No, I just took a week to get over burnout. I'll be posting again next Monday.

See you next binge 🫡

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Which is why he's gonna employ more than just manipulation. But that's gonna be explored in Part Three, so, I guess that'll be there when we get there.

You can think of it like this. Quis takes risks, but the risks he takes are realistic risks. The people that he puts his trust in as cornerstones of his faction are the people he views as most susceptible to his manipulations (insecure, broken, radical, or even just bored). Spiravit was originally in this group of people as he was very insecure, but he recently had a breakthrough by studying Quis, making him much more risky to manipulate. Quis recognized this and decided that it was better to meet him on the battlefield than risk him destroying his faction from the inside out. Manipulation is a powerful tool, but only when used selectively. Those with a keen mind will only find it silly, and Quis knows this, which is why he has other methods besides just manipulation. To Quis, Spiravit now falls into that category, and since Quis wouldn't take a risk that has a bigger fall than the payout, he didn't. But that's not to say that Quis can't be wrong. It's important to remember that he's a person, not some omnipotent being. So if you think his choice was wrong, that's fine. It's all a matter of perspective. We won't see what would happen if Quis did try to put Spiravit in his faction, but we'll see the results of the choice he did make. If it works out, that's good, if it doesn't, then Quis will learn from it. We'll just have to see.

Naw, it was 150, you can look through some earlier chapters and it comes up a few times. I don't think I ever said it was 300 or more, but if I did tell me where so I can change that. I lost all of the data that I wrote for the book and now I'm stuck playing catch-up, so there might be some errors now and then.

He was referring to his time spent as the Demon King

Yup, they should be.

You didn't miss it, I'm just referring to the entirety of chapters 1-26, which is Part One. This isn't a question that is flat-out answered, but one that is shown throughout the story, that's all. 👌

Refer to Part 1👍

That certainly is a way of doing things, but, for the most part, being eccentric and garnering attention is the best way of giving yourself more options. Staying under the radar wouldn't be a good way to capitalize on him being "the talk of the sect". Not that being silent isn't the correct choice some of the time; it's just not as effective in his current situation.

Naw, he wouldn't actually let himself get involved in a relationship wether it's fake or not; he already tried that once before and discovered he wasn't ready for it yet. And after all, if you let people feel as though they possess you to any degree, you lose all power over them. And as for her being baggage:

"Greek"

I cringed writing it 😔

I guess, but it's filler with meaning behind it. I could skip to the end, but then I would have to explain everything that happened, and I just don't like doing that. It would feel like a cop-out. If nothing happened then yea, I'd move past it, but a lot does happen, so ima write it. I enjoy explaining what happened through the story itself, not a chapter of a main character reviewing it. 🤷‍♂️

To be honest, I plan for each volume to be 200 chapters long, give or take. But I get what you mean with the stretching. I never will and never have done it on purpose, so everything I write I feel is necessary for you to know. This section is a bit iffy, but it sets up the characters which is what this entire part is: a setup for Part Three. And we'll get there when we get there, which as of now is coming soon.

Yup, it's definitely a constant risk he's taking, but as of now he doesn't have the means to get rid of that risk, so he'll just have to play it by ear. The next part is going to go deeper into that idea and how he'll try to prevent it with what he has. Right now you can think of it as the honeymoon phase, betrayal is unlikely even if someone realizes something or is a traitor.

I'll try getting better at making sense of reactions based on their established smarts, might take a bit, but I've still got a lot of plot to go through, so I'll give it my best effort 🫡

Yes, and no. You are correct that their "IQ drops" in a way, but that is an effect of the manipulation he's put in place already (I explained it in a previous reply). And you are correct, his schemes, up to this point and probably later down the line, are perfect (his process for scheming comes up later which makes this more realistic). He's lived for a long time, but not only has he lived, he's experienced. He has learned from the mistakes of himself and others and puts it into all of his schemes. That's why most of the time, especially while we're still in the early game, his ideas are going to work. I do try to base all of his tactics on real ideas that have been used in history so that they seem realistic. There still will be mistakes, but at the very least, they haven't come up yet. The Hasrem one was a stretch of the idea presented in the chapter, so I probably won't do that again unless it makes perfect sense. And who knows, the way he decided to do this one might have consequences later.

Naw, It just hasn't come up yet because age is not very important in this world when you are an adult. You can infer from context clues though.