to be up front of my personal bias and the minus 1 star I have grown to despise time travel plots.
if you are this far into the series you know there are two interwoven plots, one outside the game, one inside. the in game plot takes a massive hold and Jason takes a time travel mission/hands on history lesson. it’s better than a prequel novela or another side quest story because it lets all the characters out to do real world story arcs, and that’s where this book really shines.
you get to see the physical and psychological changes the game has made put into the real world. I think this is a brilliant concept authors forget about or do away with in litrpg stories by making the transition to game world permanent or the new defacto reality. it was painful to deal with time traveling but was with it in the end.