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Yes, and how is that exactly any different from Nova having Dione being a solution to just about any ranged encounter? Or Caly being able to port anyone when things get too hot, no matter the circumstances so long as she's not "tired-because-plot-reasons?" Or Nancy snugly fitting in her Empress role and winging it every single time? Or Luna being able to summon powerful beings with ease?The problem with that is the extension of his OP Skill has been Orion's discover or developed, now with that lacking, the use of that is literally a plot device to move forward the narrative when the overall story needed, because he can do whatever he wants at the circumstances require it.
Point being: the idea that Cari would go out of his way to write events solely for the main characters to hone and develop their abilities (and not relegate them to snippets or glimpses like in the case of Dalia's and Orion's training) has been thrown out of the window ever since Ogygia. Effort has instead been placed on finding out the origin of said powers and items, which is part of the mystery that'll likely be unraveled as we go further into the story. If you think that's going to change anytime soon, then you're not paying attention to how Cari is writing this story at all.
Again, YOU think it's important to see. I think it's nice but it adds nothing to the overall narrative if the events in the trip aren't going to play a part later on in the story. And if Orion is going to spend his trip logging in to Eternum with the girls and/or use that time to investigate, then why even have him go in the bloody trip in the first place? Why even bother with the time skip? Just have Orion stay in Kredon working on his powers leading up to the WW event at the beginning of this update. Nevermind the fact that doing that just turns it into ANOTHER downtime update like in 0.5, with the only difference being that said downtime happens in Eternum.And what part of that life the girls aren't part of?, as i stated, the time zone difference isn't at most impossible to schedule for nobody, they still could cellphone text messages, meet and fuck on Eternum as i said before, to see a glance of his life outside Kredon in which he passed most of his unknown to us life but some lil saying by comments from Orion and a flashback of his fathers back watching sports.
There could be meetings inside Eternum and text message to organize the search for information, as Orion's could have met the Eternumite community of UK, and perhaps some friends of Annie that play with her in Eternum. Being witnesses of Orion's progress on his powers in a first glance. But instead of that, it feels unreal, like he haven't communication with the girls once he step UK, all day doing WTF exactly?, meeting his grandpa's home, his dad that he barely see, Annie's and Chang parents to make them sure both are fine in Kredon as they couldn't manage to get in touch with their own offspring (WTF this is serious?) and some random training in which the elf princess develop a stalker behavior.
Not to mention the fact that having Orion meet up with the UK Eternumite community adds more uneccesary elements to the mix. Like we already have a large cast and we're likely going to grow that further with the survivors of the Collector whodunit, the Syndicate, the identity of the mysterious man in the Ulysses party, any important members of Caly's race (assuming any of them are still alive at this point)...why would we need even more major characters (or minor ones if they don't show up again) to keep track of? Just because?
Considering how much I absolutely HATED the downtime in OIAL's early chapters with every fiber of my being and how your comments are basically asking a repeat of that storytelling process...yes, I am absolutely happy with how Cari is telling the story in Eternum now, thank you very much.If you are happy with that, cool for you bro.