Player Who Became A Constellation [EN]: Chapter 201

“Ugh, Ughaaaaaack!”

Natos staggered forward.

He was trying to escape from the two beings who would sentence him to death.

Loki jumped off his skull and slowly followed Natos.

“I, I cannot die. I am death! How can I die…?!!”

He was the Constellation of Death. He could reject death.

But… the woman with the Constellation of the End was ‘death’ itself.

She had the same power as him.

Since when had his father, Azellan, been creating a god to replace him!

Loki threw his spear.

It pierced Natos’s right ankle.

“Ugh!”

Natos grabbed the spear and struggled to pull it out—.

Whirr-up!

The spear seemed to know it wasn’t being touched by its master, and it burned Natos’s arm.

“Ughaaaaaack!”

Natos looked at his arm.

His right leg was also burning along with his arm.

Natos raised his head.

Loki was approaching.

And so was the Goddess of Death.

‘No…!’

Natos shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Cerberus!”

Instantly, from the collapsed Necropolis, a giant monster with three heads, Cerberus, soared up.

Loki looked back in surprise.

It seemed Tooram and Kashar had failed to stop Cerberus.

Splattering the fragments of the Necropolis, it charged at Helga.

Snap!

One of Cerberus’s heads bit Helga and tried to chew her bit by bit.

Helga held her greatsword against the roof of Cerberus’s mouth, bracing her legs against the floor of its mouth.

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!

Every time Cerberus chewed, a hole was pierced in the roof of its mouth.

“Shall I help you?”

Helga said to Loki.

“No. This mutt.”

Helga pulled out her greatsword and wedged it into the roof of its mouth.

“I can educate it properly.”

She swung her greatsword and split the roof of its mouth in half.

“Kuaaaaaaack!”

Cerberus thrashed, trying to spit Helga out, but Helga stuck to the inside of Cerberus’s mouth and wildly slashed with her greatsword.

Natos breathed heavily.

That stupid dog…!

It couldn’t even inflict any damage.

But it did tie up that woman.

Without that woman, he couldn’t die.

But….

Before he knew it, Loki was right in front of him.

“N-No….”

He didn’t want to suffer.

He had to experience death…!

Loki reached out his hand.

“Damn it!!!”

Accordingly, Natos had no choice but to abandon his body.

Thud-!

The body collapsed, and his soul soared to escape.

‘I abandon my body!’

Above Natos’s head, a huge shadow appeared.

Anvil?

Thud-!

A huge anvil slammed down on Natos’s soul, and Natos’s soaring soul crashed to the ground.

His mind rang.

His soul was shaken, and he felt the pain of having a body.

‘How…?’

How could he damage his soul?

Natos turned his head to the side.

Canute with the anvil. He took a rough breath and shouted to Loki.

“Constellation of the End! Use the weapons around you!”

At Canute’s words, Loki looked at the weapons scattered around, flowing out of the treasure tower of the Necropolis.

“The weapon this body made even killed my father, Constellation Azellan.”

Loki picked up the scattered swords.

“There’s no way the weapon that even killed Constellation Azellan won’t work on Natos.”

Natos’s pupils trembled.

The corrupted Constellations were able to kill Constellation Azellan with the weapon they received from Canute.

“Wait….”

Loki approached Natos, who was left with only his soul, holding Natos’s weapon.

Natos desperately shouted to live.

“Brother! Let’s negotiate. This body was planning to head to the mortal realm with the army of the underworld.”

Loki drew his sword without paying attention to his words.

“My army of the underworld and your army of the living in the mortal realm. If it’s the two of us, we can rule the mortal realm and the underworld! Let’s kill the corrupted Constellations and take the world!”

“…….”

“If you kill me, the order of the underworld will be disrupted. The sky of the underworld will collapse, and the boundary with the mortal realm will be twisted. Then, the spirits will flow into the mortal realm and cause great chaos. So…!”

“There’s something I always say to the Constellations.”

Loki brought the sword down on Natos’s forehead.

“None of my business.”

Natos’s forehead was pierced, and his mouth and eyes glowed.

His soul was burning.

Accordingly, the land of the underworld vibrated.

The ground cracked, and the flames within spewed out.

The spirits of the underworld suffered from the flames and wanted to escape, rising to higher ground.

They climbed the cliffs closest to the cracked hole connected to the sky.

At that time, the spirits could see.

The cracked hole in the sky. The ceiling of the underworld, which had only a small gap, collapsed.

A blue sky can be seen in the large sky.

The sky in the mortal realm.

The lively sky that the living always looked at.

The path to the mortal realm was opened.

“I can live!”

“T, To the mortal realm…!”

“Ah! My son, my daughter! This father will go to meet you!”

The spirits who had regrets in the mortal realm reached out to the sky leading to the mortal realm.

***

“W, What’s going on?!”

When the ground vibrated, the people of the continent were flustered.

People in the city pointed to the sky with their fingers.

“What is that!?”

You can see evil spirits spewing into the sky.

And the land in various parts of the city is cracking.

Spirits crawl up through the cracks.

“U, Undead!”

The people in the city shouted.

The spirits rolled their eyes.

“The living.”

The residents of the underworld are starving.

When they see the living.

“E, Eat!”

They crave their bodies.

The spirits rushed at them.

“Stop them!”

The soldiers in charge of the city’s security took up their weapons and resisted.

Great chaos came to the continent.

***

“…Hmm.”

Loki looked at the collapsed ceiling in the underworld, the place that looked like the mortal realm.

The hole gradually grew larger, and more and more spirits were escaping the underworld.

Loki looked at the sword he was holding and blinked his eyes.

“Should I have just cut off their souls’ limbs instead of killing them?”

“…The underworld was already collapsing anyway. Natos was trying to widen the hole in the sky even more. Even if we stopped it, the already collapsed ceiling would have widened the gap even more. It was just a matter of time before it happened.”

Canute approached Loki and said.

Thud-!

It seemed Helga had also defeated Cerberus.

Cerberus was drooping, only swelling and shrinking its belly, shaking its body.

Helga was about to slam her greatsword down on Cerberus, but stopped.

Because its three pairs of eyes were stained with fear, staring at Helga.

“…Senior, it’s over here too.”

Helga withdrew her greatsword.

「Oh! Constellation-nim!」

Loki turned his head.

He could see the Norsemen shouting in Naglfar [a ship made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead].

Among them, one of the Norse spirits hurriedly approached Loki, knelt down, and bowed his head.

「Ah, my master-!」

It was a Berserker [a Norse warrior who fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury] warrior spirit.

「A great danger has befallen Asgard.」

“……?”

「It has been half a year since the Constellation disappeared.」

Half a year?

Loki recalled the records of the explorers who had tried to come to the underworld.

The time difference between the mortal realm and the underworld is extreme, and it can be faster or slower.

It seems a considerable amount of time has passed in the mortal realm.

When Loki showed surprised eyes, the Berserker spirit continued to speak.

「In the meantime, the corrupted Constellations have revealed themselves…」

“……”

「They attacked Asgard!」

***

Serut moved her body, leading with her head.

Since it was right after the blood tsunami, the surroundings were full of blood.

Serut walked through the blood-soaked city and flinched.

A charred corpse was floating on the blood.

A figure that looked like it had been beaten with a lump of iron.

“…I don’t know who it is, but it’s pitiful.”

Serut passed the Constellation of Light, Mercury, who had been beaten by Canute.

She approached the group who were sitting down, exhausted from fighting.

They were the revolutionaries led by Yura.

Yura saw Serut and jumped up.

「Ah! Miss, you’re safe!」

Yura approached Serut and hugged her.

Then, she stopped in surprise and tried to pull away, but Serut hugged Yura tighter.

「Ah, Miss, I smell.」

“What does it matter?”

「…….」

“And this.”

Serut held out the head of the Demon King Kalib she was holding.

“It’s Dad’s head….”

「Give it to me.」

Yura carefully accepted the head.

Then, she approached the carriage and opened the door.

The body of the headless Demon King Kalib.

She placed Kalib’s head towards the neck.

The Demon King Kalib slowly opened his eyes.

「Serut…and Yura….」

Tears welled up in Yura and Serut’s eyes at the sight.

「It’s been a while.」

Kalib gave a faint smile as he looked at the two of them.

***

Great chaos broke out in the underworld.

As the earth cracked and flames spewed out, the spirits constantly climbed to the sky heading to the mortal realm to avoid the flames.

Loki looked around and tilted his head.

There was a place where the flames had subsided.

When Loki moved his steps, he could see clean water along with the dampness.

‘Water?’

Loki raised his head and could see a large rock pouring water like a waterfall over the ruins of the Necropolis.

A small egg-shaped rough stone with a beautiful pattern on it.

The blood that touched it was purified and flowed out as clean water.

Loki scooped up the purified water with his hand and observed it in detail.

‘Is this holy water?’

But it was different from the water purified by ordinary clerics.

A thicker divine power was melted into it.

It seems like they liquefied the divine power itself.

‘A lump of divine power.’

The water of the Holy Sea that purified the souls of this underworld.

It was the purification stone that Natos had.

“Constellation of the End.”

Loki turned his head.

Canute approached him.

He knelt down towards Loki and bowed his head.

“I sincerely thank you for saving me.”

“…….”

“I will follow you, and I will make weapons for you as long as you do not fall.”

The meaning of those words….

“A weapon that contains the power of the Constellation you desire. I will make it.”

***

Karen sat blankly and waited endlessly.

It’s been a year.

‘Wait for me.’

…At Loki’s words, she had been guarding the same spot for a year.

「The sky of the underworld has collapsed.」

「Goodness! What does that mean? Then… is the Constellation of Death finally marching into the mortal realm!」

Waiting was a boring routine.

And what eliminated that routine were the intruders who came here.

Black Judges, angels, or Cyclops.

But they were also afraid of Karen and no longer looked for her.

In the end, Karen had to spend her days eavesdropping on the stories of the ferryman liches [undead creatures who guide souls across the river Styx].

「No, Natos is dead.」

「……!」

「The underworld has collapsed. We no longer need to work as ferrymen.」

「W, When!?」

「It happened two weeks ago. It would be a few months ago in this mortal realm.」

「…I’m going crazy. The information was delayed because of the time gap between the underworld and the mortal realm.」

When the ferrymen said that, Karen twitched her ears.

She raised her head and sniffed.

Karen’s blurry pupils gradually began to fill with life.

Her tail wagged.

She raised her head and looked between the wailing valleys.

A huge warship made of bones and fingernails was entering there.

There were also small boats made of bones, and the spirits of the underworld were riding on them.

Karen raised her head, and on the deck of the warship made of bones and fingernails.

She could see the person standing in front of the railing.

“Hoon!”

“You’re late, Karen.”

Loki looked down at Karen.

“It’s been a while.”

Loki returned to the mortal realm, leading an army of spirits.