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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: TushChen
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I was hiding in an empty classroom with the Stellarium, the star map of constellations, waiting for Yuria.
‘The student council president’s secret storage.’
That was the name of the place Yuria went.
It was a room with a setting that every student council president can go in once and bring out a powerful item.
However, the problem was that the author wrote this setting and then forgot about it.
It was definitely a setting written in the background information, but this part was mostly abandoned and no additional settings were added.
Thanks to that, even if I opened the settings window and looked at the settings, most of it was just blanks.
The only settings that existed were just about five items in there.
The half-glove of the Dark Dragon, the Flute of Demon, the Demonic Sword Galaxias, the Ruby of Arcmas, and….
There was one more important thing there.
It was an essential ingredient needed for the plan I was preparing.
“Let’s do it like this for now.”
Having finished preparing to activate the Stellarium, I opened the classroom door and looked around.
Fortunately, the surveillance gaze hadn’t reached here yet.
The academy was now filled with a gloomy atmosphere.
The reason was obviously because of the rumor that ‘the voice of the constellations was heard.’
It was shocking enough that the constellations, who had never spoken before, started talking.
But the problem was that the voice of the constellations that came was unanimously intervening in the academy.
‘It is not right for the current student council president to continue leading the students.’
Not only the students but also the professors heard this voice of the constellations.
As a result, Yuria had her authority as student council president temporarily stripped away, which was unusually fast.
‘Now the constellations are trying to directly intervene in worldly affairs.’
It was only a matter of time before such rumors spread.
In a situation where many people consider constellations as gods, once such rumors spread, the academy was in an indescribable chaos.
‘Salvation? The constellations don’t have that kind of power.’
Meanwhile, the professors were busy herding the anxious students into the dormitories to control them.
Even those professors themselves had people who heard the voice of the constellations, so the progress was slow.
Anyway, this classroom would soon be discovered too.
We had to proceed before that.
And finally, the door opened and Yuria entered.
Seeing her slightly tense shoulders, it seemed she was nervous sneaking here.
“Did you get it?”
“I got it. But….”
Yuria had a face that seemed to have something to say.
“I know what you’re curious about. But please give me that first, Your Highness.”
I pointed to the funnel Yuria was holding in her hand.
[You have received the Megaphone.]
I nodded my head while holding the funnel Yuria handed me.
Yes. This is it.
An item whose name the author seemed to have made was inspired by an RPG game that was popular some time ago.
This was what I needed.
This item, which looks like it can amplify sound greatly, actually has a slightly different function.
A very special and unique function at that.
[Constellation Gaunis is curious about the purpose of that funnel!]
“You brought it well.”
Yuria did well not bringing anything she could recognize even though there must have been some in the room.
If I hadn’t read the settings, I might have touched this and that, thinking it was a windfall.
But Yuria seemed to be puzzled.
“But about that, Leonhart. How did you know about such a room? And what is that item?”
It seemed unnatural after all.
In fact, it was obvious that the quick-witted Yuria would question like this.
‘But there’s nothing to explain separately.’
It’s a place filled with empty settings.
Even the reason for its existence was a blank space in the first place.
“That room… My father found it when he was the student council president at the academy. He found it about 10 years ago and told me too. I don’t know why such a room exists in the academy either.”
“If there was such a room, you should have reported it to the academy right away. Why were you hiding it?”
“I think he judged it was too dangerous. You saw what was in that room, right?”
Yuria seemed to recall the items in the room and lost her words for a moment.
Still, she had an expression of not being convinced, but this was the best for now.
“…I understand for now.”
Yuria’s eyes finally turned to the megaphone.
“What about that funnel?”
I raised the megaphone so Yuria could see it well.
“This is used for this purpose.”
I brought the megaphone to my mouth and opened my mouth.
“Your Highness. Please contact me.”
“Eek?!!”
Right after I finished speaking, Yuria was startled.
“I heard a voice in my head!”
“Yes. That’s the purpose.”
Right now, Yuria would have heard this voice in her head.
[Hero candidate Leonhart says, Your Highness, please contact me.]
Yuria seemed to realize the identity of this voice after a moment.
She opened her mouth wide and swallowed her breath.
“Wait, could this be the voice of the constellations that the students heard?”
“Yes.”
I smiled.
“It’s similar. This item can send mantras to the other person’s ears in this way. The problem is that it needs to be seen visually.”
[Constellation Gaunis is surprised by the existence of that item!]
[Constellation Gaunis asks how such an item exists!]
Well, I don’t know either.
What was written in the settings was ‘not yet’.
-Now it’s the beginning.
[Constellation Gaunis tilts her head, asking what that means.]
I looked at Yuria and opened my mouth.
“Actually, there’s a special ability called the Celestial Network. Do you know?”
“Celestial… Network?”
Yuria blinked her eyes as if hearing it for the first time.
[Constellation Gaunis notices what you’re about to say and says you shouldn’t say anymore!]
-I have a plan. I’ll handle it well, so just stay still and watch.
[Constellation Gaunis says she can’t trust you! She says that information should only be known to constellations in the first place!]
Meanwhile, Yuria was lost in thought, twirling the ends of her hair.
“Celestial Network… Celestial Network. What is that?”
Yuria opened her lips several times to pronounce it, as if the sound of Celestial Network was strange.
I smiled and answered.
“It’s a special ability that only constellations have. Actually, one of the functions of the Celestial Network is sealed in this item. A long time ago, a constellation named ‘Maxla’ used a part of the Celestial Network’s function and put it in here. What just happened to Your Highness is also using the same setting.”
Ding!
Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be an unreasonable setting.
The fact that it was an abandoned setting in the first place also played a part in having many empty spaces.
[Constellation Gaunis says everyone will go crazy if such a thing is possible!]
Well, that’s only natural.
Basically, constellations don’t watch over hero candidates.
Unless they just became constellations, they quickly lose interest after a short time.
For those who had already lived their lives fully before becoming constellations, how clumsy and frustrating must the actions of hero candidates look?
But in the current system, no matter how frustrating the actions of hero candidates are, they can’t even say a word.
Since constellations can’t come down to the ground, it’s naturally impossible to speak directly next to them, and of course, they can’t let them use the Celestial Network to give advice.
It was only natural for them to choose not to watch.
“Then how do you use this? Are you going to let all the students hear the voice of the constellations with this? But doing that….”
Yuria said, lowering her eyebrows as if troubled.
“No. That won’t be a fundamental solution. It would just increase the number of imposters to two.”
“Then do you have another way?”
Well, of course I do.
If not, I wouldn’t have wasted the opportunity to bring items from the storage room like this in the first place.
“…There’s something called the Sleeping Society. You don’t know, right?”
Yuria made a slightly irked expression at my words.
“It sounds like a gathering of insomniacs.”
“It’s similar. They’re just constellations who want to sleep a little better.”
I slowly began to explain, looking at Yuria who was glaring at me while huffing and puffing.
The life of a constellation is one that is unbearably boring in exchange for gaining immortality.
Of course, if they’re a homebody like Gaunis, they can live enjoyably by sitting still and having a hobby to do, but most aren’t like that.
Many constellations lived glamorous lives, so they find life as a constellation to be unbearably dull.
Even if they watch hero candidates to pass the time, it’s not fun because they can’t interfere at all.
Some constellations who live such a dull life take drastic measures.
They wanted to escape from boredom through sleep.
The group formed by such constellations was the ‘Sleeping Society’.
It was literally a gathering that shared ways to sleep longer and more.
And in my opinion, this group was the key.
It was the commonality I found when I investigated in the short time Yuria went to the student council president’s storage room.
The difference between those who heard the voice of a constellation and those who didn’t occurred right here.
‘They were all members of the Sleeping Society.’
The Sleeping Society itself probably wasn’t important.
What mattered was whether that constellation was asleep or not.
I thought the impersonator could only impersonate constellations who were in deep sleep.
That could also be inferred from the fact that he didn’t try to use clearly awake constellations that I knew, such as Yuria or Gaunis.
“So we’ll wake up the sleeping constellations.”
“…How? How are you going to wake up a sleeping constellation? You can’t go directly and wake them up. You said that the funnel needs to be seen visually.”
Yuria said as if it was impossible and nervously brushed her hair back.
“So, we need to make the surroundings noisy enough to wake them up from sleep. That’s why I had you bring this.”
What’s needed next is the connection of settings.
The reason why I set the origin of the megaphone as the Celestial Network earlier.
It was because the constellation Maxla was the developer of the Celestial Network.
A constellation described in the setting as unbelievably strict and old-fashioned.
“The Celestial Network had a broadcasting function. This broadcasting function allows constellations to watch us, so to speak. And the person caught on that screen could use the function of this funnel. Maxla intentionally removed it from the functions.”
I pondered for a moment.
This alone would probably lack persuasiveness.
What’s lacking is… the motive.
“But Maxla was a strict constellation and wanted hero candidates to grow on their own. Then he became worried. What if constellations abusing this function interfere unnecessarily with hero candidates?”
Ding!
[Constellation Gaunis is surprised by that fact.]
[Constellation Gaunis asks if there was such a function in the Celestial Network.]
-Now there is.
I smiled and raised Kieft’s Pen.
This pen, which could interfere with the world of constellations, had the power to go against the will of constellations.
So the plausibility of the settings I will add from now on will be sufficient.
“And now, we’ll return this function to the constellations. With this pen.”
“Is that really possible? Constellations are… gods, aren’t they? Can you interfere with the world of gods?”
Yuria asked cautiously.
“Yes. This pen has the power to release what constellations have sealed.”
Ding!
It was the moment when the last setting I needed to fill in for this plan interlocked.
“And in the first place, constellations are not gods….”
I said as I brought the pen, which gained the power to release the seal of constellations, to the megaphone.
“I don’t believe in gods.”
The moment the tip of the pen touched the megaphone.
Ding!
[This modification is too large, consuming 5 of the god’s powers in Kieft’s Pen.]
As white light spread from the junction of the pen tip and the megaphone, it began to emit intense magical power.
“Eek!”
Due to the intense magical power, a strong wind began to swirl in the classroom.
Hair and clothes fluttered crazily.
And at the same time, I let out a small groan at the burning pain.
The suffocating pain instantly flowed through my nerves and spread intensely throughout my body.
I clenched my teeth tightly at the pain that felt like my brain was burning.
“Ugh…!”
I didn’t expect the seal to be this powerful.
The belated regret that I should have added settings to weaken the seal in advance rushed in.
I thought I had prepared everything.
“What kind of magical power is this…! Leonhart! You can’t do it anymore! The magical power will backflow into your body and you, you’ll die!”
Yuria shouted urgently, sensing the danger.
“It’s okay. This much is enough….”
I tried to gently control the magical power overflowing along the pen.
Calm the mind, gather the magical power near the dantian, and spread it to the extremities of the body.
And slowly release that magical power outside the body….
“…Cough!”
I tasted the slimy blood in my mouth.
It seemed to be because the seal placed by the constellation was too powerful.
“Leonhart! You don’t have to push yourself so hard for me!”
I quickly held up my palm to stop Yuria, who was trying to approach me.
“No. If you interfere now, it will be more dangerous! This is something I have to… Cough…! Damn it.”
I wiped the lumpy blood that flowed from my mouth.
“I have to do this alone.”
Yuria’s face became desperate.
I felt sorry seeing her face that looked like she was about to cry.
But you know.
‘I didn’t know either.’
But like this, I might really die due to the storm of magical power overflowing from the pen.
I could feel my internal organs being crushed by the sealed magical power and becoming a total mess in real-time.
The excruciating pain of my intestines twisting and contorting kept attacking.
I hurriedly opened the Plot Store.
What I needed now was one thing.
[Boosting] for 1000pts.
Temporarily enhances all abilities for a short time.
However, after the application time has passed, you will gain a large, randomly selected side effect.
I had a tough time when I used it once before, so I didn’t want to use it again, but.
I made up my mind and purchased Boosting.
Immediately after, an enormous amount of magical power exploded like a volcano inside.
The amount of magical power that had grown much more than when I first used Boosting as a child.
Thanks to that, the effect of Boosting also became larger.
The amount was still insufficient to suppress it.
But what I had to do anyway was just let the magical power flow out to the surroundings.
I began to control the magical power that was crushing me like a monster using the temporarily increased magical power.
But that was only at first.
The magical power, which was formed with a monstrous and brutal image, instead tore apart the magical power trying to swallow it.
‘It’s still not working!’
I closed my eyes tightly as I had already done everything I could.
But at that moment, something unexpected happened.
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