Congratulations Kat! This is a huge milestone and I hope you're proud of yourself. While I'm sure we're all frothing at the mouth for more Fates content, please make sure to take some "you" time and rest after all this Uni stress. We'll be happy for the content whenever it drops, but I'm sure I don't just speak for myself when I say we also don't want you to burn out. Best of luck with moving out and upgrading your rig (I can't believe you've been using a 1660 this whole time, the render times must have been NUTS D:).
Technically rendering itself is quick (almost instant), it's more about all the other stuff. I have very low framerates with more characters on screen (remember ep2 "monochrome black" characters in background? I did that to increase fps, but it looks awful), I have trouble with bigger maps too, and god forbid mirrors or reflections. And I'll take a few days off, but can't do too much yet as I am really behind.