Epherene is best girl but I feel like she would've meant much more if it wasn't for her having to develop a crush on Deculein, like did she have to hurt my heart like that?

and also best side characters award goes to Keiron and Maho.

He stole Kagan’s thesis. He worked on it and completed. He admitted to pushing him to death yet gave him recognition.

He admits to killing Sylvia’s mother. He insisted that she be placed under green alert because he didn’t want to make a mountain out of mole hill. He is the only object of Sylvia’s hatred thus there is no need to inconvenience the world with it. He’ll gladly see her try. (He is bound to die a villain and he understand that he is the object of resentment of many others, what’s he difference of adding one more? Lol)

He stayed with Sophien til the last regression because of a promise

She is very honorable and just, and is against anything she considers unjust. She never considers the consequences of her actions, never stop to think why someone acts in a certain way or what makes them act in that way, just that if it is just or not. And she is written as just this single faceted person only does these things and nothing else.

She is a knight and is very driven to protect people. But she is not interested in anything else. The world is written as the magic is premium and wizards are at the top. Everyone, wizards included are involved in some form of politics to protect their interests or gain things. But not Julie. She is only interested in walking her path. She has a knight order but never thinks about how to gather support, or maintain her order. She never even checks for corruption in her order. Everything is managed and handled by her family or MC.

I felt she was very spoiled and entitled while reading the book.

1. The synchronization thing. This sucks. Essentially, the MC is neither Deculein nor Kim Woo-jin, but a mixture of both. I loathed the synchronization in the previous work, too. This time, however, it came at a much earlier time (right from the beginning) instead of arriving late and has hopefully no chance of devouring Woo-jin.

2. Chae Nayuns. There's a handful of Chae Nayuns. By this, I mean there's more than 1 heroine that has a love/hate relationship with the MC, where they both love him but also wanted to kill him at least once. Included, but not limited to in this list are Epherene, Julie and Sylvia. Probably Ellie, too.

3. Mopping drama. Mopping drama is the unfortunate event when Wooculein, neither Woo-jin nor Deculein, is forced to mop up after the original villain Deculein because he's a genuine ass and everyone hates him. It would be fine if all of the drama ever comes from characters that Deculein had wronged in the past, but the current Wooculein inherited Deculein's emotional intelligence of a brick and he is equipped only with a 5% ability to empathize, which is definitely Woo-jin's. What really sucks is when the current Wooculein gets hindered by past Deculein's words and actions, especially since they are already established facts with no room for discussion. Like the mu*der of a certain character's parent, or the mu*der of another character's parent, or perhaps the other awful stuff Deculein has done over 30 frickin years.

4. Why's everyone a woman? In the previous work, at least there was Kim Suho to fall back on when lacking in male screentime (Jonghak to a lesser extent), but in the first 100 chapters of this, all of the major characters are female except for the MC. This gets balanced later on, but that must have been the author taking in reader feedback. One of the rare male characters was even a trap all along, what the heck? She's 2nd best girl though, so I forgive it to an extent.

1. The characters are fleshed out. I especially love

Heroines have normal friendships with each other and aren't mere sock puppets for the author, they interact with each other even without the MC's intervention, they have disagreements, gripes, their own circles of friends or none at all, dreams, objectives. In one of the later chapters, the MC tells another character about the person he still loves (his ex), which one of the heroines overhears. Her reaction to this was to flop in bed and murmur, "I wish it was me..." twice, in sadness. It was something so, so small and it's these small, insignificant things that turns these characters into people.

2. There's two people that got isekaid. Well, so far. The other one is his ex, Yoo Ara. As of now, we still don't know why they broke up. She's suffering the same disease as the MC, where she's assimilated with a character. Neither of them know the other got isekaid as well, for now. Both of them can't recognize the other despite knowing each other for years which is kinda weird, but maybe that's because neither are acting the way they usually do because of their assimilation with the game characters. I just like that there's more than one transported individual.

3. Sophien. Yes, she gets her own number. Her development, her motivations and her reactions to other heroines are so well-written. She's in love with Wooculein and knows what she wants, even harboring an almost ugly jealousy of Julie, whether she's aware of it or not. She's even doing everything in her power to make sure Julie hates Deculein in order to make a permanent rift in the two's relationship.

4. The misunderstandings. Oh god the misunderstandings. The way they weave together are just so good. They would be so much better without the bittersweet, tragic drama. The way two characters misunderstand MC and they think he's dying because of a precedent case and confirmation bias, how they develop by themselves believing he will die in the near future, how they might reveal it to other characters and how that might affect certain characters, all this anticipation is enough to drive a woman mad.

The empress somehow died suddenly and the regression power gets passed on to Epherene. The MC died during the subsequent encounters and we are led to progress the story through Epherene's view. Traitors all over the place, some self-proclaimed god appears, leading to one problem after the other. Which is fine and all, but the author chose to resolve this plot point by doing, what, I asked?

By having the MC just overcame the regression somehow, got his memory from who knows where, survived, and.. Did nothing else. Yes, just by being alive, the enemy god just said f*ck it I'm not doing anything else and let the empire be. We didn't even know how the Empress died in the first place. Key traitors are left alive and seen in the next arc, so what was the point of all that? And don't get me started on the Voice world/quest or whatever the hell the author planned to do with that.