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So I'm not sure why everyone is hating on the direction of the story, personally for me, the pacing is just like a majority of the pacing in other manga/manhwa/manhua of the same genre, and majority of this information was already pretty easy to see coming and was in fact foreshadowed. The only thing that's throwing me off is the fact that Duke Spes literally looks the same with or without the magic jewel, so I'm not sure how he's hiding his identity at all?