Ah, I forgot to turn on the spoiler tag. Sorry about that
YESS!! I ABSOLUTELY FOUND THE KING'S DEATH VERY IRONIC AND FUNNY BUT I WAS SO SUPRISED THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY HE DIED.
I just feel so glad I finally won't see him again
What I don't like is he never learned anything in the end, no realization at all, he might even thought of himself undeserving of being killed, so yeah, he died so easily for me. He should have at least suffered.
A lot of readers think the king died too easily, and I thought it was lackluster as well when I first read the novel. But thinking about it again, the way he died is ironic and fitting for him. It was not the noble knights who was staging a coup d'etat that killed him, but one of his kin whom he enslaved that dealt the final blow while he was withering away pitifully.
It was like he didn't deserve such grand death in the hands of those fighting for change and freedom. The knights didn't even get to touch him, the only thing they could do when they reached him was watch as his crimes finally caught up to him. The magic stone was given to him by the apprentices as a reward for establishing them as gods. With the stone and the apprentices behind him, he became a terror ruler who lived for hundreds of years. When the magic stone started getting cracks, the very same thing that gave him power, protection, invincibility, and something close to immortality was now no longer usable. What do you think he felt when he first got injured? He was cowering and hiding, terrified of the unknown force. Then what about when he started decaying when the magic stone finally broke? Utter despair, obviously. The same emotions he gave to the beastmen and his kin before they became slaves who were robbed of emotions and life. And what actually killed the king wasn't the same bloodied swords that once followed him, but the clean bare hands of a girl that was forced to serve him.
Do you guys understand what I'm trying to say? I can't properly explain the vision without word vomiting (￣∇￣") anyway, all this poetic shit is just balm to my disappointment with how easy he got away with all his crimes. I still think he should've been punished more, but the magic stone was the only thing that prolonged his life and with it broken, he's just a living corpse. Nothing much to do towards him when he's all skin and bones and rotting flesh waiting for time to catch up to him. So I'll just settle my dissatisfaction with these thoughts