I am an Eldritch Entity

He looked at Valentina who had just come out from the tent.

Her blond hair was ruffled, and her eyes were still droopy, showing that she hadn't bothered fixing herself up before leaving the tent.

"Alright, I'll take over. You can go to sleep now."

She spoke in a muffled voice.

Although they were camping in a relatively safe space, it was still necessary to follow the basic rules of camping in an hostile environment.

It was recommended that if you had companions, you should rotate to keep watch throughout the night.

Eryndor was the first one to keep watch, next was Valentina, and lastly Edward.

They had simply used a random game to decide this order, and no one really bothered thinking much about getting good quality sleep, bad quality sleep and so on.

As students practising the power systems, their bodies were much more resilient and less sleep dependent.

"Yea, I'll go in a few minutes, I don't really feel sleepy."

Eryndor responded. She only gave out a small 'hmmm' as she walked to the edge of their tents which they had placed in a triangular manner.

She used the bottle in her hand to wash her face, using the cold water to jolt herself awake and freshen up her mind.

Placing the bottle in her tent, she dabbed her face with a small towel and lay down on another log which was placed opposite to Eryndor.

There was silence in the surroundings. As Eryndor was about to resume his thinking, Valentina spoke up.

"You know. I don't have any right to call you out on whatever you do. Whether you hide your ability, or not. It's your life after all.

"But since I do technically know about your 'secrets', even if you didn't share it out of your own volition, I feel like I should tell you more about myself as well."

"Not really."

Eryndor answered. Just as she was looking up in the sky while speaking, he likewise didn't look at her but continued gazing upwards as he replied.

"There's no need to feel like you're obliged to share your secrets just because you know more about the other party.

"Secrets aren't debts. Just because you stumbled into mine doesn't mean you owe me yours."

Seeing her silence, he extrapolated on his intention.

"There's a strange instinct in people—the need to balance the scales of vulnerability with people they are close to.

"Like feeling that the weight of your close one's truth demands an equal offering in return. But trust isn't about transactions; it's about choice.

"If you feel the need to share, let it be because you want to—not because you think you have to."

Eryndor genuinely wasn't mad that she knew about his abilities. It was bound to happen at some point.

He was already ready for his abilities to be known among his roommates.

He had long decided that it wouldn't be of any harm if they knew more about him.

Just take Valentina as an example. Throughout the few hours they travelled together, she had been nothing but kind and accommodating towards him.

One might say that he was naive, and a little too believing in other people. But isn't that what it was?

Scrying their mind every time, spying on their intentions, and then taking the respective steps. Could it be called friendship?

If my belief turns out to be wrong then so be it. I'll learn from it.

"I always knew you were a mature one, and I wasn't wrong."

He heard Valentina speak.

"But I am not doing this out of obligation."

Valentina carefully focused on her listening and confirmed that Edward was still sleeping before continuing.

"My copy ability actually had a breakthrough earlier this month. So my range of sensing and copying abilities basically increased.

"Did you not question how I could sense you using Telekinesis when Kron had thrown you so far away?

"It was because of this, yes. Although I can still only save four abilities, the time I can keep them for has increased from twelve hours to twenty four hours."

So abilities do indeed go through a change when they upgrade. My Cognitive Scrying didn't go through any change though, is it because it doesn't have any restriction in the first place? Maybe.

As he thought about his own ability, Valentina continued.

"This is not all. The main change is with those snakes.

"I've named the white one Yang, and the black one Yin. There are two more abilities they can execute.

"Both of them are area of effect attacks.

"It is extremely complicated if I tell you like this, let me catch some insects."

Eryndor didn't stop her, just sitting in silence as she bought a few insects.

"Now look at this red ant."

Yin and Yang crawled up her arm and shot two tiny spheres of respective color. He watched as a small sphere of Yin Yang Convergence manifested, blasting the ant to oblivion.

"That's the Yin Yang Convergence you're familiar with. It needs two normal spheres landing on the same target. If the target dodges one sphere and only gets hit with one, well, the Yin Yang Convergence won't take place.

"The target will only sustain the damage of that one sphere.

"If by some ability, they slow down one of the spheres such that white and black don't land at the same time, it would still trigger Yin Yang Convergence as long as the time difference between their impact is less than a second."

She put four ants this time, two black and two red.

"Anyway, that was a known ability. Now let me show you one of the two abilities I hid away earlier."

He watched as Yin and Yang shot a sphere again, just that it was a different one from before.

The spheres weren't glowing like the normal ones, they rather had a sandy surface, although still black and white in color, rather unassuming if you asked Eryndor.

The spheres didn't land on one target like during the Yin Yang Convergence, no, they landed on different groups.

The white one landed on two black ants, and the black one landed on two red ants.

What happened next made him widen his eyes in amazement as he looked at Valentina for explanation.