I love these kinds of chapters, Van is completely clueless about himself, Darcia only sees him as her son, the ghosts and subordinates only want to be useful to Van. Fang is the only one confused by all of this. Fang is the best boi. That having been said, this chapter was extremely well timed I'm currently quarantined in Wuhan china and this moment of levity was awesome. Keep up the fantastic work.
Aggar is constantly spinning the wheel of misfortune and yet he survives because Van has basic common sense. We should really make a Death pool to bet what grimm fate will befell him.
so many funny things in a chapter, They are being confused with a cadever, one more to the list of non-human things with what our emperor has been confused, Darcia mentioning that for her Aggar is the equivalent of a mosquito, Aggar himself trying to to discredit vandeliu saying that he uses street dog meat in a low-alley alley where goblins and kobolds ears are usually cooked, which, without specific herbs, are supposed to be inedible. I like Fang, it is very interesting to see the perspective of a vandeliu mascot that has reason and common sense before Van has transformed them into mythical monsters. feliz cumpleaños en spanish @Narr-master
WOW!!! I just caught a line I had missed before with this chapter since it's translated now. So, it says Alda is trying to use Van being a threat to the world as a PRETEXT to eliminate him... as in, he realizes that Van is not actually a threat to the survival of the human race, but rather he's only a threat to Alda's vision of the world... wow. That one little line is far more deep and disturbingly reffeential to modern day politics than anything else in this series, save maybe for the implication that incompetence (a-la rodiot) is a far greater threat than malice or even ideological demagoguery could ever possibly be. BTW: Spoiler: countdown 15
Yet the entire thing is par for the course for Alda. Everything has always been about his ideal world, not its or humanities survival.
Well until they attacked him, putting them firmly in the enemy category, Van's threat was the same as Zakkart's, cultural progress. This would have been enough for the Alda and Bellwood factions, since Order cannot permit anything to change from the way god has decided it needs to be, but would not have gotten approval from the other gods. Though now I wonder if there would be some impenetrable swamp, or another barrier mountain range, if it was decided that Alda had gone rogue....
Yeah, IF. A lot of the others are still backing him, the ones that are awake anyways, so these aren't rogue actions, yet. Seriously though, he doesn't have any endangered people to protect, and isn't very creative, would he make a Barrier-like natural structure, or would he just build up a single massive mountain as a monument to his greatness and hide under it?
But none of his backers are greater gods, but toadies sucking up to his "greatness", and every somewhat active greater god (as Time, Space, Fire and Vida are all somewhat active) seems to be against his actions, to at least thinking he is making to many mistakes. When the 2 remaining greater gods revive, do you really think they will be happy he delayed their revival by tens of millennia so he could keep the world from healing and developing like it was supposed to. Alda is deliberately keeping the population small, when it should be much larger limiting the total faith to fuel their recovery. Demanding people worship him as the primary and greatest god, effectively stealing what little faith and worship is left that should go to them for himself. not really doing anything to heal the wounds left from left from the Demon King invasion, look at the forest the Ghouls lived in at the start, it was there for centuries probably millennia and left untouched and uncleared. No effort was put into reclaiming the land and they just left it to build up, until something happened that upset the balance there. If Alda was doing what he claims is his job there not be a single devils nest left in the Amid empire, or any area his church has had centuries to flourish.
It's still not as obviously out of order, as what Vida did, and they needed brainwashing (it seems) to get the other gods on board with the attack on her. Until the others are released from their seals, we can't call him a Rogue God yet...or until the others learn that he let Rodiot pour Demon King spores all over Edgar's fractured soul....