I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 222: Encirclement

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Eryndor thought as he looked at what caused a rustle in the bushes.

Even in the tundra region, there were places which occasionally had a bunch of trees and bushes.

Their occurrence was getting more and more frequent recently.

Eryndor knew the reason why, it was because they were heading towards the forest region when they went after Team Lance.

Right now, they were at somewhat of an intersection of the two regions, hence the properties of both sides.

After continued discussion, they ultimately decided to take a break of at least an hour or two, after which the topic shifted.

"How did they even get close to twelve million points to spend on these tracker smells though? I thought we weren't allowed to get too many external things in our bags.

"And we can't even bring in expensive stuff to exchange in the Support Shrine.

"Anything which could've granted us unfair advantage was not allowed."

Bronit asked as his team began putting up the tents.

Yu's team was lighting up the campfire and placing the logs around.

Eryndor didn't let his team set up tents as he didn't feel the situation was safe yet. Strangely enough, Irene followed his actions as well.

Yu corrected Bronit immediately.

"I don't think they spent all the twelve million on tracker smells. I saw a few other things as well, they were random stuff which allowed these weak teams to combat the stronger ones.

"But anyway yes, the question still stands, how do they have twelve million points right off the bat as soon as the tournament started?"

Irene was munching on a protein bar when Eryndor slightly tapped on her shoulder.

She looked up at him.

"What?"

Eryndor narrowed his eyes, matching gaze with her.

"Don't you want to answer that question?"

Irene shook her head.

"This question has nothing to do with how well we can deal with Team Ricky, and even if it does, I am exercising my right to not answer this.

"I really paid a lot for all the information, and even more for this one. No way I am going to give this one out for free as well.

"Pay up, or you get nothing."

Eryndor shook his head at her, and then smiled at Bronit and Yu.

"You both can choose to pay and receive this information if you want. I have no interest in this."

Saying so, he shrugged and stepped aside.

Why did he withdraw, one might ask? Because he used Cognitive Scrying on Irene for the answer.

There was no threat to his life. It was just a normal tournament for students of the Academy.

Then why did he still employ his Cognitive Scrying on an innocent person for his personal gain?

Eryndor might not have felt it himself but he was definitely changing. Using eldritch form was having an effect on him.

Or was it not just his eldritch form but also the eldritch abilities?

His thought process and personality were undergoing an extremely slow but definite change without his awareness.

Principles were for the weak.

Emotions held back efficiency.

Feelings were nothing but distractions.

Without realizing, he had already changed slightly.

Would Eryndor recognise it in the future?

A few seconds later, he noticed some unusual movements within his extended vision again.

It seems the disturbance is more than just what is in my range.

Eryndor increased his range even further.

Shortly after, his eyes went wide.

There wasn't even a second of delay as he yelled, "RUN!"

As Eryndor shot off in a certain direction, his teammates immediately adhered to his command, followed by Team Irene, and then lastly the other two teams.

Pointing straight behind him, Eryndor explained to them the reason as he continued running.

"A lot of students who are working under Team Ricky seemed to be coming from that side.

"They were rapidly beginning to encircle us, and —"

He then pointed ahead, at the direction he was running in.

"Since their encirclement had just begun, and this was currently the only open side, I ran in this direction.

"But as we're running, some students seem to have arrived already.

"Remember, our main goal is to break out of this circle.

"Don't go around deliberately eliminating students for points if you can already run away.

"The person is down? There is a clear path ahead to run away? Do so immediately.

"Last thing, no obligation, but if you all feel like it, do help out those from the other teams if the need arises. We're all facing a common enemy after all, at least for now."

By the time he finished talking, they were just a few seconds away from the ring of encirclement as all of them were running at their average maximum speed as the disparity of stages and realms among them was extremely wide.

Just in case they were still relying on his extended vision, Eryndor yelled out and notified them how some students were up ahead.

Thud.

Eryndor elbowed a student right in the chin as it tried to jump him from the bush.

He thought he was expertly hidden, but Eryndor's insane range had long shown him how and when he hid in this bush.

If one wanted to hide in front of Eryndor, they would have to make sure they were hidden and stayed in that spot from an extremely large distance away, else he would almost always know where the people were hiding exactly because he saw them going into hiding due to his insane range.

Eryndor quickly followed up with an Internal Fist right in the guy's jaw as he stumbled backwards after being elbowed in the ribs.

Nearly all of the students working under Team Ricky were weak, their strength was all in numbers.

Among the thirty seven teams under Team Ricky, there were only a rare few strong members which were basically seniors, and rarely first years.

All those strong ones were used in operation to take down the seeded teams.

As soon as that student was eliminated, Eryndor suddenly heard a voice which was definitely not from his alliance..

"Good thing we're on time."