Chapter 282: Observer × Knife Wielder × Sound Maker
With Morel handling Observer, Joey naturally focused his attention on the little giant charging toward him.
And when his opponent came close enough for Joey to examine him with his own eyes, he saw how this man differed from the earlier knife wielders.
He was not a Pighead!
All the knife wielders seemed to become Pigheads after holding a Kitchen Knife for a certain amount of time. Yet although this charging man was enormous and possessed an immense aura, nothing about his overall appearance resembled a Pighead.
If anything, he looked more like a gorilla than a Pighead.
His overalls left his chest exposed, revealing thick, long black hair. His bare, burly arms, however, had no hair, only grotesque muscles that made one's scalp crawl.
They were crimson, as though they had been skinned. As the taut bands of muscle pulsed, seemingly endless strength poured into the enormous blade in his hand, which was almost the size of a door-sized greatsword.
Unlike the Pigheads Joey had encountered earlier, however, even after the knife wielder poured so much Nen into the blade and made it radiate a terrifying presence, the blade still seemed not to have finished charging, showing no sign of swinging down.
It showed no sign of turning on its wielder, either!
Looking at it this way, this Skinned Freak, whose face was just as horrifying, might indeed be the one who had conjured the blade.
But something still did not add up: the power of the blade he had created seemed far beyond the normal scope of objects conjured by Conjuration users.
Even with Vows and Limitations imposed on the foundation of Conjuration, achieving the blade's current state still seemed wrong to Joey.
The key was that the blade