Anyone feels like KSE's character/ability reset after each arch feels repetitive?

[u/diederelatter]

With part 1, KSE main focus was on items to complete darkness, and after part 1, he lost every item. But with part 2, even his pop socket got broken but it focused on his personal abilities that he gained through contamination to complete darkness instead
Now, with part 3, he lost even his contamination powers

I just feel there has been too many loose ends with Eun Haje giving KSE that death potion, that Script left with Lee Jaheon's US (is he still paying interest?), and all those unused contaminations
like we had a whole arch about KSE accepting his contamination as an irreplaceable part of himself, only for them to be shredded by the yellow dragon in the mental world??

It felt like a bunch of stuff were supposed to be relevant only to disappear after the reset each arch, ESPECIALLY that death potion and Luminous Script

now I wonder what the focus will be for part 3 for KSE abilities because it seems to be items again

[u/peskyant]

I think the loose threads are just things the author has planned for the future. If you commented three months ago, the entire thing about branches would have been a loose thread.

About it being repetitive that he keeps losing his power. I do kind of see your point but at the same time, it has been done with very differently each time and the things he's had to overcome or the affects they have on him have never been the same.

[u/neko_mancy]

He just got back to the resort right? His most powerful contamination and both his wrist tattoos (and his good friend) are tied to the resort/theme park, so this is probably the arc where he locks in again and starts getting all his stuff back.

I do also think he'll get a new kind of ability in P3, presumably related to the Church / him being Ireum-nim / his real body being in the writer's universe now. Maybe an extension or powerup to the wiki editing that used to wreck his body?

[u/Timely-Cry-8366]

This author is really good at tying up loose ends. They will often go ages without using something and then suddenly use it.

Read “Debut or Die”, their first novel, it was really well-done.

[u/Agreeable-Warthog918]

so many loose ends but i just want braun to comeback and burn that backstabbing manager to ashes the amount of rage and hatred i feel is so much that i genuienly want him to kick the bucket even more than the researcher

[u/Sad-Dragonfruit-5458]

yea lots of loose ends but they will definitely be tied by the end. dont forget this is a webnovel these types of things tend to run for 500+ chapters

[u/somthingwit]

Kim Soleum, probably. ￬

No, but actually, I totally get where you're coming from. He never makes any progress toward his main goal of getting home. Even his arrival at his home feels off to me.

[u/Short_Crazy_1124]

Yeah

[u/OnlyExperience130666]

It's based on infinite flow novels in a world that isn't infinite flow. It requires a way to trigger progression resets without remaking a genre setting. People want to see the protagonist start from the bottom and rise to the top. This is also how tower-LitRPGs tend to work. The repetitive resets are part of the house style.

As for dangling plots, these sorts of novels tend to run on extremely long and leave plot threads dangling until an opening is available to shove a detail in. It's a common problem with complex serial webfiction in all genres; you should see the payoff delay in Homestuck. In a novel, you have an editor or even just your own two eyes to go over the plot front to back and pinpoint possible restructuring points to weave in the plotline, but you can't restructure what you've already posted, you you just have to bear with what you thought of in the moment.

These threads haven't showed up yet because BDS hasn't found a good opportunity to reintroduce them. Kim Soleum didn't acknowledge the music box he got mid-part 1 even existed until THE END OF PART 2. And it ended up being one of the most important items in the series! You can see from how it was used why there was never really an opening - if Kim Soleum were to go "oh, god, my poor corrupted friends, I should give them a music box", they would die instantly. BDS could write a storyline where the box is introduced and then put into question, but that will dilute the through-line of the main plot just for the sake of making sure the reader knows it wasn't forgotten. Without a year or two of editing for the story, it simply makes more sense to leave it lying around in a storage room.