I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 146: Opening

He took out his phone and sent him a message.

"I am extremely sorry to disturb you again. I promise I'll treat you to a good meal after all of this. I have one more question.

"Does Co-founder Morris have an ability? If yes, what is it? Do you have any idea?"

Just like before, his reply was quick, but he seemed to have focused his attention on something else.

"Are you doubting Co-founder Morris? Can you share if you've gotten any clues?"

Eryndor narrowed his eyes as he looked at the message.

I obviously can't tell him that I'm being targeted because of my eldritch origin.

But then, there is also no other clue that Morris might be targeting others as well.

This entire matter seems to be personal to me, how do I tell him without including me?

He hesitated slightly, thinking extensively before replying.

"Co-founder Morris is the reason Radish of mental stability has gone extinct, do you know that?"

"Yes. He already submitted a report to the Human Federation about his experience in the secret realm.

"After all, the secret realm was sealed completely, even communications were blocked. He couldn't have said all this earlier while in the secret realm itself.

"I don't know the specific details of the report, but it was said that it was some anomaly with difficult to counter mind related power which was the cause behind everything.

"That is why he had to use the radishes to heal himself."

Bullshit. Even if it isn't an eldritch entity in the abyss, there clearly exists something far stronger than just 'anomaly with difficult to counter mind related power', why else would it have the confidence to confront even my sealed self?

So he already gave an excuse to the human federation huh?

On second thought, it made sense.

If Eryndor could make the connection between previously abundant Radish of mental stability, their present scarcity of them, and Co-founder Morris smelling of rotten eggs, then obviously the Federation could do it too.

He would need to give them the reason behind his actions, as Radish of mental stability wasn't a worthless item. Depleting it to near scarcity would require proper compensation.

Oh yea, how did he compensate? Could I get some clues through that?

He messaged the same to Sander, who answered.

"Contribution points. A lot of them."

Tch. No luck here.

Eryndor thought for a while and messaged him once again.

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"I found a few clues which point towards Co-founder Morris communicating with someone.

"I know, he had to have teammates at some point, so he could have been communicating with them.

"However, it is very likely that he was communicating with someone from the abyss.

"They seemed to have made a deal. I don't know what the terms are."

There was a period of silence, with no activity from the other end, not even the small symbol of 'typing'.

Just when he thought Sander had gone offline, his message arrived.

"Do you have proof?"

Discreetly, without alerting his teammates, he took a photo of the second yellow paper, and sent it to him.

It was the one with the words -

["Daoisto!!! Daoisto!!! You must uphold your end of the deal! Else I'll die!"]

Sander: "How do you know it was written by Co-founder Morris? And don't tell me it's because of the borderline illegible handwriting which resembles that of a crazy person.

"If Morris could've gone crazy, obviously, his team members would've also gone crazy.

"What is the guarantee that it was indeed him who wrote it? And what if Daoisto is simply the name of some relative, friend or acquaintance of the team member who wrote the note?

"Are there any concrete proofs you have?

"Look, I am not really against you. But this is a Co-founder level figure we're up against. You can't point fingers against them without solid evidence."

Valid questioning. If the note didn't mention my name, and if those repeated attempts didn't take place, I wouldn't have been so paranoid either.

No one among Co-founder Morris' team has survived. He was literally the only one to return alive from the secret realm.

If it was anyone else who had written this, why would the attacks still happen to me? They are already dead, therefore their part of the deal, which was to push me in the abyss, wouldn't have taken place at all.

It was clearly because the person was alive that their part of the deal was still going through, that is, the attacks on me, which are an attempt to push me in the abyss.

And who is the only one alive? Co-founder Morris.

Eryndor: "Aren't there any Mystical Artifacts which can confirm this? That it was indeed Co-founder Morris who wrote this?"

Sander: "I don't know, the Federation might have it. But even if I were to try to use it, I don't think I'll be able to without giving them a valid reason.

"If this is the only clue you have then I won't be able to convince them. If you want my personal help without involving the Federation, I won't need as much concrete evidence as the Federation but I do hope that you have at least something else rather than just this."

Eryndor thought for almost a minute before replying.

"I'll consider and let you know. By the way, you still didn't tell me about Co-founder Morris' ability."

Sander: "Up to you. By the way, his ability is transformation.

"It allows him to transform into any person he wants. Of course, he can only copy their appearance, not powers or anything.

"It'll be my training time in an hour or two, don't contact me for trivial reasons in the coming days as the training is rather special, the efficiency decreases with the amount of breaks taken.

"I'll let my agent know to notify me as soon as your message comes up, so only send a message if it's really important as it would mean I'll be halting my training.

"Anything else you want to ask?"

Transformation? Huh? Could it be?...

He immediately asked his question.

"There is a Mystical Artifact which protects us students from outside entities,, right? Does it verify the identity of those 'entities' through appearance?"

"Nope. I know what you're worried about. But if a simple disguise could fool that Mystical Artifact then it wouldn't have been used to protect the students."

Eryndor: "Please can you wait a few minutes?"

Sander: "I told you, I do have an hour or two, take your time."

Without wasting any time, he closed the distance with his team and tapped on Valentina's shoulder while looking at Edward.

"I want to talk personally with her for a bit, please excuse me."

At this point he couldn't be bothered with not raising any suspicions. He deliberately lagged behind and increased the gap between Edward and them.

Without having to be prompted, she asked.

"Is it about the yellow papers?"

Eryndor nodded. He couldn't afford to postpone it any longer after knowing that Sander wouldn't be available for the next few days.

He quickly took out the sixth yellow paper and held it out to her.

Unlike the third and fifth paper, there was clearly some movement in the words, they were regressing rather quickly.

"jajwbd jajshd that opening…"

What the hell does it mean?

Opening? Does he mean the abyss?

Or does he mean the entrance to the secret realm?

Eryndor thought for a few seconds but was frustrated that nothing was coming up even after a while.

Maybe it's because I am under pressure right now?

He quickly disregarded it and took out the last yellow paper.

Since the previous one hadn't consumed much energy, it wouldn't be a problem to use the ability once more.

This time the words were quick to shift once again, but he was disappointed when he read through the words.

The previous papers all uncovered something which he didn't know, but this one? He already knew about it.

The words on the paper were -

"Got it got it got it got it got it got it."

Those were the same words Dr. Ralph was muttering when he left the secret realm. Just what the hell did he get?

Wait, could it count as a proof?

It probably could be counted as proof indeed, but he still didn't know just what he got.

I'll tell him about it.

He did plan to notify Sander about this, but first, he was currently finding things to ask him, since he won't get a chance later.

Eryndor was frustrated as he took out the two pieces of yellow paper on which the writing was too old to regress in one setting by Valentina's energy of Consciousness.

Valentina guessed what he was thinking about, with helplessness evident in her tone, she muttered.

"If only I could get more energy of Consciousness quickly."

Eryndor nodded while in thought. But he abruptly stopped, and spoke with narrowed eyes.

"Wait, what if I could transfer my energy of Consciousness onto you?"

Without waiting for Valentina to reply, he took out his phone and searched the array formation made by Dr. Ralph on the website of the Academy.

There it is. Shit, it needs energy conducting materials to make it though.

Array formations were obviously not just a bunch of designs. They needed to be made through materials which could conduct energy.

Depending on the type of array formation, the energy conducted could be Qi, Mana, Spiritual Energy, Internal Energy or even energy of Consciousness.

Crap, just where do I even bring these materials from?

I don't have time.