End-of-Volume Summary + Performance Report
The first volume was finally finished. I had originally estimated that it would take around 900,000 words to complete the first volume, but it ended up at 1.2 million words.
This volume's performance rose and fell, but overall, it trended upward.
I remembered that after finishing Speechless Village, the 24-hour follow-up subscriptions were 110,000. Once we entered the Slaughter Dungeon, they began fluctuating—rising and falling. At their lowest, they were just over 80,000, which counted as a slump.
Over these recent chapters, follow-up subscriptions had returned to their peak. Especially for this concluding chapter—even though twenty-four hours had not passed yet, I estimated that they could reach 120,000.
Back to the point. Since I was writing a summary, I should definitely talk about the content. Overall, I was fairly satisfied with the entire volume. I would not discuss the earlier parts; what I thought was most worth reflecting on and analyzing was the Slaughter Dungeon.
One dungeon arc took nearly a month to write, which really was too long. But I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, because I had to finish it. Rushing the ending would have caused even worse aftereffects.
So during this period, I forced myself to keep writing.
I was very grateful to everyone who pointed out my shortcomings in the chapter comments, because that helped me better understand where I had gone wrong. Combined with my own reflections, it became crystal clear which parts of this dungeon arc had not been written well. (This was very important for an author.)
First, I would not talk about the details. Structurally speaking, the Slaughter Dungeon was a relatively unsuccessful arc.
After reflecting for a long time today, I believed there were two reasons for its structural failure: first, it