Personally, what I hate about them is the worldbuilding involved. Yes, they’re a ruler-class, and ruler-classes are typically superior to other classes, but even with Laken’s [Emperor] we saw that such classes have limitations, such as Laken’s senses not working outside his claimed territory. So it stands to reason that Lady/Lord-esque classes would also come with various limitations related to their nature; things like their auras being weaker away from their own lands, or when used against people not their subjects. Or that the same abilities that force others to deal with Ladies with certain levels of courtesy, respect, etc also require the Ladies to extend such a treatment to others.

Yet, there hasn’t really been any sign that such is the case; most of their auras and abilities seem to work just fine hundreds and even thousands of kilometers away from their own lands and territories (Magnolia’s trade war skill aside), and regardless of whether the individual actually behaves like a Lady, rather than a Social Thug.

well, i suppose we wont see the earthers being given the choise to go to wistram, i believe they would tottally welcome that, safety in exchange of freedom.

8?

He did deserve what he got. Not for the actions themselves, but they way he went about those actions.

A couple volumes back, Pisces called him out on this, in regards to his chess magazine. Creating it and sending it out wasn’t really that bad, but he gave exactly zero credit to Erin for any of it. And when he got rewarded for the magazine, he felt he deserved the ring, without any thought at all given to what he might owe Erin.

During the election, siding against giving the Antinium more power was, itself fine. But he didn’t explain his actions to anyone. And he threw a tantrum when everyone was – rightly – calling Lism a bigot. Instead of actually trying to reason with people, and give them information on why letting the Antinium to expand is bad, he went and sided with the xenophobic bigot that all of his friends were in opposition to.

For virtually every thing he complains about, the underlying decisions were understandable. But the methods he chose to use were often stupid and shortsighted, and he made the biggest mistake that gets a lot of people in trouble – he didn’t use his goddamn words and talk to people.

I could totally see Mrsha getting the Lady class one night… And then promptly losing it the next night because she absolutely failed so, so hard at being a proper Lady.

Thinking on it, I wonder if this decision was actually well thought out by the army. Not in terms of politics, but rather whether or not the army wouldn’t just implode, if this plan were to occur.

Liscor’s army is based on the premise of having every citizen as a soldier, with the army itself consisting of mostly officer classes. But without all those citizen soldiers, you couldn’t have all those officers. If Liscor was wiped out by the Antinium… would most of those officers (particularly the lower ranked ones) start losing their classes? Normally you wouldn’t think so, because there are almost always going to be soldiers for replacement. But if the entire city is wiped out, they don’t have that option. And if you have 100 sergeants that have no soldiers enlisted under them, are they actually sergeants?

Even if they didn’t lose them outright, it would devastate all promotions for decades. The army would either slowly dwindle away as people got killed, or grew too old and had to retire, or they’d have to join another city somewhere else – and probably not have nearly as much power over the new city like they do Liscor.

Not exactly a typo, but I’ve noticed this problem on a number of chapters up till now.

When you have multiple intertwining perspectives like in this chapter, you should probably make defined line breaks between perspective switches. You have these breaks between some parts, but not in others.

And in many places, you have one perspective in the middle of a conversation, then have the perspective switch and the first line of the new perspective is someone talking. For example, you’d have Erin and Lyonette talking to each other, then without any kind of break in the text besides the standard space between paragraphs, you have another person talking… only it isn’t Erin or Lyonette, it’s Maviola talking to Olesm.

That sort of switch is incredibly jarring, and it often makes a reading need to go back and reread the sentence because of confusion about who was talking.

More consistent line breaks between switching perspectives would be very helpful.

Geneva was a med student though, not an actual doctor. So it seems reasonable to me that she has most of the book knowledge, but none of the practical knowledge on how to be a good doctor.