I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 3



Goddess Ren

The magical terminal received as a sacrifice by ordering the apostle.

The terminal, lifted by the intangible power of the divine touch, came into the hands of Goddess Ren.

“What kind of thing is this?”

Normally, she wouldn’t even look at the vulgar items of mortals belonging to the lower world, but the impudence and curiosity about the game that used her name recklessly made her act.

Bang Bang

The terminal did not work even when she struck it with her fist.

“……Is it defective?”

The screen of the terminal, designed with considerable durability considering magical effects, shattered into pieces.

Hours later

Goddess Ren, who threw away the fifth broken terminal and received the sixth terminal from the apostle.

After being nagged by the apostle about how to use the terminal, she barely managed to operate it properly.

“……How dare you bring such humiliation to me.”

The game did nothing wrong, and being scolded by the apostle was her own fault, but the goddess muttered blaming the game once and then activated the game program downloaded on the terminal.

Wooong

[DreamStory present]

White letters and a logo passed by on the black screen

Paaat

The power of the dream overwhelmed her.

“This is……”

The goddess, slightly surprised by the suddenly changed view, looked around.

360 degrees

All around, up and down, her entire field of vision was dyed in pitch-black darkness.

“Virtual reality……”

Just by running a program on a simple magic terminal, it perfectly deceived the senses of a god.

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This is not something that can be achieved with mere illusion or fantasy magic.

Divine power.

It was certain that the touch of a constellation or an apostle was involved.

“Using my name without permission, even though we’re from the same constellation….”

It was infuriating.

She had to give them a good knock on the head….

Beyond the darkened view

Countless points of light began to appear one by one.

The vast universe.

Beyond that, an astronomical number of stars appeared.

A beautiful sight of the universe, never before seen as a constellation.

The goddess was captivated by the enchanting scenery that surpassed the night sky.

“Shall I watch a little longer?”

If she decided to unleash her divinity, the power of the dream would be shattered immediately, but she decided to quietly observe.

[Please tell us your name]

A question that suddenly popped up.

A name.

The goddess opened her mouth to answer, then closed it again.

She couldn’t use her true name in the game.

No matter how famous her true name was as a well-known constellation, a god’s name, imbued with power, could never be used lightly.

“Wendy.”

As the goddess uttered a name that came to her mind, the screen moved.

[Welcome, Wendy]

[This is the Akashic Archive]

[A place where all the heroic epics of the world are recorded]

“Akashic Archive?”

The goddess unconsciously asked back to the narration voice flowing out with white letters.

[It contains the spirits and souls of countless heroes who saved the world]

[You are the new candidate to succeed the previous Archive manager]

Wooong

In an instant, the goddess’s surrounding vision spun around.

As the blurred vision returned, there stood a pair of a man and a woman, their naked bodies barely visible, eyes closed, floating.

[Are you male or female?]

– Choose

– Male – Female

A holographic selection screen appeared in the air along with the question.

It seemed to be a choice for the avatar of the main character to play.

Ren naturally reached for the female character’s button.

Just as she was about to press it,

It’s virtual anyway, so why should she stick to a female appearance just like in reality?

With that sudden thought, her hand moved sideways.

Ding

[Wendy, you will experience numerous narratives recorded in the Akashic Archive.]

[May the light of the constellations shine upon you.]

[May your narrative reach the ideal.]

The moment she pressed the button labeled “Male,” the goddess’s consciousness was sucked into the character.

The screen turned black.

“Wendy.”

Someone called her name.

“Wendy. Wake up.”

“……Uung.”

The goddess’s avatar moved against her will and opened her eyes.

“You’ve woken up, Wendy.”

In her vision, filled with white light, she saw a young, handsome man with black hair, appearing to be in his late teens.

The goddess moved her head to look around.

A gigantic library made up of thousands of bookshelves filled with countless books.

In that vast space, large enough to house dozens of imperial capitals, there were only two people: her and the man in front of her.

“Did you perhaps not sleep last night because you were nervous about the first day of the test?”

The man reached out his hand into the air.

Whoosh

Then, a book flew out from the bookshelf and landed in his hand.

“That doesn’t mean I’ll go easy on you. This test is to determine if you have the ability to succeed me as the curator of the Akashic Archive.”

The man opened the book.

“Now, this is the first test. This book contains the story of a hero who protected the country from the monsters of the abyss in the past. This great epic of the hero has long symbolized the virtue of sacrifice deep in the hearts of many.”

As the man opened the book and let it float in the air, the pages began to flip rapidly.

“However, a part of the story has been eroded by the power of the abyss that recently invaded the archive. Your test is to expel the abyss from this story and restore the narrative.”

The man’s gaze met the goddess’s.

“Now, let’s begin the test.”

Thud

The man closed the book.

[The reading begins]

And at the same time, the light that burst forth colored the goddess’s vision.

Boom! Boom!

With a rough explosion, the shockwave blew the goddess’s body backward.

“What is this.”

As the goddess’s vision, which had been obscured by the white light, returned, she saw a pitch-black battlefield filled with the smell of iron and blood.

The goddess had somehow become a soldier standing in the middle of the battlefield.

-Screeeech!

“Die! Die!”

“aaargh, my arm!”

Crunch, crunch

A battlefield filled with screams and wails.

All around, grotesque monsters were engaged in fierce combat with the soldiers.

“Those monsters…”

The goddess’s eyes widened.

Monsters everywhere.

They were familiar.

No, they had to be familiar.

Because all those monsters were the ones she had fought in her human days, the monsters from another world.

– Screeeeech!

!!!

At that moment, a monster jumped out from behind her and attacked her.

‘Damn! I was so distracted that I didn’t notice the approaching monster!’

She was now in the body of an ordinary soldier, not a god armed with powerful divine powers.

She didn’t have the strength to throw off the huge monster that was pinning her down.

Just as the monster’s sharp claws and teeth were about to tear apart the goddess’s avatar,

Bang!

A sword strike flew in from somewhere and split the monster in half.

Crash

“Are you alright?”

Beyond the sight of the goddess, who was covered in the green blood of the monster that had been split in two,

the goddess could see.

A woman in shining armor, even in the dark battlefield.

The hero who saved the kingdom through sacrifice, Knight Ren.

Her past life, who ascended to the position of a constellation after death.

* * *

Day 2 of release

The number of concurrent users counted through the system had already exceeded 100,000.

Word of mouth must have spread, as the number of users began to skyrocket.

Additionally, the balance for settlements was also piercing through the sky.

“I am still hungry.”

Even in a fantasy world, thanks to the development of magical engineering, it was an era where even commoners carried at least one magic terminal.

Since most of the continent’s inhabitants were potential customers, there was still plenty of room to grow.

I roamed through various communities via the terminal, checking the public sentiment.

– How is this even possible? It’s not illusion magic, is it?

– Our tower master said so! This isn’t a level of mystery that humans can achieve!

ㄴThen what, did a dragon do it?

ㄴㄴWho knows, maybe a constellation did it.

– Why doesn’t our constellation make something like this for us?

Since it was a virtual reality game, most people expressed amazement at the experience.

The peculiar thing was that the admiration wasn’t just for the game, but also for the protagonist of the first episode, the knight Ren, in Episode 0.

– ㅠㅠ Ren-nim

– Why did Ren-nim have to die at the end! Bring Ren-nim back, you devil!

– It’s time for regular Ren-nim appreciation.

– How can I marry Ren-nim?

Even though he was just an NPC in the game, the experience was so realistic that players were deeply impressed by the knight Ren.

Thanks to this, there were many players spending on the first limited pickup character, [Knight Ren].

“That’s a good thing.”

The driving force behind character drawing games that makes people spend on characters is the performance and charm of the characters.

Performance cannot be easily tampered with due to issues of inflation and value preservation, but charm is different. Therefore, making people genuinely invested in characters through their charm was very important.

Above all, using the separation system, we could sell [Knight Ren], [Swimsuit Ren], [Christmas Ren], [Fallen Ren], and [Constellation Ren] separately.

It seems like a good choice to have picked the story of [Hero Ren], who is famous even on the continent, as the first story.

It seems to have worked well because it is a heroic story that people in this world would like, and it is a widely spread story like a biography.

…But why is there no story about the Akashic Archive director?

The player, that is, the protagonist character’s instructor and the previous director of the Akashic Archive.

He is a character made by slightly improving the face based on my previous life’s appearance.

I created the character hoping that my previous life’s appearance would look a bit cooler… but there was no mention of him at all.

Everyone seemed to be obsessed with Knight Ren and had no interest in the director.

This is a bit upsetting.

Should I increase the director character’s screen time?

As I fiddled with the draft of the first act’s story, I shook my head.

No.

A developer’s Mary Sue, a self-insert character.

It’s one of the biggest factors that ruin a game.

In a situation where my life is on the line with this game, I couldn’t do such a thing.

Especially when this game involves not only my life but also the life, or rather the rebirth, of the Constellation.

Ding

At that moment, a message came from the Constellation.

[Big trouble! Big trouble! The storyteller in the dream shouts.]

Big trouble?

[The storyteller in the dream urgently cries out that the Constellation Ren has invaded.]

!!!!

The real version of Knight Ren, Constellation Ren.

She has appeared before the Constellation.

No way.

The one famous for being the Constellation of Sloth?

Constellation [Sacrifice Fallen into Sloth]

True Name [Ren]

She, who was posthumously elevated to a Constellation as one of the heroes representing the seven great virtues of the continent, is known as the most inactive deity among the Constellations.

Yet, because she represents the word “sacrifice,” she is also a major deity that people of the continent encounter in hero stories from a young age.

Therefore, her story was perfect to use, and it was thought that even if her story was used, she would not take action… But to think she would come to the Constellation already.

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