I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 129: Two more rules found

Eryndor glanced at the beasts as he dashed out from the front entrance of the cave. His speed was fast enough to evade them.

However, this time they didn’t even glance at him.

Did the death of their kin wake them up?

Eryndor shook his head and glanced at his phone.

His team had put together some effort to make a map, of course, it wasn’t complete.

A large part of it was still unexplored. The most complete area was the one around Paulina.

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She had landed in the tundra region of this secret realm.

Apparently, she came across a Support Shrine, where she used the points she had earned to exchange for a portion of the map around her.

He looked at the total points of the group.

Eighteen thousand three hundred forty.

His own contribution was a pitiful one thousand one hundred fifteen.

They currently stood at thirteenth rank among all the teams.

Considering that Eryndor had such a low amount of points, it was rather impressive that just five members were able to climb to that rank.

It showed how powerful their group was.

After one could only have a single second year student in the group, the rest need to be first years.

And among first years, the members of their group quite literally had some of the highest levels.

Even Syndra, who walked the path of cultivation power system despite her family mainly consisting of mages, was at stage nine of Qi Gathering realm.

As to why she was so powerful? Well, even without the Academy, her family was powerful, rich, and had enough connections to support her.

People born with such terrific backgrounds had no need to enroll in the Academy, as the people backing them could provide almost everything the Academy had.

Syndra had joined it purely to compete with others of her age.

Back to the topic, there was also the fact that using points for exchanging for things in the Support Shrines would decrease your total points.

Using resources found in the secret realm, like some specific plants and corpses of some particular beasts would be a better deal if one didn’t want to lose their points.

But let’s be honest, why would one do that? All the plants and beasts listed by the Support Shrines which were eligible to be exchanged could literally be used as resources to boost your practice speed.

They were special for a reason.

Points could be earned again through killing beasts and other hidden rules, but these special resources? It would be difficult to find them again.

Anyone in their right mind would only choose to expend their points, even if it dropped their rankings in the short term.

The special tournament had a duration of two weeks, and not even a single day had passed yet.

Paulina had also uncovered a hidden rule.

Simply staying in the tundra region gave her more points.

It was difficult to notice because points weren’t given each second. But when she killed a certain beast, it gave her more points than what it gave to Drakarion.

After comparing both their fight sequence and other details, the only difference was region.

There was also the fact that it gave her more points after covering a certain amount of unexplored area.

Hmmm… so cold weather gives a person more points than staying in this normal forest huh?

Also, it only gave her points when she defeated a creature or travelled a certain amount of distance. Which means one can’t set up camp in that place to get free points.

Did that mean other kinds of extreme regions in this secret realm would similarly give more points too? Very likely.

All the teams who had even one of their members teleported to any of the extreme regions would probably be able to figure out this rule.

His eyes glanced over at his points before furrowing slightly.

I seem to have two hundred more than expected?

One Terramorph Ravager was equal to three hundred points, and he killed three of them. Defending against the side effect of the Shifting Threshold Mystical Artifact had granted him fifteen points.

The total amounted to nine hundred fifteen.

Eryndor typed the fight sequence he had and sent it to the group chat.

The last message was sent by Edward, about his fight choreography with a beast and how many points it granted him.

It was about fifteen minutes ago, and there was nothing which gave Eryndor any clue as to how his own points increased.

A minute later as he was walking through the forest while updating the map to the best of his ability, Paulina sent a message.

Activated Eagle’s Eye. Spotted a Snow Mormol lurking near the ice ridge. Used Schrodinger’s Step—instant displacement closed the gap. The beast reacted, exhaling a freezing mist to blind me. Irrelevant, it didn’t affect me.

Casted Ember Surge, hurling a spiraling lance of fire. The beast recoiled—weak to heat. Flames spread across its fur. It cast Permafrost Veil, encasing itself in ice, halting the fire’s advance.

The Snow Mormol lunged, claws wreathed in frost. Used Schrodinger’s Step—blinked past its strike.

Countered with Ember Surge, a fiery lance launching at it once again at its weak spot(used my ability). The beast howled, rolling to smother the flames.

It was not enough. Before it could get up, I cast Environmental Shackles—ice tendrils surged from the ground, locking its limbs.

Needed a strong blow to kill it. Used Schrodinger’s Step to close the gap, cast penetration and damage enhancement spells on my dagger to end the beast.

Points received - three hundred thirty.

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Abnormality - my points increased by a hundred more. These beasts only give two hundred thirty.

Eryndor narrowed his eyes as he compared her fight choreography with his.

After a moment of comparing, he cross checked once more to make sure he had not guessed it incorrectly.

He then sent a message to the group.

"I got two hundred points more from Terramorph Ravagers.

"It may probably be because both of us used fire based skills in a short span of time. I killed two beasts so the bonus was two hundred, while Paulina killed one so the bonus was a hundred.

"Conclusion - Two members (or probably more, need to experiment) using the same elemental skill within a short duration of each other will get extra points when defeating the beasts they were fighting."

Paulina: "Woah, that is one hidden rule alright. Thankfully Eryndor told us to write all our actions in the group chat to figure out the rules."

Edward: "Yup, that’s impressive."

Eryndor smiled, updated the map once more after looking around and sent a reply.

"I don’t have a beast near me, someone please try my hypothesis just to be sure."

Drakarion: "I can see a beast in the distance, but I don’t have any kind of element based skill."

Syndra: "I’m about to fight a beast, but I have an ice based skill, not fire."

Paulina: "I have an ice based skill as well, and I see one more Snow Mormol in the distance, let’s try it."

While his group began their experiment to see if the rule Eryndor had theorized indeed existed, he finally spotted a strangely shaped rock.

It was one described in the map of the region explored by Valentina!

He was finally at least somewhere near her.

Eryndor sped up, he couldn’t wait to meet her and restore the yellow papers.