Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-33122991-20171109025516/@comment-25444060-20171113002228

BlazeSolace wrote: it starts after the events of the 11th light novel following up after what happen to Motoyasu, its kind of a alternative fate or alternative universe I'm not too sure when it happens in the LN but you're right in that it's different universes. This is a bit of a spoiler so stop here if you want, but technically he enters a new universe every time a hero dies due to his Dragon Clock's Extension Spear. Towards the end of the WN, I think Raphtalia pulls him from the loops and brings him back to the original universe to have that final showdown. Not really sure how it's going to change in the manga, but as far as I know, their worlds are all interconnected.