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End of Arc 2 – Summary

Jared Delacroix

Goals:

* save Deteoh from the demon artifact

* find out how "true" his love for Lucia (and by extension Eclaire) is

* unite the remains of mankind; it was estimated there to be ~500000 left alive at most

* gain more personal combat power and better equipment

* find more party members

* investigate what monsters are; suspects they are captured souls

* find the tea lady boss again and have a proper chat

* defeat his rival "Haze Shield the Slime" for good

* deal with Dan (in case he survived the glitch calamity)

* train Anna to give her a chance to become a real hero

* prepare countermeasures against a potentially ancient vampire noble/lord responsible for Erwin and Niles

* investigate what demons are; by title, he is one but the devas branded all demons as the enemy

* find countermeasures against the devas; their behavior was too suspicious

* punch whoever invented DU

* replace DU in the system with proper units

* investigate glitches

* potentially save the universe from its management

Successes:

* outed Elly as a deva agent

* gathered more party members

* bullied Therese into handing over another Class Core "for Iris" - planned to use it himself to give Iris indirectly an extra class

* discovered the underground lab and sealed Glitch Zone below his fortress

* got some kind of revenge on Haze by making him cry

* could redo the choice for some classes he didn't really want

Failures:

* glitched the chapter counter, denying us a chapter 100 milestone

* did remember to use the "Ring of Monsters" to talk with a monster, didn't like the outcome

* got forced into an uneasy alliance with an ancient lich

* created E1#d_$ (Lydia) instead of the intended spirit

* got trapped again in a dungeon

* took a bath in self-created glitch soup with severe consequences

* freed slaves from life

* doubled the number of entries on the endangered species list

* antagonized the personification of glitches

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* took Ren and Kael as familiars despite them being nowhere near where he can travel for the foreseeable future

* made the monster called Dan consider thinking

* found out that he seemingly was a victim in a deva's experiment before his reincarnation

* already watched the credits Kredits

* got married to a clone of Lucia for some dubious reasons

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Lucia (Delacroix)

Goals:

* find out what her true self is

* master her smithing craft

* keep Jared to herself

Successes:

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* stretched the definition of what a "dagger" is beyond its breaking point to create a special weapon for Iris

* revived the remains of her former human self as a summoned spirit

* broke the cap of how many spirits they can have by exploiting a loophole

* gathered the needed parts to (eventually) enact an infinite feedback loop for free levels

Failures:

* almost killed Chloe in a fit of jealousy

* let herself be governed by her vampiric instincts instead of her own will

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Eclaire (remains of the original Lucia)

Goals:

* keep her other self (Lucia) in check

Successes:

* got brought back from the dead, but only as a spirit instead of a human, despite revival being normally impossible

* made Lucia realize what she has become, and promise to better herself

Failures:

* had to accept a name change because her other self is still around

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Elly

Goals:

* assist Jared

* tease Jared

* stay permanently summoned

* become useful besides translating/fixing Gzeph's defective documents

Successes:

* gained and used the [Fire Bomb] skill she shouldn't be able to use because she is a spirit

Failures:

* Jared found out that she was an agent of the devas

* died together with Maria against Dan(geon) but both got better

* wasn't allowed to add all the classes she wanted for her skill combo

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Chloe

Goals:

* find friends and acceptance for who/what she really is

* deal with depression

Successes:

* got (forced) into a relationship with Ephran who accepts her real self - maybe a bit too much

* set Lucia on a path to realize how horrible she has become

Failures:

* got cursed by Lucia with a nagging voice in her head

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Geoffrey

Goals:

* deal with heartbreak from losing (and personally killing) the love of his life

Successes:

* took Anna as a disciple, he and Marca wanted to adopt her as their daughter

Failures:

* his girlfriend Marca died and got turned into a monster; he had to kill her once himself

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Devas as a whole

Goals:

* Gzeph wants to find his fiance Yulia (dead? alive?)

* Gzeph is preparing plan R (undisclosed drastic measures)

* find out who killed the top god Todo, and how

* Eva wants to be cleared of her wrong accusations regarding her involvement in Todo's demise

* revenge against "the enemy"

Successes:

* Gzeph defeated a random Demon Lord and found some important blueprints by pure chance

* Gzeph found leads on traitors among the devas

* a person named Ted survives for once

Failures:

* top god Todo was killed on their watch

* more busy arguing about politics than fixing the universe's mess

* several demon-aligned agents have infiltrated their facilities and are causing even more chaos than they wanted

* at least one reality-threatening abomination is on the loose, and another sits uncontrolled in its supposed containment chamber

* were hit especially hard by the most recent Glitch Spike

* the last programmer who worked on the System was blackmailed into giving up his job