The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Summary of Volume 9 + Asking for leave at the beginning of the month

Ahem! First of all, in order to celebrate the end of this long and stinky volume, readers and dads have decided to give me a day off tomorrow. I would like to thank all readers and dads for their tolerance. Thank you!

applaud!

Bang bang bang bang bang!

And then enters the much-loved criticism phase (doge)...

Everyone thinks this volume is smelly and long. In fact, in terms of length alone, it is not very long.

To be more precise, it should actually be smelly and watery.

Let’s talk about the bad part first. The biggest problem may be Mikael’s character change. Because his "blackening" was actually completed in a very short period of time from the birth of the Twelfth Herrscher to the disappearance of Ellie, so if it becomes too dark all at once, it may appear a bit abrupt.

So when I was cleaning, I deliberately... ah, no, so I didn't make him black from the beginning. Instead, at the beginning of the "blackening", I first made Mikael change his goal. See It seems that he has turned black, but no one has been killed. To put it simply, except for the different target, there is not much difference between Mikael after turning black and before turning black.

Then in the Klosten chapter, Mikael began to break through the bottom line of kindness. The fate of everyone who appeared in that volume from beginning to end was within the calculation of the power of time. The story from beginning to end was Mikael. As the screenwriter, everyone who died must be blamed on Mikael's arrangement. In fact, in this volume, Mikael has already owed hundreds of thousands of lives, but these people have neither names nor in-depth descriptions of the tragedy, so they will not be much touched.

Among the deceased who had names and surnames, the only ones who left an impression on everyone should be Kallen and Elinor. However, when writing this paragraph, they were deliberately blurred, so that everyone could not figure out Kallen and Elinor. Is he really dead, or is he just like Ying Jie and wants to buy tickets to paradise? But based on Mikael's past performance and the last letter left behind that seemed to be from Ellie, most people should think that these two people are not dead.

At the same time, whenever Hua appears in the plot, readers will be told over and over again through Hua's psychological activities that regardless of the facts, Mikael is still kind in his heart, and he will...

This way of writing makes Mikael's darkening look less dark, and it doesn't mean that such an extreme change causes the character to collapse directly, but it also leads to another problem, which is...

Mikael felt so safe.

The sense of security here is not a sense of security in the literal sense, but a common phenomenon in novels, especially online novels. Because the protagonist must be alive for the story to develop, no matter how critical the situation is, readers subconsciously feel that the protagonist can turn the crisis around.

When it comes to Mikael, readers know that he has his own bottom line and that at least one of his ultimate goals is to resurrect Alicia, so they don’t think he will go too dark. Sometimes he and Otto The comparison is just stubbornness. From deep down, I don’t believe how evil Mikael can be.

Even if Mikael keeps feeling guilty and repentant in his heart, readers may just regard him as naive at best.

So one of the tasks of this volume is to destroy this sense of security. Now no one knows how crazy Mikael will be and what he will do that will surprise readers. In a sense, it seems to have been successful...

As for whether the character will be broken, I think it won't happen.

I have forced Mikael's darkening to progress in a wave, from fake killings, to fake killings and real killings, to no fake killings, all real killings, and his character is getting more and more twisted. As long as he has this In terms of the evolution process, I think the problem shouldn’t be that big.

And these are also based on a foundation, which is that Siyuan's power prevents time from wearing away the humanity in him. Otherwise, I really don't know how to write about a person who has lived for 50,000 years.

As for whether the twisted personality, especially the sudden change in attitude, is reasonable, I can only say that there is a small detail in the pre-civilization - Mikael has always been a mental patient who needs drug treatment.

That’s it for the smelly problem. Although it is reasonable, there may be some problems during the shaping process. Maybe the previous preparation is not enough.

As for the water issue, I think it’s a matter of perspective.

If you look carefully, the perspective in this volume is actually a bit strange. Most of the time, Mikael is just a secondary perspective, occasionally switching to his main perspective. Most of the time, the main perspective is actually Mei.

I feel like this might be a bit of a problem. After all, Mikael is the protagonist. It’s okay to occasionally use other characters as the main perspective in a few chapters. But if at least half of a volume is Mei’s main perspective, then it would be a bit weird.

I don’t know how to solve this problem for the time being. It is foreseeable that in the subsequent plots, which usually involve the growth of the Yusan family, such problems will arise again, because only in this way can their psychology and behavior be presented in more detail. If you want to avoid it, you may have to change the plot arrangement.

Another problem is the time span. As I said, this volume is not too long. It is not as long as the previous two volumes. It just seems like there are many chapters. But the number of chapters actually reflects the time span. If this volume had not more than fifty chapters, but forty or even thirty chapters, it might not be so good.

In fact, it means going from four thousand a day to six thousand a day.

But I really can’t do it anymore. This is the first time I have written a story of such length. In twenty days, this book will be updated for a full year. At the beginning, I always felt that there was endless things to write in my mind, and I could write a lot in one breath. Now I still have things in my mind that I want to write, but I just can’t write them down.

Sometimes it’s not that I don’t know what to write, but that I know what to write, but sitting in front of the computer and typing out a line feels more tiring than running around on the playground.

I remember there was a celebrity on Douyin who insisted on eating luncheon meat every day. I was a freshman when I followed him. At that time, he had only eaten for a hundred or two hundred days in a row. I thought this was something. Isn’t it just a guaranteed bite of luncheon meat every day? Well, who can't do it...

Now he has been eating for more than a thousand days.

All I can say is, the mountains are high.

When you turn your hobby into a career and write every day, the mental resistance is very uncomfortable.

Sometimes, when the characters in the book go crazy, it may not be because they want to go crazy, but because I can't stand it. I go crazy in reality and then describe my own state.

It doesn't mean that I don't like writing anymore. If I change to a brand new story, I might be full of energy again, but by the last 30% of writing this story, I really feel more and more tired as I go on.

So my update went from 6,000 to 8,000 per day to the bottom line of 5,000, and then fell below 5,000, and I was messing around at 4,000 per day.

I had no choice but to procrastinate and procrastinate. I waited until 11 o'clock in the evening to read it. It only had more than 3,000 words. It finally exceeded 4,000 words. After a quick glance, it was just out of chapter. Then I quickly published it on time and went to bed.

During this period, I kept trying to adjust my state, but it seemed that the more I resisted, the more excited I became... No, the more I resisted, the stronger this sense of resistance became.

Of course, everyone is different, and I also admire the kind of people who never stop updating, only when...ahem!

Regarding the issue of update volume, I will try my best to adjust it later. If it really doesn’t work, everyone can only raise it first. Just remember to save for half a month and clear it off every month. I may write a little slower, but at least I will finish it.