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.'

one would have ended in my entire sled wagon being

Silence.

at

first two, the

deaths don't change

Silence.

of them,' Alex thought

of them, these deaths wouldn't have been

I

the way or

my belongings and remain safe,

up with me getting neither of these two things. I've killed several people, and my

killed all

Silence.

arrived at that train of thought,

However, his headache worsened.

make

Silence.

with a cold glint as

BANG!

wagon shook as Alex shot into the distance with all of his

"Wait-"

SHING!

a body fell

at the corpse with narrowed

leather, daggers, a crossbow,

one. I felt a

his surroundings warily, but he didn't hear, see, or feel anyone

'A scout.'

Alex narrowed his eyes.

can't commit

hid it and his arm behind his cloak. After that, he silently but

a long time, and he had become excellent

clearing in a wide circle, never leaving his sled wagon for too long. He had to keep an

a second bandit, even after searching

Alex returned to his sled wagon and sat down

that the night would be over

in

things keeping Alex company were his

kilometers away, a middle-aged man with an eyepatch was

what?" the man asked with

young man shouted as he glared at the man. "He went through worse

he returned yet?" the man with the eyepatch asked with a

sure that he's

stupid," the older man snorted. "You've been in my camp 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 get captured, and there are no powerful beasts around. Additionally, Ryan had

Get it through your head," the man with the eyepatch said

man's fist shook violently in rage. "Then,

the young man. "Revenge? Are you sure you're a real bandit? Since when

hoodlums!" the man with the eyepatch said with a huff. "We're criminals! We're traitors! All of us are only here to earn money for one reason or another. We're not a group of friends. We're not a

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