For him (the MC) it was a game and his real life was going to work everyday to earn money. I think that the transition to the Beta version and the released version (where they got inside the game) is the reason for the abandonment.
I also think that what MC did is kind of a torture but at the same time, justified. He corrupted their wings for the empire to be strong and survive the wars, coz if i remember they are considered weak before being "Dark celestials".
I agree with what you are saying but in my og comment i was tryna put mls pov more in the spotlight as everyone was kinda hating on him and it was like bruh . It aint all white and black , everyone is shades of grey yk
I also agree with you, i think others are just finding faults in characters nowadays without understanding the story
yeah but at the same time, touching him and sexually assulting him is reason enough for people to hate him...i get he has his reasons, but he doesnt have to do something as damaging as that, in real life, that would cause trauma to someone else and we cant undermine that because the ML needs reassurance
Yeah, ML's feelings about the MC is justified. Especially in the novel where NONE of the noncon happens, just wing grooming/touching. Here though, they're using sex to punish MC and it just made ML's punishment for the MC moot...made him look really bad imo. Like if i didn't read the novel, i'd dislike him like the others here reading this manwha blind.
ooof sex is supposed to be nice and stuff, to use it as punishment is just sick. is the novel better?
Yeah it's better, the novel is more world building focused and expands more about the game so if you like games in general, you may enjoy it. For me, it's not as info dumpy as other gaming novels i've read before. Novel spends 20+ chapters introducing the game, MC and his first few weeks spending life in the game before he was found by his duke, it's a slow start but it lays out the basic and some important stuff. Like MTL can be incoherent but you can tell MC has leadership skills and smart in the novel. He starts realizing early on that he was very wrong for not going back to his kingdom based on what the other players(like the glasses dude and younger gamer brother) talk about their kingdom/dukes. So way before MC got captured, he was already in the mindset that he is prepared to be found by the duke and sent back.
Manwha shuffled the order of the plot from the novel to make sense cutting out the monkey village arc, glasses dude was already back in his kingdom before MC returned to his other kingdom, that arc with glasses dude was the one where MC started thinking about the duke more and how he would feel with MC not returning. Also 2 characters got wiped from existence(another player who MC helped during monkey village arc and becomes MC's citizen/apprentice of his blacksmith, the other is a vassal who was originally the one who helped MC raid the treasury and the one who got punished. They were described as a red head gentle giant that doesn't speak much).
No wait, the vassal wasn't a gentle giant, just described as this menacing quiet giant that was only gentle to MC.
i don’t think mc necessarily TORTURED them. i think he was looking for ways to make them stronger and he doesn’t care what method it is as long as it can make them stronger. it’s kinda giving “you will thank me sooner or later”
Yeah, though, MC just didn't expect for the transformation to be so fucking painful. He realizes why everyone was pissed at him when he consumed the potion, it almost killed him. He knew it was a painful process but not painful to the point of dying.
Thought the way you explain it makes it sound like MC did it just to make em stronger lol(end justifies the means kinda deal). Can't blame you though, manwha's lame short explanation does make him look like that. Nah, MC loved his citizens and vassals so much and didn't want for them to suffer anymore so he took the potion so they could become stronger and not be bullied anymore. Them becoming the #1 empire was an unexpected bonus.
To act the way he is towards mc? Mc is reckless ( and as the fuckin king its like...), abandoned them , tortured them basically and yet despite that everyone still loves him (ml too) but that doesn't mean he cant hate mc , mc's actions have to have consequences and yes just because i understand his pov doesn't mean ml's pov isnt valid.
He needs reassurance fr
Plus yea whatever ml saying rn is kinda true , him playing friends isnt the time because it's actually like declaring war and as a king he should look after HIS kingdom before anything else.