Agreed! "Little snake"....I think Lady bartenders true identity may be Leviathan. That would be pretty awesome.

Try reading Throne of Magical Arcana as an example. Just like how lies mixed with truths are more believable. Fantasy that incorporates aspects of reality are easier to immerse oneself in. Just because it's fantasy doesn't mean it shouldn't have its own system and laws and completely disregard logic. (of course this is all my own personal preference as an intellectual individual who happens to also love fantasy.)

"Mother Hydra is a creature who, alongside her consort Father Dagon, is said to rule over the race known as the Deep Ones"... "an amphibious humanoid race that currently resides in the Earth's oceans." The plot thickens.

The location is Innsmouth...! Location of the Cult of Dagon, ruler of the Deep Ones....! H. P. Lovecraft short story...! CTHULHU?!?!?!?!

May possibly, slightly, be a link in the puzzle.... "One of the academics present at the meeting, William Channing Webb, a professor of anthropology at Princeton, states that during an 1860 expedition to the western coast of Greenland, he encountered "a singular tribe of degenerate Eskimos whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship, chilled him with its deliberate bloodthirstiness and repulsiveness". Webb claims the Greenland cult possessed both the same chant and a similar "hideous" fetish."

Han Lu, Fighting!! Ik romance isn't big in this novel, but I loved the earlier sweet side love tidbit during his missions, and I would love to see them get together even if it's only during this one vacation.

General Pomp.....that name though... XD

As an exercise science major, this tilts me. It takes months (usually 3-4), not a single measly week, for results to become noticable.....

Isn't he loaded from the hush money though? He said he had enough to live his entire life comfortably...

Does brail exist? If so, he just has to convert brail characters to their visual counterpart and boom, he should be literate.

How would he know what old vs. new looks like...at least let him have a week to make associations of what he is seeing for the first time in his life as a completely new sense with what he has been able to distinguish with his other heightened senses. However, I'm happy the author made him unable to recognize color or read.

The poor grammar is almost unbearable. I'll give it to chapter 10 to see if they incorporate an editor before I drop it. But jeez is it trash quality. Already notice plot holes, but I can live with that if the main story if worth the read.