Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 5

The Hungry Prince

There was no need to deduce. He blatantly used the Authority of Gluttony, so the Constellation’s identity was obvious.

‘Beelzebub, the Demon God of Gluttony.’

One of the seven Demon Gods representing the Seven Deadly Sins, along with Mammon. It was definitely him.

‘To receive attention from two Constellations as soon as the tutorial started. And from Demon Gods, no less.’

Constellation attention is never common.

Only a select few players receive attention from Constellations, usually by achieving remarkable feats or demonstrating overwhelming power during the tutorial.

Moreover, receiving attention is different from being chosen.

Even if you’re lucky enough to gain attention, Constellations quickly lose interest if you don’t meet their expectations.

Yet, Se-un received attention from two Constellations right from the start. And from two of the strongest Demon Gods in the evil faction.

‘More importantly, what should I do this time?’

He got lucky with Mammon… but would the Demon God of Gluttony simply forgive a human using his Authority without permission?

Even as he worried, Beelzebub’s gaze didn’t waver.

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ opens his mouth as if to say something, but first shoves the meat in front of him into his mouth.

And then, he knew.

How to deal with this Demon God.

‘Authority of Gluttony.’

Crunch!

Crack!

Se-un used the Authority of Gluttony on the wolves he had defeated.

Each time, a gaping maw with sharp teeth appeared, quickly devouring the wolves’ corpses.

-You have devoured ‘Brown Wolf.’

-Absorbing nutrients increases Strength by 0.1 and Agility by 0.5.

Unfortunately, after the first time, the increase in stats significantly decreased, showing only decimal points.

But his goal wasn’t to raise his stats right now anyway.

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ cheers at the sudden feast.

‘Good.’

As expected of the Demon God of Gluttony.

Even though it was just the corpses of Brown Wolves, the lowest-level monsters, he seemed so satisfied.

He wanted to keep stuffing food into his mouth until he couldn’t speak, but unfortunately, there weren’t many wolves in the first monster wave.

Besides, others were dealing with half of them.

-Not a valid target.

Just in case, he tried, but he couldn’t use the Authority on monsters he didn’t defeat himself.

Before he knew it, the surrounding wolf corpses had vanished, and Beelzebub’s meal was over.

Se-un raised his head towards the empty space where he felt the gaze and muttered as if whispering.

“Surely, you’re not full with just this, are you?”

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ drools, saying this is just an appetizer.

This concludes the taming, no, the negotiation.

* * *

“Yelp!”

“Huff, huff!”

Not long after Se-un tamed… no, finished negotiating with the Demon God of Gluttony, the others also succeeded in defeating all the wolves.

Of course, only a few people, including Kang Han-cheol, actually fought the wolves. The rest just hid behind them, screaming or trembling.

“W-we won!”

“We defeated all the wolves!”

“We did it! Haha!”

Despite that, the cheers were louder from those who had been hiding.

Those who actually fought the wolves were panting heavily, clutching their trembling hands.

‘No one was injured. Well, I did deal with more than half of the wolf pack alone.’

Before his regression, when Se-un first experienced a monster wave, quite a few people were injured.

Besides, the office worker who grabbed Se-un’s sleeve at the beginning was brutally killed, his throat torn out.

Seeing him trembling among the cheering people now, he didn’t seem like he would last long.

[ Tutorial First Chapter – Adaptation ]

-You have successfully passed the first wave.

-50 points are awarded to all participants in the wave.

With the announcement of the wave’s success, rewards were given. 50 points—enough to buy a low-grade potion from the store, perhaps.

But that wasn’t what Se-un wanted.

-Calculating individual contribution…

[ 1st Place: Jeong Se-un 220 points ]

[ 2nd Place: Kang Han-cheol 80 points ]

[ 3rd Place: Yoo Seo-ah 40 points ]

…

‘220 points. Well, it’s decent.’

During the tutorial, individual contribution points are accumulated as shown above.

What’s displayed now is the ranking within this camp, but later, the rankings of everyone undergoing the tutorial will be tallied.

The higher the points earned and the higher the ranking, the greater the tutorial completion reward and the higher the chance of being chosen by a Constellation.

Naturally, Se-un’s goal was.

‘First place.’

To crush all the tutorial participants.

He was already receiving attention from two Demon Gods, so he didn’t care about Constellation attention, but the first-place reward in the tutorial was something even he coveted.

‘Then, shall I head out?’

He learned a lot from the first wave.

One of them was the necessity of a weapon.

Even with Mammon’s Vault, there was a limit to what he could handle with stats that weren’t even at the level of an average person.

So, he planned to use a weapon to cover that limit, even if just a little.

‘I need to find food too.’

It was a promise with Beelzebub, the Demon God of Gluttony, but the Authority of Gluttony was by no means a losing proposition for him either.

Stats are a player’s primal strength.

The higher the stats, the higher the level of treasures he could use from Mammon’s Vault.

As he turned away from the people and headed into the forest.

“Wait a moment.”

Thud.

Someone grabbed Se-un’s wrist.

Turning his head, he saw a woman with long, flowing hair and a stiff expression.

She seemed to have rushed over as soon as Se-un turned his back.

They hadn’t even introduced themselves, but Se-un knew her name.

‘Yoo Seo-ah.’

It wasn’t that Se-un remembered the names of everyone here.

But he couldn’t not know the woman before him. Yoo Seo-ah.

She was one of the rankers who made a name for herself in the upper floors of the Tower, along with Kang Han-cheol.

‘Her epithet was definitely… Whirlwind, wasn’t it?’

An epithet given because her movements of sweeping through enemy lines with dual swords resembled the wind.

“Where are you going?”

“Reconnaissance, I guess. Staying here won’t improve anything.”

Crack.

Yoo Seo-ah’s eyes narrowed at Se-un’s perfunctory answer.

But Se-un had no intention of raising his voice or explaining his plans in detail.

Now that the tutorial had started, every second was precious. Explaining his plans to people or justifying his actions every time something happened would only slow him down endlessly.

What he needed now was charisma.

To prove himself solely through skill and action.

He needed people who would follow his instructions thoroughly and were strong enough to do so.

“Instead of reconnaissance, let’s gather and discuss things first.”

“Will anything change if we gather and discuss things among ourselves?”

“Yes, it will. At least, it will alleviate people’s anxiety.”

“What will you do by alleviating anxiety? They’ll just hide again when the second wave starts.”

He had no intention of taking along those who wouldn’t follow or couldn’t follow.

Se-un wasn’t a saint.

Even if he took people who had no will to live and somehow got through the tutorial, they wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would collapse the moment they entered the Tower.

The Tower was the wilderness itself. A world of ruthless survival of the fittest.

“Still, you shouldn’t leave alone when those wolves might appear again!”

“Three hours.”

“…Yes?”

Se-un pointed to the system message floating above his head.

“From now on, you should pay attention to that system message.”

[ Tutorial First Chapter – Adaptation ]

-Time remaining until the second monster wave: 2 hours 57 minutes.

“I’ll be back before the wave, so you can have that discussion to your heart’s content.”

“But, still…”

“Honestly, I think it would be better to find a sturdy branch in that time.”

With those words, Se-un shook off Yoo Seo-ah’s hand and stepped into the forest where the wolves had appeared.

* * *

“Yelp!”

The forest was truly a wolf den. It seemed like a wolf appeared every four or five trees.

They ambushed him and attacked in groups, but they were just Brown Wolves.

With the memories and experiences from before his regression, and having become accustomed to the ‘Shiplo Damtoe’ [a basic Shaolin martial arts manual] he took from Mammon’s Vault, it wasn’t a difficult level.

-You have devoured ‘Brown Wolf.’

-You can no longer absorb nutrients from the same entity.

Unfortunately, the stats that had been increasing even by decimals had reached their limit.

At first, he tilted his head, unable to understand the principle behind the Authority of Gluttony, but he was able to roughly understand the principle due to Beelzebub’s reaction.

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ says he’s tired of this meat now and sucks on the remaining flesh on the wolf’s ribs.

The key was the reaction of the subject of the Authority. Beelzebub, the Demon God of Gluttony.

But even so, he couldn’t create monsters out of thin air.

“Please bear with it for a little while. I’m going to find something more delicious now.”

-The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ swallows the ribs whole and his eyes sparkle.

Leaving aside the disappointing aspects of the Authority of Gluttony. He had newly discovered something about the Authority of Greed, Mammon’s Vault.

First, the treasures in the vault can only be taken out as formless ‘power.’

‘Perhaps, the form collapses and only the power the treasures possess is vested in me.’

It was a shame, but it wasn’t a big problem.

For example, if he obtained a suitable item and imbued it with the power of a treasured sword from Mammon’s Vault, it would be the same as having a treasured sword.

Of course, there was a limit to this as well.

-The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ The Chosen One’s Sword, Gram ]

– The sword of rage used by Sigmund, the dragon slayer. Sigmund used this sword to defeat the giant dragon ‘Fafnir’ [a dragon from Norse mythology].

Fwoosh-

The moment Gram’s power seeped into a seemingly sturdy branch, the branch turned to dust, scattered by the wind, and disappeared.

It couldn’t withstand the immense power of the treasured sword and was annihilated.

This applied not only to objects but also to Se-un himself.

The ‘Shiplo Damtoe’ martial arts manual he used at first was a basic Shaolin manual, so he could somehow adapt to it.

But if he suddenly used something like ‘Flame Dragon’s Breath’ now, he would surely end up like the branch that had just turned to dust and scattered.

To avoid that fate.

‘I need to raise my stats first.’

Enough to handle the treasures in the vault.

Otherwise, the many treasures in Mammon’s Vault would become meaningless.

In that sense, the Authority of Gluttony was the perfect Authority for Se-un right now.

Second.

-The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ Goblin Saliva ]

– Goblin saliva with a slight toxicity. It can paralyze enemies and is used to attack enemies by applying it to fingernails or poison needles.

-The target is not valid.

-The Constellation, ‘Crow with a Bowed Head,’ frowns at your reckless use of his treasures.

It was impossible to use the Authority of Greed on anyone other than Se-un.

He had used a useless treasure on a wolf beforehand, wondering if he could use it on the people in the camp, and found out.

With this, the simple experiment was over.

‘If this is the case, there aren’t many treasures I can use.’

He couldn’t bring out the form, only the power.

He could bring out martial arts manuals, magic books, and the physical abilities of monsters, but even that could only be used to the extent that Se-un could accept it into his body.

Even the equipment-type treasures, which were the most numerous in the vault, were impossible to use unless equipment that could withstand their power was created.

Se-un, who was wondering how to use the vault more efficiently, couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

“First, a weapon.”

Even if he wasn’t going to use treasures, having a weapon would reduce the burden on his body and allow him to deal with monsters more efficiently.

Even so, a weapon in this kind of forest.

It might feel strange, but Se-un had found a sword here before his regression.

Of course, the ‘Compass of the Journey’ skill, which had guided Se-un to the location of the weapon, didn’t exist now.

-The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ Snout of a Gnoll ]

– A low-level monster with the head of a hyena. It finds prey through its excellent sense of smell.

Crude as it was, Mammon’s Vault had plenty of treasures to replace the ‘Compass of the Journey.’

“It’s that way.”

Soon after, Se-un, sensing the smell of rusty iron deep in the forest, quickly moved his legs.