Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 56

The player who became a constellation – Chapter 56

Chapter 56

The mythical warriors, having brutally, mercilessly, and overwhelmingly crushed the Wight and triumphantly entered the territory, showed an attitude of obedience to only one man.

The man wearing a crow mask, clad in a cloak of feathers and leather clothes, looked down at them, holding his head high.

Ash couldn’t express the emotions he felt as he looked at him.

Who on earth was this person that they would kneel before him?

And why? How could he be so confident in front of these monsters!

Ash wanted to voice the questions in his heart, but he didn’t dare.

He had seen the might of the Berserker warriors.

Just being in their presence, he could feel how great their spirit was.

Ash couldn’t even imagine how hard they had worked to become stronger, forsaking their humanity, and how much they had killed.

Ash, who had only grown up in a greenhouse relying on his background, didn’t even feel like he could dare to speak to such beings.

Then, the one kneeling at the front slightly raised his head and shouted.

“New Asgard! The hundred Berserker warriors! Their leader, Kudan Ragnar! The priestess, Cancun Ragnar! And I… Aum Linia! We have come to pay our respects at the call of the King of the North!”

“A call?”

Loki’s lips twitched, but Ash didn’t see it.

He was just repeating each word they uttered.

‘New… Asgard? Berserker warriors? And… the King of the North? What on earth is going on…?!’

New Asgard? Why are they uttering the meaning of a newly born country?

Berserker warriors? Is it the name of a knight order?

King?

King of the North?

What is this supposed to mean!

As Ash kept his mouth shut and only looked at Loki and Aum Linia, Aum smiled and met Loki’s gaze as he looked down.

In the shadowed crow mask, red eyes met Aum’s blue eyes. Aum smiled as she looked at him.

Finally, the meeting with the constellation had come to pass.

***

“Hmm-! Permission granted!”

The Berserker warrior’s joyful voice was heard from inside the beast’s helmet.

He tapped his weapon on his palm and said.

“Who are we?!”

“The Berserker warriors of Asgard-!”

Then the other Berserker warriors shouted, but the Berserker warrior who was speaking shook his head.

“No, that’s not right. The mobilization order has been lifted. So what are we now?”

At his words, they each wore sinister smiles inside their helmets.

“Looters.”

Their crazed eyes leaked through the gaps in their helmets.

“That’s right! We are Northmen! Beasts who steal the happiness of others and live off it! So everyone…!”

They pointed their weapons in the direction the Wight had scattered and fled.

“Start the hunt.”

Except for some Berserker warriors, the mobilization order was lifted. Now, they would each hunt their prey as individual hunters and looters.

They ran out quickly.

Even with heavy equipment, they surpassed human speed, running across the roofs of houses and hunting the Wight one by one.

“The priestess has ordered! Rescue and heal the injured and infected!”

The residents and refugees of Harma Territory gathered in one place.

Some mobilized Berserker warriors gathered the surviving refugees in Harma Territory and treated them. It was none other than Cancun’s order, and she was also busy directly rescuing the residents and refugees.

However, what was used to treat their wounds was a simple medicine made from herbs, and the infected were treated with purification potions disguised as holy water.

Aum, who knew Cancun’s personality well, had strictly warned her that she could treat them but should never reveal anything about the potions.

“Is there any oil?”

At Kudan’s words, the Berserker warrior shook his head.

“There doesn’t seem to be any oil anywhere in the territory. It seems they used it all during the siege.”

“…Then tear down straw or wooden doors and burn them. So that no more infected come out.”

At Kudan’s command, the Berserker warriors broke down the doors of houses in the territory, gathered firewood, collected corpses, and burned them.

The black blood and Worm Pests around them were burned only at the entrances to the territory using straw.

“Anyway… Loki is like that, but Aum is stubborn too.”

Kudan glanced at where Loki and Aum were.

There, Aum Linia was still kneeling, and behind her, four Berserker warriors were bowing their heads to the ground.

***

“The representative of the Norsemen, Aum Linia, will speak for the eighth time. Your Majesty! Please return to your homeland…!”

“Please return to your homeland-!”

As Aum Linia bowed her head and shouted, the Berserker warrior behind her chimed in. Loki’s mouth muscles twitched at the sight he had only seen in historical dramas.

Deliberately exaggerated speech, actions, and even voice.

It was the kind of interjection that Aum calculated Loki would hate the most.

“I refuse.”

Then the same words came out of Aum’s mouth repeatedly.

“The representative of the Norsemen, Aum Linia, will speak for the ninth time. Your Majesty! Please return to your homeland…!”

“Please return to your homeland-!”

However, only the number he was saying continued to rise.

“I will refuse even if you say the same thing a hundred times.”

“Then I will ask a thousand times, ten thousand times.”

“…….”

Loki looked not only at Aum but also at the Berserker warriors behind her.

He had expected them to come directly. He thought they would bring Kudan or Per as companions at most, but he never dreamed they would lead an army like this.

The Berserker warriors were Asgard’s strongest human weapon.

Excluding Loki’s death legion, the skeletons, they were arguably the strongest on the continent.

He never dreamed they would bring them as a ‘welcoming party’.

Moreover, Aum intentionally used the title ‘King of the North’.

It was a word used because the Berserker warriors did not know Loki’s true form, and it was also intended to emphasize Loki’s importance.

‘Is it because the Berserker warriors have no particular aversion to it because they matched their words?’

Otherwise, there was no way the Berserker warriors would be calm about the word King of the North.

Or maybe she was trying to brand ‘Hoon’, the identity Loki was currently using for the game, as an official ruler from the start.

Constellation Loki. King of the North, Hoon.

Whether it was Loki or Hoon, it might be her intention to prevent him from easily running away from Asgard.

‘Is this how you’re going to come out…?’

Clearly, these were calculated actions to take him back to Asgard.

There is only one action to take in this situation.

“…I clearly said it. I’m not going.”

It was to brazenly ignore them.

As Loki moved his steps elsewhere, the Berserker warrior hurriedly stood up, knelt in the direction he was walking, and blocked the way with his head on the ground.

“…….”

As Loki turned his direction again, another Berserker warrior blocked his path from another direction, kneeling and bowing his head.

“…Move.”

“If it is an order, I will obey. But if Hoon is absent from Asgard, many people will suffer. Please think about that again!”

“…….”

There was no way such words would come from a Berserker warrior. It must be a line prepared by Aum.

Loki felt a vein popping out on his forehead and looked at Aum with murderous eyes.

“Are you going to keep doing this until the end?”

At Loki’s words, Aum raised her head. Aum directed Loki with eyes filled with firm determination.

“Please return to your homeland. The country needs a pillar now. Please leave the things you want to do to us….”

“Isn’t it because you can’t do it that I came out myself?”

“……”

Loki sighed and put his hand under the crow mask, pressing his temples.

“…Okay. Let’s talk later. Let them rest for now. No matter how hard they have been trained, they must be tired.”

At Loki’s words, Aum had no choice but to step back.

Any more than this would diminish Aum or Loki’s dignity. It wouldn’t affect the Berserker warriors, but it wasn’t a good sight.

Aum knew that too, so she took a step back.

“Um….”

Loki lowered his gaze at the familiar voice.

He saw Celot pulling on his sleeve from the side.

“Who are these people?”

Celot looked at the Berserker warriors with considerable aversion. She had never seen such a powerful army before.

Even an army made up of monsters would not be as strong as them.

Loki uttered a voice as if it were nothing.

“Comrades.”

“…Comrades?”

It was Ash who reacted this time.

As a prince, Ash often had the opportunity to meet foreign dignitaries, and each time he had seen countless training sessions and sparring matches of knights to show off national power.

And now, Ash had become a central figure in the war, and he had clearly seen the real battles where they rushed to kill the enemy.

For him, he couldn’t think of anyone who could win even when compared to one Berserker warrior.

As far as Ash knew, there were no knights as powerful as them.

The same would be true of the Holy Order.

To call such people comrades without hesitation…!

‘No, they are not comrades. They took an oath of obedience.’

Their attitude, it really felt like loyalty to a king or emperor.

‘What the hell is this guy’s identity?’

He has the symbol of the Black Inquisitors, the Holy Order’s direct unit.

Moreover, he has the ability to annihilate Wight in one blow and warriors who slaughter thousands of Wight under his command.

Is he really the King of the North?

If he is really the king of those looters….

‘We must never turn him into an enemy!’

Ash’s face turned pale.

He recalled the rude attitudes he had shown him so far.

Ash knew. You shouldn’t judge your opponent by their appearance. That was the relationship between royalty and nobility.

Even if they smiled on the outside, you couldn’t know what they were thinking on the inside, and there were many who used their carelessness as bait to launch a counterattack.

That was a natural routine for Ash.

But, even though he fell into a trap and ended up like this because of ‘Pam’, a noble from the lower class, he was repeating the same mistake!

‘It’s pathetic! To only now remember the most important fact among the things I learned while studying imperial studies!’

In fact, it’s not something you can learn through studying. Moreover, it was normal for him, who had grown up relying on his background, to look down on his opponents, and it was also because Loki’s appearance was too bizarre.

Above all, since he even had a heretical elf with him, it was inevitable that he, who had faithfully believed in the Azelan Church, would have such an attitude.

‘What should I do? I have to make up for the mistakes I’ve made so far and somehow narrow the distance with him…!’

It was when Ash was thinking that.

“……?”

A beautiful woman passed in front of him.

Her face was covered in dirt, but she was so beautiful that he didn’t realize the dirtiness. White skin and blue eyes filled with firm determination. She was wearing armor, but her dignified appearance was even sacred.

As she moved her steps, her glossy blue hair fluttered and flickered before Ash’s eyes.

‘This… how beautiful a woman is this?!’

It was Cancun.

After the injured were given first aid and stabilized to some extent, she walked briskly and approached Loki.

She bowed her head and paid her respects to Loki.

“The priestess of Asgard, Cancun Ragnar. I greet Hoon.”

“…It’s been a while.”

When Loki uttered a stiff voice while looking at Cancun, Cancun smiled brightly.

Cancun carefully opened her mouth, watching Loki’s mood.

“Um…. Hoon.”

“You can call me Loki.”

“Is that so? But aren’t you in a position to hide your identity for now?”

Cancun tilted her head.

“Not really.”

“Still, the Berserker warriors don’t know. They would be very surprised if they found out.”

She glanced at the wounded refugees.

“I’m curious… what are you going to do with them?”

“They have their own path. It’s not our place to interfere.”

“I see….”

Cancun looked at Loki. It was as if she was gauging the timing to ask for something.

Loki looked at the injured.

Most of them were sobbing and groaning from the grief of losing their families and the wounds they had suffered.

In that respect, Loki was emotionless. He didn’t feel pity or sympathy. He had no connection with them, and no one had a familiar face.

However, there was someone who bothered him.

A woman with a bulging belly.

She seemed to be pregnant and was struggling to support herself while being cared for by other refugees. She had a smile on her face, but it was clear at a glance that it was a forced smile.

‘…Could it be Yuan’s wife?’

It’s not certain. Even if there is one pregnant woman mixed in the territory, the possibility that that woman is Yuan’s wife was very low.

Loki recalled Yuan’s last moments.

He became a Wight and grabbed Loki’s feet, opening his mouth to devour him. But that expression was close to begging.

‘…If she is related to him, I might help, but it’s not certain.’

Loki looked at the letter Yuan had left behind.