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**12k preview chapter of my 140k book.**
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Shin watched the sunrise behind the mountains.
Despite the sky being almost entirely covered in clouds, light still managed to break through and illuminate the city of Cloudhall. The city itself was massive, spilling outwards over the surrounding lands in every direction, and it was ringed with a stone wall that towered above most of the buildings. Its purpose to stop the mammoth-sized monsters that lived outside it from laying waste to the city whenever they grew too curious about the humans inside the settlement.
Occasionally one of the monsters would test out the city defenses and even smash down a wall or two. Still, the city was filled with heroes, adventurers, monster slayers, and even a monster response unit, so the offending monsters never lasted long against the response.
Shin himself was in training to join the Monster Hunters. This elite group would be sent out on missions to hunt down dangerous monsters for resources, to protect other settlements, or to remove the threats before they could become more significant problems.