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The world sinks in its harrowing despair.
The great barriers shalt break as fare.
All that's left would be a single soul, and blessed be he to bring us home.
Thy who came from the great hero, oh bring us back to our glorious home.
Save thee world from its final stand,
and bring us back to our glorious home.~
"What kind of song is that?" asked Kitzuma, as he stared at the archpriest strolling along in a festive mood.
"Its called 'glorious home' which is pretty popular around the church I came from." the archpriest with violet hair, Perlin replied.
"No wonder the lyrics sound so messed up" Kitzuma made a conclusion. Somehow, it annoyed him that it actually sounded rather decent.
The mage was carried behind his back, as he felt her squirming around. With the tiny non-exsistent mountain present though, the ordinary adventurer was rather depressed.
"Could you continue singing?" requested the magic swordsman.
"I don't do requests" the arch priest replied and stopped.
The group was currently led by Dominic from a happy plains with a lack of monsters, through some rocky mountains, and now they were strolling along inside another forest yet again.
"Shouldn't there be paths linking from city to city?" Kitzuma asked the guild member.
"Yes there are, however we have to stray off it as we follow that magical compass you gave him" the guild member replied, with a somewhat tinge of annoyance in his voice at the mention of that magical compass.
"Rachel! I mean.. Kevin! Isn't this great? the forest is so quiet and empty~" the jinx archpriest uttered some tabboo words.
And then, a Dragon decended upon them from the skies.
"You god damn jiiinnxxxx" screamed Kitzuma, as the group broke into a sprint, still following Dominic who had a rather composed face for some reason.
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"To the right!" the magicswordsman screamed.
"Nah, let's go ahead." Dominic retorted, as he continued to follow the arrow on the compass.
The magic swordsman Johnathon, had the unique ability to sort of sense the danger level of the path or route they were taking. If they continued ahead, he felt that it was only slightly less dangerous than fighting against that dragon.
However, the group appeared to be made out of idiots, as everyone proceeded to run forward, and were cornered against a cliff with the river flowing below, and the dragon behind them.
"Oh right, I think some words from the song was ripped off from the great prophecy the information broker mentioned." Dominic finally remembered.
And then, the group took the only chance they had, and jumped down the cliff.
They dried off their clothes at the bank, as the group was washed down across the river. It was rather good for Dominic, since this would be faster and that it was going towards the direction of the arrow anyways.
They were currently at the corner of a cliff, drying out their clothes before a gigantic door.
And also, that was a dungeon with the mark of Solomon.
"Where is this?! I need to mark it! Its a great dungeon of Solomon." the guild member quickly wrote down on his map the location.
"Solomon's dungeon?!" this piqued everyone's attention.
"This..this is the legendary dungeon of Solomon?!" everyone was shocked.
"It feels dangerous... much more than even that dragon behind..." the magicswordsman said.
"Duh" Dominic retorted.
And he quickly realised that he stated a rather obvious fact in a dramatic way. Causing him to look down in shame.
Kitzuma was hoping for this lucky pervet situation where he could see the girls change.
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However, that was blown aside when the archpriest Perlin casted the spell "Cleanse" on everyone.
"tch" he muttered under his breath.
Dominic was in quite a dielema. The dungeon was blocking the way the arrow was pointing, and they had to scale a cliff in order to get to the land above where it was situated.
Furthurmore, if they even enter, they'll be stuck for quite some time. Which was not optimal for him who was going off to save someone.
Dominic was pretty sure the information broker said the place was quite far away, millions of kilometers he had said.
There was no way he could have traveled this far based on his speed limit.
Maybe he had broke it a few times when he destroyed a mountain... or two...actually ten times.
"Hey, how far is this place from the afamed academic city?" asked Dominic.
"It has a direct portal to our adventuring city, however if you're going by foot, that might take a few decades." the guild member replied.
"I see..." Dominic understood.
He may have went abit too fast.
"Hey hey, can we look inside the dungeon?" asked the archpriest.
"If you do that, you'll be stuck there until you complete it. There's no way out of it" Dominic replied.
"Oh..." Perlin was disappointed.
"And now, let's continue" Dominic said, as he began to climb the wall while making footholes with his fingers. Pretending to put on a 'magic' glove when he did so.
The adventurers could only follow along.
"Do we get something for discovering this dungeon?" asked Kitzuma.
"A little bit of money will be given for this information.." the guild member replied.
"Yesss" there were a few cheers of joy.
The group found themselves in another empty grass plains.
It didn't have a single monster around.
"Oh! I know this place!" the guild member exclaimed. Which suprised the group, he had always been rather quiet after all.
"Up ahead, its Henesia, the largest guild building is loacated there!" he announced, as the group quickly made their way there.
"To think that a dungeon of Solomon would be this nearby... maybe they already knew? But I never heard of this..." the guild member muttered under his breath.
When Dominic took a look back, he noticed the misty magical shroud that covers many things doing the same over the entire surface of the dungeon. It only appeared to take effect if looked at from the top.
"Strange" Dominic thought, but he decided it was none of his business.
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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. 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