So, one feels the need to sacrifice his family for the good of his company, and the nation.
The other would sacrifice everything he has to spend one more second with his family.

Ijin's granddad is clearly the right one. You can't say there no right answer when there's so clearly one.

I never understood this mindset of "power over everything" to build strong people.
That builds weak people, reliant on external power to force their will on others, and who never really question their beliefs or decisions, stuck living in their pre-established worldview, never to adapt, and doing everything to keep things as they are, no mater how fuck-up the situation is...

And again, with this goddamn trope.
Let's watch the MC prepare for a specific event for a lot of chapters, then all his planning goes to shit immediately, until a literal Deus Ex intervenes.

This is shit writing, but apparently, it's the new norm now...

It's good storytelling.
But damn this arc is depressing.

I wasn't expecting it to be this long, too.
I thought I knew what Leon had lost, but actually seeing the actual Kingdom, the people, friends, family members, loved one... and knowing he is the sole survivor...

Yep, depressing.

Whoa! That's impressive.
After 66 pretty interesting chapters, this author was able to make me lose all interest in this story in 3 chapters.
That's like the second quickest. The fastest was MookHyang Dark Lady, that lost me in 1 chapter...

*Red Flash*
*Blue Flash*
*Blue Explosion*
*Red Explosion*
*MC Posing*
"Ultimate Sword of the Dragon Phoenix Rising Sun Moonlighted by the Full Moon"

Geez, these types of fight are just confusing. No hype at all...

This seems kinda dumb... no, actually, really really brain dead.

You have a few geniuses that are about to finish their training, they were exemplary and already did more than pretty much anyone else, ever.
So, instead of instantly promoting them and giving them challenges befitting their skills, with actual rewards like titles and honor, you change the final exam, making it harder for the more accomplished students and easier for the slackers and talentless?!?

Now, let's say that the geniuses couldn't complete the insanely hard challenge they received, because, I don't know, they got the flu... or because the challenge was too much...

Your fucking kingdom is now defended by literally the worst batch of students of their promotion...
And the insanely powerful newbies are either redoing a year more of studies completely useless to them, or they become more or less mercenaries, wandering swordsmen or shitty nobles doing nothing... or they could just be dead, because you sent them to a region overrun by monsters that even accomplished knights fear...

This Empire is doomed. It's clearly controlled by a bunch of idiots revered by everyone as geniuses...

That was... good.
This is a great way to show the potential of the top of the top of necromancy, without nerfind the MC for no reasons.
I love the way the professor used bone armors on the whole school to protect, not to overpower.

This chapter kinda hyped me for this story again.

So that's calm.
Better not make him angry...

I kinda hate this.
The "Let's prepare a plan for 20 chapters, then watch all the preparation mean absolutely fucking nothing is a few more chapters".
It's becoming so common that it's now predictable, and boring.

It's like watching Ocean's 11 preparing the heist for one hour, then see them get killed at the very start of the heist by the bad guy, in like two minutes.

I don't mind issues with the plan where they have to adapt, but this is not it. This is so one-sided that it gets boring for me.
Now, either of the following 2 things will happen, I predict:
1. Giant Deus Ex Machina saves the day.
2. Everything is fucked, the MC has to pretty much start over.

Both cases are bullshit, but we'll see, I guess.

I kinda hope he falls a bit into despair.
He lives in a Dark Fantasy World now, where slavery, murder, war and rape are a common occurrence, but he still thinks he's in Care Bear Land.

I'm not saying he should kill everything that moves, but I really do believe that if you have the power and knowledge to stop somebody hurting other people, and you don't, you're complicit to the act, and partially to blame for it too.

That crazy woman is a mass murdered, a torturer and a power hungry sociopath. She doesn't need some sense, but some respite, forever.

Damn.
The fact that we can see the result of the intent of both swordmasters, then the real thing, step my step, is genius and so fucking awesome.
This is probably the best swords fight I've every seen in a manga.

Whoa.
This is so bad...
The fight is mostly both screaming "You're gonna die"; "No, You!"; "No You!" like dumbasses... and then, there's the ginormous cliché of the dude leaving just before she probably defended him...
This is so dumb it actually made my brain hurt.

This is getting boring.
When you continue to pile shit after shit on the FMC without resolving anything, it just gets boring.
I starting to not care about about this. This isn't drama, this is just depressing.

The old dude should have just died before being possessed.
This is just padding the story for no reason.

The MC is already recognized as the contractor of the poseidon-like spirit, the fight was neatly ended by the dragonkin with a deep deep grudge against the old dude.
Now we have to witness a pointless Deus Ex Machina followed by another pointless Plot Armor. Utterly useless...

This feels... wrong.
I've had that feeling for a while, but this chapter confirms it for me.
The author has completely pivoted the story to a pure 3 Kingdoms Epic...
There's almost nothing of the original intent in this.

I don't think I'm interested anymore...

Well, this has gone from mid to bad.
At least there's only 3 chapters left.

Oh, thank you.
So, now, he is learning to manipulate mana without it passing through his mana paths.
Thanks for your explanation, it made this arc make so much more sense!

And again, this story is touching, thought-provoking, intense, beautiful, and shockingly unpredictable.

I really thought this fight would drag on for a while, with the MC ultimately forgiving the Constellation Killer. I wasn't expecting such a fast, pitiful, but emancipating death.

This makes me sad.
The ending of this story was very predictable, but sad nonetheless.

I'm supposed to be hyped, but I'm just confused.
What a mess of a chapter, with barely readable art. I can't even say the artist was lazy, he clearly was not, that seemed like needing a lot of effort... but maybe he had a stroke while drawing this?!?

Well, at least the translation team didn't have too much work this time...