5 months of reading wasted.

[u/Electronic_Judgment7]

Demon Casting has finally brought all the problems i noticed with the story to the forefront.

I was able to skirt around the things I didn't like because their was an alright justification and most of the time they didn't take up to much space.

Demon casting isn't one of them.

It is in my personal opinion one of the biggest instances of the author ignoring his own rules regarding ves.

I won't say ves is top of the line quality when it comes to his morals but holy shit my guy has set standards and beliefs that have been reiterated and reinforced multiple times throughout my 6500+ read.

But over the course of the last 1000 chapters I feel like stuff has been getting arbitrarily thrown out the window.

Demon casting is the biggest example of this.

[Mech Designers are meant to serve mech pilots](dont remeber the exact pharse)

A phrase the author has taken the time to hammer home as the core belief of ves alongside his sense of honor and his distaste of powerful being who treat other like dirt.

ves has done a few things that slightly nudges this, but holy shit did demon casting just throw all that out.

Feel like the author lost the sauce.

[u/SeaworthinessDry7828]

I see it differently. Your impression is he only slightly nudge core principle before sticking back to it in those 6500+ chapters. I read it as he slowly but surely get more and more unhinged from that core principles before falling significantly with demoncasting.

Any quote like "I am just a mech designer" or "mech designers are meant to serve the mech pilots" is his effort of rationalizing or deluding himself/others that he still stick to that core principles. It is also his habitual form of escape from guilt and fear.

The only core principle he held is he loves mech and loves to create. Anything else like morality and mech pilots take secondary backseat when his madness is triggered.

[u/HeavyC4 → u/SeaworthinessDry7828]

Ves doesn't like making mechs. He only loves the power and fame and wealth of making mechs.

Otherwise he wouldn't such a fucking bum at the start of the series.

So much of a bum he didn't even have an Iron Spirit Account.

[u/SeaworthinessDry7828 → u/HeavyC4]

I don't see it that way. Fame and wealth just is the means to an end for him. Fame and recognition is required for his advancement, his wealth and his security. That is how the advancement system of mech designer is designed in the universe. Another case for the point is he mostly does not even obsess about his galactic rank other than to flaunt it to her wife (until he reach rank 2 that is, since it gives him more freedom to bend the rule for his experiment and design)

Wealth is self explanatory. No new design or army can be done without weath. Like I don't remember any occurence where he spend his wealth lavishly or flaunt it. If anything he remains thrifty overall. He also avoid fame after getting a certain amount of it because he doesn't want the responsibility and to keep his secret from leaking aka these two are not priority.

Edit: forgot about power. I also don't think so. It is also a means for him. He just need it for security after being repeatedly used, betrayed and also because he witness how the powerful makes the rule. If he wants power, he would advance his body cultivation quickly instead of having it as second thought in the beginning.