Dark Adventurers' Association

It is an association of guilds that operate outside the laws of the Adventurers' Association. Its members are twisted and violent people who have broken the law, and some of its members are escapees of the death penalty.

As long as the price is right, they are willing to perform any degree of atrocities, and most of their activities lie outside the adventurer's moral code.

Many nations and the Adventurers' Association have tried many times to eliminate them. Sadly, each time they attacked, they either escape or end up causing great causality to the attacking side, forcing them to retreat in defeat.

## Guilds

There exist many dark guilds with most of them either associated with or absorbed by the four major guilds. These guilds are the most powerful and feared guilds within the association. These four powerhouses of the organisation and their guild leaders are:

* Winter Eye - unknown
* Phoenix - unknown
* Demonic Glory - Palmer [Eliminated]
* Blue Hell Flame - Humphrey

Much of the association's workings are shrouded in mystery. Also, unlike their counterpart, there is not much collaboration among the member guilds. Each guild is known to function towards furthering its goals and rarely aligns with each other because the stronger guilds tend to absorb or end other guilds when they sense weakness.

With the demise of Demonic Glory, the remaining three leading guilds all began to expand madly in subtle ways, with an ambition to unify all the dark guilds.

#### **Demonic Glory**

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It is a dark guild situated around Cassily Mountain. During the reign of Guildmaster Palmer, they were the strongest dark adventure's guild. Unlike other guilds that kept a low profile, Demonic Glory ran out in the open without fear. They were extremely brutal and feared as they used to leave a trail of dead bodies wherever they went.

Their most famous exploit includes the assassination of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. They did this after killing all his saint-ranked knights and beheaded him in full view of the kingdom's citizens.

Sadly, since the loss of their leader, his son Swinburne took over but was unable to keep the guild together. They were further weakened, due to the weak foundation of the guild, and the joint retaliation by the human nations, leading to many of its members either dead or abandoning the guild.

Now the guild only has four active members, with the guild's focus shifted to learning and experimentation with resurrection magic to resurrect their previous guild master.

#### **Blue Hell Flame**

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The guild house of Blue Hell Flame is situated in the waters outside the British Empire on Whispering Forest island. After the dark guild Phoenix, they are the second strongest guild, with five saint rank members not including their Guild Master Humphrey.

#### **Phoenix**

It is currently the strongest dark guild with seven strong saint-ranked individuals among its rank.

#### **Winter Eye**

It is the third strongest dark guild and is an alley of Blue Hell Flame. It possesses 20 magical canons and many tamed monsters within its ranks.

## Trivia

* *The strength of a Dark guild is measured by the number of Saint rank members it possess.*
* *Nations and nobles alike have been known to utilise the services of the association to do illegal things.*
* *Merlin does not seem to see much difference between the Dark Adventurers' Association and the Adventurers' Association. He even believes that he a perfect fit for the Dark Adventurers' Association.*
* *Dark Guild do not stay in a place for too long and are nomadic in nature, due to which their whereabouts are hard to track down.*
* *Because of the threat possessed by the association, human kingdoms have all formed a pact that if these guilds were to attack a single nation, all human nations will band together to put an end to the threat.[1]*
* *Phoenix is the dark guild with highest members.*
* *Winter Eye and Blue Hell Flame were allies during the race to unite the dark guilds.*

## References

* The Demon King Who Lost His Job Novel Chapter 306.