While others relaxed, Shin was busy finding a way to cross the river.
First of all, he gave them some meat to eat and regain energy. It was mealtime anyway so it was obvious that they were hungry.
Apart from that, he wanted to rest for an hour at least so that he could come up with a plan.
For now, some of the space in inventory was empty and he was thinking about sticking to this plan, but then he suddenly started going through his skills to find if there was a suitable skill that would let him cross.
He had each and every skill in his mind but wanted to check once again to see if he was forgetting a skill.
However, he had no skill that could help him to cross the river. And when he was thinking on this topic, he suddenly recalled something.
'Wait…'
'System, hadn't you mentioned something earlier?'
'Something about using my clan mates' skills with some boosts?'
*Ding*
[ Affirmative ]
'I wasn't paying any attention so could you explain it to me again?', Shin asked.
He was actually referring to the time when the system notified him that he could use other skills besides his own skills.
Yes, they were divided into two sectors, one – where the host could inherit the skills of the ones whom he named, two – when the host has formed a clan and has clan members.
He could use the skills of either of the beings mentioned above.
*Ding*
[ The host can use the skills of his clanmates with a certain amount of boosts ]
[ The skills of all the members would be boosted by 100% when the host uses ]
[ The skills of members with the higher level that Shin would follow the previously mentioned condition ]
[ The skills of members with lower levels, when compared to Shin, will follow the previous condition with an additional boost of 1000% ]
'I see, so if I use Terran's skill, then the total boost would be 11 times its original power.'
'But if I try using the Grigard King's skills, who is at a much higher level than me, then the boost would remain at 2 times its original skill…'
Shin understood it perfectly. He realized the advantages that he had with this. Yes, no matter if the member is stronger than him, or weaker than him, he would still be able to execute their skills with twice its original power.
This means, they would have no doubt regarding Shin and would always believe that he is stronger than them.
Whereas, if the members were weaker, they would respect him from the get-go since their strength would be obvious.
The reason why he asked the system about this was that he wanted to see if any other member had a suitable skill that he could use.
'Lemme take a look…'
He looked at everyone's status and profile in search of some suitable skills which wouldn't delay them anymore.
However, none of them had any such skills.
Shin took a look at the map, which he requested from the system, only to find out that there was just one small place from where he could cross the river.
Yes, and that was the mountain peak.
'Hmm, will I make it in time if I rush to the mountain and then cross to the other side?', he questioned himself.
Any other method didn't seem feasible and considering the fact that the river kept becoming wider until it joined the sea, there was no other way. He had to look for a narrower part and that was only in the mountain.
Unfortunately enough, the mountain wasn't a part of either of the forest. It was actually located in one of the human kingdoms which appear after passing through the forest, towards the West.
Yes, as mentioned earlier, the Kingdom Of Rein, which was one of the largest kingdoms had some mountains that separated it from the forest of Thuren.
(Towards the West, there was one of the largest human kingdoms which were considered to be most prosperous out of all the kingdoms – the kingdom of Rein.
The kingdom Rein was larger than Levonia and was well protected by nature itself. Its starter town, Arcale was rarely attacked by any monsters due to the presence of mountains that separated the forest of Thuren from the kingdom.)
The river that originated from one of the tallest mountains, Grekko, was called the Rein-Grekko river, because of the name of the kingdom and the mountain since the kingdom claimed the mountain to be a part of their territory.
Of course, they built birders a bit away from the mountain since the connection of the mountain with the forest caused a lot of dangers for the starter town as mentioned earlier.
Shin doesn't even require going to the top of the mountain. Even at the base of the mountain, the river would be much narrower and he would be able to cross it.
And thus, after deciding this, he approached his men.
However, there was a new problem, how would he approach them and say that he can help them cross the river but he himself can't do it.
It would not only be awkward but also would be super lame.
Shin by no means could bring himself to say anything related to it, at least, not right now unless he made up some random excuses that made sense.
He then decided what he had to say after thinking for a minute or two and then raised how voice, "I will help you cross the river."
The wolves blindly believed what Shin said without even raising a single question. They had complete faith in whatever he did and knew that he would never joke on such a serious matter and thus, all of them just nodded their heads as if they were gesturing that they believe him.
"Alright then, just close your eyes.", he said.
All of them did as they were asked. Shin didn't want them to realize that he was using the same inventory skill as earlier to basically teleport them.
After they closed their eyes, Shin quickly used the inventory to store them inside, and without wasting any time, he made them appear on the other side of the river.
For a second they couldn't hear any sound but right after that, they could hear the gushing sound of the water that was flowing rapidly with great force.
"You can all open your eyes.", Shin said.
*Ding*
[ You have used the skill Telepathy ]
All of them opened as he instructed and found themselves on the other side of the river.
Half of them were completely shocked while the rest nodded their head as if they knew this would happen – of course, they only pretended to know while they were surprised as well.
However, they were surprised for another reason.
When they looked at the river, a little ahead they could see Shin standing. Yes, he was still on the other side of the shore.
It was weird cause they heard his voice a few seconds ago and it was calm and deep as if he was next to them while asking them to open their eyes.
"Don't worry about me, I have some important work to do.", Shin said.
They heard his voice yet again cleanly and finally realized that he was using telepathy to communicate with everyone at the same time.
Deoras was completely shocked to see this happen.
That was because, until now, in the entire world, no one has ever performed a mass Telepathy!
Yes, while the skill Telepathy was like a blessing, it could only be used between two individuals, that was its only flaw.
However, when Deoras noticed that Shin was addressing everyone in their heads via telepathy, he realized something which he should have realized long ago – Shin is someone who is able to break the laws of this world, or to be precise, he isn't restricted by the laws.
Regardless, they heard what he said but they were unsure of the plan. They thought that Shin would be leading them till they arrived at their destination, so why would he tell about some other work? – all of them started to wonder.
But it wasn't their place to ask him anything.
"Here.", Shin gave a map to them.
"Follow the directions mentioned in the map." – he said.
Shin was cautious, he had drawn the map from the start even before they were ready to depart.
Of course, he handed this to Aella and asked them to leave.
"I will join you guys within a day.", Shin said.
They agreed and started to walk down the path mentioned on the map, but of course, they were a bit hesitant.
Now that they had gone, Shin started to walk towards the Grekko mountain and was soon to use his skills so that he could join them quickly.
However, he hadn't realized how dangerous it could be to go alone.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺