After Harvey left, Puran closed the door and was alone in his study to review Harvey's new novel "The Dark Age", which still contained an outline of about 50,000 words.

Puran himself is a reader, so he naturally doesn't want to be spoiled without reading the novel, so he first put aside the outline of the novel and concentrated on reading the manuscript of the novel of about 500,000 words, which is to watch the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" from morning to late at night. As he read it, Puran was excited to realize that "The Dark Age" was a new type of novel, and the content of the novel was more exciting and engaging than "The Count of Monte Cristo".

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This was his first impression of "Dark Age", but the content of the novel was completely fictional, with a wonderful and compact plot, profound character portrayal, novel creativity and unheard of settings, and the plot of the battle with exquisite illustrations slowly unfolded a magnificent epic in his mind, which greatly stimulated Puran's desire to read.

"The Dark Lord Sauron awakened from the abyss and deceived the lord of Irijan as the gifted grandmaster Ananta to forge nineteen One Rings, Sauron secretly forged the One Ring in order to control the other rings, Sauron's purpose is to rule the continent and enslave the orcs to declare war on all races. Sauron led an army to invade Illyad, the home of the elves······"

If "The Count of Monte Cristo" is an innovation based on the sword of traditional literature, then "The Dark Age" is a complete deviance.

"What's missing... What exactly is causing this strong sense of disobedience? ”

After reading it, Puran pondered and recalled every plot of "Dark Age", and he wanted to find out the difference between "Dark Age" and traditional novels. He got up and picked up a traditional novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo", from his bookcase, opened the three novels side by side in front of him, and flipped through them page by page, his mind wandered outside the three novels, looking for similarities and differences between the three.

It didn't take long for his keen sense of smell as a reviewer to tell him the answer, the biggest difference between "Dark Age" and other novels.

"I can't find the author's thoughts in Dark Age!" He stood up in horror and hurriedly flipped through the Dark Age again, revisiting all the contents.

"No wonder there's no clear main character, no! Not without thoughts that belong to the author! If there is no author's mind! Then literature can't be called literature either, what's the difference between a novel without an author's mind and a haphazardly ordered alphabet!? ”

"It is very deep, the author's views on the novel and the characters are all reflected in the fierce collision of the plot, and all of this is the result of precise construction, the author plays an objective identity, sorts all the clues logically, and deduces the plot changes."

Puran finds the reason why "Dark Age" gives him a sense of heroic poetry, and every detail of the novel's content is carefully considered, like a spider's web, and the plot and details are framed into this novel.

"How many days have it been since The Count of Monte Cristo was published..."

Puran let out a heartfelt sigh, such novels have not appeared in history, but they are far less magnificent and complete than "Dark Age", and those novels are usually written after years or even decades of precipitation by the author, like polishing statues, exchanging the precipitation of time for the most exquisite works of art.

He had a strong premonition in his heart, and it was also what the novel told him, that "Dark Age" was far from being that simple, and that such a sophisticated novel structure could not be just for the sake of a mere 500,000 words.

500,000 words, more than the first half of "The Count of Monte Cristo", is still far from satisfying Pran.

Puran pulls out the outline of Dark Age, which contains everything Harvey had conceived about the Dark Age novel.

As he thought, the 500,000-word manuscript that Harvey handed him was only the tip of the iceberg of the outline of "Dark Age", which detailed the entire development of the first half of the novel, with no less than 100 characters with names and surnames, and dozens of more with specific settings.

Not only the plot outline, but also the characters, geographical knowledge, culture, and even the novel language system that exists in the novel, all of which made Puran feel incredible, could Harvey really see that kind of world, otherwise how could he write a novel with such a degree of authenticity.

"Dark Age" is Harvey's reference to "The Lord of the Rings" and "World of Warcraft" novels, the two complement each other, it is the essence of a lot of time precipitation, and after Harvey's screening, the quality of the novel cannot be said to surpass "The Lord of the Rings", but it is acceptable, and the setting level is more colorful.

The biggest lesson that The Count of Monte Cristo taught Puran was how to recognize the potential value of the novel.

The publishing house he founded is still in the tightrope stage, and only works as influential as the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" can get his publishing house out of the predicament, and Puran has a hunch that the unique storytelling of "The Dark Age" will make the influence of the novel not inferior to "The Count of Monte Cristo", not to mention that this novel is still from the hands of Harvey now, and the conditions are much better than the obscurity when "The Count of Monte Cristo" was published.

He suppressed his excitement for a moment, and the next morning he was awakened by the rush to take the novel and outline of The Dark Age back to his publishing house, a company of less than ten people, which had been largely responsible for the publication of The Count of Monte Cristo in the city of El Roy.

The atmosphere of the company is lifeless, the staff are either looking at the documents, or in a daze, and the occasional flip book becomes the only movement of the publishing house, and because it has nothing to do with the lack of work, the publishing house is not bankrupt because of the work related to the publication of "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the city of Elroy, and the publishing market of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is close to full, and they have nothing to do.

This time back to the publishing house he runs, even if he didn't sleep all night, Puran was still full of energy, he pushed open the door and looked around the small open office, and announced in a high and solemn tone: "Inform all the staff to go to the conference room before ten o'clock, this meeting is very important, and it will decide the survival of our publishing house... It should be said that how far can we jump in this opportunity, all the staff must not be absent. ”

The staff of the publishing house were speechless, it was the first time they had seen Puran look full of energy.

"Mr. Evelyn, do you know what happened to Mr. Poran? Yesterday, I left the company in a hurry. ”

Evelyn, a former reviewer for Leonard's publishing house, looked at the newspaper and shook his head: "I don't know, you also heard what he just said, maybe he got a good novel submission." ”

There was still some time before ten o'clock, and the staff was discussing it with great interest.

"It's kind of like, is it Mr. Adrian's contribution?"

"What a stupid thing, Mr. Adrian is still filming the phantom of The Count of Monte Cristo, and I can expect that novelty to be the same as the previous times, with a publishing house outside the city."

"I haven't seen Mr. Puran happy like this a few times before."