s clothes, left in the guest room, immediately followed the sensing to find this place, transforming instantly into a yellow curtain blocking in front of William like an unshakable membrane, allowing the rat tails to pierce but unable to break through.

William continued stepping on the rat’s head, casually asking, "Don’t rush; I still have many questions... What exactly is this ’Abyss’ you speak of?

How did you come by this so-called power of the abyss?

There’s still plenty of time left tonight, tell me this story seriously."

Whoosh!

The Black Hand Axe was thrust directly in front of the boss, an intense wave of death energy pouring out, reminding him of a terrifying group within the Old World, scaring him into exclaiming:

"Death Plague Knights!"

At this moment, as if the Grim Reaper’s scythe was held against his neck, his brain completely scrambled, he even forgot that anything related to the Abyss absolutely should not be mentioned.

"The Abyss... The Abyss is in the mine, we..."

Just as he uttered a few words, the atmosphere changed.

Even William, who was in control of the situation and determined to win, felt an unprecedented threat,

The gentleman’s clothes, which could easily block the rat tails, was suddenly torn by an unknown power, and even Yellow Skin faintly let out a shriek.

The rat tails, which initially could not penetrate Yellow Skin, easily tore the garment,

Each one as if condensed with endless darkness, even achieved a qualitative change, elevating from the concept of "tail" to a higher order of "tentacles."

They did not attack William but rather pierced through the rat skull under William’s foot and then withdrew back into the lower body.

Boom! Self-destruction

Countless tails exploded, falling to the ground and turning into pools of black liquid, the boss’s aura instantly vanished as if drawn away by some darkness.

The world within the walls also collapsed with the boss’s death, and the entire Black Tail Hotel likewise disintegrated and collapsed.

Thunderous rumbling~

The guests staying at the hotel hurriedly evacuated, while the hotel’s attendants had no intention of leaving, voluntarily burying themselves among the hotel ruins, continuing their duties.

Thirteen also ran out immediately,

Just as she frantically searched for her teacher’s figure, an arm reached out from behind her.

"Thirteen, let’s go... I accidentally made too much noise. Hopefully, we won’t be targeted because of this."

"Teacher, what exactly happened?"

"The Abyss has come knocking, and it’s not quite as I originally perceived. The Abyss we are about to face seems to possess a strong self-consciousness, it might even be a ’living entity’.

From now on, we need to be more cautious..."

"Teacher, your clothes!"

"Hmm~ Accidentally damaged them; seems like I need to merge with the Apostle Skin sooner than expected."

William’s clothes had multiple holes, exposing even part of his backside, but here in Rat City, such attire appeared quite normal.