Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 438

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“Let go, let go! I said let go! What are you going to do to me!”

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ drools.

“I saw that look just now! I saw it! You’re going to roast me! Boil me!”

“No, I’m not going to eat you.”

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ expresses disappointment, asking why not.

“That expression just now! Don’t lie! You’re trying to eat me right now!”

Whether it was because it recognized the expression that appeared after reading Beelzebub’s message, or whether it was just caught up in its own misunderstanding, the hummingbird struggled incessantly in Se-un’s grasp, chirping non-stop.

Se-un hadn’t particularly intended to seek cooperation just because it was a guide, but he felt uneasy about the unnecessary misunderstanding.

– Wow, it’s back!

– Do it again for me!

– I want to try it too!

In the meantime, whether Riel had resummoned the spirits, the spirits that had been swept away by the whirlwind reappeared.

They seemed to have genuinely found the whirlwind fun, as they kept pestering the hummingbird to do it again, much to the hummingbird’s dismay.

“Is this really a guide? It doesn’t seem like it’ll guide us at all.”

“Don’t worry. Once we go up, it’ll guide us, even if it’s just to save its own skin.”

“But how are you going to take it up? You’re not a tamer. You can’t take a boss-level monster you caught in a trial to the next trial, can you?”

She was right.

Unless you were a tamer, there was no way to take a monster captured in a trial to the next trial alive.

He could turn it into an undead like Baek-hyun and take it, but that would make it lose its power as a guide.

However.

“I can just turn it into an item.”

– The Vault of Greed(眞) has been opened.

[ Maat’s Cage ]

– One of the cages possessed by Maat, the daughter of the sun god Ra and known as the goddess of truth and justice.

Having experienced it before his regression, Se-un knew how to take the guide to the next floor.

“What! What is that fancy-looking cooking tool! No! No!”

Se-un put the hummingbird into the cage.

As befitting an item of the gods, the bars of the cage, ornate as they were, had fairly wide gaps to allow observation of the bird inside.

It seemed that a hummingbird, especially one as small as this, could slip through the bars with its wings spread, but.

“Screeeech! What! What is this!”

The moment the hummingbird touched the bars, it bounced back as if it had hit something elastic.

Even though it seemed to be made with a focus on appearance rather than practicality, it was, after all, an item of the gods.

Therefore, it could fulfill its original purpose as a cage more faithfully than any other item.

– The Constellation, ‘Crow with Lowered Head,’ disapproves, saying it looks too frivolous to be in his cage.

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ is greatly satisfied with your plan, asking if you were planning to raise it to give to him.

“Can we take it with us like this?”

“I told you we could.”

“How do you know that? Ah, I think I saw something similar being sold at the auction house, a small monster in a similar form……”

Naturally, this was a method Se-un had learned before his regression.

The auction house wasn’t just a place to buy and sell items; sometimes, adventurers were directly commissioned to do something.

At that time, he had received a request to collect insects in a small collection device, though it wasn’t a cage.

Recalling that memory, Se-un captured the hummingbird, put it in the cage, and moved to the next floor.

Fortunately, this was possible because he happened to have the cage through the hidden dungeon raid.

‘I could find the cage by finding the opposite hidden dungeon without borrowing the power of Mammon, but.’

If he delayed any longer, Riel might really explode.

Well, even if she did explode, she would most likely follow Se-un anyway.

“If you’re suspicious, you can just test it right away.”

“Are we finally going?”

“Why, should we find a few more hidden dungeons before we go?”

“No! No, no! Let’s go quickly! Right, guys?”

– No! I want to play with that a little more!

– Me too!

– This place is pretty, let’s look around a bit more!

“Ugh! No! Let’s go quickly!”

He had felt it before, but she and her four spirits weren’t in a hierarchical relationship like master and servant.

A relationship like friends or family.

It might seem a little inefficient in combat situations, but perhaps it was thanks to that kind of relationship that she and her spirits were able to grow so quickly?

He briefly had such thoughts.

“I’ll go first.”

Se-un grabbed the cage tightly and went up to the next floor.

* * *

– Welcome to the 65th floor trial.

– Theme: Towards the Heavenly Tree of Qualification(指天木) [A tree that symbolizes one’s worthiness to ascend further].

– Having escaped the forest of trials filled with hardships and adversities, you have finally discovered the Heavenly Tree of Qualification.

– There is only one goal. Reach the front of the Heavenly Tree of Qualification.

– If you prove your qualification, the Heavenly Tree will open the way for you.

The scenery changed rapidly, transitioning to the 65th floor.

This sensation felt every time they moved floors was still not something they were used to, but since they had already experienced it dozens of times, Se-un and Riel didn’t show any particular reaction.

However, there was one creature here that was not familiar with this strange sensation.

“Uweeek! Uweek, uweeek!”

“……It really came with us.”

The hummingbird that had been caught in the flower garden on the 64th floor.

It was loudly complaining of motion sickness inside the cage that Se-un was holding.

Whether it had basic common sense or not, it tried to stick its head out of the cage right before it was about to vomit, but the cage didn’t even allow that.

In the end, the hummingbird was bounced back to the middle of the cage, spewing vomit onto the beautifully patterned floor.

‘Still, the effect is good.’

– The Constellation, ‘Crow with Lowered Head,’ frowns deeply as he watches his treasure being soiled.

Even though it was just a cage, was it really an item of the gods?

The moment the hummingbird’s vomit touched the floor of the cage, it was purified as cleanly as water and disappeared.

Meanwhile, Se-un and Riel raised their heads and carefully examined the scenery of the 65th floor.

“Is that the ‘Heavenly Tree of Qualification’?”

“Yes.”

“Heavenly Tree……. It seems to mean pointing to the sky, but doesn’t it look like it’s already reaching the sky?”

“I guess so. Maybe what we think of as the sky is different.”

The Heavenly Tree of Qualification.

A giant tree filled their vision, not too far away.

Thanks to the lush branches and leaves, the sky wasn’t clearly visible, but judging from the height of the branches and the thickness of the trunk, it seemed to be touching the sky.

At least, if they climbed to the top, they could easily pass the clouds.

“But isn’t it too easy?”

“There’s no way the 65th floor trial is easy.”

“But we just have to touch the tree. It’s not that far.”

“Then why are those people doing that?”

Riel turned her head in the direction Se-un was pointing.

There, she saw people running towards the Heavenly Tree.

Some were leisurely jogging, some were desperately gritting their teeth, and some were crawling on the floor, exhausted.

All of them were moving towards the Heavenly Tree to achieve the goal of the trial.

The problem was that their positions weren’t changing at all.

“What’s going on?”

“If you’re curious, send a spirit.”

“Um, Sylph?”

– Okay! I’ll go and see!

The wind spirit she controlled stretched its body long and flew towards the Heavenly Tree as quickly as a breeze. No, it was about to fly.

“Uh…… Sylph?”

– Huh? Why? Uh? Riel, why are you following me?

“No, I’m not following you, you’re not moving.”

– No, I’m moving incredibly fast right now?

After moving a few meters, Sylph stopped in place, fluttering her wind-like hair.

Only then did Riel realize the purpose of this trial.

“The Heavenly Tree of Qualification… I don’t know the details, but it seems you can only reach the Heavenly Tree if you reveal your qualifications.”

“That’s right.”

– I want to try too!

– Me too!

– Wow, it’s amazing! I’m moving but not moving!

– What is this? It’s a strange feeling!

In the 65th floor trial, players move towards the Heavenly Tree of Qualification.

Clearly, their bodies are walking and running on the ground, and their senses also feel like they are moving forward, but in reality, the players are not moving forward.

There is only one way to move forward. They must prove their qualifications to the Heavenly Tree.

It doesn’t matter what it is. Swordsmanship, magic, spiritism.

There were even those who were recognized for their qualifications with skills that didn’t seem to be of much help in the trial and arrived at the Heavenly Tree.

A trial that was both too easy and too difficult.

That was the 65th floor trial.

‘Here, the compass of the journey only points to the Heavenly Tree.’

The reason Se-un said he couldn’t find the flower garden on the 65th floor with the compass of the journey was this.

Hidden dungeon or not, on the 65th floor, Se-un’s compass only points to the Heavenly Tree.

Since Se-un had already been to the flower garden, he tried activating the compass of the journey while thinking of the flower garden, but the result was the same.

“If it’s that kind of trial, it doesn’t seem like there would be anything else here?”

“There’s the back.”

“The back?”

Se-un turned his back to the Heavenly Tree and turned around.

There was nothing there.

Clearly, they had just come out of the forest, and the trial’s description also mentioned that they had come out of the forest, but there was nothing behind them.

– I’ll go and see!

– Me too!

– Me too!

The spirits who were listening to them sparkled their eyes and flew towards the back.

However, that was only for a moment.

– Huh?

– This place is strange.

– What is it?

This time again, they were struggling in place as if they were flying towards the Heavenly Tree.

However, they were making puzzled expressions, as if the feeling was different from when they were heading towards the Heavenly Tree.

“Is that really the right way? Aside from not seeing anything, it doesn’t even feel like a field.”

“I thought so too at first.”

“Anyone listening would think you’ve already been here?”

Honestly, the Flower Garden of Eternity wasn’t something Se-un had found intentionally.

The decisive reason for finding the flower garden was that the hummingbird he had caught on the 64th floor had escaped from the cage and ran away.

Unlike the current one, the cage Se-un had at the time was just a reward he had obtained from a hidden dungeon, so it had limitations in confining a boss-level monster like the hummingbird.

And now again.

“Now, it’s your turn.”

Se-un tried to borrow the power of the guide.

The moment Maat’s Cage, its ornate door, opened, the iridescent hummingbird.

“Weeeeeeeek!”

Started emptying its stomach once again.

It seemed like it needed a little rest.