I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 226: Losing members

Eryndor was gauging how many members they had left.

None of his own members were eliminated, but that was not the case for the rest.

Yu was sitting on the ground, using one of his hands to support his frame while he used the other hand to drink some water.

Everyone had taken their bags while running, and after checking, nothing seemed to have been missing, except of course the things which they had taken out.

Eryndor remembered that Team Yu and Team Bronit were the ones who had begun taking out their tents to set up and also making a campfire.

It seemed that these two teams had lost all of that stuff, as all of them had begun running when Eryndor alerted them.

Even while retreating, they didn't have enough time to take everything back as no one knew when the students would change their mind if they saw the alliance being arrogant and taking their leisure to pack everything up.

Team Eryndor, who hadn't done anything, and Team Irene who followed them, naturally lost nothing within their bags.

Eryndor had already checked his bag, nothing was stolen either.

Yu spoke after he finished drinking the water.

"Yours and Irene's team didn't suffer any losses, be it in members or in equipment.

"But my and Bronit's team lost a few contents of our bags, and also our members."

Eryndor looked through their members closely and realized that Yu's team had lost two members while Bronit's team had lost one.

So all four of us now have six members huh.

Eryndor thought, as he replied to Yu.

"What do you want to say? Be clear.

"Do you want us to compensate you? That's not happening.

"I didn't participate in the discussion you guys had about pursuing or resting.

"I also helped any way I could, the elimination of your team members was not due to me. If I didn't help you'd have lost even more members."

Yu felt stifled by Eryndor's response but knew he couldn't do anything about it.

Bronit was the one who spoke as his team gathered around him.

"Yes, there's no need for any further discussion. We'll disband this alliance and go our way. If we meet once more in the wilderness then we shall be enemies."

No one replied to him as he led his team in a direction and left.

Yu left with his team shortly after as well.

Team Irene was the only one left. Being the weakest team out of four, it was impressive how they didn't lose a single member even when Team Yu and Team Bronit, the seeded teams lost members.

Irene instructed her team members to go ahead as she stayed behind and looked at Eryndor before speaking.

"It was Drakarion, wasn't it?"

Eryndor matched her gaze as he smiled.

"There's a clause in the Scroll of Unchanging Conditions that one can't sabotage members of the alliance directly or indirectly."

Irene wasn't one to back down.

"That's not the full extent of the clause. It says that one can't sabotage directly or indirectly under serious situations, or something along the lines which had a more formal wording.

"You get my point.

"This was also why when we took out Team Jonathan and Team Lance, members of the alliance could sabotage each other to get more points for themselves.

"It was because the situation wasn't serious and we could definitely win."

Eryndor tilted his head.

"But this was a serious situation which took place with Team Ricky."

Irene shook her head.

"Not if YOU, Eryndor, believe it wasn't serious. The Scroll of Unchanging Conditions is based on the person's subjective opinion.

"I had some doubts about you. Therefore I told my teammates to play an absolutely safe battle and not rush anything so that they wouldn't fall into a dangerous situation.

"And behold, none of my teammates were eliminated. Coincidence? I think not."

Eryndor chuckled.

"Why are you exposing all of this though? You know that I can eliminate you here to not let this information spread out, right?

"Even if you've sent your team up ahead to escape, I would still be able to find and eliminate them.

"Also, you misunderstood one thing. Your team is weak. I didn't even ask Drakarion to eliminate them."

Irene had unexpectedly found out what he did.

Eryndor had secretly instructed Drakarion during the fight to use his ability and transfer the damage on to the members of Team Bronit and Team Yu.

He told Drakarion to use his own judgment and use his ability at an extremely critical moment to eliminate them in one shot, so that they wouldn't be able to notify their team. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

Eryndor knew it was a difficult task.

As Drakarion would have to plan his own battle such that he would have to receive a high amount of damage at the exact moment that the member he would be targeting would be in a critically dangerous situation.

Fortunately, Drakarion managed to do it without letting those members leak any information.

Unfortunately, it seemed that Irene had bought plenty of information on his own team, and was also smart enough to guess the truth.

Irene put up her hands, and also tossed her phone to him.

"Check everything you want. I didn't record a single sentence of our conversation just now.

"Also, you won't get anything out of eliminating my team. Just the points we hold.

"There's still more than a week before the tournament ends. The points you'll get by eliminating us wouldn't be much by the end game standards."

Eryndor didn't get complacent, but dutifully checked everything.

He also asked Irene to follow him to one of the Support Shrines, where he bought an expensive item which scanned the target of any item which was capable of recording his voice or even his video.

After scanning her with a couple other items, he finally let her go and asked.

"What do you want? I don't believe that you'll expose me just to get an ego boost."

Irene smiled.

"I want to make a deal."