Ok hear me out. Three way.

It definitely makes the probability go way, way up. But it’s still not certain. Although it does make the most sense.
The remaining question with this theory is who are his parents, and did he inherit his majik parents ability, or have his own, in any way?

I can agree with that.

It probably did. I have like notifications turned off so i wouldn’t know.

Also, yeah my phrasing there could use some work.

What I meant was “Weren’t wrong from the perspective of someone in the story's world.” From out here we have all the time and resources we need to safely think things through and find better and better solutions. In the pressure and stress of the their world’s situation, grabbing onto a short sighted idea and sticking to it makes sense. And the specific solution makes sense to come up first in the situation they find themselves in.

I feel this entire discussion has started on a misconception. My original comment was just to say i like that the characters, short sighted as they are, have a logical reason behind their actions instead of just evil guy is evil because he’s evil.

Nothing to say what he did was correct or optimal. Just logical from his perspective.

My guess is dragon mom polymorphed as demon to find her daughter.

Agreed on both fronts. This series has really taken a downturn for me since the siblings showed up.

fair arguments all around, but there's still the matter of time you brought up earlier. Yes, in theory they could raise up the weak and powerless minority to become useful, but that's only if they survive the next wave. They believe sacrifices must be made to survive, so its a far better plan to sacrifice those that aren't immediately useful. The idea is that instead of wasting energy and resources on those who might become helpful if they survive, spend those resources on those who are already strong so that they can keep surviving. They got this far without OP MC being here so they don't believe they can defend everyone, there will be losses. so they'd rather lose the weak than the capable.

Its not a matter of efficiency its a matter of survival. specifically survival of the fittest, where the strong eat the weak.

Also even if none of them have innate magic, the magic items are still a thing, and with tens of thousands of people as you said, there are bound to be at last a good few powerful ones.

Again, I'm not saying your takes are wrong, or bad. Just that from the perspective of the characters in the scenario their actions do have some logic and sense behind them.

oh no, his been injured directly in front of the worlds best healer, what ever will we do? guess its time to go into backstory land to keep "suspense" up.

damn that fight ended quickly, with all the build up and suspense i thought the actual fight would take a little longer.

you forget that they have skill based magic now. so people from higher difficulties with the higher skill levels will be assigned to the appropriate jobs. they worked together well in the labyrinth with their teams and thus don't believe they need those from lower difficulties who don't even have the skills to defend themselves. they're just seen as more mouths to feed and bodies to clean up when the waves are over. at most they're meat shields for the wave. As for hygiene, I present to you purification and fire magic. also, they all came from previous locations, they have no guarantee they're gonna stay here for the next time they return, so they wouldn't care about cleaning up the bodies.

So yes, in a typical apocalypse survival situation you would be correct, but we have skills and magic here which changes the playing field a bit. that being said, I never said it was the best solution, or even a great one. only that it made sense from the perspective of the characters that came up with it. It's a mentality of "we've done well so far on our own, why do we need to babysit you all now?". They have no clue on the ridiculous strength of the waves here, so likely they figure that the strength between waves isn't gonna change too much(which we know is foolish, but they have no clue). These characters aren't some savants of logic and wit, they're arrogant people who got very strong very quickly and see no need to help others catch up.

Alright, so who's joining me on the dipshit hunt?

yeah, so its nothing to him. But to her, who finally realizes how much shit she put him through and all the hurt she caused and is finally starting to heal, this is very important as she doesn't want to risk hurting him again even slightly.

they said its a video, so it may be crying over something trite that you'd only really care about as a kid. nothing awful or demoralizing but still pretty embarrassing if people found out about it.

and you have successfully identified the severe problems in the long run. well done.

what i was saying is not that it was the best solution, but that it wasn't completely illogical reasoning behind the tyranny. We still have to have a villain, but I prefer a smart villain over a "everyone obeys me because I said so" type of villain. put some reasoning behind their actions, warped or otherwise.

yeah no, he's kinda dead i believe.

there were female robins too.

doesn't even have to be free, just give her a cut of sales.

no worries. The power was explained so long ago when Lied first used it way back in chapter 58. so its unsurprising that you don't remember it.

its not that you cant do anything, its complete sensory deprivation, cutting off the 5 senses. so you can still physically move and do stuff, you just cant feel it. its damn hard to do anything without your 5 senses, but not impossible. what he's doing here specifically is singing without being able to hear himself or feel the vocal chords vibrating in his throat. Again, damn hard, but not impossible, especially when you've done it hundreds or thousands of times.