The real journey starts

Sam has been using the underground cave as his base for the last few days and today he was going to leave this base forever, he had already kept everything into the space ring.

  Including the dead body which was now kept inside a stone coffin.

He has already got used to using the green jade, golden sphere and the golem together . 

He created a new armored golem which gave out a green aura lingering around its body which completely deflected both the black and red smoke .

At first he thought following the map would make his journey much easier , but he was wrong again.

  As he moved further he found there were many other animals that lived in the black and red smoke.

The ones he first came into were small ones with an aggressive nature, he could deal with the smaller ones without much effort. 

But later bigger ones started appearing in the path depicted by the map.

The first one was a red ape.

  Sam was really unwilling to fight the red colored animals, the simple reason being they were more aggressive and would not stop attacking until one destroyed them completely.

  They would also not give upon any animal that came into their sight no matter what.

When Sam came to the Ape's area, it was too late for him to retreat as it had already taken notice of him .

But after calming down Sam thought "fuck... this guy is a king kong , his hands looks really heavy and he is fast... But this can also be used as a test to gauge my strength... I will not use the Evil sword or Shackles of Maya''

The ape came swinging , Sam didn't have time to dodge so he used the energy shield .…

Boom.…

An earth shattering sound was heard but the energy shield didn't budge.

But neither were things going his way, as the ape didn't stop at one punch.

Boom ....Boom…Boom...

The situation was not looking good anymore , the thickness of the energy shield was decreasing with each punch .

  The ape was pummeling him down and this was no fair exchange ....

He needed to get away from the ape.  He was having second thoughts like, maybe using the energy shield was not the way to go.

  But as he observed further he found an advantage, the energy shield sure was tiring the ape out.

  after more than 30 punches, the punches have become a little weaker.

  Even Though the energy shield has  thinned out, he knew now was the time for a counter attack.

" Earth Capture... Earth spikes "

Two earthen hands came out and took hold of both the legs of the ape.. 

The ape broke out within seconds , but was already too late.

The spikes arrived instantly, Even though the spike didn't penetrate the flesh completely it did wound the legs and thighs of the ape.

Sam didn't wait for the ape to balance itself, he used the earth skip to jump up and  took out the heavy blade to strike down.

The ape held both his hands up and put on a defensive stature, red aura appeared on both its arms and the ape completely blocked the blade.

But Sam was not ideal either, a stone ball appeared under the golem's foot and he crushed the ball onto the thighs with a kick.

The kick was aimed directly where the ape was wounded.

The stone ball was crushed and dark blue liquid came out, the liquid started corroding the apes flesh and entered its wounds .

At the same time Sam pulled back with the rebound of the kick.

  After creating a certain distance between the ape and himself, he exerted the green aura towards the right foot of the golem.

The splashed blue liquid was corroding the right leg of the golem too.

The stone ball was a new weapon he developed to deal with the red beasts , the stone ball was created from earth crystal and the hardest stone he could form. It contained the venom that was extracted from the poison sac of the King cobra.

An angry scream was heard as the ape was enraged . 

Sam could have waited out for the venom to completely take effect, but he didn't.

  The noise made from the fight and roar could attract other beasts, then he would be in real danger and he did not want to test his luck.

Sam didn't directly attack but skipped around and increased his speed. 

The enraged ape was not slow either; it was already onto him, he defended the punch with the heavy blade but was thrown back.

He didn't mind as he used the power from the punch to gain more momentum for the next skip and appeared directly above the ape.

  He used another slash towards the ape's head.

The Ape defended its head with its hand covered in red aura again.

This time the red aura started spreading all over the ape's body.

  Sam was pushed back but maintained his momentum skipping again and tried to land another attack.

But he was in for a surprise , the red aura that surrounded the ape formed into a big red hand and punched towards him.

  Sam used the energy shield at full power.

  The Apes counter attack was really powerful, he was sent back like a cannonball.

He didn't stop for about 100 meters breaking anything that came in the way, including some black trees and a small boulder.