Zhuang Bifan
l took some time to digest it and this is my thought. it was a good end to the death plain crisis. my issue is the solving of everything else seems to be an afterthought. Hi mom I am home from school got an A on my math test. oh and I solved global warming and cancer. Mom responds "oh that is nice dear your father will be happy you are doing so well in school." Lead buried
So the unanswered questions/ unfinished plots are: -What actually started the apocalypse? -Was the guy watching Agalon Lin Yun or some other creature? -Does Lin Yun become a time mage or how did he go to the age of gods? Or did he get send to the beginning of time because he survived the apocalypse? But why did the new Lin Yun end up at the start of the magic era then and not the beginning of time? -Will there be an apocalypse this time? -We only hear about heaven mages in Nosceant. Where are the godfire mages? -What is stored in Pabietes Memory and what did the creator know? -What is the black substance in the puppets? -Does the Demiplane become a normal world or actually as bis as Nosceant or bigger? - What happens to Agalon and the Starry Sky college? -Does something happen with the Monarch Flower? - I think he never explored the ruins Joji gave him for the meditation set - Does Emir succeed in conquering all worlds so he can kill all crows? - What happens to Reinas father? - What is up with the Starry Sky battlefield? - Do the big snakes move into his Demiplane? - What other gods are hidden in the shadows? -What happens to the other organizations over time, like the thorny crown, the alliance of light? Maaan i realy hoped it takes him thousands of years to accumulate power and finally build the shelter tower. This way we could have seen organisations and civilizations develope over long periods of time. Or even better how the demiplane gives birth to entire covilizations. Very unfortunate. Despite the leftover plotpoints and arrogant young masters this was just beautifull worldbuilding. An elaborate system for magic and alchemy. Many different planes and species. History that spans across multiple eras and slowly gets unveiled. Twas a nice story! See you in the next one.
So basically Merlin saw the end of the world and was sent back in time to fix it but during the process found out about some of the truths. Somehow then “mastered” the law of time and sent himself back in time to cause all of the problems which would explain the super powerful human in the dream and then through each age became an influential and shadowy figure, like the dark sage. Then came to the current time period where he hoped to delay the ending of the world but failed due to the “past” current him. Realized that his thought process was wrong and somehow merged with the other one to maybe ignite the god fire and complete the construction of the tower and lead the world to a great age. I would loved of he unsealed the robots memory seal and saw himself making it and then the past self talked to the current one in that instance. I would of also like to have found out about the other mage from the Merlin who was missing. Maybe he was the other Merlin that lived through the past ages?