I ended up caving in and going to read the raws
The manhwa in korean has around 120 chapters at the moment, I dont understand Korean so I mostly understood what was happening from images and comments
What I can tell is, story progress slows down a lot, like its not like nothing good or exciting happens, but far more should have happened in basically 90 chapters
From what I know, the novel and manhwa are different at the moment, I haven't read the novel so if I ever mention it I will just say "supposedly" since well its what I heard is supposedly different with no confirmation
Basically Carl is still gonna be end game no doubt
Desa actually ends up showing herself to Arit once in private, and next in an encounter, but her identity is still not known. Desa is honestly so good, many KR readers loved her, and she does genuinely like the emperor so I kinda hope since the manhwa is changing some stuff, that there is hope for her happiness
The top 3 from what I see are Arit, Anya and Desa, ngl I dont think anyone would have minded if the ending ended up being Yuri xD
There is another incident where Anya is targeted and almost dies, this time Arit ends up giving Anya a magic circle (same one the purple dude has from Desa) to ensure her safety, and towards the end of the 120 chapters Carl learns that Arit is a witch
If anyone ends up reading this, feel free to ask for more questions I guess
Back when this was first airing as a novel, I was super into it, I just forgot to keep up after mid point cuz it became tiring to keep up w daily updates.
Tbh I have my few complaints about the manhwa currently, but luckily its not too bad though it could be better.
While I was reading my fav was Illya, but Clyde is a fan fav too. Also she has a really nice friendship with Damien at some point.
For those interested
This manhwa is currently collabing with the Tower of God New World game, you can see Ijin, 002, and Alice in story and also get a free 003 from loginning in