The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 777 - 775: Accommodation

[Theater] After the performance in Lu Pu, within just one day, the threat from the outside world and the concept of evil had already spread across various regions of the Old World.

Simultaneously, a rumor with an advertising nature spread.

The False Moon, Yin Head, which had risen in Lu Pu, began to move randomly within the Old World,

Any Patient interested in "the moon," "Illusion Dream Realm," or "Outer Domain Evil" could try to track the trace of the False Moon. By devoutly following the moon, there was a chance to obtain qualifications to ascend it and gain the power from beyond, or witness the malignant threat of the external world.

A trend quickly took shape, with people beginning to actively pursue the moon,

This continuous, mobile style of performance was also proposed by William,

As long as they had a "Storybook," they could easily converge the fear of others, while also providing enough chaotic test subjects for Lorrian, deepening the cooperative relationship between the two.

Of course, these test subjects would be stabilized through ’Education’ beforehand.

William would personally involve himself in research on some Patients with unique eye structures. He would even bring Reagan over to attempt using the ancient technologies of The Neisseria Ones to find a way to repair the eyes or find a method to perfectly accept the Evil Sun’s Eye.

Some Patients suitable for darkness were also quietly sent to the Tenth Abyss.

With advertising under the flag of ’Outer Domain’ (several transfer companies in Lu Pu helped convey advertisements), and William’s clever utilisation of Patients’ frustration from being restricted by the Old World’s conditions,

The Old World quickly gave rise to a ’moon-chasing craze,’ at one point even surpassing the enthusiasm for exploring the Extremely Dark Land,

Many Neutral Cities started to engage in related moon business, providing information on the current coordinates of the False Moon, selling experiences related to moon-viewing, and moon-ascending, among other things.

In short, the business of the Theater could be described as booming,

Out of staff shortage, William was forced to go onstage to perform several times, telling stories face-to-face to the Audience, in collaboration with the Storybook and his own social phobia.

In just two weeks,

The five major departments that split off from the Fear Circus—[Circus], [Magic Department], [Clown House], [Zoo], and [Theater]—underwent changes in rankings.

The formerly bottom-ranked Theater had surged to first place, tied with the Circus, in its uplink of fear essence to the Circus headquarters,

The boss even bestowed more ’tents’ upon William, causing the False Moon floating in the sky to grow more hair, looking more like a long-haired woman’s head covered in hair meandering through the sky.

It wasn’t long before William planned to start expanding the [Scale] of the Theater, to grow bigger and stronger.

When the False Moon reached the sparsely populated border of the Old World, the "Bonfire Mountain Range," it was precisely the boundary between the living and the dead.

He tried conducting public performances on the periphery of the Original Tomb, even offering substantial gifts to the dead.

(As the carrier of the Evil Sun, Lia Roman needed to avoid this entirely, so as not to harm the dead living in darkness)

Although William could not use "Dead Man Makeup" due to Yi Chen’s departure,

As a "Complete Shaper," he possessed traits related to death, including the Black Liquid flowing in Madness Brain and the Death Plague he was once infected with in the Original Tomb.

Leveraging the quality of the performances and relationships previously formed in the Original Tomb, he quickly found his footing there, even befriending many of the dead with a talent for performance, inviting them to join the Theater.

Of course, taking the dead away was not easy.

William also risked going deep into the Original Tomb personally, seeking the opinion of the First Dead Man. Only after showing the First Dead Man the situation of the threats from the outside and the current state of the Theater did he manage to take away a few non-knight dead, adding new vitality to the Theater.

Of course,

This visit to the Original Tomb had another purpose, which was to chat with Yi Chen who was within, to see how far Yi Chen had progressed with death.

Who would have thought, after chatting with the members of the Death Plague Knights, he would discover that Yi Chen hadn’t been to the Original Tomb at all.

This caused William’s only remaining left eye to spiral like an abyss,

"Oh! My hunch was right after all! Yi Chen really did not go to the Original Tomb,

Perhaps it has to do with the Duke and that expense of thirty thousand pieces.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as Yi Chen can complete the concept, wherever he goes is fine... It’s just annoying that he’s deliberately keeping it from me."

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[Suffering Monastery]

Yi Chen successfully passed the physical inspection and earned the right to travel to the Monastery’s Public Area, also needing to wear an iron spike blindfold for the transfer.

When the blindfold was removed,

a large, disk-shaped plaza area appeared before his eyes, still surrounded by the high walls of the maze.

Most of the buildings here were mostly single or double-story bungalows made predominantly of metal,

with surfaces that were mostly uneven, adorned with spikes, protuberances, or decorated with various iron chains, and even many homeowners had affixed living decorations to their exterior walls. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

The majority living here were ordinary monks,

bald heads, leather garments, and torn skin with iron chains were their most common traits,

due to the lockdown of the Old World’s rules, the monks residing here had not been updated for a long time, and there were few visits from Foreign Visitors,

when they saw Yi Chen and Nash, two completely unfamiliar outsiders, they all cast strange looks.

Some female monks couldn’t help but pull on the spherical spikes on the surface of their tongues to increase their excitement when they saw Yi Chen’s handsome face,

Of course, interest in Yi Chen was not limited to women; the iron chains of some male monks clanked as well.

However, when they gradually approached, wanting to better understand this young man... buzz! They immediately felt a certain threat of Death, sensed a sharp knife atop their necks, a force even their toughest lock chains couldn’t block.

As if approaching within ten meters of the young man would result in beheading.

The two were led by a leading monk to the ’Guest House,’ which was actually a public area similar to a Church, where visitors to the Monastery were usually gathered.

But since no visitors had come for such a long time, the nature of the Guest House had changed and was now privatized by a high ranked monk known as ’priest.’

Inside the Guest House, a large number of young male monks would gather, guided by the priest through some special pain training.

So much so, that even before they approached the so-called Guest House, they could hear a continuous series of strange cries coming from inside.

Approaching for a closer look was even more incredible,

It wasn’t just about Pain, ’priest’ was currently playing a game with a monk who had pale skin and appeared to be young, and only slowly released the iron chains to lower the other party from midair when he saw someone coming in.

Moreover, Yi Chen also noticed that all the benches inside the Guest House had raised centers and armrest straps, and there were numerous monks sitting on them, relishing the experience.

However,

Yi Chen couldn’t sense any of the Concept of Evil. It seemed that the monks gathered here were all voluntary, and most of them were even engrossed in it, hardly noticing the outsiders’ arrival.

It also reminded Yi Chen of the words on the Monastery’s main gate, "No good or evil, only the Physical."

The priest’s scalp was entirely torn open on the back, fixed in a hexagonal shape with a metal support, flaunting his ’Pope’s Divinity.’

When he saw the new faces at the door and Yi Chen’s handsome looks, along with a non-monk physique, he couldn’t help but tremble, feeling something about to spill out.

Just as the priest was preparing to arrange accommodations for the visitors,

a damp aura struck from behind,

"Yo! Mr. Yi, you’ve made it in so smoothly, it seems you’ve managed to grease some palms in advance~ Lately it’s been so hard to get into the Monastery.

I’ve just applied for the use of a property in the Public Area from a friend in the Monastery, why don’t you come and stay with us, the house is too big~ my daughter and I can’t even fill it up. Or are you, Mr. Yi, into this kind of Hobby and prefer to stay in this Guest House?"

As luck would have it, the visitor was Lia Roman, the Ancestor Primordial Body of the Arc Sea.

This time William responded, "Aren’t you heading back to the Arc Sea?"

"It’s rare to go out traveling with my daughters, why go back? To look at the sour faces of Fish Origin? It’s better to have more fun, and it would be even better if I could collect some of Mr. Yi’s Physical pheromones."