Major spoilers tagged minor ones are not. I get the feeling that this story is meant to be read in conjunction with another. But its a standalone comic so Im going to judge it as that. What to say about this one? Its kind of a confusing mess. Its kind of good but also kind of not. I cant really organize my thoughts on it properly so apologies in advance. People set it up as a backstory you should read before you read Mookhyang: Dark Lady but its written as if the reader has prior knowledge on everything. Dont get me wrong the plot itself is decent major caveat to that but well get there but you only learn anything once youre done with the story. I imagine some people would find it fun. Maybe those who want to sit and mull on each dialogue like some kind of detective to figure out what the actual story is. Before the author tells you after it no longer matters. It feels like someone rifled through the comic and ripped out any pages containing plot setup or character development. Then they took any pages with important plot development information and randomly stuck them somewhere towards the end. Its like someone gave you a puzzle to do then revealed that they hid a third of the pieces after you were working on it for an hour. Why go through some plot just to reveal why it happened later? It just makes me confused in the interim. Maybe youre thinking it would be good for smart readers who want to try piece together the plot as its happening. And maybe youre right maybe I have to reread this story. But if so then Im not left feeling the story was good Im just left feeling dumb. Like haha you couldnt finish the puzzle cause I hid most of the pieces. Thats not the point of a puzzle. All the other plot is like this. MC go here and kill this guy. Why? Who is he? What did he do? Turns out the guy is pretty chill and one of the best side characters in the whole story too bad he dies like right after you meet him. It will teach these people that we can stand up to the martial masters. Why do you want to make them fear you? Why this martial master? And like 3/4 of the way through the story In short this story is a mishmash of events that lack any setup any strong conclusion and no good characters. The few decent characters that exist are either ignored or swapped out with worse ones or just die. Its like if you asked a machine to generate a fantasy story and all you told it was that things happen and characters do stuff. If youve seen a review of the Harry Potter playstation game by JoshStrifeHayes its exactly like that. Like were expected to understand who these characters are what their motives are etc. without actually being told any of it. A decent story told in a very frustrating manner.