The second volume is finished!
And actually, just like the first volume, all the foreshadowing that should be dealt with from beginning to end has been eliminated.
The characteristic of an inspirational writer like me is that the story will change shape while writing. I didn't have the idea of that tower at all in the beginning, it was just an ordinary tower. Later, as I wrote about it, it turned into a puzzle. When it became a puzzle, I didn’t think that it was a “fictional existence” formed by the disturbance of fate.
I arranged that "the lack of an answer is also an answer" was just playing on the plot of "Wrath of the Righteous", and it had no deep meaning.
Alas, but in the end it became the key to solving the problem. I didn't even expect it. It was so unexpected.
In fact, originally, when I was writing about Fetal Movement Hall, I had no intention of letting this lich appear in this volume. In fact, I didn't expect the invasion of orcs and the involvement of lichs and necromancers at first.
Riminos obviously modeled it after the White City of Gondor in The Lord of the Rings, but replaced Gondor's iconic cliff - the cliff where the regent jumped into flames - with a high tower.
Now that I have a faux Gondor, should there be an orc invasion?
Then there was the invasion of orcs, and a barbaric land inhabited by orcs suddenly appeared in the northeast of Monrovia on the map.
I was originally going to write a big battle scene, with trebuchets, siege towers, fierce battles on the city walls, and the orcs howling with the boiling hot oil!
Now I look back after writing it and wonder, hey, where is my war scene? The only war scene that could be written was the battle where the orcs dropped onto the city wall. I skipped it, and I wrote about how the protagonist team planned a surprise attack.
Thinking about it on the other hand, there are actually a lot of war scenes in the first volume, so the second volume doesn't have the effect of preventing people from getting bored, right?
Then there's the addition of the Necromancer. They didn't have a role originally, but in order to find the "feeling" of orcs, I re-watched the Warcraft movie, and then I thought, there are orcs, but there is no Godan (Gul'dan), right? What's wrong?
But Goudan has played this joke before, so let me change it to Ner'zhul. Ner'zhul later became a lich... then let's get a lich!
So the orcs joined forces with the lich.
Now that there is a lich - is there a ready-made lich with a name? Let him come out. This is still consistent with the "Chekhov's Gun" theory.
But I originally wanted this Lich to appear in the "third phase of the world-ending crisis" that has been announced. At that time, the undead creatures encountered problems in their survival due to the overflow of positive energy, so they began to attack the big BOSS's cult in order to survive. group.
At this stage, undead creatures are allies and lichs can join the team.
What should we do? Let him appear quickly and then exit quickly. It just so happened that in the River Valley chapter, it was emphasized that the protagonist has a very high resistance to magic control spells. Wouldn't this be useful?
What is Chekhov's gun? (Lean back)!
By the way, here in Minos, I am planning to let Oscar join the team. I specifically emphasize that he has received sword training just to let him use the Pathfinder. But as you can see in the end, the "laundress" Rosalie joined the team.
Hi, I can't explain how this happened. According to my conception, there should be no more human women in the team. And the sexes of the squad should generally be balanced.
The end of the first volume, three men: dwarf, barbarian and big smart, three girls: ray man, black skin and big white cat
In this volume, Nini joins the team, and a little prince comes to balance it out.
But...just, it happened. Maybe I was confused by Rosalie's "wife but not fucked" attribute?
In the next volume, let the big-nosed lizardman monk join the team for balance.
After confirming that Rosalie was in the team, I looked at the little prince and felt that it seemed like a little bit of ink had been spent on this, and it was not necessary at all and it was a waste, so I decided to let him take the Joy of Fire and stab his father.
I really wrote in this direction, but the emperor's madness ended up being a lack of sleep, and was solved by a suggestion from the protagonist.
Ah, writing this book is really full of surprises. When I wrote this paragraph, I was the most shocked myself, because the readers had no idea what I originally planned to do.
So the little prince... had no role to play. All the pen and ink I wrote before were wasted.
It's okay, maybe I'll let him appear again in the future.
All in all, although there were various surprises in the second volume, the final product was actually quite complete, and there was no problem reading it as a separate story. Even if you haven’t read the first volume, there’s no big problem in reading the second volume directly!
This should be the case for future books. Each volume will collect all the foreshadowings that should be included, leaving no plot points at all, allowing readers to abandon the book at any time!
Because of this, the best way to read this book is readily apparent: wait until each volume is finished and read it again, it’s so cool!
I don't care about reading.
If a certain volume doesn't look good to you, just skip it, no problem.
Next is the story of the river kingdoms. Only one country, Yi Songzuo, should appear.
I plan to write something different from this volume. For example, I will focus on how the protagonist teaches Nini to learn spells. The protagonist appears as a third-level mage, so the promotion of the first two levels can be written on Nini.
I also want Nini to do a straight-up horse, just with this leg, right? It would be a waste not to practice leg skills.
Xiaobai is getting cuter and cuter as the writing goes on, but it’s not good to let her join the “battle situation” because she will definitely go straight to the point and give birth to the child first. So Xiaobai can only continue to occupy the complaining position.
In terms of plot, the current equipment of the protagonist team is actually very strong, but the skills provided by the equipment are limited to once a day, so they need to be used with caution. This equipment should be able to directly attack the religious sect. The next volume should be mainly about underground palace adventures, without any war or conspiracy.
Of course, it is impossible to finish the next volume. It will definitely only be to defeat a branch of the cult and then get clues for the next step.
The protagonist and the dwarves have both reached the fourth level in this volume. It should be Elizabeth's turn to rise to the next level in the next volume. But her strength improvement does not mainly rely on ring promotion. She has to kill the beholder alone and then activate the necklace to become a real ray person.
In the next chapter, you won’t encounter a beholder yet, but you may arrange to find the dwarf equipment: the beholder’s nemesis shield.
Of course, these are my current plans, and they are the only things I can call "outline" now! Yes, these are my outlines! It’s also my detailed outline, because I don’t have a more detailed future plan than this.
An outline is just a constraint for me, a restriction on the expression of my inspiration.
When the next volume is finished, you can compare it and see how many surprises the story has. However, these surprises are still the most exciting part of the story.
So, this is the end of this unfocused volume. See you in the third volume tomorrow.
Oh, by the way, in order to have the same number of chapters as the first volume in the second volume, the last two chapters are very long, so let’s just treat it as an explosion at the end of the volume. From now on, the last two chapters of each volume should be very long, just to make up for the 70 chapters per volume.
See you tomorrow for the third volume~
