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I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 202: Active realm beast
Eryndor quickly rushed to his position amidst the sound of Ice Oxen heading their way.
"THEY ARE HERE!"
Eryndor hollered, alerting everyone in case they missed.
The humongous group of beasts charged over with that unusual Ice Ox in the lead.
From where he was positioned, Eryndor could view the entire group, making it easy for him to spot the Ice Ox which had sensed him the earliest.
The Ice Oxen in the horde were all of different realms.
The majority of them were in the Latent realm, characterized by their light blue eyes.
He spotted a few which had dark blue eyes. They were at Stable realm.
Eryndor couldn't count them accurately in the current situation, but if he were to take a rough guess, there were maybe around thirteen to fifteen.
We're fucked, we only have Valentina and Edward who can tackle level two beasts.
That wasn't even the worst part, only now when he narrowed his eyes at the Ice Ox in lead and carefully scrutinized it did he realize why it was able to sense him so early.
The one charging in the lead still had dark blue eyes, but its horns were curled unnaturally in a forward direction.
In Ice Oxen, dark blue eyes plus unnaturally curled horns in forward direction was an indication of Active realm.
That was a level three beast.
No no, how is that possible?
Beasts this strong shouldn't be in the tournament.
Or is it because this horde is just that big of a point bag that they increased its difficulty so much?
As he was in his thoughts, which barely took a few seconds, the beast horde finally arrived before the wide open area meant to be a disguise for the pit below.
As soon as the level three beast stepped foot on the trap, its speed faltered as it looked below in faint confusion.
No way, is it more intelligent than the rest of its kind?
Eryndor narrowed his eyes, scanning each move of that particular beast while also simultaneously employing Telekinesis.
All of them had kept their bags far away from the traps for obvious reasons. As for their phones? That was up to their personal preference.
Eryndor never fought with his phone on him, so his device was in the bag far away.
That wasn't a problem with his range though. The range of Telekinesis was shorter than the one of Cognitive Scrying, but it was still enough to reach his bag.
All of this happened within a second.
The next moment, long white wings shimmered into existence from both sides of the Active realm beast.
Damn, an innate ability as well? And that too about flying which will let it escape the pit hole?
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Should we run?
Similar to him, others also had a position which allowed them to have a clear point of view of the proceedings in front of the beast.
He would soon know of their opinions.
As Eryndor took out his phone and was discreetly bringing it back to him, being careful to not let it be spotted in anyone's surveillance range, Edward yelled.
"THAT'S AN ACTIVE REALM BEAST WITH AN INNATE ABILITY TO FLY, RUN!"
Damn, just how weak is he mentally?
I wouldn't blame him for running away, but he is supposed to be one of the strongest among us. He shouldn't be bending the earliest.
He also has an escape treasure, what is he afraid of?
Eryndor, and everyone else knew that Valentina was the strongest if one purely relied on offense.
That was even without exposing the rest of the abilities of her two snakes.
It was Valentina who yelled back quickly, before Edward could even initiate his action of retreating.
"DON'T! WE HAVE A CHANCE!"
Then her voice lowered, but still enough for the rest of them to hear it.
"We have a lot of traps in the maze, even if it dodges the pit, we can try to heavily damage it.
"Not to mention if nothing works, we can still escape through your escape treasure. Don't you have one Edward?
"Last thing, we need to get as much points as possible before even deciding to run away,"
Eryndor could see Edward taking a deep breath as he refocused his attention on the battlefield.
He was probably still shaken, but Valentina's words were like a pillar of support for him.
He might still be afraid, and not able to give his hundred percent effort, but it looked like he would at least not escape alone in panic, abandoning them.
At this point, the Active realm beast had already crossed the pit, looking back at the horde of its brethren which had begun falling into the pit.
Alas, they couldn't stop jumping into the pit due to the advanced version of the Beast Luring Incense. They kept moving forward blindly.
At the same time, Eryndor had also finished sending a message to Sander.
"Was there not supposed to be an Active Realm beast in the tournament???"
Since he was sufficiently far away from the rest of his team, and couldn't afford to engage his hands with typing in this tense moment, he switched into his eldritch form and used a random object to type across the keyboard.
The Active realm Ice Ox let out a loud cry, gazing at his kin for the last time before charging into the Maze.
Eryndor's mind instantly came up with several possible explanations for the creature's actions.
First, it's affected by the Beast Luring Incense like the rest of the Ice Oxen, and the little rationality it is holding onto isn't enough to resist the pull of the luring item.
Second, it isn't THAT much more intelligent than the rest of its kin, just a tiny bit.
Else it would've waited for the pit to fill up before letting the remaining horde scout the path ahead for it.
Third, it is emotional, and wants to take revenge for its kind, therefore it wasn't afraid of charging in alone.
Instantly, Eryndor figured out which points could be useful to tackle the beast.