To My Dear Readers (November Recap)

This was a November recap, and I also wanted to talk to everyone about this book.

First of all, I wanted to thank you all. With your support, this book reached ten thousand subscriptions in November. It was truly a huge surprise to me, and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone.

Secondly, I wanted to talk about this book. I've read many of your comments.

For example, some people felt there was too much Myriad Heavens content and that it wasn't enjoyable; others held the exact opposite opinion, believing the Myriad Heavens arcs were great but far too few.

That was perfectly normal. Everyone had their own preferences, and I respected them all.

But as I said in my premium-launch remarks, this was a Myriad Heavens novel. The Plot of Shrouding the Heavens would be interwoven with the plots of other worlds, so no part of it could possibly be cut.

Some people said I'd been influenced by comments from certain readers and had written very little about Myriad Heavens. That simply wasn't true, because the pacing of this book had been like this from the very beginning.

Attentive readers would have noticed that the ratio between the Plot of Shrouding the Heavens and the Myriad Heavens plots had never changed, from the new-book period through its premium launch.

Others said that subscriptions dropped every time I wrote about Myriad Heavens...

That was a rumor. When I wrote Dragon Clan, subscriptions were even higher than for Shrouding the Heavens, and ninety-nine percent of the comments were praise.

But when it was time to temporarily wrap up the Dragon Clan World, I still didn't hesitate.

That involved my pacing. The plot pacing and world pacing of this book had always remained under my control.

I read comments, but I wouldn't let them