A few days ago, I said this might be the final volume of this book. After reading everyone's comments, I gave it some serious thought...
Ending it here would indeed be irresponsible to this book, and to the readers who had followed it all along...
So after thinking it over, I decided to continue writing the Spirit Realm arc and do my best to give this book a satisfying ending.
At the same time, I wanted to tell everyone something else: going forward, I would make time to rewrite this book's free chapters. So I wouldn't be able to maintain the old schedule of two 6,000-word updates a day. I could only guarantee one 4,000-word update per day...
Everyone probably knew that the early chapters of this book were truly hard to put into words. You could say the numbers had been terrible right from the new-book period. It got one round of new-book recommendations and was out, had just over 2,000 favorites when it went premium, and only 70 first subscriptions. It flopped so badly it couldn't have flopped harder; even reaching the 500 average subscriptions needed for the attendance bonus had seemed like a luxury...
Fortunately, back then I felt that simply getting a contract was already wonderful. I buried my head and kept writing, persevering through it.
Later, things improved somewhat, and the numbers gradually got better. Average subscriptions climbed all the way up—500, 800, 1,000... to the current 1,500.
Though these results might not be worth mentioning to many authors, they were already very good for a newcomer like me—results I had never even dared to imagine before.
But once people gained something, it was hard not to want more. Although my editor arranged recommendations for me on schedule, because of the opening chapters, the results