Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 200

Player as a Constellation – Episode 200

The Rebellion in Akeren.

Because of it, forces mobilized to invade the mortal realm.

Numerous wraiths screamed, trying to suppress the rebels, but—.

「R-Run away!」

Bang-!

A giant anvil suddenly appeared, stopping them.

The anvil split the earth, flew into the air, and shattered one side of the Necropolis’s tower.

Kkiiiiiiieeeek-!

One towering tower slowly collapsed, and the wraiths blankly watched the tower before being crushed by the debris.

「…It’s the Constellation of the Anvil!」

「There’s no way we can subdue a Constellation!」

After a brief grumble, the Necropolis’s wraiths grabbed their weapons and rushed at Canopus.

Their weapons stabbed at Canopus, but the blades shattered, and the spear shafts broke.

The arrows and bolts fired bounced off his hard body.

「W-Weapons don’t work at all.」

“This body is the Constellation of the Blacksmith. Do you think such crude weapons can even leave a scratch!?”

As Canopus roared, the wraiths felt their entire bodies pressed down, kneeling.

「Protect Canopus-nim!」

The blacksmith wraiths surged forward, pushing back the Necropolis’s forces.

At that moment, light flashed, and the blacksmith wraiths’ heads flew off. Canopus also had a small wound on his neck.

“Hmm?”

Canopus touched his neck and turned his gaze forward.

「Now as ever… you’re disgustingly tough, Canopus.」

A pitch-black lump of charcoal.

The Constellation of Light, Mercury, who died and became a wraith.

He emitted a faint light, holding swords in both hands.

Seeing him, Canopus tensed his neck.

The bleeding stopped, and the wound healed.

“Mercury. You’re dead.”

Canopus mocked him.

“Did you die to the Constellation of the End? Do you really think a dead man can face a living Constellation?”

「…If I can’t stop you, Natos won’t leave me alone.」

Mercury raised the swords in both hands.

The two Constellations glared at each other.

***

Natos met the burning crimson eyes within the goat’s helmet, an emblem of demons.

-Are you my death?

…Natos recalled what he had said.

And he felt the fear of ‘death’.

「Y-You monstrous… burn to death!」

Pulverization.

Loki’s entire body burned.

Yet, Loki didn’t care and raised his other hand.

He clenched his fist.

「D-Die from being beaten!」

Assaultive Kill.

Loki’s armor shattered and burst as if it had been torn to shreds.

Blood splattered around, but Loki’s eyes and fist were aimed at Natos.

「Huh?」

The fist struck Natos’s head.

Natos’s head exploded.

Flesh, bones, and blood splattered around.

But as if time reversed, they gathered again, forming the shape of a head.

Natos, completely revived, screamed.

「Uwaaaaaaak!」

He could reject death.

But… he couldn’t reject pain.

Natos looked at Loki.

He was also reviving from death.

What Natos had inflicted on Loki was a ‘death illusion’.

The opponent could experience death, but it wasn’t real.

Like Natos, as if time flowed backward, Loki also revived.

Natos sweated coldly.

Whether it was a dead wraith or a living person.

Or… even other Constellations.

Those who experienced his ‘death illusion’ all had their wills broken and their eyes lifeless.

Yes, even Constellations couldn’t easily touch Natos.

Because it was too terrible for a Constellation to look upon ‘death’.

But Loki before him was different.

Even after witnessing death, no, experiencing it, he didn’t change.

「…M-Monster.」

Loki clenched his fist.

「Assaultive Kill!」

Loki’s armor and the body inside were torn.

Bang-!

But Natos’s arm was torn off by Loki’s attack, and his body tumbled to the floor.

Loki walked towards Natos.

Natos vomited blood and screamed with all his might.

「Kuaaaak… damn End! Shatter!」

Loki’s armor and his flesh were crushed.

It only slowed Loki’s pace, but it didn’t stop him.

「Severance!」

Loki’s waist split.

Loki’s upper body fell to the floor. He then raised his head and glared at Natos.

Loki placed his hand on the ground and jumped up.

His lower body reattached, and black armor surrounded him.

Loki, who jumped up, brought his foot down on Natos.

Bang-!

Hitting his abdomen, Natos sank into the ground along with the floor, falling below the palace.

Natos blankly looked up.

Loki was looking down at him, tilting his head.

‘How… can he move immediately after experiencing death?’

Immediately after dying and reviving, he regained consciousness and moved his body.

That appearance, as if he completely rejected death, made Natos terrified.

Loki jumped down towards Natos.

「Bizarre Death!」

In that moment, Loki’s entire body faltered.

In that small gap, Natos rolled away to avoid it.

Loki’s body fell in the air, breaking the floor.

Natos tore the clothes off his back and spread his wings.

Black feathers fluttered.

He flew up, looked down at Loki, and felt fear.

「…I see. I can’t subdue you with ordinary methods.」

Canopus had given in after experiencing only four deaths.

But the Constellation of the End before him didn’t have his will broken no matter how many times he was killed.

Then, he had no choice but to subdue him with overwhelming power.

「Death.」

Black wings wrapped around Natos.

「That is me, Natos.」

The floor of the underworld cracked.

From within, countless skeletons crawled out.

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands.

The number was uncountable.

「W-What?!」

The skeletons surged out like a wave, and they screamed, rushing at the wraiths who had rebelled.

The artisan wraiths hesitated and retreated, fleeing.

“…Uh, uh?!”

Canopus, who had been showing off his dignity, raised his head.

A giant wave made of skeletons was forming and rushing towards him.

「Ugh!」

The wave of skeletons swallowed even the Constellation of Light, sweeping him away.

Canopus hurriedly raised his anvil and slammed it into the ground.

A wall made of steel and flames rose, blocking the wave of skeletons.

The skeletons crashed into the wall, wielding weapons made of bones.

Loki stared at the giant mountain of skeletons that was gradually being built up.

Soon, the skeletons flowed down like water. After that, what appeared was a giant skull.

A majestic skull that seemed to be hundreds of meters tall.

Golden ornaments hung all over it.

From the pitch-black black hole between the ribs, the dead were constantly being spewed out.

Curved horns grew on the left and right sides of the giant skull.

「Quooooooo!」

The jaw opened, and a shriek echoed.

‘…Phase 2, huh?’

Loki looked up at Natos, who had become a giant wraith.

The giant skeleton put its hand into the black hole under its ribs.

A golden scythe was pulled out from its grasp.

The giant skeleton’s eyes rolled.

「I am the incarnation of the underworld.」

Looking at Loki, he raised the scythe.

“…Dangerous.”

Loki hurriedly kicked off the ground.

「It is death.」

The skeleton swung the scythe.

Then, the world split in half.

The atmosphere split to the left and right, the ground split, and the downtown of Akeren was cleaved in two.

From the cracked gap, magic power spewed out, creating a second wave.

Loki summoned Gungnir [Odin’s spear, a weapon of immense power].

「Constellation of the End. You shall become my collection in this underworld.」

Loki bounced off.

He jumped up and rotated his body.

Using centrifugal force, he put strength into his hand.

Gungnir struck Natos’s skull directly.

쿵-!

Natos’s skull bounced back.

The skull cracked and broke, but skeletons gathered in the gaps and began to fill them.

Loki landed on the roof of the Necropolis’s fortress and looked at Natos.

‘No damage.’

「Foolish. There is no death for me.」

Natos’s eyes flashed, glaring at Loki.

「No one can kill m-」

Loki and Natos paused.

They both turned their heads at the same time.

The coast towards Akeren’s harbor.

From there, a sea of blood surged.

‘This energy is?’

‘…The Constellation of the Sea?’

Natos and Loki’s eyes widened.

The energy of the Constellation of the Sea, Calib!

In an instant, the surging tide of blood rushed towards the city of Akeren.

「A, a tsunami!」

「Oh my god! I died in the tsunami in Kratian in the mortal realm! But here too…!」

The wraiths in Akeren screamed and fled.

The tsunami engulfed Akeren.

The sea of blood swept away the skeletons.

As Natos widened his eyes, a warship burst out of the sea of blood.

A ship of the dead made of bones and nails.

The Naglfar [a ship made from the fingernails and toenails of the dead, a harbinger of Ragnarok].

On its front deck, the Constellation of the Sea, Calib, was impaled on the ram, wailing.

「C, Calib?! What-!」

The Naglfar rammed into Natos’s ribs.

Bang-!

Natos’s body staggered.

The giant body bounced back, collapsing and destroying the Necropolis.

Akeren and the Necropolis were flooded with blood due to the sea of blood.

「W, what’s going on-!」

Natos’s eyes shook.

He was confused by the sudden event.

Natos turned his head and looked at the Naglfar that had rammed him.

He could see wraiths with blue hair shouting there.

「Oooooh! Constellation!」

They were shouting, looking at Loki.

「We heard that you are preparing for the Holy War in the mortal realm!」

The Norse warriors. And even the Berserker warriors [frenzied Norse warriors] who had died.

They had become wraiths and were shouting towards Loki.

「We will also participate in the Holy War!」

Loki was stunned by the sight.

Such simpletons….

He thought he understood the Norse people by leading them, but it seemed he had underestimated their simplicity.

Loki could see a woman among the cheering Norse people.

“Helga?”

“Senior.”

Helga sighed, looking at Loki.

“…It’s been a long time.”

「Kooooooo!」

Natos raised his body once more.

As he raised the giant golden scythe, Helga rotated her body.

A crimson greatsword was gripped in her hand, and she swung it.

A slash expanded from the tip of the sword and flew towards Natos.

A slash imbued with evil spirits.

It cut through Natos’s chest.

「Kuooh!」

The ribs shattered.

Natos staggered back and knelt.

His large eyes rolled, looking down at his ribs.

The skeletons were falling off in droves, unable to cling to the ribs.

The evil spirits attached to the broken ribs were shaking off those skeletons.

「…It’s not… recovering?」

The Constellation of Death, Natos, raised his head.

He looked at Helga, the goddess of death in Norse mythology.

“What is it? That bonehead?”

Helga only narrowed her brows at Natos.

Natos’s eyes shook as if they were wavering.

‘…It’s not just damage to this body.’

The slash of the greatsword that woman wielded.

The evil spirits contained within it clung to his body, disassembling the bones.

‘Not only physical pain… but it even shook the soul!’

It inflicted damage to the soul.

If there is a body, all damage will reside in that body.

Even though there is a body, to have a power that transcends common sense by penetrating it and inflicting damage to the soul…?!’

Natos turned his gaze towards Loki and Helga.

Two Constellation-level monsters.

Judging by their appearance, they both seemed to be comrades.

‘Dangerous….’

Natos, who can reject death in the underworld.

But that would be a different story if his soul were to fall into ‘silence’.

He would experience true death.

Natos stepped back.

Kwarururuk-!

Chains wrapped around Natos’s giant legs.

As Natos lowered his head, he could see Canopus, who had used an anvil and chains to shackle his ankles.

「……?!」

“Natos. Now I will put shackles on you!”

「Canopus, you bastard!」

At that moment, Loki and Helga jumped up.

Natos looked at the two of them.

A spear and a greatsword cut through Natos’s neck and chest.

***

The giant skeleton collapsed.

As his body collapsed, the giant body covered the Necropolis.

Waaarrrr-!

The Necropolis collapsed.

Accordingly, the room in the Necropolis.

Also the treasure tower that Natos had cherished and created.

The treasures that had been poured out were stained with blood and the sea, and lay scattered on the floor.

The ruler and king of the underworld, and the god of death.

The head of the Constellation Natos’s clone drooped.

The hundreds of souls that had been burning between those giant eye sockets scattered. The black hole that had been swirling between the ribs disappeared, unable to create the dead.

The giant skull cracked, and Natos crawled out from between it.

‘This can’t be.’

Natos jumped off the giant skull.

Having poured out all his strength, his legs had no strength, and his body staggered.

The trembling wings suggested that he had no energy to fly.

At that moment, he felt a presence behind him.

Natos turned around, and he could see the figures of two people above the collapsed giant skull.

Loki, and Helga.