《Code Death[Dropped]》Announcement!
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Hello, if you are still following this and looking for more chapters that is great! However I didn’t like the direction I was heading with this one, so I wanted to rewrite it. When I was thinking over how to rewrite it I came up with 5 Dragon Emperor, another novel i’ve written that has more of a xianxia feel to it.
It’s only been like three or four weeks since i’ve started that novel, but I release one chapter a day (or more!). Right now 5 Dragon Emperor has 45 chapters and still more to come, you can still catch up! It is on it’s second arc right now, but is slowly ending it soon.
I talked to some people who wanted to know if I dropped this novel, but I didn’t I just put it to the side since 5 Dragon Emperor was taking up my time. I previously was releasing two chapters a day for 5 Dragon Emperor, but then I decided I should put more time into rewriting Code Death. I started thinking of how I could make it better or how to give it a better feel etc. During that time an Idea sparked, that I just had to write down.
This idea takes the same form as Code Death, but in a slightly different approach. The main character is different, and older also. He is in a Virtual Reality like world same as Code Death, but he can’t remember any of it. You may consider him a ‘NPC’ if you will, but he’s not really one at the same time.
I wanted to give Code Death a feel of xianxia world in VR, but decided not to. You could consider what i’ve written so far a new entirely different series, but to me it’s just an idea that got expanded. If you would like to read it, it is called Virtual God Zu, which sounds a lot better than Code Death. Even the title seems more xianxia like as well (lol).
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I think my writing has gotten better because with this one i’m just writing it slowly and taking as much time as I need. Virtual God Zu is being written co-side 5 Dragon Emperor, but it’ll only have 3-5 chapters a weak. If it gets enough likes, then i’ll try to add some extra chapters every now and again.
Thank you for reading Code Death, and if you are interested in any more of my works, you should check them out!
Virtual God Zu -> http://royalroadl.com/fiction/4284 (I think of this as a Code Death 2.0)
5 Dragon Emperor -> http://royalroadl.com/fiction/3862 (More of a Xianxia type of novel, way different from Code Death)
Virtual God Zu Synopsis
I am the God of my world, Zu. Are you the God of your world? I was born a noble in the southern region of Chaos, made a slave only to buy my freedom. However i remember none of this. My past does not define who I will be, even if I do not remember does not mean others don’t. I will learn, I will master, I will become a God. This world that the ‘Jumpers’ call a Virtual World is my home, and the continent I’m on is called Azure. I may be called a ‘Noob’ but my name shall shake the world! My legend continues, and those who know me call me the Virtual God Zu.
5 Dragon Emperor Synopsis
Chang Mu is a cultivator at the principle of cultivation and was the third person to achieve Immortally.Using his powers Chang Mu united the seven kingdoms, becoming their emperor.
Chang Mu was poised by Chang Chi, his own brother turning him back into a mortal. Chang Mu knew that Chang Chi wanted the five Dragon pendant, because the pendant held mysterious powers, powers beyond his own. Although Chang Mu faced death, he didn't give in and took his own life, but not before crushing the five dragon pendant.
While the heavens forces one to reincarnate themselves into a new world without any memories, Chang Mu goes against the heavens and forces his soul to reincarnate in his own time. What drives him on is revenge, and his target is Chang Chi.
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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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