The Goblin’s Stolen Warehouse – 36
Chapter 36
“For goblins, they sure built this well.”
Se-un climbed up the back of the watchtower.
There weren’t many places to grab onto, but Se-un had the ‘Mandrill of Balatan Cliff’ ability. He had climbed the cliffs of that rough, rocky mountain, so this was a piece of cake.
The moment he finished climbing the watchtower…
Swish, stab!
Thud.
With movements that were now quite familiar, he silenced the two goblins guarding the watchtower.
His strikes thoroughly targeted their necks, so both of them died without even a scream.
After disposing of the bodies with the Authority of Gluttony, Se-un calmly looked around.
‘So far, so good.’
The goblins were moving busily, as if their feet were on fire.
Well, it was only natural that they were moving busily, since the goblins on the outskirts were attacked, causing them to strengthen their defenses, and then an explosion occurred right in front of the village.
Among them, what Se-un was looking for was a place that didn’t seem busy.
If it was the most important place in the village, the security would have been strengthened rather than dispersed, even in this situation.
However, Se-un faintly heard a voice from the goblin village that shouldn’t be heard.
“S, save me!”
“Sob, sob……”
“Damn it……”
Human voices.
Looking for the source of the sound, he saw a crude wooden prison in one part of the village. And inside, about ten people were trapped.
‘They must be the people who started the tutorial around here.’
As I said before, Se-un’s camp isn’t the only one participating in the tutorial. [A tutorial is a training ground for new players.]
Numerous beings participate in this cruel competition throughout the vast area of the tutorial.
Judging by the atmosphere, they seemed to have been forced to participate, just like Se-un’s camp.
‘I can’t save them right now.’
Releasing them right now would be tantamount to suicide. Not only Se-un, but those people would also die even more painfully.
Now is the time to think rationally.
He would save them if he could while attacking the dungeon, but in the worst-case scenario, he might have to abandon them.
Meanwhile.
‘Found them.’
Se-un was able to find a few places that seemed to be his targets.
A hut that looked like a palace and a rectangular building that looked like a warehouse.
Even without checking directly, Se-un, who had attacked various dungeons before his regression, could easily guess their identities.
‘The one in front must be where the chief lives, and the one in the back must be the warehouse.’
Goblins are simple.
Rather, if their intelligence is low, it would be difficult to infer because the buildings all look similar, but it becomes easier to infer when dealing with monsters with moderate intelligence.
Simply for the sake of attacking the dungeon, the priority would be to sneak into the huge hut and catch the boss monster, but…….
Se-un moved his body towards the warehouse.
From the beginning, hiding here without burning the forest was to obtain something more than simple experience or contribution points.
“Kiek, Kkeekk!”
Se-un slipped through the goblins who were busily moving for their own reasons.
Thanks to his proper stealth skills and the chaotic situation, no one noticed Se-un’s presence.
Unlike the flatlands outside, the village had a variety of structures, making it ideal for hiding.
In the blink of an eye, Se-un arrived right next to the building that appeared to be a warehouse.
‘I don’t know what’s inside, but the security is thorough.’
The goblins, holding properly maintained weapons instead of the crude weapons he had seen outside, seemed to have been properly trained, firmly guarding their positions even though the surroundings were noisy.
Unless he went underground or fell from the sky, there seemed to be no blind spots for them.
However, for Se-un, a gap was not something to be found, but something to be created.
‘Kasha’s Ember.’
Whoosh!
“Kiek?!”
One of the goblins was horrified and stepped back at the sudden appearance of the flame in front of him.
The reaction was quite violent, so the guards’ attention was all focused on him for a moment.
However, the flame disappeared as soon as it flared up briefly. Because of this, the goblin had to become the laughingstock of the other goblins.
He seemed to be desperately explaining about the flame, but no one was listening.
In the meantime.
‘Easy.’
Se-un had already broken through the security and arrived at the warehouse door.
There was no proper lock, so the entrance was blocked with thick wood, but removing it was even easier than defeating a goblin.
Carefully opening the door so as not to make a sound, Se-un saw all sorts of items stored inside, as he had expected.
-The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ is greatly disappointed that he can’t see anything to eat.
The first thing he saw as soon as he took a step was a variety of weapons, including swords, spears, and shields. These were cold weapons that were known to be difficult to obtain in the early stages of the tutorial.
They looked quite usable at a glance.
In addition, next to it, piles of unidentified minerals were stacked, as if they had been picked up from somewhere.
It was like a lower version of ‘Mammon’s Treasure Vault.’
-The constellation, ‘The Crow Who Bows His Head,’ frowns, saying that you dare not compare such a paltry and insignificant warehouse to his own.
No, let me correct that. It was more like an extremely low-end version.
‘First of all, I have to take everything.’
Cold weapons made of iron are rare in the early stages of the tutorial. Moreover, these various equipment were very compatible with Se-un’s ability, ‘Authority of Greed.’
However, the problem was that the size of the warehouse was larger than expected.
There was no inventory like in a game in the Tower, so it was impossible for one person to take all these items.
That is, until just a while ago.
-The Treasure Vault of Greed (眞) has been opened.
[ Subspace Pouch ]
– A pouch created in the colorless magic tower, with space magic engraved on it, capable of holding as much as a small warehouse.
Not Se-un’s Authority, but the real treasure vault that Mammon currently possesses. He took out a small pouch from there.
Then, he pushed a long sword that was right in front of him into the pouch opening.
Originally, the bottom of the pouch would have been torn and ripped, but.
Swish!
The long sword went into the pouch as if it were a lie.
The same goes for other equipment.
Whether it was a sword, a spear, or a shield. The pouch sucked up the equipment in the warehouse as if it were connected to another world.
‘Well, that’s not wrong.’
Subspace Pouch. [A magical item that can store a large number of items.]
It was an item called ‘Infinite Pouch’ in the Tower.
It was very useful for players, so it was sold at a very high price.
Since he got such an item for free, it was a much more profitable deal than lending Durandal.
“I’ve got all the equipment.”
Se-un turned his head.
As it was large, it not only stored equipment, but also various items such as jewels and preserved food.
The space in the subspace pouch was still spacious, so he swept up all the items without hesitation.
In the meantime, a blue jewel caught Se-un’s eye.
“Mana Stone?”
The jewel was filled with a dazzling aura. It was definitely mana. [Mana is magical energy.]
It didn’t look like it was of good quality, but it wasn’t unusable either.
Moreover, the number was more than he thought.
Roughly counting, there were more than a hundred.
He didn’t know where he got them, but for Se-un, it seemed to be the most useful of all the items in this warehouse.
‘The usefulness of mana stones is endless.’
Like the black magic stone he used on Baek-hyun before, he could use it to absorb mana, or he could engrave various magics on it. It could also be used in equipment to contain magical power.
At that moment, a plan came to Se-un’s mind.
‘With that method…….’
Originally, he was thinking of attacking the boss monster and then running away or setting fire to the village while the goblins were confused, but with these mana stones, he thought he could carry out a much better ‘plan’ than that.
One of Se-un’s creeds.
Think briefly, act quickly.
Se-un, who had plundered all the items in the warehouse, moved his body to carry out his new plan.
* * *
The largest and most splendid hut in the goblin village.
That was the residence of ‘Kokongkak,’ the chief who ruled over the thousands of goblins in this village.
And today, the chief’s mood seemed worse than ever.
“Kereuk! Haven’t you found it yet!”
“Kieek……”
“You useless things!”
Bang!
The goblin’s head was roughly blown off by the thick club wielded by Kokongkak.
Tremendous brute force.
He was a hobgoblin, a goblin who had been chosen as king from birth. His height and size were as big as an average orc, and his strength was unbelievably strong for a goblin.
“Kireuk……”
“Kieek……”
He was truly a tyrant.
Watching their colleague’s head explode, the goblins in front of Kokongkak trembled.
Achievements and loyalty didn’t matter. If his mood was bad and he didn’t like them, everyone would have their heads blown off like that.
If it were a human society, a rebellion would have broken out quickly, but it was different in the goblin village.
A society where only power matters.
Fear politics was a better means of politics than anything else.
“Get out of here! Go find that intruder right now!”
“Kereuk!”
“And you! Go and bring me the youngest human. I need to fill my stomach.”
“Keck! Kereuk!”
Humans were one of Kokongkak’s favorite foods.
He didn’t know how they lived, but they didn’t have much muscle, their skin was soft, and they didn’t smell.
Recently, he was lucky enough to capture about ten of those humans.
Kokongkak sat on the throne, his anger, which had risen to the top of his head at the thought of eating humans, subsided a little.
“Kereuk! Those stupid guys. I can’t match their level at all.”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
“Right? After all, this body is…… What?”
Thwack!
“Cough!”
A sudden attack.
Kokongkak desperately rolled his body at the sharp sensation he felt in his neck.
He barely avoided death, but because his carotid artery was cut, green blood spurted out like a fountain. If he had been a little late in avoiding it, his cervical spine would have been severed.
Desperately pressing on the wound, Kokongkak raised his head.
And in that place, a human in red armor was shaking off the green blood on his dagger.
“As expected, he’s a named monster. His reflexes are fast.”
“Kereuk! What are you!”
Kokongkak shouted, screaming.
Clearly, he didn’t feel any presence. It was as if the human had suddenly appeared out of thin air.
The attack was also so sharp that it cut off his neck without any resistance.
Kokongkak, who had ruled over others since birth and had never felt a sense of crisis, felt a crisis for the first time and the hair on his whole body stood on end.
His instincts were shouting at him to run away, and the throbbing heart made it difficult to stop the bleeding.
“Well, I don’t have time to explain it to you.”
As the human approached, Kokongkak unconsciously took a step back and desperately raised his voice.
He felt it instinctively. He couldn’t beat this human one-on-one.
But wasn’t this the heart of the village he ruled?
“Guards! You damn things, come quickly!”
“Too late.”
“What?”
Soon, hundreds, thousands of goblins would rush in, but the man’s face showed no sign of worry.
Soon after, the man showed a strange behavior.
He raised his left hand, which was not holding a dagger, and lightly flicked his thumb and middle finger.
Just as the sound reached his ears.
콰콰콰콰쾅!!
Quarrel!
Krrrr!
A huge roar that seemed to burst his eardrums was heard from behind Kokongkak.
The hot heat and the rushing wind pressure pushed his body, forcing him to roll ungracefully on the floor.
Green blood gushed from the wound where he had failed to apply pressure.
Clenching his trembling hands tightly, he turned around.
“My, my village!”
The goblin village had turned into a fiery hell.