A world that God has abandoned and left to perish.
The only way for such a world to persist, even if forcibly, is to repeat a specific time interval through the infinite regression of a single human. That was the role forcibly imposed on the regressor, Reed.
The world killed and revived Reed repeatedly, solely to avoid its own destruction.
Reed experienced many deaths. Most were unrelated to natural lifespan, killed by the same humans.
There were times when he was betrayed by comrades and driven to death alone, times when the people he saved demanded greater sacrifices from him, making him a sacrificial lamb, times when he was surrounded by paladins he thought were allies and stabbed one by one with their swords, assassinated, and times when he was framed as a heretic by the schemes of a saintess to whom he had given his life and cruelly executed.
Indeed, the most effective tool for killing humans was other humans.
Reed also experienced…