Sapphire Auction House (7)

Of course, the situation is different from Daisy’s.
I don’t have a gear, which is a fragment of a Constellation, and I don’t have my own fallen soul fragment.
And besides, this place is the future of Earth that has already disappeared.
It’s true that it’s very difficult now, like a kite with a broken string.
‘But that’s limited to having a complete body like Daisy.’
So if it’s a being like a summoned beast that has abandoned its body and left only its ‘ability’…
I thought it would work out if I did it right.
I took my eyes off Yeon Taeseon for a moment and looked elsewhere.
I, the Constellation of the sacred artifact, couldn’t swallow it even if my mouth was torn, so I could really play the role of a Constellation of the starry sky here.
Meaning, all I can do is send system messages and observe.
…I didn’t know because I was in the lower world, but this is really inconvenient.
‘Let’s see, I need to find the survivors.’
This is the world before Yeon Taeseon’s regression.
Looking at it, it seemed like an apocalypse.
Since all the Constellations had fallen, it was a typical apocalypse where some of the powerful people were struggling to feed the group of survivors by getting food from monsters.
I scanned the survivors within Yeon Taeseon’s range of movement with my Sun’s Eye.
Of course, I went through some selection.
“Is this all the food you have?”
The thugs that are everywhere in an apocalypse were of course a pass.
“Hahahaha! Haha! Uwahahaha!”
Some crazy murderer was also a pass.
“Unni…”
“It’s okay, they said there’s a camp a little further.”
My heart ached, but the older sister and younger sibling were also a pas—
‘Wait a minute.’
I took a closer look at the one who was called ‘unni’.
A cute face, though dirty.
Round features.
This familiar appearance is…
‘Isn’t it Seoah?’
It was Seoah, who had recently joined our guild’s 2nd team.
Judging by the fact that I couldn’t feel the aura of a Constellation, it seemed that this child’s Constellation had also fallen.
Meaning, she was a normal person with just strong physical strength now.
And her ability to sense presences was so excellent that her skill in avoiding monsters while protecting a child was amazing.
She said she didn’t have a younger sibling, so it must be a child she rescued from somewhere.
‘Should I follow her for a bit.’
Yeon Taeseon will find a way to defeat the calamity in the guise of a crow in the sky on his own, so I decided to look away for a moment.
I also had to pick out some useful personnel from the survivor camp.
Seoah held her breath and skillfully avoided the monsters among the ruined structures.
Even though it wasn’t a simple gate break, and even though the monsters had appeared because the Constellations had disappeared, she made no mistakes.
‘I really want her.’
She was so capable that I was resentful that I hadn’t found Seoah earlier and had her snatched away by another Constellation.
‘Seoah doesn’t have a Constellation right now, so if I make a contract with her…’

[This is a contract breaker.]
[10,000 coins are required for a contract.]
Just then, a system window floated up before my eyes.
…What?
‘I’m inside a sacred artifact, but I can make a contract?’
No, of course, it would be a one-time contract.
Making a contract here wouldn’t change the Constellation of the Seoah in the Nate Guild to the ‘Silent Calamity’.
So this system window is asking, ‘Will you burn 10,000 coins for a one-time contract?’
‘Why am I even hesitating? YES.’
I am a cheapskate Constellation with nearly 100 million coins right now.
So I can burn about 10,000 coins to see the potential of a capable person.

[A contract proposal has been sent.]
At the same time, I heard Seoah gasp.
“There was a living Constellation…?”
Seoah’s eyes widened, and then tears began to stream down.
The child next to her was flustered, saying, “Unni, what’s wrong?” but Seoah just held the child and continued to cry.
After crying silently for a long time, Seoah answered without any hesitation, as if it were a matter of course.

[The contract has been concluded.]
[The contractor Kim Seoah acquires the ‘unique skill: The Eternal and Fluffy Kingdom’!]
Uh, hmm.
The skill name was pretty cute.
It’s a more upgraded name than the skill name she had before, so has her grade gone up too?
But she seemed to be the same puppeteer.
‘Should I give her a gift?’
I thought about it for a moment, and then I realized that I still had the item I had won at the auction.
[The Queen’s Sewing Kit] and [Infinite Cloth].
I began to make various dolls by controlling the two items with my magic.
Originally, it’s better if the puppeteer herself makes them, but I’m a Constellation.
There’s no way the effect would be inferior to that of a human puppeteer.
In the meantime, Seoah held the child with a confident face.
“Mina, unni is going to run really fast now.”
“Fast? How fast?”
“Have you been to an amusement park, Mina? Did you ride a really fast ride there?”
“Yeah. Is it that fast?”
“It’ll be even faster.”
“Wow!”
Saying to hold on tight, Seoah hugged Mina.
Ududuk…
The asphalt floor full of fragments crumpled.
At the same time, with a bang!, Seoah was shot forward.
Literally ‘shot’ forward.
Seoah, who had jumped over three buildings in one step, continued to move forward.
She checked the direction from the rooftop of a broken building and ran towards the survivor camp, where a faint light was twinkling.
KWANG!
“W-what?”
“An attack! An attack!”
The survivors who were on watch moved busily.
Seoah, who had fallen from the sky, shouted without a moment’s hesitation.
“A survivor! I’m a survivor!”
Then the other side also answered without hesitation, with a nervous air.
“We don’t have the capacity to accept any more weak people!”
It was a rather desperate voice.
When I glanced at the camp, there were old people and children, but not many.
It seemed they had chosen to live a long and thin life, protecting only a minimum.
But our Kim Seoah had a powerful weapon.
“I.”
As if overwhelmed, or as if giving hope.
The young Awakener said.
“I have a Constellation!”
At those words, the presence in the camp, which had been moving busily, stopped, and then a murmuring sound was heard.
“A Constellation?”
“Weren’t all those Constellations dead?”
“There’s a remaining Constellation?”
In an era where the Constellations had disappeared and unidentified monsters were rampant.
All the Constellations in the world had disappeared or had fallen from grace and vanished.
The Constellation War, unlike its ridiculous name, was a disaster itself for humans.
Just then, a soldier who seemed to be the leader of the camp came out and said.
“If you’re a contractor, show me proof! Use your unique skill, not your physical ability!”
Hmm, a unique skill.
Seoah was flustered at those words.
Well, she must have known the moment she made the contract.
That her skill is a puppeteer type.
Before the world became like this, puppeteers were a despised class in this world.
So if she revealed it, she would be kicked out, being told she was ‘useless’.
She must be thinking that.
“Doll legion.”
“Pik.”
“Go.”
“Piiik.”
The three giant dolls and the small teddy bears that had been created with a “pikkuk-pikkuk” sound lined up, and then they turned into jewels behind my back and disappeared.
I put them into the sacred artifact.
Me.
At the same same time, the scene unfolding before my eyes changed.
The starry sky opened up in the sky, and with a thump!, the dolls began to pour out.
Pik, pikkuk, piik.
With cute sounds, the dolls that fell to the floor quickly lined up and knelt on one knee as if to pledge their loyalty to Seoah.
And, thump!
The three house-sized dolls came out last and, like the other dolls, knelt on one knee towards Seoah.
“…”
Seoah opened her mouth wide.
I sent a message so she wouldn’t misunderstand.

[The Constellation, ‘The Silent Calamity’, sends a legion of knights to the fluffy queen.]
This is my gift.
Only then did Seoah realize.
That the Constellation she had contracted with was an unbelievably powerful Constellation.
Swallowing the tears that were about to come out again, Seoah said confidently.
“I.”
Even if it was the despised puppeteer, would you refuse to accept me, with my overwhelming number of dolls?
“Am a puppeteer!”
The confident and powerful puppeteer contractor requested to join the camp.

“I wondered what you were doing.”
From a distance, Yeon Taeseon muttered as he looked at the camp with his Starlight Eye.
“Kim Seoah was alive. I didn’t know that. By the way, that direction is…”
Isn’t that where that stubborn ‘soldier’ is?
Even before the regression, I thought I was going to die of frustration when I got involved with that guy, but to think she’s going in that direction.
“…Should I go too?”
But all of that was just cute now.
As someone who had tasted destruction once, he could easily overlook something as frustrating as that.
So it would be good to watch what his Constellation was doing up close.
Yeon Taeseon took a step.
One of the seven Laws of All Changes in his arms sparkled and then disappeared.