When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Thank you for the invitation. It's time to go on sale.

But according to my original outline, this isn't the point to put it on the shelves at all.

At the current pace, it would probably take four to five hundred thousand words to reach the point where it should be on the shelves. That plot point is also the protagonist's highlight.

I initially rushed the plot so tightly so that I could set up this plot point before going on sale.

But I realized at the last minute that I still didn't make it in time. Helpless, I can only learn from Horn and start thinking about how to clean up the mess.

Originally, Danji's changes shouldn't have been so drastic. His dialogue with Madelaine should have happened around the time of the first war with the Church.

But in order to catch up with the progress, I omitted this part.

This caused what should have been half joy and half sorrow to become a mix of joy and sorrow, which is very inconsistent with my original idea.

But since things have come to this, instead of regretting, let's think about how to minimize the losses.

This is also what Horn often does.

Speaking of which, I especially liked adding puns to the names of the characters at the beginning.

I often said that Horn's name actually has a secret.

You may have seen Gjallarhorn in a certain Gundam work.

But its original meaning is Gjallar Horn, which is the tool used by Heimdallr to awaken the gods during the giant invasion.

Jeanne d'Arc is the name of Joan of Arc.

Chilvis is taken from Zola's famous novel *L'Assommoir*, and the heroine, Gervaise, is also a drunkard.

Durdarfer is taken from Molière's play *Tartuffe*. I sometimes accidentally type Durdarfer as Dartuffe, please forgive me.

Madelaine is taken from Hugo's *Les Misérables*, and is Jean Valjean's alias.

Bishop Barney Foss is taken from Anatole France's *Thaïs*, the missionary Barney Foss.

Grin Payne is taken from Hugo's *The Man Who Laughs*, the protagonist Gwynplaine, who is also a clown, and his wife Dea is a blind woman.

Danji Head is taken from *Don Quixote*.

There are many other character puns hidden inside, you can guess who they are.

Back to the main topic.

The story itself is also a layered pile of garbage.

At first, I just wanted to write a story about *God is Dead, the Yellow Emperor Shall Rise*, about the Yellow Turban Army traveling to the Middle Ages to rebel.

But I felt that my writing skills couldn't handle this subject matter for the time being, and this direction was a bit sensitive.

So I changed it to a story of medieval uprising, and the background was prepared to be the Hussite Wars.

Then I felt it was a bit too bland and couldn't be written in the later stages, so it became a magically modified reality, and Joan of Arc was added. After the Hussites, the Thirty Years' War was fought.

Then I found that writing like this was too bland in the early stages, and this part of the information was too vast, so I simply made it a fantasy world.

Then I saw the book *Di Meng Jing Hua*, and wanted to strengthen the early jokes according to the story inside.

Then I thought of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then wrote the story of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom into it.

Then unconsciously this part of the content became absurd, so I simply added more absurd tragicomic elements.

Then I found that there were too many people writing about the technology tree of magic and gunpowder, so I searched and found the concept of clockpunk, and thought it was good, just to replace the normal technology tree.

This story has been iterated like this little by little.

Basically, every time I revise the outline, character settings, and background settings, I will retain a part of the previous ones (because I'm lazy).

Piling up, it formed this story running on bugs.

For example, Joan of Arc was not initially by the protagonist's side. She would lead the Crusaders to attack during the protagonist's Hussite Wars, and then be captured. Her personality was more cheerful and straightforward.

After the iteration of the garbage mountain, she became the current tsundere loser.

Like Carrie's ecological niche was originally Sissi, and Sissi was originally the hostess of the Meggert Trading Company (now Catherine).

After some iteration, Sissi not only lost the position of the heroine, but also became a man.

The editor told me when reviewing the manuscript that the personalities of the male and female protagonists were not very pleasing, and asked me to find a way to change the heroine's.

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I have to say that Canaan is indeed very insightful, and many people were scolding this in the early stage.

But I changed it for a long time, but still couldn't change it, because changing her alone would require changing the personalities and plots of many heroines behind her, and the entire outline would have to be changed.

So, in a sense, this book is also a ramshackle team built on a mountain of garbage.

But now, this ramshackle team is about to be put on the shelves. According to my plan, I was going to save 100,000 words for a big update.

My current progress is 2000 words.

I will try my best to update more, but due to some real-world reasons, it is difficult for me to do so.

It's not that I don't want to update, I'm not a full-time writer, I'm still interning and going to school.

Other authors' updates are like a thousand miles down the river, but I can only look at the situation and squirt a little bit.

That is, the probability of updating on weekends is high, and then I have to be weak for three or four days, and then update again.

In any case.

Tomorrow is the day of launch, I hope you readers will support me a lot, recommend monthly tickets and subscriptions, ask for everything, please, please.

(There is a sound of me kowtowing here, if there isn't, it means it hasn't been approved yet.)

I hope you can like this book.

And thank you for being with me until now.

Finally, on behalf of the Papal State, I hereby confer upon all book friends of this book:

King with shoulders aligned, opening a mansion with the same rites as a cardinal, using the papal carriage, adding nine bestowments, acting as an envoy, entering the court without haste, praising but not naming, wearing swords and shoes in the hall, supervising all military affairs of the Holy El Empire, and remotely leading the five major pastoral regions of Middle-earth as patriarch.

In the future, when attending court, everyone can sit in a row of dragon chairs and listen to politics and read books together.

This is the decree.