Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 2

The Vault of the Greed Demon – Episode 2

Episode 2

-Zeus’s Thunderbolt Strikes.

Kwarururung!

“Kheu-eo-eo!”

Se-un hurled Astrape without hesitation at the Outer that had burst through the ceiling.

Defying the common understanding of lightning striking from the sky to the ground, the sharp thunderbolt reversed its course from below, piercing the creature’s head.

The sound of thunder filled the vault, and the Outer screamed just as loudly.

“Effective, huh?”

Se-un stood in the deepest part of the vault, where he had come to find the Sands of Chronos, surrounded by treasures as magnificent as the hourglass itself.

Including the Astrape he had just used.

[Vajra, Lightning that Summons the Storm – A weapon used by Indra, the Thunder God, to defeat the Asuras (demonic beings), capable of cutting and piercing through anything.]

The best weapons, used by constellations of the chief god class, were everywhere.

“I can’t take them anyway!”

Kwaruru-!!

He threw the weapon, known to be cherished even by Indra, the owner of Vajra, at the Outer without a moment’s hesitation.

A javelin.

He was using a sacred object of the chief god class like a disposable item.

If Indra, the original owner, had seen this scene, he would have been furious and torn Se-un to pieces, even violating causality [the natural order of cause and effect] to do so.

Of course, now that all the constellations had been swallowed by the Outer, it was a meaningless worry.

“Kheu-eo-eo!”

The Outer’s scream grew louder.

The Vajra pierced through the Outer’s skin, which was tough enough to break the gold of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, leaving a significant mark.

As he used a weapon of the chief god class, the damage was significant, even to a remnant of the Outer.

It was a waste to keep throwing away weapons, each worthy of being called the supreme sacred object, but he had no choice.

Depending on the power of the Sands of Chronos, he wouldn’t be able to take the items here to the past anyway.

However.

‘How did he collect all of these?’

While he was excitedly throwing sacred objects, a question arose.

He could understand the demon swords or sacred objects he saw at the entrance of the vault, but how did he obtain these chief god-class sacred objects at the end of the vault?

Astrape was known as the main weapon of Zeus, the god of the sky.

To steal such a weapon and stash it in the vault without a second thought? To have such power and still lose in the God-Demon War? [A cataclysmic conflict between divine and demonic forces.]

It didn’t make sense no matter how he thought about it.

Then.

‘They’re not real.’

Se-un realized the true nature of the numerous treasures in the vault.

In fact, it was obvious. If these sacred objects were real, even if they were being used as disposable items, there was no way Se-un, a mere human who wasn’t even a transcendent, could use them.

With sacred objects of this level, only an apostle-level player of the corresponding god could barely draw out a fraction of the power they possessed.

However, just because they weren’t real didn’t mean they were all fake.

‘Did he collect traces and reproduce them?’

Taking this Astrape as an example, it was a reproduction that amplified the power based on the traces of Zeus actually using Astrape, making it close to the original.

The others were the same.

Simply put, they were replicas.

‘Knockoffs.’

How strong was his greed that he made knockoffs and stored them in the vault?

Looking at these, he could see how great the obsession of the Greed Demon was.

“Well, I don’t care!”

[Laevatein, Sword of Destruction – The sword of Surt, the fire giant destined to ignite the world, said to have been crafted by Loki using runes in Niflheim (the Norse realm of ice and darkness).]

Hwareureuk!

This time, it was a sword of fire.

It didn’t have as much penetrating power as the weapons he had thrown earlier, but the moment Laevatein pierced the Outer’s body, a hot flame began to rise.

The heat was so intense that Se-un could feel a burning sensation on his skin.

“Kheu-eo-eo-eo!”

Kwang, Kwang!

The Outer’s struggles intensified.

The gold chunks that made up the ceiling poured down, burying and erasing the treasures that the Greed Demon had collected throughout his life.

The wounds on its body healed strangely quickly, but Se-un threw new weapons even faster.

“Finally, the main body is revealed.”

The Outer doesn’t have a fixed form. Perhaps because it has a slimy body, it mostly covers other creatures to form a frame.

The creature wriggling between the collapsed ceilings was the same.

As the attacks repeated, the wriggling liquid on the surface peeled off, and the main body began to reveal itself.

“A boar?”

It wasn’t clear, but the Outer’s power increased further depending on the power of the creatures it swallowed.

As such, the power of the main body that had destroyed the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons must be incredibly strong.

-Time remaining until all the sand grains fall: 28 seconds…

Before he knew it, less than thirty seconds remained.

The number of weapons he had used in ten minutes exceeded ten, but he had only managed to peel off the surface.

Such a creature was not even the real Outer, but a part of the remnants that had flowed from the Outer’s body. He couldn’t imagine where such a being had fallen from.

[Brionac, Spear of Light – The spear of ‘Lugh Lamhfhada’ (pronounced Loo Law-vada), the god of light, known to move on its own, never miss, and pierce through everything.]

Was it a kind of venting?

It didn’t matter what happened to the creature since time would turn back anyway, but Se-un wanted to defeat even one Outer with his own hands.

This was also a declaration that he would face the Outer after returning through the Sands of Chronos.

“Heup!”

Swaeaeaek!

He put strength in his lower body, twisted his waist, and stretched his arm out with all his might. He squeezed out all the mana and power he had, greatly twisting the muscles of his entire body.

A dizzying pain came, and he tasted a bitter taste of blood in his mouth, but he had no regrets.

Puk!

A flash more dazzling than gold pierced through the Outer’s body, creating a new hole.

The Outer’s movements stopped as if by a lie.

And Se-un’s attack didn’t end there.

Paat!!

A flash of light burst out from Brionac, which had penetrated deep into the Outer’s body.

Light poured out from the holes that had been pierced throughout the creature’s body, and its body slowly swelled red.

“Kheu-eo-eo!!”

As if sensing its end, the Outer let out an uncomfortable screech.

The moment the flash of light emanating from Brionac became so bright that it was difficult to open his eyes.

Peoeong!

The Outer’s body burst like a water balloon.

It was difficult to kill the wriggling main body of the Outer, but the creature that had swallowed a living being died when the host died, like a parasite.

With this, he was the first player to defeat the Outer.

-You have defeated the Outer for the first time as a player.

-You have achieved a great feat.

-You have acquired 500,000,000 points as a reward.

An unimaginable amount of contribution points came in, but he didn’t care about such things.

It was points that would be reset the moment the hourglass activated anyway.

And as if waiting for the Outer to die, the sand grains inside the hourglass completely flowed down.

-The Sands of Chronos is activated.

-The causality of player ‘Jeong Se-un’ is reversed.

-All skills possessed are lost.

-All stats accumulated in the Tower are lost.

…

The light emanating from the hourglass completely covered his vision.

All the power he had accumulated by struggling to survive after unintentionally entering the Tower disappeared.

Not only the stats he had accumulated with various achievements and hidden pieces, but also Se-un’s best unique skill, ‘The Compass of the Journey’.

He was only going back to the past.

As if proving how much he had grown so far, the fullness of power drained away, and helplessness filled his body.

‘But I can do it.’

Se-un resolved.

Even without the Compass of the Journey, he was confident that he was more knowledgeable than any other player in the Tower.

The knowledge he had gained thanks to the Compass of the Journey, and the numerous hidden pieces that he knew but couldn’t obtain due to lack of power.

He would monopolize all of them and become strong enough to chew up and eat these damn things.

At the moment he made that resolution, a new message suddenly filled his vision.

-The ‘Vault of Greed’ has collapsed.

-The owner of the vault does not exist.

-Player ‘Jeong Se-un’, who is currently entering the vault and possesses the Golden Key, is recognized as the owner of the ‘Vault of Greed’.

-The ‘Vault of Greed’ is absorbed as authority.

“Huh?”

He was 정신이 없는 와중이었지만 [in a mental state of chaos], because the hourglass was activated and his power was draining away, but he could definitely understand this one thing.

That he had become the owner of this vault.

But what good was that? If he regressed, it would be impossible to take the vault with him, right?

Moreover, the message that appeared wasn’t the end.

-You have defeated the Gluttony Demon.

-The ‘Authority of Gluttony’ loses its owner.

-The ‘Authority of Gluttony’ is bestowed upon player ‘Jeong Se-un’, who defeated the Gluttony Demon.

“What is this again?”

The Gluttony Demon? Was the monster that the Outer had just taken as a host the Gluttony Demon? That wasn’t the problem, if it was the Authority of Gluttony, it was definitely the authority possessed by one of the Seven Demons, right?

In that short time when the Sands of Chronos was activated, all sorts of thoughts swirled in his head.

He wanted to read the message again to organize the information, but time was no longer on Se-un’s side.

Spot!

The surrounding scenery, which had been whitened by brilliant light, went out in an instant and was dyed in darkness.

A dull shock was felt, as if he had been hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

All senses disappeared, and nausea rose with the pain of his internal organs twisting and his sense of balance collapsing.

It felt like he had been abandoned in the middle of the universe.

‘I can’t lose my mind!’

Se-un grabbed onto the pain that tormented him as a lifeline and held on tightly.

He swallowed his nausea and clenched his fists. He endlessly repeated the three letters of his name, Jeong Se-un, to not lose himself.

The Sands of Chronos.

He didn’t know if it was because it was a replica or if it was a side effect of the process of reversing causality.

However, he felt like if he lost his mind here, he would be forever abandoned in the cracks of time.

How many hundreds of times had he repeated his name?

Seureureu.

A warm warmth found its way through his frozen, dulled skin.

Bright light was felt inside his tightly closed eyelids. The scent of fragrant grass flowed into his blocked sense of smell.

He slowly inhaled the stopped breath and carefully opened his eyes, and the scene that had been so long but could never be forgotten unfolded before his eyes.

-Welcome to the Tutorial.

The outskirts of the Tower.

A test to determine whether one is qualified to enter the Tower as a player.

The moment the tutorial began.