An Aside on the Plot Controversies in This Book (Revised)

Ahem, ahem, ahem. This chapter wasn't part of the official story; it was mainly to address a few comments that kept popping up.

One was about the beginning, where the protagonist died in such a pathetic way. There were plenty of ways he could have died—for example, heroically saving someone, only to be run over by some truck god who said, "I thought it was a speed bump," or "We're all working very hard."

Or a meteor could have fallen from the sky and hit him on the head, or he could have been struck dead by lightning while holding an umbrella on a rainy day.

But... those kinds of deaths were too common, weren't they? That was why so many transmigration novels these days didn't bother explaining how the protagonist transmigrated, or only gave a vague summary.

There was actually a basis for writing that kind of death at the beginning: the CD Subway Framing Incident. The man fought for his rights for over six hundred days, then lost both his job and his relationship.

I don't know if everyone has seen Search, the film starring goddess Gao Yuanyuan. It was also a movie about online violence.

Yes, undeniably, the protagonist's death at the beginning was suffocatingly pathetic. He was so enraged that he didn't even dare activate the samurai duel before dying on the spot.

Then he got tied up in a cave with Tony, started talking to himself, and all sorts of unreasonable things happened. People complained about it, and some even escalated it into personal attacks.

Sigh, unfortunately, I graduated from the War Academy, not Zaun.

But I really didn't write much about the protagonist's death—only around two hundred words—yet so many people started calling him a "wimp," "trash," and so on.

I was completely baffled. Hiss... was it that nobody saw the line at the beginning telling them to turn off their brains while reading, or did I never write it?

I just wanted to write a different kind of death. If you didn't like it, you could just skip it. There was no need to insult people, right?

But now I've revised it and just given a simple introduction, because when I woke up, I was seriously furious. Insulting the author was one thing, but why drag the author's mother into it? Or did the people saying those things not have mothers?

Thinking about it later, though, the internet was just like that. No matter what you wrote, someone would criticize it. I might as well keep it simple. What did social issues have to do with me? Better not poke the T0s' nest.

That opening plot point was originally meant to serve a purpose later on, but if it got my family insulted because of the beginning, it wasn't worth it. Especially since my family knew I was writing a book and sometimes checked it out to support me. I really didn't want them to feel uncomfortable because of me.

Also, there were a lot of comments saying the power scaling had collapsed in the part where Mephisto was controlled by Madara, so let me explain that. There was foreshadowing here. Madara was very strong, and Six Paths Madara's strength was not to be underestimated, but he still couldn't compare to Diablo.

In the earlier plot, The Ancient One told the protagonist that his appearance had attracted the attention of many dimensional demon gods. They were interested not only in the protagonist himself, but also in all of his summons, including but not limited to them.

Think about it: if a dimensional demon god controlled the protagonist, then as long as the protagonist summoned something like Diablo, combined with the mark from his golden finger, that dimensional demon god would basically gain an infinite-energy upgrader.

That was why Mephisto appeared. He showed up to prevent Diablo from protecting the protagonist. After all, Seven-in-One Diablo was truly powerful. Even if the protagonist hadn't developed all of his power, Mephisto alone couldn't deal with him.

So why did Mephisto fall for it? Or did he deliberately fall for it? Readers who had seen Diablo's severe injuries already knew the answer.

But there were readers who couldn't wait to see what came next before launching into a furious rant. Even funnier, some people sent gifts along with messages insulting me. I honestly didn't know whether I should thank them or get angry. After all... their insults were pretty filthy.

In this book, Tony and the protagonist were like two big kids, teasing each other and finding amusement in each other, but when it came to major matters of right and wrong, they both retained a sense of justice.

That was why their conversations always had a somewhat theatrical tone—exaggerated and mischievous.

As for that, I hope you readers can let me indulge myself for once and allow the two protagonists under my pen to stay this way.

That's all for now. The update requests have already reached 400... The time was 23:55... That scared the life out of me. I previously promised an extra 5,000-word chapter for every 50 update requests. Four hundred meant eight chapters, plus three chapters per day during the verification period.

Good heavens, 11 chapters? Fifty-five thousand words? I really had to curse. What was this? Was I supposed to write an entire new novel in a single day?

Sigh, but a flag once set had to be fulfilled. The usual three chapters would still come out at the usual time, between noon and one o'clock.

For everything I owed you all, I'd write a chapter and post a chapter. I really had no saved drafts—I was genuinely writing them as I went!