I Made a Game Featuring Constellations

Crown Prince Raizeol lay in bed, gripping his terminal.

Today was the day—the final chapter of the Pantheon Statue storyline was being released.

After the sudden boss raid that had erupted out of nowhere, he couldn't wait to see how the story would unfold.

The battle had come without any prior announcement, but that hadn't stopped him.

He had dropped everything and logged in immediately.

After all, this was a once-in-a-lifetime event, far more important than any heir training session.

Sure, he had worried that the Emperor might summon him afterward to scold him for skipping lessons.

But as it turned out, the Emperor himself had put off matters of state to join the raid—so nothing came of it.

As soon as he launched the game, his consciousness sank.

A strange, weightless sensation engulfed his entire body, as though he were passing through the walls of dimensions.

And then—

Flash!

The Pantheon unfolded before him, its twelve statues surrounding him in a grand circle.

"Oh."

Seated elegantly in a lavish chair, Queen Thystina turned a page in her book before setting down her monocle and rising to greet him.

She approached with graceful steps.

"The hero who felled the Dark Dragon has arrived."

"Hero? …Oh."

Raizeol quickly realized she was referring to the boss raid from before.

But I didn’t take it down alone. There were other players, too. Is she just going to gloss over that?

Wait—how does this game even explain me fighting alongside other players?

The [Akashic Archive] wasn’t an MMO. Players never interacted directly within the story.

And yet, in that raid, they had.

It was just one of the many mysteries left lingering after the battle with Beidos.

"We showed you our stories and allowed you to learn from them because you were the only one who could bring down that Dark Dragon."

"We, the Twelve Gods, wished to entrust you with the culmination of our strength to strike down Beidos. Of course… we never expected the dragon to act first."

Thystina began to explain why she had placed him within the statue narratives in the first place.

Ages ago, Beidos the Celestial Dragon had been barely defeated by the efforts of the Dragon Knights and other Constellations.

For eons, the preparations for its return had been set in motion.

The seal was bound to collapse, but thanks to the sacrifices of past heroes, they had managed to slay the dragon before that could happen.