D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32
The world trembled in resonance with my fury.
Behind me, my client was breathing heavily, as if unable to believe the situation unfolding before them.
[ I told you I would come to see you. ]
[ From the moment you want to resolve this situation, you can start the countdown. ]
[ If you count to five, I will bring this entire situation to an end. ]
Standing before him, I transmitted the message without uttering a sound.
I had descended to Earth through my Avatar form immediately, yet I had almost arrived too late.
A message from the Constellation System appeared before my eyes in real time.
It was a kind of terms and conditions that appeared when a Constellation first sent an Avatar to a world.
[ The Constellation System is synchronizing time between the 34R7h World and the Constellation System. ]
[ From now until Se-um’s Avatar leaves the corresponding world, the flow of time in the Constellation System and the world will be unified. ]
[ We hope you have an enjoyable time. ]
While my Avatar walks across Earth, time flows identically here and in the Constellation System.
It serves to prevent wear and tear on the Avatar.
When any Constellation’s Avatar descends to a client’s world, it is impossible to forcibly adjust time for the convenience of other Constellations.
That is why, if there is a world they wish to prevent from destruction, Constellations prioritize sending down their Avatars first.
Only then can they slow the pace of destruction and buy time to draw in other Constellations.
“Yes….”
I heard Ha Gyuhyuk’s voice whispering from directly behind me, so faint it seemed ready to fade away at any moment.
He was someone I had raised with such care, and hearing him suffer like this pained me.
The thought of what more he might have endured had I arrived even slightly later made my heart sink.
I had already witnessed what had transpired in the meantime.
There had been no particularly severe torture or anything of that nature.
But it was a situation sufficient to drive him to the brink of mental collapse.
“You locked the door?”
The people before me suddenly opened their mouths.
“Ah, did you?”
I had immediately pinpointed my location here and entered without even checking if there was a door or what the building looked like.
In any case, whether there was a building or a bunker with locks, none of it could have stopped me.
I shrugged and smiled.
I had no intention of suppressing them with the power of a Constellation or overwhelming hierarchy right now.
They weren’t even worth that.
“I don’t hate or think poorly of humans who harm others for their desires.”
The power one possesses has limits, and the things one can enjoy are finite.
I cannot view poorly those who struggle desperately to obtain those limited things.
By their standards, it might be called good and evil, but to me, it is merely a struggle for survival.
Weren’t these people in a desperate situation where they had no choice but to receive a Constellation’s selection? In their own way.
But there could have been another path.
If they truly believed I was a god, they wouldn’t have thought their voices couldn’t reach me.
“You are….”
The people before me weren’t foolish enough to fail recognizing me in this situation.
I had conducted a brief investigation myself—about how the Taemyeon Guild was structured.
They were a prestigious Guild that supposedly possessed data on all the skills of renowned Hunters.
If someone was dispatched from a Guild of that caliber, especially to kidnap Ha Gyuhyuk, they would have noticed.
A power that didn’t exist in this world.
“You were searching for me so desperately that I came to see you myself.”
I offered a faint smile.
“Are you truly a Constellation?”
For the first time, his voice trembled.
I had tried my best not to reveal the gap in our standings or my power, but such restraint was beyond my control.
Even if I brought tens of millions of identical humans, the moment I exerted even a fraction of my strength, they would crumble to ash in an instant.
Though my momentum had been dulled by this incarnate form, facing them at such close range must have been an enormous psychological burden for them.
Above all, I hadn’t bothered to suppress the aura that was intentionally radiating from me.
“I’m curious about one thing. If this human truly is someone I chose, why did you touch him?”
Did you really think that if you eliminated him, I would then choose the people in the Taemyeon Guild instead?
Objectively speaking, the Taemyeon Guild wasn’t even the strongest Guild in the world, and Kim Gyuwun, who was called their figurehead, wasn’t even S-rank.
Even if you brought me S-rankers of every type, I would merely find it tedious.
“Who is the strongest Hunter in this world?”
“…That is, well, the system recently abolished the ranking system, so only grades remain.”
“That’s not what I’m asking. What I want to know is what criteria you use to measure strength.”
They exchanged glances among themselves before offering a pathetic answer.
Stats, the rarity of skills—things like that. Or perhaps achievements from clearing certain Dungeons.
How utterly deflating.
I hadn’t been this angry before, but now something like rage was beginning to simmer.
So my client suffered because of these people and their useless reasoning.
“Very well, let me rephrase my question. Then what reason would I have to choose the people of the Taemyeon Guild? Your Guild Master couldn’t even convince me.”
Perhaps because I had appeared in person and was displaying my power to them, or perhaps they simply weren’t in a high enough position to hear such discussions.
They exchanged glances, seemingly flustered by the fact that I had already made contact with their Guild Master.
“Or did you simply not think that far ahead and decide it was unreasonable for a D-rank Hunter to receive a Constellation’s selection?”
“Honestly, yes.”
One of them, apparently mustering courage, met my gaze directly.
The way he held his head up so steadfastly was quite intriguing. I met his eyes willingly.
“Honestly, yes?”
“Yes.”
“Would you explain? Before my child finishes counting to five.”
I wondered if he understood what I might do once five was reached.
The moment I made a gesture inviting him to speak, he seemed to gain courage and began talking.
“The thing is, the D-rank Hunter classification doesn’t really have any particular merit, and Ha Gyuhyuk doesn’t possess any special talent either.”
“When you say special talent, are you referring to a Unique Skill?”
“Yes.”
A Unique Skill that only special people possessed.
People of the world revered and treated those who had one with the utmost respect.
“And?”
“The Constellations are known to have visited this place only in the distant past, more than three hundred years ago.”
“That’s right.”
“Which is why I believe a misjudgment is possible. Earth has changed ceaselessly, and continues to transform even now.”
So because the standards then differ from now, I must have seen it wrong?
They kept trying to convince me that my choice had been a mistake.
I wound a strand of hair around my finger, twirling it several times before lifting my head.
“Humans never change.”
“Pardon?”
“They never consider the possibility that their own judgment might be flawed, yet they dare to say that a god’s choice was wrong, that it was a mistake.”
It irritated me.
That they would harm the one chosen by a god without acknowledging their own potential for error.
That in a world of survival of the fittest, they determined strength and weakness by such shallow measures.
Even a god is not infallible.
And my client was listening to all of this.
In an instant, the tree beneath my feet surged upward, stretching with tremendous force across my entire being.
The light that the spreading branches dispersed in all directions suddenly transformed into darkness.
As if it had been waiting, it wrapped around the necks of the humans standing before me and slammed them against the wall.
“Count to five for me, Ha Gyuhyuk.”
My voice that escaped my lips was infinitely gentle.
Even if I had been angry with them for a moment, I had no intention of transferring that rage to Ha Gyuhyuk.
“Don’t worry. Not a breath will remain. No one in this world will remember that they ever existed.”
Not Ha Gyuhyuk, and certainly not even those who had hired them.
I waited quietly for his count when suddenly someone’s hands grasped my left hand.
I turned my body.
Ha Gyuhyuk was looking at me with a pale face, shaking his head.
“No, no, please don’t. Don’t kill them….”

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