Time passed too quickly. Before there was even time to think it over properly, another year had gone by. It felt as if this year had been all bustle and busyness, life gray and dim, without much color worth remembering. Only the writing I loved had a few bright spots. And before I knew it, this first and only book had already been written for a full three years, reaching 3.4 million words.
For an ordinary author like me, being able to imagine a world and let that world flow out from beneath my pen was truly a happy and wondrous thing! Those characters, one after another, seemed to live vividly inside my mind. Once their backgrounds and personalities were set, they would begin to act on their own. They would have their own thoughts and pursuits, would collide and spark off plot after plot, moving forward according to their own logic, and then head toward endings that even the author had not known in advance. ()
In truth, the author writing this book was only someone who filled in a great deal of background, looked up many materials, and recorded the scenes of a film. Before writing a day's chapter, I did not know what it would become, much less how it would develop tomorrow... So, for me, writing was also an exciting and unknown exploration, always filled with surprise and satisfaction!...
Looking up the geography and tribes of the West Coast and the Far North Coast took a great deal of time and effort. And through step-by-step deduction, the Kingdom's exploration fleet heading west finally followed the Aleutian Island Chain and reached Northeast Asia's Kamchatka Peninsula. From this point on, exchanges between the Americas and East Asia also began! As time moved forward, exchanges between the Americas and