Hi everyone, hope you're staying safe and healthy!
Happy to report that the next update has been uploaded on cogdemos. The update contains the beginning parts of the Yotai chapter (finally!) and sets the scene up for the Blue Harvest festival. Since this update leverages old content (though you'll be hard-pressed to find a sentence that hasn't gone through some manner of rewrite, I think), it's much bigger than the usual fare at 32.5k words all together.
Aside from the rewritten portions, this update also includes a brand-new opening scene to reflect the mage's new pastime over the course of their stay with Arcadia (as opposed to the old fork with the Archangel, Catarina, etc.). To prioritize forward plot movement, only the tavern fork has been completed for now. As I hope to complete the Yotai rewrite in the next two updates, I'll be adding one of the two other forks with each update, to make for a nice balance between new content and rewrites.
This time around, a lot of the rewrite has been centered around revising plot motivation so as to be consistent with past content (i.e. Tahlia's tacit promise that Saber missions won't be overly gruesome/morally controversial), as well as general improvement in prose quality. Looking back at it, a lot of the prose around this chapter tended to feel fairly awkward and anachronistic to the setting, so I've paid particular attention to that for a more consistent overall feel.