Chapter 60

So...he can get resistance skills right? Why not do it?

Boredwayfarer

I don't think this is depravity (at least not more depraved than the empire), it simply is hate. If a nation hates a group of people and kills/enslaves them, then it is no wonder that they would kill too. But aside from that I agree with you when it comes to the children. (You need to consider that the Empire killed/enslaved the children most likely too)

Oliverthms

I reread this chapter again and there is something very disturbing. Lilly swore to kill all humans in the Empire and at the end of the story it was implied she would have murdered the entire village if she could have if not for the garrison. With the years they spent traveling about the Empire this implies she was responsible for a number of massacres. If this story was written as high fantasy like Lord of the Rings, this could be excused as a bit of backstory, but a rational story like this implies a deeper consideration. With how the Empire is set up this was clearly not the first Cervidian imprisoned or being mistreated in the Empire, which also implies that it wasn't the first time Lilly was driven to kill everyone. Normally this would be taken as hyperbole, but it was made quite clear that see viewed all humans in the same negative light and it took Tallheart a long while to convince her otherwise. Also this is Tallheart telling the story, which would imply he would put his wife in the most favorable light. All this supporting information leads to one question. How many babies and children did she kill and how did she do it? You have to figure not every town had a garrison and eventually she would be powerful enough to get around some garrisons, especially with the items Tallheart made. Even if the Empire is filled with a bunch of super Nazis, wanting to kill the children and babies would never have been a consideration to any civilized being with any kind of moral center. Targeting military sights, then factories, then workers, sure, but going out of the way to murder civilian children...... To think that Lilly and Tallheart did otherwise is glossing over the depth of their hatred and their depravity. If you want to make the argument civilian children and babies born in the Empire are legitimate targets, go right ahead. While they might change their minds latter on as Tallheart stated, this would take a long time, implying many massacres in the meantime. Also remember this isn't like WW2, with bombings. Lilly had to get up close with each person she killed. So while the Empire clearly isn't a beacon of moral goodness, Lilly definitely is also at the extreme end with the Empire or further beyond. Be curious if Rain realizes he is sitting with a mass child and baby murderer, aka a murder hobo in Tallheart.

RanaSuilep

Maybe? I'm all for HEA but I think that if his wife showed up now it would basically wreck all the character development so far. Could be a plotpoint for the future tho

L Pedersen

If Tallheart's story is complete, then does that mean it is possible that his wife/mate is still alive?

Corwin Amber

No it all seems to check out once I thought about it, I posted the comment mostly for others with similar thoughts. It's just something that Rain will have to deal with sooner rather than later since he's grown so much in offensive power that he now uses his modifiers to diminish his output instead of increasing it because he quite literally cannot stand the heat. Honestly Shear should solve his problems, I don't think it would interact with the air in in a way harmfull to Rain. Other solid objects I don't know about. Also I'd forgotten about mage burn, which chapter was it that Jamus explained that in? Edit: It looks like patreon ate a comment again so now it looks like I responded to myself. Sigh.

L Pedersen

I think we need a ruling on how Rains offensive auras work. In the beginning of the story he wasn't affected by his own offensive auras at all, nor were his clothes. We'd see the area around him influenced and we saw with Tallheart that armor blocks the output of the auras. Now ever since he powerleveled his auras and it became appearent that he could wring ridiculous damage out of them that they've started harming himself and his clothes/gear. I think it's supposed to be be indirect damage from physical phenomena instead of direct damage from the auras. My problem with this is that if the auras aren't acting directly on his person or armor then he shouldn't have the issues he's having. Air is a poor conductor or heat and cold and it should take a lot longer for the effect to bother him. I guess if his auras are targeting the "air" around him and heating/cooling it all at the same time then that would make sense but then we've got another issue, Rains armor was glowing during the fight. I don't think it was heated to "red hot" by the hot air because that would be silly and wouldn't explain the blue glow when he switched auras so I can only assume that the glow is his armor dispersing the mana. But why would it if his auras don't affect his own person and gear? I think this my biggest problem with consistancy here. In the other instance where Rain is taking damage from hot or cool air he could solve that by learning how to exclude the air with IFF. I guess all that remains then is the glow to the armor. I think it was mentioned in earlier chapters that his armor wouldn't interfer with his auras in any meaningful way but maybe what we're seeing when the armor was glowing wasn't the armor dispersing harmfull mana but instead just kinda tuning? Reacting? To the aura he was using. But if that's the case then it should also glow when he's using any aura. Seems like I solved my own issues by a little bit of thinking but maybe Rain should investigate this himself. It really shouldn't be an issue to use his nova technique with full modifiers in combat since the air should insulate him as long as the air itself isn't being affected. And the glowing thing while I sure it looks cool and intimidating should also raise warning flags. Wow what a ramble.

L Pedersen

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DominusIgnis

Once he gets his auras to god-tier he could just stand in the center of the empire and hit em with a 1000 mile immolate and burn them all lol

maximum0428

Almost 0 I think

It'sATap

Those 2 chapters were great and really well written. It's nice to see the plot moving along also. I was expecting something like this for Lily but it's still sad. More and more the Empire seems to build to be the big bad guy. Hopefully Rain can kick their ass in the future

CentaureHeart

Good point.

HenryMorgan

this , this is genius!

So, what are the chances that Lily survived the dragon?

Johann Franz

I've been thinking, could Rain add the air and his armour etc to the whitelist for his attack skills. If he could just set the IFF for his attack skills to Whitelist: Everything not on Blacklist, then just adds enemies as he sees/detects them to the Blacklist with a thought, BAM problem solved.

Joshua Little

A person sitting down to tell the story of a list love isn't going to go into the context of an ongoing war and the reason for the hunting of his species.

Alex C

Bah screw that! Authors who focus on describing things go the way of the wuxia retard way too quick. Reasoning, thought and emotion are way more important than how fast some nerd can swing his sword and how the air trembled in its wake like a singing swallow wanting to usurp the heavens.

It'sATap

And I am talking about her overall character and her interaction with rain

I don't know but Amelia sounds too modern like she is from America, I mean the way she speaks Is too good for this world. I have seen people in africa and Asia and they usually don't give dame about this little details even in east Europe. I don't want be offensive but she sounds like a liberal snowflake instead of person who grow up in a tough neighborhood from young age

Sadly, I stared at the description for a full thirty seconds before realizing that it's art and not some kind of secret message or error. Makes more sense after reading the chapter title.

11037

There is so much context missing from that story it was painful. What are antlers used for? How did Cervidians come about, a wizard/god some kind of evolution? For all we know they could be the product of monsters raping humans, which would explain the hate. Why do peasants hate the Cervidians even coming up with slang about them? I get soldiers, but there seems to be a burning hate from common folk. The fact it is hate not apathy implies that the Cervidians might not be as nice as one would think. Honestly this chapter would have been better after getting context for the conflict, as it stands it came across as very heavy handed as Empire bad, Cervidians freedom fighters. Just that one persons freedom fighter is another persons terrorist. Regardless with the level of hate shown in this side story the only peace will come from a mountain of corpses.

RanaSuilep

The feels

PloofDoodle

Cool sorry bro, just the right amount of dragons. Thanks for the chapter.

Joshua Little

Possibly one of your best chapters so far (maybe only surpassed by the falling off the cliff and Amelia trying to save them chapter) imo. Great world building and character development and really well written. 5/5. Keep up the awesome work m8.

ZaA

I think those thought bubbles the characters have are wholy unnecessary. They break up the story and are hard or annoying to read, I love your story though and would love to see you go away from the thought bubbles and more towards the environment and combat. You should do some research into writing to help broaden your scope and become a better writing and help your story flow smoother. Your doing a great job with the characters and story and I'm excited to see what you bring to the table next.

The Golem Crafter

DUST COME BACK

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