Chapter 52: Author’s Journey 1: What Could Have Been

A small chapter where I say random things because I think they’re interestings and not relevant to the story anymore.

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The “Faction Contribution System” discovery arc, or the intro, can you guess how many paths existed for Aven to take?

The answer is: As much as I wanted.

The whole word building of Green and the main powers and undercurrents was only refined after I decided which path Aven took, which ended up being the military path, the somewhat original high-profile public/government path.

So many other paths existed, like using his faction appraisal capability to identify secret factions, or more slow paths like remaining in his basic uni, becoming a top student with a concrete-solid file after he reached grade 1, and graduating with the biggest honor ever.

I’m not lacking in imagination for this part, and the story could have gone so much differently depending on what I choose.

In the end though, the stars aligned, and I used logic to pave a path through a world I kept building and adding more lore to.

Maybe going on an alternative path would have allowed me to include more action to his early life, maybe like joining the Canopy and participating in the rogue canopy event? But nope.

It’s a system cheat story, and the goal of a system cheat story is to have a protagonist going so much above what is considered normal that it enters the realm of “that’s bullsh*t author-sama wat r u doin!”.

And I think… I somewhat succeeded in doing that, right?

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The EMATE arc was intended to be a much more slice-of-life arc with Aven going left and right, chaining small jobs after small jobs to earn FCP until he finally became the super duper genius he ended up being after only a few months.

I had created a whole setting that added something like a “Super-Exclusive Club” where he would have made friends and not-friends, and learned about the arrogance and “superiority” of awakened people.

Why did I scrap it and conclude the whole thing so quickly? That’s because it’s how I write!

All the characters, the development, all is made on the fly, only the Plot with a capital P is pre-written with more or less detail depending on the inspiration I had when creating it.

A core of this story concept, as I hope you realized, is to make Aven a prodigy system perfect abuser, he learns about his cheated innate ability, he pushes deeper than necessary, pushes again, and after he found the best way, he abuses what he found.

So, when I wrote the EMATE arc, I had already developed more settings that changed what I had planned: The super population.

Supers aren’t common, at all, so the Super Club seemed like too much trouble to rationalize without involving stupid warped thought process like seniors, capitalist privileges, and a bunch of useless interractions that wouldn’t matter as soon as Aven graduated.

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Next, Blackdale IMC arc…

Well…

How do I say that… See for yourself the original path:

 

Blackdale Industrial Military Center

FCP/Hierarchy Grinding

Grade 2

Tech-Production Hobby

Advanced Military Engineer Rank

1st Military Raid

Mixed Production/Assault Practical Learning

Canopy Interferences

Cultivation Plan Optimization

Ops Test

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Eland Ops Military Faction Authority

First Cheat Deepening: Useless Appraisal

Ops Shop Organization

Tech System Style Energy Specialization Preparation

Knowledge Want List

Assault Officer Journey

Canopy Secrets

Grade 3, Dynamic Quests

Forbidden Turning Point

Fairy Form

 

I could describe what each of these sub-titles means, but nope, use your imagination and try to see what seems to have taken place in this reality…

Yup, exactly. (I know you didn’t scroll back up~)

It might look like some parts stick, but everything has become a bit warped.

The whole Ops plot has been trashed, the whole officer plot has been trashed, the whole Canopy involvement plot has been trashed, and the fairy form was acquired before he even reached the Forbidden Continent where he would have farmed ungodly amount of FCP through slaughter of abominations…

That should tell you how I pretty much write, I know where I want to lead the story, but as I write, I create more settings mindlessly that I love and flow with the story, and in the end they conflict with what I had planned.

Is there a reason for Aven to leave Blackdale IMC when he hadn’t emptied his shop?

Why force an action arc when there’s nothing to get out of it apart from some experience?

Should I just make it so that the Canopy sends a raid for him? How do I rationalize it? Who gave the information? Is Eland that useless?

I’m the author, so I know action is definitely not something you’ll find wanting, but I need my cute protagonist to be able to survive it first before starting with it in earnest!

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Anyway~

50 chapters is a respectable amount of chapters to set the tone of the story, but not yet completely! Now, what else is there to do but to start on making Aven’s “endless potential” and “infinite ambitions” a bit more realistic?

He just has to survive the surge…

Or maybe I could make him die gloriously, replace him with someone random, his non-existent little brother? And make him inherit his faction contribution system by breaking every law I established about innate ability being unique?

Or he dies and I make him resurrect a few centuries later? In a more advanced civilization? In a rustic cultivation world where he can switch the story to kingdom building? In some sort of fairy dimension??? He was inside a simulation the entire time???

Oh dear~ There are so many ways to make my story so disgusting I would feel dirty continuing writing it! That’s gorgeous!

Let’s add a companion beast while we’re at it! Everyone loves cute beasts that break the flow of the story! Right?! I vote for an awakened octopus descendant of a great void kraken! Octopus are cute~~<3

Do you have a scenario in mind that would make you think “I’m out of this stupid-ass story”?

(Try to be as sarcastic as possible and plan how things will actually turn out to make me feel bad about trying to use a bit of realism to ground my story!)

Love you all <3

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