CH -2

Hello! Author here! As the year ends with the novel reaching 3 months old, I'm going to be sharing with you the future plans for this novel. I just got home from an incident, I'll tell you what it is later.

First of all, you won't be seeing the current version of Volume 2 after a while. It will be taken down and replaced by the rewrite , which is already planned out for the most part. I know I said that Volume 3 will release in January 6, but I was wrong.  I'll take it down when the rewrite starts getting posted.

I'm not even close to touching that yet. Heck, I'm not even done fleshing out the parts of the rewrite. The reason for that is that Volume 2 is about to get much more content than I initially thought it would.

It seems that Volume 2 will reach a level where it is nearly double the amount of content that it orginally has. I've only written an outline of what is basically a superior version of the Volume in the past week.

And that's only with the set up for the whole Volume, just as the first arc of Volume 1 was set up for Zel to find someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with, Volume 2's first arc is to set up the life Zel had when he was little, when he has little.

Secondly , sorry if I made you guys wait two weeks, so I'll be posting a mass release of five chapters of the rewrite on Monday next week, January 6, 2020 . Remember, that's going to be the rewrite for Volume 2 , with each chapter at least 1,500 words. With five more chapters being posted in the same week, without any specific post times.

My family had an accident that took a lot of the time, time I was going to spend rewriting. A family member had suffered a second degree burn that happened right on Christmas eve. A gas from an oven was lit up, exploding with a very quick bang as the whole building trembled. I was sitting right in front of the table, waiting for the food we were going to eat as it was cooking in that kitchen.

But it wasn't happy faces that carried food that came out, it was a quickly fleeing family member who quickly snuck a look at the mirror as he looked on in horror. Calling out to his wife as he tried to put out a fire on his shirt.

I saw the burned skin on his arm right in front of me, the pure shock and disbelief on his face and the fear in his eyes as the dread kicked in. He tried to touch his molten skin, feeling only heat from it as he tried to figure out what was happening. His mind processing so many things at once, delaying the onset shock and excruciating pain that will come from his wounds.

I remember him calling out for help as he looked at the red flesh that was exposed due to the skin peeling away, giving everyone who looked his way the worst thing you can get on Christmas eve, fear. Fear at what is happening right in front of you, fear of something that you would never expect to happen right before Christmas eve.

I remember the adreline rush as I kicked into high gear and immediately shouted "Hospital, quickly!" and ran to get the door open while he groaned in pain as the skin on his arm had visibly melted. The epidermis crumpling black as the red flesh underneath revealed itself.

Patches of red flesh that still makes me quiver as I write this, but what really got to me was the smell. The nauscious smell of burnt flesh that took everything I had in me to push away mentally. But it wasn't much when I had the misfortune of experiencing the dread that is watching as his wife, my eight months pregnant sister, almost slip due to her anxiety. My heart felt like it was beating out of my chest as I sweated bullets trying to keep a calm mind.

I did all I can to help alleviate his pain, fanning him with paper as he said he felt hot. Hoping that it would make him feel better in some form. Opening every door on the way to the emergency room, running at the fastest pace I can to get the medicine from the pharmacy across the street and having to run to another pharmacy when they said they don't have the thing my family member needed. I did all I can to try and be helpful. But his pain wasn't lessening, the wound isn't getting better, at least, not because of me.

It was only then that I remembered how feeble and helpless I can be. How a mere burn can take away the strength I thought I had, and shook me to the core like how I thought a giant bunny monster falling from the sky made Zel feel fear. Made me realize how there's more things to fear in life than just murderous, giant bunny monsters. Accidents that had nothing to do with 'mana'.

Anyway, we ended up staying over for a week instead of the intended four days to help them. That means that I've only got about 6 days from the 14 that I initally wanted . I said January 6 because I have exams on the week after that, because classes will begin at that time. I'm pressed for time again, this sucks.

I'm sure a lot of you want to see Volume 3 already, but it's hard to write both at the same time as rewriting. But I promise that it's for the best, as it will be a different story, with familiar events and characters, but in a different sequence and even interactions.

New characters, new events, and most importantly, a more exciting development. As a writer, I want to show you guys my best work. I can't settle for less than that.

After that, it will be released at a rate of five weekly, which will equate to reaching the same amount of content as the initial iteration of Volume 2 in four weeks. For those who are curious, Volume 2 as of now has around 60,000 words. That's a lot of words. But that's only to reach the amount of words, there will certainly be more chapters for Volume 2 after those four weeks.

It won't be Volume 3 , as chapters for that are only written with a few sentences each as of today. Sentences of what will happen, without a single piece of dialogue or anything like that. I only have plot points that I want to achieve and the ending for it which is already cemented in stone, just like how Volume 2 already has its ending.

Thirdly, I'll be doing mass releases when I reach a threshold in writing . As I've had the time to flesh things out, with the whole Volume 2 right now being something of a first draft, I'll have some things already written that I can use as material. 

Mass releases will be announced , so watch out for that in the comments .

Lastly, each chapter release for the forseeable future will be at least 1,500 words.

Why?

Because that would make it worth a fast pass when it goes premium. That's right, I'll be going premium after this volume, though I'm not sure when I will finish writing it. Consider it as the deciding factor if you want to finish this novel or not, because I don't think you'll be happy with the development of the story if you don't even like the free Volumes.

So, to make it clear. That will be five chapters a week with no certain schedule. It's going to be in my own time, because I'll be too tired if I just churn them out without a care. I don't like rewriting when it can be done in one take.

I'm an aspiring author guys , and only with premium can that be a viable future. Right now, I get nothing from writing this, nothing at all. I've spent a lot of time and willpower to move this forward, I think I deserve to get something for it. Premium, for those who are not as involved with Webnovel terms, means that future chapter will need coins/fast passes to unlock. Chapter 101 onwards will be premium , that's not going to change. Intially, it was supposed to be after the current Chapter 90, but I decided against it.  

Since Volume 2 was just 90 chapters, I felt it was too little. I then thought about making it after 100, but then it would be strange to just go premium at the start of Volume 3. So I decided to make Volume 2 reach at least 100 chapters and rewrite it to be better. As I stated before, I feel that it could be better.

Coins aren't free, though you can earn some by inviting friends to Webnovel, so it's hard to get those. The only 'free' way to read premium is with fast passes, which I know you guys are all aware of already. But since I don't want to make it hard for those who like the novel but can't afford to buy spirit coins, I'll make it worth your free fast passes instead.