It's been 10 days since I found the cave. I didn't have any problems so far in my daily life.

Yesterday, I discovered that if you do some certain actions it raises your status. Like, if you do push ups you can raise your Strength or if you read some books you can raise you Intelligence. So I decided to do some exercise in the morning to raise my stats. I put some 30 of my points in Agility, because I thought that speed is essential for me.

"Let's hunt now."(Jeff)

I decided to hunt after I finished my exercise, this has been what I doing for the past 10 days, hunting and exploring the forest and recently I decided to do some exercise in the morning after I finished hunting I go back to the cave to eat, after that I sleep when night has come.

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It's raining today. I decided to stay at the cave and wait for the rain to stop. For the mean time I decided to make a mask to ease my boredom.

I used a piece of wood that I took yesterday. I carved the wood into a simple mask that only have two holes for the eyes and a bent line.The mask looks like a smiley face, it's simple but I like it.

"All right, it's done. This sure is quite well made, though it's only has a simple design."(Jeff)

Well this might become useful in the future. Imagine having a rumors spreading around like " a masked man lurking in the forest" or something.

The rain didn't stop till night so I decided to sleep

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"I don't have anymore food left, I used all of it yesterday afterall."(Jeff)

Since I didn't have anymore food stock in my base, I decided to hunt.

"Haaaaah... I thought that if I live here in the forest something good would happen to me but, lately all I've been doing is hunting. The monsters here aren't even strong. I hope something exciting would happen later."(Jeff)

While grimacing in my thoughts I found a 3 horned rabbits together. These monsters weren't really strong the attack that they can only do is by hopping towards you and piercing you with it's horn. Their movements are predictible and their meat are actually delicious. The problem is, they're so cute that it's makes hard for me to kill them. What!? I have a soft heart for cute things so don't complain!

"Oooops.. better be quiet."(Jeff)

I hide behind a tree while waiting for a timing to attack the three rabbits, but they suddenly run away due to the noise that they heard.

"Everyone! Stay in you positions"(Adventurer)

When I looked at where the noise came from, I saw 5 people surrounded by 10 bandits. They were wielding swords, bows and the one wearing a robe had a cane. I guess they're a group of adventurers. They were in position, trying not do any reckless actions.

Hmmm.. They will obviously lose if they fought, I used >Identify< on each of the adventurers and the bandits. The adventurers' each stats are clearly higher than the bandits but since the bandits' numbers are than them so they would obviously lose.

"I wonder if I should help? I'm not a very cold person to just leave them, but I wonder if I could trust them?"(Jeff)

While thinking on what I decided to to do I remember the mask that I brought.

"Oooh, maybe something will happen if a rumor spread around the city. I guess it's time for the masked man's debut!"(Jeff)

I wore my mask and wielded my knife then walk towards them

"Hello there, cornered group of people! Do you need some help?"(Jeff)

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The adventurers and the bandits looked at me dumbfounded due to my sudden appearance. One of the adventurers were able regain his senses and spoke.

"Ye-yes! Please help us!"(Adventurer)

"Okay then. Hey! You smelly bandits, drop you weapons and be tortured by me!"(Jeff)

All of the bandits became angry and began moving towards me.

"You think you can defeat us all by yourself? Everyone cut his feet!"(Bandit)

"Heh, cutting feets eh.. That's a great idea!"(Jeff)

Hmmm... let's finish this and 20 seconds. Okay now, my goal is to cut their feets.

I began to dash forward towards the bandits before they could do anything and began cutting their feet. I dodged their attacks while cutting feets.

Aaah... their expressing everytime their scream is the best. All the bandits that had their feet cutted began to crawl away so I decided to cut their arms.

"Okay then, that's 21 seconds. I'm a second late but that's fine."(Jeff)

Now... what kind of torture should i do? Cutting their fingers? Opening up their belly? Or maybe breaking their bones?

"Well, let's do them all!"(Jeff)

I began torturing all the bandits one by one. Their despaired expressions are giving me the thrill. More, more I need to see it more. After one of them dies, I move on to next one,after that I go the next,then to next and then to the next. This sure is fun, I can't help but smile.

Many screams could be heard from the forest and and blood scattered around. After finishing the last one I remembered the adventurers.

Oh crap, I got too focused on my fun.

When I looked for them I saw them looking at me with fear on their eyes, when I looked at their direction one of them began to spoke.

"Please don't kill us! Have mercy on us!"(Adventurer)

Haaaah.. Looks like their scared of me now. If they are scared of me shouldn't they have run away while I was busy torturing the bandits, I guess they were very scared to even moved.

What should I do? Should I act nicely to them? Well since this is a good oppurtunity to have fun let's continue our acting.

I walked towards them and stand in front of them.

"Hmmm... I can't sense any evilness in each of you. You all passed my judgement, you may leave now."(Jeff)

First I acted like a clown now I'm acting like a god in front of them, seriously I think my acting is quite messed up. But when I said that I think I feel cool. I wonder if I can keep doing this, there aren't many bandits here, let's ask them for now.

"Before you leave, I have something to ask."(Jeff)

When I began to speak again the adventurers' body suddenly shivered in fear. They sure are scared of me.

"Ye-yes?"(Adventurer)

"Are there more bandits in this forest?"(Jeff)

"Yes, the guild told us that there currently are many bandits' base in this forest."(Adventurer)

Ooooh, looks like I won't be bored here anymore.

"I see, you may leave now."(Jeff)

After I said that, I ran deep into the forest. Due to my excitement I began scouting the the forest instead of hunting for food, hoping that I would find a bandit's base. After a few minutes I found one.

"Finally, a fun time appears."(Jeff)

Jeff didn't know that after the adventurers went to the city , rumors began to spread around the city about a masked man slaughtering humans who have sinned.