Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 120

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“Is this the place?”

“Yes.”

“It’s closer than I thought. I expected Se-un to suggest entering a place that looked more distant and difficult.”

The place Se-un arrived at was in front of a massive sand tomb.

It was quite a large tomb, but it was heavily covered with sand, making it easily mistaken for an ordinary sand dune if one didn’t look closely.

It was only thanks to the white bricks visible between the patches of exposed sand that they were able to find it.

After walking about halfway around the tomb, they found what appeared to be the entrance.

It was half-buried in sand, but it looked exactly as it had before the regression.

“By the way, this is the first time we haven’t encountered any monsters while moving.”

“Perhaps it means the real trial begins after entering the ruins.”

“I guess so? Oh, but how did you know to come here?”

“Ah.”

Se-un’s mind raced at the sudden question.

Honestly, he had no excuse.

As he pondered whether to reveal the truth about his regression now, she smiled brightly and continued.

“Just kidding. You can tell me when you want to. For now, I trust Se-un’s choices anyway.”

“……Thanks.”

“No problem! Shall we go in right away?”

“Let’s.”

Using wind magic, he cleared away the pile of sand blocking the entrance.

-You have discovered the ruins ‘Tomb of Early Morning.’

-Once you enter these ruins, you cannot select other ruins.

Se-un checked the message and met Yoo Seo-ah’s eyes.

Already decided, he nodded and stepped inside the entrance.

Immediately, a loud thud echoed as a large rock fell behind them, blocking the entrance.

It seemed to be a measure to prevent escape from the ruins. Like the walls of the Crystal Cave, it was probably indestructible.

“It’s brighter than I expected?”

Inside, a faint light illuminated the walls.

It came from stones called lightstones, but some had burned out, though the remaining ones provided enough visibility.

The walls were cracked in places, bearing witness to the passage of time, and covered with murals of unknown origin.

They were also heavily damaged by time, but some less damaged pictures and letters were visible.

However.

‘This looks like writing I’ve seen somewhere before?’

Why was that? The scattered letters felt strangely familiar.

Before the regression, he couldn’t understand any of it, so was it a language he learned afterward?

Even so, he couldn’t decipher it.

“It’s fascinating. It looks like Egyptian murals.”

“Egyptian murals?”

“Yes, I saw them in a documentary.”

Come to think of it, there was a similar feel.

Of course, that didn’t mean he could interpret the murals.

They moved quite a distance inside the tomb, yet not a single enemy appeared.

Nevertheless, Yoo Seo-ah gripped her twin swords tightly, remaining vigilant.

“Isn’t this the first time we haven’t encountered monsters for so long in a trial?”

“It is.”

Having already explored these ruins before the regression, he remembered everything about this place perfectly.

There were no monsters here.

Instead.

“Wait.”

“Yes? It doesn’t seem like there are any monsters……”

“There are no monsters, but.”

Clang.

Clang!!

There were traps.

The moment Se-un stepped on a slightly raised stone on the floor, dozens of sharp spears shot out from both walls in front of them.

Startled, Yoo Seo-ah gasped and stepped back.

“H-how did you know?”

“I just… it was obvious.”

“I was so focused on the monsters that I didn’t even think about traps. That was almost really dangerous.”

“It’s okay. I’ll find the traps.”

Not perfectly, but he remembered the locations of the traps to some extent.

Besides, the current Se-un possessed ‘Searching,’ the optimal exploration magic for finding traps.

So, there was no way he would fall for a trap on the 9th floor.

And even if a trap appeared that was difficult to deal with even after finding it first.

Swoosh!

He could just destroy the trap with brute force.

Se-un, having split a rolling boulder in two with a single strike, shook off the stone dust from his sword and continued down the path.

With no forks in the road, they were able to move forward quickly.

‘No matter how I look at it, it’s familiar……’

Even while dealing with the traps, Se-un’s gaze was fixed on the murals.

He definitely felt like he’d seen them somewhere, but he couldn’t recall where.

Just as he was about to express his frustration at the memory that seemed so close yet so far, an unexpected message appeared.

-The Constellation, ‘The Bowing Raven,’ wears a bitter smile.

-The Constellation, ‘The Bowing Raven,’ laughs loudly, saying isn’t this intentional at this point.

‘Ah!’

Only then did Se-un realize the identity of the letters written on the murals.

The letters written in the hidden room he had heard while passing through the cave, the trial of the 3rd floor, the letters written on the book placed there. It was the language of the Verhel Continent.

Of course, it wasn’t exactly the same. The strokes and shapes were subtly different, and the arrangement was also different.

The reason Se-un didn’t recognize it was precisely because of that.

Perhaps, it wasn’t the common language of the Verhel Continent.

‘Is it like an ancient language?’

Even if they were languages of the same continent, they couldn’t all be the same.

The reason why he couldn’t interpret the murals despite having learned the language of the Verhel Continent seemed to be due to the differences between the two.

‘More than that, judging from Mammon’s reaction, it seems like this place is also related to Kephri.’

The Constellation, the one who rolls the sun. The god of sunrise, Kephri.

He had never met this Constellation before the regression, but for some reason, he seemed to be constantly running into him unintentionally in this life.

However, that didn’t mean he intended to stop.

Se-un hadn’t chosen regression to be mindful of the Constellations.

‘Found it.’

How long had they walked?

Finally, he was able to find the door he had seen before the regression.

At the time, he hadn’t even thought about opening it, so he hadn’t paid attention, but now that he looked, there were several murals engraved above the door as well.

He couldn’t interpret the language, but a jewel-like dung beetle shone brightly, defying the traces of time.

The insect symbolized by Kephri was this dung beetle, so this confirmed his belief that this tomb was related to Kephri.

“Are you going to go in?”

“Of course.”

As expected, the door was firmly locked.

There was a dung beetle-shaped handle, with a pentagonal gap carved into it.

It seemed that one had to insert something in place of a key to open the door.

There was no way something like that would have come out as a reward for the trial, so it seemed that Kephri had hidden this place to give rewards to players he favored.

However, what did that matter?

No lock, no door could stand in Se-un’s way.

Click.

Creak-

The universal key in Se-un’s hand turned halfway in the pentagonal gap.

Even though the keyhole didn’t match at all, the pentagon rotated lightly following the key.

The door, which seemed like it would remain closed forever, made a rusty sound as it welcomed its guests.

He was only on the 9th floor, yet he had already used the key three times.

Choosing the key as a tutorial achievement reward was a great decision, even by Se-un’s standards.

Of course, even if other players had the universal key, they wouldn’t have been able to figure out where to use it, but Se-un had a wealth of knowledge about the Tower in his head.

The moment the door swung open.

Only then did Kephri, realizing the anomaly, send a message in a hurry.

-The Constellation, ‘The One Who Rolls the Sun,’ is startled to realize that his tomb has been opened.

-The Constellation, ‘The One Who Rolls the Sun,’ expresses his anger, asking if it’s your doing again, and shouting to get out of his vault immediately.

“……What should we do?”

“Ignore him and choose.”

Kephri repeatedly sent messages, blocking his vision, but Se-un easily ignored them.

The only downside was that he could only choose one treasure from among these.

If it was something Kerpi had said, he would have ignored it, but the system’s notification was absolute.

Regardless of his will, the moment he picked up one treasure, the choice would be gone.

“Let’s see…….”

Gold and silver treasures sparkled, calling out for him to choose them, but their value in the Tower wasn’t that great.

He could sell them on some floors to acquire a large amount of contribution points, but he could just acquire contribution points by passing the trials.

‘The equipment looks pretty decent, though.’

Weapons beautifully decorated in gold and silver caught his eye.

Among them were several spears that seemed to be quite high-performance, and since many of Mammon’s treasures were in the form of spears, there were quite a few tempting ones.

But, at best, they were just ordinary weapons. They couldn’t compare to Durandal.

No matter how good their performance, they would break after using Mammon’s treasures a few times.

It was an expression that only applied to Se-un, but he had no intention of choosing disposable items as rewards.

The same went for armor.

As expected of treasures prepared directly by the god of sunrise, they were of a higher grade than what Se-un was currently wearing, but they didn’t seem particularly necessary.

After all, Go Chang-seok would be able to make armor of that level once his skills improved.

“I’ll choose this!”

“Looks good.”

Yoo Seo-ah chose a necklace crafted from gold.

It possessed the power of wind, increasing the wearer’s speed and spreading wind pressure around them, and it seemed to suit her well.

Like Se-un, she seemed to trust Go Chang-seok’s skills, so she had excluded weapons and armor.

In response, Se-un turned his gaze to the direction where the accessories were.

There were several useful accessories, but not many that were tempting.

Then.

Buzz!

The stigma engraved on Se-un’s right hand vibrated lightly.

Instinctively moving his hand in the direction where the vibration was getting stronger, Se-un was able to find a treasure hidden among the various treasures.

-The Constellation, ‘The One Who Rolls the Sun,’ widens his eyes.

-The Constellation, ‘The One Who Rolls the Sun,’ screams that anything but that.

-The Constellation, ‘The Bowing Raven,’ is choking with laughter.

A golden statue in the shape of a dung beetle.

It was not an ordinary treasure, but a statue imbued with the divinity of the god of sunrise, Kephri.