Book 2 notice

Note:

If you haven't read the final chapter, 216: Treasure Binge, then go down and read it first then come back here.

Hey ^_^

So, that concludes book 1. You really cannot imagine how happy I am to have completed it, and finally have him out that castle. I honestly was so tired of the goddamn castle. It was cool at first but yh, there’s a limit. I swear I only intended him to be there for like the first 120ish chapters, 140 max.

Err, anyway, overall I’m very happy with how castle arc wrapped up, and I'm really excited for the huge amount of cool shit I’ve planned for Book 2, so I’m just so stoked to finally be able to get to it all. I think you’ll all really like it.

Stuff you can expect: meeting actual Cultivators, pitting cyberpunk tech vs cultivation magic in a wider manner. Culture clashes, general insanity of cultivators being who they are, tournaments, auctions, robot armies, hornet people, more stuff about the People, Monster Hunter inspired stuff, Symbiote metas, etc etc. Plus I wanna do a whole lot of faction shenanigans on a much bigger scale where Nicolai is just one player amongst many.

Thanks for all your support and for reading the story!!

SCHEDULE NOTICE - ONE WEEK BREAK

After consideration, I’m going to pause uploads for 1 week. So this coming week will be skipped, then first chapter of book 2 goes live same time as usual on Monday the 24th March. Likewise when Royal Road version reaches end of book 1, there’s gonna be a 1 week break on there too.

This is mainly because I want to ensure there is a bit of space, mentally, for readers before going into book 2. A bit of time to build some anticipation rather than just rolling straight into it. Plus the extra week will be handy for me to make sure I keep up the writing.

Also, when I upload this same note/book 2 announcement on Royal Road, I’m going to include a bunch of questions like, what you want to see more of, what you want to see less of, favourite and least favourite moments, plus a poll on which were the best combat scenes. I’m not doing it here just because Patreon UI is kind of garbage plus I’d rather have all these answers/discussion in one place. When the final chapter is up on Royal Road, I’ll link you guys to the book 2 announcement page which will have these same details plus the questions, the poll. On that one there will also be a summary of book 1 and the state of Nicolai’s progression to date.

Finally, here is a teaser from chapter 1 of book 2:

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Something or someone roughly human sized was about to emerge from the brush. His eyes flicked to the left and right as the rustling extended. Multiple someones.

The first of them stepped out from the dim undercanopy, and Nicolai saw them clearly. It was not an it but a he. A human. The man had long dark hair tied in a tail and piercing green eyes. He was shorter than average and wore spotless dark-blue robes engraved with silver patterns.

There was something up with his arm, visible to Nicolai’s Cultivators eyes, which were capable of seeing spiritual signatures. A kind of blur around it, like a faint, spiritual arm, larger in size, that existed around his normal arm. A moment later more emerged, all bearing a notable resemblance to the first in size, facial features and clothing. The same patterns were on all their robes. However, only the first had that strange spiritual blur around his arm.

The group paused, gazing at Nicolai. He felt a ripple through the Aura, and he saw their Soul Senses emerging from their bodies. They’d been Shelled, a method of hiding one’s Soul Sense and restraining any Aura ripples.

Cultivators. If this was all of them, they numbered nine. None of them held a gun or any other Earth tech.

The one in the middle with the arm drew his gaze, because that one had a Soul Sense more than twice the size of any of the others; twice the size of Nicolai’s. He knew what this meant, having learned it from Kleos, an old companion.

The man standing before him was an actual Tier 2 Cultivator, something he had yet to see in a human. Until this moment he had never seen a human higher than Tier 1. He was beginning to suspect this group hadn’t come from the castle he’d spawned in, which was now a ruin a few miles behind.

In fact he was beginning to think they weren’t even from Earth...