End-of-Volume Summary + Leave Request
Volume Two was finished.
This volume ran a little long and covered too much, so it was not easy to summarize. Going through everything point by point would make this far too lengthy.
Actually, there were two main things I wanted to highlight in this volume. The first was Evil Professions.
In my original setting, Evil Professions were purely evil people. But after thinking it over, I felt that setting was too one-dimensional. Some people were born evil, while others always had their reasons.
That was how the concept of "Evil Professions are humanity's own karmic fire" came about.
Following that concept, I further came up with Evil Professions that sought self-redemption—the team members of Wuhen Hotel.
Opposing Evil Professions were Orderly Professions, represented by the official organization known as the Five Elements Alliance.
And so, the second thing I wanted to highlight emerged: as an official organization, the Five Elements Alliance was certainly righteous and glorious overall, but it should not be limited to just that.
I have read many novels, and in most of them, good and evil are clearly divided. In righteous organizations of superpowered individuals, everyone is selfless, passionate, and kind.
That seems to have become a fixed way of thinking. So many people criticized the Five Elements Alliance, and even some prominent reviewers who specialize in web novels pointed fingers and said that the Five Elements Alliance in Spirit Realm was strange.
Strange? Not at all!
I believe that defining the Five Elements Alliance and the Orderly faction solely through "kindness" and "justice" is very narrow-minded.
Kindness and justice can only be used to define individuals.
You can say there are kind and just people within the Five Elements Alliance, and plenty of them at that, but you cannot use