~Giant Locust Forest~

~Vlad PoV~

"Oho, tell me more about your gains," I said as I stood right behind the two men.

They were both startled when they heard my voice and so they turned around taking out their weapons.

"Who are you!" They both said in unison as they glared at me.

"I am a 'Bandit' of course, now why don't you take me to your base," I said as I smiled at them.

"A bandit?" The men frowned "If that is true then what the hell do you think you are doing trespassing into our territory. Are you breaking the bandit code?" The older man said and I raised an eyebrow.

"Bandits have rules?" I said in a mocking tone before laughing out loud, this startled both of the men.

'Who is this youth? How come I can't sense his level.' They thought in their hearts.

"Listen, I will give you 5 seconds to decide whether you are going to tell me where your base is or die," I said as my eyes turned cold.

A cold shiver ran down their spine. They both looked at each other and nodded. "Fine!" They said in unison, although it looked like they would be willing to cooperate they were secretly plotting in their hearts.

1. They don't want to die so they agreed.

2. They wanted to guide this person to their camp so their big brother could deal with him, they knew that their older brother was very strong.

3. If their brother killed this expert wouldn't that mean that he had some treasures on him? As the ones who brought him here, they would get some of it.

Greed shone through their eyes as they walked in front of the youth.

'No wonder people used to say that no matter how much you plot or scheme it was all useless in the face of true power.' I thought as I walked behind them.

Floyd and I split up so we could cover more grounds faster. We said that we would meet back at where we started after 4 days, in the meantime, we would destroy as man bandits as we could.

After walking for a while we reached their hideout.

"We are he..." The old man could not finish his sentence as he felt his body tremble and his face paled.

He widen his eyes in shock when he touched the hole in his throat, blood was gushing out "Yo..u..." The man died before he could say anything else and fell on the ground with peng.

The other one was shocked when he noticed that his brother had died, he hurriedly looked at me "Plea..." Before he could say anything he had already met the same fate as this man.

"Thanks for your cooperation," I said and stood on top of my sword and flew to the sky.

I spread out my Sword energy covering an area of 700-meters.

"Oho, it looks like the strongest of them is only at the King rank...Time to get started." I said in a low voice and turned into a ray of light entering the hideout.

In the hideout inside a house, a man was sitting on a throne-like seat. By his side, you could see 5 women, two were feeding him while the rest were pressing their body against his.

"Humph! Who would have thought I,Scars Newell, would be here with these cheap bitches, if it wasn't for that damn bounty then I would not have been stuck here." The man said. The women were all displeased with his words.

'Cheap bitches? If it wasn't because of you, we would not have been here.' They cursed in their heart but they knew they were too weak and could do nothing.

"But who would have thought that I would gain such riches being a bandit." The man said as he touched the ring on his finger, he could not help but grin.

"Indeed." A voice sounded throughout the room and everyone in the room was startled.

~Whoosh!

The man looked down on his chest in disbelief and shock, there was a sword stuck in his chest and blood was gushing out like mad, not only that but a strange energy was entering his body stopping him from healing himself.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The women screamed in fear as they saw the blood and they ran away.

"W-w-who!" The man said as he coughed out blood.

"Your maker." A redhead youth with black robes entered the room.

~Whoosh!

Another sword was released and aimed towards the man.

His face paled 'Am I really going to die now?' He thought before the sword penetrated his throat.

~Vlad PoV~

I walked towards the man and took off the ring on his finger and looked at it 'Is this a spectral ring?' I asked Dyton and he agreed.

'Sign it with your sword energy.' Dyton said and I did it and I was stunned as I felt the 100-meter space in the ring, it was really very big.

I looked around saw a number of weapons and money laying around the place.

'Omg that is an Emperor ore!' Dyton yelled in my head and I was startled.

'An Emperor ore?'

'Yes, remember what I told you about the ores?'

'That you had to be at the Emperor rank to melt the Emperor ore?'

'That's right, I don't know how these weaklings got this ore but you have hit jackpot, with this ore we can make an Emperor ranked sword.' Dyton said and I also smiled.

I was really missing a good sword, even the two swords that I just used broke after killing the man since they couldn't contain my energy.

'This is really great.' Dyton said and I nodded.

I looked at how much money he had and I was stunned again "100,000 Gold!!" I screamed in surprise.

Holy Shit!

Bandits are really rich as fuck.

"Let's see if there are more treasures," I mumbled and checked the man's body but found nothing so I left the house and killed all the other bandits around the area while taking everything they had.

After I destroy this camp I moved on destroying one camp after another.

Just like that 4 days passed and it was time to go back.