A variety of names and characters were submitted to this volume! Submissions in order of appearance:

Scott Johnson (Patreon-iSotA Ikadars) used in the Side Story Deconstructed Flames and in Fire and Water redria7 (RR Red & Cici) and yuyube (WN) used in A Wife Interrupts Aselo (RR), Fallen_North (WN), and heftybookboy used in In Search of a Broken Curse Len923 (RR) and MadSong (WN Kikiri) used in Heart of the Empire Seviradi (RR Yakim & Auvic) used in Distinctly Nervous mcknowlesey (RR Falling Ash & Sister) used in A Little Thief Punster lv1 (RR MarvelFanSteveRogers & DCFanGreenLantern) used in Hidden Power. jackers (WN) used in Realtors Nimitz (RR) used in The Elder's Challenge TheGam1ngWizard (RR Geld, Reaper, Scar, Music, Frost Pheonix Clan) used in Nabataea Before Jakylorhide (RR Jakyl), menchfrest (RR), and little_tortoise (WN) used in A Wee Bit Of Breaking Roethan (RR Ruxlo) and Scynthea (WN succubus or incubus) used in Living Jade Empire TunnelTy (RR A list of reserve names.)

My health has not been good for much of this volume. A few new problems with my eyes, complications of the neurological condition I suffer (known as Pseudotumor Cerebri or Intracranial Hypertension), and a winter flu followed a month later by a long spring cold. Thus, I'm taking a break between volumes this time.

I hope it will just be for a week, but I'll post an update if that's not enough to recover sufficiently to continue.

Of course, the beginning of this break is when WebNovel staff finally contacted me about contracting the story… To do that it would apparently have to be pulled from all other publication forms, though they were vague and it doesn't say that in the posted documentation. I'd have been ecstatic six months ago. I'd have likely gone ahead with it four months ago. With only one volume left (I think) and while I'm so sick that I'm suspending writing while being completely out of buffer… I just don't have the energy to do it.

I may regret it later that I'm not taking the long awaited opportunity. Hard to say. For now, I'd rather just ask you all to share this story if you're enjoying it.

Thanks for reading. ❤️