As you can guess, the "small hiatus" has been greatly extended.
I have a complete writer's block when it comes to the last arc - the war against the Warden's forces. I know what goes in it - roughly - and I've written the end. But I've written a whole two chapters since May.
To restart the writing juices, I've resurrected an old draft of a story, and it does flow way easier, at least so far. But there is a catch: it's a contemporay military-fiction LitRPG, and so, has a lot of politics. Even though it is a fictional and different Earth than our real one, and the politics are, shall we say, a bit different (in particular, none of the actual political figures extant appear here, and events unfold very differently - no Ukraine war, no withdrawal from Aghanistan, different Middle East mess, etc), the rule for Royal Road is "no significant politics", and this falls outside of the limits (I checked with mods).
If you want to read something different from me; a faction-based LitRPG where super-hero teams battle for territorial control on Earth, head to Patreon. There is no paying tier, the entire story is free, but I can't put in on RR, so there. I encourage you to subscribe on the free tier (there is a free tier showing up, right?) to get notified of new chapters. You have the first 3 chapters (different edit) here: Old version.
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Based on Eternal Reader's suggestion, here's a link to Space Battles for a different location for the story. Patreon will have a few advance chapters (all free), but you can follow it on SPB if you like it better.
> NATO was founded to counter all threats to its members’ existence. They’ve dealt with many over the decades, but one they never anticipated was super-powered rogue groups trying to take over land bases in a display of abilities worthy of a movie or videogame. They acquire weird skills, they level up, and with each ratchet, the threat level rises.
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> To face this new menace, NATO needs its own empowered units. The Master Force is their answer to the plague of super-enemies. Carolus Zimmer of NATO’s Security Directorate hopes that the elite force led by Captains Varanson and Zacharias will be enough to keep the momentum on NATO’s side.
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> But it is hard to play in a game whose rules nobody really understands against all forms of enemies, small and large. And when the Master defenders of NATO realize what might be at stake, they may end up starting World War Three. With real super-beings. On all sides.