Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 124

124. Player Who Became a Constellation – Episode 124

It could be called a surprise attack.

The Beast Tamer Honor Guard, having infiltrated the checkpoint, admirably subdued Harim’s soldiers and opened the outer gate.

Karma’s younger sister, Sharin, rode a camel into the city center.

Behind her, the army’s procession followed.

Having entered the territory, subduing Lord Harim wouldn’t be difficult.

‘I hope that foolish older brother hides his identity well.’

If Lord Harim takes Karma hostage, all the plans so far will be for naught.

At that moment, an explosion was heard.

Sharin’s eyes widened at the dust cloud that suddenly surged like a sandstorm in the wide streets of the city center.

The Imperial Beast Tamer Honor Guard hurriedly blocked Sharin’s path, holding up shields as if to protect her.

The sandstorm gradually subsided.

When she looked up at the Colosseum, her eyes couldn’t help but widen.

‘It’s… split?’

The Colosseum.

The massive arena was split in half.

***

Turam, with a hardened face, was sweating coldly.

For a moment, he twisted his body away from the fear of death. And that instinct was right.

If he had been even a little late, half of his body would have been consumed and annihilated by the crimson black strike.

‘…Before that, that guy deliberately led me to avoid the attack.’

If he had decided to swing his sword with all his might, he could have instantly killed Turam, but he didn’t.

Mercy? Pity?

He had resigned himself to his fate, but in any case, it didn’t feel good.

Loki leaped towards the dazed Turam.

Before Turam could react in surprise, Loki stepped on his shoulder and jumped towards the VIP seats that had been split in half.

“Salad.”

Salad stared at the split arena, then looked at Loki.

“Things have gone quite wrong.”

“…Yes.”

It seems so.

‘I don’t know why this happened, but Karma, that merchant guy, must have done something,’ Salad thought.

Salad was so sure.

“Let’s get out of here for now. It’s very noisy here.”

Loki moved his feet.

He grabbed the Staff of the Demon King Calib, which was placed on the altar behind where Lord Harim had been, and threw it to Salad.

“You needed this, right?”

“…Can I take this?”

“From the beginning, we just came to enjoy a peaceful tour.”

…In the end, he admitted that he came to play.

“But the merchants and nobles here threatened us first with their tricks. We can hold the Empire responsible for this.”

It would be a problem if the Kron Empire refused to pay up.

In any case, it’s a matter that can be resolved diplomatically.

Salad nodded.

“Right now….”

Loki sensed the commotion outside the arena.

“It’s an army!”

“The Imperial Army has arrived!”

“It would be good to get out of here.”

Loki and Salad left the Colosseum.

They bought turbans in the market street and wrapped them around their faces to hide their appearances.

This was to avoid the friction that had occurred last time because they were foreigners.

They quietly left Harel Territory.

***

The First Princess, Sharin, watched the slaves clearing away the rubble of the collapsed Colosseum.

“Save me-!”

And she heard a voice coming from between the stones.

The work sped up, and soon a small hole appeared in the collapsed pile of stones.

Sharin looked through the hole.

“…I sent you out to work, and you’re sleeping here? You damned older brother.”

Underneath the collapsed Colosseum.

Karma and Lord Harim were looking up through the hole, as if they were alive.

It was the third day since the Colosseum collapsed.

“Puaah!”

Karma, who had dunked his head in a bucket and drank the water, shook his head to get rid of the wetness.

His younger sister, Sharin, who was watching the scene with her legs crossed, clicked her tongue.

“What on earth… happened?”

“I don’t know what’s going on either. My head is too complicated.”

Karma pressed his temples.

“It’s too complicated to explain. Let’s go to the Imperial City for now.”

“…What about the aftermath here?”

Sharin looked at the Colosseum.

Soon, she saw Lord Harim being dragged away, bound by ropes.

Harel Territory was too large to just leave unattended.

If they left for a short time, other nobles would use all sorts of tricks to take it over.

“That’s true. But there are many things we need to resolve first.”

“Like what?”

“Elder Turam.”

Karma pointed to the arena.

Destroyer Turam.

The Hero of the Twelve, with empty eyes as if he had lost everything, was just staring at the arena, not moving.

Whenever he had time, he would come here and blankly stare at the spot where Loki had been.

“We need to win him over. And….”

“What else?”

“We need to manipulate the rumors about what happened here.”

“Rumors?”

Karma nodded.

***

Loki, who had escaped from Harel Territory, wandered around with Salad.

He headed to the Imperial City, stopping by several cities along the way, and each time he enjoyed the sights and tasted the food.

And occasionally, he was able to hear rumors of Asgard and send letters.

He also heard news that many kingdoms had begun to contact and interact with Asgard.

‘…Should I just hand over the throne of Nord to Aum?’

Loki was seriously considering it.

Since Constellations are religious beings, it doesn’t really matter if he’s in that position or not.

Aum can just sit on the throne and rule as usual.

Another rumor was heard.

[Crown Prince Karma has ascended to the throne as Emperor!]

It was said that a new emperor had ascended to the throne in the Kron Empire.

Thanks to this, a festival was held in the Imperial City.

‘There must be a lot of interesting things to see.’

After several days of travel, the massive Imperial City came into view.

Loki showed his identity pass.

It was a fake identity pass that he had bought from black market merchants in the city for a large sum of money.

Since he was just a traveler, the guards at the checkpoint simply let them through.

They wandered around the city center.

The market street was crowded, perhaps because of the festival.

This festival was especially special.

This was because the Imperial Family directly opened the granary and provided food to the slaves.

As a result, the slaves did not spare their praise for the Emperor.

Loki found some unusual food.

Loki, with a skewer of meat (he didn’t know what kind of meat it was) in his mouth, looked at the flyer that was handed out for tourism.

It was made of quite expensive material, and it seemed to be a tourist course made only for the wealthy.

“Well, I’ve had enough fun. Shall we go to the Imperial Palace now?”

“…Yeees~”

Salad nodded in agreement.

The trip with Loki was fun, but the desert environment was too tiring.

She couldn’t help but drag out her words due to fatigue.

She wanted to go back to Asgard and rest as soon as possible.

“Excuse me, can I ask for directions?”

Loki spoke to a woman with a turban who was buying apples in the market.

The woman with purple hair and eyes turned her head and looked at Loki and Salad.

“Foreigners? Are you travelers?”

Loki and Salad were also wearing turbans, but she could tell right away from the skin color that could be seen through them.

“I came for a short trip.”

“Do you have a guide?”

The woman looked around.

“No.”

“…You managed to get here without any trouble.”

The woman let out a troubled voice.

“Do you know how dangerous this place is for foreigners without a guide?”

“There was some friction.”

“…….”

“Now that I’ve taken care of my business, I’m just thinking of stopping by the Imperial Palace.”

The woman looked at the tourist flyer that Loki was holding.

‘Are you thinking of looking around the Imperial Palace one last time?’

“…Is that so? Okay. I’ll guide you. I’m planning to go there anyway.”

The woman’s tone of voice rose.

Salad tilted her head. It was because she looked happy.

“The Imperial Palace of this country is so magnificent and artistic that other countries admire it. The artisans have drawn artistic patterns on the walls stitch by stitch.”

The woman explained as she guided them to the Imperial Palace.

“Here it is!”

Following the woman’s guidance, Loki looked at the Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Palace was huge.

Also, like the woman said, it was like a work of art.

Beautiful patterns and various colors were drawn on the walls.

The Imperial Palace was shining gold as if it were made of gold.

“Wow….”

Even Salad, who didn’t express herself well, widened her eyes and looked at the Imperial Palace.

“How is it? Beautiful, right?!”

The woman put strength into her neck as if she was proud.

“Then I’ll go now.”

As she headed to the entrance of the Imperial Palace, Loki tilted his head.

“Is she a maid here or something?”

“…Something like that. But her status is higher.”

…She must be a court lady.

She went inside the Imperial Palace.

“What are you going to do?”

Salad looked up at Loki.

They had arrived at their destination, so now they had to enter this Imperial Palace.

She was asking about the method.

Loki thought for a moment.

Soon, he approached the guard and said.

“What brings you here?”

The guard looked at Loki warily.

“I came to meet the Emperor.”

***

“What happened to Lord Harim?”

“…Are you asking that now? He’s been stripped of his noble title, all his assets have been returned to the Imperial Family, and he’s living as an Imperial slave for 30 years. No, but, this is my room?! Why is older brother here?!”

The woman who took off her turban, Sharin, looked at Karma in her room.

Karma, who was sitting on the sofa, shrugged his shoulders and looked at Sharin.

“What’s wrong with visiting my precious younger sister? Sharin.”

“…What kind of prank are you trying to pull again?”

“Anyway, Lord Harim is alive.”

“Yes, he’s currently alive….”

‘…But he’ll die in an accident soon,’ Sharin muttered in a small voice.

“Is that so?”

The charge is treason.

In fact, all the nobles and merchants in the Colosseum witnessed the scene.

In the end, Lord Harim was accused of being too drunk on Frenzy Mushrooms [a fictional intoxicating substance] and daring to point his sword at Karma, who had revealed his identity.

Karma’s extravagant behavior is well known to the Imperial Family and nobles.

Sometimes he pretends to be an adventurer in the Imperial City, or he hangs out with gangsters and goes to entertainment districts.

If it was normal, even if he disguised himself as a merchant and participated in the Colosseum competition, they would have thought that he was continuing his usual behavior.

However, that was if the Imperial Army had not appeared.

“…The nobles are quite quiet?”

Due to this incident, rumors spread among the nobles that it was a pre-planned ‘noble killing’.

“Originally, it was supposed to be that we went to investigate Lord Harim’s ‘tax evasion and illegal distribution of Frenzy Mushrooms’.”

The cultivation of Frenzy Mushrooms can only be managed with the permission of the Imperial Family.

However, Lord Harim has been suspected of secretly operating a larger management area than that.

This can be taken as a challenge to the Imperial Family, so the army was dispatched under the pretext of investigating that point.

That suspicion alone was not enough, so Karma used himself as bait.

“…Because there was a more plausible reason.”

The Emperor’s murderer.

The Constellation of Sin from the North appeared in the Colosseum.

Based on the information he heard from the informant, he dispatched the army, but in the process, he confirmed Lord Harim’s illegality… that was the excuse.

This was a good excuse to quell the challenge to Karma’s ‘noble killing’ trap.

Rather, they even used the ‘rumors’ to their advantage.

Karma, the son of Kashar, who was murdered, struggled and contacted him, trapped him and cornered him!

It was said that ‘Turam’ also helped with this in a plausible way.

The truth is completely different, but it would be enough to deceive some of the Imperial citizens, nobles, and merchants.

In the process, he also gained a justification to strengthen the influence over the nobles and the regulation of Frenzy Mushroom cultivation.

‘However, there is a problem.’

He doesn’t know what kind of retaliation the Constellation of Sin will take on him in return for selling his ‘name’.

In that respect, fear washed over him.

Just then, Sharin sat on the bedside.

“Older brother is going to manipulate the rumors about that Constellation from the North?!”

The bed sank, and cold water covered her.

“Hahaha!”

Karma burst out laughing at the sight.

“Thank you. My precious younger sister! Thanks to you, my depressed heart has been relieved! Then-!”

Karma left the room, and Sharin muttered with cold eyes.

“I’m going to kill you.”

Karma walked down the hallway.

‘Haha! It was worth the effort I put in for hours to see Sharin’s face.’

“Your Majesty.”

When Karma was somewhat satisfied, a maid approached him and bowed her head.

“Huh?”

“…Well, I think it would be better to just let it go.”

“What’s wrong?”

“A crazy man has come to the front of the Imperial Palace.”

“Who is it?”

“That’s….”

Normally, the guards would have chased such a man away on their own.

“He’s a man named ‘Loki’, with the same name as the ruler of the North-.”

Hell was closer than he thought.