I believe the Tez we have is the Tez after the 100th loop (After Reed), but not exactly the next loop/future of the Reed we see here. Since we were shown that Tez was actually the soul that was being punished in the abyss and the og story having revealed that the outcome of Reed destroying the world was to be forever unable to die, it means when Allie entered the unknown dungeon to retrieve the disk at exactly the moment when Tez's soul was about to die, she prevented the disk from "respawning" Tez's soul (the save point being the abyss) and allowed him to die. His soul then probably took over the Tez of the timeline Allie is in. That's one of my theories or what the plot seems to lead.
However, it seems like our Tez is aware about the fact there is a god in his world even though he should know that the original TM god had abandoned it, because multiple times when the Merchant Lady god attacked him, he was aware there was an anomaly/divine presence preventing him from searching the disk; though, it was probably a misunderstanding from the Merchant Lady since she thought there was a presence trying to hurt Allie. Going back to my point, our Tez unlike Reed seems to be more conscious over the fact the world might be a "system". The sub-plot of the TM gods revealed that there was a soul that probably got bugged. We know that it is Tez.
What I am wondering about is if our Tez is actually a bug that came from a glitch that either got duplicated by accident, where our Tez was a Reed that went through the og storyline without ever meeting Allie in his 100th loop and the present Reed being the 100th loop Tez that the system (TM gods) "designed" for the 17th loop timeline where Allie; or both our Tez and Reed are the same Ted where the Reed we see was the loop our Tez had gone through. If it is the second, it means our Tez, who was our present Reed, had been defeated and punished, and that outcome leading to Allie saving him again to become her Tez.
My head hurts from thinking, but it would be a really nice Paradox. I keep thinking the sin our Tez keeps spouting that he committed might have been having either harmed or killed his Allie, but I know it can't be possible because, first of all, Allie is a transmigrator whose soul cannot be duplicated so we would know if she ever had been harmed or killed.
idk there is still much that I want know like why did the Strict Order and Goodness abandonned the project (lol and him being the chairman's son), and what is the real story of Tez. Maybe he is the og Tez from the novel that had gotten memories of the 17th Tez that met Allie. Just why is this story so good
Hmmm...I like your soul theory. It's got me thinking about when Tez woke up in that cabin unable to speak and he definitely didn't recognize Allie.
Theory Time: Fake #17 Tez is the bug from the original TM universe that didn't have an Allie in it. His world all played out as intended with the infinite loops. Soul Tez got trapped in the abyss dungeon with the Save Point disk and was slowly either withering away or getting corrupted by the endless darkness. Remember Allie said she felt afraid of the presence in the dungeon. And because that Tez never had an Allie in it he was on the offense and aggressive. So, Allie grabs the disk and releases Soul Tez from the dungeon. ST has nowhere to go, so he sticks close to Allie until she meets up with 17T. Once 17T gets wounded ST uses that chance to take over/merge with the body. That's why it took 17T a longer time to heal and speak as those two were merging memories and strengths. Now that ST has fully merged with 17's body and has 17's memories he's starting to question all the oddities surrounding Allie that 17T looked over as Allie being Allie. However with no Allie in the original timeline, ST is trying to see if Allie is indeed a gift sent by the gods or further punishment for his sin. I think Soul Tez's sin is he abandoned his world to die in that abyss dungeon.
That's exactly what I'm thinking! The whole setting for this manhwa is hella interesting. I usually can predict some plot points, but there is so many things that can happen.
It's a mix of all the fun qualities of the isekai genre. It's been awhile since I read something so good. Hopefully, the chap where Bia is saved comes soon, and we can finally get to see Allie beat the Magic Nation's asses for looking down on our hella charistmatic saintess lmao
To be honest, this story was hard to get into for me and I almost dropped it several times. I stuck around because the humor was absolutely funny and kept me turning pages. The plot not so much as I was able to discern much of the reveals before the official story revelations. (Probably by reading so much of this genre.) However by chapters 65 or 70 the story started getting really interesting and finally grabbed my full attention. Usually I drop stories after about 10 or so chapters if they can't interest me or at least make me rage-read it.
BUT...like I said the plot has picked up significantly and I'm down for it!! My guess: Tez17 isn't actually the real 17th Tez due to the Save Point disk. I don't know if he's right before Reed or after Reed, but he's definitely not #17.
Now back to the latest chapter as I join my fellow readers in unison: 'Dat demon girl has looked in her last mirror for messing with Bia. She'll have to lament her regrets as she is bathed in a raging pool of the the hottest Damnation Hellfire...of the Holy kind.