Wow, 2020 really started off with a bang. The major thing being Covid 19 that stated in Wuhan, China about Dec 2019. Because of my job, I followed the news of it closely and knew that it will be all over, worse than SARS. 

Singapore was hit with SARS in 2013 (if I get the dates correct). I was in university year 3 and was given 1-2 months off from school because of the outbreak in SG, It was scary times but as I was younger, I enjoyed the break from school than worried about it. It cleared up after a few months, with a few deaths. 

Thus I knew, this will be like SARS and it will be worse since the number of mainland chinese travellers is way bigger than 2013. Very soon we did see cases popping up, and now it has risen to more than 5000 when I posted this. Although this bug is hard to defeat but we will defeat it like SARS.

I am not here to rant about Covid 19 since there are enough reports, theories and fake news out there. Since my last post, I lived like a hermit, spending most of my wake hours reading webnovels on QiDian and playing Mobile Legends. 

After reading 全职高手 (King's Avatar) I am interested in esports and read up about it. I decided to try MOBA and the first one I go for is Heroes of the Storm since I already played that a few years ago. Then I tried LOL (League of Legends) and got thrashed. Afterwhich I found Mobile Legends and got played a lot of it. Sadly I wasn't good enough. I can win but win rate is about 50%. I was called noobs a lot and got a bit discourage and turn to youtube to learn how to play better. 

While watching MLBB game play and tutorials, I came upon an youtube video about buildbox in Feb. A game engine that can make games without coding. I tried it and sadly the lack of tutorials drove me crazy. And since I prefer to make 2D games, I decided to go back to game maker. I have gamemaker 7 but it was no longer supported and the new engine is Gamemaker Studio 2. 

It was easy to pick up and I decided to build a game for android. Some of you may know I made a few games (using GameSalad) for iOS back when iphone 3/4 was the craze. I took out the art assets from the game Up and Down and use GMS2 to build it. Took awhile for me to figure how to make it work and published it on google play store. You can find the game here. If you try it, do help me by sharing and give a review. Thank you.

After finishing Up and Down, I decided to create a new game. The tentative title is I'm Right, Nothing Left. More info will be provided as I finalise the gameplay. 

Thanks for reading.

​Cheers,
Magus signing out.  ​

Today I will like to talk about 全职高手, a novel by Butterfly Blue, published on QiDian. This photo wasn't by me, I took it off https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%85%A8%E8%81%8C%E9%AB%98%E6%89%8B/6893637. But I did buy the novel, 19 books total. WOW. 
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I watched the animation series when it first came out and was wowed by the quality. It was really good, as good as japanese animation. But as the anime took its time to produce the second season I watched the drama instead and then as it ended at the midpoint of the story I went to finish the rest by reading the novel. 

The story started off with the main character Ye Xiu (or Ye Qiu, his 'stolen' identity) being asked to leave the team. He was a professional gamer and was the Team Leader of Jia Shi Squad. Reluctantly he chosed to retired instead of accepting a demotion. Being a professional gamer who retired, he was not able to participate any competition within one year of retirement. He left and went into an internet cafe nearby and started a new life as the cafe manager who worked permanent night shift. That night was also the launch of the 10th server of Glory, the MMORPG he played as a professional gamer. He transfered a character from the first server and began his new adventure in server 10. Later part of the story he fought his way back into the esport arena and well began his journey towards championship. I will leave you to read the story yourself.

First I need to say that I don't really like the drama, mainly the changes they did to the storyline. The animation follows the novel more tightly but currently the story is up to the point of 'All stars weekend'. I loved the novel but really hated the ending. Maybe it is just me but why, why must it end like this. As a writer I do understand that people will hate the ending of my story as well, hahaha, but as a reader I really cannot accept this ending. Oh well. 

Do go and watch the drama or animation or read the novel. Highly recommended.

I love the game so much that I am thinking of creating a boardgame out of it, based on the MMORPG Glory, or rather the professional arena where teams battled against each other to become the champion team. I hope I can manage to really build it up. Watch this place for further update if I manage to get the game mechanics to work. 

Cheers,
​Magus

Finally got my books on google play. Currently only 3 books are made available.
Here's the link:

1. My Ladybird Story
2. Ground Zero
3. Life Bank

Enjoy!

My books are blocked in 起点. They say that there are contents that is against in their policy. Oh well, if you are interested to read <​龙九会之王的守护者>, you can read it on the pirate site here --> https://www.biquniu.com/258_258850/. Enjoy.

Cheers,
​Magus

Check out this new magazine that talks about fantasy novels. 

This promising new magazine will bring you into the fantasy world of fiction. If you like books from Raymond E Feist and David Eddings, go take a look and see what it has to offer. 

Cheers,
​Magus

Since mid 2018 I have been spending most of my waking hours reading novels on QiDian. There are so many nice chinese fantasy story on QiDian that I cannot stop reading. Till date I had completed about 10 novels and each one was about few hundreds to thousands chapters. That is why I really have no time writing the story I wanted to. Sad!

Another thing in my life now is a sudden desire to collect games for PS Vita. I bought my set few years back and played Persona 4 Golden and Uncharted. Since then I hardly touch it till early feb when I took it out while doing spring cleaning. Since then I have been looking for games to buy, and realising that PS Vita is considered dead but physical games are becoming collectibles items with prices higher that they were just release. 

Time for me to go back to search the web for more PS vita games to buy. Till next time I come here to blog. 

Going to re-start the novel. But it will be slower than expected since I am looking for a full-time job. I will still try to post 1-2 chapters a week. New chapters will begin in Dec 2018. Look out for them. 

Cheers,

Starting June, I have a new job for June and July and it affected my writing so I decided to suspend the story (五行妖灵师之破天传) at chapter 15. I will still be writing but it will be slow and since there isn't many readers currently, it will be a good time for me to just stop posting till I have more chapters written. 

If any of you interested in knowing what the upcoming chapters about, email me. I will send you the chapters that I have done. 

Cheers,

Ever since I started writing this Chinese novel, I completed 14 chapters totally 33k words. It was far better than I initially thought possible. Although my writing is still relatively slow at about 2000 words a day, I am happy with the progress so far. It means I should be able to hit about 90-100k words by end of June. That would allow me to request to sign contract with the company and maybe start getting paid, and the book being promoted by them. 

We will see how it goes, I will update the progress here as and when there is a change of status. As this is the first time trying to write Chinese web-novel, everything is new to me, new software, new system, new story etc. So this blog will serve as a diary to document the problems I faced and things I have learn during the course of it.

Thanks. Have a great day. 

            玄茹域，兰恒界的九域之一。一域之地极为辽阔，城池都有上千座。
　　路翌城，陈国五城中最小的城池。陈国在玄茹域里算是个弱小的国家，就连一些小宗们的地盘都比它大。陈国所在之地是玄茹域西部偏僻的角落。国土四周被大片森林环绕，人称乱妖林。
　　路翌城内，鸿炎学院外。
　　“许破天，像你这种杂种也配来鸿炎学院吗。”林豪，许破天的表哥，看到了站在鸿炎学院大门前的白衣少年。林豪身后跟着一群林家的子弟，都是来报考鸿炎学院的。
　　今天是鸿炎学院三年一次的收生日，凡是十岁到十五岁的孩子都可以来鸿炎学院参加入门考核。许破天今年十岁，他的母亲让他也来尝试尝试。
　　许破天没有理会林豪的辱骂，已经习惯了。他大步走入学院的大门。许破天的父亲三年前突然离开他们，导致许破天和母亲回了林家，不得已而寄人篱下。许破天的爷爷林霸道，现任林家家主，当时非常生气，应为许破天的父亲许灿本就是一个无业游民。许破天的爷爷当初就很反对这门亲事。只是碍的对许破天母亲的溺爱而无奈地答应了。许灿跑了之后，林霸道虽然让许破天母子般回娘家，却不怎么待见许破天，所以林家的人都会找机会欺辱他。
　　“你竟然不搭理我，给我站住。”林豪加喊了一句。
　　“还是算了吧。我们也不是来闹事的。”他身后的人拉着他，还一直跟他使眼色。
　　林豪看着周围窃窃私语的人群便尴尬的说。“今天就放你一马。我们走。”
　　进了学院大门，许破天看到了辽阔的武斗场，战台就有十几座。每个战台都有两位导师主持。
　　战台下有着一群前来应考的青年男女。许破天走向远处一个比较少人的战台。到了战台下，他看到了战台两侧所设置的布告板。板上的布告写着入学考试两关的规则。
　　第一关，灵力感应测试。没有达到玄级的，不通。
　　第二关，灵魂塔测试。
　　许破天在看布告板时，已有几人上了战台。在最左边的导师的前面，飘浮着一个水晶球。
　　一位男孩走到了那位导师面前。
　　“你把手放在水晶球上，闭上眼睛，尽量去感受它。”导师轻轻地说了一句。
　　那考生犹豫了一下，把手放了上去。水晶球慢慢地发光。
　　“不错。玄级灵魂感应力。”导师轻轻地点了点头。“你到那边去接受第二个测试。”导师指向附近的导师。“来，下一个。”
　　另一个求学者走上前。
　　“黄级灵魂感应力，不合格。你可以回去了。”导师说了一句。
　　“可以再试一次吗？”
　　“不行，也没这个必要。水晶球是不会出错的。你下去吧。”导师摇了摇头，不再理会那人：“下一个。”
　　灵魂感应分为，天、地、玄、黄四级。黄级最低，代表没什么潜力。玄级是成为五行妖灵师的基本要求。地级便可算是天才了。天级非常罕见，万人中也不一定找得到，人称天生灵体。
　　因有几人被淘汰了，其他人开始害怕，没人要上台测试。
　　“下一个。别磨蹭了，行就是行，不行就是不行。早测或晚测都一样。”导师皱了皱眉头开始有点不耐烦了。
　　许破天看到周围的人不想上台便走了上去，到了导师前。
　　“把手放上去。”
　　许破天伸出右手，放在了水晶球上，感觉到了它开始发烫。
　　“天.......天级......”导师不敢相信自己的眼睛。“竟然是天级灵魂感应力。恭喜你了，将来一定会是个出色的五行妖灵师。”他说话的声音有点大。另个导师也看向许破天，让许破天的脸都红了。
　　“过来。我要看看你的灵魂塔。”那位导师急着叫道。
　　许破天走了过去，战台下的人群都盯着他，都很想看看许破天会有什么灵魂塔。
　　“你觉醒了灵魂塔吗？”导师问了问。
　　“还没有。”许破天摇了摇头。
　　“没关系。我现在就帮你唤醒你的灵魂塔。”导师把手放在许破天的丹田上。“别怕。我会把灵力注入你的丹田，你感应到了就跟着我一起运气就行了。”
　　“是的。”许破天感觉到了一股浓浓的灵气冲进了他的丹田，开始运转，从刚开始的缓慢变得越来越快。许破天也运气随着运行。慢慢的就开始有了一点变化，一团浓缩的灵魂精华点点累积，从无行开始慢慢地成为塔型。塔有九层，每层有九颗暗淡的星星。
　　“成功了。”导师把手拿开，微微笑道，脸上充满着期待。“现在我需要你把灵魂塔释放出来。”
　　许破天点点头，运转灵力，想要把灵魂塔召唤出来。慢慢地，一个若隐若现的灵魂塔呈现了出来。当灵魂塔出现的时候，整场鸦雀无声。
　　许破天看了导师那失望的表情便问：“怎么了吗？”
　　导师从失望中惊醒，勉强着微笑：“没事。白色灵魂塔，无属性。”
　　战台下的人窃窃私语。“竟然是白色灵魂塔。”
　　“浪费了，是废物灵魂塔。”
　　“真可怜啊。”
　　灵魂塔分为普通灵魂塔，高级灵魂塔和无属性灵魂塔。普通灵魂塔有黄色金属性，红色火属性，蓝色水属性，绿色木属性，褐色土属性，高级灵魂塔有红褐两色火土双属性，褐黄两色土金双属性，黄蓝两色金水双属性，蓝绿两色水木双属性，绿红两色木火双属性。高级灵魂塔非常少见，千人之中会有一两个。无属性灵魂塔最为罕见，百万人之一，不过却是个废物灵魂塔。
　　导师轻咳了一声，这样的天赋很难得，但为什么是白色灵魂塔，他为许破天觉得可惜。
　　“好了。这石牌你收好，这是你身为鸿炎学院的学生的证明。从现在开始，你就是鸿炎学院的黄字班的学员。去那里，有人会接你入内院。去吧。”
　　“谢谢您的指教。”许破天收了石牌拱了拱手，走下了战台，迈向他的新生。许破天开心极了，他成功了，终于踏出迈向成为一个五行妖灵师了的第一步。
　　“白色灵魂塔的修炼之路更加难走。九成的人根本没有办法成为五行妖灵师。真是可惜了你的天赋。”看着许破天离开的背影，导师摇了摇头自言自语道。
　　许破天没听到，快步走到了导师所指的地方，那里分放着四个长桌，每个桌上都有个木牌。许破天向写着黄字的桌子走了过去。桌后坐着一位师姐。
　　“师姐你好，这是我的名牌。”许破天把那石牌递给桌后的师姐。
　　“你好，我是蓝蝶，黄字班的班长。从今以后有什么事都可以来找我。现在你就坐那儿等等。今天考核结束后，我会带你们去住所。”蓝蝶笑了笑，道：“欢迎你加入鸿炎学院。”
　　蓝蝶，十六岁，七品木属性妖灵师，属内院学员。长得娇小玲珑，很可爱，笑起来很甜。许破天傻傻地看着她。
　　“听到了吗？”蓝蝶在许破天眼前挥了挥手。
　　“听到了，谢谢师姐。”许破天不好意思的点了点头。他看了蓝蝶所指的地方，已经有几人席地而坐。
　　许破天找了个安静的地方坐下，正要闭眼打坐时。一个猥琐的胖子拍了拍许破天的肩。“新来的，怎么称呼？”鼻音很重。
　　“许破天。”
　　“好气派的名字。我叫欧阳阴。人称大鹰哥，就是我了。以后我们同一班，你跟着我，我一定会罩着你的。”
　　“谢谢你了。”许破天一脸黑线。
　　“不用客气，不用客气。”欧阳阴猛地拍打着许破天的背，许破天翻了翻白眼，不知是谁不客气。
　　就在这时，离许破天不远处的一个战台响起一震嘈杂声。
　　“哇，是双生属性灵魂塔。”
　　“天才啊。”
　　“我竟然有幸能看到拥有双生属性的灵魂塔。”
　　那个被测出有双生属性的人竟然是林豪。林豪这时也往向许破天，给了一个‘你看到了吗’的表情。然后便走向天字班的桌子。经过许破天时说：“你不止是杂种，还是个废物。等着吧，我一定会把你赶出我们的家门。”说完头也不回的离开。
　　“慢着，先别走。你对我兄弟怎么说话的，给我道歉。”欧阳阴伸手抓住了林豪的手臂。
　　林豪把手推开。“你是个什么东西，敢这么对我说话。”
　　“我是欧阳阴。”
　　“原来是欧阳世家的人。”林豪不客气地说：“我们林家的事不需要你来插手。”
　　“算了吧，别跟他计较，我也已经习惯了。”
　　“哼。”林豪拂袖离去。
　　“老哥我说过，我一定会罩着你。你看着。”欧阳阴想要追去，被许破天拉了回来。
　　“真没关系，我们来学院是为了学习的，你不必在乎他。”
　　“好，看在你的份上，我就绕了他。”欧阳阴吐了口水，便回去打坐。
　　许破天笑了笑，心想：“这胖子人还不错。可能会是我的第一个真正的朋友。”
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