The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

"Wh-what did you do!?"

The believers never imagined that their proud "god" would sever all ties with them in an instant.

No matter how much they prayed, the power did not respond to them again... and the black veins continued to devour the divine light, as if they were enjoying a delicious meal.

"See? Even someone like me, a half-baked newbie learning this concept, can't resist it—to treat this thing like a god, there's a limit to ignorance."

"Oh, then you should try this too—"

Just as everyone was in a panic, the leader of the believers, who looked eight parts like the black-haired man, suddenly raised his hand and emitted a ball of stagnant light from his palm that was almost like a solid.

The radiance almost instantly engulfed the black-haired man's body, evaporating and annihilating the surrounding black veins as well.

"Hmph, what a blusterer. That's all he's got."

Since the black-haired man's aura completely disappeared under this swift attack, the believers temporarily regained their composure.

But before they could compose themselves, the sacred statue, entangled and covered in black veins, suddenly underwent a strange change—

[Ugh, how incredibly stupid... Did you guys never even know what these "fragments" of the Black Abyss actually were?]

"How could this be... When did you get here?!"

At that moment, a huge black droplet fell from the head of the sacred statue and landed on the ground, which had begun to pulsate slightly.

Then, the droplet began to writhe and twist strangely, quickly transforming into the shape of the man who had just been blasted apart.

"So you drove that hero away a thousand years ago without even asking him? Hmm... it seems that's how it is."

Seeing that the leader of the believers raised his hand again to unleash the same attack as before, the man immediately created a black barrier in the air in front of him, like a thin mist.

The sacred statue simultaneously emitted a powerful radiance, causing the believers to kneel down as if under immense pressure.

"Don't bother trying, it's useless. Although I still don't have any combat skills, you can't possibly defeat me with your strength alone."

"...What do you want?"

Perhaps realizing that their power was insufficient to eliminate the strange man, the leader of the believers temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​fighting and instead chose to negotiate with him... or buy time.

"What do I want? Hmm, that's a good question... But may I ask first? You've collected so many lives, is it just so you can escape this planet?"

……

"The Covenant Church knew of the existence of the parasite on the planet long before the hero arrived. After limited contact, the church members discovered that although the thing had not yet awakened, it was slowly and continuously devouring the planet's core."

The believer leader, who bore an eight-tenths resemblance to a man, then began to recount the secret history of the Covenant Church.

The Covenant Church was originally just a small, ordinary religious organization—in an era when monsters occupied most of the living space, there were similar small churches in every place.

"The pioneers of the Covenant Church accidentally discovered the strange extraterrestrial object that resided on the planet. After investigating the situation in every possible way, the Church finally obtained from the decaying planet a method to manipulate the power of the stars in human form."

Although the planet's will was just a vast chaos, it still did its best to bestow its power upon humanity in the face of its own existential crisis. After that, humanity quickly mastered two special techniques: battle aura and magic, which utilize the power of the stars to fight using their own life force.

With the popularization of martial arts and magic, humanity gradually expanded its living area. The Holy Covenant Church, which discovered these two powers, quickly became the largest religion of the time.

"But the Church has never forgotten the alien that is gnawing at the foundation of the planet—as long as that thing exists, humanity can never have a true future."

Although the Covenant Church took the initiative to investigate and probe, the alien was ultimately a powerful enemy that even the planet itself could not defeat... and humans, who are much smaller than the planet, could not possibly pose any threat to it.

Therefore, the helpless Covenant Church ultimately devised a dangerous and immoral plan.

“Using the power provided by the planet, the Church created and activated a spell that can summon other life forms from distant times and spaces—and those aliens known as the Demon Race who had just lost their homeland came to this planet under the effect of this spell.”

However, the purpose of the Covenant Church in summoning this alien race was quite malicious—they deliberately implanted a mental curse into the summoning spell, causing those powerful alien races to fall into an irreversible state of madness shortly after arriving here.

"Only when the creatures on it are invaded by foreign races will the chaotic planetary will send out a distress signal—the Church made the demons from other worlds the sacrifices in order to achieve this goal."

Fortunately, a brave adventurer who was constantly traveling among the stars happened to receive a distress signal from this planet.

As soon as that person landed on the planet, he immediately found and understood the root of the problem—and he also cooperated with the Covenant Church at the time to develop a plan to completely eliminate the alien.

"The hero claimed to be someone who specifically sought out and dealt with the alien object, and he did indeed make a lot of progress on the previously stalled investigation mission, so the church did not pay much attention to him at the time."

But soon, the church and the hero had a disagreement—because the hero developed sympathy for the demons who were gradually going mad, and began to clash with the church.

"Because humanity was facing a crisis of survival at the time, the church had no spare capacity to deal with the problems of those alien races—but that hero used this as an excuse to suddenly break the agreement."

Fearing that the hero would join the demons and destroy humanity's hope for revival, the Covenant Church, even without finding a way to eliminate the alien entity, ultimately used the planet's power to banish the hero... and most of the demons were also banished from the planet's surface.

"For the next thousand years, the Church has been analyzing the information left by the hero—and each generation of bishops, at the end of their lives, would pass on all their research findings to the next one."

With the planet's full assistance, the Covenant Church, though unable to find a way to completely destroy the alien entity, weakened its power to the greatest extent possible and maintained the seal that sealed it.

After integrating all the information, this generation of bishops decided to resolve the matter completely in this generation.

"The planet has little strength left, while the alien is growing stronger—so the church has finally decided to use the planet's mechanism of summoning heroes to weaken the alien again, and then completely expel it from the planet."

—And so, the story of a non-heroic time traveler begins.

……

"Oh, I see... From an ordinary person's perspective, you do indeed represent humanity and the side of justice."

"Hmph, if those two human traitors hadn't destroyed most of our accumulated wealth, we wouldn't have needed to collect all the life on this planet to deal with that thing along with you."

After hearing this story from only one perspective, the black-haired man couldn't help but show a somewhat regretful and disappointed expression.

The believer leader, who bore a striking resemblance to him, wore a solemn and dignified expression, as if he were showing compassion for a lost sinner.

"So, do you understand now? Everything we do is for the future of the planet. And the ultimate victor will surely be us, 'humanity'."

"Hmm, that's truly a touching act of righteousness... If you hadn't still not answered my question, I would have believed what you said."

At this moment, the man, who had previously seemed somewhat dejected, suddenly revealed a mocking smile.

The black veins that covered the surrounding area began to move again as his expression changed.

“I am not interested in your ideas and history—because I was summoned by the fragments of the Abyss to help it recognize and understand this world.”

Whether or not there is faith or justice in the stories told by others, it has nothing to do with that man.

"And what you have done has caused it, which should have had all kinds of possibilities like a human, to ultimately abandon its nascent self... Even if you really represent human justice, I will still seek justice for it."

—The man who had long lost everything, and even forgotten where he came from, finally revealed his hidden nature here.

"That's right, I stand on the opposite side of humanity, guiding them through the process of overcoming and transcending, ultimately leading them to the 'trials' of the next generation—"

When the dark veins completely obscured all the sacred light, the humans trapped within finally realized the fate they were about to face—

"Good and evil are two sides of the same primate, and only rules and order cannot be transgressed—I am the 'King of Man' who wears the crown of 'evil'."

Those who cannot overcome this final trial are not worthy of being called 'human'.