Okay guys, based on recent comments in both reviews and PMs, I've decided to consider this story revived. However, currently I am still treating this story as a bit of lower priority since I'm focusing on other projects outside fanfiction here. In case you guys want to know what I am going to be focusing on this year, let me elaborate here and now. But first, the stuff I canceled.

Because of the complicated nature over how long it was becoming I put an end to my long-running Code series which comprised of Aincrad, Alfheim, Ragnarok. Neptunia, Divinity, and the finale in Hunter. There were several stories I had wanted to include in the series but ultimately cut. Among these are Code: Reclamation, which would've been an immediate sequel to Divinity. This would've been an extremely dark story which would include a massive number of deaths among the Parthenian Knights as they stalled for time for Planeptune, Lastation, Lowee, Leanbox, and Arcadia. While they had a fairly sizeable number at 6 million knights at the time of Neptunia and Divinity, they cut themselves into thirds, splitting themselves in the Hyper Dimension, Zero Dimension, and Heart Dimension, to ensure survival of the Parthenians while all but ironically severing contact with each other, and during Reclamation, they lost around 1,820,000 knights within five years time, leaving only 180,000 knights by the time Arcadia perfected their military technology. I would've started it on an extremely bleak note with Grand Master Medea Lisalon visiting a recent battlefield alongside 2 members of Obsidian Squad: Lilica and Ginham, between 428,500 Parthenian Knights killed in action and four Behemoth class monsters, three of which escaped, but wounded. Because of it, the Parthenians withdrew but Arcadia was ready to take up the mantle, if barely.

Code: Erinn was due to be set in the MMORPG Mabinogi which would've fleshed out my Milletian warriors and explain their importance in the fight against the Fomorians and the chosen cast among my team: Kazuto, Miyo, Izumi, and later Mamoru and newcomer Erica Kurata who were in Xillia.

Code: Xillia set in Tales of Xillia and Xillia 2 with Mamoru as a sole agent

Code: Flonyard set in Dog Days with Sylvia and Kana taking the reins

Code: Horizon due to be in Log Horizon with Haruka, Katsuo, and Yuuki Konno

An unnamed project with Karen, Lilica, Celina, and Caelus taking place in Tales of Zestiria and Berseria which would fully explain the details behind Karen's fall to Malevolence

And lastly, I would have invested in Code: Underworld, set during the Underworld arc in SAO. This one would be the absolute last entry for the Senryaku generation and star my original group of characters: Karen, Katsuo, Sylvia, Kana, Hikaru, and Haruka, though many others would have some involvement as cameos. Despite that, even though the story would have starred these six, Miyo would have her importance as one of the scientists/engineers of the Ocean Turtle, later held against her will when Karen and the others become trapped in Underworld as knowledge of her being an alien was somehow leaked, this threat coming from Kikuoka. Within Underworld itself, Karen was set to have been taken by Quinella and converted into an Integrity Knight because of her being an 'abnormality' because of her Hard Drive Divinity, Katsuo, Sylvia, and Kana would be living in Rulid Village, working as a guard, nun, and shopkeeper apprentice respectively before being transferred to Zekkaria when Hikaru, an inhabitant of the Dark Territory, was discovered in the area, caught by Karen herself through a patrol alongside Kazuto, Alice, and Eugene since they were all in contact with him. After undergoing the process, Karen began having nightmares every night which were actually messages sent in discreetly through Karen's cybernetics, urging her to remember herself.

Wow. That's a lot of text here, heh. Well, other than my Code series, I canceled Ark Crusade since, like I said on it, its reception was horrendous and something I'm not sure is salvageable with the new policy I have to enact with my works now. The same goes with Reign of Shaowei, but there was another issue burdening it as well. In addition to a bit of poor reception, I unfortunately did not exactly think that story through. Guess that happens to on-the-spur moment stories like that. However, I like details about it that may be resurfacing in future works, namely the races I conveyed in the story.

As to what I have been doing in the last couple of weeks, aside from me working a LOT because of my retail job in the holidays, I've actually been invited to join a group of writers and artists centered around fellow fanfic writer: Starknight 'Renegade, who invited me since he apparently liked my Sunrider story, haha. I am not exactly comfortable revealing which pieces of work I am working with him (and others) at this time, but I've been dedicated on helping these guys out to the best of my ability (which has been HORRIBLE so far since I simply lacked the time since Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas were on the warpath when I was invited by Starknight.)

Now, the time has come for me to finally explain Horizon of Ash's status among the stories. 'Bout time I say since I've been focusing on my other stories so far. Thanks to some recent comments, I've decided to get this puppy moving again. Now, be aware that I am changing the initial plan I had set for this story. I initially planned on this being a three to five chapter story where Ivan, Cheol, Lucia, Aria, Jotam, and Irina simply die by the end. It's not going to be so clear-cut anymore since, much like Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan, I have a different fate planned for my characters since I have some traction going. Trust me, you guys are going to be surprised. As to when I'm going to get this new chapter out...erm...I'm not going to set a deadline right now since I have two other stories I'm currently working on.

Finally, I only have a few more stories I plan on submitting to this site, not counting chapters here for Horizon of Ash. I have no definite idea when I am going to release one of these stories, but I will reveal it here. It will be a fanfiction of the anime: Show By Rock starring another OC of my own making: Dillon 'Vermillion' Vergil. Look forward to when I'm able to get that story going. The others...well, I'm not showing all my cards now here ^^. If you want to help speed up the process of when I'm able to get content released, consider helping me make this a job over on Pa treon dot com/ harukaerizawa. If you are unable to support, that is perfectly fine. The benefit I seek for this is speeding up the rate at which I am able to release chapters. I would never dream of restricting content behind paywalls. The only sort of 'restriction' Patrons would receive would be early access.