Hello! I’d like to thank you for both reading and supporting me in the few months that the story was being published. I truly appreciate it, even if you never said anything, I’m aware that even just reading it is something to feel good about.

So...! That’s the current end of the story of The Holy Fool: Darkness and Hellfire. I know it might be a bit abrupt or maybe somewhat disappointing, but I knew I had to end it soon, and I decided to do it like this.

I’ve learned a few things, and I think that you might’ve noticed those things as well, like how the characters changed, how the story went from being about learning of our world to being all about combat and magic, and how certain characters weren’t there anymore.

There were still parts of the story that maybe you could’ve wanted to see, like seeing Althea defeat the Holy Gods, and I had indeed thought of things that would lead to that, but I realized that the interest wasn’t there anymore, and I had to acknowledge that already.

As for the ending being like how it is right now, I had at one point said to someone in the comments that the story could end at the end of the year or continue depending on how things turned out. Right now, I feel like it had to end, and so I did it.

For why the story turned out the way that it did, it was mostly for taking into account the feedback that I was seeing in the first few chapters, like up to chapter 60 or so, where people told me that they didn’t really like how Althea was like a caveman in the modern world, how the accompanying characters were annoying or just tiresome to read, and how it felt awkward and slow to read.

Because of that, I decided to “rush” the story ahead at about chapter 80, where there was a timeskip. I also used that skip to make Althea less of a clueless woman in the modern world, as well as to get rid of the characters that people had expressed annoyance with. It was also where I started to try to end the story sooner rather than later, which is how we got where we got and how we got a lot of combat.

I think that there’s where I made my biggest mistake, in that a lot of you (if you’ve read up to here) started reading the story for the premise of a hero of another world trying to adapt to our world, only to end up with a story where the character is essentially the same being that she was in her world; one who lives to fight with magic and swords, but now doing it in ours.

That kind of story could’ve worked with a different audience, but as it stands right now, the people that were hoping for the same story from the start are likely going to be disappointed for what it turned out to be, while the people that might be interested in what the story ended up to be, were never going to read up to that point since the start of the story wasn’t about that.

A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.

Now, I’d like to come out clean on a few details that I placed on the story but never confirmed.

First, where the story takes place. It takes place mostly in Bogota, Colombia. I tried my best to leave hints about it without actually saying the place, like talking about the weather, how people were and acted, their names (though, some names I ‘englished’ to sound normal), or why the police acted the way they did in the story at the start, for example.

If you had googled a place with some of the descriptions that I gave, you might’ve gotten that place.

I thought about having it take place somewhere else, but I'm sure that people from other places would've pointed out how nonsense something I could've gotten wrong was, so in the end, I left it vague.

There were other places that I hinted at but didn’t explicitly say where they were, like where they first meet Eletha, which in my mind it was supposed to be Hong Kong. I tried not to really say it because I don’t really know the place, so I just left it vague enough for people to figure out that it was at least around China, which is something that I did say.

As for the ending with the enemies, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), they were based on a real extremist army in Colombia named “National Liberation Army (ELN in Spanish)”, who do that sort of stuff, like recruiting child soldiers (like Eletha), kidnaps, terrorism, drug traffic, displacements… etc. I hinted at there being something like that at the start of the story with the lady that points Althea to the Magic Red Zone, and this is how it turned out; though, there’s other groups, like the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, Self-defense, etc.

I intentionally avoided as best as I could to explicitly say where it took place because I didn’t want to create a bias on anyone in regards to something like that, like, I didn’t want people to avoid reading the story—or to only read it—because it was taking place in Colombia. Rather, I wanted people to read it for the story that it was and the situations, regardless of where it took place.

It might’ve been a mistake, and outright saying that could’ve created more interest, but that’s how I felt and still feel about it.

Finally, for future projects: There could still be a continuation or sequel of the story if, for some reason, there’s a lot of interest in it, but right now, there’s other things I’d like to move on to.

There’s another story already in the works and it’s my hope that I can start posting it in the coming few weeks, maybe next year (which is already right around the corner). For now, the name is going to be: Heavenly Viewpoint.

Hopefully, you’ll be interested in it as much as I am!

If not, then, as always, I’d like to thank you for reading all of this and sticking with it through the months if you did, or if you just binged it. Thank you.

Thank you as well for the support that you’ve shown. It truly meant a lot to me. I see you there, even if I don't say anything, I’m aware of you.

With all that being said…

See ya on the next one!