Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 266

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The first sensation upon entering wasn’t the cool seawater.

A disturbingly lukewarm temperature and a slimy, viscous texture.

The seawater itself was dyed black, obscuring visibility.

And that wasn’t all.

Perhaps due to the lack of wind, the oxygen levels in the seawater were extremely low, making it difficult to breathe even with the ‘Mermaid’s Gills’ activated.

It felt like breathing through a thick cloth covering your respirator.

‘There’s a reason it’s called the Dead Sea.’

Even Seun was entering the Black Sea for the first time. Before his regression, the pirates he was with had turned the ship around in terror as soon as they saw the sea turning black.

A ship that entered the Black Sea never returned, they said…

Seun was now in that very sea.

– The Constellation, ‘Serpent Entwined in Envy,’ is worried about you, saying they are also unaware of the current state of the Black Sea.

It was difficult to gain speed due to the lack of currents, and breathing was challenging due to the low oxygen levels, but it wasn’t impossible.

Seun pushed through the viscous seawater with the fins spread between his palms and began to swim.

‘I don’t sense any particular presence around me.’

Five minutes. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. An hour.

He wandered around the Black Sea, but there wasn’t a single living thing.

Not just fish, but even plant life like seaweed was nonexistent.

It was truly a dead sea.

Everything in this sea seemed to be dead.

‘I need to find a place suitable for a sanctuary first.’

Seun recalled Leviathan’s Orb, safely stored in his subspace pocket.

Even if it was an Orb, it wouldn’t create Leviathan’s Sanctuary just by planting it anywhere in the Black Sea.

The center of the Black Sea.

Specifically, the point where a massive amount of energy was concentrated… a spot known as a dragon vein on land [a location where spiritual energy is believed to flow strongly]. Only by placing the Orb there could its power be drawn out.

The problem was that no matter how much he looked around the Black Sea, he couldn’t find a suitable place.

‘There’s not even a trace of energy, let alone a living creature…’

As Seun was struggling, Leviathan, the Orb’s owner, fortunately stepped in to guide him.

– The Constellation, ‘Serpent Entwined in Envy,’ flicks their tongue, sensing a strong energy in the deep to the right.

Seun immediately changed direction.

It was hard to see in the darkness, but indeed, after moving slightly to the right, he saw what looked like a collapsed passage leading downwards.

A faint energy was felt within.

‘It’s here.’

The density of the water increased as he descended, and some kind of foreign substance floated around.

If he breathed carelessly, his gills would immediately clog.

– According to the Mystic of the Azure Tower, the stability of ‘Wind Curtain’ is enhanced.

He modified the Wind Curtain, which he had previously used to block sandstorms in the desert, to suit the sea.

As a result, currents stirred instead of wind, and the foreign substances clinging to Seun were pushed away.

‘I can see it.’

In the depths of the Black Sea, where only pitch-black darkness had existed, a color other than black came into view for the first time.

Blue.

The faint blue color shimmering in the deepest part of the Black Sea grew stronger as he descended.

And finally, he reached the deepest part.

The moment he cleared the debris in front of him with the Wind Curtain, the scene of the deep sea unfolded before his eyes.

– The Constellation, ‘Serpent Entwined in Envy,’ closes their eyes at the horrific sight before them.

“A graveyard?”

The corpses of all sorts of monsters were rotting away, emitting a pure blue color.

Smaller ones had their bones decayed, with only parts exposed on the sand, while larger ones hadn’t completely rotted, retaining some of their majestic appearance from when they were alive.

These were probably the monsters that existed when the Black Sea was called the Sea of Radiance.

He didn’t know why they had all drifted here to meet their end, but their corpses were unmistakable.

– The Constellation, ‘Serpent Entwined in Envy,’ looks around, lowering their head, saying that this was probably where their sanctuary used to be.

– The Constellation, ‘Serpent Entwined in Envy,’ swallows their sorrow, saying that these creatures probably waited here for them until their dying breath.

The blue light emanating from the corpses made it clear.

These corpses had inherited Leviathan’s power, however faintly.

They had remained in the place where the sanctuary had been, even after Leviathan disappeared, until they died, showing how respected she was as a Constellation.

‘Even among the benevolent gods, this is rare.’

It was a moment that made him think about the difference between benevolent and malevolent gods.

However, something seemed off about Leviathan’s message.

Was it just him, or was it more blurred than usual?

A slightly unstable appearance.

As if Seun’s thoughts were not mistaken, an anomaly appeared as soon as he moved forward a little further.

– The Constellation, ‘Ser&ent En*wined i Snake’ says you should go in the !$direction of the ^#former sanctuary#$^*&@!#$–.

The text glitched.

Beyond that, the message was completely cut off.

The status window was still working normally, so it seemed only external interference was blocked.

‘Is it because of the Black Sea’s characteristics?’

Anxiety crept in, but there wasn’t much left to do.

All he had to do was install Leviathan’s Orb in the place with the greatest energy flow in the massive graveyard before him.

At that moment.

“Hehe, so you’ve finally realized it?”

*Swish!*

A small voice was heard, and a powerful presence was felt in front of him.

Along with it, a tremendous water pressure crashed down on Seun.

Without even having time to think, he reflexively pushed the water away and threw himself to the opposite side.

He barely managed to avoid the attack, losing one of the fins between his toes.

‘A spear?’

It was too fast to see with his eyes, but he could roughly guess its shape from the attack that passed right next to him.

A trident made of water.

Moreover, the attack was imbued not with mana, which symbolized magic, but with divinity, which symbolized a god.

“This Black Sea, you see, has been rotting and stagnant for an eternity. Thanks to that, even the flow of the system is disrupted, preventing interference or observation from the outside.”

A being revealed himself in the pitch-black darkness.

His entire body was covered in scales similar to shark scales, and gills were spread wide below his ears.

His wide mouth was filled with jagged shark teeth, his eyes were blue, and his lower body was a tail like that of a dolphin.

It was a conspicuous appearance, but what Seun was more concerned about was the divinity flowing from his body.

“Triton…”

“So you do know that you’ve wronged me? I see you recognized me right away.”

A Constellation of Olympus and a god of the sea. Poseidon’s son, Triton.

He was the owner of the Kraken that Seun had hunted on the previous floor.

‘How?’

Triton’s current state wasn’t like possession.

It was manifestation.

Just like when Pan appeared before Seun at the last moment, he had directly descended into the Tower with the body of a Constellation.

This was a clear violation of the Tower’s rules.

The Management Bureau should also be aware of this, but no message appeared.

However, it was hard to believe that the Management Bureau was neglecting its duties. The Tuning he had seen recently was still quite interested in Seun.

So, what Triton said at the beginning, that this place was disrupting the flow of the system, must be the correct answer.

“How do you know about the Black Sea?”

“Well, it’s simple. I was curious. I wondered what would happen to the sea that the famous Leviathan had ruined after being betrayed. So I caught a player who looked reasonably stupid and made a contract with him.”
Triton grinned as if recalling the past.

His jagged shark teeth were revealed, showing a ferocious impression.

“Well, it took him much longer than you to reach this point. But thanks to him, I was able to learn about this place.”

“Even if interference isn’t possible right away, violating the Tower’s rules like this will have a significant impact, won’t it?”

“Hehe, don’t worry. This appearance will probably look like a noisy screen on the Tower’s monitors, right? Even if you die here, I can just deny it. I have a reliable backer, you see.”

Seun finally fully understood Triton’s plan.

It took a lot of time and consumption of his essence for a Constellation to manifest in the Tower. However, he had completed his manifestation deep within the Black Sea in advance to face Seun here.

Avoiding the Management Bureau’s surveillance.

Even so, traces would be revealed, but it wouldn’t matter once Seun was dead.

“That’s enough explanation, right? Ah, I don’t know why I’m so generous? I’m even kindly explaining things to a guy who’s about to die.”

*Clang.*

Triton drew his weapon towards Seun.

A trident with a subtle blue light like bronze.

It wasn’t as good as Poseidon’s Trident, but it was a treasured artifact known to contain the power to move the sea.

Just by putting a little force into his hand with that trident.

*Whoosh!*

He shot a fierce stream of water at Seun.

The trident made of water barely grazed past his head.

It was the attack that had first targeted Seun.

“Ugh, it’s stickier than I thought. How can I attack so slowly?”

Slowly?

It was an attack that Seun could barely avoid by twisting his body to an almost grotesque degree, focusing all his senses.

If he had been hit by that attack in a normal sea, not the Black Sea?

He wouldn’t have been able to dodge, and his heart would have been pierced by that spear.

‘Damn it…’

It was incomparable to when he faced Pan.

At that time, Pan had lost some of his essence due to Seun, and he had consumed a great deal of power to forcibly summon Seun into a space created between trials.

However, Triton was different.

Although his essence had been greatly reduced by coming out of Olympus and manifesting in the Tower, he retained his original power to an incomparable degree compared to Pan.

*Whoosh, Whoosh-!!*

“Heheheha! Yes, try to dodge. Let’s see if you can dodge this too.”

The number of tridents increased.

From one to two. From two to four. From four to ten.

It was difficult to dodge properly due to the dark vision of the Black Sea, the sticky sea, and the fast speed of the tridents.

He was barely avoiding vital spots, but small wounds were accumulating on Seun’s body.

Armor?

Defense was meaningless in front of a god’s weapon.

Thanks to the ‘Sea’s Wrath’ necklace, his movements were slightly freer, and the ‘Emperor Taejo Mu’s Battle Robe’ absorbed the impact, allowing him to endure this much.

“How about this! How about this? Hehehehaha!”

This time it wasn’t a spear.

Sharks and anglerfish made of seawater.

Various creatures were snapping their mouths open and approaching Seun.

The tridents flew in a straight line, so he could somehow avoid them, but these creatures were relentlessly targeting Seun in curves as if they were really alive.

He tried to use the Authority of Jealousy to change the situation, but…

– This area does not allow the Authority of Jealousy to be borrowed.

Unlike the Authorities of Gluttony or Greed, the Authority of Jealousy was a power that Seun was borrowing through his contract with Leviathan.

Since the power of the Constellation couldn’t reach him… naturally, he couldn’t use the Authority of Jealousy either.

The Authority of Gluttony wasn’t something he could use in combat, so all he could rely on now was the Authority of Greed and the power of the Stigmata.

‘What should I do?’

He had to think.

As long as he was in the Black Sea, it was impossible to borrow the power of the Management Bureau or the Constellations.

And there was a 0.001% chance that he could beat that Constellation.

If he imagined even a slight possibility, it would be arrogance, not hope.

As he dodged dozens of incoming attacks, Leviathan’s Orb came to mind.

‘This is the only way!’

*Swish!*

Seun, who had been busy dodging attacks, turned his body and headed towards the center of the graveyard.

“If you had any brains, you would have struggled to get out of the Black Sea. To go deeper, you’re more stupid than I thought! Hehehehaha!”

It was impossible to escape the Black Sea while avoiding Triton.

From the moment he first faced him, he had sensed that a huge barrier had been created throughout this area.