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So all this time he was playing them
someone tell him not to play with his food cause damn i wouldve made that man bald in no time
funny that you say that coz later he literally cooks and eats Truyde while he's alive without killing him
Thank you my bussy belongs to you
Wtf there's cannibalism Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
yes babe, i think it all started with Truyde's ancestor who was so obsessed with the king (the one who went on a killing spree after losing his regas) that he ate his dead body just so he can have him all to himself, the black potion was just an accidental byproduct of that obsession.
ok i did not know that wtf
but lowkey deserved
What's the secret with the black potion?
Omg wth is happening
Ugh like everybody, I'm also frustrated how Karsas don't just kill the council and get this over with. But the author be really cooking. After reading the novel, now I'm disappointed by my utter lack of faith in their plot building because they wrap it up so cleanly, well putting the romance aside, story had a decent end of tying it all together.
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MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD
DON'T READ IF YOU'RE NOT REALLY CURIOUS SINCE THE MANHWA IS ALREADY PRETTY CLOSE TO THESE PARTS
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Karsas goal in his bet with the council was to consume more of the black potion since he needs it to grow his power, the more he consumes it, the stronger he gets. Because Karsas locks himself in his room after their potion feeding sessions, Truyde mistakenly thought that he was addicted to it and is experiencing the side effects hard but in reality he was just training and growing his power in there. This whole time there was really no real risk for Karsas because he is immune to the potion and its not because of Melmont's antidote either.
Remember when he was a kid? Karsas was often killing small animals, his ability was to summon them but when he was in the forest with Abel, he was able to summon large animals like the bear that Ashler helped defeat. That means the forest was making Karsas possess the power he would have developed as an adult while he was there. So when Truyde burned down the whole forest, the forest's power ended up being aborbed by Karsas thus making him powerful enough to withstand the poisoning despite being a kid that was supposed to be underdeveloped yet.
Karsas considers the council really dumb for not even questioning how his eyes healed when no other kings before him was ever recorded to have regrown missing body parts.
He is just playing with the council since he's bored out of his mind and is killing time before his power is truly at its max. Karsas is saving up getting rid of Truyde for last since he think he at least deserves to know that it was his ego that ended up giving Karsas the power to defeat them. I say his ego because Truyde was well aware that he can just order the brainwashed previous king to retrieve the prince that was hiding in the forest but no, he wanted to exert his dominance and show Karsas that even inside the refuge of the forest, he can not hide from the power of the council.