Oh man, another usless goddess. Why did she think seperatin them was a good idea? If she could send a hero, she could have instructed the priests to seek coexistance.
I might just be misunderstanding the note at the end about the portraits, but my take on the joke about bowing is that those people are on the Yen notes so he is only doing it because he is getting paid for it.
Kind of like the memes about interviewing where they ask why do you want to work...
"I'll remember how you looked after the fight, lol. Also chicken does taste better than dragon so I am canceling the request. You probably couldn't do it anyway. I'm too busy to fight you again so bother someone else, lol. Oh if you got injured from that weak magic I can cover your medical bills...
I think his ability is using magic items. In this story magic items seem to need a certain talent and mental ability to use well and nobady else seems to be able to use as many magic items, or use them as well as Cry can. It's just a talent that would be difficult to identify because you would...
So far everything iin this manga could be countered by the science side, and accelerator and some of the level 5's haven't event reached their full power yet.
Fun Fact, the world actually is full of malice and conspiracies. The good news is that most of them won't affect the average person. If you aren't a C-suite executive or higher then you can probably rest easy.