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They only stepped out of the building when it was two o'clock. That, of course, was only because Aki said they would die in case they themselves didn't complete a certain task.
It was a lie and Cleo knew, but she said they were good to go if they could pass so easily through her lie detector.
She still knew they were lying through experience though.
-I don't think we are ready to confront the guys attacking us. Said Guilda, while also asking for the plan.
-We can't attack the main quarters, but I know a place. It's one of their medium sized storages. I was asking around and one guy sold the Info into that. I disappeared five times before changing my lower face with an illusion and hiding into a cloak. He explained.
-So we attack it? She asked.
-We leave ten people unconscious. May be necessary, but I don't know. Try not to damage anything that is inside a box or looks strange. It may be valuable.
And so they vagued through the city and found the storage house. They were Hangry and were quite powerful, that means they could smell the people eating inside the building.
-Jump through the window. As he said such, he too did that. The door was wooden, so the people watching it noticed that it turned gray pretty much at the same time they saw two people coming in.
Frost started forming around. The wooden windows froze shut and the ones that were open got a rock wall in it.
People who were around heard screams coming from the building and saw sealed pathways, but they were either too afraid or knew who owned the place.
An explosion sounded, the screams got worse, then they stopped.
The direct translation of that was that they killed forty four people of around level thirty and fifty, and were now in a direct battle with a level one hundred something man in an underground space with good sound proofing.
Aki blinked into the man's shadow, but he was found out and his head was hit with a sword. At least that was what the opponent thought, but he was proven wrong when Aki sprung from the ground dripping sand and tables him while butt naked.
Aki got hit in the back of the head with the sword pommel, but Guilda broke the man's arm with her maw. He screamed and dropped the sword, getting hit again by Guilda's other maw.
She is not very good with shields, but she does have one.
Fun facts aside, the man tripped her while being thrown. He even fell and did a back roll because of a bad feeling. Which was right considering that Aki lunged at the place he was at with his daggers back in hand.
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With frost forming at his feet, the man threw himself at Aki before he was rooted yet again while taking a dagger from his gauntlet.
Aki rolled right and the man shot him with a mini crossbow on his wrist. The illusion dissipated and he was hit on the head.
[Your group has killed [Arte Maleis - Great blade warrior Lv 123/ Great trapper Lv 119]. For killing an opponent 50 levels or more levels above your own you will receive bonus XP.]
[*Ding* Assassin is now level 58. 6 attribute points awarded.]
[*Ding* Arcane magician is now level 52. 6 attribute points awarded.]
-Got a level from that. You go back and ask for some hands to help look into this place and I monitor it. After we eat. He said after looking at her murderous gaze.
Sixteen hours without food could make any human ravenous, even if they were super humans, that still applied after the "gym".
-Why do villains get all the good food? Asked Guilda while drooling at the rests of a table.
"Because they can kidnapt the chefs they want or just buy it jackass!" Said Aki through a telepathic link while he wolfed down on something that looked like a eight legged pig and tasted like turkey.
"Master, that is most likely poisonous, why don't I…. *Munching*"
Jade had been re summoned yet again and was loving the food of their hard work, though she did not fight the big guy. Right now she was delighting herself with serotonin or whatever passed for it around here after Aki threw the pork's legs to her.
He proffered white meat anyway.
While at it, Guilda runned to shove something down her mouth and found stupidly sweet fruits all around. Noticing Aki would most likely not eat those anyway, she searched for meat.
"Were those not tasty?" He asked after noticing her strange movements.
"Nah, I just know you don't like raw fruits or vegetables." She said matter of factly through the system gained skill.
*Gulp* - Guilda, I never told you that. He said with a serious tone.
-Eh? She was confused by the implications of that. Aki just continued eating while having an obvious sneer at his eyes.
"DON'T JUST DROP SOMETHING LIKE THAT!" She screamed in anger, giving him a visible headache. It was directly transmitted to his mind after all.
"OK, ok. It is most likely that thingy that was implanted on us. I explained to you that now we were servant and master, right? I wasn't kidding, this is the lowest level of a servant contract, it tells you all about me and how to serve me. It also makes my spells more effective on you and we can collaborate with more ease, so it is not without use." He said without a change in his face.
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"Oi, be a little more worried! Even if it wasn't you who was turned into a slave we are still…"
She seemed infuriated. And with reason.
"There are worse things. I asked for your contract to be the lowest level, but mine is set at the highest. I literally have a compulsion that will kill or cripple me in case of failure to obey Cleo. And I like it. It's one of the effects." He said in the same way.
After that they ate in silence. Guilda rode Jade back and came back fast. Something was forming between then and she noticed that.
She tried to think over it and the first thing Guilda noticed was that she started thinking of her little brother. The real one.
She was already sixteen when he was born. She had always been a "punk" that caused problems for her parents, so, like any attention seeking idiot, she was totally against the thing being born the moment she heard about it.
There was nothing she could do though. She did run away with some guys on a rock band as their Hold, but they fired her the moment her mother phoned them and she was literally thrown at her doorstep the same night.
Nowadays she was very thankful to them. If she hadn't hurt her feet that day, maybe she would really have tried having a go at working for that drug seller.
She'd ended up in jail much quicker, maybe finally crossing the line and lost her parents' love for good or ended up dead.
Even if she couldn't remember, she had most likely died anyway, but she could still be considered alive now. She didn't regret her adult life or killing that man for Fred. That pedophile deserved it.
Not that she would complain if there was proof that showed she was not exaggerating at stabbing the guy multiple times.
It would help if the guy wasn't rich as fuck while her brother had to relly on his intelligence to get in there.
And now she was kicking another guy who had a beard for no reason. He wasn't even blonde.
-You wanna go for a drink? Somberly asked Aki.
-Can you even drink? She asked with ragged breath. The corpse to her feet alredy minced meat. Splatters of blood on the walls and floor with a great distance from it.
-You are legally responsible for yourself at 16 around here and I have poison resistance. You will hardly find a better drinking buddy. I will even pay for it today. He offered.
…
"I was actually supposed to talk with Aranei right about now, but I guess I can just keep pumping healing and light mana into her brain. Just for today."
Thought Aki while being bear hugged by an armored Guilda who was sleeping from being too drunk.
And so he only slept after she woke up after it was six in the morning. She was actually fully reinvigorated from sleeping while hugging a healer and light magician.
…
-You look exhausted, do you perhaps hate beaches? Asked the succubus who was admiring her golden bikini and leg accessories. The bikini was small for human parameters, but quite normal for a demon. The weight of the "costume" made it easy to guess that it was actually not swimming gear and more for aesthetics.
-In fact, I do, but this is not a beach, it's a dungeon. Said Aki the moment he looked at her. He then pointed to the side of his head.
-Eh? She tried to reach for her horns, but found only air. She then tried to grow them back, but nothing happened.
-No equipment from the outside is permitted In here. See, the sun is purple and the sky green. He explained. He had a white short on him only.
-But those are… She tried to explain to him. It is not comfortable for a demon to not have his or her "horns" on.
-The manifestation of your sins and powers, I know, it's just that the guy who made this dungeon considered it as an accessory. She is something of a jackass and dickhead, but most of the people who can come in here have demons with them, so I guess it was because of that. And for the sake of the TV show about them too, but anyways. He shrugged.
It is not a typo, he first referred to the person as a he and then a she. It has a cursed name.
-A God of chaos? Nothing to be done them. Even if it is just your subconscious representation of it then there will be a catch about it. She sighed.
-I will have to ask you to protect us of the monsters here then. He smiled at her while pointing at the trembling forest next to the beach.
A men with the lower part of a mammoth and huge tusks passed through the trees and directed it's charge at them. It also had the size of a mammoth plus a human torso with similar proportions.
Aranei pointed her palm at it and a huge icicle was thrown towards the creature's heart.
-It has three hearts and you actually hit it's pancreas. The brain is on the lower part's torax. He pointed to her.
Not questioning him she conjured a thunderstorm that kept hitting
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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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