I am an Eldritch Entity

Eryndor looked at his teammates.

"Are we done here? We should start moving."

Both of them nodded, and resumed their journey of heading towards the tundra.

Along the way, Eryndor sent a message introducing himself politely to Dr. Ralph, and asked.

"Can I know if one line revered appellations are possible?"

While waiting for his reply, he went back into thought while keeping pace with the two of his teammates.

Over time, it had grown easier and easier to run along the forest with his mind occupied by thoughts, so he didn't get grazed by any sharp twig or object sticking out from the dense jungle around them.

In that recording which team leader Ronin has, there is only a single line of revered appellation.

Eryndor deliberately didn't think of the revered appellation, as his previous conjecture was still fresh in his mind.

Just the thought might be enough to trigger a response and establish connection.

At least, it happened when he was invoking his own revered appellation. There was a stirring within him before he even spoke the words, as if just the thought was enough.

But before he thought of this conjecture, he had thought about that one line plenty of times. Nothing had happened since then.

Is it only the case with me? Or do one line revered appellations don't get this function? I can ask this to Dr. Ralph as well.

He had first asked about the existence of one line revered appellations because he wanted to know if it was even possible in the first place.

If it wasn't possible, and that entity had more lines of revered appellation, then the possibility of that one particular line which he knew about, having some influence in the plot decreased.

Imagine this, there was something going involving an entity with a single ability.

It would be normal to guess that its ability might have something to do with what was going on.

But what if the entity had more than one ability and the rest except that one were hidden? What if the entity had four?

Then the possibility that that one particular known ability having an influence on what was going one might decrease to one fourth, that was twenty five percent.

Sure, it could also be that the entity in the abyss had four lines of revered appellation, but the human which managed to escape only knew one of them.

But even if that was the case, what could Eryndor do about it? Nothing.

Since he only knew about one line, and if Dr. Ralph confirmed that entities with single line revered appellations could exist, then he would assume that particular line as having something to do with the situation around himself.

Yes, it was akin to taking a best case scenario, but that was all he could work with until he got more information.

While he was in his thoughts, Dr. Ralph replied to him.

"I don't really know about this. I have near negligible knowledge in this field. I'll forward this to Dr. Kirchoff and see if he can answer this.

"Do you have any other doubts related to this? I'll send it all to him in one package."

Eryndor sent him another message.

"Yes, I do have one more doubt, at least for the time being.

"If one just 'thinks' about the revered appellations, would it trigger a response from the entity to whom the lines point towards? Would it form any sort of connection or something?"

"Damn boy, that's one bold question. Don't scare me like that, I've done that experiment in front of you just recently after all.

"No matter how friendly the entity is, I don't want it to establish any form of connection with me."

Eryndor speechlessly thought.

Old man, you've already formed a connection with that entity, you're even talking to him on chats.

But then again, I do indeed don't have any sort of direct supernatural connection to him.

Is that the case because my powers are still partially sealed? Or does the connection not form at all?

He sent a reply to Dr. Ralph.

"That's all for now. Sorry in advance if I happen to disturb you with another doubt in the near future. I'll be sure to gift you something for the trouble."

Sigh, another one added to the list.

He thought with exhaustion, and helplessness about the situation.

"Oh boy, don't worry about that. I wouldn't have placed myself in the Academy if I didn't like being pestered with questions from younglings.

"Oftentimes it gives me ideas and opens new possibilities. Well, if there's nothing else I'll take my leave.

"I've already sent your doubts to Dr. Kirchoff, once he answers, I'll forward them to you immediately."

Eryndor only sent a simple thank you.

Well, at least that is taken care of.

He then opened Sander's chats and sent him the images of three yellow papers, he had already sent the one with Daoisto in the past.

They were sent in the following order -

First - 'Daoisto!!! Daoisto!!! You must uphold your end of the deal! Else I'll die!'

Second - 'Hahaha, thank you for making an opening Daoist!'

Third - 'jajwbd jajshd that opening…'

Fourth - 'Got it got it got it got it got it got it.'

After the images, he sent a message. "Are these enough?"

He looked at the time, it hadn't even been an hour from when Sander last sent the message.

Technically, he shouldn't have gone to training yet.

And indeed, there was a quick reply from his side.

"The fourth one could indeed increase the probability that the one writing it may be Morris.

"Morris was speaking those same words when he left the secret realm, there is already a high chance that it was all written by him.

"Well, it could also be that his other teammates could have been influenced such that they would utter those words 'got it', but they died and he survived. Uhhh, chuck it, I won't give you a hard time, let's assume it was indeed Morris.

"The second and third papers speak about the same thing. Some kind of opening. And if you add the first paper, it seems like this 'opening' was something Morris was urging Daoisto to uphold, else he would die.

"All in all, it is suspicious only based on the fact that there was no one in the secret realm when the Federation swept through it after its opening. Just who was Morris talking to? And what is this opening?

"Do you have any other ideas?

"I fear that it may have something to do with the abyss. We can't take any risk regarding that. Even though it is just a conjecture without any concrete proof, it is still important enough."

"And is this all information you've got?"

Eryndor read through the messages.

I've already considered opening being a part of the deal. Just what could it be? I don't have any ideas either.

Also, I am glad that he came to the conclusion that the abyss might be involved without me exposing anything about myself.

And that last line, is he doubting me that I'm withholding more information?

Eryndor shrugged.

I don't want to tell you everything, what can you do?

Reigning in his impulse, he replied that he didn't have any ideas nor did he have any more information.

Sander: "Alright, this is barely enough for me to personally act. Do you want that? Or do you want to involve the Human Federation?

"Mind you, Morris is a Co-founder. To move against him, this amount of clues might not be enough.

"And even if I act against him, I'll only apprehend him, not allowing him to remain in the secret realm any longer. The final decision will still be taken by the Federation."

Eryndor gritted his teeth in frustration.

Of course it is not enough to end that guy, but what else can I even tell you? Everything else involves me personally.

After a moment of thought, he typed in his response and sent the message.

"Can you notify the Human Federation such that Co-founder Morris wouldn't be alerted of what's happening and arrive here personally as well?"

Sander: "Oh, so you still want to take a chance with the Human Federation? Well, that's a good call. I'll notify Dr. Kirchoff directly.

"Among all my connections, only he has enough authority to not let Morris know about the things taking place in the Federation.

"And about my personal help. You're not under any immediate danger are you?

"It's because I can't really enter the portal. If I need to be sneaky without alerting Morris, I'll need Dr. Kirchoff's help in entering the secret realm.

"So a better plan would be that I'll get Dr. Kirchoff's permission but stay outside the secret realm so as to not alert Morris. The tournament judges can only stay at the entrance of the realm, so they'll know as soon as I enter.

"Once the Federation makes some progress with the clues you've sent or if something goes wrong on your side, notify me immediately and I'll enter through the portal.

"However, if you want me to act immediately without waiting for Morris to expose himself, I can do that as well. Your call."

Eryndor: "I am not under any immediate danger. And the former plan sounds better. Stay outside the secret realm, I'll immediately notify you if Co-founder Morris is up to something."

Sander: "Works."

Eryndor took a deep breath, and was about to keep the phone in his pocket when he abruptly remembered the other thing he wanted to ask Sander.