The Vault of the Demon God- Episode 439
Chapter 439
“Haha! Hahaha! You fools! You let me get away!”
How long did he wait for the hummingbird’s condition to improve?
Seeing the creature retching with nothing left to vomit, he couldn’t help but sigh. Only after using healing magic did the hummingbird spread its wings.
Then, as if it had escaped by its own power, it shrugged its shoulders and arrogantly raised its beak.
“But where is this? Ah, whatever! Just fly away!”
Whoosh!
The hummingbird sent a gust of wind towards Seun and Liel.
Remembering their movements from the 64th floor, it unleashed a wide-ranging gust with all its might, making it impossible to avoid.
It was a range that even one or two spirits couldn’t block as they had before.
“Sylph!”
– Yes!
“First, evade……”
Thud.
“……?”
The moment Liel merged with Sylph to escape, Seun reached out and grabbed her by the scruff of her neck.
Or, to be precise, he grabbed the back of her top and lifted her.
Thanks to this, she had to dangle from Seun’s hand in the same position, knees slightly bent to leap off the ground.
“What is this…….”
“Wait.”
“Haha! Hahaha! Fly away!”
Whoosh!
Eventually, their bodies came into contact with the gust of wind.
Instead of tricking the hummingbird with an avatar, they literally entrusted their bodies to the gust.
“Kyaaaa!”
The feeling of being swept away by the gust was quite bizarre.
Flying through the air at supersonic speeds, the surrounding scenery and clouds rushed past.
Seun had experienced this sensation countless times before his regression, so he felt like he was on a ride, but Liel was different. She closed her eyes and screamed, overwhelmed by the unprecedented speed of flight.
If he hadn’t been right next to her, even her screams might not have caught up with the speed and reached Seun.
‘As expected, it’s moving.’
Unlike Liel, Seun calmly watched the passing scenery and observed.
The trial of the 65th floor, where one cannot move without being recognized by the Heavenly Tree of Qualification.
However, Seun and Liel were definitely moving in the opposite direction of the Heavenly Tree.
It seemed as if space was struggling to keep them from getting away, but the increasingly distant Heavenly Tree proved Seun’s movement.
“Prepare for landing.”
“Kyaaa- Yes, yes?”
Feeling the speed gradually decreasing, Seun balanced himself in the air and tensed his muscles.
However, Liel, who was experiencing the gust for the first time, didn’t seem to have fully regained her senses.
There was a way to ask the spirits, but…….
– Kyaaho!
– So exciting!
– Exciting, exciting!
– Bad wiiiiind!
Her spirits seemed to think of the gust as a ride, and unlike Liel, they were out of their minds in a different way.
Inevitably, Seun quickly circulated his inner energy while holding Liel by the scruff of her neck.
– The Vault of Greed has been opened.
[Light Body Technique]
– One of the advanced lightness skills used to lighten the body for quick movement, evading enemy attacks, and counterattacking.
Tap.
Seun’s body landed so lightly that it was hard to believe he had been flying and falling through the air at such a speed.
Even with Liel in one hand.
This was possible because Seun had already grasped the essence of the Light Body Technique through his use of various lightness skills.
‘Still not enough.’
The distance flown was shorter than expected, but there was no need to worry.
“Huh? What? What is it? I definitely blew them away? No, I felt like I was moving with them? Why? Why?”
“You can always check again, right?”
“How dare you! How dare you! Disappear this time!”
The hummingbird was still in front of Seun.
This was one of the functions of the cage Seun was holding.
The cage he had obtained before his regression had the same function: it basically acquired ownership of the bird inside.
So, it was designed to return the bird to its owner if it strayed beyond a certain distance.
In other words, this hummingbird cannot leave Seun’s side.
“Ah, no! No, Kyaaaa!”
– So exciting!
– One more time!
– Me too!
– Baaad…….
In the end, they had to entrust their bodies to the gust once more and soar through the air of the 65th floor.
* * *
“Are you okay?”
“Ugh, what is this? Seriously…… I thought I was going to die…….”
– Exciting!
– I want to do it again!
– Me too!
– Baaad…….
After being subjected to the gust twice, Seun was finally able to reach his desired location.
Once again, thanks to the cage’s ability, the hummingbird appeared in front of Seun, panicking and trying to create another gust.
“That’s enough.”
“Ah! Ugh! Let go! Let go! Let go!”
Since no more gusts were needed, Seun reached out and grabbed its wings as soon as the hummingbird appeared.
It was easy to grab its wings because it was flustered by the unfamiliar situation.
– The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ picks up his fork as if he has been waiting.
“Ah! No! Don’t eat me! Don’t eat me! I’m sorry!”
He had no intention of eating it, but he didn’t feel like explaining anymore, so he didn’t bother to reply.
Seun quietly put the hummingbird in the cage and locked the door.
‘Ah, maybe I could feed it to him.’
Come to think of it, it was just one of the monsters on the 64th floor anyway. A boss-level monster at that.
If he used the Authority of Gluttony, wouldn’t his Agility increase by at least 1 point?
“Ah! I saw it! I saw the look in your eyes! Ah, please! Don’t eat me!!”
Well, it seemed better to think about that later.
He didn’t know what would happen for now.
While Seun was contemplating what to do with the hummingbird, Liel regained her senses, looked around, and widened her eyes.
“Huh? Where is this?”
“The entrance to the garden, I guess.”
“Isn’t it impossible to move on the 65th floor unless you’re recognized by the Heavenly Tree? How did you…….”
“That’s why I brought this guy.”
It was a situation close to a bug in a game.
No matter how he thought about it, it didn’t seem like a normal way to fly here using the hummingbird’s gust.
‘Maybe there was a normal way.’
He didn’t know what that method was, but so what? If he arrived properly like this, that was enough.
“How far did we fly? I can barely see the leaves of the Heavenly Tree.”
“I don’t know how far we flew, but the garden is right in front of us.”
“If it’s a garden, there must be a guardian, right?”
“No. Just go.”
“Yes? Really? Even if it’s a difficult place to find, there’s no guardian…….”
Seun agreed with her, but he had already experienced it before his regression.
From here to the garden, no enemies appear.
No, not even enemies, but no living creatures other than plants appear.
As they moved forward a little, they saw trees standing tall like a fence.
At the familiar sight, Seun immediately pointed to the center of the trees.
“That’s the entrance.”
“That giant tree?”
“……Tree?”
A giant tree stood exactly where Seun’s finger pointed.
Of course, it couldn’t compare to the Heavenly Tree of Qualification, but it was as big as the giant tree he had seen on the 64th floor.
No, it was thicker than the giant tree on the 64th floor.
‘There wasn’t anything like that before?’
Before his regression, that place was just an empty passage.
The space between the trees was empty, as if proving that it was the entrance, so Seun had easily entered it.
There was no such tree as the one he saw now.
‘And that’s no ordinary tree.’
He could feel a presence from the tree.
It wasn’t that something was hidden in the tree. It was as if the tree itself was alive.
Ordinary people would never notice it, but Seun could feel the tree’s roots moving slightly and its branches shaking unnaturally.
And Liel felt the same way.
“……You said there was no guardian.”
“I thought so.”
Thud-thud-thud-
As if proving his thoughts, the giant tree began to rise from its spot. Slowly and threateningly, like a giant sitting down getting up.
“What is that! Run away! Run away!”
“Shut up.”
“Keuk!”
To shut up the noisy hummingbird, he shook the cage to knock it unconscious, then placed the cage on the floor.
In the meantime, the tree spread its thick legs made of twisted roots and revealed its imposing appearance.
Its size had already grown beyond comparison with the giant tree on the 64th floor, and the surrounding trees reacted to it, raising their sharp, coniferous leaves.
Thump.
“You are not qualified.”
The guardian. No, eyes and a mouth were created as the pillars of the Guardian Tree parted.
There was a pitch-black darkness lurking inside instead of pupils, but Seun could clearly feel that he was watching them.
“I don’t know how the unqualified could have come to this place, but this is a forbidden area that ordinary people should not know. So.”
Branches grew rapidly from the raised hand of the Guardian Tree.
Vines grew between the branches that grew on both sides and intertwined with each other, and when the vines were pulled, a thick branch bent and a great bow was completed.
Then, as the great bow pointed diagonally into the air, an arrow resembling the shape of a tree was created on the bowstring.
“I’m sorry, but die here and become nourishment for the garden.”
Peeng-
The Guardian Tree’s arrow was fired.
At the same time.
Fabababat-!
The coniferous trees surrounding the garden simultaneously began to shoot sharp leaves.
The leaves shot by what appeared to be at least a hundred coniferous trees resembled the simultaneous firing of a well-trained army.
– According to the mysteries of the Blue Tower, the stability of ‘Wide Shield’ is strengthened.
Tididing!
He hastily deployed defensive magic to block the rain of arrows. No, he blocked the shower of leaves.
However.
‘It’s being penetrated?’
Seun’s defensive magic did not completely block the shower of leaves.
Even Seun’s magic, which had drastically increased the efficiency of low-circle magic as he reached the 7th circle, could not block the attack.
Upon closer inspection, all the thousands of flying leaves had a similar aura to that felt from spirits.
– According to the mysteries of the Yellow Tower, ‘Stone Wall’ becomes more solid.
Kugugugung!
Therefore, Seun immediately deployed secondary defensive magic.
Logically, leaves could not penetrate a stone wall, but the leaves pierced the stone wall like sharp spears, creating cracks in an instant.
“I’ll block this! Can you do something about that thing above?”
“The thing above?”
Seun raised his head.
One attack remained that he had not been able to pay attention to because he was blocking the leaves in front.
That was the giant arrow that the Guardian Tree had fired first.
That arrow…….
Kugugugu-!!
Beyond the size he had first seen, it had grown to be larger than the Guardian Tree, and even at this moment as it was falling, it did not stop growing as it fell towards Seun and Liel.