This page is a bit different- It feels like everyone isn’t on the same page, which is intentional. Kaylin is struggling to put together what’s going on and dealing with how it doesn’t make sense yet, Nyna is expressing her understanding, and El is expressing his feelings on bringing adventurers back which is basically “Can you only bring back the COOL people and not all the losers?” XD
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Who’s “this person” that is roaming free?
Likely whoever taught that King and his people how to become pseudo adventurers and farm monsters and npcs for gear.
“It feels like everyone isn’t on the same page”
Everyone is their own unreliable narrator.
The lack of information sharing is a common theme in the comic. Most of the questions could have been answered if someone who was continously present from the past to the current time would actually tell Kaylin (and us) what actually happened (at least from their own perspective). This could clear up most of the questions, so it’s unlikely to happen soon.
The disappearance of some adventurers while everyone was online is the smaller question, the bigger one is where did all the regular players went and when? My working theories are one: a server that is left running without players, two: a fork of the process that runs without irl connections or three: where the whole accident happened within a short period of time, that had the server kick players out one by one until noone remained. The 3rd could even mean that for the irl players only a few seconds have passed since a server without player connections can have any time base from much slower through near irl to much faster.
Hm, she can rewrite this world, but its not the only one. The space man was from another. She isn’t the goddess of the other worlds. And it took time for his cybernetics and gear to get adapted.
Worlds are colliding and she has difficulty editing them even after they enter her domain.
Kaylin’s so frustrated she’s not even giving poor Lyrestra a chance to answer her shrill questions, lol
Multiple different threads here indeed! And you can’t blame anyone here, they’ve got a literal goddess in front of them (floating above them? they’re all looking upward) and they want what answers they can get while they have the chance.
Calling the ‘Incident’ that started this series an ‘Accident’ sounds like a deflection to possibly avoid admitting fault – but we also don’t know enough about whatever it was.
Kaylin seems focused on both that these powerful Rime-Aria deities haven’t taken action to fix things until now (we don’t know how long it’s actually been!), as well as the unanswered question of whoever ‘this person’ is that was responsible for teaching Talithar about grinding beings for exp and items.
I suspect the answers to these are related – some as yet unrecognized limit on the Rune-Aria deities’ power, very likely related to Adventurers themselves. If their former function was to keep the world running while Adventurers… literally played around, it is very possible that Rune-Aria deities have a deliberate block where Adventurers are concerned and can only affect them in certain situations; such as after death.
Nyna is actually the most forward-looking out of everyone; asking how monsters can not LOSE what they have gained following the ‘Incident’ while everyone else is talking about how bringing Adventurers back is supposed to ‘fix’ the world’s problems by taking it backward.
And then in the background we have the question of how OTHER game worlds or systems may be involved. Where did Ellisia “acquire” resources to create a Monster afterlife? She was able to supposedly send an old god to another world, but how much power does she have beyond Rune-Aria itself – is she some kind of overarching multi-world GM, or just flexing power from the world she is in?
We were warned this chapter would be an exposition dump at the beginning; but 18 chapters in, I think it’s good to (hopefully) finally get a little more solid lore about the Incident that started it all! And maybe a reveal of the BBEG whose forces have been circling around since the beginning? How much is left of Kevin – maybe even a chance for Kaylin and Kevin to have a ‘face to face’? Lots of possibilities!