Stability Assessment Test (3)

[The boss room has opened!]
[Intruder Alert.]
[Forcibly teleporting to the inside of the boss room.]
A stiff system sound rang out.
My vision blurred and changed, and when I came to my senses, I was in front of a monkey with the build of King Kong.
“KWWWOOOOAAAA…”
The creature roared and swung its massive fist.
KWANG!
An ear-splitting sound echoed.
Everyone quickly dodged the fist, and among them, the supervisor shouted in anger.
“Opening the door without any preparation! What is this—”
PZZZZZT!
The supervisor’s words were cut short.
Sejin had shot out a blue lightning bolt and fried the supervisor.
‘That’s…’
It was a quick casting that happened in an instant, but it couldn’t escape my eyes.
It was a brief moment, but that was the 6th-circle ‘Deep Blue Thunder’.
It was called the 6th circle, but it was a magic that could only be used smoothly at the 7th circle.
But from what I saw, Sejin was definitely not a 7th circle.
His skill has improved.’
The form of the magic circle was more stable than before, and the distribution of mana was more efficient.
Most of all, the casting speed had become unbelievably fast.
It wasn’t up to my standards, but if you were to ask if it was an achievement that could be reached in a short period of time…
It wasn’t.
It was a clear anomaly.
The supervisor, charred black, fell to the ground with a thud.
The disgusting smell of burning meat filled the air.
I covered my nose and clung to Han Sion.
“This is it! This is it! Haha!”
“Ruins-nim is truly amazing! To think a scenario acceptance alone has such an effect!”
‘A scenario?’
Did those bastards receive a scenario? From The Crow’s Ruins?
Why?
No, it was plausible that he would give a scenario.
He seemed like the type to give out scenarios just because he was in a bad mood.
But as a reward, he didn’t give coins, but a direct increase in the contractor’s ability?
‘That must have cost a fortune in coins.’
I had also tried to spend coins to make Sion grow, out of greed.
But perhaps because he was an S-rank, it cost hundreds of millions of coins to touch the realm of direct talent like that.
“KWWAAAAA…!”
“Shut up!”
Im Yeongjun rushed at the boss and cut its mouth.
He, too, was incomparably faster than before.
Leaving the boss, which had fallen backward while clutching its mouth and struggling, they rushed at us.
“Sejin!”
“I know!”
Im Yeongjun rushed in at a speed comparable to Han Sion’s.
The thick longsword clashed with the quite thinned dagger.
Crack, the dagger cracked.
“Haha! The dagger can’t hold out much longer!”
“Kuhk…!”
CLANG! CLANG! KWANG! PZZZT! CLANG!
Sion struggled quite a bit against the two’s combined attack.
Sion’s swordsmanship was like a continuous, unbroken flow, but whenever the flow was about to continue, magic flew in and cut it off, and when he tried to move to avoid the magic, the longsword aimed for his openings.
Han Sion, who had only fought monsters, was not at all used to the attacks of magicians, and humans at that.
CRACK! SWOOSH…
The dagger shattered, leaving a long scar on Sion’s precious face.
He said, as if chewing his words.
“What… why are you doing this!”
“Want to know? No, want to live?”
Im Yeongjun smiled, thinking he had a clear advantage.
Then he pointed his sword at me, who was peeking out of his inner pocket.
“If you want to live, give me that jellyfish and the gear. That’s our goal.”
“You bastards…!”
Grinding sounds came from his teeth.
In the meantime, the boss monster, which was trying to get up, was knocked down again by Sejin’s magic.
“Never, I’ll never give Pion up! Pion is a gift from Calamity-nim!”
“What a funny bastard!”
As if there was nothing more to see, Im Yeongjun rushed in again.
Han Sion no longer had a weapon.
Stardust was unusable.
Then, as if screaming, Sion shouted.
“O Silent Calamity!”
Scars increased on Sion’s body with swishing sounds.
He shouted with a desperate heart.
“If you are watching, please show me mercy, your servant begs you—!”

Han Sion had faith.
Faith that the Silent Calamity would grant his request.
‘I am the first contractor.’
He found out later, but the Silent Calamity had no other contractors.
He thought he had been carefully chosen and contracted by her.
And that turned into conviction when he received an S-rank judgment.
‘I am a pretty important existence to the Silent Calamity.’
S-rank Awakeners are not common.
The possibility that that an Awakener is a Constellation’s only contractor is almost nonexistent.
Han Sion was proud.
No, he was arrogant.
‘The Calamity can’t abandon me!’
It was from then on.
He started making plain hotcakes for Pion instead of high-class handmade chocolate cakes, and the duration of his prayers gradually shortened.
The prayer time, which was initially an hour, now barely exceeded 10 minutes.
His faith was the same, but the thought of being on par with a Constellation had made him complacent.
He regretted that time.
Han Sion regretted that time.
“O Silent Calamity…?”
SWOOSH…!
His forearm was deeply cut.
Red blood splattered.
Im Yeongjun’s mad laughter echoed.
Magic flew in.
He rolled in the dirt to avoid it.
His body, already covered in blood, ached.
But what hurt more.
Was the fact that the Constellation didn’t answer.
“Calamity. Calamity. Calamity. Calamity…”
“Why, isn’t that great Constellation answering?!”
Han Sion muttered like a madman.
CRACK…!
The arm that blocked the back of the sword broke.
Sion now spoke as if he had almost lost his mind.
“I’m sorry. I won’t be arrogant from now on. I won’t live in sloth. Please give me a chance. Please give me another chance. Just like you chose me, please give me another chance. Again…”
The sound of a leg breaking was heard.
The jellyfish in his bosom was listening, crying.
Thud.
Han Sion collapsed.
Im Yeongjun kicked him.
“Is this all you’ve got, S-rank?!”
“Hey, the jellyfish!”
“Oh, getting it now! What did I tell you, I said I could handle him alone!”
With a chuckle, a rough hand snatched Pion from his inner pocket.
The high-pitched squeak sounded unusually loud.
Sion barely managed to force strength into his broken arm and cried out.
“Pi…on…”

Helpless.
Even as a Constellation, there was nothing I could do.
‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry I can’t help you. I’m sorry I’m not enough.’
Seeing his white hair stained with red blood, tears flowed endlessly.
My contractor, my first contractor.
I hadn’t spent much time with him, but I couldn’t help but be moved by his desperate search for me.
“The gear?”
“I found that too.”
The damn two bastards turned Sion’s almost corpse-like body this way and that to get the gear.
I hated the sight of them chuckling, saying they would soon receive the scenario reward.
‘I don’t want to see it.’
Yes, I didn’t want to see it.
‘I want to save Sion.’
Even while covered in blood, Sion had protected me in his bosom without a single scratch, and I wanted to repay him.
I wanted to save him.
My first contractor.
I wanted to give him another chance.
I wanted to give him a chance a hundred times over.
‘Helpless.’
Even at this moment, there was nothing I could do.
My powers as a Constellation were sealed, and my coins were scarce.
I could hear The Crow’s Ruins laughing in my ear.
It was terrible.
‘Why do we have to go through this?’
Is it our fault that we caught your eye?
My contractor and I didn’t ask for much.
I wanted to keep eating the cakes Sion baked for me, and I wanted Sion to be strong and successful so he would treat me well.
Sion probably felt the same way.
I would have given him plenty of love as a Constellation.
“Then I’ll kill the Jellyfish.”
“What are you doing?”
The damn blade came right up to my nose.
Tears streamed from my eyes.
‘I don’t want to die.’
I became a Constellation, but I didn’t want to die again.
‘I don’t want to kill Sion either.’
He’s my first contractor, and he has enough faith in me.
I didn’t want to let him die.
‘I don’t want my neck to be cut again.’
The sensation of cells separating from cells was vivid.
‘I want to live happily.’
It was fun living as a jellyfish.
I thought I had finally gotten a chance, but to end up like this.
‘I want to be happy.’
A voice was heard.

“Then do as you please.”
Click.
The sound of a lock being undone was heard.