THE PERFECT VILLAIN: Another chance with a system

They called him a hero.Aurelian Veritas.One of the Five Heroes who ended the Demon War and saved humanity from extinction.He fought on the frontlines while kingdoms hid behind their walls. He bled for a world that praised justice and honored sacrifice.Then the war ended.The other four heroes accused him of treason.Everyone knew it was a lie.The kings knew. The church knew. The people knew.Yet no one spoke.They slaughtered his family before his eyes, and as he was dragged to his execution, the same people he had saved cheered for his death.Betrayed by humanity and abandoned by justice, Aurelian Veritas was offered a second chance after death.A new world.A new life.A chance to forget.He refused.Instead, he returned to the very world that had betrayed him, transmigrated into the body of the Demon Prince, Vael Drakhar.This time, he would not be a hero.Granted a crazy system with the power to steal Authorities, evolve through calamities, and wear countless faces, he begins weaving a web of lies from the shadows.But revenge was never his final destination.He has seen the greed of humanity.He has seen the cruelty of demons.He believes in neither.While humanity and demonkind wage endless wars for power, glory, and domination, he walks a different path—one that belongs to neither side.After all, heroes save the world.Villains conquer it.But he seeks something far greater.To become...The Perfect Villain.