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For Anders, most of the tournament consisted of simply wandering through the forest, following the sounds of battle. After a very long walk, he finally found an old man and a young man shooting at each other with bows. Initially, he thought he would wait for one of them to win, but when he saw that the young man's arrows barely scratched the old dreadnought, he decided to take a risk. "To hell with it," he thought, "I could die of old age waiting for the result." However, the risk did not pay off – the young man's armor was not much worse than the old man's, and his accuracy and evasion were roughly the same as Anders'. "Well," he was upset, "this will be a lesson for the future about how to take risks. Now, I need to warn Veserod and prevent Jacob from escaping..." However, at that very moment, when Anders was thinking about this, Jacob vanished without a trace. "Congratulations on your victory," he said sincerely, congratulating the winner. Of all the competitors, Roland was the one he liked the most, so his victory was the best option, after the victory of Anders and Veserod himself, of course. After receiving his prize, he hurried to find Veserod and, as soon as he was sure that no one was listening, he said: "Veserod, you need to know. That crossbowman, Jacob, he is a demon worshiper. He worships one of the most vile demons. This demon gives him the power to inflict deadly wounds with any weapon – even those toy arrows that were given to us could have killed us. And in return, this demon demands that his servant kill someone every day. I think that Jacob came to the tournament specifically to kill someone. And now that he has failed to do so, he may switch to the tournament participants. I would assume that he will start with the one who eliminated him from the competition."

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— Nooo! Now it's all over! The old hag won't let me step outside the city! I won't see the sweet smile of the charming Alessia and the slender legs of the shy Eir anymore!

However, before catching up with Veserod, Anders decided to comfort the old man: "You wouldn't have seen them anyway – I was recently in Elheim, and these girls don't work there anymore. So, everything happens for a reason, because winning a prize and then not meeting them would have been even more disappointing.