If you see the vibe from manga. They dont really show the gore where organs flow out of body. They just show from Pauliana perspective of how women got treated and what people thinks of her. Also, from The Emperor perspective here and there.
They may compensation the fallen soldier.
Also, the reason author put 'Conquering all continent' just to develop Pauliana character, make readers mad and pity fod Pauliana, to make ML, The Emperor appeared and how he fell in love with her while she just dense af.
the war's going to go on for quite a bit longer, but each battle with a different flavor. It won't all just be rushing in to conquer either. As for Bebarou, I think there was something about tactical advantages or something? I'm not entirely sure what happens tbh. I'm not sure why he wants to unite the south, but then I'm also not sure what Alexander the Great wanted to do conquering a good chunk of eurasia. Honestly, there's the whole wealth bonus and all but once a nation grows too large, the outer territories tend to have weaker ties with its ruling enter and they pretty much end up doing their own thing, at least from what I can tell from history.
The only reason the emperor got paul on his side was cuz her own country managed to somehow treat her worse than dirt.
Well I think it's one of the problems of the author, he does not put much in romance neither in the war and politics. Any ten year war is exhausting If not well organized and your empire isn't strong enough to put up with the fees of war.
But as in favour of Lucius, he goes with the basic plan of any conqueror 'Not only I will have more resources but with unification I will make peace' like the Roman Empire in his Principate era ('Pax Romana'). Peace is just havign the bigger stick, such is the bloody history of humanity. It is said in the manwha that Lucius does the conquest for the useless wars and poverty of the continent, he could stop in the middle of the continent (It will be the more thoughful ntl) but...remember the reunion before the war with Ehas? Lucius broke many laws of war for his goal. And after that incident he learns that he can't win peacefully even If we want to, people who are in the power will equally fight (as Bebarou). He could wait that the people attack him or attack first knowing his goal. Bebarou was just a tragedy of war, history is always bloody. Still with the south he just throw out the leaders and make pacts with nobles.
As the question of moral of the characters; Paulina is a battle-hardened soldier, not a philanthropist (Personal opinion). When she heard that Lucius wanted to conquer the continent and tell her to join, she didn't think in the lives of others. She though in her own life and that Lucius had show her he was whort to follow (He ambush in the right time knowing the annual war between the countries). Is Paulina a monster? Nope, she is cinic. She knows what it entitles war and choose follow Lucius anyaway becuase she was trapped in a country who was continuously and If Lucius said he conquer all the countries to stop, she's in. It's more easy to not do 'moral judgement' when Lucius is not specially bloody neither a dictator; he is when he needs to but not becuase he wants to show power (like a lot of other manwhas).
For the last comment, Paulina was treat like a dirt in her country like it said in one of the comment before (lol) even though her clear talent. Lucius was intelligente and give her a position (A title to reborn!) she deserve it and is a great boss overall who has a clear goal. He was going to kill her but when he see his work and ask her to work for him, aknowledging her and his talent as a soldier even being a foreign, Paulina of course says yes. Because for the first time in her life someone gave her a reason to live.
I see. Thank you for answering. And I know the reason he got her loyalty was because she was never treated with the respect she deserved to the point that her standards for that dropped really low. That’s why I’m mad lol. If you really think about he didn’t do anything but state facts.
I’m more interested in the character dev of the fl and what she ends up doing than I am in the romance so I don’t really mind the lack of romance tbh which is why the characters values are very important. I want to like the characters so I really don’t want them to be those characters that become blind to the consequences of their actions to favour their believe that only those actions can save the world. And I don’t really think you have to be a philanthropist to be aware of that. I’ve read stories (mostly novels though) we’re characters are met with the similar circumstances (albeit not necessarily conquering a continent) and at least they were conscious of the effects of their actions. I’ve said it before but I know that there are stories out there that deal with ‘conquering’ and people out there that enjoy those stories but I’m just not one of them and I don’t think I wanna read this if ‘conquering’ the continent is a major part of the plot and the characters continue to be ignorant about their actions and it’s consequences. And I’m not going to even get started with emperor blondie and he’s saviour complex (personal opinion).
In terms of Pauliana following emperor blondie to stop the war,(and I mentioned this in my first post) that should have been achieved with Ehas and Cukda. We have no idea whether conquering Bebarou was something necessary. At the chapter I’m in, I haven’t seen enough or any part of Bebarou to know whether or not it has any issues or whether it would become a threat to them in the future. All that was shown is their failure to cross the sea and attack it (even though Bebarou did nothing to provoke them) which was painted in a negative light. I definitely did not like that. Which was why I was wondering if there will be similar instances in the future where this happens and the manga still paints their successes in a positive light.
Thank you for answering though.
Don't mentioning! Is fun reading people talking about the other topics of the novel! But like a said, the novel is not highly belic so It lacks in some aspects, so of course it will lack in the simpaty of the enemie and the horrors of the war. So, yeah, the novel will put most of the time in positive light the war of Lucius.
Lucius shows he is aware of the lives lost in his conquest, but mostly of his own men have to be told, and askings himself If it is whort it so much war but as someone who believes he is doing good for the people, still persues his goal. The novel makes the enemies villains or people who will bend to Lucius to form part of his growing empire, showing he is doing a great impact though at the same time the novel does not shy to say that Lucius is still doing not very moral things.
About the topic of Paulina, maybe philanthropist was not the right term but still I don't think she is such a moral person. She, of course, pursues justice between his collagues and his kingdom but she is still cinic in terms of 'the enemie' and loyal to Lucius. If she is in war with you, she will do the necessary to hunt you but not torture you. And, again, Paulina swore loyalty (not something light) to Lucius as the emperor of the continent, to follow him in any war because Lucius shows to be whort of it and the novel makes his mission like that. Yes, she could just stop at Ehas and Cukda but like I said in the previous post, as someone who was trapped in stupid wars, she also believes that Lucius has a valid reason to conquer.
Overall? The novel shows characters who believes in the survival of the fittest but kind to his own kin. It would be nice If there was more deep of the duality of war or Paulina as more moral person and highly active character? Yes
I’m a little late to this story because apparently I’ve been living in a cave but I really like this fl and I think the story has potential. But what do you know, my ass got to chapter 16 and I find myself questioning the morals of the characters. Like someone correct me if I’m wrong but it looks like Bebarou was mostly just defending its territory and not actually participating in the war. So like, why is emperor blondie still planning to attack them? In addition, (lmao, this word) based on previous chapters it kinda seems like “ending the never-ending war” was one of the main reasons the fl decided to vow to the emperor and dish her strategies (which they accomplished with Ehas and Cukda I guess) so I’m just wondering why she’s okay with the emperor starting an (unnecessary?) war to accomplish his goal of “uniting” the south (which is another issue that needs to be tackled but that would require another essay). I mean I get that war is one of the best tools for knights to gain honour but the woman has spent 6 years on the battlefield for gods sake. I just find it weird how everyone seems to be blindly following this dream of “uniting” the south without any talks on whether the outcome is worth the scarifies, especially the ppl who have actually been on the battlefield.
I know this whole conquering thing was quite trendy in history and there are also a number of mangas out there and focus on this topic but I just don’t want this manga to be one of them ╥﹏╥ (it’s so fucking good to see her beat the crap out of idiots). So my question is, is this topic a large part of the manga or does it slowly drift into something better? Or at the very least does the author talk about these issues in future chapters and make the characters claim their responsibility in the many lives that are probably going to be lost for the so call dream that they seem to think so highly of. Cause It was uncomfortable to read the failure to attack Berbarou displayed as a negative thing.
P.S if you’ve made it this far I am sorry for the many many sidetracks.
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On the topic of sidetracks, isn’t unfair emperor blondie managed to get fl, a full time badass to pledge her life to him with just a couple of words of acknowledgment. Ngl I’m a little salty