YMMV / Virtus Draconis

• Adorkable: Gunter is a spaz who loves clothes and fashion, worries about whether he can find love or not, and seems to be overjoyed when he makes friends with Claude and eventually the rest of the team.
• Awesome Ego: She might be incredibly easy to hate, but there’s no denying that Meredith has some form of cool factor going for her.
• Complete Monster: Meredith Staunton is the self-serving, self-assured princess of the kingdom of Shaddhai. Unhappy with the societal progress the world has seen in comparison to her kingdom, Meredith launches an all-out campaign to subdue the world into following her kingdom's brand of conservative order. The first of her misdeeds is ordering one of her men to use a forbidden, incurable poison on protagonist Claude Virtus. Upon receiving word of the man's failure to kill Claude, Meredith promptly offs him without hesitation; she then commits blasphemy against the magical world by forcefully extracting the soldier's soul from his body and banishing it to Hell. Among Meredith's more despicable crimes is the use of Child Soldiers, trained at a young age to kill; making use of black ops squads to carry out murders in the dead of night, without care for collateral damage or innocent lives lost; and regularly disregarding the counsel of her inner circle. Towards the end, Meredith primes a magic missile with the souls of her personal warship's crew—extracted with their bodies literally torn apart—and propelling it with the souls of her warlocks, thus firing it at Prelid, a nearby village that is not a threat to her, just to get to the protagonists.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Bai-Feng is quite popular with a majority of the readers for being a cool parental figure to Claude and Mordred. His death scene also wins him major sympathy from readers.
• Hate Sink: Carson is deliberately written to be utterly unlikeable, unredeemable and unloved. No tears were spilt with his death.
• LGBT Fanbase: Gunter has earned a fairly sizable fandom for being a large anthropomorphic alligator who is into martial arts and is an Adorkable guy into fashion. Bai-Feng and Brandl have also earned this to a smaller degree.
• Moe: Anna.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Ruhiel, a Child Soldier, crosses it in his introduction scene by ordering that the people who were spying on the heroes be killed because they aren’t trustworthy. He doesn’t even realize what a hypocrite he is.
  • The black ops soldiers sent to kill Bai-Feng, Claude and Mordred easily cross it by killing their informant, Carson, and then firing a missile at the hotel.
  • The biggest and most revolting offender is Meredith, who fires a massive, magical missile with power equal to that of a nuclear armament, at the village of Prelid, killing off much of the population, Mordred included.
• Rooting for the Empire: Some readers find themselves rooting for Meredith’s side due to being conservative like them, and for sharing ideals with her of control, order and law.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Brandl ends up getting the least amount of screentime in the novel. The author at least tried to compensate by giving him extra dialogue to flesh him out, but whether this is too little, too late is debatable.
• Too Cool to Live: Bai-Feng, and Mordred to a lesser degree.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Even though he is nothing but an amoral wretch, Ruhiel gets some degree of sympathy thanks to his being a child soldier who was basically born and raised into this without him having control of his destiny. That his grandfather mourns him after being killed helps in this regard.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The author has stressed in his Facebook page that the book is not for children, and is meant for people 15 and above. The reason why is because of certain scenes and the mature subjects explored. The author instead recommends that, if younger people want to read the book, that a parent read it first, then read it with the child, thus enforcing family ties and responsible parenting.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Given the subject matter of the book, it’s not difficult to imagine this as a "conservatives versus liberals" tale. The author insists this is not the purpose of the book, but interpretations can be made for this trope.