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This is the 39th puzzle of my Battle With The Archers collection and also the next part of my Three Worlds mini-series, where I try to explore some advanced arrow mechanics and put them together to make some unique puzzles.

During drafting ideas for the next big project, I was quite bored so I decided to go back solving some of the puzzles that I'd missed in the past while also revisiting some of my oldies, then there randomly came an idea that I actually haven't thought about before. With my casual unpleasant curiosity, I wanted to dive deeper into it.

I've been tinkering about this idea for a short while and there occurred some annoying details that I stumbled upon, but thanks to some of the computer solvers (with also a long computation time), I was able to modify the idea and produce the final result out of it. I hope you enjoy the flow of this puzzle!

(Setter note: It's quite hard to judge proper difficulty of this one. I initially thought it's around low 4 difficulty but it might be less, I guess it depends on how fast one would see the overall idea here)



Rules:

- Normal Sudoku rules apply: every row, column and 3x3 box contains digits from 1 to 9 each once. Digits don't repeat along the highlighted main diagonal.

- Digits along an arrow must sum to the digit in the circle cell attached to that arrow. Digits along an arrow can repeat if allowed by other rules.

Puzzle:

F-puzzle link - Sudokulab (alt. link) - Penpa plus (alt. link) - Sudokupad (alt. link)

Good luck and have fun solving!