An Astounding Amount

Meanwhile, Yeon Taeseon noticed the being staring blankly at him.
Because of the Starlight Eye he possessed, he could feel the presence of the Constellation using the Sun’s Eye.
And this aura was one he knew well.
‘Silent Calamity…’
He hoped that she would not misunderstand this scene and would understand it correctly.
Because he was about to play the role of a spy, a role he never wanted, for their safety.

The starry sky.
The blood-red nebula of The Crow’s Ruins.
Six rotten wings flopped into the sea of blood and rose again, repeating the motion.
It was like a cat flicking its tail.
“Annoying.”
The Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, had been in a rather bad mood lately.
He couldn’t snatch the S-rank Awakener from some rookie Constellation, his own bright-side Awakeners were defeated by that contractor, and the Awakener auction house he was running was completely destroyed…
Thanks to that, the speed at which his coins were being supplied had also slowed down considerably.
Coins were accumulated according to the fame of an Awakener or Constellation, but if the stories weren’t positive, they wouldn’t be supplied at all.
‘The rumors circulating in the underworld used to bring in a lot of coins.’
His current possession was 80 million coins.
It was an overwhelming amount that surpassed all other Constellations in coins.
Of course, it was nothing compared to the truly ancient great Constellations, the top-tier Constellations, or the Administrator who could manipulate causality at will…
‘It’s not enough.’
It was far from enough to make the Regressor his contractor.
The Crow’s Ruins was also aiming for the Regressor.
After all, his rival was the ‘Returning Hourglass’.
It would be strange not to look into the human who had been his contractor.
And he had seen it.
The existence called a ‘Regressor’.
To make a single person regress, unless you were the Administrator, the sacrifice of one Constellation was required.
He sensed that the ‘Returning Hourglass’ had been annihilated.
So, all he had to do now was snatch that contractor and use his pre-regression knowledge…
The problem was the coins.
He was 20 million coins short of contracting with the Regressor.
‘There are more problems.’
The Silent Calamity.
That damn woman had come up with a system called a provisional contract, something he had never heard of, and had laid her claim on the Regressor.
The Crow’s Ruins had protested to the Administrator, saying it was unfair.
But the answer he got back was a masterpiece.

[You can’t, because your temper is too foul!]
It wasn’t even a direct voice from the Administrator, but a system window saying this, so The Crow’s Ruins couldn’t help but be furious.
‘How dare you ignore me?’
He didn’t like any of it.
The Administrator, the Silent Calamity, and his own incompetent contractors!
‘It’s a good thing I managed to get Han Siyoon out, at least.’
What happened at the auction house that day, all the Constellations don’t know.
Because a huge barrier had blocked their broadcast.
Thanks to that, the lower-ranking Constellations whose contractors were in danger of being sold off, the mid-tier Constellations involved in this matter, and The Crow’s Ruins were all in a state of panic.
A day later, the barrier was lifted, and thanks to The Crow’s Ruins’ efforts, he succeeded in getting Han Siyoon out, but…
He couldn’t save the rest.
He was broke.
“Aaaargh! So annoying!”
He jumped up and turned on the broadcast.
Without the Sun’s Eye, he had no choice but to use the broadcast provided by the system.
Han Siyoon, who was receiving treatment at a private residence, was visible.
He, who had been burned black while escaping the barrier, was regaining his human form thanks to the generous use of healers and potions.
The Constellation impatiently sent him a message.

[The Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, gives an order.]
[NO.187 Revenge]
The Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, wants to take revenge on the ‘Silent Calamity’. Return the damage your Constellation has suffered a thousandfold, ten thousandfold. Persuade his contractor. Kill his contractor. Destroy his guild. Destroy all his towers.
Success: 10000 Coins
Failure: The Brand of Contract Termination

The reaction of Han Siyoon, who received that scenario, was rather calm.
He jumped up from the bed, prostrated himself, and said.
“Does it matter if I use everything in the light?”

[The Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, conveys that he delegates full authority.]
“I will not disappoint you.”
He immediately took out a hologram case.
It was a direct device connected to the ‘Crow’ guild of the light.
Seeing him act without hesitation, The Crow’s Ruins felt a little better.
All of The Crow’s Ruins’ contractors are blind to their Constellation.
It was on a different level from the Silent Calamity’s voluntary faith.
The erasure of free will that occurs as soon as a human and a Constellation make a contract.
Because brainwashing was tied to them.
They cannot defy me.
Never.
“Well then…”
The Crow’s Ruins gave the scenario and began preparations by consuming coins.
If his guild members can’t beat the Calamity’s contractors with their original skills.
He just has to dope them.

[Coins in possession: 81.9 million]
Fortunately, he had a lot of coins.
‘About a million coins should be enough, right?’
He called up the system window and roughly calculated the guild members’ combat power.
Hmm, it seemed he would have to spend a little more than a million coins.
Soon, his thoughts drifted elsewhere.
‘I should eat the Calamity after this is over.’
It was a waste to spend coins, and there were several desirable contractors over there.
So that was the conclusion he reached.
A Constellation eats another Constellation.
It was an act of absorbing all of that Constellation’s stories, the rank they had accumulated, or returning it to causality to supply coins.
The Crow’s Ruins planned to solve the Regressor’s contract problem by making the Silent Calamity’s coins, power, and everything his own, and to have more coins and a stronger contractor.
Originally, it was a forbidden act that should never be done, but…
“Who cares.”
When have I ever cared about such things?
The Crow’s Ruins.
The incarnation of revenge, the Constellation predator, the slaughterer, the Administrator’s mistake, the ugliest star.
Many epithets passed him by.
But in the end, all that was left was a ruin where a crow picked at a corpse.
And so, his epithet became ‘The Crow’s Ruins’.
‘It’s been too long since I rose from a low-grade Constellation to a high-grade one.’
He still hadn’t reached the top-tier Constellation.
After all those long years.
It had been too long since he had eaten a Constellation.
He had to prepare to spread his wings, which were now just bones and had rotted away.
‘And the beginning of that is you, Silent Calamity.’

“Wow, you really threw money at it!”
That’s what Emily Taylor said as soon as she arrived at our guild.
But no one pointed out her rather direct speech.
First, we had to make a good impression on Emily for now, and it was true that money had been thrown at it.
‘Though it was mostly Hong Yuon’s money.’
Well, it was money that Hong Yuon was going to give us, so in the end, it was our money.
Emily, the money-grubber, looked around the guild lobby with sparkling eyes.
By the time we took the guild leader’s exclusive elevator to the top floor, it looked like light was about to shoot out of her eyes.
“State-of-the-art! A system that hasn’t even been introduced in the US yet!”
“I don’t think we need a separate guild explanation for this.”
“I think so too, Vice-Guild Leader.”
“And this glass! It was made by melting a whole glass cocoon! And the gold decoration embedded there is from a golden turtle…!”
“We don’t even know about that.”
“Shut up, Guild Leader.”
Han Sion fell silent.
Yes, she was raising her expectations for our guild on her own, so there was no need to rain on her parade.
‘She probably thinks we’re going to give her a lot of money right now.’
‘Though we don’t have a dime.’
‘What should we do…?’
The three of them quickly exchanged glances.
When Emily turned around, the way they pretended nothing was wrong was worthy of an acting award.
Our country’s entertainment industry lost a talent to the Silent Calamity.
Hahaha.
“So.”
Emily Taylor looked satisfied as she felt the luxury of the guild leader’s office sofa.
She smiled brightly and continued.
“Let me say it again. How much did you find out before you came? Ah, I’ll say this in advance, if the amount is small, I’m going back.”
“I’ve heard of the Saintess’s reputation.”
“It’s cringy, just call me Emily.”
I sat in my exclusive seat and ate a mini-sized cake that had been prepared separately.
Jiye had recently reduced the size of my cake to a mini-me size, saying I seemed to have gained weight.
In any case, I was ready to step in at any time if our guild side was at a disadvantage.
“Ms. Emily Taylor.”
“You’re getting serious. Yes.”
Sion stepped forward and set the mood.
His sharp impression, with his hair half-swept back, combined with the head seat of the guild leader’s office, created a rather high-pressure atmosphere.
“What we can offer you is, first of all, 30 billion won.”
“That’s not much.”
A look of disappointment instantly appeared in Emily’s eyes.
It was typical of someone who lived and died by money.
“I thought you’d give me about 200 billion won since the guild building is like this.”