author, I really wanna be on your side. A ton of other readers are being complete a**holes to you and your writing, but the mc has screwed the timeline in many ways; - showing the black market the demon's plans to blow up a dungeon with a baron and behind it, a major step in a third apocalypse. - initiating Kevin's black market contact early - doing stock trading to the point where the main contender in the potion market was after him - the demon's initiating an attack against female protag - said female protag is interacting with him and outside influence - he is making a business deal with another female protag - he leaked important future research, not once, but twice and this is only the stuff he knows about (I.e. he doesn't know about Jin and boss lady demon). The fact that anything is following the main plot is insanely lucky. Also, again trying for constructive criticism, if you want the readers to sympathize you should explore the points you are making. Instead of repeating "I should not make too many timeline changes", which he has already done and stated is unavoidable, he should, as the author, mention that something important happens in his original work stalling the butterfly effect; - Does Kevin go through serious character development this arc? - Is a major villain destroyed or a protag killed with ramifications down the line? - Does anyone go through a major power up or find out about a major plot point/device? - Does this massacre help bring in a major law/ strategy/ person into power? The mc should be bringing this up, helping make the moral quandary of "should I sacrifice 10s-100s of kids for an already changed timeline?" make much sense with context (e.g. "...or should I let the protag not find out about the demon king's main weakness?")

3. upsets me quite a bit, I mean the author has now come up and said that delaying the third cataclysm, forewarning the black market of the demon's plans with their many dungeons; stealing the wnmc's black market contact; stealing both wnmc's and jin's cheat item, the limiting seed and fruit; and stopping a main demoness for a year doesn't affect the main plotline. Does the amc have to write in the wnmc's death before the timeline changes? honestly, knowing what he knows, even when he ends up changing major plot points, is op. Being able to rewrite and view 10 minutes into the future is op. I don't think this whole "the timeline has changed severely due to my presence, but not really" is helping the plot or AMC's character development.

the fact that this is probably the best bit of progression and actual storytelling this far, and there are actually people bagging on this... I'm really feeling for when the author blamed his audience

Well the author basically admitted that the first 40 chapters are a half-hearted, Novel's Extra clone with a very beta mc, and that after that chapter mark it "gets good". Many commenters agree and I hope they are right.

except you said he was at rank ~300 and was about as strong at the rank 75

D rank talent, currently at G+, which is somehow strong enough to be around rank 300 of the first years and strong enough he had to fake being overwhelmed.

is he... like actually gonna fall for a trap that obvious, by a character is his own book? srsly?

guys you won't believe this, but I think, quite possibly, the devil possessed villain sent here to convert students to the dark side, might, perhaps, have been sent here to convert students to the dark side and, in doing so, be the bad guy convincing students to join the dark side.

my problem seems to be the opposite of others here: -Enemy is rank 75 -The mc has a general rank of G+ -The faked being overwhelmed this means that a general level of G is in the top 100 of the first years... the power scaling is wack.

for an author, he sure does not understand the tropes he writes into his own books.

mhm, I definately love when "smart" mc, with foreknowledge and knowledge on tropes, makes fun of stereotypes and cliches then proceeds to do said things. I mean we already had a young master that the mc went "oh but then he gets better, see not a trope", then we get introduced to a high young sect member with a bloodline superiority complex. Now after the whole "the protag finds a boring but sus seed that turns out to be op, but doesn't use it for forever", he finds a 'boring sus book' that he won't use forever. I don't understand power fantasy books where we are supposed to self-insert to a character like this.

agreed, would have been less contrived if it went along the lines of: [status] ... {effects} - soul desync "Soul desync? what is that?" he reached for his status for clarification, but his arm didn't immediately obey, as if his arm was lagging a second behind his thoughts. "I guess it's this then..." not perfect I know, but I think this would help with the whole "soul" reasoning while also giving more use to his status than just showing G's.

I thought they had TNT not dynamite

ayyy, I take it back. While sappers in the main army would be good as well they didn't forget that small mention of TNT.

Also by going straight to TNT he skipped nitroglycerin and it's instability till the invention of dynamite... you know the thing so important Nobel prizes exist?

You have TNT used in the mines. The explosive that all modern day explosives are measured against (the kiloton/ne). The best before the invention of the nuke. Who cares for 12lb cannon and gunpowder against stone battlements when you have that?

bit of a divk move here man... do you know how hard it is to wash out non-water soluable pomade?

my problem with this is either a) she believes he is a reincarnator/killed the baby at birth(like one twin eating the other in the womb; not their fault), then proceeded to kill a class of kids and their teacher for no reason. or b) she believes he is an outsider that killed a classroom of kids and their teacher to kill and take her brother's life. in both scenarios he is also the major reason for both their parents' death. She also has the experience of another "psychic parasite" wanting to kill and remove her ego and many others due to it being a "hassle to deal with emotions". Simply pretending to be the og ego doesn't resolve these issues.

I know this is a nonsense cult world, but why is it on the school that these kids don't have strong wills or pain tolerance. The military puts them in these specific rings/sectors, the military stops people from informing or training these kids for this ceremony. It's just very silly to me, I would understand it if it's a terribly hard procedure that the nurses screw up and kill them, making it the academy's fault, but its stated that it's mostly determined by the student.

he was an environmentalist hoping his invention would inspire later generations. Now he is willing to mutate and kill a teacher, kill 27 students, heavily injure two more, put a nurse at risk then kill and take the place of a child. I reckon he has gone a bit insane.