Chapter 41 - The Gish.

Garvin placed his hand into his bag made from sheep skin and brought out a few necklaces similar to the ones he had given the hunters of the toris tribe earlier.

The necklace he held was made using bones and animal skin while the necklaces of the others were made using animal skin only.

"Are you planning to create a party?" Alston asked.

"What do you think he is planning to do dummy!" Wesley attacked alston using her words.

The humans took the necklaces and wore them on their necks and garvin proceeded wear the necklace with bones on his own neck.

After a few seconds Garvin said "Bind"

Upon saying those words, the necklaces began to glow and he heard a series of notifications.

*Ding. Do you wish to create a party?*

"Yes" He replied in his mind.

*State the purpose of your party?*

"A travelling party" He said.

*Processing party formation*

After a few seconds, the five of them heard a notification *Ding, Party formation completed. Congratulations*

"Ohh good" Garvin said as he smiled and his vision changed to a tab that showed the details of the party and all of the members.

Garvin could see in the party members section the name of the member, age, level, skills, proficiency in skill and class"

"This is nice" He thought.

"Show me Wesley's info" He said in his thoughts.

The tab changed to show a picture of Wesley and her details.

Name - Myla Wesley.

Age - 24

Class - Bow Master.

Level - 15.

Skills

Leap Strike - Can propel self with light upward or forward movement while firing attacks.

Proficiency in Skill - 59%

Locked Aim - Can use precision and accuracy to launch arrows at intended opponents or enemies.

Proficiency in Skill - 72%

Multiple strikes - Can launch multiple arrows at opponent.

Proficiency in Skill - 62%

"Her stats are a little above average" Garvin concluded before he turned to look at alston's own.

Name - Royston Alston

Age - 25

Class - Warrior (Sword User)

Level - 16

Skills

Multiple Slashes - Can cut enemies with multiple sweeping strokes in a short period of time.

Proficiency in Skill - 68%

Battle Stance - Has a focused and rational mental attitude when being involved in fights, duels and battles.

Proficiency in Skill - 80%

Speed Strike - Able to deliver sharp blows to opponents or enemies in a short period of time.

Proficiency in Skill - 72%

"Well his skills are quite better than Wesley's. I wonder how? And a Battle Stance skill is quite surprising to be gained by someone whose personality is similar to his" Garvin concluded before he checked that of Doanne and Shelton.

Shelton's skills were similar to Alston and a bit better than him but doanne's skills were different as they had a section called spells and this made Garvin's jaw drop.

Name - Hazel Doanne.

Age - 27

Class - Mage.

Level - 19

Skills

Spellcasting - Can create and cast spells to cause specific effects through the use of mana around her.

Proficiency in Skill - 80%

Mana manipulation - Can manipulate pure mana to be used directly at will.

Rather than proficiency, there was level of mastery classified into Mastered, Expert, High average, Average and Low.

Spells

Heal - Can cast a healing aura to restore the health of allies or self. Level of Mastery (Expert)

Enhance - Can improve the physical abilities of allies and self. Level of Mastery (Average)

Energize - Can revitalize the energy of allies. Level of Mastery (Mastered)

Fireball - Can create a ball of fire to launch towards opponents. Level of Mastery (High)

Ward - Can create barriers to neutralize or block attacks from opponent. Level of Mastery (High)

Wind blast - Can gather gusts of wind to form a blast which is hurled towards opponents - Level of Mastery (Average)

Summon - Can summon creatures to her aid while using mana for a short period of time. The larger the creature, the more mana required to keep it. Level of Mastery - (High)

Doanne was a prodigy in her field. "She only has one more level to break through before she would be given another class" Garvin thought as he used his mind to command the interface to close and his vision was restored to the physical state.

A mage, a bow master, a warrior (Sword User), a spear warrior and a Messenger (Sensory Mage) entered the Moss deep forest.

Only the races that Shawn had personally created were limited by the energy they were allowed to manipulate. The other races like the humans, elves could have any of the main energies by default as it depended on which energy was the most prominent in any area.

Around Garvin's region, a class like mage was uncommon among the populace.

As the party of humans entered the forest they could see why is was called 'moss deep'. One could find moss that spread across the forest floor even among the trees.

It was supposed to be called a swamp. As the travelling party continued their journey across the forest. They could feel the uneasy noises that spread across the forest.

All of a sudden, a loud roar disturbed the forest as the group paused before they hid behind the trees and tall plants. In front of their eyes, a creature with ann orange coloured face and a black body emerged from a distance.

It's two heads protruding from it's neck, it's long and sharp claws attached to it's legs added to it's image and the sharp teeth protruding from it's mouths made it even more terrifying.

"It's ugly" Wesley said upon seeing the beast.

Garvin looked at the beast and tried to access it. His eyes released a dim glow and turned white before they returned before they returned back to the normal blue colour.

"It's a monster of Level 25"

This monster was produced from another of Shawn's laws which was the law of mutation and monster generation which stated that there was a small chance that animals and beasts living in certain areas and with enough energy could become something more defying.

"That monster blocks our pathway to the thumas tribe" Alston said.

"But how can we deal with a monster of that level? It's way more powerful than us" Wesley said.

"We can at least try" Alston said.

"Try!. We'll be dead if we came five metres close to that humongous creature" Wesley said.

Garvin looked at the creature again he tried to think about what to use information he had gained about the creature while using sensory energy. What he had done was that he used his skill called "Watcher's Eyes"

This skill allowed him probe and find details about the creature through the system including it's level, skills and others. The cost of the skill was a hundred and fifty ounces of sensory energy and currently he had just 1,200 in reserve.

"Doanne, you will have to bring the monster closer to us" Garvin said as he began to explain the details of his plan to the party.

The Gish minding it's own business and living it's life suddenly felt a searing heat on it's back.

One of it's heads turned to it's back to see who dared to do attack it. It was none other than Doanne who had hurled a fireball at the lizard.

Doanne raised her staff as it glowed and moved it in a circular motion before pointing it towards the monster. "Wind blast!" She yelled.

Suddenly, her surroundings became windy as the staff released a powerful aura as the surrounding air gathered towards doanne and compressed before being shot towards the Gish's head that was looking.

The blast of wind hit the head and dispersed. But it looked like no damage had been done to the head.

The attack made angered the Gish as it's two heads made a thunderous roar before it's limbs began to move towards doanne.

Doanne ran towards a side of the forest as the Gish chased after her.

Suddenly, she stopped and turned to see the Gish coming towards her.

"Ward!" She said as her staff glowed again and a blue light enveloped her body before forming a protective barrier that blocked the Gish's head from hitting her.

The head collided with the barrier and retreated but Doanne could see a dent on her barrier "Of course, if not for her level of mastery concerning the skill, she would have been crushed by the head"

The Gish upon seeing that it couldn't crush the barrier proceeded to raise on of it's claws before slashing at her. However, the attack did not cut through the barrier as the claw was pushed back but doanne could see a crack appearing on the spot it was slashed.

Her opponent was truly powerful.

As the Gish was about to make it's third strike on her barrier two arrows flew and pierced through one of the heads right eye and the corner of the other's left eye.

The creature roared in pain as it felt the force placed in the attack and the loss of it's eyes. It was now almost half blind.

Wesley had used her skill multiple strikes and Garvin just to be safe used another of his skills called 'Amplify' to improve her abilities and attacks and in doing so improved her proficiency.

That cost him 200 ounces of sensory energy.

Then, Shelton and Alston made their move.