Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 180

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‘An Apostle of Baal.’

The higher the rank of a Constellation, the less likely they are to appoint an Apostle carelessly.

Lending Authority and transferring even a fraction of Divinity were vastly different matters.

To put it simply, it was akin to cutting away one’s own flesh to enhance the contractor’s power.

Because of this, even though the Diablo Clan was attracting attention from many Demon Kings, no one had ever been formally appointed as an Apostle until now.

And now, Yoo Seo-ah had formally contracted with Baal, a Constellation with power close to a Main God, and was appointed as an Apostle.

The spider-shaped stigma [a mark or brand indicating divine favor or a supernatural connection] shining on the back of her left hand was proof of this.

“Seun-ah!”

“Thanks.”

Crack!

Just as Seun completely extinguished the remaining Outer, she pierced through the torso of the Outer she had fixed in place.

The third Authority of the stigma manifested, and the black liquid began to burn away, but it couldn’t move due to the power of domination.

Chiiiiik!

These were different in size from the ones attached to the Ice Golem, which were only the size of forearms.

She had only destroyed about half of it, but the stigma was already heating up and radiating heat.

“It’s really disappearing. Really, really……”

The Snow Dragon quietly sobbed as she watched the Outer disappear.

She couldn’t help but be happy as the being that had tormented her for thousands of years vanished.

Meanwhile, about two-thirds of the Outer’s form had already been annihilated.

Clearly, the third Authority was growing each time it destroyed an Outer.

During the Ice Golem incident, it could only destroy those two small ones, but now it was devouring an Outer with the volume of an adult male.

The stigma heated up, causing a pain as if her hand was being branded with a hot iron, but she could endure this much.

‘If I succeed here, it might be possible to save someone completely consumed by the Outer.’

Thinking that, she gritted her teeth.

Not only Seun but also Yoo Seo-ah, whose newly formed stigma was burning hot, bit her lip so hard that blood flowed, enduring the pain.

Cold sweat streamed down her forehead, and just when she thought her hand might melt away if she endured any longer.

Srrr-

“Hoo…….”

The Outer was completely annihilated.

Yoo Seo-ah collapsed in exhaustion, and Seun could barely maintain his stance, merely standing.

“To really succeed……!”

The Snow Dragon raised her head, deeply moved.

She began to move her body, freed from the Outer, from the restraints.

She raised her tail, which she hadn’t been able to move for thousands of years.

At that moment.

Grrr!

A cluster of Outers hidden in the shadow of her tail revealed themselves.

Seun’s expression twisted, and Yoo Seo-ah gasped in surprise.

‘I didn’t realize there were so many…….’

It was a miscalculation not to have observed properly.

He thought that since the Snow Dragon hadn’t been completely consumed yet, there wouldn’t be many Outers targeting her, but he thought what he saw was all there was…….

That wasn’t the case.

“No……!”

The Snow Dragon was also just as flustered.

She had been too busy trying to avoid being consumed by the Outer for a long time, and she didn’t have the leeway to observe the Outers consuming her body.

Even she didn’t know that there would be so many Outers lurking under her tail, waiting for an opportunity.

‘What should I do?’

The stigma was already at its limit.

It was no longer possible to destroy the Outer.

However, even in this bewildering moment, Seun, who was calmly observing the Outer, was able to notice something strange.

‘Why aren’t they coming?’

The Outers that had revealed themselves were unable to move readily.

They didn’t attack the Snow Dragon, nor did they approach Seun.

Like frightened beasts.

Through this, he could understand.

They were afraid of Seun’s power that destroyed them.

That’s why they revealed themselves to escape or resist, but without a host, the Outer couldn’t do anything.

They were just as bewildered as Seun and Yoo Seo-ah.

“Cover your ears!”

The Snow Dragon, who was watching this, urgently prepared to roar.

As she usually did, she planned to buy time with a roar.

Meanwhile, Seun felt a very small presence from behind.

A presence that was abnormally small, as if ice or snow had fallen, a presence that was deliberately hidden.

The moment he turned his head, he saw Liam, one of the Frost Fortress players who had been following Seun since he left for the quest.

“Hehehe! It looks like it’s almost over, I’ll take the last hit!”

His goal was exactly the same as Seun’s thoughts.

It was only natural since he knew his twisted personality better than anyone else, having faced him in his past life.

He brandished a white dagger that looked quite useful as he approached.

However, what surprised Seun was not his surprise attack.

‘He managed to survive.’

Not only was the terrain and climate inherently harsh, but he also deliberately caused avalanches to shake him off from time to time.

In the end, there was a blizzard so heavy that even Seun had a hard time.

To come all the way through all of that.

It was an astonishingly great determination.

‘Is it because of those equipment?’

The equipment Liam was wearing were all top-notch equipment related to cold and snow resistance that could be obtained from the Frost Fortress.

In addition, Seun remembered that the Frost Fortress also sold one-time-use items that could protect the body in preparation for sudden blizzards or avalanches.

It seemed that he had used all of those to chase after him.

Of course, judging by the fact that all his equipment was torn and his exposed skin was frozen blue, it seemed that he had barely survived a life-threatening situation.

However.

‘If it’s that guy…….’

The moment he saw Liam, a good idea to deal with the Outer came to mind.

Even though his equipment was torn and his skin was frostbitten, he was still a player who had survived in the Frost Fortress for a year, so he turned his body towards the guy who was wielding the dagger sharply.

“The last hit is mine…… uh, uh?”

He was exhausted from drawing out Divinity to the extreme, but Seun’s stats had already far surpassed the level of players in the same stratum [a level or class to which people are assigned].

Utilizing the mysteries of Tai Chi [an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training and its health benefits], he grabbed the wrist of the guy holding the dagger.

As he put strength into his hand, the guy screamed in pain and dropped the dagger.

A surprise attack that was thwarted so easily.

Seun didn’t stop there, he pulled the guy’s wrist and grabbed the back of his head, slamming him into the Snow Dragon’s body.

Right in the middle of the black liquid wriggling between the hind legs and the tail.

“Kuok?”

“What are you doing! Get away quickly!”

“Seun, what!”

There was a precaution that Seun told the person who encountered the Outer for the first time.

Do not touch the Outer.

They turn living beings into hosts and consume them just by touching them.

But now, Seun had slammed Liam right into the center of the wriggling Outer.

Soon after.

Wooong!

He drew out the light of the stigma to the maximum.

It felt like the back of his hand was melting, but he didn’t intend to exert any strength anyway.

He had too little strength left to do so.

Just emitting light.

Only that alone…….

Wriggle!

The Outer began to convulse in surprise.

It had learned that the crimson light emitted from Seun’s stigma had destroyed them.

However, it was impossible to consume the Snow Dragon right away in this situation.

In this situation, there was only one choice they could make.

“Kwoeok! Cough! Keok!”

The Outer began to consume Liam’s body.

Eyes, nose, mouth, ears.

It seeped through all the holes in the body, dominating the new host.

Liam convulsed and screamed in pain, but Seun didn’t release the hand holding the back of his head.

He was trash who was aiming for his life anyway.

Even if it wasn’t to get rid of the Outer, he had no intention of letting him live.

Rather, he kept him alive a little longer to get rid of the Outer.

“Kwoeeeeok!”

The many black liquids were all absorbed into Liam’s body before he knew it.

Liam’s stomach swelled up, and his blackened eyeballs spun around.

This was the consumption of the Outer.

With this amount, even if it was Liam, he would be able to unleash an incredibly strong power.

Perhaps, as much as Seun.

The moment the Outer completely fell off the Snow Dragon’s body, Seun turned his head and looked at the Snow Dragon.

“Now!”

“……I understand!”

The current situation where he sacrificed another life to save himself.

The Snow Dragon’s expression wasn’t good, as if he didn’t like this situation, but if he stayed still, he would only be abandoning the Outer.

Knowing the urgency of the situation, the Snow Dragon opened his mouth wide and inhaled.

White energy gathered into his mouth from all directions.

Breath.

A technique that only Dragons with powerful innate power can use.

Among them, a technique that only the Snow Dragon, who is extremely specialized in the attribute of snow, can use, Snow Breath.

It was fired.

Kwaaaaaaa-!!

A wave of white snow covered Liam.

Thanks to the fact that Seun had prepared in advance, he was able to barely release Liam and escape out of the range of the breath.

Overwhelming power.

‘Could I withstand it?’

Seun soon shook his head.

It was impossible to block that attack with his current strength.

If he mobilized all of the Demon God’s Authority, he might be able to block it once, but there would be no future after that.

“Kkureuk! Kweeeeeek!”

A bizarre scream unique to a host consumed by the Outer was heard from within the wave of snow.

However, no matter how Outer it was, it was impossible to escape from the dragon’s breath.

It had just taken over the host, so it couldn’t exert its power properly, and Liam was in the worst condition, to the point where he could be said to be on the verge of death.

Wriggle!

Liam’s body bounced here and there, as if the Outer was screaming in pain.

No matter how Outer it was, it would die with the host if the host died.

The Ice Golem was not a living thing, so that formula didn’t seem to apply, but it was different now.

The Outer was dying with Liam’s body.

Wooong!

It wasn’t him who destroyed it, but was it still going to eat it?

The stigma emitted a crimson light and absorbed the ashes of the disappearing Outer.

It was something Seun welcomed, so he just watched quietly.

And after a while, the Snow Dragon’s breath ended, and snow fell from the sky.

On the opposite side of the hole, snow had piled up as if an avalanche had occurred, and even when he looked around with his eyes wide open, he couldn’t see the Outer, let alone Liam.

“Just now…….”

“You don’t need to feel guilty. You might not have seen it because the situation was urgent, but he was aiming for my life.”

“I see. Even so, since he is a being with no connection to me, I must offer my condolences in my own way.”

The pile of snow that had been piled up on the other side condensed and turned into the form of a tomb.

Liam’s body was not left, but it seemed to be the Snow Dragon’s own courtesy.

“Thank you so much. Thanks to you, the curse that I thought I would never be able to end has ended…….”

The Snow Dragon raised his head and looked at the sky.

Even though it was snowing, the sky was clear without a single cloud, and the shining sunlight was reflected on the scales and sparkled.

And a stream of water flowed down from his eyes.

Seun and Yoo Seo-ah stared blankly at the scene for a moment.

Tears of a dragon.

They couldn’t utter a word at the breathtakingly beautiful sight.

After a while, the Snow Dragon came to his senses, lowered his head, and looked at Seun.

“I apologize for my initial rudeness. And, thank you.”

“It’s nothing.”

“I shouldn’t just say this, I have to repay you. Although I haven’t been able to collect treasures because I’ve been trapped here…….”

Drrrrrk!

The Snow Dragon swung his tail and hit the floor, and a small ice pillar rose from the floor.

He didn’t expect any special rewards because the bottom of the hole was too empty to be a dragon’s lair.

However, what was placed on top of the rising ice pillar was a treasure with a higher value than any treasure Seun had imagined.

“This is…….”

“It is my mother’s heart.”

A white gem shining in white.

A magic stone called the purest and most powerful magic organ in the world.

It was the Dragon Heart.