I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 82: Crimson Armor

As Eryndor approached them, their voices gradually became clearer.

They are indeed talking about Ken and Hellen.

Ken was standing alone, arguing with Liliana while few of the important agents were gathered around. The staff were looking on from behind at what was transpiring.

"You do NOT leave your duty like that even if a teammate is injured."

"Hellen’s wounds were severe, the situation wasn’t any important or dangerous either. What do you think should be done in this situation?

"Don’t tell me you couldn’t handle the extra beast which even me and Hellen were able to beat back?"

"Don’t try to be smart, I am telling you the rules. What you did was a violation in how a group acts.

"Isn’t Calix a firm supporter of the rules? He preaches fairness and the importance of following orders all the time.

"As his subordinate you couldn’t even do that?"

Ken held it in when Liliana attacked boss Calix. What he did was indeed wrong, but he didn’t regret it.

In no circumstances would he put Hellen’s life under any kind of danger.

Seeing him remain silent, Liliana continued.

"Where is Hellen? Didn’t you say she was critically injured? Bring her out."

"Why? She is resting in her room. No one is allowed to enter."

"I just want to see her injury. Can’t I care about my teammate? When you retreated, you said a past wound of hers had opened up."

"Sorry, but I won’t allow anyone near her till she recovers."

Liliana smirked, "Oh? Then how do we know she was indeed injured?"

Ken looked toward one particular staff which was in the medical department of the spaceship.

Understanding the intention, he took a step forward and said,

"She has indeed been injured severely. Ken brought her to the medical department as soon as they arrived at the base."

Ken was both relieved and anguished when the person testified from his side.

He was relieved of course because Liliana wouldn’t be able to find a flaw in their actions and doubt them anymore, and anguished because Hellen volunteered to injure herself so that Liliana wouldn’t get a chance.

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Ken had adamantly refused her plan, but when asked with an alternate solution, he could only keep mum.

Hellen had bravely opened her old wounds just before they reached the base just so everything could go smoothly.

When things settled down, Ken retreated to the spaceship.

It had already been several hours since the incident took place, but Liliana wasn’t ready to leave him at all. She kept making a ruckus out of it.

He hoped she wouldn’t bring it up again.

I swear, if it was some kind of sick joke, then I’ll beat up whoever did this black and blue.

After all, both him and his wife had bet on the fact that what was written on the piece of white paper was true.

*****

Eryndor spectated the incident from afar and approached one of the agents.

It was the same guy as last time.

"Damn, impressive kid."

He praised Eryndor, before taking the corpses. According to him, the young man before him was at stage three of Qi Gathering realm.

All the corpses he had brought were roughly around the same level, standing at the early stage of Latent realm. It was an impressive feat to be able to defeat beasts at the same level.

After he was done exchanging the contribution points, Eryndor went back to the jungle.

There were still some hours until the deadline mentioned in the rules, so he planned to start practicing his defensive cultivation art.

The deadline was the time at which all the personnel present outside needed to head back inside the spaceship.

All the planets had different atmospheres, fauna, flora, unique structures, and so on.

Over countless expeditions, the Human Federation had compiled a set of timing for each planet when it wasn’t safe to be out in the open.

Eryndor had always adhered to the timing, and he planned to continue to do so.

Disregarding if Liliana will even let him, Eryndor himself had no wish to find out what took place in the danger hours.

As he walked through the jungle to find a secluded spot, he thought.

Well, at least the two of them won’t be targeted anymore.

Ken and Hellen would be safe for now, at least on this planet.

Finally, he found a place.

Crimson Armor was a defensive cultivation art which produced a thin red film over the body. This film resisted both blunt and sharp force, but in the process it would be weakened.

If the single attack, or a series of attacks surpassed its capacity to resist, the film on that part would disappear.

The next moment, the remaining red film over the rest of the body would weaken and form a new film at the missing part, leveling the defensive capacity all over the body once again.

Eryndor took it because he liked how comprehensive it was, and didn’t need manual control once activated.

Of course, one could replenish the capacity of the film by circulating the Qi through the circuit of Crimson Armor cultivation art once again.

However, from what Eryndor had gathered, the Qi consumption of the Crimson Armor was very high, enough such that the majority of the people wouldn’t bother using it again just to keep the previous red film at its peak state.

By the time the deadline was coming near, he had already achieved mastery over it, and put himself through several different situations to get used to using Crimson Armor proficiently.

As soon as he was done practicing his defensive cultivation art, Eryndor headed towards the spaceship.

A few minutes later he arrived at the base. It seemed he was the last one again as there were only a few people standing guard while all the staff, agents and researchers seemed to have already entered the spaceship.

After he returned to the aircraft, the people who were on the lookout outside followed him in, closing the hatch behind them.

Everyone had gathered in the main room, discussing several topics, when it happened again.

Eryndor felt his energy of Consciousness draining.