Well, the first volume, totaling 286 chapters and 870,000 words, had finally come to an end.
Honestly, the word count had exceeded my plan, but that was normal.
I ran into some difficulties along the way and had to pause updates a few times, mainly because the ending of the first volume was too difficult to write.
You had probably seen too many stories about a protagonist saving the world alone, and I didn't want to write one either.
The purpose of the first volume was to establish the main plot and lay sufficient groundwork. Looking at it now, I had done a passable job.
The Ice Throne Prophecy, the Eternal Wax Statue, the Celestial God Kingdom... everything that needed to be introduced had been introduced.
The Garden of Eden Island Chain incident was very difficult to write because it involved too many characters and schemes. I didn't want my characters to be too stupid or their positions to be too obvious.
People were complex, and so were gods. Whether it was the Wizard King and the Arcane Empire, Fernando and the Celestial God Kingdom, or even Lost Paradise and Luo Mang, they were all complex and well-rounded.
The Garden of Eden Island Chain incident was really just a microcosm of the struggle among many factions. There would be even more intricate and tangled [censored keyword] conflicts in the future.
This time, Xu Nan had merely played a minor role pushed onto center stage; next time, that might not be the case.
The second volume would be one in which Xu Nan experienced explosive growth.
I wanted to write not only Xu Nan, but many other characters as well: Lü Junyi, Song Xiaocheng, A-Kun, Sean... and so on.
What I wanted to write was the story of many people in