D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16
Ha Gyuhyuk froze in place. I thought the screen had malfunctioned somehow.
He was studying my expression intently, unable to let slip whatever words were rising in his throat.
I’d thought that fewer than a hundred thousand sentences would be sufficient.
But had I overestimated him?
I’d forgotten—it had been so long since I was human.
[ Sorry. I set the bar too high. You should be able to handle a few Dungeons a day. ]
He still said nothing.
This time, no matter how I looked at it, my tone wasn’t coercive—it was affectionate, I thought.
My client’s races varied drastically in their strengths and weaknesses depending on the world.
In some worlds, races had eight hands and could perform multiple tasks simultaneously, while others had three hearts and could be granted multiple chances at life.
As for the advantages of humans from Earth… I honestly had no idea.
– …Constellation, my race experiences hand pain even after writing just 600 lines by hand in a single day.
As I was contemplating, a voice came through as if being wrung out.
The volume was extremely small, as though he was ashamed of even saying such a thing.
Six hundred lines—how many Dungeons was that? About one-hundredth. Roughly ten Dungeons.
In reality, it wouldn’t even be ten. The problem wasn’t my Karma—it was that my client might literally lose the use of his hands before that.
Honestly, if the server had been functioning properly, I wouldn’t have needed to transmit over sixty thousand sentences one by one, and he wouldn’t have needed to organize them.
I never thought I’d feel this incompetent.
‘Since he said even 600 is difficult, and assuming he was showing off in front of me, once he writes more than 200 lines, that kid will be exhausted.’
[ It’s fine. Just wait a moment. ]
– I’m sorry….
[ You have nothing to apologize for. The fault lies largely with me for not calculating human limitations. ]
Then I had no choice but to take on the burden myself.
Wasn’t it said that the mind deteriorates if you don’t use it?
First, I absorbed all sixty thousand sentences of data.
Within my body, the data intertwined with divine power and began to classify itself according to its own standards.
‘I kept using the term “divine power within the body” because it was novel when I first became a Constellation. Have I had any use for it since then?’
I hadn’t even needed to recite incantations during the first hundred years, let alone draw upon my true form.
Even the last incantation I’d recited was done in a fit of rage.
So it had been far too long since I’d done something like this. I’d nearly forgotten the method.
My client’s world would become a Dungeon that Ha Gyuhyuk could enter if I used even one-billionth of my power.
Divine power within the body—ultimately, it refers to the power of the stars that compose a Constellation’s form.
Using one’s entire body like a single massive computer is something typically done only when saving worlds, such as integrating two worlds into one.
‘Yet here I am, using that power merely to classify a thousand pieces of information. What am I to do?’
What the Constellation System cannot accomplish is possible with a Constellation’s body.
The Constellation System is a single space operated by Karma, and a Constellation is a higher existence that utilizes that Karma.
The last time I’d used divine power within the body was when fierce battles broke out between Constellations in the Constellation System, and I rushed in to stop it.
In an instant, my body’s power and data combined and were classified.
Dungeons with numerous casualties, environments where my client could “develop.”
And to a place where his renown could shine even brighter.
“Here I am, doing every ridiculous thing imaginable because of humans.”
A faint violet light gathered at my fingertips.
In the end, the number of Dungeons I could present to him right now was roughly a dozen.
Of these, twelve would endanger Ha Gyuhyuk’s life the moment he crossed the gate without my intervention.
Only three were worthy of him crossing their threshold.
Crossing the gate was one thing, but clearing it naturally required my power.
[ From now on, I’ll transmit information about three Dungeons, so write them down. ]
[ And since mid-tier equipment won’t cut it, I’ll gift you something better. ]
[ The moment it reaches you, you’ll begin clearing the Dungeons. ]
– Immediately, you say?
[ Immediately. ]
Honestly, two thoughts wouldn’t leave my mind.
One was that it would be far more efficient if I simply created a Dungeon myself and had him clear it.
However, since this would involve my will directly, even if he cleared it, his Karma might not accumulate sufficiently.
Moreover, I would have to brace myself for my own Karma to be halved.
For a single client, I would need to be prepared to sacrifice at least several nations.
[ The sponsored ‘Premium Equipment Full Set’ is being transmitted. (37% progress…) ]
[ The sponsored ‘Offense and Defense Skill Set’ is being transmitted. (51% progress…) ]
[ The sponsored ‘Sustained Buff 1-Year Pass’ is being transmitted. (12% progress…) ]
The other one was ‘Landquake’.
The colossal Dungeon that had driven the human Se-um to death and transformed her into a Constellation.
The gate had shown signs of opening, but it vanished entirely from this world with the sacrifice of merely a C-rank Awakened.
I became a Constellation with nothing more than the fact that I had prevented it from opening.
Then if I could clear it, how many lives would I save?
Simply its opening might demand considerable casualties, but it was truly high risk, high reward.
‘It hasn’t disappeared.’
I zoomed out the screen, watching Ha Gyuhyuk dutifully recording the Dungeon information I was sending.
The camera slowly pulled away from Ha Gyuhyuk, naturally panning to show the entire Earth.
I rotated that view and observed the Solar System orbiting Earth and the flow of the stars.
Yes, it hadn’t vanished.
I had merely delayed the emergence of Landquake for an extraordinarily long time, and that calamitous Dungeon still writhed, straining to reveal itself to Earth.
Crouched in a corner of the cosmos, devouring even the external energies around it.
If I cleared that, I would certainly become a Constellation.
However, even if I were to create a Dungeon arbitrarily, I could not resurrect that.
‘It’s not the same scale as when I stopped it.’
That thing, feasting on the terrible darkness of the cosmos and biding its time, could no longer be called the Landquake of back then.
With my power alone, I could not eliminate it while protecting the world of Earth.
For a Constellation to properly intervene in a client’s world, a corresponding price is necessary.
That is the fundamental premise—the balance that governs this world of stars.
A Constellation may substitute that balance with Karma expenditure, but the client’s world settles the consequences differently.
– Constellation, I’ve used everything you sent… ow.
As he lifted his head, top-tier equipment came raining down above him.
It seemed the connection wasn’t smooth enough yet to deliver things intact.
Still, being able to transmit all of that in mere tens of minutes was certainly a dramatic improvement.
Though the transmission speed for the other two had slowed considerably as a result.
[ I’m sending other things too, so wait. ]
After a brief notification, I sank back into contemplation.
For instance, if I were to perform a full descent into that world, I would expend considerable Karma, but the price would be paid through the annihilation of every living creature in that realm.
Even in just the B-rank Dungeon where I saved Ha Gyuhyuk, I used only a fraction of my power and paid the Karma cost.
Yet that Dungeon didn’t merely break—it was erased from existence.
It no longer exists in any universe now.
With just that alone, if I were to intervene in the Landquake without preparation, I’d have to brace myself for two-thirds of Earth to be obliterated.
The risk was far too great.
– But Constellation, regarding the second Dungeon you mentioned—they’re recruiting for a large-scale subjugation operation in two days.
[ A large-scale subjugation? ]
– Yes, Hunters gather together to attempt clearing a Dungeon. Ranks from S-class down to D-class can apply, but D-class requires at least high-grade equipment. Since you’ve given me top-tier equipment though…
Yes, rather than hoping for that infinitesimal possibility where the Landquake opens on its own without my intervention, this would be better.
[ Apply for it. ]

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