Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 518

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A dome created by hundreds of scorpions.

In what could only be described as a colosseum, Se-un continued his battle against the giant scorpion.

“Karak……”

The scorpion was not in good shape.

Two of its eight legs had been sharply severed, and one leg was mangled, rendering it useless.

One of its pincers was also missing its upper part, making it unable to function as a ‘pincer.’

The once smooth carapace was scorched and dented, covered in wounds, looking like a battered suit of armor.

However, the problem was that Se-un was not in good shape either.

‘Damn it…….’

The equipment Go Chang-seok had made was torn and broken.

His left arm, grazed by the pincer’s blade, hung limp, and his ribs were broken from the impact of its massive body, making it difficult to breathe.

Since his regression, he couldn’t recall ever sustaining such severe injuries while climbing the Tower or fighting monsters.

“Retrogression-punish the transgressor……”

Even with three of its eight legs not functioning properly, the Outer seemed unfazed, approaching Se-un and swinging its pincer.

It was a blow swung with the confidence of victory, seeing Se-un, whose entire body seemed too battered to even twitch.

Clang!

Se-un raised his limp left arm, blocking its pincer.

The wounds all over his body healed rapidly, and an even stronger power surged within him.

– You are falling into the grasp of Sloth.

– Temporarily restores all power within the body.

– Temporarily amplifies all power within the body.

Se-un’s last resort.

The power of Sloth.

‘I didn’t expect to use the power of Sloth without even landing a proper critical hit.’

Still, its condition isn’t normal either.

With the power of Sloth, he could finish it off.

– Through internal energy, the Second Form of the Bukhae Sword Style, Bukhae Ice Wave, is enhanced.

Although the Outer greatly increased resistance to all attributes, the monster that the Outer had consumed was originally weak to cold.

After trying attacks of various attributes, he realized that attacks using cold were the most effective.

Ice rose from Se-un’s sword like a wave, pushing back its pincer.

“I admit you’ve gotten tougher, but.”

Black liquid spewed from its mouth.

A deadly poison that could melt even the sand of the desert.

He easily evaded the poison, which would cause poisoning even from inhaling the fumes when it hit the ground, without being hit directly.

Stab, stab, stab!

The tail’s poisonous stinger relentlessly targeted Se-un.

It was an attack too fast to follow with the eye, but its attacks had no feints.

Such straightforward attacks posed no threat to Se-un, who had even regained the Compass of Journey.

Se-un, having grasped the trajectory from the moment its tail twitched, evaded the attack lightly like a butterfly, using Butterfly Flight.

“In the end, it’s the Outer.”

Using strategies or speaking languages.

It was a far more advanced enemy than any Outer he had faced so far, but it had not overcome the Outer’s inherent weakness.

Instinct.

He could easily predict the movements of the Outer, which simply moved according to its instincts.

“Karararararak-!!”

A deafening roar that felt like it would burst his eardrums erupted right in front of him.

As if proving that this was not a simple comparison, blood trickled down from Se-un’s ears.

Yet, Se-un ran forward without concern.

Squeezing out the last bit of power from the artifact, which was running out of energy after the long and fierce battle, he plunged it into its maw [mouth].

– The Rock-Splitting Sword, Durendal, unleashes the cursed energy dormant within ‘Dainsleif.’

– Through ‘Dainsleif,’ the revenge of blood is reenacted.

Fwoosh!!

Dainsleif, the Nibelungen’s [a Germanic heroic legend] magic sword that would not return to its sheath until it had tasted blood.

The infamous magic sword unleashed all the blood it had gathered through its curse at once.

The blood spewed out by Dainsleif was essentially the curse of the magic sword itself.

Se-un didn’t stop there, imbuing the sword with pre-prepared magic and detonating it.

– The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ Blood Typhoon ]

– A high-level blood magic from the Black Tower, a top-tier killing magic that creates a storm of blood using the blood flow of the battlefield.

Blood Typhoon.

Originally, it was a magic that shined not in one-on-one battles like this, but on battlefields where blood flowed from all directions.

As such, it was a magic that didn’t suit this situation, but not now.

The blood spewed out by Dainsleif, this entire fountain of blood made of curses, became the medium for Blood Typhoon.

Thwack thwack thwack-!!

A storm of blood erupted through Durendal, which was plunged into the scorpion’s maw.

The sharp storm swept through the scorpion’s entire body, starting from the inside, melting, crushing, and pulverizing it with all sorts of evil curses contained in the blood.

– Krrr…….

Ruins’s satisfied resonance was heard.

Se-un, having exhausted all his strength for a sure finish, pushed against the scorpion’s maw with his leg and pulled out Durendal.

He would likely suffer quite severe aftereffects once the power of Sloth wore off.

Thud-

Was it thanks to defeating the leader?

The dome that hundreds of scorpions had created began to collapse, and the outside began to become visible.

“Seo-ah! I’ll take care of this side!”

“Okay!”

“Everyone, move aside.”

콰아아앙!!

It seemed the battle at the other gate had ended long ago, as the Diablo Guild was gathered outside, fighting the smaller scorpions.

Among them, at the very front.

Yu Seo-ah was showing off her dazzling swordsmanship, rushing towards Se-un.

“Se-un!”

He would never have been able to stop all these Outers alone.

Not only would he have failed to protect Skavø, but he wouldn’t have had the strength left to defeat the remaining enemies after defeating that large scorpion.

In that sense, the Diablo Guild’s performance was incredibly reliable.

As Se-un was about to raise his hand to Yu Seo-ah, congratulating her on her hard work.

“Behind, behind you!”

Yu Seo-ah shouted urgently, flustered.

Sensing the danger, Se-un desperately twisted his body.

His reflexes had slowed as the power of Sloth faded, but thanks to Yu Seo-ah’s shout, he barely managed to evade the attack coming from behind.

Swish!

A black tail.

The poisonous stinger of the giant scorpion, which he thought had been annihilated, grazed Se-un’s side.

His armor was completely torn, but it was nothing compared to his life.

But, why?

Thud.

A burning pain was felt from his back.

Looking down, he saw a black poisonous stinger piercing through his stomach.

Even though it was called a poisonous stinger, its size was so enormous that a hole the size of an arm had been blown through his abdomen.

“Se-un!”

Why? He definitely dodged it.

Just seeing the scorpion’s tail stretching out right next to him proved that Se-un had properly dodged its attack.

What was this poisonous stinger that had pierced through his abdomen?

Thump.

Whether it was because the power of Sloth had run out, because of the poisonous stinger that had pierced through his abdomen, or because the damage from both had accumulated at once.

Se-un’s consciousness gradually faded from the extreme pain spreading from his abdomen to his entire body.

* * *

“Se-un!!”

Yu Seo-ah’s scream echoed across the southern gate’s battlefield.

Se-un had fallen.

The moment he thought he had dodged the scorpion’s tail, a newly grown poisonous stinger sprouted from the center of the tail, piercing through Se-un’s back and protruding out the front.

“Krarara…….”

And behind him. The owner of the tail was rising.

He had clearly thought it had been torn to pieces beyond recognition and killed.

There was no way an Outer struck by the power of Destruction could recover……!

It was regaining its original form, covering its wounded body with a new Outer.

“The Outers of the dome…….”

Yu Seo-ah, who was watching from afar, could recognize its identity.

The hundreds of Outers that had made up the dome.

The reason the dome had collapsed as soon as Se-un’s battle ended was not because the leader had fallen and lost control.

It was a phenomenon that occurred because the Outers had gathered to recover the leader’s body, to return to the leader’s body, as soon as the leader fell.

“Retrogression-has been defeated…….”

“No!!”

Yu Seo-ah rushed towards it.

The Crown of Baal was placed on her head, and deadly poison dripped from the tips of her twin swords.

– The Constellation, ‘Spider Who Wears a Crown,’ calms the contractor, saying she must calm down.

Yu Seo-ah did not stop despite Baal’s instructions.

She ran quickly as if she would tear that scorpion apart right away, and swung her twin swords at the scorpion.

“Master!”

“This can’t be!”

“Ha-neul! Master has fallen!”

The Diablo Guild members who heard Yu Seo-ah’s shout abandoned the Outers they were fighting and rushed forward.

The combat personnel bit their lips tightly and ran after Yu Seo-ah, and Lee Ha-neul knelt in front of Se-un and began to observe his condition.

“The wound…….”

– The Constellation, ‘Bloodstained Lion,’ sighs.

A hole the size of an arm was pierced through his abdomen.

The enormous amount of blood flowing from the wound was turning the sand of the desert red.

She urgently borrowed the power of Marbas to heal Se-un’s wound, but her expression was not good.

“H-how is Master’s condition?”

“It’s not good. Everything from his spine to his internal organs has been pierced. The visible wounds are serious, but what’s most serious is…….”

If it weren’t for the Tower, he would have lost his life right away from such a wound.

She was able to heal even if bones were crushed and muscles were torn through the power of Marbas, but this was not a wound that could be healed.

Even if she somehow filled the wound and saved his life, fatal aftereffects would remain on his body.

And what was most serious was Se-un’s blood vessels that came into her sight.

Starting from his abdomen, the blood vessels throughout his body were turning black.

The skin around the blackened blood vessels was also turning black, causing severe necrosis [tissue death].

He must have been poisoned by the scorpion’s venom when he was stung by the poisonous stinger.

“He’s been poisoned.”

“W-we can just detoxify him! Detoxification is Lee Ha-neul’s specialty, so…….”

“No…….”

Yu Seo-ah shook her head.

Clearly, she had developed skills worthy of being called an expert in detoxification.

She was full of antidotes to treat all kinds of poisons in case of an emergency.

Even so, she could not cure this pitch-black deadly poison.

“It’s a poison combined with the power of the Outer. No, it seems like the Outer itself has entered.”

The scorpion’s deadly poison and the Outer were intertwined as if they were one.

Although it was called a poison, it was no different from a living creature since it was mixed with the Outer.

It was not an area she could treat.

– The Constellation, ‘Bloodstained Lion,’ shakes his head.

Marbas’s reaction was the same.

Even he, who was called the 5th ranked Demon King and the Grand Assembly Chairman of Hell, could not treat Se-un’s condition.

“This can’t be!”

Even in the meantime, Se-un’s entire body was turning black.