D-Rank Constellation Hunter… Stuck Without Internet! - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86
I bolted straight out and began racing through the corridors of Sungdo, searching for that Constellation of Combat and Victory or whatever he was hiding as.
The Constellations around me stared in surprise.
He seemed to have tidied things up and hidden himself away, but there could be no eternal secrets in Sungdo.
Everyone gathered here was obsessed with stories, after all.
“Se-um, what’s the matter?”
“Sungho! I’m grateful you helped me and came to Earth last time. But right now I’ve entered an S-rank Dungeon searching for a Constellation I had conflict with. He seems to have hidden somewhere to avoid me—do you know where he is?”
Sungho, who had been about to feign familiarity with me, simply closed his mouth.
My rapid-fire barrage of words seemed to have momentarily flustered him.
The Constellations around us pretended indifference while subtly eavesdropping on the conversation.
“Earth?”
“Why that Server 3 or whatever? I heard nobody’s been able to crack it lately, and someone burned through Karma and even used an expansion right.”
“Ah, that… I think I’ve heard about it too, but why there?”
‘A Constellation who tried to meddle with someone else’s client and faced humiliation.’
Those who merely tried to harm another’s client weren’t worth gossiping about, but if they failed and suffered humiliation in return—that was another matter entirely.
The Constellations found stories about their own kind far more fascinating than the life and death of mere clients.
“Excuse me, but may I add something to your conversation?”
And between Sungho and me, a Constellation with a cheerful smile thrust her head forward.
At first glance, she was a beauty so stunning my heart lurched. For a moment, I nearly forgot my purpose.
The Constellation with violet eyes that gleamed mesmerizingly bowed toward me.
“I think I know which Constellation you mean.”
“Do you know who it is?”
“Isn’t it the Constellation of Combat and Victory?”
She laughed while covering her mouth, utterly elegant.
Yet her eyes burned with hostility toward that Constellation—there was clearly some history I didn’t understand.
As I squeezed her shoulder urging her to speak faster, her crimson lips moved softly.
“That Constellation’s epithet is ‘Constellation of Destruction and Despair’s Pioneer’—he was a duke who once ruled an empire in his era.”
He didn’t look like a duke at all.
Perhaps I’d been too immersed in romantic fantasy worldbuilding.
I nodded to signal I was listening intently, and she slowly opened her lips again.
“He was the architect of his nation’s ruin, spent his entire life opposing the Magic Tower of The Empire, and ultimately waged war against the Magic Tower Master and each faction, betting everything.”
Hadn’t I said something like that before?
That there were those who became Constellations together despite being enemies, and afterward remained desperate to devour one another.
Without needing to hear more, I could tell—the one casually divulging information about him was likely the Magic Tower Master herself.
The enemy of my enemy is my ally. This was the perfect example.
“Yes, I’ll take responsibility and shake him down thoroughly, so please tell me where he is.”
“I like how quickly this is moving. That Constellation’s room is right here.”
For Constellations whose historical enmity had been too severe, Sungdo’s stability required that they be unable to approach each other beyond a certain distance.
This was said to be written in blood from history, but since it was a tale from over ten thousand years ago, it now merely passed down through legend.
Whether in the client’s world or the Constellation’s world, it seemed that all contracts were written in blood.
“I won’t breathe a word to anyone about what the Constellation told me, so don’t worry.”
“Oh? No, quite the opposite—I’d very much appreciate it if you told everyone. Do you think I’ll forget this grudge after two thousand years have passed?”
It seemed the rift between these two ran far deeper than I’d imagined.
But the emotional state of the Constellation of Destruction and Despair’s Pioneer—or Destruction and Despair for short—wasn’t my concern to manage.
“Understood. If that’s what you wish, I’ll scratch away at it with all my heart and soul.”
“How wonderful that we understand each other! I suppose that duke must have touched your client?”
“Yes, that’s correct. If he’d only touched me, I wouldn’t have bothered getting this angry.”
The Magic Tower Master nodded vigorously in agreement.
Unable to approach each other directly, the two Constellations had apparently been stoking their animosity by sowing discord among their respective clients.
I’d found it strange that he hadn’t sought me out lately, and now it seemed that arrow had finally turned toward me.
“Apparently, he used the Favored One’s privilege on me this time.”
“Ah, that explains it. Whenever that bastard and I place clients on the same Server, we compete to raise them better than each other, burning through Karma like it’s nothing.”
So filling up the membership tier probably wasn’t difficult for him.
After gathering some basic information about the membership and that Constellation, I ended the conversation.
Without looking back, I headed straight for his chamber.
I wanted to scream at him—you bastard—but I held it in and kicked the door open instead.
“Who on earth…”
Our eyes met as he turned with an angry expression, and it was only an instant.
I moved directly in front of him and seized the Constellation of Destruction and Despair’s Pioneer by the collar.
“I. Warned. You!”
“Wait, wait…”
“Don’t. Touch. My. Client!”
I’d thought that after living three hundred years, I’d become mature enough to contain my own anger.
I was wrong.
My words were coming out in fragments, broken by fury.
Only as he thrashed against my grip with ragged breaths did he seem to realize this was no ordinary matter.
The Constellation of Destruction and Despair’s Pioneer seized my wrist hard.
“What, you want to settle this by force? Do you still think you’re some duke commanding soldiers?”
“How could I know that? Ah, that witch again…”
“She asked me to tell you: learn your place.”
Sparks erupted freely from our four hands locked in a contest of strength.
This was Sungdo, where divine power had no limits, and disputes between Constellations consumed no Karma whatsoever.
No matter how much we damaged each other’s bodies, we wouldn’t perish and could recover in less than 0.000001 seconds by human reckoning.
“Since it’s just a war of attrition anyway, let’s stop this excessive fighting! Don’t forget this is Sungdo, not the Server. If I wanted to, I could wage war for centuries, and your client wouldn’t live that long…”
This duke.
“You talk too much.”
In an instant, the electricity in my hand amplified thousandfold, filling the chamber.
And I began destroying the Constellation of Destruction and Despair’s Pioneer’s devices one by one.
“Are you in your right mind?”
“I was in my right mind until you just logged me out of it.”
Even if you rushed over and did the same thing to me, there’s an absolute difference between us.
I have enough Karma to purchase thousands of new devices right this instant, but you don’t.
The Constellation System repairs Constellations and their bodies, but it doesn’t return broken devices.
Not just the access device—even the small furnishings throughout the room had begun deteriorating gradually.
I laughed with a sneer, opening my mouth. Paman seemed to feel genuine terror in my eyes, which had lost all reason.
“Don’t worry. I’ll buy you new ones.”
Just in a few hundred years or so.
The situation finally reached a lull when I’d reduced everything in the room to pulp—except for the Constellation itself.
I sat down on a few hastily restored pieces of furniture.
Paman was facing me with an extremely gloomy expression.
“Since becoming my Constellation, I’ve never suffered such an insult…”
“That’s because any Constellation who’d want to insult you like this is barred from approaching you. From now on, you’d better choose your words carefully.”
“What do you mean…”
“Depending on your answer, the device I buy you could be the latest model right now, or basic standard equipment a thousand years from now.”
When I replied in an instructor’s tone, his complexion darkened.
If that Magic Tower Master had been here, there might have been a literal centuries-long battle.
Since his reputation was so thoroughly ruined, it seemed I was the only Constellation willing to buy him new devices.
He opened his mouth in a placating tone.
“After suffering such an insult on that Server that day, would I really threaten your client’s life? The command I input into the familiar was something else entirely.”
“Yes, so what was that command? Let’s hear it.”
“I, I merely informed your client that you had your fingers in several other Servers as well!”
Ha Gyuhyuk is so blindly devoted to me that it’s irritating, and he could see how much I favor him.
He said he wanted to give him a small “psychological shock.”
I stared at his face silently for a moment, then opened my mouth.
“I’ve decided. I’ll give you a device in two thousand years—one I’ve already discarded.”

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