《KonoSuba: My Life as a Vampire!》I want to be a vampire!
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"Haruto Tachibana... Welcome to the Great Beyond. I am the goddess Eris, and I will show you a new path. Your life in this world is over."
Upon hearing these words I look around only to find myself in a bright white room. Everything happened so suddenly, there was a desk and a chair, like the ones you would often see in an office. And the person sat in the chair was the one notifying me that my life had ended.
If goddesses truly did exist, the person sat in-front of me was certainly worthy of that title. She wasn't just "cute" like the first girl you had a crush on, or an idol from a band. No human could match the beauty which was seated in-front of me.
She was clad in a billowing white feather dress, with long silver hair and alabaster skin. She couldn't have been any older than me, she could pass for even younger. The blue eyes of the goddess calling herself Eris looked at me with pity as I stood and stared at her.
As her words sank in, I realised I was dead.
As that thought wandered around in my mind and the only words I could muster escaped my mouth.
"Excuse me?"
The silver haired goddess looked at me with a confused expression placed upon her face which quickly turned to realisation of why I had asked that.
"If I may repeat myself, I was explaining how your life in your original world is over."
"I see, so what happens now? Do I get to go to heaven?"
"Normally we give you 2 choices, be reborn back into your world into a family of your choice, or be sent to heaven. If you choose the first choice we would have to rid you of your memories and you would live life as if you had never died in the first place. However, A world which I currently govern over is in crucial need for help against the evil Demon King, because of the Demon Kings influence almost all of the souls that have left that world do not want to be reborn into it, which is why we have started sending people from your world."
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"So you want to send me to a world that currently in peril? Isn't that absurd? I mean I've never even been in a fist fight before and you want me to try and kill a Demon King?, no, no way, I choose to be reborn into a wealthy family back into my world!"
The goddess had a shocked face and looked at me as if I had sold my soul to the devil.
"You didn't-"
The goddess paused for a moment and took a deep breath regaining her composure.
"I didn't completely finish explaining what happens if you choose to go and help save that world from the Demon King, we, the gods of that world will grant you a special ability."
A special ability, this is starting to sound like something from an anime.
"What kind of special ability?"
"It can be anything from a cursed sword which only you can wield to being something as simple as having max stats."
This really is like an anime, or video game.
"Okay, so anything?"
"Yes, anything."
"Okay, I want to be a vampire."
"What?"
"A vampire, you know, those creatures that go around in the middle of the night and seduce people with their good looks so they can take a bite out of them."
"Alright, a-are you sure that's what you want?"
"Yes it is, could you possibly make it easier for me to live though, like not turn to ash in the sun? And also make it super easy for me to trick people into following me so I can suck their blood?"
"That should be possible."
"Alright that's what I want."
After I had chosen my so called ability, is becoming a vampire really an ability? Who cares. A blue light, which looked like a generic magic circle you would find in an anime such as Fairy Tail, appeared at my feet and started dragging me up into the air.
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"Haruto Tachibana. I will now send you to this new world as a candidate to defeat the Demon King. When-soever you achieve this goal, you will receive a gift from the gods.
"A gift?" I asked.
"Yes. One commensurate with the worth of a world saved. The gods will grant you any one thing you should ask."
Score! If I defeat this Demon King or whatever I can get sent back to my world with my memories and ask to be rich for the rest of my life or something!
The goddess continued "Honoured hero! I pray for your success as the one candidate of many others who will defeat the Demon King! Now--go quickly!"
After the goddess' solemn invocation, I was enveloped in a brilliant light...
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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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