I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 149: Future paths

Eryndor first compiled all the messages from the yellow papers that he remembered.

The first one was - 'I'll bring Eldritch Eryndor to you.'

The second one - 'Daoisto!!! Daoisto!!! You must uphold your end of the deal! Else I'll die!'

Third - 'Hahaha, thank you for making an opening Daoist!'

Fourth - 'The memories oh the no no yes the memories yes haha I have them back I have them back hahahahaha

'But but but arghhhhhhhh.'

Fifth - 'Arghhhh arghhhh. Dead! Dead! All dead!

'Arghhhh. Everyone who participated in the mission is dead arghhhh! I am the last one left!

'No one knows! No one knows!

'I am scared! I am scared! I want to live!'

Sixth - 'jajwbd jajshd that opening…'

Seventh - 'Got it got it got it got it got it got it.'

After recollecting the words written on them, he tried to move them around, to see if some specific order of them made sense.

It took quite a while, but no new clue came up.

I mean, it kind of makes sense. They were all written by someone who went crazy, why would there be some specific order. I feel stupid.

He told his teammates to resume their pace of heading towards Paulina, as he once again delved back into his thoughts.

That fifth piece of yellow paper, it spoke about how everyone participating in the mission died.

That is creepy.

It was certainly odd that everyone who had participated in the mission died.

It certainly must've happened after the memory modification.

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Only in this way would no one know that every person who died was a part of the mission to seal an eldritch entity.

But the point was, who did it? And why?

Only one name came to Eryndor's mind.

Dr. Kirchoff.

Well, it was pretty obvious. Assuming that he didn't end up modifying his memory as well, he was the only person left who accurately knew who all participated in the mission.

Of course, there should be a mission record as well. Judging from how everyone's memories were modified though, he reckoned that only Dr. Kirchoff would have the authority to view it.

After all, if more people could view it, why even bother modifying the memories in the first place.

Did they even make one?

No matter what it was, the biggest possibility was that Dr. Kirchoff having all his memories intact, and also being the one behind the killings.

Why did he do it though?

Eryndor wondered. The one who was affected the most through this was undoubtedly himself.

Modifying everyone's memories, then proceeding to kill them, if you looked at it from another point of view, it looked like he was protecting Eryndor.

Of course, it could also be that Dr. Kirchoff simply didn't want the news to leak at all, so he took no chances with it.

If I assume he did it all to protect me, what could be the reason behind it?

Eryndor knew that Dr. Kirchoff was the highest authority when it came to dealing with anomalies.

Eldritch entities were also currently counted under anomalies.

There was a high probability that he headed the mission to seal him, right?

If it was indeed as he had guessed, then what was the reason behind protecting him?

First seal me, then protect me? For what?

Eryndor shook his head, and put this train of thought to the back of his mind. Although the information contained was explosive, it did nothing to alleviate his current condition.

There was also another option he could think of.

That their deaths have nothing to do with Dr. Kirchoff.

It could be that his eldritch origin somehow caused their deaths.

Just exposure to his true form might've inflicted some kind of deadly curse or something.

But then, if Dr. Kirchoff could save himself from this, why didn't he save the others? Is it a resource constraint?

Eryndor was more inclined to believe his former speculation about Dr. Kirchoff silencing everyone but he put it to the back of his mind and thought about something else.

So Co-founder Morris got his memories fixed, and realized that all the people who had died were actually the ones who participated in the mission to seal me.

Wait… could it be that this is the deal he made with Daoisto?

I mean yea, it had to be something along the lines of saving his life, but I finally know that this is what he wanted to be saved from.

But how will that even happen?

How could Daoisto help him in a way that would save his life?

Eryndor thought about the papers which talked about 'opening'.

Does 'opening' have anything to do with it?

Eryndor pulled his hair out of frustration, this was definitely a bit messy.

He temporarily halted his thoughts, and sped up, regrouping with his teammates. Maybe a little time off of everything would help him come up with something.

"Done with your work?"

Valentina asked. He gave her a simple nod.

Edward didn't say anything. He understood that he wasn't a part of this group, and if even Valentina was being kept out of it, he had no place asking anything.

He initiated a different topic though.

"If possible, we should fight all the beasts we encounter on the way.

"We earlier decided that we'll steer clear of everything so that we can reach Paulina's place as quickly as possible.

"But I've been thinking, if we fight beasts on the way, we'll only be delayed by two to three hours. That's not actually bad is it?

"Not like Paulina is in some danger, and anyway Syndra will reach there way earlier than us. I do understand the possibility of group attacks, but I haven't seen many happening.

"So overall, it should be okay if we take out some beasts on the way right?"

Eryndor thought about his suggestion seriously. Valentina and him both knew that the attack on him was unusual.

It wasn't a usual group attack one would've expected in a tournament.

But Edward didn't know about that. He didn't know that even two to three hours was a lot for Eryndor who wanted to regroup at the earliest to be as safe as possible.

Valentina gave Eryndor a knowing look. She understood that Edward had made a valid point, but Eryndor was also right in his place.

She was thinking of how to refute Edward when Eryndor spoke.

"If it's about points, why waste two to three hours here, when you could use the same to kill beasts in tundra which would give much more points?"

It was a surprisingly easy solution.

Edward awkwardly coughed into his fist, and spoke with an undertone of embarrassment in his voice.

"I forgot about that. I was just focused on getting points and fighting beasts since I intend to go down that path."

Valentina had a confused expression.

"Huh?"

Edward chuckled, and explained.

"Dealing with anomalies, fighting beasts, or going against the Eight Outer Domains, are few of the major paths you can go down as you grow stronger.

"It's one of the things taught at the academy in later years.

"They ask you to focus on only one thing, then the academy teaches you everything regarding that.

"I am currently pursuing the path of fighting beasts, so the academy teaches us everything related to beasts and efficiently fighting them.

"It is honestly very rewarding and worthwhile, because I think that I can even take on beasts at the initial stage of the third realm."

Eryndor spoke, easily keeping up with everyone as they were only going at the speed of the initial stage of the first realm.

"That's rather smart of the Academy to divide us into different parts so we can be best at whatever we choose.

"Unfortunately, if a particular sector experiences some emergency and needs more people, the reinforcement it would receive would be quite incapable.

"By the way, do you know what the third realm for those beasts is called? I am not up to date with it."

It was Valentina who replied.

"The third realm for beasts and anomalies is called 'Active' realm. A bit weird, but the Human Federation declared it so we gotta follow."

So 'Active' is indeed the third realm huh? That means the 'Enhanced' realm is the fourth realm.

Eryndor thought back to the levels of his abilities. They shared the naming system with that of anomalies and beasts.

While he was in his thoughts, Edward replied to his other point.

"Valid. The people trained in one particular path would indeed be weak in others, the Academy is planning to implement a system where students can take another secondary path where they'll be at least trained to an acceptable standard.

"It hasn't been implemented yet, just a few notices which were passed around."

Eryndor nodded his head. "I see. So you are weak when against a human?"

He bluntly asked, to which Edward embarrassedly laughed.

"Yea, I only won the ranking battle by pure luck because my opponent also happened to not specialise in combat against humans.

"You can take an example of the leader of that team Yetoren which scanned us for any anomalies.

"Ronin was his name right? Despite being at stage seven of the second realm, I felt a sense of crisis when I looked at him.

"I reckon that he should be extremely adept at fighting with humans. Even with my superior stage nine of second realm, I would've lost if I fought him."

Eryndor and Valentina both nodded in Edward's direction and thanked him for the information. It was indeed good to have contact with seniors.

Suddenly, Eryndor sensed something.