The Abandoned Hunter Chapter 25
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"Amazing, he is no normal hunter. At such an young age he can already detect a S-Rank illusion spell?"
Dun Young smirked a little.
"So somehow we need to bring the snake out again. Since it is hiding in sands it will be difficult to kill it."
Jay had completely immersed himself in the thought of killing the three headed snake.
Dun Young didn't do anything. In fact he didn't want to do anything. He just wanted to see how Jay would overcome this and hunt the great snake.
"Why don't we use supersonic sound sir hunter?"
Dun pretended to be weak and suggested Jay to use supersonic when he found that Jay was unrest about the snake.
"Th-that's a brilliant idea. I had already thought about it but the thing is I don't have any skill that allows me to use supersonic sound."
Indeed it was true since all the skills that he had was support type or scout type.
None of his skills could be used to attack or defend himself in dire situation.
"Hmm, then maybe I should..."
Dun wanted to say that he could have helped but before he could lend out a hand Jay suddenly shouted and said, "Bait!!!"
"Bait? You mean you want to put a Bait in front of the snake and then force it to come out?"
Dun was surprised by Jay's quick thinking. He was glad that he was not needed to support him.
"If I'm not wrong, the snake must be a predator who would fed on most of other beasts here, so we just need to kill another beast and then Bait the snake."
Jay laughed a little. Then he immediately turned towards Dun.
He slowly approached Dun and said, "Don't worry, we will exit this place for sure."
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Since Dun was born, no one had ever cared about him. He was exceptionally talented in all and was perfect in whatever he did. So all they did was just have expectations from him but there was no one who worried about him.
Even if Jay had realised that Dun was an S-Rank Hunter, he was still worried about him since he too was a human. So it just came naturally, he had neither pretended to be worried nor just showed it as a bluff.
"Hmm, I need to go and hunt a beast before that. Do you want to come with me?"
"Well, I really want to see how this kid will fight, but I don't want to go too far. Let's just wait here."
Dun thought for sometime.
Then he replied to Jay by saying, "It's okay, the snake hasn't come out since long and it seems like it won't attack this area for some reason. Maybe this is like a safe spot so I'll just rest here, you go."
For some reason Jay was dissatisfied with Dun's reply. Jay really wanted Dun to come with him because Jay was significantly weak. The only thing he could do was either set some trap and hunt or just be chased by the beasts.
"Okay, I'll be back soon."
After saying this Jay hurried towards the forest that was just ahead of them at a distance of about 700 metres.
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2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. 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