Can't wait for the next chapter when Welton Senior cuts his bullshit time travel power, and then Krion time travels before that, and then-

I'm a bit stupid

Yo, does anyone know why all the images in the comments are blurred now? How tf do you turn that off?

Wow, this somehow made this convoluted mess of a storyline even less meaningful. What was the point in setting up the Abyss mage as a sympathetic character?

I don't have perfect memory, and I don't want to read this train wreck again, so forgive me if I get some of this wrong. In the flashbacks (we're ignoring the future bits for a second), the information we're given portrays him as a shady and feared dark mage. If I recall correctly, it doesn't give us a reason why. It's ambiguous. Then, we get to see his character.

He's a dedicated researcher, a pragmatic man, and as we can see in the future, at least slightly empathetic to Erina's passing. In the past, he comes off, to me at least, as a truly morally gray character. Honestly, besides his rep he doesn't even seem that bad.

In the last chapter, we see that in a fit of grief, Alfeas burns his decades of research. This paints the scene as a tragic and terrible mistake. The Abyss mage tries bargaining, saying that while this experiment failed, it could truly help save a ton of people. This reinforces that his character has ultimately positive intentions, and further portrays him as a sympathetic character. Now, I'm not saying this is bad, far from it, if fact. Him blatantly lying to his fellow researchers face could further reinforce his power hungry and malicious character... if there was any fucking set up at all.

It almost feels as if the author was like, "I've shown him being in the evil in the present, so that means that I don't have to give him a reason in the past." Like, what? We know why he's evil in the future, he was betrayed and seeks vengeance, but what is his motivation in the past? Was he power hungry? Then show that in the past before the big reveal.. Or at the very least mildly allude to it. Hell, even in the future it's not really shown that he has any designs on taking over the world, it's just shown that he's a bitter old man that feels betrayed, and that he will do anything to get his vengeance.

I feel a different reveal would have worked better. Like, maybe if the whole time he wanted to accrue magical knowledge and assimilate it into his mind? We know that he's a mage and a fiercely dedicated researcher, of course he would want that. It makes sense. Why the fuck does he want to take over the world? It feels out of character. It all just feels so cheap. Like the author couldn't think of a proper ending, and just went with this instead. Still, I won't call it objectively bad like I insinuated in the beginning. I will call it fucking stupid, though.

Okay, I'm done ranting. Sorry if this feels disjointed, I had to heavily cut this down so it would only be six paragraphs. It was originally like thirteen much thicker paragraphs. Goddamn character limit, lol.

Could you even change your name if you ever wanted to stop being downvoted? Or are you just permanently stuck at -999 because it's unchangeable?

You know, I don't know if I would have preferred if he was actually just a pedophile. It would at least make a modicum more sense than... this. First of all, how was it established she had the intelligence of a ten year old? What does that even really mean? What does that have to do with pain tolerance? And wouldn't the fact that she's mentally a ten year old be more important than her pain tolerance? Who cares if she can handle the pain if she's a child, they shouldn't be sleeping together in the first place. Honestly, I thought the plot twist was going to be that she was just a normal, albeit naïve, young woman. This? I couldn't have seen this coming in a million years.

The only real problem I had with with Alfeas at first was that he pursued someone who supposedly had the intelligence of a ten year old, but I just kind of assumed it was bad writing and he had an actual reason court her. After this? I'm more convinced that he actually believed the rumors around her intelligence and married her anyway. Why else go through with this dumb fucking experiment? What, was he going to tell everyone afterwards that he had worked with an outlaw mage to flash his brain into his wife's? No, he did this because he actually thought she had a child's mind.

This chapter somehow, fucking somehow, made this plotline creepier, more nonsensical, and more contrived than it already was. Fuck being suspended, my disbelief has been shredded at the atomic level.

I'm just saying... Called it. Dr. Disrespect ass motherfucker. Even if she doesn't have the mind of a ten year old, the fact that he's still going after her when he thinks that is the case is mega weird. There is a potential case of him wanting to just be friends, but based on the amount of blushing, I doubt it.

Oh they cooked with this. I'm so glad this isn't a shitty clone to capitalize on the popularity of Solo Leveling, and instead is actually going in a unique direction.

Probably Jinwoo if I were to hazard a guess

https://i.postimg.cc/B6fskj3v/i.png New 'oh shit' meme just dropped.

This story might have the most egregious use of cliffhangers I've ever seen. Motherfucker can't even pick up his groceries without needing six goddamn cliffhangers.

I swear, you can never tell if something is just gone forever or if there just taking a two year long break and are gonna comeback with a shittier art style.

That is a fair point, actually. I was just getting a real Dr. Disrespect vibe from him, but I guess he hasn't done anything damning yet. Still, I'm willing to bet he's gonna do some more creepy shit, but I guess he might not.

My man really heard that she had the mind of a ten year old and said, 'bet'. What a fucking creep, no wonder he's so pathetic nowadays. If I'm guessing correctly, then the mom in question is going to politically fucking assassinate him.

Probably because of imperial politics or something. I imagine it would be percieved as a slight to not eat the peaches, and if you claimed they were poisoned, they would bullshit that your lying. It's implied that the mother reached beyond her means, so there were probably people higher up that hated her for it and had the power to get away with shit like that.

Oh? Are they going to be taking a page out of fanfic? Quirkless hero? That'd be pretty cool.

Damn, he got cucked and styled on in one move, fucking obliterated.

Impressive, right? I didn't know you could spoil so much in a few short sentences. Fair warning peeps, Wild432 took the request as a challenge, so do not look under the gray unless you want the next couple hundred chapters spoiled.

The start of the 9th novel if I recall correctly. I'm not sure exactly which chapter that is.