The Last Gentleman-Chapter 305: External Support

Nightmare Town – Paradise

The Ferris wheel, adorned with colorful little lights, was in operation, with Yi Chen and Catherine sitting in one of the small compartments.

But the atmosphere wasn’t quite right then,

Yi Chen had his hands stacked in front of him, his head bowed in deep thought.

Catherine, on the other hand, was scratching frantically at her face with a sense of impatience, all the while uttering anxious words as multiple different tongues kept flicking out of her mouth.

“Ah~ I so regret making that bet with you, William…These guys are actually using the ‘Contagious Skin Disease’ bestowed by the Mysterious Skin Market to erode my Nightmare Space.

If it weren’t for playing games with you, William, I would have launched a full-scale invasion against Zion by now, given that more than 50% of the residents, the gentlemen, have ingested nightmare substances, enough to trigger a city-wide upheaval to disrupt these people’s entry into dreams.

Woe is me~ what do I do now? If we go on like this, the game can no longer proceed.”

The more Catherine talked, the more agitated she became, eventually bursting into tears.

Unfortunately, her acting was so poor that the tears were actually squeezed out forcefully by a tentacle at the corner of her eye, all observed by Yi Chen.

“Catherine, if you were only at this level, you would have been caught and killed by the gentlemen by now, right?

Stop pretending, bring out your so-called ‘forceful measures’… In the current situation, no matter how you entice them, they definitely won’t leave the Church.”

The tears abruptly stopped, and Catherine’s features squeezed together, “Ah? Is my acting really that bad? No wonder when the Circus holds performances, the boss always lets me perform after enlivening the atmosphere.

As for forceful measures, they might damage the gaming experience, you know.”

“What do you plan to do?”

As far as Yi Chen was concerned, the Gentleman Team had already seized absolute initiative.

He could think of no way to disband the team since the opponent only needed to fortify the Church, and sooner or later, this side of the Nightmare Space would be fully infected by the skin disease.

The current Church area also had completely turned to ‘skin’, and the nightmare methods had lost their control over that space.

“Well~ after all, I am one of the core members of the Circus, and we all get along quite well in private. If something goes wrong here, they’d still be eager to help.

Now, it is exactly the Circus’s resting time. If I call them in the Dream, some people will respond and voluntarily throw their consciousness into the dream to help.

By using their Power, they’ll forcefully split this team and dispatch them into different isolated areas.

This is what is referred to as ‘The only way’ because their intervention will severely disrupt the balance, and they might not necessarily do as I say.

They might even kill off a portion of the gentlemen directly, which would cause significant problems in our game.

However, this is The only way. If it weren’t for these efficient gentlemen, I wouldn’t want to bother them… When I go back, I’d even owe them favors, sigh~ this vacation is turning out to be a huge loss.”

“Let’s just do it.”

Yi Chen completely agreed with Catherine’s proposed forceful measures;firstly, because it satisfied Yi Chen’s curiosity to witness the other core members of the so-called Circus,

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and secondly, if it severely affected the game’s balance, Yi Chen could either ask for a rematch or negotiate another solution with Catherine to minimize Zion’s loss.

“Come with me~”

Catherine leapt down from the top of the Ferris wheel, leading Yi Chen to the nearby Circus Tent. As a student and Breeder, Blanklin followed trustingly at the rear.

The entrance, shaped like a ‘V’, was exactly as seen in the posters earlier, but this was just an imitation Catherine had made in the Dream, lacking any substantial pull or allure.

“Just sit in the Audience! Watching my performance is enough… Oh, and most of those guys are even worse than me. When they arrive, they might point fingers at you, so don’t mind them and try not to provoke them,

otherwise, it wouldn’t be good if they ended up not dealing with those gentlemen but killing you instead.

“I will try my best to help you out, so don’t worry too much,” she said.

“Got it, hurry up and get it done!”

Yi Chen and Blanklin sat in the last row of the audience.

Suddenly, Catherine hopped onto the center of the Circus stage and began drawing an Array Seal that could connect with a real Circus,

not using octopus tentacles this time,

but using a knife to cut her fingers, letting drops of her clown-origin blood fall, a pitch-black liquid that didn’t reflect any light.

Just one drop.

When it hit the ground, the blood automatically spread out and formed a rather strange Circus Emblem.

It was like a sun, but studded with various weapons like rapiers, spears, scimitars, and more.

And each weapon had a piece of limb attached to it, such as a smiling head on the spear, fingers strung on the rapier, or thighs wedged among the scimitars.

Catherine silently chanted something, sending a request through the Array that connected and communicated to the thoughts of the people who were sleeping in the real Circus.

She soon got a response.

Whoom!

Accompanied by three columns of light descending, a black substance between liquid and gas spread across the stage, even completely obstructing the combined view of Yi Chen and Catherine.

They could only catch a glimpse of three silhouettes appearing.

By the shapes of their bodies, two were normal, one was tall.

As the black substance slowly receded into the ground, the corresponding figures gradually revealed.

One was a middle-aged woman holding a puppet, with era-defining brown curly hair and a wooden expression, contrastingly, the doll appeared much more expressive.

Another was a man in dungarees painted with theatrical makeup and walking on tall stilts, his stilts were indeed made of perfectly-shaped male calves, reaching a height of ten meters.

The last figure stood next to Catherine, gently touching her head, clothed in a black tuxedo, a round top hat, and a Guy Fox mask.

Catherine was greatly surprised by the arrival of the three, especially by the mysterious figure currently touching her head.

“Uncle Jian! You actually came!” she exclaimed.

“You troublemaker, instead of relaxing during the holiday, you just had to stir up trouble… I can smell a rather serious leather aura, did you offend someone from the Skin Market?”

Catherine immediately transformed into a chatterbox, swiftly explaining the situation with the octopus tentacles that had grown from her mouth.

“…so that’s the story. I hope everyone can help disperse the six people in the Church to facilitate the completion of this Soul Contract game I and my friend want to play,” she said.

The man called Jian gently tugged at the edge of his white glove, made an OK gesture, and turned his bizarre mask towards Yi Chen in the audience.

In that instant of eye contact, Yi Chen felt a rare sense of danger, comparable to the Death incident that had occurred in Levinhome.

It must be known that these were only projections of their consciousness, their true forms were probably even more terrifying.

The stilt-walking man showed a twisted expression, “Catherine, this is precious sleeping time. Though I came voluntarily to help, I expect some reward… If I find any human here with decent legs, I might just take them or even dismember them on the spot,” he said.

“Hehe, try not to kill anyone,” she replied.

As the three walked out of the Circus, Catherine at the rear hastily waved at Yi Chen, “Come along, William~ Let’s also join efforts to forcibly disperse those stubborn folks in the Church,” she called.

“Alright,” he responded.