I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 224: Treasure trove

Mid-fight as the situation for the alliance among top ranked teams got better and better, Ricky, the team leader who was all battered and bloodied, suddenly put his hands out in empty air.

As someone who employed thirty seven teams under him, he was obviously not to be underestimated even for such a seemingly useless action.

Seeing the unexpected move, the opposing team leaders all retreated out of caution, except Valentina that is, as Eryndor had already secretly messaged her the reason why Team Ricky had twelve million points.

It was because Ricky had a Spatial Storage ability!

Up until now, each and every student only took their bags with them, and those bags were all they could carry into the tournament anyway.

The organizers glossed over it if a student bought a big bag, but blatant breaking of rules like bringing multiple bags of precious materials to exchange with the Support Shrine was clearly not allowed.

All such attempts were blocked.

They were already being lenient by allowing the students to bring outside materials to exchange with the Support Shrine in exchange for points.

Even in cases of weapons, the students were only allowed to bring ones up to their level. A level one wasn't allowed to bring a weapon which could even be used by a level two, as it would disrupt the combat evaluation.

Of course, the outside world wasn't fair. If you had an external advantage, it was only rightful to abuse it to win.

But this was the Academy. Here, they taught you personal skills. Apart from a slight leniency in terms of allowing you to abuse your external advantage, the majority of the things still need to be done by yourself.

But in the case of Ricky, his Spatial Storage ability was his own.

It was completely up to him what he wanted to bring in this storage of his.

It would've been unfair if he wasn't even allowed to use his own ability.

As the heir to one of the richest merchant families, Ricky filled his Spatial Storage with a lot of valuable items, and immediately exchanged them at the Support Shrine for points.

Which he then used to buy the tracker smells and the other items for the thirty seven teams under him.

It was exactly his immense wealth, through which he was able to hire so many students to work under him.

Well, one might ask, why wasn't he able to join a strong seeded team then?

The reason was his insufferable personality. Due to that, he had already made quite a few enemies as well.

The seeded teams which had been eliminated already were the ones who were his enemies, including Team Kennedy, who he failed to eliminate completely.

But his wealth also allowed him to gather quite a few strong members, like Jonathan, Lance, and a few others.

Alas, he put them all in different teams to maximize the efficiency of his plans.

This was also the reason his team wasn't strong enough to be a seeded team. If he had put all those strong members in his own team, he would've pretty sure made a seeded team as well.

There was no point talking about it now. Ricky had taken out quite a few explosive treasures, and even a few big treasures like shields and hammers which his allies were quick to pick up.

Of course, since Valentina hadn't retreated out of caution because of her prior knowledge about his ability, she was quick to destroy quite a few treasures, which twisted Ricky's expression.

Team Eryndor was proving to be quite a thorn in his side.

It wasn't that the other leaders didn't know of Ricky's ability. It was more like they only knew the Spatial Storage ability, not that who possessed it.

Eryndor was able to glean the fact that Ricky had this ability from Irene, which meant she had this knowledge as well. Then why didn't she tell Bronit and Yu when they negotiated the price and paid for it?

Because after negotiations, they didn't pay the full amount which Irene had asked for in the beginning. As a result, she would naturally not tell them the complete information either.

Nevertheless, he simply had a lot of treasures. Everytime after they destroyed a few treasures, Ricky would take out a few more.

"He is buying time."

Eryndor muttered with a dark expression as he fought another one of the students who worked under Team Ricky.

In the closed space, there was Team Ricky, the main team, and a few other students who worked under them, whose numbers were rapidly dwindling.

Ricky's move could only be useful as a time delaying measure.

Unfortunately, time was the only aspect which the alliance couldn't afford to waste.

Eryndor's extended vision showed him how ten students had already gathered on the other side of the wall behind them.

Only three directions were left now.

They also couldn't afford to delay, else the wall behind them, erected by Frostspike Totems, would fall anytime.

Eryndor first asked in his earbuds.

"Do any of you have explosives?"

There was a negative response from everyone. Eryndor then remembered that Irene's team seemed to have quite a few treasure bombs.

Keeping an eye on the battlefield, Eryndor gradually closed his distance with Irene. Of course, he didn't forget to keep fighting with the student, being careful not to eliminate him.

Eryndor would deliberately make a loud sound with his spiked mace everytime it clashed with the student's weapons, all so he could mask his voice whenever he gave out commands.

Once he was close to Irene, he spoke in a low volume after clashing his spiked mace with the student's weapon once again.

"You have a few treasure bombs, yea? I'll pay you, don't worry."

Parrying a throwable from Ricky, she nodded.

Despite battling four team leaders, Ricky, although injured, hadn't gone down yet, purely because he simply had a few too many treasures, be it defensive, offensive, maneuvering, or even one time use throwables.

Eryndor suddenly had an idea how to deal with this problem.