I fully expected that the next post I made here would be announcing that my edits were done and that I would be stubbing Worldseed and bringing it to KU, but... I'm not ready yet. I'm being a bit too precious about it, admittedly, but people are still reading it here and seem to be enjoying it, so I'm also not in a rush to pull it from RR. Worldseed is approaching 2.7M total views here and on the cusp of hitting 1500 favorites, which is incredible and more than I ever would have imagined for my first story, and I truly appreciate all of you who have read it.

So, why am I making this post? Well, at the start of April I saw Writathon was starting and I needed a change of pace from the other things I'm working on, so I pulled up an old doc I had started last year. I wasn't sure it would take, but, well, I ended up writing more than enough to "win" Writathon, if I actually bothered posting it. Which I didn't, for various reasons, but as you may have already guessed, I am posting now!

This new story is a monster evolution time loop LitRPG called Re:Chimaera. Here's the blurb:

A crazy wizard bound my soul and turned me into a monster!

My memories, lost; my body, an amalgamation of different parts; my soul, crammed into the core of a creation called chimaera.

Despair was interrupted by curiosity. After killing and eating something for the first time, I started to learn about my new powers.

Just as I was beginning to find happiness in my new life, the wizard blew up time itself. I should have died, but somehow I survived and found myself starting the whole thing all over again!

A monster evolution time loop LitRPG about becoming the best chimaera possible in order to save the world... and the friends we meet along the way.

I wanted to preemptively answer a few potential questions about this story, so here we go.

Is this story for you? All I know about you, the reader, is that you were here for Worldseed, and are presumably reading this post now because you enjoyed it enough to keep following it. Re:Chimaera is not more Worldseed. There are going to be some similarities, given that I'm the author of both and they're both reincarnation LitRPGs, but in most other ways I'd say they're different. While I wouldn't particularly call Worldseed complicated or deep, Re:Chimaera is still simpler, or maybe, shallower, or at the very least more straightforward. Not that Pilus wasn't pursuing power, as he often was, but this story's MC only really chases power, at least in terms of the story's narrative. There's also a more clearly defined end goal, with sub goals along the way.

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So what's there to like or dislike about this story? While I'm not getting super crunchy about numbers, it's a pretty quick-paced weak-to-strong progression for MC. Since MC doesn't really have memories, there's not so much science and logic (just a bit of biology. Gotta have something!) I tried to keep things moving, but I think my characters will always do a bit too much rumination; in this story, that's more with regards to skill choice and build. This story is still pretty low in dialogue, since MC can't actually speak, but I have been trying to take in feedback I got from Worldseed in order to write more accessible stories. Part of that means I tried adding more side characters and getting MC involved with the people around them. I'm also not doing as much world-building in this story; I'm borrowing monsters from D&D and popular fantasy, though I'm also making up some of my own or tweaking things around to work better as I go.

What's the long-term plan for this? Well, I do intend to do my best with this story, as it is, but it's a simpler story and will probably have a shorter run than Worldseed. I have to say, though, that Re:Chimaera is not what I thought my next story would be. This is more of a side-project, I suppose. It's more just something light and fun for me to work on. I think I can finish it this year. If you don't like it, no worries, it'll come and go and make way for something else. I've got two other stories that I'm taking more seriously which I would consider my next big projects (more on that later.) Both of those stories will probably run longer than Worldseed, with more of a plan for continuous serialization. For Re:Chimaera, we're looking at shorter chaps, quicker progress, and defined bosses to beat on the way to the end.

Obviously, since today's the day I'm posting the first chapter, you might not want to jump in right away with so little content. Check back in a couple weeks or months, if need be! If you do decide to check it out right from the jump and read it as it gets released the whole time, I'm extremely grateful. Early views, and especially early follows, favorites, ratings, and reviews will really help the story, though my expectations are low (I can't realistically expect the same kind of success Worldseed had.) But wait, there's more, you can read ahead of chapter one already!

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