The Guide Raid (6)

‘Constellation-nim, this is really amazing.’
Cheon Sanho’s words flowed into my mind.
Wadadadadak… The black crystals extending towards my contractors and me were shattered by shining hands.
Cheon Sanho’s second ability.
‘Divine Touch’ was the polar opposite of the dark attribute.
The problem was that the ability only worked on the dark attribute.

‘Another person’s body feels like my own, and, uh, I don’t know what to say…’
‘Cheon Sanho, focus.’
‘I’m doing well!’
As Cheon Sanho shattered the minor attacks with his Divine Touch, Yeon Taeseon stepped on the crystal fragments and rose into the air.
A large hammer from his inventory crashed into the slime’s head with a roar.

‘Insolent thing.’
‘Call me by my name. Nate Guild Leader.’
But the two of them were in perfect sync.
Realizing that the hammer was not only difficult to break the hard outer shell with, but also that the outer shell was thicker than they thought, they decided to change their method.
Kaang!
Sion’s sword shattered with a sharp sound.
The shining fragments that rose into the air were embedded vertically in the center of the slime.
Through his training, Sion had acquired the skill of not throwing away the fragments of Stardust, but controlling them and creating them into new forms.
It was simple but powerful.
Yeon Taeseon, who had dodged the sharp crystals that suddenly sprouted from the slime’s outer shell, must have received Sion’s thoughts, as he swung his hammer at the vertically embedded fragments.
KWANG!
One fragment was deeply embedded.
KWANG!
The second fragment was also deeply embedded.
KWANG!
As the third fragment was embedded, the slime’s body began to crack vertically.
“Uwoooo…”
The slime, whose body was in an abnormal state, began to wriggle and sparkle.
The light scattered like a suncatcher was imbued with mana.
Jiye caught it and reverse-engineered the magic.
Pzzzzzt… KWAGWAGWAGWAGWANG!!
A five-colored explosion of light erupted around the contractors.
But none of it reached them.
Five barriers were cast in an instant, protecting them, and by interfering with the slime’s skill, they had made it explode before its impact point.
In conclusion, although some fragments flew, no one was hurt.
KAANG!
The fifth fragment was embedded in the slime.
The slime was now about half-cracked.
There were times when Yeon Taeseon was grazed by the irregularly sprouting crystals, but Seona healed him immediately.
There was a sticky poison on the black crystals, but she had even healed that cleanly.
Long-range healing was a rather high-level skill, and to even heal poison.
She was indeed a worthy disciple of Emily.
And I was recording this scene on the body cam of the Crow Guild Leader, who I had propped up.
“…”
This damn Guild Leader had pissed himself and passed out, so I was a little reluctant to touch him, but I had to record this scene.
The body cams of the guild members who had been consumed by Han Siyoon’s darkness were all cracked.
And we must not forget that we were not only raiding a dungeon but also undergoing a ‘grade stability test’.
If there is evidence that the Crow guild members were neutralized and only the Nate Guild defeated the boss, the association will officially confirm our grade, no matter what the Crow Guild says.
Apart from the prior agreement between Crow and Nate.
‘Even if not, Hong Yuon would probably make it so.’
If anyone objects even after seeing this scene, I, more than Hong Yuon, will deliver divine punishment.
The slime sparkled once more.
An explosion erupted, but this time too, it couldn’t reach them.
Rather, Sion used that explosion as a propellant and climbed onto the slime.
He once again activated Stardust on the vaguely cracked area and embedded a blade.
The crack in the slime’s body grew larger and larger.
Poisoned crystal fragments rained down to the floor.
‘Ah, the Crow guild members.’
I felt a little sorry, but I once again bound the Crow guild members with a stigma and dragged them around me.
Poisoned crystal fragments fell where they had been.
Hmm, even if they are Crow guild members, it’s better to get them all out alive.
For the smooth rank-up of our guild…
It was then.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak–!”
A sharp scream rang out.
From the vertically cracked area of the crystal slime, a black, tar-like liquid gushed out.
Dozens of conversations flashed through my mind in an instant.
Seona, who had received instructions from Yeon Taeseon and Han Sion, activated a wide-area healing.
The tar thinned a little, but it was not enough.
Kaddeudeuk…
White bones began to be visible through the tar.
It was the trace of the wing that had sprouted from Han Siyoon’s heart.
Sion, who had been continuously creating cracks on top of the slime, quickly took out another spare sword and activated Stardust.
When he struck the wing with the sword, the S-rank sharpness cut through the wing.
But that was the problem.
The feathers that had scattered from the skeleton in an instant turned into steel and poured down on the fainted Crow guild members.
For a moment, it was as if time had stopped.

“You might be able to ascend to the starry sky next year.”
With the Administrator’s words, my Constellation’s instincts told me what to do in this situation.
I opened my mouth and exhaled.
Starlight flowed out with my breath and reached everyone here.

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, bestows a blessing.]
[Target 34 people]
[The Constellations of 28 of the blessed targets are hostile.]
[The blessing is halved!]
Pabababak…!
Thump, thud, drip…
Blood flowed between the pouring steel feathers.
A blessing was a temporary effect that granted what a Constellation desired, and since it could also be applied to the contractors of other Constellations, it was a reality that it was a little weak.
The blessing I had just given everyone was [Protection], but it was halved for the Crow guild members, so the feathers eventually pierced their flesh.
‘Seona!’
Thanks to the starlight of my blessing, the feathers soon gradually disappeared, but the bleeding didn’t stop.
I urgently squeezed Seona and made her spam healing.
The Crow guild members can’t die here.
Thump…
The large, severed wing that had been slowly falling landed on the floor.
The emaciated wing, having shed all its feathers, was quite disgusting.
KWANG!
Just then, Yeon Taeseon embedded the last piece into the boss.
The wing, which had been lying on the floor like a corpse, twitched.

[Blessing lifted]
[The stigma ‘The Way of the Condemned’ is opened.]
I quickly bound the wing with a stigma.
As soon as my starlight touched it, the bone wing writhed as if having a seizure and tried to be absorbed back into the slime.
‘Where do you think you’re going!’
The stigma bound the wing as if to break it.
The stronger I bound it, the stronger the starlight that sparked from my fingers became.
My body couldn’t withstand it.
The five people, who had keenly felt the state of their Constellation due to the influence of the stigma and blessing, became urgent.
“Frontliners! Scatter!”
At Jiye’s shout, Yeon Taeseon and Han Sion instantly scattered to the left and right.
They tore off the walls of the cavity and created a giant pickaxe that seemed to reach the ceiling.
The shape was a little strange, but as its grade rose to S+, the Crystal Queen Slime had become more like a rock than a slime.
Jiye, who was calculating as if her head would burn from casting telekinesis and gravity magic at the same time, raised her fist and struck.
KWANG!
The pickaxe struck the boss slime.
KWANG!
A roar echoed as if to burst the eardrums.
KWANG!
The boss slime’s head split open大きく.
KWANG!
The boss screamed.
The baby slimes rushed towards Jiye, and the scattered Yeon Taeseon quickly retreated to the rear and deflected the slimes.
Cheon Sanho also crushed the slimes with his Divine Touch.
And soon.
KWANG.
Jjeojeojeok…
As the pickaxe struck one last time, the slime split apart, spewing out a gurgling black tar.
Han Sion jumped into the tar.

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, bestows a blessing.]
[Target 1 person]
Han Sion, who had received all the starlight blessing I could exhale, disappeared into the black tar.
The poison in the tar didn’t matter.
The [Starlight Protection] I had just cast was a blessing so powerful that it could inflict no damage unless the attacker was a Constellation.
It was temporary, and it took a heavy toll on my body, but I trusted my first contractor.
And not long after, the gurgling tar stopped.
A faint grinding sound was heard.
The writhing wing stopped.
I released the stigma that was enveloping the wing.
The slime stopped all movement.
For a moment, everything became quiet.
Splatter.
From between the black liquid, the blackened Sion staggered out.
In his hand, a core the size of a child’s head, like a black opal, was shining.

[Name: Han Siyoon Lv.98]
It was his brother, transformed into a slime’s core.
Sion, who had staggered over, knelt before me and held out the living jewel.
“For you…”
I reached out my hand and accepted it.
In the distance, a blue gate was visible.
It was the escape gate, signifying the success of the raid.