I Made a Game Featuring Constellations-Chapter 126
[Temperance]'s Domain
“Hm... It’s clear everyone likes our Por.”
In front of [Temperance] was a holographic graph displaying the concentration of Por worship across the continent.
She approved new projects.
Even if Por didn’t exist in reality, it didn’t matter.
Her feelings were not a lie.
Even if these feelings weren’t something she had intentionally created, so what?
Was love something that only emerged through desire or planning?
It was all for Por.
For Por, she was willing to spend all the vast wealth she had accumulated over the years.
She turned the pages of the plan, reading through it, before looking up.
“This energy....”
She could never forget.
She couldn’t be mistaken.
“...Por?”
The document slipped from her hands.
***
“Hmm... It’s definitely divine.”
The numerous lines attached to my body.
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The Magitech Engineer looked at the monitor displaying the data of the precise measurement equipment those lines were connected to.
“...It’s certain. Congratulations, our boss. You’ve become a god.”
“Ha... Really?”
At the Magitech Engineer’s declaration, I could only hold my head in my hands.
Becoming a god wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
There were limitations—like the restriction of intervening in the mortal world—but by transcending the limitations of a mere human, I could gain infinite lifespan and immense power.
If I had the power of a god, I could more easily prepare for the Abyssal invasions that might come.
But...
Prick! Prick prick!
A god in the form of a dog!
What kind of messed-up situation was this?
How could a human become a god in the form of a dog?
“Actually, it was my equipment, but I think it’s better for [Wisdom] to analyze it...”
The Magitech Engineer glanced over at Wisdom, who was standing with her head against the corner of the wall.
“What’s she doing over there?”
“I’m not sure either. She was talking about butter or something.”
Wisdom, who had asked me about butter earlier, had suddenly gotten embarrassed and buried her head in the wall.
She had been like that ever since.
I had no idea what was going on.
Butter?
What did it mean?
According to the measurements from the Magitech Engineer’s equipment, the faith in Por, created across the continent, had gathered around me.
It was exactly as Wisdom had predicted.
The problem was that this faith didn’t just gather to create divinity, but it had also concentrated within me.
As a result, I had awakened to the divinity of Por.
“Think of it simply. You’ve become the manifested god of Por, the most popular entity on the continent—a so-called living god. You’re a god born without the need for human sacrifice! Ha ha ha!”
“Yeah...”
I really didn’t want to respond to his usual laugh, but today, I had absolutely no desire to react.
So, I had become a dog.
No matter how you dressed it up as a god, I was still a dog.
What was this?
I hadn’t expected to become a god, but this... this was wrong.
This wasn’t the divinity I wanted. It was the forced divinity born from [Temperance].
“By the way, that [Temperance]—she’s completely obsessed with that puppy named Por, isn’t she?”
“That’s right.”
“Then it might be better to keep the fact that you’ve awakened to divinity a secret.”
“Huh? Why...”
Since the event that broke [Avarice], [Temperance] had joined our investors’ group.
She had cleansed the sin that had been planted in her by the Abyss, but unlike the other investors, she hadn’t completed a story—she was caught up in her obsession with Por, so her actions were a bit different.
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Still, I thought I should share information with our investor, but... maybe not.
If she found out I was Por, especially with the madness of creating a golden statue of Por, I wasn’t sure what she would do.
I didn’t want to know.
“Yeah. If [Temperance] finds out that you’ve become [Por], she might kidnap you. And if that happens... Oh, my!”
The Magitech Engineer stumbled backward in shock as something suddenly popped up in front of him.
“Who dares...?”
Wisdom’s eyes glimmered as she focused on him.
“You’re trying to kidnap my prince?”
It was Wisdom.
“...Sigh. Why are you acting like this, Wisdom, you’re a Constellation...”
“Who dares kidnap my prince, who’s supposed to lick my butter?”
Thud.
Wisdom, who had been acting like she was about to explode, suddenly collapsed like a puppet with its string cut, falling to the ground.
I managed to catch her before she hit the floor.
“Why does she always turn like this when you’re involved?”
The Magitech Engineer had knocked Wisdom unconscious.
“Is it because of me?”
“Don’t you get it? Why do you think she’s like this?”
...I didn’t understand.
Wisdom wasn’t always like this, was she?
“She just saw the two ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ ears that popped up above your head and immediately figured out the result through the equipment. She probably didn’t like it. The one person she loves most in the world has been trained like a dog by another woman.”
“...What?”
What do you mean by a dog trainer?
“Since she’s a smart kid, she’ll be fine after some time. Just lay her in bed and take good care of her. There shouldn't be a problem as long as [Temperance] doesn’t find out about her condition... though that would be an issue. [Temperance] would notice right away if she met you. Should I make sure that you never meet? But if that happens, [Temperance] would catch on... What should I do...?”
As I heard the Magitech Engineer’s mumblings, I laid Wisdom down on a nearby bed.
Rian!!!A small dimensional gate opened, and the round constellation jumped through.
She looked around, twisting her head from side to side.
Rian!!!When she spotted me, she immediately leaped into my arms.
“Constellation.”
I felt her soft, plush body in my arms and suddenly realized something.
The connection I had been feeling with the Constellation until now... it was gone.
I thought Rian had disappeared!When a Saint and a Constellation form a contract, the Saint’s soul is bound to the Constellation.
I, too, had always been bound by soul to my Constellation since I became their Saint.
That’s why we could communicate even when we were far apart.
But now... that connection had vanished.
Rian! Are you abandoning me?“There’s no way I’d do that.”
I would never abandon my Constellation.
How could I betray my benefactor from my past life?
Then why had the contract been severed?
This wasn’t a relationship where one side could unilaterally break the bond.
I quickly figured out the cause.
I had broken the limitations of mortality and ascended to godhood.
That seemed to be the cause.
Now that I had become a god instead of a Saint, it was inevitable that the connection to the Constellation would be severed.
... Huh?
Wait a minute.
Does that mean I can’t use the powers of Dreams anymore?
The reason I could use the powers of Dreams until now was because I was connected to the Constellation, borrowing their power.
But with that connection severed, I could no longer feel the power I used to control Dreams.
“It’s... it’s fine, Constellation! We can just form the contract again!”
Yes!
All we had to do was form the contract again!
It was an unwanted breaking of the contract, but it could be solved by reestablishing it.
Rian...The Constellation looked up at me, her face filled with uncertainty.
“Saints can’t form contracts with other Saints...”
... What?
So does that mean I can never reconnect with the Constellation?
Will I live like this forever?
My heart sank.
Emotions that I didn’t even know I had as my past self surged up.
No.
Not again.
Not again, losing everything.
My mentor, my benefactor, my Constellation.
I cannot accept this.
To lose again...
Even if I have to give up this divinity, I will...
Rian! What are you doing?!“Stop! You can’t erase the divinity! It will be destroyed!”
The Constellation and the Magitech Engineer rushed to stop me.
But my hand was faster than theirs.
I grabbed the core of the divinity inside me.
And...
.
.
KWA-AA-AANG!
Someone fell from the sky.
"Fort...!"
A goddess, different from [Temperance], one who was almost overrun by madness, descended.
