Lord Shadow

Even Azief himself believe he had no right to judge a person choice of how to live their life.

Being cowardly did not mean that the person living a meaningless life. Sometimes people become a coward because they have to.

Because they are some things that are more important than their pride.

Like a father that did not want to get involved in a delinquent fight so he could go back home and kiss his little girl.

Azief did not disdain such person. As long as one could live, as long as one could survive, that is what matters. As long as one could live and there is hope, then life still have meanings.

The only reason for Azief to interfere in a person way of life is when their way of life harms others and obstruct him.

After all, he could not respect all of them the same. Azief is not some kind of Buddha that could accept everything

In Pandemonium the sight of parents handing out silvers and gold so that their children could go train in some city sponsored dungeon is a common sight.

When some wandering independent Disk Formation traveler is in town some people would pay anything for their children to be under that person discipleship.

With Disk Formation leveler as a teacher even an Orb Condensing Stage could roam the world relying on the protection of the teacher.

And there is a higher potential of one becoming stronger under a tutelage of such a figure.

As such, it is not a rare scene to see some young kid referring to some older people as their master or teacher since discipleship is even encouraged in many great powers.

In this matter, Pandemonium had an edge since it is full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons.

To many people living in this new era, not all of them are as talented as Death Monarch. Of course if Azief heard this, he would surely rebuke them.

There is nothing about talent in gathering energy. It was always about survival. What talent is there to speak off!

After all, when the Fall happens, no one got any walkthrough on how best to proceed to become stronger.

There is even that game-like system to help humanity familiarize itself with the changing makeup of the world.

Everyone during that time was standing on the same starting line. The difference is only their mindset, their experience and their determination

The reason Azief was strong and the many others heroes and heroines that appears in this era become strong is simple. It is not about talent. It is not about luck.

It is about determination.

To survive and to follow one own path.

However, to follow one path, one must first survive. And that is what Death Monarch focused the most during those early days of the Fall.

He survived first.

Then when he is strong, only then he can walk his own path.

The weak speaking about justice and following their own path is laughable. How could a weak person enforce justice? How could a weak person not get blown by the wind walking on their own path?

Justice require strength. Walking on one own path also requires strength. When one has strength, justice could be enforced and their determination will not get swayed.

But the stories about Death Monarch is always exaggerated. As the storytellers in inns and taverns tells it, Death Monarch was turned into a figure of virtue.

His flaws were diminished, his virtue exaggerated. Statues and monument were built to glorify him.

In some places a temple was erected with his statue placed inside it.

In some villages a monument of him is placed on the entrance of their villages like it is some kind of amulet of protection that warded off evils.

In a world of magic, superstition and belief is not something that should be laughed at. There is power in belief and faith in a world of magic.

The people of Pandemonium had lived in peace from monsters or outside threats since the day Death Monarch got the title the strongest person in the world.

It enables them to develop a working and prosperous society.

Those kids and many more people had lived in a world where Death Monarch is idolized, respected and even in some parts of the world and in Pandemonium, worshipped.

They are proud of Death Monarch and they aspire to be like him. To look down upon the world and to be invincible and peerless

When they saw the weather turns for the better, they know that Death Monarch had calmed down his feeling and matters had settled in the Centre Palace.

And while these kids that is now rushing to the city square brush off the matter simply, for the many other residents of Pandemonium, they have many thoughts.

With Death Monarch return, Loki had to hand back the power he had.

This is not exactly good for some people.

For the merchants that have made their home in Pandemonium these did not mean it would be better for them.

They preferred Loki then Death Monarch

To the merchants Loki the Trickster is better than Death Monarch in governing

Death Monarch did not care about the merchants or took care of the governance but Loki was different.

Because of Loki, some kind of economy had been formed and with the World Government and the Republic support, the economy of the world had revived only in a different form

They sued the gold coins they got from killing monsters and the miens that have energy crystal to mint coins and assign values to them thus stabilizing the act of buying and selling and creating a new currency of the world

After all, not all people could be like those people in the story they heard at inn and taverns that could go without food and water.

Not all people could reach Energy Disperse stage and it is even harder to reach Disk Formation.

The world had changed too much from the time of the Fall. At that time, energy was in abundance and everyone level up pretty fast. Now, it is very hard to even level up one level.

There is also the matter of the Shadow Guards and the three Army.