The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 336 - 335 Ashes Reborn

Chapter 336: Chapter 335: Ashes Reborn

Chapter 336 -335: Ashes Reborn

Dong! Dong! Dong!

The bells atop the Glory Hall tolled, their somber chimes signifying the enshrinement of a new gentleman within, with most gentlemen clear that this bell corresponded to contributors of nightmare events.

Most of them momentarily put aside their matters at hand, turning towards the direction of the bells to pay their respects.

However,

certain gentlemen stationed at higher vantage points, who normally had a clear view of the hall’s architecture, felt an odd sensation as the bells neared their end, as if something deep within the hall was watching them.

“What is that?”

Those with higher Sensing Attributes or notable eye abilities could vaguely see a charred eyeball in the clouds above the hall, its ring-shaped pupil seemingly still ablaze.

Staring for an extended period even made these gentlemen’s eyes burn, and the sudden onset of Pain snapped them back to reality,

prompting them to hastily check their own eyes after shifting their gaze,

to their surprise, finding traces of burning in their eyes—either a black dot or overall smokiness, and in rare cases, scale-like scorch marks forming on the eyeball.

…

Glory Hall – Holy Body Room

Terrifying screams echoed incessantly here, heart-wrenching and soul-penetrating as if they could awaken the Sacred Body within.

The source of the screams was little Grape. Grep.

Having direcly absorbed the “Ember Eyes” of Prophet Rudolf led to the curse entering its body, this curse lingering among the corpses for centuries, and had not diminished much compared to its original state.

All of Grape’s fur burned from within, turning into fire core specks that fluttered in the air.

Its wide-open mouth was covered in scorch marks, with even more scale-like burns inside the mouth; its dried out tongue was filled with cracks of embers, and the eyeball it held in its mouth gradually began to resemble the “Ember Eyes,”

Watching his little companion burn like this, Yi Chen instinctively wanted to step forward to assist, but was forcibly stopped by a Holy Light barrier from the Archbishop standing nearby.

“Rudolf was stronger than you are back in his day, yet still, he couldn’t escape the curse of disease brought about by peering into the restricted area. A promising young seed like you should not be tainted and ruin your future prospects.

Since this was your companion’s own choice, let it bear the consequences alone.

I believe it’s not the kind of creature entirely driven by desire; it must have had some confidence in its decision to make contact voluntarily.

Moreover, the [Corpse] talent hidden within this little one is not simple; each has a history of several hundreds of years and a few even possess auras much greater than us old folks.”

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The screams eventually dissipated, not because Grape adapted to the curse,

but because it was completely burned to ash,

its fur consumed by fire, its body desiccated.

Crack~

With a crack appearing on the surface of the burnt sphere, Grape’s charred remains directly crumbled, scattering a pile of ash dust… however, the way it scattered was somewhat particular.

The ashes that fell to the ground actually piled into a small mound, to be precise, a [grave mound].

When Yi Chen first encountered Grape in Cemetery No. 6, its mound was quite ordinary, even messy… but now this pile of ashes was slightly different, its surface faintly sparkling with the light of embers.

Both Yi Chen and the Archbishop could feel something taking shape within it.

At the same moment,

Prophets in different areas of Zion, whether it be Principal Desline of the academy or Prophet Marko of the Twin Church, felt the stirrings of some evil entity being born.

However, this evil entity seemed to share a similar attribute with them, as though it also possessed the ‘Prophet’ talent.

Desline descended from her ‘floating while holding the ball’ stance to the observation deck, her starry pupils piercing through the academy barrier to look towards the source of her Sensing.

She saw that not only the Glory Hall, but also its surrounding region, was being covered in ‘black snow’, or rather, a special kind of ash, and high in the cloud layer above, there seemed to lurk a giant, discomforting burned eye.

“Is this… the ‘Burning Eye Syndrome’ that old Mr. Rudolf once suffered from?”

Could it be that some newcomer has successfully embraced this curse and Rudolf’s pupil skill? If such a talented person existed, I should have been well aware of it, as I haven’t heard of any newcomers with a unique talent in “using their eyes” recently.

And today just so happens to be the awards ceremony for the nightmare incident, could it be…”

Desline’s fingers moved with the pattern of star formations, and she immediately calculated something.

She turned around, donned her outdoor attire, pulled on her over-the-knee leather boots, put on her round-framed glasses, and headed towards the hall area.

The Holy Body Room.

The Archbishop had already moved more than a dozen sacred bodies from the vicinity of the ash heap to prevent these old companions’ physical forms from being caught up in the curse.

An hour passed,

Thump, thump~ Faint heartbeats started coming from within the heap of ashes.

The soil loosened,

Accompanied by zombie-like shrieks emanating from the depths of the mound,

A charred arm with patterns of lingering flames emerged from the center of the heap, its fingers digging into the earth, propping up a scorched head covered in loose black hair to surface from the ground.

Its face was embedded with a total of eighteen burnt eyes, all staring together at the two people in front of it,

Gradually,

A complete charred body had crawled out from between the mounds,

Yi Chen and the Archbishop couldn’t help but step back a few steps, the latter even held up his gem staff in front of him, ready to attack the scorched corpse before him.

Upon closer observation, one could also see several faces appearing on the back of the charred corpse, but each of them had their eyes tightly shut, seemingly still asleep.

As the charred corpse continued to approach,

The Archbishop immediately condensed a variety of nested floating arrays at the tip of his staff, ready to release a powerful Holy Light Technique to obliterate the target.

Just at that moment,

The expression on the charred corpse’s face was no longer one of pain, and it leapt up from the ground with a carp’s flip.

From its mouth came a hoarse and raspy voice, layered with various tones:

“Stop~just a joke! My physical body has completely accepted this curse… or rather, the ‘Burning Eye Syndrome’ that lingered within Rudolf perfectly matches with my own developed ‘Eye Collector, Gemhar.’

Gemhar has now fully awakened, with its development maxed out.

Moreover, its mastery of Evil Eye Pupil Technique has perfectly merged with this Burning Eye Syndrome, and finally… I finally possess a complete and unique external corpse!

William, next time we have to deal with any circus member or encounter any Open Source patient, I alone can deal with it.

I am now at Open Source level, and this cursed eye disease allows me to exert greater strength than Eye Collector, Gemhar.

This is really great!”

Immediately afterward,

The little grape transformed back into its original black fleshy sphere form at once, performing a perfect somersault in mid-air and steadily landing on Yi Chen’s shoulder.

Its fur was still scattered with embers, and even the eyes in its mouth remained in the style of ‘Ember Eyes’.

With the return of the little grape, Yi Chen also immediately received a notification of changes to his pet’s information.

≮Pet≯

[Name]: Little Grape, Grep (Ember State)

Developed Corpse (First Corpse) – Eye Collector, Gemhar, with a development level of 100% and capable of controlling and using the illness ability of “Ember Eyes.”

Warning: If you combine with the pet currently, it will cause the Ember State to spread and damage your physical body, but it will also enhance some specific abilities.

*As you travel in the Old World or other illness-related world areas, you may appropriately collect ‘firewood’ to improve/change your pet’s Ember State.