It had been a long time since I last sorted through the item notes (half a year), so I was taking a few days off to organize the items and revisit the earlier foreshadowing.
I was beginning preparations to wrap up the overall worldline and fix the recent content bugs.
Time would be moved forward (the current chapter was on day 52).
The proportion of item stat descriptions would be greatly reduced. Only key items would be examined, so there was no need to worry about those treasure chests. This could be seen from how Luntax's collection of over a thousand pieces of equipment had been handled (equipment was just too hard to come up with).
Some chapters would be reserved for depicting Territory Construction and farming.
The Ruins would be pushed outward, and new dungeons would be laid out.
This included those countdown-triggered dungeons and the Night King storyline, setting up the later arrival of the Lords.
The book was expected to end after another two to three million words once the worldline had been wrapped up.
The worldline would probably be wrapped up at around 5.5 million words.
In other words, this book would need eight or nine million words to tie up all its loose ends and reach its conclusion.