Last Words
Hello! I am the author NotOriginal.
It has been a long or I guess rather short journey here given how I released the chapters. I surprised myself by how long this novel beca.
Anyway.
I first began to write this series on April 12, 2021, and didn't publish until March 8th, 2022. By then I had a massive stockpile of chapters and still do but life and procrastination had slowed my writing. The Covid Pandemic really helped in making more chapters. Ultimately I wanted to finish Westward Cloud and not just leave it abandoned, so I rewrote a majority of the volu to adjust it and to this day I am still editing it. I did it as, like many of you reading it know the feeling of a story being dropped and never having a conclusion. (Look I know I left like a pretty big plot thread remaining!)
There will only be a single plot thread left in the series and I planned on having it be resolved in the sequel, but currently as of writing this it would probably not be completed, but much like Westward Cloud when I do publish it on this site, Scribble Hub, it will more or less will be complete, so when I publish it you guys will know it will be finished and not just never updated like several of series you all probably read and wish they would return.
So stuff about the sequel is that it’s main character will be a shared one of Hakushika, Callisto, Auberon, and Alise. The sequel will also be rather long as I do not wanna just ti skip so much as I did with this final volu so the kids will be growing up as the story progresses. It will also take place right after Quest 386.
So other last thoughts:
Originally volu 4 was not the final volu, it would have at least gone up to 6 volus. By the 5th volu I had grown tired of writing Westward Cloud, or more specially DanMachi. It’s like doing a project you were really interesting and excited to be doing but the more you do it the less fun until it becos no longer becos fun but a chore, a job.
But over ti I have grown to really like Danmachi’s world, I have several ideas I wanna write about but when I began to write about them I thought of ideas for Westward Cloud and then I just begin editing and writing more for the story. Then the stories I was writing were kinda left dead in the water, ready to be revisited one day… probably never to see the light of day. Thus why I am ending it at the 4th volu as it was the end of Cirrus’ story, he was the Westward Cloud.
I kinda do wanna talk about so other stuff such as the last plot thread in the story, the Dungeon Spirits. But before that you have to know that this story is inspired from several other works, more predominantly Heracles and Orion, the Greek heroes, (Orion I guess is a hero from the Greek sense of things apparently?). I thought DanMachi is the prefect place to make a character that follows the story, more or less, of Heracles! Which leads
to sothing else, Cirrus.
To my surprise the stories of Heracles and Orion sh pretty damn well. The other work was Jobless Reincarnation (Mushoku Tensei), I wanted the character to age as the story goes on and I found that to be sothing I enjoyed Jobless Reincarnation for. I don’t wanna get into it with that series, but it did have a influence in how Cirrus progress from a average guy who thought his experience from our modern world were enough to let him keep his moral superiority. I an war and murder? We see that shit everywhere it’s not so scary! That was a surface thought I had but the more I thought on it no one but those who experienced it knows what it is like. I would see before and after pictures of solders and you can see a kind of innocence on their faces but when they ca back it’s replaced with these like dark sunken eyes that have seen horrors that only those who fought by their sides will truly know and get.
I wanted Cirrus to be as much human as I can. From his early experiences and especially after the Kaios Desert he spoke with a lot more profanity, his way to cope a bit. As the story goes on he slowly tones down it as he slowly gets use to the things he’s done. As “justifiable” as one could see it they did not sit well with Cirrus’ modern sensibilities. He knew when he killed his first person it was justifiable to him, the guy was killing other people after all. My other point for him going through this is to separate him a bit more from every other Isekai Protag as his actions brings him closer to the world he is in but further away from who he was before. Like he has burned his bridge and now even if he could return back to his ho world he would be out of place.
He also had the brain of a child so that also compounded the whole experience. (Fun fact, the guy who was Cirrus’ first kill, Briareus was nad after one of the Hecatoncheires of Greek myth.)
So the Dungeon Spirits, I kinda always planned for them to be dealt with by Cirrus' kids as I planned to let Cirrus simply just... die. He doesn't beco a god he just stays in heaven in peace. And as I said before I wanted Cirrus to be as human as I can and what's more human than having so last regrets? But yeah, the Dungeon Spirits will be handled in the sequel.
Sidenote: I wounder if any of you knew that the volus all end at 99 chapters? I know the amount within a volu add up more than 99 but the main numbers chapters are set in the sa way as the leveling in Danmachi, 0-99, 100-199, 200-299, then 300 to 386. I did wish to end the volu at 399 but I thought it fit that since Cirrus or well Elysium now, no longer has a Status and with so stuff that needs to be finished, that the volu doesn’t really reach the next rank.
Extra sidenote: I don't know where to put this but these are so notes I made for the Knights of Elysium.
Spoiler
Elysium granted them powers that fit them well so the levels are just around how strong they are if converted to a Falna. They are inspired from Saint Seiya and they do have a special set of Golden Armor.
Scorpio (Fianna): Grand Spirit of Unpredictable Precision. She is a level 10 in terms of strength.
Aries (Albert Waldstein): Grand Spirit of Flowing Combat. He is a level 10 as well and is the second strongest knight after Scorpio.
Leo (Dim): Grand Spirit of Foolish Bravery. A level 9, his skills are supplented with his bravery.
Virgo (Ryuulu): Spirit King of Sung Tales. A level 3, she is a supporter rather than a fighter.
Pisces (Elmina & Olna): Unique Spirit of Love (Elmina) & War (Olna). Level 2 (Olna) and level 9 (Elmina) these twin spirts work as a pair with Pisces E being the fighter and Pisces O being her support.
Cancer (Garms): Grand Spirit of Defending Assault. A level 8, his talent lays in defense and counters, he is around a level 8 is because he's not particularly fast.
Gemini (Yuri): Grand Spirit of Loyal Onslaught. A level 8, his power cos from his numbers, slashing power, and agility. He makes up from his poor defense's with high evasion.
Capricorn (Evelda): Grand Spirit of Decimating Regeneration. A level 9, forr party mber of Albert, Evelda now Capricorn works as Naraka's right hand, the sa way Proanthos works for Elysium. Underneath Capricorn's mask she bears a striking resemblance to Aisha, due to that resemblance Naraka asked and then made her, her right hand man. She fights like a raging berserker.
Aquarius (■■■■■■): Grand Spirit of Molten Deluge. A level 9, she is still in shall we call it "Character Creation" within Elysium. She does however picked her magic.
There are three open seats left within the Knights and they may or may not have been filled in the sequel.
Libra (REDACTED): Grand Spirit of REDACTED.
Taurus (REDACTED): Unique Spirit of REDACTED.
Sagittarius (REDACTED): Grand Spirit of REDACTED.
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But I uh… I guess that’s about all I kinda wanted to say.
All I have left to say is:
Thank you, everyone! Thank you for reading all the way up to the end of Cirrus’ story! Those who has favorited and comnted or just in general stuck around for this long, thank you guys so much it makes
happy that I made sothing that so many people enjoyed!
Take care, everyone!! I an it from the bottom of my heart! Keep safe and be healthy! I don’t know when or if the sequel will co out but if it gives you so hope for the future as if writing this I have about 101 chapters written, it is undergoing more editing and writing so that number will grow even more.
Okay but seriously see you guys! Farewell! I’m pretty sure we will et again! If you guys have any questions I’ll try and answer them in the comnts!
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