Chapter 2178 – [What Happens When a Constellation Is the Great Demon King]

I got a glimpse of the social atmosphere and various information, but that was only half of it. The other half that needed to be looked for was, of course, the Constellation Tower.

However, it was difficult to recognize this side. Although the Constellation Tower is a tower, there is no door that can be entered from the outside. This is because climbers do not have space or material restrictions as they usually use the basic tower entry and exit skills.

Because of that, there are a lot of problems that arise when climbers who commit crimes jump off the tower, but we’ll talk about that later.

Anyway, the important thing is that you cannot enter the Constellation Tower just because you want to. If you could become a climber just by visiting a tower, half of the people on Earth would already be climbers.

“What should I do? I have to go in first.”

Moreover, even getting in is a problem. There is something like a game system, so when you enter, you are automatically judged as a climber, so there is a high possibility that your identity will be discovered.

First, I don’t know how their system is set up, but my force field might prevent them from interfering, and if that’s the case, an error will occur and the constellations’ attention will be focused on it. On the other hand, if you release the force field, the system will not be able to properly understand you and will counter-stop, attracting attention as well.

I’m not particularly scared of the attention these new guys have. It is said that the gods of the Constellation Tower have close to a thousand gods that cannot be ignored, but even if all of these bastards were gathered together, they would be no match for me. This is true even without the power.

The important thing is that I was unable to clearly understand the situation and determine guilt or innocence. In fact, it is like a secret royal inspector, but the secret royal inspector has to appear before even finding evidence!!! Can I do it?

I finished my coffee and came out for a moment to think about what to do. But I couldn’t come up with a good idea in my head, so I spent the time groaning, and before I knew it, it was evening.

I was thinking about going back to Horizon and resting today, thinking it would be a good day, when I suddenly noticed someone who caught my eye.

“Hmm?”

The man walking with a gloomy look was the part-time worker I saw at the café earlier. That part-time worker who was fired for not having enough stats.

It’s worth feeling depressed that you were fired from a decent job based on numbers rather than effort or will. From my ability to see things, he seems like a good and sincere young man, but I feel a little pity that he avoids the world because it is such a mess.

Should I feed you a meal? I’ll feel better if I eat something delicious.

“Over there.”

“Ah, are you one of those pseudo-people who say you can become a climber if you believe in it? I don’t believe in it, so just go.”

“No, that’s not it. I saw it at the café earlier. What kind of stats do you have to cut out people who are good at their jobs?”

“Ah…”

He thought I was a petty dealer and was about to refuse, but stopped when he heard that he had seen me at a café. On the one hand, I frowned slightly because it seemed like a pointless remark, but I continued speaking without paying any attention.

“If it’s okay, would you like to go eat together? I’m in a good mood, but I need to at least enjoy the meal. I’ll take care of it.”

“… Well, if you buy it for me, I’ll be grateful.”

He couldn’t shake off his doubts. In this day and age, it is obvious how a person who shows up suddenly and shows kindness by buying him a meal would be viewed in this day and age.

I need to feed him that well. Accordingly, I changed the menu from a decent pork belly restaurant to a beef restaurant. When I smelled it, there was a good beef rib restaurant nearby, so I went there.

Ignoring him, who had become more wary of the person who suddenly bought beef for me, I ordered a separate menu from the waiter. At the same time, the price is paid in advance.

“Boss, please give me a plate of beef here, and please take care of the side dishes.”

“Oh, yes, I understand.”

“First of all, I’ll give you 500,000 won, so if you think it’s not enough, you can pay it there.”

“Yes?”

“??”

Both employees and student Kang Yun-ho expressed doubts about the novel payment method of paying in advance and deducting money from it. However, when he openly held out 10 50,000 won bills and paid for them, his suspicious eyes changed a little.

Unless the store itself agrees, there is no place where you pay first. Even if that were the case, I couldn’t really doubt it because it was a good restaurant and there were a lot of customers.

Anyway, we talked while grilling beef ribs. As if there was still some doubt left, I ordered a drink, and only I drank it, and he still left some in his glass, but out of consideration, I left it alone.

“I wonder what the world has become. They say it’s an individual’s ability, but that’s not everything, so it’s really confusing to judge people based on that.”

“… There is some truth to it. Ultimately, that status is the result of my efforts.”

“The innate part is not easily changed. The innate part is so strong that an ordinary person, not even a climber, can change that with effort.”

Let’s take an example. It is said that longevity is also largely influenced by genes. Anyway, because of that, the average physical strength stat of an ordinary person is 10, so can you compare it on the same level with a child who has 20 from birth?

Let’s say you worked hard and raised your stamina from 10 to 15. But even so, it is impossible to raise it to 20…

“It may be a bit of a sensitive issue, but it’s not the student’s fault because of the intelligence stat. So don’t be too upset.”

I sincerely comforted him. But this world doesn’t seem to tolerate even that.

Although there were many customers, the group sitting next to us, who seemed to be eavesdropping on the conversation, giggled. My emotions cool down for a moment because they are laughing at us, or to be more precise, at student Kang Yun-ho.

“Tsk tsk…”

“Intelligence… Hehe.”

You should know the trends of this fucking society.

I was wondering what to do… I was so upset that I decided to just use my strength. He spews out his life very lightly and scatters it throughout the store.

The hearts of almost everyone in the store were pounding!!!! And sit down. The only person here who is free from my influence is the student who is talking to me, Kang Yunho.

“Huh?!?!”

“D-climber… High, high level!!!!!”

“Why in a store like this…?”

Since this ability is out in the open, it’s better not to be mistaken. Anyway.

Student Yunho Kang, who realized that I was not an ordinary person because of what I did, looked at me with changed eyes. Even if pseudo-religious evangelists worked to evangelize, they spent up to 500,000 won on one person and thought there was no way a high-level climber would evangelize.

“Um, by any chance, what is the top ranking?…”

“Well, let’s eat the meat first. If we leave this alone, it will burn.”

“Oh!!!!!”

Hey, beef, beef. I bought you something expensive, but you should eat well.

Anyway, we talked while eating beef for a while. Maybe it’s because people’s interest in this area has grown more, but since they want to hear something out loud, I put up a surprise and block it. But since I can’t hear the sound even though I’m listening right next to it, I react with even more amazement.

“Wow, I can’t hear you!!!!”

“Is there such an artifact? It must be a really high level…”

“Are you a ranked climber? What rank is your rank? That’s a face I’ve never seen before.”

You can say it yourself, I’ll just feed the kid.

The only time other people hear our side of the story is when we place an order. Even though I was like that, Kang Yun-ho was also busy eating, so I ordered another plate of ribs, steamed egg, soybean paste stew, and cold noodles.

It might seem like a lot of money, but at best it’s at the average level. If we had just one Eden, this store would have lost sales for the day. What can we do with just one person eating?

As the tension subsided, he slowly started drinking. At first, he seemed to be trying to control himself, but perhaps because of what he had experienced today, he gradually became intoxicated, drinking soju from the bottle instead of a glass.

“I’m trying so hard!!!! I’m trying!!!! The world is so fucked up that we judge people based on status rather than effort!!!!! There may be someone with better stats than me, but I can’t say that person does a better job than me. There is none!!!!!!!”

“Of course I do. I understand.”

That was a lot of trouble. Then I have to complain.

I listened to his drinking in moderation. He talks a lot and makes a lot of noise, probably because he has accumulated so much, but as an adult, I understand his feelings.

As we were eating and drinking while talking, it got quite late. Then, while he was heavily drunk, he muttered his true feelings and laments.

“I wish I was a climber too…”

“…”

How shitty must it be to say something like that? It is the intention of many people in this civilization to admire climbers, but at least he did not want admiration, but wanted the minimum good of overcoming his situation.

I was fired from my part-time job because of my status, but in order to raise my status, I had to become a climber, not an ordinary person.

Then suddenly a thought occurred to me. This is the power I have as the Winter Lord.

I was able to copy and paste the trials I saw and figured out and give them to the other person. The Absolute Destiny has taught us its own know-how, so there are fewer bugs now.

Although I still have little experience, the probability of success is high and if a problem arises, I can handle it. Rather than looking at multiple people at once, we will focus on just one person.

“Student Yunho Kang, do you want to become a climber?”

“… Look, I’m very drunk, but now if you talk about cults, I’ll just leave.”

“No, I don’t want to ask you to join a religion or anything like that. There’s no contract or anything, so you just have to ask what you want. Anyway, do you want to become a climber?”

“If you say so… Yes, I want to become a climber.”

“Okay then.”

I thought of the climbers I had seen. And find common ground by understanding their causes and effects.

It’s rare for so many people to experience the same thing. However, if it is a turning point in life, such as being selected as a climber, it is characteristic and the same pattern is bound to be revealed.

Thanks to this, even if I was an idiot, it wasn’t that difficult to find the pattern. And add it to the life curve of student Choi Yun-ho.

Even if he can’t do it, he will become a climber in about 3 days. Of course, this is only if what I did was accurate… Still, it doesn’t feel strange or ominous, so I don’t think there will be any problem.

“There will be good news soon.”

“Haha, is that some kind of constellation?”

“Well…”

No, don’t give me wholesale money like they did. Because it sucks.

Then something suddenly occurred to me: if I made him a climber and sent him there, he could be seen as entering the tower. If I can somehow connect my senses and create a line over there, I will be able to understand the situation over there without having to go into the Constellation Tower.

… The method is the problem, but you can use a slightly ignorant method. For example, combining his will and infusing something similar to a repeater into his body.

It’s not easy, and it’s my first time doing it, so it’s a bit difficult. But I think it’s okay to test it on one person.

As a busy person, I can’t do external activities and have to concentrate all the time, but I think it’s worth a try as I can understand the situation indirectly rather than going in directly.

In response, I gathered my will and infused it into the body of student Kang Yunho. It acts as a repeater and provides a general understanding of the situation, but it also seems to be able to provide some physical help.

Anyway, before I knew it, I took him home because he was depressed. Horizon found the address by checking my identity, so I just went there and took it home.

“Ah, I’m suddenly worried.”

On the other hand, it feels as if student Kang Yun-ho was used as bait or an observer. Even if things go wrong later on, I think it would be better to just rescue him or teach him this ability separately so that he can acquire it and increase his stats.

And just like that, a day passed. I stayed up all night at Horizon and waited for student Yunho Kang to join the climber. And just as he was suffering from a hangover in the morning and was refreshing himself with cold water, he disappeared.

[Currently, Kang Yun-ho’s location cannot be determined.]

“It looks like it was sent properly.”

No matter how Horizon it is, it is difficult for the opponent to figure out his location inside the constellation tower where nearly a thousand gods are gathered. At best, only I who put the marker in advance will be able to figure it out.

With my senses and the will I instilled in him, I was able to vaguely grasp the location and situation. Of course, it’s only approximate, but…

“Huh?”

At that time, I was suddenly touched by a different will. The inorganic feeling of contact eventually conveys to me a hard and firm will.

[Understanding strong divine power. Recognized as a new constellation. Would you like to register in the Constellation Tower?]

“Huh? Huh?”

What is this? You recognized it as a constellation? No, the will I have gathered is so great that it is safe to say that I am a decent god.

God is ultimately a being that combines human faith and status. If the standard is ambiguous, it can be acceptable to recognize the Lord’s moderately united will as a god. It’s just a bit surprising that such a coincidence happened.

Even though I think it was a trick of the absolute fate… I decided to write about what happened like this. So I started communicating with their system.

[Yes, I will register.]

[If so, please register the name of the constellation you wish to use. The name of the constellation cannot be changed for the next 1,000 years.]

Because it’s a god, the scale is different. Things like passwords are changed once every six months, but this is a thousand years.

Anyway, I was thinking about a name for the constellation and eventually came up with an appropriate one.

[Monarch of Winter. I’ll take that.]

[All right. The name of the constellation in question will be registered as [Lord of Winter]…]

Eventually, through will, something like a game system begins to appear in my mind. Although I dislike the game system, I don’t deny its convenience, and it seems to be laid out quite efficiently.

And the system seemed to have completed all relevant processing and greeted me.

[Yes, it is complete. Welcome, Constellation [Lord of Winter].]

That’s how I became the new constellation of the Constellation Tower. I only thought about becoming a climber, but I had no idea that I would become a constellation like this.

… Instead, as a constellation, I think I can figure out what the situation and atmosphere are like for these guys.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what kind of idiots are waiting for me.