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Yes, but most of the better translated works that I've read just write the modern measurement in parentheses, rather than making it seem like the characters are actually saying it. It doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things, but it does feel off, and it disrupts the atmosphere of the story a little bit.

Yes. It would be Shen Yue, as it's common in the East Asian cultures to have family names come first. Her given name is Yue, not Huo.

I would not say that the template is 'so used' or simply "cliche", but rather "stereotypical" or "archetypal". Here's my take: A bad writer uses the stereotype in a bland or actively bad way to create a story that disappoints everyone who reads it. A mediocre writer simply follows the stereotype and adds nothing. A good writer adds a few twists. A truly great writer completely overturns what the stereotype is to create a unique experience for everyone involved that will never be forgotten. The key to all of this is that the stereotype has no power to make the story great. It is the author and the choices they make that decides everything.

On the lower end, the size of Mercury or Luna (Earth's Moon) is a good minimum, so 3.8 x 10^7 km^2 to 7.5 x 10^7 km^2, or up to Jupiter's size of 6.14 × 10^10 km^2. so around 50 million square kilometers to 60 billion square kilometers. Russia has about half of the area of the Moon, at 1.7 x 10^7 km^2, and this does appear to be planar in nature, so if you need a visual to think about, then the area of Africa and Eurasia is a good estimate. On the upper end, imagine a square with sides 33 x the length of the equator. No good way to describe the latter.

Realistically, he's not wrong. If a level one can escape from or kill a level 75 that is going all out, without someone else intervening of course, then there's probably nothing that will work in general. If you're screwed either way, you may as well go down fighting with everything you got.

Tian is "sky", or "Heaven", and Yuan is "First", "Primary", or "Original", so this could be anything from "Origin of the Heavens Empire" to "Basic Sky Empire" to just "Heavenly Yuan Empire" - referencing the Yuan Dynasty of Chinese history. Most likely though is simply "First Heavenly Empire", but it could be any of those, as Chinese is difficult to cleanly translate without knowing the original Chinese characters used.

That's fair. Unfortunately her methods are very real, and Softbank, the largest tech holding company in the world, has been known to do the same thing, so at the very least her method is something that has happened before. Cassandra has clearly been set up as a person where you can never truly trust them, but she is ultimately learning to let her emotions and love for the MC change her. As of right now, the author's writing is still in a "this could become amazing if pulled off well, or bring down the whole book", state. Hopefully it works out, but I can't deny my own skepticism either.

In the US, that is fully illegal. If it were discovered, it would definitely be a violation of the early 1900s anti trust laws, as she is basically creating a cartel that is wholly responsible to her. You can own stock in rival companies with no issues, but actively owning both is very likely to be considered a monopoly that the US would try to break up.

Yeah, I get that. I don't disagree with you. I simply wanted to provide my personal perspective on what may or may not be the author's rationale. Since I agree that this power scaling is an interesting topic, I'll add one other thing. I would argue that Persian-Levantine or Mesopotamian mythology is also very strong, with the various descriptions of Yahweh (literally "'the one who exists', or 'I am'") likely being the most straight up omnipotent of any singular mythological force, but Baal, Asherah, and Satan are all fairly strong too.

TLDR: I wouldn't say that you're wrong, but it does miss out on a lot of the focal points of the other mythologies. Mortals are supplementary to the Egyptians and Norse, while humans are a much greater focus for the Greeks. The Greeks also have significantly more internal rivalries than the others.