Oct 07, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

Yeah, I know what you mean 😅
In the next chapter you... well, you don't get THE explanation yet, per se... but, something new is revealed 🤫
I think it's one of my favourite chapters!

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Oct 07, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

"Sail on Pliny, Fortune favours the Bold" 👍

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Oct 06, 2025

A very atmospheric chapter!

An evening where all are gathered together watching a spectacle (directly connected to their own "backstory") is just what you need to travel through the habits and daily life of that time (of a fictional world, no less).

P.S. I don't think I've ever been the object of women's competition like Alexander here.
I'm not admitting being jealous... just jelly 😅

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Oct 06, 2025

What could Alexander's proposal be? 🤨
I guess we'll find out next!

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Oct 06, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

Oh, thank you! 😊

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Oct 06, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

You're so right! 😆
Coming UP ↑ on the next chapter!

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Oct 06, 2025

Intrigued to see how will this end...

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Oct 06, 2025

I really appreciate all the details: the roots, the hive, their uses... It's all incredibly realistic and authentic! The way the characters interact is also exceptionally well put 👍

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Oct 05, 2025

I like the town/ fort and how lively it has become 👍

I think that -for any reader- it is like entering one of those actual roman towns made on the spot while campaigning on some foreign land.

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Oct 05, 2025

I find that the characters are drawn very vividly in their interaction 🎨

Also, I like how we learn about the backstory and what's happened or what they're thinking without even realizing it or getting bored by an info dump 👍
I doubt if I managed to do as well in my own book.

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Oct 05, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

Well, I never wanted to have a "mana" potion or anything similar... but, after some consideration I though it inescapably necessary for an Isekai such as my own (since it was also the very first I ever attempted writing).

But, yeah, by establishing those drael as both currency and an edible asset... later on one must balance between the two: spending too much in a market might work against you later on -- survival wise.
I have a lot of details to write on drael as currency (and not only) in the appendices once the contest is through 👍

P.S. If you check any of my social you should see an image I've uploaded on drael 🪨✨

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Oct 05, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

I do try to invest in the atmosphere above all! 😃

Well, stopping to magine, to dream, to hope etc. is not exactly like a crime...
But, it's actually deadly dangerous for you and those around you!

Allegorically, I wanted to show the contrast between people on the phone all day wasting time and consuming (even judging) other people's work/ creations etc...
But, I didn't manage to do that connection till the very end!

Oh, well 😅

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Oct 05, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

I must be frank, at first, even I wasn't sure, yet.
But then, I weighed how much time I had left till deadline and how much real-life time could I actually spend writing...
and I though that this world could only be one "thing"

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Oct 04, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

You now have me imagining your parents wearing togae* 😋

*btw, I really much like the "ae", plural in many things in Latin!
That was also my inspiration for naming the drael in my book (dral in singular)
I know it's usually not working with an "l" at the end... but I don't actually use Latin in mine. Just this inspiration.

Anyway -- good stuff 👍
It's on of the best chapters so far!

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Oct 04, 2025

To:Mike Psellos

Thanks! 😊
I can spoil out anything you like but the end 😅

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