I am an Eldritch Entity

Paulina was quick to continue, by following up with an explanation of the ability.

"Before you let your imagination run wild, let me clarify.

"It reverts the object he touches to its previous state. Nothing more, nothing less. At least that is what’s been going around."

"Ahh."

Eryndor exclaimed languidly.

He was almost on the verge of bursting into crazy conspiracies and ideas about the person having this ability if it was indeed what he was thinking it was.

"By the way, what’s your progress?"

Mages had a different form of progression as compared to cultivators.

Granted, they also had a magic practice technique to absorb Mana. Just like in cultivators, it determined the absorption speed of Mana, storage capacity and the element of Mana, but the way a Mage increased their battle prowess was different.

The first spell model which a Mage made at their current realm was their innate spell model.

Innate spell models couldn’t be removed, and if by some near impossible possibility that it was removed, it would cause immense pain and damage to the soul.

You could add more spell models after making an innate spell model, but the additional ones needed Mana at periodic times to sustain their existence.

So, Mages only kept spell models which they thought were worth keeping, so as to keep their Mana consumption at an appropriate level.

As far as he knew, the stages in the first level of Mages were also determined by the amount of Mana they could store.

Paulina spoke after a moment of thought.

"Hmm, not too bad. The rewards from the first mission and the second one to the Ravencroft’s Polinek city were plentiful. I’m at —"

Before she could say any further Eryndor interjected.

"Wait, didn’t the mission of Polinek city get invalidated? It was a grand conspiracy instead of a proper battle after all.

"And you guys who left before the battle even started, it was equivalent to abandoning the mission before it even began, not to mention completing it.

"Didn’t the Academy get suspicious why you left before the battle?"

Paulina shook her head.

"Not really. There were a few groups which backed out the previous day after seeing the scale of the army.

"So we didn’t really stand out. As for the mission being invalidated, yea it did indeed happen.

"But they also compensated everyone who took up the mission for the wrong information on their side."

Eryndor asked with curiosity. "What about those who took up the mission but didn’t retreat in time? Aren’t they stuck in Polinek?"

Paulina replied as if it was obvious.

"Yea, what can the Academy do about them? Let’s just hope they find a way to escape."

Eryndor nodded, and asked her to continue her previous sentence.

"I interrupted you before you could say what stage you were at. C’mon, you can speak up now."

She gave him a side eye, then spoke up after a second of silence.

"Stage five. Heh, surprised? I haven’t told this to the Academy yet. Only you and the other two roommates know about it."

Eryndor was definitely surprised. He himself was at stage six, so he knew how high one’s control must be to achieve stage five in such a short time period.

Is she a genius like me? Or is it norm now after the second upgrade of Cosmic Limit?

He wasn’t wrong to think like that.

The density of energies had increased after the Cosmic Limit increased for the second time. This enabled people to practice faster with abundance of energy in the environment.

With a confused expression, he asked.

"Has the increase in Cosmic Limit allowed for faster practice?"

At least he hadn’t come across any such news. The increase in speed shouldn’t have been so high right?

His question inadvertently allowed the sharp Paulina to glean a piece of information.

Either Eryndor himself or someone he knew had the same speed as her. There was no other reason why he would ask such a question which expressed doubt in Cosmic Limit rather than admiration in her speed.

He had to have come across similar speed for him to be focused on the Cosmic Limit rather than the speed, which didn’t seem unique to him anymore.

The only other people she knew who were as fast as her were the other two roommates. The probability that there was another person out there like them was low.

Could it be that Eryndor himself was just as fast? Referring to the abnormalities he had shown in the past, that seemed valid.

She denied in response to his question. The Cosmic Limit level two had indeed facilitated faster practice, but it wasn’t to the extent of her own speed.

With narrowed eyes, she asked.

"What stage are you at?"

Eryndor smiled.

"Guess."

Paulina snorted. "You’ll have to make a move at some point anyway, I’ll know at that time."

Eryndor shrugged, and diverted the topic.

While going through small talks, they soon reached the main building of the Academy.

The huge building very literally had every facility built in it, making it convenient and inconvenient at the same time.

Eryndor mentally made a comparison with the Human Federation’s headquarters and realized that the Academy’s main building was considerably larger.

I wonder why they made such a big building.

Walking through the lobby, they took the lift to the battle arena.

"Edward’s battle is on the third layer. C’mon, let’s go."

So Edward is the name of the guy huh?

He followed Paulina, occasionally letting his eyes wander to the various arenas. It took only a moment for him to determine that he could defeat a lot of people here.

So I’ve grown this much already huh.

He was realizing in greater depth how extraordinary his speed was in both practicing cultivation, and gaining mastery in cultivation arts.

Familiar faces who were in the first year and sat with him in the class were only around stage four or stage five with far less mastery over their cultivation arts compared to him despite starting a few months ago.

When he finally reached the designated battle arena of the Regression guy, he found a familiar face among the spectators outside the dome, who seemed to sense someone looking at her.

Syndra turned around, her eyes resting upon Eryndor.

Oh yea, I told her I would talk to her face to face about the issue of Polinek city.

Eryndor recalled as he gazed upon the light blue haired girl. Her face didn’t betray any emotions, making it difficult for Eryndor to know what she was thinking.

What he had done essentially damaged her family a lot. But on the other hand, she also herself recognised why he did what he did.

It was so that Lucian could have his revenge.

She doesn’t know that he is still on Humanity’s side though.

He internally thought, and he didn’t intend to tell her about it. It was unrelated to her point of concern.

When the distance between them closed, he heard her say something completely different though.

She softly whispered while looking him into the eyes.

"I looked at your information, you don’t seem to be from any major family."