Mushoku Tensei (WN) - Volume 24 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 
This brings to an end the story of Rudeus Greyrat, a former unemployed NEET.
Although we were shown the future of Hitogami’s defeat, the future may change so the fight between Hitogami and various people will still continue.
However, the story of Mushoku Tensei itself tells the tale of Rudeus Greyrat only, so please let me have the privilege of ending the story now. 
The total writing time would be 2 years. And as for the total amount of characters, it should be around 2,830,000.
I, myself have never in my life written a story this long.
Despite fumbling around in an unknown territory, I continued writing without stopping and we was able to reach the conclusion, I think that it’s all thanks to the readers who supported me till the end.

Thanks to the huge amount of thoughts & evaluations, we were able to reach first rank as a total.
"Don't be fooled by the numbers, or believe that your ability rapidly increased because of the growing numbers, it doesn't mean that the story you've been writing until now suddenly became interesting, don’t be tempted and only look at yourself as an author - or so I kept telling myself and yet I do not know just how many times I have been encouraged by that first place which shone brilliantly. Of course, apart from numbers, there are a lot of aspects that I must reflect upon as well.....
I think that the fact that my story was able to gain the top spot in the ?Shousetsuka ni Narou? where a lot of different authors assembled will become my self-confidence in the future, enabling me to move forward with this power.
Thank you very very much. 
While putting my efforts towards the published version I am thinking about writing redundancy volume which will include 10 years of Rudeus’s story, i.e., from his age of 24 to 34 years old, stories after he crosses 34, stories focused on the kids, stories of characters that I didn’t focus on too much, at a slow pace of 1-2 chapters a month.
I look forward to working on both the published version and Redundancy volume. 
Well then, once again.
Thank you very much for your readership.