I wish all readers and friends a happy New Year 2023!
The first volume of the book "The Wasteland Echoer", "The Echo" (Part 1, Part 2), finally ushered in the final chapter on December 31, on December 31, Chapter 257: The Future of Pramini.
This fantasy-Cthulhu-wasteland text has been formally conceived since the end of 2020. During this period, due to various reasons such as work, I have collected some information one after another and made a little worldview construction. It was not until February 2022 that the article was officially submitted and started serialization.
However, it is worthy of gratitude that during these 10 months of creation, I not only completed the first volume of a million words, but also compiled an outline of works with a size of nearly 30,000 words, including the national information, historical culture, administrative structure, etc. of the Sunnese Empire and the Cruzed Empire, as well as the magic source sequence group, profession, magic source sequence level and magic source power, as well as the imperial promotion rules in the steam field and the order monster and magic position system in the extraordinary field.
Although the first volume shows nearly 40% of the world view structure, there are still many interesting parts that will be displayed in the subsequent "Call" (Cruzde), (Fire Empire) and (Central Domain).
I believe that inspiration is endless and imagination does not end, the content of new life will never stop, and will emerge like bamboo shoots after the rain, and then continue to grow and become a forest of this wasteland world.
At the beginning of my creation, I chose thankless group portraits and behind-the-scenes writing styles. Wright Socra, as my incarnation and the master of the opening perspective, gradually became the nominal protagonist in the later development of the plot. This is not because my writing direction is biased, but because it is deliberately done.
After all, in my conception, the theme surrounding each volume is never a certain person or something, but a kind of thinking and ideal that all forces work hard to achieve. Therefore, only by adhering to different ideas and ideas will they choose their own goals, complete each event, and then affect a specific person.
I wanted to build a "an illusory world that is approaching the real world". For this purpose, I created the "middle language" for the magic power to form spirits and tried to maintain my ideas as much as possible in adverse market situations.
What makes an era or destroy an era is not a specific person at all, but the final result produced by the continuous game between various forces after the development of productivity and production relations to a certain stage.
I always believe that whether it is an ordinary human being or a sequel god with a unique mission, the influence they individually have always been limited. If you want to get the expected results, you must do your best to choose the right direction, win over relevant supporters, 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 ruins the world. Everyone is a sad pawn in the wasteland era and struggles to survive.
Of course, many readers also told me that this book is too depressing and it is easy to lose readers, but isn’t the process of growth just a repressive one? Isn’t it more valuable and exciting to achieve the protagonist’s ideal goal after experiencing the test of betrayal, pain, death and despair, etc.?
Speaking of the volume itself, at the beginning, my original idea was to create a complex and huge worldview, so when some readers proposed the style changes in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, I expressed my understanding, but I never modified the core content.
After all, a small story of fighting monsters and upgrading is not enough to explain my worldview. The game between the protagonist behind the original suicide accident is the more exciting part worth paying attention to.
To this end, I created the concept of magic source power to replace magic in traditional fantasy stories, but in the wasteland era where the aftermath of the Steam Age still existed, the role of magic source 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 and destroy nature, the magic source power will begin to decline and go to exhaustion. This is a kind of obscure reflection on the industrial age.
Of course, there are also professional systems, monsters in the order, gods in the order, etc., which will also be the basic world view structure throughout the book except for various countries. More than 2,000 monsters and more than 200 gods will be displayed one by one in the later stage. Please look forward to it.
The endings of the Socra city forces, the imperial prince forces, the lost three church forces and the protagonist group forces, were basically explained in the last thirty chapters.
Not only has the fate of most people been "finally perfected", but almost all the foreshadowings laid in the early stage were recycled.
To add, if readers find that any foreshadowing has not been taken back, please leave a message in the comment area to inform me, and I will make an addition in the "Call" chapter or extra.
At the beginning, I also tried to imitate some writing styles of the same type of text, focusing on daily life, and gradually promoting the development of the main storyline.
But in the process of continuous creation, I realized that the timelines of the first and second volumes of "Echo" are very short, and nearly one million words of stories take place within two months. I have to add the causes and consequences to each stage of group portrait story, so there is not much space left for daily life at all, 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 the prefaced gods and the arrival of the star era as the main lines, and the main ideas of exploration, adventure, knowledge and reconstruction of order, running through each volume.
The name of each volume is also an obscure summary of the central idea of ​​each volume.
After the battle between Lion-Eut and Evant was caused by the "Fire of Heavenly Punishment", I did not name Wright's death or not, but left an open ending.
Before the next volume of the story begins, I still have to sort out the outline and add some worldview architecture files, so I take a day off to better enter the new plot.
The story of the second volume will begin with another "nominal protagonist" and tells the fate of the Cruise Deser Federation in the Wasteland Era. As for the fate of Wright, please continue to pay attention to all readers and friends.
This book is expected to create four volumes (the first and second volumes of "Echo" are counted as one volume). Each volume will be unfolded in different regions, showing the historical and cultural styles of different countries, and revealing some new order gods and order monsters.
Finally, I would like to apologize to all readers and friends. In fact, this book has not been able to maintain the daily update since August, but has chosen to maintain the monthly creation progress of 60,000 words, which has brought you a bad experience.
Due to work reasons, my job is busier now, but no matter what, I, Haibo Zhibo, promised here: I will never stop updating, and update until the normal book is completed!
At the same time, I will update various information about the monsters and gods of the order position to the previous works to the relevant areas of the works. Readers and friends are welcome to pay attention.
At the end, I will end with a poem related to the upcoming "Call" chapter. Please pay attention, please bookmark it, please vote, and please subscribe!
The call of the echoer is far from over,
The psychedelic dream continues,
The future of Pramini is rare,
Chapter completed!