I don't get it this manga.. like it's trying way too hard to make every single situation extremely complex in order to frame the MC as the master manipulator and strategist but in my point of in view this is just like Kiyotaka Ayanokōji tbh.. well its a lot better but still, it exaggerates and drags the plot just to put the MC in a pedestal. I mean you could just easily make a animal familiar in order to gather information on both of the kingdoms since you received the power of the three spirits/gods. Even if the kingdom of Daba prohibits magic it's not like the clay insects would disappear and it only would affect the use inside it. Or maybe that's just me thinking way too much instead of just shutting my brain off for these types of stories. And with that you could easily plan, strategize and manipulate a way better scenario to your whims rather than sacrificing your step-sister when you KNEW that she was way too kind for her own good, as seen previously with the pig investor in the early chapters.
For the entire week that he disappeared she could easily be raped multiple times even if that didnt include penetrative sex. I mean that's just not realistic no? As a king that is known for following the Law of the Jungle and is depicted of having a harem in its first appeareance and EVEN demanding that you receive a otherworlder as a wife in order to accept the peace treaty. And after all of that you just accept that there is always a situation cockblocking you and not being suspicious in the slight?
Not only that the mc didn't managed to get a single information at all when the pig was in the prison because you fully went into the enemy kingdom with no information whatsoever. So really what are you even trying to build up with the main character when you just keep making holes into the story in order for the world to revolve around him. I guess "Contrived" is a good word to describe it. Okay I'll stop the rant and probably just drop the manga. (That's what I get for searching harem with no slice of life ig..)