Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 196

200. Plundered the Demon God’s Warehouse (200)

‘This is…….’

Before answering, Se-un lightly looked around.

In the pitch-black space where only darkness existed, lava was churning like the lava lake he had seen below the volcano.

No, the surroundings weren’t completely surrounded by darkness. Faint cracks were forming here and there, like shattered glass.

And above all, the being that called Se-un.

There was a Snow Dragon, majestically situated above the lava lake.

‘The owner of the Dragon Heart.’

When he received the Dragon Heart from the Snow Dragon of Snow Mountain, he had already heard what it was. The previous Snow Dragon, who struggled to avoid the encroachment of the Outer Gods, but ultimately met death.

The Snow Dragon before his eyes was clearly the remnant of the Snow Dragon left in the Dragon Heart.

– To dare disturb my rest, and fill this place with such filthy lava.

Indeed, a Dragon.

Even though it was just a remnant, an enormous sense of intimidation emanated from its voice.

It was an overwhelming sense of fear, even without invoking Dragon Fear [an ability dragons possess to instill fear in others].

If it were an ordinary creature, it would have knelt and bowed its head before the Snow Dragon just by hearing those words.

If it were to even shout, its heart would burst immediately.

However, Se-un was not.

– The Saintly Imprint devours the Dragon’s fear.

– The Saintly Imprint devours the fear of an overwhelming being, and its power is strengthened.

– By devouring fear, the Blood Wolf’s epithet is strengthened.

The wolf-shaped Saintly Imprint glowing crimson on the back of his right hand.

The overwhelming fear only served to increase Se-un’s power.

The Saintly Imprint, which had recently seemed unwilling to devour any ordinary fear, couldn’t possibly miss such a sweet meal as the Dragon’s fear.

Inside the Saintly Imprint, fear was transforming into divinity and rapidly filling up.

– To commit such acts. To dare covet my power.

The lava lake where the Snow Dragon was situated churned violently.

Although the attribute had been converted, the sight of the Snow Dragon manipulating lava was quite bizarre. No, it went beyond that and even looked mystical.

However, now was not the time to calmly admire it.

– You must be prepared to pay the price for your greed.

Crack!

The lava in the lake surged violently.

Its scale, intricacy, and the magnitude of its power. Everything seemed incomparably more powerful than the attacks of the Living Lava he had encountered in the volcano.

There was no blind spot.

Lava was engulfing him from all directions, front, back, left, right, as well as from the floor and above his head.

The metaphor of a tsunami was even too weak. It was as if this space itself was filling up with a sea of lava.

‘Mana isn’t moving.’

The same was true for internal energy. He couldn’t feel any energy within his body.

Even as this was happening, the surrounding lava rapidly rose, reaching right in front of Se-un’s nose. If he stayed still like this, his entire body would undoubtedly melt away without a trace.

Immediately after, Se-un, who had taken a light breath, raised his right hand.

A simple hand gesture that showed no sign of mana or even internal energy.

With just that.

Gurgle-

The lava stopped moving.

As if the world had been frozen, it slowly reduced its level in accordance with Se-un’s hand gesture.

‘After all, this place is a mental world (心象世界) [a world constructed from one’s thoughts and imagination].’

It was only natural that mana and internal energy weren’t felt.

Because he was merely in a state close to the soul itself…… existing within his mind.

It was not a place where the circle [a mage’s energy center] and dantian [a martial artist’s energy center] implanted in the body could intervene.

‘It must be a place created by overlapping my mental image and the Snow Dragon’s mental image sleeping in the Dragon Heart.’

If so, the answer is simple.

This place is the Snow Dragon’s mental world, but it is also Se-un’s mental world. Therefore, Se-un can sufficiently interfere with this world.

Just by concentrating his mind, he could fully control the lava.

– So, you’re someone who knows how to handle mental images. Even so, you can never overcome the will of a dragon.

Gurgle!

The receding lava regained its strength.

The reason was exactly as the Snow Dragon had just said.

Although Se-un’s mental strength was outstanding, the opponent was a dragon.

Of course, the actual will of the dragon could not be perfectly revealed to the remnant left in the Dragon Heart, but even so, the dragon’s will was powerful.

To the extent that humans could never hope to surpass it, no matter how hard they tried.

‘It’s not the time to engage in a war of nerves.’

Even while concentrating on pushing back the lava, Se-un’s mind was focused on the wall of darkness far away.

A crack so subtle that it was difficult to see with the naked eye. Perhaps the crack in the Dragon Heart was affecting even the mental world.

And now, as the lava filled the surroundings, the crack was faintly spreading.

If this continued, the Dragon Heart would break apart even if Se-un endured.

Therefore, Se-un gave up on further push and pull and revealed his full power.

– The Saintly Imprint reacts to the tale of the Blood Wolf Legend.

Whoosh!

The Saintly Imprint began to emit light in earnest.

Mana and internal energy could not be used, but the Saintly Imprint was engraved on the soul itself, not the body.

Divinity was also not a simple physical force, but a power emanating from the soul itself.

– Why can a human use divinity? You shouldn’t be able to borrow the power of a constellation in the mental world……!

For the first time, the Snow Dragon began to panic.

As he said, no gaze from any constellation, such as Mammon, Beelzebub, or Leviathan, was felt here.

Naturally, the authority of the constellations could not be used either.

However, Se-un’s Saintly Imprint belonged to no one.

It had devoured and seized the level of the board, but the traces of the board no longer existed, only Se-un’s own power.

That was why it could be used even in this place completely separated from the world.

Gurgle!

The lava surrounding Se-un receded rapidly.

With divinity imbued, Se-un’s mental strength had already surpassed the level of humans and was exceeding that of the Snow Dragon.

‘I can beat the will of a remnant easily, let alone a real dragon.’

Moreover, thanks to absorbing the Snow Dragon’s fear at the beginning, Se-un’s divinity was now more relaxed than ever.

Before long, all the surrounding lava receded and returned to its original place.

In the center of it, the Snow Dragon, looking flustered, soon revealed his anger and shouted at Se-un.

– Is that the power you used to kill my daughter! My daughter who had been suffering for an eternity, resisting the power of the Outer Gods!

‘So that’s what it was.’

At first, he thought the source of hostility was because he had disturbed his rest by converting the attribute of the Dragon Heart.

However, after hearing his words now, it seemed that the real problem was not that. The Snow Dragon now thought that Se-un had killed his daughter and stolen his Dragon Heart.

Understanding the situation, Se-un calmed the light of the Saintly Imprint and opened his mouth calmly.

“Your daughter is safe.”

– ……What?

“Outer Gods. I have annihilated that ‘Outer Gods’ you speak of.”

– ……That can’t be possible. Something that even I failed to do, something I couldn’t succeed in even risking my life.

“But I can.”

For a moment, their eyes met.

However, this alone was not enough to convince him.

Sizzle!

Divinity blazed hotly.

Transcending the limitations of the mental world, he reached out his right hand towards reality.

As it was an act that violated the original rules, divinity was instantly depleted to the bottom.

The Snow Dragon’s hostility remained, but he showed no action, as if he would watch for now.

Finally, in Se-un’s right hand, which had escaped from the crack in reality, was a pure white shining accessory.

– That’s……!

“If it’s this, it should be enough evidence.”

Its identity was the Reverse Scale obtained from the Snow Dragon of Snow Mountain.

Not the blackened Reverse Scale forcibly obtained by killing a dragon, but the token given by a dragon to someone it recognized. No, a benefactor.

Se-un had invested most of his divinity to bring this.

Because it was impossible to persuade the angry Snow Dragon with words.

This would be the most perfect evidence to convince the Snow Dragon, more perfect than any explanation.

– Indeed…… Has my daughter escaped from the encroachment?

The Snow Dragon raised his head.

Clear tears flowed between the dazzlingly beautiful pure white scales.

– That was my regret even in death. My regret that I could not end the curse even by dying, and ended up passing it on to my daughter…….

The hostility completely disappeared.

Red eyes, like fire, fluttered down from the pitch-black ceiling.

Red eyes. It was an absurd shape, but it seemed to be a phenomenon caused by the Snow Dragon’s power being converted to the fire attribute.

– Really…… Thank you. Thanks to you, I don’t think I need to have any more regrets. And I must reward you for resolving my regret.

The Snow Dragon’s attitude completely changed.

The image of him pouring out attacks as soon as they first met came to mind, but Se-un did not show it.

From the standpoint of the remnant dwelling in the Dragon Heart, it was a situation that could be sufficiently misunderstood.

He was not someone who would be persuaded by explaining, but Se-un, who had not been able to make any explanations even after entering the mental world, had no intention of dwelling on the past.

– Your purpose is…… to absorb my power, the power of the Dragon Heart.

“That’s right.”

– What you want is not the water attribute. No, you already have the water attribute, so you converted my power into a new power.

“That’s correct.”

This place is the mental world. Even though the Snow Dragon could not observe Se-un’s body, he perfectly understood his thoughts and goals.

The Snow Dragon, who had closed his eyes for a moment and raised his head to the sky where red eyes were falling, lowered his head and looked at Se-un.

– I understand. Although it is a weak power that cannot be compared to the original power, I will transfer all of this to you.

Swish-

The lava in the lake slowly churned.

It was a clearly different movement from when it attacked Se-un.

It surrounded Se-un along with the red eyes that were breaking into small pieces like snow and falling from the sky.

The energy of hot fire and the energy of cold ice were felt simultaneously.

The power sleeping in the Dragon Heart was leaving the mental world through Se-un’s soul and being absorbed into Se-un’s body.

– And also…….

It wasn’t just eyes and lava.

The Snow Dragon’s body melted away and began to be absorbed into Se-un’s body in the same way.

As the dragon’s remnant was absorbed, an overwhelming sense of fullness was felt. It was not just the level of magic power being filled, but the feeling of the level of the soul being filled.

If he loosened his concentration even a little, his soul felt like it would burst.

However, Se-un knew. That this was the Snow Dragon’s gift.

Soon, the mental world, where only darkness and lava existed, shattered into small pieces, and the mental world itself was absorbed into Se-un.

Originally, about half of it was Se-un’s mental world, but the other half was the Snow Dragon’s mental world.

This meant that he was absorbing the will of the dragon.

– I myself will become your ‘enlightenment.’

The yin and yang energies filling the soul.

Along with that overwhelming sense of fullness, Se-un’s consciousness returned to reality.