An hour of silence passed.
Alex couldn't enter meditation.
His body was tense and shaking in anger from time to time.
'I've done what I needed to do,' Alex kept repeating to himself in his mind.
He had already gotten used to the smell of blood, but Alex subconsciously breathed through his mouth to avoid smelling it.
A painful headache formed over the course of the hour.
Alex felt like his stomach was churning.
'I've done what I needed to do.'
Alex slowly opened his eyes and gazed at the body pieces surrounding his sled wagon.
He had done this a couple of times in the last hour.
It was like he was trying to confirm if all of this had really happened.
'This could have been me,' Alex thought as he looked at one of the corpses.
However, no matter how often Alex told himself these things, it was like something inside of him wasn't accepting his thoughts.
'I did the right thing.'
'If I had let them escape, they would have called stronger bandits.'
However, as Alex had that thought, he realized something.
'But then, why did I only kill the ones that carried Ice Wood?'
Alex's insides shuddered.
'I let the others escape.'
'Stronger bandits will come either way.'
'But then, why did I kill the others?'
'They were already all retreating.'
'Would some pieces of Ice Wood ruin my plan?'
Silence.
Alex looked at the pieces of Ice Wood that some corpses still held in their hands.
Alex knew the answer.
'Without killing at least one or two of them, the others wouldn't have retreated.'
in
Silence.
at
for the first two, the other deaths
don't change the
Silence.
should have killed all of them,'
of them, these deaths wouldn't have
forgotten the very lesson I have
go all the way or
I wanted to keep my belongings and remain safe, but I also didn't want to
neither of these two things. I've killed several people,
have killed
Silence.
arrived at that train of thought, his tense body
However, his headache worsened.
make that
Silence.
glint as he heard
BANG!
into
"Wait-"
SHING!
body fell to
the corpse with
made of leather, daggers, a crossbow, a
but a stronger one. I felt
looked at his surroundings warily, but he
'A scout.'
Alex narrowed his eyes.
commit
and hid it and his arm behind his cloak. After that, he silently but swiftly moved along the surroundings
in the wild for a long time, and he had become excellent
his sled wagon for too long. He had to keep an eye
find a second bandit, even after searching for over five
his sled wagon
that the night
in
Alex
with
So what?" the man asked with an uncompromising
scout!" the young man shouted as he glared at the
the man with the
man shouted. "However, I'm sure that he's still alive! That's why
long enough. You should know how these things go. If he hasn't returned, he either left our group, or he's dead. Bandits don't
it through your head," the man with the eyepatch said with
man's fist shook violently in
man. "Revenge? Are you sure you're a real
us are only here to earn money for one
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