“Nameless God 1602, you’re by my side, right? I was worried you had made a contract with me and then ran away.”
Run away?
What nonsense.
Whether I’m awake or asleep, from now until eternity, I am with you, Iris.
However, the title “Nameless God 1602” is rather inconvenient.
It would be better to establish a temporary title.
From now on, call me the “Nameless King.”
Honestly, it’s quite different from my actual legacy, but it seems this is the limit of what the Constellation System allows.
“Yes, Nameless King. Then please tell me where my younger sister is.”
As I sat on a bed far larger than my dormitory room, looking at Iris, who was quietly sitting and asking for help, I felt a sudden wave of reality hit me.
I knew Pantheon Academy operated on a strict merit-based system, but I never expected the difference in dormitory quality to be this extreme.
Of course, the stark contrast was even more pronounced since I was at the very bottom while she was at the top.
But today, my tiny wooden dorm, with nothing but a torn-up mattress without even a bed frame, felt especially bleak.
Well, at least it wasn’t leaking when it rained or crawling with cockroaches like my old apartment in reality.
I should be grateful for that much.
Your younger sister, Iris Lunai, is currently in Pandemonium.
“Pandemonium? Isn’t that the stronghold of demons, the complete opposite of Pantheon? Why is Iris there?”
Because the demons kidnapped her.
Stigmas aren’t just terminals for connecting with Constellations.
They can also serve as terminals for Demon Gods.
The demons took your sister to turn her into a Devil Doll.
“Then we need to go rescue her right now—”
Go where?
If you charge into Pandemonium with your current skills, you won’t even make it past the gatekeeper—you’ll die a dog’s death.
More importantly, if you don’t figure out a way to reverse the transformation of a Devil Doll, saving your sister will be meaningless.
Unless you want to fight her in a tragic sibling showdown, you’ll need to become at least 100 times stronger than you are now.
That’s the only way to subdue her without hurting her.
You may have gotten cocky after taking first place in the Junior Division, but let me be brutally honest—if you move up to the Senior Division now, you’ll be the weakest there.
So, stop acting recklessly and focus on training.
The only silver lining in this situation is that Devil Dolls, like Constellation Contractors, are valuable resources.
Even in a place like Pandemonium, overflowing with non-human entities, she’ll be safe—for now.
“But knowing that Iris is still alive… I can’t just live in comfort here while she suffers. At the very least, I should train outside—Kgh!”
Iris buried her face in the bed, fat tears rolling down her cheeks like falling raindrops.
Watching her cry like that, I felt a tinge of regret for revealing the truth about Iris Lunai.
This was information that was only supposed to be unveiled in the late game.
Instead of merely giving a small hint, I had basically blown the whole mystery wide open.
If this messed up the storyline, I wouldn’t be able to complain.
But I had no choice.
My contract with Iris as a Constellation was based on providing her with all information regarding her younger sister.
Even if I was a lowly, insignificant Constellation, a contract was still a contract.
If I tried to gloss over it with half-truths, Iris could simply take the penalty and nullify the contract entirely.
Where else could you find a better training environment than Pantheon Academy?
How exactly do you plan to leave this interdimensional space?
And if it’s comfort you’re worried about, then don’t.
Iris Lunai is living in luxury—she’s staying in a palace with hundreds of servants.
The only problem is that all those servants are demons.
“Is that really true?”
Do you think I’ve been lying to you this whole time?
“No! I trust you, Nameless King. You might not believe me, but I have the ability to tell whether someone is lying or not if I concentrate. I don’t know if this works on Constellations, but even without that ability, I feel an almost absolute trust in your words. So, please tell me how I can become stronger. And how I can turn my sister back from being a Devil Doll.
Oh… was that too presumptuous of me?
I keep asking for things even though I haven’t given anything in return. I’m sorry.”
So, she can discern lies just by focusing her mind, without using magic?
Most people would think she’s spouting nonsense, but I immediately realized it.
Iris Lunai possesses a B-rank “Insight” skill.
Unlike in the game, where status windows existed, this world had no such system.
But I could tell at a glance.
As both a main heroine and a playable character, Iris had some random bonus skills, and having “Insight” actually made things easier.
If you trust me and follow my lead, I won’t just make you number one in the Junior Division—I’ll make you the strongest in the Senior Division too.
But first, you need to abandon two things.
“What do I need to abandon? Do I have a bad habit? Or… should I cut my long hair since it might get in the way during combat?”
Neither. You need to discard the “Rising Sun Aura Technique” and the “Grandia Empire Swordsmanship.”
“Wha—!?”
Iris was so shocked that she almost rolled off the bed, her eyes widening in disbelief.
“Nameless King, forgive my rudeness, but… you do realize that those are my main mana cultivation techniques and swordsmanship, right?”
Of course, I know that.
They’re both solid, well-structured techniques with decent efficiency.
But at the same time, they’re shackles that are holding back your immense talent, Iris.
“Shackles? Then what kind of mana cultivation method and martial arts should I learn instead?”
You need to learn Moonlight Divine Art (Wolha Shingong) and Moon Flash Step (Wolseom Gakbeop).
“Moonlight Divine Art and Moon Flash Step? I’ve never heard of them before. Wait… you’re telling me to learn footwork instead of swordsmanship?”
That’s right. It’s the optimal combination to fully unlock your natural talent.
This wasn’t just empty talk—it was a conclusion I reached after selecting Iris Lunai as a playable character and going through countless trials and errors.
As I mentioned before, there was no status window in this world.
But with my own eyes, I had confirmed that Iris possessed an EX-rank footwork talent and a unique physique called Three Yin Spirit Body.
The irony of this extraordinary talent going unnoticed until now was that Iris was simply too versatile—she was good at everything.
Her swordsmanship talent was A-rank, which meant that her first mentor, Sword Instructor Kate Redfield, had likely never even considered teaching her anything else.
And on top of that, she had already won the Junior Division Spring Martial Arts Tournament, so she probably convinced herself that she was meant to walk the path of the sword.
But just as I, with my completely talentless body, could never escape the position of dead last no matter how hard I tried, the wall of talent was an unbreakable force.
Especially between A-rank and EX-rank—though it was only one tier apart, the gap between them was as vast as the sky and the earth.
That’s why even in the late game (when Iris’s affection reached MAX and she officially became a companion), I always switched her to footwork rather than swordsmanship.
Of course, I was the only one who knew this truth, so from Iris’s perspective, she was probably wondering if her Constellation had lost his mind.
“Understood. Following the Nameless King’s advice, I will abandon my Rising Sun Aura Technique and Grandia Imperial Swordsmanship to learn Moonlight Divine Art and Moon Flash Step instead.”
Good, I’m glad you—wait, huh?
You’re really going to throw away everything you’ve built up until now without a second thought?
“Yes! The moment I signed a contract with you, Nameless King, our fates became intertwined. From now on, even if you order me to jump into the flames of hell, I will follow you without question. But… when you think I’ve become strong enough, I hope you will help me rescue my younger sister. By the way, where can I learn Moonlight Divine Art and Moon Flash Step? I doubt they’d be in the Academy’s library.”
Hold on.
Go get some paper and a pen.
She hurriedly fetched them, and I began writing.
I had memorized the complete formulas of Moonlight Divine Art and Moon Flash Step by heart.
Not because I had a particularly good memory, but simply because I had played the game too much.
The techniques were practically burned into my brain.
Come to think of it, back when I was in the military, I once memorized the Heart Sutra just to get a single Choco Pie.
Yet I was terrible at memorizing English vocabulary… It was absurd what kind of useless things stuck in my head.
Regardless, I attempted a partial divine descent on Iris’s body and started writing the formulas of Moonlight Divine Art and Moon Flash Step using only my thumb and index finger.
Normally, divine descent was an extremely taxing technique that consumed an enormous amount of karma and drained the contractor’s mana.
But fortunately—or perhaps unfortunately—since I was such a low-tier Constellation, the karma consumption was practically nonexistent.