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Will there be an option in the future to switch sides and voluntarily join the Dark King? Also, to convince your lover to join you? Perhaps if you accumulate enough corruption points. But the main character should choose this path themselves, not be forced into it. It would be great to take revenge on the city that exiled you. Plus, it would make the story more diverse.
What annoys me is that the MC doesn’t even try to understand the antagonist’s motives. He’s like a mindless puppet handed a sword and told, "YOU’RE the hero, and THAT guy is the embodiment of evil—you MUST kill him!" And so, the hero mindlessly charges in, swinging his sword without asking a single question. What’s worse, the Dark King has reached out to him mentally multiple times. I was hoping for at least some NORMAL conversation with the antagonist, but the protagonist just acts like a brainless child, constantly screaming, "I’m the hero here, and I’ll kill you!" without ever asking a single reasonable question.
It would be interesting to see an alternate version of the story where MC secretly aids the antagonist. If the whole corruption theme is just a lazy setup for a generic "good vs. bad" ending, that would be disappointing—at least for me as a reader.
True. But if I were him, I’d still want to know why this is being done to me - what’s his endgame, and is there any actual benefit for me? The other side’s no better than the Dark King. The city hailed the protagonist as a hero, handed him weapons, and barked orders. Nobody cared that the MC was a complete greenhorn who literally couldn’t do anything. They piled sky-high expectations on him, then when he inevitably screwed up (predictably), they blamed him for everything and exiled him- along with the entire guild, despite their backbreaking work for the city’s sake. After that kind of treatment, you start wondering: why even bother saving this damned city and its people?
Of course, MC was treated well, - all because he had the label *Chosen One of Prophecy* hanging over his head. I’m sure no one would’ve cared about him if he’d just been a nobody. The only person who’s honest with the MC is Alex, who outright says he doesn’t give a damn who the protagonist is, since he doesn’t believe in prophecies. To him, the MC is just an annoyance.
