Dude the slave magic is too op. Wdym it's literally so finetuned that you have to physically remove the access by limb decapitation so that you are the only person who have access? Even then you still cannot overide the blood oath in the first place?
Also everyone need to stop telling mc to die for failing. Like his most gruesome battle to date had been a bloodless suffocation of a giant bull. He is a barrier master. His best asset is his defense. And it is literally mentioned that for barrier to work, you have to establish them (like for lady Ezra, she literally untouchable by physical torture) or to apply them by gauging where the blow will land (when he block the sword for Eril at the market). Eril literally was way above his head and moving her sword all over the place, he could not have place a barrier unless he can literally calculate where she is on air. Once the slave mark disappears he literally went ballistic and totalled the ground where the enemy stand. Istg, it is not a moral failing to be afraid in the moment. Fear is valid, being frozen in the face of something gruesome is totally normal. He is betrayed by member of the household that hold the proverbial electric shock collar that he had been treated by everyone like a normal collar. y'all need remedial English class stat
Also everyone need to stop telling mc to die for failing. Like his most gruesome battle to date had been a bloodless suffocation of a giant bull. He is a barrier master. His best asset is his defense. And it is literally mentioned that for barrier to work, you have to establish them (like for lady Ezra, she literally untouchable by physical torture) or to apply them by gauging where the blow will land (when he block the sword for Eril at the market). Eril literally was way above his head and moving her sword all over the place, he could not have place a barrier unless he can literally calculate where she is on air. Once the slave mark disappears he literally went ballistic and totalled the ground where the enemy stand. Istg, it is not a moral failing to be afraid in the moment. Fear is valid, being frozen in the face of something gruesome is totally normal. He is betrayed by member of the household that hold the proverbial electric shock collar that he had been treated by everyone like a normal collar. y'all need remedial English class stat