Hello everyone!
Thank you for reading my first ever novel and giving it a chance, I hope you find it entertaining.
I've been reading web novels for a while now and I truly have been sent down the rabbit hole and so I thought I'd try my own go at writing one simply because I am bored.
This book is something I have been thinking about for a while now and I am going to write it according to how I want it to be.
I am writing Vampire Cultivation Odyssey as an epic and very long novel.
I don't want this to be another cliche cultivation novel, I don't want things like the main character being in a race against time to stop the end of the universe.
When I read cultivation novels I always get annoyed when the MC arrives just in time to save someone, or he just so happens to make it on time for the 'once in a year alchemy exam', or the 'once in a century secret realm opening'.
Also, a lot of these novels have the main character constantly surrounded by chaos and utter bedlam, they are either always being chased by immensely powerful beings or having to fight a thousand people at once because he just so happened to coincidentally bump into some young master and he took offense which begins a sequence of crazy shenanigans.
That stuff really does bug me. So rest assured, there won't be constant young masters, he won't randomly bump into the city lord's third son and set off a chain reaction that ends in an emperor of a random empire mobilising the entire nation's army to hunt down the MC.
I have everything planned out in terms of systems regarding cultivation, magic, alchemy, etc etc etc. I also have all the lore and general plotline as well.
The scale is going to enermous, there are going to loads of different races (beasts, humans, elves, dwarves, demons, devils, titans, undead, eldritches, vampires, werewolves, aliens, AI, angels, spirit races, the classic goblins and orcs, etc etc etc, if you can think of it then they will most likely show up in the novel at some point), different power systems (ie magic and cultivation), different layers to the cosmos, e.g. lower universes, upper universes, grand universes and supreme universes.
I want there to be action, adventure, romance, slice of life, horror, tragedy and the such.
Oh, and there is also going to be harem. I know a lot of people really do not like it because a lot of writers do the genre poorly and it most of the time devolves into picking up girls like collectables. I want to avoid that at all costs. However, I believe a harem will be a necessity just due to the fact that the MC will be going around having adventures and attracting the ladies.
The harem I've planned for has a maximum of 4 women as I think thats the furthest I can push it with the story and MC's personality which will be changing across the story. Might change, might not.
In terms of writing smut chapters? I have no idea. Do people who read harem stories consider this an absolute must? I might write it but then again I might not, I mean... what if my family finds out about this in the future and reads it? What if I (somehow) get a girlfriend in the future? Ehh... If the people demand it, I will write it. If the people don't really care about it, then I will probably just hint at it vaguely and skip it.
I suppose all the R-18 stuff will mainly come from the violence and the world the MC is seeing, so there will be stuff such as slavery, torture, s*xual assault. All the stuff you would expect from a cultivation world, a world where the strong really do eat the weak.
Want to cite the Geneva Convention to the arrogant young master? He won't care, he'll just order his guards to kill you without even leaving you with an intact corpse!
Mentioning human rights? Truly courting death!
(Don't worry though I'm not going to write edgy and horrific stuff just for the sake of it. When it comes up it will be needed in the story in order to fit the ideas I am trying to present.)
Another thing I want to be different compared to a lot of western novels is the inclusion of the passage of time. Cultivators get to have enermous lifespans and I want to utilise that. I don't want the entire story to exist within a 10 year time frame. This allows for a lot of calmer moments where the MC can go through his slice of life moments, he can be with his beauties, raise his children, go explore and learn new things, perhaps even create his own clan and raise it and be like a patriarch. (I don't know, I am nowhere near close to writing this stuff yet, its just a general idea).
I don't want there to be any sort of ticking time bomb that rushes the story along, of course there will be moments where the MC is under great pressure and must win a fight. However, these moments will mostly be isolated to the MC's circumstances. I want the scale of the world, the cosmos to be large and something the readers can get lost in, but I don't want the MC fighting gods or anything... at least not anytime soon and certainly not directly.
Oh, and disclaimer: the main character of this novel, Viktor Harrow, will not be a murderous psychopath right off the bat, in fact he won't be anything like that for a while. He's going to grow up as a normal boy on Earth with a loving family, so concepts like murder and death are going to be traumatising to someone as mentally stable and naive as him.
However, he will change significantly over the course of the story.
And there is going to be quite a bit of swearing at the start but in my defence the characters who do that are teenagers so I believe it is appropriate behaviour for their age. However, rest assured I am not trying to be edgy or anything like that, because as the characters grow and get older they will certainly curse much less.
In truth, the characters are my priority for this. I want them to be seen as actual people with their own issues and quirks going for them. The characters will drive the plot forward, not the action or some idea I want to shove in. Everything has to be organic and make sense.
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Btw:
First volume will be information heavy and 'slower' because its going to be the foundation for the whole thing. So characters, rules and cultivation will all be established here clearly