EDIT: Book one is up on Amazon's Kindle for 3.99USD, or FREE if you have Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B01IJ47KB0
Again, thank you all for following, reading, commenting, rating, and yes, even complaining. Except for that one person's nasty comment, I enjoyed reading each and every one of them. That being said, I have some thoughts to share.
For starters, no, this is not the end, nor will I abandon the entire thing. This is my project, and I'm damn well going to finish it. However, I will be taking a few days off to write up a few chapters for the next one. So if you have anything you'd like me to put down, please let me know. I'm serious. I've practically nothing thought out beyond the prologue and first few chapters.
* So, the first arc was the game's "tutorial". Yes, it was a game, even though it was a separate world. If the MC had a functioning body that lived through the initial start of it all, I would have written in bits about how he'd fall asleep in another world, and awaken in a pod of some sort. However, it did not, so neither did I write anything about it.
* This next arc will be featuring the MC traipsing across various worlds, breezing through some, so that he may appear before the "Tribunal" once more. Whereupon he will then kill them over and over, again and again, until he either becomes bored, or finds something else to vent upon.
* No, there will not be anymore adopting of random children. Yes, he may save some, but that is ALL. He just lost everything upon the tutorial world called Terra, so why should he want to try having a family again, when it'll all disappear in the end? Which is why he'll act more like an overpowered and intelligent skeleton, than a family man. In other words, the last shreds of his humanity is gone, and in its place is something much darker, more vengeful. So expect more brutality, and less fluff. Will do my best to moderate it, though.
* One more bit, then I have to address some issues within the story. It's about the kitsune and his audience. It's not going to be the same as before, as he will be relocating to a castle where everyone is introduced to an older version of Brutus the Lich. It's another party setting, but instead of it celebrating his arrival, the party is for someone in the teenage range. Still haven't figured it all out, but will get there soon enough.
Now for the issues.
* Someone wants me to put in more details, especially with the gruesome scenes. They also want more variety when it comes to the tortures the MC, and others, inflict upon their victims. I will do my best, which doesn't sound promising to some. However, it's all I can say about the matter, and because he's so full of hatred and anger, I REALLY need to step up my game.
* Then there are the issues with flow, story and sentence structures, and the like. All I can say about it is with an excuse. Well, a few excuses, really. Which are my writing style is Archaic, This is my first REAL story, and I'm someone who is better at short stories and long poems than what I just accomplished today. What is an Archaic Writing Style? Well, it's something similar to Shakespeare's writing and the KJV (King James Version) of the Christian Bible. It's the Thee's and Thou's sort of writing, and I have been doing my best to modernise it for you all. If you can recall the little excerpts I put out, that's a less modernised version of my actual style. Hence the issues.
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* There are other issues within the story, as other people within RRL's community have told me. Which is why I am seeking the professional help of an editorial company. It's a slow process, as many already have a lot on their plate, but once they help address the issues within the story, I will then re-upload a more complete version for you all to enjoy. I do not know how long it'll take, so if someone out there wishes to volunteer their time to run through it all with a stack of red pens, you're more than welcome to do so. Just let me know, okay?
Now comes the part where I beg for a review, yet again, and would like your honest opinions about it all.
Also, if you're an artist or know someone who is, and are willing to draw up a cover art for the story, I will be eternally grateful, and will even purchase it from you/them. What I had in mind for it was of the golden kitsune posed as though he is telling a story on the bottom part of the picture, with a shadow cast behind him in the form of his four armed, skeletal self. With a pair of red, glowing eyes staring down upon all before it.
Well, that's what I keep imagining. So if you have better ideas, I'm all ears. If there are multiple artists, I may end up holding a poll for everyone to decide on which one should be best used.
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Alright. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, you're all welcome to ask me anything you'd like to know. Barring anything really personal, of course. Just be advised, I'm running on fumes here due to Insomnia. So I may duck out of here for a few hours to rest up before chatting with you folks again.
I do have some questions for you all, too, by the by. Such as:
* Who is/was your favourite character, and why?
* Who is/was your least favourite?
* Which chapter did you enjoy/disliked?
* Which seemed the most controversial to you?
* Do you have any ideas on the plot of the next arc? (I have nothing yet)
* What would you like to see the MC do in the next segment of the story? (It's going to be less fluffy than the last one)
Again, thank you all for reading thus far. Please let me hear your thoughts about everything done up so far. I really do enjoy the conversations with my readers, regardless of what they have to say.
Oh, and there'll be a few days of nothing after today. Still have to brainstorm and write up a few chapters before we get back into the swing of things. The earliest should be about Sunday, whilst the latest will be around Monday.