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Wayyyy too short. Left so many unanswered questions. I mean I've read enough to know what probably happened and guess at what comes after that random ass ending, but it's still annoying for everything to just get wrapped up in the middle of the climax. Tbh it was very weak storytelling after the halfway mark. It doesn't make sense why the higher ups hid that the outsiders weren't human, especially since revealing that would just allow them to go ahead with their war plans. It also doesn't make sense why H-O2 didn't want Helm to reveal that. There was that hinted relationship between H-O2 and the alpha (that could have been fun to explore). We never found out if Coral Reef betrayed Helm, we never saw the inner forest, or figured out why H-O2 let Helm think he wanted to kill him all those years. We also never really found out what happened in those flashback scenes with everyone dead. Did H-O2 like actually kill all of Helm's partners? Basically there were so many guns that didn't go off, so to speak, and it was wild that they were brought up narratively only to never be touched on again or completely thrown out.
it wasn't the author's intention to leave these questions unanswered but manhwa wasn't their main job and they were struggling financially so they had to rush the story and end it at chap 40
Ah, I see. Well that's a shame, I hope they're doing better financially now.
Never in my life have I gone from a 5 star read to a 1 star in one chapter. Everything was going relatively well until they shoe-horned in a r@pe scene, destroyed the king's characterization up until that point, and then just rushed the ending. I read it all just to make sure the author wasn't going to actually have Michael end up with Albert only to see I was, in fact, not hallucinating. They ended up together. Or really Albert forced his will in Michael and they're going to continue in this sick song and dance until they die, I guess? And it was so fucking jarring that they had sex during the time Michael was in that child-like state. It was like the author was suddenly switched out for a sadistic, pedo, r@pist all of a sudden with those last chapters. And for what? To ruin that delicious tension and interesting dynamic? Heide (the aide I dunno if I spelled his name correctly) was the better choice romance wise for Michael. I'm so upset. Like genuinely I'm so mad.