Kobold offshoots are interesting. Pretty sure the variant who spawned the japanese version were already pretty aggressive though, no? Certainly the 5e ones are at least so not sure about the previous page claims.
@Owyn Well, he can only control one target at a time, so he can't really make one of the two sides stop fighting, I guess he'd be better off knocking them out if he can, though, true. On the other hand, he can infect infinite targets so it's not like he Needs these orcs either I guess.
@Ashisu Might've been lost in translation, like if she said equivalent to murdered instead of killed, though even killed is I guess up to interpretation too.
There's also the factor the lie detector skill says "but what the target believes to be true may be objectively false" seems to imply...
Well, that's unusual, but y'know fair enough, every isekai theoretically has things going on back where they left behind, so something like this isn't too out there.
Are people in japan really that short? The 169 girl is like towering above the others but by american standards she's like average if not a little under, I think?
@Silfir Lol I guess in fantasy land chess standards might be way lower, I guess? It makes sense to a degree, they don't have the same readily available learning resources, but, well.
More than anything I'd just chalk it up to the author (either of the source or the adaptation) not being that...
Honestly for anyone tentatively looking at this series, I recommend staying away.
There's nothing super duper wrong specifically necessarily, but the writing just hasn't felt that great in the first 24 chapters.
The best thing the series had going for it so far was the ridiculous premise of...