If this is a series, I think it needs character tags and a it's name instead of "original".
There's no point in a series copyright name if it never appears outside this pool. Character tags are probably justifiable, however. Most original characters in a pool don't get tags because you just search that pool, but this one is probably a long enough runner and has a cast that doesn't appear often enough that searching characters would be warranted.
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On an unrelated note, so much for "there's limits to how much loyalty holders can demand from devotees", if you can demand anything short of suicide, including even ordering murders.
Seriously, why AREN'T more people running around demanding duels with everyone they can possibly beat if this gets pretty damn close to slavery?!
I knew you would want to talk about this, lol. Also, you can't directly order people to murder others, which is part of the "anything over the top". You can however make them an unknowing accessory to one, or dispose of a murder weapon, etc.
As for why aren't people dueling others constantly, I suppose the risk of "wagering your egg" is why. It's all or nothing.
As for why aren't people dueling others constantly, I suppose the risk of "wagering your egg" is why. It's all or nothing.
But again, there are a lot of characters who are apparently rather fearless about this (like Tagerou and Picasso), and nobody has yet seemed to have an actual tense or close battle. Every single duel has been a total curb-stomp where there was absolutely no hint it might have ever gone the other way (and that's not even talking about the outright cheating like getting someone dead drunk then taking advantage, like what happened to Rolo). In fact, by the rules, you can pretty much just poison someone, and then while they're choking to death on their own spittle, say that their only chance to live is to give you their egg so they can get that second body.
There are way too many ways to play dirty by the rules here for so few people to actually be doing it. Unless there's some sort of force made up of some sort of functional Interpol-analogue with the authority to go around inspecting eggs and punishing people, there's very little that stops random villages from just descending into a battle royale for the rights to every other member of the village.
But that's attempted murder, though. What Tagarou did is illegal, which is why he was a wanted man.
Anyways, I'll post the next chapter now.
And he was only stopped because someone with more bullshit haxplot armor destined bloodline came along and one-punched him in a similarly unfair fight...
Of course, even in this last chapter, when there was a perfect excuse for it, there was more gags than action, so this artist is clearly not going the typical shounen fighting harem mangaka route. In spite of combat being central to the plot, we basically never see any of it, just the results.
And he was only stopped because someone with more bullshit haxplot armor destined bloodline came along and one-punched him in a similarly unfair fight...
Of course, even in this last chapter, when there was a perfect excuse for it, there was more gags than action, so this artist is clearly not going the typical shounen fighting harem mangaka route. In spite of combat being central to the plot, we basically never see any of it, just the results.
Yeah, and Tagarou was a wolfman with ten times the strength of humans, who was held up in a very defensible position, with an army of bandits at his beck and call. He only lost because he mistakenly let a half-elf (who possess normal human strength but who can make explosive bursts of strength that are ten times stronger than even a wolfman's) get close to him.
Tagarou's situation is not a scenario that is easy to duplicate for the average human, or even for a rich human. Remember, we never saw Picasso fight. For all we know, he outsmarted them all, much like Rolo was likely tricked into a duel while drunk. Every other battle involved either non-human fighters or a paladin (and Roland is pretty much stated to be exceptional even among the already exceptional paladins).
You can't directly order your devotee to do something really crazy or bad, and even if you use roundabout methods for crime, if it's even slightly suspected that a woman is the culprit of a crime, it's likely her holder's egg will be examined.
As for some hidden organization checking people's eggs, we have already seen an elf disguised by some kind of invisibility magic, whose sole purpose seemed to be spying on humans. It's entirely possible that the elves do send out people to prevent any one human faction from becoming too powerful or degenerating into all-out anarchy.
1. The Holder of the elf's egg, is able to control Devotees through their elf's eggs.
2. The Devotees under control are consciously aware and have their memories intact, but a controlled Devotee's actions are still limited by their own natural abilities, so the power of the elf's eggs are not infinite.
3. Holders cannot use the elf's egg to order Devotees into killing themselves or doing anything over the top, but this does not prevent people from using this power to engage in premeditated murder.
4. Every order given by a Holder to a Devotee are recorded in the Holder's own egg, which can be examined through certain techniques, and any unethical acts discovered will be punished accordingly.Xipoli Continent Elven Law Volume 5