No, that would not be possible. He was chosen as the Shadow Monarch for various reasons (one is him being incredibly close to death on a daily basis because he was entering dungeons despite being the weakest hunter). There’s also other things mentioned in later chapters of the novel but I won’t spoil it for you (〜￣△￣)〜
You need to put a spoiler warning.
OHBWAIT NVMV this isn’t a spoiler comment oops my bad
LOLLLL Its aight
to him when he lived through that whole thing WAY back at the beginning but I have a question. ....what would've happened to all the others if they HAD listened to him and stayed? would they have ALL become "monarch"s?