I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 227: An interesting deal

The wheel battle was the final stage of this tournament which would take place after two weeks, in which only the top ten teams would be qualified to battle.

If a team in top ten happened to have members which were eliminated during the two week survival round, then they wouldn't get to participate in the wheel battle.

In the wheel battle, the ten teams would fight in a classic double elimination tournament model of one team versus another team, which meant that a team would be eliminated from the tournament if they lost twice.

In the battle between teams, it would be one person from one team versus one person from the opposite team rather than a group battle.

They had to decide the order beforehand and submit it to the referee before the match.

If a person won, they could decide to stay in the arena and continue to fight the next person from the opposite team.

If the person was strong enough, they could even eliminate the entire team by themselves in this way.

However, if the person decided to give up despite winning the round, and left the arena, then they won't be able to return to the arena later.

The second years were not allowed in this wheel battle. Their role was only limited till the two week survival round.

As he heard Irene's request to make a deal, Eryndor thought back to his reason for eliminating the members of Team Yu and Team Bronit.

Teams which had a lower number of members could send their members out on the arena more than once.

For example, if a team with six members were fighting a team with eight members, there was a difference of two members, then the team with six members would get two extra chances to send their members in the arena.

That is, they could send one member two more times, or two members one more time after losing a battle.

But wouldn't that be unfair then?

If a team had lesser members compared to their opponent, they could simply send their strongest member for those extra chances.

This is where another rule came in.

A team was divided into 'weaker' and 'stronger' parts equally, biased towards the 'stronger' part if they had an odd number of members.

Which meant, if a team had six members, they would be divided into three weaker, and three stronger members. If they had seven members, with priority to the stronger part, they would have three weaker and four stronger members.

Now, if the team decided to let one of the members from the stronger part take the extra chance, they would have to take it immediately.

As in, after losing their battle, they won't be able to exit the arena, heal, and then come back for the extra chance. No, they won't be given a chance to heal.

If the team decides to let one of the weaker members take the extra chance, they can take it anytime during the wheel battle after losing their battle.

There was no condition that they would have to utilize the chance immediately.

If a team with lower number of members were facing a team with higher number of members, the former team would have to make the decision about which member would take the extra chance beforehand and submit it to the referee alongside their battle lineup.

Through these rules, the playing ground between teams with less members and teams with more members was leveled up.

Now came the point why Eryndor eliminated members of Team Yu and Team Bronit.

Since their members were eliminated during the survival round, those specific members won't be able to participate in the wheel battle even if their respective teams managed to qualify.

The thing was, if Team Yu and Team Bronit indeed managed to qualify for wheel battle, despite having six members, they would still be treated with their original member count, as if they had eight and seven members respectively.

This was his main reason to eliminate those members.

Irene put forward her request.

"If and if our team manages to qualify, I want your team to not injure my team too heavily.

"I'll pay for that."

In the double elimination tournament, there wasn't much break between different matches, except the finals and semi finals, which would get a longer period of break.

Since there would be minimal amount of time between matches, if a team happened to have injured members, they would have to fight the next battle with those injured members.

This would increase the probability of their loss by too much.

Each team would only be given a fixed amount of healing pills at the start of the tournament, with the teams with less members getting more healing pills.

Students couldn't use external items throughout the tournament except their weapons.

Of course, people with abilities like Ricky were again an exception here.

Yes, his ability was strong, what could you do about it?

The real world was unfair, the Academy couldn't level out each and every playing field, not to mention this had nothing to do with the Academy if the student itself had a useful ability.

Eryndor tilted his head while looking at Irene. Before he could reply though, she continued.

"Of course, if you agree at all to these kinds of deals, which I think you'll do because of the kind of the person you are, I have another request."

Eryndor didn't take offense to what she said. It was the truth after all. He wasn't averse to playing dirty. Irene continued.

"I want you to injure my opponents badly. I'll pay you much more for that."

Eryndor tilted his head back, looking at the dark sky as he laughed. After a few seconds, when he was done, he matched gaze with Irene who had a smile on her face.

"Interesting. What kind of payment are we talking about?"

Irene kept her smile as she responded.

"I'll only pay you if my team manages to qualify. Don't worry, the payment will definitely satisfy you. Just answer me, do you agree?"

Eryndor matched her smile.

"I agree."