Chapter 34: Don’t Buy This - Yet!
I was telling the truth. There were only seven thugs inside, and their strength was nothing remarkable, probably just like the ones I’d fought by the city gate. Had they stayed on the same floor, it would have taken me even less time to get rid of them.
And during that moment, I truly realized just how monstrous I’d become.
A thug I’d once needed to be careful around, the kind I would have feared in my old life, was now no different than an ant I could simply trample.
’If this is the power I get from just possessing a B-Rank physique, I can’t even imagine what I’d be like at S-Rank. Would I be a demigod-like? Hah. Looks like my childhood dream of becoming as strong as Goku was just around the corner after all...’
’I couldn’t be mistaken... the description fits him perfectly. That’s definitely Peter. And that pigeon, it has to be one of his controlled pets.’
Without wasting another second, I took a deep breath and steeled myself for what was about to come.
I tilted my head slightly and swallowed the pill I’d been holding in my cheek.
The pill had been tasteless and odorless while resting in my cheek all this time. But the moment it slid down my throat, everything changed.
It dissolved instantly, before it even reached my stomach.
A sharp, burning scent flooded my nostrils, and my throat ignited with pain. It felt like I had swallowed fire.
Almost immediately after, a searing pain ripped through my entire body.
It felt like every inch of my muscles was being torn apart and rebuilt, stronger, thicker, more flexible, only to be torn apart again. Over and over. Dozens, maybe hundreds of times... all within seconds.