Chapter 149: Part One, Final Summary

Part One, Final Summary

Part One, Final Summary

The first volume, spanning 74 days and nearly four hundred thousand words, is finally finished.

This book began as a draft I wrote in March this year; I originally intended to submit it to Qidian, but I'm a lazy slug with social anxiety, so I never dared to.

Later, my former website's editor, Zhe Yu, switched to Qidian, and I followed him over.

To be honest, I was still nervous—I didn't understand Qidian's recommendation system or its metrics—but luckily, my first book didn't flop; current performance is just a few dozen average subscriptions short of seven thousand, and with another recommendation coming in a couple days, I might even have a shot at becoming Qidian's third ten-thousand-subscription Warhammer novel.

I originally planned the first volume to be two to three hundred thousand words, but it expanded to nearly four hundred thousand. It's definitely bloated, especially in the final days when I came down with the flu after being blessed by my Heavenly Father—I felt half-dead. Still, I planted all the necessary foreshadowing, clarified most of what needed to be said, and threw in plenty of dark jokes; overall, I feel it's complete.

After going live, I've maintained roughly six thousand words daily. Honestly, I initially planned to save some drafts, but gradually I used them all up—or abandoned them—and six thousand is nearly my limit; I can't write more.

Especially the war scenes in the Netherworld System—I painstakingly ground through the campaign book. Nottingham dialect is insane, with endless proper nouns, utterly brutal. Still, I made selective choices from the campaign book's plot: I barely described the battles on Aelos, never directly depicted the Necron Overlord Zalathusa, and did the same for other planets, focusing mainly on Asford, Laixio, and Tartaros—on characters who can still drive future plots.

Such as Leina and General Drostron, Jeanne and Magda the High Abbess, the Traveler Anarquel, Dante, Seth and Captain Calain—all will have their own arcs in the coming volumes, carrying forward distinct storylines.

Overall, I plan this book to span seven to eight volumes, each around three hundred thousand words. I've already mapped out the general plot direction for each volume; I've largely settled on the progression of the first four, and I've envisioned many compelling scenes within them.

The next volume is Baer: titled "The Tragedy Caused by a Jar of Aged Baer Sauce," with the epigraph: "Rise again, my beloved!"

Also, the author will be recommended on the 17th—please consider subscribing then. That day's subscriptions will heavily influence the next recommendation cycle. I'll also draw some miniatures (currently planning: Dante + eight blind boxes of Space Marine Heroes; I'll paint Dante and post him, and the hero boxes are all red plastic—I'll add water decals so they look great once opened).

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