This book is ready to be put on the shelves. First of all, I would like to thank all readers for their support since the book was launched. Without you readers, I probably would not be here today.
This should be the first time I have put a book on the shelves since I wrote it, and it is also the first time I have written a review for it. I don't know what to say, so let's talk about this book.
The original intention of this book was to write an ordinary novel about another world. The content of marriage change is the author's personal xp. Readers who are confused about this can only say sorry, but I will not change it. And if it is just an ordinary novel about another world, it would be too boring, so I quoted the setting of the game and Great Transmigration. Hundreds of millions of players descended on the alternate world at the same time, which triggered various conflicts and collisions between aborigines and players, between players and players, and between aborigines and aborigines.
That makes it sound like... toilet paper. If you add in the fact that the protagonist is a professional waste and is looked down upon by his classmates who also play games, and then he swallows his humiliation and accidentally obtains an artifact, and uses this to counterattack and soar into the sky, and various slaps in the face or welfare links will follow one after another... then it will be a perfect stereotype of toilet paper in another world.
I have no interest in this kind of writing, so I definitely wouldn't write it like this.
So I added something that I am good at or like, which is doomsday and fatalism. Using a grand narrative like the end of the world as the theme and the source of motivation for the protagonist saves time and effort, and eliminates the need to think too much about why the protagonist does what he does and what the protagonist should do next. It is a trick.
When it comes to doomsday and fatalism, Norse Mythology has to be mentioned.
I really like Norse Mythology's sense of fate. The predicted dusk of Gods will inevitably come. Even a main god like Odin can't change anything. In fact, everything he does becomes the driving force for the arrival of dusk of Gods.
Not only that, the point of fatalism is not fate itself, but the part that resists fate, and that's what I like. Even if he knows that the prophesied doomsday or a similar narrative end point will eventually come, and there is no room for resistance, the protagonist will not give up, but will try his best to fight for it... This may sound very sad, but it has a unique charm that shows the charm of human nature.
So the name of the game in the book is "World Tree: Origins". World Tree is the stage where Norse Mythology takes place. The nine kingdoms and various races and Gods are all born from World Tree. One of the reasons for the arrival of dusk in Gods is also because the poisonous dragon Nidhogg bit off the roots of World Tree.
After talking about fatalism, let's talk about Pillars.
The twelve-digit Pillar Deity is one of the most important settings in this book. Each of them represents one of the elements that build the world, and has various symbols or images. Rather than specific images, they are more of an incarnation of rules or patterns, similar to Hours in "Cultist Simulator".
The number is twelve because there are twelve main gods in Greek mythology.
The plot about the Pillar God is what comes later, so I'll skip it for now.
Let's talk about what everyone is more concerned about, the protagonist Li Wen and her emotional drama.
When I first conceived of this book, Li Wen in my mind was a paranoid and even somewhat pathological person. As the title of the book says, she was a "witch" in every sense of the word. She bears a heavy responsibility and pressure that no one can share and no one can imagine, that is, saving the world and saving everyone. Therefore, she is paranoid and crazy, and she does whatever it takes to achieve her goals. She has no empathy and no empathy with others.
But a paranoid madman is obviously not suitable for the role of savior. She should be there eating melons and watching movies on the eve of the world explosion, waiting for destruction. So after putting pen to paper, Li Wen became more three-dimensional and complex.
She seems cold and unreasonable, but she is actually suppressing her emotions and focusing her energy more on responsibilities rather than socializing with others. But even so, she will still be warmed by others' small kindnesses, will be overwhelmed by others' over-enthusiasm, will reveal her true feelings when communicating with her sister, and will lose control of her emotions when the pressure increases...
Li Wen is a lonely person. Because of her rebirth and Twilight of the Apocalypse, no one can understand her mood, and no one can share her pressure. If things continue like this, what awaits Li Wen will inevitably be the accumulation of pressure to the extreme, and then a mental breakdown.
So on the way, Moria came into being.
He is Firstborn of the Holy Temple, and he is the extremely orthodox Paladin. The story about him has not yet unfolded, so I can't say much. But one thing is worth believing for sure. The story and entanglement between Moria and Li Wen will surround the entire book. Even in the entire main plot, it is an extremely important part.
It feels like it's almost done, so let's stop here.
Finally, I would like to thank all readers again for any support in any form, thank you very much.