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Zenith of Sorcery, Chapter 5 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-09-18 00:42:34
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2026-06
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Chapter 5 is out! Here are the links:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71045/zenith-of-sorcery/chapter/1346150/5-sixth-manifold

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3368346/5/Zenith-of-Sorcery

Posted very late, as is often the case with me, but in my defense I had something came up today so I had a reason beside laziness and lack of writing determination to be kind of slow. I hope you all enjoy it anyway. :)

Comments

Monotropa

You are doing it again, working until late into the night on a Sunday! Seeing you work so hard on this chapter, I finally went through all my notes on ch4 and edited them into something remotely readable. My one goal for chapter 5: stop thinking so much about worldbuilding. Good Night and thank you for the chapter!

Green0Photon

Woo update! Butterfly lady! One of the many things I love about your work is your creativity. So cool!

Andrew Browne

Typo: Extra " after: ... came to life when their guard was down. I'm enjoying the story! This chapter felt short and I wanted more. One thing I was wondering in this chapter - what is the layout of the palace basement, from a tactical point of view? How far before the hall splits? Are there other side rooms? How many exits? What is the purpose of these rooms? How durable are the walls?

Helgi V

Very nice!

Domagoj Kurmaic

It's a little shorter in terms of word count than the first four chapters were, so maybe that's why. I didn't think about most of these questions. :) But the purpose of these rooms is mostly storage - they're meant to hold food, wine, tools, spare clothes, whatever is necessary and not immediately needed in the palace above. It also holds a treasury room when the king keeps his gold coins and gems, which is why he was extra anxious to get the rift out of there. He can (and did) moce the treasury elsewhere, but having it beneath the palace is nice and defensible, especially since he can inspect it often to make sure the contents don't disappear.

Andrew Browne

I'd imagine the king would have thought about it a lot, and probably built some defenses, over the past 8 months. I'd imagine that's where they fell back to in this chapter.

Tim Deral

A very good chapter

Alistair Harbour

So cool that you’re making detailed notes!! Is that just for your own enjoyment?

Monotropa

It originally started when I had been caught up on a longer WN for a bit and realized I had forgotten what the cast even looked like. So I kept writing notes with the excuse “if you keep notes while reading you won’t have to re-read from the beginning if you took a break or there was a hiatus”. The key is definitely moderation - which I fail at spectacularly. I will say this is probably the kind of novel where my notes feel the least like a waste of time because I know the author spent a lot of work on the chapters and worldbuilding. I tell myself that sharing my speculations might give the writer an idea of what an invested reader would pick up on while reading (ex. is the foreshadowing too on the nose or is there still room for wrong theories) and asking specific questions can help avoid potential plot/mechanic holes. I imagine it must also just be nice to hear what people think about your hard work in detail, the things they especially liked, what they are looking forward to etc.

Domagoj Kurmaic

Definitely. One of the things that really motivated me back when I was writing MoL was reading all the discussions and speculations about the plot. That took a while to get going, but once it did it eventually become a regular occurrence it was great.