I am an Eldritch Entity

Chapter 218 218: Eliminating competition

Just after Eryndor asked his question about why would the team spend so much on buying, he realized it himself.

Irene looked at him with a knowing gaze as she spoke.

"You realized it, didn't you?"

Eryndor nodded, and explained out loud in case some of his team members didn't get it.

"They are eliminating competition.

"Even if they used these twelve million points for themselves, Team Ricky would only be at the top of the leaderboard.

"Seeing how Team Jonathan and Team Lance are also on the leaderboard, I assume that these guys are also getting some points which the thirty seven teams under them bring, so even if you divide twelve million such that Team Ricky would get the most and these other two teams get the rest, all three would still be at the top of the leaderboard.

"But then, what's the use of that?

"You just need to be in the top ten to qualify for the final wheel battle. It doesn't matter if you're in the bottom at rank ten or at the top at rank one, it's all the same.

"So they used their points to eliminate strong teams, such that the final top ten would be weaker, and it would be easier for them to score good points in the final wheel battle."

Valentina whispered from the side.

"Those teams which were eliminated, and allowed us to constantly stay in the top ten, must be the work of these guys then, right?"

Eryndor nodded. "Very likely."

Irene shook her head, and replied to Valentina.

"Not just those three teams which were previously in the top ten, they've also got a few members of Team Kennedy, which was a seeded team.

"Among the ten seeded teams, the only ones left are: Team Kron, Team Risa, Team Yu, Team Bronit, and yours.

"The rest were all eliminated, with Team Kennedy being the only exception as three of their members including their captain are still in the tournament."

Eryndor raised his eyebrows as he heard that information.

Seeded teams were the ones which had the highest chance of being the top ten of the tournament.

It was an unofficial ranking made by the students themselves.

To know that four of ten seeded teams were already eliminated, and even Team Kennedy only having three members left was shocking to know.

Eryndor and his team had just assumed that the rest of the seeded teams were not in the list yet and would soon claim their spots within the next few days.

He murmured while looking at Irene.

"Five seeded teams are left, all of whom are in the top ten. The three who are running this scheme, Team Ricky, Team Jonathan and Team Lance are also in the top ten.

"That leaves Team Utyr and your team, so you both are dark horses huh?"

Irene tilted her head.

"That's an irrelevant question but I'll answer nonetheless.

"Team Utyr are the only ones deserving of being called the dark horse of this tournament.

"We just happened to kill a large batch of offerings prepared for Team Ricky. We defeated the people securing it before the main team could arrive and took all the offerings.

"It was large enough to push us to the top rankings, and also why they are hunting us now, who are not even a seeded team."

Eryndor's raised eyebrows didn't go down even once as he heard Irene talk about everything.

Finally, he heaved a sigh and asked one last question.

"How do you know so much?"

Irene folded her hands on her chest and just looked at him without saying anything.

Understanding her intentions, Eryndor shrugged and answered.

"I have a very large range. If we cooperate, I'll make sure to keep y'all safe as well."

Irene shook her head. "Not enough."

Without losing his cool, Eryndor pointed at Edward.

"Do you know him? He is strong enough to rank in the leaderboard of the academy.

"From the looks of it, you couldn't have gotten this information from the second year senior in your group as he looks surprised as well."

Without stopping, Eryndor pointed at Syndra.

"She is one of the strongest, if not the strongest cultivator of the first year, standing at stage nine of Qi Gathering realm. You did not know about that either did you?

"Is that enough?"

Of course, Eryndor had a lot more to say.

Like how Edward wasn't actually their strongest offense.

How Valentina's beasts could dig and fly to escape.

How Paulina's movement technique was one of the best out there.

How Drakarion was the strongest Martial Artist in the first year now that Kron was dead.

Of course, if there were more people like Kron out there who didn't bother coming to class even once and were always out there completing missions then Eryndor couldn't do anything about it.

He didn't have extensive information on all the students yet.

Lastly, he had also very obviously not told her how he was capable of a lot more than just having high surveillance range.

Irene slightly nodded her head, then answered his previous question of how she knew so much.

"Well, I paid for all this information in points and got it from the Support Shrine."

Eryndor furrowed his brows.

"You can buy this kind of information from the Support Shrine as well? That's surprising."

Eryndor put that to the back of his mind, then took out a red colored scroll which was one of the items bought by Edward and given to him.

"Do you recognise this?"

Irene narrowed her eyes.

"The Scroll of Unchanging Conditions?"

He smiled. "You know a lot. This is the basis of our cooperation."

Irene was clearly uncomfortable for a moment, before she replied.

"If we're getting so formal, then we'll need more teams to cooperate on this. We both alone won't be able to take them down.

"I'm sure there are more in the top ten who are as clueless as you guys. If we take action early then we can stop those guys.

"I already know the location of a few. Wanna head towards them?"

Eryndor matched gazes with his teammates before nodding.

It was time to meet the others in the top ten.