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End of Month Poll (Patreon)

Published:
2026-08-29 01:00:07
Imported:
2026-08

Poll

End of Month Poll

  • Too fast (too much action and too much going on) 16
  • Too slow (Too much slice of life and not enough going on) 39
  • Just right (I enjoy the current pace) 213
  • 2026-08-28
  • 268 votes
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Content

Hi all!

I decided to enact these monthly evaluation posts and since it’s the end of August, it seems like a perfect time to start.

Mostly, I want to find out how everyone feels about the current pace and progress of the story. It did slow down somewhat, although I try to keep every chapter advancing the plot nevertheless. I would like to know how people feel about that. 

Any questions or additional comments, about anything you dislike or want to see more of, can be added in the comment section and I’ll go through them in the coming couple of days. Ps, this poll is open for both tiers, so try to use spoiler tags where necessary. 

Thank you all for being here, and I hope you continued to enjoy the story! Have a good weekend!

Onedayokay. 

So here’s the poll question: How do you feel about the story’s pace?

Comments

Marc Savage

Im impatient so want stuff now

Christine Breen

I like the extra info but I also want to get to the plot points. But I also jump and read every chapter the second it comes out.

V0lcano

I'm happy that Arielle is only upending the established rules of magic about every 3rd chapter instead of every single one

BlastYoBoots (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-06 13:00 The story feels a little claustrophobic with Arielle trapped with Vittoria so much of the time lately, but that’s quite intentional, as it mentions even Arielle is feeling that way. We know she needs time to herself to breathe and socialize and do self-directed study, and everyone involved in the plot around her IS working to try and make that happen. The house itself is becoming livelier, with Inara and Sir Spendulon, even though that sometimes adds a little to the claustrophobia too… I think this is intentional, and I think you’re handling it very well. I suppose it was sort of inevitable from just how hot and huge the demon situation is ramping up to be, and there has to be some sort of major breakthrough or lull for her to be able to have some temporary peace to stretch her legs— and I get the feeling you already have that planned soon. Between the dragon’s rampage and whatever breakthrough they’re about to make as to why there’s such a forceful demonic incursion, the pressure is bound to let up, and I trust you to see it through.
2026-08-29 01:37 The story feels a little claustrophobic with Arielle trapped with Vittoria so much of the time lately, but that’s quite intentional and lampshaded. We know she needs time to herself to breathe and socialize and do self-directed study, and everyone involved in the plot around her IS working to try and make that happen. I think this is intentional, and I think you’re handling it very well. I suppose it was sort of inevitable from just how hot and huge the demon situation is ramping up to be, and there has to be some sort of major breakthrough or lull for her to be able to have some temporary peace to stretch her legs— and I get the feeling you already have that planned soon; I trust you to see it through. EDIT: I completely missed the spoiler warning somehow, edited a bunch out of this post. My apologies to anyone in other tiers who read this beforehand.

The story feels a little claustrophobic with Arielle trapped with Vittoria so much of the time lately, but that’s quite intentional and lampshaded. We know she needs time to herself to breathe and socialize and do self-directed study, and everyone involved in the plot around her IS working to try and make that happen. I think this is intentional, and I think you’re handling it very well. I suppose it was sort of inevitable from just how hot and huge the demon situation is ramping up to be, and there has to be some sort of major breakthrough or lull for her to be able to have some temporary peace to stretch her legs— and I get the feeling you already have that planned soon; I trust you to see it through. EDIT: I completely missed the spoiler warning somehow, edited a bunch out of this post. My apologies to anyone in other tiers who read this beforehand.

dragonsFire

I voted 'just right' on this but I lean ever so slightly toward 'too fast'. I still wouldn't change much for fear of over correcting. For why I feel this way: the slice of life parts are incredibly important to ari as a character as well as several ongoing plots. These are the chapters that back up the growth along the arc with the dean having her grow through understanding others. They are the chapters that help us understand Ari's desire to be less self centered and more forward thinking. That said I think you're going to run I to a pretty heavy survivorship bias here. The people with access to the poll are those who like the story so much they are paying $10 a month to for the story. Of course you are going to get an overwhelming majority of 'just right's. It might be better to pose the question on royal road with the caveat that there's quite a few chapters already written before they will see changes. Even then they are the people that stuck with the story through 120ish chapters already.

darkmuch

I like when we acknowledge time passing off screen. I don’t need a full chapter of slice of life. But the acknowledgment that she is getting plenty of down time and firming up her foundations. Not just sprinting head first into the next big problem.

Mason

I kinda lost the plot… is she a student, a hero, a little girl, a perfect mage, autistic… the OP nature makes all of here traits kinda makes nothing matter. Her social issues were the handicap at first but now? I dunno.

Anotherb Account

I voted just right as I dislike when continuous readers like myself forget that you're writing a book and paces change throughout and what feels slow in release time might not later. In short, I love your story and you deliver constantly with long chapters, so my vote is you do whatever keeps you flowing and hopefully still enjoying it.

AceHW

I like that Ari hugged Elric with no prompting, he showed up and she hugged him because she missed him. I like that. I want her to grow to like hugging certain trusted people she's close with. I don't think that's a spoiler.

Marshel

Arielle, and therefore the reader, is still learning about the world. The Academy limits the world to the Academy, and that's where character development happens more intimately. Whereas these global adventures are where world building happens. I think it's necessary for the story.

BlastYoBoots

The biggest handicap right now is a constricting vise of a situation that has an entire faction of demons so determinedly after her that she can’t step out of the house or sometimes even to campus without Vittoria as escort. But that’s going to be resolved pretty soon I’d bet.

normalperson123

It feels like there's a lot going on all the time, and quite a few subplots. Some of those subplots have not been progressing quickly. It seems like there's a possibility of you as a writer biting off more than you can chew, relative to when you would like the story to end.

RainbowCatTopHat

*Spoilers for up to chapter 152* I've had a vague complaint that's been building for a while, I'm struggling to find the words to describe it but it feels like Arielle has been casting way more 'vibe' based spells instead of fully understanding the theory behind what she's doing recently. She didn't really know exactly what she was doing when healing the dragon, or when using soul magic with the demons (twice), or even in this newest plan with the blood magic and Yseult’s book. And like, being on a time constraint without the proper knowledge and being forced to improve and rely on her talent is fine, it's just been the solution too many times in a short span of time for me I guess. I really enjoyed her learning about Orion's influence or the properties of the blue orb on spells that she creates, and the versatility of those two has been really neat. I guess I'd just like Arielle to have some time where she's not on a horrible time crunch to solve a problem, and she can just experiment with magic. Learn how something works more concretely and actually add a capability to her arsenal as opposed to just improvising every time she gets in trouble.

RainbowCatTopHat

I agree, also as a reader I find that I don't enjoy when a protagonist is endlessly juggling problems because then it feels like there's never any downtime for character moments. Especially given how much of a workaholic Arielle is characterized as, I genuinely want to see what she choses to do if she has no pressing obligations. Even if the answer was just 'learn magic' I'd still be curious about what type of magic she spends her time improving at. Combat? Defensive? Utility?

Ledgund

Loving the story and the pace is just fine, thank you.

gabrielesilinic

I kinda stopped at chapter 120 so I can binge read at some point. The pace is perfectly fine however I'd rather have only a restricted set of unresolved plotlines at a time. First it gives me anxiety otherwise, and second it may make it somewhat difficult to have some things be explored right. However if you have no idea of what I mean I'd rather not force it since you are the one who made this series and made it successful anyway. However originally plots were pretty linear overall, it shouldn't remain like that but as far as reading up to chapter 120 the unresolved abyss plot was a pretty weird combo along with demons just being around as well, then there is now another plot that is Victoria plotting whatever. To maybe upheand the high ascendant. I'd lean to just either not resolve some and do some foreshadowing and put them away or rather keep max 2 active overall to let them breathe. And i'd suggest letting some more of the world seep in would as it may be useful. in some earlier chapters the world building was sometimes a little leaky as in it felt like an Isekai with our stuff falling in the pot without any particular explanation. I don't understand if the world is some late reinassance, some steampunk or some victorian place of sorts or maybe something lopsided due how to magic developed altering progress.

dragonsFire

Big +1 to this for me. Arielle is essentially brand new to magic. Genius or not 3-4 months is not enough to really just feel her way through something so structured. I could kinda understand if it was software, but not an organic chemistry analog. How does she know what essence pattern might cause what effect and how they interact/combine? It's a little late too really address so Ihave been steadily ignoring this but it is a pretty big plot hole.

Barneyzs

Loving the story so far I just want us to move on a bit with the magic progression. See I’m so excited to get into more of the lore with the world and discover some of Arielle’s secrets.

Antony Claughton

I don’t mind this, as long as the subplots aren’t forgotten. Even better if sometimes there are consequences for not pursuing it. Whether good, bad or neutral. It builds up the idea things are happening off page and that other entities aren’t static.

Antony Claughton

It would make sense if she really struggles at the ball. But then, she did at Lyra’s party. I feel the friend network she’s building is protecting her a bit. But autistic people do (I believe) struggle to change fast. It’s why they like repetition. There is an awful lot changing that Ari is handling fine. Which is maybe odd.

Josh

> don't enjoy when a protagonist is endlessly juggling problems because then it feels like there's never any downtime for character moments I agree in general, but in this particular story it seems like it has been a plot point unto itself: Arielle has a long todo list for all her friends. At a meta level, that's something she needs to work on.

Niklas Nikkinen

I feel that Arielle should be prioritizing the demon threat more. As it was portrayed, she managed to defeat Leviathan barely and would lose in a rematch. Therefore if she was confronted again by him and cornered, she would be at a loss. So some setup would be good to make her somewhat prepared in case of serious threat. I am assuming her projects will indirectly make her prepared but I think it would be better if she had to prepare for threats directly as well. Some ideas: - preparing high level spells to be used when backed into a corner and ignoring getting marked by the system - familiarising with the demonic orbs As for the pacing, it is good for me. Thanks for reading feedback.

onedayokay

Thanks for this! I'll try to introduce more of a balance here, with time spent learning how the spells work.

onedayokay

Yes fair point. Some plot points are longer because of the sheer scale and difficulty it will take to solve them (and their impact in characters) but I am trying to conclude the shorter ones so that we can get more downtime for Arielle.

onedayokay

Yes that was actually coming up after resolving a few of the plot points!

onedayokay

Hi! Yes this is fair critique especially, and many have mentioned it. I will say though that both the abyssal drift's storyline and the Ari versus the High Ascendant (Vittoria's plan) are more so long term plot points that will overarch most of the planned books. There will be progress made on both as well as twists but it likely won't be resolved for several books yet. However the demon plotline will be coming to an end soon and I will be resolving a few of the smaller plotlines as well to give the narrative space to breathe.

Jeri Knight

Mostly, I just don't like Vittoria. She might actually be the most arrogant character in the setting, and for once, I prefer the school sections.