Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 427

Stole the Demon God’s Warehouse – Episode 427

Episode 427

The Trial of the 62nd Floor, the Shaking Forest.

Most players, upon arriving at this trial, believe that the plant-type monsters filling the forest are the greatest challenge.

That thought becomes even stronger the moment they realize that the tree trunk they leaned against for a brief rest was actually a monster.

However, that was not the true challenge.

The key location in the trial of the 62nd floor: the largest flower in the center of the forest, the Giant Arrun.

The moment they arrive there, players realize that the greatest challenge of this trial is this very place.

“Pollen?”

“Isn’t it too coarse for pollen?”

“Well, isn’t it obvious? It’s pollen spreading from such a large flower, so it’s bound to be coarse.”

“Hey, this stuff is sticking all over me!”

“W-wait. Get that off you quickly!”

“I’m trying to, but it won’t come off!”

“Quickly! Get it off somehow!”

“I-it’s sticking to my skin! Ugh!”

“Tear it off, even if your skin comes off!”

“Ughhhhh!”

The pollen of the Giant Arrun possessed a powerful adhesive force.

No, it was a bit different from adhesion.

As soon as it touched something, it firmly took root and rapidly germinated, using the nutrients available.

When it touched soil, it grew at a speed no different from ordinary plants, but when it touched the body of a living creature, that speed became grotesquely fast.

“This can’t be happening…”

“Did I… become a plant?”

As a result, those who were hit by Arrun’s pollen became nutrients and transformed into giant plants.

And these plants didn’t just stand still.

To protect Arrun, who could be called their mother, they became guardians, indiscriminately attacking any living creature that approached.

“Kill them!”

“B-but!”

“Check the guild chat! They’re already dead! They’re practically zombies!”

“Everyone, be careful not to get pollen on you, and take out your robes! They’re still big, but if we’re careful, we can avoid their vitals!”

The number of guardians wasn’t just one or two.

No insects or animals could be found in the shaking forest because the insects and animals that had been turned into plants by Arrun had endlessly taken root here.

Therefore, players had to fight the guardians while constantly avoiding the pollen scattering from the sky.

“The destination!”

“It’s obvious, isn’t it? It certainly provides guidance.”

The stem of the Giant Arrun.

There, a long, spiraling staircase existed.

Anyone could tell to climb up that staircase, and even when it became dark at night, the area around the staircase subtly shimmered.

The problem was the guardians guarding the path.

“The problem is they won’t open the way.”

“Dudududuk-”

The guardians were blocking the narrow staircase, barely wide enough for two people to pass, like an iron wall.

Moreover, thick vines sprouting from the stem attacked from all directions, leaving no room to relax.

That wasn’t the end of it.

If you accidentally cut the stem, acidic liquid would gush out like a fountain, or extremely poisonous substances would spew from the purple vines, or an extreme stench would shake not only your sense of smell but even your mind.

“What kind of guidance is this!”

“Guidance, my foot! They might as well tell us to break through the door and enter!”

Thanks to this, players had to endure the longest time in this greatest challenge.

Some even set up camp in the safe zone outside Arrun, racking their brains to find a strategy.

Fortunately, the monsters of the forest did not approach Arrun’s surroundings.

In the meantime, players began to emerge, showing off their skills as they climbed Arrun with overwhelming power.

– Player Yoo Seo-ah uses ‘Tarantula’s Fourth Leg’.

Tadat dat!

Yoo Seo-ah ran vertically up the stem of the Giant Arrun as if she didn’t care about the stairs.

Hundreds of vines blocked her path, trying to stop her from advancing, but they were all pathetically cut down by Yoo Seo-ah’s twin swords.

Baal’s poison affected even Arrun, rotting the area around the cut stem black.

“Ah, can’t we make this into a zombie? Should we at least try? Bite it quickly! Infect it!”

“Geureureureu-”

Below, hundreds of zombies raised by Baekhyun were biting at Arrun.

Arrun was not an ordinary monster, nor was it a boss monster. It was the linchpin of the trial, beyond monsters. To turn that into a zombie…

It was an absurd attempt, but Baekhyun did not admit the impossible as impossible until the experiment was over.

Thinking that there might be a limit to attacking the outer skin, he even used corpse explosions to peel off the outer skin and spread black magic by biting the inner skin.

At that time, a dangerous sound like something collapsing was heard from the opposite side.

Kugugugu!

“It’s falling!”

“Everyone, get out of the way! Get out of the way!”

Right next to the Giant Arrun.

A tower so huge that it seemed to touch the sky, matching the height of the Giant Arrun, was falling towards Arrun.

At first, they thought it was a tower, but as the building tilted, everyone’s thoughts changed.

That was…….

Kuuung!

A leg.

The twin sisters jumped over it, pressing down on Arrun’s petals with the tilted leg.

“L-look at that!”

“Let’s climb up there too!”

“Run!”

“W-wait! Ugh!”

Other players also tried to follow the twin sisters, but unfortunately, the leg didn’t last long.

It wasn’t that the leg wasn’t sturdy, but rather that Arrun seemed to not tolerate the existence of the leg, wrapping it with vines and collapsing it.

In addition to this, the Diablo Guild climbed Arrun in various ways.

The players, who had been agonizing over how to attack Arrun for days or weeks, were stunned by the sight.

* * *

“Everyone is climbing up in a spectacular way.”

“Indeed.”

The sight of the Diablo Guild members climbing Arrun, each showing off their individuality, was enough to impress even Seun.

Perhaps even if you gathered the strategies of all the players who had passed the 62nd floor, it wouldn’t be as good as the strategies you see now?

To that extent, the Diablo Guild’s 62nd floor strategy was diverse and effective.

In the meantime, almost half of the Diablo Guild members had already passed the 62nd floor trial.

“Shall we start too, then?”

“Wait.”

“Ah, is there anything left to gather here? I don’t see anything other than that Arrun flower. Ah, are you perhaps thinking of gathering a part of Arrun?”

“No. Even if you gather a part of Arrun, it withers quickly the moment it falls from the main body. Even if you gather it properly, it doesn’t have any special effect.”

“Then?”

“There.”

Seun pointed forward with his index finger.

It was the opposite point from the destination where all the players were heading, the top of Arrun, where the flower was in full bloom.

Underground.

It was heading underground, where Arrun’s roots were spreading.

“Is there something there? Ah, perhaps you found it before regression…?”

“I don’t know either.”

“Yes?”

“I failed to enter before regression [previous life]. I barely avoided the monsters and found it, but there was no way to enter.”

In fact, it was a dungeon that I was going to skip this time as well.

Most of the rewards that can be obtained from the hidden dungeon on the 62nd floor were rare plants that bloomed at the end of the dungeon, not additional rewards that could be obtained after completing the dungeon.

However, even before this, most of the plants were difficult for Seun to gather alone.

I thought that it would be possible to break through the guardians and enter the dungeon now, but in the end, it would be difficult to gather the last plant alone.

But.

‘If I’m with Lee Haneul?’

Things change.

With Lee Haneul and Marbas’s authority, it would be possible to gather almost any plant.

Well, there is a possibility that the reward of the dungeon is not a rare plant, but if possible, there is no reason not to challenge it.

“Then…”

“I’m going to try it, trusting in your strength.”

“If it’s gathering again… Yes. I’ll do it. I can do it.”

– The constellation, ‘Bloody Lion,’ is confident that there is no plant you can’t gather with your skills.

Even Lee Haneul shows confidence.

Seun nodded at this and immediately stepped into Arrun’s domain.

“Follow me.”

“Yes!”

It wasn’t difficult to find the direction. Even if I didn’t urge the compass of journey, this was already a place I had found before regression.

In fact, this was a place that could be found with enough suspicion even without Seun’s ability.

That is…….

‘The lowest end of the stairs.’

The reverse direction of the stairs spiraling up to the top of Arrun’s flower. In other words, it was a place that could be reached by going down.

Of course, there were several reasons why this place was not discovered by players and was not known.

“Dudududuk!”

The first, the resistance of the guardians.

There are almost twice as many guardians on the stairs going down as on the stairs going up.

It’s already difficult to deal with guardians in the narrow space of the stairs, but the number of guardians increases.

Most players give up their curiosity about the underground here.

– Through internal energy, the second form of the Blood Wolf Sword Technique, Blood Wolf Fang (血狼牙) [Xuelang Ya], is strengthened.

Puk!

However, for Seun, dealing with guardians was much easier than dealing with other plant-type monsters in the forest.

The weakness of the guardians is the germination point where plants begin to grow after the pollen touches them.

All Seun had to do was find the location with the compass of journey and accurately strike with his sword.

“Deudeuk, deuk-”

With just that one sword strike, the guardian fell lightly like a scarecrow.

It didn’t matter how big the guardian was, or how complex it looked, making it difficult to guess what kind of creature it had been turned into a plant from.

Just one sword strike to end it all, fairly.

The guardians blocking Seun’s path fell helplessly.

And the second.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Inferno’ is strengthened.

It was Arrun’s pollen filling the passage.

Originally, this pollen melts away like snow over time, but only the stairs leading to the underground were not like that.

The pollen was piled up, covering the road, and only the guardians were free to move here.

Hwareureuk!

“Just follow behind me. Be careful not to touch the pollen left on the wall.”

“Yes. Um, but it would be okay to collect some of this, right? Looking at the guardians, it seems closer to seeds than pollen. I want to check it out a bit.”

However, fortunately, Arrun’s pollen is weak against fire.

The pollen melts away as soon as it touches the flames spewed out by Seun.

In addition, attacks of several times the difficulty compared to climbing up the stairs, such as vines blocking the way or extremely poisonous substances pouring down like a shower, block Seun.

“Don’t worry about the poison. I’ll heal you right away.”

Chwaat.

Lee Haneul took out a potion from her bosom and soaked Seun’s and her own heads.

A detoxifying, no, an anti-poison potion.

As she made it herself, it was a potion close to magic that prevented almost all poisons.

– Player Lee Haneul uses ‘Blood-Soaked Ward’.

“It will be a little easier to cut now.”

Did she realize that guardians with solid characteristics were appearing as she went down?

Lee Haneul used her authority to soak the guardians with red liquid.

Then, the outer skin of the guardians, which had been as hard as rock, softened like tofu.

Seun nodded and pierced the weakness a little more easily.

‘It was so difficult before regression.’

I remembered the hardships I had in the past to discover the underground that I couldn’t even open.

How futile and unfair was it that I couldn’t open the door even after all that suffering?

The stairs of Arrun, which had ultimately frustrated Seun after all the hardship, the door located at its deepest part.

“Here it is.”

In this life, it appeared in front of Seun too easily and quickly.