The reset of the first volume has been completed, mainly rewriting the first few chapters, modifying the content before the Inch Yin fight, cutting out as much redundant dialogue as possible, and adjusting the rhythm of several battles.
The overall plot has not changed, and the main details have been modified as follows:
·The prologue has been revised to 1k words, from the current prologue to the time when the Nether Dragon appears, and is included in the first chapter of the first volume of the main text based on the work.
·The conversation in the fast food restaurant in Chapter 1 was changed to a one-on-one chat between Ace and Xiaoqian. 01 and Caldesia arranged to appear when Ace was alone after communicating with Alice.
·The character of Capullo, the first enemy, has been modified into a clumsy and gentlemanly young man. Defeated after a duel with A Ce.
·In the battle with Tyros, Alice used Shadow Canglan to dismantle the tower crane and add some highlights.
·After Tyrlos finished fighting, he recalled his experience of being hit by a disaster in the kingdom, which successfully aroused Atze's ptsd and successfully patched Tyrros' suicide.
··Added a short description of Alice's appearance when she was at the ramen shop. Ace thought she was very beautiful. Ah, to pave the way for the future relationship between these two people (laughs)
·Added a new introduction to the world situation in the ramen shop, explaining the four major forces of the Empire, the United Kingdom, and the Zero Island, and mentioned an ocean called the "Sea of Confusion".
·The plot of fighting the ink sword when going to the eldest brother's house was changed to start having nightmares after fighting the ink sword, and the follow-up to the prologue (from the appearance of the Nether Dragon to Orianna taking the final sword to fight) was added. Try to make this confusing plot seem as connected as possible, although I am still very confused after reading it.
·In the sewage treatment plant, the battle between Ace and Xiaoqian has been rewritten and enhanced to make it more in line with their current fighting style. Let Ace touch the eldest lady's head after winning the battle as a small interaction.
·The Battle of the Bad Water Beasts has been reduced to 2 chapters, and the Bad Water Beasts themselves have been strengthened to more than a thousand in number, trying to reduce this protracted battle to an acceptable level.
·After the bad beast battle, Ace directly deduced that the target was underground. The number of words in the rush chapter was reduced by half while retaining the original interaction as much as possible.
These are probably the changes for a volume reset. I continued to revise it until the beginning of the Cun Yin Battle, because I really didn’t have the energy to make any more major changes and had to write a zero volume (sad). If you want to review the original version, you can add it. Book club group, I will put it in the group file.
As an aside, revising a volume this time was a very torturous experience for me. Because the story structure of this volume itself is not interesting and rigorous enough, there are many things taken for granted in the outline, and the performance of the characters is also subtly inconsistent with their abilities, which makes me very distressed. Z.br>
The most troublesome part is that there is too much nonsense in the first chapters of this book. Although there are still a lot of character interactions and dialogues in this book, they are really not on the same level as the previous volume. I almost collapsed when I changed it myself. "What the hell, this chapter is full of nonsense." "The settings and interactions are all mixed in with nonsense." "Help, they even stopped to talk nonsense during the fight. Please stop talking about it."
Very desperate, really desperate. Although we talk a lot now, and we have a lot of psychological activities and dialogues now, it was even more excessive than it is now (sad)
Coupled with the prologue that cannot be recycled until volume zero, the entire story in this volume is full of persuasion. The best way to completely solve this problem is to rewrite the entire story of the first volume - but I really don't have the time and energy to do so.
I couldn't change the story that was the basis of this book so much that it would make the rest of the story uncontinuable. More importantly, I cannot ask readers who have followed it all the way to the present to go back and accept a completely different story, and then read the subsequent plot based on this story.
Therefore, I had to adjust the rhythm and dialogue based on the original, trying to make the volume as streamlined as possible and as "pretty" as possible. Frankly speaking, when I first started rewriting it, I had the naive idea of "if the beginning is more beautiful, there will be more readers!" But after finishing these exercises, I looked back and realized that the foundation of this story was not solid at the beginning. The flaws in the overall setting cannot be changed by editing the text. Otherwise, why would I write a single volume about the past of the kingdom now? Therefore, my own mentality is much more balanced now. This one-volume reset is more like a self-satisfaction for me. It is a psychological comfort to make the first story I wrote by myself as "pretty" as possible (laughs) )
All in all, that's what happens with a roll reset. The general plot has not changed. If you are interested, you can go back and read it. If you don't read it, it will not affect your subsequent reading.
The serialization of Volume 0 will start on the 15th, and I will try my best to write a "fresher" story. Looking back, I really feel how bad the beginning of this book was (it's not much better now), and I'm really grateful to all the readers for being willing to read all the way to this point. thank you all.
