Hundred Reigns Poll (posted early to keep tension up)

I do think Visionary makes a lot more sense to get before heading the church route, yet it seems like that isn’t going to win.

So I know the Church description no longer contains Norbelle, but I still hope we get a little more info about her in that arc. It feels weird that we know nothing about one of the Magnos powerhouses, we didn't even meet her, only her summons. Gimme some imaginary tea already! Edit: After reading the next chapter, I would like to change this comment to "We need more Norbelle."

Diabolism and Necromancy come on guys, that's Peak... especially the orgy, who cares about the stars

Dassein Looks 40

I think I've guessed what the huge surprise is. The mana sword lacking the Goddesses blessing is the clue I think. Edit: Also are these two loops exclusive?

Stars. Stop fucking with us.

Odd theory, but what if Mastemo is creating his own time-travel mechanism? It sounds unhinged, but the fact that the Church of the Stars now only mono focuses on Mastemo seems off. similarly, it offers both information on Noble Crestones ( which we’ve seen the Overlord class has some eerily similar resemblances to other Crestone abilities and perks) along with it saying it gives some insight into time-travel mechanics, makes it seem that Astrology allowed the High Confessor to learn more then he bargained for. There’s also a slight possibility that he could have uncovered remnants of Mardok’s research years ago, but with how many failsafes and contingencies the first Overlord put to make sure nobody found out about the Overlord classes real secret, it doesn’t seem plausible.

Time to make peace with Thalas and Euphemia, if it's possible at all. My vote is for the Church.

Honestly, I feel like it's a better idea to open the poll early for all reigns, as they stay open for the entire reign anyways and it is always a small spoiler, even in longer reigns (it did imply Simon would die soon someway after dealing with the conspiracy last time)

HEY VH, I think your stories are super unique and you keep churning out quality chapters at breakneck pace. Half convinced you are 10 expertly trained chimps on typewriters working 16 hour shifts, but I really love seeing the notification for polls and new chaps. Please give simon extra eyeballs so he can see good. Simon with good vision->->-> 8888^)

One thing I find interesting is the subtle differences in the description of the church route this time. In the previous reign’s poll it says that Simon approaches Euphemia and Mastemo with an offer that they cannot refuse. This one only mentions Mastemo. Additionally the description for the previous poll had Norbelle in the description of people while this one doesn’t. It seems like even if you go on the same route, things will be subtly different depending on previous reigns.

I love how everyone is so engaged in this story

I think that going Church -> Queen of Crimson makes the most sense. First we will learn more crucial info regarding the astrology, reigns and visionary powers. Then Simon can develop his own pseudo visionary abilities and more diablerie that he seems to be incredibly talented in

Both sound great honestly (sorry that's not helpful)

I hope we go Church to progress towards getting the mage creststone.

I guess since there's going to be some shocking revelations, church of stars makes more sense. Not my favorite option, but it's probably very useful meta plot wise and also I'd like to get it out of the way.

Aw, I want to see theater kid Simon.

I think I will hold off on the final decision. Depending on the character interactions I might end up choosing the church Arc however I am currently defaulting to queen crimson.

I chose the church both because it seems reasonable for Simon to get som big picture information about now, and visionary things seems more like a tool for making it further into reigns while astronomy gives an indication of where he actually needs and wants to go. Handling his family and getting levels/creststones is an instrumental goal to solve the overall issue of the pending apocalypse after all. Also, it feels like we've done a lot of demon and war-party stuff already so it would be nice to get some variation.

The Queen of Crimson is better first just so we can get done with the whole visionary stuff tbh

Damn I chose Crimson because of the theater kid Simon but now that I also see the orgy part I suddenly feel like a creep who chose it for it. Don't get me wrong I would have chosen it for the orgy because I am in fact a creep but still.

I was wondering, have we been told the ages of the different Magnos kids?