Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 240

“Hold on tight!”

“Whoa-ah-ah!”

As the light from the Blue Crystal faded, the giant began to move again.

Five Diablo Clan members were on each of the giant’s shoulders, barely holding on to their tattered clothes.

The giant’s movements were that fast and turbulent.

Yu Seo-ah, who adapted to the speed faster than others, spoke to Se-un.

“How did you come up with this idea?”

“Oh, you know… just.”

Se-un scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

In fact, he came up with this method thanks to his experience from before the Regression [a return to a previous state or time].

At that time, Se-un didn’t have outstanding physical abilities or special powers compared to others, so it was difficult to escape the giant’s footsteps.

Then, he accidentally shot a rope with a crossbow that got caught on the giant’s body, and he ended up hanging onto the giant all the way to his destination.

‘It’s kind of embarrassing to explain.’

At the time, he thought it was a brilliant strategy that he was satisfied with, but now that he thinks about it, the sight of him dangling from the giant seems pathetic.

Anyway, thanks to that, we can move comfortably like this, so isn’t it all good?

But, is it a coincidence?

“Uwaaaah! Save me, hyung-nim [term of endearment for an older brother or male friend]!”

“Shouldn’t we save him?”

“Leave him. Even if he falls, he’ll follow us on his own.”

In the end, Park Jung-pil, who couldn’t hold on and fell from the giant’s shoulder, was dangling from the rope he had barely managed to hang on to.

Seeing that, he was even more reluctant to explain what happened before the Regression.

“Wow, this is no joke?”

“Thinking about how we almost had to run away from down there, it’s really scary.”

The giant’s speed was incredibly fast. As big as it was, it covered an enormous distance with each step.

Looking back, the giants were constantly running.

Seeing that number, it seemed that this trial wasn’t just about hiding from the giants.

Although there was no time limit, people who actually just hid in the back ultimately failed to reach the next trial.

“Is this what the trial meant by ‘an overwhelming threat’? It’s definitely beyond what we can handle.”

Baek-hyun, who was holding on next to him, opened his mouth.

An overwhelming threat.

A fitting description for the giants.

However, Se-un soon felt a sense of doubt in those words.

‘Are these giants really the threat the trial was talking about?’

The reason Se-un felt doubtful was because of the giants’ behavior.

According to the trial’s content, the giants should be attacking the players… but the giants didn’t care about the players at all.

They were just running away like crazy, as if they had lost their minds.

Of course, this in itself was a great threat to the players, but it wasn’t to the extent of being called ‘overwhelming’.

‘Come to think of it… why are these giants running like this?’

It was a question he hadn’t thought about before the Regression because the situation was too urgent.

The other players were the same.

Even a little carelessness could lead to being crushed to death under those giant feet, so no player was curious about this.

Se-un was only able to think about this question now because he could calmly observe his surroundings from the giant’s shoulder.

Yu Seo-ah seemed to be thinking similarly, tilting her head and opening her mouth.

“But why are these giants running away? They look so big and strong.”

“Running away?”

“Ah, is that not it? It just looks like they’re running away….”

Listening to her, it seemed like they were running away.

He just couldn’t think of it that way because they were so huge and imposing, but the way they were running with their eyes rolled back was definitely the look of someone terrified and running away.

‘If so, what are they running away from?’

Although they seem to have lost their minds, these giants’ physical abilities are unmatched.

What kind of existence could scare such giants to the point of making them run away like this…?

If there was such an existence.

‘An overwhelming threat.’

That must be the true identity of the threat the trial was talking about.

‘If there’s something like that, it probably won’t be a Hidden Piece….’

However, there was a concern.

If it’s scaring the giants to this extent, whatever that threat is, it must be quite powerful.

‘It should be okay just to check.’

If it seems like we can’t win, we can just run away.

No matter how strong the opponent is, I’m confident in my ability to escape.

No, honestly, even if a strong monster appears on the 35th floor, I don’t think I can’t beat it. Se-un’s combat power has already reached the level of a decent high-level player.

“Yu Seo-ah, go on ahead.”

“Yes? Where are you going?”

“I’m going to check what’s behind us.”

“Then I’ll go with you….”

“No, you have to manage the guild here.”

Even though we’re moving comfortably on the giant’s shoulder, the obstacles on the 35th floor don’t end here.

If we go on like this, huge vines or ferocious beasts will appear, and we could get caught on an obstacle or be attacked and fall off.

At that time, Yu Seo-ah, who has the best footwork in the guild, had to step up and protect the guild members.

“…Okay. Leave the guild to me.”

“Okay.”

Yu Seo-ah nodded without complaint.

Since hearing about the Regression, she had been following Se-un’s actions without questioning them, which allowed Se-un to move comfortably.

Thud!

“Ugh-ugh-ugh-!”

Se-un leaped from the giant’s shoulder, which was emitting a loud roar and hot breath.

To go against the giant’s speed and reach the rear where the ‘threat’ exists, he had to pick up speed.

* * *

“Ugh-ugh-ugh!”

Even moving backward, all I can see are giants.

I don’t know where these huge guys gathered to live, but they just keep coming out endlessly.

Se-un was leisurely leaping over them.

Thud!

Kicking off the giant’s head and onto the next giant.

It would be annoying, but the giants don’t seem to notice Se-un and just keep running.

‘The spacing is getting too messed up.’

There was no regularity in the giants’ running.

There was a limit to crossing between giants with leaps.

It would be comfortable to spread my wings and fly, but I was too anxious to waste mana on flying because I didn’t know what kind of enemy would appear.

Although my total mana and mana recovery increased after reaching 6th Circle, Icarus’s Wings consume more mana than I thought.

So, the method Se-un chose was.

– Opened the Vault of Greed.

[Void Step (虛空踏步)]

– A technique to run through the sky as if stepping on the void. You can soar through the void as if stepping on a virtual staircase.

Thung!

Leaping from the giant, between the next giant.

Se-un stepped on the void to fill the insufficient distance and leaped once again.

An illogical act of stepping on air. However, 6 cycles of internal energy made it possible.

Of course, unfortunately, this also consumes a lot of internal energy, so I can’t keep running through the void like this. Still, it’s enough to use it once in a while when the distance between giants is wide.

Flap!

Then spread your wings and cross between the giants.

Alternately use wings and martial arts to alternate between mana and internal energy.

By dividing the two forces in this way, it was possible to somewhat compensate for the consumption rate due to the increased mana and internal energy recovery.

‘The terrain is similar to the Lilliput [a fictional island inhabited by tiny people in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels].’

As I flew into the void, the blocked view was cleared.

I didn’t know because the obstacles like trees and rocks were too big, but when I looked at it from a height, the horizon was made up of distant cliffs.

Like the Lilliput, it looks as if a piece of land was cut off and brought here.

While going against the giants’ escape for a while….

“Piyo-oooo-!”

A sharp roar was heard from the sky.

Looking up, a giant eagle with wings spread at least 20m wide was aiming for Se-un.

As expected of the Giant Country, the size of the wild animals is also enormous.

I wonder if they recognize Se-un as a small bug?

However, there was no way Se-un would obediently be attacked.

– The third form of Subduing Demon Archery, Demonic Chain Arrow (魔聯矢) [a rapid-fire archery technique], is enhanced through internal energy.

– The power of martial arts is enhanced according to the mysteries of the Supreme Sundering Art.

Pa-ba-ba-bat!

Se-un quickly drew and pulled the string of the Undying Bow.

Due to the rapid-fire nature of Demonic Chain Arrow, nearly ten arrows were fired in a short time of less than a second.

Even though he didn’t use Mammon’s artifact separately, its power was great.

“Pwee-eee-!”

One of the abilities of the Undying Bow, Freezing.

The arrow that touched the eagle’s wing emitted cold air and froze the feathers.

The attack wasn’t very damaging because the opponent’s size was so large, but Se-un’s Demonic Chain Arrow was getting faster and faster.

From ten arrows per second to twenty arrows.

The more familiar he became, the faster the speed became, and one side of the eagle’s wing was completely frozen.

“Pwee-yoooo-!”

As a result, its balance was broken, and it folded its useless wing and descended vertically towards Se-un.

Tenacity for prey.

It was an amazing determination, but the opponent was wrong.

– The third form of the Blood Wolf Sword Art, Blood Wolf Assault (血狼襲擊) [a powerful sword technique], is enhanced through internal energy.

– The power of martial arts is enhanced according to the mysteries of the Supreme Sundering Art.

Swish-

A cruel cutting sound was heard.

It seemed likely that it would avoid the sword even if it was swung in front of its eyes because it was quite skilled, but it had no choice but to be helpless even after seeing Se-un’s sword because one side of its wing was completely frozen.

It seemed to hope that the attack would also be weak due to Se-un’s size, which was ten times smaller than itself, but the sword brutally tore apart the monster’s vitals.

– The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ is overflowing with food and wishes you to always pass the trials.

After that, several difficulties struck Se-un.

There were giants who waved their arms, thinking of Se-un as a fly, and there were times when he had difficulty leaping because of giants who were taller than other giants.

How long did he move through all those difficulties?

“What’s that?”

After going in reverse, he was able to discover something unusual from the giant for the first time.

“Ugh-ugh-ugh! Saaave meeee!”

The giant was speaking a language.

Even that was difficult to understand because the pronunciation was slurred and the words were drawn out, but it was different from the giants who had been drooling and running until now.

I wondered what it was, but Se-un’s gaze was not directed at that giant.

“Crazy…….”

That’s because the creature that was leisurely walking right behind that giant stole Se-un’s gaze.

Koo-oong! Koo-oong!

The ground shook violently every time it walked. Even when dozens or hundreds of giants were running, it wasn’t to this extent.

It was so huge that it was difficult to see its head even when I looked up.

Only after the clouds were slightly pushed away by the wind pressure caused by the monster walking, the one eye that had been hidden by the clouds was visible.

“Coo-meee- hee-ereee-”

The mid-bass that vibrated the air spread around like a bell.

It didn’t shout loudly, it just uttered a voice, but for a moment, I had the illusion that the surrounding air had become heavy.

This was the same for the giant, who fell while running and couldn’t straighten his knees, rolling on the floor while shouting to be saved.

“Jeeeeebaaaaal! Saaaave-”

Crunch.

The monster, who grabbed the giant with just its thumb and forefinger, swallowed the giant in one bite.

‘Cyclops [a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead].’

One of the true giant races in the Tower, different from the giants who had lost their minds, gave up fighting, and were running away, Cyclops.

I can’t believe a monster that is hard to encounter even in the high floors of the Tower exists on the 35th floor.

That’s right. The overwhelming threat that the trial was describing was directed at that monster.

The reason why the players who were hiding behind the tree pillars to avoid the giants and wasting time died without passing the trial was because of that monster.

That very monster…….

“Soooo- veeery- smaaaall-”

Koo-oong!

With eyes as if looking at a toy, it stretched out its hand to Se-un, covering the sun with its huge palm.