I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 4



Knight Ren

“……!”

The goddess raised her body, drenched in green blood.

The dirty and sticky sensation that covered her entire body was far from the cleanliness usually maintained by her divine body, but such things did not matter to her.

A hero who roamed the battlefield, cutting down monsters while enveloped in brilliant light.

Despite being the kingdom’s strongest knight and commander, crucial in war, she drew the monsters’ attention with her radiant light and saved the allied soldiers.

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Her body, which she threw herself into with the utmost initiative, was gradually accumulating wounds, but she didn’t care at all and just kept moving forward.

And that hero, [Knight Ren], was none other than the previous life of the Celestial Ren.

“Me…?”

It was the life before the goddess was reborn as a celestial.

“…I remember.”

The goddess recalled the distant past memories that had now become blurry.

When she was human, monsters from the abyss invaded the kingdom she protected.

The monsters, created by the abyssal power of unknown origin, swept across the continent with only the instinct to slaughter intelligent beings, including humans.

Driven by a hive mind connected to a single queen, the monsters, who didn’t even care for their own bodies, ran madly to tear humans apart, becoming the very symbol of terror itself.

“……”

Ren blankly watched her past self, swinging the aura blade and cutting down the monsters.

A hero who prioritized the victory of the battlefield and the preservation of allies over her own safety.

“To this extent…”

Her nobility was so admirable that even she couldn’t help but be amazed, despite it being herself.

The hero of humanity stood before her.

Hundreds of years had passed since she was born anew as a celestial.

A great ripple arose in her heart, which had been forgotten in the languor of the divine realm.

She realized what she had forgotten.

What great feats she had achieved in her previous life.

What kind of existence she was.

-Creek.

At that moment, a mantis-like monster suddenly sprang out from among the other monsters.

“……Elder Guardian.”

According to the goddess’s memory, only three of these top-tier monsters existed, serving as the queen’s royal guard.

‘Why here, now?’

However, in her memory, it had never appeared on this battlefield.

Something was different from her past.

-Creek, creek, creek!

The Elder Guardian, as if uninterested in the other small fry, fluttered its wings and charged straight at Knight Ren.

Clang!

The monster’s sharp exoskeletal blade clashed with Knight Ren’s aura blade.

As an elite soldier created with many resources invested by the Abyss, the monster’s weapon had the strength to contend with the aura blade.

-Screech!

At that moment, a large monster aimed its breath attack at the densely packed soldiers.

If the monster’s breath, filled with acidic substance, covered the soldiers, they would all melt away.

“Tch!”

Knight Ren clicked his tongue once and sent a sword energy slash to cut the large monster in half.

However, the price of being distracted during the battle was significant.

Crash

“Ugh!”

The blade of the Elder Guardian she was fighting severed the arm she was holding the sword with.

Ren’s sword also flew far away and

thud

it stuck right in front of the goddess’s avatar.

!!!

“No way…”

The goddess was horrified.

This had never happened in her previous life.

As she had never encountered the Elder Guardian on the battlefield, her body had never been damaged at this point in time.

“This should be something that happens during the Queen’s Lair Infiltration Operation…”

[Test]

[Story]

[Abyssal Corrosion]

Only then did the goddess understand.

The curator had said that this story, which contained her narrative, had been corroded by the presence of the abyss.

At first, she thought it was just because the monsters in the story originated from the abyss, but it seemed that the power of the abyss had twisted the story.

And as a candidate for curator, the role she was given, the task she had to accomplish in the test, was to resolve this distortion.

The goddess gently grasped Ren’s sword.

This cool yet warm sensation.

It was her beloved sword, long forgotten.

Pajijik

The sword, which had initially repelled her with its power because it was grasped by someone other than its master, read her will and quietly accepted her.

-Kieeeek

Numerous monsters, discovering that she had grasped the sword, swarmed towards her.

[Swing the sword]

The intangible force emanating from the sword tried to move her body.

A combat tutorial to assist in the first battle of the virtual reality game.

“No.”

The goddess unleashed the power of the sword, shattering all assistance.

“I don’t need it.”

She had already experienced this battlefield once.

She was not someone who would become dull from her time in the heavens.

Taat

The goddess swung the sword and struck the ground.

The moment she grasped the sword, her entire body was filled with magical power.

That power was enough to support her swift and strange movements.

-Kieek!

-Kick!

-Kurrurur…!

A straight line of radiance cutting through the numerous monsters.

The goddess at the forefront finally reached Knight Ren.

Boom!

There, in the past, she had been fighting the Elder Guardian with only the strength of her remaining hand, having lost her sword.

Though Knight Ren was stronger than the Elder Guardian, she was growing weaker.

The bleeding from the wounds she had sustained while helping others on the battlefield, and the massive blood loss from the recent severance, were eating away at her body.

[Save Knight Ren]

“You don’t have to tell me that.”

The goddess gripped her sword and intervened in the battle between the two strong warriors.

-Screech!

In a situation where victory was in sight, the Elder Guardian’s wings trembled with rage at the sudden appearance of a new powerful being.

Knight Ren looked slightly surprised but soon smiled and coordinated with the goddess, unleashing a barrage of attacks.

When Knight Ren blocked the Elder Guardian’s blade, the goddess slashed with her sword, and when the goddess blocked, Knight Ren crushed with her strength.

Despite meeting for the first time, their coordination was as seamless as if they were one body.

The Elder Guardian lasted only 30 seconds.

-Screech…

The shattered pieces of the Elder Guardian’s body scattered.

Rumble

As the top-tier entity, the Elder Guardian, died, all the monsters on the battlefield began to retreat.

The queen acknowledged the defeat in battle and issued a retreat order.

“Lieutenant! Do not pursue! Clean up the battlefield and tend to the wounded!”

As the supreme commander, Knight Ren issued several orders before approaching the goddess with a bright smile.

“Soldier! Your performance just now was outstanding. If it weren’t for your help, I would have been taken down by that disgusting monster!”

“……”

The goddess remained silent.

There were many things she wanted to say, but she couldn’t bring herself to speak.

Facing her past self brought too many emotions that overwhelmed her.

The goddess silently extended the sword she was holding.

“Hmm?”

Knight Ren looked at the sword and showed a slightly surprised expression.

“I thought it looked familiar, and it turns out it’s my sword. This is amazing. I never thought there would be anyone besides me who could wield this magic sword.”

Knight Ren reached out and grasped the sword.

Then she fell into thought for a moment.

“Come to think of it, it might be better for you to use it.”

“……What?”

“I lost my right hand, which I used as my main hand. But you haven’t. Considering your ability to handle this sword is as exceptional as mine, it would be better for you to use it, wouldn’t it?”

Knight Ren said this as she handed the sword back.

“Here, take it.”

The goddess reluctantly accepted the sword again.

Despite it being a cherished weapon that constituted a significant part of her strength, she handed it over to a soldier she had just met for the greater good of protecting humanity.

‘……Was I really such a person?’

It was such a stark contrast to herself, who had wasted time idly shut away in the divine realm.

* * *

After the battlefield was cleared, a strategy meeting was held in the general’s tent.

Originally, only high-ranking officers above the rank of lieutenant could attend, but the goddess, despite being a soldier, was dragged in by Knight Ren and sat in a secluded corner.

“With this battle, we have annihilated their main force and secured a key point that leads to the heart of their territory.”

Knight Ren unfolded a large map and began the briefing.

Her severed arm had already been replaced with a chrome-colored artificial arm made through alchemy.

“But they are like cells that function subordinately to a single entity. Just reducing their numbers won’t deal a proper blow to them. They will quickly regenerate their forces and come at us again.”

Knight Ren pointed to a red-circled area in the middle of the map with a long stick.

“We must kill the queen who commands and moves them to end the war.”

While the main force draws the attention of the monster army, an elite detachment will be deployed to assassinate the queen.

It was the same operation that had been carried out in her previous life, and she had succeeded in killing the queen and driving out the abyss.

‘Though the price was my life.’

In the final moment, she chose to sacrifice herself and perish together with the queen.

That noble act saved humanity and remained in history, allowing her to be revered as a goddess.

A completely different being from her incompetent self as a goddess.

That was Knight Ren.

“And the key to this operation is right here.”

Knight Ren’s finger pointed to a specific spot as she explained the operation.

All the generals, officers, and staff turned their gazes in that direction.

“Huh? …Me?”

At the tip of that finger sat the goddess Ren.