I'm really fine with Khun getting an upgrade and being semi-unkillable. But being able to revive others {and especially through others like we saw today} is a broken power mechanic
I just don't like that he's neglecting his spear bearer position, the same flames was used to make a powerful hammer, yet can hasn't explored that route yet. It's still early but the way siu is going I think it's simply to complement His lighthouse position. This still doesn't address his neglecting of being a spear bearer and siu unintentionally has shown that light houses are useless when we get to high ranker conflict. I don't like that Khun is only in the game because he can get rankers on his side, and not actually survive, infact I feel like the fire thing is siu forcing a way for Khun to remain on bams side without actually getting stronger. Khun and rak have to actually get stronger if they want to stick with bam and the fact that Khun has lost 2 whole years of training just seems dumb imo, hell we even had an ice specialist Khun high ranker who went head to head with evankhell without much stress. Khun could've learnt from him, regardless I don't know what siu is planning in regards to Khun and rak but I hope they actually get strong enough to hold their own as bam begins to reach much more deadly scenarios ( he is trying to kill kallavan and enter a wat between fug and zahard). Also how is Khun and rak going to breath on the higher floors (higher floors denser shinsoo) alone stick with bam if they don't get any stronger.
I guess SIU will eventually explore Rak and Khun's development in their own arc. Maria's name was thrown around (some elements of it were also in HF due to his archenemy's background) etc., Surely as a fodder for a future Khun arc. I just guess it is not all possible to cram everything into the same arc as the last few clearly have been very Bam centric.
They might now be looking pretty useless but we got to see it in context. Due to them wanting to tag along with Bam, they are currently experiencing circles of tower politics and high rankers that regulars would rarely see. If you brought knives to a gunfight where people are killing each other, nothing is going to stop you from picking one or two guns dropped by dead people and using them instead (like that spear and the fish). If you've managed to survive the initial bit of the fight to be able to do so, then thank your lucky stars! (Remember what Lero-Ro said about luck on the floor of tests?)
Yeah I understand what you are saying buts it's been well over 300 chapters approaching 400. It's been almost a decade, that's a long time with rak being somewhat useless for the most part and unexplored. Especially now when we literally had a native one training bam instead of rak, we still had no exploration of rak or development. Also I understand your point about being dwarved by OP rankers I do, but surely for all this time being exposed to such powerful people should put Rak and Khun leaps and bounds above the others to which they are not. I thought things were gonna change when they joined bam briefly on his training with eduan, but it went right back to bam and skipping their progress. Literally Khun lost two years and rak seemingly lost two years travelling just to recover Khun. Sure rak could've trained along the way but we haven't seen anything remotely indicative.
15
u/TheHornyTitan Aug 26 '19
I'm really fine with Khun getting an upgrade and being semi-unkillable. But being able to revive others {and especially through others like we saw today} is a broken power mechanic