Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 390

Thud!

As soon as I stepped into the audience chamber, the thick iron door slammed shut.

Only one player can enter this place.

Yu Seo-ah might be panicking outside, but she trusts me and will wait patiently.

‘It’s been a while.’

Of course, Se-un from before the regression had also been here.

Betrayed by Pan, Se-un hated the Constellations, but the difference between contracting with a Constellation and not was significant.

Hoping he might contract with a new Constellation, Se-un arrived here, and what appeared before him was…

‘It was Pan.’

The god of animal husbandry, Pan, who had toyed with Se-un during the tutorial and then discarded him.

The reason he reappeared was no different.

He was amazed that Se-un, whom he had deemed insignificant, had reached the seventh shelter, and said that if he knelt and bowed his head, he would take him under his wing, chuckling.

And at that time, Se-un ignored the chuckling Pan and left the audience chamber, completely abandoning any lingering attachment to contracting with a Constellation.

‘First of all…….’

I briefly looked around.

The audience chamber, dimly lit, had a very simple structure.

The only thing that stood out in the square room, devoid of any decorations, was the statue located directly in front.

Even calling it a statue was a stretch.

A stone so broken that one could only guess it had once been a statue.

That was the medium through which a god would descend in the audience chamber.

‘I wonder what will happen this time.’

Se-un placed his hand on the half-destroyed statue.

As he injected a bit of mana, a faint light flowed from the statue, and a message appeared.

– You have made contact with the Statue of Audience.

– Searching for Constellations who wish to converse with you through the Statue of Audience.

The Constellation that appears in the audience chamber is not chosen by the player.

Only those Constellations who receive the player’s information through the statue and are interested will show interest in this place.

Among them, only the Constellation that most fervently wishes to meet the player can descend here.

The opportunity comes about once a year.

I don’t know what criteria are used to determine who ‘fervently wishes to meet’.

However, what is certain right now is.

– The Constellation, ‘Noon Sun,’ suggests pushing aside your sibling and discussing the radiant future of the sun with them.

– The Constellation, ‘Fourth Day,’ says they watched you form an alliance with their guild and wonders if you are curious about what comes next, revealing their presence.

– The Constellation, ‘Self-Born One,’ smiles kindly, saying it’s time to leave the narrow well and swim in the big water.

The number of Constellations who wanted to appear before Se-un was very large.

Even the Constellations that immediately appeared before his eyes were main god-level Constellations with such high status that Mammon couldn’t block the communication.

Adding in the number of Constellations Mammon was blocking, there would be at least several dozen.

– The Constellation, ‘Crow Who Bows Its Head,’ tells you to ignore those inferior beings and talk about the future of the vault with them.

– The Constellation, ‘Snake Enclosing the Season,’ wants to see you.

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ hurriedly grabs silverware and gets up, asking if they can actually eat your cooking if they descend here.

– The Constellation, ‘Sleeping Ibex,’ yawns deeply, saying they will never go.

The Demon Gods’ reactions were the same.

I don’t know how the audience chamber’s system looks to them, but it seems quite fierce.

Messages from the Constellations popped up from all directions.

And soon after.

Whoosh-

The Constellation Se-un would have an audience with was decided, and the chosen Constellation settled into the statue.

Light swirled around the statue, which looked like a stone with no discernible shape, and began to take the form of a Constellation.

‘Light?’

That light from the statue was not just simple light.

As the Constellation’s divinity was imbued within, that light signified the Constellation’s attribute or symbol.

For example, the god of water would appear as blue waves, the god of gold as dazzling gold, and the god of fire as fiercely surging flames.

In other words, judging by that brilliant light, I could be sure that the god currently descending was not a Demon God.

Soon after.

– ……Greetings, Contractor of the Demon God.

The Constellation that appeared before Se-un was one that neither Se-un nor any of the Constellations hoping to speak with him had expected.

* * *

Around the time the Diablo Guild arrived at Death Hill and was unpacking at the inn, on the outskirts of Death Hill.

A graveyard so far removed that one wondered if such a place existed on the outskirts.

A woman in a red dress, utterly out of place in the graveyard’s atmosphere, stood there.

“It’s been a while. Has it been decades?”

Arcana, the former owner of the casino and the woman known as the Queen of Lilac.

She dropped a lily, which she had no idea where she got from, in front of the tombstone.

“I said I wouldn’t come again. I guess I can’t keep promises after all~”

The tombstone in front of her, like the other tombstones, had no writing on it.

However, there was a long, sharp scratch in the center of the tombstone, reminiscent of a sword mark.

Did she find the tomb by looking at that scratch?

Or was she just thinking of someone in front of a random tombstone, having come out to the distant outskirts to avoid being seen by others?

“I’ve been living as my instincts lead me, just like you said, but after a while, it’s not as fun as I thought.”

She sat on the tombstone and looked up at the sky.

A dark sky where not a single ray of light could be seen, obscured by gray clouds even in broad daylight.

“I was living as if it was so fun and meaningful, and then I found someone interesting, you know?”

– The Constellation, ‘Goddess of Luck,’ looks at you with pity.

“He’s nothing like you. He’s not a coward, and he’s not weak either.”

She stroked the surface of the tombstone.

The tombstone, which looked relatively intact, seemed to prove that it had been created not long ago among the old and broken tombstones.

Touching the rough surface somehow made her feel calm.

“You said so, didn’t you? From now on, don’t hold back what you want to do and live as you please. So, I’m going to go back up.”

– The Constellation, ‘Goddess of Luck,’ wants to comfort you.

– The Constellation, ‘Goddess of Luck,’ bows her head and clenches her fist tightly.

Her monologue continued for a while.

As her voice continued in the graveyard where no one was listening, a gap happened to open in the gray clouds, and a small ray of sunlight seeped into the place where she was.

“Oh my, is this a gift? How kind~”

– The Constellation, ‘Goddess of Luck,’ steels her heart and jumps up from her seat.

Along with Tyche’s unknown determination, her monologue continued for a long time without ceasing.

* * *

“……Tyche?”

Se-un couldn’t help but be taken aback by the goddess who appeared before him.

Her hair, which had a simple golden hue like well-ripened grain, and the horn-shaped ornament hanging around her neck, etc.

Although he had never seen her in person, her appearance was clearly that of ‘Tyche, the Goddess of Luck,’ one of the Olympian Constellations that Se-un had read about in the Grand Library.

“It’s my first time meeting you like this. Contractor of the Demon God. I formally introduce myself. I’m Tyche, one of the small stars of Olympus.”

What is the criteria for having an audience with the statue?

There were at least ten main god-level Constellations who wanted to talk to Se-un right away.

Moreover, Se-un had never received a message from Tyche.

He only knew that her Constellation was Tyche through Arcana, and in the first place, the Olympian Constellations were in a position where they couldn’t even observe Se-un due to the Management Bureau’s regulations.

Then, Se-un was able to recall the only reason she would look for him.

“Did you come to tell me to stay away from Arcana?”

“That’s…….”

“You should know. In the first place, it wasn’t my will to be with her. She followed me first.”

Tyche didn’t like Arcana being involved with Se-un.

Even if messages didn’t appear, it was easy to guess through Arcana’s reaction.

And isn’t Tyche an Olympian Constellation?

It would be difficult to stand idly by and watch him get close to Se-un, who had formed a hostile relationship with Olympus by starting with Pan and defeating Triton.

So, I naturally thought this was the reason, but…….

Unexpectedly, Tyche calmly closed her eyes and shook her head.

“No. It’s actually the opposite.”

“The opposite?”

“Please stay with her. I came to ask you not to hurt her.”

I wondered if she was trying to deceive Se-un, but no matter how I thought about it, that didn’t seem to be the case.

There was nothing she could gain by deceiving Se-un in this way.

It was also unreasonable to think of Arcana as an Olympian spy.

It would be too much of a loss for her, who had reigned as the queen of the casino in Lilac, to follow Se-un to monitor him according to Olympus’s instructions.

In the end, that meant those words were sincere…….

‘Why is she suddenly acting like this?’

To be honest, I didn’t understand at all.

Tyche, realizing Se-un’s suspicion, sighed softly and continued.

“From the beginning, I didn’t intend to acknowledge Player-nim either. As you know, Player-nim is currently our enemy of Olympus.”

“Then?”

“Hena…… no, I can’t break her stubbornness.”

Hena.

That was probably Arcana’s real name, but Se-un shook his head and erased it from his mind.

There was no need to remember her name from someone else’s mouth.

I told her I had forgotten, but she would tell me on her own when she opened her heart someday.

“So, I’m asking you.”

“Arcana is strong enough that she won’t get hurt.”

“I’m not talking about external wounds. I’m talking about internal wounds. If the precariously healed wound is opened just one more time…… even she won’t be able to withstand it.”

In that moment, Arcana’s distorted face when she touched the black mist on the cliff of the 52nd floor flashed through my mind.

I had somewhat expected it.

There was no way a player who had reigned as a high-ranker would have come down to Lilac, even bearing the penalty, without any reason.

“It may not be much of a reward, but I’ll tell you about the situation in Olympus.”

“Are you going to play spy?”

“That’s a bit much……. If Player-nim and she keep sticking together, she might even be attacked by Olympus. That’s why.”

Se-un nodded.

Even though the guy who came out of the Azure Sea Guild requested a conversation from Azure Sea, Se-un was already in a state of irreversible conflict with Olympus.

At this rate, it was inevitable that he would clash with Olympus.

If she was next to Se-un, Arcana would naturally clash with Olympus as well.

“Even if I know the situation, nothing will change.”

“Player-nim thinks that the reason our Olympus is hostile to you is because of Pan and Triton, right?”

“Of course. Is there any other reason?”

“We also know that Pan was wrong. Poseidon-nim [Poseidon] is particularly fond of his family, so I know he went too far in sending Triton, but for the most part, we know that we were the ones who were wrong first.”

“……Is that so?”

“Of course, not all of them. Poseidon-nim [Poseidon] is still not completely relieved of his anger, and Dionysus-nim [Dionysus] in particular trembles whenever your name is mentioned.”

Poseidon is Triton’s father.

To be honest, he could be said to be the main culprit who drove his son to his death, but either way, it was natural for him to be angry as he had lost his son to Se-un.

Dionysus also had a reason to hate Se-un.

In the early part of the tower, Se-un had shattered his crystals that were hidden in the crystal cave.

“Zeus-nim [Zeus], as the representative of Olympus, doesn’t like it, but he knows that his son was the one who was wrong first, so he is maintaining neutrality.”

Come to think of it, the message from Zeus that appeared when I killed Pan wasn’t that hostile.

I touched an Olympian Constellation, so I’ll keep an eye on you…… just that much.

Thinking about it, it didn’t seem like Olympus had that much reason to be hostile to Se-un.

I understand Poseidon and Dionysus, but that was only an individual problem.

“Then what’s the reason?”

At Se-un’s question, Tyche hesitated.

Not long after, she took a breath and uttered a familiar name.

“By any chance, do you know about Chronos-nim [Primordial Titan of Time]?”