The Last Gentleman
Chapter 616: 614: Evacuation

Thud!

When Marquis Glatoni crashed into the ground, forming a hundred-meter crater, blood spewed from every mouth on his body.

His body, nourished and amassed by consuming exquisite delicacies since ancient times, surprisingly exhibited a ’rule-like fissure’ that kicked out about ten centimeters inward from the left waist.

This was not something ordinary regeneration could repair. He would need to return and spend a vast amount of blood essence and rest for a long time to possibly recover, though those with special abilities might heal sooner.

Such a fissure in the waist would seriously affect Glatoni’s subsequent "actions."

Zede, having delivered that kick, submerged into the ground again, not granting the Marquis any chance to lock on or devour him.

Glatoni felt sharp pains from his waist, "This guy has gotten much stronger than four months ago... My derivative mouths can’t even bite him, such a nuisance~"

Marquis Glatoni wasn’t annoyed or panicked. He adjusted his mindset immediately.

The mouths all over his body closed one by one, leaving only the one in his palm and on his back open, tongues protruding to capture Zede’s unique scent.

It had been a long time since he encountered such a situation. Even with his Blood Armor activated, he was still injured.

Given this, he prepared to exert all his strength from past conflicts, even if it meant completely destroying the new city he had painstakingly built.

He hooked two fingers at the corners of his mouth and pulled hard.

Hiss~ Blood flowed freely

The corners of Marquis Glatoni’s mouth were completely torn open, splitting up to his earlobes.

Eventually, a maximal and blood-filled master mouth formed, changing his entire aura.

Below Glatoni’s feet, a blood and flesh abyss appeared, lined with mouths and teeth, where any individual falling in would be ground down to their most primitive, basic material.

The Marquis flapped his Blood Wings and raised himself into the air again.

But his gaze was different now, looking down at the newly remodeled manor city he created with determination, ready to perform "City Devouring."

Zede, hidden underground, immediately noticed this and decisively threw the same corpse spear as before,

However, this time was different; the spear hadn’t even reached before it was bitten and shattered.

Not only did Zede feel the real danger,

even Principal Desline in the principal’s office, capturing this extreme sense of danger through Stargazing Skill, foresaw a terrifying scene where Omphalo-Centric-Academy got swallowed whole.

As Principal Desline readied to teleport Jin from the bathroom away, escaping the range of the devouring,

Just as Marquis Glatoni’s gaping mouth was about to bite down,

a special Sensing originated from the middle of the city, intending to devour,

Glatoni’s eyes widened instantly as he looked up towards the center of the human city, the passage that connected to the Old World.

"How is it possible!? Greed... he actually died!"

’Gluttony’ Glatoni was in a good mood, hence maintaining decent relations with most.

’Greed’ Greed, although he siphoned the blood of his kin, always stood with the blood citizens and the manor, frequently showing his ambitious side.

Although weaker than the other Marquis, he definitely had the qualification to hold the title of ’Seven Marquis’.

Glatoni found it hard to believe this, but looking at the moon nearly pressing down on the city and feeling Greed’s aura thin and vanish, he used his tongue to try and detect the human aura beside Greed’s body.

A bitter black Moon Seal appeared on his tongue.

He had his answer and also made a decision.

"Greed died in battle, the passage is closed, and the enemy will surely deploy more forces targeting me.

This ’corpse’ alone is troubling enough, but if more arrive, including monastery executioners and the mysterious being who killed Greed, even I might be in danger."

Glatoni changed his thoughts. As a Marquis, he sent instructions and made connections with every blood plague life in the city, preparing them for evacuation, and he had already decided on the plan.

A unique devouring force enveloped the whole city,

Glatoni’s gaping maw no longer targeted the campus but instead closed in an alternative manner, very soft but with wide coverage.

Crack! Teeth clamped down.

All lives related to the Blood Plague within Zion City, whether hidden or fighting against humans, were swallowed into a moist, warm mouth filled with blood, heading toward some spacious and safe ’belly’.

The Marquis himself no longer lingered in combat, flapping his Blood Wings at highest speed, leaving the city to seek the nearest passage back to the Old World.

Who knew,

that just as the Marquis had flown out of Zion, the familiar aura of dead bodies continued to emanate from behind him.

Zede had actually used a large number of dead body arms to sew and construct a pair of ’Corpse Wings’ on his back, chasing in the same flying manner, and his feet continuously stomping on the air, using the friction to further increase his speed.

"Even unwilling to let me go, huh? I must appear an easy target..."

Glatoni suddenly turned his head, snapped his fully split open mouth, creating a devouring of a different ’mass’.

Crack!

The space along the way shattered and even spurted blood.

With such a wide coverage area, it was fundamentally impossible to dodge,

Zede could only tighten his body as before, but this time the devouring directly exceeded the maximum tolerance of his flesh... Swish! The tense flesh instantly began twisting, the bones inside breaking bit by bit, various teeth marks embedding deep between the flesh.

Just as his body’s framework was about to collapse, and his flesh was about to be completely devoured,

a strange, eerie howl of a dead body, accompanied by heavy drum beats and cello sounds spread in the air, constituting Zede’s exclusive epic music.

Above his head, a silver frame filled with pale arms appeared, the ends sculpted into an impeccable perfect dead body, filled with a dark, chilly liquid.

Hogni Zed, The Undefinable Corpse

A quarter of the liquid within the frame suddenly decreased.

Before his flesh was devoured, Zede grabbed his own mouth with both hands, pulling it as wide as possible... Swish! A pair of new, moist arms stretched out from his mouth and rapidly propped up a new body from inside.

Zede shook off the devouring in a manner similar to ’shedding’.

"What!"

Such a scene stunned Glatoni completely.

A brand new dead body broke free... Whoosh! It closed in at a faster speed.

This time Zede did not use kicking, but instead locked Glatoni from behind, executing a classic naked choke.

At the moment the choke was executed, a certain mood also passed over.

Glatoni found himself as though in a Demon Cave, with countless dead arms grasping his throat as if to break his very soul.

The Marquis’ mindset changed again, his facial expression ferocious as he roared from his bloodied mouth, "Hogni Zed... I hereby consider you my [nemesis], I will devour you in the future."

’Blood Abandonment’

The choking Marquis opened his mouth as wide as possible and suddenly bit down on himself!

The entire area was filled with a massive outpour of blood, cascading like a waterfall onto the forest below.

The Marquis, at the cost of sacrificing his own head, completed self-devouring.

This directly led to the forced release of the naked choke,

Zede’s hands used for the choke, his cheeks, and his chest area were all devoured, and his brain, heart, and lungs were also damaged to some extent.

Zede still wanted to continue his pursuit, but his corpse instead transmitted a ’prevention intent’, autonomously generating a strong sense of weakness that forced him to stop any form of intense activity.

All he could do was watch helplessly as, hundreds of meters away, the Marquis, whose neck kept gushing blood, escaped into the distance.