Paul was just one of the few people who were recruited and chosen because of their bad circumstances.
Ron, the ex-soldier, was a veteran who had fought on many battlefields and was very experienced in surviving in wars fought in the barren plains of the Ilma county.
He had grown up in a well-off family and joined the military early in life; his parents were soldiers, and they died fighting monsters on the battlefield.
With him being a temperamental person with a distant and cold personality, he never managed to marry and make a family of his own.
The women he liked died in battle due to the wrong decisions and tactics of the commanders, and that loss broke him from inside.
Ron left the military after that and turned to alcohol, and he often pickpocketed to get money.
He was spotted when he tried to pickpocket one of the soldiers on active duty and then was put in jail.
But Zeil secretly freed him at Alex's order.
