Chapter 297. Epilogue (2)
After Taigong Wang disappeared, the Spirit Realm remained chaotic for quite some time.
The Order of the Spirit Realm, the largest organization in the Spirit Realm, was no exception.
This time, the Order had lost not only its Sovereign, the ‘Nameless King,’ but also many of its core officers, including the ‘Pure-White Hero’ Arjuna.
It had already suffered a major blow with the disappearance of the ‘Prophetic Magician’ Merlin and the ‘Greatest Hero’ Heracles.
And now, even more of its leaders were gone.
Among the remaining officers, the highest-ranking one was the ‘Wise Returner’ Odysseus.
He tried to bring the organization back under control, but even his abilities weren’t enough.
The one who extended a helping hand was the ‘King of Knights,’ Arthur Pendragon.
After recovering from his injuries thanks to the devoted treatment of the ‘Lady of the Ideal Land,’ Morgan le Fay, Arthur joined the Order of the Spirit Realm and worked to restore stability.
His child, the ‘Knight of Ruin’ Mordred, was always at his side.
Around the same time, the ‘Shining Guardian’ Hector also joined the Order.
Hector was respected by many European Constellations, so his membership played a major role in stabilizing the Order.
In addition, the ‘Golden Hero’ Karna, Arjuna’s brother and rival, joined the Order, saying that he would fill the void Arjuna had left behind.
Constellations affiliated with Mount Liang, including the ‘Monk with Flower Tattoos’ Lu Zhishen, also began joining one after another following the death of the ‘Murderous Fiend of Two Axes’ Lee Gyu.
The ‘Monster-Slaying Hero’ Perseus also stepped forward and began managing the Constellations from Greek mythology.
With many representative heroes like Heracles gone, the Greek Constellations had been greatly shaken.
As the ancestor of many heroes, Perseus stepped in to calm them down and asked them to unite behind the Order of the Spirit Realm.
Thanks to the efforts of many Constellations like this...
the Order stabilized surprisingly quickly.
Its representative seat was still vacant.
But it soon recovered its status as the greatest power in the Spirit Realm.
Meanwhile...
the Mountain-Sea Alliance was dissolved.
It was the will of its leader, the ‘Grand Preceptor of the Golden Whip,’ Wen Zhong.
A considerable number of members of the Mountain-Sea Alliance, including Wen Zhong himself, had been acting under Taigong Wang’s orders.
Wen Zhong judged that continuing to maintain the organization would be difficult.
There were rumors that Wen Zhong might join the Order of the Spirit Realm...
but in the end, after dissolving the Mountain-Sea Alliance, he withdrew into seclusion.
Among the Constellations who had obeyed Taigong Wang...
those who had gone too far in persecuting other Constellations suffered severe retaliation.
None were completely erased.
But many suffered heavy penalties, such as having their Origin Power taken away.
In the Spirit Realm, once Origin Power falls below a certain level, restoring it is extremely difficult.
Those Constellations effectively became unable to do anything other than sit in their thrones and stare at their Observers.
In any case...
as time passed, the confusion gradually settled.
The Spirit Realm slowly stabilized.
The Gates leading down to the Material Realm were still closed.
So there were no longer any Constellations descending to the surface and running wild like they had during the era when the ‘Nameless King’ led the way.
Things were stable.
But people had even started saying...
wasn’t it getting a little too boring now?
“So that’s what the Spirit Realm has been like lately.”
“I see.”
While listening to Number49’s explanation...
I sipped iced coffee through a straw.
“This is serious.”
“Excuse me, why are you reacting so indifferently?”
Number49 frowned from the seat across from me.
We were sitting at an outdoor café in Gangnam, Korea.
Of course, I was the only one actually drinking anything.
Number49 was merely occupying a chair.
“Lord Nameless, please come up with something.”
“Stability is good, but the whole place feels stagnant.”
“Why should I be the one coming up with ideas? I’m not a Constellation anymore.”
“Everyone got used to all the stimulating content you used to make.”
“Now that you’re gone, everyone is bored.”
“Well... that makes sense.”
“You know your channel on Constellation Tube is still there, right?”
“People still leave comments asking you to come back.”
“Really?”
“And Jason’s channel was the next most popular one after yours, but even that stopped updating.”
“Well... there’s nothing we can do about that.”
Jason still retained his status as a Constellation.
Unlike me, Taigong Wang had never stripped him of his qualification.
But Jason was currently in the Material Realm...
so he couldn’t act as a Constellation.
All the Gates connected to the Spirit Realm were sealed.
“If I’d known this would happen, I would’ve at least fixed the Gates before the Celestial Time Realm disappeared.”
“There was nothing we could do.”
“We didn’t even know how to operate them.”
After Taigong Wang disappeared...
the passage to the Celestial Time Realm had also begun slowly closing.
The Gates had been sealed because Taigong Wang issued a command to the Great Will system that managed the Spirit Realm.
Once he died, there was no way to reverse that command.
We could have tried to slow the disappearance of the passage to the Celestial Time Realm and search for a solution...
but we had no idea what to do.
In the end, we gave up.
“So Jason, Princess Longji, Achilles, and Sun Wukong all ended up stuck in the Material Realm.”
“Yeah.”
The Constellations who had entered the Celestial Time Realm...
aside from Lee Gyu and Arjuna, who had died...
all remained in the Material Realm.
Achilles was currently in Greece.
Sun Wukong had gone to China.
It looked like both of them were searching in their respective homelands for a way to return to the Spirit Realm.
“Huh? Were you talking about me?”
Jason’s voice suddenly came from nearby.
I looked up.
Jason was approaching with a loose, swaggering gait while wearing jeans.
“Jason... you’ve completely adapted to the local culture.”
“Even your clothes.”
“Really? Guess these new clothes suit me.”
“To me, you just look like a delinquent.”
Jason had already been visiting the Material Realm frequently before...
so he seemed to have adapted quickly.
“Come to think of it, Jason... your Contractors seem a little unhappy.”
“Really? Can’t be helped.”
Jason originally managed a large number of Contractors.
But now that he couldn’t return to the Spirit Realm...
properly managing them had become difficult.
Blessings and similar things had been programmed to activate automatically depending on the situation.
Even so...
there were bound to be things that slipped through the cracks.
“I can take care of the Golden Ram Order kids here in Korea in person.”
“But the Contractors in other countries are impossible.”
“I should probably tell them to find other Constellations.”
“Is that really okay?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m too busy enjoying life down here to look after Contractors in other countries anyway.”
“You really are making the most of life in the Material Realm.”
Number49 said it with a faintly sarcastic tone.
“Jason.”
“What?”
“How about making videos?”
“Videos?”
“Videos about your life in the Material Realm.”
“What?”
Jason and Number49 both widened their eyes at my sudden suggestion.
“Film what you do while living down here.”
“And upload it.”
“Where?”
“Constellation Tube.”
“Ah...”
“W-Wait!”
Number49 urgently raised her voice.
