Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 389

Stole the Demon God’s Warehouse – Episode 393

Was he ever really a fighter?

The Black Cross member, who called himself a volunteer, lost his will to fight with just one threatening glare from Kang Han-cheol.

He was lying face down on the ground, burying his head and trembling, utterly terrified.

I was prepared to instill fear with the stigma if he hadn’t given up so easily, but it seems ordinary people can’t withstand the pressure contained in Kang Han-cheol’s presence.

“Is this really a place where people live?”

“But why are all the buildings so old?”

“Ugh, I want to tear them all down and rebuild them!”

“Should we?”

“Let’s do it!”

“I just came up with a design that’s perfect for this place!”

“Me too!”

After escaping the graveyard and moving a little closer to the center, the city came into view.

The buildings, about two to three stories high, were all dull in color, and as the twin sisters said, old and rusty.

Perhaps because sunlight didn’t reach well, many buildings were covered in mold.

‘Sunlight hardly penetrates Death Hill.’

It’s not that there is no day or night.

The sun rises during the day, of course, but because of the gray clouds perpetually filling the sky, sunlight barely reaches the ground.

Thanks to this, the moonlight never shines at night, and Death Hill is shrouded in complete darkness.

There’s even a tradition in Death Hill that you shouldn’t turn on lights at night.

“Ugh, why is it so eerie here?”

“It’s really the City of Silence.”

City of Silence, Death Hill.

Even while walking on the main road after entering the city, no sound could be heard from the surroundings.

The people on the streets were all keeping their mouths shut and going about their business.

If a group of more than fifty people like the Diablo Guild entered at once, they might at least exchange glances, but no one was paying attention.

“But how do we find an inn? There aren’t any proper signs on the buildings, and they all look so similar that it’s hard to tell them apart.”

“There, the biggest building.”

“Night’s Rest… It certainly sounds like an inn, but it feels unsettling because of the atmosphere here.”

“But it’s one of the better inns in Death Hill.”

“If Se-un says so, then it must be.”

It’s not easy to find a good inn in Death Hill.

Although it’s called a rest stop, this place doesn’t have much consideration for players [adventurers].

Most of those who arrive here prefer to buy buildings on the outskirts and use them as guild halls, operating separately from the residents.

From here on, the number of players drastically decreases, so there are fewer players than residents.

Clunk-

Even when the door opened, no greeting was heard.

Still, perhaps thinking of doing business, an old woman who appeared to be the owner turned her head towards us.

“How many rooms are left?”

“About thirty… left. Two or three people can lie down in each room.”

“I’ll take them all. For a month, for now.”

“Meals?”

“Just breakfast for now. We’ll figure out the rest day by day. Ah, let’s start with a meal right now for today.”

“Alright…”

She should be happy if we pay for all the remaining rooms for a month, but the old woman showed no reaction.

If she had at least shown a reaction of being annoyed, I wouldn’t have thought anything of it, but she silently went about her work like an NPC [Non-Player Character] in a game.

No, I wondered if the NPCs in the game weren’t more emotional.

“Sis, let’s use the same room!”

“Okay!”

“Um, I’m sorry, but can I use a room alone? I know it’s a nuisance, but it’s hard to separate the test subject, so those who stay with me will be uncomfortable.”

“Of course. Everyone will understand. Ah, Haneul. Would you like to share a room with me?”

“Yes.”

Without Se-un needing to organize it, all the guild members divided the rooms on their own.

Having gone through thick and thin together from the tutorial until now, it wasn’t difficult to share a room.

After a quick unpacking, everyone came down for a meal.

“The room was better than I thought?”

“I know, right? I was worried it would be damp, but there was no mold. It seems much cleaner compared to other buildings.”

“As expected, our Hyungnim [term of respect for an older brother or male leader] has an eye for things! That’s why he made this Park Jung-pil his right-hand man, right? Euhahaha!”

“The meal… is here.”

When I arrived on the first floor, food was already laid out on the table.

It must have been difficult to prepare a meal for a sudden group of guests all at once, but they managed to prepare it this quickly.

“Wow, it’s delicious! What is this? Is it a potato?”

“Potato? Sweet potato? Something like that. It’s really savory!”

“But doesn’t it taste a bit bland?”

“That’s because you always eat spicy things in Lilac. That’s why you’ve gained so much weight!”

“Hey!”

Rest stops have distinct characteristics, so there are various types of food.

Sand City Scavenge has many dishes such as dried meat or bread, Ice Fortress has preserved food suitable for soldiers, and Zeheton has seafood dishes.

Death Hill is characterized by the staple crops we are eating now.

‘Even if the atmosphere is like this, it’s not like there’s a shortage of food.’

Even if sunlight doesn’t penetrate well, Death Hill has the most fertile land of all the rest stops.

In the case of staple crops, they grow on their own even if you just scatter the seeds here and there.

Of course, that’s not all there is to it.

“Meat, it’s meat!”

“What kind of meat is it? It’s so chewy.”

“The one in the stew is so soft?”

“That’s mole meat.”

“Eek? Mole?”

Just as they mainly eat livestock such as chickens and pigs on Earth, in Death Hill, they mainly hunt and eat animals that live underground.

Among them, the ones called big-bellied moles are so numerous that they are called the staple food of Death Hill people.

In addition to moles, they also eat insects often, but perhaps out of consideration for outsiders, insect dishes were not visible.

“Hyungnim, why don’t you have a drink with me after eating this?”

“How do you know about the bars?”

“Who do you think I am! I gave that Imo [term of endearment for an older woman] over there a coin, and she told me right away. Atmosphere or whatever, there’s no place in the world without alcohol!”

“Haa… Go alone, don’t cause any trouble.”

“Why don’t you come with me, Hyungnim! The taste of alcohol is different in each rest stop, so it’s amazing to discover it!”

“Ah.”

“Oh, are you starting to feel like going?”

“Especially, be careful of people wearing black clothes or a cross necklace. Don’t follow them for no reason.”

“I’m not a kid… And everyone here is wearing dark clothes, who am I going to hang out with if I avoid black clothes?”

“That’s none of my business.”

Isn’t this the only guy who looks for alcohol and gambling as soon as he arrives in Death Hill?

I was worried for no reason, but now he’s quite a skilled player. At least he’s going to run away well even if he gets dragged somewhere.

Se-un shook his head, thinking he would get around well enough on his own.

“Se-un.”

As the meal was almost over, Yoo Seo-ah, who had finished eating first, came to Se-un’s side and spoke.

Even without saying anything, I could tell that she had come to ask about Se-un’s schedule.

As the vice-guild master, it was a question she always asked when entering a rest stop or starting a trial.

“Personal activities for now. I need to find out the location of the meteorite, so there’s nothing to do even if we move together right now.”

I had Ruin memorize the scent of the Outer [beings from another dimension].

If Se-un’s prediction is correct, like the Cauldron of Death dug up in the 60th floor trial, there will be land buried with meteorites and Outers here as well.

‘The Black Wings will come looking too.’

The battle in Lilac.

At the end of it, in the meeting with Lucifer, he said, ‘When you arrive at the seventh rest stop, a feather will come looking for you.’

He said he would get an answer through him, so it was necessary to maintain vigilance.

‘Ah, before that.’

One event that can only be found in Death Hill came to mind.

Honestly, it’s not a very necessary event for the current Se-un, but there’s no harm in participating.

Maybe there’s a new benefit hidden that even Se-un doesn’t know about.

I could tell the guild members, but this time, the one who knows about Se-un’s regression…

“Yoo Seo-ah, let’s go somewhere together.”

“Yes? Ah, yes! I’d love to!”

It seemed better to go with her.

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‘Does she have something to do?’

I thought Arcana would follow as a matter of course when Se-un left the inn, but for some reason, I couldn’t confirm her appearance after arriving at the inn.

Did she stop by the auction house while arriving at the rest stop?

I felt strangely empty because she, who always followed me around, was not visible…

‘No.’

Even if she knows about Se-un’s regression, I can’t help but think twice before acting because I feel like I’m being watched when I’m with her.

It’s much more comfortable to be apart like this.

“But where are we going now?”

“The temple.”

“The temple?”

“Death Hill is a city that honors the dead, so there are various types of temples.”

“That’s amazing. If you honor the dead, I thought you would naturally go to the grave.”

“Did you see that there was nothing written on the tombstones in the graves outside?”

“Yes. Ah, it would be difficult to find the person you want to honor even if you go to the grave.”

“That’s right. I don’t know why either.”

Of course, it’s not that there are no tombstones with names written on them at all.

However, due to the nature of the tower, most players die in trials rather than rest stops, so it is almost impossible to recover the body.

Besides, for some reason, the residents here don’t engrave names on the tombstones separately.

“Is that the place?”

“That’s right. It’s the largest of the five temples in Death Hill.”

The temples in Death Hill are not places to worship gods, unlike the name temple suggests.

It’s just a place to pray for the dead.

As such, many people were waiting in line in front of the temple, waiting for their turn.

“There are a lot of people.”

“The residents here have a custom of praying at the temple once a day.”

“Should we line up there too?”

“No, we’re going through the back door. We didn’t come to pray in the first place.”

“Then?”

“It’ll be faster to experience it directly than to explain it.”

Avoiding the line of people, Se-un and Yoo Seo-ah went around to the back of the temple.

It didn’t seem like a hidden path, and another door was wide open in the back.

However, this was not a place that residents visited because it was not a place to honor the dead.

‘Audience Room (謁見室) [room for formal meetings].’

A place only for players.

It is practically the reason why this place is called a temple.

It is a place where opportunities are given to players who have not yet contracted with a constellation [powerful, god-like entities], and if they are already contracted with a constellation, they can transfer the contract or talk to their constellation.

Various opportunities were given.

Constellations also mainly use the audience room to talk to their apostles because it is a place where they can talk directly to players by investing little power.

‘I don’t intend to make a contract, but…’

There was nothing to lose by talking to the constellations.

Wondering which constellation would speak to him, Se-un stepped into the audience room.