There's no consistency for the "villain" at all...
He can hardly do anything but watch the fight of the grinder vs MC (w/o breaking a sweat) & co , BUT suddenly becomes able to match MC just cause he uses a great sword. Does it inc. stats? Why didn't he bring that sword against the grinder in...
The whole plot/politics is so convoluted.... These types of scenario would work if it's normal human nobles scheming against each other.
But here we have spirits that people treat as gods, She could just kill the entire royal family and be done with it. And she can spin it into something like...
I'm amazed how these authors can write someone who's supposed to be smart enough to plan something so convoluted like what this villain is trying to do, then make them so stupid they cant see OP MC is playing with them for quite a while