He could no longer deceive and scheme; he had to confront things head-on.
By now, Harrison Clark had no regrets.
Next time...
If there is a next time, they'll discuss it then.
He still has some remedial plans.
For example, altering the narrative of the Compound Eye Crisis, artificially intervening in the content of Lover, and confining Leonard Lewis's creative ideas to the 21st century once again.
Not establishing a tightly organized Salvation Association, or changing its theme, giving up the nanny-like 500-Year Plan, resuming relatively free information dissemination guidance mode, giving more freedom and more autonomy to future generations.
At the same time, he would thoroughly deify himself from a thousand years ago to cover up his identity a thousand years later.
Make his past self into an unattainable god, a completely unreplicable spiritual totem in the realm of common sense.