Marcus Caldwell was just an ordinary peasant living a peaceful life in a small village.
Until the Shadow bandit clan showed up and caused absolute mayhem.
"We are going to be taking everything from you rat scums!"
Screamed the bandit leader Grimstone.
"Who do you think you are!"
"You can't steal from us you unruly thieves!"
The villagers screamed at the bandits.
Unfortunately for the villagers they didn't know how powerful the bandit clan really was.
"Oho these peasants have a sour mouth I think it would be best if these rats were all to be cleaned from the earth!"
The bandit leader said while laughing.
Amidst the chaos the village leader Eldrin showed up to face the bandit leader head on.
"If you think you can mess with us then you're gravelly mistaken you bandit scum!"
The village leader screamed at the bandits hoping to intimidate them into leaving.
The villagers cheered at the village leaders words thinking that these bandits were nothing.
"Yeah that's right you can't mess with us you bandit scum!"
"Go back to where you came from before you get hurt!"
The villagers yelled at the bandits with absolute confidence.
"Burn their houses down, steal everything of value and kill them all!"
The bandit leader yelled to his bandit soldiers while laughing.
The bandits pulled out thier swords and torches ready to strike down anything in their path.
The villagers were mostly unarmed farmers with only a couple of rusty swords lying around realized that they made a grave mistake in provoking these bandits.
But it was too late for apologizing they offended the bandits far too much and there was no chance that they would spared.
Except for a group these villagers who had stayed in their wooden house out of the crossfire.
These villagers were Marcus Caldwell and his family.
Marcus Caldwell looked out the window and saw the bandits slaughtering every villager in sight and burning down their houses.
"What were these idiots thinking we don't have much time left before they reach our house and kill us all"
Marcus paced around his house frantically thinking of a way out of this mess.
His father Finn Dean, his mother Lila Mae, His little sister Clara Rose could all be in danger because of these careless village peasants.
"We could try to escape but if we go outside we're likely to be instantly killed."
Marcus said solemnly to his family.
"Don't worry maybe we'll be able to negotiate with them"
His father said to the rest of the family trying to reassure them of their safety.
Marcus looked outside the house again and saw that the bandits were getting closer.
"After what the other villagers did theirs no chance that they'll let us live"
Marcus said with all hope in his eyes gone.
"How could they have done this, carelessly offending and provoking a clan of bandits, maybe they would have spared some of us and just stolen our belongings"
His little sister cried out.
'Could this really be the end, Are we all going to get wiped out because of these stupid villagers'
"Ok we're going to have to go outside before the bandits get to our house and burn us alive inside of it, everyone grab anything you can to use as a weapon if we don't go out soon we're going to burned anyway"
Marcus yelled franticly to rest of his family.
In the kitchen there were 2 kitchen knives that Marcus and his father grabbed.
"Ok we both have weapons just try to run away from the bandits as fast as possible, the chance of living is slim but we're going to have to try"
Marcus yelled in a rush to the rest of his family.
Marcus checked out of the house window again and saw that almost everyone had been slaughtered and that the bandits were only 2 houses away from them.
"We have to run out now before they burn down the house!"
Marcus screamed to his family.
Marcus and family all ran out of the house and tried to run away from the bandits as fast as they could, but they were spotted just a mere 2 seconds after they exited the house.
"Hey there's more peasants trying to escape!"
Screamed one of the bandits alerting all the other bandits as well as the leader.
One of the bandits shot Marcus's father in the back with an arrow causing him to instantly collapse.
Then another bandit ran to his mother and sister and sliced them both, causing them to fall to the ground.
"If I live this through I will avenge you all I won't let these bandit scum get away with this!"
Marcus screamed out to the entire world.
The bandit leader heard this and was amused.
"Oho you think a mere rat like you can avenge their deaths, you won't even be alive in 30 seconds"
The bandit leader said while laughing.
Then the bandit leader pulled out his steel dual swords and sliced Marcus across the chest.
Marcus fell to the ground and shortly after bleed out and died.
[Afterlife]
'What happened all I see is a void, did I die to the bandits, damn it I let my whole family down, I'm nothing more than a disgrace'
Suddenly a mysterious godly figure appeared in front of Marcus.
"Human I can give you the revenge you seek."
"What? Who are you and where am I?!"
"You have died and have now arrived in the afterlife but I can give you the revenge you seek"
"How can you do that it's already too late I died to the bandits"
"Just sign this contract and I will bring you back to life"
"No way I'm not signing any sketchy contracts with some random being"
"It's either you sign this contract and you can avenge you're family and be brought back to life or you can remain here in the afterlife for eternity"
'This being is right I guess this is the only chance I'll have at avenging my family, I just have to hope that the contract does not screw me over'
"Okay I'll sign the contract"
"Don't worry you won't regret you're decision"
The godly figure then spawned a contract out of thin air.
"What do I sign it with I don't have anything to write with"
"Just look at the contract and you're mind will sign it for you"
Marcus looked at the contract and saw his name forming slowly on the contract.
'My name is appearing out of thin air this is insanity'
[Soul Stealing Contract Has Been Signed]