Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 186

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“Kuaaaaaaa!”

The constellation of the sea, Calib.

However, she looked different from when she was alive.

The flesh around her neck was twisted, as if to show that her head had been torn off.

The skin all over her body was rotting.

The once beautiful constellation of the sea was now nothing more than a decaying corpse.

“I’m hungry! I’m hungry!”

Richie shouted, stepping back.

“Oh, constellation of the sea! I have brought a sacrifice! So, give me the treasures that lie in the sea of blood!”

At his cry, gold and various jewels washed up on the shore.

Richie’s eyes were filled with greed.

He quickly approached the shore, gathered the gold, and quickly retreated.

“You tricked me?!”

Salad, clutching the rowboat, shouted at Richie.

Richie smiled slyly.

“I clearly guided you. Didn’t you say you wanted to meet Calib!”

“I just wanted to meet my dad! He’s a dark elf and a man!”

“But you didn’t mention those characteristics.”

“You told me not to!”

“I never said that. I just told you to get on the boat. You didn’t mention the characteristics of the person you wanted to meet.”

Richie chuckled.

Salad turned around.

The constellation of the sea flashed its eyes and spread its hands.

Blood rises from the sea of blood.

Swirling, it flies towards Salad.

Salad quickly drew her bow and shot an arrow.

It pierced through the swirling water.

Thwack-!

The arrow struck Calib’s abdomen.

“Kuaaaaaaa!”

Calib retreated in agony.

She covered her mouth.

“Ueeeek!”

She spat out a red aura.

Her energy weakened accordingly.

“I’m hungry. I need nutrients to fill my soul…!”

Calib tried to fly, but her bony wings couldn’t fly, so she could only sit on the pillar of blood that had risen.

‘That one is weak.’

Salad had heard from Loki in the past.

The constellation of the sea that Loki hunted.

If what she heard was true, the constellation of the sea was in a very weak state now.

Salad shot her bow again, and the constellation of the sea screamed each time she was hit.

“Oh, indeed, the living are different. It’s incomparably stronger than the dead!”

Richie burst into laughter.

“I wish you good luck. I hope you find your father. Ah, you’ll meet him as a ghost when you die!”

Richie said that, took the gold, and left the shore.

Salad aimed her bow at Richie, but….

“How dare you, how dare you… shoot an arrow at me!?”

The constellation of the sea, Calib, did not leave her alone.

Salad had to withdraw her bow at the intense murderous intent.

The one she had to face now was the constellation of the sea.

She quickly changed the trajectory of the bow.

Calib is staring at her. One of her eyes is hollowed out.

Her cheeks were rotten, revealing her gums and teeth.

It was a terrifying sight that made her legs tremble.

“I’ll tear off your skin and stick it to me. Know it as an honor!”

Calib stepped into the sea of blood. She staggers but sprints through the sea of blood.

“Kooooooo!”

Salad shoots an arrow.

The pillars of blood that soared to Calib’s left and right deflected the flying arrows.

Salad stepped back, but staggered because it was difficult to maintain her balance.

She looked back and sweated coldly.

In the middle of the sea of blood.

There, zombies were struggling, grabbing and shaking the rowboat.

‘There’s nowhere to run!’

When Salad turned her head, Calib was right in front of her.

Salad was startled and sat down.

Calib opened her mouth wide.

Perhaps because her cheeks were torn, her huge mouth was open, as if it would swallow Salad’s head whole.

When Salad widened her eyes, the shore behind her exploded.

There is someone who flew through the dusty dust, breaking the bones.

A man with black and white hair.

‘Loki…!’

Loki draws his greatsword and swings it.

The greatsword grazed Salad’s hair and headed for Calib’s mouth.

Clang-!

Sparks flew, colliding with Calib’s closed teeth.

Salad and Calib’s eyes widened.

“……!”

Calib’s gaze met Loki’s.

She froze and was terrified.

The man who gave her death.

‘The, the constellation of the apocalypse [a being of immense destructive power]!?’

Why is this guy here!?

‘Is, is this guy also dead?’

But he was full of life.

“You’re a rotten fish, but you’re full of energy.”

Loki grabbed the greatsword handle with both hands, turned his waist, and applied force.

Calib’s cheeks, with the greatsword stuck in her mouth, tore apart.

Her neck was cut, and her body was neatly cut in half.

Calib’s body fell into the sea of blood.

And floated up.

Her eyeballs rolled.

“Um… it’s moving…?!”

Salad was horrified by the sight and hid behind Loki.

It was very bizarre to see her body moving even though it was split in half.

Loki, who climbed onto the rowboat, glared at the constellation of the sea.

“The underworld….”

So, the constellation of the sea was also there?

‘It’s a headache.’

Then there were countless people Loki had killed here.

But it wouldn’t be threatening.

Even the constellation of the sea, which had the mighty power that dominated the sea, was no better than a rotten fish.

Loki put his greatsword on his back and reached out to Salad.

“Are you okay?”

“Y-yes, thanks to you.”

…I was careless.

Salad sighed in relief.

“You didn’t have to come.”

Loki raised his head.

A rowboat approached, and he could see the person riding in it.

A small lich [an undead creature, a sorcerer who has achieved immortality by magical means] wearing a cone hat.

And two death knights riding behind him.

Loki knew that lich well.

“…Paul.”

Ronia’s wizard.

He was tricked by Ash and killed, becoming a lich.

Paul, and behind him were Lapilta and Albert.

***

Paul rested his staff on the ground.

A shore full of bones.

How old it was, the bones would crumble just by stepping on them.

As Paul went to the front, two death knights followed behind him, and Loki and Salad followed behind them.

“I received the price.”

Paul continued, saying that he had received gold from a beastman named Karen.

“I received the gold, so I will help you find the person you are looking for.”

Paul held out his hand to Salad.

“……?”

“Give me your hair.”

“Why hair?”

“It will help you find the person you are looking for.”

“…….”

At Paul’s words, Salad made a meaningful expression.

Salad looked around and approached Loki, whispering to him.

“…Are you acquainted with that undead…?”

“There’s a connection.”

‘I see…’ Salad understood.

But the question was not yet resolved.

Can this person be trusted?

“You have a connection too.”

“Yes?”

“You must have met him too?”

Salad tilted her head.

“When you first met me.”

“…….”

Salad’s face turned red at the old memories that came to mind.

It was a time when she was truly immature.

A time when she was intoxicated with arrogance in her [Divine Object] ability.

And when she pointed her finger at Loki impudently and nagged him.

She met him during her slave days?

“Don’t you remember the young wizard who was there?”

“…Not at all.”

Because Loki gave a strong impression, she could only remember Loki from that time.

Since Salad and Paul were completely like strangers, Loki didn’t care.

Loki asked Paul.

“Can you find the demon king Calib with this child’s hair?”

“I can’t be sure, but it’s worth a try.”

At Paul’s words, Salad pulled out a strand of her hair and held it out.

Paul held a lantern in his arms.

And put the hair that Salad gave him into the lantern.

Then, the light of the lantern began to illuminate only one place, not all directions.

“Let’s go.”

Paul says as he walks.

“Demon King Calib. I have heard of the demon king who was killed by heroes. But his name was not engraved in the Book of the Dead.”

“…What do you mean?”

Salad asked, following Paul anxiously.

“The fact that it is not written in the Book of the Dead means that the person did not engrave his name. He must have hoped that no one would come to meet him in this world. Or… there is someone who doesn’t want to be found even if he dies and comes to the underworld.”

“…Are you saying that my dad doesn’t want to meet me?”

“Sometimes there are. There are those who refuse to write their names in the Book of the Dead in the hope that their children will live for a long time….”

Salad showed surprised eyes.

“There is a superstition here that if the dead want to meet the living, the living will die and come to the underworld….”

Paul said, looking at Salad.

“There are those who refused to be written in the Book of the Dead, hoping that their children would live for a long time.”

Salad was relieved at those words. At the same time, her heart was pounding.

‘For me… Dad didn’t write his name in the Book of the Dead….’

“Because there are such ghosts, there are many boatmen who use tricks. They don’t let you say the characteristics, they just make you face someone with the same name, and then they drop you off. That’s more convenient and saves time….”

Salad thought of Richie, who had deceived her.

“There are many people here who will do anything to get gold. So… you have to be careful.”

“Where are we going?”

At Loki’s question, Paul said.

“All I can do is guide you.”

“…….”

“This lantern will tell you who this elf is looking for. However, it only dims when you are far away and brightens when you are near. It doesn’t help much. So, I will guide you only to the city where you can gather information. But if the Canus you are looking for is alive, it will be difficult to find him. There is no body connected to his soul.”

“…….”

I thought it would take about a month, but it might take quite a long time.

Paul and the two death knights, and Loki and Salad walked on the barren land.

Cracked land.

And sometimes flames rose.

The day and night of the underworld were always bright red.

But the temperature difference between day and night was extreme.

The day was full of heat flowing from the ground, and at night, a chill flowed out, making even the souls shudder at the cold.

As night came, Salad, who was wearing fur in the cold, raised her head.

Ghosts fell from the dark black hole in the sky.

“……!?”

The ghost falling from the sky plunged to the ground.

They came to the underworld and gained bodies, and those bodies would feel ‘pain’ as it was.

Crash-!

Ghosts with bodies falling from the sky.

They crash into the ground, making terrible noises.

“…….”

Salad wrapped her head in fur and approached Loki as if she had seen something she couldn’t bear to see.

When it was day, they moved again.

Loki found a large turning gear.

Ghosts climbed onto the gear and jumped towards a nearby cliff.

Those who succeeded climbed the cliff, and those who failed fell and were crushed by the gears.

To reach the hole in the sky, the ghosts were struggling.

The souls here believe.

That if they go out through that crack in the sky, they can be revived.

“…….”

“Now… we have arrived.”

Paul pointed to the city center overlooking from the hill.

A huge barrier made of bones. Buildings built inside it.

A place where countless underworld ghosts come and go.

“That place is Arata, the city of the underworld.”

There was also a city where ghosts lived in this underworld.