https://littlepinkstarfish.wpcomstaging.com/2025/04/23/tststp-prologue/
these only go to ch 100 or smth, so after those are done, go here
https://kiwikiwikiwiki.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/the-serpent-who-swallowed-a-pomegranate-chapter-102/
The links Rayy send are the exact places I read it from! Translations on the latter are done with AI/MTL so have the common problem kf mixing up he/him/she/her sometimes, but other then that the quality was pretty good (also names are different in all the translations).
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I wont spoil too much, because I seriously want people to read this for themselves, so my spoilers might leave you with more questions then answers but what I can say is:
- We will get to learn a lot about Gwens backround, and as some suspected here, he is from another world (tho this is not uncommon in this world) (it is implied that he is very very old)
- the labyrinth of mages is cool as heck, I wish there was a novel dedicated to it (especially its creator, who is appearently the cause of why transmigrators from other worlds are so common... all because of his love/obsession for someone)
- if you hate Lu/Ru rn, you will love him by the end. He is going to stick aroind. Same with Yi Wu the bodyguard / battle priest
- we will learn all about Amon and Nines backrounds, I think like 10+ chapters dedicated ro Amon and Nines first meeting all the way to where we are rn in time
- they are both thoulsands of years old, Id estimate nine to be around 2k, but we dont know for certain, Nines whole life story is beautiful and tragic. Made me cry a lot... especially the child....
And the ending is hard to describe. In some ways its haply, in others its quite pessimistic. You question if anything changed, and you hate some characters whilw fully understanding the reasons for their actions. I have very mixed feelings on it so dont know if its a happy or a sad ending, but from a readers prespective it is a very good way to end the story.

Just finished reading the novel (still have the side stories to go) and I have to say this is probably one of the best stories Ive read in years.
Theres a constant sadness and feeling of dread, but everything was so well written and felt very satisfying till the end.
The manhwa is only about 1/3 of the way there, highly recommend picking up the novel to anyone as impatient as I was! (We're at around chap 67 of the novel, took me about a week to read the whole thing but Im a slow reader)