Combined Effort

The red, single-eyed pupil in the sky split into thousands.
Daisy Rune felt the starlight enveloping his body and did his best to disrupt his location.

“It’s a mana storage scroll. You know how to teleport, right?”
“Of course. Mana was the problem, but your mana is both pure and plentiful.”

With the help of the Silent Calamity, Seonibaek Lin, he was now traversing the entire world.
His vision changed in an instant.
One moment it was a lush forest, the next inside a glacial crevasse, and he even nearly dipped his foot in lava.
It was quite arduous, but he had to keep moving to confuse the thousands of eyes.
Of course, he saw some interesting things in the process.
“Oh, ‘The Seventeenth Love’!”
People shrouded in a pink mist were cutting down the occasionally appearing doppelgangers and the golden angels that manifested as they were.
The interesting part was that they were non-Awakeners.
With human bodies, they were slicing down the apostles sent by Distorted Revenge.

• The Seventeenth Love is doing that?

Seonibaek also seemed surprised.

• No wonder the world’s starlight felt a bit stronger, I guess it was because a Constellation had manifested.

When he briefly relayed the scene through communication magic, Seonibaek muttered something only a Constellation would understand.
Beyond the communication magic, loud screams echoed, along with the sound of something being cut down.
The golden trajectories drawn across the blue sky, which he glimpsed during his teleports, were all heading towards a single location.
Golden angels were flying in straight lines, heading precisely towards Korea.
What other countries were currently facing was just a tiny fraction of them.
In Korea, especially around the Nate Guild, a number of angels exceeding an ant swarm was gathering.
Occasionally, when he got near Korea, he felt as if his eyes and ears would go blind from the immense mana and starlight.
“Melt.”
The Word of Power exerted an extraordinary force.
It consumed a great deal of power, but it was enough to melt all the incoming golden angels and create a sea of gold.

【The Con】
【stel】
【lation】
【Is】
【Too】
【Much】

A halting, broken voice was heard.
The voice and tone were frantic, like a child whipping its head around at something fast and complex.
Distorted Revenge must be going crazy right now.
It wanted to slowly capture and observe Han Sion and the Silent Calamity to set its priorities, but Han Sion had blocked its second spear, and trying to find the Silent Calamity was making its eyes spin.
The world is filled with the light of only one Constellation.
Except for the very few remaining contracted Constellations and The Seventeenth Love who was helping a small fraction, only one Constellation was illuminating this world.
The clear sky proves it.
Swimming jellyfish carry the stars.
The fleetingly planted hope still speaks.
The greatest calamity that had arrived was this loud.
“Seonibaek.”

• I’m busy.

“It’s just, your world is so beautiful.”
It is full of corpses.
Full of blood.
Pools of gold scream.
It is clearly not a hopeful situation.
However, to Daisy, who had experienced a world where he worried if he should even live to see tomorrow without hope, this scene of struggle looked radiant.
The sky is clear, and this rapidly changing world is still brilliant.
It was still brilliant.

【I can’t】
【stand it】

The nebula of Distorted Revenge’s previous form, The Crow’s Ruins, was messy and sticky.
A nebula with many corpses buried under blood.
That’s why now, it couldn’t tolerate being fixed in this clear, bright sky.

【Must devour.】
【Must devour.】
【Right now right here】
【Without considering anything】
【Just right here right n-】
【ow】
【Um】
【Huh?】

Thump.
A heartbeat was heard.
It rang in the ears.
The heart pounded.
As if in resonance.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
A strange sense of euphoria rang out.
The starlight resonated.
The contract breakers, in particular, felt this strange sensation strongly.
“I’m alive.”
“I’m alive.”
They muttered without knowing what they were saying.
Emily was the same.
The elation of being alive.
The relief that others were alive.
A strange resonance struck ‘humanity’.

[Unique Ability, ‘Starlight Blood Heart’ resonates.]

The ability of the human named Baek Jiye was, by classification, a passive.
It wasn’t an ability that activated visibly like Han Sion’s Stardust or Yeon Taeseon’s Specter of the Past.
However, that was only under normal circumstances.
It was a story for when the world lacked starlight, and the Constellation who gave the heart had not manifested in the lower realm.
The current world is protected by the Constellation who created the Starlight Blood Heart, and it is filled with her starlight.
As if a heart was beating submerged in blood, it was now submerged in a sea full of starlight.
That is why the hearts of all humans in this world beat together.

【Why】
【Wha】
【Huh?】

Distorted Revenge, who had spread its wings, giving up on absorbing most of the power to devour everything, hesitated.
Thousands of eyeballs rolled around, expressing confusion.

【This is】
【kin?】
【This?】

No matter how great a being one becomes, the roots do not change.
Just as the Silent Calamity was human, and The Crow’s Ruins was of the celestial race.
Distorted Revenge was also captivated by the faintly felt aura of a kin’s heart and had no choice but to stop.
After all, the celestial race, which was its root, valued their kin very highly.
If they were beating with a single heart, it had no choice but to falter.
This was the moment I was aiming for.
“You shall not move.”
The world stopped.
As if time had frozen, the actions of everything that could hear the voice came to a halt.
The wave of golden angels pouring down on Korea, including the Nate Guild, stopped.
A luxurious golden bridge formed in the clear sky.
“Yeon Taeseon.”
They have almost no substance.
Because it’s ‘almost’ none, the way to reach their main body is distant.
Just like how Yeon Taeseon fought for days and weeks inside the holy relic that reenacted the past, just to barely be able to stand on those golden wings.
Forging a path toward it requires a great deal of time and effort.
So much effort that the fleeting hope barely planted in humanity would cool down and fade.
So I focused on creating the path.
A luxurious golden bridge laid across the deep blue sky.
Like a simple Milky Way of a different color, its sparkling was mesmerizing.
It was the bridge of the future that the regressor had to step on and run across.
“Together?”
“I’ll follow, of course.”
Not much conversation passed between us.
The regressor was not talkative, and I was the ‘Silent’ Calamity.
We just speak through results.
Yeon Taeseon kicked off the ground.
He began to head for the sky, stepping on the heads and wings of the golden angels that had frozen near the guild.
About a thousand of the thousands of eyes turned toward Yeon Taeseon.
“Han Sion!”
The sky split.
A part of Stardust collapsed, intentionally releasing a rain of gold.
Golden tears pooled in the middle of the deep sea.
About six hundred eyes turned their gaze to Han Sion.
“Daisy, you can use more starlight!”
At that moment, a morning star twinkled beyond the horizon.
The starlight, which shone so brightly it would have created a roar if one were close, vanished in an instant beyond the opposite horizon.
About three hundred eyes became confused again.

【I】

“Baek Jiye!”
I must not give it a chance to speak.
The heart rate quickened slightly.
People, whose adrenaline surged from the signal sent by their hearts, resisted a little more strongly.
Yeon Taeseon steadily stepped on the golden path.
When he reached the point where the path, once a sparse and uneven bridge made of hardened golden angels, was becoming a smooth road of gold from before it split into angels.
Among the remaining hundred or so eyes, only one was looking at Yeon Taeseon.
The gleam of a light like a crimson almandine garnet sparkled faintly.

[The Administrator blocks the Constellation’s intervention.]
[The Administrator blocks the Constellation’s intervention.]
[The Administrator blocks the Constellation’s intervention.]
[The Administrator blocks the intervention of the Constellation who was just trying to get a spoonful.]

The Administrator was quick-witted.
If another Constellation had intervened in this situation, pretending to help a little, the gazes would have to be divided again.
That would be a disaster.

【Will you succeed?】

The Administrator’s resounding voice.
The Sun’s Eye sparkled.
Aiming from the single eye between the massive wings that covered the sky, to the eye as small as a fingernail that shone like a garnet.
I answered.
“You said you loved me, didn’t you?”

【I still do.】

“Then you just have to trust and wait.”
There was no staff, no grand magic circle.
Relying on the light of the Sun’s Eye, I aimed at that small, jewel-like eye with my finger.
Finally, a streak of light split the sky.