Demons attacked the humans with their full strength, the humans were losing at first because they were too divided but then a man united every human kingdom and declared himself the emperor.

I was an adventurer when the war was declared, we were instantly called into the army as soon as the war was declared. Some hated the fact they were no longer adventurers but I loved it, I was defending my homeland, my people, my race.

After five years of fighting, the humans, and the demons signed a peace. We were finally able to go back home and I did but my city wasn't the same anymore. No one gave us a fancy welcoming because none of them had the resources or the energy to do it, they all lived in the streets and they were starving.

My city, Gervia was in terrible shape and I went to the adventurer's guild to gain some money but when I got there, I saw every noble in the city in that guild, they were eating steaks while their people were starving. I was pissed and I became more pissed after I heard adventuring became a job only for nobles but I needed money so I became a waiter in the adventurer's guild.

Every day I gave the leftovers from nobles to poor children that waited at the back of the adventurer's guild, my heart broke each time I saw them licking an empty plate.

One day I heard a rich noble coming to the city without any guards, I knew it was my time to strike. I gathered the veteran adventurers and set up an ambush, we attacked the noble and killed him. We took his jewelry and turned into money, with that money we bought food for everyone and kept them fed. Everyone knew what we did but no one questioned it.

I was attending the tables that day and I heard a nobleman talk with his friends.

"I can't believe she is coming to this city."

"Yeah, I gotta prepare  a feast now."

"Even the duke is anxious at her visit."

"I heard she is going to give the duke a gift, a huge sum of gold."

"Do you know when she will get here?"

"I heard she left the capital an hour ago, so maybe one day or so?"

"Well, good. That means we have time to prepare." The nobles stood up and left. If that person was important as those nobles said, we were never going to be hungry again. I called my friends and set up an ambush inside a valley, we didn't know how many guards she was going to have or who she was but we didn't have a choice.

After waiting for hours, a fabulous carriage with ten guards went inside the valley. I ordered my friends to fire their arrow and they did, ten of the guards died and we rushed to secure the carriage.

This was one of the easiest raids we had done and so I opened the carriage with a proud smile on my face. As soon as I opened the carriage door a young noblewoman rushed at me with a sword in her hands, she slashed my left eye and took a posture like a soldier ready to fight.

"Leader! You okay?!" I was able to dodge the slash not entirely but my left eye was still working, my ego was hurt by a young noblewoman that probably didn't even kill anyone in her life. I was outraged and ordered my men

"Disarm her!" My men charged at her and they disarmed her but we suffered two casualties. A simple noblewoman was able to kill two veterans under my watch, that shattered my ego.

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"Put her down!" I took a closer look at her, she was a beautiful woman with golden hair and red eyes, her body was perfect with big breasts and a great ass. The thought of raping her crossed my mind but I wasn't going to do that, I still had a little bit of honor left in me. I pulled my dagger and stabbed her in the stomach, I gave my dagger to the person on my right.

"Everyone shall stab her until she dies!" The thing we were doing was torturing that young noblewoman, we all stabbed her four times and we were about to stab her more until one of my men brought a paper from the carriage, I started to read it and when I did the hope inside me died. The title of the paper alone was enough to break my heart.

[A no-tax order to the city of "Gervia"]

[I have heard the terrible shape of Gervia and the best solution is to create a no-tax zone so people could actually fix their lives there. I will also be arresting the Duke of Gervia because of his corruption and give his stuff to the people of Gervia.]

I suddenly heard a sound, the sound of a dragon clapping its wing. I looked up and saw a division of dragon soldiers coming to our way before I could warn my men, a fireball hit my men five of them were killed by it.

"Retreat!" As I was saying that I saw a fireball coming my way and I jumped into the carriage to avoid it before I could get out of the carriage a couple of dragon soldiers landed inside the valley, I was close enough to hear them talking.

"Shit! She is dead! What do we do captain? If they find out we didn't guard the Crown Princess…."

"Don't worry I know what to do, she was about to arrest the Duke of Gervia right?"

"Yeah?"

"Let's blame her death on that duke and purge the city itself. I am sure they won't care about us, maybe we will get medals."

I couldn't believe my ears, we killed the Crown Princess, the person who was about to save our city and now everything I wanted to protect was going to die but none of them noticed the fact she was still alive, I knew this because she was looking directly at me, her bright red eyes were covered by blood but I could understand what she was saying.

"Idiot." Those words were very true, a soldier approached her and picked her up.

"Let's go." One of the soldiers said and they left, I don't know how much time I spent under that carriage but one thing was for sure, I spent the whole night there without moving, I cried my guts out under that carriage. I wanted to kill myself but I knew I would go to hell if I did that.

"No matter what you do, you are going to hell." A man spoke. I looked around but I saw no one around me and then he talked again.

"I am in your mind, no need to look around."

"W-Who are you?"

"The one who rules the hell."

"A-Are you here to take me there?"

"Me? No. I want to offer you a deal. I will make your life in hell like a heaven but you will have to do things for me."

"T-Things? What kind of things?"

"Basically I want you to form a thieves guild. The more bad things you do the better your life in hell will get. Of course, I will give you abilities that will help you."

"I can't…"

"You can't? Oh, you were a religious man. Let me tell you something boy, the person you guys killed was the main hero of this world. She was going to be the Empress and bring this world to an enlightened age but now this world will go into a terrible dark age. So your god won't be helping you." I knew I couldn't trust the devil but I also knew my god hated me for the things I did, I had no other choice but to accept that devil's deal.

"I accept."

"Good! I gave you some abilities, play with them."

[Thieves Guild Manager Screen]

[Name Of The Thieves Guild: Veterans] [Members: 7] [Power: An Adventurer Party Full Of Veterans]

[Influence: None] [Popularity: Unheard Of] [Leader: Silvius the Wounded]

[First Quest: Unite with your members and attack the prison near the city]

[Rewards: 10 Members, equipment, guild base and a nobility in hell]

[Character Screen]

[Name: Selvius Halviar] [Main Title: The Wounded] [Power: A-Ranking Adventurer] [Nobility: None/Hell Nobility: None] [Popularity: City Hero] [Status: In Despair]

[Abilities/Traits]

[Cold Blooded(Gifted By The Devil)]

[Born Leader(Gifted By The Devil)]

[Charmer(Gifted By The Devil)]

[Language Expert(Gained During Childhood and the War)]

[All-Rounder(Gained During Childhood): Ability To Use All Kinds Of Weapons]

[Lion's Might(Gained During the War): Fearful Presence That Can Scare Anyone]

[Wounded Left Eye(Gained During A Raid)]

[Flash Strike(Gained During the War): Ability To Strike The Enemy Very Fast]

And so my new adventure started...