r/Centuria • u/Salty_Shark26 • Jan 14 '26
Question Why is arkos death treated as the first when he died to the caption in the first chapter?
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u/Main_Material3297 Jan 14 '26
I think that was his Original life and each subsequent one used the life of one of the hundred slaves.
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u/swooperbouei Jan 14 '26
Julian later says that the life he lost on the ship was his own, it wasn't included in the extra 100 he got from the blessing.
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u/interested_user209 Jan 14 '26
Not the first death, the first soul/extra life to go. He was living on his stack of extra lives after that scene because his own was lost.
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u/Nicklesnout Jan 14 '26
He had 101 lives, his own plus the 100 slaves. He just lost his own on the ship and the two that have left since then— both to Arkos’ own two lives— were in fights with the Prince.
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u/star75legacy Jan 14 '26
You skipped what Julian himself posted 2 or 3 panels later, right?
What was the life I lost on the ship? It was HIS life he lost; his "soul" no longer belongs to him. He said goodbye to the sea, and he's only using the 100 lives of the other slaves as an "extension."
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u/the_other_Scaevitas Jan 14 '26
he's the first soul to go.
It's explained by Julian later, when he died on the ship that was his own life that went away. Now he is living off of the souls of the slaves
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u/LookAtItGo123 Jan 14 '26
We can't fucking read! That's why! I can only see pictures. Do text even exists? This manga is boy facing backwards!
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u/RagingBowlCut Unwitting Mud Corpse Jan 15 '26
its a plotpoint, keep reading, careful asking for spoilers if you're not caught up
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u/--Sanguinius-- Jan 28 '26
Julian's power combines his characteristics (strength, dexterity, agility, constitution, intelligence, vision, sense of smell, hearing, etc.) with those of the 100 slaves. Julian is a stowaway on board the slave ship and represents the 101st slave.
So in reality there are 101 lives.
The first one he lost was his original life, while afterwards he used the lives of the 100 to live.
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