Hey guys, its been a minute since the last chapter. The better part of 4 months if my math is right. You may wonder what I've been up to.

Last you saw me I was preparing for the big rewrite, working on side projects, and so on. To be fair that is true, I've been working on those things. But at the same time I'm nowhere near ready. Right now I'm only about 1/4th done with the rewrite of the first arc (which I'm extending from 8ish chapters to a feature length book), and haven't touched the in-progress version for months. That brings me to the bad news.

With the amount of work I've put into the rewrite, I can't justify going back and continuing the older version because it would be a logistical and documentation nightmare. But at the same time I don't want to disappear into the ether and have everyone who was a fan wonder where I went. I was on the wrong end of that pain too many times and I don't want to be that guy.

At the moment, I have about 30k words written in mostly solid form, that being the first 5 chapters at roughly 5.5k words a piece, some are longer and others are shorter. I could share them, but i would hate to deliver those 5 chapters and have people waiting for weeks for the next one (They would be in a new story).

So if anyone is still here and willing to bear with me, let me know what you think I should do. Because right now contiuing this version isn't the path, but I don't want to vanish. If you have any suggestions, or you think just posting what I have so far and updating as it comes it fine, I'm willing to listen.

Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.

Lastly, thank you all for hitting 400 followers and 100 favorites, even though my lack of updates dropped me back down below 400. It really means a lot that this story didn't crash and burn the moment I stopped updating.

Edit: I didn't make it clear in the original post so I'll add it here. This is a complete story rewrite the same general sequence of events will take place that being Andromeda entering the new world and then becoming an arch mage but pretty much everything between the beginning and the end of that particular segment is vastly expanded to a full-size book or at least that's my plan. As of the moment I'm five chapters into that working on the 6th at the current rate that I'm going at. I should have the full first book written in about 3 months give or take, The reason it doesn't seem like I did a whole lot between when I said I started and now is because a lot of that was behind the scenes work and remaking everything that I need to remake. Overall, I think this new version is better in every single way and is actually worth being the beginning of this story that I want to tell. At the current rate that I've been going for the last few weeks, it should take me about 3 to 4 more months to reach where I want to be and definitely at the very least it won't be more than 6 months, but keep in mind that's going to be a full-sized book so this isn't going to be some small thing.

I think that if you guys are even a quarter as excited at I am about this. It's going to be a knockout. Anyway, thanks again for reading, I promise you you'll love it