I finally finished Volume Three.
I could finally breathe a proper sigh of relief...
Yeah, you probably could too.
Let me summarize the problems with Volume Three first. When I started writing it, I didn't think there was much wrong with it. At most, the early parts were a little bland. But once Black Spirit appeared, even I started to feel that something was off as I wrote.
Then the reading experience became more and more unbearable, and writing it became more and more unbearable for me too.
So this weekend, I did nothing else. I spent two straight days writing and finally finished this volume in one go.
[It's finally over]
[Better short pain than long pain]
Over the past few days, I kept reviewing it over and over, summing up problems big and small, and eventually found the biggest issue.
The conclusion was that the problem with Volume Three had been rotten at the root from the very beginning.
I shouldn't have had Miles going around stirring up trouble from the start, and I especially shouldn't have made him act so indecisive and disgusting after he caused trouble.
That was the biggest problem. Things like suppressing combat strength, coincidences, villains who wouldn't die, and so on were all secondary by comparison.
Likewise, that was why I couldn't fix it even after discovering the issue. The root was rotten; no matter how I changed it, it would still grow crooked.
So the only solution was to hurry up and finish it, then treat it as a dark chapter in history.
All I could say was that I really lacked experience when it came to storytelling. I had too many ideas, and every time inspiration struck, I got carried away in my own head.
Now I could probably understand how