D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 100

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Chapter 100
It wasn’t really that long ago, if I’m being honest.
About a hundred and twenty years, perhaps?
There existed a World of Tentacle Fear.
Naturally, no race is welcomed everywhere they go.
But that world had a distinctly ungrateful streak.
On the day their nation faced annihilation from a sudden invasion, Tasha herself orchestrated the strategy and tactics that prevented the war.
“Se-um, want to come down with me and take a look? The world is quite beautiful now that it’s avoided destruction.”
“I just watched from the sidelines, didn’t I? You really are a genius, Tasha. If it were me, I’d have abandoned a world like this and fled.”
Se-um, who hadn’t even created a client and merely lingered nearby, asked hesitantly if she could follow along.
“Most would have fled. It was nearly impossible.”
“But you did it.”
When did challenging the impossible become fun for you?
Se-um always wore an expression of incomprehension when Tasha spoke like this, but she didn’t press further.
She followed Tasha and devoted herself to that land.
But instead of thanking Tasha, who had actually contributed, they rushed toward Se-um with their gratitude.
Simply because she appeared beautiful to their eyes.
Tasha, moving her tentacles, seemed grotesque and sinister to them—they called her otherworldly and hid behind Se-um.
‘I’m used to this treatment.’
Races whose hearts hadn’t fully opened always reacted this way.
They couldn’t accept that other races looked different, and they feared them.
This world, inhabited by elves similar to Earth’s humans, made it all the more pronounced.
“Are you asking me to protect you from that child right now?”
Se-um asked in a voice devoid of emotion.
“Se-um, I’m fine.”
“That’s a tentacle monster! It’s disgusting. Filthy.”
“Ahhhhh! Please help us, Divine One!”
Some among them were genuinely terrified, while others laughed.
To the elves, Tasha with her dozens of tentacles appeared to be an inferior species.
A creature devoid of intelligence, driven only by instinct.
‘How can they be so ignorant?’
Tasha was truly unbothered.
She simply thought that next time she chose a civilization, she should select one inhabited by a more tolerant race.
The insults of these ignorant masses meant nothing to her.
From now on, she simply wouldn’t extend the hand of divinity toward them.
‘Only after they regret will they realize that the Constellation has abandoned them.’
The nation that Tasha had stopped from invading also had an outstanding Constellation.
If she withdrew her support, they wouldn’t last more than two years before collapsing.
“Se-um?”
“Tasha. You’re really not bothered? That’s strange.”
“My Lord, you are so beautiful.”
“Please become our saint.”
“We shall forge a golden statue in your honor! Your name will be carved upon the World Tree itself!”
“If only you would drive away that hideous thing!”
Yet for Se-um, who had only recently ascended to Constellation status less than two centuries ago, this was utterly unfamiliar territory.
Not only did they fail to recognize their savior, but they hurled insults without hesitation.
‘How could this possibly happen?’
More than mere bewilderment—I could see the fury building.
Se-um genuinely could not accept this entire sequence of events.
It was then that Tasha learned firsthand that when humans grew truly angry, the blood drained from their faces.
“Se-um, I was wrong in my judgment. Let’s return. They’re simply not ready to accept us yet….”
Se-um seemed no longer to hear Tasha’s voice.
“Do you truly not know who sought to save you?”
“M-My Lord….”
The frigid tone was so soft it could freeze even the hearts of the dead.
Even Tasha, who had observed countless things across those long ages, flinched momentarily.
Though it was not Tasha who had been insulted, Se-um’s expression was unlike anything I had ever witnessed.
She exhaled sharply, and her golden eyes blazed with radiance.
Believing that the one they called their “Lord” was truly bestowing grace upon them, their eyes gleamed with madness.
‘Oh no, this has gone too far.’
Only Tasha grasped that the situation was spiraling catastrophically out of control.
“You dare judge and mock the very form of the god who descended personally to save you? You are unworthy of life. So be it.”
The elves’ faces transformed as they belatedly perceived the wrath woven into her words.
Unable to comprehend or accept why she had suddenly grown so furious.
Their lips trembled.
Se-um’s avatar gradually became transparent.
Violet lightning flashed across the sky, and dark clouds consumed it entirely.
The earth trembled with rage.
Tasha sighed and lifted her gaze.
An enormous pair of golden eyes now gazed down upon this land.
The elves who witnessed it with their own eyes collapsed, blood pouring from every pore.
A partial descent of the true form.
A considerable expenditure of karma was required.
When Constellations contemplated the destruction of at least one continent, or at most an entire planet, they factored in all such costs.
Hasty.
Yet Tasha had no intention of stopping Se-um’s choice.
From afar, the resonance of stars echoed.
【 Fall into oblivion. 】
Thus, for the sin of failing to recognize the god who had saved them, an entire world perished.
No trace of it would ever be found among the stars, and not a single line would remain in history.
The Elf Empire, with its ten-thousand-year history, vanished from the cosmos in that manner.
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“So there was a friend who got angry on my behalf about the unfair treatment I suffered….”
“Ha….”
Even when those human children looked at me earlier, I wasn’t this embarrassed.
Without a doubt, my face must have been burning crimson.
Tasha gazed at me with an expression struggling to contain her laughter.
“Was it an amusing story?”
“I was young back then, so I couldn’t help it.”
“Right, right. Before you’d even reached two hundred years old.”
Though truthfully, it wasn’t really about my age.
Having lived such a solitary existence, I couldn’t bear to see a friend who cared for me so tenderly and cherished me brought to shame.
I’d expected Tasha to scold me afterward for destroying the world she’d saved.
But Tasha merely said, “Next time, don’t waste karma like that.”
She even seemed somewhat pleased.
“If the humans on Earth act that way too, will you destroy them?”
“Hm?”
Tasha probably brought up that story for the sake of asking this question.
If the humans of this land reacted with shock or mockery at the sight of Tasha once more?
It was natural I’d be hostile, but whether I’d bring about destruction like I did to that world—that was difficult to answer.
Did this question even have an answer to begin with?
There was a right answer that Tasha wanted to hear, but what if I couldn’t guess it?
As I was tearing at my hair, Tasha gently patted my back.
“Seeing you hesitate, it seems you can’t do it after all.”
“Yeah…. Is it because of Ha Gyuhyuk? But even setting him aside, I don’t feel the thought that I must absolutely destroy this land.”
Perhaps witnessing the humans here continuing to strive had given me hope.
That this land was still a place worth living in.
I’d thought that heroes emerge in times of chaos and that the world is upheld by those heroes, but in truth, ordinary humans bear the burden together and delay destruction.
“The beginning of affection always starts with hope.”
Tasha’s gaze turned toward the screen.
Fragments of a monster separated from another realm launched an attack on the Hunters.
And the luminous trajectories that cleaved through them.
Many colors tangled together, but Ha Gyuhyuk’s color stood out to me at a glance.
“But when you hope, you end up disappointed.”
And behind him, Franson was steadily providing healing to keep the humans from falling.
It was exactly the Hunter’s life I’d envisioned when I was human.
I looked once at the sleeping survivors in the quiet Lecture Hall, and once at the screen where fierce battle raged.
Franson was merely providing support—the humans themselves were driving back the creature from another realm.
Unfortunately, the final blow was taken not by Ha Gyuhyuk but by Alexander’s Hunter.
“It’s over.”
With a tremendous sound of collapse, it melted away into a gelatinous mass.
I naturally extended my hand, transmitting the survivors and the corpses of the deceased from the other room outside the Dungeon.
Tasha’s voice came from behind me.
“You have to be disappointed a lot to truly grow up.”
The tentacle gently tapped my head, offering encouragement for reasons I couldn’t quite explain.
“You’re like a mother, Tasha.”
“Should I be your mother?”
“No, let’s be friends instead.”
“All right, let’s do that.”

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