Please just repost what you already had posted. I appreciate splitting the stories, but I don't think you need to make any changes unless you're taking this time to edit parts you consider mistakes.

Yes, wrap up this arc and return to Marvel, but you clearly wanted him to get something from this world, so don't leave without whatever it is. I'd guess it is the skills he has been given and the material he created, maybe the stats (if they affect the real world) and companions who want to come with.

i appreciate that you don't want to drop this story, but I would much rather read a story you enjoy writing, so I think it would be OK to switch stories, not dropping this one but putting it on the back burner to update only when you feel like it.

You finally introduced the tech I suggested in the discord.

Did you rewrite some chapters?

Did Aron just figure out how to give Rina a mana heart like his (but I assume lower level), or is he just explaining how to absorb mana based on his understanding

If Aron wants to keep the system secret, at least from the public, while also explaining why the empire knew about awakening, he can go with that he triggered his initial awakening years ago. I think as empress, Rina should be told the truth unless the system prevents him from doing so.

Why didn't the mana generation occur in the simulation? They've potentially been running the electricity to mana converters for hundreds of virtual years since it didn't need to be shut down for aliens. I guess the vortex was the trigger, so that will need to be replicated via Nova's god powers in lab city so it can be studied beyond the data that the real world will provide.

Super-powered terrorist cells are admittedly a sufficient enemy for Aron at this point and can be arbitrarily power scaled to match his technology. I didn't see a way to make that enemy last more than 10 more chapters. But superpowers for everyone will cause chaos that could be a more serious threat to his empire.

It has several more chapters on patreon

Will you be posting the remaining patreon chapters now that your next work has started to be posted? Or will those remain patreon exclusive to tempt your readers into giving support?

I understand that as this universe's version of Rick Astley, this cult leader is Never Gonna Give it Up, but the smarter path would be to Let Them Down, by Running Around and Deserting the other doomed/crazed cultists before ARES & NYX find them.

All Aron's helmets can see through walls and see everything within a 3 km radius as of the Eden Esparia war (pretty sure I remember those details correctly, but I could be wrong). That agent will be easily found, and if we see his trial, it will include a recording of him hiding and fleeing the scene. I'm not at all interested in reading that trial or any of the trials unless you feel it is essential or especially interesting, but I wouldn't mind a chapter that summarizes how many total were arrested for what crimes and their punishment (hoping for creative use of VR). The ringleader(s) can also get their own chapter, but I hope you limit that no matter how many ringleaders there are, I imagine there would be at least 1 per region that had a violent protest but I don't want to read a chapter about each one, maybe a chapter of many single paragraphs naming them and showing some spy/counterintelligence stuff on how each is captured, then another that shows what they are doing after Nyx works on them, since if things are done sneakily they would be near ideally placed to manage and distract the resistance in a productively destructive manner. If the old city's need to be demolished what better way to avoid resentment towards the new goverment than to have the people to tear it down themselves while also making those doing the demolition criminals when history is written.

An atomic printer is centuries ahead of all his other tech except maybe the universe simulation which he is playing down as just a major advancement/development of full dive VR. People today are at least working on something that has a clear development path to most of his tech, but not for the atomic printer, even with lab city the first atomic printer needed MAGIC to work and Aron couldn't have made the pure tech version without this resource which only he has. Like the researchers of lab city have devoted centuries to make the understanding of the atomic printer tech their own, Aron should have an entire replica of lab city especially the gold branch solely devoted to studying how the universe simulation works as it will likely teach them more about everything than any other research topic although what they learn may not be directly applicable to any project I imagine that once the understanding spreads through lab city they will find it much easier to reverse engineer anything else Aron gets from the system.

<From Discord> Starting next Monday, December 11, we'll be transitioning to a split upload schedule. Instead of rushing to push two chapters out at the 6pm upload time, we'll be having one chapter uploaded at 11am and one at 6pm daily, Beijing Time. We appreciate your patience and hope to continue bringing you the excellent content you've come to expect from us. Thanks for remaining our loyal, super-intelligent, and incredibly good-looking fans.

I know basically every chapter ends on a cliffhanger because that is your writing style, but I hope tomorrow's chapters are uploaded together because I want to know what happens next

Author said on discord that the chapters will be uploaded in the 2nd webnovel timeslot roughly 17 hours after it was expected, which is in 7 to 9 hours from when I posted this comment

I enjoyed the chapter but hope you will also write new chapters for your patreon one piece story

As a single letter edit, that change would probably be allowed by webnovel

Update from Discord: There will be four chapters in the next regularly scheduled update which should be on time