I am an Eldritch Entity

Eryndor didn't participate in the discussion of his group, leaving it up to them to decide how to devour the entire point bundle which was the group of Ice Oxen.

He retreated to his tent, and began packing up after taking a bit of rest.

He also washed himself of all the blood and other substances which had stuck to his body and clothes.

He didn't regret using most of his water to clean himself. Afterward, he packed the bloodstained clothes tightly in his bag, making sure they wouldn't soil anything else inside.

Even though he knew that his Cloak wouldn't have suffered any kind of damage, he still took it out and inspected every inch of it.

Due to its existence, he had been able to fight recklessly during the later half of his battles after he got over the feeling of his mild OCD.

It felt far better now that he had washed up and changed.

Without stopping, he packed his tent, and regrouped with his team.

"Well, what's the plan?"

He asked them. It was Valentina who answered him with a shrug.

"Well, we are kind of stuck on a point.

"Edward suggested digging a large pit and luring them there.

"However, Drakarion argued that if the beasts die due to any other reason than fighting with a student, it may not give any point, like dying due to falling in a pit."

Before she could continue, Edward spoke up.

"Then I said that if that was the case, one should also not get any points if the beast was killed by students proficient in traps."

Eryndor answered after a moment of thought as if it was obvious.

"Why don't we check it out by experimenting on some beast?"

Paulina nodded at him.

"We had the same idea, and were deciding who should go.

"Only me, Valentina, and Edward have skills which would be effective for digging holes.

"But Syndra here says that we shouldn't spend so much time testing a theory and should think of other ways as that would save time."

When Eryndor looked at Syndra, she spoke up immediately.

"You see, no matter how effective the skills, digging a hole big enough for a beast to fall to death is going to take some time, and it would also be difficult to make a beast fall in it in the first place.

"If the theory was already tested, we could spend the many hours we have before night sets in to make the trap.

"However, now since we don't know the results of this idea and testing it out would take too long, by the time we get the result, even if it did indeed come out positive, that we can get the points through traps like this, it would be too late to start digging."

Valentina took over from there.

"This…is the problem. Edward argues that his earth based spell would be enough to dig a large enough hole even if it's late, and Drakarion wants to take a more sure-fire approach, agreeing with Syndra that we shouldn't do this at all."

Eryndor was just going to speak up when Paulina held up her palm at him.

"No, I know you'll suggest going through with another trap and also start digging through the ground if the experiment turns out to be successful but with the amount of hours we have on our hands, if we don't focus on a single trap and go for multiple ones then it will result in half baked traps.

"Also, we considered digging first because it's extremely easy out of any idea we came up with. We are reluctant in just giving it up exactly for that reason.

"Not to mention we only have six people. We need to be efficient in whatever trap we make. Neither do we have the people, nor do we have the hours to make lots of traps."

Eryndor put a hand to his chin, comprehending the full extent of what was going on.

After a moment of thought, he spoke.

"Did y'all think about taking help from the Support Shrine? It isn't that far from here either. We could more efficiently set up traps in that case."

There was a silence before Edward spoke with some hesitation.

"We already don't have a lot of points. If we spend some in the Support Shrine then we might very likely end up outside the top ten."

Eryndor understood his concern.

Only if the team finished in top ten would they be qualified for the final wheel type battle between groups.

It was this wheel battle which would decide the final standing, and correspondingly the quality and quantity of rewards a team would get.

Eryndor understood Edward, but that didn't mean he agreed with him.

"That's wrong. Unspent avarice is just greed; once directed and consumed, it turns to ambition.

"We shouldn't be afraid of using points if it results in a larger profit."

Paulina repeated his words in a whisper.

"Greed hoards. Ambition consumes." She then looked at Eryndor, before commending. "That's a nice quote."

Edward sighed and spoke.

"Alright, let's use the Support Shrine."

Paulina clapped her palms and confirmed.

"So, we'll go through the digging experiment, and also use Support Shrine to buy some traps.

"This way we'll have trusted Edward that his skills can indeed dig a large hole within the remaining time frame, and also make another trap which would be extremely efficient even if the digging isn't successful."

Eryndor had a thought as the group polished the plan.

Wait, my eldritch form has very potent Telekinesis.

I can easily use it to control the earth in large amounts, quickly digging up a trap.

Then I can also use my eldritch presence to scare the beast into running towards the trap.

I guess I am practically perfect for this?

But I don't know if the group will believe me without any sufficient evidence. They weren't even ready to trust Edward despite him being a leaderboard student.

Eryndor gazed at them.

Should I even use my eldritch form for something like this?

It is…dangerous.