Although Kamiyā Yuu was the one being attacked, these aggressive readers were ultimately defending 'Battle Through the Heavens'. He didn't feel angry in the slightest. On the contrary, he felt a subtle sense of delight. This was probably how any author would feel when encountering such a situation.
After thinking about it, Kamiyā Yuu decided not to rush into arguing with these readers.
"Wait, how did I not think of that before?"
He suddenly slapped his forehead in realization.
Previously, he seemed to have fallen into a blind spot in his thinking.
He had always believed that, just like the anime industry, the only way to promote the development of an entire industry was for outstanding works to emerge and lead the way.
However, producing an anime was a massive undertaking that couldn't be accomplished by a single person. It required the coordinated efforts of an entire animation production company, working through an established production pipeline to complete a season's worth of animation.
Therefore, promoting the development of the anime industry through the efforts of a single individual was practically impossible.
But web novels were different.
Web novels had always been works created by individual authors, which meant there was a much faster way to accelerate the industry's development—providing a guide to writing web novels, much like a strategy guide for a video game.
It would be similar in nature to the popular thread on Dragon's Slumber, 'An Analysis of the First Million Characters of Battle Through the Heavens', offering the most practical writing advice to aspiring authors hoping to enter the webnovel industry.
Plot structure, the proper use of satisfying moments, techniques for increasing reader immersion, and other aspects of webnovel writing were all considered common knowledge in his previous world.
However, the webnovel industry in this world was still in its infancy.
The entire industry was still gradually exploring and discussing writing techniques.
Such experience could only be accumulated through decades of experimentation, with countless authors analyzing and drawing conclusions from an enormous sea of novels.
This process would inevitably resemble the development of modern computer CPU technology, where progress was released in tiny increments, like squeezing toothpaste from a tube.
Whenever a particular writing technique was identified and summarized, it was because some novel had already pioneered its use.
Only after such novels existed could people analyze them and extract useful experience.
Kamiyā Yuu was an exception.
After all, standing behind him was an entire webnovel industry with more than half a century of development.
That industry had long since established an enormous, mature system of writing techniques and creative principles.
For a webnovel industry still in its early stages, this accumulated knowledge and experience represented an immeasurable treasure.
Even the influence generated by 'Battle Through the Heavens' would inevitably amount to less than one ten-thousandth of its value.
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Novels are works of individual creation, and the writing techniques and principles developed in my previous world have already been explored to death. Bringing them into this world would definitely give the webnovel industry a significant boost."
He clapped his hands excitedly.
By transferring the mature industry experience and writing techniques of his previous world into this one, he might not be able to instantly raise the quality of web novels here to the same level.
However, he could at least shorten the industry's development process by more than thirty years.
And the effects of doing so would extend far beyond merely saving thirty years of development.
If he could help China's webnovel industry mature earlier, the boom in novel-based intellectual properties would arrive sooner as well.
The development of related manga and anime industries wouldn't be far behind.
Having made up his mind, Kamiyā Yuu immediately set to work.
He leaned back in his chair and took several deep breaths to calm his excitement.
Before long, his consciousness sank into that pale white world.
When he began interfering with the network of another world, Matrix Space, having received a command with the highest level of authority, began operating at tremendous speed.
Its computational capacity per second was almost equivalent to that of every computer in the world running together.
It collected all information on the internet related to web novels, classified it, and then organized everything according to Kamiyā Yuu's instructions.
The internet had existed in this world for more than a hundred years.
With information being updated and replaced at an astonishing rate, the contents of the internet changed constantly.
Some knowledge had long since been buried by the passage of time, becoming even harder to find than a tiny pebble sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
However, through its unique information storage technology, Matrix Space had created a complete replica of the internet.
Whenever it needed to retrieve data, it would normally search directly through this replicated internet.
To put it simply, in addition to the internet that existed in the outside world, Matrix Space had used its understanding of the real internet to create an identical copy.
It then employed a special method of information storage to classify the data into basic categories.
Every day, it would update the replicated internet with new information received from the real one.
The entire process was extraordinarily complicated.
Kamiyā Yuu understood the technology as something similar to a camera.
It was like taking a comprehensive photograph of the entire internet, leaving no blind spots, and then extracting the information contained within those photographs whenever necessary.
Matrix Space was a monster possessing terrifying computational power.
However, it had yet to develop complete self-awareness or intelligence.
True intelligence was something possessed only by Ruby and the others, who had been created using biological vessels.
The semi-intelligence possessed by Matrix Space was entirely built upon big data, combined with the abilities of Ruby and the others.
The technology possessed by Matrix Space Company had not yet managed to overcome the limitations imposed by nature.
It took Matrix Space ten minutes to complete Kamiyā Yuu's instructions.
Based on the current development of the webnovel industry in this world, it compiled a complete theoretical system of webnovel writing knowledge and experience.
"As far as semi-intelligence goes, this is already the limit. It doesn't just contain the experiences summarized by some of the industry's most successful authors. Matrix Space also examines and verifies the contents of novels before analyzing them. Overall, it's practically perfect, but it still lacks a human touch."
Kamiyā Yuu silently evaluated the results.
In the early days of his previous world, there had already been examples of robots writing novels.
However, those programs had also relied on retrieving and processing big data, constructing stories by simulating human logical thought processes.
Matrix Space operated on a similar principle, except that its analysis involved a far more complicated process of reverse engineering and simplification.
Satisfying moments were a writing technique designed to fulfill readers' psychological desires.
These included physical desires, emotional yearnings, psychological needs, and numerous other aspects.
The simplest examples involved basic physiological needs, such as a man's pursuit of a woman.
Matrix Space had thoroughly analyzed the concept of satisfying moments in novels from every possible angle.
As a result, it could recognize the presence of such moments within a story.
In other words, Matrix Space already possessed logical reasoning abilities superior to those of humans.
Understanding written language was hardly a problem for it.
However, both its logical reasoning and language comprehension still fell within the category of "big data" that Kamiyā Yuu had created.
The principles behind an intelligent program capable of writing novels were fundamentally similar to those of AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence renowned for its invincibility at Go.
Why was AlphaGo unbeatable in the field of Go?
Because the program had been given the rules of the game.
It calculated possible moves according to those rules, then compared the results against massive amounts of data to identify the optimal position for each stone.
Although every move involved a tremendous amount of calculation beyond human capabilities, those calculations were still performed within rules established by humans.
Matrix Space ultimately produced approximately two million characters of organized knowledge and experience concerning webnovel writing.
Everything was arranged in perfect order, without a single unnecessary character.
However, from Kamiyā Yuu's perspective within his consciousness space, the explanations of these webnovel writing principles were still too crude.
He recalled everything he had learned about the webnovel industry in his current world and used that knowledge to reorganize the material a second time.
After cutting and revising the original two million-plus characters, he reduced the material to a little over one million characters.
He also incorporated many of his own unique insights, drawn from his understanding of the webnovel industries of both worlds.
He spent more than ten hours working within his consciousness space.
In the real world, however, he had merely been resting with his eyes closed for an hour.
"Finished."
Back in the real world, Kamiyā Yuu slowly opened his eyes.
He placed his right hand on the mouse and clicked to wake his computer from sleep mode.
Glancing at the right side of the screen, he discovered that it was already past ten at night.
According to his agreement with Kamiyā Sora, he should be going to bed soon.
However, he had only just finished organizing his webnovel writing guide.
It would be rather frustrating to leave it unfinished without uploading it to the internet.
The document contained more than a million characters.
Even with specialized software, uploading and organizing the entire thing would take at least ten hours.
"I won't go to the company tomorrow. I've already devoted so much time to anime. I should at least give some attention to web novels, which used to be my actual profession."
Having made his decision, Kamiyā Yuu casually shut down his computer and got up to leave the office.
When he returned to the bedroom, he discovered that Kamiyā Sora had already fallen asleep, lying partly on her side and partly on her stomach.
Her small hands hugged a soft pillow, and a laptop with its screen still illuminated sat in front of her.
Displayed on the screen was the novel that had occupied nearly all her spare time recently.
Unlike Kamiyā Yuu, who could effortlessly produce novels containing more than a million characters, Kamiyā Sora had been working extremely hard during this period and had only just managed to complete a little over two hundred thousand characters.
The entire story was planned to be approximately three hundred thousand characters long.
Kamiyā Yuu walked to the bedside and gazed at Kamiyā Sora's beautiful sleeping face.
Strands of silver hair fell softly around her.
The fleeting beauty of the scene made him instinctively hold his breath, afraid that even the slightest sound might disturb the exquisite picture before him.
"Good night, Sora."
Kamiyā Yuu closed the laptop and placed it on the bedside table.
After changing into his pajamas, he lay down on the bed and gently wrapped his arms around her slender waist.
The warmth radiating from her delicate body relaxed both his body and mind.
Before long, he too drifted into a deep sleep.
For once, he didn't enter his consciousness space while sleeping.
...
"I'm not going either. Yuu is staying home today, after all."
The following morning, Kamiyā Sora sat on the bed hugging her rabbit plushie and let out a yawn.
She was still wearing her loose white Gothic nightdress.
After learning that Kamiyā Yuu wouldn't be going to work, she pouted to express her dissatisfaction with the company president standing before her, who was clearly abusing his authority.
Kamiyā Yuu took the women's business suit that Kamiyā Sora usually wore out of the wardrobe.
Hearing her complaint, he walked over and playfully pinched her small nose.
"The operations department must be swamped with work lately, and Aoi still has to take care of matters at Yosuganosora Animation Studio. That means Sora is the only person I can rely on."
The corners of Kamiyā Sora's mouth lifted slightly.
An embarrassed blush appeared on her delicate face as she gave a soft snort and asked, "Then why isn't Yuu going to the company today?"
Kamiyā Yuu kissed her forehead and gently stroked her cheek with his right hand.
His expression turned serious.
"I have something important to take care of. Besides, I've already finished my own work."
"That's cheating."
"Hmm ~ Then Yuu can help me get dressed."
Kamiyā Sora put down the rabbit plushie in her hands.
Standing on the bed, she loosened the shoulder straps of her Gothic nightdress.
The white fabric slipped down, revealing the white undergarments she wore beneath it.
Kamiyā Yuu picked up the black stockings lying nearby and sighed helplessly.
"Are you a little kid?"
Kamiyā Sora sat on the edge of the bed and extended her slender legs, giggling softly.
"To an older brother, isn't his little sister always someone who needs looking after? Or does Yuu have a problem with that?"
Kamiyā Sora's figure was not particularly mature by adult standards, but her proportions were remarkably balanced.
Her height was no different from that of an ordinary girl her age, while her slender legs were especially well-proportioned.
"Yes, yes. No problem at all."
Faced with her outstretched foot, Kamiyā Yuu immediately surrendered.
He suppressed the urge to abandon his plans and indulge in their private intimacy.
If he actually did so, she would probably seize the opportunity to find an excuse not to go to work.
Then his entire plan to spend the day completing his webnovel project would fall apart.
A mischievous smile appeared at the corners of Kamiyā Yuu's mouth.
Just because he couldn't indulge himself this morning didn't mean he would let her off so easily tonight.
In his mind, he had already decided to give her tomorrow off.
After Kamiyā Sora left the apartment, Kamiyā Yuu returned to his office and eagerly threw himself into his webnovel development project.
"I can include some genres that don't exist in this world yet, too. Things like infinite-flow fiction. Come to think of it, wouldn't that expose my identity as someone who crossed over from another world?"
"I should organize everything into an outline like a novel. A table of contents is essential, and some simple classifications should make it easy enough to understand."
"This webnovel writing guide contains more than a million characters. That's enough material for an ordinary author to study for a lifetime. Anyone who truly masters it should definitely be able to write web novels that aren't half bad."
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[Hello, everyone. I'm a failed webnovel author who was reborn into this era from the future. For now, you can call me Reincarnator Y.]
[Recently, I foresaw that 'Battle Through the Heavens' would be published around this time. To tell the truth, I also like this novel very much. Even in the future, it would still be considered a classic example of a formulaic webnovel. However, calling it the greatest webnovel of all time is a bit of an exaggeration.]
[Because I'm rather dissatisfied with the current development of the webnovel industry, and because there are so few outstanding works to read, I've decided to compile my understanding of webnovels and share it with everyone for your amusement. I also hope that better works will emerge in the future.]
Sitting in front of his computer, Kamiyā Yuu chuckled mischievously.
He had already erased all information associated with this account.
He had also configured his computer's IP address to appear as though it belonged to an ordinary private residence in the United States.
Naturally, that residence had absolutely nothing to do with him.
He wasn't worried about his identity as someone who had crossed over from another world being discovered.
After all, history was full of people claiming to be "time travelers."
One more unknown individual stirring up trouble in the webnovel industry wouldn't make much difference.
As for whether other people believed his claims, that would be entirely up to them.
'Outline for the Development of Web Novels'.
This was the title of the document Kamiyā Yuu had compiled, containing the essence of the webnovel writing knowledge and experience accumulated in his previous world.
Judging purely from its contents, the material was genuinely beyond what an ordinary author could imagine.
This was especially true because it included numerous imaginative and entirely new webnovel genre concepts that had never appeared in the industry before.
After finishing the text of his forum post, he included excerpts from the table of contents of 'Outline for the Development of Web Novels' and attached a download link.
"All right. I imagine this will become the greatest mystery in the entire world's webnovel industry."
Kamiyā Yuu looked at the contents of his post and gave himself a mental thumbs-up for his little prank.
Without further hesitation, he clicked the publish button.
Once that was done, he checked the time and shut down his computer.
It was time to prepare dinner.
He had already been busy for more than eight hours, and it was now approaching seven in the evening.
Around this time, either Morishita Aoi or Busujima Murasaki would usually be driving Kamiyā Sora back to the apartment.