He does. He's already received valuable training and a spatial ring. He just can't decide what to keep on his own. Here's an analogy for you: Imagine you had a goldmining company. You hire workers to mine gold for you. You train them, equip them and you pay them an agreed upon wage in return for their work. That's the deal. If one of the workers found a hump of gold and just took it for himself, that would be stealing.

Yeah, I know about the in-universe explanation. Doesn't make the premise any better in my opinion, so I dropped this novel long ago. Thanks though.

Reminds me of the quote from Terry Pratchett: "Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."

Naming a five man group a legion.. This prince seems to have pretty severe delusions of grandeur.

To me, this novel is the equivalent of an ice cream dropped in the dirt. It had the potential to be good, but now it's just ruined. Hope you'll continue enjoying it though.

*Sigh* That's the last paragraph I'll read. This "romance" just ruins the whole story for me.

He doesn't like to be low profile. 😂

Once again Aina is the only one getting anything out of this. Her father tries to kill Leonel for rejecting her, which he had every right to do. And despite interfering in the tournament and trying to kill her son, Leonels mother just let's him go. Simping for Aina just because she cried a little bit. Leonel gives up his benefits, once again putting the convenience of this selfish woman above his own ambitions, the security of his people and his own self-respect.

We clearly have very different fundamental views on this whole affair, so I'll not waste any more of your time with further discussions.

I have no idea how you're thinking here. If she wasn't to blame we wouldn't even have this situation to begin with. She chose to let Leonel (and Savahn, for that matter) face the descent without preparation. Her choice to not inform them put them at higher risk of death. So what if they didn't believe her? You wouldn't risk embarrassing yourself if it could save someone you cared about? If she wanted she would have found a way to make it believable. She had the opportunity to take of her mask and show her curse, show off her superhuman strength, her magical axe or ask Yuri to corroborate her story just for starters. She just didn't care enough. Granted, they weren't that close back then, so this might still be forgivable on Leonels part. But Savahn was her only friend for four years, and Aina just let her face the apocalypse unprepared. After the descent she just keeps lying, hiding things and using leonel for her own purposes. He follows her around like a stray puppy, doing everything in his power to support her and keep her safe. At valiant heart she just sits in her room for two months ignoring his messages before she even bothers to see how he's doing. And at the tournament when he is hunted by his enemies and is depending on her to keep his friends safe until he can meet up, she just takes of to focus on her revenge. Not a day wasted to make sure he's alright. No message. Nothing. Why would an apology and some crying be enough for him to take her back?

He forced her to never mention anything about the dimensional decent? He forced her to leave him stranded on a planet full of milky way guild members trying to kill him? Really? Nah. She treated him like trash from the very beginning, and then she betrayed his trust. Now he's supposed to just forgive her? Why?

Why? She betrayed his trust and left him for dead. Left him for dead, TWICE.

Nothing.

Yeah, there is so much wasted text. Everytime a woman is introduced we get half a chapter dedicated to explaining how outrageously beautiful they are. The constant head hopping and peanut gallery also wastes a lot of text. And the world building is just ridiculous at this point. I really appreciate good world building usually, but this is way too much. We don't need to know the backstory of every rock in the universe.

I'm considering dropping this at the end of the month. This story feels like it's going absolutely nowhere. There hasn't been any meaningful development for ages, and now we've wasted more than 40 chapters on a meeting about who has the qualifications for some meaningless title. I miss the early days where there was actually progression in the story. This just feels like a waste of time.

I hope Leonel actually moves on and finds someone better. Aina never respected him anyway, just used him as long as it was convenient for her. Let her get her revenge on her family and then live in eternal regret when she realise Leonel left her in his dust to go rule the universe. Anyways. Thanks for the chapters, and enjoy your birthday! 🎂

Nice to see things moving somewhat smoothly for Ruy for once. It makes me feel apprehensive about the coming chapters though. 😅