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Originally Posted by BWTraveller
Just because those four are fools doesn't mean the guy has it easy or that he won't face challenges or enemies who really do pose a serious threat. Not to mention that, while an idiot who thinks the world works a certain way and ignores evidence to the contrary may be easy to personally defeat one on one (or three), that hardly means they make poor antagonists. He has no ATK and thus can't kill them himself, and given the situation he needs them to remain alive and participate in the fights against the waves. Having to fight against idiots may be easy, but having to face real threats with selfish, arrogant idiots as allies is most certainly not. I don't think Myne is personally a serious threat meant to be the main antagonist; there's a heck of a lot going on outside of the petty scheming of a king and a b****.
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No, you don't understand. An antagonist does not mean a person to beat or kill in a fight. It is just a person who is actively opposes or is hostile to them. By this definition you have the king and princess, the other three heroes, and the other antagonist of the first arc which counts as spoilers so I'm not saying.
Him having no ATK is an interesting gimmick in that it forces him to rely on party members, but that doesn't matter considering there's no merit to fighting any of them. What does matter is the fact that the series is largely him cleaning up their messes and showing how much better he is than them because he does things that should be common sense and has half a brain. He doesn't do anything clever, he just so happens to be the one who has the highest level.
A protagonist is as good as the antagonists they overcome. And there might be a lot going on outside of king and b***h, but the story doesn't draw attention to that until well into it and we still have to deal with the other heroes just being stupid or petty throughout it.