His muscles and skin sealed shut, his bones and organs mended.
Deformed, mutated organs grew within his body.
Like a deserter scared witless, Stein knelt on the ground, weeping and wailing. He crawled away like a pathetic worm, completely ignoring the tens of thousands of Raider Knights and Mortal Soldiers staring at him.
The shock and disbelief in the eyes of the four Wolf Guards, who had been watching the duel intently, was even greater than the impact of witnessing a mighty being's birth—greater than when they had seen Reinhardt himself ascend to the Seven-star Military Rank on the battlefield!
'Was this man—crawling on the ground like a worm, devoid of all knightly honor and courage, begging for mercy with words that made them blush with shame—truly their spiritual leader? The invincible Leader of the Wolves, Crusher Stein?!'
