Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 221

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Separating Kang Han-cheol and Yoo Seo-ah allowed the Outer extermination plan on the ground to proceed faster than expected.

Choi Su-chang and Park Jeong-pil were in charge of searching for and finding the Outers, while Yoo Seo-ah and Kang Han-cheol confronted them.

Se-un independently sought out and eliminated Outers, and upon discovering signals from others, he would immediately find and resolve the situation.

Naturally, as the journey continued, more meteorite fragments were found.

“Heh heh, this amount is enough to make armor for all the clan members and still have some left over.”

Go Chang-seok used them to create various items.

Of course, since they couldn’t entrust the battle against the Outers to anyone except Yoo Seo-ah and Kang Han-cheol yet, the additional creation of weapons or armor from the meteorites was postponed.

Most importantly.

“Oh, you really brought it! You’re amazing!”

– The Constellation, ‘The Horse Trampling Death,’ snorts loudly, saying that at least five experiments can be conducted with this.

Thanks to the sealing device made from the new meteorite fragment, the quality of the samples they brought back also increased.

Se-un even managed to bring back an entity that was still completely consumed by the Outer.

It was the same type of entity they had encountered before, where an Outer had completely consumed a herd of beasts and lived like a legion, and Se-un captured one of them whole.

Baek-hyun, who had been curious about the state of an Outer consumed by a living creature rather than an undead, couldn’t help but rejoice.

“Do you think it will be of some help?”

“Of course! With this, we can objectively quantify the increase in abilities and recovery power of a creature dominated by the Outer! Moreover…….”

Baek-hyun’s passion was immense. It felt like the same madness he had for studying the undead had been transferred to the Outers.

Well, looking at the pile of undead in the corner of the research lab, it didn’t seem like the research on the undead had stopped either, so it didn’t seem like a bad thing.

[Choi Su-chang: Meteorite fragment found approximately 2.2km southeast from the island. We haven’t found the Outer yet, but we’ve found traces, so we should be able to find it soon.]

Choi Su-chang’s concise report, containing only the important information, seemed to be influenced by his profession in the real world.

At that, Se-un immediately left the research lab.

The number of meteorite fragments found so far was approximately 20.

If what Se-un saw when he destroyed the meteorite was correct, they had already recovered nearly half of the meteorite fragments.

In other words, the extinction of the Outers was only a matter of time.

* * *

What are Outers?

They had only just begun 본격적인 [full-scale] research, so they hadn’t been able to gather much information, but Se-un had realized a few things from his experience so far.

One of them was the goal of the Outers.

Se-un understood it as ‘instinct.’

Rather than aiming for something and moving through reason, they were simply moving according to a few instincts.

The first was ‘proliferation.’

Like all living things, they continue their activities to increase the number of individuals.

Of course, the method was different from that of ordinary life. It was a method of increasing the number by parasitizing hosts and proliferating other hosts.

The second was the ‘survival instinct.’

Se-un hadn’t witnessed this part before his regression, but he had witnessed it quite a bit in this life.

When faced with the threat of annihilation, the Outers abandon their hosts or flee in search of new hosts.

Was that why? An unprecedented event was occurring on the continent.

“Gurgle, gurgle.”

“Squirm.”

“Gurrrl-”

Meteorites that fell all over the continent.

The Outers that had fallen from there were gathering together.

The Outer that came up from the sea crawled, supporting itself on the ground with its fins, and the Outer on the ground ran on all fours towards the center.

The Outer in the air flew through the air, arriving at the center faster than anyone else.

It wasn’t a tactic or plan based on reason.

The Outers gathered purely for the purpose of survival.

“Gurgle-”

“Gurgle, kuruk.”

“Kuuuuuuuu-”

What could the Outers who gathered like this do?

Run away?

No.

They inevitably run away out of survival instinct in the face of a strong enemy, but what is more important to them than survival instinct is the instinct for ‘proliferation.’

That soon meant that the greatest instinct for them now was to devour the strongest creature.

Currently, who is the strongest creature on this continent?

The Outers all knew.

The human with the wolf’s stigma [a mark or brand], the only human with the power to annihilate them.

If they could just kill that human. No, if they could parasitize that human, they could instantly cover the entire world with their bodies.

The Outer that crawled up from the sea took the first signal by devouring the Outer next to it.

“Kuruk, kuruk!”

“Kuuuuuuuk!”

The Outers gathered in the center began to merge into one body.

* * *

It had already been several days since they came ashore.

The number of meteorite fragments found exceeded 40, and it seemed like they were smoothly approaching the end of their journey.

But, as expected, is it true that the world is not easy? [referencing the saying ‘life isn’t easy’]

A problem arose when the number of meteorite fragments found was close to 30.

[Choi Su-chang: I found a meteorite fragment. I think this is the last fragment that fell into the sea.]

[Jeong Se-un: Thank you for your hard work. What about the Outer…….]

[Choi Su-chang: I couldn’t find it this time either.]

[Jeong Se-un: ……I see.]

The Outers that were active around the meteorite fragments were not visible.

Since they were the type that acted mainly on instinct, the instinct for ‘territory’ also existed.

Even though they hated meteorites so much, it was common to slowly expand their territory with the meteorite in the center.

In fact, this had been the case until they found 20 meteorite fragments.

But at some point, the Outers began to disappear.

Most of the meteorites they found were empty. No matter how much they searched around the meteorite, there was no trace of the Outer.

Still, it was fortunate that they were able to recover the meteorite fragments, so Go Chang-seok was able to create various items, and Baek-hyun’s research was progressing well thanks to the samples he had prepared in advance.

[Park Jeong-pil: Hyung [older brother/term of endearment], this is also a bust.]

[Jeong Se-un: For now, search as much as possible.]

[Park Jeong-pil: Yes!]

Se-un’s eyes sank deeply at Park Jeong-pil’s subsequent report.

At first, he thought it was just a meteorite fragment that the Outer couldn’t stick to. There was definitely a possibility that the Outers were not evenly distributed throughout all the holes in the meteorite.

However, as the number increased, his thoughts changed.

‘Something is changing.’

If coincidence overlaps with coincidence, it becomes inevitable.

He had become confident because he had been defeating Outers in succession recently, but he shouldn’t be intoxicated with confidence.

If a variable is discovered, an investigation must be launched immediately, even if the possibility is small.

After thinking for a while, Se-un soon headed to the place where Park Jeong-pil had last discovered a meteorite fragment.

Now that things had come to this, he was going to investigate directly.

* * *

“Oh, Hyung [older brother/term of endearment]! You’re here!”

“That’s the meteorite, right?”

“Yes!”

Kang Han-cheol was preparing to transport the discovered meteorite.

Looking at his expression, he seemed very disappointed that he hadn’t been able to fight this time either.

“Isn’t it just originally empty? These days, the island is also quiet, so it seems like we’ve caught all those Outers.”

Park Jeong-pil spread optimism from the side, but Se-un shook his head and ignored it.

Then, he activated his senses to the fullest and began to search the surroundings.

– The Constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince,’ came in with anticipation, but immediately recoils at the lingering stench.

Beelzebub’s reaction and the stigma’s reaction occurred, but it was ambiguous to believe this.

Beelzebub’s sense of smell was so good that he could smell the Outer’s scent when the meteorite fell, and the stigma had also pointed to the meteorite before.

‘I don’t see anything particularly plausible.’

There are no traces of the Outer parasitizing a host, nor traces of it moving.

It would be right to give up if he thought this far, but Se-un didn’t.

He had been sick of seeing the 모습 [sight/state] of regretting after treating variables as coincidences and moving on before his regression.

He had no intention of repeating that mistake.

– Greed(眞)’s [True] treasure vault has been opened.

[Huitzilopochtli’s Hummingbird Pattern]

– Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun, war, and hunting, bestows a hunting relic upon those who follow him.

He borrowed Mamon’s vault and took out a treasure.

It was a treasure that looked like a small stele [a stone slab], and when he infused it with mana, the hummingbird pattern drawn in the center materialized and floated up.

The next step was simple.

All he had to do was infuse the hummingbird with will through mana.

The authority of greed allowed him to understand the characteristics of the treasure simply by using it, so he was able to use it immediately like this.

Buzzing-

The hummingbird flew towards the meteorite fragment and lingered for a moment.

Following Se-un’s will, it sensed the traces of the Outer and moved along those traces.

As a hunting relic, this treasure had the power to search for prey.

‘I can’t treat the Outer as prey, but…….’

Anyway, that was determined by the will of the owner.

To the weak, even a fox feels like a predator, but to the strong, even a tiger called San-gun can feel like prey.

In fact, Se-un, who had been defeating Outers recently, was mentally 인식 [recognizing] the Outers as ‘prey.’

So the conditions for using the relic had already been met.

Buzz, buzzing-

At that time, the hummingbird pattern seemed to have captured something and began to move quickly.

Se-un, who was connected to the hummingbird by will and felt the traces of the Outer, also followed behind it.

‘As expected, there was an Outer.’

It wasn’t a 착각 [misunderstanding/illusion].

For some reason, the Outers had abandoned their territory and disappeared somewhere.

All of them, all at once.

The moment he thought that far, Se-un’s spine tingled.

A possibility that could never be, that should never be, came to mind.

‘It can’t be.’

Shaking his head, he looked in the direction the hummingbird was heading.

It was half-collapsed, but the destination was clearly the volcano he had seen in the trial on the 22nd floor.

Volcanic activity seemed to have stopped, and hardened lava bulged out as he got closer.

At the top of the volcano, there was something round that looked like a lot of lava had gathered.

Se-un’s expression contorted as he focused his gaze on the shape.

‘No way.’

The lava hadn’t hardened.

Although it was difficult to see because it was far away, the ‘something’ that existed at the top of the volcano was wriggling as if it were alive.

And the hummingbird was clearly moving towards that ‘something.’

There was no need to follow the hummingbird any further.

Se-un had already found the target.

“Damn it…….”

A curse came out of his mouth.

The possibility he had been denying had come true.

The Outers, who had been mercilessly annihilated by repeated attacks, abandoned their territory and gathered together.

A shape so huge that it occupies the entire top of the volcano at a glance. It’s incomparable to the ones I’ve hunted so far.

But, I can’t give up here.

Grasping Durandal at his waist, Se-un bit his lip tightly.