Chapter 161: The Signs of Calamity - Part 9

As he landed, he finished off the collapsed Konbreaker as well, thus ending all of their lives.

"Mm…" It was eating him alive. Even with the three Konbreakers dead, he did not feel anything close to satisfaction. Even the prospect of moving the corpses struck him as irritating – he didn't have enough time for it after all.

But his better reasoning won out. He knew that the soldiers finding them would only invite trouble, even if they'd already caught some sort of wind of his existence.

With them disposed of, he rushed through the forest once more, whilst continually casting his eyes towards the ground looking for tracks. He saw bootprints at one point and almost gave way to a flush of excitement. His sword hand was so eager to grasp the perpetrator that it ached. But when he followed those tracks to their conclusion, he only found yet more soldiers doing battle.