I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 213: Being stalked

Eryndor narrowed his eyes when he found a few unfamiliar people through his extended vision.

We came across a team? This early?

Was it a coincidence? Or had they somehow tracked their team?

Eryndor kept a close eye on them, while he relayed this situation to the group chat.

There was no need to use the red button for this.

Those four unfamiliar people looked like they were resting, and hadn't looked in his direction even once.

After she finished fighting, Syndra asked.

"Did we get higher points than usual?"

Eryndor checked the scores and shook his head.

"The others must not have come across any beasts yet, so there was no hidden rule triggered. No matter, let's continue taking out beasts, no time to rest."

He told her about the four people he saw with his surveillance skill, and she had the same opinion as him, to notify the group and continue killing more beasts.

Wow, my range is way too high now.

Eryndor inwardly marvelled at the new normal, as he settled upon a new 'default' range.

This new default range was only a bit smaller than his previous maximum range, which could cover an entire town.

How could I not have tested my maximum range yet? Jeez, even my default is so big.

Eryndor thought while he continued looking for more beasts.

His default range was the maximum range he could maintain continuously at all times as its consumption would be something he could easily bear.

Above that range, his consumption of Energy of Consciousness would no longer be safe to keep up.

At maximum range, his Energy of Consciousness was consumed at a terrifying range, hence why he decided to try it around his teammates.

Because if he ran out of his EoC, then it would put him in a vulnerable position.

Eryndor read the chats of the group, and saw that both the pairs had decided to come closer, in case a team really attacked any one of them.

A few minutes later, Eryndor found one more beast.

It was an early stage Stable realm beast.

He notified Syndra about the beast's realm and asked if she wanted to fight it.

The young woman shrugged.

"Why not? No harm in trying. Not to mention I have enough Energy of Consciousness that I can easily try cutting through its body."

Eryndor led her towards the Stable realm beast he had found.

It looked like a variant of a polar bear, but it was smaller, more rounded, and had a sharper, longer set of claws.

Its legs also had tiny spikes, allowing it to easily walk on the tundra without slipping.

At times like this, Eryndor felt thankful that as humans, they could just switch their shoes and attire according to terrain.

As they got closer, Syndra took a fighting stance a few distance away, while Eryndor went ahead and initiated the beast.

As someone with the Sovereign's Cloak, he was more suited for defense in high stakes battles like this.

A minute later it became apparent that it was nowhere a high stake battle though.

Syndra's sword had cleanly cut through its mass like a hot knife cutting through butter.

I really need some good offensive skills as well. Something which can hit above its level.

Internal Fist and Sky Piercing Palm are good but only within their own level, they can't hit well above realm.

In the battle just now, Eryndor had tried both, the former hardly shook the beast despite the attack bypassing its defenses.

As for the latter, the fire and lightning version of Sky Piercing Palm barely did anything to the beast, who just shook it off like nothing. As for the air element attack? It didn't even go past its defenses.

Syndra lightly panted beside the corpse of the beast.

"I used quite a bit of Energy of Consciousness this time. Let's take some rest."

Eryndor hesitated, but eventually chose to not replenish her through his ability.

There wasn't any emergency right now, so he preferred not to expose his abilities if it wasn't necessary.

He glanced at the four people in his range, and saw that they had somehow neared them while he was busy fighting the beast.

I am pretty sure it wasn't us who went in their direction. So they really moved in our direction while we were fighting?

Always the paranoid one, Eryndor documented what transpired and sent it on the group chat.

Apparently Paulina and Valentina had still not found any beasts, as the former quickly replied.

"If they move in your direction once more, then press the red button."

Eryndor fell silent, before extending his range once more.

The drain he experienced on his massive storage of Energy of Consciousness intensified, but the doubt in his heart cleared up when he saw one more group.

Isn't that where Paulina and Valentina headed towards?

Eryndor exerted some effort and tried manipulating his extended vision like his eldritch form.

Although it didn't come out as accurate, he was indeed able to extend his vision in that particular area.

Found them.

Valentina and Paulina were roaming around, likely looking for a beast.

Eryndor then extended his range once more, spotting Edward and Drakarion, who were fighting with a beast.

Exerting effort like he previously did, he extended his vision in that particular direction, and indeed, he found more unfamiliar people.

There are three groups of four people, one for each of us pairs.

In total twelve people.

The maximum number of students a team can have is nine people, but here I see twelve people in total stalking our group, is it perhaps two groups?

The problem now was, that all three groups of four must have some treasure which allowed them to keep track of their team as these groups were too far from them.

Eryndor didn't think their surveillance skill would be enough to reach these groups.

Thinking quickly, he turned on his location and quickly made a group call while tapping the red button three times, which was the maximum amount. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

Both the pairs picked up the phone due to the highest emergency denoted by three red buttons.

"Follow my location."

Eryndor spoke into his phone, and took off running in a direction.