He wanted to go back as soon as possible so that he would have more time to explore the forest while looking for the white ball. By taking the latest train he could get, Asfa made it to Town A before 5 p.m.

Before he left the train station, he went to the public toilet and waited to see if there were people following him or not. After 5 minutes of waiting, he left the station with the same outfits he wore yesterday to go to the forest.

"I saw someone enter the forest yesterday, and I followed the trail to see how many of them, but it was just one person. Maybe we could wait for him today to rob him."

Asfa made it to the entrance in half an hour by running, and it was so much faster than yesterday. He felt like he was being watched by someone and immediately used his sensing ability to confirm it.

He couldn't sense anything with his ability since they could be watching with binoculars from far away. Asfa entered the forest and ran to the spot he found the magical white ball.

"Let's see if you guys can still watch me from far away now!"

After running for a few minutes, he noticed that there were two people following him from behind. Asfa tried to outrun them for few times, but it failed. He realised that these people were not ordinary and not easy to talk with.

Asfa doesn't want to expose the particular location to these people, so he has to face them before going there. He sprinted as fast as he could and hid in the bushes. He had no problem navigating through this area since the marks he left yesterday were still around.

"Where is him? Did he notice that we were following?"

Asfa saw two people talking 15 meters from his hiding location.

Ever since he met and killed the people from Red Scythe, he always brought a small wooden pole with a pointy edge. He chose it as a weapon since it was easier to keep without being noticed or caught by people.

Currently, Asfa is waiting for them to be separated. He was still thinking about whether he should leave them to be or kill them. He was never a fan of killing people. It was against his moral compass.

It was almost dawn, and the light was almost gone. With the help of night vision google, the bandit has no problem walking around the forest.

Asfa silently controls the wooden spike to ensure it won't be noticed by the bandit near him. As he was about to launch the wooden spike, the bandit yelled.

"Hohoho, I can feel you are here boy! Stop hiding. Do you think you can run from us?"

The bandit immediately points his gun toward Asfa's hiding location and starts shooting. Asfa leapt out of the bushes and used the nearby tree as cover from the bullets.

When the bandit stopped shooting to reload, Asfa yelled at him, "Why are you doing this to me? I have done nothing wrong to you."

The bandit kept on shooting, and whenever Asfa moved, he would still be targetted. Asfa realised that the enemy had a way of tracking him without seeing him.

Asfa had enough. He went hiding behind the thickest tree he could find to start attacking. The wooden spike he controlled is floating behind the tree near the bandit.

"Go!"

The wooden spike moves at light's speed, targetting the bandit's heart. The wooden spike is now stuck on the ground. He can see that the wooden spike is now covered with blood, and the gun on the bandit's hand has fallen.

Asfa rushed himself to the bandit to get any pieces of information from his things. He had to do it fast since he didn't know where the second bandit went after the first gunshot.

He spent a minute collecting everything from the fallen bandit and left the scene instantly. It was unnecessary to hide the remains since it was so dark there. Currently, Asfa is waiting for the other bandit while checking the fallen bandit's things.

Asfa found out that the fallen bandit was an ex-army, but a low ranked one. A few minutes passed, and there was still no sign of the other bandit. Asfa inspected the gun to see that it was modified with thermal imagery scope. "No wonder he had no problem tracking me!"

'Boooom'

It was a rifle bullet aimed at his head. Asfa barely deflected it with his power, and his chin that got scratched is bleeding. He left the spot and hid immediately. Since he already knew where the bullet was coming from, he quietly moved forward toward the shooter.

After moving for hundred meters, he found the location of the shooter. It was the other bandit. Asfa thought he was hidden enough, yet he was so wrong.

The bandit points his sniper rifle toward Asfa and releases the trigger without hesitation.

"Crap, he seems to know my location in the dark!"

The bullet was going for his head, but Asfa had no problem evading it with his power this time. "He must have the thermal heat thing to track me easily!"

Asfa rushed to the bandit and pushed the rifle away from him. He wanted to fight the bandit within a restricted area so that he won't have to waste his mental energy deflecting the bullets.

"Hahahaha, I can't wait to sell your body to the black market. An amateur enhanced!"

The bandit equipped himself with a military dagger and tried to slice Asfa a few times. It was accurate and deadly, Asfa barely dodged everything, and his body was bleeding everywhere. He was still inexperienced in fighting against armed people.

Asfa retaliated by punching the bandit, yet everything missed. He tried to control the movement of the bandit with his ability, yet it was not strong enough. His mental power was draining fast since he used it for hours without rest.

"What's wrong? Can't control me with your weak ability? Do you think you are that special? You are just lucky to have it but not strong enough to protect it!"

Asfa started to get panicked, slowly giving up. He wanted to give up, yet he couldn't.

"I am bored. Just die already", the bandit thrust his knife toward Asfa's chest.

Asfa blocked the knife with his left hand, which got stuck there. He had to endure it since that was the only way to lock the bandit. He put every mental energy left into his right hand and punched the bandit's body.

The bandit got blasted away from Asfa and hit the tree behind him. Asfa fell and lay down for a while.

"I got destroyed so badly.. I was careless and overestimated myself.. "

He rested for a while to recover his mental energy. Once it was enough to use for sensing the surrounding area, he looked inside the fallen bandit's backpack. Luckily there is a small first aid kit inside.

He cleaned his wounds with the antibiotic solution from the first aid kit and covered them with bandages. He ate the energy bars he got from the bandit's backpack to replenish his body and started walking toward the forest entrance.