Chapter 187
[Plundering Constellation ‘One-Eyed White-Haired Old Man's’ Trait ‘Sage's Eye (S)’.]
[Shortly, all Constellations will be transported to random locations across the island.]
Flash.
Suhyeok's vision lit up for an instant.
Then...
As his blurred sight gradually cleared...
A forest came into view.
Trees filled the area in every direction.
Each individual tree was as large as a skyscraper.
And the branches were so dense that they nearly covered the entire sky.
"Looks like everyone was scattered pretty far apart."
Suhyeok opened the map through Eye of Insight.
Pins immediately appeared...
Marking the location of every Constellation.
And that wasn't all.
It could even display them in real time...
Almost like live satellite footage.
"This means I'll be able to notice battles almost immediately."
Suhyeok first checked everyone's positions.
None of the Constellations were close enough to immediately collide.
But they were still grouped within nearby regions.
Fortunately...
Suhyeok himself had been transported all the way to the outer edge of the island.
"Looks like they deliberately avoided placing members of the same faction near each other."
"They really want to force fights."
If the terrain was structured so everyone would inevitably encounter someone...
Then the first victims would naturally be the weaker individuals...
Or the faction that had already exposed a weakness.
Most likely...
Asgard.
The moment Mihyeon killed the one-eyed Constellation...
Asgard became attractive prey to every other faction.
Mihyeon herself was on the eastern side of the island...
In the exact opposite direction from Suhyeok.
Her pin was moving rapidly.
Judging by that speed...
She seemed to be searching for nearby Constellations one after another.
She was probably targeting weaker Constellations first.
Killing them in sequence...
Absorbing their Rank.
She couldn't exactly hunt someone like Odin right away.
Then...
A message appeared.
Suhyeok's pupils widened slightly.
[Constellation ‘Otherworldly Divinity’ Kim Mihyeon is currently confronting Constellation ‘Agent of God’ Tarmiel.]
Tarmiel.
The angel Suhyeok had seen when he visited Paradise.
It seemed Mihyeon had encountered him by chance while searching for another target.
"..."
Suhyeok suddenly remembered her eyes from earlier.
Completely empty.
Different from the last time they'd spoken.
It hadn't been long since their previous meeting.
For her to change that much in such a short time...
System had almost certainly done something.
"I didn't expect her to have absorbed even Buddha's Rank."
That was an unexpected variable.
From Suhyeok's perspective...
Buddha and the unaffiliated Constellations had actually been useful pieces on the board.
With every faction divided...
They would've acted as variables that disrupted the balance.
Buddha in particular...
Possessed Rank comparable to Jesus.
And the two of them had a terrible relationship.
Suhyeok had expected Buddha to buy him time while he searched for the Hidden Dungeons.
But that possibility was gone now.
"I don't have time to stand around."
"I need to reach the Hidden Dungeon as quickly as possible."
Fortunately...
The nearest one wasn't very far from his current position.
There were no Constellations along the direct route either.
If he moved quickly...
Five minutes should be enough.
The problem...
Was the Constellation positioned not far from the Hidden Dungeon.
Hades.
Suhyeok knew they would eventually have to meet.
But he'd hoped it wouldn't be now.
Until he finished with the Hidden Dungeon...
He didn't want to reveal too much of his strength.
And Hades wasn't someone even the current Suhyeok could take lightly.
He might not officially be counted among Olympus's chief gods...
But his Rank rivaled Zeus.
Hades probably didn't want this confrontation either.
Even so...
He would willingly fight Suhyeok.
They had already gone too far for old ties to stop either of them.
"...So there's no avoiding it."
The moment Hades remained a Constellation...
He and Suhyeok were enemies.
From the moment Suhyeok regressed...
Hades had always been someone he would eventually have to erase.
It was a reality he would've faced sooner or later.
And apparently...
That time was now.
Tap!
The instant he finished thinking...
Suhyeok kicked off the ground.
In one leap...
He landed on the branch of a massive tree.
Because the forest was so dense...
The branches connected closely enough to travel through the canopy much faster than on the ground.
He concealed his presence.
There was no reason to let Hades detect him too early.
About a minute passed.
Then...
Ding!
[2 Constellations are approaching the nearby radius of Constellation ‘Guide Who Counts the Stars’.]
Suhyeok opened the map.
Three pins were gradually converging on a single point.
More precisely...
Two Constellations were closing in on Heimdall of Asgard.
They were far from Suhyeok...
Yet he could already sense their Rank from here.
They had likely detected one another...
And no longer saw any reason to conceal themselves.
Heimdall was surrounded.
With escape routes cut off...
There was little point hiding his presence either.
"The opponents are..."
"Ares and Gabriel."
"None of the three are weak."
Since only one faction could survive the Battle Royale...
Olympus and Paradise had every reason to finish off Asgard first.
Especially now that Asgard had already lost one member.
And unlike Olympus and Asgard...
Whose hostility toward each other was obvious...
Paradise's relationship with Olympus had only deteriorated because of manipulation and misunderstanding.
Which meant...
It wouldn't be strange for Gabriel to temporarily cooperate with Ares against Heimdall.
[Mythic - ‘Eye of Insight’ analyzes the combat strength of the 3 Constellations.]
[Each target's Rank is displayed numerically.]
[Heimdall: 254]
[Ares: 275]
[Gabriel: 246]
If Ares and Gabriel attacked together...
Heimdall probably wouldn't survive.
That would reduce Asgard to four members.
Still...
Losing manpower didn't necessarily mean Asgard had become weak.
Their two greatest fighting forces...
Odin and Thor...
Were still alive.
"As long as Odin is there..."
"They won't risk an all-out war carelessly."
Suhyeok continued moving.
Before long...
He reached the end of the forest.
From atop the trees...
A vast plain stretched before him.
It was so wide...
The horizon was visible.
According to the map...
The Hidden Dungeon was located directly in the middle of that plain.
Nothing could be seen on the surface.
But...
[Eye of Insight reveals the concealed Hidden Dungeon.]
Suhyeok's eyes flashed blue once.
A transparent silhouette appeared in his vision.
Looking down from above...
It was only about the size of a fingertip.
Finding it normally would've been like searching for a needle in a desert.
But Suhyeok's attention quickly shifted elsewhere.
