Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 156

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Loki brandished his spear, sending a jet-black beast soaring as he pressured the Constellation of the Sea.

The Constellation of the Sea, gradually being pushed back, lost its composure, revealing increasing anxiety and fear.

“Damn it!”

He finally cursed.

Calib spread his wings and soared into the sky.

He looked down at Loki, beads of sweat forming on his brow.

‘Should I run?’

The opponent is no ordinary foe.

Wouldn’t it be better to escape and then investigate him?

“Oh, Constellation of the Sea!”

“Lord Calib!”

“Vanquish our enemies!”

Calib paused, startled, and turned his head.

From the Kratian Palace, lizardmen and sirens stretched out their hands, shouting towards him.

“Your followers sing your praises.”

Calib turned his gaze back to Loki.

He walked across the sea, looking up at Calib.

“Yet, you try to flee.”

The muscles in Calib’s eyes twitched.

He felt ashamed that his thoughts had been read.

“For the Constellation of the Sea to abandon the sea and flee to the sky. How utterly ridiculous.”

It was blatant mockery.

Calib felt insulted.

“…Foolish one.”

Calib flew even higher.

“Whose domain do you think lies beneath your feet?”

Calib unleashed divine power and raised his spear, then stabbed himself.

Thwack-!

“……?”

Stab himself with the spear?

Blood gushed from Calib’s mouth.

“This body is the Constellation of the Sea.”

His body plummeted.

He crashed into the sea and was soon swallowed by a whirlpool.

“The one who rules this sea.”

The sea vibrated.

Sharp spikes emerged from the whirlpool.

Pointed pillars began to rotate in a spiral.

Loki’s eyes widened at the sight.

“This is… ?”

Soon, all the swirling seawater drained away, revealing undulating, sticky walls.

The hole that had swallowed the seawater.

It was….

“A mouth.”

It was inside a monster’s mouth.

Thump-!

The Kratian Palace collapsed.

“Aaaargh!?”

“S, save me!”

The sacrifices, lizardmen, and sirens in the palace were sucked into the massive mouth.

“Q, quickly, get on the boat!”

Sharin shouted as she was being pulled in.

The sacrifices boarded the ship, but the ship was also sucked into the giant hole.

Koo-ah-ah-ah-ah-!

The massive creature swallowed Sharin’s ship and even Loki, then rose above the sea.

As the giant body moved, waves surged.

The waves grew fiercer, creating a tsunami.

“Wh, what’s going on!?”

The Kratian territory residents aboard the warship turned their heads.

In the distance, a massive tsunami, as steep as a cliff, was approaching.

“Aaaargh!?”

“A, a tsunami!!”

The Nord warriors shouted.

“Hurry up and get on! You idiots!”

The territory residents climbed onto the warship, but a small wave crashed over the ship midway.

Many of the residents who were climbing aboard were swept away by the sea.

The warship lurched and was pushed back.

“Everyone.”

Thorsen looked up, and a massive tsunami was right before his eyes.

“Brace for impact!”

As soon as Thorsen finished speaking, the Nord warriors grabbed onto anything they could to secure themselves.

The massive tsunami engulfed the warship.

***

“Hnghk!?”

Thorsen opened his eyes.

He couldn’t breathe.

Thorsen put his fingers in his mouth and spat out seawater.

“Uwaaaack!”

Once the seawater was expelled, he could finally breathe properly.

He coughed and looked around.

‘What happened!?’

But it was difficult to properly assess the situation.

Perhaps because the tsunami had just passed, the surroundings were shrouded in a thick fog, making it difficult to see.

Thorsen staggered to his feet.

‘There’s damage, but… it held.’

He looked around and was relieved that the warship was somewhat intact.

‘Indeed…! Amazing. To think the craftsmanship of Valhalla’s metals and the shipbuilding skills of the dwarves are this great…!’

At that moment, Thorsen felt a chill.

In the thick sea fog, a dark shadow could be seen.

‘What is it…?’

It’s big.

No, that wasn’t enough.

Thorsen cautiously tilted his head back.

But no matter how much he looked up, he couldn’t see the end.

The black shadow soared high into the sky.

“…….”

Cold sweat ran down Thorsen’s forehead.

Squirm… squirm…

Tssst-tssst-!

A sticky, repulsive sound came from within the hazy fog.

Gradually, ‘that being’ revealed itself from the fog.

It was a truly hideous monster.

A sandworm. [A large, worm-like creature that lives in sand.]

Such an annelid came to mind. [Annelids are segmented worms, like earthworms.]

The back was covered with the hard shell of a crustacean, and the belly was writhing with sticky flesh.

Countless sharp legs and wriggling tentacles flailed in the air.

The head, held high, slowly descended, revealing the front of the massive being.

Hundreds of sandworm-specific serrated teeth could be seen.

Those who faced the giant head, hundreds of meters high, swallowed hard.

“Carybdis.”

Everyone who lived by the sea knew.

Before coming here, he had jokingly said to Loki.

‘Did you know? There’s something scarier than the Kraken in the sea.’

‘What is it?’

‘Carybdis.’

A being known as the goddess of the sea.

Carybdis.

A cursed monster passed down only in legends.

A sea monster that devours everything, and also—.

The giant sandworm’s mouth opened.

From that undulating, repulsive mouth, a black hole slowly revealed itself.

Thorsen’s face turned pale at the sight.

“Everyone… full speed, evacuate-!”

-Everything was spewed out.

Everything that Carybdis had eaten was ejected.

***

Karma, the emperor of the Kron Empire, received a letter.

The Asgardian warships had begun to move.

If so, he couldn’t just stand still.

‘…My influence has diminished due to the Kratian territory incident.’

If things continued this way, he would inevitably instill distrust in the other nobles.

‘I need to get in on this… It’s best to move as quickly as possible.’

In the end, dozens of imperial warships carrying Karma also began to move.

While the slaves were rowing, the deck became noisy.

“What is that!?”

The slaves cried out.

“…Good heavens.”

The trainer guards, who were emotionlessly guarding Karma, also uttered voices filled with astonishment.

At their bewildered behavior, Karma looked at the distant horizon from the throne on the deck.

A giant pillar-like object was soaring up.

It was moving as if it were a living creature.

Everyone on the warship was filled with terror.

“…M, monster!?”

Karma’s heart sank.

Could that be… the Constellation of the Sea that ruled Kratian?

Not just a winged human!?

Karma’s face turned pale.

The first encounter with the ancient giants came to mind, sending shivers down his spine.

‘…Should I run?’

Karma’s eyes wavered.

“A, a tsunami is coming!”

It was quite far away.

The monster had only moved slightly, but small waves were gathering and approaching as a tsunami.

“…Ah, damn it.”

Karma squeezed his eyes shut as he looked at the tsunami.

***

Carybdis’s gaping mouth.

Everything it had eaten spewed out from the deep darkness within the serrated teeth.

Ships that had sunk with the sea, collapsed buildings, and palace fragments.

And bones that had been digested and half-melted in its body.

All of it was ejected like cannonballs.

It was a truly gruesome vomit.

As the giant sandworm, hundreds of meters long, vomited and moved violently, the waves surged.

The Asgardian warship was pushed back by the waves, but it never retreated.

“Report the damage!”

Thorsen, shaking his wet hair, shouted from the deck.

The Nord warriors were deafened and struggled to regain their senses.

They barely opened their eyes and scanned the surrounding sea.

It was difficult to see properly because of the fog.

Black shadows buried in the fog and sea could be seen.

Among the debris, the Asgardian warship that had unfortunately sunk could also be seen.

It must have failed to avoid the cannon-like vomit that Carybdis had spewed out.

“Damn it!”

“Everyone, swim! Board the nearest warship!”

Nord warriors struggling in the sea could also be seen.

Also, there was something that looked like a Kraken, but its whole body was limp and it was being sucked into the sea.

The Kraken seemed to have fainted.

Thorsen gritted his teeth.

The damage was considerable.

The Nord warriors looked up and were speechless at the giant being they saw.

“Is that… a monster?”

“What a hideous beast!”

Every time the sandworm, hundreds of meters long, moved, the sea surged and created a tsunami.

The sandworm writhed as if in great pain.

「Hungry! I’m hungry!」

“…The old sea tales were true.”

There was a goddess of the sea, and she used to eat humans indiscriminately for fun.

Her gluttony was so severe that the Constellation Azellan cursed her.

Giving her a hideous appearance, preventing sailors from approaching her, and also punishing her to vomit whatever she ate.

And that story, passed down to the old sailors, was now a reality.

Kwoooooooo!

Carybdis roared.

Due to constant hunger, it had submerged its main body in the sea and taken nutrients with its clones, but now even that was over.

The being that dared to oppose it had already been eaten and spewed out, so it must have been shattered.

That’s what it thought.

Clang-!

Thorsen paused, startled, and turned his head.

A black gauntlet gripping the warship’s railing could be seen.

“Hoo….”

The being who climbed over the railing.

“Lord Loki!”

Loki, holding Sharin and Kudan in his right hand, came onto the warship’s deck.

‘…Ah, I’m going crazy.’

Sharin couldn’t recover from the shock. Her head felt like it was spinning.

She had boarded the ship, but even that ship was half-destroyed.

Inside the monster’s body, hundreds, thousands of teeth were spinning, grinding everything.

The ship she had boarded was the same.

She thought she was going to die, but Loki appeared, covering himself and Kudan with black beasts and protecting them.

She survived, but….

‘…Everyone but us is dead.’

She couldn’t save those who had been sacrificed.

Sharin sighed and turned her gaze away. Then, she froze.

A giant sandworm monster.

She felt like she was going to throw up at the sight of its hideous and grotesque appearance.

“Ugh-!”

She covered her mouth with her hand.

To experience such an unrealistic thing!

Sharin, who had wished for an ordinary life, could only feel despair.

“…That hurt.”

Loki tilted his head and tapped it.

He looked at Carybdis, acting as if he was trying to get water out of his ear.

“Oho! Amazing. Indeed, Thorsen, you were right. A monster in itself. To think that beings comparable to giants exist in this world!”

“…….”

What, is he laughing now? Shouldn’t you be scared when you see something like that?!

Sharin looked at Loki with a bewildered expression.

“…I see. Can we… catch that?”

Kudan stood up and tilted his head.

The giant sandworm with a shadowed face was turning its head in search of prey.

And it found Loki and opened its massive maw.

It was trying to swallow Loki’s body again.

“I have to catch it. Or I won’t be able to get out of here.”

Loki grabbed the warship’s railing and jumped into the sea.

He walks on the sea.

Gungnir [Loki’s spear] was in his hand, and he glared at Carybdis, who had been the Constellation of the Sea, Calib.

“Is that form your Phase 2?”

Loki’s eyes gleamed as he smiled.

“I’ll test how strong you are compared to the giants.”

Loki walked on the sea with only a spear in his hand.