I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 27



Punishment

“Stop! Please stop!”

Bang! Bang!

The filthy water kept pouring in.

I flew swiftly, blocking or dodging all the attacks.

But the more it attacked, the more my power dwindled.

Is there… no way?

The more I countered, the more my remaining strength faded, but if I didn’t block or dodge, I would be hit.

I couldn’t contact the constellation to receive power either.

It was a crisis of a dilemma.

The initial piercing wound could somehow be healed with my power, but if I got hit again, there was no guarantee I could recover this time.

While I kept evading, unable to find a solution to escape the current situation.

Buzz

[Got you with this.]

Suddenly, it appeared in front of me.

!!!

It was behind me!

I was hit.

It had created a trap to deceive its position and lured me in.

[Eliminating the nuisance.]

Hundreds of sharp, muddy spikes shot out from it, rushing towards me.

I couldn’t dodge.

I had to block this…

I hastily braked and raised my arms to defend.

There was no time to spare, and the colorless force blocking my path wasn’t that strong.

Crash! Crash!

Its weakness was woefully insufficient to stop the spikes.

Pierced…!

I could only helplessly watch the spikes madly rushing towards me.

Boom!

Suddenly, a storm of black magic swept away all the filth.

“Ugh!”

[What is this.]

[Seriously, what is this.]

“Are you alright, Apostle of Dreams?”

As the smoke cleared, a woman glowing black stood between me and the creature.

She glanced at my condition and then glared at the filthy creature with terrifying intensity.

“The sin of causing my master’s death with my own hands. I shall judge it.”

It was the demon Huffnise.

…Did she recognize my identity?

[Pride has vanished]

[That’s, that’s impossible…]

The demon charged at the creature.

Her tyrannical magic and divinity stormed around her like a tempest.

He thrashed about, spewing out the filthy water.

Ssssss

A vile and dirty act to buy even a little more time to survive.

The demon god crushed all that thrashing with overwhelming power and advanced.

The sin of [Pride] is called the greatest of all sins.

The original sin also stemmed from [Pride], and other sins derived from it.

As such, the sin of [Pride] was not something just anyone could bear.

It was a sin that only a capable strong person, who could afford to be arrogant, could possess.

That is [Pride].

The first demon king who defeated the worst slaughterer, inherited the throne of the demon king, and opened an era of peace and harmony between humans and demons.

The king of ten thousand demons who ascended beyond the throne of the demon king to reach the position above the demon god.

She was not someone who could be bound by a title like the Five Great Lords.

Bang! Bang!

Boom!

[No, impossible!]

[It’s impossible like this!]

The demon god shattered all the hastily created defensive barriers of filthy water head-on.

When he was an enemy, he was so terrifying, but thinking of him as an ally, he felt so reassuring.

[Chan Hwan! Chan Hwan! Chan Hwan!]

The strange power of the one who had neutralized my and the constellation’s powers continued to activate.

A disturbing light shone on the demon several times.

Bang! Bang!

But the demon’s advance did not slow down.

Could it be that the creature’s power has no effect on the demon?

I observed the demon closely.

No.

Every time the creature’s light touched the demon, the demonic energy flowing from the demon continued to diminish.

The creature’s power was clearly neutralizing and weakening the demon’s authority.

Yet the demon’s strength did not wane, likely because she possessed such vast power and was in an emotional state where she did not hesitate to use it.

[Can you hear me, storyteller in the dream? If you can hear me, please answer! Pleeease! she screamed.]

“……Star Lord?”

[The storyteller in the dream is connected! Wh-what should I do? Are you safe, our apostle? she asked frantically.]

“Yes. I am safe.”

The connection with the Star Lord was restored.

It seems that the creature’s power was so focused on stopping the demon that it used up all the power that nullified our Star Lord’s authority.

The replenished authority from the Star Lord flowed into me.

Unlike before, when I barely held on with about 1% remaining battery, the fully charged authority filled me with omnipotence.

[Impossible]

[Impossible]

[Impossible]

[Impossible]

The filthy water creature, driven to the edge, kept spewing out filthy water, but the demon god shattered it all.

The seemingly endless size of the creature’s filthy water was gradually decreasing.

And finally

Crack

“Why don’t you keep trying?”

The demon god’s hand grabbed the creature by the neck.

[Breeding the seed of arrogance….]

The demon god slightly lifted the creature’s neck.

Then

Bang!

Slammed it hard onto the ground.

The dream world vanished as the demon god’s power unfolded.

From beneath the empty ground, the filthy water struck the earth, causing a large crack.

“As the king of ten thousand demons, I sentence you to death.”

The demon god’s power began to flow into the creature.

I ran towards the demon god, using all the power I received from the constellation.

“Wait a moment! Demon god!”

The demon god, who was about to burst the creature filled with demonic energy, turned to look at me at my shout.

“……Apostle of dreams. Surely you are not asking for the absurd request to spare this sinner.”

The demon’s blazing eyes stared straight at me.

Then, her thoughts flowed into me.

Did she recognize my true identity?

…Could it be that she wants to punish me like that because I deceived her?

“I understand what you have done and the sacrifices you made for me. You are my benefactor. But that’s that, and this is this. If you came to talk about forgiveness and tolerance, you are mistaken.”

I could feel her strong determination to tear apart and kill the monster in front of her no matter what.

On the other hand, the way she called me, benefactor.

She mistakenly thought that my trickery was planned to remove her [pride].

…No, if you think about it, it’s not entirely a mistake, is it?

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I did intend to give her a second chance, after all.

“Please listen, Demon Lord. Annihilation is too easy and convenient a punishment.”

Of course, I have no intention of sparing that creature either.

Why would I defend the one who was so eager to kill me just a moment ago?

But annihilation is too easy an escape.

I don’t want to give him such a comfortable and beautiful ending.

The Demon Lord will also like this alternative.

“…Understood. So, if we put him in the framework of a weekly boss, all the people of the continent will beat him up, is that what you mean?”

“Exactly.”

The weekly boss battle of the [Akashic Archive], which can be cleared once a week.

Due to the content development speed issue, the only weekly boss that existed was the Demon Queen who appeared in the tutorial.

The Demon Queen was also included for our investor, the goddess Ren.

To honor the ten heroes, and to ensure the Demon Queen suffers eternally.

– Ah, why are you struggling? Just die quickly and give me my item.

– Guys, I’ve shortened the record. Check out my speedrun.

– Anyone willing to help a newbie with the weekly boss? Help!

– Isn’t the Demon Queen too easy these days? I want to fight a new one soon.

– I tried a naked run with 1 HP. How’s that?

The weekly boss provided essential elements for growth and was also content for hardcore users who could challenge it indefinitely unless cleared.

Thanks to this, the Demon Queen was slaughtered by countless players, from newbies just starting out to veterans with nothing else to do.

She was condemned to suffer eternally, unable to die through endless repeated deaths.

“…There couldn’t be a more fitting end for this sinner.”

The demon god kept beating the filthy creature until it could no longer resist and handed it over to me in a state where it couldn’t move.

I completely sealed it with the power of dreams.

Injected with the power while unconscious, it could no longer use its nullification ability.

After everything was over, the demon god looked up at the sky.

As the world of dreams vanished, only the empty darkness filled the void, but she was lost in a wistful expression as if reminiscing about someone.

Feeling uncomfortable with the sadness emanating from her, I hurriedly searched the logs of the [Akashic Archive] server.

A command I had pre-entered in case something went wrong with imprisoning the demon god.

Backup.

“Found it.”

Even amidst the scattering power of nullification, the work seemed to have been completed safely.

…Even if it’s a backup, it can’t contain the resurrected Demon King that the Demon God wants to see.

But it would be possible to see a Demon King born from a false world again.

She could only hope it would be enough to console the heartbroken Demon God.