"Stealing by Fate" is a fantastic novel by Evgeny Starukhin, the third book in the “Lesovik” series; genre: action fantasy, LitRPG.
After the elves’ labor camps were emptied, the main hero managed to steal something from there—quite an expensive thing. You can’t sell it, and you don’t want to throw it away; besides, the elves are very unhappy about the fact. So what do you do in a situation like that? Something has to be done…