Responses
It feels like life though? Things don't get resolved and you just move on to more pressing matters...with topics ressurfacing from time to time. But you are right nothing gets even a bit resolved. The topics like the priests relationship with faith and solitude, the duke finding out Areum is from another world, etc..all are presented and dropped. the chapter ends before any kind of resolution. It feels like the first chapters of an undeveloped arc.
The side-stories (which let's be real aren't side-stories but a continuation of the plot) have really ruined this. The author jumps from one topic to the next via time skips, and doesn't give us any conclusions to the problems that arise. This story had so much potential, but seems to be constantly wasted.