Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 139

Even the Nordin, accustomed to the cold, shivered.

Even before arriving at the city, the cold intensified as they approached.

When it was deemed too dangerous to proceed, the march halted.

“Hoo….”

The shaman felt a stinging pain in his lungs with each breath.

‘This level of cold… it’s definitely not natural.’

It was an artificial climate.

“This… is quite dangerous.”

Aum, covered in fur from head to toe and with his face completely masked, trembled as he spoke.

“Are you cold?”

“…It’s incomparably colder than the frozen earth.”

The Asgard soldiers began to reorganize the fortress.

This was the heart of enemy territory. They couldn’t afford to be careless.

The capital of the Holy Order was eerily silent, devoid of any sign of life.

Everyone fell silent.

That quiet silence soon turned into ‘fear,’ consuming the surroundings.

“…Oppa, this kid is scared.”

Thorsen looked at Karen, who was riding the minotaur. [In Norse mythology, a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man.]

He could tell she was nervous, as the fur on her tail was standing on end.

“…….”

Salute silently turned his head to the side.

The dwarf Rlando was hesitant to speak, glancing around.

“…It’s a little scary.”

At Cancun’s words, Kudan crossed his arms.

“It’s not just you. Everyone is. Those noisy guys are quiet now, right? That means they’re just as nervous.”

Loki looked at the mountain range and began to walk.

“Are you going?”

Helga, who was next to him, asked.

“Yes, the fact that there’s no reaction even after coming this far means they have no intention of coming out. Like cowards, they’re waiting for me to enter where it’s advantageous for them.”

If they dragged on any longer, the King of Lonia and the Emperor of the Cron Empire would die from the Worm Fest [a deadly plague].

So, he had to move as quickly as possible before that happened.

“…I’ll go too.”

“No, you need to stay here.”

At Loki’s words, Helga looked puzzled.

“The giants might come here. Shirin, I’m counting on you to take care of them.”

At Loki’s words, Helga gave a bitter smile.

Loki descended from the tower and slowly walked toward the castle walls.

***

The capital of the Holy Order, once called the ruler of the continent, was now a ruin.

The collapsed outer walls were devoid of soldiers, and the alleys were filled with frozen corpses.

As he approached the palace, the wights [undead creatures] around him snarled and rushed at him. Loki easily subdued them with a wave of his hand.

Startled by his power, the wights cowered and slowly retreated.

“…They’re not that stupid.”

Or are they gradually getting smarter?

He continued to walk.

As he went higher, Loki’s movements became sluggish.

‘My body is heavy.’

He felt as if every joint in his bones was hardening.

He could hear the sound of ice breaking on his armor as he moved.

Sometimes his feet stuck to the ice, and he could barely move unless he exerted force.

‘The cold is more severe than I thought.’

Heat emanated from Loki’s body.

Black flames spewed from between the gaps in his armor, and his slowed body gradually returned to its original state.

Wherever he stepped, he left behind footprints of fire.

He summoned the golden spear, Gungnir [a magical spear], and gripped it in his hand.

He passed through the city and climbed the stairs leading to the top of the final mountain range.

He moved one step at a time, thinking about how to subdue Thrym [a giant] and what to do after subduing him.

When he reached the top, he saw a wide, frozen ice field.

And….

There was a giant.

A being armed with ice like an iceberg, and giants following him.

Loki stared at the being, his eyes gleaming.

“Thrym.”

“It’s been a while, Loki.”

Thrym curled up the corners of his lips and spread his hands to welcome him.

“Welcome to my land. My master!”

The two beings glared at each other.

***

The Asgard soldiers frowned.

Sweat flowed, and their breathing became rapid.

They felt hot all over.

The fur they had wrapped around themselves to block the cold seemed too much.

“…Ugh, it’s hot!”

In the end, unable to bear it any longer, they threw off their fur coats.

Not only the Asgard soldiers, but also the magicians of the Cron Empire, the shamans, Cancun and Kudan, Salute, Rland, Karen, and Thorsen all took off the fur they were wearing due to the heat.

“…It’s hot.”

Cancun shook his head.

“Suddenly the temperature….”

Sweatdrops formed on his forehead and hair, and Kudan struggled to overcome the heat.

Helga’s gaze turned to the mountain range.

Clearly, the mountain range was being swept by blizzards. But now, the fortress was dominated by heat rather than cold.

Helga narrowed her brows.

‘This heat, could it be…?’

If there was an existence that could change the climate of this formation, there was only one.

The Fire Giant.

‘Surtr?’

It was then.

“Enemy attack!”

At someone’s shout, the Nord soldiers were startled and looked at the capital from the fortress.

-Kieeeek!

Wights surged in like waves through the collapsed barriers.

Hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even more.

It was enough to make one think that everyone in the capital was infected with the plague.

“M, my god! What a huge number!”

“D, damn it… it’s so hot, and now an attack!”

“Don’t complain!”

“Reload…!”

“Fire!”

Bombardment began from the fortress.

The wights running toward them were mowed down in droves by arrows, siege weapons, and magic.

But their numbers did not decrease easily.

Clumped together, the approaching wights were knocked down by the dozens by siege weapons and magic attacks, but the sight of them running over the corpses of their dead comrades was like a wave of the dead from hell, utterly repulsive.

“……!”

-Kieeeek!

The ones that reached the fortress crashed into the sharp stakes installed on the walls.

With a thud, the fortress of enormous weight was pushed back.

“The fortress is being pushed back!”

“Fix the wheels! Secure the fortress with anchors!”

They placed supports between the wheels from the inside and threw anchors outside the walls.

The Nord soldiers looked at the walls with cold sweat.

Wights crashed their entire bodies into the walls. The fortress itself was a wall surrounded by very strong iron plates, but there was a creaking sound as if cracks were forming in the iron plates.

Crashing, crashing.

Each time, the solid iron plate of the wall was dented.

“I…isn’t this dangerous?”

Not only the walls. The same was true on top of the walls.

Wights jumped up and climbed up, using the ones crashing into the walls as stepping stones.

They were using their comrades as ladders.

“Block them!”

Arrows poured toward the jumping wights.

Wights pierced by arrows fell.

Long spears knocked down the wights.

But the corpses of the fallen wights became stairs to climb the fortress.

“……!”

“Move the fortress!”

Aum shouted urgently.

“Retreat slowly and defend!”

“Raise the anchors!”

The Nord soldiers raised the anchors and released the wheel locks.

“Hang in there! Hang in there!”

Karen jumped up and down on the minotaur, shouting.

The minotaurs, trained by her, moved and turned the turntables.

Then, the chariot wheels outside the fortress moved, pushing the fortress back.

“Concentrate all ballistae [ancient missile weapon] below the walls!”

The ballistae installed as turrets were aimed below the walls.

“Fire-!”

The ballistae with excellent penetrating power pierced the wights all at once.

Wights falling in droves.

But they clung on tenaciously.

Like a fortress sinking into water, the wights gradually rose.

“It’s dangerous!”

Thorsen said.

“Prepare oil and fire!”

They poured oil and threw torches.

It was instantly covered in flames, but even engulfed in flames, the wights did not forget their instinct for prey and rushed in.

Perhaps it was the Nord soldiers who were so exhausted from the scorching heat. Nevertheless, they lit the oil and moved without rest, and their stamina began to visibly deplete.

“…My god.”

Aum closed his mouth.

He had to command. But this was beyond command, there was nothing he could do.

There was no way to stop the wights constantly pouring in from the capital with 30,000 troops.

“I will join the battle!”

Kudan and Cancun put on monster skin masks to prevent Worm Fest infection and jumped off the walls.

Cancun wielded the divine item, the Holy Sword Brutgang, and Kudan slammed down Mjolnir [Thor’s hammer].

In an instant, the center of the wights advancing on the fortress split and was blown open.

A storm raged, and the wights were shattered or exploded and disappeared.

-Kieeeek!

The wights’ screams echoed as if to burst eardrums.

The shaman launched a magical bombardment, but the wights still swarmed.

“…Like a swarm of cockroaches.”

Salute’s face turned pale for a moment, then he shot an arrow into the sky.

[Aerial Bombardment].

Her skill manifested, and dozens of arrows fell and exploded.

At that moment, a wight jumped onto the wall.

“……!”

“Princess!”

The dwarf Rland swung his axe and plunged it into the wight’s chest and pushed it off, dropping it below the wall.

-Kieeeek!

One, five, twenty….

Gradually, more and more climbed onto the wall.

“…Infected person!”

“Potion treatment!”

“Everyone be careful!”

Eventually, infections occurred.

The Berserker warriors did their best, but they could not block everywhere.

At that moment, a black flash erupted from the center of the wights advancing on the fortress.

Like the miracle of Moses, the wights split apart, and thousands died.

“……!”

The Nord soldiers were startled and looked at the being that emitted the flash.

“Hoo….”

Helga.

She was in the middle of the battlefield.

The black and white cultists in the fortress prayed, supplying her with magic.

“What is that!?”

The magicians of the Cron Empire showed horrified expressions.

A tremendous magical power that sent shivers down their spines was fluctuating.

Helga gently took her hand to the ground stained with blood, flesh, and bones.

The Worm Fest wriggled, trying to penetrate her delicate hand, but it could not scratch her skin.

Blood and flesh, and disgusting bugs wriggled. The stench was also piercing.

But there was no change in her expression.

“…[Banquet of Death].”

Her skill was activated.

The finely chopped bones around her gathered together to create soldiers.

Bone armor, bone spears and swords, and even bone shields.

Skeletons.

But beings with strength that could not be compared to ordinary skeletons or ordinary soldiers.

The number was as many as several thousand.

The soldiers in the fortress who saw it closed their mouths.

She did not end it there and activated magic again.

This time it’s not a skill.

She recited the ancient rune language of the continent, and accordingly, rune letters spread from her fingertips.

Rune letters were engraved on the corpses of thousands of dead wights.

The wriggling pieces of flesh gathered together to form humans.

Pieces of corpses were tangled together.

It was as if human-shaped clay had been forcibly crumpled and then kneaded back into a human shape.

The corpses that were created in this way were 3m tall.

“……!”

“…M, my god!”

“N, Necron Golem?! [A large, animated construct made from corpses]”

“Isn’t that the forgotten magic of ancient necromancers?!”

The magicians turned pale.

‘It was well realized.’

Helga let out a sigh of relief.

Traveling the continent, she learned many things.

She learned martial arts from some martial artists, magic from some magicians, and acquired ancient magic books in dungeons.

“I’m glad that what I accidentally learned in the past is helping me in times like these.”

However, …the magic of the continent consumed more magic power than skills.

“Then I have no choice but to end it quickly….”

She swung her greatsword.

The spirits flowing from the greatsword wrapped around and compressed the wights’ bodies.

The skeletons stood in a row, blocking the wights approaching the fortress, and the Necron Golems swung their fists, blowing away dozens of wights and reducing their numbers.

“…Helga-nim, is she stronger than us?”

“…….”

At Cancun’s words, Kudan was speechless.

They were also standing on the battlefield, but they could not reach Helga’s dignity.

The wights continued to pour in. But they couldn’t even reach the fortress.

It was when Helga was wielding her greatsword and slaughtering the wights.

「There are a lot of fun toys!」

Helga, feeling a chill, stared ahead.

Kwakwakwang-!

The outer walls of the Holy Kingdom’s capital completely collapsed.

What appeared, trampling on those outer walls, were giants covered in fire and rocks…!

Among them, Surtr, the king of the fire giants, who walked out leisurely, leaned his sword of fire on his shoulder and walked out.

「It seems Loki isn’t here? Then, these bugs are nothing.」

Surtr smiled bitterly and pointed his sword of fire at Helga.

「Everything is just a toy!」

“…….”

Helga frowned as she looked at him.