Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 142

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“…They escaped.”

Helga caught her breath and plunged her greatsword into the ground.

The fire giant Surt, who had been fighting her, got scared and ran away.

Thanks to that, all the heat on the earth disappeared.

Cold returned, but it was more bearable than before.

Helga stared at the place where Surt had left.

Traces of Surt running away without looking back remained intact.

She wanted to follow him, but her stamina and magic power were already exhausted.

She couldn’t move anymore.

“…Thank you for your help.”

Helga looked to the side.

There was a small spirit made of fire.

「You’re welcome… I had to help because Sallot asked me to. Actually, I’m sorry that I couldn’t be of much help.」

The King of Fire, Ifrit.

He gave Helga the blessing of fire.

It gave her resistance to fire.

Helga drank the potion she took out of her pouch.

‘First of all… let’s recover and chase after him. That side seems to be over.’

Helga turned her gaze to where the one who was once a hero was, his spear stuck in the ground, collapsed.

In front of him, Kudan, Cancun, and Sallot were breathing heavily.

「Thank you…. Daughter of the Demon King.」

Sallot stood tall in front of Turam, who had turned into a Wight [an undead creature].

「It was a battle I have no regrets in my life. I wanted my body not to be taken away by these evil things…」

Sallot aimed her bow at Turam’s head.

「Yes, avenge your enemy-.」

She released the bowstring, and Turam’s head exploded.

Turam’s body slumped to the side and fell.

Sallot scoffed.

“You talk too much.”

Kudan and Cancun caught their breath and turned their gaze to the capital of the Holy Kingdom.

Wights no longer appeared.

Only one divine being emerged from there.

Kudan and Cancun knelt down and bowed their heads.

Following that, everyone in the fortress knelt down.

Loki stood tall, took a breath, and said.

“Thank you all for your hard work.”

One by one, they raised their heads and looked at him.

His return proved that the King of Giants had been defeated.

“But there are still some left.”

There are King Ronia and the Emperor of the Kron Empire, who used themselves as bait to disperse the troops.

“I’m going to save them.”

***

The fortress moved once again.

Ronia and the Kron Empire, and other kingdom alliances watched the vast sight.

As it was an important war that would determine the fate of mankind, high-ranking nobles, skilled knights, and magicians were largely deployed on the battlefield.

They witnessed it with their own eyes.

The huge fortress moved and unleashed magic and siege weapons.

The large-scale Wight corps collapsed in an instant, and the fortress trampled over their corpses.

They had subdued the plague that turned the continent into death so easily.

Armed with overwhelming technology and power, it was hard to see them as barbarians with backward civilizations anymore.

The fortress gate opens.

Inside, the master of the barbarians, wearing a goat bone helmet, was seen.

King Eron of Ronia and the Ronia army all knelt down and bowed their heads to greet him.

“You came. My friend.”

Karma, the emperor of the Kron Empire, also simply nodded and expressed his gratitude for his arrival.

Asgard proved that it was a powerful country by destroying the Holy Order.

***

The war came to an end.

This was the same as the destruction of a country that had been the ruler of the continent.

It was an impressive war that would remain in the history of the continent.

And the end of the war brought not peace but chaos.

The enormous costs and casualties caused by the war, and the friction between the kingdoms, caused deep-rooted conflicts between them.

The Worm Fest plague had already spread throughout the continent, and High Priest Falles had disappeared with the remaining Black Arbiters, and their whereabouts were unknown.

As the chaos on the continent continued, it was none other than Asgard who stepped in to mediate.

The force they exerted on the battlefield overwhelmed the other kingdoms, and above all, the moving fortress was enough to chill the kings of the kingdoms to the bone.

With the mediation of the strong, Asgard’s influence naturally increased.

The Holy Kingdom became a kingdom with only ‘form’ left.

Only territory and lost its own power… It had fallen into a helpless state.

As a result, the remaining nobles and clergy families of the Holy Kingdom defected to other countries or Asgard.

Now that the Holy Order has collapsed, Asgard is the only one who has a cure to prevent the plague.

That’s how everything started to revolve around the center of Asgard.

“…I’m so glad I learned to write.”

Kudan sat in the office of the mansion and put down his pen.

He has shaggy hair and a beard, and wrinkles on his face.

He leaned back on the back of his chair and looked at the book he had written. Then he turned his gaze to the side.

“…But I shouldn’t have learned to write.”

Next to him were piles of documents.

It was a list of students in charge of education at the Valhalla Academy, which Kudan manages.

“Oh! It’s Sallot!”

“Sallot noona [term of endearment for older sister]! Let’s play tag in our forest!”

Sallot, who was walking down the city’s market street, looked at the children.

Little Nordlings spun around Sallot.

Sallot took a few steps back as if she was burdened by such children.

She hung out with them once a few days ago, and since then, they have been especially fond of her.

As if Sallot’s reaction was funny, when the children spun around even more, a flame popped out of the air and a little devil stuck out his tongue and shouted.

「Ueeee~!」

“Eek!”

The children were surprised and ran away, and Sallot frowned as she looked at the fire spirit.

“That’s not good, Ifrit.”

「Isn’t it fun?」

Ifrit shrugged.

At that time, a loud cry echoed in the city center.

Thump-!

Sallot raises her head.

A huge Minotaur is walking in the middle of the city.

Behind him, many wagons were being pulled.

“Kahahaha-! Let’s go!”

Karen is holding onto the horn and laughing on top of the Minotaur’s head.

“I, I’m sorry! Please move out of the way for a while for the capital expansion construction-!”

Underneath, her brother Thorsen shouted urgently and pushed the people in the market street away.

Sallot felt it while watching that.

‘…The war is really over.’

After the war, everything returned to normal.

In Asgard, tombstones were erected for the soldiers who sacrificed themselves in the war, and they were honored as heroes, and at the same time, their names were left in history.

As the culture of being proud of dying in battle on the battlefield was ingrained, it became a great honor to have died in the war for the country and with the Constellations of Sin.

「It’s been a while. Thrym. How have you been?」

Urgarte, the magic giant who gained freedom with Loki’s permission, could go anywhere on the continent.

However, the undead of Valhalla had to accompany him as supervisors.

Urgarte met Thrym after a long time.

Thrym, sealed with golden chains on the frozen iceberg, gritted his teeth as he looked at Urgarte.

「Traitor.」

But there was no resentment or hatred in that tone.

He is a loser.

He lost to Loki and is paying the price.

There were other giants in the underground prison, so it didn’t matter, but the loneliness of being alone on this iceberg was enough to stimulate the emptiness in his heart.

So, he was secretly grateful for Urgarte’s visit.

「Surt is…?」

Thrym asked about Surt.

「Well, I don’t know either. Asgard seems to be looking for Surt’s whereabouts… but they haven’t found him yet. Maybe he’s scared and hiding somewhere. He fears Loki and Helga.」

「Foolish guy.」

Thrym cursed Surt.

「I’ll tell you this story today.」

Urgarte told Thrym stories about the world.

***

“Come on! Come on! You can weave magic like this! Anyone who doesn’t understand, raise your hand!”

Shaman taught magic to children who wanted to at Valhalla Academy.

In order to replenish the magicians in Asgard, he wanted to find a successor to take over the next generation of Shaman.

Of course, there were cases where children ran away when they received physical training, but it was fortunate that the child he had marked as his successor persevered and took his class until the end.

“Ugh… it’s heavy. Hyung-nim [term of endearment for older brother]!”

Per assisted his brother Aum.

He staggered with a mountain of documents and barely maintained his balance as he followed Aum.

“Just bear with it.”

“Bear with it… how long?”

“About… three months?”

“Three months?! Don’t we have any days off!”

“Ah, after three months, you have one day off and then you have to suffer for another three months.”

“……!”

“It hasn’t been long since the war ended. We have to reorganize and coordinate relations with other kingdoms.”

Aum reviewed numerous documents sent not only from all regions of Asgard but also from other kingdoms.

He classified them according to importance and reported them to Loki to get permission.

“By the way… there’s been constant chaos these days. Falles supporters are rising up.”

One of the most important issues Aum will report this time is this.

That is, the forces of High Priest Falles are rising up and committing all kinds of looting in each kingdom.

They were spreading the plague and building their support base.

‘Well, what can a ‘cult’ do anyway?’

However, the forces of High Priest Falles have been ‘dismissed’ from the Azelan Order.

Although the ‘Azelan Order’ still exists on the continent, the existence of the ‘Black Arbiters’ was classified as a cult and a wanted order was issued.

‘But this is…?’

A report that bothers me.

A mysterious event occurred in a small city of the collapsed Holy Order.

-’An angel has been sighted.’

-’It is said that a demon has been sighted.’

“……”

An angel or a demon? It’s not even a fairy tale.

However, this report was raised from all over the continent, and the first report, ‘angel,’ was changed to ‘demon’ and reported.

In addition, requests for the dispatch of Nord warriors to the subjugation force for ‘subjugation’ began to pour in.

When I first received the report, I ignored it because it was absurd, but the situation changed from the following reports.

A report sent by the Ronia royal family.

‘Livestock have been killed.’

A large number of livestock died.

‘The crops in the fields rot and strange patterns are engraved.’

The cornfields were destroyed and strange patterns were engraved.

From this point on, reports were sent to Loki, and he began to feel interested.

And this time’s report.

‘A winged monster kidnapped a person.’

From this point on, I sensed that something was wrong.

‘…Could it be that the remnants of the Black Arbiters looted it?’

Above all, the incident occurred around the territory of the collapsed Holy Order.

It must be the place with the most remnants of the Black Arbiters.

Then we should also consider the Worm Fest.

It seemed like this incident required the dispatch of the Berserker Warrior Corps.

The door to the Great Hall opens.

And in the beautiful Great Hall of the Gods, there was an existence sitting on the throne.

Loki was sitting crookedly on the throne, resting his goat helmet on the back of his hand.

“Constellation-nim [term of respect], I have something to report.”

Aum Linia knelt on one knee with perfect manners and bowed her head.

She gently lifts the report in her hand.

Accordingly, the Nord soldiers around her approached, received the report, and delivered it to Loki.

Loki read the report. And turn your gaze.

Red eyes stared straight at Aum Linia and opened her mouth.

“It’s the report I saw last time.”

Aum was startled by the dignified voice and looked up at Loki in a daze.

“Then prepare to send soldiers here….”

“…What are you doing? Hans-nim.”

“…What are you talking about.”

“Where is Loki-nim?”

“…….”

When he took off the goat bone helmet, he saw Hans Stinger’s appearance.

‘He’s doing this again…!’

Accordingly, Aum’s eye muscles twitched.

Aum has been anxious lately.

This was because Loki was showing signs of trying to promote himself as the ‘King of the Nords.’

He was afraid that he would sit on the throne and the Constellation-nim would run away in the meantime.

“Where is Loki-nim now…?”

Hans avoided his gaze at Aum’s question.

“That’s…Loki-nim is….”

***

A small city on the outskirts of the fallen Holy Kingdom.

A man wearing a crow mask and a female knight with blue hair walked slowly in this small territory where about 2,000 people live.

“……”

Accordingly, they lock the doors of every house.

The people in the slums in the alley were startled and hid in the darkness.

‘A beast mask! Blue hair! It’s a Nord!’

‘They’re cultists!’

‘The barbarians who destroyed our country have come here again!’

Everyone held their breath and watched them.

At that time-.

Clank… Clank…

Along with the sound of metal, dozens of soldiers and a fat nobleman on horseback approached.

The soldiers sweated with wary expressions.

“Why, why did the barbarians come here!?”

Accordingly, the female knight with blue hair made a bitter expression.

It is the territory of the Holy Order.

Of course, they wouldn’t like Asgard, who destroyed their country.

There was a blatant hostility.

But they were so afraid that they didn’t even try to touch them recklessly.

The man wearing the crow mask raised the parchment.

The pattern of a snake and a wolf was stamped there.

It was the emblem of Asgard.

“Cultist subjugation.”

Loki raised his head and flashed red eyes.

“We came as a subjugation force as requested.”