Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 390 - 151: Story Retelling, Clan Disputes_2

The protagonist, Black Sun Daxing, controlled the mechanical army to resist the Black Tide invasion, but was unsurprisingly killed by the Evil Spirit controlling the Black Tide, losing his soul, and the protagonist’s story completely lost its main plot.

At the end of the story, Book Yan tried to save the collapsed story but still couldn’t stop the Black Tide from devouring the ink power in the scene.

The third story, fourth story... although these two stories did not involve the Black Tide, they were both invaded and destroyed by external forces, leading to the story’s collapse and poor endings.

The fifth story, on the other hand, is set in a framework of sword and magic.

This is also the freeze-frame scene Qi Sheng had seen earlier.

This story is still in its infancy, but a large amount of ink power has already been injected to construct the story’s scene.

After reading the story’s content, Qi Sheng was curious:

"Guidance, what is the output conversion rate of ink power?"

Faced with the inquiry, Guidance spoke after a brief silence:

[According to the decomposition, after each war ends, the Book World will devour all non-story framework material from the scene, with a conversion rate of 29.83%. Although it can’t compare to the Horror Black Tide, it is still quite good... but devouring and converting through war is not the core method of obtaining ink power.]

[I conducted a detailed inspection of this space scene and found that there are 320,000 projections within the scene, each of which constantly produces ink power.]

"What do you mean, this scene can automatically generate resources?"

[Boss, many rule powers can produce rule resources in specific ways, for example, "Fighting Spirit" is produced through one-on-one battles to generate Fighting Soul Power, the War God Seal of the Reverse Tide Army is acquired through war as Power of War, and the Evil Moon Rule autonomously generates energy by enveloping the scene... All of these rules can autonomously generate energy through specific methods, just like Book Yan’s control over paper, pen, and books.]

[Book Yan connects countless small worlds through consciousness projection, offering his stories as inspiration or dreams to the authors of small worlds. These authors record the stories created by Book Yan and then spread them, with each reader’s interaction with the story generating ink power, which is fed back into the world constructed of writing books.]

[Therefore, many small world authors think they are creating original stories out of inspiration, but in reality, what they are writing are stories created by Book Yan, spread through the hands of small world authors.]

[To explain using the pre-crossing era you lived in as a context, say an author suddenly receives inspiration and writes a story titled "Black Sun Daxing’s Journey to Godhood," and publishes it on Qidian Chinese Network. Many readers click to read it, providing ink power benefits to Book Yan. The better the book performs and the more readers it attracts, the more ink power it generates.]

[This is the core of ink power production, devouring being secondary. Hence, the quality of the story affects the output of ink power. If one can write a phenomenal work pursued by readers across countless worlds, the ink power yield would be very considerable, leading to better story scene development... If a story fails to attract readers, it proves to have no potential and would be forced to end poorly by Book Yan, as it generates no ink power at all.]

[It can be understood that each story can nurture a mine that continuously produces resources. Good stories can even become timeless classics in many small worlds, continuously providing ink power resources to Book Yan over the long years.]

[This is why Book Yan needs to structure stories and build systems, rather than directly modifying scene rules like the Blue Lantern Clan. In comparison, the Blue Lantern Clan’s rule modification ability is much stronger than the scene world structured by Book Yan using pen and book, but which method of resource acquisition is superior remains unclear.]

Guidance’s explanation vividly illustrated the abilities under Book Yan’s control and the two methods of resource acquisition.

Qi Sheng’s consciousness then swept toward those projection nodes.

Instantly, a torrent of information flooded into his mind:

"What about the promise of daily updates of ten thousand words, never giving up, and then you just ended up ghosting us with a sudden unfinished work? This is more abrupt than the plot twists in the stories!"

"The beginning was going so well, then suddenly, the divine descent of the Black Tide Demon King — what kind of ridiculous plot is this? The protagonist is dead, author, what kind of hogwash are you thinking, you truly deserve to die!"

"Your abrupt cancellation and ending of the story is like building a skyscraper, setting up the frame, and then leaving nothing but a shell. My enthusiasm for following the work is like a mountain of flames doused by cold water, completely gone. We promised to stick together, and you jumped ship halfway, even wrote off the protagonist, disgusting, truly disgusting."

"What I thought would be a grand feast turned out like this unfinished ending — you cleared the dishes halfway through the banquet, blew up the venue, and threw in a heap of disgusting stuff. I want to ask, author, are you in cahoots with the novel’s villain, here to torment us readers, ugh!"

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The collapsed endings of the first four stories filled the projection feedback with reader resentment.

Fortunately, Book Yan’s stories are written by different authors found in small worlds, bearing countless pen names, or else the critiques would escalate several levels.

But even if four stories have already ended poorly, there are still readers continuing to read them, still producing ink power.

However, the ink power produced by incomplete stories is very scarce.

Currently, the highest ink power production comes from the fifth story being written, which is the story starring "Red Cloud Flipping Sky."

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