Not every decision made by them is controlled by Julian, and I see no interest for Julian to increase the taxes so I guess he just did nothing about it?

Why are the comments full of communists ? They worked their entire life and for most of them deserved to be where they are. Obviously, in a perfect world, everyone should have a try to becoming an extractor but that's just impossible because not enough specters. That's a luck problem and that's how every society has worked since thousands of years. Killing someone like Albert can't ever be right, even to save the entirety of humanity. Saying this from my bed, cozy and all but if it happened in real life, everyone would choose to kill him (including me) , still does not mean it's right.

Yes but the thing is that he won't try to do as much good as possible from now on because he will keep on increasing the price of his loan, potentially and most likely endlessly until he totally changes his mind

But Julian doesn't care about dark dream getting bigger ? He just has to do it because of the bet but after Julian thinks it isn't worth it anymore to be with nick, he can just kill him.

Nick seems to become some kind of crazy ideologist convinced he's acting for the greater good. The entirety of the city will die because of him and I'm persuaded of it but will he come back to his former self before that ? Not sure

What do you mean ? Not like nick could do much more and that would be kind of overkill to have so many level 6 specters in a single not that big city (I guess). What's strange is that we didn't hear anything about it with all that Julian thing

Now that I think about it the author didn't day Nick wouldn't go crazy but that he would be a kind mc in a dark world so maybe kind for redemption but at the same time without feelings? Kinda strange IK

Shang is the mc from Sword god in a world of magic from the same author (amazing book read it, like you have no choice). I have to spoil a little little bit but my boy gets crazy after killing the first people he ever killed and lost all feelings and all. That's what seems to be happening here but the author said it wasn't gonna happen so let's see.

I guess the black specter was pretty strong? + I guess it ate some other specters like the fog or the dreamer + some rats maybe?

Really easy to spot and when it was weak I guess it couldn't kill normal people so fast meaning they could flee

Too strong

Or maybe he was outside the city ? Also forgot where they said he was when he left the city. How can he fake his power also ? And why did he say he got stronger when he most likely didn't ? There's so much we don't know and I feel like we won't get any answer to this soon, like at all. (hope I'm wrong)

What I find extremely strange is that Julain didn't know about envy. Maybe he isn't a specter ? Like we know extractors can also Control zephyx like the ones from Ghosty's or Gemini (forgot which one) and that seems very strange that he didn't feel the burst of zephyx from the emergency signal

But the manufacturers would still lose money, I think, if I remember that they said they earned way more through the blood than with money directly. ( less zephyx for the extractors like Arya and the governor)

The author really leaves us with a cliffhanger every two chapters that's like so ... I don't know how to say it but I guess you all understand me

I need more of this

With that, I think both Monica and Riker aren't specters like that would make 3 specters in the same place and I think it's way too much. Strange but let's see

Forgot them. Most likely his new specter

Author got much much better. Started with sword god in a world of magic, then tried to read litow but I dropped after 50 chapters because the writing honestly wasn't that good. I will still most likely read it someday because I feel like his novels could be brought together. Anyway he got way better. Hope he keeps on improving

Not right now, but sometime they'll most likely be opponents, I think. Maybe wyntor will sell dark dream to nick? Don't know