The leader of the bandits narrowed his eyes when Zane took out his sword. The fact that Zane had a storage ring meant that he was richer than they thought.
He had a sword, which meant that the fight would also be harder than they thought. However the rewards outweighed the risks.
The bandit leader's expression changed when Zane started to breathe loudly suddenly. The leader smirked as loud breathing was an obvious sign of tiredness or nervousness.
SWOOSH!!
Zane heard the sound of something flying through the air. A split second later and the object got into his Five meter vision range. Thanks to his heavy breathing his mana dust range had increased.
'Knife!'
Zane quickly angled his sword in front of his face and the knife was successfully blocked. Before it even fell to the ground, Zane sucked it into his inventory. A free knife was always useful.
The bandit leader was angry at the fact that this blind victim of theirs just pocketed his favourite knife, however he wasn't that worried as he would easily retrieve it when they take Zane's ring.
"What the hell are you idiots waiting for !? Kill him!!" The leader shouted.
The group sprung into action as three men ran towards Zane with knives in their hands.
Zane parried the first strike to his head and used that opening to kick the man straight in the chest. The man was knocked back a few meters as a couple of his ribs immediately broke.
Zane was pleasantly surprised at his strength. One kick had broken someone's ribs, and Zane assumed that the man was wearing some type of armor.
Just that split second of Zane appreciating his power was enough for another bandit to slash at Zane's back. The attack hit, and Zane suffered his first injury. The knife didn't manage to get past his tight muscles but it did cut open his skin and drew blood.
Zane quickly turned around and stabbed the man in his abdomen. He was still surprised that his knife only made a superficial wound and was late to react to the attack.
<(+ 7000 Mana)>
This was the first person that Zane had ever killed. 'As I expected, I feel nothing at all' he thought as he pulled out his sword from the corpse.
While Zane thought about his first kill , he had failed to notice the knife heading for his hand, Zane was way too late to react and the knife impaled his hand from the back through to the palm.
Zane grunted in pain and he instinctively let got of his sword as he healed his hand.
BANG!
It was never a good idea to let your attention waver when in the middle of a fight, if only someone had told Zane that. Zane felt his jaw almost breaking when the punch landed.
The man who had just attacked readied his fist for another punch but this time Zane was ready. He quickly caught the man's punch and delivered a powerful punch of his own to the man's ribcage.
Zane heard the satisfactory crack of his victim's ribs but this time he didn't stop to think how weak the human body is. Zane quickly used this man's body as a shield as he saw another knife heading for him.
Zane threw his human shield at the direction where the knife came from. The shield flew through the air at a speed not normal for a mortal human to move.
BANG!
The body just so happened to crash into the bandit who had first attacked Zane. His ribcage was still broken from Zane's earlier kick and the human torpedo finished him off by lodging a piece of bone into his heart. Zane had made his second kill, even though he didn't know it yet.
Only four men were left from the original 6 and all of them decided to attack together. This guy was just lucky, no way a blind man could beat all of them.
Over the next 30 minutes, Zane fought 4 highly trained bandits. Zane would have died long ago if it wasn't for his Body. The bandits weapons couldn't penetrate Zane's muscles to reach the organs.
This was supposed to be a one sided fight with Zane mopping the floor with the bandits, however his inexperience in hand to hand combat made the bandits survive against someone they couldn't seriously injure for half an hour.
Zane took a deep breath after killing the last bandit as he stood still, listening to his surroundings. Zane was almost 100% sure he didn't fight the bandits leader yet, however even after 5 minutes, nothing happened.
'He must have ran away' Zane thought as he healed his injuries. Zane's body was soaked with blood, some of it belonged to him while some didn't.
Zane could feel the blood covering his body and he knew it was still in the afternoon. 'I don't think it's a good idea for people to see me like this' He thought as he removed his armor and put it into his ring. It might be soaked in blood, but it was still valuable armour
He then took out a cloth from his ring and wiped himself before putting on a cloth shirt and pants, his blood soaked armor was the only one he had.
"Yeah over here" Zane heard a voice say and he quickly turned his head to see two mana cores moving quickly towards him.
'Shit!' he thought. 'Did the bandit leader hire mages to kill me ?'.
Zane didn't even think of running away. He couldn't be able to escape two mages. However Zane heaved a sigh of relief when the mages got into his range.
'Guards' he thought after noticing their trademark bulky armor.
"False alarm its just a mortal." One of the guards said. They had got a report that someone was killing people in an alley in this area so they came thinking a mage had broken the rules.
"Hey how's it going" One of them said to Zane.
"I see you have been busy" announced the other as he pointed to the corpses strewn across the floor.
"They tried to kill me first, I was ambushed" Zane explained.
"Dude we don't give a fuck. Go around killing random mortals it's none of our business" One of them said.
'Mortal? That must mean someone who isn't a mage' Zane thought.
"I have to say you are quite strong, to be able to kill 6 men alone and not receive injuries." One guard observed before a glint appeared in his eye.
"What's your name ?"
"Zane"
"Hello Zane I am Roger. It's nice to meet you" Roger motioned for a handshake with a smile .
Zane frowned a little but shook the man's hand anyway. He was wondering why the guard was this nice, his last interaction with guards was unpleasant to say the least.
"Whenever there is something you need help with, just ask for me I will come help you okay?"
"Why would you do that" Zane's suspicion grew
"Well Zane because I do whatever I fucken want" Roger nonchalantly replied.
Zane faked a smile before nodding" Sure I will take you up on that offer one day"
"Good, well have a good day Zane" Roger said as he and his partner walked away
"What was that?" Roger's friend asked when they were out of the alley.
"If that kid really killed all those men then he is quite powerful for a mortal. He will make a terrifying mage one day, and I want to be on his good side when that day arrives."