The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Chapter 1314 386: I Will Be the First to Die (Part 2)

He did something different from the Ancient Gods' divine envoy "Kael"; he did not use this power to hunt down the salesman who sold him loans or the doctor who installed his prosthetics.

They are indeed "Raiders" in this steel jungle wasteland, but from the height of deities, they are not at fault; they are merely following the world's law of the jungle, just like any among the masses.

He didn't even admonish the company president who exiled him to this deep steel wasteland—the one who controlled one of the "High Towers" and belonged to his "Iron Hand."

Whether it was Iron Hand, Kael who killed Iron Hand, or the savior who killed Kael, they were merely different people in the same ecological niche.

They need to be judged.

But it shouldn't be done by him, rather by the people behind him.

This will be a war of one ideology against another; what he needs to do is not to become the savior of Gray Men, but to ensure every Gray Man becomes their own savior.

Only this way can he truly change the fate of all Gray Men, instead of leading them into the next cycle of hypocrisy and lies in the name of the sacred.

This is the mystery he comprehended with Spiritual Energy from behind the void beyond time…

…

Five years slipped away in the blink of an eye.

The "deities" behind the void have just begun their dinner, while the chess piece they meticulously selected has completed the transformation of the soul.

For a steel city floating in eternal gray mist, these five short years were merely meaningless number rotations on a neon billboard.

However, beneath the gleaming skyscrapers of the Federation, in the eternal shadows, some things silently changed.

Jon, while repeatedly reminiscing in his mind the scattered teachings from the void, learned how to harness the miraculous power he understood as "Spiritual Energy" to help those, like himself, marginalized by this materialism-prevalent Federation.

His benevolent acts and the inexplicable miracles attracted his first batch of true followers.

They were not ambitious, nor did they possess great abilities, merely the most thorough failures in this survival-of-the-fittest Federation.

Among them were laid-off workers, bankrupt debt-laden individuals, homeless orphans, and those tormented by illness, awaiting death.

The wheels of time rolled over them, leaving behind but a hazy mass of flesh; yet Jon saved them, offering help within his power. Even in the eyes of the "enlightened," solving problems with Magic seemed absurd, even evil.

However, the Federation had been at peace for so long that it had forgotten the catastrophe brought by the Ancient Gods a century ago.

They continued to mechanically memorize the past, cleaning the followers of the Ancient Gods and warning future generations about the void's contamination, but this vast net had long been riddled with holes, filtering out more innocent people cleansed in the void's name.

It was an effective tool.

When someone raised concrete issues, labeling them as followers of Void Evil Spirit allowed their disappearance naturally, along with their issues.

However, this also sowed the seeds of future problems.

When false pollution was stuck on the filter as real, the true pollution would silently mix into the water source.

It was due to this expanded cleansing and executor's perfunctory efforts that Jon received the "genuine things" from the void behind.

At that time, he wasn't even a Transcendent.

Yet, that no longer mattered.

The Ancient Gods were dead.

The current void belongs to the era of "Colin"!

And the Federation, born under the curse of the Ancient Gods "Merk," hadn't evolved immunity to this new deity.

Especially since its lifespan had reached its end; with or without Colin, it was like an elderly man nearing his end.

Colin only influences where the planet's inhabitants will go after the Federation, like the Wastelanders Alliance, heads towards its terminus.

Through the tireless efforts of divine envoy Jon, the whispers from behind the void finally made their way back onto the stage of Gray Man's history.

They revered Jon as the messenger of the void.

In their orally passed-down teachings, they believed all their suffered pain was the price of abandoning the Spirit faith by their ancestors.

And now, this silent messenger walking in the shadows made them feel like they finally found their way home in the boundless void.

They still longed for equality.

Yet perhaps, materialism is not the only path to achieving this goal.

Especially after witnessing countless lies and betrayals, with their own eyes, they saw the miracles from True God "Colin"!

Jon never asked for anything in return.

When those he helped kneeled before him in gratitude, he always repeated the same gesture, lifting them up one by one and sowing the teachings spread by Colin into their parched hearts.

"My strength comes from each of us, so we must treat each other kindly, especially those who place their hope in us."

When someone puzzledly asked why the new deity did not demand their absolute obedience to the will of the Divine like the old "Merk," Jon, with increasingly profound eyes, conveyed the truth he unearthed from beneath the dust of history.