The initial intention of this volume was to craft a marvelous competition. I've had readers reflect to me several times before, saying that in the first million words, the protagonist is only fighting NPCs, which feels like playing a single-player game. I also truly felt that the confrontations between the protagonist and other characters were too few, with battles against players ending in a single axe swing without any room for twists and turns.
Therefore, I planned a martial arts tournament to fill this gap, but as the tournament progressed, everyone started saying the matches were boring. I was anxious, so I made a last-minute change to the plot, introducing an invasion by the Seven Demon Lords' Vanguard to spice things up, and I wanted to reverse this trend for the competition as well. I aimed to write the final match thrillingly, full of variables, with the protagonist achieving victory in an exhilarating fashion.
