"Huh... How is this possible? Are you also involved in the Suffering discipline?"
The lumberyard manager stared, momentarily stunned, at the scholar who had suddenly transformed into a hulking monster of muscle.
In his eyes, the scholar Kading towered like a small building, his body a mass of solid muscle seemingly capable of shrugging off gunfire. A single, blood- and grease-stained apron was all that covered his private parts. In one hand, he clutched a gory Pig Slaughtering Knife; in the other, a meat hook skewering severed limbs and various internal organs.
The manager felt that, before this being, he was nothing more than a frail piglet, liable to be casually hung on that meat hook at any moment...
But even abilities from the Suffering discipline shouldn't make someone this huge and powerful, right?
And what's with the getup? He looks like some kind of butcher.
The manager paused, a flicker of realization in his eyes.
