Hello, everyone! I am finally back! It took a month, but I finally finished redoing the Forest Island Arc!

So, to start off with, I originally told you guys that when I was redoing this arc, I stated that the new arc would have fewer chapters, like ten or so chapters less than the original. Well, apparently. that was a lie. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, the latest chapter before I began my revision was chapter 38. Well, it will now be called chapter 37. I only cut out one chapter out of the entire arc. I didn't even realize this until I just finished the last chapter of the revision. So, yeah, this was one of the reasons why it took so long to finish the revisions. But I'm finally done and that's all that matters!

Of course, there are the chapters after the forest island arc that I need to make slight adjustments for. Mostly fixing status window updates, current skill ranks, and her updated level along with a couple of lines involving certain things that happened in the original arc rather than the new and current one. This leads me to the next part of this announcement; what exactly did I change?

Well, here's the list of changes that I made:

1) The Town Island Arc has been extended a bit. Hazel will stay in the town a little more because she receives another dungeon challenge where she needs to kill every fractured monster in the town.

2) Astrid is now on her own in the forest island. In the original, she had a team, but I got rid of them since I only included them to be killed off in the betrayal scene.

3) Speaking of the betrayal scene, Astrid still gets betrayed but it is through a flashback. Dolk is still the one who betrayed Astrid and the rest of her team, but not because he was a yandere but a follower of Kollr, Astrid's brother. I did this because the Yandere betrayal scene made no sense and got rid of it entirely.

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4) Astrid and Hazel's encounter is also different where instead of them stumbling into one another, Hazel came across her when Astrid was being attacked by Orcs and helped her out.

5) Hazel and Astrid's relationship is also different. Instead of trusting Hazel at the beginning, she is very suspicious and distant from her, only using the mage because of her magic. Their relationship will develop into a mutual partnership at the end of the arc after facing off against a strong enemy, which is the Orc Chief, a new monster I made.

Now these are the major changes to the story and I'm proud to say that they are a lot better than the original, since they are more coherent. Another thing, instead of just publishing all of the chapters at once, I will be publishing two to three of them a day. Before you get upset, I have two reasons for this. The first reason is that I want to reestablish my presence to all of my readers who like this story, and doing this will do that. As for the second reason, although I finished redoing this arc, I have to make changes to the chapters after this and don't want to abruptly stop like before.

It wouldn't take another month to do the revisions like this, but I don't want to take any chances. And unlike the new arc, I'm only making minor revisions to the chapters like dialogue and certain scenes that wouldn't make sense due to the changes. I won't be starting over any arcs I've already made. Plus, doing the math, the redone Forest Island arc would be all out within a week if I uploaded the new chapters 2 to 3 times a day.

Speaking of which, to not confuse the readers, all of the revised chapters after chapter 13 will be called [RV] next to them until I reach chapter 37. As for the old chapters, I plan to delete all of those today. It's a bit depressing since I'll be losing a lot of views from them. Especially since I have over a hundred thousand views. Which, by the way, thank you for that. But I'll get over a hundred thousand views again with my revised chapters.

So, that is all. I'm glad to be back and hope you'll read my story again like before. Also, I'll be placing this announcement after chapter 13 to give any new readers a heads-up about what's currently happening right now.

See ya and enjoy the revision!