Eryndor quickly stood up and approached Valentina, clearly in a rush to know what was on the paper.
Taking out the yellow paper which she had left midway, he held it in the sa position in front of her, not showing her the text.
"You can start."
He spoke.
She nodded, and he imdiately saw the effects.
The blurry words began getting clearer. They were reversing to their previous state. It wasn't his first ti but he marvelled at the ability all the sa.
It was truly amazing, with a wide range of uses. It could be used to heal, or even damage enemies who were healing themselves or had already healed.
Imagine that an enemy had healed themselves during the battle using so dicine or so treasure.
But after using the Regression ability, they could regress the state of the area back to when it was wounded.
dicines? Treasures? All wasted. The wound was back.
Granted, like all abilities it would be difficult to use it on living beings, but just the thought of it instilled a sense of awe in him.
He had simply let his thoughts wander, but his attention had always been on the words of the yellow paper.
Soon, they were clear enough to read.
To conserve Valentina's energy of Consciousness, he never asked her to keep going till the point of these words being extrely clear.
He would always make sure to stop her when the words began legible, even if they were blurry.
"Stop."
Nodding slightly, Valentina halted the ability and went back to using her phone.
Eryndor read the words written on the yellow paper.
"Daoisto!!! Daoisto!!! You must uphold your end of the deal! Else I'll die!"
Eryndor calmly crumpled the paper and put it in his pocket while his thoughts began running wild.
Who is Daoisto?
Are they the one from the abyss?
Is that the person who the high ranking mber of the Human Federation is cooperating with?
Eryndor fell deep into thought as he rembered the later half of the paper.
They'll die if this Daoisto person doesn't uphold their end of the bargain?
How?
Is the person from the Human Federation poisoned? So curse?
So the deal is sothing along the lines of this Daoisto person to remove this poison or curse whatever and that high-ranking mber would deliver to the abyss?
What kind of deal is this?
Eryndor had trouble coming to terms with why he was involved in this.
Is it because I am an eldritch entity?
They want to eradicate my presence completely?
They don't care that I am sealed? Or is it exactly because they think I am sealed that they want to quickly get rid of quickly once and for all?
Eryndor narrowed his eyes, furrowing intensely as he tried to co up with more guesses.
He understood the thought process that a nuclear or hydrogen bomb's fatality didn't decrease if it wasn't activated.
Just their existence was a massive threat.
Similar to his case, just his existence was a massive threat to the human civilization on Earth.
Is that why he was being dumped into the abyss?
But there was one point which was still difficult to make sense of.
Why did Daoisto agree to the deal?
Why would Daoisto need a student in exchange for treating what was clearly a very nefarious poison or curse?
Or even if Daoisto knew that he was an eldritch entity, why would he want one?
He was literally a ti bomb.
What could be the reason?
It's not even as if they want alive that they'll try to pry so secrets from my mouth. Which I don't even know to be honest.
Why would they need an eldritch entity regardless if he was dead or alive?
As he was motionless, thinking about the cause of his involvent, suddenly his mind drifted to a piece of mory.
A rather horrifying mory.
The mory which belonged to his trip to Shx'Trelith Forbidden Void.
Hunger.
The mory of hunger.
Those monts were extrely clear in his mory even now.
The hunger he felt when he gazed upon the Shx'Trelith.
He rembered it all with extre clarity.
All this pointed to a terrifying guess.
Was there an Eldritch Entity within the abyss? One which knows my identity?
It wishes to devour ?
Eryndor thought with fear. Genuine fear.
Was hunger among eldritch entities mutual?
He still rembered the details about the Forbidden Voids.
The Film covering the Forbidden Void didn't allow the entities residing inside to have any perception of the outside except visual.
It was also why Shx' Trelith entertained itself by manipulating planets, asteroids and stars outside its Forbidden Void. It was obviously because it could see outside.
If it had a complete perception of the outside though?
Would it feel the sa hunger Eryndor felt after sensing him? After sensing Eryndor's true nature as an eldritch being?
Did it joyously engage in conversation only because it couldn't sense Eryndor's true nature?
Eryndor had no information regarding this.
He thought he was the only one who felt the hunger towards eldritch entities.
But wait, does that an the abyss is a Forbidden Void containing an eldritch entity?
No, if the abyss was a Forbidden Void, why didn't the Human Federation have information about it?
There was already information about Forbidden Void out there, what harm would have happened if they also included this information? Literally nothing.
Unless this is sohow different?
There was one more guess. That was, the Human Federation didn't have any idea about the eldritch entity in the abyss at all.
According to the information about secret realms, each of them had an abyss.
Does that an all abysses contained eldritch entities?
Or was it only this abyss?
Or was he overthinking? There wasn't an eldritch entity in the abyss at all and Daoisto needed him for a different purpose?
A heavy sigh escaped his mouth as he leaned back on a tree.
This was all so overwhelming.
His energy of Consciousness was drained by the Sovereign's Cloak not long ago, there was a high probability that whoever it was that was targeting him was trying to sense his location.
No worries, with Sovereign's Cloak they wouldn't know.
His sight happened to fall on Valentina, then he shook his head.
Nope, they can always try to go for Valentina and see if I'm around.
And from previous failure, they would definitely send a stronger team this ti, or maybe so other asures which would be definitely more dangerous than the last one.
Should I gather my team?
That seed like a good idea.
He imdiately put up a ssage on their group chat.
"Let's gather at one place. It will be safer that way."
He couldn't openly tell them that he had been targeted. It would alert the person behind the scenes if they monitored their group chats.
Drakarion: "Good idea, we should pool our strength incase of a group attack. Where do we et?"
Eryndor: "I thought you'd refuse to cooperate on the grounds of wanting stronger battles like a fool."
Drakarion: "...."
Paulina: "Maybe y'all can head towards my location? Apart from so inconveniences of living in the cold, the rest is pretty much the sa.
"Biggest advantage would be more points. Compared to the rest of you who are in the normal terrain, doing the sa amount of fighting and killing beasts would result in a much larger point increase.
"Who knows, maybe even defeating other teams in the tundra would grant a higher percentage of points?"
Valentina: "Fair point."
Edward: "I was about to suggest converging at my spot since Valentina and Eryndor happened to be nearby as well. It would be much less effort that way
"But Paulina's point is better. Being in the top ten of rankings doesn't an we can't be at leisure. It's just the first day. Hunting in the tundra would be better."
Syndra: "I actually found a mountainous region with active volcanoes so ti ago. I guess it counts as an extre region too because I am getting a higher number of points after killing beasts in this area.
"But yea, tundra region would be far more comfortable than this area. I prefer winter over sumr."
Eryndor: "Sa."
With that decided, the team decided to et up with Paulina in the tundra region.
Valentina kept her phone aside and spoke while looking him in the eye.
"More attacks on you?"
Eryndor knew she was asking if he had asked for the group to convene because there might be more attacks on him.
He nodded.
"The next attack on might be more dangerous. You also saw that they wouldn't hesitate resorting to killing .
"I don't want to put anyone in danger but —"
Valentina cut him off midway.
"Don't say that. We're friends. We help each other. That's the end of it.
"Apart from Syndra and Edward whom I don't know much about, the rest would definitely have the sa opinion as if they knew about your situation. Don't think about that.
"My energy of Consciousness wasn't expended much, and it has also recovered a bit more. Do you have more of those yellow papers you want to regress?"
Eryndor sighed.
He definitely didn't want to use his second form now that there was a possibility of an eldritch entity residing in the abyss of this secret realm.
Also the fact that he was being targeted because of his eldritch nature.
If by any minute chance, the one targeting him realized that his powers were unsealed, what if they took drastic steps?
With no choice to use a stronger form, it would be better to take help from his teammates.
"Thank you. And yes, I do have more yellow papers.
"Let's start moving as you use your ability on them."
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