Aiming To Be The Best Magician In The World! Chapter 158
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"Sigh, it's sure been lonely without those 3." Claude said as he laid down on the couch.
"If you're lonely, go to the bar and hang out with your old comrades why don't you?" Laura said as she was cleaning the dishes in the kitchen.
"Ha~ Why would I talk to those old geezers when I could hug my cute daughter?" Claude sighed as he turned around to look at Laura.
"Our cute daughter isn't here. Go hug someone else, at least she is learning unlike a certain someone." Laura said as she gave Claude a glare.
"Fine fine, I'll go out. I wonder if those old geezers have anything fun." Claude said as he draped his coat over himself before heading out.
"Have a nice time. Make sure you don't get drunk to the point where someone needs to bring you home again." Laura warned him.
"I won't." Claude said as he closed the door.
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"Ha~ All these children and their parents. Where did all 3 of mine go? One is old, the other is old, and the third is so young that I miss her already." Claude muttered to himself as he walked down the streets.
"Oh, I haven't had any of these in so long." Claude said as he looked at a food stall.
"Excuse me, can I have twelve of those?" Claude asked the woman running the stall.
"Sure thing." She said as she handed him 12 steak kebabs
"Thanks." Claude said as he gave her a gold coin.
"Oh no, I can't take this. This is too much." The woman tried to refuse.
"Don't worry about it. I haven't had these in a very long time. Just keep the change." Claude said as he gave her a smile before he took the bag and walked away.
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"Thank you!" The woman said as she waved him goodbye.
"No problem." Claude said as he walked away while waving goodbye at her without turning his back.
'Looking at his face already pisses me off.' The men loitering around near the food stall all thought at once as they looked at Claude leaving.
These men were people who loved the woman that ran the food stall. She had refused all of their proposals so far, yet they won't give up.
So everyday, they just loiter around her food stall until the day she finally chooses one of them and says yes.
"You guys want to go beat him up? He is such an eyesore." A man asked the men around him.
"No worries, he probably has more money on him if he can give one gold coin out like that easily. Let's get him." The men said as they all started to follow Claude.
'Oh my? My trouble senses are tingling. I wonder why that is so.' Claude thought to himself as he continued heading to the bar.
"Chew chew, these taste so good. I wonder why did I stop eating them?" Claude asked himself.
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Author : Happy fathers day! If you arent in the other side of the world ofc.
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. 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