Silas reappears and the another raid happens

"No branch? Do you mean?" Kaelan had a guess and wanted to confirm.

"Yes, it was destroyed. I was the only one of the branches to escape." His voice once more became irritated, and his anger seemed to want to flare up.

"Destroyed, how come?" Kaelan asked, shocked. The other bandits, too, had the same thought. Destroying a branch was not easy in these regions, not to mention in a place like where his brother's branch was located.

"I found a good village that has survived quite a few raids, and its wealth has been saved. I wanted to take it and pillage it, but unexpectedly, the warriors there completely destroyed my group of bandits in the raid," the man said.