The two ugly, ferocious-looking men looked at each other and both forced bitter smiles.
If no serious consequences had resulted, Shepherd could still have remained innocent.
But Old Carpenter had died because of it, and the people from his hometown had been arrested because of it as well.
Shepherd could not possibly be free of moral guilt.
And once that burden formed, the power of the mind would affect their appearances.
Unless they could escape this moral dilemma.
Unless they firmly believed they had done nothing morally wrong and were in a state of absolute clear conscience.
Otherwise, this ugly appearance would more or less follow them for the rest of their lives.
Only then did they understand the seriousness of the situation.
For now, they merely looked ugly and had not yet suffered the punishment of Moral Law.
The taboo stench of decay left by those who had been punished and then evaded it through witchcraft was extremely obvious.
Other people would most likely only keep their distance from people like them.
But morality had one major problem—its standards were uncertain.
Different people saw moral standards in entirely different ways.
Some believed that actively doing bad things, creating all kinds of problems, and lacking mainstream high moral standards constituted moral depravity.
Some believed that refusing to do good deeds and pretending not to see problems when they arose constituted moral depravity.
Some believed that being unwilling to sacrifice oneself, or refusing to sacrifice one's own interests to help the weak when something happened, made one a heartless villain.
Thus, many people drew the line between morality and immorality differently.
Therefore, Soldier had previously believed that killing that old witch, who clearly carried the stench of decay, posed no moral problem whatsoever.
And now, there would inevitably be people who