The Great Salt Lake
The next section of the game is relatively easy, but since we are on the world map, consider saving your game before venturing too far away from the bridge exit.
Your destination is a large, seemingly empty lake nearby. Approach and enter it to continue with the next part of the story, which involves some brief dialogue between Edea and the rest of the team. You have one more opportunity to select which team members you wish to take. The same warning about whom you choose applies here (read the helpful hint below).
Temporary Party Members
Helpful Hint
While it can be fun to include Edea in your party temporarily, she is not a permanent addition to the group. Therefore, any experience she gains will essentially be wasted. This lost experience is not a significant problem as she will only be with your team for a very short amount of time, but it’s something to consider when making your party selection choices.
It’s tough to get lost in this area because there aren’t that many different directions that you can go. Unfortunately, all the different areas look very similar to one another. To make traveling through this area a bit easier, several screenshots are included below to help guide you.
Start by going forward and head straight into the next screen.
Tonberry’s Familiar and Call Shop Abilities
Helpful Hint
Tonberry has an ability called 
Familiar that allows you to purchase “rare” items from certain shops, including the Timber shop and the upcoming shops in the city of Esthar. Make sure that Tonberry learns this ability as soon as possible. You may also want to check the Familiar ability link for the complete list of available items.
You can also use the Call Shop ability to pull up the shops you visit from anywhere in the game. To do this, however, you will need to have learned the ability before you access the shops. It’s worth hanging around in the Great Salt Lake battling enemies if you don’t have these two abilities.
The next screen features a massive dinosaur skeleton on the right side. Instead of following the path on the left side of it, you can climb up the face of the skeleton as shown in the screenshot below. Continue to the right side of the screen.
Squall will reappear at the bottom of the screen, standing in front of a bridge that leads across a chasm with a walkway below. Before you cross the bridge, go to the right and use a hidden 
Meteor Draw Point (as shown below), then cross the bridge heading north.
There is a Thundaga Draw Point as soon as you enter this next area, although there is a good chance that none of your characters need extra Thundaga magic at this point in the game. Draw from it if you need it, and then walk forward towards the ledge.
As you approach, a window will pop up allowing you to press 
to jump down. Do that now, and then make your way north into the next screen.
You can’t move forward in this next area, but you can travel to the left or the right from here. The correct pathway leads to a Save Point, so consider saving your game. The left path leads to the next boss battle, although this boss fight is straightforward. Travel to the left when you are ready.
Boss Battle
In Game Description: A monster born of ancient bones deep in Great Salt Lake. It’s assumed that it came to life after the Great Salt Lake dried up.
This fight is extremely easy, and the game doesn’t even make you figure out that this is an undead-type enemy; it tells you right off the bat. Just like in the Gerogero battle back on the train car, you can use a 
Phoenix Down or an Elixir to kill Abadon instantly. That said, this is an extremely easy fight even without having to rely on those mechanics.
Before you instantly one-shot Abadon, consider Drawing some Flare magic and trying to 
Mug a 
Power Wrist from it.
1x
Power Wrist
10x
Flare Stone
Follow the pathway to the right after you have defeated Abaddon. It naturally drifts to the right.
As you pass through the next screen, you will see a strange hexagonal structure that looks like a door flash on the screen from time to time. Press near the doorway to have Squall and his team climb up the ladder and enter through the entryway.
There are quite a few screens to go through, as well as some dialogue, but the story will keep rolling forward without you having to do much until the team lands at the entrance to Esthar. Before that, though, it’s time for one last Laguna Dream Sequence…