I hadn't checked for updates in ages, so naturally I jumped from chapter 20 to 40 to see what's going on and good lord what in the actual f*ck?? Like this guy is beyond creepy. It's far past of the point of an interesting twisted villian. This is just deranged and having him be the biological father is just gross. Like I don't imagine his one sided worship of the mother/ HIS OWN WIFE is new, so then now how terrible is this woman to have married and had a child with this guy? I don't even mind the age gap because that seems silly to be bothered over at this point. But the absolute maniac worship is insane and them actually marrying and having had to do the deed to have a child is far far worse. And then the guy dials it up to 11 but turning into... like I don't even know what. There has to be a word for it. Like we have one for pedophile, what do we call a sicko that tries to kill an unborn child without his wife's consent because he has this disgusting worship obsession with his own wife? Or someone who literally tries to grow his dead wife in a petri dish and implant her with the soul of his own freaking son?? Like what's his plan? To mother the literal clone of his wife (who most likely would be just a different person; gathering her DNA doesn't mean gathering her memories). And this is all only possible because bro stalked the woman, who very understandly ran away from this absolute freak with the king's blessing, even after death and stole her items and started harvesting whatever DNA he could of this literal dead person... WTF? What's even weirder and grosser about all of this is that this absolute sicko of a man has a freaking cult going along with all this.... what??? Ya'll all need serious help. Like serious, serious help.
It wouldn't even be that difficult to make this a much better reveal. Change a few details and you have a tragic story about a man who lost the woman he loves and his unborn child all because he couldn't take her off a pedestal. It could've been tragic and morally grey and actually interesting if they just didn't lean so hard into making this so gross. Also this kinda ruins the premise of this series? Like in the sense of 1) the dad being in this rut and being an awful father... that doesn't work super well when apparently everyone knew the mom was going to die and the dad was like supposed to be super special love story that she escaped a cushy final days life for to have her son somewhere safe (presumably with someone that'd love said son after she died) 2) the whole "super duper special lineage" is just kinda boring; like the MC was already broken beyond belief... we didn't need anything more. And at least the way he was broken was something fun to laugh at. This like an "okay" moment. 3) It feels like all his relatives should've done a much MUCH better job hiding his identity considering all this? Like even if he is kinda already hidden, do a better job... maybe don't publicly register him in a guild. Idk. I guess they thought it was fine at this point?? But that brings me to 4) WTF has this villian been doing for all these years? Like the moment the mom/wife died why not swoop in? The flashback shows he knew before her death. Once the apparently adopted dad was in his depressive state it'd have been easy and the MC wasn't yet OP so like... why wait? Even if the whole revival plan is done, just like lock him in a prison.
This whole sequence just broke me and I haven't read so long I barely remember the characters and story and world.