Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 175

175. The Player Who Became a Constellation

Chapter 175

Pouring flames.

A great disaster that dyes the night sky red.

In the darkness of the night, the Asgard army watched from the mountain.

“The war has begun.”

Perga loosens his body at Aum’s words.

Cancun also drew his sword, and Kudan and Shaman looked down the mountain on horseback.

Below the steep mountain path, Bellett’s camp is visible.

And there are also soldiers leaving the camp and attacking Kanta Fortress.

“The Constellation has sent us a signal.”

The flames shooting up are the proof.

“Everyone, advance.”

Now, it was time for the Asgard army to join the war.

***

A huge firestorm struck Kanta Fortress.

Along with the sea of fire, fireballs rained down.

“What… is that?”

A fireball fell on the head of a soldier who was blankly staring at the sky.

Kwakwakwang-!

The flames burst, and sparks flew around.

Those who were directly hit by the fireballs were the lucky ones.

Because they died instantly, without pain.

“Uwaaaagh!”

As the sparks flew, their armor caught fire.

“What is this?! What is this!?”

The jet-black flames that landed on the armor gnawed away at the steel plate.

As if it were firewood, the flames grew, devouring the metal.

“Water, water!”

Even when they poured water or rolled on the ground, the jet-black flames ‘devoured’ everything and grew larger.

The fortress burned.

Black smoke billowed everywhere, and Bellett’s soldiers who inhaled the smoke coughed and collapsed one by one.

“E, everyone retreat! Return to the camp!”

It was then.

Shining light appeared from the mountain.

Clang-! Clang-!

The sound of metal boots echoed.

Whirr-!

Large torches rose everywhere, and armor was visible between the bright flames.

Nord warriors with massive bodies.

Bellett soldiers in the camp stared at them, dumbfounded.

“N, Nords!?”

“Why are the Nords here!?”

For a moment, the soldiers were flustered, and the Nord warriors who had descended the steep mountain smiled.

“Let’s go!”

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The sound of drums echoed.

In response, the Nord warriors began a war song.

The heavily armed cavalry leading the way began to speed down the steep mountain path.

“What?!”

Operating cavalry in such mountainous terrain!?

“I, it’s an ambush!”

Deng! Deng! Deng!

Bellett soldiers guarding the camp took up their weapons.

They lined up in front of the log barricades and held up long spears.

“T, they’re not slowing down!”

Log barricades are installed to stop the cavalry.

Even if they were covered in horse armor and full body armor, they would be knocked away by the impact if they collided with the log barricades.

However, the attackers did not hesitate.

They raised their long glaives [polearms with a single-edged blade].

And Cancun, at the head, swung his holy sword.

“For Asgard!”

The slash exploded and collided with the log barricades.

Kwang-!

The log barricades shattered.

The Nord heavy cavalry collided and broke through.

“Uwaaaagh!”

Bellett soldiers blankly stared at the huge warhorses, then were trampled by their hooves.

They were cut and stabbed by the glaives they wielded and died.

The camp collapsed in an instant.

“What’s going on…?”

King Bellett staggered out of Kanta Fortress.

Warhorses were running towards the fortress.

“It’s the Nords!”

King Bellett’s eyes widened.

The Nords? Why would that northern tribe suddenly come here!

“Could it be…. Is Asgard here to help the Kartal Kingdom?”

“…I don’t think so.”

Rather, the opposite; they had invaded the Kartal Kingdom.

And now, they were even threatening the Bellett Kingdom army.

King Bellett could not figure out what was going on.

But now, there was only one thing to do.

“Damn it!”

King Bellett looked at the warhorse running towards him with a warhammer in his hand.

At the head of them was Kudan, holding Mjolnir [Thor’s hammer in Norse mythology].

Lightning like thunder erupted from the warhammer he wielded, burning Bellett’s soldiers around him to death.

“A man with a magical artifact!”

He could tell that it was not an ordinary weapon.

However, what he was holding was the best artifact created by the Constellation.

A masterpiece created by the being called the Constellation of Fire and Ore.

No magical artifact could stand against this one!

“Come!”

King Bellett rushed towards him, and Kudan saw him and swung Mjolnir.

Kwang-!

The lightning erupted head-on and collided with King Bellett.

With the explosion, King Bellett disappeared without a trace.

Kudan grabbed the reins and tilted his head.

Then he said to the Nord warrior next to him.

“The blow I just unleashed felt different. Was there something there?”

“There was an old man wearing fancy armor. He must have been a noble.”

“Bellett bastards, they must be crazy about war. To mobilize even powerless old men in this war. Find King Bellett quickly! Let’s end this war!”

Bellett’s soldiers were dumbfounded at the sight.

A figure with a divine artifact, and King Bellett, the apostle of God favored by Mercury.

The commander-in-chief was killed in action.

There was no one to command in this place now.

***

Mercury blankly watched the scene.

His followers, who praised him, all burned and disappeared.

And were brutally trampled by an unidentified army.

“Mercury-nim!”

“Mercury-nim, give us salvation!”

The burning believers stretched out their hands and shouted.

“Give us salvation!”

「…….」

But Mercury could do nothing.

Mercury turned his gaze to Loki.

Loki’s insane smile was visible.

He smiled as he watched the burning people.

「Those in the castle are your allies, aren’t they? But you’re killing them….」

“Allies? What are you talking about?”

Loki tilted his head as he looked at him.

“They are slaves.”

「What?」

“I made a contract with the King of Kartal. Fight against the Bellett Kingdom. In return, I will offer all the people of Kartal as slaves.”

「……!」

Loki’s eyes smiled.

“If they are slaves, then it doesn’t matter what I do, does it?”

「…….」

Mercury then realized.

This bastard doesn’t care about humans at all.

Unlike the nature of the Constellation of Sin, he is full of malice.

And that malice will not hesitate to ‘kill’ him, not seal him.

That was the tendency of the Constellation of the End.

Mercury’s spine tingled.

‘This guy is dangerous!’

I have to get away!

Just as Mercury was thinking that, Loki waved his hand in the air. In his hand was the golden spear, Gungnir [Odin’s spear in Norse mythology].

“Ah, there was one more bug left.”

Loki’s gaze turned to Mercury.

「……!」

The moment he met his gaze, Mercury was terrified.

Mercury flew up.

Gungnir, thrown by Loki, pierced his shoulder and disappeared into the sky.

「……!」

At that, Mercury fell from the sky.

The Bellett soldiers outside Kanta Fortress saw the sight.

“M, Mercury-nim?”

Mercury, who always flew in the sky and proved his greatness, the Constellation of Light who symbolized beauty, fell to the ground teeming with mud and corpses.

Kujik-!

Mercury’s eye muscles twitched.

A stench lingered.

He floundered between mud, corpses, and maggots.

He had only flown for a long time, so he was clumsy in using his feet.

He tried to lift his body with his feet, but even that was difficult.

“I thought the Constellation of Light would be about Heimdall [Norse God, guardian of Asgard] in Norse mythology.”

Heimdall was the beautiful god of light in Norse mythology and the gatekeeper of Asgard.

He was also the god who fought Loki and pierced each other to death.

“He’s just a fledgling.”

Mercury, who was crawling on the floor, blushed.

To make him fall to this dirty ground and defile him. And to make matters worse, he even insults him.

Heimdall?

Who the hell is that?

At least he knew that he was being compared to someone and was being told that he was terrible.

「H, how dare you-!」

When Mercury turned around, he saw Loki’s fist.

Kwang-!

He was hit in the face.

Mercury’s head hit the ground.

Kwareureuk-!

The floor was dented and exploded as if a meteorite had fallen.

「Keoeoeok-!」

Mercury’s helmet was shattered, and his face was crushed.

Mercury continued to crawl on the floor.

He touched the ground and moved forward.

When Loki raised his foot, Mercury’s wings spread out, sensing it.

Loki stomped down, and Mercury disappeared with a flash.

“Huh?”

In an instant, Loki’s neck was pierced by a sword.

“……?”

Loki turned around even though his neck was pierced.

Mercury was standing behind him with a sword.

Loki reached out to grab him, but he disappeared with the light.

Puk-!

The sword and spear pierced Loki’s outstretched hand.

“……?”

In the blink of an eye, Mercury appeared from the left and right and pierced Loki’s arms.

「This body is the Constellation of Light!」

Loki pulled out the sword pierced in his neck.

‘…It’s a pretty good artifact.’

It’s not an ordinary sword.

An artifact that cannot be compared to the weapons made by Ruran.

‘Is the artifact that the Bellett royal family had the same as this?’

Loki also pulled out the spear and sword pierced in his hand and threw them on the floor.

Flashes of light burst out from the surroundings.

Kwangkwang-!

The atmosphere exploded, and Mercury’s figure repeatedly appeared and disappeared.

「Among the Constellations, no one could catch up with this body.」

Fast.

Even Loki’s vision could not follow him.

Kwajik-!

A sword is stuck in his back.

The pain he felt after a long time makes Loki quite annoyed.

Loki pulled out the sword stuck in his back and threw it on the floor.

“…….”

Loki took out armor from his inventory.

Jet-black armor wraps around Loki’s body.

Kkang-!

The sword strikes his shoulder.

Sparks fly.

Kkang-!

A mace hit his leg.

Kkang-!

The spear hit his neck and bounced off.

「The Constellation of the Sea was big, so I could catch him. But I will be different!」

“…….”

「You won’t be able to chase me, and you won’t be able to attack me, how can you subdue me-」

Loki stretched both hands high into the sky.

And slammed them on the ground.

In an instant, rune letters were engraved on the ground and in the sky.

「……?」

Mercury quickly moved and looked at the rune letters spread widely in the sky and on the ground.

Vast magic power was felt from the rune letters.

The surrounding air gradually became hotter.

Everything looked distorted by the rising heat.

「……!」

Something looked dangerous!

‘I’m getting out of here!’

It was when Mercury was trying to quickly escape out of the rune letters.

Tak-!

Mercury crashed into a transparent wall.

「……?」

He reached out his hand.

Between the top and bottom of the rune letters, transparent walls surrounded all sides.

‘Barrier!?’

Mercury looked at Loki with a hardened face.

“I told you.”

「…….」

“Bugs are trapped and burned.”

In an instant, flames burst out from above and below the rune letters.

***

Oven.

That’s what Loki thought.

No, maybe direct grilling is a more accurate expression?

The rune letters disappeared, and a black lump of charcoal presumed to be Mercury fell.

It was difficult to find the beautiful appearance of the body that had become a lump of charcoal.

「Keoeok….」

He’s still alive.

Mercury reached out and touched the heated floor.

Even if his hands and feet crumble, he crawls on the ground to live.

「S, save me….」

Mercury reaches out to his followers.

The light emanating from the believers gradually disappeared.

The Bellett soldiers looked at Mercury and then raised their heads.

And they discovered something and stepped back.

Mercury flinched.

A presence was felt from behind.

Tap…. Tap….

He’s coming.

Tap…. Tap….

The executioner who kills the Constellation is coming!

「Uwaaaaaaga! Don’t come. Don’t come!」

Mercury turned around and shouted.

He stretched out his hand and threw the stones on the floor.

Loki ignored such petty resistance.

Mercury turned around and spread his wings again.

He tried to escape quickly, but.

Tuck-!

The wings were caught in Loki’s grasp.

Mercury’s back was trampled under Loki’s feet.

「Uh…?」

The beautifully shining wings fluttered.

Like a bird caught by a hunter, it flutters its wings and resists, but the hunter showed no hesitation in such resistance.

He gave strength to the foot that trampled Mercury.

He applies pressure to the hand holding the wings.

「Don’t do it.」

It’s painful.

It feels like the skin on his back is stretching.

「Don’t do it. Please….」

The wings that shone most beautifully in the world, which other Constellations also coveted-.

「Don’t do it-!」

Tteudeudeudeuk-!

It was pulled out.

「Kuaaaak!」

Mercury screamed.

He grabs and pulls out another wing of Mercury.

The skin on his back is torn off alive.

Six wings are pulled out one by one.

The Bellett soldiers, with their bodies stiffened, could only watch the scene with the constantly ringing screams.

All the wings were pulled out.

Mercury, who had been a lump of charcoal, twitched.

He grabs Mercury’s shoulder and makes him look forward.

Loki slapped his face with his fist.

Peok-!

His head was thrown back.

He pulls his fist back and swings it again.

Kwang-!

Mercury flew away, sweeping and sliding across the floor.

Loki approached and raised his foot to slam it down on his body.

Kwang!

Kwang!

Kwang!

And he reached out and grabbed his head and twisted it off.

「Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaak-!」

A scream echoed from Mercury’s severed head.

In an instant, the world was dyed with bright light.

All the surrounding light flashed and soared.

And it was sucked into Mercury’s head.

The surrounding light disappeared.

The brightness of the torches decreased, and the brightness of the moon in the sky faded.

As the Constellation of Light died, all the light in the world began to fade.

The Bellett soldiers could not properly secure their vision due to the sudden darkness.

“B, light…!”

“…It’s gone!”

“Torches! Bring the torches!”

The Bellett soldiers light a fire.

However, the Bellett soldiers were in chaos due to the very faint light.

“…The light… is gone.”

To be exact, it had faded, but the Bellett soldiers thought that as the Constellation of Light died, the light of the world had disappeared.

***

“What?”

The Nord warriors, who were holding torches and lanterns and moving forward, suddenly felt the light of the torches and lanterns fading.

The battle stopped.

“The light… has faded.”

Aum looked ahead.

The shaman raised his staff and emitted light, but it only illuminated the vicinity and could not penetrate the jet-black darkness.

Clearly, the front row was holding torches, but it was as if a thick, hazy black fog was covering them, and the light could not be distinguished.

“…We can’t fight like this….”

At that time, Cancun twitched.

When she lowered her head, she saw the holy sword shining on her waist.

Cancun raised the holy sword Brultgang.

Then, the holy sword emitted light and brightly illuminated the surroundings.

“…Hoo. Th, thank goodness. For a moment, I thought the light had disappeared from the world.”

Aum, who was sweating, was relieved.

“Follow me.”

Cancun took the lead with the holy sword.

The Asgard army followed her.

The Bellett soldiers who discovered Cancun’s light widened their eyes.

“L, light!”

Not only Bellett soldiers.

Even the Kartal refugees and soldiers who survived in Kanta Fortress flocked to the light.

They no longer fought.

Because only darkness was around.

The Nord warriors, seeing their frightened expressions, lost their will to fight.

With Cancun at the head, the procession following her grew larger.

Soon, Cancun was able to see Loki standing alone in the darkness.

“Loki-nim.”

Cancun knelt and bowed her head.

“The Asgard army you mentioned has arrived.”

Loki looked at Cancun holding the holy sword that emitted light.

When he only stared silently, Cancun wondered and raised her head to look at him.

Then, she suddenly discovered the head that had become a lump of charcoal in his hand.

“Loki-nim… what is that?”

Loki looked at Mercury’s head.

“Item material.”

“Yes?”

“But this seems to have another function.”

Mercury, who was miserably charred and distorted, closed his eyes.

Loki tilted his head and lifted it up.

Then, light was emitted from Mercury’s head.

The Bellett and Kartal people could see the sight.

The head of the Constellation of Light illuminates the world as if it were a lantern illuminating salvation.

The Saintess of Light is kneeling and looking at him.

The Kartal and Bellett people were fascinated by the magnificent sight.