Chapter 305

Sasa: Beautiful girls!

Michael: Take your harem of beautiful girls to defeat the Demon King!

Raphael: It's love. The strongest cheat isn't power, nor is it having a bunch of beautiful girls revolve around you only to be conquered one by one; it's the essence of a Gal-Game—if you give your heart, you will receive true love in return.

Sasa: Why do I feel like the essence of a Gal-Game is just choosing the right options?

Michael: It's about having money, and being strong enough to blow all your enemies away.

Sasa: That's not a Gal-Game at all; that's just some kind of H-RPG.

Michael: It's just like a horror game protagonist getting a gun.

Raphael: You can write all of these! If written well, they would all be very good.

Sasa: Next question. Many readers are asking whether "Angel of Death" will continue… At this point, of course it won't.

Michael: What I didn't expect was that readers are still asking if "Dragon Poem" will continue… That one is even less possible to continue, and its performance was so poor to begin with…

Michael: However, Maotou does actually want to tinker with the characters from "Dragon Poem" again.

Sasa: Mocha?

Michael: Elise or someone like that. Haven't you noticed that Elise and you share the same creative lineage? You're both Maotou's dark side, both arrogant little brats, and after getting beaten up, you obediently repent and admit your mistakes. Then you cling to the male protagonist and refuse to let go.

Sasa: …But, people don't hate that kind of heroine, right?

Michael: You two can only be described as the manifestation of Maotou's dark side. I still suggest changing to a heroine from the good alignment next time; that would be better.

Michael: …Besides, even if we don't fill the plot holes in "Dragon Poem," we still need to wrap up the stories of some of our old characters.

Raphael: Even if it's a manifestation of the dark side, it can only turn into a minor character like this… That actually sounds quite cute.

Michael: Someone complained before that when Maotou writes cyberpunk, the worldview isn't dark enough, not even as dark as reality. I can only say that even if Maotou tries their best to be edgy and dark, their brain is ultimately only at Sasa's level…

Sasa: Waa! You're all bullying me!

Sasa: Fine, let's take a step back. Even if I really am Maotou's dark side, and even if you, Baya, really are Maotou's bright side, then what on earth are you, Angela!

Raphael: Didn't His Majesty teach you this before? The Four Living Creatures of Jungian psychology represent the four parts of the human psyche. Michael is the Lion, Fire element—passion, courage, emotion, and strength. I am the Eagle, Air element—sublimation, inspiration, intuition, and insight.

Sasa: Then what about me?

Michael: You are the Ox, Earth element.

Raphael: It's desire and persistence, a sense of the physical.

Sasa: I am Earth, Earth…

Raphael: The "World" card in Tarot is also naturally an Earth element, you know.

Michael: The "Lovers" card that Hayden drew, which represents Raphael, is also an Air element. Maotou really does like Tarot cards. If I had a Tarot card, it would be the "Strength" card, representing the Lion and Fire.

Raphael: By the way, the four Chaos Gods from Warhammer next door can also be classified this way. Khorne is Fire, Tzeentch is Air.

Michael: So it's no wonder Sasa would create a Slaaneshi world.

(In an instant, Sasa realized with horror that perhaps when others talk to the author, they feel the exact same complete mental chaos of three or four mental models discussing problems with each other that she is feeling right now.)

Sasa: …So, ultimately, Maotou isn't God either; they're just… a foolish creator (Demiurge) like me.

Michael: Now you really have become Bastet, the cat goddess who blindly eats fish.

Raphael: If we view "creation" itself as divinity, then attempting to become a creator oneself, creating a world of one's own thoughts, is also an act of approaching God.

Raphael: The author of The Chronicles of Narnia once said something very interesting: "Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Raphael: Humans crave all the beautiful things in this world because these things are merely reflections of what we truly desire. The things we truly crave are not in this world. Life has no inherent meaning; it is empty by nature. But if, because I see it, I draw it, I write it, then things have meaning. This layer of meaning is not bestowed by anyone; it is endowed by the creator themselves, conjured out of nothing, inexhaustible and endless.

Raphael: Creation and thinking are also ways to become a Superman.

Sasa (muttering): Don't you think Raphael is the most mystical part of us?

Michael: She is that part, after all. Just ignore it.

Michael: Back to the topic. The new book will be released in about a month at the earliest. I hope Maotou can become a better creator next time.

Raphael: Or maybe in the next book, they'll become the protagonist and defeat the dark creator.

Michael: A cat-loving novel? That's very true to life.

Volume 8: People of Freedom and the Free World: Maotou's new book needs to be delayed for a while.

Meow meow meow…

I originally planned to release it a few days ago, meow. I've already saved up 100,000 words of the manuscript, meow. But something happened at home, and I might have to delay the book release for a month or two, or two or three months… Because I can't write every day for now, I definitely can't release a new book in this state, meow (dead eyes).

Anyway, I'll stockpile some manuscript first, and by the way, refine the manuscript a bit more to improve the quality.

The theme of the new book is H-Gal high myth fantasy, meow. It incorporates a thick layer of what I like the most—that kind of mythological world style where "The sun is the Sun God's golden chariot. Holding the reins of law, He drives across the sky every day, rising from the east and setting in the west," and "The passing of winter to spring each year, the changing of the four seasons, is the Goddess of Abundance defeating the Old Man Winter, only to be beaten back by Old Man Winter in the second half of the year."

For the H-fantasy parts, I referenced some things I like, such as Rance, Eushully, and VB, which are actually all things with a high concentration of myth fantasy, meow.

I really like the style of Amayui, where you sign a contract with a clumsy goddess at the beginning, and then the protagonist and heroine run off together to mess around and fall in love, meow. It's a pity I don't intend to write exactly that this time… although it's not completely unrelated either.

By the way, it seems like Genrin is getting a remake. Ah, I really want to play it. Playing it will definitely be more conducive to writing the new book…

Anyway, the main elements of the next book are H-fantasy, high-concentration myth fantasy, and GAL-style romance with a bunch of beautiful girls, meow. The protagonist feels roughly like a slightly more evil version of Hayden mixed with Qi Xing divided by two… Maybe?

I will strive to release the book within a month or two, meow. At the latest, it will definitely be earlier than the release time of Huitian, meow—