- Chapter Eighteen -

Freya took out a piece of paper and started going over the strategy. I've gotta say, I'm impressed. There were two parties of six, two parties of five and one party of three.

The three archers were in their own party led by Parks. They would do long distance attacks.

Each party had three tanks, because you can never have too many tanks.

Ronin and I led one party, Thad led one with the twins, Freya and Dozer led one and Gojira led one.

When you have that many tanks, you really don't need a strategy. You go in, they take the damage, you deal the damage. While one tank has the boss's aggro, the other two are healing while everyone else is dealing out damage. And the fact that almost everyone here could hold their own made me feel better about it.

The two bigger parties would focus on the boss while the two smaller ones would defend us from any other monsters or minions in our way.

Ronin spoke up, "I could take Callisto and Freya's assassin to the dungeon later today and see what we're getting ourselves into."

Callisto and the other assassin 'Raven' both nodded. Raven was the first female assassin I've seen so far that only used daggers and throwing knives. She had two fairly big, curved daggers on each hip and five throwing knives on a lanyard across her chest. Talk about badass.

Freya looked at Raven and nodded in approval.

Parks said, "I'll join you." And the three assassins looked at him baffled.

Callisto was the first to answer. "You know Shadow Walk?" He asked.

"No." Parks replied, "But I have 7 invisibility potions." He said smirking.

A few moments later, Parks, Ronin, Callisto and Raven were all huddled together going over their own strategy for later that day.

Freya walked over to where Thad, Dozer and I were talking with a smile on her face. "The girls want to know if they're invited to the next party you guys have."

I turned to look at her guild and was met with prying eyes, but they all seemed to look away once they saw me looking.

"Tell you what, if we complete this raid without losing anyone, you're all invited. Our treat." I replied. "That goes for your guild too, Thad."

They both smiled and Thad looked over at Firefly, "Ima have to stay with y'all then. I barely made it home last night."

"Light weight." Freya replied, punching him on the arm.

"He ain't no light weight." I replied, "He's just trying to get in them guts."

We all laughed, but he never denied it.