《I, the last black dragon, 6 year old. (TOME 1 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)》The Dark Cathedral (My home)
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I was in that cold and sinister cathedral and I thought back to our moments of happiness around the fire and shed tears.
What the hell did I do?
Then, out of nowhere behind me, the black lion looked at me:
Ivan, Ivan............................................................. what do you want to do now? It seems your anger has subsided...
"It's too quiet, we should put microphones on, they're planning something and yet I haven't attacked anymore..."
I'm going to start a new life over and over again. I keep this cave as a drop point. It's empty, sinister and not to my liking!
"We can shave everything and do something else..." asked Zaaar.
"No, Zaaar, the problem is me!
I'm a big target and all the hate is pouring down on me and I didn't deserve that!
I'm not that bad, but they abandoned me, tortured me, and hurt poor little Robin over and over again. And there are plenty of Robins.
Axula, it's a shame for her eyes, but she didn't flinch either for Robin and Will either. Sylvie shouldn't have died, but she preferred her harem while I was frozen. With your head in the clouds, the higher the fall will be."
"ET? "Zaaar asked.
"We must take back the northern lands. There are fewer people and almost no cities
We must show humans that it makes life better in the land of the infernal Duke than in their kingdom."
Zaaar: "It goes against all demon logic..."
"Exactly! Their world of magic is primary and too simple.
What is the problem for nature? For us, actually!
The peasant who scratches the ground to feed his family?
Birds also scrape the earth to eat a worm... and as far as I know, Bhaal or the others have not declared war on the birds..."
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Zaaar: "I'm beginning to understand..."
We must break the pyramid of power! Political power must be taken away from them, just a village or city chief.
The power to do justice. Peace justice for neighbourhood problems but the rest to the dragons to decide
Religious power: only priests. Local guards but no more army.
Decisions will be made by social engineers from your army.
Basically if they want to decide, they have to get off their asses and be recognized by the dragons.
Zaaaar: "Edifying, you turn everything around"
Yes, and I didn't finish: "NO NOBLESSE! EQUITABLE REDISTRIBUTION OF LAND"
PERISSABLE SILVER, Basically, it's over accumulating wealth. Money that stagnates rots!
A good cure of Mao communism!"
Zaaaar: "Mao????"
"Yes, a terrible dictator who confiscated from the rich lands, fortunes and forced the verbiage experts to put their hands in the mud to live. In conclusion, people dying of hunger have been able to live with dignity and overcome terrible famines. The intellectuals and monks were eliminated or sent to return the fields. Many have certainly died, but China is now an imperial power and even if there are still injustices, people no longer die of hunger or lack of care. Everyone has access to the school. "
Our ultimate goal is to crush order and feudal society.
People and the population when they see that their sufferings are in the past, other nations will follow on their own.
Their fate will be sealed once and for all when there is a master dragon on each fief.
We will therefore have won when humanity thus exchanges its freedom for its security.
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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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