I am an Eldritch Entity

"Tch, who is admiring you?"

Drakarion replied with an annoyed tone, but one just had to look at his face to know his thought process.

It was Valentina who asked Eryndor while he was being picked up by Syndra and Paulina.

"Did you really kill all these beasts purely through physical close combat?"

Eryndor smirked, one hand around the shoulder of both Syndra and Paulina as he limped while responding.

"Yes, no Qi used, nor my ability. Ain't I amazing?"

Just as he finished speaking, he almost fell to the side as Paulina stopped supporting him for a moment. With a tired look, she admonished him.

"Do you ever stop praising yourself?"

Eryndor smiled foolishly, then turned to Syndra.

"What is your ability by the way? If you don't mind sharing."

The blue haired young woman tucked a stray strand behind her ear before answering.

"It's not really a secret. It's 'Absolute Sword'.

"Basically, I can cut anything as long as I have a sword in my hand.

"Of course, it is fueled by my Energy of Consciousness. The consumption increases with how difficult it is to cut whatever it is I am targeting.

"And yea, the sharpness of the sword matters as it decreases the consumption required. The sharper the sword the less the consumption of Energy of Consciousness when I use my ability.

"Well, that also means I can cut things with a wooden sword though, I'll just need to expend considerably more Energy of Consciousness."

Eryndor didn't even remember how many times he had thought of it at this point, but he sighed, and uttered the same words again.

"Such a broken ability."

Everyone nodded at that, it was truly very insane.

Just imagine, the only thing stopping you from cutting anything at all was only your own Energy of Consciousness.

Finally, all of them reached where they had set up their camps, and placed their bags.

At some point, Eryndor had already put the phone back in his pocket, so there was no need to sneakily use Telekinesis to control it back towards him.

"I can't wait to check the results, let's do that before resting."

Eryndor rubbed together his hand, sitting on a log where he had been dropped off by the two young women.

It was still nighttime, and Edward was working on getting the fire running.

Drakarion and Syndra were preparing some food, while Valentina and Paulina were setting up everyone's tents and placing the bags inside.

Eryndor took out his phone, and eagerly opened up the tournament rankings page.

He was both pleasantly surprised, and not surprised to see that the first spot had changed.

1. Team Eryndor (6) - 480,981 points

Last he had viewed the ranking, they had 169,420 points. Considering that around fifty thousand points had been spent to buy the items to build the maze, they could be said to have earned around 360,000 points by eliminating this beast horde.

It was a huge windfall of points.

He told everyone their current points and their rankings, eliciting a wave of applause, and happiness. The atmosphere was jubilant as people chatted and did their work.

Eryndor coughed and spoke.

"We can't be too complacent though, Team Kron isn't too far behind.

"We need to have at least their level of point gathering speed if not higher if we want to maintain our position."

He told them the entire new rankings.

2. Team Kron (8) - 450,754

3. Team Ricky (9) - 430,109

4. Team Risa (9) - 401,756

5. Team Utyr (8) - 396,913

6. Team Jonathan (6) - 388,823

7. Team Yu (8) - 376,991

8. Team Bronit (7) - 342,842

9. Team Irene (6) - 297,809

10. Team Lance (9) - 275,912

There was no new team in the top ten.

Then were the individual rankings, and it went through a much larger change than the team rankings.

The first point was someone from their own team.

1. Valentina - 121,855

The reason her points were so high was because she, along with Paulina and Valentina were the only ones who had contributed to making the pit.

Sixty percent of the horde had died in the pit itself, so all those points were divided among those three.

The maze on the other hand didn't help in directly killing the beasts.

It gave them time to devise strategies, kill the Active realm, regroup, and move the beasts anyhow they wished.

Of course, when the beasts died to traps and the spikes, the majority of the points went to Eryndor, Syndra and Drakarion even if it was someone else who had controlled the traps.

Eryndor reckoned that the Active realm beast might also have given her a huge amount of points.

After all, it was supposed to not be in the tournament at all. One could only imagine the amount of points it would give if someone managed to kill it.

Eryndor's contribution, if any, would only be a minute amount, as the majority of the work was done by Valentina.

2. Molina - 113,814

The former first spot had dropped down to second, with her points climbing even now.

It only drove home the fact that they need to keep an adequate point gathering speed to not fall down from their new positions.

At third was someone from their team again.

3. Edward - 89,903

The fourth and fifth spot was someone from the original rankings.

4. Mike - 77,517

5. Ricky - 75,651

At sixth was their own team member once again.

6. Paulina - 74,879

Making the pit was truly profitable. Eryndor thought.

At seventh spot was his own name.

7. Eryndor - 74,713

8. Risa - 71,912

9. Jonathan - 70,852

10. Irene - 69,771

Eryndor told everyone their rankings, bringing about another wave of discussion.

The rest of the night was a pleasant memory for everyone, as they ate and then went to sleep after deciding on a watch rotation.

I should check the progress of my Sovereign's Cloak.

Eryndor thought while laying down in his tent.