Chapter 251 – Completion Review
This novel began serialization on July 11, 2021, so 1 year and 11 months have already passed.
After writing this to completion, I am deeply moved in many ways.
With this, my fourth completed work became ‘Bubbed by the Demon King Just before the Ending’.
This novel is a work with many twists and turns.
After finishing my first short story on Kakao, there was a time when I was struggling in a slump for almost half a year because I couldn’t write a new work.
I guess I have some strange jinx, but the works I wrote after thinking about for a long time almost ended up failing.
I think it’s probably because there are so many things I want to do, so I’m trying to put all of my miscellaneous ideas into one work.
During the slump period, I studied about three works, and when I was thinking about the fourth work, I remembered the development of episode 1 of Buying the Demon King, so I just scribbled it out.
But it worked again?
So from then on, I started writing with a light heart.
Since I had just moved to Nobelpia and was starting from scratch, it was fun to build up a story each day, so I wrote every day, conceiving a story without noticing the passage of time.
After publishing the series for about three months, a turning point came for me.
That was the 1st Universe’s Strongest Contest.
Actually, up until this point, I had no intention of participating.
I’ve been having fun writing this for a while, and because I’m slow at writing, I didn’t have the confidence to serialize two works at the same time.
So, I wasn’t even thinking about participating, but an idea suddenly occurred to me, and ‘Molubingui’, which I wrote as a simple study, suddenly gained a lot of views and became the dark horse of the contest.
It was not the intended result at all.
At first, I thought the bubble would subside quickly, but the popularity of the work increased as time went on, and at this point, I guess I could really think about winning an award, right? When this thought occurred to me, I was at a crossroads of choice.
Will I finish Buying the Demon King with the completion of Part 1, or will I continue with it even if the serial speed slows down?
In fact, at the time, I was more interested in buying the demon lord than in possessing Molu, so I couldn’t give up easily.
So, for about a month, I continued my forced march by writing two articles every day, or three if I continued to participate.
Because I had a job, I could only write freely after work, but because of the contest, I couldn’t rest even after going home, so I experienced in real time what it means to say that my health deteriorates rapidly.
I thought this was going to be a really big problem, so I took a hiatus from Buying the Demon King for a week and published only Molu Possession in the last week of the contest.
And from this point on, the serialization of Demon King Purchase began to slow down in earnest.
I don’t know if I would have continued to serialize it without taking a break, but I thought I would survive writing two or three episodes a day and reducing it to one episode.
Since my body remembered comfort, I couldn’t go back to how it was before.
Originally, I used to write at least 5 articles a week, but as the frequency gradually increased, I ended up writing almost 1 article a week.
To be honest, it was a series cycle where it wouldn’t be strange to hear that the previous work was abandoned because the sequel was doing so well.
But the more I tried, the more I couldn’t give up.
I felt like if I let go like this, I would never be able to write this work again.
Like that for 1 year and 11 months.
A work that should have been completed a long time ago was finally completed today.
By the time Part 1 was finished, I had already written the entire synopsis for Part 2, so to be honest, I hardly ever thought about future developments when serializing Part 2.
In a way, the story I wanted to write about Buying the Demon Lord was already expressed in the main story.
If there’s just one thing that’s disappointing, is that the weight of Septentrion, which was the main culprit of the power inflation, became air in the second half?
Anyway, I would like to thank the 200 or so readers who have been with me in real time so far, and I will leave now.
It was a short story if it was long, but thank you very much for reading up to this point.
I hope to see you again in another work next time.
