Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 179

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‘Why is Outer attached to the Ice Dragon?’

According to the legend he heard from the adjutant, Outer fell with a meteorite and was sealed under the Lake of Despair.

However, this place is quite far from the Ice Lake, in the far north.

Among them, it was the highest place in the vicinity, the opposite of the underground of the Ice Lake.

How did Outer influence this place?

That wasn’t the only question.

‘It hasn’t been completely assimilated yet.’

Se-un, who had faced Outer directly before his regression, knew well how one would change when assimilated by Outer.

The first thing that happens is the instinct to destroy.

Sleep or rest becomes unnecessary, and it kills and assimilates any living thing it sees.

Increasing the number of hosts in that way was Outer’s core nature.

But what about the Outer in front of him now?

It only crawls on the Ice Dragon’s scales and doesn’t seem to be able to properly assimilate the Ice Dragon.

It was just circling around, like a hyena looking for an opportunity.

– The constellation, ‘Snake Surrounding Opportunity,’ frowns deeply at the continuously appearing black liquid.

– The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ starts retching again.

– The constellation, ‘Crow with Lowered Head,’ shakes its head at your actions, which are tirelessly associated with dirty things.

As Outer got closer, the demons reacted immediately.

As Mammon said, even Se-un himself found it hard to understand.

Before the regression, he had never encountered it until the moment the tower collapsed at the last moment, no, he had never even heard a sign of Outer.

But after the regression, it was already the third time he had encountered Outer.

They say the first time is a coincidence, the second time is inevitable, and the third time is fate, right?

He had a feeling that this might not be a simple coincidence.

Tatt.

“What is that?”

“Outer. To put it simply… it’s like a parasite or a virus. It’s best not to touch it rashly.”

Yoo Seo-ah lightly climbed the wall and landed next to Se-un.

It was quite a deep pit, and the walls were made of ice, so there wouldn’t have been enough places to step, but she came down so stably.

It was a moment that showed her level of footwork.

While Se-un was racking his brain.

The Ice Dragon, who hadn’t moved even though two intruders had come, finally moved its body.

With its eyes still closed, it gritted its teeth as if enduring pain and raised its head.

Then.

“Kuaaaaa-!!”

It roared loudly towards the sky through the open hole.

Even when he heard it from afar, he had to cover his ears, but hearing it up close, it felt like his eardrums would burst.

– The Treasure Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ Silence ]

– A special wind magic created by the scholars of the Green Tower, which suppresses air vibrations to block sound.

He urgently cast a new magic to protect his eardrums.

It didn’t seem to be a roar loaded with mana or fear, but it had such power.

As expected, it was still impossible to face the Ice Dragon.

A magnificent roar that seemed to shake the world spread out, and snow clouds gathered once again over the sky of the snow mountain.

In the meantime, Se-un could see.

‘It’s retreating.’

The Outer, which had been crawling on the Ice Dragon’s scales, was momentarily startled and moving away from the Ice Dragon’s head.

As soon as he witnessed that, he could understand why the Ice Dragon was able to survive.

He didn’t know why, but the Ice Dragon’s roar seemed to have the power to suppress Outer.

The Ice Dragon was crouching here, repeating its roar to avoid being assimilated by Outer.

The blizzard fluttering outside was just a side effect of that.

‘Has it been enduring this for dozens… hundreds of years?’

If his whole body had been assimilated by Outer pouring down like rain, as he had seen before his regression, this method wouldn’t have worked either.

Perhaps, he was able to avoid assimilation in this way because the size of Outer that popped out of the meteorite fragment was small.

He didn’t hear the exact time, but the adjutant initially said, ‘Frost has been falling for hundreds of years, creating the Ice Lake.’

So much time has passed since the Ice Lake was created…….

‘At least over a thousand years?’

Roughly guessing, it must have been resisting Outer in this place for thousands of years.

As he was thinking that, the Ice Dragon’s roar ended.

Outer had retreated from the Ice Dragon’s neck to around its hind legs.

Originally, the procedure would have been to fall asleep again as it was, but as a dragon, it seemed to have felt the mana that Se-un used while casting magic, and slowly opened its eyes and looked down at Se-un.

The reptile’s unique eyes, torn vertically, glistened white, resembling snow.

If the stigma wasn’t faintly shining and swallowing the fear, he might have knelt down on the spot.

The existence of a dragon was that intense.

“…Human?”

He simply uttered a word, but the surrounding mana fluctuated greatly, as if Se-un had used 5th circle magic.

Mana reacted to each word of the Ice Dragon, stimulating his skin.

Yoo Seo-ah was already stiff with fear and couldn’t move a finger.

Only Se-un calmly swallowed and nodded.

“Human… It’s been thousands of years since I’ve faced a human. No, a living being.”

Thousands of years.

The Ice Dragon’s age was more than Se-un had thought.

Seeing that it was still that size, it seemed that it had stopped growing along with stopping its activities to resist Outer.

To give up even growth and stay in this place resisting Outer for that long.

It was a mental strength that was hard for a human to dare to aspire to.

If he were an ordinary human, he wouldn’t have been able to last even a month in that state, let alone dozens of years.

He might think that it would be more comfortable to give up everything and be assimilated by Outer.

“It is commendable that you have come all the way here… but go back. There is nothing a mere human can do here.”

The Ice Dragon was right.

He was saying this because he thought Se-un wouldn’t know about Outer’s existence, but defeating a dragon or Outer was beyond the level of humans.

No matter how powerful he was, it was normal to go back now.

However, Se-un was different.

He had a ‘power’ that was different from before his regression.

From the moment he came down to the hole and checked the Outer attached to the Ice Dragon’s body, he knew exactly what to do.

“I will save you.”