By the time the final words of this chapter were published, they were first published on March 13, 2020. In total, this book actually took more than three years and one month to write.
I only wrote 1.7 million words, I’m covering my face ()
There are actually various reasons for this, but I actually feel pretty good about having this word count when writing a book for the first time.
Well, to reveal a little bit, when I signed the contract, I estimated that the number of words in the finished book would be 1.2 million words.
At that time, I thought it was great to be able to write 1.2 million words for the first contracted work. However, in fact, it dragged on all the way until the current 1.7 million words, which counts as the completion of the second volume of the book.
Because the title was useless, I didn’t deliberately divide it into volumes and choose volume names (mainly because I was not satisfied with the several volume names I thought of). It can be roughly divided into "City Chapter" and "Alola Chapter".
The next volume will naturally be "Galer Chapter + Donghuang's Road to Champions"
When I opened this book, it was just around the time that "Pokémon Sword and Shield" Gai's Island was released, if I remember correctly.
In fact, I still have a deep affection for "Sword and Shield". Although most of the current reviews of "Sword and Shield" are mixed, I still enjoy the battle of "Sword and Shield".
Affected by this, most of my battles in the early stages of this book were based on the Dynamax environment of "Sword and Shield".
"Jiu Zi" is worse than "Sword and Shield" in everything, except that its performance in battle is not as good as Sword and Shield. Ahem, I'm going too far.
Talking back to Sword and Shield, Xiaoyu is my favorite protagonist. In addition, the reason why most of the generational protagonists in this book are women must be because I chose heroines ()
At that time, I remember that the three royal families I chose were the Banglei King Kong Ape, but when I was writing about Xiao You, I felt that the Banglei King Kong Ape and Xiao You were a bit incompatible, but the Flaming Ace already had one (referring to Su Yuan)
, I had no choice but to choose the most frustrating Thousand Faces Avoidance, and the King Kong Ape went to Hepu ()
However, defeating a strong enemy by inverting attributes and inverse strength can also show Xiaoyou's strength from a side, right?
As for why I chose Flare Ace when I was the third Pokémon, it was because at that time I was playing against Flare Ace Team ()
Many of the early chapters of this book were my personal "whims."
Including writing novels.
I have mentioned it in the group before, but there should be many book friends who have not joined the group. I will briefly mention the beginning of this book again.
As we all know, the beginning of this book is actually a little strange.
Because my original setting at the time was that this book was not a "Pokémon" novel, but a book about Infinite Worlds. And at that time, there was no such category as "Infinite Worlds", so I plunged headlong into the depths of the world.
A bottomless light novel.
The reason why I set it to "Brave" is actually simple. I was watching/playing this type of genre at the time, and I set it like this as soon as my mind got excited.
In addition, regarding the more detailed setting of "Brave", I initially based it on the setting of the brave in the "Lance" series, and made some modifications and deleted many anti-human settings, in order to highlight one invincibility.
Later, I was set up as a game anchor because I was watching AG at that time. A lot of it at the beginning was based on what I was watching/like at the time. In addition, it was the product of a twitch in my head, which was actually very unqualified.
If I follow my thoughts at the time, if the world is infinite, after the beginning, it will actually be a conflict between Groudon and Kyogre, and then a series of developments, Su Yuan himself will come up with the "finishing touch", ahem, it's a bit of a hit.
But after writing three or four chapters, I felt that the theme of Infinite Worlds was a bit troublesome, so I made a big change and directly set it to a single Pokémon world. In the early stage, I wrote whatever I thought of to highlight it.
One has no outline and just writes randomly.
So when I was coding later, it was quite painful a lot of the time, because I had to conceive and develop the subsequent chapters on the spot, and at the same time, the materials for the competition were the best to write. After all, I played ranked every day, and there were a lot of materials that could be used in the game.
Then we matched AG() at five or six in the morning.
Uh-huh, that game was actually quite interesting. I still remember that at that time, I was on loan to a Korean player’s team under AG’s dynamics. I would self-destruct the Magnemite team, cover with the Roaring Tiger, and reap the combo with the Ryū Martial Arts Bear Master.
of.
However, this team is not easy to deal with Bulbasaur. Many times, we need to guess whether the opponent should be very direct and ground attack, so at that time, I chose a more mine-based play style, Dynamaxing the Blazing Roaring Tiger, with the help of the opponent's
On a sunny day, I backhanded Gigantamax Bulbasaur for seconds.
Then when I met AG, he also chose Bulbasaur. I didn't even think about it and went to Dynamax Roaring Tiger to do it. Then he changed people + yawned. Emmmm, in short, I still remember it fresh.
Going too far again.
As mentioned above, there is no outline in the early stage. The plot is improvised and written now. When it is really impossible to write, the game will be used to complete it. Therefore, the battles in the game in most of the previous chapters occupy a very long space.
But actually, I have to count it in detail. It’s not that long in fact, but it feels like it’s a lot, including myself.
Coupled with the problem of poor writing, it seems very confusing and difficult to understand.
Moreover, if you think about some things clearly when you are thinking about them, you may inadvertently make them messy when writing.
For example, I only learned a month ago that in the first few chapters of my opening chapter, I wrote that the attack power of the Blazing Roaring Tiger's intimidation was reduced by half. This was an obvious mistake, but I never knew it. A book friend reminded me in the middle.
I did, but at that time I was in a state of interruption for a long time and didn't notice it at all.
Then let’s talk about the issue of original characters. The appearance of original heroines in fan works is indeed a poisonous point when I think about it now, but at the time, ahem.
Next, there is the aspect of character setting. Maybe it’s because I was still playing Lance at that time, or maybe the concentration of the second dimension is a bit high. I don’t know how to set up a "perverted Lily girl" like this.
written()
Anyway, as of now, everyone doesn’t like it, so I’ll try to mention it as little as possible in the subsequent plot.
Also, let’s talk about the female protagonist.
According to the initial thoughts above, I wanted to have more heroines in this book from the beginning. It is undisputed. Why do I want more heroines? I am watching "Fairy Please Respect Yourself"/"Ask the Red Dust"
, I am a fan of Ji Da, ahem.
However, now, I have written that I feel that in the Pokémon genre, especially in the current urban setting, having multiple female protagonists is always a bit strange.
So when I come back, another original female protagonist, who can also be said to be my xp, Bai Xin'er, may be deliberately ignored by me. At least this book will definitely have two female protagonists.
In fact, Bai Xin'er has a lot of elements of dating. When the regular server can't describe it in detail, I just use a look similar to XXX to briefly mention it. In addition, I mentioned that I am the single recommendation person of Tohka, Rinni, and Rokugho!
"Do you know why crows look like writing desks?"
"Because I like you, there is no reason."
I still quite like this tone of Keke!
If it were based on, well, I won’t say too long, at least a year ago, there might be a lot of candidates for the heroine to be decided.
Xiaoguang, Lillie, Mingyi, and Xiaojuer may all get it.
But forget it.
I’m not even going to add my current favorite Riko!
Uh-huh, I’m the one who recommends Rico and Meowha!
Actually, it’s mainly because I’ve written it up to now. If it weren’t for the fact that the plot as a whole is no longer easy to revise, I might not have even planned to add Lillie into the story, just the heroine Xiaoguang. If the plot was still before the Alola chapter
if.
With the current development, if Lillie is not included, it would be better to just cut it all off, not to mention I quite like Lillie.
If you really want to rank the heroines of Pokémon throughout the ages, from my perspective, Kodena will always be number one, followed by Riko (uh, overtaken by Horizon, but listen to me, Riko and
Miaha is really cute), then Xiaoyu, Lillie, and Mingyi.
Moreover, when I was writing the Alola story, I had already decided that the Alola story would be the Lillie story. I decided on this theme even before I decided on the main plot of the Alola story.
As for "The Magic of Victory", I quite like it.
Finally, I can actually talk about why Lillie and Kukui were suddenly added when I was writing about the city.
The simple reason is that there was no outline at the time, so I got stuck writing it.
It’s strong to be irrational!
My initial thought about La Lulas was that she was abducted home by Pseudomantis who sneaked out to play.
It is very reasonable for Pokémon of different colors to kidnap Pokémon of different colors.
But when I was actually writing it, I got stuck and wasn't very satisfied. I was racking my brains to think about how to break it. Then as I was thinking about it, I flipped through the Magic Encyclopedia (Pokémon Encyclopedia), and when I turned to Kukui,
I saw the experience of traveling to Kanto and fighting against the champion.
Since Kukui once traveled to Kanto, why shouldn't I travel to China?
So that’s it, it was decided directly.
As Dr. Kukui's assistant, Lillie showed up along the way, bringing along La Luras and mentioning Su Yuan's parents. There was nothing wrong with that.
That is why, when I was about to decide to end the urban chapter (still without an outline) and thinking about which region to go to first, the first thing that came to my mind was Alola.
In addition, the seventh generation of "Ultimate Sun and Moon" has not passed for a few years, so it still leaves a deep impression.
When I decided to write about the Alola region in the next volume, when it came to the story of Alola, it would definitely include Nebula Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts.
But in the plot of the original game, Little Nebula directly follows Lillie at the beginning.
How to connect Little Nebula with Su Yuan and Lillie is actually very difficult.
I thought about it a lot at that time, and then decided to refer to some settings in the anime and entrust it to the island’s guardian angel.
Then I contacted Su Yuan’s parents and Lunayala, and briefly conceived the structure.
Having said that, I am actually not very satisfied with the opening chapter of Alola.
Now it seems that there are many places that can be modified. To put it simply, it is caused by the problem of no outline.
Then when the plot reached the Altar of the Sun, I thought that Necrozma would almost appear.
But before it appears, you have to find a reason, or a plug-in, that allows the protagonist to defeat Necrozma.
Necrozma in the state of jet black armor also has the strength to easily suppress Lunala and Solgaleo (Necrozma in the Pokémon special short story is really strong), in general
Don’t portray the protagonist as too deliberately invincible.
In this novel, I actually deliberately blurred the concept of "level".
But I still have a rough idea of the specific division of strength.
At that time, Su Yuan, who had just arrived at the Altar of the Sun and was being tested by the Overlord Staff-Tailed Scaled Dragon, had Orchid Mantis and Gardevoir on hand, but their combat prowess was in no way comparable to that of the master.
Being able to defeat the Overlord Rod-Tailed Ankylosaurus (my classification of the strength of the Overlord Rod-Tailed Ankylosaurus is the main force of the Heavenly King) is mainly due to tactics and command, of which attribute restraint plays a large part.
In addition, it was a test, not a true indiscriminate battle. At that time, it was not so far-fetched for Su Yuan to defeat the overlord Staff Tail Scale Ankylosaurus.
Then there is what I mentioned above, the first plug-in to face Necrozma - the ultimate beast.
The strength of the Ultra Beast far exceeds that of Pokémon, but it is not as good as Necrozma in any case. That is for sure, so the Paper Mitsurugi I set to appear can be said to be the best among the Paper Mitsurugi group.
special individual.
In terms of monster hunters, it is probably "King of War" and "Two Names", the Black Flame King is to the Fire Dragon, the Blue Lightning Lord is to the Electric Dragon, the Demon is to the Horned Dragon, Asuka is to the Hateful Tiger Dragon, probably
That's it.
This paper sword has a very strong growth rate, and its own strength is not weak, but it has an extremely deadly four times weak fire.
Combined with Kapu Fin and the evolved explosive Flare Ace, defeat it and force it to conquer.
As for the actual conquering battle that followed, it was specifically targeted at Zhiyu Sword's inability to deal with "abnormal conditions" and its ability to cut off "fire", which he had not yet fully mastered. In the end, Zhiyu Sword was about to lose its strength and was defeated by Su Yuan himself.
As for Su Yuan's own strength, this goes back to what I said above - about the setting of "brave" in the "Lance" series, and after the magic modification.
I will briefly mention a few key points: the level will not be reduced, no matter what the situation is, the strength will not be reduced. Originally, in Lance, as a restriction, it was difficult to increase the level of the brave, but I changed it to
If you don’t do it, your strength will slowly increase ()
There is also the ability to see through. As long as a move is used once, it will be seen through immediately the second time it is used.
But just take a look at these settings, I won't describe them in detail.
All you need to know is that the protagonist’s strength will increase even if he doesn’t do anything ()
Said it was far away again.
The first battle against Necrozma in my setting.
In addition to the paper sword, the island's patron saint is bound to appear, but it is not enough, so I started to shake people directly, shaking the original Donghuang King, and preparing to return to Alola, the strength of the half-step King
Dzogchen Kukui()
The name Meng Yiran comes from a sentence I wrote blindly before: "Looking back, Penglai Mountain is still the same, and many dreams from before are still the same."
(Why is it Horaisan? Because I am the one who promotes Horaisan Kaguya. Although my Q avatar keeps changing, my ID is always Horaisan Kaguya!)
In fact, there is another sentence, which was picked up by a friend: "Looking at the eternal Daocheng Temple from afar, I still feel regretful about it."
He is the single recommendation person of Qing Ji.
In my setting, Meng Yiran is not weak in strength and grows quickly. After traveling through Sinnoh and fighting Zhulan, his strength is at the championship level.
(As a side note, the setting of the championship-level trainer appearing in Zhuzi is indeed very civilized.)
So far.
The lineup to fight Necrozma was determined to be the champion's paper sword with the assistance of Su Yuan, the champion trainer, the island guardian, the king trainer and Lunayara in a weak state.
Such a lineup is barely enough to deal with Necrozma.
After all, at that time, other regions, including the Alola region themselves, did not know about the existence of Necrozma who went berserk and hunted down Lunayala, so it was difficult to shake the champion king of other regions.
I wrote it according to this script. To be honest, it was the first time I encountered such a "big scene" battle, and it was a bit difficult to control the rhythm.
Overall, it's not satisfactory. I feel good about myself.
After the first battle with Necrozma, we actually entered the main plot.
I have been imagining this scene for a long time in the final battle with Necrozma of "Wings of Dawn" at the Altar of the Sun.
The first idea was that Su Yuan would fight on his own, and finally use "Sunlight Swirling Under the Sky" to inject energy into Necrozma's body and awaken it.
As you will know later, I abandoned this idea.
I think it's a bit too ridiculous.
The difficulty is no less than crushing Arceus with incomplete stone slabs with one punch.
I thought about many ways to defeat Necrozma, and finally I saw Zygarde when I was flipping through the Gods. It just so happened that Zygarde cells also existed in the Alola region (according to the game collection).
Taking the encounter between Little Nebula and one of the core bodies as an opportunity, a series of subsequent plots unfold.
Originally, on my side, Zygarde appeared more as a "tool man", with not much interaction, and who should have left the game after defeating Necrozma.
But even if he is a tool, well, if he is Little Nebula's new friend, according to Lillie's character, if she doesn't know her specific name, she should give her a very cute nickname.
Thinking like this, I started thinking about the name of this core cell body.
There is no doubt that I chose a bad name, but I was lucky. The core cell body I set has a red gemstone.
However, for some reason, I quite like horse racing, and I was playing Horse Racing Tycoon 9 2022 or 10 at the time.
The earliest script starts.
In 2022, my game-breaker is "Miscellaneous", which is one thousand representatives. My favorite is riding CB to crush Rudolph.
For 10, I don’t consider the stallion factor. My favorite horse is "Tosho Boy/Fujimasa Boy", which is also the sire line of Thousand Representatives.
Then, in 1987, among the offspring of Tōsho Boy, there was a mare named "ダイイチルビー" No. 1 Ruby/No. 1 Ruby, which happened to be my favorite historical horse.
Therefore, this core cell body has a name - Ruby.
Ruby is the ruby.
Later, it was also because of this name that I had the idea of interacting with Ruby, and gradually I became the idiot Ruby I am today.
As for the anthropomorphic image of Ruby, you can refer to the first ruby of the horse racing girl. When I wrote Ruby, that image was in my mind.
(In addition, I am really not a two-dimensional person. I prefer reality to horse racing girls!)
Then based on the setting in the anime that Zygarde’s 100% form requires the fusion of two core bodies, I created the corresponding little Z. In fact, Shafia is the most correct name, but I chose to be closer to
Shafia, usually a female name - Sophia.
Although now they are all called Little Z.
In my setting, Ruby is a soft, cute and stupid person who is close to the human side; then the corresponding individual Sophia is a little cold and arrogant, and is not too cold towards humans.
As for Sophia’s nostrils that often appear in the back, I’m the one who only recommends tassels!
Qingjun, Chengcheng, Minghe, Xiyue and so on are not as good as the eldest wife ()
(The above is from Ji Cha's Xianxia novel, now titled "Asking the Red World", but most of the chapters have been deleted or revised due to some unavoidable reasons)
Since I chose to place Ruby on Su Yuan's side, I naturally chose to place Sophia on the side of the protagonist Sun and Moon, that is, Meiyue.
I think Gladion's temperament is tsundere versus tsundere, well, I'm not sure what will happen.
Also regarding the improvement of Mitsuki and Gladion’s strength.
I set it up exactly according to the template of the game protagonist, except that the thing I'm best at is "indiscriminate battles".
In terms of growth rate, Meiyue is definitely the fastest one in Alola, no one else.
In addition, he fought with the "Skeleton Team" and "Ultimate Beast", and traveled throughout Alola, completing the test of the island tour, and then fought against Necrozma, and finally with the help of Little Z
Uproot Team Skeleton.
The main reason is that there is too little description of Mitsuki's improvement in strength. In fact, after experiencing this series of events, it is certain to reach the master level and becoming the champion is inevitable, so we have to wait for the follow-up.
At the same time, Su Yuan, who is only more ruthless than Mitsuki in Lien Chan, must be at the master level after experiencing the Alola incident.
After all, he trains with Zhi Yujian every day, or else he trains with Kapu, Fin Fin, and Meng Yiran, so his strength will definitely improve very quickly.
But because the main opponent is Necrozma under "Wings of Dawn", it's hard for me to stand in front of Necrozma at the master level.
But it’s not good to not show up completely.
So when we were imagining the second battle against Necrozma, the main Pokémon was decided to be Gardevoir, which also laid some foreshadowing for the third battle. (Does it count as foreshadowing?)
Super-type Pokémon have always had quite a few bugs. In addition, Gardevoir can sense emotions. In the setting, it can create a black hole with its hands in order to protect the trainer.
After absorbing Necrozma's negative emotions, the trainer's determination, and with the assistance of repaying kindness and resolving anger, his strength increased in a short period of time, and after Mega evolution, he can probably be regarded as the peak of the king.
With this strength, it shouldn't be too difficult to defeat a normal Necrozma in a weak state.
In addition, the reason why Su Yuan defeated Necrozma more easily than others was mainly due to the fact that he had poor information.
Pokémon battles are intelligence battles.
The champions Xue Zijin and Wu Songtianwang were also chosen by me temporarily to fight Necrozma.
The four island gods, a champion, a champion level, the strongest king in the region, Solgaleo, the complete Zygarde, a champion level paper sword
In addition, the consumption of the previous overlords Ankylosaurus, Mitsuki and Gladion.
Against Necrozma of "Wings of Dawn", the lineup is very luxurious.
But even so, victory is still a bit difficult.
But this is the strength I imagined Necrozma should have.
After all, in the "Wings of Dawn" state, in addition to Necrozma's own power, Lunayala should also be added.
After returning to Ultra Necrozma, it was the strongest legendary Pokémon in my setting.
Say it again.
The phantom beast of Arceus is not a legendary Pokémon.
At the same time.
After setting the main background of the second volume after Alola, I classified Ultimate Necrozma as one of Su Yuan's cheats.
Not only in the future when there is an emergency, the big boss will take care of everything, but also in daily aspects, such as move training and strength improvement.
The moves of the legendary Pokémon will be decentralized sooner or later!
Necrozma's two exclusive moves are both super-type moves, so they are naturally used for Gardevoir.
I wonder if you can guess what I will give you as the exclusive move of Orchid Mantis?
The single scabbard should be a no-brainer.
As for the other ones, I don’t have a better idea yet.
Before I knew it, I had said so much.
I almost forgot that this was the final speech.
Finally, I would like to thank everyone for their support. After all, I have stopped updating for such a long time, and there are still people who persist in urging updates in the group. It is indeed quite touching.
The next volume is also mentioned above.
It's "Gaar + Road to Champions". This is the main plot and the main title. The subtitle is naturally Xiaoguang.
Alola is Lillie's arc, and the next volume will be Hikaru's arc.
However, in this article, the main plot of the Galar region will not progress too much. The main content is the gym challenge, Xiaoguang's emotional line, interspersed with the growth of Xiaoyu, Ma Li, and Hepu.
As for the Blazing Roaring Tiger, I classified it as Lillie's branch plot, and I will start Lillie's branch plot when I go to Galar for the second time.
In addition, I deliberately wrote this about the theme of "treasures".
The dawn of scarlet and purple, the brilliance of the sun and moon, and the treasures are laying the foundation for "Jade Purple" ()