[‘Karma’ has been accumulated.]

[You have exceeded a certain level of Karma. Your Hunter ranking rises from 11 to 10!]

[You have obtained the second sword of the Forgotten Constellation (2/8)]

A simple message that hardly seemed to reflect the magnitude of the battle that had just concluded.

There were no items or anything of the sort. Of course, this was a fight against a person, not a monster.

“Rank 10, huh…”

Ha-yeon swept over the words [Rank 10] with a hand that trembled slightly, likely due to the immense mana expenditure.

Rank 10. It was honestly hard to believe.

That she was a World Master. Even if it was the lowest rung, the title of ‘Top 10 in the World’ was not something that could be dismissed as insignificant.

However, since the 10th spot had been vacant to begin with, moving from 11th to 10th didn’t feel like a significant change.

As she was thinking this, someone approached from behind.

“Is he dead?”

It was Cheon Ha-ryeong, the Lord of the Thunderclap Palace.

At his question, Baek Ha-yeon struggled to compose her rapidly shifting thoughts and replied,

“He’s dead.”

That much was certain.

Hearing her answer, he paused for a moment before bowing slightly.

“Thank you for helping our Thunderclap Palace.”

“It’s nothing… I was merely keeping my promise to Ah-ra.”

It seemed that Cheon Ah-ra hadn’t come.

Understandable, as she was still quite young. Thinking it was for the best, Ha-yeon spoke to Cheon Ha-ryeong.

“I apologize for asking… but is it alright if I make a request?”

The System window that had been appearing before her eyes since earlier, not triggered by the System but by someone’s will.

“I was wondering if I could use the Constellation Locator.”

[The Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash,’ says he has something to tell you and asks you to seek him out.]

She needed to meet the Constellation.

The permission was readily granted.

After all, Ha-yeon was a hero who had saved the Thunderclap Palace, so there was no significant issue with her using it again, especially since she had used it before.

The subsequent events unfolded swiftly.

After receiving a general expression of gratitude from the Thunderclap Palace, he headed to the Constellation Observatory the very next day.

This time, it was a direct route, so it didn’t take long.

The place she arrived at again was even less crowded than before.

This was because of the suddenness of her visit.

“Long time no see?”

“It’s been a while, Sword Demon.”

The attendant she had seen when she came here before.

Reuniting with the attendant, she followed the same path as before to the space where the Constellation Locator was located.

There, she saw the massive gate once again. Just like before, she placed her right hand on the device connected to the gate, and a System window appeared.

[The Artifact, ‘Constellation Locator (S+),’ is searching for the Constellation ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash (Mythical)’ of Hunter-Baek Ha-yeon (Sword Demon).]

Confirming the System’s activation, several researchers operated the machine as they had done before, and once again, a System window appeared before her eyes.

[Creating a portal connected to the Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash.’]

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[Creation Complete]

She stepped into the gate that had been created. She had heard the explanation last time.

[Using the item, ‘Constellation Locator (S+).’]

Along with that System message, a flood of light instantly filled her vision.

After the beautiful streaks of light passed by, her vision was inverted once more.

[Ending operation.]

[Completion rate]

[99%]

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[Warp Complete!]

What appeared this time wasn’t the garden from before, but a vast, golden prairie that seemed familiar.

The golden grass, illuminated by the setting sun, reflected the light, creating an even more mystical atmosphere.

“Do you know where this is?”

The Constellation appeared then, or rather, Hairel.

He walked towards her with a somewhat sorrowful expression.

And along with him, she remembered.

When she went to the previous Holy Site.

The memory that was shown when she fell into a certain body of water.

The place where she, called Eleina, and… the Hairel currently standing before Ha-yeon were.

More than that, there was a monster in front of this…

“….!!”

It was the place where she had fought the previous monster, so when she looked at it, she saw nothing other than a massive hill.

No, to be precise, it was the corpse of the monster.

It was so enormous, and even as a corpse, it hadn’t decayed but had become one with nature, so she hadn’t noticed it until now.

“You must know.”

Saying that, he created two chairs and sat down on one of them.

“Sit.”

“Ah… yes.”

Following his words, she also sat down on a chair, and a little while later.

After a moment of silence, Hairel opened his mouth to Ha-yeon.

“Before coming here, you saw a memory, right? A memory with a woman who looks just like you.”

That’s right.

The woman who resembled her that she met in the reversed vision after killing Helio.

However, only their appearance was similar; she had silver hair and red eyes.

Moreover, her expression was as if she possessed no emotions whatsoever.

“Yes.”

“Do you know who that is?”

She didn’t know. However, there was someone she could guess.

“Eleina… is that right?”

The owner of the memory.

And the one with the same face as Ha-yeon.

Ha-yeon, guessing that it was Eleina Pretzna, said that to Hairel.

And that guess was correct.

“That’s right.”

But for some reason, his expression as he answered seemed so sad.

“Then, why do you and Eleina have the same appearance?”

“…I don’t know.”

This was something she absolutely couldn’t know.

In the first place, this appearance wasn’t even her original one, so how could she know?

“Okay… then I should start with this story first.”

Saying that, he created two small statues.

One was a white girl, and the other was a black boy.

“The Pretzna family is a very high-ranking family even in the Divine Realm where the Constellations reside.”

Multiple worlds and a vast universe.

Among them, the Pretzna family, to which the woman named Eleina belonged, was a high-ranking family even in the Divine Realm, which was at the very top.

“But Eleina, the only daughter of the family, was human.”

To be precise, a demigod.

This was because her mother was human.

However, even so, she couldn’t withstand the concentration of mana to live in the Divine Realm, so she began to live with her mother in a certain place on a certain planet in a certain dimension of this Intermediary Realm with immense wealth.

“I also had a time when I was human at first. I just became a servant of common birth whom Eleina took in from the streets.”

Eleina’s servant, that was his initial position.

“From that time on, I followed Eleina. I would have given up this life if it was to repay her.”

The resolution made at the young age of 10 continued until the age of 15.

At the age of 15, I was a powerful figure in the Pretzna family in the Intermediary Realm, and I grew into a talented and formidable knight.

A growth rate that was too outstanding for a human to possess.

However, he was receiving Eleina’s favor, so others who envied him couldn’t say anything to him.

And some time later, Eleina headed to her father in the Divine Realm, the head of the family with the Constellation name Divine Sword of Glory.

Hearing that, one thing came to mind.

That was the Divine Swords she had obtained.

The Divine Swords that the Forgotten Constellation was said to possess.

“Those Divine Swords are indeed the swords that represented the head of the family.”

The now Forgotten Constellation.

He ended the war in the Stars War that happened later and died in battle… but this was too long of a story and a distant past.

It wasn’t a story to be told now.

Anyway, Eleina received the Divine Swords from him and was ordered to subjugate the monsters of the Divine Realm that had fallen into the Intermediary Realm.

This was possible because she was a demigod and, along with Hairel, occupied one of the best hero positions of that era.

Eleina traveled around the world with Hairel and subjugated them.

This continued for several years.

And in the process, the two became lovers.

Eleina had fallen in love with Hairel at first sight, and he had also fallen in love at first sight, but he hadn’t known it until now.

A story that was too much like a novel.

“And so… the two of us returned to the main family and held a wedding ceremony immediately.”

This was possible because the servants and people around them already knew that the two liked each other.

But.

There was tragedy behind happiness.

“Only a week after the wedding.”

Eleina and Hairel had gained the qualifications to become Constellations.

The conditions for becoming a Constellation were a certain level of Karma, faith, and power.

Having subjugated the monsters of the Divine Realm, their power and Karma had already far exceeded the requirements.

They had already gained faith from some people under the name of heroes.

They were more than qualified to ascend to Constellations.

“We were both reaching our limits, so at first, we thought it was good news.”

S+ grade.

The limit of humans.

They had been blocked by that wall and couldn’t reach the SS grade, the realm of Constellations.

So they immediately began the process of becoming Constellations, but then.

Someone appeared before them.

“Godhood Gaia.”

At that time, Odin and Thanatos also existed, but even so, the existence of a Godhood was too distant.

Gaia told them.

To no longer think about ascending to the position of Constellation.

From the perspective of some Constellations and Gaia, it seemed that they didn’t like the idea of humans, half-baked demigods, trying to ascend to the position of Constellation.

‘Come to think of it….’

Constellations were beings that only existed in myths.

And even if it wasn’t a myth, they were only those from the myths of this world or those she had never heard of, probably those from the Divine Realm.

There was not a single human who had become a Constellation.

Except for the one in front of her eyes.

Except for Hairel.

“Even so, we moved to become Constellations.”

And that’s why things went wrong.

The descended Gaia moved to execute Hairel.

Even if Eleina was a demigod, she was determined to stop at least Hairel, who was a complete human.

And it was Eleina who blocked such Gaia even for a moment.

This was because she had the System’s suppression and power that was already no exaggeration to say that she had reached the Constellation.

Of course, even that was helpless before the power of the Godhood.

In that way, when both Eleina and Hairel were battered and saddened by the limitations that their birth had determined.

She moved.

“And Eleina sacrificed her life for me…”

Eleina proposed a contract to Gaia.

Even if her existence was extinguished, she asked that only Hairel be spared.

He was surprised by that and tried to stop her.

But.

It was already too late.

Eleina was not extinguished as a result.

“However… she was forcibly enthroned as a Constellation by Gaia, forgot her memories, and was corrupted by Thanatos’s energy.”

That was no longer a Constellation.

It was a Demon King.

After that incident, Hairel also became a Constellation due to Gaia’s mere ‘curiosity.’

And so.

Thousands of years passed.

He desperately searched for her, but due to Gaia’s machinations, he could only see her from afar. Even that was only once every few hundred years.

In the meantime, he discovered a person.

“That’s you.”

A familiar feeling even though she was a man.

He knew instinctively.

That person.

“Eleina’s reincarnation.”

Another Godhood.

A small soul, like a fragment of Eleina, that had fallen out due to Odin’s arrangement and had been reincarnated.