Overconfidence often spelled the end for many who threw themselves right into unfavorable situations. Combine that with an overly prideful mindset and an incredibly short fuse, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster. It would have cost him nothing to ignore the taunts of some miscreant Dark Mages who were clearly itching for a fight. But he was far too hard-headed for that. And at a glance, they hardly seemed like any kind of credible threat.
Individually that might have been the case. But as a group, and fighting as dirty as they did, the scuffle didn't go quite as smoothly as he thought it would. Beaten and weary, he stood over the bodies of his fallen adversaries with victory tasting more bitter in his mouth than he thought it would. And now what? Just keep on wandering aimlessly as he had been up until now? Just with more wounds to weigh him down? Stupid. Pointless... But at least he wasn't a loser like them.
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