Red Alliance

Story context

Whoa. Hold your horses, fellow Daoists. If you cracked open this chapter expecting celestial battles or a life-or-death sword duel, you might be scratching your head. This isn't a chapter from the story itself; it's a raw, unfiltered afterword from the author, I Eat Tomatoes (IET), written on the very first day of *Desolate Era*’s serialization. It’s a love letter to the readers, a chronicle of a monumental launch day that shattered expectations. The sheer frenzy of the fanbase—the Red Alliance—is laid bare: over a hundred "Alliance Masters" tipped the very first day, the popularity charts exploded, and the comment section was nuked. This is a rare, behind-the-curtain look at the raw, electric energy of a web novel community hitting a new peak.

Why it matters

Now, for the actual reading: treat this as a prologue to the story. It's the author baring his soul, thanking the financial lifeline of his creative world. Don't skim it just because there's no swordplay—the passion here is the engine that fuels the millions of words to come. The author's raw, sleepless gratitude is a cultural artifact of web serialization. As you read the rest of *Desolate Era*, remember this chapter. Remember the hundred Alliance Masters who placed a high-value bet on this epic before it was even an epic. This isn't just "chapter 606"; it's the celebratory roar of a community throwing their weight behind a story they believed in from sentence one.

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Source novel

Desolate Era