There is no timeline in this novel, we just know we are in a apocalyptic world. Even at the end, we vaguely know some shift happened some 400 hundred years ago that backfired on humanity.

I still don't know exactly what's guide, what's a sentinel, the percentage in the population who has these powers, how do guides form the pillar of contaminated zones? What's the "first cataclysm? No clue. I

f the focus was the romance then at least give us more....

This novel had the best dominant FL/shy ML dynamic. Literally the best and she's a properly dominant FL, esp in bed. I haven't seen such a dynamic in my 7 years of reading webnovels. They are evenly matched at that. I'm still giddy.

It's practically a miracle that I get interested in the plot of a romance novel, and this one had a good plot, albeit full of holes.

Honestly this deserves a season 2. I think the world building would be more polished if the adventures continued.

Later in the story, we do learn that Guides and Sentinels serve a unique purpose for the monster's ability to reproduce but this is part of the end story twist. It was also heavily hinted at during earlier parts of the story.

We learn later on that she apparently had a recurring dream that was a memory from her mother who told her to go to certain places to unlock the secrets of the world. But she never thought of this before the story because it was repressed like nearly everything from her childhood as her parents died. But yet she was also repeatedly dreaming about it.

Author isn't very consistent.

He comes across as a stereotypical soldier until things get a little more relationship based and then he acts like a blushing teenager. Which is kind of valid given that he turns out to be a virg*n despite how messed up their society is.

The ML also becomes part of the rebels as they all view the Nobles as shitty people. Also valid given how they treat the lower class Sentinels as little more than playthings and regularly send them to their deaths just for some of the pre-calamity goods from the contamination zone.

Such as her first battle with "Chu" in the Land with No Eyes. She gets her personality practically wiped and temporarily loses her memories. She almost becomes the new Pillar for that zone. The ML managed to partially snap her out of it but it was finding a relic from her mother that made her wake.

Such as "Pillars". We are introduced to the first one pretty quickly but then there never is really an explanation outside of that. Until we learn the purpose of Guides when it comes to the monsters and how every Pillar in each contaminated zone was once a Guide.

Which then further explains that any contaminated zone with a fully mutated Guide for a Pillar, the zone becomes stable. If the Pillar still has traces of their humanity, the zone will expand to claim more humans. Because the monsters need humans in order to parasitize and produce new members of their species.

After revealing the truth of how terrible their society actually is, the MC takes on the Queen while the ML leads the rebels against her base of operations. The MC beats the Queen in a mental battle but only because the Queen had become greedy and consumed other creatures. Which eventually led to her body breaking down.

The MC gets saved from certain death by the ML, they exchange rings and then it mentions how she is now free to choose her path. Nothing else whatsoever.

A girl, a guide, breaks off an engagement with a cheating sentinel and is in turn looked down upon. According to the world this is sole purpose of a guide's life- marry a sentinel, have a few kids and live that domesticated life. However our MC, quite incapable of feelings, do not care much about what others think. The woman in charge tells her that in order for her request to go work at the Research Centre to go through, she must first help sift through the memories of a criminal sentinel. And thus MC and ML finally meet. It is the start of a revolutionary story of a very underestimated guide and a sentinel whose only goal in life is revenge.