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Bab 155: AZI Volume 3 Afterword

12/22/2022

About 300 pages for this volume as well. Might just make it a standard at this point, shall see.

Some random thoughts and ideas below—

• The Tai Xuan Emperor's vessel will be referred to as Tian Cheng, while her title would be used to refer to her whenever she speaks to Long Hua directly. The alternative would have been to refer to her as "the Tian Cheng within the dreamscape," which is too much of a mouthful.

• I was kind of hesitant to put an actual mech unit/Gundam into the gacha system that the Tai Xuan Emperor made, but then the entire concept of this story is I wanted to try something a bit different from a traditional xianxia. In the end, I decided to just go a bit wild with what can be obtained from the gacha's SSR rarity pool.

• The idea behind the Earthborn Elementals' Realm (the Tai Xuan Emperor's home world) is based off the concept of a highly advanced civilization that is many years ahead of the modern world in technology. Concepts that are commonly seen in video games/2D culture exists in this realm, hence the Tai Xuan Emperor's common sense is a bit different from Long Hua's, who has no exposure to such matters.

• A question that I wanted to answer in the next volume if possible is—why is a Sinner called a Sinner? Why didn't I choose to call them something else? I had very stereotypical options to choose from, but I specifically picked this one out of them all. At first, it was like—do I want to make it sound anymore chunni-like, or did I actually want a logical reason for it. In the end, I wanted a reason for it, and after thinking things through, I think I finally got a good answer.

• The fishing rod, that was supposed to be just a joke, but then as I wrote more, the more it turns out to be a very convenient tool to use in place of an actual sword.

• "Arrow to Her Heart Guaranteed, 100 Pieces of Love Advice," the sunglasses, perfume, can of hair spray, instant ramen, folding fan, etc. all these things are kind of like hints to the sort of lifestyle the Tai Xuan Emperor had led back in the Earthborn Elementals' Realm.

• Earthborn Elementals' Realm, the name itself is kind awkward to say even in Chinese. What elementals refer to isn't spirits or anything like that. It's referring to the minerals and metals that the earth gives birth to.

• The intermission chapter titled, "the Immortal in Red and the Immortal Emperor of Yuling," the character Yu Ji is based off the same character I had written about in my creative writing honor class for my previous semester. It was what the professor called an excerpt, basically a portion of what should have been a complete story. But since the story had a page limit of 35 pages, I could only get a basic idea down. It felt wasteful to just leave it be, so I wanted to incorporate it into this story through a character with the same name. Yu Ji's true gender was already hinted at—at the end of the first volume as well. In this excerpt, the original ending that I planned couldn't have been written out due to page limitations, and it was an ending that cannot really be considered a good ending for the two characters involved.

• Previous two intermissions are meant for something else later down the line.

• Long Hua's Relic, I thought about this a good number of times, but since he isn't someone that is a part of Leng Bing Realm, I asked myself—why would he actually have a Relic? At the same time, the entire concept of what a Relic is in my mind, wouldn't make any sense to apply it onto him. The question of why he has a bar code is hard to answer right now.

• Leng Bing Realm, the name itself translates to Cold Weapon Realm. It doesn't sound very good in English, so I just kept it as is in pinyin.

• Long Hua as a character, it's already been thrown out that he's a selfish person—someone who can sacrifice thousands for personal gains, which I feel like is a very realistic belief to have. That's also to say that he isn't really the sort to be a hero, and I don't think that's something that I want to change about him, yet.

• Final thought, I feel like the story has most of the Leng Bing Realm's settings/rules done with just a few more things to be added. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with this volume. The beginning of it—I was thinking, there's not much happening, other than a few back-and-forth between characters, which I'm not against since I wanted the beginning to be a bit more of a slow burn-in process. At the same time, I also had to throw in the members of the Ashen River Hall, who serve as an antagonistic faction in this volume.


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Bab 156: AZI Volume 4 Prologue – Machina Frame

"Qie, you piece of shit, I needed a magic treasure—that can wipe their faces off this earth, and you ended up sending me a worthless MAU?!"

(Get in the damn Machina Frame, it's more than enough to wipe their faces off this earth!)

Saying this, the Tai Xuan Emperor has her vessel land beside Long Hua.

With connections having been preestablished, the Tai Xuan Emperor controls the Machina Frame—having it shine down a beam of light, that teleports Long Hua and her vessel into its cockpit.

"What the hell is all this?"

Looking around the cockpit, Long Hua has a perfect 360-degree visual of the outside from top-to-bottom, front-to-back, and side-to-side.

In front of Long Hua is the control console. The bottom of this console has two joystick-like pedals—the sort that can be seen on a game controller, while its upper portion consists of two similarly designed levers with numerous buttons occupying their tips.

Behind Long Hua's seat is another control console—that is occupied by the Tai Xuan Emperor's vessel. Much of this console consists of keyboards instead of levers and pedals.

(The upper levers are used to move the frame's arms. Those buttons on the levers are mainly for manipulating its fingers. Lower pedals are used to control its legs. Weapon systems and everything else will be handled by your doll that is seated behind you.)

Just as the Tai Xuan Emperor finishes explaining this, Shao Tianming and Ye Chen remarks—

"A giant robot, is this a joke?"

"Since when the hell did Immortal have MAUs?"

Despite their state of confusion, they nevertheless charge forth with their Relics in hand.

Towards Shao Tianming and Ye Chen's remark, Long Hua wished that he had a comeback.

Their situation is similar to three martial artists of the highest skill level attempting to see which of them is the strongest, however, one of these martial artists—during their fight, decided that times have changed, and one's martial prowess alone isn't enough anymore; hence, they decided to call down a mechanized weapon of war.

(Hurry up, and put your hands and feet on the controls!)

Just as Shao Tianming and Ye Chen appear by the Machina Frame's feet with their weapon lashed outwards to sever its joints—

*Clack! Clack! Clack!* moving the fingers of her vessel across the keyboard, the Tai Xuan Emperor conjures an energy shield to block off the two's attack.

In the same instance, Long Hua—who has decided to go with the flow of the situation, wraps his hands around the control levers, while pushing the pedals below his seat forward.

Immediately, the Machina Frame straightens its legs, and clenches a fist to strike at Shao Tianming.

Raising his halberd over his head—

*Boom!!!* Shao Tianming manages to block the attack, but the weight behind the Machina Frame's strike is still a bit much for him to handle alone, as his legs tremble on the verge of giving way.

Moving in from Shao Tianming's side, Ye Chen swings his greatsword upwards, and—

*Boom!* this strike from Ye Chen—that is reinforced through gravity manipulation, manages to lighten the burden on Shao Tianming, allowing them both to escape from underneath the Machina Frame's fist.

(Any divine arts—you know, can be amplified through the Machina Frame, so use them!)

"How?"

(Just rotate them, and have the frame move like a person would when executing them! The rest will be taken care of by your doll!)

Rotating the Immortal Suppression Palm, Long Hua pushes the lever that controls the Machina Frame's right hand, and with it—

"Uh?!"

"The hell?!"

A colossal dark handprint is shot from the Machina Frame's hand, and blasts towards Shao Tianming and Ye Chen—while leaving a trail of destruction behind in its traversal!

*Boom!!!* Receiving the full brunt of the dark handprint, Shao Tianming and Ye Chen's bodies tremble violently—for the impact of this dark handprint is comparable to being hit by a small mountain!

Just as it would seem like the two won't be able to do anything but to get crushed by the dark handprint—

"Endure!"

The figure of Wang Yongning—in his Partial-Apotheosized state, comes up from behind them.

Together, the three of them managed to puncture a hole through the dark handprint—allowing them to escape from the fate of being crushed into mincemeat.

(Press the buttons at the top of the levers, that will fire off the Slashers!)

Upon Long Hua pressing the top buttons of both levers, the fingers of the Machina Frame shoot outward.

"…"

Licking his lips beneath the helmet, Long Hua imbues these Slashers with his sword Qi, and towards this, the three sinners—

"Not good…!"

"Get down…!"

"…!"

Realizing what is to come, the three Partial-Apotheosized Sinners can't help but turn pale beneath their helmets.

With detailed adjustments done by the Tai Xuan Emperor through her vessel, Long Hua has the Machina Frame rotate its body, and with it—

*…!!!* a blast of wind howls, as the ten Slashers cleaves everything in their path into pieces!

Straightening the Machina Frame's back, and retracting the Slashers—

"…"

Seeing the entirety of his surroundings nearly leveled out—with diced-up portions of numerous buildings littering the streets, Long Hua blinks his eyes.

Heaving a light breath, Long Hua remarks—

"So, this is the feeling of being a filthy pay-to-win player?"

(How does it feel, *-laoban?)

"…"

As much as Long Hua hates to admit to it, it feels surprisingly good.


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