Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 292

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“Haaam……”

“Focus, Ben.”

“Yes, yes, I will.”

The two men were watching their target without moving in the shade, like inanimate objects.

Not even a passing rabbit noticed the presence of the two men.

However, even if a rabbit wandered around, the two men couldn’t move carelessly.

The first principle of stealth is assimilation.

You must thoroughly blend into the surrounding environment.

The moment you move because a rabbit is annoying, your identity is revealed to the opponent.

‘I don’t think that kid will notice, though.’

Ben sighed once more without his partner knowing.

It had already been thirty minutes since he had extracted a faint killing intent, subtle enough not to be noticed by his partner, and sent it down to the target below.

Yet, the target didn’t react at all, remaining motionless in place.

‘Did he collapse from exhaustion during training?’

Indeed, the final strike used in the training he had just witnessed was quite threatening.

Even to him, who was nearly 20 floors higher, it felt like a momentary threat.

‘Having used such power, it can’t be helped.’

Perhaps he won’t be able to move his body for several hours like that.

Just as he was thinking that and about to yawn again.

Thwack!

“Kuh-ugh!”

An arrow was lodged in his shoulder.

He was late to react because he was yawning, but if he hadn’t forcibly twisted his body in the process, the arrow would have pierced his Adam’s apple.

Could it be that it wasn’t a normal arrow? Unlike the hot pain felt when the skin is pierced, he felt a cold pain.

As if ice had flown and pierced him.

As if to prove that the feeling wasn’t a delusion, a pure white frost was settling on his shoulder pierced by the arrow.

“Ambush!”

The two players, who had already climbed more than halfway up the tower, knew that dealing with the situation was more important than panicking.

Ben pulled out a vicious toothed sword with his left hand, and the man next to him reverse-calculated the trajectory of the arrow and threw a dagger.

Clang-

“Damn it!”

The dagger thrown by the man was deflected by the arrow and fell.

The positive point was that they had properly identified the opponent’s location, and the negative point was…….

Twiding!

The opponent’s archery skills were more outstanding than expected.

“Ben!”

“Damn it, I know!”

When the man spread his robe, dozens of daggers appeared.

Originally, they were cruel daggers aimed at the opponent’s flesh, but now they were only busy blocking the cold arrows.

“Damn it, who the hell is it!”

His shoulder was frozen, and he couldn’t put strength into his right arm.

Extreme pain surged every time he moved his body, but Ben gritted his teeth and charged forward.

He swung his sword with his left arm to block the incoming arrows, and the man behind him threw daggers to block the arrows that he couldn’t block.

“Let’s see your face, you bastard!”

Swish!

Ben swung his sword horizontally at the tree in front of him.

Knowing that the archer was hiding behind the tree, he intended to cut it down along with the tree.

“Tch.”

However, all he felt from the sword was the rough sensation of the tree being cut down. He couldn’t cut down the archer.

The tree fell, and he saw a man confidently raising his bow, having only taken a step back, whether out of confidence or arrogance, and not hiding anywhere.

His identity was.

“……What, why are you here?”

The player they had been watching.

It was Seun.

* * *

‘Right shoulder injury. One is a swordsman and the other is a rogue type.’

He wanted to take down one of them before the start of the full-scale battle, but the opponent’s response was faster than expected.

They avoided the first surprise attack he launched, taking advantage of their carelessness while yawning, and immediately counterattacked.

The fortunate thing was that he had inflicted a fairly significant wound on one of them and identified their attack types.

“……What, why are you here?”

“You told me, didn’t you?”

He knew as he came to find them. That the faint killing intent he felt from below was intentional.

Those two weren’t amateurs who couldn’t even hide their killing intent.

Whether they were bored or careless, he didn’t know the reason, but it was clear that they had deliberately spread their killing intent.

“That’s true, but you were definitely just below…….”

“Right. You were too busy yawning, so there’s no way you could have noticed.”

“What?”

It was no wonder Ben was flustered.

It was true that he had been bored, but he hadn’t taken his eyes off Seun, who was resting below.

It was impossible unless he had teleported.

“Could it be, real teleportation…….”

Magic that distorts space, like teleportation, is different from ordinary magic.

Unless you’re at a considerable level, it’s difficult to even use Blink to move short distances, and even Blink couldn’t move this far.

“Ben!”

While Ben was in confusion, the man behind him hurriedly approached and joined him.

However, the man who joined him also couldn’t hide his surprise as soon as he saw Seun.

“This guy seems to have used teleportation! He’s hiding his magic skills…….”

“No.”

“What? No, there’s no other way than teleportation, is there?”

“I was watching him until just now.”

“……What?”

Seun attacked the two men, and Ben ran over to counterattack. Afterwards, the man behind him confirmed Seun and followed Ben.

The timeline didn’t add up.

It was the man who was narrowing his brow behind Ben who realized the truth of the matter.

“A clone.”

“That one seems to have some brains.”

That’s right.

– You have opened the Vault of Greed.

[ Avatar ]

– Summons a clone with the same appearance as yourself.

As soon as he sensed the killing intent, Seun summoned a clone in his original position and used Ghost Step to leave the spot.

The two were skilled, but they had created too much distance while focusing on stealth.

No matter how outstanding their stealth skills were, it was impossible to properly identify an opponent at this distance. Seun targeted that very weakness.

“Ben, I’ll ask about this later.”

“No, Jen! I didn’t know it would be this much!”

At the man’s words, Ben pulled out the arrow stuck in his shoulder and replied. No bleeding occurred thanks to the frostbite, but the condition was quite serious.

He didn’t show any pain even though it must have hurt, and immediately gripped his sword while applying a potion.

Indeed, he looked like a player who had adapted to the tower.

“If you had stayed still, I wouldn’t have bothered you. I didn’t expect you to walk into the tiger’s den on your own.”

“A great sandbag has arrived, so I can’t just let it go.”

“You’re quite confident. However, the moment you failed to finish off Ben in one blow, your death was decided.”

The man called Jen threw a dagger.

He succeeded in lightly pulling the bowstring and dropping the dagger, but Ben took advantage of the gap and charged.

The toothed sword that easily sliced even trees was approaching, cutting through the air.

Clang!!

Seun had already put away his bow and taken out Durandal.

“How dare a kid who’s only climbed up to the 40th floor talk like that. Do you think you can be my opponent just because I hurt my shoulder a little?”

“What floor have you guys climbed to?”

“Hahaha! We’ve climbed all the way to the 59th floor!”

59th floor…….

There was nearly a 20-floor difference between him and Seun.

Their equipment also looked quite good, and it seemed they had benefited greatly from the auction house that could be accessed from the sixth shelter.

But.

“59th floor…….”

It was a meaningless floor for Seun.

In the first place, Seun from before the regression had survived until the end when the tower was being destroyed by the Outer Gods, and even found the Myriad Demon Hall that had fallen to the 92nd floor.

“That means you couldn’t challenge the 60th floor and fell.”

The ambiguous floor of 59th floor.

The reason was obvious.

As he had experienced so far, the difficulty of the tower increases sharply in units of 5 floors.

5th floor, 10th floor, 15th floor, 20th floor.

In the end, those two men couldn’t overcome the increased difficulty on the 60th floor and ran away.

Ben gritted his teeth at Seun’s provocation.

“How dare a 40th floor trash talk to great seniors like us!”

Gagagagak!

Sword energy rose from Ben’s sword and struck Durandal.

The sword energy was also raised in a toothed shape like the blade, which was very threatening.

Indeed, having reached the 59th floor, he was lightly using sword energy.

The moment Seun, who had taken a step back, was about to prepare a counterattack.

“Sorry, but this isn’t a fair one-on-one duel.”

The place where the men were hiding was a small forest quite far from the site. It wasn’t dense, but grass and trees were located everywhere.

Daggers flew from the shadows of those, that is, from all directions around Seun.

Twididing-

Still, the power wasn’t very strong, so most of them were deflected by the shield magic Seun deployed.

Clang!

“Not bad. Have you ever fought a player before?”

Among them, there were also daggers covered in sword energy.

Even with shield magic, it was difficult to block daggers covered in sword energy, so he hurriedly swung his sword to deflect the daggers.

‘These two, their teamwork is good.’

He thought they would play separately after seeing them bickering. Jen aimed for the gap created by Ben’s attack, and Ben narrowed the distance so that Jen wouldn’t be counterattacked.

It seemed there was a reason they were together.

– The constellation, ‘Serpent who Encircles Jealousy,’ is wondering why you are not using her authority.

Seun shook his head at Leviathan’s question.

Her power is strong, but it’s so strong that he can’t train properly.

Using the Authority of Jealousy should only be done when it’s objectively impossible to deal with the opponent. Otherwise, his growth will stop.

‘Well, that doesn’t mean I’m going to save my strength, though.’

Seun’s stigmata shone.

It was only a brief gap, but Jen didn’t miss it and sent dozens of daggers flying.

At the same time, Ben also charged at Seun with his toothed sword forward.

Thwack, Thwubububuk!

The attack worked properly.

The moment Ben was about to pull out his sword, seemingly disappointed by the more bland finish than he had expected.

“Ben! Run away!”

“Huh?”

“Strike, Ruin.”

– Kroaaang!

A crimson wolf struck Ben with dozens of daggers stuck in its side.

He took a guard stance without even having time to pull out his sword, but the sharp claws tore Ben’s wrist armor to shreds.

Thanks to the armor, the wound wasn’t deep, but red blood dripped down his forearm.

“Crazy, what is that?”

“A summon?”

“Something that strong is a summon? No, but what’s that guy’s identity? Wasn’t he a swordsman?”

Ben was shocked.

Although it was a short time, he had been constantly insisting on swordsmanship while monitoring Seun. He occasionally used body techniques such as palm techniques or fist techniques, but he hadn’t used any other attacks.

But what was this?

He hid his actions with advanced magic called Avatar, and launched surprise attacks with stealth skills no less than those of an assassin.

He fired arrows, skillfully avoiding trees from a distance that couldn’t even be reached by sight, and summoned a wolf as big as a house.

He couldn’t figure out his identity at all.

“Ruin, take care of that guy.”

– I understand. My master.

Ruin flew towards Jen.

The traps that Jen had set up to target Seun in that short time popped up, but they didn’t do any significant damage to Ruin.

The same goes for daggers.

Even when he threw daggers covered in sword energy, they were stuck like they were stuck in mud and flowed down to the floor without any effect.

“Damn it!”

The fortunate thing was that Ben rolled his body and retrieved his sword while Jen slowed down Ruin’s speed with daggers and traps.