The bright and full Silver Moon hung quietly in the night sky, with the chilly evening breeze howling across the clearing.
In the air was the faint odor of decay typical of the slums, carried with the foul stench of blood from the sewers.
And the heavy, dangerous growl of a beast.
Buck stood still in place, his body enveloped and enlarged by the moonlight at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Around his body, the blood drawn from within, swirling like a vortex, served as a threat of the "Beastification" curse, driving away any who dared to approach and interrupt this process.
His hands tightly gripped the Beheading Longsword, the iron-gray edge of the blade gleamed cold under the moonlight.
Xia Nan watched the burly middle-aged man in front of him, his body transforming into a beast at great speed.
Unlike the villains in various works from his past life who would simply watch the protagonist breakthrough and do nothing to stop it,
