484 Bandit Rulers (1/2)

The burly man couldn't believe what he was seeing, and his face darkened.

”A practitioner. Shit!”

He hadn't expected that a random little girl would be a practitioner because the practice had been banned by the local power.

The town belonged to a country governed by a bandit gang, and they forbid that others practiced a Path. The only way to practice a Path was joining them, and anyone who tried to break those rules would be killed mercilessly.

The power of the bandit gang was huge, and no one of those who tried to break the rules to oppose them succeeded.

The burly man didn't think that Ange was a rebel, he immediately thought that she was a member of the bandit gang who was testing if someone had broken the rules.

”You really look down on us! Die!”

The burly man was a classic example of a muscle brain and didn't think about the consequences of his actions at all.

In his mind, he just thought that the girl wasn't too strong since she only defended and that it would feel great killing a member of the bandit gang.

As for the punishment that the bandit gang would unleash towards them later, it didn't even appear in his mind.

Since his punches couldn't break the Water Shield, he used a long rusty sword to stab Ange.

Ange had just started practicing, so her Water Shield was easily crossed by the rusty sword although the sword itself was weakening a lot in exchange.

”Weapon Breaker!”

Ange wielded her short sword and hit the rusty sword of the burly man, which crumbled in an instant by the combined power of Water Shield and Weapon Breaker.

Water Shield and Weapon Breaker were the two skills that Ange mastered after reaching that planet. Both of them were focused on preventing others from harming her, but those skills wouldn't harm the opponent either.

Ange knew that she would need to harm others at some point because defending wouldn't always be useful, but at least she wanted to prevent harming others if she could.

The burly man was stupid, but after his sword broke, he finally realized that he was courting death with his actions and dropped to his knees.

The rest of the people in the village had ashen faces as they understood that if the bandit gang sought revenge, they would all die. It didn't matter that everything was done only by the burly man because the bandit gang would kill them all to use them as an example.

Of course, Ange didn't have any relationship with the bandit gang, but there was no way that the people of the town would think about

that possibility.

Trying to solve the situation, the people in the town gifted almost all their food to Ange, which included a storage artifact to contain it.

That storage artifact was the treasure of the town and relying on it they could store food for more time, but compared to their lives, a storage artifact meant nothing.

Ange was still young, so she just thought that they were giving that storage artifact to her as apologize. In fact, since Ange's perspective, the storage artifact and the quantity and quality of the food inside was negligible, so she didn't think too much before accepting.

She didn't know how much value that storage artifact and the food contained inside had for the people of the town.

While Ange left the town, Yale, who was observing her through his incredibly powerful Divine Sense, smiled.

”You helped Ange a lot with that storage artifact and the food, so I will spare your lives, but that burly man would suffer for the rest of his short life.”

Yale felt that the people of the town acted correctly. If Yale had been displeased, their fates would be far worse than angering the bandit gang they feared so much.

Yale couldn't interfere with Ange, but once Ange left, she also severed her ties with the people of that town, so no matter what Yale did to them, it wouldn't have any effect on Ange.

Of course, that was because the lives of the people in that town didn0t have absolutely any effect on Ange. Even if the whole village were exterminated, nothing would change to Ange.

Thus, Yale didn't hesitate in using his authority as Timeless Covering to mess with the burly man's fate. Yale couldn't control the fate of others at will, but twisting the fate was easy for him.