Ah yes the price of power
https://i.postimg.cc/8CwG7nYQ/i.jpg

Oh look! Walter is back!
https://i.postimg.cc/Y0bD36MV/i.png

With a name like azanus I was expecting he shouts: Enema

I would argue the butler is the new owner of the body and the skills. The butler should be send to the tower. It would be hilarious, if the butler returns to that world and mc syncs to the butler, then instead and takes over.

https://i.postimg.cc/Dwjj0SYj/i.jpg

There is too little variety. The FL is missing.Maybe some drama or some small love subplot.
https://i.postimg.cc/Dwjj0SYj/i.jpg

Currently he is doing a speedrun with max handicap. He still has a mental trauma from the old man torturing him and his shitty childhood, but no way to recover or balance him out. In any other story he would get an emotional support pet by now to mellow him out a bit (ranker's return, solo max newbie, overgeared or even Regressor Instruction Manual). I don't see that here. The general strategist could have been a great mother figure, but there is simply to much burned earth between them ... and she is dead. The FL in this time-line also doesn't have enough power to become his partner. As much as I like the current child mc, I don't see the story going anywhere.

Mc be like: perfect they can't fight back. Now is the time to strike

Maybe similar to Dimensional Mercenary.

Why are you still dead?
https://i.postimg.cc/L6GFkRM6/i.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/kXBTybnW/i.jpg

I wasn't ready for this 😭:
https://i.postimg.cc/CLMN7xDC/i.jpg

Creative punishment: everyone jumps him and one guy is polishing his bald head until it sparkles. So he becomes a shining example for everyone

https://i.postimg.cc/Pf67gbPC/i.jpg

Or they can give their heart away like the movie dragon heart. I think.

My guess is he is a hardcore masochist and is begging for some punishment. He got that prison bottom bitch look.

Every Mc with grudge:
https://i.postimg.cc/SKwN41B1/i.jpg

I'm guessing it doesn't have to be in one person

I would put money on after he completes all he becomes balanced an sane again. My other money would be his daughter or wood lady snaps him back to reality.
https://i.postimg.cc/YqnktNXg/i.jpg

He is mastering the elements in the wrong order

Hopefully it's not that cute wood lady gone mad