I don't understand why Yuder is so surprised over the Red Stone awakening people. Isn't it obvious? There's no awakened people. The Red Stone cometh. There's awakened people. How is this hard to understand? It's been two years - how dumb are their military/analysts? Every scrap of information should have been collected before this. I just.. I don't get it.
Some explanation gets skipped over compared to the novel. The Red Stone in past life was something Yuder never got in contact with and it was shrouded in mystery, the relevant research was handled by Kishar, who did not divulge this information to Yuder as their relationship was different compared to now. Kishar was dying and made Yuder Commander without telling him anything of behind the scenes.
Basically at that time, there was a bunch of other things happening, the red stone was a background kind of thing at the time, and Yuder was focused on not dying, being a commander, and "trying to stop the end of the whole" while the Corrupt crown prince/king (not Kishar's brother) kept sending him on missions and conquests constantly.
In the current life, the red stone is when Yuder discovers there's a different kind of energy(?) powers thing. It's explained in the novel, and he had to reach a balance between his original powers and the red stone. (The whole saga where he nearly dies from overusing powers from red stone.)
Plus as said before, the red stone was something nobody could directly approach, and even Yuder got marked/infected with the raw energy from the stone when they went to contain it.
The powers from close contact w the red stone is like kinda different and much more powerful.
Rmbr how nobody was able to get the red stone for like 2 years? they were wary and confused since other people in the past tried to obtain it, like in novel "stronger their powers, the stronger the backlash from the red stone." Ppl would faint, bleed, etc, so nobody could capture that stone, only Kishar and Yuder have. (If I rmbr correctly, I haven't caught up on the novel in a while) I think originally they knew it was a foreign/alien object but thought more along the lines of it being unrelated and possibly antimatter to powers. I'm pretty sure like any of the other subordinate on the team would've died or have their powers rupture them from inside if they made direct contact with the stone.
plus a few things come off a bit differently from the novel, just as they skipped some explanation from novel.
Well. If this never updates I won't be upset. The premise was good - but the story just became meh.
There were some lovely comedic moments - talking about sex at the dinner table, auditors popping out of walls.
But... There was also a lack of emotions? Or they were setting her up as the oblivious/airhead/too nice for her own good? Everything became such a farce.
Frederica/FL calmly retelling her rape and how it was a "kindness" and then giggling the next day all - how sweet of the ML to get angry about that, gosh I wonder why he did that.
Me: (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Then there's also the - ML -- I wanted to marry you! But why... What was his actual reason for it?? You're a goddamn noble - you couldn't have made the effort to meet your fiancée before the wedding day? Just show up to her work! Organise a dinner with her. Argggghh.
And I'm still irritated that the FL slapped the ML. You're a healer! And you're hitting him?
Argh. WTH. I'm actually infuriated. Look at this chapter - Sehyuk is definitely a dick but he is sweet on Hamin, and Hamin is into it. So why... Why the hell was the first side story grape?!?! What alternative world have I entered? Why couldn't we have had this all along?
And no one say that's just Sehyuk's character - because that guy already said that forcing Hamin is no better than masturbation... (Ch 15). Arghhhh where did all the character development go! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Probably going to be completely wrong but it feels like one of the themes is.. (and the word has gone completely out of my brain) deception? Nothing is what it seems?
The Imae (collectively) are treated as monsters when they're not. We don't actually know who killed his mother (especially since she died after saying she was going to name him - unlucky or a cover-up?).
I'm suspicious as hell that there's no actual 'toxin' and that the Imae (elders?) killed his father. That this idea of a toxin is used to keep humans and Imae apart. Hence the elder saying that it'll take longer than 2 months to kill him. ...
I thought (when I saw the cover / title) that this was a remake of Mission: Save the hunter. It's very much not. But I'm so so glad that I clicked through to it in confusion because. YES. Give me all the (actually I'm super powerful) hidden identities.