Chapter 290. Constellation System (1)
[‘Great Will’ is terminating the Constellation Contract between you and Kang Yujin.]
A message suddenly appeared.
Before I could even understand what it meant...
Kang Yujin collapsed.
Blood poured from his body in a horrifying amount.
“Kang Yujin!”
Lee Jukheon’s eyes widened when he saw him fall.
“You bastard... you killed Kang Yujin!”
He activated [Condensing Distance into an Inch] and charged at tremendous speed, aiming for Taigong Wang’s neck.
But just before the blade reached him...
Lee Jukheon vanished.
He didn’t reappear nearby like before.
He had been sent somewhere unimaginably far away...
somewhere beyond our perception.
"...!"
Everyone else moved at once.
Arjuna fired arrows.
Sun Wukong created even more clones than before and surrounded Taigong Wang.
We charged between them.
“Urgh!”
The moment Taigong Wang moved a finger...
Achilles disappeared.
Sun Wukong saw it and flew into a rage, rushing toward Taigong Wang.
But with another tiny movement of his finger...
Sun Wukong disappeared along with all of his clones.
But I wasn’t simply standing there watching.
One more time...!
I was clearly shaken.
Kang Yujin had just died in front of me.
Even so...
my body moved on its own.
Just as Kang Yujin had tried to fulfill his role until the very end...
I had to complete mine.
The strongest attack I can use...!
I drew out the Holy Grail’s power...
and made it resonate with the Holy Nail and the fragment of the Holy Spear.
Once again...
I formed a spear of light on Joyeuse and prepared to fire it at Taigong Wang.
With this...!
The first time I tried to launch this ‘Holy Spear’ at Taigong Wang...
he had reacted with clear surprise.
Even Taigong Wang considered this attack a threat.
“HAAAAAH!”
I wouldn’t hold anything back.
I would gather every last bit of power I possessed...
and unleash the strongest strike possible.
I would destroy the old man responsible for countless tragedies...
and end all of this.
Just as I was about to throw the ‘Holy Spear’ at Taigong Wang...
two lines of text appeared before my eyes.
[‘Great Will’ is forcibly reincarnating you.]
[You are now an ordinary human.]
The Holy Spear disappeared.
At the same time...
the divine power went out of control, and my entire body was swallowed by an explosion.
Great Will.
That was the name of the ‘Constellation System’ created by Taigong Wang.
Every Constellation was managed through Great Will.
Not only Constellations...
but Contractors and Apostles as well.
The Spirit Realm itself was maintained through this system.
Constellation Tube was also operated by it.
One of the Constellation System’s functions was to automatically identify valuable souls...
and reincarnate them as Constellations.
Taigong Wang, who possessed the highest administrative authority...
could interfere with that function.
And by reversing that process...
it was also possible to reincarnate a Constellation...
back into a human.
I couldn’t understand what had happened.
I knew I had been caught in a massive explosion.
That much was obvious.
But the sensations inside my body were both familiar...
and strangely unfamiliar.
What is this...?
My body was trembling.
At the same time...
countless unpleasant sensations were coming from every part of me.
A Constellation’s body only imitates the body of a living human.
That was why we breathed.
That was why we bled.
But it was only an imitation.
Tiny, meaningless sensations like these...
should never have been reproduced so precisely.
“Huh...?”
And there was another sensation I had been feeling continuously.
A pulse.
An irregular rhythm...
right in the center of my chest.
I slowly placed a hand over it.
It wasn’t the imitation of a living human body.
A real human heart...
was beating.
I couldn’t understand what had happened.
“I revoked your qualification as a Constellation.”
A cold voice rang out.
Even after hearing it...
I still couldn’t understand.
“Taigong Wang! What exactly did you do?!”
Princess Longji shouted.
“I told you.”
“I revoked his qualification as a Constellation.”
“What does that...!”
“To put it simply...”
“he has become an ordinary human.”
"...!"
An ordinary human.
I desperately tried to process what those words meant.
“He has probably returned to the same state he was in before becoming a Constellation...”
“a weak, ordinary Contractor with barely any power.”
"..."
I picked up Joyeuse from the floor and tried to stand.
But immediately...
I sharply inhaled.
The sword I had swung so casually all this time...
felt heavy.
“I intended to revoke your qualification as a Constellation anyway if you became my successor.”
Taigong Wang’s cold voice continued.
“The one who succeeds me must be an ordinary human.”
"..."
“So... how does it feel?”
Taigong Wang asked as my body continued trembling.
“You must have spent all this time swaggering around as an S-rank Constellation.”
“How does it feel...”
“to lose everything and return to being one powerless human?”
I couldn’t move anymore.
Because I had finally understood.
Everything I had built until now...
had disappeared in an instant.
I had returned to where I started.
“N-Nameless!”
“Taigong Wang is lying, right?!”
Jason grabbed my shoulder in panic.
“You can’t have lost all your power!”
“That’s impossible...!”
"..."
I couldn’t answer.
Seeing me remain silent...
Jason sharply inhaled.
“N-No way...”
"..."
“How...?!”
Everyone else had stopped moving too.
They were all staring at me with expressions of disbelief.
"..."
Even under their gazes...
I couldn’t say anything.
I had never imagined...
that everything I had accumulated could disappear so completely...
in a single moment.
“Princess Longji! Daji! Disrupt him!”
Jason suddenly shouted and scooped me up.
Immediately afterward...
Princess Longji’s Mist-Dew Universe Net and Daji’s sorcery spread across the area...
making it impossible to see clearly.
“H-Hey! What are we doing?!”
“Run!”
“We can’t win right now!”
Jason shouted at the confused Lee Gyu while carrying me toward the stairs.
“We’re taking Nameless and getting out of here!”
