I am an Eldritch Entity

"There are beasts heading our way."

Eryndor alerted his group—Edward, who was fiddling with the filter, and Valentina, who was attempting to pluck a fruit from a tall tree.

"I'm done here, let's run away."

Edward spoke, while already starting to pack away his things.

While Eryndor and Valentina helped him with it, the former smirked.

"I thought you'd want to fight these beasts for 'experience'."

Edward jokingly elbowed Eryndor in the ribs before slinging the bag over his shoulder and tightening the straps.

As they made a run for it, Eryndor narrowed his eyes as he looked at those beasts through his extended vision.

A group of Ulyks huh.

According to the information on the ranking website, these beasts never hunted in packs.

So I was correct in my suspicion.

The first layer of traps was distributed throughout the secret realm. No matter where I end up teleporting, I would have come across these beasts who are strangely co-ordinating extremely well.

The trio eventually outran the beasts, and slowed down their pace to the usual jog.

"Were the beasts strong?"

Edward asked.

"Nope. Well, all except one were at the peak stage of Latent realm, the last one being at the initial stage of Stable realm."

Eryndor shrugged.

"Hmm, we would've definitely had to spend plenty of time dealing with those, not worth it."

Valentina shook her head. Edward looked at his juniors and sighed.

"You know, if it was some other stage seven and stage five level one juniors talking about taking on a group of beasts at the peak of Latent realm and even one at the initial stage of Stable realm, then I would've definitely laughed it off.

"I don't feel the same when it comes to you both though."

"What can we say? We're special." Eryndor shrugged once again with an extremely holier than thou expression.

As the group engaged in idle talks, Valentina asked a question which even Eryndor was curious about.

"Who do you think is stronger between Co-founder Morris and Guardian Sol?"

Edward was excited as if this was the question he was waiting for all along.

"Wait, let me answer this. First, do you know their innate abilities?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, he continued.

"Co-founder Morris's ability is Transformation. He can transform into any living being, even beasts and anomalies.

"Of course, he can't copy their abilities or anything, he only gets the physical aspect, which is powerful enough in my opinion.

"Maybe if his Transformation was a little better, it could happen? But it would be too overpowered haha.

"Also, I don't know if he can use his skills in that form, so that's an information gap.

"Guardian Sol's ability is fortification. He can strengthen anything to defend himself.

"It is actually a little more than just that.

"You see, fortification can be used for a lot of things, so why does he only use it for defense?

"Because there's more to it.

"He needs to 'fortify' anything while keeping in mind the 'intent' he is defending from.

"Depending on what is on the offensive, a sharp object, a blunt one, some spell, an advanced technological weapon, and so on, the fortification takes place respectively.

"Even if he has the 'intent' to defend against karmic attacks, or fate based attacks, the object fortified will be able to do just that.

"Why do you think he guards the city facing the Buddhist Outer Domain?

"Despite being one of the most troublesome power systems, they have never managed to invade. One of the largest contributors to this is Guardian Sol."

Eryndor coughed into his fist.

"Valentina asked about the fight bro."

Edward did the settling gesture of patting empty air and said. "Be patient, will you? I am getting to it."

Fixing the non-existent collar on his cloth, he continued after a fake cough.

"Yea so, in a fight. No one would actually win.

"It's because Guardian Sol is extremely defense oriented. Tasked with the job of defending a city, he has only learned the defensive skills.

"Co-founder Morris can't even harm a hair on his body. The same could be said if you reverse the situation by the way.

"As a person with no little to no offensive capability, he wouldn't be able to hurt Co-founder Morris if he transforms into a defense oriented beast."

"So much for nothing."

Eryndor commented with a disgusted expression on his face.

Edward wasn't provoked, he just shrugged.

"Analysis. Analysis. Proper comprehensive strength analysis and then comparison. Brutes like you wouldn't get it."

Eryndor laughed mockingly.

"Proper comprehensive strength analysis? Without knowing any skills they practice? Just ability vs ability and some general information?"

"Get lost, at least I know something. What do you know?"

Edward raised his chin up high and spoke contemptuously.

Valentina chuckled from the side. "Will you two stop it?"

The two men laughed, and continued their journey, keeping up their idle talks.

At a certain point, Eryndor thought of something and contacted Sander.

"How many people did Co-founder Morris have under him when he entered the secret realm ten years ago?"

The reply was quick.

"Around a hundred."

His brows furrowed.

How could I not think of this?

I doubt the vitality of a hundred people is enough for the authority of the entity to make a permanent change on the target.

But then again, I better ask someone who has more knowledge on this.

He pulled up Dr. Kirchoff's chat and asked.

"Are a hundred people enough for an entity to make a permanent change through the invocation ritual?"

It didn't take long for him to reply either.

"In most of the cases, no. That amount is extremely pitiful. It will only allow a small permanent change."

Eryndor quickly noticed the important keyword, and asked once again.

"Will it allow a temporary one?"

"Yes, a hundred people are more than enough for a temporary change. Something like a one-time use only though.

"However, whether it is permanent or temporary, it depends on how big or small the change is.

"It also depends on the quality of the medium consumed, the closer it is to the essence of the entity, the higher the value, which is, more change allowed."

Nice, new information.