The Long awaited Contract

The request seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then a flood of them poured in.

[A sponsorship request exists.]
[A sponsorship request exists.]
[A sponsorship request exists.]
[A sponsorship request exists…]
No…
‘What on earth is this?’
A sponsorship request?
As far as I know, there was no such function in the starry sky.
‘I-is it a scam?’
Come to think of it, the Administrator said something about a swindler couple, so could it be that this guy had threatened the Constellations of the starry sky and sent me something he had extorted?
But the Administrator has to be impartial?
Is this ba… no, is this guy crazy?
I opened one of the sponsorship requests with a slightly trembling hand.
It was a request that was sparkling with a particularly pink color.

[Sponsorship Request: The Seventeenth Love]
Hello. It was quite fun last time. I got a disciplinary action from the Administrator, but I’m going to let it go for now. Since the other sponsors will just send coins and be done with it, I’m going to explain it to you. Because even if you’re a top-tier Constellation-nim, you’re a complete baby.
The starry sky is in an uproar right now. I don’t know if you know, but two high-ranking Constellations have either died or are in a state no different from being dead.

The lowest-ranking Constellations have become star sand and are about to lose their identities by mixing with each other. If this continues, the contracts of all the Awakeners who have contracted with these Constellations will be terminated, so we’re preventing that by cramming them into glass bottles. It’s fine up to the mid-rank Constellations, but the ones below that have become star-gazers. Do you know what that is? They’re like zombies that crave starlight. A zombie apocalypse has broken out in the starry sky.

So we decided that we couldn’t take any more losses and decided to leave Earth…
But if we leave like this, it’s no different from killing the top-tier Constellation, the Silent Calamity-nim, and even the high-ranking Constellations will all turn into star sand and writhe.
So, according to a smooth agreement with the Administrator, we have opened a new function.
From now on, all our support belongs to the Silent Calamity-nim.
Please take care of us.
Please come up to the starry sky as soon as possible. So that we can escape from ‘it’.
P.S. Please show us an amazing love too.

• Sponsored Item: 2,000,000 coins

Hmm…
Hmmmm…
Hmmmmmm…
I understand that the situation in the starry sky is serious.
But my gaze was directed at the sparkling golden coin at the very bottom, rather than the long, long text of this sponsorship document.

1. Sponsored Item: 2,000,000 coins

Two hundred.
Not 200.
2 ‘million’ coins.
Although he was a surprisingly rich Constellation, I didn’t expect him to just throw this much, so I covered my mouth for a moment.
I hurriedly checked the other requests as well.
Although they weren’t as long as The Seventeenth Love’s, and there were some requests full of curses, they all sent a considerable amount of coins.
Starting from a small 100,000 coins, up to 1.5 million coins…
There were a few that said they had completely emptied their entire fortune and were crying, but in the face of the overwhelming amount, I couldn’t help but gape.
In the meantime, there was no Constellation who had sent more coins than The Seventeenth Love.
‘Love, I love you.’
It might seem like a lame dad joke, but there was no more appropriate word to describe my feelings right now.
And so, the coins that were gathered…
Were a total of 33.4 million.
That’s right.
It was more than enough to pay for Yeon Taeseon’s contract fee…!
‘I-is this the taste of money.’
The sweet, jingling sound pierced my ears.
At this moment, I didn’t care about the situation I was in or anything else.
As I was trembling with so much joy, the jewel crow looked at me as if I were a crazy Constellation.
But it can’t be helped.
I immediately sent a contract request to Yeon Taeseon.
The scenario I had sent before would be automatically canceled, but since it was a cancellation, not a failure, it didn’t really matter.
I was now a f*cking awesome Constellation with 130 million coins.
I examined the sacred artifact again with my Sun’s Eye.
I could see Yeon Taeseon, with blood on his chiseled face, fighting a chaotic battle with some humans.
Ah, those aren’t humans, but parasites.
Anyway.
Even though a Regressor is no match for numbers, he was full of fatigue even as he diligently cut down the parasites.
The corpses of the parasites, which had already died and had white tentacles sprouting from them, were piled up like a mountain nearby.
In Yeon Taeseon’s arms was a child named Mina.
Seeing her pale eyes, she must be a parasite too.
I finished my deduction of the story of the world inside the sacred artifact.
And I immediately sent a contract request.

[You can contract with this Awakener.]
[Warning! This is a Regressor!]
[A huge amount of coins is expected to be consumed upon contract.]
[100 million coins will be consumed.]
[Are you sure you want to proceed?]
It was a long-awaited moment.
A contract with a Regressor.
What more is there to say?
Of course, it’s YES.
The moment I nodded, a snow-white light burst out, so bright that it momentarily blinded my Sun’s Eye.

[The Administrator’s Special Chance!]
[This message is being sent with the unanimous consent of all the Constellations who are active in the starry sky.]
[The Administrator’s special shop will be revamped ^.^)]

The time inside the sacred artifact flows faster than in reality.
Many things had happened in that time.
First, Yeon Taeseon had defeated a mutant owlbear that was loitering around Lee Hyeono’s camp and had awakened one more of the Laws of All Changes.
The camp became safe.
At least for a while.
Lee Hyeono expressed his gratitude to him, and Yeon Taeseon left that camp.
Because he had to find the princess as soon as possible so that his Constellation could intervene here.
He went through a few more camps.
The Silent Calamity did not answer after that.
He didn’t know if she had something to do, or if the communication had been cut off because the parasites had eaten more of the starlight.
Three months passed.
News came that Lee Hyeono’s camp was the only one left in Seoul.
Kim Seoah had established herself as a rather symbolic existence, playing the role of a legion by herself.
Yeon Taeseon had destroyed a few camps.
They were places that had violated human rights under the cover of chaos, and there were, of course, many parasites in such places.
Two more months passed.
He had located the place where the princess was while exterminating the parasites.
Absurdly, it was Busan.
Yeon Taeseon had to travel from Seoul to Busan, breaking through all sorts of monsters and unethical groups.
The wounds on his body increased.
The king just smiled and watched.
Even though he had reached S-rank with just his physical abilities, an Awakener without a unique skill had a hard time.
One more month passed.
Six of the Laws of All Changes had awakened.
Yeon Taeseon had arrived in Busan.
And after searching the complicated city as if with a fine-tooth comb, he was able to see the ‘princess’ in the form of a middle-aged man.
“Kill him!”
The princess sensed his killing intent and ordered his subordinates.
Busan had become a den of parasites.
Even the monsters had the pale eyes of a parasite, so Yeon Taeseon had to face a whole city alone.
He was inevitably injured.
One of the Laws of All Changes did not awaken.
“We are one of seven, tweet.”
“We have to be seven to show our true performance! Tweet.”
“Before that, we’re just six cute weapons. Tweet.”
If only all of the Laws of All Changes had awakened, the battle would not have lasted for a month.
At the very least, if he had been able to contact the Silent Calamity, he would not have starved.
Nevertheless, he swung the Laws of All Changes and cut down and crushed all the approaching parasites.
The immature days of blaming others had long passed.
“I’m tired…”
“Get some sleep!”
“What do you trust me with?”
“Well, I was just saying.”
Mina, who was still by his side, smiled mischievously.
Even though the king could have stopped the princess, he had left her alone, and had even revealed Yeon Taeseon’s location at times.
He hadn’t known that killing one princess would be this hard.
‘…This is the first time I’ve been jealous of a unique skill.’
If only he had a unique skill by making a contract, it wouldn’t have been this hard.
Yeon Taeseon left Mina to play with the parasites far away and tried to take a nap.
He tried to.

[The Constellation, the Silent Calamity, proposes a contract.]
[Will you make a contract?]
If it weren’t for the golden window that made him doubt his eyes, he would have done so.
‘…What?’
That was the first thought that came to his dazed mind.
The scenario was not completed.
But what is this contract request?
Even as Yeon Taeseon was contemplating, the golden window continued to flicker.
As if to say, ‘Shut up and accept it’.

[Will you make a contract?]
[Will you make a contract?]
[Will you make a contract?]
He was full of questions.
There were a mountain of unresolved issues.
But, Yeon Taeseon was too tired from the past half-year.
…And he missed the Constellation he was connected to.

[Congratulations!]
[The contractor Yeon Taeseon acquires the ‘unique skill: The Specter of the Past’!]