I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 193: Same beast over and over again

After a few tips from Paulina, he left the camp after eating a food pill because he was getting quite hungry.

It had been around four hours since he last had a food pill, each one kept you satiated for the same time as when you have a full meal.

This time he was only carrying his spiked mace, his phone in the pocket, and two food pills for backup.

He had left his bag back in his tent.

Should I sing?

He thought with utmost seriousness. The night was really too…silent.

With not enough external sound, he often found his thoughts popping up to no end.

In the past, whenever he used to go to the bathroom or walk on an empty road, he would prefer sounds as the silence was too unnerving.

Ghosts, paranormal activities and so on.

Now he could swiftly sense an anomaly or if there were any people around, but back then he hadn't known about any of the extraordinary powers which existed in the world back then.

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Sounds made it easier for him to suppress the fear which would sprout in darkness and silence. It felt like it broke some kind of strange tension in the air.

A few years back when he had a break up, he would always use headphones with a loud sound to suppress the thoughts which would keep sprouting up.

It was extremely effective.

Back then he found it easier to sleep that way rather than drowning in his own thoughts to no end.

Well, no use thinking about it. I'm over it now.

He thought with a sigh.

After a few moments of silence, he ended up using his phone to play music due to force of habit.

Ah, feels better now.

His walking style gradually changed as well, taking on a more jumpy rhythm.

His hips and shoulders moved in sync with the beats of the sound. At random intervals, he would even swing his mace and rotate on his toes.

Oh, finally a beast.

He didn't stop playing the music despite the fact that it would make ambush impossible, and quickly picked up pace.

The beast was only at mid stage of Latent realm, he could easily take it out even if he didn't have the advantage of ambush.

The beast sensed him at one point as well, aggressively turning to him and taking charge.

Eryndor noticed that its range of sensing seemed to be larger than what beasts at its stage were supposed to have.

Is it because it's night and it's been enhanced, or is it a species with particularly larger range?

He thought, while continuing to run.

If there existed beasts with higher defense or higher offense than what their level could offer, why couldn't there be a beast with higher range than normal?

Eryndor abruptly stopped, and pulled back his spiked mace over his head.

Timing it correctly, he swung it down with all the force he could muster.

Apparently, at night the beasts would grow stronger but not smarter.

As soon as it emerged from the bush, the spiked head smashed down on its armored head.

Squelch

Brain matter splattered everywhere as the weapon thoroughly crushed its head.

Flicking his weapon a few times, he got rid of the flesh and blood and continued onwards.

To make sure that he wouldn't stray too far from the camp, he changed directions.

Approximately a minute later, he found the same species of beast again.

It was an Ice Ox. It differed from the normal Ox in a way that this species had higher muscle density, shorter tail, and horns which were blunt.

The major difference was that they had armor covering their entire body which looked like it was made with ice. It was unlike that of a turtle whose armor was fused with their bodies.

If the armor of Ice Ox broke, they wouldn't sustain any kind of damage, and they could even regrow it.

It had a price though. It consumed their lifespan everytime they regrew their armor.

It brought about a situation of irony in their species, that the ones which had the most combat experience were also the ones who would live for the shortest amount of time.

That was of course, only if they didn't break through to higher realm.

Similar to the eight power systems of Outer Domains, the power system of beasts and anomalies also increased the lifespan at each increase in realm, although it was far more chaotic.

As one might know, there existed animals which were immortal even before the advent of four energies.

Naturally, all the animals also had wildly different age limits.

Similarly, the same was applied in their power system.

Although it would increase their lifespan with each increase in realm, the increase differed from beast to beast, and anomaly to anomaly.

Why was this the case? No one knew.

There was a famous theory though, one coined by none other than Dr. Kirchoff.

He hypothesized that the eight power systems of the Outer Domains represented 'Order', hence their systematic approach to everything.

While the power system of anomalies and beasts represented 'Chaos', hence their random way of advancing for every individual.

The Federation had observed an anomaly which broke through as soon as it killed a hundred people, while there was another anomaly which broke through only after acquiring a rare resource.

Eryndor whistled occasionally as he walked after taking care of the second Ice Ox.

For the next few minutes, he kept finding more and more of them.

He hadn't sensed a single other beast through his extended vision.

Is there some weird shit happening once again?

Eryndor's brows furrowed.

The Ice Ox were all at mid stage of Latent realm, with the only exception being the last one which was at peak stage.

If the levels of all Ice Ox nearby were the same as the ones he killed, with one peak stage every seven to nine mid stage then it wouldn't be much of a threat.

Ten Ice Ox? Not a concern.

Twenty? Not a concern.

Thirty? It was still not a concern for their group.

But what if there were more?

I need to find out what is going on.