BESTIE I SEARCHED THIS JUST FOR U OKAY SO
basically, the pump brings water from a lower level to a higher level. and to get the pump to work, you need to supply it with sufficient amounts of water
and since the travellers didn't have any supply of water because they were suffering from a terrible drought, they had to sacrifice someone to use their blood to make the pump work and have the water come up to the surface.
so yea, the mf sacrificed althea to quench their thirst ://
BUT THEY DIDN'T NEED TO SLICE HIS NECK. There was no need for sacrifice. They could have cut his arm or leg or cut couple of people
*HER
YEAAHH TRUE but ig they just wanted to kill them from the start
and judging from the chapters and the comments, i believe alathea is non-binary so,,, yea
Huh but she wanted to become a mother of the country or sth and she’s referred to as female in the story
yess but then on some parts of the story, alathea was referred to as "he" and in this chapter, they were called the king of the abandoned ones. but then again, Korean doesn't have any gender specific pronouns so there could be mistranslations
but idk mahn im chill with any gender they may have
WHY SIS THEY SLIT THE THROAT WHAT WAS THE REASON