I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 43



The Curse of Knowledge

How fragile is the body of a human girl.

Just by touching a single magic sphere, it shatters into pieces, with limbs flying in all directions.

Crack

A mist of blood sprayed from the dismembered body of Muria-17-06, covering the girl’s face.

“Ah…”

The girl’s head froze in place.

Like a machine that had stopped functioning, she stood there with her mouth agape, denying reality in a daze.

This must be a dream.

There couldn’t be such a miserable and cruel reality.

“…What a nuisance.”

The lab director frowned.

One girl was an idiot. Another girl stupidly committed suicide.

In the end, he had to use that troublesome girl as the host.

He preferred the body of the girl who committed suicide.

“Tsk, there’s no other choice.”

Things would change once he ascended to godhood anyway.

He had no choice but to place restrictions just in case.

The lab director extended his hand forward and made a slight motion, causing an invisible hand to grab the girl and pull her towards him.

“Has her thinking stopped due to the shock?”

The lab director removed the gloves from his hands and placed his hand on the girl’s head.

Buzz

As he channeled his magic into his hand, it began to penetrate the girl’s brain, stirring it around as if wading through jelly.

“Actually, this is fine. It’s perfect for placing a restriction through a constraint.”

The massive magic circle that filled the sector gradually shrank and was engraved onto the girl’s body.

At the same time, blood spurted from the remains of Muria-17-06, which had turned into a lump of flesh, and entered her.

“Ahhh!”

The process of engraving extreme magic into an object, as if enchanting it, while manipulating the inside of the body.

The girl screamed in pain.

“It hurts! It hurts so much!”

Even she, who had endured countless experiments until now, could not withstand the engraving that manipulated even her soul.

“That one is useless now, so I’ll use it as material.”

The head researcher reached out to Muria-25-03, who had been crawling on the floor after falling off the back of Muria-17-06.

“Wait, stop! No! Please, no!”

In hellish pain, the girl desperately reached out to protect her friend.

Crack!

Even though her brain was destroyed, the girl, who had maintained a human form, turned into a handful of blood to be used as ink for the engraving.

“Three-three! … No… Even three-three… That can’t be…”

The girl couldn’t believe the reality in front of her.

They were all dead.

Because she had attempted to escape, all of them.

If they had stayed in the iron cage, this wouldn’t have happened.

It was all caused by her choice.

“No. If you had stayed, I would have incinerated all of you and started the next round of experiments. That’s why I’m grateful you came out of the cage. I don’t have much time left.”

“You! Youuu! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!”

“Rejoice, and be grateful, you worm. You are now becoming a god.”

The man laughed as if delighted by the girl’s anger, his hands buried deep in her head.

“The first god created by humans! And a god of wisdom, no less!”

Rumble

The ground shook as a mysterious energy enveloped the girl.

“All the conditions necessary for ascension to the constellation have been met!”

According to the research results so far, there are two conditions for the birth of a god.

Gathering divinity from the faith of sentient beings,

“Knowledge surpassing a certain threshold and various abilities to support it! A threat to the subject and the subject’s trials and tribulations! And finally.”

The head of the research institute looked down at the girl.

Her eyes, burning with anger, met his gaze.

“The completion of the narrative through overcoming hardships.”

“Dieee!!!”

Crash

At the same time, the girl’s telekinesis shattered the head of the research institute.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere from his shattered head.

…Dead.

The monster who bought me as a test subject and tormented me with countless modifications and experiments since I was a child.

The b*stard who brutally killed and tormented all my friends is dead.

“…Really?”

The magic circle stopped at the same time the head of the lab exploded.

The girl couldn’t believe it.

Is he really dead?

No matter how she looked, it was a headless corpse with no signs of life.

“He’s dead… He’s really dead… He’s dead…!”

Tears fell, one drop, then another.

“Ahhh!”

The girl collapsed to the floor, screaming.

It’s all my fault.

If only I hadn’t been there, or rather, if I had just died, they wouldn’t have disappeared without a trace!

If only they hadn’t met me!

“I’m sorry, everyone! I’m really sorry! Ahhh!”

But no matter how much she sobbed and pounded the ground, her friends did not come back to life.

In the empty space, only the girl’s screams echoed.

At that moment,

Wooong

The mysterious energy that had disappeared flooded back, filling the space around the girl.

“U…Uhh!?”

Blood spurted from the director’s corpse and entered her.

“…No.”

Only then did the girl understand why the director had died so easily, almost absurdly.

The director had intended to die by her hand from the beginning.

To become the villain of the narrative that would turn the girl into an artificial constellation and complete the final condition.

The girl had not succeeded in her revenge.

Rather… she had perfectly fulfilled the director’s plan.

“No… No! Stop!”

As the clouds thickened, the girl’s body slowly began to rise.

She tried to reject the divine clouds that enveloped her, but it was useless.

All the conditions had already been met, and the narrative was complete.

The girl ascended to a constellation.

* * *

When the girl came to her senses again, she found herself sitting somewhere in a dark room.

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The power she had gained upon being elevated to a god.

It was the ability to perceive everything on the continent of Laiphania and internalize all the knowledge belonging to the continent.

Thanks to this, the girl knew she had ascended to the heavens.

To think that the director’s research all this time had been about artificially creating a god.

Using the entire research facility and even himself as sacrifices.

Having lost her beloved friends and her target of revenge, and realizing that the director’s wish had been fulfilled, the girl sat in a daze, stunned for a long time.

Then, she suddenly thought.

If it were the power of a god.

Could she not bring back Sam-Sam and Yuk-Yuk?

She searched for a way to revive her friends, not with the knowledge of her human days, but by mobilizing all her divine powers.

The resurrection of the undead through black magic.

It was a common occurrence across the continent.

This won’t do. Their bodies aren’t even left, and she couldn’t turn them into undead.

The power to turn illusions into reality through the power of gods from another dimension.

There are records of this happening several times during the previous mythological era.

This won’t do either. Borrowing the power of gods from another dimension? Who knows what those foreign gods might do. The endings of those who made contracts with foreign gods in the records were never happy.

Lastly,

Condensing the faith of those who have been forgotten to create a constellation.

This is possible.

Already, many of the constellations were reborn as gods through deification in epic tales after their deaths.

If she could create and spread an epic for Sam-Sam and Yuk-Yuk, they might be able to resurrect!

The girl, filled with joy, stood up.

Then,

Thud!

-You must not waste your power as a constellation on useless things.

“Eek!”

Something large struck the girl’s head violently.

In that pain, the girl screamed and collapsed.

“What, what is this…?”

-You are the god I created.

-Follow my commands.

The voices of dozens of researchers overlapped and echoed in her head.

“You… you died… but why!”

The voice of the researcher repeatedly suppressed the girl’s actions.

As if some of her actions were harmful to herself, it suppressed certain behaviors.

Whenever the girl tried to leave the area or interact with other gods, the voice echoed and blocked her.

Under the voice, the only things the girl was allowed to do were to use the power of wisdom and knowledge, and to earn divinity through apostles.

Even if the girl followed the voice, the situation was not much different.

Even if the girl did nothing, the voice periodically echoed, constricting and taming her mind.

The voice of a dead human endlessly tormented the living god.

Through her power, the girl found a way to eliminate this voice.

The researcher left behind a shackle called a curse to tame and maintain his greatest masterpiece, the artificial constellation.

It was created to suppress a god, maintained through special conditions and constraints.

Since the researcher had planned and created the god from the beginning, he could implant the curse through a pre-engraving.

The condition and constraint that supplied and maintained the power of this curse was the knowledge of the subject.

The more knowledge the subject had about the continent, the stronger the curse became.

Even an ordinary human, let alone a sage, cannot make this curse so strong.

However, for the girl who possessed the power of knowledge and wisdom and had come to know everything about the continent, it was powerful enough to bind a god.

In fact, it was because she had the power of knowledge that she could not break the curse of knowledge.

To break this curse, knowledge from another world, an otherworldly dimension, was needed.

“No… stop it…”

But the voice of the lab director, repeating in the curse of knowledge, did not allow her to seek the otherworldly knowledge.

In the end, the girl had no choice but to struggle to forget this pain.

Creak, creak

Through actions that reminded her of happy memories from the past, she tried to forget the present,

Hoping that someone with knowledge from another dimension would come and break her curse,

Waiting for the day a prince would appear and save her.

Swish

At that moment, the girl’s terrible nightmare was split in half.

“I’m sorry, my lord.”

Through the crack in that space, a black-haired boy reached out a hand to her.

“I’m really sorry for making you repeat such painful memories.”

The girl blankly took the boy’s hand.

“I think I can break these shackles.”

With the boy’s pull, the girl rose out of the realm of the constellation that had imprisoned her for an eternity.

“Will you stay with me for a moment? I’m going to break these shackles right now.”

A hazy world of dreams.

A world of pleasure, tangled with giant neon signs and concrete jungles.

A world she did not know, a world she had never seen even with the power of a god, unfolded before her.

With the knowledge beyond, to unravel the long curse of knowledge.