Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 16

The Vault of the Demon God – Episode 16

16

[Tutorial Stage 1 – Adaptation]

-The fifth wave is starting.

-Defend against the monster wave and prove your existence.

The fifth wave arrived quickly.

Their wounds had barely healed, and the people’s faces were tense, anticipating the immediate continuation of the battle.

A stark contrast to their demeanor during the fourth wave just moments before.

Even without Yoo Seo-ah shouting, everyone gripped their weapons tightly, preparing for the monsters’ attack.

“Screeeech!”

Wolves, boars, monkeys. True to the established sequence, this time, boars with thick gray fur charged forward.

Like the Gray Wolves, these creatures were larger and stronger than the Brown Boars.

“Hyung-nim [term of respect for an older brother or male friend], I’m ready! Should I charge right in?”

“No, it’s okay this time.”

“Huh?”

Seeming to have adapted somewhat, Se-woon stopped Park Jung-pil, who was about to rush out on his own. Se-woon hadn’t even needed to tell him to hold back.

Until now, he had been carefully managing the numbers to match the people’s level, but if Se-woon’s hunch was correct, that wouldn’t be necessary anymore.

“They’re charging! One, two, three!”

“Scatter!”

Their battle method so far had been simply blocking the front with crude shields and thrusting sharply whittled wooden sticks from behind.

But now it was different. Yoo Seo-ah, anticipating that boars would appear in order, had devised a new plan.

Instead of staying in the center of the camp as usual, they positioned themselves with the wolf forest behind them and quickly retreated as the boars charged.

Thwack!

The boars couldn’t stop their momentum and crashed headfirst into the tree trunks.

Immediately, the people attacked. They unleashed a one-sided assault on the boars, which were stunned after slamming into the trees.

In a forest with many obstacles, dealing with the boars became much easier.

Moreover.

Crack!

Thud, Thwack!

-The Constellation, ‘Old Man Riding an Alligator,’ strokes the alligator’s rough skin and looks down with interest.

Kang Chul-hyuk’s performance was noticeably different from everyone else.

During the second wave, he would clash head-on with the boars even as they charged, engaging in a battle of strength, but not anymore.

He used the boars’ charging force to grab their tusks and throw them in the opposite direction.

‘He’s applying Tai Chi [an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training and its health benefits].’

It was clear. He was using what he had learned from his sparring with Se-woon.

Whether he had completed a contract with Agares in the meantime, his strength had also increased, and he was lifting the Gray Boars as lightly as if they were children.

‘At this rate, I don’t really need to step in.’

Watching the people fiercely fighting with burning fighting spirit, Se-woon turned away.

Since he couldn’t accumulate contribution points and experience through the waves, he decided to find hidden pieces instead. In fact, this was a way to accumulate even more points than fighting the waves.

“Hyung-nim, where are you going? Then I’ll also……”

“No need.”

“How can you say such a disappointing thing! I am, no matter what anyone says, Hyung-nim’s reliable right-hand man! I will follow you anywhere!”

“I’m going to climb that rocky mountain, though?”

“Hehe, have a good trip! I’ll protect the camp while Hyung-nim is gone!”

What a quick change of attitude.

Leaving Park Jung-pil, who was scratching the back of his head awkwardly, behind, he began to move in earnest.

The rocky mountain where the monkeys had appeared during the third wave.

“Oook!”

As expected, as soon as he thought he had left the entrance, monkeys began to surround Se-woon.

Whether they had called their comrades, their numbers quickly increased to double digits.

Believing in their numbers, they confidently approached Se-woon, swinging their weapons around.

Of course, the result was the same as with the other monsters so far.

-Through internal energy, the Second Form of the Blood Wolf Sword Art, Blood Wolf Fang, is enhanced.

Crack!

The Blood Wolf Sword Art, which he had newly learned. It was a martial art he had learned to deal with wolves, but the Blood Wolf Sword Art imbued with internal energy did not discriminate against enemies.

It tore apart the weapons the monkeys were holding, along with their bodies, and stained the rocks with blood.

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ grumbles that he was expecting a barbecue party, but this isn’t enough to fill him up.

“Didn’t we promise that excessive urging is prohibited?”

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ pretends to have a hazy memory and looks away.

“And there’s something more delicious than boar on this mountaintop, so you don’t have to worry.”

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ trusts you and raises his thumb.

Appeasing Beelzebub felt like taking care of a young child. No, perhaps a hungry pet dog would be a more fitting expression.

Se-woon, who had dealt with the monkeys using the Authority of Gluttony, raised his head.

‘The difficulty here isn’t the monkeys.’

At first, it looked more like a rocky hill than a rocky mountain, but after passing the entrance, the terrain completely changed.

“It’s almost vertical.”

It was truly a cliff as if it had been cut off.

It was more fitting to call it a rocky cliff rather than a rocky mountain.

There were no suitable places to grab, only small cracks eroded by long winds and waves, or blunt protrusions that seemed difficult to hold onto.

Thanks to this terrain, it was a terrain that Se-woon had not been able to explore even with the help of the ‘Journey’s Guide’ before his regression.

But.

“It’s different now.”

-The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[Gelada Monkeys of Balatan Cliff]

– The apex predators living on the Balatan Cliff, full of mountains and cliffs made of rocks.

No matter how few places there were to grab and how steep the slope was, it was still a habitat where monkeys lived.

In that case, if he used this power, there was no reason why a human couldn’t climb it.

Thud.

Se-woon put his fingers into a crack in the cliff. The crack was so narrow that he could barely squeeze two fingers in.

Nevertheless, Se-woon raised his other hand above his head, supporting his weight with only two fingers.

Thud, thud.

Each time he reached out with one arm, his hands trembled.

Even at moments when he thought he had a good grip, the crack, unable to withstand Se-woon’s weight, would break away.

Each time that happened, Se-woon had to swallow hard, looking at the ground that was now far away.

‘If it weren’t for Mammon’s treasure, I would have already fallen.’

The fact that he could support his body using only these small cracks, that he could withstand the blowing wind and stick to the cliff, was all thanks to the power granted by Mammon’s treasure.

Where to grab, how to deal with the wind, how to rest in the middle of the cliff.

The experience and know-how of monkeys who had lived their entire lives on the cliff were imbued in Se-woon’s body.

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ questions where there is anything to eat in a place like this.

Certainly, after climbing the cliff, there were no monsters, not even the monkeys who were the masters of the rocky mountain.

He took a moment to catch his breath and raised his head, but the end of the rocky mountain was obscured by clouds.

Just as impatience began to rise, a new sight finally caught Se-woon’s eye, different from the solid gray rocks.

‘Monkeys.’

Unlike what he had seen so far, which was full of rocks, unknown branches were sprouting everywhere above.

The monkeys were moving or resting on those branches.

Moreover, a hole the size of a monkey’s body was carved between the cliffs, catching Se-woon’s eye.

‘Could it be that these guys have a separate entrance?’

It was a reasonable suspicion.

No matter how capable the monkeys were, this cliff was not an easy place to climb.

Considering not only stability but also convenience, that hole might be connected to somewhere below.

Well, even so, the hole seemed small enough for only the monkeys to barely pass through.

“Oook?”

He had moved as carefully as possible, but one of the monkeys closest to him discovered Se-woon.

“Screech!”

“Oook?”

“Screech! Oook!”

The monkey was notifying those around him of the intruder’s presence with surprised eyes.

They had been resting peacefully without any worries, so they were all quite surprised to find Se-woon.

Indeed, this was the middle of a cliff where the bottom was not even visible. It would be hard for them to imagine that an enemy would invade such a natural fortress.

‘First, I’ll go up there!’

He had managed to climb up here with the power of the treasure imbued in his body, but it was difficult for Se-woon to climb the cliff and engage in battle at the same time.

Just as the monkeys moved freely on the branches, Se-woon, with the power of the monkeys, would have many fewer restrictions if he only went up there.

“Ookeeek!”

As if not allowing him to climb any further, they began to throw stones at Se-woon.

The large stones they had somehow obtained were quite threatening.

Just before their stones reached Se-woon.

Whoosh!

A bright red fireball was created above Se-woon’s head.

The mana circle rotated fiercely, and the size of the fireball gradually increased, swallowing the flying stones and rising relentlessly.

Quarrel!

“Screech!”

The monkeys were horrified when they suddenly faced a fireball on the cliff and fled further up.

In the meantime, Se-woon awakened the internal energy sleeping in his dantian [energy center] and concentrated his strength on his arms and legs.

The fingers inserted into the rock crevices turned red, and the crevices that received the force emitted a pitiful groan, ‘creak.’

Slowly, like compressing a spring, he gathered as much strength as possible, and at the moment when he felt that the support could no longer withstand the force.

Tap!

Se-woon’s body soared vertically.

Fortunately, the monkeys had evacuated to a higher place to avoid the firepower of the Fireball.

Se-woon reached out vigorously to grab the nearest branch.

However.

‘It’s not enough!’

He hadn’t considered the wind.

Unfortunately, Se-woon’s speed was reduced by the wind blowing downwards.

At this rate, he would inevitably fall.

At that moment, Se-woon calmly took out the sword from his waist. Not his usual longsword, but the ‘Fang Dagger’ that Go Chang-seok had made for him.

Stab!

‘Good!’

No matter how quickly Se-woon was growing, it was difficult to stab a sword into a rock.

However, this Fang Dagger had the ability called ‘Reckless Charge,’ which increased attack power and cutting power only for stabbing.

He drew up his internal energy and thrust the dagger, and the sword was driven in enough to exert sufficient force.

Tap!

Using that force, he leaped once again.

The wind, as if rejecting the intruder, tried to push Se-woon away roughly, but it didn’t work this time.

‘I almost got into real trouble.’

Se-woon, who had climbed onto a branch that was sturdier than he had expected, lightly shook his wrist.

When he raised his head, the monkeys were staring at Se-woon with their mouths wide open.

They must have been surprised by his appearance, which was more like a monkey than the monkeys themselves, as if it were a scene from a movie.

Se-woon, who had finally regained the freedom of both hands, lightly loosened his body and drew his sword towards the monkeys.

“Now, shall we go find the hidden piece?”

Before long, the monkeys’ corpses began to fall down the cliff.