Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 397

Using Ash Arrows to create a small gap in the defensive barrier.

All the Diablo Guild members entered the barrier through the gap, and as soon as Se-un entered last, the barely holding passage closed.

The defensive barrier was more powerful than expected, so the gap’s duration was shorter than anticipated.

If he had been any later, he might not have made it in.

As soon as Se-un entered the Black Cross Guild’s territory, what he saw was…

“Stop them, stop them at all costs!”

“The report has been sent, so support will be here soon! Just hold them off!”

“Kuh-uk! N-No, we can’t! Didn’t we hear that these guys are a new guild that just entered Death Hill?”

“Deal with those undead first!”

The Diablo Guild, the Black Cross Guild, and hundreds of undead were all tangled together in a fierce battle.

He believed in his allies’ skills, so he thought they would be winning, but this was beyond his imagination.

They were overwhelming enemies who were outnumbered and less experienced.

“Se-un! We can handle this side, so feel free to do what you need to do.”

“If you need a path, we’ll clear it for you, Master.”

As Yoo Seo-ah said, it didn’t seem necessary for Se-un to step in on this battlefield.

Of course, if Se-un joined, they could push the enemy faster and strike at the center, but that wasn’t the important thing right now.

“Then I’ll leave this to you.”

“Yes!”

Se-un spread his purple wings and soared into the air to move in earnest.

However, his direction was not towards the center where the Black Cross Guild’s building was located.

‘I need to take care of this first.’

Se-un looked down and surveyed the black haze enveloping the entire Black Cross residence.

It seemed to ripple irregularly at first glance, but in reality, that haze was moving fluidly, drawing a formation.

It would be fortunate if that was just a defensive barrier to protect the residence, but…

‘That’s unlikely.’

Defense is just a process to prepare for something.

What Se-un needed to do now was to find that ‘something’.

What he needed in times like these was, of course…

‘There.’

The compass of the journey.

Even though Se-un didn’t consciously recognize the goal, the compass of the journey pointed Se-un towards five destinations.

‘One is the headquarters where Pelches is, but even if I go now, there’s no way that guy will be caught easily.’

He wanted to kill Pelches and end the game, but as he said before, Pelches prioritizes his own life in any case and has various insurances in place.

If Se-un chased Pelches like this, and time was wasted, it would be even more troublesome if ‘something’ was completed.

So, in this case, finding that ‘something’ is the priority.

Se-un flew towards the closest direction indicated by the compass of the journey.

– Me too. I want to fight too.

“You need to save your strength.”

– I’m super energetic!

“Your strength is important. You can’t waste it in a place like this.”

– Am I important?

“Of course.”

– Okay!

Perhaps it was because he had used Turiek’s power so often recently?

She had gained confidence, and even though a battle had broken out, she spoke to him first because he wasn’t using her power.

However, as he just said, her power was too precious to be used here.

Unlike before, when the power of fear was only useful against a large number of weak enemies, it had now become a hidden power that could create a momentary gap even against strong enemies.

‘It’s ahead.’

The compass of the journey was reacting.

Along with that, information came in that the front was blocked by something solid.

All he could see was empty air, but Se-un trusted the compass of the journey and took out Apelion from the Myriad Treasure Vault and held it out in front.

– Through internal energy, the third form of the Ice Dragon Spear Technique, Ice Dragon Descent, is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Ice Jade Divine Art, coldness is added to the martial art.

A chill lingered at the tip of the spear, turning into ice particles.

As the chill intensified, the ice particles soon became the head of an ice dragon, and scales began to stretch out, covering Se-un’s body.

The dragon’s tail, drawing a trajectory, looked like the trajectory of a comet.

Then, like an arrow…

Kwaaang!

He shattered the intangible wall that was blocking Se-un’s path.

As expected, trusting the compass of the journey was the right answer.

‘It was a weaker barrier than the outside.’

Perhaps Pelches didn’t expect an intruder to reach this place so early and had only set up a minimal barrier.

Se-un didn’t stop the momentum of breaking through the barrier and immediately fell towards the floor.

The speed was so fast that his vision was blurred, but the goal was clear.

The figure staring at Se-un from below, surprised.

He didn’t know who it was, but that guy became Se-un’s target.

Kwaaaang!

“Kuh-uk!”

“W-What’s going on!”

“Intruder!”

“We just got the report that the barrier was breached, how did they get here so fast?”

Three Black Cross Guild members were lying on the ground where Se-un landed.

They seemed to have tried to avoid a fatal blow, but they couldn’t do anything about the shockwave caused by Se-un’s fall.

‘Here is……’

Se-un brushed away the thick dust and looked around.

The black haze that had been spread throughout the Black Cross’s residence was gathering here.

According to the compass of the journey, there were a total of four such areas.

And in the center where the black haze gathered…

‘Residents?’

People who appeared to be residents of Death Hill were lying there.

No, you can’t bring residents from the shelter to the residence. If there’s a possible way…

‘Killing them and bringing them.’

In other words, the Black Cross killed a pile of people and brought them here.

Judging by their clothes, there were people who seemed to be followers of the Black Cross, but there were also people who didn’t seem to be.

“What are you doing?”

“It’s none of your business!”

Se-un dodged the spear coming towards his head and swung Apelion.

With a timely attack, the opponent couldn’t even retrieve his spear and coughed up blood as his abdomen was pierced.

“Keuh-heuk, heh.”

Seeing the guy smiling as he pulled up the corners of his mouth even as he fell, Se-un felt a sense of crisis and rotated the circle to deploy a shield around him.

At the same time, a magical bombardment poured down on Se-un.

Feeling that the shield wouldn’t hold, he blocked only the strong magic and threw himself towards the gap where the weaker magic was flying.

‘I need to take that down first.’

He didn’t know what they were trying to do, but the black haze was gathering towards the pile of corpses of the residents.

The compass of the journey was also pointing fiercely at that place, and Se-un’s intuition was shouting that that place was dangerous.

“I won’t let you!”

The Black Cross Guild members, realizing that Se-un was aiming for the pile of corpses, quickly blocked his path.

But blocking the path without any preparation was no different from suicide.

However, the more players he defeated who were blocking his path, the worse Se-un’s expression became.

‘It’s strange.’

Just because it’s a guild war doesn’t mean you have extra lives.

If you die, it’s over.

That’s why even in a guild war, you can’t easily see people trying to protect something by risking their own lives.

Yet, they were so easily using their lives as shields to block his path, and even as they fell, they were raising the corners of their mouths.

‘Did they take some kind of drug?’

The drug that the Black Cross used to subjugate its followers came to mind.

However, even if it was the Black Cross, it didn’t seem like they would use drugs on players.

The drug made from Black Hyacinth gave pleasure but worsened physical abilities.

“Ruin, clear the way.”

– I understand. My Lord!

Feeling that the resistance using their lives as shields was more difficult than expected, Se-un summoned Ruin.

Ruin rampaged through the front like a bull, and Se-un ran towards the gap, taking out his staff.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Explosion’ is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Red Tower, the range of ‘Explosion’ is expanded.

Kwaaaang!

An explosion occurred where the corpses of the residents were piled up.

The faces of the Black Cross Guild members, who had not lost their smiles even as their stomachs were pierced and they coughed up blood, contorted for the first time.

“Damn it, stop him! Don’t let him through!”

“Ruin.”

– Keuang!

“Keuk! That beast!”

Leaving the stragglers to Ruin, Se-un moved to where the explosion had occurred.

The smell of burning corpses filled the air, and the remaining flames were still emitting heat.

Whoosh!

Using wind magic, he blew away all the remaining corpses and fumes.

Then, the appearance of ‘something’ that had been hidden inside was finally revealed.

“Heo… Young man, you’re very impatient.”

A wrinkled old man.

He never thought that a person would be hiding inside that pile of corpses.

A reversed cross was swollen red on his forehead as if it had been branded with an iron.

Even though he was directly hit by the explosion magic that Se-un used, there wasn’t even a small scorch mark on the clothes he was wearing.

“I didn’t expect you to find me this quickly, but our Bishop is cautious.”

After seeing the guy’s condition, Se-un could sense the Black Cross’s scheme.

Because the black haze was being absorbed into the reversed cross on the old man’s forehead.

‘Summon… no, is it a descent ritual?’

Dozens of sacrifices.

No, if you add up the remaining four points, excluding the headquarters building, that the compass of the journey told him, more than a hundred people were used as sacrifices.

Not only sacrifices, but also various rare materials were ground into ingredients, such as the unidentified piece of cloth with patterns that the old man was wearing and the powder scattered everywhere.

With those, they had drawn a three-dimensional formation using the black haze, not a flat one.

The guild war hadn’t started long ago, but judging from the state of the black haze, it seemed they had been preparing since five days ago, when they scheduled the guild war with Se-un.

“The ‘offering’ is already nearing its end.”

Sss-.

The corpses of the residents that Se-un had blown up instantly shriveled up and explosively spewed out black haze.

The black haze stopped forming the formation and permeated the Black Cross Guild members, including the old man.

Then.

“Keu, hehehe.”

“I can feel it, I can feel it!”

“This is it! This is the power! With this, all the trials will be over!”

The Black Cross Guild members, who had been bleeding and collapsing from Se-un’s attacks, all rose from their seats.

The black haze healed their wounds and dyed their eyes black.

“Hehe, what a pity. Young man.”

The reversed cross on the old man’s forehead was also dyed black.

The more the black haze was absorbed, the more he could feel their power growing in real time.

In response, Se-un.

Sizzle-

“Yeah, it’s not over, but it’s ‘nearing’ the end, right?”

He rotated the circle fiercely and created a hot flame.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Fire Storm’ is enhanced.

– According to the mysteries of the Red Tower, the range of ‘Fire Storm’ is expanded.

– According to the mysteries of the White Tower, the elemental power of ‘Fire Storm’ is increased.

As the flames spread in all directions, centered on Se-un, the bodies of those who were recovering from their wounds and enjoying their new power began to burn.

Whether it was because their plan hadn’t been completed yet, or whether that power was just at this level…

“Kkeuaaaaaak!”

“R-Run away!”

“Crazy! Stop! Stop it! Please! Euaaaak!”

Unfortunately, their recovery power couldn’t keep up with the speed at which they were burning in the flames.

Thanks to that ambiguous recovery power, they had to constantly feel the pain of their raw flesh burning in the fire.

That was the same for the old man in front of him.

“W-Wait a minute! Stop it! Heheok! Please! Please! Heok, keuheok! I-I know about the solution to this descent! Keok! A-Aren’t you curious? So please! Please! Please!”

The relaxed and arrogant appearance he had shown a moment ago was gone, and he grabbed Se-un’s pants leg in pain as his flesh burned and his lungs shriveled.

He seemed to have better recovery power than the other guys, but the old man was at the very center of the magic that Se-un had unleashed.

Thanks to that, he had to endure the highest firepower with his bare body.

“I’ll figure that out myself.”

“Keuhaaaaak! S-Save-”

He turned into a handful of ashes without even seeing the end of the scheme he had been so confident in.