Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 173

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“Thanks for holding out.”

“Haha, the compatibility is terrible! I couldn’t even touch him, so all I could do was keep him tied to the spot!”

As Se-un rushed over, the commander cleared the way.

As a close-combat fighter, especially one who doesn’t use weapons, she found it very difficult to fight the Outer.

It was a great achievement that she bought Se-un time to fight the first golem one-on-one.

– The third form of the Blood Wolf Sword Technique, Blood Wolf Strike, is enhanced through internal energy.

– According to the mysteries of the Supreme Demonic Art, heat is added to the martial art.

Crack!

This time, there was no need for feints or psychological warfare; he charged straight ahead.

After all, he had learned the strategy while fighting the first golem, and he also found out that the Saint Marks could kill the Outer.

His wrist was still tingling, indicating that the aftereffects of using the Saint Marks hadn’t completely subsided, but anything gets stronger the more you use it.

The red wolf, or rather, the wolf’s form, which was darker than usual due to the Saint Marks, extended its forepaws on the golem’s chest.

The golem struggled to shake Se-un off, and the black liquid writhed to protect its host, but Se-un’s sword exploded first.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Fire Burst’ is enhanced.

Bang, bang, boom!

The subsequent battle was the same as with the first golem.

The chain explosion created by Fire Burst removed the outer shell of the ice golem, and Fire Cannon burned away the black liquid that was trying to protect the core.

Soon after, he raised Durandal high and thrust it towards the core.

The golem’s movements stopped, and the black liquid wriggled out.

Both golems were already stopped.

The only hosts left here were Se-un and the commander, but it seemed to instinctively realize that it shouldn’t approach Se-un, and it immediately changed direction and flowed towards her.

Wriggle!

Did it feel a sense of crisis after seeing its comrade defeated by Se-un?

It moved at a speed that was incomparable to the one that was caught first.

A speed that even Se-un couldn’t keep up with.

He put internal energy into his legs and leaped, but the distance was just barely short.

At that moment.

“Haha, not a chance!”

Bang!

The Outer’s path was blocked by the ice golem’s fist flying through the air.

The golem hadn’t restarted. The commander had taken the fist of the deactivated golem and swung it with pure strength.

The black liquid, momentarily panicked and startled by the unexpected obstruction.

Above it, Se-un’s sword rushed in.

Stab!

– The third ability of the Saint Marks, ‘@#!%’, awakens.

Sizzle!

Along with the sound of the black liquid burning, the back of the hand with the Saint Marks engraved on it heated up.

He felt a pain as if being branded with a hot iron, but it wasn’t enough to break the Saint Marks.

It was painful, but he could endure any pain for growth.

The pain caused him to grip Durandal tightly, and just as he grabbed his trembling hand with his other hand and pressed his forehead against it.

Sizzle-

The Outer’s form completely disappeared.

An act that neither players nor constellations could do before the regression. He had executed the Outer itself that had separated from the host, not the Outer in the state of being taken over the host.

“Amazing! Are these things from meteorites mentioned in legends!”

“Probably, only a small part of them.”

“Haha, I wonder what the main body is like. If it’s awake… the Empire, no, the continent might be in danger.”

The commander muttered with a somber look.

She instinctively realized how dangerous the things they had just faced were with her unique intuition.

Meanwhile, Se-un quietly raised his hand and looked at the Saint Marks, which were cooling down.

‘The third power…….’

Although the seal was partially released, he still didn’t know the name of the power.

First, fear.

Second, frenzy.

And third, the unidentified power that annihilates the Outer.

At first, he thought that the power was determined by the divinity of the enemy he faced, but somehow it seemed to be flowing in the direction Se-un wanted.

Perhaps, the direction of the authority is determined by Se-un’s will?

Thinking that, Se-un lowered his hand and regained his focus.

The exploration isn’t over yet.

The most important thing, exploring the meteorite itself, remains.

– ‘Ice Golem’ has been devoured.

– Absorbing nutrients increases Strength by 3 and Stamina by 3.

– The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ puts the clean food with no foreign substances into his mouth and chews it crunchily.

– The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ enjoys the electrifying headache and swallows the food.

As if to prove that the Outer had completely disappeared, Beelzebub gleefully devoured the ice golem.

Before, he couldn’t swallow the statue possessed by the Outer, feeling nauseous.

This proved how completely Se-un’s Saint Marks had annihilated the Outer.

“Let’s go.”

“Hahaha! You don’t seem to get tired, do you!”

Se-un maintained the light magic and moved forward.

The passage, which was already large enough for the ice golem to appear, became even larger, and soon a space as wide as a cavern appeared.

Unlike the darkness that had filled it until now, a faint light flowed in from the ice ceiling.

‘This is the center of the lake.’

It wasn’t certain, but considering the distance he had walked from the fortress, it was roughly correct.

Even though the ceiling was bright, this place also maintained darkness like the ice so far, not showing its inside.

“…There’s something here.”

However, Se-un and the commander could feel it.

That there was something huge here that made their nerves tingle.

‘Is it this way.’

Unlike the commander, who was just instinctively feeling danger, Se-un’s Saint Marks were directly reacting to the presence of the Outer.

Se-un moved his steps as the Saint Marks led him.

The place he arrived at was in front of the black ice wall.

Even though he had come right in front of it, he couldn’t see the inside of the ice at all, so Se-un poured mana into the light and held it close to the ice.

Then, he was able to face a shocking scene.

“This is…….”

“Ahem…….”

The outline of a monster was faintly visible in the black ice.

The jagged teeth visible inside the wide-open mouth gleamed eerily.

A body that was sharper than a shark and smoother than a crocodile.

To put it bluntly, it looked like a mosasaurus [an extinct marine reptile], a dinosaur that dominated the Earth’s oceans in ancient times.

Even then, most of its body was covered in black liquid, and the areas that Se-un’s light could illuminate were extremely small, so it was difficult to grasp its exact shape.

‘As expected, it was an Outer.’

Although the host was different, the appearance of being possessed by the Outer was just like seeing the boar-like monster he had seen right before the regression.

It was frozen as it was with the black liquid dripping down, but its oppressive force and unique unpleasantness could not be hidden.

“This is… the worst.”

The commander hid her trembling arms and hardened her expression.

Rather than being afraid, she had a more developed animalistic sense than others, so she instinctively realized the danger of the existence in front of her.

The small amount of black liquid that had possessed the ice golem.

Even with just that, the ice golem exerted much more powerful force than it originally had.

Moreover, even that was a situation where its power was limited because it had been trapped in the ice for a long time.

But what about the existence in front of her now?

It was a monster that seemed so powerful that it was difficult to even guess its strength apart from the Outer, and the black liquid was flowing down all over such a monster’s body.

If such a monster woke up, it wasn’t just the Empire that would be in trouble, as she said, but the continent might be shaken.

From the player’s point of view, the third shelter to soothe their tired bodies would be destroyed.

No, beyond that, the entire lower level of the tower might be shaken.

‘Probably, the monster sealed in the Scavenger’s sandstorm is similar to this guy.’

Could it be that there is one such Outer sealed in each shelter?

But why?

There was so little information that there was almost nothing to understand.

The only clear fact was…….

‘It’s impossible to face this guy as of now.’

Even Se-un, who had become stronger through the Authority of Gluttony, with the weapon manifested by the Authority of Greed, or even if he narrowed the gap with the Authority of Envy, it was impossible to face the Outer in front of him.

Although there was the third power of the Saint Marks, that power was still extremely weak.

Se-un, who had engraved the monster’s appearance in his head, turned his back.

And at that moment, an anomaly began to occur in the cavern.

Rumble-!

The floor is shaking. No, the entire cavern is shaking.

Se-un’s Saint Marks emit a dark red light, indicating the source of the vibration.

Flash!

“Cough!”

When he turned his head, the reptile’s unique eyes, split vertically, were looking at Se-un.

The commander unknowingly took a deep breath.

From within that solid ice, starting with the red eyes, the black liquid that had been frozen as it flowed down from the Outer’s body wriggled.

‘Damn it…….’

Why?

There was no way its seal could have been released naturally.

If that were the case, it would have been right for it to wake up on its own even before Se-un regressed.

No matter how high a floor he had reached, there was no way Se-un wouldn’t have heard the news that the Outer had woken up and was rampaging.

‘Could it be because of me?’

Se-un raised his hand and looked at the Saint Marks, which were flickering dark red.

He thought it was simply a power to kill the Outer, but since the seal hadn’t been completely released yet and he didn’t know its identity, these Saint Marks might have stimulated the Outer.

Crack!

A line of cracks was engraved on the outside of the black ice.

Starting with that, thread-like streaks were engraved all over the floor and walls, and the shaking of the entire cavern became more and more intense.

If this continued and it woke up, the third shelter would be doomed.

Se-un could save his life by immediately challenging the next floor, but from experience, the Outer could move freely through the floors of the tower.

If that guy roamed the tower freely, the tower might collapse even before the Third Great Demonic War came.

However, there was no way for Se-un to face it now.

‘What should I do?’

Just as he was biting his lip while looking at the Saint Marks that were turning darker, the being sleeping inside the Saint Marks fluttered its black feathers and revealed itself.

“Really, you never run out of problems.”

The Demon God of Greed, Mammon. She appeared.

Swish!

As she reached out her hand, hundreds of black chains appeared from the ice and wrapped around the Outer’s body.

The red eyes narrowed as if angry, but the chains tightened even more around the Outer’s body.

As a result, the intensity of the earthquake that was echoing through the cavern also decreased.

“I wanted to leisurely enjoy the lower floors, but it’s too early to end it already.”

Her outstretched hand was turning into ashes and scattering.

In the first place, the appearance she had revealed now was only a small part of the divinity left in Se-un’s Saint Marks.

As she said last time, it wasn’t a divinity left to exert power.

She was now using all the power left in the Saint Marks to hold the Outer’s movements.

“What are you doing? Fix it quickly.”

The hundreds of chains were also gradually disappearing as her body disappeared.

The more that happened, the more the Outer expressed its anger and tried to open its mouth wide.

As the vibration that had begun to subside intensified again, the Outer’s mouth began to open.

‘Fix’.

What is she talking about?

The deliberation didn’t last long.

“Thank you.”

“There’s no need to thank me. I will take the price.”

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Ice Field’ is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Blue Tower, the stability of ‘Ice Field’ is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Yellow Tower, ‘Ice Field’ becomes more solid.

Creak-

The Outer desperately struggled, creating numerous streaks.

In the meantime, a chill settled in, and the streaks began to be filled.

“G-aaaaaaaah!”

With the Outer’s roar echoing like a phantom through the remaining streaks.

Creak-!!

A thicker ice barrier was created on the black ice.