The Golden Bead

In fact, it was a message that stated they would retrieve only one Constellation from the lower world and flee.
A message that was simultaneously scattered all over the world, as if to say that there would be no reversal.
Naturally, the world stopped as if its breath had been taken away.
And soon, an explosive doomsday theory began to rush in.
And I…
“What?”
I was at a loss for words.
“Is the Administrator crazy?”
After barely managing to get Yeon Taeseon out, now the Administrator is making a fuss.
Of course, it’s not that I don’t understand.
The Tilted Nebula is a disaster that even the Administrator can’t do anything about.
To save even one Constellation, it’s right to run away quickly.
‘But if that includes me, the story changes a little…’
This world is originally my home.
Although I took a strange route of Earth (human) – another world – Earth (Constellation), in any case, my roots are here.
To abandon this place, ascend to the starry sky, and run away with my tail between my legs?
I absolutely disliked it.
“…Am I dreaming?”
“Did you wake up, Taeseon? Unfortunately, this is reality.”
Yeon Taeseon blinked with a tired face.
I don’t know how long he spent inside the sacred artifact, but a strange message must have appeared before the eyes of the guy who must have spent a considerable amount of time there.
I felt a little sorry for that.

“It was an opinion decided by a majority vote, but it’s for your own good first.”
‘Shut up.’

“I’m sorry. But please at least give an answer.”
The Administrator did not speak to me again after that.
It was a relief.
I was really going to block him if he spoke again.
As if to replace the Administrator’s message, a megaphone-shaped system window appeared before my eyes.

[Press the button to send your answer!]
It was written in tiny letters at the bottom.
I put a phone in Yeon Taeseon’s hand so that he could come to his senses and grasp the situation, then took a deep breath and pressed the megaphone’s button.
My words would probably be heard by all the Awakeners as well.
And to the starry sky, it would seem like a childish tantrum or a forced act.
But this is the world I have lived in, and I didn’t want to ascend and leave as if I were running away.

[I declare.]
[The Constellation, ‘The Silent Calamity’, proclaims to the starry sky and the world.]
[I have no intention of leaving this place.]
[Nor will I escape through ascension.]
[You cowards! Come down and fight right now!]
“No, why is this filtering like this?”
To be precise, it was ‘You cowards, hurry the fck down and fck and fck and fcking f*ck’, but the system window had filtered it very cutely, as if to preserve the dignity of a Constellation.
I was dissatisfied, but considering the Administrator who had to think about his image, well…
…But does the Administrator even care about his image?
Anyway, with this, my will must have been clearly conveyed to the starry sky.
If you’re going to leave, go by yourselves.

[A message has arrived.]
[A message has arrived.]
[A message has arrived.]
[A message has arriv…]
As expected, as soon as I showed my will, messages mixed with curses and criticism began to arrive.
It was basically saying, ‘If you don’t come, we’ll all die, and we can’t leave either’.
I blocked all the Constellations.
Seeing them get angry like this, I wondered what the difference was between Constellations and humans.
“Yeon Taeseon, have you finished grasping the situation?”
“It’s not the Ruins, but the Nebula? Is this also a variable?”
“I guess so. First, let’s go to Korea… before that.”
Hmm.
I thought again.
This is an auction house.
No one can come in.
And now is an emergency.
…So, ‘borrowing’ all the auction house’s items should be considered extenuating circumstances, right?

“Don’t push!”
Meanwhile, the Nate Guild in Korea.
This place was now full of people.
As soon as the Nate Guild announced that they were accepting evacuees, almost everyone flocked with their various daily necessities and families, to the point where safety accidents were a concern.
“Oh oh! They’re falling!”
“Daisy-nim!”
Just as the balance was lost and people were about to fall over in a group.
Their bodies stopped in mid-air, and then, as if time had been reversed, they stood up straight in their places.
Only one safety officer and general supervisor was floating in the air, supervising them, but since that safety officer and general supervisor was Daisy Rune, not a single scratch was tolerated.
“Who pushed, you f*cker!”
“F*cker?”
The human who had cursed and had no sense of community was pulled out by Daisy as if he were pulling a radish and teleported far away.
It meant that you are not qualified to enter our shelter.
Although he didn’t touch the things that were said casually or out of habit, he heard the words and curses mixed with malice like a ghost and pulled them out.
Daisy’s judgment, who had once led a huge camp in a world that was being destroyed by the Tilted Nebula, was not wrong.
Even if the end of the camp was a failure.
“But can the Nate Guild’s basement accommodate all these people…?”
A young man muttered.
No matter how big the Nate Guild was, even if the training halls that guilds usually use are large, it seemed impossible to accommodate the people who were close to a thousand at a glance.
Although it was said that space expansion magic was cast, it was a fact that ordinary people could not easily gauge.
A worry that they might have to sleep squeezed together with people in a narrow training hall came to them.
It was a well-fed worry that they could have because they still didn’t know what destruction was.
“Daisy-nim! The basement tents are almost full!”
“Already?”
As expected, Daisy made a troubled face at the guild staff’s words.
He had expanded the space as much as possible, and the size was about five times that of the original underground training hall, but it was already full.
‘If Seonibaek were here…’
What’s five times.
It wouldn’t be strange to build a whole country underground.
As he was licking his lips in disappointment, the Nate Guild Leader returned from a distance.
Was his name Han Sion?
He was said to be Seonibaek’s first contractor, and he was a rather unpleasant opponent because he had a great interest in Seonibaek for a contractor.
Of course, since his humanity was good, he didn’t do things like ostracize people with jealousy in this era, like that Lilac.
“What’s the situation?”
“We’re accepting evacuees. Because it’s certain that the Constellations have abandoned us. Even if Seonibaek said she won’t go…”
“How many have come in?”
“Currently, 678 people have been confirmed.”
Daisy and the staff answered Han Sion’s question.
About 700 people had entered, but there were still many left.
Han Sion’s face became serious as he estimated the number of people.
“The food is…”
“We’ve scraped together everything we have. They say it’s enough for a thousand people to eat for 3 years.”
“I was reported that the space was expanded with magic, but if it’s still not enough… Vice-Guild Leader.”
Baek Jiye lifted her head.
The tower floating in the sky was still quiet, but it was no different from a time bomb that could go off at any moment.
Han Sion asked Baek Jiye to help Daisy expand the space in the basement.
Just as Baek Jiye was disappearing with a resolute face.
“What’s that?”
An anomaly occurred.
“A bead?”
“It’s sparkling?”
“Isn’t that… the Constellation who hasn’t given up?”
The people were murmuring.
Because a golden bead was suddenly falling from the sky.
It was smaller than a bean to the naked eye, but its sparkling presence was stronger than anything else.
So much so that ordinary people who knew nothing gained hope as soon as they saw it.
“Look! The tower is disappearing!”
Soon after, the upside-down, translucent tower began to gradually become more transparent.
The people, not knowing what was going on, let out a cheer.
“That golden bead defeated the tower!”
A young child, who knew nothing, looked at the bead as if he were looking at a hero.
Now that it was all over, the people were relieved on their own.

“I…”
Just then, a voice like a disgusting noise was heard.

“I─── am…”
A tearing sound like a fingernail scratching on iron.
A hoarse voice as if screaming.
A sharp sound of glass shattering.
A voice that seemed to be a mixture of all of them, a voice that stimulated the fundamental basis of a human.
It echoed in their heads.

“Distorted…”
“Don’t listen!”
KWAAAAAANG!
In an instant, a huge impact and a wave of something colliding occurred.
A woman who looked like she was wearing a butterfly-like dress, with her white hair fluttering, was flying in the air.
It was the Silent Calamity, Lee Seonbaek.
She had quickly flown to Korea with spatial movement and had spread a mental protection barrier first.
Because if they directly heard the name that ‘they’ were introducing themselves with, a large number of people could faint or die of shock without being able to do anything.
Although she had only been able to spread the barrier over a part of Seoul because she was in such a hurry, even that had saved the lives of tens of thousands of people.