A Few Words After the Update.

The recent updates have been disappointing, and the Mountain Lord feels quite ashamed as well.

It has been eighteen days, yet I've only updated 150,000 words.

That averages out to just 8,000 words a day, far less intense than last month.

Perhaps this is a common problem for authors when they reach the later stages of a story, and the Mountain Lord is no exception. Bringing a massive story to a close requires sorting out one's thoughts and untangling the foreshadowing laid earlier, which is very difficult. What makes it difficult? For one thing, the workload is already enormous. For another, it wears down the mind. When bringing something to a proper conclusion, everyone wants to raise the quality a little at the end and produce a satisfying ending.

Naturally, the update speed can't remain fast under those circumstances. And that also led to the plot that has sparked so much controversy over the past two days.

To be honest, mindlessly leveling up and fighting monsters would actually be easier for the Mountain Lord.

But if I kept leveling up like that and ended with the protagonist becoming invincible and everyone rejoicing, I'd feel quite unwilling to accept it.

The Mountain Lord wants to explore the mental states, motives, and final destinations of these super-powerful figures from multiple angles.

First, two points about this war need to be clarified. The first is that there was no advance warning about the Continent of Flame. To be precise, there was no warning before the God Shark arrived; after it arrived, notice was given. The reason there had been no warning beforehand was simply that it had not been discovered. There was a one-day gap between those events. Moreover, when Shen Zhui's report to King Ali was first written, it had already been