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

To be honest, this book entered a very strange bottleneck period after the Horus Heresy ended.

I really wanted to maintain the quality I achieved during the Siege of Terra, and I also hoped to update more than 8,000 words every day. In the end, I was exhausted and couldn't keep it up. I really overestimated myself.

The aftereffects have lingered to this day, making me feel restless and anxious every day in front of the computer. I feel uneasy and tormented by my conscience when I try to do anything else. But when I actually try to write, I feel dissatisfied with what I produce.

I wrote over 5,000 words during my live stream yesterday, but when I woke up this morning, I found I'd deleted them all and had to start over. Sitting here until late every night feels like being in prison.

I'm a little confused about what's going on with me.

Moreover, looking back now, the pseudo-human storyline at the end of the previous volume was quite poorly written. After reflection, I believe the essence lies in insufficient writing skills and a lack of energy.

I originally planned to develop three storylines simultaneously: the Sevatar storyline, the pseudo-human storyline, and the angel storyline, with all three converging in the end. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills for that. I'll just give you a little hint now, as a way of providing closure.

The original idea for the previous volume was a massive free-for-all, with various pseudo-kings and warlords, including Roboute Guilliman, launching a rebellion and causing chaos across the Five Hundred Worlds.

In the original storyline, the only fake Roboute Guilliman who didn't eat people (let's call him Guilliman Lily for now) was supposed to have a very significant role. Remember that node network?

Guilliman Lily connected to the node network and learned that the war was about to spread. The fakes would eat each other until only one victor remained, who would then face the real Roboute Guilliman.

Guilliman Lily didn't care about that; he only wanted to protect the civilians of his planet in the impending and unstoppable cataclysm.

To achieve this goal, he needed an army—and so the knight who had been parasitized by his flesh and blood came in very handy (he can be temporarily regarded as a monkey version of Astartes, without intelligence or Power Armour, and directly controlled by Guilliman Lily).

In the original storyline, he used this discovery to exhume the dead and cover them with his own flesh, creating a true army.

But this came at a price; the flesh and blood he scattered could not be regenerated.

When the line of Sevatar and the Calth's Sons merged with his, they entered the Lord's Hall and found Guilliman Lily standing in the darkness, draped in the Lord's robes, with almost nothing left beneath them.

(A person who tried to protect everyone, but failed to protect himself)

In short, at this moment, the black bird, Tzeentch's spy, detonated a long-planted bomb through the Chaos Corruption. Guilliman Lily's puppet army began to slaughter everywhere, turning the entire planet into a sea of fire, and an entire Primarch army began to kill and eat people.

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In short, after a series of operations, Guilliman Lily's remaining remains were taken away by the Otter. Afterwards, they met with Roboute Guilliman himself, and Guilliman Lily brought up the matter of the node network backdoor, and then devised a plan—a decapitation tactic.

It's very simple and straightforward.

The plan itself is not complicated, but it is very difficult to execute because currently only Guilliman Lily can enter through the node's identity recognition, and with his current combat strength, which has never been used to eat humans, he is no match for the others.

At the critical moment, Roboute Guilliman himself decided to trust the mangled, bloodied monster before him and personally cut off a piece of his own flesh to feed Guilliman Lily.

What happened next was simple: the prison guards and the various Ultramarines went to the surface, while Guilliman Lily coordinated with them in the node network to carry out the decapitation strike.

Essentially, I just wanted to write a young and naive version of Roboute Guilliman, then throw him into a very, very, very bad situation and see what he would do.

I'm not the kind of person who plans or prepares a lot when I write. Basically, I give a character a framework, then throw him in and let him do what he wants.

Imagine Guilliman Lily, whose country has fallen, whose people he swore to protect are all dead, and whose planet has been destroyed by Exterminatus. And before this, everyone who had ever believed in him feared him, or rather, his face.

After that, despite his repeated refusal to eat humans, he was forced to be fed flesh and blood by his original form, thus becoming a monster.

There's a lot to write about, but my abilities are limited.

In short, the grave that Curze dug at the end of the previous volume was actually prepared for Guilliman Lily. In the ending, I plan to have the soul of the knight he killed clean his tombstone in the cemetery.

That's about it. Although I can't finish writing it, I'll still give you an explanation.

Now let's go back to the update issue --

Well.

It's tough. The feeling of regressing from a typing machine to a primitive human is like someone who always drinks with their mouth suddenly losing it. I'll try my best to adjust; I'll get back to daily updates before thinking about anything else.