Prophecy

The heat of the circular arena, no, the auction house, did not cool down.
“What? Who is that?”
“Haven’t the special auction items ended yet?”
“Is that one S-rank too?”
“There’s no information?”
A snow-white veil that seemed to be made of starlight, a white dress, snow-white skin.
A woman dressed entirely in white stood on the blood-soaked arena.
Her appearance, which looked holy at first glance, was enough to stimulate the collecting desires of the auction participants.
They couldn’t see inside the veil, but that very point made her even more desirable.
“Th-this is who… Yes? Just proceed… Ah, we’ll start at 100 billion!”
The announcer, who was briefly flustered, regained his composure after receiving some command through his earpiece and began to proceed with the auction normally.
‘There’s no way the 4th-ranked hunter in South Korea, Han Siyoon, will lose.’
The announcer was thinking this.
He didn’t know who that person was, but she would soon end up in the same state as the rookie S-ranks rolling on the floor.
‘Well, she looks mysterious, so… it would be nice if Siyoon-nim didn’t kill her.’
As the crowd cheered, Yeon Taeseon, who was at the very back of the auction house, held his head.
“This is bad…”
“Hey! Are you a security guard? Where’s your employee card?”
To make matters worse, he was even caught by the auction house’s security check.
He first…
decided to cause as much of a scene as he could.

Han Siyoon stared at the being standing silently in front of him, her veil fluttering.
An otherworldly, snow-white figure, unlike his own pitch-black one.
And…
‘I can’t gauge her.’
His golden eyes narrowed.
To work as a black hunter in the underworld, one had to develop a keen sense.
Han Siyoon was confident that he was first-rate at gauging his opponent’s strength.
But he couldn’t gauge her.
‘Is she stronger than me?’
Or is she so weak that I can’t gauge her?
There was nothing wrong with being cautious, so he decided to assume she was strong for now.
He shrouded his body in darkness.

「You….」
The mouth of the veiled one opened.

「Will not die a peaceful death.」
It was not a human voice.
It was both beautiful and sharp, like a scream, like a cry, like a child’s, like an old person’s, like a mature person’s.
Han Siyoon felt a shiver run down his spine.
‘Not human.’
And he knew instinctively.
The words she spoke were not a warning.
They were a prophecy of sorts.
A prophecy that Han Siyoon would not die a peaceful death.
‘Damn it, what the hell is this?’
Is it a Constellation’s incarnation?
A monster?
What the hell is it?
No, figuring out her identity was for later.
First, he had to live.
‘First strike… victory.’
Han Siyoon charged first.
His darkness-shrouded fist descended on the veiled woman with tremendous repulsive force.
Or so he thought.
There was nothing in his hand.
‘What?’
The place where he had thrown his fist.
The woman was standing far away from it.
‘No way.’
He had clearly aimed for the woman’s head.
He had tried to strike with all his might.
The struck area should have exploded as if it were being dismantled.
But nothing happened.
‘Did she… dodge the attack?’
Since it was impossible for him to have missed his attack, that human must have dodged it.
He judged so and gathered darkness in both hands again.
‘She’ll never be able to dodge it.’
A creeping darkness spread throughout the circular arena.
“250 billion has been called… Ah! Look! Hunter Han Siyoon is about to go all out!”
“Wooooooooooah!”
The cheers of the ignorant flowed.
The heat was so intense that the entire arena seemed to shake.
The commotion caused by Yeon Taeseon at the back of the auction house was a noise that was drowned out.
It was noisy.
The woman brought her index finger to her lips.
Shh.
At that moment, the sound of the world stopped.
“…?”
“…?!”
“…!”
No one could speak.
The noise stopped.
The sound of the world disappeared.
When the voices of the people in the auction house didn’t echo no matter how much they shouted, they sensed something was wrong and fell into a panic.
They realized that that woman was a being incomparably stronger than Han Siyoon.
“…!”
“…!”
“…?”
Everyone just moved their mouths.
Yeon Taeseon thought.
And Han Siyoon judged.
‘This is…’
‘The Silent… Calamity!’
A Constellation.
The being in front of him was a Constellation.
He didn’t know if it was an incarnation or the main body, but it was a Constellation on a level that could beat a mere S-rank hunter to a pulp.
‘Damn it…. There are no Constellations who descend just because their contractors are in this state!’
Han Siyoon did not know that the Silent Calamity had not ascended to the starry sky and had no restrictions on her manifestation.
Instead, Yeon Taeseon was worried.
‘Wasn’t she unable to speak just now?’
But a prophecy.
To have given a prophecy that confirmed the end of a being.
‘That’s a heavy burden even for other Constellations…!’
Even the other Constellations in the starry sky were reluctant to give prophecies.
Because the burden on their bodies was too great, and if they gave a prophecy above a certain level, they could be demoted as a penalty.
But the Silent Calamity, Lee Seonbaek, didn’t care about such things.
‘If it’s a Constellation who cherishes her contractors, all you have to do is target the contractors. The auction money is a waste, but…!’
But as soon as Han Siyoon tried to target her contractors with the darkness he had brought.
She just opened her mouth.

「There shall be no shadow.」
The shadows disappeared.
The darkness disappeared.
When the shadows disappeared, only light remained.
They couldn’t see each other’s forms, which were whitened out.
Without even a voice, there was no way to know if this was a different world, hell, or a different dimension.
A clear blue eye appeared in the air.
In a world without light, it was the only thing that was clear.
The eye, which resembled the clear summer sky, had a sun embedded in it.

「You will meet the most miserable death.」
It was also a prophecy.

「No one here will escape the calamity.」
People cried out.
In the time of silence, nothing was heard.
Then.
Han Sion woke up instinctively.
As if he recognized the voice of his master.
‘I’m sorry.’
He muttered in a world without sound.
‘I have disobeyed your command. I have prioritized my personal feelings. I am sorry. I do not ask for forgiveness.’
The Silent Calamity stroked Han Sion, who was speaking so.
A gentle warmth touched his blood-soaked hair.
As if everything was okay.
As if I forgive you.
Tears flowed from Han Sion’s eyes at the merciful touch.
He was grateful that his Constellation was such a being.

「Also, what you have achieved so far will become futile.」
The prophecy ended there.
The eye in the air closed, and the darkness returned.
They could see each other.
They could hear sounds.
“What’s going on!”
“A prophecy, it’s a prophecy! A Constellation’s prophecy!”
“Who is that woman?!”
“The host! Where is the host!”
The surroundings were a mess.
Some people foamed at the mouth and collapsed from the shock of directly seeing a part of a Constellation.
Yeon Taeseon urgently looked for Lee Seonbaek.
As a result of revealing a part of her Constellation’s rank, the face part of her veil was covered in blood.
Despite that, she cast two more magic circles to heal her contractors.
It was a high-level healing magic circle that he, as a Regressor, had never seen before.
Crack, crack….
Han Sion’s twisted limbs returned to their original state.
Baek Jiye’s sunken internal organs were healed, and her stomach swelled back to its original state.
As the magic circle progressed, the blood on the veil increased.
“Con… Lee Seonbaek! Stop it!”
Unable to call her a Constellation in a public place, Yeon Taeseon chose her true name.
Originally, a Constellation’s true name should not be called carelessly, but since she had told him herself, and since she was in a special situation in many ways, there was no problem in calling it.
The moment Yeon Taeseon barely squeezed through the chaotic crowd and was about to reach the arena.
She cast her final magic.
「Confess.」
KWANG!
A dome made of a huge magic circle was created, as if it had been slammed down on the entire 5th basement floor auction house.
The people who were just about to leave the auction house were bounced back by the magic circle and couldn’t get out.
The magic circle also served as a barrier.
“Let me out! I have to make a backroom deal with the Hanyoung Guild… Huk! Why am I saying this!”
“Move! Hanyoung Guild? I’m with the Choya Guild!”
“Do you know who I am? I’m the President’s chief of staff!”
The masked people began to reveal their secrets in detail.
Yeon Taeseon was shocked.
‘Overlapping magic…!’
A magic that was impossible to implement unless one was extremely skilled in magic.
He saw a magic that only two people in the whole world could use right in front of his eyes.
Lee Seonbaek was simultaneously proceeding with a barrier that prevented people from going outside, a high-level confession magic that made them reveal all their secrets, and dismantling the barrier that had been deflecting magic on the 5th basement floor.
And on a scale that covered the entire auction house.
‘A Constellation…. She said it wasn’t her full power, but to this extent.’
No, is it natural because she’s a Constellation?
If a Constellation can’t even do this much….
‘No, the Silent Calamity is out of the ordinary.’
Didn’t she give a prophecy of ruin to everyone in the auction house?
A Constellation’s prophecy is absolute.
It will surely come to pass.