Chapter Wrap-up: Taking a Day Off

End-of-Volume Summary + Taking a Day Off

The third volume was finished. Next came the final volume of Spirit Realm.

The final volume would probably run around 500,000 to 1,000,000 words. It would definitely be completed by the end of the year. What remained was to tie up the foreshadowing. In truth, much of the early foreshadowing pointed to the same secret. At first glance, there seemed to be a lot of loose threads, but once that one secret was revealed, many of them would resolve themselves without needing further explanation.

Even so, I felt that about a third of the foreshadowing still hadn't been tied up. Well, I might have forgotten some of it myself, so I needed to spend a day sorting it out. Hence, I was taking a day off.

Why not take two days off? Because I'd only been doing one update a day for the past three months, so the workload hadn't been as intense. Even while writing normally, I'd sometimes been thinking things through.

I knew everyone had been pretty unhappy with me lately, because of the updates and the quality. Back in June, both my body and mental state started having problems. More than a year of nonstop high-intensity writing had worn me out.

Writing Spirit Realm was even more exhausting than Great Feng, because I constantly had to think up scenarios. Every dungeon had to have a different format; it couldn't just be entering a dungeon, killing monsters, and leveling up. Then there were all kinds of real-world settings and foreshadowing, a double layer of pressure. During the first year, I still had some energy left, but later on, every time I opened my computer, I felt physically unwell. Every few days, I'd fall into depression or become restless and irritable.

Sometimes