Return of the Martial Messiah Book 1/2 Author’s Note

I was going to tack these changes onto the end of the next chapter, but it’s gotten too long so here they are:

1.) Baseline attributes have been renamed to avoid confusion. (no actual changes in story, just a rebranding for clarity’s sake)

Nascent attributes: are those given at avatar creation, and are increased with real world fitness. 

Baseline attributes: includes nascent, level-up gains, weapon attunement rewards, and any other permanent special bonuses.

Total attributes: include all the above, plus equipment.

2.) It took Ami and I a while, but we finally had time last night to go through a ton of comments from previous chapters on RR. I've made several subtle changes to the way credits are described so it's more clear what their value is in proportion to US$

If you want to read those changes yourself, they are located on RR only, in the chapters below:

CH.10 Morok the viper convo (Made it clear that regular minimum wage is 2 credits per hour, and Raine's information was going to save Morok roughly 12.5 million credits so selling the info for 2.5 million credits was a good deal for them both.)

CH. 29 Above the image of engine (Made it clear that the range of WIDOW was too low for actual deep space exploration, about moon and back total range. It is not capable of going all the way out to the asteroids that Frontier is after. Raine got a decent price for it at over $2B imo.)

CH. 30 About 2/3rds through chapter (Added a little bit of lore about how the infrastructure for the space-race was wiped out in the AI wars, along with every old-world government. This reset crashed all currencies, negating inflation over the hundreds of years from now till the future this story takes place in.)

CH. 31 Above image of Raine (More details on the clothing from shillids to highlight just how valuable they are. If the annual income of a minimum wager is around 6k credits, and the suit Raine bought cost 200k credits, then there has to be a good reason, right?)

CH. 32 When Mel is painting the ground with rainbows (Through internal dialog, Raine expressed how the sale of WIDOW was impressive because his annual salary in the past, as a high-end slave, was only 10k credits.)

That's all for now. New MM chapters coming soon! You get either 6 or 7 this week depending on how far I get with editing.