First off, this is book 5 in the Terminate The Other World series. As with most litrpg series, you can't just jump in; you need to start from book 1, and go in that order. If you've never read the series, I highly recommend it so long as you don't mind lengthy stat sheets in the first three books. The books are well written and funny, and Savy Des-Etages is easily one of my favourite audiobook narrators. In short, what happens when a cyborg terminator from a futuristic world is transported into a middle-ages world of stats and technology? Read all five books to find out!

In another rarity for litrpg, this is a series with an actual end that's satisfying and wraps everything up nicely. There also isn't a stat sheet anywhere in the entire book. I do wonder, however, if this book is weirdly deep, or just deeply weird. By the time you get to the end, you'll have encountered enough realms and dimensions and plains of reality to make your head spin. I'm not sure if all these things were somehow connected to platonic ideals, and trying to make a deep philosophical or religious point, or if they're just D&D/superhero inspired weirdness. I'm also not sure if this book represents the author chafing against the limitations of his genre, or making a larger point about the dangers of measurement and the quantified self limiting personal actualization, or if it's just the outgrowth of trying to figure out how to write a satisfactory ending when your main character already has pretty much every possible power in the universe.

Not being part of any east-Asian cultures, I also wonder a bit about characters like the celestial elves; it's possible this series steps over the line from making fun of wuxia tropes to making fun of cultures themselves. Savy Des-Etages did an excellent job balancing the need to make the author intent clear, without doing cringy "oriental" accents most of the time. I have the same discomfort with Beware of Chicken, though, so it's possible I'm just over-sensitive. I can't read any language other than English, and being blind I can't read subtitles at all, so I have no exposure to the artifacts these works are in dialogue with.

Never the less, readers who enjoyed the other four books in this series will find this is a satisfying conclusion, offering closure, and ending the journey nicely.