So, first of all, I'd like to thank you for reading my old, unstable, spontaniously-written work. Through writing this prototype, which I did the foolish noob mistake of actually publishing it on royal road, I'd like to believe I've improved my writing skills, but idk, you'll be the taste testers when the rewrite starts to drip drip drip like the rain on a wintery day (lol)

Now, here's what's changing: note that if you haven't actually read the chapters, it'll be a spoiler for you. But who the hell just clicks on the latest anouncement updates even before reading the novel itself! Ok, I get it, I totally am somebody who'd do that just to see if the story I'm following has dropped, completed or been put on hiatus. But, ahem, please don't read it if you haven't read the chapters.

-New fiction page:

This story will be marked as dropped, with the name being editted with the notice about the rewrite. I won't do that until I actually start to do the rewriting. The rewrite, on the other hand, wil have its own new shiny fiction page! The cover... oh the dreaded cover, I don't even know what to do about that one, tough cookie to crack and all that. I'll probably ask stable diffusion to spit out an image with a description prompt as detailed as my brain can make it, then ask someone to tell me what it looks like.

-Dragon-raised mc, why isn't he at least a bit overpowered?

I mean, when someone says dragon, it evokes a feeling of strength and grandure. So if someone was raised by dragons, they should be overpowered. Just slitely, a teeny tiny bit! Ok not teeny tiny, but the overpoweredness doesn't stop the struggle. In fact, it's going to attract more of it (hehe, like moths to the flame of glory!). Ok where'd the glory part come from? I understand you are in an imaginative mood today, mr. Brain, but why in all that exists did you add something weird to a common saying?

Anyways, in the rewrite, mc, Queltsom Worldguest, will know a lot about cultivation and the grand factions of the cosmos. Not much, as foreknowledge impeeds propper cultivation and all that crap, but enough general knowledge to guide him through the earlier ranks. His first major power has been decided in collaboration with the dragons, with enough rigorous testing to find a type of power most compatible with Quel's way of thinking. He will also know how to fight like a professional. He will not be defeated in a fair fight, especially in the first chaps, as the fighters in that section of the story are basically stumbling through the dark, while he had been training in physical combat with dragons and equally formidable friendly humanoids who provided a lot of perspective. He is not an ai model that only knows how to respond to one or a handful of enemies, after all. That means that the training chapters where Brelethro Vergan shows him that his style is crap are gone! Delete delete delete! Don't worry, he'll still have his asterisk handed to him through trickery and underhanded tactics he will not see coming, not that he can see anything... stop it brain, don't go interfering with a serious thing with your sidecomments!

Furthermore, he will know how to sense his surroundings, and he will only explain it to Ken, formerly Kerrio, so that the latter, and by extension the readers, understand how it works. So no more "I sensed a wooden surface bla bla bla", straight to the "chair", "door", etc. Also the timeskip after which he leaves the dragons' company is shortened. He will 'begin' training at six years old, and master his fighting art, as well as learning more about the cosmos at large and the knowledge of cultivation (which will all be skipped) in the next four years. The dread dragons' attack happens when he's 10 years old, then he'll find himself in prison somewhere unfamiliar 5 years later. That way it's less unbelievable than a "Nine Years Hybernation? Nani?"

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-Kerrio>>Ken Rio:

Even by fantasy naming standards, Kerrio just sounds like someone decided to make fun of Mario, so it has been salvaged into a more authentic name. Multiple things about him will be altered. He will also know a biiit more about things here and there, after all, the 'communion with the System' thing isn't just for show.

-Reduction of the number of characters in a short period of time:

Multiple weird names thrown in without explanations? Scratch that, make it fly away like a bird of prey!

-The System and its interaction with cultivation ranks:

Ok, this has put me in a bit of a dilemma. On one hand, trying to apply the leveling mechanic and the depictions of levels and their relation with my new and shining cultivation rank system is hard and would inevitably turn out to be confusing as hell. On the other hand, I quite like my new and shining cultivation rank system, so... do I just scratch the leveling part of the system and delete it all together, making it like The Heavenly Throne (by Yuri Ajin), where the system shows the stage and substage of cultivation and has no leveling/xp thing? Or do I make it so that when the cultivator reaches a new rank, their level resets to 1 instead of needing to keep track of the levels and level caps, like "level 2.21" for level 21 of the second rank? But what if a rank is optional/specialization that only someone who wants to commit to something will be at it? How would the system convey that to its users?

--Less_energy_names="GOOD":

The previous version had me imagining different energies and naming them with nonsensical and random names, thankfully I didn't reach the point of showing that to you. Kota and Vak are still a thing, though, as are six, or seven, or eight, or nine other energies. But I promis there won't be more than 11 energies!

-As for the appearance side of things:

I'll be receiving someone's assistance with the formatting. I'll probably learn basic html syntax from him and apply it myself, to manually designate bold, italic and so on with code rather than selecting and using things uncomfortable and metaphorically unwieldy in my experience.

AAAAAAnd the major takeaway is:

When my busy moments slow down,

The village becomes a town,

And the pacing speeds up,

And the error rate goes down.

That is to say, Elva is a town, not a village. It was portraied as a village while reading it screamed 'small town'.

Also removing the aformentioned chapters/content reduces the length of the story. The novel is intended to be long, so reducing the fluff and speeding the pacing up will hopefully reduce the number of chapters, which might be more appealing to some readers. I still expect the number of chapters to be in the hundreds, but still, prooning is always good.

Soooooo, thanks for reading my list of upcoming changes, as I said earlier, please add anything you think should be made into account before I actually start rewriting. I still have 4 or 5 months to go before challenging the tribulation called a final exam and breaking the chains of... NOPE, not happening, Xianxia tropes, you're not going to dominate my novel!

So yeah thanks for reading. Let me know your invaluable sagely advice in the comments below, and sorry for the side-ramblings that my brain comes up with. My mind wanders a lot. After all, I'm the Patriarch of the Wandering Mind sect... ok bye for real!