A Word on Recent Updates and the Previous Arc-I Won't Be Dropping This

Honestly, after the Horus Heresy ended, this book entered a very strange bottleneck.

I wanted to maintain the quality of the Siege of Terra arc while also updating more than 8,000 words a day. The result was total mental and physical exhaustion, to the point where I could barely keep it up. I really overestimated myself.

The aftereffects have continued to this day, leaving me on edge whenever I sit in front of the computer. If I do anything else, I panic and feel guilty. But when I actually try to write, I'm dissatisfied with what comes out.

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Yesterday, I streamed myself writing over five thousand words, then woke up this morning, looked at them, and deleted everything to start over. Sitting there grinding away until late every night honestly feels like being in prison.

I'm a little confused about what exactly has happened to me.

And looking back now, the doppelgänger storyline at the end of the previous arc was a pretty major failure. After reflecting on it, I think the root cause was simply that my writing ability wasn't good enough and I didn't have enough energy.

I originally wanted to run three perspectives in parallel: Sevatar's storyline, the doppelgänger storyline, and the Angel's storyline, with all three eventually converging. Unfortunately, I didn't have the skill for it. I'll reveal a little now, as an explanation.

The original idea for the previous arc was a massive free-for-all: doppelgänger Guillimans from every faction rising in rebellion and fighting one another across the Five Hundred Worlds.

In the planned plot, the only doppelgänger Guilliman who had never eaten anyone—let's call him Guilliman Lily for now—would have had a very