The final gentleman

When Art saw the young man who had arrived in advance in this cellar that only he knew privately, a place that he named a refuge and a shelter after the words in the divinity of heaven,

There was only a moment of surprise, and he quickly deduced in his mind the reason why the other party was able to find this place.

Tsk tsk tsk~

"William, William! I knew you were not honest at all...did you use those common cells that exist in our children to secretly steal my memories?"

William, who was sitting in the corner, put out the match and completely disappeared into the darkness.

"No~ That's too troublesome and too dangerous~ Reading the memory requires going deep into the brain cells, and Art, your brain has been covered by divinity. If I want to invade, I will alert the snake.

I just asked a member of the Smiley Face Club to become my student when I was cooperating with you, and asked him to go to Fake Moon in private to fully cooperate with us in researching the "Clown Virus" that is unique to Ate.

We must thank Reagan here for providing the Neisser technology that allowed us to decipher the virus within two months, allowing us to quickly locate the coordinates of people infected with the virus throughout the old world.

I then compared it with the base areas of my fellow enthusiasts that you told me about, Art, and I quickly found this most hidden location.

Moreover, there is only one virus carrier with the ability to hide underground, and there is enough water-containing food to last for decades. You don't even need to think about it to know that this must be a special area for you to take refuge.

Once you are qualified, if you don't become a plague master on the spot, there is a high probability that you will come here for the final promotion.

After all~ you have not trusted me from the beginning to the end, so naturally you do not trust the 'child' we produced together. You will definitely abandon the child to avoid the influence from me.

Therefore, using the characteristics of the virus to move here, am I right? "

In the past, when Art heard this, he would have been unable to bear it anymore and would have killed William on the spot.

But now his mood has changed, and he also wants to continue chatting with the person in front of him who interests him.

"As expected of a lunatic, he is really smart~ What are you going to do now?

Continue to maintain our alliance and help me guard this place until I become the real plague master. Then will I help you take the position of boss? "

"No..." William simply denied without explaining the reason.

Art put his finger on his nose, "Hiss~ William, do you want to terminate our cooperation? And then send the coordinates here to the whole world?"

After all, ever since you asked me to hunt down the skinned apostle, my actions have already exceeded the monastery's bottom line, and now it is even more sinful to snatch the qualifications.

As long as you send the coordinates here,

The great prison monk of the monastery, and maybe even the warden himself, may come after me.

The great emperor of the blood people will definitely not give up. If I kill his most beloved monarch, he will definitely use all means to kill me.

The Cancer Palace is even more panicked~ Once they know my coordinates and the qualifications I have obtained, they will definitely come and execute me at all costs.

those friends of yours,

Moon Boy and the Neisser patients who completed mechanical ascension during the game should also come to hunt me.

Once I am killed, this "qualification" will be returned to the old world for redistribution. As the number one contributor to stopping me, the evil man, and you have reached the limit of the silver circle, you will most likely be assigned this qualification. qualifications.

Am I right? William, this is your plan. "

Just when Art confidently said this inference,

"No..." William still gave a negative answer.

Such a concise denial made Art very unhappy, but now he is only a quasi-epidemic master. After this period of cooperation with William, he knows very well that William can easily escape into the abyss in such a dark environment, and it is very difficult to kill him. .

Holding back a smile,

Art made an invitation gesture and continued to ask: "Then what do you want to do?"

"It's very simple. Kill you before you complete your final transformation...that's all."

As soon as this statement came out.

Hahaha~haha!

Crazy laughter instantly filled this absolutely sealed shelter. Even the sealing materials used to build this place grew tumors wherever the laughter touched it. The already small space seemed to be completely filled.

But he still couldn't touch William's body.

The laughter lasted for five minutes before slowly stopping.

"Haha~ It's true, William, you are still joking at this moment. No wonder you were able to win my trust in a short period of time. You are really funny and can always tell an unexpected joke at critical moments.

Now assuming you're not joking,

Then I admit that you have some abilities, especially in the combination of space and abyss. It is indeed difficult to catch you.

But in terms of your strength in frontal combat, you are at the bottom among all the chiefs of the circus. What can you do to kill me, the quasi-epidemic master? "

William did not respond according to the clown's words, but simply said:

"Do you dare to accept my invitation to challenge? Art Kramer."

"William, are you serious? Are you really in a hurry to die?"

After spending the past four months together, Art knew very well that William was a truly smart man. This move would definitely not be so brainless, and there must be some conspiracy behind it.

His first guess was that William wanted to lose to him on purpose so that he could be absorbed into his body and become a part of his body, thereby affecting his eventual promotion to Plague Master.

"If you are in a hurry to die, I can help you~ However, I will not absorb you. You look very wrong. Your mental state is very similar to mine before, like a complete madman."

William continued to respond in a flat voice,

"Since you have agreed to my challenge, I would like to ask Mr. Art to wait a moment and let me set the scene~ so that the duel between you and me will not be interrupted by others.

As you said before, there are currently a large number of people in the old world, and even multiple plague lords want to kill you.

I can't let others get it. "

"Scene? Are you going to open the boss's tent?"

"No... this is a scene I specially arranged for this moment to ensure that our duel will not be exposed and that everything can be completed in secret."

Art was also a little wary, thinking that William would come up with some kind of abyss-like scene, and even suspected that the Tenth Abyss behind William would come out to assist.

If the abyss does appear, Art will immediately self-destruct and transfer.

Who knows,

The sound of turning pages of books sounded in my ears.

Some kind of malice that resonates with Art is growing in the current area, and at the same time, a [field] is slowly unfolding.

Just like the previous performance room, Zed made a corpse cave made of flesh.

However, the field here is more complete, more closed, and reinforced with some non-old world concepts.

"With this malice...are you using something from outside the domain again?"

"That's right. In the past, I just used the projection of the characters in the storybook a little bit. This time I will use the entire book as the cornerstone to create a perfect [field], which is also the final stage for the two of us, where we will fight to the death. .”

The words just fell.

This secret cellar was immediately covered by rules that transcended the old world.

Hua Hua Hua~ Heavy rain poured down, constantly lapping between the cities in the steel jungle.

Street lights provide limited lighting,

Art stood in the middle of the road, curiously looking at these strange-style buildings from another world.

"Oh! Is this a human city in the main material plane? It looks very interesting. The density of living is very high, which is very suitable for the spread of diseases."

Just as Art was admiring the beautiful scenery of the city,

A sense of crisis like a pinprick went straight into his heart. Even though he had reached the level of quasi-epidemic master and was just short of the final 'golden expression', he felt the danger.

Looking up,

Art's eyes, which were constantly shedding golden tears, saw William who was slowly descending in the air, and there seemed to be two people there.

For some reason, I can't see clearly. It's like looking at the scorching sun hanging in the sky, dazzling and blurry.

Only the general outline of William can be seen, which seems to have three arms, and the third hand does not seem to belong to him.

Moreover, Art also felt that someone seemed to be staring at him from behind William, a very familiar feeling of gaze.

Step~

The moment the leather shoes hit the ground, the sound of the rain was drowned out.

William, in a neat suit, stood upright across the street, with his feet slightly apart and aligned with his shoulders, holding a gentleman's staff with both hands, looking at Art opposite with a smile.

but,

In addition to William's gaze, there was another gaze coming from behind.

Yi Chen, who was embedded in the back, was stretching his head as far as possible, giving people the feeling of standing sideways behind William.

Perhaps due to fatigue and injuries after the battle with the emperor, Yi Chen looked a little old and lifeless.

One of the hands gently placed on William's shoulder for support.

The other hand maintained the same posture as when fighting the Emperor, wrapped in iron chains and holding the terrifying butcher knife, just like William's 'third hand' extending diagonally from behind.

As for Art, he couldn't see clearly just now, and the feeling as if he was being burned by the scorching sun came from the center of William's eyebrows.

The evil sun's eyes have opened.

certainly,

The most eye-catching thing is the mouth of the abyss that is concave inward on the abdomen. Even the entire suit fits perfectly. It is concave inward at the abyss, then rotates and spreads around like ripples.