Chapter 1180: Author’s Afterword

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    6/8/2025

    After reading everything i can confidently say that LOTM might be among my top 3 series of all time. Loved every second of it. I also totally get the author. Readers tend to nitpick the smallest stuff and at some point it'll get very annoying. Wishing the best for the author and his next book.
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    As expected from the Goddess of Concealment,
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    Gonna miss reading this every day no matter what was going on IRL.

    Thank you.
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    f#ck... i need fanfics of klein walking the earth and meeting melissa etc;
    i'm honestly not satisfied with the slice of life in last 2 chapters crying_kitten

    reading the comments below i don't understand why you people hates coi. you all are just gaslighting me into also hating coi. my only complain with coi is that the last 2 chapters were not enough for me.

    ngl I enjoyed coi. maybe bcoz i've only read orv, ss, lotm, tbate and coi that i'm just a reader who enjoys this instead of the others who don't have the ability to write such a novel but will surely give their opinions like they are some father of CF. its like author of SL criticizing Cuttlefish for poor character developments of some characters sigh
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    Why don't you understand what I wrote? mad Ha ha just kidding because my writing isn't good enough kek
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    One of the best writers I know taking such a humble position...
    This book can't compare to LoM, but it's still a great book
    One thing that stuck to me is the talk about limiting characters in the same scene... I think this was the biggest problem with this book. In many scenes there were so many characters and so many things happening at the same time that I couldn't properly follow it, or the flow was constantly interrupted by changing the focus
    Anyway. I'm sure he learned a lot in this book and that his next masterpiece will surely be a great surprise for us
    Thank you for your work.
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    I'm gonna miss this book it's been years
    Thank you.
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    Thanks
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    My only issue is finishing with such small truce.
    If it took something like 400 years for the other deities tecover, it would be fine, but 60? Damn, it barely feels like a win or a ending point.

    But overall, kudos to the author, it was a fantastic journey
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    This is the difference between western media and Chinese authors... Here Cuttlefish has made things which are absolutely nothing into major issues in his head. First, he listens too much and cares too much about what people will think. Especially, when his average audience is young adult and teenagers, who know absolutely nothing about writing. Other than that, he is facing issues which have never been seen for other authors yet he talks about them like they are the most common thing. He talks about how many characters should be given a spotlight at once and how a main character should be portrayed... Brother! you are living in your own limitations, look at Game of Thrones, thousands of characters! Thousands of plots! No MC! He talks about not having enough mystery left in the world? Then change the Genre, look at Breaking Bad! So much entrigue and yet the world is the same old boring one. You don't need new worlds, but just characters and plot!

    It seems a common theme in Chinese literature, and its obvious since western media is a few centuries ahead of them. Perhaps if Chinese literature had less isolation, these authors can take inspiration from outside these limits they set for themselves, but as it stands they most likely have never even watched a minute of the two greatest TV Shows (or books) that i talked about and thus, they will never be able to catch up to published books.
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      what the actual f#ck are you on about
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      Not sure what you talking about, you have to understand every big guy here can easily destroy entire planet and they have intelligence far surpassing normal human and extremely broken reality altering abilities, if some big event is happening you have to think about how all this character would react how will they use there reality bending abilities and extremely high intelligence, and no, most of readers I have meet try to juice out every single character in story, they would talk about one single chapter for entire days breaking it down to smallest wording, making sure what author wrote is reasonable or not.
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        What I am talking about is the readers urge, and the author’s desperation to always write big events. Bigger events, bigger plots, more epic and more mysteries does not indeed mean a good story. It’s all just fanservice. In the western media you rarely ever see such high power scaling and that’s because it’s not needed to tell a good story, but it’s rather used as a crutch by the Chinese authors and web novels in general. We started with a character who was already interacting with sequence 2 and above characters from the first moments. It’s like author couldn’t stop himself from continuing where he left off in 1st book. And even that wasn’t enough for some fans
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          The problem with that is, once MC reach certain level of power, doing small quest won't make story fun, a seq 4 will hardly struggle against a seq 5. It's like you beat final boss and start doing side quests where boss is only level 10, you will just one shot the boss instead of good hard fight, there is no challenge, just extrem amount of brute force, this will just add some filler chapters, this already happens in LoTM after Klein become seq 2. Also author can't just add any plot, world setting is based on time when only few years are left for Apocalypse, every attempt made by GOO to break earth barrier will creat Major event.
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          Wth it is the sequence of 1st book so of course he would start from where story ended. Even in 1st book Klein interacted with a demigod in 1st volume and at that time world situation was ok as there were no damage on barrier.
          If you want to scale down power level there are plenty of novels here that would suit your taste. You just can't compare one genre to another, simply because they are top tier novels. Why don't you try 'Embers ad Infinitium' it may be your cup of tea. Some of the things you mentioned are there. But it's still not as famous as COI.
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          In the western media you rarely ever see such high power scaling

          Are you perhaps forgetting about Marvel/DC? Some of the most nonsensical high-power scaling plot were created by them and they are very very well known. What is this bias you have with western media?
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      One of the main reasons why I loved the first book and also the first half of this book was the ancient secrets, which we slowly realized what they were, but in the last two volumes, I think they lost their meaning. And I think this is the biggest weakness of this book
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      Wait a second, I don't understand. I haven't watched Breaking Bad, but answer this: you say the world is the same old boring one, and is simply character and plot-driven, yes? But is there a pressing world-ending disaster looming? Are there factions that seek to undermine the world's operations from the inside, whilst eldritch monsters far stronger than even the most powerful of this world are attempting to break through? Are there supernatural abilities that come into play?

      Also, don't take this personally, but I am genuinely confused as to how he's supposed to change the genre in this one. It's the same world, no? A world whose present has mostly been explored in LOTM. The only major intrigue left in COI is the past. Oh, and the Western Continent. But he said he'll leave that for a probable side story.

      Dunno if I'm missing anything else.
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      Eh...as much as I understand what you're trying to imply, you're not considering the difference between the media you're citing.

      Sure, making it endlessly bigger might've been a problem, but to use game of thrones as a benchmark to showcase too many characters is just wild.

      Because like, FIRSTLY, it's a show that was worked on at least half a dozen writers! Because I don't you know how hard it is to make a logically sound plot with a large number of characters.

      I'll tell you as a fellow writer, such a thing is far more easier said than done, especially in this case, because you seem to misunderstand that the plot themselves have to some degree live up to LOTM's standard and also taste!—which is usually the main problem for sequels!

      I mean just look at boruto! That's enough said.

      Honestly man, I'll entice you to write your book—not as condescending outlook on your opinion, but frankly, I'll expectant to see what kind of journey you would write about, and secondly, I want to see your thoughts on this same comment after you complete that book.

      Would be fun 😊 🙏🏼 😂😂

      Also, feel free to give a response.
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