I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 235: Everyone’s new levels

He looked around at his group and realized that Valentina seemed to be missing.

Is she also breaking through? But isn't she already in the Beast Keeper realm? Damn, does that mean she is climbing stages of second level?

It was obviously more impressive to breakthrough at higher realms than at lower ones.

"You sure took your time."

Drakarion teased Eryndor once he arrived.

"Were you breaking through?"

Paulina asked him.

Everyone had earned plenty of resources yesterday, so it wouldn't be strange if they knew what Eryndor was doing.

There was also the fact that converting those resources into pills only cost points, which was a made up currency for the tournament.

The only worth of those points were the top ten rankings.

All of them still had the confidence to be in the top ten, which meant anything they exchanged from the Support Shrine was basically free.

On the other hand, if they didn't manage to stay in the top ten, that'd be a pity.

Eryndor nodded, there was no need to hide it.

Drakarion rubbed his hands together.

"I am at stage eight now hehe."

He was at stage five of Iron Body realm prior to this, along with Paulina, who was at the same level.

Of course, since Eryndor received enough resources to break through three times, which was from stage seven to eight, then eight to nine, and the final big realm breakthrough which consumed even more resources, from ninth stage to Qi Condensation realm first stage, it was rather apparent that the others would get resources around Eryndor's level, a bit less if anything.

Lesser than Eryndor because he was the one who found the location of this resource point.

Even though the team moving together would provide support to each other, it couldn't be denied that Eryndor's contribution was the highest, therefore the highest share.

Paulina nodded alongside Drakarion, even going so far as to reveal her aura.

"I am at stage eight now as well."

Eryndor didn't know if both of them had run out of resources or that they had been too exhausted to continue.

Jumping more than three grades at once in the first level was too exhausting on the mind after all.

Not one to be left behind, Syndra flared up her aura, surprising everyone.

She had stepped into the Qi Condensation realm!

Paulina was the first one to ask her a question.

"Were you already on the verge of completely forming your dantian?"

Majority of the people didn't bother learning about the specifics of the other power systems, not to mention they couldn't learn it even if they wanted to.

The Human Federation didn't allow people to share the practice technique they had received.

The students in the Academy got their first practice technique for free, but if they wanted more, they would have to exchange with credit points, which was the currency of the Academy.

The outside world had it worse. Mercenary teams like Team Yetoren and Team Lockheim would need plenty of money and contributions points to exchange even their first power system.

Sure, The Human Federation wanted to increase the total power of humanity, but that didn't mean that they wouldn't screen out people first.

If the people who began practicing the power system turned around to bite humanity then it would be a loss.

There were plenty of examples throughout the years, but that was already a result of multiple policies put in place by the Federation regarding who would get to practice the power systems and who would not, else it would be even higher.

Majority of the people who got their power systems would focus on walking that path, instead of sticking their nose everywhere.

Not to mention that they wouldn't easily be able to get their hands on another power system anyway, since it would increase the cost of resources they would need to level up in that other path.

People like Paulina, who had knowledge about several paths were rare.

As he heard her question, Eryndor was once again reminded of his early impressions of Paulina and Drakarion.

Both of them seemed to be extremely knowledgeable, even more so than what was normal.

As he was in his thoughts, Syndra chuckled.

"Yes, I was already on the verge of completing my dantian, yesterday's resources gave me a boost."

Seeing that it was about to be his turn, Edward shook his head, while revealing his stage nine Elementalist aura.

"The resources needed to break through to the Mana Adept realm, the third level of the magic power system, are a lot more than you think.

"Even combining the ones I've already gathered, it isn't enough."

Mana novice was the first level, Elementalist was the second level, and Mana Adept was the third level of the magic power system.

Just as he finished speaking, Valentina joined them. None of them were surprised as they had already sensed her through their surveillance skills.

"Were you late because you were also breaking through?"

Drakarion asked with a laugh.

Valentina nodded, and the next moment when she revealed her aura, everyone was shocked speechless, except Eryndor who already knew the information but didn't see it coming that she would reveal it now.

Everyone except Eryndor's eyes turned wide as Valentina confirmed their suspicions.

"I've broken through to the Beast Keeper realm."

The Beast Seeker realm was the first level, while the Beast Keeper realm was the second level of the Beast Taming power system.

The problem was, only Eryndor knew that she had long broken through to the Beast Keeper realm.

In everyone else's eyes, Valentina was only at stage five of Beast Seeker realm previously, how could she jump five stages? One of which was a major realm breakthrough?

As expected, Paulina questioned her about the same thing.

"Weren't you at stage five just like us?"

Valentina nodded, then said.

"Alongside the resources which I got yesterday, I already had some myself, some of which can even relieve mental fatigue if used with certain pills such as Pure Internal pills.

"I used that to continuously break through, finally reaching the Beast Keeper realm."

Just like how Pure Qi pill was used for power systems which consumed Qi, namely cultivation and buddhism, Pure Internal pill was used for power systems which consumed Internal energy, namely beast taming and martial arts.

A few people used this point as a common point in bars and other gatherings to joke about, and tease the naming sense of the Federation, as there were even Pure Spiritual pill and Pure Mana pill.

They hadn't put much effort into naming these pills at all. Lazy bums.

"Makes sense." Paulina nodded before continuing. "The breakthrough process of the Beast Seeker realm to the Beast Keeper realm is quicker than the cultivation power system."

She really has a lot of knowledge.

Eryndor narrowed his eyes in thought.

After their discussion died down, Eryndor finally exposed his realm. He had only told others that he had a breakthrough, not that which stage or realm he had reached.

Since everyone had revealed their aura, he felt an itch to do it as well.

No sooner than their shock at Valentina's aura had died down that their eyes once again turned wide, gazing at Eryndor in astonishment.

Drakarion and Paulina, who knew about the difficulty of completing the breakthrough from the Qi Gathering realm to the Qi Condensation realm, were even more shocked.

Syndra, being a practitioner of the cultivation power system, was similarly more shocked than others.

Eryndor had only been at stage seven of Qi Gathering realm yesterday! How did he finish forming his dantian in one go?!

Valentina and Edward didn't have much knowledge on the cultivation power system, but were still shocked at his speed.

Breakthrough from one realm to another realm was always way more difficult than breaking through stages.

"Let's go search for beasts, our today's mission would be to find as many hidden rules as possible."

Seeing that Eryndor had changed topics, no one asked how he could complete the breakthrough from the Qi Gathering realm to Qi Condensation realm in one go.

Their team was now countless times more powerful than before, Eryndor doubted if there was any other team as strong as them right now.

He had a small guess that the resources he had found below the cliff were rather…differently hidden.

They couldn't be found by normal surveillance skills, or low levelled ones.

Because there was no reason why the other team they had eliminated wouldn't be able to sense the resources once they stood literally opposite to his own team, similarly above the cliff.

If they had sensed those precious resources, there was a high chance they would at least notify their friends in different teams even if to disgust Team Eryndor.

Since they obviously wouldn't be able to snatch it, the other teams could still put a target on them.

But that team had never once mentioned those resources despite how precious they were. They hadn't even glanced at it.

He guessed that it was probably because his Cognitive Scrying was in the Enhanced realm that he could go past whatever obstruction there was and sense the resources.

I really need to find a safe place to enter the Mind Palace, but we'll soon be taking a break, so I can use that time I guess.

Eryndor thought as he looked around.

They had decided to keep the same pairs as before and moved out to hunt the beasts.

It had been hours since they started, and had already hunted a lot of beasts.

They had also found two new hidden rules, courtesy of Paulina and Valentina, who were in the same team.

Finally, when their stomach began rumbling out of hunger, the teams gathered once again, while Eryndor sighed in relief at the back.

Finally.