《I Am an Evil Lord Yet, Why Are They Happy to Serve Under Me?》Volume 02 Afterward
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With this, I can proudly say that I had finished writing Volume 02 of "I Am an Evil Lord Yet, Why Are They Happy to Serve Under Me?" Damn, it was one hell of a wild ride. And look at it! There are a total of 45 chapters! Over twice the amount of chapters from Volume 01 which had 19 chapters!
First of all, I would like to thank all of you for reading my fanfiction. With all of those bullshits I pulled off, I thought I would lose some of the readers in the process. Well, I think I had already lost some, but I thank all of you who are reading up until now. I also need to thank the people from the discord servers I am currently in. They gave me many ideas to continue this story.
And I think I overdid with the character introduction. I mean, in most of the Light Novels, they would only introduce one girl per volume and that girl is the source of problems for that volume. And look at this volume. I introduced the reincarnated villainess, the yandere maid, the lolibaba magic instructor, and the returner knight. Let us not mention that shotacon Lady of the Lake. Yes, I knew it was a cluster fuck.
Now, let's go to our beloved Princess Azalia von Starfall. I will be honest. She is my favorite female character or rather, the second favorite character in the story. Whenever I write her chapters, it feels natural, and I somehow wrote her chapters in less than two hours. Mind you, whenever I write a chapter, it always takes more than three hours.
Let's continue about the princess. As the main female lead of this story, I do not want her to be a girl waiting to be saved. No, I want her to be more than that. I want to make her strong enough to stand side by side with Urien. She does not have OP cheats like Urien, and the only cheats she got from outside of this world (me) are and . And those 2 are useless against most of the powerhouse in that world. So, she will have to work hard if she wants to stand side by side with Urien.
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Next is about me wanting to make her a hero. Yes, I want her to go around one kingdom after another for an adventure. You know? Like some LN protagonists, fighting some villains, saving someone in need, diving into the dungeons, gathering allies, and becoming stronger in the process. She might get the items like Urien's but who knows?
From her first interlude, you can know that there are already 3 more party members in her party. They might increase but I think current members are enough for now. Yes, I already have their illustrations. I will be adding those illustrations after properly introducing them in a chapter.
It was always in my mind that I wanted to make the Princess-chan be the opposite of Urien. Azalia's theme color is being Black while MC's theme color is white. (Urien's clothing and hair color being white while Azalia's are black as you had seen in the illustration.)
I am trying to make Azalia the Hero while Urien is hellbent on trying to be an Evil Lord.
Now for the weapon, Urien's precious weapon, Sword of Pride is white while Azalia's is black.
For the Breathing Style, MC uses Darkness Breathing which... well, the name says it all; and Azalia's Breathing of the Sun which shines bright. I could make Breathing of the Light as an original breathing style, but I was too lazy at that time. So, I made her learn herself through hardworking by seeing the dance forms from Urien.
Now, enough simping over Azalia and let us continue with the other things. It was not my intention that this world travel happens to be JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I was going to make Urien go to Granblue Fantasy, Seraph of the End, or even Moon-led Journey Across Another World. But I was like, fuck it. I just watched JoJo and let's go with it. And let me be honest, I had not thought about Eyes of Heaven when I started the JoJo arc. I thought that one on spot and changed it. TLDR; I have absolutely no idea what to write at that moment. But all in all, it turned out great. And I hope some of you will like the JoJo arc.
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Let's talk about the villainess. And I have absolutely nothing to say about her. But what I can tell you is that she and Urien came from a different version of earth. She will get her role, but it might take a little longer to get there. Maybe around Volume 05 or 06. I added her after watching Bakarina because I thought it will be hilarious to see that kind of villainess. And again, I haven't thought about adding her, but I added her on spot.
Now, about Yumil. She was also based on the heroine, Maria Campbell from Hamefura, the same anime where Bakarina came from. But I made the opposite of Maria because… I felt like it? A yandere maid who is not afraid of killing if someone were to talk something bad about her Master. The real contrast to cute and innocent Maria.
Next up is, lolibaba. Her name, Cecilia Rose was a complete coincidence to the one from The Touhou Project. Only after a reader pointed it out that I realized the name was striking similar to Remilia Scarlet. I used a random name generator and chose the random name among them and added Rose because her eyes are red. The way Luna acts around her might be strange for some of the readers. But you must know that Luna I had summoned came from here. So, I think it is not strange for her to act like that.
And lastly, the regressor. I also got an idea for that while writing the maid's point of view. Did you know? I tried to make that maid a r*pe victim instead of an abuse victim. Writing the regressor was not hard. Just made sure to pull out a nuke on her knowledge about the future.
Let's talk about Tsukasa. I absolutely like his character. And being my favorite Kamen Rider of all time, I just can't let him end his journey early, can't I? So, I made sure to add him as an Interdimensional Police Force. I dunno if he would be catching the shotacon Lady of the Lake.
The next volume will be about a laboratory trying to take over the Empire just like I had said in the first interlude of Azalia. And the world he will be traveling is Honkai Impact the 3rd. I will need to learn more about Honkai lore though. I would be glad if you direct me to where I could learn about them.
That will be all for Afterward of this Volume. And once again, let me thank all of you for sticking around with me. This fanfiction of mine has many mistakes and many requirements but I hope you will keep on reading my work. Although things are currently bad in Myanmar, I will try my best to keep on writing this story.
Thank you,
Zimrence
22/6/2021
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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. But the bustling city has few opportunities for the traditionalist. For the old sword clans are fading. With the rise of alchemy, gold can purchase strength that ordinarily took years of training to cultivate. Sword artists, once rare and accomplished, are quickly growing in number, especially among the wealthy noble class. Even with such alchemy, though, no one has advanced to the rank of Grandmaster in countless years. Talen's true dream is to walk the path of a sword artist to the very end while fulfilling his clan duties. And then the Swordgeists return, fabled founders of all sword arts, gods who had touched the world long ago and vanished. These myths turned into reality warn of a coming threat. Alongside this warning, they issue an invitation to the Sword System Academy, a path to power beyond the mortal realm. But first, they will hold an entrance exam... Story notes:Sword System Academia blends elements of western and asian fantasy such as xianxia and litrpg. I took parts from different genres I enjoyed and twisted them into my own creation. There will be an explicit system, both of the litrpg kind and the hard(ish) magic kind, but it is embedded within an academic structure that will develop over the course of the story. This is my attempt to design a unique type of system, the System Academia.
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