The first volume of the book "Echoers of the Wasteland", "Echoes" (Part 1, Part 2), finally ushered in the final chapter on the last day of 2022, December 31, Chapter 257: Pula
Mini's future.
This fantasy-Cthulhu-Wasteland novel has been formally conceived since the end of 2020. During this period, due to work and other reasons, I just collected some materials one after another and did a little worldview construction until February 2022.
Only then did I officially submit the article and start serializing it.
However, what is gratifying is that in these 10 months of creation, I not only completed the first volume of one million words, but also compiled an outline of nearly 30,000 words of works, including Empire of Zine and Empire of Crusted
National information, history and culture, administrative structure, etc., as well as the magic source group, profession, magic source order and magic source power in the magic field, as well as the empire promotion rules in the steam field and the order monsters and positions in the extraordinary field.
Divine system.
Although the first volume shows nearly 40% of the worldview structure, there are still many interesting parts that will be revealed in the subsequent "Call" chapter (Crusted Chapter), (Fire Empire Chapter) and (Central Realm Chapter)
All are displayed.
I believe that if inspiration does not dry up and imagination does not end, new content will never end, springing up like bamboo shoots after the rain, and continue to grow, creating this forest of wasteland world.
At the beginning of the creation, I chose the thankless method of group portraits and behind-the-scenes writing. Wright Sugera, as my avatar and the owner of the opening perspective, gradually became the nominal protagonist in the later development of the plot. This is not my writing.
The direction was wrong, but it was done deliberately.
After all, in my conception, the theme surrounding each volume is never a certain person or a certain thing, but a kind of thinking and an ideal that all parties strive to achieve. Therefore, adhering to different concepts and
Only after thinking, they will choose their own goals, complete each event, and then affect a specific person.
I wanted to build a "fantasy world that is closer to reality". To this end, I created the "Chinese Language" for magic source power formation, and tried to maintain my ideas as much as possible under unfavorable market conditions.
What makes or destroys an era is not a specific person, but the final result of the constant competition between the forces of all parties after the productivity and production relations have developed to a certain stage.
I have always firmly believed that whether they are ordinary humans or sequential gods with unique missions, their individual influence is always limited. If you want to get the expected results, you must do your best to choose the right direction and win over relevant support.
, and ultimately achieve success.
Therefore, until the end of this novel, there will be no enemies that are too powerful to defeat, or a fantasy male protagonist who will destroy the world. Everyone is just a sad pawn in the wasteland era, struggling to survive.
Of course, many readers and friends also pointed out to me that this book is too depressing and it is easy to lose readers, but isn’t the process of growing up depressing? After experiencing betrayal, pain, death and despair, etc., the protagonist finally realized
Isn’t the ideal goal more valuable and more exciting?
Speaking of the first volume itself, at the beginning, my original idea was to create a complex and huge world view, so when some readers suggested a sudden change in style between chapters five and six, I understood, but I never changed the core content.
After all, a small story about killing monsters and upgrading is not enough to explain my world view. The game between all parties behind the protagonist's suicide accident is the more exciting part worthy of attention.
To this end, I created the concept of magic power to replace magic in traditional fantasy stories, but in the wasteland era where the aftermath of the steam age still exists, the role of magic power was deliberately weakened.
In the last few chapters, I mentioned that the magic source power comes from nature. When humans continue to try to conquer nature and destroy nature, the magic source power will begin to decline and become exhausted. This is a subtle reference to the industrial age.
Reflect.
Of course, there are also career systems, sequential monsters, sequential gods, etc., which will also be the basic worldview structure throughout the book in addition to each country. More than two thousand monsters and more than two hundred gods will be displayed one by one in the later stage.
Readers, please look forward to it.
The endings of the Socra city forces, the Imperial Crown Prince forces, the three church forces of the Lost and the protagonist group forces that participated in the game in the first volume are basically explained in the last thirty chapters.
Not only has the fate of most people been "finally perfected," but almost all the foreshadowing laid in the early stages has been recovered.
In addition, if readers find any foreshadowing that has not been taken back, please leave a message in the comment area and let me know, and I will add it in the "Calling" chapter or the extra chapter.
At the beginning, I also tried to imitate the writing methods of some similar types of articles, focusing on daily life and gradually promoting the development of the main line of the story.
But in the process of continuous creation, I realized that the timeline of the first and second volumes of "Echo" is very short. The nearly one million words of the story happened within two months. I still have to focus on the content of these two months.
The group portrait stories at each stage add the causes and consequences, so there is not much space left for daily life, which has to be considered a pity.
Of course, each volume of this book is a semi-independent story, with the loneliness of the wasteland world, the emergence of sequential gods and the arrival of the Star Era as the main line, and the main ideas of exploration, adventure, knowledge and rebuilding order.
Throughout each volume.
The name of each volume can also be regarded as a vague summary of the central idea of each volume.
At the end of the battle between Wright and Ivant, after the "Fire of Punishment" resulted in a lose-lose situation, I did not name whether Wright died or not, but left an open ending.
Before the next volume of the story begins, I still need to sort out the outline and add some worldview structure documents, so I took a day off to better enter the new plot.
The story of the second volume will begin with another "nominal protagonist", telling the fate of the Cruzeid Federation in the Wasteland Era. As for the fate of Wright, readers and friends, please continue to pay attention.
This book is expected to be composed of four volumes (the upper and lower volumes of "Echo" are counted as one volume). Each volume will unfold in a different region, showing the historical and cultural customs of different countries, and will reveal some new sequential gods and sequential monsters.
Finally, I would also like to apologize to all readers. In fact, this book has been unable to maintain daily serialization since August. Instead, I chose to maintain the creative progress of 60,000 words per month, which has brought you a bad experience.
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Due to work reasons, my current position is busier, but no matter what, I, Haibo Zhibo, hereby promise: I will never update, never abandon the book, and update until the normal completion!
At the same time, I will continue to update all kinds of information about sequential monsters and sequential gods to the relevant areas of the latest works. Readers and friends are welcome to pay attention.
Finally, I will end with a poem related to the upcoming "Call" chapter. Please pay attention, please collect, please vote, and please subscribe!