Closing in on the river Rakurai still annoyed Shea. An Hue was laughing at the jokes of Chui, Jax and Ba Ye discusses how long they were going to stay at the river. They decided that not only did they need water they needed food and supplies in order to finish their journey. Sky was trying to evaluate the skills of Rakurai and discovered that she can mentally communicate with him, she could read his mind but it was like a child. Sky was laughing with how child-like Rakurai was.
A cyan colored bird flew past the group screeching and a flock of the birds flew past the group and that's when they realized that they reached the river. Multiple species of animals mostly unranked beast which basically meant no mythical beasts ( regular beast and stuff). Realizing that this was no mirage even though desert's maw ended. While scouting river there was another party consisting of a gambler( yes that's a combat class) and a archer along with a Qi warrior and a demon warrior.
The trio had set up camp and set up a shop and trade meat and water for resources. Sky looked in confusion at the Gambler named Ostro who was running the shop. Sky wandered near the shop. Ostro shouted "Hey beautiful do you want to buy something?" Sky in shock said "I think so." In the small shop there was hides and meats of all kinds of normal beasts. Water was placed in containers and shelved. Sky looked and saw a few mythical beast skins from monster rank ones and twos. Sky saw a rank two beast pelt and was awestruck and asked Ostro what rank he was. Ostro said " I'm rank three." Sky knowing that rank three was three times harder to reach then rank two and six times harder to reach then rank one. Sky was amazed. Sky said" I'm a Sky mage." Ostro introduces himself to Sky and Sky did the same. As they two were chatting and flirting an loud noise roared through the camp. Ostro and Sky rushed out of the shop. Jax was panicking and rushed around the camp like a chicken without its head.
" Everyone evacuate." said the archer. The earth shook as the groups ran. Loud horns were blown and it sounded like an airplane. The group knew instantly that it was the Gajasimha. The beast chased the group killing the archer just by blowing its trunk and used the compressed air to kill the archer. The Qi warrior felt as if he lost his soul seeing the archer die cried and cried screaming his heart out "cursed beast how dare you kill my wife." The warrior rushed at the guardian stalling it enough to let the party and Ostro escape and the warrior died holding the archer in his arms.
Ostro not knowing what to do started to have a panic attack. He was cowering behind some trees with the group. Shea cried because she had became friends with the archer and Warrior and wished that someone loved her as much as they loved each other. Jax on the other hand was oblivious and wanted to become as strong as the warrior. Jax played on the flute hoping to calm Ostro down.
System generating [Soothing sound]
Focuses mind and sharpens senses
3 MP scales with rank
Removes fear debuff
Sharpens senses by 5% scales with rank
Calming down, Ostro collected himself and saw Sky crying and said " Well since that's over I guess we should head out." Looking brave and strong in front of Sky. Jax and Chui gathered some herbs from the surrounding forest and the party headed out with Ostro as the newest member. Ba Ye mixed the herbs from Jax and Chui into the meat from the supplies Ostro brought. (That's important later) and off the group went.