The Last Gentleman
Chapter 606: 604: Red Lotus, Butterfly, and Wings

[Moon Trace Lorian]

Ever since that moment at the Twilight Clinic when he resonated with the moon and became "Patient Zero",

his personality had split due to prolonged inhuman torture, and in line with the relationship between the moon and its reflection on the water, he existed in the form of a "Twin Body",

eager for revenge, he did not wait long before creating the Fake Moon World and directly waging war against the Twilight Clinic.

In the end, he emerged victorious at the cost of sacrificing one of his twin existences,

and after the False Moon incident was completely resolved, he let go of his past and calmly sought the ’other half’ that could complete him.

First, he cultivated a batch of direct descendants infected with Moon Transformation Disease in Viner City, but these Moon people were at best barely satisfactory and far from satisfying what he truly desired for completion.

By some coincidence or fate, a young man named William entered his sight.

When the moonlight fell upon this young man, it could not reveal the slightest flaw, but at that time, William was still raw jade, and it was not good to combine with him prematurely,

so after infecting William with the "Moon Transformation Disease", he let him go.

As William grew, Lorian felt as though he was watching the raw jade being slowly sculpted, evolving towards the perfect gemstone he envisioned.

Meanwhile, Lorian, who had wandered all over the world and even drifted through the Old World, was trying to find other substitutes, but no one compared to William.

Therefore, a year ago, he became fully convinced that William was the perfect completion, irreplaceable by anyone.

He began to create a large number of William’s synthetic bodies inside his own Silver Moon Clinic, preliminarily attempting the feasibility of "Conjoined Surgery".

Having been inside William’s body for a while, Lorian could perfectly sketch William’s anatomical diagram even with his eyes closed.

Finally, a few months ago, he completely confirmed the feasibility of "Conjoined Surgery", and it was for this reason that he hurried to find the circus and was accidentally gravely injured by the clown Art.

At present,

watching as one of the Seven Marquis with handsome features but a rotten interior, ’Greedy Glider’ dared to sink his fangs into William’s flesh to suck the true blood linking to the soul.

If sucked, William, the piece of raw jade, would become imperfect, and all of Lorian’s preparations would go down the drain.

He could no longer sit still,

with a wave of his hand, whoosh! A beam of moonlight fell solely on Marquis Glider... The sudden intense light burn and invasion of illusion made Marquis Glider pause briefly, halting the imminent bloodsucking.

Lorian, completely disregarding his injuries, leaped from the sickbed in the sky,

grabbed the Moonlight Greatsword on his back, and prepared to directly confront ’Greedy Glider’, one of the Seven Marquis.

Just as Lorian’s Moonlight Greatsword was about to strike, he suddenly felt a potent aura assaulting him from the side, not that of a Blood citizen but the stench of a blood and flesh tumor.

At the same time, a crimson butterfly flitted before Lorian’s eyes,

The butterfly had a peculiar shape, at a glance it looked like a butterfly, but upon close inspection, its wings were actually the petals of a plant, specifically, of a red lotus.

"Honored Tumor Knight?"

In an instant, a pair of enormous wings covered with butterflies dived down, carrying a certain Honored Tumor Knight at an inconceivable speed.

Marquis Glider’s attention was still on the moonlight, and by the time he realized it, the red shadow had already reached behind him,

a perfect 360° spin kick in mid-air, a fair foot landing squarely on Glider’s cheek,

Crack—you could see with the naked eye that his facial bones shattered and caved in, even revealing the gory brain inside.

Boom!

The kick even created visible aftershocks in the air,

Marquis Glider shot towards the wall like a bullet, boom! He buried himself into it, nearly piercing through the wall.

The red figure finally stopped, revealing her true appearance,

The newcomer was none other than [Jin Almeda]

Since her Knight Armor was damaged, and the intense battle with the flea inside her body caused her clothes to tear, Jin was barely clothed,

but her body was blossoming with red lotuses and crawling with living butterflies,

Her wings were quite special, contrasting greatly with other Honored Tumor Knights and lacking prominent traits of the Cancer Palace like ’flesh’ or ’proliferation’, but rather were closer to her own Red Lotus.

Using rhizomes as a frame for her wings, adorned with blossoming Red Lotus,

these Red Lotuses, when fully matured, would detach and become butterfly-like independent entities, circling around Jin and perching on her body.

If any large gaps appeared between the rhizomes, the butterflies would fly to fill them.

The wingspan stretched a full ten meters, creating a scene of overwhelming beauty.

It was due to such wing forms that Jin was favored by the Lord and even invited for an audience in the Lord’s sleeping chamber.

Between the cracks in the city walls,

Marquis Greed, fixing his tie with one hand and running the other through his hair, emerged with ease, his facial injuries healing as he stepped away from the walls.

"That was a strong and forceful kick! Bit overly eager, though—I still needed some time to fix my hair.

Wow~ how beautiful, it’s my first time seeing such tumor wings... Lucky for me, you’re not a High Table Knight, or I would’ve skedaddled right away.

Now that you’ve made the first move, I have a valid reason to kill you, little girl~"

Marquis Greed’s gaze soon shifted from Jin’s beauty, quickly locking onto the odd broken sword in her hands, sensing a hint of danger, the crisis from that battle.

"An extradimensional weapon? You didn’t use it directly against me just now because you haven’t fully mastered it, afraid of hurting this young man? Since you’re wielding this thing, I can’t hold back any longer."

Marquis Greed spread his arms, and billows of blood mist quickly gathered behind him.

Until a solid blood wall appeared, or rather, a door resembling a safe’s, named [Greed’s Blood-colored Treasure Vault].

Weapons of various shapes from different sources materialized, and he swiftly chose a cross-shaped great sword, yanking it out with force.

Blood splattered.

The three-meter-long, church-cross-like blood-red great sword rested in his hand,

This sword too was an extradimensional weapon, obtained by ambushing a gravely wounded angel during the war, taking a millennium to soak with blood before finally cleansing the original owner’s spirit, making it his own.

Just as battle was about to erupt, the young man’s weak voice suddenly spread:

Cradled in Jin’s arms, the young man had reverted to William’s personality, loudly saying, "Cough~ Marquis Greed, let us settle our own matters, don’t involve others.

Jin, I need a favor from you... You have to deal with the stronger Marquis Glatoni, I can’t handle his swallowing power at all.

If we don’t stop him, teacher Zede’s rescue will fail."

"Can you handle it..."

"I wouldn’t joke with my own life, I’ve come so far, I don’t plan on dying just yet. Go now, Jin... Marquis Glatoni has already left just a few seconds ago.

You should be able to catch up.

Besides, I’m not alone, Lorian will find a way."

"Understood."

With complete trust, Jin dashed off in the direction of the academy, hoping to intercept Marquis Glatoni who was also en route.

Without Jin’s embrace,

William, unable to even move a finger, fell directly downwards through the air, seemingly about to feed right into Marquis Greed’s hands, when,

Hum! Moonlight once again sprinkled down and enshrouded William, allowing him to float within.

At the same time, a voice sounded, as if coming directly from the Moon itself, compelling Marquis Greed to step back slightly, wary of approaching.

However, he stealthily pulled out two deadly blood thorns from his mouth and shot them towards the young man whose light was nearly extinguished.

Clang!

The azure great sword descended, directly shattering the blood thorns.

Lorian, wielding the great sword in one hand and a surgical knife in the other, descended with his medical team accompanying him.

Not looking at Marquis Greed, but concentrating fully on William, who was hanging on to his last breath, his pulse in his grasp nearly nonexistent, not a moment to waste.

"Prepare for a conjoined surgery!"