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I have like a running theory going that maybe Guwon was part of some experiment or something that caused everything to happen. I put it as spoiler just in case.

This clearly takes a lot from the Sisyphus myth which centrally focuses on his hubris, and his desire and (temperorary) success at cheating death.

I think there's a group who, in their hubris to chase immortality, they were using Guwon to reach immortality (possibly he was named by the group since his name means 'salvation' and they may have seen him as the answer to immortality).
The group itself is likely funded/created by the extremely wealthy who would see themselves above others and deserving of immortality.
This would make the group the Sisyphus of this story. As they are wealthy (like a King), cheat death in a way that affects the whole world, and have the hubris.

I think many of us were running under the assumption that Guwon came up from underground in ch0, but I went back and he's definitely under building rubble that had just collapsed. Maybe he was in a specific building and fell with the building and dug himself out. (Though I think symbolically he is meant to look like he's coming up from underground like the underworld).
I think maybe he was being held in that building and in the chaos was finally freed. Hence the line "However, perhaps somewhere deep down there were those who longed for the day the world would turn upside down." During the images where he digs himself out. It would also explain his education level if he's been held somewhere his whole life.

Guwon may be, symbolically not literally, Thanatos, the God of Death. The way that Sisyphus halted death all over the world was by chaining down Thanatos, thus causing everyone to become immortal (for a short time). I think the group essentially 'chained down' Guwon thus creating a fucked up immortal life via the undead. Just as humans fear Death itself it could be that they sense or know Guwon is different and are naturally afraid of him. Guwon is upset when he thinks Jinwoo is afraid of him too and cries.

They created the town in anticipation of some event/to keep their future immortal selves away from the common class perhaps? Obviously this doesn't pan out for them, but it creates the connection between them and Guwon, who immediately goes straight to the town like he already knew it existed possibly because he already knew of the group. When he arrives to the town for the first time it is in disarray like something major happened for them to abandon the town despite it being the safest place.
Some current residents that were original residents are only kept around possibly to keep things running or something. It seems expressly told that they would not keep them otherwise outside of an untold reason.

Other mythological connections:

The punishment for Sisyphus to roll a rock up a hill in Tartarus to only roll back down again: The rock at the top of the mountain that Guwon worries will one day fall and crash into the town.

The town on a steep hill being called Stillwater: Sisyphus betrays Zeus by revealing the whereabouts of a River God's daughter in return for a spring in an acropolis, which is a settlement generally built on a steep hill. Made with the purpose of defence and would house royal/ high-status residents.

The quote "How does it feel to survive and come out the other side of Hell": Reference to Hades/the underworld.

I just read chapter 16 and I can't help but want to yell "STEAKS AREN'T BLOODY!! THEY DO NOT SMELL OF BLOOD!! THAT'S JUST THE PROTEIN MYOGLOBIN!!"

like I could see if he said he had a hard time LOOKING at blood bc Myoglobin gets confused for it, but he distinctly complains about the smell which it would NOT have!!
Ahem anyway back to reading... Lol

Does anyone know the reason the art style changed? Did the artist just burn out or something and they had to get someone new?

GOD IM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS WEBTOON!!!
I love that he bites his neck just like he used to do 11 years ago!!

FINALLY THE TRUTH HAS SET THEM FREE!!!

I think most of us can agree that the little boy MC keeps mentioning is our ML. I think there is even a part where the MC compared the ML to the boy. But then what exactly happened? Why didn't he recognize the MC?

First, go back to Ch 8 to where the ML is on the phone with one of his guys. They infiltrated the lab and looked into the Director's family history, which only came up as having 2 sons. However, ML seemed to be looking for a 'daughter' and is FURIOUS at the suggestion that she could be dead if she even existed at all.

Second, we know for a fact that MC was experimented on as a child by his own father. He had gotten close to a boy who then tragically died and was set free from his own experimentations sometime after the boy died and has been hiding his special abilities ever since.

If we assume the boy is the ML, then we have to take into consideration who it is that the ML is looking for. He seemed to not care about the Director having 2 sons. So the person he got close to was a 'girl' or more precisely someone who LOOKED like a girl and is related to the Director.

What likely happened was the MC had a feminine appearance as a child with long hair. The ML mistook them for a girl. The young ML gets close to the MC and finds out the Director is their father. The ML is experimented on to the point where he dies/almost dies and the MC believes he's dead. But the experiment is a success and the ML lives and gains a dangerous power where he devours things with his energy (as shown in Ch.23). With this experiment successful, he is then used by the Royal Family, but he is using them in turn so he can find the 'girl' he met and probably to destroy their operation.

Meanwhile, the MC is set free with his father thinking he was a failure as an experiment. However, the experiment was successful for the MC as well, making him an S rank Guide AND an A rank Esper with an absorption ability. MC has to keep his abilities hidden so his Father can't find out and continue to use him.

They both grow up into adults, which obviously such a large amount of time makes it hard for anyone to recognize each other, but of course there's more that makes it difficult for them to notice each other. The main character can't recognize the ML because he fully believes he is long dead. And the male lead doesn't recognize the MC because he remembers the person he met as being a 'girl'.

I think now at the most recent chapters the ML is finally connecting the pieces and has hope that the MC is the person he met as a child.

That boy got nothing but air between his ears LMAO

I've been thinking this for a while, but I think (or at least very much hope) that Maythan is the original Maythan. There isn't much to back it up, but they have similiar personalities/attitudes, look the same, and he has a trauma response to a situation that is similar to what happens when he was attacked before losing his memory. Also it feels strange to have that personal connection to Carsen just taken away.

What if he was the OG Maythan and when he had the accident his soul traveled to our universe, lived an entire life without knowing who he was, and then returned to the moment of his accident.
It's clear that Maythan has a special power and I think he himself is the "Fate Stone" and is able to change fate through the knowledge he learned from his other life along with his power.

Now that you know about the uncle doing what he did with the flower:
They uncle was so prolific about it that humans believed that their entire species kidnapped humans and drained their blood onto flowers just to eat the flowers.

Man bless you for updating this I was so sad when it was just forgotten about