This is where it gets f*cking ret*rded. She assassinates imperial squads, targets key characters multiple times and pretty much everyone hates her. She is doing this on battlefields and close to those. Wouldn't be an issue if it was a secret. But it isn't. Everyone and their f*cking grandmom knows what she is doing. By all sane standards this is high treason, which by standards of this world would end in summary execution and any affiliated faction would drop her like a hot potato. But nope... of course she gets protected, moves faster due to instinct (WTF???) and in general doesn't make sense. At all. The fact that she isn't hunted down like the mad dog she is... dafuq.

This is one of the two main reasons for the bad rating. The empire is fighting a war against 4 factions that are more powerful than itself. They should not have the time and resources to waste to f*ck up each other. But they do. On an insane scale. At this point the supposed allies in your back are a bigger issue than the enemy at the front. Times two. They are assassinating potential (and almost certain) future heavenly monarchs, which by themselves can basically win a war. Reasoning? One great clan should not have more than the others. Now, find a Laplace dice (or any normal dice will do, really) and throw it 6 times. The average is a perfect flush. How often do you get it? Go figure the rest on your own.

The Bai clan gets a special mention here because they are that s*upid and obnoxious. c*ckroach escapes after attempted assassination of the MC and his group of friends. Now, what do you do in this case as the MC? You go ahead and try to squash the assassin. She runs to a Bai clan fortress and Bai Atou, a young genius of that clan, attempts to kill them all. When the Zhao clan (MC's family) comes back for justified revenge prince greentard, a heavenly monarch, protects the clan, stating that this will be sorted out later. Now, if I was any faction not named Bai I would immediately retreat from the combat zone. It was previously stated that these youngsters are a clans future, and thus nearly invaluable to them. Cue one clan assassinating almost all of yours. And then they get protected by the local supreme commander. Would you fight, knowing that your own allies want you dead? No. Why are they doing it? Because it doesn't make sense and they are all dumb f*cks. Especially prince greensun.

So, the MC is in a self caused coma, and he did a f*cking good job. Instead of trying to get the young hero back to health the clan has to assemble large swaths of its forces to prevent assassination... from his supposed allies. Why are people fighting for this garbage again? I don't know. A certain elder of a certain clan even kills the messenger who demands that the reward the MC earned himself properly previously is handed out now that he has need for it. Why? Because a mysterious faction within the empire promises him backup. Against one of the greatest powers in the empire.

Follwing this the female lead goes on a dangerous mission to get her husbando the only cure that works on him. Which is deep in the vampire territory. Plan suceeds until the end where it gets f*cked up by imperial forces which kill dozens of the empires loyal men and the caputure her. As a hostage. What do you do with hostages? You make sure they arrive more or less undamaged. They are used for trades after all. Why does this ret*rd do it? Because he needs to become a heavenly monarch for the position of marshal (instead of promoting an actually capable strategist to the position as all the monarchs we have seen so far are utterly incompetent). So he intends to do so by blackmailing the Zhao clan into giving him the art the MC cultivates. Lul. This would make him a direct enemy of two future monarchs. So, what do you do with hostages in this case? Deliver them unharmed so the trade isnt implicated? Eh, how about torturing them until their very soul sustains heavy damage and they fall into a coma?

Afterwards the MC goes to the military base to get his waifu back. And this time it is treason and people actually give a f*ck. LMAO. Treason has been constant in the last arc, and some of them were worse than what he did and done by person with not even a third of his merit. But hey, whatever is plot convenient, riiiiight?

First off, the romance. I so wish it didn't exist. So so much. Because it shouldn't. It has no reason to exist. It is not even the terrible type of lustful romance. It is just... Filler.

And the MC character. It is not changing. It is just not being handled properly. A girl tries to kill him, and he let's let live. And this happens again. And once f*cking again! It is like a c*ckroach character, and this is bad simply because the writer has no reason to let her live.

The idea of putting a group of ppl (especially children) in a closed area and having them fight for their lives is something I can't get a liking for... The fact that I first tried this alongside The Charm of Soul Pets probably didn't help either...

At the start of the novel, the MC lives in a tr*sh dump where food is scarce and even kids can kill for food. The MC finds some bread and hides, but a girl finds him and he out of compassion or kindness gives her a piece of the bread. The girl sells his location out to other kids for more of the MC's bread and takes part in brutalizing him. As the kids are on the verge of killing him a talent seeker of sorts saves the MC and gives him the chance to kill the girl.

Okay... he ends up not killing the girl and I can think of two reasons for it.

1.A continuation of his compassion from before. His home is a kid eat kid world, and MC may think that the kids' actions are normal and now that the MC is being taken away from this hell he might as well give this girl a chance to live.

2. The more likely reason is that the MC thought that showing compassion would make the talent seeker think higher upon him, since it would differentiate himself from the other denizens of the dump in what a young kid might regard as a positive way.

Another comment talked about how the MC followed orders blindly- like a soldier. Because... the MC... was a soldier at that point. Soldiers follow orders. Soldiers that don't follow orders are usually dead or traitors. Is being a soldier not enough of a reason for the MC to follow orders? Because the entire first arc revolves how the MC learns the hard way to follow orders by the letter.

Yet another comment regarded the killings of potentially innocent civilians in a vampire infested area as evil. The story clearly has a few paragraphs that actually give the reason for destroying cities that have had contact with vampires... vampires can blend into human society and some are virtually indistinguishable from humans. While it seems to be a crude solution, destroying an entire city to prevent a vampire outbreak has reasoning behind it.