The Gentleman at the End
Chapter 596 - 594: Socializing

Chapter 596: Chapter 594: Socializing

Tens of thousands of blood citizens, including a significant proportion of Open Source blood citizens, collectively constructed the "Blood Prison" to block off the current area, clearly intending to cut off everyone’s retreat and leave them here to fight to the death.

Jin and Asimov were the quickest to react; the moment the Blood Prison formed, they both moved simultaneously,

one swinging iron chains strung together with surgical knives to slice at what felt like the weakest area,

the other directly scooping a lump of flesh from his own body, rolling it into a ball and tossing it into the air, followed by a flying spin kick to send the flesh ball towards the edge of the Blood Prison.

As cutting and explosions occurred, hundreds of blood citizens were injured or killed outright, but the already formed Blood Prison remained unaffected.

Marquis Glatoni spread his arms and began to introduce leisurely to everyone,

"The Blood Prison is a secret technique of blood magic, jointly cast by us blood citizens, linking the blood of tens of thousands through extracorporeal circulation to form a whole. It’s not so easily destroyed.

Instead of wasting energy on this, you might as well prepare for the upcoming battle with us."

As Marquis Glatoni proceeded with heavy footsteps, leading four Earls to step forward, ready to suppress, capture, or kill the group of humans before them,

William actually walked head-on towards them, alone, with even faster strides, arriving at the center of the Blood Prison first.

At the same time, William also used Madness Brain to transmit a segment of brainwave information to his teammates:

"It’s basically impossible to win while trapped here. The function of the ’Blood Prison’ is not only to limit, but also to allow these Crimson Nobles to replenish their blood energy at any time, and they likely can quickly recover from serious injuries.

I’ll take care of destroying the Blood Prison. Once it breaks, everyone will scatter and retreat, each heading to important areas of Zion, and the nobles will definitely chase after in no time.

Try to spread out the battlefield as much as possible, create one-on-one situations to hold them off. It would be best if you can defeat or even kill them.

No matter what, hold on until Teacher Zede is rescued, and the situation will change... You must hold on."

William’s plan was simple and clear, but no one could figure out how he planned to make a breakthrough and break through such a peculiar Blood Prison, when Jin and Asimov’s joint efforts had been futile just moments before.

At this time,

due to William’s various disrespectful acts, as well as his stance alone in the center of the field,

the anger of Earl ’Tick-Head’ Berenike Hagiyev reached its limit; he changed from walking to running, wanting to directly suppress such an insolent human face-to-face.

Facing the Earl’s head-on attack,

William did not adopt any defensive posture; instead, he raised both his hands high, then turned his head a full 360° along his neck, making sure his gaze swept over all the watching blood citizens.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

He clapped his raised hands three times, the crisp and loud sound echoing in the current area.

A peculiar aura was released from William as the center, instantly affecting everyone at the scene,

The closest, Berenike Hagiyev Earl, who was about to suppress William, immediately felt a strange emotion rise within him, forcing him to stop in his tracks.

The tick head fitted on top quickly analyzed what this special emotion was.

[Fear]

’Gluttony’ Marquis Glatoni also felt this fear, vaguely recalling some sort of past.

With the clapping over, William raised his voice, activating both his brain and vocal cords to shout loudly,

"All eyes on me!"

As soon as he spoke, all those who had felt that aura, especially the low-ranking blood citizens who had ’made eye contact’ with William,

felt the fear planted within them double in an instant,

All other emotions and obsessions inside them, including their reverence for the Marquis and their desire for blood, were suppressed, completely overtaken by the most primal and ancient of emotions, and dominated by it.

Not only the watching crowd of blood citizens,

even the five Crimson Nobles felt this tangible fear, which made them hesitate to interact with the young man deep within their hearts, even more afraid to converse with him.

It was as if speaking a few words to him would provoke an even stronger impulse of fear.

"What is this!"

For the first time, the expression of Marquis Glatoni underwent a drastic change; several tongues representing ’Gluttony’ even extended from his nostrils, eye sockets, and ears before retracting back.

This sense of fear reminded him of past events, events that had occurred during the era of war.

Back then, the Bloody Manor, one of the Source Epidemic Areas, was notorious for its brutality and bloodthirstiness.

When foreign enemies attacked, the Blood Citizens would throw themselves into the war with near madness, with the Seven Marquis fighting at the frontline under the king’s leadership, collecting and tasting the blood of the outworld invaders, even attempting to construct a more perfect blood system with the invaders’ blood to improve the manor’s ranking among the Source Epidemic Areas.

By chance, they encountered a special individual who was resisting the invaders, the ’First Abyss’ that had been pursued and completely hidden by all the Source Epidemic Areas.

During the war, they should have united against the foreign enemy, but having already been blinded by killing, they chose to ambush the ’First Abyss,’ who had just finished fighting and was off guard.

However, just as their ambush succeeded in causing serious damage to the adversary, an Abyss made of solidified black hair formed at their feet.

At that moment, Marquis Glatoni felt the most genuine fear.

This feeling, after elapsing thousands of years, appeared again, although not as strong and of a different nature,

but Marquis Glatoni was certain that the fear released by William was of the exact same origin as that of the First Abyss.

"Are you a member of the Fear Circus?"

William did not deny it, stepped back with his left foot, and placed his right hand over his chest in a gentlemanly salute:

"Chief Actor of the Fear Circus, William Y. Behrens sends his regards on behalf of the boss. Besides, I could only take leave from the circus and come to help because of you Blood Citizens.

The boss specifically instructed that once we see Blood Citizens, we should clean them all up, without leaving a single one behind."

William once again raised his hands high and clapped them together with force,

Clap!

As the sound wave spread, the fear effect created by William reached its peak, causing the onlookers responsible for constructing the Blood Prison to either lose control of their bladder and bowels or to flee in madness as though they had lost their minds.

All the Blood Citizens who were watching no longer maintained the Blood Prison, which naturally collapsed without attack.

This turn of events stunned even William’s teammates, but there was no time for shock,

The First Doctor and Yuri quickly withdrew to the Hospital and Cesimani’s original location, respectively,

Asimov pulled a chain, dragging himself back to the upper streets, but he didn’t leave immediately. Instead, he looked at William below and muttered:

"The Monastery’s intelligence only indicated he was one of the circus members; I didn’t expect him to be ranked as ’Chief’ by the First Abyss so quickly... Is this related to his contact with the Tenth Abyss? His potential is immeasurable."

As everyone withdrew one after another, only Jin remained behind.

William’s voice came directly: "Jin, why aren’t you leaving?"

"I’m not sure where to go alone; it feels like staying with you William would be more interesting. Let’s retreat together!"

"Fine... With my action, the Marquis is likely to choose to hunt me down personally."

"Isn’t that perfect? What if I deal with the Marquis? I’ve never had a chance to challenge a High Table Knight back at the Cancer Palace, and this would be a good opportunity to test the standards of the ’Seven Marquis’."

"We’ll talk about that later, let’s withdraw first!"

Taking advantage of the lingering effects of social phobia, William and Jin vanished on the spot,

As Jin retreated, he deliberately left behind a ’gift,’ a flesh-red cluster resembling an alien egg.

With everyone gone, the eggs at the top split open in the shape of a lotus.

The next second... Boom!

A huge deep red mushroom cloud rose from the eastern city wall of Zion; approximately one fifth of the street area was completely destroyed, and pus with a foul stench continued to ooze from the explosion area.

Behind the dust, the Marquis, with his body enlarged, blocked the explosion, then shrunk back to his original size.

"Cos, come with me... The pursuit of the others is up to you to organize."

Count Cos was the man with blood eyes and white hair known as Blood Sword, and he was Marquis Glatoni’s most trusted subordinate; in some respects, he was even more suited to hunting down enemies than the Marquis.