Thoughts on This Volume, and Thanks for Zhaicai Boss's Golden Alliance—Zhaicai Boss Is Awesome!
According to the outline I made, the end of the Holy Grail incident marked the halfway point of this volume. Judging by the current follow-up subscriptions, things were going pretty well.
These follow-up subscriptions were on par with the results Great Feng had achieved in its middle period. For a new book, that was incredibly good. My updates just hadn't been ideal, but there was nothing I could do about that. Let me explain slowly.
Before starting this book, I spent a long time working on the outline and setting. The Holy Grail incident was a plotline that connected the past and the future, containing many foreshadowed details and hidden plotlines. Some readers had noticed them, while others had gone unnoticed.
I believed everyone still had faith in my control over the overall story and the structure of the entire book.
Let me talk about how I felt while writing this arc. First, the downside: the incident's level was too high, and as a low-level Walker, the protagonist couldn't have much involvement in it. To put it simply: he didn't get many chances to show off.
If the protagonist kept showing off in front of a bunch of immensely powerful big shots, it would have been unbearably cringeworthy and unreasonable.
I actually realized this problem halfway through writing it. But since this was a modern setting, it couldn't be like Nightwatcher, where the emperor issued an order: "If this case isn't solved within three days, heads will roll!"
A modern-setting story couldn't pull that kind of move, so for a while, I had a terrible headache over how to highlight the protagonist's presence.
That was the risk of switching genres. When writing something I had never