The Last Gentleman
Chapter 540: 538: The End

Watching Dugall, who was willing to give up his physical body to fight from behind the Plague Giant, William also revealed a satisfied expression.

Whoosh!

A spear, black as tentacles, shot from the front at a speed twice as fast as before, breaking the sound barrier and even splitting extra spikes on the surface of the spear,

Just as it was about to pierce through William’s body,

Glimmers of stars shone all over William... Buzz! The spear went through, seemingly piercing William, but in reality, it was just a smear of residual star particles.

In an instant, William had moved dozens of meters,

his calves tensed, stepping with unbelievably quick strides, closing the hundreds of meters toward Dugall.

At the same time, the wall-like Plague Giant began to move,

The nearest giant swung its tentacle-like arm, whipping at the running ant-like humans.

The seemingly gigantic body was actually not slow at all, each rat that composed the giant was playing its part... Boom! The tentacle arm heavily slapped the ground, the cave trembled, dust billowed.

From the dust-covered arm area, a young man emerged unharmed.

A sound of joint twisting came from the ankle... Crack~

Before the Plague Giant could react, a burst of Instant Step had already brought him to the giant’s shoulder.

"Slaughter Line. Beheading"

In William’s hands, the Black Hand drew a symbol of death in the air, a black curtain that severd the giant’s whisker-like skull completely,

Hands alternating,

The loaded gun barrel aimed at the smoothly cut neck, pulling the trigger... A bullet filled with volatile explosives, red in color, shot into the giant’s body.

One axe, one gun, there were no further movements required.

William’s figure fell from high up, stepping down... Boom! An intense explosion sounded behind him as his black dress shoe firmly stepped on the ground.

Rain of rats briefly poured from the sky as the upper half of the Plague Giant, blown to pieces, thunderously fell.

"One..."

Just as William was mentally counting, two giants came at him from both sides, with two spears shooting through the gaps.

The Deep combined immediately, and the eye on the forehead instantly completed the positioning in four directions,

With the chasing trait of the Abyss tentacles, William’s Madness Brain instantly deduced that dodging and blocking would waste a lot of energy and there was even a small chance of getting injured.

So, William chose another method,

Facing the imminent combined attack, he actually temporarily placed his Hand Axe at his waist, freeing his right hand.

Grasping his suit, he tore it with force... Whoosh!

As the gentleman’s clothes flung into the air, they unfolded into an "Apostle Barrier."

Neither the giant’s attack nor the spear could penetrate!

In the moment these attacks were blocked,

William stepped on one giant’s arm in the same way, sprinting toward the skull area,

As he ran, he snapped his fingers behind him with one hand... Snap! The clothing that was blocking the spears and the giant’s arms immediately shrank into a small piece of cloth and flew toward the snapping sound.

The moment the cloth touched his body, it returned to the form of a suit.

Boom!

After the second giant was killed, William, propelled by the blast, leapt towards the third giant... only it seemed a bit too high, unable to land on the giant’s shoulder.

Or rather,

William wasn’t planning to jump on it, but to launch an attack in mid-air.

Whew... Deep breath!

Using his clothing as a medium, he directed an immense death energy to his right arm,

The Hand Axe in his hand came to life, and the axe blade emitted a thick black aura.

In mid-air, William tightened his entire body, releasing his killing intent!

Slash! The twisting torso transferred power to the arm, swinging down!

Hum~ The concept of death at this moment transformed into a massive guillotine, heavily falling,

The Plague Giant, formed from tens of thousands of rat corpses, was directly split in two, and its split body was instantly invaded by death, with no possibility of resurrection.

In an instant, three Plague Giants had been killed.

During this process, William was excited and his blood was surging.

Even Yi Chen deep in the brain sent praises, "I must say, without inheriting the Dark Memory, you have better learning and adaptability!

Excellent, perfectly artistic slaughter, William, I’m growing fonder of you!"

Without pause, right after his dress shoe hit the ground, William continued racing toward the fourth giant.

The slash given in mid-air was indeed formidable, and the efficiency of the kills was quite astonishing... but the consumption on himself was also significant, and William did not want to exhaust all his energy here,

Just as he was prepared to continue killing giants using the ’Beheading + Shooting’ method,

An unusual feeling struck,

Since the previous spear throw, there had been no further spear attacks or similar type spell attacks, Dugall had been inactive for quite a while.

"No good!"

It was already too late for William to retreat.

The plague giant in front of him formed a spiraling black hole in its abdomen and began to implode, leading to self-destruction.

This type of self-destruction was quite bizarre, as the explosion did not blast William away but instead created a reverse effect that pulled him toward the collapsing point.

Not only that,

The fifth, sixth, and seventh plague giants all came around and exploded in a chain reaction.

The accumulated explosive power finally caused William to lose balance and fall into the vortex... buzz!

In an instant, everything quieted down.

The giants, William, and the various fragments produced by the explosion all disappeared.

A hundred meters away,

Dugall, whose entire body had degenerated to only a rat’s head, coughed out a large amount of black waste liquid, and his skull also split open with a terrible crack.

This was his ultimate secret technique,

using tens of thousands of corpses as a medium, combining the Plague Corpse Explosion with the Abyss Secret Skill as the final move that could blast a temporary path to the "Abyss".

Though this temporary path was far from comparable to the Abyss itself, it was still a temporary branch connecting to the Abyss, and he could be sure that even the patients who completed the path would have difficulty escaping.

Open Source, if caught in it, would be completely devoured by the Abyss.

"Finally... It’s over!

Next, I must maintain my sanity and complete the final path! As long as I can finish the path, I just have to reach that place, and I will be able to reshape my physical form.

I must not let the Abyss take over my consciousness. I want to become the most powerful ratman!"

Just as Durgar collapsed on the ground, preparing to break through right there.

Crack~

The sound of material shattering echoed through the spacious cave area.

Durgar looked around and found nothing, thinking he had misheard... Crack~ the same sound came again, even clearer and louder.

In front of him, a crack also appeared in space.

"What! Impossible!"

Crack~ a third time

A pitch-black Hand Axe chopped out, tearing open the black space,

Following that, an arm covered with ash crawled out,

The young man with an Ashen Eyeball growing on his forehead forcefully tore apart the space and crawled out from the path leading to the Abyss,

Leather shoes firmly stepped on the ground, one hand grasping the neck and moving it back and forth...

"Ah~ A temporary little path to the Abyss? You really had a tough time, Durgar, but it’s still too early. Many preparations are not yet complete.

All right, let’s settle our matter next."

Tap tap tap~

The sound of the leather shoes stepping approached Durgar like the grim Reaper getting closer.

Even though he had given his body to the Abyss and was nearly insane, he could still feel a primal layer of fear spreading, a fundamental fear coming from the depths of his biology.

At this moment,

The twisted tentacle materials on his body began to rapidly fade away as the Abyss withdrew, abandoning him completely.

William’s right hand slowly reached out, ready to peel off the Plague Grapes from this man’s forehead.

Buzz!

An extremely powerful aura suddenly arrived, making even William’s clothes tremble slightly.

It was accompanied by a strong scent of meat and a faint smell of Red Lotus flowers.

Feather-decorated fully enclosed helmet, ultra-short meat skirt design, and a very tight-fitting, slender armor design,

A pair of golden boots landed at the execution site.

"Honored Tumor Knight!"

Durgar, who was already utterly despairing, suddenly sparked hope, shouting loudly with the only remaining rat’s head, "Knight Sir! I am the Acting City Lord Durgar!

The guy here emanating Death Aura slaughtered my subordinates without any explanation and has pushed me to this extent.

I request that you execute him here."

The feathered helmet nodded slightly, then turned to the youth nearby.

"William, what are you doing here? Lady Oreina said you had joined the Circus. Why are you here playing house with such a lowly rat... and you look quite tired, this guy doesn’t seem very strong, does he?

Do you want me to help you finish him off?"

"Jin! What a coincidence?"

"Hehe who knows~ I just came here to check things out as per the Cancer Palace’s arrangement. Okay, let’s quickly kill off this stinky rat. I really don’t want to stay in such a filthy, stinky place."

Listening to the casual conversation between the two in front of him, Durgar was utterly confused.

"What... What is going on!?"