Evil_Dragon
I found the story compelling so far lol. The biggest thing that made me think for a while was, did Alan came from the Earth we're currently inhabiting? If yes, then Celestial didn't give the TDG novel to Alan? Giving him an absolute advantage so he could predict and tweak the timeline by his foresight.
The story is really enjoyable at this point. I wanted to give some of my output for the author. please don't try to make the mc a complete manipulative evil guy , he can be manipulative , cunning e.t.c. but must have a bottom line . Its your choice but I personally don't want to see an mc that is just evil for the sake of evil. if he becomes evil give him some reason or whatever. From this chapter I can see that the mc is arrogant so will his character develop through the story where he learns to draw the line between being confident and being arrogant.