I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 237: Second power system chosen

Eryndor wanted to test if other people's surveillance skills could find out the hidden resources.

But finding out those large bunch of resources isn't easy either. In my range which covered almost the entire tundra, there were only two spots.

As he thought about it, Eryndor could only helplessly admit that it made sense.

There were enough resources there that it allowed five people to have multiple breakthroughs. That was no small amount.

They wouldn't put these many resources at a lot of spots. If anything, they were supposed to be incredibly rare and difficult to even sense.

The Academy wouldn't needlessly spend a lot of resources on a first year tournament.

I don't know if the second spot has been emptied yet.

It had been too long since he last checked it, he would have to switch to his eldritch form again.

Approximately half an hour later, they were done eating.

Due to the presence of different elemental skills, it was easier and way faster to cook meat, thus they were also always done eating quickly unless they spent too much time in idle talks.

Should I try to head towards those resource points?

Eryndor thought for a second and decided that he might as well head there.

It was ten hours away from their current location though.

This time they should adopt a strategy of killing beasts along the way and taking breaks instead of walking straight towards the resource point through non stop jogging.

Eryndor took a short and quick break away from his group to check up on the resources. Fortunately, they were indeed present.

They really might be difficult to sense.

After coming back, Eryndor discussed this with his group, and immediately carried out the plan after everyone agreed to it.

While fighting the beasts, they once again found out a new hidden rule.

This hidden rule gave even more bonus points than the rule about dividing in three teams.

In this rule, there was a pattern.

That is, squaring. There was no condition of dividing the team into smaller groups.

Let's say you were fighting a beast, a random small object in the surrounding would glow.

One would have to immediately take possession of that object.

Now, the second time an object would glow would be when you were fighting the fourth beast, counting from the first beast where you picked up the glowing object.

The third time would be when you were fighting the ninth beast.

The fourth time would be at sixteenth beast.

One, four, nine, sixteen and so on, were squares of one, two, three, four and so on.

The group would gain increasingly high bonus points as the squared number increased.

If the group failed to pick up a glowing object during the fight with a beast which was square numbered, then the sequence would reset.

The advantage of this was that the bonus point wasn't affected by the combat prowess of the beast. It was entirely dependent on the sequence.

Even if one fought an initial stage beast, it would still count towards the progress of the sequence.

Finally, they reached the resource point, where Eryndor let others use their surveillance skills.

Nothing happened. They couldn't sense it.

So I was correct.

Eryndor thought, gazing thoughtfully at the resources which were hidden even more carefully this time.

They were basically at the riverbed, and since the water wasn't clear, none of those resources were visible to naked eyes from the surface.

After taking those resources, they continued with their beast hunting.

The teams were reshuffled, with Eryndor taking the role of the brain of the team.

He stayed back alone, not fighting with the beasts, but used his range to keep an eye on everyone and remind them when to take which object and where to place their hands.

Edward moved alone, since he was strong enough to defeat the beasts even if he placed one hand on some surface and remained immobile.

As a mage, he didn't need much mobility against weaker beasts in the first place.

Valentina and Paulina moved together, and Syndra and Drakarion were in one team.

Time continued passing by, as their team kept accumulating more and more points.

With the discovery of hidden rules, they were always in the top two of the tournament, the position of first rank and second rank constantly switching between their own team and Team Kron.

During the second week when three days were left for the tournament to end, just like Eryndor had expected, a change took place which required one to use the teleport function of the Support Shrine.

A massive beast at Active realm appeared in a certain area, and notification was sent to each team.

It was like a loot drop in battle royale games.

And unlike other times where point distribution was based on the contribution during the battle, this time, the one who killed the beast would get all the points.

A lot of teams quickly used teleport function to head towards where the beast was.

At this point in the tournament, there were plenty of teams which had bought an escape treasure from the Support Shrine, so every one of them wanted to give it a try regardless of the fact that a lot of students would be gathering, making it dangerous.

Team Eryndor was the one who managed to snatch the kill, allowing them to pull away from Team Kron and get a strong lead at first position.

After getting resources from the riverbed, everyone had progressed even further.

Drakarion and Paulina had both managed to break through to the Silver Warrior realm and the Elementalist realm respectively, which was the second level of their respective power systems.

Realizing the importance of the second power system, Eryndor decided on being a Mentalist.

Magic and Demonic power systems which were based on Mana, required one to make a mana core and an innate spell model, which would allow them to step into the first level of their power systems.

Even if he assumed that his control over Mana would be as insane as his control over Qi, and that he could easily form a mana core, he would still need an innate spell model.

Even if he decided to copy Paulina's, he would still need a high enough comprehension of the topic to actually engrave it on the mana core.

Mages engraved spell models on the outside of the mana core, while demons engraved it on the inside of the mana core.

He couldn't really spend time learning right now, so he abandoned those two paths.

Eryndor didn't have the practice techniques of the buddhist and cyborg power systems, so those paths were out of question as well.

He also didn't have any good beast which he could contract at the moment, so the beast taming system wasn't a good idea either.

Martial arts and mentalist power systems were the only ones which could give immediate benefits.

The former would give him a better physique, and if he decided to ignore the Academy's rules, he could even learn martial arts from Drakarion, further elevating his combat prowess.

The latter would give him a higher resistance against the eldritch form.

Eryndor chose to be a Mentalist because it consumed way less resources than the martial arts power system to break through to level one.

The second loot drop event wasn't a beast but a lot of resources.

Team Utyr, the dark horse, managed to snatch the majority of the resources.

In the third loot drop event, there was equipment.

Team Kron managed to snatch it.

Almost immediately, Eryndor saw a huge in the speed with which Team Kron gathered their points.

In the fourth loot drop event, there was only a securely packed piece of paper.

Team Eryndor was the one who managed to take it and use their escape treasures on time.

The Academy didn't want one to abuse the escape treasures, so there was a mechanism in place which would break down those treasures after one to two uses.

It applied to both escape treasures, one bought from the Support Shrine, which would only last a single use, and those brought by students from outside, which would last for two uses.

Eryndor already had a suspicion that the Academy wouldn't allow one to abuse escape treasures, so he didn't let Edward use his own escape treasure, but bought them from the Support Shrine.

Each successive escape treasure bought from the Support Shrine by a single team would increase its price.

If at first its price was hundred thousand points, then the second time it was two hundred thousand points.

Edyndor knew that they could've threatened other teams to buy an escape treasure for them, as his range was high enough to cover the teleportation range of the Support Shrine, which meant they would easily be able to chase the team if they thought of running away.

However, they ultimately didn't go through with the idea as they didn't plan on participating in more loot drop events.

Surprisingly unsurprisingly, the fifth loot drop was snatched by Team Irene, which was still in the top ten rankings.

The first loot drop event took place as soon as there were only three days left for the tournament to end, and there was a gap of twelve hours between each loot drop event.

Going by that logic, everyone was guessing that there would be a sixth loot drop event in the final hour of the survival tournament.

There was. And it was a simple one.

A plain brawl, in which the winner would get -

Two million points prize.