The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 45

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Chapter 45
The match began immediately.
The loaded arena was Times Square Plaza, the famous department store in Sinchon.
Before that garish red mirror—an eyesore no matter how many times I saw it—AI NPCs moved about the streets in various forms, displaying their mundane daily lives.
When the map loaded, it felt as though I had physically arrived at that location.
My gaming equipment specs were poor, so this was the extent of it, but when I played through Heaven Station with high-end specs, the distinction from reality was nearly imperceptible.
[Ready]
The ready indicator appeared.
After surveying the arena and lifting my gaze, I spotted a male character standing across the crosswalk in the distance, preparing for combat.
I closed the chat window and purchased items and equipment to prepare for battle.
“Something feels off, but I can’t figure out why.”
【What is?】
I briefly examined the Opponent Player’s information, but found nothing remarkable.
A Spellblade type.
Given that he ranked in the top 50 of the one-on-one combat world rankings, he was a fairly skilled player.
Spellblade types who blend mage and swordsman abilities boast broken offensive skills, but the control is so complex that ordinary skill levels can’t even touch the rankings.
“How strong is that Constellation?”
【Well, naturally they fall far short of my level. Still, looking at their record, they have a decent reputation of sorts.】
It seemed that in the system the Constellations possessed, Constellation records were also visible.
Though I had no idea what kind of record it was.
In any case, hearing Kkolkkalpi’s assessment, the opposing Constellation seemed to have some skill as well.
‘Is that the reason?’
Something felt incredibly formidable.
[Fight!]
The moment we started, the Opponent Player’s violet eyes gleamed.
“!”
A possession skill from the start?
They rushed forward.
The magical skills created by the Possession Constellation overwhelmed my field of vision.
Arrow-shaped magical attacks flew toward me like lasers in straight lines, relentlessly pummeling the ground where I stood.
Boom! Crack-crack-boom! Boom!
Screams echoed across the once-peaceful Sinchon Plaza.
Kyaaaah!
The mirror area was reduced to rubble.
As I grazed the magic and my HP dropped slightly, my body throbbed with pain.
“?”
Retreating far back to evade the barrage of attacks directed at me, I found myself near the department store entrance leading to the Station.
Suddenly, a message window appeared.
[【!Warning!】
Network connection unstable.]
‘…What?’
I was caught off guard, but there was no time to dwell on it.
The enemy, scattering magic, closed within striking distance and swung their blade at me.
Crash—!
I blocked the sword with my gauntlet, and the tremendous shockwave sent wind rippling outward.
Blood-red eyes narrowed to slits.
“【Hey there, beautiful? Want to make a contract with your older brother—or should I say, older sister?】”
The Opponent Player’s voice—or more precisely, the Opponent Constellation’s voice—echoed through my ears with a sticky, viscous quality.
【Is that thing insane?!】
Kkolkkalpi jolted upright.
With this patch extending the duration of the Possession skill, the Constellations were revealing their true forms entirely.
Throbbing, throbbing, throbbing.
‘But why does my body ache so much? Did they upgrade God Opal’s pain feedback system with this patch too?’
Various parts of my body hurt with startling realism, as if struck by something.
I threw a punch immediately.
Boom!
Blocked.
My fist, channeling an attack skill, struck the exact center of the blade, creating a secondary shockwave that sent my opponent’s body sliding backward with a sharp screech.
The enemy’s eyes flashed as they blanketed the forward space with magic skills.
“Tch.”
There was nowhere to escape.
I spun around and rushed into the Department Store interior just as a tremendous explosion erupted.
Boom-boom-boom-crash—!
Shatter!
Glass fragments scattered, and people screamed.
Thud.
“…?”
My entire body trembled.
The building did vibrate significantly, but something didn’t match—a discordant sensation that made my ears ring.
‘What is this? A lag?’
I suddenly noticed the network instability message window I’d pushed aside earlier.
The enemy Player’s barrage of magic skills obliterated the Department Store entrance, and the customers and employees inside began fleeing in the opposite direction.
Shriek!
The Department Store employees’ panicked flight was remarkably realistic, even for NPCs.
【I’m going to kill you. Use the Possession skill now. Or the Descent skill.】
“Shut up. I can’t concentrate.”
【Ugh! This is infuriating!】
Kkolkkalpi fumed.
This game had no system to mute the Constellation’s voice.
Though it granted humans free will and choice, God Opal was ultimately a game created by combat-oriented Constellations who wanted to form Pairs with humans and enjoy fighting.
“To fight properly, ten seconds of possession is too short. Pick one between Descent and Possession, and bring up the recommended skill.”
The gauge was nearly full.
The Opponent Player’s Possession Constellation rushed at me at light speed, slashing with a blade.
Crash! Boom! Crash!
The Opponent Constellation blocked my fists with the blade almost flawlessly while occasionally throwing magical skills to preempt any flow that could lead to a critical hit.
The way they controlled their breathing was delicate and artistic.
‘If the Player was just competent, top-tier rankings would practically be guaranteed. I’m starting to understand why they’re struggling against me.’
The Constellation’s skill level itself seemed to rival Dark Choco’s Constellation.
Crash! Boom!
I couldn’t tell where their swordplay came from, but gradually I began to sense a pattern.
Before long, my attacks that had only been blocked started landing occasionally, and I began landing critical hits.
The Opponent Constellation spoke.
“【Indeed, you have skill. To grasp the flow this quickly—you clearly have great potential with the blade as well.】”
Of course I do.
I only chose bare-knuckle fighting because it relieved stress so thoroughly, but there’s nothing I can’t do.
Bzzt.
[【Notification】
Connection to PC lost.]
‘Damn it?’
Did the power go out?
Since my gaming equipment was cheap secondhand, the internet speed dropped drastically if I didn’t connect to the desktop, and the battery drained quickly.
The moment the gauge filled, I tapped the recommended skill.
Constellation Possession skill, Incarnation.
Kkolkkalpi surged into my avatar and took control.
I aimed forward.
“【Wipe your mouth, you bastard.】”
Boom—!
A flaming fist struck true into the solar plexus, and the light vanished from the Opponent Player’s eyes.
Constellation Possession ended.
But on my side, it was just beginning.
“【This is mine.】”
Kkolkkalpi snarled fiercely, displaying possessive desire over me.
Kkolkkalpi, who had been grinding his teeth beside me the whole time, beat the now-unpossessed Opponent Player mercilessly.
‘This guy’s popularity really is something.’
Since I’d already shaved down their health considerably, it was essentially over.
I watched the battle quietly.
Bzzt, bzzt—
The screen kept shaking from unstable network connection, but it was still watchable.
‘As expected, the Player’s skill is far inferior to the Constellation. It’s surprising they’re even ranked at this level. The Constellation must be hard-carrying them. It takes considerable skill to handle a Spellblade properly.’
Each Constellation has diverse specialties, but the Opponent Constellation likely insists on the Spellblade because it produces the greatest output.
The top-tier God Opal rankers typically juggled multiple characters.
Especially multi-class types like Spell Swordsmen or Mana Boxers—attempting them with anything less than exceptional skill was worse than pointless.
But once you mastered the control and adaptation, you could unleash overwhelming combat power.
‘Even if a Player happened to encounter a powerful Constellation, not everyone could handle that caliber.’
Now I fully understood Park Kkolkkalp’s behavior—how he’d tried to suppress me, gotten pinned instead, endured endless humiliation and insults, yet never left my side.
The stronger a Constellation’s abilities, the more frustrating it must be when the Player’s actual skill couldn’t keep pace.
‘But why does it keep….’
My body ached.
There had been intermittent pain, but it felt worse than before.
God Opal’s pain system was designed to preserve realism through brief, moderate suffering—it never lasted long.
Prolonged pain would interfere with combat, after all.
‘Wait, could it be.’
The thought struck me that my physical body might be the one hurting.
I’d had a brutal fight with those Hunter bastards at the Convenience Store today, and lingering aftereffects could still be coursing through my real body.
Just as I felt relief at finally identifying the cause.
Screech. Screeeech.
Grrrrack—
‘…?’
Something deeply unsettling and repugnant reverberated through my entire being.
A vibration. A tremor.
Like something gnawing….
[You win!]
The inexplicable unpleasant sensation was momentarily buried beneath victory.
Kkolkkalpi erupted in fury.
【”Tch! I’m still furious! I should’ve possessed you when that bastard did—”】
Crash!
With the sound of something shattering, the world vanished as if extinguished in an instant, and sensation flooded back into my body.
“Gasp?!”
The sudden forced logout left me violently dizzy.
And my body felt cold.
The throbbing that had persisted during the game wasn’t God Opal’s pain system after all—it was my real body’s condition.
My head and various parts of my body ached as though I’d slammed hard against something.
Once I removed the VR headset that had been fixed to my head, an unbelievable sight greeted my eyes.
“…?”
The ceiling was half-destroyed.
The dark room looked ransacked, the entire house tilted at a severe angle, and my body lay wedged tightly between the corner of the bed and the wall, as if I’d rolled there.
Crash! Crash!
The grotesque sound of machinery breaking echoed from somewhere.
I crawled on all fours across the ruined bed and looked up at the Cave visible beyond the collapsed ceiling.
My mouth opened slowly.
‘Miichin….’
An enormously massive centipede monster was crunching away at the computer tower—the one my VR device was undoubtedly connected to—from beyond the collapsed ceiling.
I crawled across the bed to peer outside, and my eyes locked directly with the creature’s.
The centipede monster, larger than the ceiling of the 5-Story Villa, let out a roar as it spat out the computer it had been grinding between jaws the size of a excavator bucket.
Kiiiieeeeek—!
“….”
Cold sweat drenched my entire body.

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