I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 140: Team Yetoren

"Run! Quick!"

Eryndor yelled, and took off running in Paulina's direction.

He knew the distance was way too great between them that there was no hope for Paulina's rescue. Not to mention her stage five Mana Novice realm would be nowhere near enough to be of help against all these level two people.

He still ran in her direction though. It was at least better than abyss or any other direction.

Valentina and Edward took off almost at the same time as him. With Edward easily keeping pace.

Eryndor had mistakenly shot off at his highest speed when he ran just now. He forgot that Valentina was only at stage five of Beast Seeker realm.

Just when he thought he would have to slow down for her to catch up, or help her in some way, he saw an extremely surprising scene.

Oh yea, how could I forget about that?

Even Edward turned back along with Eryndor to gaze at the spectacle.

The small thread-like white snake which used to always stay coiled around her arm had begun shining.

It radiated a white glow as it began enlarging.

Eryndor didn't have any idea that the small thread-like form wasn't the true form of her white snake at all.

Enlargement and Minimization? From the heaps of information I've gone through at this point, only a very small amount of beasts can perform that at the Latent realm.

What terrifying luck Valentina has. She got two docile non-hostile beasts at the peak of the Latent realm, one of which she has already contracted with ease.

Of course, it only took a moment for Eryndor to think all of it. He saw that the white snake had finally enlarged considerably.

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He could see that four little limbs had grown out from its body, but they didn't look threatening at all.

The surprising part? It had wings. Ones which were big enough that Eryndor had no doubt it could enable the snake to fly.

There was no power system which was known to have enabled one to fly as of yet, except of course in Beast Tamer path where you could contract a flying mount.

Even Fiend, the third level of the demon power system didn't grant the ability to fly unhindered.

Valentina was quick to mount the snake which was at least as thick as a big bucket and approximately fifteen meters in length.

It would've been uncomfortable to ride the beast if it slithered on the ground, but flying? That was another matter.

Fuck, and here I was thinking about slowing down for her. I am the slowest one now.

As he thought that he would be lagging behind, Valentina approached him with the white snake.

"Get on, he can bear one more person easily."

"Thanks."

He didn't dilly dally with any rules of courtesy.

Once he had mounted the snake, sitting behind her, she quickly caught on to Edward.

"Senior Edward, sorry but the speed of my white snake would slow down if I get you on board as well. It would be faster if you speed up to a peak level one with me flying alongside you."

"No problem. I can easily keep up without any significant energy usage.

"I actually also have an escape treasure which has the speed of peak level two. If the situation is urgent I can use it for all of us. It can carry up to seven people easily."

Oh? That's great.

Eryndor thought with relief.

The man was as easy going as ever even in this situation. Eryndor recalled how the man had no idea that their elimination mechanism was switched off when they fought with the group of students.

He still thought that they would be eliminated safely if push came to shove.

Edward could've ran off with his peak level two strength but he stayed behind as a support. Eryndor wondered if he would run away if he told him the truth.

Oh yea, he has strength equal to a peak level two. Even the strongest among the pursuing team is only at stage seven of level two. The rest are in the middle stages of level two.

Can he defeat all of them alone?

But was Eryndor willing to let Edward battle all of them alone, putting his life at risk for his sake? The main part would be that Edward wouldn't know his life was at risk at all.

Wait, I think we should wait.

Eryndor briefly considered using Edward's escape treasure, but then he decided to wait and see how things would go.

Because he saw a clue. Some similarities.

He had been with a group. The team Lockheim. He had seen how they dressed and moved. The experience behind their actions.

Their coordination in movement. The hierarchy in the group, their formation while moving.

This team was somewhat along the same lines.

Of course, that doesn't mean they aren't hostile.

It could very well mean that this is the third wave of attacks directed at me, one where Co-founder Morris stopped using students and directly brought in a team from outside.

Eryndor calmed his beating heart and paid attention to the team in his extended vision.

He saw that they had picked up pace, rapidly closing the distance between them.

When they were close enough, one of them opened his mouth and spoke into a treasure.

By now Eryndor had enough knowledge to know the difference between a treasure and a Mystical Artifact.

Treasures were a product of one of the domains of mastery, specifically, Smithing.

Mystical Artifacts more often than not naturally manifest in nature, or were a by-product of a fallen anomaly.

Even at a lower level, Mystical Artifacts had an endless variety of uses. The same couldn't be said of treasures however.

At least at the lower levels, treasures could only be used for basic operations like strengthening an attack, defending and so on.

The treasure that the person from the chasing group had taken out was used to amplify the voice of the speaker, just like a microphone but a much better one.

Instantly, the three of them heard what the man was speaking.

"Students, we aren't your enemies. We aren't even a group of students. We are just here to verify something on behalf of the Human Federation.

"If your surveillance skills are capable enough, take a look at this. A valid identity, the permission given to us and our purpose in the secret realm.

"Please slow down so that we don't have to resort to less friendly methods."

Eryndor narrowed his eyes and took a look at the card taken out by the man.

[Team Yetoren

Hired by the intelligence department of the Human Federation to investigate the emergence of an anomaly in the Trenek Secret Realm.]

Oh? The name of this secret realm is Trenek? Why was it not told to the students? Oh well, nothing important anyway.

Eryndor reckoned that the Academy didn't bother telling them about it simply because it wasn't relevant. Secret realms were only accessible to top-tier teams and the Human Federation.

There was no mission in the Academy which included secret realms.

Which basically meant that secret realms were least relevant to the students. Naturally, they didn't need to know the names and any more in depth information about secret realms.

The very reason their tournament was held here was entirely to celebrate Co-founder Morris' return, else it wouldn't have been possible at all.

But what is this about an anomaly?

He thought with some confusion. Edward and Valentina both looked at Eryndor, who simply nodded.

He had seen team Lockheim's badge, it was indeed like this. Even if it happened to be fake, they had Edward's escape treasure to rely on.

As they slowed down, the team caught up to them.

The one in lead extended his hand.

"I am Ronin. Leader of team Yetoren. Thanks for stopping, we just need a few seconds of your time."

Both of them looked at Eryndor, who, out of caution, didn't step forward to handshake. Eryndor simply spoke.

"What do you want?"

He didn't introduce his name out of caution. It wouldn't do much, but still.

Ronin took his hand back and chuckled slightly.

"I see, very cautious. We are just tasked by the Federation to scan each student. It's nothing harmful. We are just checking for an anomaly."

He then gestured to one of his men, who took out a basketball sized box.

Eryndor's mind wasn't on their actions anymore though.

What? Scanning people? Did Dr. Kirchoff find out that I've been unsealed? No wait, seeing how Co-founder Morris knew my name, it's pretty obvious he would know too.

There's no need to go to such lengths of scanning each student.

It might be a different matter entirely, I am worrying for no reason. But will their scanning reveal that I am not a human?

Eryndor didn't make any weird movement. He was at least thankful that they weren't here to attack him.

When the man opened the box, he saw that there was an eyeball the size of a tennis ball strapped with various different colored chains placed in the middle of the box.

The pupil on the eyeball kept moving around, as if it was alive.

Jeez, is this a living anomaly? Or a Mystical Artifact?

A few seconds later, the man shook his head at Ronin.

"They are clean."

Ronin smiled at the three of them.

"See? That's all, you're free to go now."

Eryndor just nodded his head and took off in Paulina's direction with his teammates, still mounted on Valentina's beast out of caution.

With his extended vision, he still kept an eye on the team though. Once they were sufficiently far away, he saw Ronin take out his phone. Not willing to let anything go, he took a peak at the screen.

Oh? A familiar name.