When I passed on the last chapter of "The Overlord of the Mediterranean in Ancient Greece", I felt both disappointed and relieved.

I still remember that after experiencing a very boring period of time 5 years ago, I finally made up my mind to rewrite the story about ancient Greece to make up for the guilt I had left before, and at the same time I fulfilled my long-cherished wish in my heart.

At that time, I only conceived a rough outline, so I hurriedly picked up the pen and started writing. I never thought that I would write for nearly 5 years (including conception and prior manuscript saving time), with nearly 4 million words. Over such a long time, my life and work have changed a lot, and I have experienced many difficulties in the writing process. I have thought of giving up many times, but the passion in writing and the long-cherished wish in my heart told me that I must persist. In addition, there are countless lovely readers accompanying me on my lonely writing road. It is your constant encouragement and support that has kept me fighting to this day.

"The Overlord of the Mediterranean in Ancient Greece" has finally been written. Maybe you feel it is a bit hasty, but in my opinion it basically achieved my expected goal and completed the novel outline that was drafted in advance. It can be regarded as the first truly completed work in my online writing career ("Campus Love Record" does not count, it is interrupted twice, ending in a hasty way), and it is also a considerable achievement and worth celebrating!

However, the first time I completed such a super-length novel, I lacked experience and exposed some shortcomings.

The main shortcomings, I think there are several:

First, the characters are not portrayed enough, and most characters are just symbols and do not leave any impression on readers. Second, the process of Dionia from rising to fighting for hegemony is too easy. The impact of some unprecedented new systems formulated by the protagonist on the ancient West is too shallow, and there is no more complex interpretation and deeper exploration. Third, there is a lack of comprehensive control over the entire grand historical process in the book. What should be written abbreviated and what should be written in detail, the countermeasures adopted by various forces relative to the rise of Dionia and the armed conflicts with it are not very reasonable...

The reasons for these shortcomings are that I think the first thing is that I have insufficient writing skills and limited talent. I cannot plan and control the overall situation well like those great masters. At the same time, I can write tens of thousands of words every day with brilliant writing. Secondly, I don’t have enough time, especially after the manuscript has been consumed, I have to go to work during the day and have housework at night. I can only rely on some fragments of time to update it every day. Even if I complete the task, I don’t have more time to carefully carve the characters and plots.

Another main reason is that my energy is not as good as before. Writing requires a lot of energy, and when I write, I like to impersonate myself in every character I am conceived to imagine their emotional flow, their dialogue and their reactions in battle... The whole brain is constantly running. More than 10 years ago, when I was writing "Campus Love Record", I was able to stay up late for a long time without feeling tired, and even after I finished writing the whole spirit could be immersed in it, and I couldn't get out for a while. Now, at my age in my 40s, I feel tired if I conceive for an hour. If there are patients who disturb me on the way and have housework to disturb me, I will feel very upset and it takes a lot of effort to return to the situation I conceived before. Therefore, I will instinctively avoid writing the plot more complicatedly, so that I can complete the task more easily...

In short, this novel has been written, but I have a lot of regrets, and these regrets will become my motivation for writing the next novel. I will spend longer time to conceive the outline in detail, build the image and character of each character, improve the scenes in the novel, and enrich the plot... I hope that it will make some progress compared to this novel by then.

I said so much because I feel a lot of reluctance in my heart. The novel I have been writing has ended. I am reluctant to leave and always support me. I encourage you to separate myself. I hope that I can get together with you when the next novel is uploaded. However, the interval may be relatively long, because I need to take a break before preparing for the next novel. After all, I have not relaxed well for more than 4 years, including during the Spring Festival.

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Finally, I will tell you a little secret. In my original novel concept, the full text ended after Dionia defeated Persia and became the overlord of the Mediterranean. There is also an afterword in this book, but after thinking about it over and over again, it was deleted later in order to leave blank space in the novel and not to make it abrupt.

Now I will tell you the general plot of the postscript:

In 2020, when Xianyang City, Country Z, was vigorously renovating the old city, the construction team dug an ancient tomb in the west of the Wei River Plain. After archaeological experts identified the cultural relics in the ancient tomb, they believed that this ancient tomb actually came from the Dionys Empire, which dominated the West more than 2,000 years ago, and was most likely the tomb of Davers, the founding emperor of Dionys.

This news not only shocked the international archaeological community, but also shocked the entire Western world.

You should know that in history, Dionia was a great empire spanning Eurasia. It ruled the West for three hundred years. At its peak, its territory not only covered the entire Western Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor and most of the Near East, but even expanded its influence to Eastern Europe and India. Although it eventually fell apart due to its own decline and the invasion of barbarians, the talented and powerful Western European monarchs in later generations all wanted to reproduce its glory in the past, and countless Western literati and poets fantasized and praised the greatness of that era. However, no matter how hard they tried, until today, the entire West is still small countries and difficult to complete unification. The great achievements completed by Dionia have always been just a beautiful vision of Western descendants, but it has also made the cultural relics during the Dionian Empire highly respected by Westerners.

When this news spread throughout the world, it was angrily questioned by countless Western people: How could the clothes of Emperor Davers, who was respected by them, be buried in the country thousands of miles away?

But soon, the current head of the Davers family, the oldest and most noble descendant of Europe, publicly claimed that this was very possible. He also announced to the public some chapters of the words and deeds of the Emperor Dionys, who had always been secretive, and emphasized that the founding emperor Davers repeatedly mentioned the distant kingdoms of the East to the second emperor, Crotokataks, who was known as the "Loves", and in his later years, Davers also expressed his yearning for the distant east to the third emperor, Christod, who was known as the "intelligent", and claimed that Hades issued oracles to him several times in his dreams, and it would be best to bury his clothes in the distant kingdoms of the East after his death, so as to ensure the long-term stability of the empire.

Immediately afterwards, the most authoritative association of archaeologists in Europe also announced that they had carefully searched all the historical materials of the Dionian Empire and found that during the reign of Saliceus, the fifth emperor, known as the "Conqueror", he did send a huge team of messengers, allegedly to search for the distant Eastern countries, but there was no historical record since then.

As a result, the Western people were in an uproar, and the people of every Western country also marched and unanimously protested: If this was really the tomb of the great Emperor Davers, the government of Z should return it to the West!

All Western governments comply with the demands of the people and put pressure on the governments of the country.

Faced with strong international pressure, the Z government finally agreed: If this is really the tomb of Emperor Davers, then it is the wealth of all mankind and should be shared by all countries.

Soon, a Western archaeological group led by descendants of the Davers royal family joined the archaeological team in Country Z, and at the request of the people of the world, the entire archaeological process was broadcast live.

Rusty golden crown, helmet, golden breastplate, sword, decaying and tattered brocade robe... After each item was taken out of the tomb, the head of the Davers family would tell some historical anecdotes about the item in vivid detail, and the audience in front of the TV was fascinated.

It is now fully confirmed that this is the tomb of Emperor Davers.

The audience is looking forward to the archaeologists from China and the West to restore the former style of these objects with modern technology as soon as possible.

A few days later, the golden crown, helmet, breastplate, and sword were all removed from rust spots and shining with glory. Western experts also found that the same inscriptions were engraved on these objects, but the experts from Z were widened in surprise: because these inscriptions were the simplified Chinese characters of Z!

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Haha, guess what words are there?
Chapter completed!