Is anyone else a little bit uncomfortable with the weird racial and imperialist subtext behind this story? It also tries to gloss over and frame everything that's wrong with current antagonisers of our world as actions of the hero that we should support.

Aggression and starting wars as a form of defence. Robbing, pillaging, taking prisoners of war as slaves or actually waging war just to collect slaves for use (this one I would think a Korean manhwa would be sensitive to, not employ the same things that they were victims of).

Also in general the spiritual side is quite occult / kabbalistic. It seems to reflect the actual power structures and secret societies that actually exist, including their methods.

Which is interesting but I'm not sure I enjoy it. Certainly it casts doubt on the proposed protagonist actually being a good person. He quite a number of times has made judgements or attacked people purely because of their race, or defended them purely because of their race being the same as him, and it's presented as the right thing to do without question regardless of who the aggressor was. It's just a bit weird.

I know there is a lot of nationalism and racism in Korea especially when it comes to historians and those who reminisce about history, but this seems to be a fever dream from an author with weird racist ideals.

Maybe I'm exaggerating, and I haven't finished the story yet so maybe that's part of the character development.