Volume Thirteen Complete

What a long volume. This was the longest one since I started this book.

First, my assessment of this volume: there was too much content and too much information revealed. Some parts were less than satisfactory. I would rate it above passing, but below satisfying.

I fell ill while writing this volume, then caught COVID, and later found that my blood sugar and blood lipids were elevated during a health check. All of that drained a great deal of my energy. Otherwise, this volume should have been even more exciting.

Still, it was above the passing line. By the end of this volume, the goals I wanted to achieve had basically all been achieved.

First, I established the Absolute Spacetime View and the Relative Spacetime View, making spacetime reversal—the so-called cure for regret—reasonable without allowing it to be abused. Its difficulty was raised to an appropriate level, creating the conditions for this reversal while also laying the groundwork for future reversals.

Second, the various details of Gaia Human civilization had to gradually be revealed, including the nature of the Superbrain, the whereabouts of the divine faction after they left the Heavenly Court, and the payoff to the previously foreshadowed Beelzebub side plot: the traces and influence of those roots that arrived at the Absolute True Layer.

In particular, the Final Producer's position, its nature, the reason for the upheaval back then, as well as the Company, the Human Revolutionary Union, and the fleshing out of other important factions and characters.

Especially the Human Revolutionary Union's five great leaders—for example, Delusion, the mastermind who forced Wu Pifu to face the roots alone in the previous volume. They could not just appear out of nowhere; their identities, origins, future paths, and so on...

This volume explained all of that, and the logic