As he continued retreating, the hunger within him began receding, allowing his mind to regain an increasing amount of sanity and rationality.

    His thoughts began popping up one after another.

    Jeez Shx’Trelith, you are just an eye. How the fuck can you even bite?

    Eryndor shook his head, shoving that thought aside.

    He had followed the team despite the hunger thinking that it would be controllable. Who knew it would spike so dangerously high as soon as he entered the vicinity of the Eldritch Entity.

    What was it though?

    Was it to consume the Eldritch Entity? Or something else?

    Unfortunately Eryndor didn’t have any guesses yet. Guesses need to be based off of something, they needed some base, which he had none of.

    Eryndor waited on their return route for about ten minutes before he saw the rest of his team.

    When they returned to their small aircraft, Hellen was the first one to speak.

    "Do you ever wonder if the Eye blinks?"

    Ken gasped. "Blasphemy! The Eye does not blink! The Eye sees all, always!"

    Hellen tilted her head. "So... it has eternal dry eye?"

    "..."

    Eryndor was speechless.

    Is this the thing mentioned in reports? About the entity compelling belief in itself?

    He could see that Liliana seemed to be focusing on them, her eyes containing a bit of fervor as well. It looked as if she hadn’t completely snapped out of it either, but was still faring better than the two judging from her silence.

    Ken excitedly jumped. "I thought of a hymn about the Eye!"

    Hellen turned her head at him. "Oh great, let me hear it."

    "O Eye, O Eye, so round and colorful—"

    "Stop. Just stop." Liliana raised her hand.

    Her other hand was massaging her head.

    Ken was about to lash out at her before his eyes lost focus for a brief second.

    "Are we out?" He said something else instead.

    "What was that?" Hellen whispered with a hand on her chest.

    He clicked on one of them, which described in detail what took place on the other side while he was battling hunger.

    The only thing which differed from his guess was the part where Caulin would take revenge with his own hands.

    It seemed that the resources of the Polinek city were more than he thought, enough for the Mage Outer Domain to be more lenient with accepting conditions put forward by Caulin.

    Caulin proceeded to thoroughly embarrass Pat Ravencroft in front of the entire army. Announcing his hidden vile acts with clear proof.

    It crushed the man, it crumbled his existence, his identity, more than being tortured in front of countless numbers of people.

    Caulin publicly criticized the Ravencroft family for turning a blind eye to such trash of a human just because of his strength and the profits he brought.

    Without batting an eye, Caulin then kneeled in front of the Mage Outer Domain’s current ruler of their advanced base, and swore fealty to him.

    Eryndor felt that this acting was too real. If he hadn’t known that the guy hadn’t actually betrayed humanity, he might’ve cursed Caulin as well.

    True to what he had guessed, the entire army was saved, and all the extra help which had poured into the city to help the Ravencrofts fight against the Mage Outer Domain were trapped there now, unable to leave.

    Unless they resorted to extreme measures, the people would be stuck there forever.

    Caulin would have to make sure that no one left, if only to keep his act up. If he were to be lenient with it, people could easily suspect him for still holding feelings for humanity.

    Ravencrofts were currently being heavily criticized by the entire world for their lack of control and discipline over their members.

    Each member of the family was subsequently investigated by the Human Federation for any past crimes they had committed.

    Of course, there would always be some people in power somewhere in the world who would exploit their authority for their own benefit even while the rest of humanity was under constant crisis.

    It wasn’t a situation unique to the Ravencrofts.

    However, since Ravencroft were currently in the limelight, they were the only ones on the receiving end of insults of related topics. Their reputation had fallen to the rock bottom.

    It was expected that in the foreseeable future they would face all sorts of difficulties in their usual activities.

    Be it their members in the Human Federation, their businesses, their personally trained teams, the people of their cities. Everything would be difficult to deal with for the coming few months.

    Eryndor put down his phone after going through all of the news.

    He then took a shower and changed into a more comfortable set of clothes before beginning his cultivation session.

    He intended to use the rest of the month to break through to stage six of the Qi Gathering realm.

    Naturally, that would require consuming all the remaining Qi Gathering level one pills.

    Only after an hour when he was getting incredibly sleepy did he stop his session, before making his bed and going to sleep.

    Tomorrow he would once again resume his efforts to make a breakthrough in his Cognitive Scrying.

    Of course, he also wanted to check up on the ’peace loving’ lariets.