Southpaw97

Kuro? That's a weird one. The victims are starting to be pretty random but some (all maybe?) vaguely connected to Ludwig. Maybe its a race characteristic gone insane that has to do with blood? Vampire?

Lol, I love it. Efficient,Pragmatic, Absolute. The end goal is what matters. So many animes,light novels, and other stories where the MC would willingly disadvantage himself to fight "fair." If it was about honor, then sure, but you're trying to win. You give the enemy an inch, and they will take a mile, especially in the black tower.

RIP Vini. So this portion is a king of the hill basically? And as long as one person from the team is standing they all win? I wonder is his shadow manipulation extends to controlling other people from their shadows? Either way he should be a tough opponent but there's got to be a timer on his ability to stay in the shadows. We don't know much about him so it's hard to say if Ludwig win outright but this fight will hing on if shadow boy is able to stay a shadow and not go head to head.

It's probably the best choice, honestly. A Saint is already rare, but a Saint Commander increases the rarity several fold. Maybe there might be another like her in the Red Ocean but finding a more senior Saint with a similar skill set would be hard to come by and might not be super beneficial since commanders have their own styles. On the other hand, first rater where mentioned a long time ago that Goldie wouldn't be as powerful to really wow a first rater as much as a second or third rater. Stuff lile a terran vs Rubarthen is still present, just like talking about the new AI approaches. Casella would do a much needed job gluing and giving the premier branch of assimilating them with the rest of the larkinsons and try to bridge the massive class divide that so ingrained in their society.

Thinking that some races have strategic advantages based on their characteristics, like Undead with unlimited stamina being OP in a game of tag. iT makes me wonder what other races are present in students. I mean, if there are teachers being other races, i dont see why other students have to be human, though it's probably the vast majority of students. I'm curious on if there's students are succubi, probably that chick who is good at charm magic.And ludwigs teammate whos seem to be able to change into other animals. Is it Teifling or something, maybe? They would have a very distinct advantage in certain challenges. If there was a Dragonoid race, that's who I would be. Serpentine eyes,scales, or a patchwork of scales mixed with skin, with wings. No doubt that there would be more various races in a dark acedemy and tower than the white tower. Also, about these events, if I understand right, each grades events are going on simultaneously? Since ludwigs teammates are other grades, I forget what grades they are, but I guessing depending on what score they individually get combines into a group score and then goes to group events?

If they aren't against each other then why did she hurt Fred with the whole fairy princess thing. That doesn't make sense. And it was never established before the they would be acting. The reader has no understanding of the characters or the world enough to know if things are an act. All I know is that she could be like the crazy blood chick with 2 personalities. If it was an act you could have shown that through telling eyes gesture or telepathic connection to communicate. Like the Dad is from the readers point of view seriously suffering his lack of weakness because of nebulous reasons.

So your not going to at least explain or point me in the right direction, which chapter to explain any of the questions i raised? I genuinely confused. I'm not trying to make you defensive. I'm just trying to understand your story.

Reading the end of the arc does not answer the questions though. It actually raises more. Why on earth would there be a limit to the strength of the person who can go through the portal but not limit the strengths of the monsters to a more reasonable level? Why not teachers? Or the mom herself since she controls space right?

Well if you look at the amount of time we have seen the mom, it's just her fussing about the son and being over protective. That's fine but why is the husband and wife on opposite sides? Why can't they talk it out like normal people like they did in the very brief discussion in the first few chapters? There so much focus spent on the mom being overprotective for some reason that the Dad is sidelined so hard that we never see him until he's randomly lamenting over an issue we know nothing about.

Maybe yes its obviously for the trope but if you wanted to kids to die, why not explain why the safety measures conveniently didn't work at the specific boss? Why not left them live so you could have more of a growth arc for the noble kid to show that using people as pawns has consequences rather just him be a rat and roach out? Not to mention, having kids die in a kingdom run institution is a major scandal no? That would be a tragedy.