After Exile, I Became Lord of the Divine Realm

Pollution has spread across the world. Countless creatures have mutated, and ordinary humans have an extremely high death rate after exposure. Only a tiny fraction survive and gain special abilities. They are known as the Gifted.

Meng Xingzhou was unlucky enough to awaken the [Pollution] gift. Classified as a human pollution source, he was sentenced to exile.

The place of exile was short on supplies, a land abandoned and forgotten by both humanity and the pollutants.

Meng Xingzhou became the weakest pollutant in the region. The people who exiled him had long since forgotten he existed.

Until, years later, the Divine Domain rose from the earth.

Humans who accepted pollution, pollutants who loathed madness... Outsiders who had been shunned by all gathered here, clustering around the taciturn exile and calling him the Lord of the Divine Domain.

After the apocalypse ended, the human base established diplomatic relations with the "Divine Domain."

The Gifted who had once exiled Meng Xingzhou finally met this "Lord of the Divine Domain" after a long journey.

The Gifted stared at the familiar face. ...Huh?

Am I supposed to establish diplomatic relations with him?

At first, Meng Xingzhou only wanted to survive. But he hated being lonely, so he took in

A calico cat who only knew how to gossip

A deranged Gifted who had gone dark

A crybaby pollutant who couldn't fight

Years later, Meng Xingzhou looked at the Lord of Urban Legends, one of humanity's top three Gifted, and a Lord-level pollutant, lost in thought. ...What were they like when we first met?

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Humanity Forum

OP: I heard the Lord of the Divine Domain is an exiled human. Can we really establish diplomatic relations with him?

Post 1: Diplomatic relations my ass, we're doomed!

Post 2: We're cooked!

Post 835: Wait! There might be a chance! The strongest one just said he's going to form a marriage alliance.

Post 836: Oh, he means make contact! The strongest really takes responsibility! Wait, form what?

Post 837: Is this right?

Post 838: The strongest person being someone like this really means humanity is doomed.jpg

Post 937: Holy crap, the Divine Domain agreed?!

Mini-scene 2

He is an ordinary [Pollution Source], without an enormous body or peerless strength, but he is beautiful, incredibly beautiful.

He is a generous [Pollution Source]. Even the most ordinary child awakens a gift upon entering his Divine Domain.

He is a benevolent [Pollution Source], and his [followers] are glad to stay close by his side.

Excerpt from a certain strongest being's A Pollution Source Observation Journal

Reader's guide:

Progression-focused plot

Split-fragment love interest (appears later, but has shown up by now~)

A cosmic-horror power fantasy with little logic (seriously, not much logic)

Theme: Build a sound set of values, live positively, and spread positive energy. No matter your circumstances, fight to rise above them and strive to live as yourself.