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Behind the strange combination of the barbarian and the dwarf was an extremely luxurious carriage pulled by eight horses.
The overall color tone of the carriage adopts the main colors of the Landon Territory: white and blue, and carvings of golden lions can be seen everywhere.
Elizabeth Langdon lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and smiled at the people.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Look, it's the Saint! She is still so brave and kind!"
"Ever since I brought the portrait of the Saint home, all my health problems have been cured!"
"Portrait of the Saint, 50 silver coins each!"
Behind the carriage were the barons and viscounts who had made great contributions in the previous battles, and further back was a brigade of knights in neat formation, but no one even glanced at them.
The huge team arrived in front of the specially built ceremonial platform, and everyone dismounted.
The wizard attacked the wolf, and the giant wolf suddenly turned into a werewolf girl. She patted her butt, picked up a piece of fruit and threw it into her mouth.
The wizard himself walked directly onto the stage, but was stopped by someone.
"You have to open the carriage door." Butler Merlin whispered.
"Oh." Wang nodded, turned and walked to the carriage, opened the door with a click, and then left, while he put his hands on the sunshade to look at the boat he was going to take.
Elizabeth had already made all the poses required and even stretched out her hand for the wizard to sign, but now she could only use one hand floating in the air awkwardly.
Elizabeth, who was also sitting in the carriage, saw this scene and made a very gossipy sound: "Wow~"
Elizabeth awkwardly climbed down from the carriage and quickly caught up with the wizard: "You have to help me down!"
"Can't you get off by yourself?" The wizard was surprised. He glanced at the princess, and then his eyes immediately returned to the sailboat.
Elizabeth: "This is etiquette. Haven't you read about it in a book?"
"Oh, now I remember, I should have helped you down. I forgot, after all, you see, the journey is just around the corner. To be honest, I'm a little distracted."
Elizabeth: "You are quite self-aware?"
"correct."
During this conversation, the group climbed onto the platform, where Duke Langdon, who had gone ahead, was already waiting.
Butler Merlin walked silently behind him, and the servant beside him was holding a beautiful sword.
The Duke raised his hand, and the band immediately fell silent.
For a moment, the entire venue was unusually quiet. Everyone's eyes were focused on the Duke, and then they were dazzled by the wizard's glow stick.
Sir Wayne pursed his lips at the wizard.
"Oh, this one." The wizard quickly put away the stick.
Bruce cleared his throat: "Elizabeth Langdon!"
Elizabeth took a step forward.
Bruce: "In the name of the new Duke of Langdon, I give you this sword! I hope this pathfinder can point you in the right direction and lead you to overcome the crisis!"
Merlin took the sword from the servant and handed it to Bruce, who then placed it into Elizabeth's upraised hand.
Bruce: "This sword represents the authority of the Lord of Landon. With it, you will be treated as an envoy in the human kingdoms!"
The wizard muttered: "No one in our team can use this sword..."
Elizabeth hugged the sword solemnly and said, "I will not dishonor this sword!"
Then she thrust the sword into the wizard's hand, and the wizard threw it into the dimensional bag.
Bruce said in a completely different tone from before: "Go ahead, and good luck to you, my sister."
The wizard grinned: "My teacher always said that you must say this when you set out on an adventure!"
Home is behind us, and the world is before us! -
"The Master's Friendship Rules Volume 1" -
Don't go away, it will be more exciting later
Chapter 71: Postscript and Remarks on the Release
In fact, those who have followed my Bilibili account Shenwu Liuliu should know that the birth of this book was a complete accident.
After writing the ending of the previous book, I was planning to enjoy playing "Kingdom of Tears" until August, then enjoy playing Baldur's Gate 3 until September, and finally enjoy playing "Starfield".
By the way, the previous book "Space Flight Manual" seems to have only 600,000 words, but in fact, all the foreshadowing that can be written and resolved has been written. It is a complete far-sighted fairy tale.
Back to this book. Actually, I wrote this book because the night I finished writing the previous book, I wanted to find a traditional sword and magic book, preferably like "Dragonlance Chronicles" and "Dragonlance Legends" translated by Zhu Xueheng.
After looking around, I finally had to turn to "The Sword of Amber".
But I have read The Amber Sword so many times that I was probably more familiar with where to find the ring and what monsters to fight than the protagonist Brando. The same situation also happened in old books such as Soth's "The Mage's Story" and Ru Xiong's "The Ghost" (also known as "Marrying a Sister as a Wife"), etc.
Then the new works, there are systems that assign quests everywhere, cheat codes that are so powerful that they defy the heavens, and you can get power by logging in and so on. It's not that I look down on these, I know there are some good ones, but it's not realistic to let someone who is looking for a copy of "Dragonlance" to read these.
So that day I got angrier and angrier the more I read, and then in a rage I threw my phone away, got up from the bed and started writing it myself.
Of these forty minutes, twenty minutes were spent checking the monster encyclopedia and selecting modules.
At that time, I didn't even know that the Empire of Kosania was an electoral state like the Holy Roman Empire.
I simply wanted to write the kind of introduction paragraph that people who play group games are very familiar with - this is a term that refers to the DM (the host in the script-killing game) making up a story to bring the players' characters together.
So, in the tavern, a wizard with an extraordinary background took a mission to meet his client and teammates.
It was such a simple beginning and it was painted out in no time.
After writing this introduction, I continued reading old books and fell asleep while reading.
I didn't expect that when I woke up, I had passed this beginning.
Actually, after I woke up, I didn’t want to write anymore. The Kingdom of Tears is going to be released soon. Who would start a book at this time? Are you an idiot?
However, the editor had already approved the manuscript and kept urging me to write a few more chapters, so I had no choice but to give this story a chance.
Actually, if you look back now, you will find that I changed the direction of the story a lot. I really don't have an outline. The princess's second brother Bruce was the villain at the beginning, so I created him as the villain.
At first I really intended to write about the struggle for succession.
This kind of improvisation is bound to have loopholes, so I could only use a few hasty words to bring Mark's background check and other things over.
Although there are loopholes, the effect is good!
There is another loophole, which is to use the scroll to revive Erwin. This was when I was writing about Bruce's promise to exchange the resurrection scroll with the protagonist for dragon magic, and then I suddenly remembered whether Erwin could be resurrected to ask for information. After discovering this, I quickly made a lot of patches.
Fortunately, in order to enjoy playing Kingdom of Tears, I resisted the urge to publish it right after it was finished. This time, I saved a draft! In the past, I would not make major changes to the chapters that had already been published, so I could only make the best of them. As a result, I went further and further off the track, and in the end, it was like the pile of shit code in some games that was difficult to reverse. In the end, I was exhausted and had to give up.
This time I really saved up for Kingdom of Tears, and I have a lot of saved up, so I can go back and revise. I personally am very grateful to Nintendo. In the future, in order to be able to enjoy other games that I am looking forward to when they are released, I decided to keep saving up.
This way, if you find that you have written something wrong, you can go back and revise it.
Back to Erwin.
Originally, this resurrection scroll was intended for the protagonist's team to use as a backup. I also thought that when the protagonist tears the scroll and resurrects the princess in the future, he will understand the true meaning of love.
It’s a pity that there is currently no way for the protagonist to understand the true meaning of love.
As for the photo frame, my original idea was that this photo frame was the orphanage where Erwin grew up as a child. The protagonist went to the orphanage, learned about how he left the orphanage, and then followed his path to finally find the cult.
It was when I was writing the part about interrogating the resurrected Erwin that I suddenly had an idea: Hmm, it seems I can be more direct. The orphanage is a false memory created by the ban, and it is actually the headquarters of the cult!
I'm leaving this idea here for now. When we really reach the cult's headquarters in the future, you can come back and compare what good ideas I have.
For me, writing the book this time was so exciting. I could write whatever came to my mind. Since I had some drafts saved, I could also go back and lay the groundwork for the previous part.
There were too many things that were changed at the last minute like this, like the emperor, who was originally a very pure villain who could be killed and that was the end of it, but in the end he was given a trial, and there was also a "The Rainy Season in Castamere" attached.
This "Red Banquet" was also a spur-of-the-moment idea, mainly because Crusader Kings 3 updated the DLC, releasing the Red Wedding and the Red Banquet.
The final King's trial was not originally planned and was inserted temporarily during the writing process.
Of course, not every inspiration can be retained to the end. For example, when writing about the untouchables being escorted to the execution ground, I don’t know why I had a brain attack and wrote him singing “I will beat you with a steel whip” and released it on time. Later I looked back and thought, what the hell is this? So I deleted it.
It had already been sent out before it was released, and it was probably already being criticized.
All in all, I was able to finish this volume with such a high degree of completion, thanks to the blessing of the God of Inspiration - and the fact that Kingdom of Tears forced me to save the manuscript. Thank you, Link, and thank you, Nintendo.
As for those dry humor jokes, well, that’s mainly because I’m a very humorous person. Basically, all my works have this kind of element.
After writing this, I looked back and realized what the hell this is. Other people's postscripts are full of high-sounding things, but mine looks like a record of brain teasers.
But there is nothing I can do. People talk a lot about their creative ideas and intentions. They have them. I don’t. I really just write whatever comes to my mind. It’s really random.
I didn't expect a random book like this to achieve anything. And you see, I'm writing Western fantasy, a genre that couldn't be any cooler.
If you want to be famous when writing Western fantasy on Qidian, you have to go into the game category and follow the Amber style.
But I don’t want those data-based, systematized things.
So now you have seen the results. I don’t know how I got into Sanjiang. The follow-up reading of this book is very bad. And it’s the kind of bad that no matter how much I add to my collection, the follow-up reading just won’t increase.
Who wants to achieve results by writing Western fantasy?
The book was edited very quickly, without any suggestions for revisions. I asked with a glimmer of hope: "Is this book particularly good?"
The editor chuckled and said, "You've already written dnd, so I don't need to give you any suggestions. If I really want to give you any suggestions, I would suggest that you don't write about this topic."
But I wrote it anyway.
My original intention was to write a serious Western fantasy like "Dragonlance Chronicles" and "Dragonlance Legends". Of course, due to personal preference, there might also be some Japanese fantasy elements like "Record of Lodoss War".
So far, this goal has been achieved quite well.
The first volume has ended in a way that I am quite satisfied with. The protagonist team went down the river, ready to pursue the clues that they had finally obtained. The cat people set out in the opposite direction to find their own tribe.
The catman's departure was to pave the way for the elf archer to join the team later. How could a fantasy story not have an elf archer? However, her departure also became the nutrient for the protagonist's growth, but this idiot immediately started to do quantitative analysis.
My conception of the protagonist team is this: everyone is irreplaceable in their own way, so there cannot be duplicate professions.
Then we try to make the races as diverse as possible. So you can see that there is some overlap between cat people and werewolves, both of which have animal ears, and one is enough. In the future, there will be soul suckers or untynes, but there will only be one.
I hope everyone has distinct characteristics, so Marika gave up the possibility of becoming a drow ranger, and she also lost her animal companion, Guenhwyvar. Maybe in some plots in the future, Master Cui will appear as a rescuer to save the situation. I don't know, after all, there is no outline.
I was originally going to let Legolas appear as he was, but according to the rules of Qidian, if the original characters of The Lord of the Rings are included, this book will be defined as a fan work of The Lord of the Rings. So you will probably see an elf sister who is as cool as Legolas.
Then the gnome bard, the halfling - I haven't thought about the halfling yet. After all, there is already a rogue, so there is no need to add a thief.
Of course, there are also paladins. What fantasy story is complete without paladins? It is also fun to see how the paladins are tricked into joining forces with the drow. Although I haven't figured out how to trick them yet.