So.
We decided to gather as many hidden talents as possible.
Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t understand, but I was a little curious.
‘The Crow’s Ruins can’t do anything right now.’
That guy had his coins extorted by me for a settlement, his S-rank Awakener was taken, and on top of that, the fragments of the ‘Returning Hourglass’ were also taken, and now he doesn’t even have the coins to send me a message.
He was so broke that he couldn’t even send a message that he could have sent when I only had Han Sion as a contractor, and even before his grade was measured.
This meant that he was unable to recover as a Constellation.
‘The contractors that The Crow’s Ruins has right now are…’
As I was checking the information of the people who had applied for the <Express Train for Efficient Mana Handling>, or ‘Express Train’ for short, I glanced at the status of The Crow’s Ruins’ contractors.
The highest was A-rank, and that was all.
Even then, there were only three in Korea.
Including those overseas, there were about ten, but recent reports said that all of his contractors overseas wanted to terminate their contracts with him and retire.
Or find another Constellation.
“…”
As I was slacking off a bit, I suddenly looked out the window at the front of the Nate Guild.
A very large banner was hanging.
[Silent Calamity-nim! Please make a contract with me!]
[Your one and only talent]
[The potential that even The Crow’s Ruins chose]
I turned my eyes away again.
The foreign contractors of The Crow’s Ruins had come to Korea and were hanging a banner in a very visible place.
For some reason, that jealous and prideful crow guy didn’t react, but anyway, I was so embarrassed right now that I felt like I was going to die.
“I told you not to look at that.”
Daisy came over and gently massaged my eyes.
Yeon Taeseon came over and drew the curtains on the window, telling me not to look at such pointless things.
Before the announcement was posted, and after Daisy had come out of the gate.
Many bombshells had been dropped in Korea.
A Constellation walking around in human form, an isekai person who had proven the hypothesis that there are other worlds, and even the burial of a Constellation who had a certain degree of recognition worldwide.
Especially, the existing contractors of the buried The Crow’s Ruins were in a state of stamping their feet.
‘So they’re making a scene in front of our guild…’
And if we add the education using the mana purification theory that we’re about to drop, the world will be in a tattered state from an unprecedented bombshell.
If you eat a lot, you’ll get an upset stomach, but it’s a situation where you might even faint, going beyond just getting an upset stomach.
Korea was just quiet to this extent because it was the eye of the storm right now.
Overseas, it was a mess with interviews and debates from all sorts of scholars.
No, actually, it was the same in Korea, but I just didn’t look at it.
It was more unpleasant than I thought to have people argue about my existence.
“A human-form Constellation? That’s ridiculous. A Constellation is basically a star that exists in the sky, and it is known that they require a huge amount of causality every time they interfere with us. This has been proven by many contractors through the system window!”
“It hasn’t been long since the Constellation appeared. I believe it is fully possible. We haven’t even properly investigated the stigmas they use, let alone the Constellations. In this situation, simply claiming that ‘the system did it’ is not a rational debater, but something a religious person would say.”
“Are you finished? Then are you saying that we should just blindly believe what that guild says?”
“That’s not what I mean. But it means that the door is open.”
Every time I turned on the TV, this kind of content was on.
All the debates on public television were about this.
I had even seen a video on a certain overseas YouTube channel that covered this once.
I was a genius at web surfing even when I was a jellyfish, and since I was a Constellation and my authority was the ‘Word of Power’, there was no language I couldn’t understand, so I could easily read the foreign languages in the comments.
-You really think so? wwwwwww
-A human-form Constellation in Korea? I can’t believe it. They must be crazy!
-Another world? What are we supposed to do if something that was only a hypothesis suddenly pops out! My research!
–But do Constellations only pick based on looks? She’s pretty, though… she doesn’t look human….
-Of course she’s not human, she’s a Constellation ww
-There’s no way something like that would happen in that small country. This is absurd fake news.
So where’s the jellyfish?
For the record, the fact that I’m a jellyfish has been made permanently private due to the useless shenanigans I’ve done in that form and the various photos that have been released on the Stargram account that the meddlesome Sion had created.
Anyway, as we, the eye of the storm, were enjoying our peaceful time.
We had posted the announcement for the <Express Train for Efficient Mana Handling>, with the ‘isekai person’ Daisy, who had shaken the world, as the instructor.
It was a relief that we had limited the participants to Koreans, judging that it was too much to target the whole world yet, but if not, scholars and researchers from all over the world might have flocked, using that announcement as an excuse.
‘But looking at the people who were chosen, I wonder if it would have been better to target the whole world…’
Three days after the final results of the interview were announced.
I was eating snacks in the training hall in the basement of the Nate Guild, and I thought as I looked at the two gloomy and insecure men and the high school girl with a tomboyish temperament.
Honestly, I thought we would pick about twenty, but there were too few talented people.
‘Is it because of the proliferation of smartphones, there were too many people with dirty souls.’
The soul was the clearest measure of a person’s character.
The soul gets a little dirtier every time you physically or mentally hurt someone else, and this also applies when someone is hurt by the words you have written.
As a result, among the thousand or so applicants, only about fifty were even tolerable.
And when we also considered their mana level, only three were left.
“The future is bleak…”
As I muttered, sitting on a chair, the three of them were greatly agitated.
I could hear the sound of their eyeballs rolling very well.
‘That woman is a Constellation?’
‘Unni is so pretty. But the future is bleak? Our future?’
‘Am I a lost cause…’
Their expressions were so honest that I could read their thoughts clearly even though they weren’t my contractors.
Daisy broke the long, tense silence and clapped his hands.
“Now, stop looking at Seonibaek.”
The hesitant people looked at the man who looked as if he were made of gold.
“Let’s talk about the grades. We didn’t really consider gates while picking the applicants.”
“Huk! No wonder I was chosen!”
Daisy had quickly learned the system and laws of our world in that time.
Although he was still inexperienced in handling civilization, he had crammed everything that was made of language into his head.
The puppeteer, Seoah, was the first to raise her hand and speak.
“I’m C-rank! There was an A-rank in my class who applied, so I honestly thought I’d be rejected!”
[The Constellation, ‘The Child’s Workshop’, is shedding tears, saying, “My child is so great.”]
A child who receives a lot of love from her Constellation.
Next, Lee Won, who had been working as a tanker, opened his mouth.
“I’m D-rank. The only thing useful was my body, but I originally wanted to be a dealer. I don’t think there’s anyone with a lower grade than me…”
[The Constellation, ‘The Thick Barrier’, is nodding his head, saying he has endured well.]
A person who has a reliable Constellation.
Although both of them had low-rank Constellations, their mana was exceptionally high, and most importantly, their Constellations were ones who paid close attention to a person’s character.
Meaning, there was no reason not to pick them.
The problem was the one after them.
“F-rank…”
For a moment, a silence fell in the hall.
Lee Won, who had said there was no one with a lower grade than him, flinched, and Seoah turned her head to a distant mountain.
Yoon Yul, with a very gloomy and depressing voice, gradually shrank and said.
“I’m F-rank. Instructor-nim, Constellation-nim…”
Look at those eyes, as if he has given up on everything.
The hopelessness is perfect for a curse-caster.
[The Constellation, ‘The Dawn’s Confirmation Kill’, is cackling.]
Yes.
The biggest problem among these three.
The one who remained an F-rank even with a high-rank Constellation.
The amount of mana I could see in him was on par with an S-rank, but since he had not a speck of talent in handling that mana…
The measurement machine also registered his mana as F-rank, the unfortunate genius and the greatest dunce is this curse-caster named Yoon Yul.
But Yeon Taeseon had said.
“If that guy is just given the right path, he’s a guy who can kill a person with a curse and raid a gate from the other side of the globe.”
The Constellation, ‘The Dawn’s Confirmation Kill’, was a big shot among the high-rank Constellations.
Although other Constellations avoid him because of his eccentric nature, he has a knack for recognizing talent.
The problem was that those talents were all missing a screw, like the current Yoon Yul, and because of that, all of his five or so contractors in the world were not only curse-casters, but they also couldn’t get past D-rank.
Therefore, although he was clearly a high-rank Constellation in my standards, he was classified as a low-rank Constellation in the academic circles of humans who knew nothing.
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