Each hardship is just another quest so that he could become stronger.
People he met would help him and when there is a danger , the danger merely serves as a slight foil so that he could discover something and become even stronger.
That is the kind of luck that is on Death Monarch.
The circumstances and the environment around him makes him able to become the strongest person in the world.
And maybe one of the best thing he did was that he is not tied to any power in the beginning.
There was also many promising talent in the African Alliance during the initial year of the Fall.
But what happens to them?
They were forced to die.
Because nobody wanted anybody to unify the African Alliance. And so, they killed their own talent.
Now, that the world has divided, the land was divided into fifty-five states.
All of these states are actually nations in the African Continent before.
