Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 217

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Baekhyun’s research continued apace.

Even without Seun, Yuseo-ah’s control made it easy to return the Outer [referring to an entity or object from outside their current dimension or reality] to the sealing sphere, making the entire process manageable.

Beside him, Go Chang-seok used meteorites to forge the necessary tools, including swords and gauntlets.

Seun initially joined the research, sharing all the information he possessed, but soon withdrew. Baekhyun’s progress was so remarkable that it surpassed Seun’s expectations.

There was little point in his continued involvement.

Therefore, Seun left the research entirely to Baekhyun and headed elsewhere.

Clang, clang!

Thud-

As he walked, he heard the sounds of digging and rock breaking.

The underground bunker was originally intended for food cultivation and space expansion, but the current scale was unprecedented.

“Hurry and move the dirt! The pile is already huge!”

“Wow, it seems the digging speed is outpacing the dirt removal.”

“No matter how hard we tried, we could only manage two or three carts a day, but I guess his companions are on another level.”

Everyone in the bunker was either digging or moving carts, hauling away dirt.

This was the task Seun had requested of the king: to mobilize all soldiers and citizens for this excavation.

Previously, some might have questioned the king’s orders, but now the situation was different. They weren’t given a specific reason, and precisely because of this lack of explanation, they believed it was another opportunity to reach the surface, driving their efforts.

‘They’ve dug quite a bit in the meantime.’

The wall that Yeojeong’s compass had strongly indicated before the regression [Seun’s time travel or rebirth].

It was harder and rockier than the surrounding areas, which is why the bunker’s inhabitants had left it untouched.

What lay inside? Unfortunately, Seun didn’t know either.

Even with Yeojeong’s compass pointing the way, Seun, lacking authority among the citizens at the time, couldn’t simply order its excavation.

‘Even if I could, it would have been impossible alone.’

The depth they’ve now reached within the wall is considerable.

If Seun from before the regression had attempted to dig through that wall alone, he would have been stuck here for years, right?

No, before that, he would have run out of contribution points to buy food and would have given up before reaching the end, moving on to the next floor.

“Oh, Brother! You’ve arrived!”

“Are things going well?”

“Of course! We’re digging straight in, just as you instructed!”

Park Jung-pil, overseeing the workers, hurried over and rubbed his hands together as soon as he spotted Seun.

The workers here weren’t the bunker’s citizens.

They were the players who had provoked a fight outside the temporary residence when Seun first opened his eyes. They were digging the ground themselves as a form of forced labor.

Although they were helpless against Seun and Kang Han-cheol, they were still players who had ascended to the 30th floor of the tower [likely a reference to a game-like progression system].

Their physical abilities far surpassed those of ordinary citizens, resulting in significantly faster digging speeds.

Seun wondered why these guys were listening to Park Jung-pil.

“H-Heek!”

“He’s here! That devil…….”

“Shh! You idiot, don’t make eye contact! Didn’t you hear? They say he plucks out all your fingernails and toenails just by looking at you!”

“They also say he breaks your limbs and puts them on display in his room…….”

The reason quickly became clear.

Park Jung-pil was spreading rumors about Seun, cultivating fear.

A sigh escaped Seun involuntarily, but there seemed to be no need to correct the misinformation. While it was slightly uncomfortable to be misunderstood, things were progressing much more smoothly because of it.

“The depth?”

“I think we’ve dug in about 400 meters.”

400 meters.

It might not seem like much, but considering the scale of underground digging, it was quite deep.

Before the regression, Yeojeong’s compass only indicated the direction, so Seun didn’t know the distance to the hidden piece.

He hadn’t expected it to be close, but it was deeper than he imagined.

“It’s going to explode!”

“One, two!”

Boom!

A deafening explosion echoed from the innermost part.

It was the sound of the explosion stones Seun had taken from the warehouse as support.

Even if the soil was hardened, it could be cut with a pickaxe, but rocks were a different story, so they were using explosion stones to break them into pieces for removal.

Of course, some rocks were so hard that even explosion stones were ineffective.

– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Collision’.

Kwaaaang!!

Whenever that happened, Kang Han-cheol would arrive and swing his fist without fail.

The rocks that resisted even explosion stones cracked like spiderwebs and shattered into pieces under his powerful fist.

Just as Seun was about to turn away, satisfied that the work was progressing smoothly.

Boom!

Along with the sound of another explosion stone, the call for Kang Han-cheol rang out again.

“Wow, this is beyond anything we’ve seen so far?”

“This isn’t just rock.”

“We shouldn’t even think about breaking this; we should just avoid it and dig around it?”

Turning his head, he quickly understood the situation.

The rock filling the wall was just beginning to be revealed. Despite the explosion stone’s detonation, only a small amount of soot remained, with no visible signs of damage.

Consequently, those attempting to bypass the rock and dig around it with pickaxes soon groaned in frustration.

“How big is this thing?”

“We have to break through it to proceed, right?”

As people murmured, Kang Han-cheol naturally approached the rock.

Without hesitation, he clenched his fist.

Activating ‘Collision’.

He tightly gripped Agares’ divinity [likely a divine power or artifact] and struck the rock.

Thud!!

The vibration caused by the immense force and the earthquake power generated by Agares’ authority converged and spread outwards like a wave.

The dirt on the floor vibrated, and the tremor traveled up his legs.

It was an incredible display of power.

But the rock that had directly absorbed that monstrous force…….

“……Huh?”

“Did it……fail?”

No visible damage appeared.

Only a clear fist-shaped imprint remained in the middle of the soot from the explosion stone, without any cracks or even small lines.

Everyone was bewildered, as this was unprecedented.

Of course, Kang Han-cheol himself was the most shocked.

Instead of making excuses, he clenched his other fist and began to unleash a barrage of blows.

– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Advance’.

Thud, thud, kwaang!

He repeatedly struck with fists imbued with the power of aftershocks.

Although the power of each individual strike from that skill was weak, it was useful for continuously defeating weaker enemies due to its rapid succession of hits.

It wasn’t the ideal skill for breaking rocks, but Seun quickly understood Kang Han-cheol’s reasoning.

‘He’s accumulating vibrations?’

The rock’s vibration intensified with each strike.

The dirt on the rock was falling off, and even the ceiling was shaking, causing the surrounding people to quickly evacuate.

The power was so immense that Seun wondered if the entire tunnel would collapse.

After the aftershocks overlapped repeatedly, reaching their peak intensity, Kang Han-cheol prepared a final blow to unleash the accumulated earthquake.

– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Collision’.

Collision.

It was the most powerful skill Kang Han-cheol could currently use.

Judging by his stance, he had incorporated the Kang Kwon techniques he had learned from Seun.

As he braced his legs, the ground beneath him cracked, and that power flowed through his waist and into his fist.

The moment that massive fist connected with the rock.

Kwaaaaaang-!!

A deafening roar, far surpassing the explosion of the explosion stone, reverberated in his ears. The aftershocks accumulated within the rock erupted all at once with the impact.

The vibration was so intense that even covering his ears couldn’t block it out; it resonated through his skin.

Some people sat down and vomited as their semicircular canals were disrupted by the sheer force of the vibration.

It was truly overwhelming power.

The view was obscured by falling dirt from the ceiling.

However, even in this chaos, someone was intently observing the state of the rock.

It was Kang Han-cheol, the attacker, and Seun, who had enhanced his vision to focus on the rock.

– The constellation, ‘Old Man Riding an Alligator,’ chuckles in vain and admires the strength of the rock.

– The constellation, ‘Old Man Riding an Alligator,’ says that the attack just now was an attack that even he would be satisfied with, and doubts the identity of the rock that withstood the impact.

The rock remained unchanged.

The dirt on the surface and the smaller rocks around it had been cleanly dislodged by the vibration, making it appear even smoother and more defined than before.

Seeing this, Seun instinctively realized.

That the hidden piece Yeojeong’s compass had indicated before the regression lay on the other side of that rock.

“Kang Han-cheol, let’s do it together.”

“I can do it alone.”

“Don’t be stubborn. I’m saying that because I think it’ll be difficult for me alone, too.”

He wasn’t saying it to appease Kang Han-cheol.

Because the attack just now was a blow that even Seun couldn’t easily replicate.

If he gathered all his strength, he might be able to surpass the power of that attack, but at best, he would only be able to create a small crack in the rock.

More importantly.

‘What is being protected by such a rock?’

He was curious about the hidden piece concealed within.

The rock couldn’t be natural. He was certain that it was some kind of artificial barrier designed to protect the hidden piece, whatever it might be.

Just observing the rock’s appearance after Kang Han-cheol’s attack, it seemed to encircle something completely, as if to safeguard it.

“……I understand.”

Kang Han-cheol soon nodded in agreement.

He knew that they were currently crafting a gauntlet for the Great Outer for him in the lab, so he also understood the need to avoid wasting time here.

“Do you remember the tutorial?”

“Are you talking about the wild boar?”

“That’s right.”

Kang Han-cheol nodded and positioned himself opposite Seun.

The wild boar from the tutorial.

He was referring to ‘Red Fang, Pag,’ the boss monster of the wild boars during the final wave of the first chapter.

Back then, Seun and Kang Han-cheol had attacked him from the front and back, overwhelming him before he could absorb the impact.

Now, they were attempting to recreate that strategy.

Of course, they had become significantly stronger since then.

“I’m going.”

– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Advance’.

Kang Han-cheol began to accumulate aftershocks on the rock once more.

As before, he intended to build up intensity and detonate it all at once with Seun.

However, Seun wasn’t simply waiting for Kang Han-cheol to accumulate all the vibrations.

Although he couldn’t wield the earthquake power of Agares’ authority, he could imitate it to a degree.

– Through inner strength, the first form of the Jinju Eonga Fist, Zombie Fist, is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Breaking Heart Skill, the power of the martial art is enhanced.

The most basic technique of the Jinju Eonga Fist, the straight punch, Zombie Fist.

Standing opposite Kang Han-cheol, he thrust his blue fist forward.

However, this was no ordinary fist.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Ground Wave’ is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Violet Tower, the casting speed of ‘Ground Wave’ is increased.

– According to the mysteries of the Red Tower, the range of ‘Ground Wave’ is expanded.

It was a fist imbued with the attack magic of the Yellow Tower, Ground Wave, which generated a wave of earth.

Thud!

The rock vibrated upon contact with his fist.

It wasn’t as clean as Kang Han-cheol’s impact, but he could roughly gauge the effect after the first strike.

And then, the continuous strikes began.

Thud, thud, thud!

Having learned it long ago, he could fully utilize the first form of the Jinju Eonga Fist.

Originally, it was a straight punch delivered with proper form, but Seun had taken it a step further, transforming it into a series of rapid strikes.

The fist, infused with the power of Ground Wave, continuously vibrated the rock.

Thud, thud, kuung!

The opposite side was the same.

Kang Han-cheol was steadily accumulating intensity within the rock, imbuing his fist with the power of aftershocks.

When he accumulated it alone, the vibration seemed to dissipate from the rock, but not now.

The Ground Wave that Seun accumulated was blocked by Kang Han-cheol’s side, and the power of the aftershocks that Kang Han-cheol accumulated was blocked by Seun’s side.

The two vibrations collided within the rock, causing it to vibrate violently.

If the vibration that Kang Han-cheol accumulated alone was approximately a ‘moderate tremor’ of magnitude 4, it was now easily a ‘violent tremor’ of magnitude 6.

No, it was approaching the state of an ‘extreme tremor’ of magnitude 7, known to cause mountains to collapse and faults to rise.

“Evacuate, quickly!”

“This isn’t our place to be!”

“Is it really collapsing? This isn’t just a problem with digging the ground; the shelter is about to collapse entirely!”

Even the onlookers fled, leaving only Seun and Kang Han-cheol in front of the rock.

The rock was vibrating as if it couldn’t withstand the pressure, unable to accumulate any more vibrations and beginning to release them.

The two, noticing this, exchanged glances.

– Through inner strength, the fourth form of the Jinju Eonga Fist, Yaksha Advent, is enhanced.

– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Collision’.

Kwaaaaaang-!!!

The shockwave spread outwards as if a nuclear bomb had detonated.

In the underground bunker, usually calm and still, a wind pressure swept through like a typhoon, and the ground shook as if it would collapse at any moment.

If the surroundings were in this state, what about the rock?

The vibrations accumulated inside exploded all at once, and the vibrations were constantly colliding due to the fists swung from both sides.

And finally.

Crack, crack!

The rock, which had seemed unbreakable, gradually began to crack.