A note on future plans for this story
Having disappeared for so long, I can understand any resentment people have (or I may not understand it, but no matter how people scold me, I feel that I deserve it).
This is a problem of my own personality. Once I encounter something I can't handle, I will bury my head in the sand and pretend to be an ostrich. But after thinking about it, I can't be as willful as writing a diary when writing in the public space of the Internet. And the works I write are not only my own things, but also belong to every reader. In short, I will first make a stage-by-stage summary of this book and talk about my future plans, if you are willing to listen.
Frankly speaking, I can’t continue writing this book, but it’s definitely not because of poor grades. I often joke in the group that I am like a plant, I can survive with sunlight, air and water. In fact, for me, as long as I earn enough to maintain the minimum needs of life, plus I can afford the lowest level of flexible employment social security, I can continue to write. The reason why I can’t continue writing is simply because I can’t continue writing as a creator.
In my opinion, the plot of the book "Sealed" began to fall apart earlier than you readers. It was probably at the beginning of the second volume, and the setting began to fall apart even earlier, probably in the middle of the first volume. It was basically the beginning of the invincible article, taking over an interesting setting that I had made a long time ago, but the more I wrote, the more I felt that the two were completely incompatible. However, the requirement of updating made me constantly check the setting notes every time I didn't know how to continue to advance the plot, looking for something that could be used, and then forcibly advance the plot on this basis.
But the setting should not carry the story, but the story should carry the setting.
So the shame of updating every day and giving readers answers gnawed at me and I couldn't stand it, so I avoided it.
I actually want to say a lot more about apologies, begging for mercy, explanations, and promises. But I always feel that these things are meaningless. After all, the connection between readers and authors is based on the works. The output of the author and the understanding of the readers together complete the complete work. Therefore, putting aside the works, it is very shameless and morally blackmailing for the author to talk about how difficult it is for himself from a personal perspective and seek forgiveness.
If I cannot produce a work that lives up to your expectations and efforts, you don't have to forgive me. Readers don't need to sympathize with how difficult it is for an author.
Just like what Ip Man said in The Grandmaster, "Kung Fu, two words. One horizontal and one vertical. The loser lies down, and only those who stand are qualified to speak."
I have no right to comment on this book that has been banned. You don't have to forgive me. I will bear any criticism you give me.
Then tell me a little bit about your plans for this story.
Although this book is poorly written, I still believe that the main storyline and setting have some potential. Because in the future I will definitely restart each of them - travel back to the games I have completed, in an era that does not belong to me, feel that things have changed, experience the shadow of the past, and correct the mistakes of those years. The structure of this story is actually a bit like Warhammer 40k, when the Ultramarines Primarch Guilliman wakes up after sleeping for 10,000 years and sees the devastated human empire, and then struggles hard to try to turn her back from the wrong path. In the future, I will probably refer to the dark fantasy story tone of Warhammer Dark Souls and re-interpret the story of players saving the world in another world - it will probably be a very apocalyptic story.
A purely idealistic worldview is suitable for a subtle peaceful era, with stories of undercurrents surging under the peace, such as the magical Cold War era. The war that determines the fate of the world will not be so grand, but the result of the war is that the whole world changes overnight, and everyone's cognition is rewritten... something like this.
In short, this story will be restarted later. A darker, crueler, and more heroic story of a player saving the world. And a magic setting that breaks cognition and has a stronger mystical flavor, carried by a more suitable story.
Finally, it is about William’s future adventures and the truth about the world of Vic Continent.
Originally, the following story was planned as follows: Remedios was forced to order her soldiers to attack the mob of forest elves, repeating the history of the high elves invading Ravenwood. The ceremony was completed, and Lady Hungry was replaced by Nehe, but the throne was destroyed because of William's conversation. The complete fall of a void king completely invalidated the contract between the present world and the Moon Realm, and the present world was in chaos - and this was the real purpose of the secret cooperation between the Whispering Queen and the Mad Fool. Since the Whispering Queen handed over part of her power to Valk, they have been calculating how to kill Lady Hungry.
However, because the Moon Realms had begun to attack each other, the present world did not explode for the time being.
William went to Platinum City, defeated Terra's true divine body, announced his true identity, and forcefully took back the power of the empire. Investigating the royal family members, he learned that Terra was a deformed product of some extreme members of the Judgment Seat who wanted to call him back to maintain the overall situation by cultivating people with the same soul and imitating the heroic path of their deeds (that person had his own ambitions due to the influence of the Moon Realm, and was unwilling to become the reincarnation of a past hero, and eventually backfired on those members of the Judgment Seat and became the Emperor Terra of the Empire).
If he wanted to be crowned and obtain the authority of the Eighth Holy Spirit, he had to find the descendants or legacy of those past members of the Judgment Seat and restore their legacy. After various stories of meeting old friends or seeing things that reminded him of their past, William finally completed the coronation ceremony with the help of the mad fool.
When William was finally crowned, he was backstabbed by Kos (the resurrected little black man). Kos was the last insurance left by the extremists of the Tribunal. He sacrificed himself and became a conceptual curse that "does not allow the wrong judge to exist." Every time Terra tried to reincarnate and complete the ritual to become the eighth Holy Spirit, she would be hunted down by Kos. Originally, this curse had no effect on William, the genuine judge, but this curse used part of the authority of Lady Hungry and Corrupted, similar to the concept of "destined death." After Lady Hungry and Corrupted completely fell, the Mad and Fool grabbed this authority and has kept it ever since. In fact, he killed Lady Hungry and Corrupted for this reason. All he did was to complete his biggest farce, letting the birth and fall of a Holy Spirit be staged on the same day.
William died, but Zhou Mu's consciousness did not dissipate. He directly entered another save file and reappeared as the former God of Hope and Despair (female character).
In short, he (she?) had a conceptual melee with the Void Kings who descended into the world - for the right to discipline. At the end of the battle, only Valk and Zhou Mu were left, and the others would be resurrected by reading the Moon Realm. Zhou Mu said that the other party had no interest in the right to discipline, so why bother to fight with him for it. But she said that she pursued the ultimate drama. For her, the ending of the story does not have to be a victory, but it must be exciting enough. From the moment Zhou Mu descended as the God of Hope and Despair, her expectations had been met, and now all she had to do was to complete this performance.
In short, after Zhou Mu defeated Valk, he went to the throne called "Ultimate" to obtain the so-called "right to discipline". On the ultimate throne sat the only true god believed in by the Takma Cult, that is, "Ma". When Zhou Mu saw the other party's image, he was completely stunned. Ma was his own image, a sleeping self.
In short, he finally knew the truth of this world. A dream, of course, not Zhou Mu's, but another unknown dream. Zhou Mu was actually an "alien" from somewhere else. It was his time travel that shattered the perfect "realm of light", that is, the dreamless sleep of the unknown, and then created the present world.
Zhou Mu is the first cause of creation.
Imagine a person is sleeping and someone is poking him with a stick. The stick may be projected into his sleep and become a nightmare.
The unknown existence is that person, the perfect light realm is his sleeping state, and Zhou Mu is the stick, the foreign object. William, who traveled through time in the story, is the image of the foreign object in the dream.
The moment of creation
However, being poked by a stick while sleeping is a very dangerous thing. If you are not careful, you will wake up. So Zhou Mu had two choices after obtaining the right to discipline. Destroy most of the present world and the Moon Realm, leaving only what he wants to leave. Simple and pure, maintain this dream as long as possible. Or continue to let this world develop, becoming more and more complicated, until one day he suddenly wakes up, and then go to see what the awakened world looks like.
I'm not sure which answer William will choose, but I always feel that if it were him, he would definitely choose neither of them and find another path. But no matter what, my ability is not enough to control such a...free (?) story direction. Or maybe there are too many problems accumulated before, and it's hard to turn around. Anyway, I'll put out this simple outline. Although I can't say that this is an explanation to the readers, I will still try my best to solve some of your doubts.
I am currently writing a book on cyberpunk. After I finish writing this book, I will probably come back to restart the story about the player who travels through the game after the file is blocked and tries to turn the tide. Of course, if I can think of better and crazier ideas than the one that was blocked, and find a good way to express it, it could also be another story about the occult.
I would like to express my sincerest apologies to the book friends who have been waiting for me. You don't have to forgive me. Although I don't think I have the right to make you hate me (after all, hate is not the opposite of love), if you can hate me, I will feel much more at ease. And those book friends who originally liked my works but are now disappointed, so they block me and no longer care about me, a third-rate online writer, are the ones who really break my defense.
But that's what I deserve.
But no matter what, I still look forward to meeting you in the next story.
