Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 198

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Salad was furious.

Tears welled up in her eyes.

‘I’m going to kill him!’

Death Constellation, Natos.

How dare he do this to Dad!

Salad used the bow to shatter the glass.

She carefully held her father, Calib’s, face in both hands.

At that moment, Calib’s eyes flashed open.

“……!?”

Salad met his gaze and screamed inwardly.

The boiling anger subsided in an instant, and her thoughts froze.

「Sal…ad?」

He’s talking!?

Is he, is he alive?

No, being in the Underworld, the expression ‘alive’ is inappropriate.

Anyway, the fact that he’s talking must mean he’s okay.

“D, Dad?!”

「How… how did you get into this Underworld…?」

Calib looked shocked.

「Are you… dead?」

“N, no. I’m alive.”

Salad made an awkward expression as she spoke.

It was a reunion with her father.

But it was completely different from what she had imagined.

Should I… be happy about this? S, should I be happy?

But the overwhelming confusion was eating away at her emotions.

She felt like her vision was spinning.

「A living person is in the Underworld?」

“…F, first, let’s talk about that later…”

It was when Salad wrapped Calib’s head in cloth and lifted him up.

She felt a chill down her spine.

“…….”

Something was standing behind her.

But instinct refused to let her turn around.

A terrifying sensation that shook her soul.

It felt like fear was climbing all over Salad’s body.

「…Oh ho.」

Salad’s gaze turned to the side, looking behind her through the broken glass of the display case.

A man was standing faintly behind her.

White hair and pale skin.

A man with red eyes was tilting his head, staring at the back of her head.

He moved his lips.

「You.」

He reached out his hand.

It felt like death was approaching.

「You’re alive.」

Salad’s head was cut off.

“……!”

Salad’s eyes shook.

Her legs gave way and she collapsed.

She covered her neck with her hands, but her head was still attached.

“Haa… haa….”

She gasped for breath, sweating profusely.

‘Am I… alive?’

But she definitely felt the sensation of her head being cut off.

Or….

‘Am I dead and a ghost in the Underworld?’

She didn’t know which was the truth.

She couldn’t tell if she was alive or dead.

Salad was terrified.

When she looked up again and saw the man reflected in the glass of the display case, her body split in two.

“……!”

Salad squeezed her eyes shut.

Is this… a hallucination?

The presence behind her whispered.

When she heard that voice, she felt like a rope was tied around her neck and she was being pulled up.

Salad thrashed on the floor.

「Do you think you can reject death by closing your eyes?」

She tried to get rid of whatever was pressing on her neck, but there was nothing to grab.

‘This isn’t a normal hallucination!’

She felt pain and experienced ‘death.’

Salad grabbed the bow behind her with trembling hands.

「Once you’ve seen me, you can’t escape death.」

Salad quickly pulled out an arrow, turned around, and aimed it at the barrier stone on the altar.

***

“I refuse. I reject it.”

Canute refused Loki’s request.

When Loki stared at him blankly, Canute glared at him.

“Are you telling me to live as a slave again?”

Canute exuded murderous intent towards Loki.

“My weapon… is for this world. But you fallen Constellations dared… dared to harm my father with my weapon.”

“…….”

Is he talking about Azelan?

Canute expressed his hatred.

But why did he make weapons for those so-called fallen Constellations, even while hating them so much?

“Yet you still made weapons for the Constellations.”

“…If I didn’t make them, you would harm them, so I had no choice!”

Loki looked at Canute and then turned his gaze.

The artisan spirits.

They clenched their fists as they looked at Canute.

「It’s not the Constellation’s fault!」

「The fallen Constellations are the ones at fault!」

Canute was also known as the God of Blacksmiths.

Perhaps because of that, the artisans revered and followed him.

‘Were these people hostages?’

The ruler of the Underworld, the Death Constellation.

He must have used their souls as hostages to pressure Canute.

“I’ll save you for now. We’ll talk later.”

“Save me? That’s impossible!”

“Impossible?”

Canute pointed to his ankles.

There were chains tied around his ankles, and those chains stretched deep into the Underworld’s crater.

“I can’t escape unless I cut these off. And… these chains weaken me. I want to make masterpieces, but… because of this, I can only make trash.”

“So, all I have to do is cut them off?”

Loki raised his greatsword and swung it down.

Clang-!

Sparks flew and the greatsword bounced off.

Loki revealed a surprised expression.

“It’s no use.”

Loki grabbed the greatsword with both hands.

Magical power poured out.

And as he swung down at the chains-.

Bang-!

The surroundings shook with the explosion.

The artisan spirits tumbled from the wind pressure.

Loki stared wide-eyed at his greatsword.

The greatsword was shattered.

But Canute’s chains remained intact.

“I made these chains. The only way to cut them is… with the weapons of other Constellations.”

‘Is it similar to the golden chain, Gleipnir, that bound Thrym?’

No, in terms of power, it doesn’t seem to be able to match Gleipnir.

It’s probably an item of a slightly lower level.

‘Yeah, maybe a legendary item?’

“In that case.”

Loki summoned Gungnir from his inventory.

In an instant, the surrounding atmosphere changed.

The blacksmith spirits and Canute were horrified and widened their eyes.

The golden spear. The moment they saw it, all their senses as artisans were screaming.

That was a weapon that could not exist in the world.

“Wh, what is that! That…! What on earth is that weapon?!”

Canute screamed in terror.

For him, the weapon in front of him was a weapon that could not be made in the world.

None of the weapons he had made could even compare to the weapon in front of him!

‘Even I, who have been forging all my life… have never created anything like that!’

“H, how did you get that weapon!? Who on earth made it?!”

At Canute’s words, Loki raised the spear.

“I made it.”

At that one word, Canute was filled with astonishment and closed his mouth.

Loki grabbed the spear shaft with both hands and slammed it down.

Bang-!

It exploded with a roar.

The spearhead began to dig into the chains.

“O, oooooooo!”

Canute watched as his masterpiece was destroyed.

Eventually, the chains were severed.

Canute couldn’t withstand the impact of the explosion and was thrown out, rolling across the floor.

「Lord Canute!」

「Constellation! Are you alright?!」

Hundreds of artisans gathered around Canute.

He was lying on the floor in a daze.

“I want to make it.”

「Huh?」

Canute raised his upper body.

He stared at Loki, who was standing tall and holding Gungnir.

“I want to make a weapon.”

Canute exuded fighting spirit from his body.

“Among the brothers I know, there was no Constellation like you. Who are you?”

Loki shrugged his shoulders.

“I don’t know either.”

“…….”

“But Zaus told me.”

Zaus?

Is he talking about the Constellation of Sin?!

The only one who carried out his father’s will, sealing and putting the fallen Constellations to sleep.

For him, Canute had stayed up day and night forging, making him a mace.

“The Constellation of the End.”

“…The last being left by Father.”

Canute straightened his bent back.

He looked down at Loki.

“I will follow you. And I will make weapons for you. But instead….”

Canute knelt down and lowered his waist to match Loki’s eye level.

“I want you to kill the fallen Constellations who killed Father.”

“That’s….”

Thump-!

Dust fell from the ceiling in the Underworld’s basement.

Loki raised his head.

A roar shaking the Spirit Palace.

It was an impact from outside, not inside.

‘Something must have happened to Salad.’

He told her to make a fuss, but the reverberation was even transmitted from the basement ceiling.

‘That means it’s that urgent.’

「Damn it, hey! Everyone except the minimum number of guards, come up! There’s a problem with the Spirit Palace!」

Ghouls came down from the stairs leading to the surface.

「Intruders! Intruders dare to… Natos-nim’s treasure vault…?」

The ghoul stopped talking.

The ghouls that should have been in the basement were nowhere to be seen.

Instead, there were artisan spirits standing blankly and a strange man holding a spear.

「Huh? What? Aren’t you guys working? Hurry up and work-.」

「Wait a minute….」

One of the ghouls turned his gaze and looked at Canute.

The shackles tied to his ankles….

「It’s broken?」

Canute pulled on the chains wrapped around his body.

Accordingly, the connected anvil was lifted.

“I am Canute.”

The giant anvil rotated in the air.

“I will follow the Constellation of the End!”

Canute threw the anvil away.

「D, damn it. Go up!」

The ghouls tried to climb the stairs again, but the anvil scraped against the wall, closely chasing after them.

The anvil pushed them away along with the stairs.

「Lord Canute!」

The blacksmith spirits looked at Canute.

“Everyone, take up your weapons.”

「……!」

He flashed his eyes and exuded aura from his whole body.

The artisan spirits looked at Canute and clenched their fists.

The soldiers of Acheron laughed at Canute several times.

Calling him a toothless Constellation.

A slave bound by shackles.

But look!

This majesty that makes your skin crawl!

He was the Constellation of Fire and Ore.

And the God of Blacksmiths.

The artisan spirits held the weapons they had worked on and made.

“The fact that the Constellation of the End has come here means that Natos’ end has been decided.”

They had waited a long time for this moment.

“I will shatter the soul of Natos, who killed Father and took his soul!”

Revenge for Father.

They will achieve it with the Constellation of the End!

Canute raised his hand and slammed it down.

The earth vibrated, and steel soared up, replacing the collapsed stairs.

The artisan spirits held their weapons.

They wore armor, and held spears, shields, and swords.

Canute climbed the steel stairs, and the artisan spirits followed him.

Now, it was time to start the rebellion.

***

Kashar was managing the slave soldiers in the plaza.

He was inwardly nervous.

He didn’t expect things to progress so radically.

「But if things go well….」

At that time, the Spirit Palace became noisy.

When he turned his gaze, he could see black smoke rising from the Spirit Palace. Seeing the explosion, Kashar made a ‘crap’ expression.

「Those guys, without any signal….」

At least he thought that he and Natos would start the work after facing each other….

The huge barrier surrounding the Spirit Palace.

It was slowly disappearing.

Loki and Salad had succeeded in destroying the barrier of the Spirit Palace.

It was the beginning of a full-scale revolution.

「…I have to move too.」

Kashar looked at his soldiers.

***

The smoke rising from the Spirit Palace’s huge tower was visible even from outside Acheron.

「…It seems like it’s starting now.」

ইউra looked at the Spirit Palace through a telescope.

The barrier of the Spirit Palace was disappearing.

It was time to start the revolution.

She turned around, and she could see countless spirits armed and looking at her.

「We will start the revolution.」

***

“Haa! Haa!”

Salad passed through the wall pierced by the arrow and sprinted.

「Intruder! Intruder! Intruder!」

Evil spirits flew towards Salad and clung to her.

Screaming, they told her location and grabbed her body, making her body heavy.

Salad gritted her teeth and moved her feet even more.

Her feet shook off the evil spirits.

Clang!

She broke the window and fell down the tower.

She kicked off the wall and rolled onto the ceiling of a building in a nearby palace.

“Haa… haa….”

But the chill behind her back did not disappear.

Salad turned around.

A man could be seen through the broken window of the tower.

It was that white-haired man who was reflected in the glass.

He indifferently looked down at Salad.

「Why are you looking like that?」

Salad stopped, surprised, and looked straight ahead.

The white-haired man was right in front of her.

‘When…?!’

The thick red eyes were meeting Salad’s.

A smile slowly bloomed on his expressionless face.

「You called that head ‘Dad,’ didn’t you?」

When Salad met those eyes, she couldn’t breathe.

The muscles all over her body screamed and convulsed.

Tears flowed from her eyes.

Fear.

She felt the fear of death.

She couldn’t escape ‘death.’

Just being close to this man made her see countless ‘deaths.’

Salad’s face was submerged in water.

“Cough-!”

There was clearly no water, but it felt like water was filling her windpipe.

Death was approaching.

Seeing Salad like that, the man, the Death Constellation, smiled.

「I have only seen the death of the dead, but today I am experiencing the death of the living. I like it very much.」

Vitality gradually disappeared.

That feeling was so good.

It was when Natos was looking at Salad with a blissful expression.

Crack-!

Natos’ head floated in the air.

Natos rolled his eyes in surprise, and he could see the black and white-haired man swinging his hand behind him.