Another new month was here! Wishing everyone a happy September and smooth sailing in everything.
This book's results in August were a wonderful surprise. It actually clung to twentieth place on the monthly vote rankings for quite a few days, only falling out in the last few days.
Average chapter subscriptions reached over seventeen thousand and kept inching upward. Although growth slowed as the word count increased, at this rate it might inch its way to twenty thousand. I was pretty excited about that.
As for the story, I finished writing the tournament, and we were about to enter the Dragon Hall, which would mark another new phase.
Honestly, I was still fairly uncertain about the later stages. Maybe it was because I rarely read that far into books myself, so when I wrote, I never had much of a clear idea of the later stages.
With Slaying Demons, I didn't handle things well after the tournament. The protagonist disappeared, and when he returned, the pacing sped up toward the ending, which drew a lot of complaints for a while.
But perhaps that was the benefit of accumulating experience: I wouldn't be so impatient this time. The story ahead would still be laid out slowly, unfolding bit by bit and gradually revealing the world.
In the world I originally envisioned, things were actually only just beginning. The main cast would gradually venture into new regions to explore and go to different worlds to do different things.
Thinking about the story ahead even made me a little nervous, because the effect I envisioned was very interesting, but with my lack of experience, I wasn't sure whether I could properly capture the feeling I wanted.
To give you a vague idea here, there would probably be all sorts of worlds full of