They stepped back in fear of him. Some of them turn around and escaped for their lives. He watched them go without feeling any joy or pride for the fear that show for him. They are weak dregs. Their opinion doesn't matter at all whether it is positive or negative. They are to be discarded or fed to lowly beasts.
It is not pride to feel the way he feels about them. It is but the nature of the world. Those people are simply not worthy of being graced with his attention. It is a fact that no one will want to look at or eat chaff when there is something better to look at and feast their eyes on. So Salvos ignored the retreating weaklings and focused on Soverick.
