And it's actually the same as the first volume, all the foreshadowing that should be dealt with from beginning to end has been eliminated.
The characteristic of an inspirational writer like me is that the story will change shape while writing. I didn’t have the idea of the tower at first, it was just an ordinary tower. Later, as I wrote it, it turned into a puzzle, and it turned into a puzzle.
At the time, I didn’t think that it was a “fictitious existence” caused by the disturbance of fate.
I arranged that "the lack of an answer is also an answer" was just playing on the plot of "Wrath of the Righteous", and it had no deep meaning.
Alas, but in the end it became the key to solving the problem. I didn't even expect it. It was so unexpected.
In fact, originally, when I was writing about the Hall of Fetal Movement, I had no intention of letting this lich appear in this volume. In fact, I didn’t even think about the invasion of orcs and the involvement of lichs and necromancers at the beginning.
In the novel, Minos 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 into flames - was replaced with a high tower.
Now that I have a faux Gondor, should there be an orc invasion?
So there was an invasion of orcs, and a barbaric land inhabited by orcs suddenly appeared in the northeast of Monrovia on the map.
I was originally going to write a big battle scene, with trebuchets, siege towers, fierce battles on the city walls, and the orcs howling with hot oil!
Now I look back after writing it and think, hey, where are my war scenes? The only war scene that can be written is the battle where the orcs dropped onto the city wall by air, and I skipped it. I wrote about how the protagonist team planned a surprise attack.
Thinking about it on the other hand, there are actually a lot of war scenes in the first volume, so the second volume doesn't have the effect of preventing people from getting bored, right?
Then there's the addition of the Necromancer. They didn't have a role originally, but in order to find the "feeling" of orcs, I re-watched the Warcraft movie, and then I thought, there are orcs, but there is no Godan (Gul'dan), right?
What's wrong?
But Goudan has played this joke before, so let me change it to Ner'zhul. Ner'zhul later became a lich... Then let's get a lich!
So the orcs joined forces with the lich.
Now that there is a lich - is there a ready-made lich with a name? Let him come out. This is still consistent with the "Chekhov's Gun" theory.
But originally I wanted this lich to appear in the "third phase of the world-ending crisis" that has been announced. At that time, the undead creatures encountered problems in their survival due to the overflow of positive energy, so they began to attack the big boss's cult in order to survive.
group.
At this stage, undead creatures are allies and lichs can join the team.
So what should we do? Let him appear quickly and then exit quickly. It happened to be emphasized in the River Valley chapter that the protagonist is very resistant to magic control spells. Wouldn't this be useful?
What is Chekhov's gun? (Look back)!
By the way, here in Minos, I was planning to let Oscar join the team. I specifically emphasized that he had received swordsmanship training just to let him use the Pathfinder. But as you can see in the end, the person who joined the team was "Laundry Woman"
"Rosalie.
Hi, I can't explain how this happened. According to my idea, there should be no more human women in the team. And the gender of the team should generally be balanced.
The end of the first volume, three men: dwarf, barbarian and big smart, three girls: ray man, black skin and big white cat
In this volume, Nini joins the team, so a little prince comes to balance it out.
But...just, it happened. Maybe I was confused by Rosalie's "wife but not fucked" attribute?
In the next volume, please let the big-nosed lizardman monk join the team for balance.
After confirming that Rosalie was in the team, I looked at the little prince and felt that it seemed like a little bit of ink had been spent on this, and it was completely unnecessary and a waste, so I decided to let him take the Joy of Fire and stab his father.
I really wrote in this direction, but the emperor's madness ended up being a lack of sleep, and was solved by a suggestion from the protagonist.
Ah, writing this book is really full of surprises. When I wrote this paragraph, I was the most shocked myself, because the readers don’t know what I originally planned to do, so it doesn’t matter if they are shocked.
No matter what, after some uncontrollable developments, the little prince... has no role to play. All the words and ink described before are wasted.
It's okay, maybe I'll let him appear again in the future. 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 surprises in the second volume, the final product is actually quite complete, and it is no problem to read it as a separate story. Even if you have not read the first volume, it is not too big to read the second volume directly.
question!
This should be the case for future books. Each volume will collect all the foreshadowings that should be included, without leaving any plot points at all, so that readers can abandon the book at any time!
Because of this, the best way to read this book is readily apparent: wait until each volume is finished and read it again, it’s so cool!
I don't care about reading.
If a certain volume doesn't look good to you, just skip it, no problem.
Next is the story of the river kingdoms. Only one country, Yi Songzuo, should appear.
I plan to write something different from the first two volumes. For example, I will focus on how the protagonist teaches Nini to learn spells. The protagonist appears as a third-level mage, so the promotion of the first two levels can be written on Nini.
I also want Nini to do a one-shot, just this leg, right? It would be a waste not to practice leg skills.
Xiaobai is getting cuter and cuter as the writing goes on, but it is not good to let her join the "battle situation" because she will definitely go straight to the point and give birth to the child first. So Xiaobai can only continue to occupy the complaining slot.
In terms of plot, the current equipment of the protagonist team is actually very strong, but the skills provided 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 religious sect. The next volume should mainly be an underground palace adventure, without any war.
Ah, Machiavellian.
Of course, it is impossible to finish the next volume. It will definitely only be to defeat a branch of the cult and then get the clues for the next step.
Both the protagonist and the dwarf have reached the fourth level in this volume. It should be Elizabeth's turn to level up in the next volume. However, her strength improvement does not mainly rely on leveling up. She has to kill the beholder alone and activate the necklace before she can - change
Become a true ray man.
In the next chapter, you probably won’t encounter a beholder yet, but you may arrange to find the dwarf equipment: the beholder’s nemesis shield.
Of course, these are my current plans, and they are also the only things I can call "outlines"! Yes, these are my outlines! They are also my detailed outlines, because I don't have any more details than this.
The future is planned.
To me, the outline is just a constraint, a restriction on the expression of my inspiration.
When the next volume is finished, you can compare it and see how many surprises there are in the story. However, these surprises are still the most exciting part of the story.
So, this is the end of this unfocused postscript. See you in the third volume tomorrow.
Oh, by the way, in order to have the same number of chapters in the second volume as in the first volume, the last two chapters are very long, so let’s just treat it as an explosion at the end of the volume. From now on, the last two chapters of each volume should be very long, for no other reason than
Make up the round number of 70 chapters per volume.