obviously the writer wanted M to live but having madoka protect him is as infuriating as it is retarded, I'm getting flashbacks to revival man, authors need to stop sucking the cocks of their villains so hard and work a bit harder on making the story logical.
I believe the upper class get those spiral 'tattoos' to look more like de-petrified persons one of which must have been their leader. Either that or the artist wants to maintain a theme and there's no in-world connection.
The story is really wrapping up fast in the LN, feels real abrupt but I guess there's not a lot of room left to grow after 1400 chapters. I think there's only a few more chapters left, then it'll be years until the comic catches.
@Holocaust as someone reading it I'm genuinely surprised it's going to end in 56 chapters, I guess after he makes the Deity of the Gods for himself it just becomes a stomp of his enemies followed by an epilogue.
I always knew the shadow worlds were going to be a huge timesink that killed the story, I didn't want to be right. This is just bad plotting why would any reader care about a fake worlds fake problems?