Always read the LN or WN from the beginning. the manga always leaves out details and enjoyable bits..maybe even skip a trivial seeming part that becomes really important later in the story .. i think that Chekhov gun or the like..
It always demeans MC's achievements when we find out that he has some special bloodline or something. Just here, we found out that his mother knows hermit. better path would be hermit taking pity on MC and not some secret conspiracy making MC center of things. Too far fetched.