Agreed.

Death is too kind of a punishment anyways.
The real, and most excruciating way to punish someone, is to make them experience the same emotions and distress of their victims for the rest of their natural life.

Sadly, that option is considered unfair in reality. Which is ironic when their victims are forced to suffer the consequences of their actions without any relief.

Being kinder to the perpetrator than the victims is one of the ways in which the criminal justice system is broken... But I can see why they want to do it that way, because it also means fewer people will develop the same level of ambivalence towards the pain and suffering of others.

Ah... The usual situation of suing people doing something they themselves can't be arsed to do themselves? Anyways, thank you for the information. I may read a lot, but I stay out of the details of whatever is going on behind the scenes since I'm using this site... 🙄

October, 2023 is the last Update... Seems like this is the end of what's available here... It's currently May, 2025 now, so only five months until it reaches a two year lag.

So... Where do I learn more? About this situation?

Basically Hetero spank bank material with great plot potential, but very little time and effort is spent on working with the world building potential.. Basically, if you want fast paced, this should be fast enough, because barely any time is. Spent on the background of one thing before another thing happens.
Mostly, I guess this is fan service, and not plot.

I could respond with more...

But You're arguing against an entirely different topic at this point.

I'm well aware of the various dynasties and their incest, as well as the atrocities committed by various religious organizations in the name of religious beliefs. My point stands, no single individual has been able to commit the full array of human atrocities for various reasons, from getting sick, getting assassinated, betrayal, mortality, and so on. Yes, there have been evil people, but the extent of their evil has had limits, both natural and unnatural... This king is what happens when those limitations have been removed.
At most, it takes and entire group of people to commit the full array of atrocities... So far.

Oh, it's not that they care about consequences, it's because they're taken down as a consequence before they're able to commit more atrocities. 💁🏼‍♂️In other words, it's unrealistic since the king here, has a form of immortality, and made sure to create a solid foundation for his dictatorship to exist upon, from which his atrocities cannot be easily called into question, since efforts to call him out would first need to circumvent his plethora of oppression tools. In other words, he's what many real world dictators could become, if they had the kind of magic backing that this king has.

Not precisely... IRL entities from the titles and roles you mentioned, rarely incorporate the full breadth of human atrocities into a single individual, since the consequences of their actions tend to take care of them long before they can commit all of those atrocities.

A small detail, but the Emperor is normally under the control of Alexander, and when the Mage was eliminated by the Queen of Luna, Alexander lost control of the Emperor, who took the opportunity to declare a ceasefire.

Indeed.

It's 100% Unilateral, and results from the hubris of the Emperor.

People with unchecked power tend to think that if they say it, that reality will obey them, and if it doesn't, it's an excuse to eradicate whoever gets in their way.

This is the hubris of Dictators, Fascists, and other forms of oppressive leadership.

I love how the Butler implied that the MC is worse than a psychopath. 🤣

Well... Most humans, even with such a loss, aren't normally that suicidal. 🤔
If it was a common trait, then it wouldn't be so sensational and extravagant a response. 💁🏼‍♂️

Pragmatism.

Unless you are part of a faction where bloody massacres are a given whenever someone with power takes revenge upon those who wronged them, such brutal behavior oftentimes results in more troubles, and you end up in a situation where ever stronger people are attacking you, distracting you from your intended goals.

Also, even in factions where such things are common... You still end up with more troubles than you had originally, and eventually you find yourself entirely consumed by the endless strife you are helping to perpetuate with your own intolerance and hubris.

Sure, having immense power can suppress overt attempts at messing with your plans, but it doesn't stop the subversion and manipulations that can develop in the face of overwhelming power... just look at the skills women in ultra oppressive societies develop. They develop alternative methods of achieving their goals, with toxic behaviors and all. Just because a person lacks overt power, doesn't mean they're powerless, they simply have methods that while slower, are equally or more effective than the indiscriminate brainless smashing of skulls. After all... Humans may be hairless apes, but unlike our cousins, our social structures are far too complex for hammer time all the time.

Basically, it's easier to keep the enemies you know, than to create the enemies you don't know, until you have the ability to completely eradicate those enemies to a degree where no one will see any reason to oppose your decisions.

For the first 12 chapters... I'd say this is a good series so far.
The Art is, as others have mentioned, not particularly noteworthy, but I think it's alright that way. While the character designs are generic, the first chapter comments on that fact rather blatantly... So, I can't say it's a bad thing. Also, children do tend to be marginally generic anyways...
Anyways... Complaints about the magic in the series are kind of silly at this point, the MC has no formal explanation for themselves, so obviously they won't have any formal explanations for the reader. Currently, they know it exists, and that it's relatively rare to have the ability to work with magic. They know their abilities are different from normal, but they're not sure how different they are from normal. The MC just wants a relaxing life, so they choose to hide their abilities.
The others in the series are far too young to determine the precise dynamics, út it's pretty apparent that the author has a Female Lead in mind... I hope they age up the characters by an minimum of 13 years or so before bringing in the romance option... Particularly since the MC is ostensibly already 40+ years old, and to have any such inclinations towards those the age of his body is a bit distasteful in reality... So at least let them be ostensibly 18 before the MC starts getting swayed.

Unifying the world around a single perceived enemy...a trope at this point... The MC does a decent job in this series, keeps the death, destruction and mayhem to a minimum, and even uses tricks to avoid unnecessary casualties, taking advantage of the human propensity to generate propaganda, and basically let's the humans overstate the atrocities the MC has committed... Which aside from the first massecre, the MC is actually pretty restrained in their revenge, and compared with how the average human conquerer works, the MC is actually remarkably humane.
Doesn't justify the actions taken, but compared with other examples of people attempting this path, it's pretty low key.

First to make a comment?
Okay... But what is this about? I guess since no one else has made any comments, I'll have to be the one.
First it claims to be a parody translation, and I definitely can see the potential of it being what it claims from the first few panels, but I'll come back later when I have more energy to wait for the panels to load.

If the king had simply tried to work with them, and find a way to get them to agree to leave the public stage, then we wouldn't have this story. 🤔🤣

Ah.
Sorry that the implication sailed over my head instead of over the seas. 😅

Time to put this series on hold, so I can binge on it again 🤣
Didn't even take me long to reread the whole series up to this point either.