I am an Eldritch Entity
Chapter 272 272: Red orb red light

Those three unusual orbs of the red, green and blue color respectively were what caught his attention the most.

They stood out from the rest simply because he didn't know what exactly they were.

Could they be the treasures which those three disciples were using?

As Eryndor narrowed his eyes, he picked up the red orb.

Weighing it for a few seconds, he calculated that it was roughly equal to the weight of a tennis ball. Its size was that of a table tennis or a ping pong ball.

He picked the other two with his left hand and concluded that they weighed the same.

Putting them down, he continued examining the red one.

The surface was even from all sides, there wasn't any irregularity whatsoever. He also couldn't really look on the 'inside', as the color was opaque, same with the other colors.

Eryndor thought back to the Energy of Consciousness which he sensed and his eyes widened.

Wait, how did I not think of that?

On a second hand, it wasn't Eryndor's mistake; he forgot to include that in his guesses, because he had never actually used it.

A Mystical Artifact.

Fluctuations of Energy of Consciousness didn't only happen while using innate abilities. They also took place if someone was using the Mystical Artifacts they weren't familiar with.

It was the same with innate abilities, where if someone reached a high enough level of control, they wouldn't leak any aura of Energy of Consciousness.

In Mystical Artifacts, if you had a high enough experience, control, and rapport with the Mystical Artifact, you would eventually reach the stage of not leaking your aura of Energy of Consciousness.

Yes, rapport. Because Mystical Artifacts were equally as strange as the anomalies.

He narrowed his eyes, and immediately controlled his Energy of Consciousness and tried to input it into the red orb.

As expected, the orb began glowing brightly, before its radiance dimmed. That wasn't the end though, as the very next moment, he witnessed the red orb turning into a flash of light and shooting for the skin of his hand.

However, before he could even grasp what was happening, he felt his Energy of Consciousness being siphoned off by the Sovereign's Cloak.

Huh?

He finally caught up on what happened in that fraction of a second.

The red orb had transformed into a red light after he put his Energy of Consciousness into it, then it tried to enter his body, only to be blocked off by the Sovereign's Cloak.

Did it attack me? Or is it trying to recognize me as the new master?

He had heard of some Mystical Treasures which didn't need to stay in their physical form.

Some entered the user's body upon activation and engraved themselves as tattoos, while some even entered the mind space or the bloodstream.

Of course, the conditions for recognizing the person as a master varied from Mystical Artifacts to Mystical Artifacts, with some even having the condition to kill certain people or carry out a certain mission like performing a concert.

In short, the conditions were as varied as the Mystical Artifacts themselves.

Was its condition simply to get Energy of Consciousness of the user?

Or is it because my origin is of an eldritch entity that it obediently recognised me as the master?

It could also be that it wasn't recognising me as the master but attacking me.

Of course, a person could still use a Mystical Artifact even if it didn't recognise them as the master. In fact, some Mystical Artifacts didn't even have the function of making a user their master.

The red light had reverted to red orb. Eryndor was hesitant as he picked up the other colors.

The same thing repeated themselves twice.

Eryndor was really reluctant to let anything foreign enter his body, because he didn't have any means of defending himself if that happened.

What if these orbs were really hostile and not acknowledging him as the master?

Can I not use them otherwise?

As mentioned before, one could still use a Mystical Artifact even if it didn't acknowledge the user as the master as plenty of Mystical Artifacts existed which didn't even have that function.

Being recognised as the master simply meant one would have to pay a lesser or no price to use the item, bring about greater effects, and even a leeway on some conditions to activate if any.

Eryndor once again tried to activate these orbs, but the situation kept repeating itself.

After a certain point, he stopped.

It was because his Energy of Consciousness dropped below fifty percent between using it on these orbs and then being consumed by the Sovereign's Cloak to defend against them.

He could feel frustration well up inside him as he gazed at those orbs.

Should I take the risk?

There was a silence as Eryndor thought about what to do when he abruptly realised something.

Oh wait, I can switch to my eldritch form?

Maybe my eldritch subconscious knows something?

He immediately switched to his eldritch form.

The next moment, he once again poured Energy of Consciousness into the red orb, and then he watched himself willingly deactivate the Sovereign's Cloak and receive the red light which the red orb had transformed into.

A moment later, a small red dot appeared on his arm near the shoulder area.

Did the eldritch form let the red orb enter because it somehow knew it wasn't malicious, or because it had confidence in itself to deal with it if things went south?

Eryndor sadly couldn't know. He controlled the eldritch form, sure, being the main consciousness which drove it, but sometimes things happened which were beyond his control.

The most prominent example was battle efficiency.

Eryndor himself had pitiful battle efficiency when compared to his eldritch form, but he still exhibited terrifying control and battle style while in his second form despite being fully in control of his body.

Due to this, it sometimes felt like it wasn't him in control when he was in his second form.

Alright, I can think about that later.

While still in his second form, he tried to do the same and poured Energy of Consciousness over the other two orbs.

However, nothing happened this time.

Suddenly, he heard whispers in his mind.

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