Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 141

The ground beneath Loki crumbled.

「What…!」

Thrym was taken aback.

“Even I can be strained by mana if I activate a large number of skills.”

However, Loki’s avatar’s automatic passive skill changed the game.

A passive skill that automatically activates when Loki’s health reaches its limit, entering Phase 2.

[Majesty of the Absolute].

Changes the mana consumed by the skill to 0.

Additionally, the surrounding terrain transforms into ‘Land of Fire,’ creating an environment advantageous for Loki.

「……!」

Thrym’s body trembled.

The surrounding environment that had been amplifying Thrym’s power had changed.

The Loki before him burned with black flames, his eyes clearly showing madness.

Loki reached out.

Gungnir flew into Loki’s grasp.

“Thrym.”

From the start, Loki was confident in winning and had prepared accordingly. That’s why he came to capture Thrym.

The absence of Surtr also played a part.

If Surtr, with his fire abilities, had been present, the situation would have become quite troublesome.

“Your defeat is at hand.”

The situation reversed in an instant.

-Kuaaaaa!

The ice giants rushed at Loki to protect their master.

Loki waved his hand.

[Curtain of Fire]

Flames erupted, melting and obliterating the onrushing ice giants.

‘Such flames in my domain…!’

Thrym stepped back, but each time his foot touched the ground, he felt a stinging pain as steam billowed.

Flames and heat, lethal to ice, continued to pressure Thrym’s body.

The thought of dying crossed his mind.

‘Die…? Am I going to die?’

Thrym paused, startled, and stopped retreating.

‘Am I afraid of Loki?’

He cowered before the being in front of him.

The fear of death.

It rejected the very existence of Loki.

「Lo…ki….」

Thrym shook off the water, akin to his own blood, that flowed from his body due to the fiery terrain.

“Thrym, you….”

Whenever he opened his mouth, Thrym felt his heart tremble.

“You’re scared.”

「…….」

Thrym’s eyes widened.

“What are you so afraid of? Are you that scared of me?”

A mocking tone, a condescending gaze.

He felt shame. Humiliation dug into his pride.

All those emotions turned into anger in an instant.

「Me, afraid of you? Don’t make me laugh! I am the master who will destroy the world! Would I be afraid of a traitor!」

Thrym charged at Loki.

Loki is strong. He has been reborn as a mighty being!

But right now, he was significantly damaged.

Against such an existence, there is still a chance of victory!

Above all, his state will disappear after a certain amount of time.

A jet-black beast sprang from Loki’s armor.

It bit and grazed Thrym’s entire body.

Lashing out like a whip, it tore Thrym’s body to pieces.

Thrym writhed in the pain of his flesh being torn away, swinging his fist at Loki.

[Seal of the Sword.]

Thousands of swords of light appeared in the air, raining down and embedding themselves in Thrym’s body.

Embedded in his shoulder. Embedded in his arm. Embedded in his foot.

The weight of each sword caused Thrym to finally kneel, unable to run.

The swords of light immobilized Thrym.

[Fire Arrow]

[Flame Shower]

This time, thousands of arrows made of fire and countless showers of fire rained down, colliding with Thrym’s body.

[Sea of Flames.]

When Loki slammed Gungnir into the ground, the earth split open, and flames erupted.

A hot wave of flames, viscous like lava, struck Thrym’s body.

Steam exploded out.

「Kuaaaak! Stop! Stop it! Loki!」

Thrym, struggling, slammed down on the wave of fire.

A portion of the sea of flames instantly froze.

An ice sheet formed in the place where Thrym stood, but it was only temporary.

The surrounding sea of flames gradually eroded and devoured the ice sheet.

Steam explosions continued to occur due to the extreme temperature difference.

“…Does he still have that much power left?”

Thrym was holding out better than expected, but it was nothing more than a struggle.

Thrym opened his mouth and spewed out a waterfall of water.

His body melted, shrinking in size.

With trembling eyes, he stared at the sea of flames devouring him, his eyes filled with fear.

「Loki…Loki-!」

Thrym moved his massive body and leaped.

Loki watched Thrym intently and slashed Gungnir diagonally at him.

The tip of the spear, along with the light, a flash of flame, cut through Thrym’s fist.

The hard fist that had even deflected Gungnir was easily severed and soared into the air.

「……!」

Thrym’s massive body, having lost its hand, fell into the middle of the sea of flames.

The sea of flames surged, gradually devouring Thrym’s body.

Thrym blankly raised his head.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and snowstorms raged. But the cold chill disappeared due to the heat before it could even reach this place.

Thrym had no chance of winning now.

“Let’s end this, Thrym. It was truly fun. You were the best toy to relieve my boredom.”

Loki approached Thrym, holding Gungnir.

Thrym’s pupils gradually turned white.

「Toy? Me… Don’t underestimate me! Loki!」

The hot sea of flames instantly froze.

“……?”

It even froze Loki’s feet as he walked there.

As Loki tilted his head and looked at Thrym, Thrym’s body had grown absurdly large.

「Loki! Loki-!」

It gradually grew larger.

In an instant, the surroundings were enveloped in freezing cold.

His entire body became harder and faster. Even the surrounding cold became stronger.

He waved his hand once.

The dark clouds spread out in an instant.

「Ha…haha…hahaha-!」

Thrym’s laughter, loud enough to burst eardrums, echoed.

「You are truly arrogant.」

As Thrym spread his arms, chunks of ice rose from the mountains, piercing through the ground.

The cold energy intensified.

Even Loki’s body, which had resistance to cold, gradually froze.

「Did you think you were the only one who goes berserk when your health reaches its limit? I am the same!」

Thrym is also a hidden boss monster.

Like Loki, he had a Phase 2 remaining.

A passive skill that activates when his health reaches its limit.

If it goes berserk, it possesses absurd power.

In comparison, Loki’s Phase 2 had a time limit.

[Majesty of the Absolute] will soon disappear.

Thrym smiled as he looked at Loki, who was staring blankly up at him.

Victory!

He had defeated this mighty god, the master of Ragnarok!

Thrym was absorbed in the feeling of victory.

「The chance to trample you is also mine…!」

Loki’s eyes narrowed.

“This is the end, Thrym.”

As soon as Loki finished speaking, something soared up from under the ice sheet where Thrym was.

It completely restrained Thrym’s body.

It gently wrapped around his arms, legs, body, neck, and head.

And it pulled him into the ground.

The massive body of Thrym was instantly restrained, deprived of freedom.

Chains of light.

Thrym stared at the chains of light with an expression filled with astonishment.

「This is…!?」

The chains that had sealed the giants in the underground dungeon.

“The sound of a cat’s paw, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the fear of a bear, the breath of a fish, the saliva of a bird… a restraint made by shaping them.”

The magical rope that had bound Fenrir, who had destroyed the world in mythology.

A divine item.

“Gleipnir.”

An object from mythology, created by dwarves with blood and sweat,

Materialized.

And became the ‘shackles’ to seal Thrym.

Thrym thrashed and waved his hand. But the restraints gently wrapped around it, ignoring his resistance and suppressing him.

Thrym’s struggles were useless. No matter how much he moved or used his strength, he could not break free.

「What is this! Why…! Why is my power…!」

Skills could not be used either.

He thought of freezing and crushing the chains, but it was useless.

When he tried to use a skill, it disappeared, and when he tried to break it with brute force, his power was sucked in.

“I created you. I know the strategy to defeat giants. The activation condition for Gleipnir is quite 까다롭지만 [kkadaroopjiman – tricky/difficult], once activated, it can ‘completely seal’ one of the boss monsters.”

The activation condition for Gleipnir.

It was that both the user and the target to be suppressed had to take considerable damage.

A one-time use item, but designed to give users who cannot defeat the boss a second chance.

Of course, as it seals the boss, experience and items were not obtained.

「I won’t let you…!」

Thrym tried to destroy parts of his sealed body, but he couldn’t even do that.

The chains gently wrapped around Thrym’s entire body and pulled him into the ground.

Thanks to this, he couldn’t even dare to destroy his own body.

「……!」

“It’s useless, Thrym. The outcome has been decided.”

「No! No! I can still fight! I have the power to trample you!」

Thrym shouted fiercely.

“No, that’s not it. You can’t kill me. And neither can I….”

Loki swung his spear to remove the frozen frost.

And threw Gungnir at Thrym.

The thrown spear cut through space and flew to pierce Thrym’s body, but it was feebly deflected by a transparent barrier.

「…….」

“…I can’t kill you.”

This was literally a seal.

Thrym cannot escape, but no one can kill Thrym either.

Thrym was speechless.

“No one but me can release you. No one can kill you. You have no freedom. Neither dead nor alive, you will be bound by those restraints forever, for life, eternally, until the day the world you desire is destroyed….”

Loki said to Thrym in a mocking tone.

“You will have to be in this place, in this spot, without an inch of movement.”

Thrym’s pupils widened.

If Loki killed him, he would be free from the ‘life of desiring Ragnarok [the end of the world in Norse mythology].’

But now, even that was impossible.

He would have to spend his entire life in this place, watching the destruction of the world he had longed for in the cycle of time.

That long time became fear, staining him with terror.

「There’s no way such a ridiculous thing is possible!」

Thrym thrashed.

He kept trying to break the chains.

The more he struggled, the more chains sprang up from the ground, stopping Thrym.

The more power he exerted, the more power was sucked into the chains and suppressed.

“Thrym, I gave you a chance, and you threw it away. You….”

Loki took off the goat skull he was wearing.

Loki, with a human face, looked at Thrym and smiled brightly as if he was in a good mood.

“Spend an eternity in this place, to the point where your ego is lost. As time passes, you may be reduced to a simple statue in the shape of a human.”

「Damn… it…!」

Bound alone in the mountains.

There is no one to talk to. No one will come to this region full of cold.

He will have to spend hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years alone.

In this place, in this spot….

Until even the power to think gradually degenerates and he simply becomes a stone statue.

“This is the punishment for those who have sinned against me.”

「…….」

“Thrym, rest quietly here. I’ll come visit you if I ever get bored.”

Loki turned his back as if he had no more regrets.

「Loki….」

Freedom fades away.

The destruction of the world disappears.

「Loki…. Don’t go… Stay here.」

But he didn’t listen.

He gradually moved away.

「Don’t… don’t go. Loki! Don’t leave me alone!」

Thrym’s face changed to chaos and confusion.

His eyes rolled around, lost in thought. And that emotion was revealed in his expression.

It was anger and sorrow, sadness and grief, hatred and misery, futility and discouragement, emptiness and overwhelmingness, etc… numerous emotions were revealed.

And in the end….

An unknown joy came.

Thrym burst into wild laughter.

「Ha, haha…hahaha! How utterly cruel! Loki! You are truly evil! The very essence of evil! Indeed, you are worthy of being the master of Ragnarok and the commander-in-chief who led us giants…!」

Thrym’s laughter, filled with joy, echoed. But his face was pathetic.

「If that cruelty had been directed at the world, not at me… If it had destroyed this world… I would have had no regrets…! I would have admired, respected, and worshiped you, and dedicated my body, mind, and soul to you!」

Loki stopped walking, tilted his head back, and glanced at Thrym.

“Well, I’ll release you when that time comes.”

When such a change of heart occurs.

「Yes, come find me then. Loki! Ragnarok will surely happen! Humans will become corrupt, and you will be angered by it! And you will come to me and say! Let’s destroy this world together! Let’s kill the gods of this world. Let’s destroy this world and create a new one! Surely, surely you will say that! Loki-!」

It was a curse-like word from Thrym.

The voice gradually disappeared as it moved away.