Upon finishing this so far last volume of the novels, I grew convinced that the story would've been best served had it concluded with Vol. 6 "Ragnarök," with its appropriate tragic ending, but the authors decided to continue, and the result is a break in the storyline that opens a whole new plotline that's not easy to like and that feels disconnected, alien to the in-universe events even when it's a continuation. Without our main characters Wotan and the gods, Siegfried and Brunhilde, etc, it doesn't make much sense to carry on the circus.