I guess I am not the only one thinking this has become more and more awful. Not in the genre-way but in the story-, and character kind of way. Both have derailed, even though this plays in a world with magic, magic is barely a thing, just something in the background. The focus is thus on the characters. But... considering how chinese this is. Meaning generic, cliche and simply badly written I decided to finally drop this. Honestly the only redeeming point, and also the reason I kept on reading was the art. I mean the art is pretty good. But it can't rescue every single mistake, not if the story+characters are thaaat bad.
The reason the story is that bad is simply because of the racism, slavery and injustice. While this can be just thrown into a pile and told, it is that way because it is medieval and story reasons. That isn't the only thing bothering me. The king was a slave himself, sure even in old rome abolishing slavery wasn't in anyones mind because it was that natural.
BUT considering how a LITERAL SLAVE became a king. And didn't do anything against slavery, which hasn't happened in our history if I can remember correctly. Then there really is no excuse for his 'bad behaviour'.
Of course this can be explained as him not having any power in that way because of the other nobles and him thus being powerless. BUT considering how he was once a slave himself, he could start a rebellion kind of thing against all pro-slave nobles.
Sorry for rambling, but considering what kind of story this is with all the hate inside the story, it really bothers me how badly it is written. Even though this is character centered it is still so boring and illogical.
-rambling+comment end.