I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 229: Weird phenomenon

Eryndor had told 'one of the information sources' being the cause of his knowledge of these precious resources because he didn't want to tell them about his even more insane range yet.

He hadn't decided on that yet.

As the two teams stood opposite each other, Eryndor raised one of his eyebrows and asked.

"Why did you not change your directions when you sensed us in your surveillance range?"

Yes, despite sensing each other, both the teams had still chosen to walk towards each other.

Eryndor had sensed this team but still continued, because he didn't recognise this team as one of the seeded ones.

They also weren't the dark horse, Team Utyr, which were in the top ten rankings.

Even if they happened to be another dark horse, having the strength equal to or even surpassing them, Eryndor had the confidence that his team could still escape safely.

Throughout the course of them meeting each other though, Eryndor had determined that they didn't know of the resources based on their walking route.

Their team was heading in a completely different direction, but after sensing his team, they had turned and headed his way.

What could they want from us? Are they truly very strong?

When the opposite party heard Eryndor's question, one of them, most likely their leader, replied.

"Why would we run away after meeting another team? It's only logical to fight."

Huh? Do they not know about us?

Eryndor was confused, but not surprised. There would always be people who were overconfident or not keep themselves up to date with information.

Not having information on a seeded team like themselves was rare, but not unacceptable.

Or it could also be that they are really strong.

As Eryndor was contemplating what to reply, the leader of the opposite team spoke once again.

"Would you be interested in fighting in another format? If we fight like I suggest then we would avoid injuring most of our members."

Always the cautious one, Eryndor was open to the suggestion since he still didn't know what their strength was.

None of them had made a move, therefore he couldn't gauge what their stages, realms, and power systems were.

It seems I need to learn a probing skill.

He put that to his ever increasing mental note and gazed at the leader of the opposite team.

After Eryndor nodded, the person spoke.

"I have a Scroll of Unchanging Conditions here.

"One of our members will fight each other. Of course, we'll choose only those at the same level of stage and realm, even the power system, if possible.

"The rest will depend on that. We'll have the condition that whoever wins, that team gets to eliminate the losing one without them resisting.

"Or if you think this is too extreme, we can also put the condition that only the losing member gets eliminated and we can each go our own way.

"During the match, no team shall attack the other one."

Eryndor chuckled slightly, and replied.

"For that I'll need to know the stages of every one of you."

The leading one stepped forward, and showed off his aura at stage five of Iron Body realm. The first level of the Martial Arts power system.

"Would that be necessary? I'll be the one to fight, so only I am choosing to show my stage and realm."

Eryndor didn't respond, but suddenly side stepped, allowing Edward to attack with an area of effect spell at a high speed.

Only after the attack was launched did Eryndor chuckle. "Yes, I want to know everyone's levels."

To dodge the incoming spell, everyone on the opposite team had to employ their movement skills, thereby exposing their aura.

An average of stage four on the first realm. This team is weak as fuck.

"Attack!"

Eryndor commanded and jumped over.

"Bastard!"

The leader cursed, before he and his team began running in different directions.

Even though there was a cliff between them, the bottom of which held those precious resources, one could easily jump over it provided they had enough speed before the jump.

It didn't take long for the Eryndor's group to subdue the other group even though they had begun running away in all directions.

Their average strength was only at stage four despite having a second year senior. That second year was at stage seven on the first level of his power system.

This was the first time in the tournament that Eryndor had come across such a weak second year.

However, they came across a problem.

They couldn't eliminate any of the members!

Eryndor and his team looked at each other in dismay.

He had already tried everything, like letting every member of his team try to eliminate every member on the opponent team.

But nothing worked.

They could still injure them, but whenever they attempted to eliminate them by using a lethal attack, a white light would shimmer into existence and block the blow.

There was a look of confusion on Eryndor's face as he looked at the leader for a second before speaking.

"Is that why you dared to approach us despite being so weak? That you can't be eliminated?"

All the members of the opposite team had been captured and tied with a special rope with their backs against each other.

Their mouths were stuffed with whatever Team Eryndor was able to find to prevent them from speaking.

Paulina ripped the cloth from the leader's mouth as he was struggling to answer Eryndor's question.

The guy looked up to Eryndor and smirked.

"Ah, I only wanted to gamble, I don't have any regrets that I lost to Team Eryndor."

Eryndor's brows furrowed when he heard his answer.

"So you do indeed know about us, which means you also know how strong we are. Despite that, you chose to engage with us.

"This means you were indeed aware that you won't be eliminated.

"This is also why you chose to take the route of betting, right? You already had information on us, and knew that Drakarion was also a stage five Martial Artist like you.

"Which means there was a chance that we would agree to your bet since we had someone at the same level as the challenger.

"If you won, that was like free points without any risk. That Scroll of Unchanging Conditions was only a diversion to hide the fact that you can't be eliminated.

"Hmm…wait, did you also bet that I am a good guy and would agree to your bet? Only that way would you be able to hide this situation where you aren't getting eliminated no matter what.

"You didn't think that I would attack you guys?

"I wonder why? And I also wonder why you can't be eliminated."

There was a moment of silence before the leader responded.

"I analyzed your past based on the little information that I had.

"I can only say that I misinterpreted your personality.

"As for the part about not getting eliminated? Hehe."

Towards the end, he just laughed, refusing to answer Eryndor. freēnovelkiss.com

Paulina asked no one in particular.

"Could it be that they have a treasure which protects them from our attacks?"

Eryndor was quick to rule out that possibility as he took out a small knife from his pocket.

"I don't think so. If there is indeed a treasure they're using, it only protects them from elimination instead of our attacks, look at this."

Then, to the surprise of everyone, Eryndor carried out a series of small but cruel attacks with the knife he held in his hand.

It was surprising but not something which they couldn't accept.

There was no way you could know everything about a person. There might always be a side of them you might not know about.

They could easily accept it because in this era of fighting and bloodshed, a person who practiced power systems was the most exposed to the dark sides of the society.

They were the most prone to changes in their mentality as they were on the frontline of the majority of the things.

Eryndor turned to them, unconcerned about a few students screaming beside him.

"Did you see that? I've clearly injured them, but no protection took place.

"No matter how many minor attacks I make, even though they bring immense pain to them, the protection would still not appear.

"This is clearly a protection only targeted at being eliminated."

Valentina muttered after witnessing everything.

"Huh? I didn't find any items capable of protecting one against being eliminated in the Support Shrine though."

Eryndor shook his head.

"The filter function of the Support Shrine doesn't give you the complete list of items.

"Important things like information on other players, their location, their activities, and now this, items which can protect you against being eliminated, all of this is hidden.

"You can only see them after you successfully fulfill a few conditions. Irene only told me this much, but was unwilling to tell me the conditions.

"There might also be many other nearly broken items which have hidden conditions that need to be fulfilled before a student can exchange them."

"No wonder I didn't find anything like information on other students when I was browsing through the list inside the Support Shrine."

Edward commented.

Eryndor narrowed his eyes, looking at the team they had captured before he spoke.

"No worries, we'll just take these people with us after using a few more items to bind them.

"No amount of extra points is useless."

When the leader heard that, finally a hint of panic appeared in his eyes, which he was quick to conceal.

Eryndor didn't fail to catch on to that though.

Huh?

A flash of insight struck him as Eryndor muttered.

"What if it's not an item?"