Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 500

500

I Plundered the Demon God’s Vault – 500

El Abrue stroked his empty abdomen.

How long had it been since he felt this sense of liberation?

How many hundreds of years had it been since he embraced the Black Water himself to protect the Divine Tree and its people?

Although he didn’t have a body that felt pain, the agony he had endured for so long vanished, making his body feel as light as if he could fly.

“Thank you, thank you so much…”

Sprouts emerged from his body, and small flowers bloomed.

It seemed his emotions were reflecting in his appearance. Seun was only able to ascertain his identity after the Outer disappeared.

‘A spirit.’

A tree spirit.

That explained why he possessed the Outer.

Recently, it had been confirmed through the Eternal Garden that spirits were not affected by the Outer.

Before the numerous sealing formations visible in the back, it was likely this tree spirit who had first sealed the Outer.

El Abrue was sobbing with emotion, but there was no time to comfort him.

“Where is the rest?”

The meteorite that pierced through this massive Divine Tree couldn’t be small.

Even if it was small, this amount of Outer couldn’t be all there was.

The amount of Outer that the tree spirit called El Abrue possessed wasn’t that significant, so the rest must be sealed elsewhere.

“Come here. Sage of the enemy…”

El Abrue guided Seun with an infinitely bright expression.

Toward the depths that no Sage in the Society had ever entered, deep within the barrier that was out of sight.

“I am moved. I thought the meaning had faded, and no one would be interested in the Black Water anymore. I am truly, truly moved.”

Looking at El Abrue as he spoke, Seun was reminded of the Guardian Tree protecting the Eternal Garden.

He, too, had endured an eternity to protect the Garden, immersing himself in the passing years.

Even though the flow of time felt different to spirits than to humans, they would have felt the same emotions of loneliness and suffering.

Just as Turik had been exhausted by loneliness in the Spirit Realm.

“Sage of the enemy. How much do you know about the Black Water?”

“They came in on a meteorite, encroaching on living things and multiplying, eventually covering the world.”

“I see. Although I have imprisoned the Black Water for a long time, it seems you know more than I do.”

“I understand.”

“As you may have already noticed, I am a spirit. I am called El Abrue, which is more than I deserve, but that is my mother [original source/creator]. It cannot be said to be my name.”

Indeed, Seun’s guess was correct.

He was a tree spirit.

From what he heard, he wasn’t born in the Spirit Realm but seemed to have originated from the Divine Tree itself.

Just as fire spirits are born in volcanoes and water spirits are born deep in the sea, spirits are born where ideologies converge.

El Abrue, who had been walking with his eyes closed as if reminiscing about the past, continued to speak.

“That day the meteorite fell, those were my mother’s last words: to prevent the Black Water from spreading. We nodded at our dying mother’s words and embraced them.”

“We?”

“Yes. We. Precisely… those ones.”

El Abrue raised a finger made of tree branches and pointed to one place.

There, a massive hemisphere made of hundreds, thousands of interwoven tree branches was placed.

Following his finger and observing the branches, Seun soon understood the word ‘we.’

“Are all of them tree spirits?”

“Yes. To be precise, they *were* tree spirits. Now, they have given up their freedom to embrace the Black Water and are bound to my mother’s embrace.”

Between the branches, faint traces of a form similar to El Abrue remained.

How many tree spirits had lost their existence like that?

Even for spirits, giving up their ego would not have been an easy choice.

Wooong-

As soon as they reached it, the vibration of the Stigmata became even stronger than before.

As the tree spirit said, there was definitely a tremendous amount of Outer inside.

“Then, where is the meteorite?”

“The meteorite is also in my mother’s embrace. We allowed various people to come in to eliminate the Black Water, but in the end, no one could do anything.”

“Then you are…”

“With my mother having passed away, someone needed to come to their senses and protect this place. I was the youngest at the time, so I was chosen.”

“I see.”

“However, recently, the gaps in the branches have been widening little by little. The Black Water that escaped from my belly was gathered there.”

Now that he heard it, he could see that some of the branches were in bad condition.

Some branches were rotting, some parts were connected clumsily as if they had been cut off and forcibly reattached, and some parts were swollen as if they were about to burst.

So, the source of the foul odors that he had been feeling as soon as he entered the barrier was here.

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ cannot stand the nausea and flees.

– The Constellation, ‘Crow with Lowered Head,’ turns away, saying there seems to be nothing shiny here.

– The Constellation, ‘Snake Enclosing Jealousy,’ warns that there seems to be a lot of Outer.

‘Indeed, it looks unstable.’

The tree spirit next to him seemed to be trying to manage somehow, but there would be a limit to that.

In this state, even if it wasn’t the destruction Seun had faced, the seal here would burst within a few decades at most.

“…Is it possible? Sage of the enemy.”

“Of course.”

From the beginning, Seun’s goal was to eliminate those things.

He had already come fully prepared, so he had no intention of backing down here.

“Then I have an idea. How about I open the gaps little by little, and you deal with them bit by bit? With your skills you showed earlier, if you repeat it about a hundred times…”

“If you open the gaps, I will go inside.”

“…Hmm?”

“Then, close the gaps. If you keep the gaps from opening, I will take care of it myself.”

El Abrue blinked as if wondering what this meant.

However, he soon came to his senses and urgently stopped Seun.

“Wh-What are you saying? Do you know how much Black Water is inside? Just because it looks a little flimsy doesn’t mean it’s empty. It’s not as much as a lake, but it’s enough to overflow a pond!”

“I know.”

“But you’re going inside. Isn’t that suicide? That’s arrogance, not courage!”

“It’s courage, not arrogance.”

Seun’s determination was firm.

El Abrue stopped him several times, saying it was impossible, but Seun shook his head.

Opening and closing the gaps a hundred times to deal with them little by little.

‘At that rate, it won’t end.’

It wasn’t just that it would take a long time.

The Outer basically had a high survival instinct, so if some of the advance party were eliminated by Seun, they would recognize the danger and likely not come out.

Even if they did come out, they might do anything to avoid being defeated by Seun inside.

In that case, it was better to go inside and wipe them out all at once.

“Please believe me.”

“Ha… Sage of the enemy…”

At Seun’s firm voice, he shook his head. He seemed to realize that he couldn’t persuade Seun with words.

“I understand. However, if it seems dangerous, I will pull you out immediately.”

“I understand.”

A vine that had grown long from his forearm wrapped around Seun’s ankle.

His intention was to pull Seun out of the sphere by pulling this vine if necessary.

It would be troublesome if the gap widened greatly, so Ruin returned to the Stigmata again.

No, he entered the staff ‘Growing Hatchling’ that Seun had newly taken out, riding on the Stigmata.

“I will open the gap right away. Get ready.”

“Yes.”

El Abrue’s hand connected with the branches of the hemisphere.

Soon, the two became one, as if they had merged, and slowly began to create a small gap, like a sprout growing at dawn.

“Gurgle-”

The Outer was felt from inside the gap.

The moment it was about to rush out as if it had been waiting for the gap to be created, Seun’s Stigmata shone.

– The Stigmata reacts to the Legend of the Blood Wolf.

– The first ability of the Stigmata, ‘Fear,’ awakens.

Twitch!

The Outer, which was about to burst out, stopped moving.

However, since there was no medium necessary for fear, the Outer soon began to resist again and slowly pushed its body forward.

“Turik.”

– Yes!

“Will you help me?”

– I will!

Kwaaa!

“Gurgle!”

Turik, who came out in response to Seun’s call, unleashed his power.

With the overwhelming power of fear, the Outer, which had already pushed its head out to the outside of the gap, twitched and retreated.

– The Stigmata reacts to the Legend of the Blood Wolf.

– The second ability of the Stigmata, ‘Rage,’ awakens.

Seun did not stop and manifested the second power.

The power of Rage, which enhanced all of Seun’s power, naturally enhanced the power of Fear, and the Outer recoiled in horror.

“…Be careful, Sage of the enemy.”

Receiving El Abrue’s greeting, Seun stepped into the gap.

Pitch-black darkness where you couldn’t see an inch ahead. The presence of the Outer was felt everywhere.

Although they were retreating from the extreme fear felt from Seun, it was an enormous amount compared to the Outer he had seen so far, even roughly speaking.

Wooong-

The staff Seun was holding vibrated.

Ruin, who had permeated into the staff, seemed to be drooling in front of numerous prey.

– Master, these guys….

“Gurgle, gurgle-”

“Gurgle!”

Overwhelming power of fear.

However, the Outer was originally an existence that was hard to call a living thing.

Even though Turik was using his power, they quickly encroached on their own fear and rushed at Seun.

It was to encroach on Seun and finally escape this stuffy embrace.

And then, Seun’s third authority manifested.

– The Stigmata reacts to the Legend of the Blood Wolf.

– The third ability of the Stigmata, ‘Destruction,’ awakens.

The power to burn the Outer. The power to devour the Outer. The power to lead the Outer to destruction awakens.

The Outer, which had broken through the fear first and touched Seun’s body, burned with a ‘Sizzle!’ sound.

As long as he had this power, they could never encroach on Seun.

As the medium called the power of Destruction was created, the power of Fear sprouted, and the Outer writhed extremely.

Feeling a sense of crisis, they struggled to escape this place right away.

Toward those guys, Seun gently raised his staff.

The newly acquired eighth circle [level of magic proficiency].

Among them, the sixth circle, the ‘Red Mana Circle,’ rotated fiercely and spewed out flames of mana.

At that moment, Ruin howled fiercely and spewed out a howling.

– The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ Hell Fire ]

– The Red Tower’s strongest attack magic that summons the flames of hell to sweep away this world.

The flames of hell that would destroy the Outer soared above Seun.