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I have an advice for you. 1. Split the chapters. Make them 1 to 1.5k words long. 2. Go easy on with your diction. Believe me, it will be very hard to keep up with your story progression. And sometimes it will be exhausting! 3. Be selective where you want to engage the diction..like when Lucius is powering up the environment changed...that was a perfect place for your diction. 4. Also character descriptions were amazing. However, you can go easy. You don't have to use the same diction in each line and paragraph. 5. story progression will slow down a lot. If your target is just practicing your diction, then it's perfect. However, if you want to earn money from here, you need to give people story. It took for Lucius more than 3k words to get out of the captivity. I would suggest to be more economic with words...it's just my suggestion...don't mind my ranting though... Overall: 1. the chapter can be split into 3 chapters with carefully crafted cliffhangers. 2. Diction is amazing. 3. be economic with word but tell more story. Just a thought.
Don't you think the content of this chapter is quite long? With how interesting this is, I think it wouldn't hurt to cut in two chapters. Also, with the impact of the first part of this chapter, I think it can be done as the first chapter if you ever want to put the prologue in volume 0 or book synopsis.