Long Kongkong's consciousness was a haze of Chaos.
He dreamed that dream again.
That nightmare which had repeatedly appeared in his mind, the nightmare he could never shake off.
Whenever he closed his eyes, that despair, resentment, and Abomination came rushing at him.
He knew it was not a dream.
He was the God of Divine Retribution, Austin Griffin.
At least, he had once been.
He did not believe all humans were evil. At least, his teacher was not, his parents were not, and his Hepburn was not.
But he had once lost all of that.
So none of it mattered anymore.
Those who loved him had already passed away.
He knew there was a Miracle in this world called resurrection.
But even if they were resurrected, what then? They would only experience the pain all over again.
And what if there was reincarnation? They would only suffer pain generation after generation.
He decided to destroy it all.
Because this world had been created by the Creation God. If the Creation God had not created humanity, he would not have endured such pain or felt such despair.
Since even he, the God of Divine Retribution, could experience such despair, then ordinary, unremarkable people must also encounter such despair.
He did not want such things to happen again.
Destruction was all he excelled at, so he chose destruction.
It was his innate nature.
Not the nature of The Destroyer, but the nature of The Guardian.
He did not want anyone to weep again, so he brought calamity upon them. He would use fleeting destruction to end eternal pain, use the end of one era to end the suffering of generation after generation, even if it meant bearing every sin himself.
He was, in the end, the Guardian God. He was, in