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I already posted something like this on Discord, so if you've already answered there, feel free to ignore this. I'm about to start outlining books 11 and 12 of Path of Dragons, and I'm compiling notes right now. So, I thought it'd be a good time to ask you all a couple of questions. Look at this kind of like a focus group. It's your opportunity to remind me of things I might have forgotten or to subtly guide the details of the story. So, here are the questions:

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward?

What has been your favorite book so far?

What has been your favorite moment so far?

What has been your least favorite book so far?

Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward?

Feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you'd like. I'm just looking for feedback on what's working, what isn't, and what you all would most like to see going forward. Thanks!

Comments

Namurtjones

I would love to see him take more interest in the growth and expansion of his grove. I feel like it is such an untapped well of potential strength and refuge for him, Ironshore, and his allies. I also want to see him fuck up Seattle. I cannot imagine him not finding out who sent an assassin after him. His vengeance should be terrible and swift!

Cmndprmpt

My only complaint is that Sadie's POV chapters feel a little bland compared to the others

zGravitys PSN

The empire of scale is what im craving to learn more about. All of the stuff with dragons has been really awesome tbh. I really like how much his forms change in relation to dragons and the nature aspect kinda fusing in some ways! I do agree that the primal realms get a little monotone sometimes but i love when you add intersting characters in the primal realms that add more story to it.

Brian Hoggatt

Primal Realms have been good, the Trial of Primalcy on the other hand dragged on for too long. The parts of the story I enjoy are the progression as he advances in levels and cultivation and how that changes how he fights or interacts with the world. Elijah will obviously need to deal with Seattle and the assassin but don't fall into the trap of having this be a recurring theme where people get scared/greedy and decide to antagonize the MC (we've already seen it a couple times). Not trashing other stories but just as an example I stopped reading Unintended Cultivator because it reached a point where it felt like there were four straight arcs of MC dealing with greedy/ambitious nobles and having to kill them all and nobody ever learning their lesson.

Lucas Tristram

I’d love to see more of Miguel and the grove with understanding and coming to terms with what it means for when Elijah leaves for the empire of scale speaking of I’d love to see more of kirlissa and the other dragons

TheCrazyDuck

I like seeing Elijah interact with others near his own level and form bonds with them, my favorite moments of the books are probably the cultivation breakthroughs amd how Elijah goes about them. Something that I want to see less of is people on earth trying to kill/interfere with Elijah (at this point they should know that they need to focus on not getting exised) because they are scared of him.

Laszlo Katai

I'm courius to see what will happen when Earth is fully integrated. What will change? Also, the dragon empire story part but I know Elijah can't go there until Earth is saved from exile. I like how you do the character development, from human to dragon, how Elijah stragglers with his humanity slowly taken over by his dragonic nature. I am looking forward to see what will happen with his relationship... How he will handle Seattle when he find out who is behind the assassination attempt. Sure.I.like his spell evolutions, how he picks one from the 3 options. Not much I can think of that I don't like.

Nemanja Milosevic

I would very like to see Elijah transform to full dragon(thats probaly in far, far...distant future) as well to more explore his dragonic side. Kirrilisas daughter. How will progress his relations ship with Sadie. Revenge against Seatle or its leadership, brutal and visceral. Fully integrated Earth. Empire of Scale.

Sharinel

Advancing the main story rather than try to do a 100% completion run on the side quests

Harshdeep singh

I would love to see more of Elijah Dragon heritage and how dragon function as a society generally more about them. I want dragons to be allies if it's possible and not the villainous types, as their already more than enough of them in the other stories. Also his adventure of him interacting with other speices and guardians(like for exmeple the Bigfoot like giant that was close to the river or other elves, etc...)

Reid Palmquist

The deliberate and meaningful pace of character development has been good. For a 'numbers go up' story like this, it's about the journey by necessity and seeing how someone grows into their power is often the more interesting component than the action scenes themselves though ymmv. For myself, I want to see more in the veins of: What is the price of power, what does Elijah do with it, how does he interact with others through the lens of who he's becoming. You already do a great job of this but there are some very interesting upcoming opportunities that I hope will get fleshed out. What will be his reaction to Seattle's assassination attempt in the light of what he realized following this assassination attempt? How will he react to Lucy's (if I'm remembering his ex's name right) involvement? Even if she voted against it, she still fell in with Seattle for example. How will he interact with the Dark Elves' society, how will he ensure his groves' stability when he leaves earth, how will leaving impact his relationships, etc. Definitely a lot to look forward to in that vein and the more depth to it the better imho. A friend who also reads this has been a bit put off by this latest book's pacing and it has been slower but the latest chapter's introspection was a pretty good crystallization of his recent realizations and path towards advancing his mind cultivation (which I really love the structure of - imagine actually having, and dealing with, trauma as a story hero) and if the payoff of other slower paced sections lives up to the same then it should be good. The main thing I'd say in criticism is it's starting to feel like outside of 'X side character did it instead and here's a few POV chapters' Elijah is going to be going through each realm. I think that's not ideal. The realms are cool but ultimately this isn't, at least in my view but you're the author, a dungeon delve story. The first was interesting, the second had good psychological tension, but per the above comment the third was a bit of a slog. I think seeing how others deal with the repurcussions of taking out a realm will be more interesting. I.e. what does it do to the forces involved, if they do conquer it what do they attempt with the rewards, is it possible that they do a 'deal with a devil' scenario and let part of it out in exchange for the 'conquest'. There's a lot of adjacent potential vs yet another dive miniarc. Hollow Depths for example I hope to be much more focused on interactions with the Dark Elves' and the ramifications of their situation and 'all in' on Earth for example than 'and Elijah channelled plague and killed a lot of enemies but there were even more'. Also still looking forward to the potential 'uncanny valley / horror / trauma's of Elijah encountering whatever the system does with the remnants of his sister's soul since she did die in a tower if that's a route you go down. Overall though I'm obviously a patron. I think your story's great. Keep doing you, you're the author after all.

Telltales

I don’t think the multiple POV format is sustainable in the long run if you are planning to take Elijah all the way to Trancendence. After the Primal Realm ark I would have like to see a 1) short Earth civ-building ark with a world map and some grove growth, and a 2) departure to empire of scales + split of main heroes and 3) a major time jump, maybe ha

Tragic Hysteria

Honestly Elijah's probably got the highest rarity class on the planet, certainly has the highest cultivation by far on the planet, almost certainly has the highest level on the planet, has one of the highest quality weapons on the planet, has some of the most combat experience, and has an advanced dragon core. Given all of that can we please stop pretending that anyone or anything below level 150 and full cultivation stage 2 would even take a thought for Elijah to slaughter? Realistically even just going by the implied stat differences 99% of the beings on earth should be insects to Elijah and yet we constantly get descriptive texts saying his weapon got stuck in some scrub enemies bone or some random enemy somehow survived incinerate no matter if it was a 25 charge, honestly slaughtering these people should be mostly an afterthought, him having any difficulty at all should be genuinely surprising to him and us. Just with every time I read it it seems contrived and unrealistic considering everything I know about Elijah and this story/world.

Charles Simon

I love the story and you put a lot of thought into giving even the villains justifiable motivations. I also really enjoy the POV that give context by people being awed by the mc’s achievements (yes I know it’s cheesy but you are great at making it feel earned). I also find it interesting where the dragon core makes the mc act less human without realising it (more proud, quicker to anger, etc). The one point I don’t think quite makes sense is how relentlessly negative most humans seem to react to the mc - eg people whose town he has just saved from apocalypse not trusting him. I appreciate he needs challenges to make the story interesting but I find the continuous negativity (at heaven’s bastion, the summit and now here) a little unbalanced as you would assume at least some people would react the other way. Love the story overall though and it’s a very small point!

PWeygandt

I would love to know what else is out there in the universe. We have heard of the Empire of Scale (which i am super excited to learn more about) but thats kinda it? Like we know there are other super important factions and groups in the universe but we havnt really heard of them. Angels and Demons seem to just ✨️exist✨️ At least, I have no memory of what they do in thw universe aside from knowing their are groups of them out there

PWeygandt

It just feels like a couple of others have their elder cores but other then that, there is nothing that seems important

James

I don’t have a massive number of thoughts, but my favourite moments so far are Elijah’s adventures where he is challenged and forced to advance, and I’m hoping him going to the Empire of Scale is not something that happens 100’s of chapters in the future but relatively soon, as I think him constantly being the most powerful person in the room will start to get stale if nothing changes.

Cesidio Alba Drago

Yeah like what other kind of cores exist and what are their influence on the people

Cesidio Alba Drago

I love how through different POV's Elijah actions look more grand and impresive

PWeygandt

Exactly. We know that other people are progressing and have made their own cores but... for a Core mechanic that is one of the primary paths to power in this universe, why is it that the only cores that are important and that are talked about (barely) are the elder cores? Oscar is the second strongest person on Earth and all we know about his core is that the stage its at is Hunter. What kind is it? How does that effect him etc.

CJB

Personally, I am very much looking forward to the Empire of Scale, and frankly am kind of curious as to how Elijah stacks up to others of his kind. I don't particularly have any favorite books, as I have enjoyed reading them all. Though book 7 tended to drag on in places (pun intended) I still felt it was executed well. As for favorite moments, its mostly the action scenes where Elijah is tearing shit up. From the razing of Valeria to him effectively 1v100,000ing an army of elves (moral implications not withstanding). I would prefer to see more Elijah POVs, though that is not to say that I haven't enjoyed the other POVs. I am just saying I would balance it a little more heavily towards Elijah. As for things to avoid in the future? Nothing you aren't already avoiding as far as I can tell (e.g. politics).

Cesidio Alba Drago

I would love to see a Nerethus POV and how he can see Elijahs influence on the grove (more level he has the stronger the grove becomes)

Cesidio Alba Drago

I love all of Elijahs monster forms, i hope he can get one to go through earth (earth dragon/mole hybrid, and it would be called the shape of ground/earth)

Chris Kennelly

Deal with your trauma and get your head on straight boy! In all honesty I want to see Elijah deal with his slowly eroding humanity and morality. It's super interesting and I think there is a lot there

Cesidio Alba Drago

I dont understand why he is going to go to help Benedict fight his primal relm it's a bit annoying how he wont be there for his friends and family against the trolls. I mean arent they more important than helping Benedict with his problems. I hope no one dies because of it or that they start resenting him for it.

Alex Kagan

I found it strange that two outworld Elf races were so unprepared for the realities that faced them. They ostensibly came from much older civilizations who had experience with moving to new planets. Even if information might be expensive to get on Earth's branch network, they should have had cheap access to nearly all information on their homeworlds. We've seen that it's fairly easy to level up fast on Earth so even starting at level 25 should have allowed them to jumpstart their attempt at immigration. The Sea elves should not have been caught with their pants down by those pirates. They were part of a relatively large grove on their home world that should have been able to adequately prepare them for the realities of a newly integrated world. My second thought is that I want to meet more sponsored people, and meet more sponsors in general. We've seen Angels, Devils, Dragons, Mechaniques and I just want to see more.

Communitygis

The trial of Primacy was my least favorite. It was a slog that never seemed to end. Since then the Primal Realms have been great.

TreeReader

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? Well for me it's building up the grove with recruitment and everytime he comes back having more people ready to join and or the grove growing again. Maby even Linkin to another grove in the future. Would love seeing elijah taking out more primal realms and advancing his cultivation in them. Djinn seems ideal for mind and thencore after What has been your favorite book so far? What has been your favorite moment so far? Elijah yelling war elves that he infected fucking laughed so loud at that one 🤣 What has been your least favorite book so far? Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward. Elijah having a ton of difficulty against single opponents way below him

Stregone

I truly love the depth of character progression and pace of the story thus far. I feel authors too often skip over the small but formative moments in favor of pushing plot, so please don't feel the need to speed things up too much. That did there are a couple writing directions you might want to consider exploring: 1. MC being OP compared to the rest of the world. I know Elijah is the focus of the story and his growth is pretty much set to take him to the empire of scale, but I would like to see other characters start benefitting from their own growth arcs. You may already have plans for this, but I feel the story needs to start building up other characters capacities for when elijah is leaving earth. These last few chapters have started laying a groundwork for how other characters are catching up in various regards and it would be nice to see that justified more in the story. Like to date Oscar's team up in the PR was such a well crafted piece. I would love to see more characters team up and/or work to do more meaningful things without Elijah. 2. World building POVs. I love how you crafted a complex global society and would really love to see more vignettes updating us on world progression is going. Like perhaps these could function parallel to the main story. I can only imagine how many interesting things are happening that don't tie back to Elijah. Seeing how the world keeps adapting and growing in the places previously visited, would be awesome. Maybe there is like an entertainer class who will be important later on who just is collecting stories, idk I just can see that the story is getting to large to head back to all the areas and it would be nice to see how the world adapts and overcomes. 3. Hawaii. Ok I'm biased but I feel like there is a lot of plot potential here for Elijah and the PR story. Like the angel PR is in the ocean, well what better staging area than a remote island chain in the middle of raging waters? Entertainer class with hula battle support build (old ex GF) would be a nice element to add to the story. There is a lot of potential here and would love to see how you navigate it all. Temporarily in a Spanish time zone and my brain is to foggy to remember the rest so I'll add more later if I think of any! 4. 2.

Cesidio Alba Drago

The cultivation system is amaizing i love how it becomes more unique the higher it is, my mind was blown when Sadie cultivated her mind and how difrent and similar it was from Elijahs. I hope to see how others go through cultivation and how it's difrent from Elijahs and how difrent methods influence them (for instance Carmen gives of heat because of the way she cultivated the body of wood, what did Elijah and Miguel get from their method, more vitality ore something else) and of course I can't wait for Elijah cultivates his mind and core soon and how it will afect his looks and form, he said he was close so many times it's torture to wait.

TreeReader

This would be fun haha maby a recap of his experiences with elijah as a flashback/interlude type chapter haha

TreeReader

Yeah think probably 2 more books before that tho I am excited for kirilssi to give him a motherly huh then give him some crazy training lol

Collector of Stories

I’m really looking forward to learning more about the multiverse and Elijah’s time at the Empire of Scale. My favorite time was Elijah exploring the world and world-building. My least favorite was the trial of primacy. Note it’s didn’t detract from the series and I still love what you have created! Looking forward to what’s next.

DrDankness

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? Tbh too many to count: Progression to becoming a dragon and entering the Empire of scales. The stories of the other remaining Elder races. The progression of Miguel, Kurik, Isaak and Carmen now that they are in the PR. And what happened so far with the other druids in the world. Are all of them eventually going to get connected somehow though their dolmens? Oh and the biggest one is if he goes into the Djinn domain what happens to his ability to manipulate ethera and will it impact his mantle. What has been your favorite book/moments so far? Idk if I can say favorite books so much as mention favorite moments and the build up to them. The big three was the "penace walk" after destroying Easton. The kamikaze lightning rush + "boar king shield" combo right into the chest of the final Trial of Primacy boss. The "incident" where he arrives on his island to see Nerthus severely injured and surrounded by Pirates. The more unique cultivation chapters are ALL amazing. What has been your least favorite book so far? Again hard to pin down a least favorite book so much as some minor parts of the story where I felt frustrated. One of them is Elijah not really going out to look for his sister until much later. I believe he neglected even thinking about her properly until Carmen outright informs him. It took him too long (imo) to realize he needed to focus. Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward? Avoid? Hmmm I think having good moments and bad make a story better balanced (even if I don't personally like some of those). I only really think something is bad if it goes against the expectations of the world or breaks continuity or skips something important. Perfect example of this is Benedict. I really don't like him but I think he is a great character to have in the story because he is a foil to Elijah. A flawed and very damaged person who also is low key a parody of edgelord MCs that populate the genre as a whole. The book is better for having him in it even if I don't like him all that much. (I only value his PoV for the info it provides or for the conversations it strikes up). I will admit that I personally would avoid a repeat of Alyssa. I think she was valuable for setting the stage for the story as a whole and I understand why you did it but I do think it hurt a bit too much especially considering she makes up a solid amount of the pov of book 1. People were still sad about Dat because of his presence within three books and we didn't need nearly as many chapters of his PoV to accomplish this.

TreeReader

Yeah trial was a bit long lol

Babtain

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? Elijah dealing with Seattle finally probably is what I'm looking for the most at the moment. That and him leaving Earth to the Empire of Scales. What has been your favorite book so far? I don't think of the story in terms of books but in terms of arcs. The favorite arc for me was when Elijah took revenge for the murder of his sister. What has been your favorite moment so far? Probably when Elijah dealt with the pirates. What has been your least favorite book so far? Again thinking of arcs not books, my least favorite one was when Elijah went to Hong Kong. I thought he was too submissive to Sadie's grandfather and brother. For example keeping quiet when her grandfather was rude to him when they first met. Not like a dragon at all. Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward? I think we saw enough of the difficulties of the primal realms with only the troll one should be mentioned with any details with all the buildup it had so far. The rest I think should be done off screen or with little detail as possible as I would like the story to head in a new direction, off planet for example.

TreeReader

I could see why just them are known as the other elder races have not been visited on too much lol. But yeah super excited to see how they deal with everyone

TreeReader

Yeah now that he's been absolutely destroying people been enjoying that lol.

Baconwargod

His cultivation breakthroughs and major level ups tend to be very good. Have really enjoyed Elijiah swinging his dick around more. It’s nice to see the strongest man in the world acting like it while negotiating

thomas johnson

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? I am looking forward to the elves guiding the grove and expanding it, with Elijah having another instance of a shape that incorporates multiple skills, similar to his guardian form. Other characters are being given power on par. Miguel's spell list and a character sheet. A chapter on Ramik about his class and advancement and how he uses his powers as a mayor. Seeing the other elder races, such as the Gnome/ earth priest, meddle with the other worlders. A lot of focus is on the world right now, but people are forgetting the other outside universes at play. The only ones I reference it is the offworlders. Does the rest of the world know about the multiverse? What has been your favorite book so far? My favorite book was when Elijah was in the trial of primacy; I loved how the town served as a hub, and Elijah and his team would venture out to capture moments. I also loved the auction as it truly showed how humanity was supporting one another in their endeavors, and there were other powers besides our druid. What has been your favorite moment so far? My favorite moment was seeing Elijah emerge from the Void Beast during the trial of primacy. Lamar and the other reactions, as well as his spells and beast form, all connected to create a creature that is both terrifying and beautiful. What has been your least favorite book so far? My least favorite book was a tie between Carmen tracking with the group and how they struggled, and of course, Dat's death, which felt like a useless death and undermined, in my opinion, Dat's intelligence. I would have preferred him to die at the hands of the boss monster, and for Nico to try to save him. Not because he liked it, but because he was needed. Honestly, if it weren't for how much I love the previous story, I would have dropped the story completely. The death was okay, just how it was handled was not. Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward? Don't forget the RPG elements, such as quests and the evolution quest, which were present from the beginning. It seems Elijah gains abilities, and he has no competition, even if it's himself. Like to evolve the shape of the scourge, he has to eat another monster or kill 10 creatures with only poison who have ascended, or something.

Kevin

I think it would be interesting to see if elijah can improve in handling his "public relations." As it is right now his enemies lie about him with out any real push back from elijah and it seems to get him in more trouble either physically, politically, or emotionally when people test him and his power. Later, the narrative is spun against him and many see him as an uncontrolled feral animal ready to explode at any moment for his not entirely unwarranted responses to certain events. I also would have hoped to see elijah in the troll's primal realm with the rest but that seems unnecessary in terms of the power they are already fielding and the narrative appears to have elijah entering the djinn primal realm instead. Though, the troll primal realm's entrance seems to be significantly harder to find than the other PRs we've seen, especially for individuals lacking elijahs skillset. So maybe it will take a while for them to find the troll primal realm entrance, allowing elijah to complete the djinn realm and make it in time for the troll realm? Likely just wishful thinking on my part. I think the most interesting plot point to explore Gunnar and who hired him, as well as seeing inevitable elijahs response. Elijah is on track to be far and well away in power from everyone else on the planet by the time the current main plot points are done. He is already (very likely) the only level 200+, he already has a powerful grove and likely will gain atleast a few official members of the grove, he will have made some further progress from the djinn realm and, just as importantly, have improved his use of ethera from what he learns in the realm, he is directly tied to the other 2 most powerful individuals on the planet with strong political ties to Ironshore and Argos (and the consortium that sells his soap). The sand elves who effectively supply Seattles water are more loyal to elijah than isaiah iirc. Im excited to see the culmination of all of this. Elijah has almost stumbled into a position of great political power to augment his already peerless cultivation and level progression. How will he handle it, if at all?

Galenorla

I feel like the world seems too small. There should be more factions and cities vying for control/power, or at least we should hear more about them (even if it's just a throwaway paragraph every now and then). So far, we have only been introduced to each power bloc as they become relevant to the story, making it feel like they don't exist until Elijah encounters them. Having more going on in the background would help to feel like the whole world doesn't revolve around Elijah.

Galenorla

I'm surprised there aren't more groups trying to get into some sort of supply/trade deal with Elijah. He is in possession of the greatest source of cultivation resources in the world, and there's no way people don't know about it. I know his reputation scares most people away. But surely, out of how many billions of people on earth, there's at least a dozen factions brave/desperate enough to reach out. It seems silly that he just keeps expanding his horde without trading (maybe that's due to his dragon nature though?). I'm sure that others have found things that are useful to him, not every new addition to the grove has to be won by conquest.

DeadSlime

Plot going forward: Origins of Elder races, What other powers are doing to defeat primal Realm, training arc for Elijah for weapon, Elijah dealing with a situation where his instincts lead him astray Favourite Book: Not sure but probably the one in the undead Primal Realm because it gave us interesting perspectives and interaction between lots of characters as well as good foreshadowing. RIP Dat Favourite moment: Probably when the conversations Elijah has with people who don’t know him. As well as his conversations with Klirissa. Least favourite book: One where Elijah is in the Chimera Forge especially during the middle where the fights get repetitive and we learn relatively little about the Chimera or the people in the realm. But the start and end of the book were good, just didn’t like the repetitiveness of the fights and how there were few interaction between characters. Thing I’d want to avoid: Just fighting without any other interactions or Elijah discovering more lore. So, less continuous fighting without any thing else interesting being discovered or interactions occurring. Extra: I think a chapter from a child or regular person on Earth would give an interesting perspective on how the common person view the powerful figures. Maybe a child from Ironshore or a regular adventurer.

Lachoneus

I want Elijah to get horns. So far all his changes have been minor or able to be hidden. Also Sadie and Benedict need some angelic/demonic characteristics

JSC

I’ve enjoyed everything so far and I realize it’s a story about the apocalypse / connection to the World Tree, but I would like to see a little more world building, background of the races and maybe a few cases of other people working together instead of everyone having an ulterior motive.

Lachoneus

Also you need to kill off characters. I know it sucks because we get emotionally invested in characters, but it's good story writing.

Lachoneus

You need a villain/rival. Right now Elijah only really struggles with primal reasons, but he doesn't really have any rivals.

Lachoneus

I want Elijah to hard counter a primal realm. Somewhere where his skills directly counter the realm. For example, his spore skill/insect swarm skill could overcome the trolls regeneration so he just stands there and clears it with no effort. Or he realized he can cultivate with the djinn, so he goes full ravener on the djinn.

Flakes

I didn't read most of that book where he went off planet to the challenge place

Ali Sha

I am really enjoying the Primal Realms and am most looking forward to the dragon realm. Other than that I’m excited to see Elijah get off world after they are all conquered. I am thinking him and Sadie are going to have to break up. He’s not reliable enough for her and she really needs that stability after basically losing her family, home, and BFF. And Elijah either needs someone who has more of his sense of adventure and wonder or someone who’s content to be a stay at grove wife. What I most don’t want to see is Elijah get bogged down by earth politics after the PR. There is always going to be some threat or big bad and he could get stuck there forever.

Ali Sha

Some of my favourite moments are just of third party perspectives of Elijah pulling some ridiculous OP stunt.

BelligerentGnu

Plot points: - UNDEAD ALYSSA. That Chekov's Rifle has been hanging for a ridiculously long time. - Earth getting its act together and connecting with the universe. - More friends and nature community. Oscar, Sadie, Nara, these are high points in the story. Grove building, in Nara's sense of the word and not in the sense of adding things like hot tubs / another plant. - The end of Robot Seattle - Sadie kicking an angel's ass. Favourite book: Really hard to say, my reaction to any given arc in this series varies wildly. In general, I've most liked seeing goofy Elijah wandering around, meeting interesting people in interesting places, making friends and smiting people when smiting is needed. Favorite moments: Sadie's mind cultivation personality shift. Oscar and Elijah, nature bros. Proud mom Kirlissa. Least favorite things: Character death has not been well handled. Both Alyssa and Dat felt like they were killed off as a shortcut to create tension - and *because* it felt like a shortcut, tension was not created. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer terms, the deaths so far have felt like Tara dying, not Joyce dying. Also, I'd really live if you cut back on the grind fest arcs. One every so often is fine, but the proving grounds into nine damn primal realms is *way* too much. I want more character interactions and less endless waves of monsters.

Connor McKinley

-What things do you want to see avoided going forwards? I don’t read all the comments on every chapter so I don’t know if you have already received this piece of feedback a million times, but just in case you haven’t heard it before, here’s my take: I think the most consistently iffy chapters in the entire story are the “Elijah goes off and kills an army of brainless monsters by himself” TM sorts of chapters. We see these fairly often in this story when Elijah is in primal realms or dungeons or when the people around him are either too weak or too weary to help Elijah dispose of a threat, so Elijah takes matters into his own hands. These types of chapters tend to be really boring in any story with an OP protagonist, as we already know that the MC will emerge victorious like 95% of the time, and in the case of the other 5% they’ll typically remedy the loss within the next 5 chapters. This means that chapters where the protagonist just fights the literary equivalent of trash mobs tend to be really low in terms of narrative tension. I think as an author your pretty good at introducing unique elements into chapters like these (new monsters, new places, new magical gimmicks, etc) but the fact you put so much effort into making these chapters readable tells me that you know that they tend to be fundamentally lacking in certain qualities and you need to spice them up to keep people’s interest. And look, I get it, your writing schedule is mind blowingly fast and sometimes that means you’re gonna put out mediocre chapters because you just didn’t have enough time to make them better. In that respect I have no criticisms, I’ve never seen another author pull off long-term daily chapter releases without turning their story into a steaming pile of garbage. That’s saying nothing of the fact that you’re keeping that schedule up for two stories instead of just one, which is fucking ludicrous. (Do you even sleep btw?) So, working under the assumption that it is even humanly possible for you to do a better job with this series than you currently are, my advice is to try to make sure that if Elijah must spend an entire chapter fighting something by himself that the “something” in question either be individually powerful (like the leviathan he hunted down somewhat recently) or intelligent enough to adapt to what Elijah is doing (like the demons from the undead primal realm). Both of these situations mean that the fight will inevitably have some back and forth beyond “Elijah get pushed back, then Elijah figure out weakness, then Elijah win” or the classic “Elijah beat weak enemies, but there so many weak enemy he have hard time”. If the enemy being individually strong or intelligent are both off the table then the final tip would be to give the fight some sort of stakes other than the stakes of Elijah’s survival (‘cause if Elijah dies the story ends and we know that isn’t happening). Elijah could be fighting to protect a location, or obtain something for the grove, or find something interesting, or help someone out, basically any reason other than grinding exp or clearing the way to the next fight will work just fine for keeping people engaged. And if all else fails and you feel like you just can’t make your current chapter all that interesting there’s nothing wrong with taking one singular day off of posting to workshop things or just posting a shorter chapter. In my humble opinion anyone who seriously criticizes your posting schedule or chapter quality probably doesn’t understand exactly how much fucking effort you are currently putting into your work, and giving yourself a bit of a break sometimes -especially in order to give your creative juices some time to recalibrate themselves- would be a totally reasonable and completely deserved recourse. Anyways that’s just my two cents, if there was something that you could tell I clearly didn’t understand about you or your writing style or your story or your goals you have my personal permission to completely ignore this entire comment (because you definitely needed my permission to do so). Absent of anything else, I hope you have a nice day.

thomas johnson

I mean technically the chimera realm is that realm he hard countered it so much that he just brute forced through challenges

Matt

I’m loving the books so far! I’m interested in seeing how the transition to Demi God will go, and Elijah going to the Empire of Scale. Will him and Sadie go the distance? Will the Empire of Scale be more of an academy arc where it’s more Elijah gets knowledge and training and then takes it back with him? So many questions and I’m so excited to read it as it unfolds! Thinking on it, that doesn’t really answer any of your questions. Basically, I just wanted to say thank you for the journey so far and I’m pumped for the journey ahead.

JB

Love the fact that elijah is kinda OP. Every other book i have ever read creates this anxious tension. If im reading this i just feel satisfied 90% of the time.

Jesper Hansen

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? Basebuilding at the grove, expand the world building with more povs from other archtypes(crafters, pure scholars, etc) with system windows. What has been your favorite book so far? The first one I think, if I had to score the series on only the first book it would be an easy 5/5 What has been your favorite moment so far? Probably the exploration where Elijah still wasn't the strongest.. What has been your least favorite book so far? Trial of primacy, no doubt. Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward? Let's go to the multiverse, Elijah have outgrown it. At this point you are forced to pull young masters out of the ether like Gunnar, I thought maybe Thor was one aswell.. But everything about thor actually makes sense, it was the beginning of the story, Elijah hadn't been grinding "main quest" at that point.

3X!3X

The books for me are all blurred into one big story so I’m sorry I can’t really say I have a favorite. However there are highlights that stand out to me probably from each book. Overall I love this story. It truly is my most favorite, my most anticipated follow. When I consider major events one that stands out to me was the ending of the Trial of Primacy when he uses Lightning Rush to hit Yloa hard. In fact despite him feeling a little off being part of a tight knit party… I think Elijah might benefit from finding a balance between going solo and having a bit more support. Secondly, I think that him getting his shit together on his priorities would be pretty satisfying. One thing that stands out for me on Path of Dragons is that nothing has truly ever been easy since the World Tree change. Yet time and again Elijah buckles down and gets done what needs to. Now he knows there is a time crunch with getting the Primal Realms handled… he needs to get his grove structure going. He needs to get his mind cultivation done. He needs to get down to business. (Obviously deal with the sniper) Now that I’m thinking about it a bit harder… maybe an animal bond would help with the loner vibe he tends to get into when he is out exploring… haha. Not sure… I just always see him solving things and not shying away from doing what needs to be done this latest escapade seems more unusual for him than when he has done it in the past because the circumstances are so different. He KNOWS better. Okay. So yeah, to break things down a bit more. I think some focus should be on: Organizing and building the grove. Buckling down and addressing/shoring up known weaknesses as best he can. Getting down to business regarding Primal Realms issue. Solving his imbalance on going solo and having proper support. In whatever order you find appropriate of course… Thanks for the opportunity to voice some ideas/feedback and thank you again for this amazing story overall!

Lux Novels

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? Seeing the Empire of Scale and other multiverse worlds/factions would be great. The whole Seattle conflict, exploring how Isiah's core has messed him up without him realizing, and seeing how Elijah's highschool sweetheart is involved/reacts/bretrays/play into the whole situation and his slaughtering either most of the city or just its leadership (all her coworkers). An invasion from other worlds in the multivers could be fun too but it feels like we already covered that type of plot point with the war elves, the dark elves, the army in the trial of primacy, and likely the upcoming battle between Seattle's and Elijah's factions so that could be fun as a short few chapters but not a whole book. What has been your favorite book so far? I think the stuff around Seattle has been really good. The original split city with no great factions but an okay one that turns bad was a great choice. Summit was interesting. The guild leader killing everyone worked well as did the meet up with the family and his highschool sweetheart. Thor was a little one note but his first fight against another ranker was good and Gunnar is a nice evolution of that conflict with it moving in the right direction of two equally justified but opposed grey characters fighting it out, even though Gunnar and his reasons could better to really make it a gut punch. What has been your least favorite book so far? Trial of Primacy was just a series of challenges after we already did a series of challenges in the towers so it was pretty boring. I skipped some of it so maybe I'm not the best source but it seemed a lot of them were given more time and depth than need. Would have prefered to see just 1 or 2 of the challenges, the immortals fight, and the final fight against the Transcendent. Similar issue with the Primal realms too, had we just had one it would be nice to see everything but with towers, trials, and primal realms it just becomes too much of the same and crowds out other things that would be interesting like the world politics, Seattle conflict, multiverse factions and ties, exploration of unquie areas, and some of the more morally grey situations. Your showing every little adventure rather than jumping between key important events. Don't be afraid to just move past something quickly, Rick and Morty skipped past two main characters spending 17 years in a matrix and just used that as set up for the episode and no one was complaining, it was great. I think a good hypothetical comparison would be Avatar the Last Airbender. You could add an extra 100 episodic adventures to the show and each one alone might be good but overall the blout makes the story worse even if each episode by itself is good. To boil it down, it just seems like too much "on screen time/up time" and not enough use of "downtime" to accelerate the story progression for the better.

Oztharon

Been great so far. The main direction id hope for is elijah embracing his draconic side more and having more fire and mana abilities. Would also prefer more combat and cultivation thoughts as well as outside perspectives on elijah. Tftc 🤙

guillaume nguyen

I'd like to see some spells updating, especially Storm's Fury XDXDXD Learning the Shape of Sky true name would be cool too. Obviously, Elijah going into the Dragon PR is gonna be epic, but doing it last will probably maximise all the training he get from the other PRs. I see a lot of people claiming for Undead Alyssa. I don't know, saving her would be great of course, but having her staying an unreachable goal even after reaching all this power offer a 'nice' touch of realism. You sadly can't always save everyone. You decide. I'd like for Seattle resolution to be peaceful, to show Elijah's growth, but Isaiah is really pushing him. Concerning the Shapes, a shape of the Earth would be nice since he already have mastery over stealth/poison, tank, air, sea and ultra instinct. What would it look like, a snake swimming through Earth maybe ? I also have to agree that dedicating 3 or 4 books more of clearing Primal Realms one at the time mostly alone is bad pacing. I'm not saying I dislike those plots, but he IS already planning his next run with Benedict. By that point I think we understood his strength, and spending so much time inside is disrupting his grove building.

Diarmuid McGinnity

It’d be nice to skip over some of the challenges inside the PRs maybe, for the sake of keeping it fresh and getting them over with quickly

Diarmuid McGinnity

I agree about spending too much time on the upcoming PRs (potentially 3). Showing every minute of each would just seem repetitive. Doing his pov like Sadie’s during the eternal war, if with a bit more screen time could be a good way of doing it. Maybe focus on Nara, nerthus( who I believe we’ve never had a pov chapter for or very few), assorted side characters like Ron. No criticism here, love the books

Huang Ryu

The books for me are all blurred into one big story, so l'm sorry I can't really say I have a favorite. The one thing I love the most about 'Path of dragons' is when Elijah is creating instead of just destroying. I am tired of MC destroying a continent, world, univers, or what else. An MC contributing to the world, however small, creates something that those who come after could benefit from is what I am looking for with your work. Bref you're doing a great job. Keep up and thanks for sharing your world with us. 👍

R. Kevin Silvey

I like that he is ridiculously overpowered. I would hate to see him have an equal powered rival. It would change the whole vibe of the stories. My favorite parts are when he imposes his will. Also, I really enjoy when he makes connections with people and realizes the benefit of friendships.

Matthew

What plot points/events would you most like to see going forward? More on what’s going on in universe. Enjoyed it when we leave earth. Also want to hear Miguel view on the attack on the grove. How he failed Trevor by not being there, or something like that. What has been your favorite book so far? Hard to say probably book 4 when he finally revenged his sister. What has been your favorite moment so far? Killing the evil alchemist. It was satisfying seeing him show the world what he truly capable of, and see someone who underestimated him die. What has been your least favorite book so far? I don’t really have one. I do have least favorite moments though. When he’s in the primal realms. Don’t like how it’s not really the real world. Do like his progression in them though. Is there anything you'd like to see the story avoid going forward? Less primal realms.

MysticalDwat

tldr: shorten primal realms or create them with proactive enemies like issiah or gunnar that you can build up as characters while making conflicts feel less like items on a list. I would like to see less of system challenges, like towers or primal realms, and more challenges from outside the system (like gunnar, the alchemist, Isiah, etc). As of right now, the system challenges feel too static and long. Any conflict in a tower or primal realm isnt proactive to Elijah beyond preset behaviors (and even those feel reactive) and has very little context to care about. Comparing Gunnar to the Elemental Maelstrom, Gunnar is proactive and reactive in confronting Elijah, setting up plans and altering them around what Elijah does, while the bosses of Elemental Maelstrom did nothing until Elijah showed up. Gunnar so has context we care about while the bosses show up for a chapter or two without anything to fully latch onto besides a cool concept. As a consequence, primal realms feel too long since I dont have too much investment in whats happening (along side the stakes being too high long term and short term; cant kill elijah and prob wont end the world) A way to approach Primal Realms that I think works was the one Sadie did. The conflicts are not static and a set of checklist items, there are antagonists and allies you can build up context and kill that the reader can care about (generals, champions, captains, etc), a battle field with allies and positions can create short and long term stakes that matter (a captain in the allied army could die, a mistake costs 100s of loves, etc), and can be long without feeling too long.

James Skinner

Growing up a bit. Taking responsibility. Character development. He needs it before going to the Empire because otherwise he'll get pasted and not understand why.

dovpak

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Fréderic Van Audenhove

I like that each book had enough progression in his cultivation, that it hasn’t stalled for books long to wait for one breaktrough and then wait some books again for a breakthrough. The pace is well done. My only concern is that his ascension to peak ascended and possibly demi-god wil go to fast that his cultivation advantage will become nothing strong when he leaves earth. Don’t waste his potential by having him become a demigod, without a high cultivation base.

Fréderic Van Audenhove

Aside from the pace, I would like for him to delve deeper into his instincts and start guiding them more thoughtfully. Let him accept his humanity, Beastside, Dragonside and guide each part to be used more when necesserary. Now his human side is full of doubt, while his feral side and prise have him doing reckless things. Make him think before he acts as he is being stupid and not much growth has been shown to this side of him.

R. Kevin Silvey

I am tired of Isaiah. I am ready for him to die.

Tom Beaupuy

(Same message that I put on discord) 1- The plot point that i’d like to see more often is when he uses his more classical Druid abilities, like modifying/creating/taking care of plants (because he is more a shapeshifter than an actual Druid most of the time) 2- I think I preferred the first book, because of all the crafting/survival and self-improvement while not always being about fighting monsters (might be because of the pacing of the fights, them being far from each other might have helped) 3- I don’t have one particular moment that I prefer, but I did really enjoy the nuclear sunflower chapters, every time we have a pov of mcs’ grove or abilities or even when he has an improvement session (cultivation, new abilities,…) 4- I believe that the trial of primacy was the “worse” for me, I enjoyed it but it’s really repetitive (maybe too much combat that look like each other 🤷‍♂️) 5- As for things that I’d like to be avoided, repetition would be high on the list (wanderlust while other pov are in crisis, running away from *all* responsibilities, people hating without knowing sh!t about him,…). The combat in tower/trials are particularly too similar (makes an error of jugement/no preparation, break bones, heal, rince and repeat). Another “problem” would be that people tend to see Elijah as a threat to every living being when he is just chilling, and act as if they never had to do something against moral codes to protect themself/their peoples since the touch of the world tree, even more so when they target him even if they know that he is by far the strongest “human” on earth (and that they need him) **yes Isaiah I’m looking at you** 👀

Rachel Fisher

-favorite book is number 1. It made me find where the rest of the story was -least favorite any time their stuck in one place, like the trial and the primal realms. It's more a me thing but it gets boring and I start to see if I can skip -favorite moment book 8 or 9 when he took it to that Seattle guy and the pirates -hope he avoids turning into Ezekiel from your other story. He gets too into his head and isolates himself due to his power...kinda depressing to read. And I'm not sure where your going with Sadie but I'm concerned you pointing out she has no nature affinity. I kinda thought she stay so I'm kinda bummed they'll breakup. (Well that's what I am assuming from the writing) - and I wanna see him with Miguel more. I feel he should be together with him by now and more involved with his training. Thank you