The Gentleman at the End

The rain poured down.

Seemingly, every drop of rain fell on Art, but upon closer observation, it could be seen that tiny Pilgrims were neatly arranged on the surface of Art's body, holding high canopies to shield the rain away.

The canopies were tightly interlocked, as if adding another layer of skin on the existing one, with no significant change in appearance, yet effectively screening all scene factors from the outside, guarding against everything.

Art was more cautious than ever, as he was just one step away, the simplest step, and did not want any lapses at this stage.

Currently,

Art looked at William who descended like a God, especially when he saw Mr. Yi fitting seamlessly on William's back, he instantly understood the source of the other's confidence.

But seeing Yi Chen's aged, bleeding, and terrible state, Art shook his head somewhat helplessly, then laughed heartily.

"Hahaha~ William, is this your full form? Why does it look like a concoction 'put together from bits and pieces,' not pure at all, totally lacking aesthetic value.

I remember your title being Complete Shaper, yet now you haven't even filled your eyes completely,

my Cancer cells can clearly sense vulnerabilities all over your body, seemingly diverse but actually fragile, I'm afraid dealing with the Seven Marquis would be strenuous.

If it were Mr. Yi who dealt with the Great Emperor before, I might have been wary, but the present Mr. Yi seems not to have much vigor left after the Emperor's beating.

How are you going to execute the final performance?"

William, however, wore a smile resembling someone infected by the Clown Virus, replying to Art, "Please wait~"

William continued executing the performance flow, adhering to his actor identity, he entered with such a figure just to deepen the audience's impression, letting the audience clearly see who he is, for achieving better dramatic effect.

Because the form he was going to present next would erase the surface traits of 'William Y. Behrens,' if he appeared in that form directly, it would increase viewing costs.

Bang!

The gentleman's cane was thrown aside, and William forcibly gripped his abdomen.

Art's understanding of William's Abyss only stopped at the ability to transport; currently, William seemed to want to hide into the space's depths.

"Oh? Meeting and you're already hiding?"

However, William's next action dispelled Art's thoughts.

Both hands were fully inserted, visibly the arm muscles fully tensed, seemingly exerting immense effort to pull out and slowly flip something out.

The flipped-out thing wasn't guts or blood and flesh,

but a black structure between blood and flesh and rock layer.

William's "exterior" also got gradually wrapped internally by this flipping action, including Yi Chen recessed into the back and the Evil Sun's Eye displayed on the forehead.

What eventually emerged was a humanoid life form like the Abyss, with its surface crawling obscurely with Abyss Black Worms serving to lubricate limbs and smooth extra rock layers.

The gentleman's clothing managed by Yellow Skin was the only material not flipped, worn upon the Abyss body, signifying a gentleman's identity.

[Flipping]

This was William's unique development of an Abyss Disease, combining the traits of a Complete Shaper, tenth Abyss granted Abyss authority, and his understanding of the physical, capable only by him in the Old World.

Since learning Flipping over a year ago, William had been simulating training inside the Madness Brain, now Flipping had become more perfect.

Art saw William's new form for the first time, tilted his head, instinctively alert, he sensed waves of threat from the Abyss body.

"Wow! You can even flip yourself? I thought you could only change external things using Power of Abyss… Is this your trump card? Interesting.

Then, before I achieve the final Gold advancement, let me engage in the ultimate performance with you, Abyss Spokesman! Rest assured, you're the most interesting fellow I've seen, I'll erect a statue and monument for you after you die, placing them in my Cancer Palace so you'll be admired every day by thousands."

Though Art mocked William verbally, he had identified the 'Danger Sign.'

Due to William's concept deficiency in the right eye, even with 'Flipping' a massive cavity existed at the right eye on the face. But within the cavity was filled with something—specifically the tumor Art personally planted for William during their cooperation years ago.

According to Art, just by cultivating this tumor well, using thousands of Patients who reached Open Source as 'nutrients,' the tumor would fully grow and fill the concept gap.

However, currently the tumor followed William in being Flipped.

Originally flesh-red, constantly wriggling, and occasionally squeezing out of the eye socket, the tumor now turned into a 'obedient' black tumor, curled honestly within the eye socket, barely filling the void.

If even malignant tumors can be Flipped, naturally Art felt a bit uneasy.

Art began shaking his body, preparing to dedicate fully to the upcoming battle.

"Come on~ Since I'm personally in a hurry, unlike dealing with Mr. Yi before, I won't perform three different types of performances.

Let's fight to the death and decide the victor!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the clown costume was immediately devoured by rapidly proliferating tumors below the skin.

Art's body size instantly reached the obese specification of 5~6m, resembling the sumo figure depicted in the second round of [Careful Fire Circle] when dealing with Yi Chen.

This was also Art's strongest physical form, within the Circus only Mr. Rabbit could physically surpass him.

With the Original Gene's completion, this tumor-stacked body form became even more terrifying.

Aside from the circular 'Twelve Arms' structure emerging on the back, a tumor crown appears on Art's head along with a blood-and-flesh championship cloak.

One foot stepped,

The skyscrapers on both sides of the street trembled,

Almost in a breath Art dashed up to William, whether speed, momentum, or power they all exceeded a level from before,

Just the palm exceeded William's body size.

The surface of the incoming palm can even be seen with one after another tumor worshippers extending hands, ready to strike the target with one palm.

In Abyssal State, William didn't retreat but responded with the same palm strike.

Bang! Two palms collided.

Boom~

Art's palm strike was immense, blasting the street behind William into a several-meter-deep fan-shaped pit, length reaching a hundred meters, guzzling cars parked beside the street, and streetlights pressed into scrap iron.

More dreadful was the conceptual cancer sowing affecting the street encountering palm wind,

Within seconds countless tumors emerged, growing into dense balloons flying to the city's sky, occupying the cloud layer.

Seemingly wanting to overtake this [Scene] generated by the Storybook.

However, the result of the palm strike was quite peculiar.

A drop of cold sweat slipped down Art's temple, Art's entire arm perplexingly twisted like a towel, its interior cells and people getting twisted, screaming continuously.

As for William, who got hit, was strange too,

Logically, the power should pierce straight out, and the struck William should either be smashed directly, or be hit flying straight out.

But the William before him did not retreat an inch,

Instead, spun slightly airborne at high speed like a fan.

Seemingly unloading the palm's force through this bizarre rotation, the stability for this rotation provided by William's abdomen's Abyss Vortex.

[Superfast Regeneration]

Malignant tumors' infinite proliferation compensated with the opportunity from Original Gene,

Bang! Art's entirely twisted right arm promptly reversed rotation, restored as before!

The people inside also returned to normal one by one, everyone took their positions, reaccumulated energy in the arm ready to deliver a more powerful second palm strike.

Unexpectedly, high-speed rotating William also stopped at this instant, seemingly completing the force unloading.

A Death Aura rapidly permeated from William's body, or say someone climbed out from inside.

The speed was so fast even hard to entirely see,

Art hadn't reached the moment to swing the second palm, only hearing the clashing chain sound, a black blade already chopped toward his face, slicing his enormous body into two halves.