The Skeleton Soldier Failed to Defend the Dungeon - Vol. 5 Ch. 296

[MangaDex]

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

I feel like we took a long detour to reach the same point.

 

[screamdoom]

I feel like we took a long detour to reach the same point.

Hopefully with different conclusion.

 

[djtws4e]

go skelly-bro, you got this

 

[Atmosk]

All the elven royalty are blonde? No wonder they are going extinct.

 

[nobody2002]

Talk about a very convoluted story. lol

 

[SunSerega]

I feel like we took a long detour to reach the same point.

Isn't that, like, what whole story here about? Failing, powering up, getting further before failing again, and so on.
A very basic formula, not enough to make a masterpiece, but It's the kind of thing I enjoy in the background for many years already.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Isn't that, like, what whole story here about? Failing, powering up, getting further before failing again, and so on.
A very basic formula, not enough to make a masterpiece, but It's the kind of thing I enjoy in the background for many years already.

I was talking more about the meta plot, factually between the previous arc and now, he's kinda at the same place.

 

[Unisime]

I was talking more about the meta plot, factually between the previous arc and now, he's kinda at the same place.

Yup, I don’t really get what we got from the Ember arc

 

[Runic_Rain]

(Meta Plot in broad strokes)
Castle Questline:

• A lot. Really. Also specifically that this is a "Bubble World"
• Ashton is deeply tied to our hero and this questline.
• Human Organization structure. Mentions of Demons.
• There's the "Admins" and they can delete. (led to believe broadly "anomalies", but this gets narrowed in Ember)
• You can transfer knowledge an Lu-lium across retries.
• Game Over (currently)

Demon Questline:

• The early world was cataclysmic and Lu-lium is not the only ancient superpower.
• Ashton is involved with the entire world and not just Castle Questline
• Demon Organization structure. Mentions of East.
• The rift (I think that got hinted as being related to Admins? Did I read into that? Idr)
• You can transfer ancient superpowers across retries.
• "Completed" (currently)

Ember Questline:

• Ashton was incorporeal in the East somewhen (and generally slowly advancing the overall Ashton meta plot)
• You can rely on other people to get things done quicker.
• Getting things done quicker means you can do more quests within a questline.
• Admins can descend into people
• Hints that this world is scripted/clockwork and the Admins do what they do b/c they want some aspect to stay "the way it is" (what aspect is mysterious, since they also keep changing things)
• You can transfer Titles across retries
• Game Over (currently)

East Questline:

• Ember taught him he needs to stack the deck rather than react or rely on luck. So that's what he's doing so far.
• Admins must have some descension criteria/restrictions (or Gilles would've been an obvious easy pick, since they know)
• In Progress (currently)

Personal growth and the new titles are the biggest Ember gains imo.