Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka? - Chapter 34.1

I’m getting more and more curious how this manga will handle the story later on. For those unaware and without going into spoilers, there are some side stories that we should have been introduced to and seen developments from at this point, and it goes without saying that these stories would start to overlap throughout the overall story. But here, it seems that all those stories(except for maybe(?) the demon king side story) have been completely dropped. Does that mean we’ll get a completely different story from the source material and anime later on, or will the story progress properly by merging the stories together, despite us not having seen those stories? While there seems to be a lot of distaste in the community for the side stories and different povs, it’s not like they were irrelavent for the overall story and plot progression, and especially the world building was vastly expanded on through those side stories that we have missed up to this point, so I’m not sure how the story will progress in the future