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He sighed and looked away.
"In the words of the wizard, my hometown is behind me and the world is before my eyes."
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Postscript to Volume 2
The second volume is finished!
And just like the first volume, all the foreshadowings are contained in the book.
The characteristic of an inspirational author like me is that the story will change as I write. I didn't have the idea of a tower at the beginning, it was just an ordinary tower. Later, as I wrote, it became a puzzle. When it became a puzzle, I didn't think it was a "fictional existence" formed by the disturbance of fate.
I arranged the sentence "the absence of an answer is also an answer" just to play on the plot of "Rage of Justice", and it didn't have any deep meaning.
Alas, but in the end it became the key to solving the problem. I didn’t expect it myself. It was such a surprise.
Actually, when I was writing The Fetal Movement Hall, I had no intention of having this lich appear in this volume. In fact, I didn't think of the orc invasion, lich and necromancer getting involved at the beginning.
The Minos in the novel is obviously modeled after the White City of Gondor in The Lord of the Rings, except that the iconic cliff of Gondor - the cliff where the Regent jumped off covered in flames - was replaced with a high tower.
Now that I have a replica of Gondor, should there be an orc invasion?
Then there was the invasion of orcs, and a wild land inhabited by orcs suddenly appeared on the map northeast of Monrovia.
I was going to write about a big battle scene, with catapults, siege towers, fighting on the city walls, and orcs screaming and howling as they were doused with scalding hot oil!
Now that I've finished writing, I look back and wonder, where are my war scenes? The only war scene I could write about was the battle where the orcs dropped onto the city wall, and I skipped that and wrote about the main character team planning their raid.
On the other hand, there are actually a lot of war scenes in the first volume, so the fact that there are no war scenes in the second volume also helps prevent people from getting bored, right?
Then there are the Necromancers. They didn’t have any parts originally, but in order to get the “feeling” for writing about orcs, I re-watched the Warcraft movie. Then I thought, if there’s something wrong with having orcs but no Gul’dan?
But Goudan has played this joke before, so let me change it and play with Ner’zhul. Ner’zhul later became a lich...so let’s play with a lich!
So the orcs joined forces with the liches.
Since there is a lich - is there a ready-made lich with a name? Then let him come out, which is also in line with the "Chekov's Gun" theory.
But I originally wanted this lich to appear in the "third stage of the apocalypse crisis" that has been announced. At that time, the undead creatures had problems surviving due to the overflow of positive energy, so they began to attack the big boss's cult in order to survive.
At this stage, undead creatures are friendly forces and liches can join the team.
So what to do? Let him appear quickly and then leave quickly. It just so happens that in the River Valley chapter, it was emphasized that the protagonist is very resistant to enchantment spells, so isn't this the right time to use it?
What is Chekov's gun (leaning back)!
By the way, Minos, I was going to let Oscar join the team, and I specifically emphasized that he had received sword training, just to let him use the pathfinder. But in the end, you also saw that it was Rosalie, the "laundress", who joined the team.
Oh, I can't explain how this happened. According to my conception, there should be no more human females joining the team. And the gender of the team should be roughly balanced.
The first volume ends with three men: the dwarf, the barbarian and the smart one, and three girls: the ray man, the black skin and the big white cat.
In this volume, Nini joins the team, and the little prince comes to balance it out.
But... it just happened. Maybe I was confused by Rosalie's "married but not open" attribute?
In the next volume, quickly add a big-nosed lizardman monk to the team to balance it out.
After confirming that Rosalie would join the team, I looked at the little prince and felt that it seemed a bit of a waste to not use any more words, so I decided to let him take the Joy of Fire and stab his father.
I really wrote it in this direction, and the emperor's madness eventually turned out to be due to lack of sleep, and was solved by a suggestion from the protagonist.
Ah, writing this book was really full of surprises. I was the most shocked when I wrote this paragraph. Since readers don’t know what I originally planned to do, they are not shocked.
Anyway, after some uncontrollable developments, the little prince just... had no role to play. All the words and ink used to describe him were wasted.
It’s okay, maybe he will appear again someday. After all, writing this book is really a “stage of unpredictable fate” for me. I understand, I understand!
All in all, although there are various unexpected things in the second volume, the final product is quite complete, and there is no problem reading it as a separate story. Even if you haven't read the first volume, there is no big problem reading the second volume directly!
This book should be like this in the future. All the foreshadowing should be resolved in each volume, leaving no plot holes at all, so that readers can abandon the book at any time!
Because of this, the best way to read this book is obvious: wait for each volume to be completed and then read it again, it's guaranteed to be fun!
I don't mind reading more.
If you don't think a certain volume is interesting, just skip it, no problem.
Next is the story of the River Kingdoms. Only one country, Yisongzuo, will appear.
I plan to write something different from the first two volumes. For example, I will focus on how the protagonist teaches Nini magic. The protagonist appears as a third-ring wizard, so the advancement of the first two rings can be written about Nini.
I also want Nini to do the overhead splits, it's just this leg, it would be a waste not to practice leg skills.
Xiao Bai is getting cuter and cuter as time goes by, but it’s not a good idea to let her join the “battle” because she will definitely get straight to the point and say give birth to the baby first. So Xiao Bai can only continue to take up the position of complaining.
In terms of the plot, the equipment of the protagonist team is actually very powerful, but the skills given by the equipment are limited to once a day, so they need to be used with caution. This equipment should be able to directly attack the cult. The next volume should mainly be about underground palace adventures, without any wars or intrigues.
Of course, it is impossible to complete the next volume. It will definitely only take down a branch of the cult and then get the clues for the next step.
In this volume, the protagonist and the dwarf have reached the fourth ring, and Elizabeth should be able to upgrade her ring in the next volume. However, her strength improvement is not mainly dependent on the ring upgrade. She needs to kill the beholder alone and activate the necklace to become a real ray man.
You probably won't encounter a beholder in the next chapter, but you may be able to find dwarven equipment: the Beholder Killer Shield.
Of course, these are my current plans, and they are the only things I have that can be called "outlines"! Yes, these are my outlines! They are also my detailed outlines, because I don't have any more detailed future plans than this.
An outline is just a constraint for me, a limit on my inspiration.
When the next volume is finished, you can compare and see how many unexpected things happened in the story. These unexpected things are the most exciting parts of the story.
Well, this is the end of this unfocused postscript, see you tomorrow for the third volume.
See you tomorrow for the third volume~
Chapter 142 In the Captain's Cabin
After the new Star Chaser set sail, Wang went straight into the captain's room.
Mainly because this extra-large captain's room was still new to him, so he was too lazy to look at the riverside scenery and went straight down.
The rest of the team seemed to have the same idea.
Now the entire team, plus the laundry women, are all in the captain's room with space-folding magic cast on it.
Rosalie, who was wearing a maid outfit, was adjusting a screen with Nini, who was also wearing a maid outfit. There were several other screens placed next to them.
Wang: "What does this screen mean?"
Rosalie: "It's inconvenient for men and women to live in the same space without a screen, right? Girls need to cover themselves when changing clothes, right?"
Wang seemed to have just thought of this question: "You do make sense."
Rosalie: "Some people might actually prefer not to have a screen."
She looked at Elizabeth.
"I hope there is a screen too!" Elizabeth argued hastily, "otherwise it would be terrible to appear before the king without being dressed up, wouldn't it?"
Rosalie laughed.
Wang touched his chin and asked in confusion: "By dressing up, do you mean wearing a corset and a chest bra? If so, I think it doesn't matter if you don't have it. You see, Nini doesn't have these equipment. She just wraps her chest before the battle."
The ladies in the room were divided over Wang's remarks.
Xiaobai and Nini didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said because they didn't wear makeup or dress up at all. For Xiaobai, if she put a wild hairpin on her head, it would be considered dressing up.
Rosalie, Marika, and Elizabeth looked at Wang with an expression of "What is this idiot talking about?"
Flint, who was married, refilled his pipe and said teasingly, "Mage, you need to improve your understanding of girls."
He glanced at Xiaobai and the elf and added, "I mean, we need to get to know human girls better."
The wizard scratched his head.
"Never mind," he said, "let's study the banners we captured from the orcs."
Flint: "Fuck, I forgot we had this thing. Show me this."
Wang took out the infinite dimension bag, took out the cowhide tube containing the flag from it, and sat down at the desk with the cowhide paper in his hand.
"Knife, let me open the wax seal." He said and held out his hand to Marika.
Marika took out her dagger and placed it in his palm: "Don't you want me to help you open it?"
Wang: "No, I've already mastered this skill in the Mage Tower. My teacher likes to use me to organize his scrolls and magic books. I'm very good at opening wax seals like this."
Nini stood to Wang's left, watching him remove the wax from the cowhide tube, and commented: "He is indeed very skilled."
"Right." Wang said proudly.
Seeing this, Rosalie stood on the king's right hand side, and she and Nini formed a left and right protector posture.
Elizabeth finally reacted, but there was no place left to stand. She hesitated for a moment and stood behind the king, facing the back of the king's head across the back of the chair.
The king finally opened the cowhide tube and took out the flag inside.
"It appears to be just a flag made of linen, plain cloth, probably dyed red with a pigment made from ochre."
Xiao Bai lay on the table and asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"
Wang continued to explain, "The red pigment in the human world has been improved many times, using things like red lead and cinnabar, so it can have a brighter color. This flag is made of ochre extract, which is iron oxide, so the tone looks very dark..."
Xiao Bai: "Why are you making it even more complicated? Can you explain it in words I can understand?"
Wang: "In short, this thing looks very much like an orc product."
Flint: "That's it. It's very likely not a magical weapon. It has no special effects."
Wang: "Not necessarily. The orcs have shamans and witch doctors. They have a set of magic based on spirits, and it is possible to generate artifacts. Maybe this thing is something that can command spirits!"
Xiaobai: "Is it? Did you see the spirit?"
"No." Wang shrugged, "I just said there is such a possibility, but now I don't find any traces of magic on this thing." He wanted to spread the flag on the desk to study it carefully, so he stood up -
The action of standing up was so sudden that Rosalie couldn't dodge in time and was brushed by Wang's shoulder.
Rosalie exclaimed quietly.
Wang looked at her in confusion. She was so focused that she didn't feel the collision of her shoulder.
The wizard then continued to study the pattern on the flag.
Xiaobai looked at Rosalie, as if he wanted to tease her, but obviously in the end Xiaobai chose not to interrupt the wizard's thoughts.