Working for the System in Marvel
Three Demon-Breaking Arrows shot out.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
"Ah!!!"
Amid his screams, Robert was kicked down the stairs again by Geralt.
The master bedroom door opened a crack, revealing half of Melinda's anxious face.
She happened to witness Robert rolling down the stairs.
"My God, what did you do to Robert?" Melinda cried out.
"Is he your husband?!" Geralt pointed at Robert downstairs and shouted, "Look carefully!"
As Robert rolled down the stairs, his neck snapped. At that exaggerated angle, an ordinary person would have long been dead.
Yet Robert raised his head and revealed a bizarre smile. His cheeks rapidly caved in, turning his already thin face into little more than skin stretched over bone, as if the flesh beneath had melted away.
At the same time, his arms and legs rapidly stretched, becoming thin and long.
A pair of arms and a pair of legs grew from beneath his ribs, tearing apart his shirt and exposing a belly as large as a watermelon, along with another face growing from his chest.
Robert's new appearance reminded Geralt of... a Man-Faced Spider.
"Robert?"
"Robert!"
Melinda could not believe her eyes. "How could this happen?!"
Geralt said, "You should ask him that."
"You mean?"
"Miss Melinda, none of this happened without warning. You simply refused to accept the truth."
All the color drained from Melinda's face.
"Mom!" Robbie called for his mother.
"Robbie." Melinda hugged her son, clinging to the last pillar of support in her life.
Geralt gently closed the door.
"Black Goat." Geralt manifested the Goat-Horn Hammer.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
Geralt stepped down the stairs, each step producing a sound.
His gait was steady.
Robert pulled out the Demon-Breaking Arrows one by one, black blood flowing from his wounds. He gritted his