does the LN skip these much ?
The LN ended right around the time he built the city in the forest, IIRC. All of this has been new content.
It bugs me because there are some interesting ideas here, but they're halfbaked. Like, the idea of the "goddess" communicating with Alan via his nanomachines (and using Celeria's face to do it) is way more interesting than the big nothing we had in the LN. Or the idea of the spy who somehow knew about Alan's capabilities and nanomachines, or even how there's bugs on the planet but they seem to be infiltrating instead of just eating everything. All of this is a more complex and interesting situation that hints at neat plotlines that I'd like to see more of.
And yet none of those plotlines are having any payoff and it feels like everything here is just getting told to us rather than shown to us.
Huge disappointment.
Also: There's no way in hell the new kid being crowned is 4 years old.