Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 525

The Devil’s Vault Has Been Robbed – Episode 525

Episode 525

Six hours since entering the Black Rope Hell.

The monster wave continued relentlessly, and Se-un had to move without a break.

As if proving that this place was never meant to be conquered alone, it didn’t allow for any rest.

If he had entered with a guild, they could have divided into shifts for rest and combat, but that was impossible alone.

‘But, I have to do it.’

He could call the Diablo Guild, but that wouldn’t allow him to grow properly.

He knew it was important to trust his comrades, but he couldn’t stop growing by relying on them.

‘And, I can do it.’

Se-un took out the necklace he had received as a reward for conquering a hidden dungeon before.

Soon, the unique purple light of the Authority of Greed settled on the necklace.

– The Treasure Vault of Greed has been opened.

[ Necklace of Harmonia ]

– A necklace possessed by Cadmus’s wife, the hero who built Thebes, said to grant eternal beauty and youth.

Necklace of Harmonia.

A treasure that maintains beauty and youth, but Se-un’s usage was different.

Before beauty and youth, he activated the primal ability to maintain that power. He wore the necklace, manifesting the ability to maintain ‘power,’ including life force.

– The Stigmata is reacting to the Legend of the Blood Wolf.

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

Thump!

“The sinner……”

“Will be punished……”

The prison guards who were approaching Se-un knelt down.

They were trembling in the face of overwhelming power, but they still resisted the fear without losing their minds.

Even the demons on the 73rd floor wouldn’t have many monsters that could resist the Authority of Fear.

Indeed, the monsters here were powerful.

“Come all at once if you’re going to come. Don’t bother me by coming in small groups.”

Swish-

The head of the prison guard kneeling right in front of Se-un fell off with a heavy sound.

* * *

“Sinner!”

A monster, incomparably larger than the prison guards, appears wrapped in black ropes.

It was the same King Yama [the judge of the dead in some Eastern religions], but completely different from the King Yama he had seen in the Stripping Hell.

Thump!

As King Yama stomped his foot, hundreds of jet-black ropes sprang from the ground, aiming at Se-un.

As Se-un swung his sword to cut the ropes, the prison guards rushed in, aiming for openings with their heated spears and swords.

‘Is this the end?’

The necklace that had housed the Necklace of Harmonia had already shattered.

It was a decent A+ grade accessory obtained from a hidden dungeon.

Honestly, it had lasted long enough, maintaining its power for several hours after use.

‘That’s a relief.’

He had exhausted all the energy within his body with the previous attack.

Immediately, Se-un used a new Authority.

– You fall into the grasp of Sloth.

– Temporarily restores all power within the body.

The Authority of Sloth was powerful but dangerous.

Once used, the time to maintain power was limited, and there was a severe aftereffect of losing consciousness after that time passed.

So, he somehow endured until the boss monster appeared.

And now.

Fortunately, at the last moment, King Yama appeared, signaling the end of the wave.

“Receive your punishment-!”

Piercing through the resounding cry that echoed through the Black Rope Hell, Se-un rushed towards King Yama.

The end of a battle lasting a full 12 hours.

Perhaps because of the accumulated fatigue, Se-un’s mind was completely devoid of calculations or plans.

The only goal.

Was to defeat that King Yama.

– Through internal energy [cultivation energy], the third form of the Blood Wolf Sword Technique, Blood Wolf Strike, is enhanced.

The third form of the Blood Wolf Sword Technique somehow aimed at the enemy’s vitals more sharply than usual.

The footsteps nimbly avoided King Yama’s ropes, and the Palm Strike of Darkness, unintentionally emitted, crushed King Yama.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Frozen Tempest’ is enhanced.

Was it because of King Yama’s presence?

The prison guards, struggling to move their feet while resisting the Authority of Fear, blocked Se-un, but they couldn’t withstand the 8th circle ice magic and froze.

The blood vessels became taut as he rotated all the internal energy emitted from his dantian [energy center] throughout his body, and the circles rotated so quickly it felt like his heart would burst.

Divinity flowing from the Stigmata, unintentionally, enveloped Se-un’s entire body and unleashed a frenzy of power.

Thud.

“Punishment……”

Se-un’s sword was lodged in King Yama’s head.

The eyes of King Yama, momentarily blurred.

Even so, King Yama did not give up, and the black ropes wrapped around his body writhed like tentacles, aiming at Se-un.

Whack-!!!!

But the magic manifested from the tip of Se-un’s sword was even faster.

No matter how much of a boss monster King Yama was, he couldn’t withstand the 8th circle magic exploding in his head.

[ You have perfectly conquered the hidden dungeon, ‘Black Rope Hell.’ ]

[ As a reward, your personal contribution increases by 1,000,000 points. ]

[ You have acquired ‘Torn Scripture of Rage (2).’ ]

Having already conquered the Stripping Hell, he could immediately find the rewards of the Black Rope Hell as well.

After roughly collecting the treasure chest given to the conqueror in addition to the scripture.

“Turik.”

– Yes!

“Sorry, but can you take me somewhere?”

– Yes, trust me! Where should I take you?

Se-un slowly closed his eyes, spreading his purple wings.

His eyes looked somehow sad, as if his body was exhausted.

“Home.”

– Yes!

The Black Rope Hell collapsed, and the purple wings led Se-un to the end of the 73rd floor.

And in the meantime, from the Stigmata, which was somehow still stained red even after the battle ended.

– Grrr…….

Ruins’ incomprehensible cry was heard.

* * *

Glug-

Glug glug-

A nasty sound was heard right next to his ear.

His whole body was heavy and throbbing, but Se-un forced himself to get up because he couldn’t stand this sound.

“Why…….”

He saw a black liquid in his blurry vision.

He instinctively got up without hesitation, but he couldn’t grab Durandal, which should have been at his waist.

Fortunately, the size of the Outer wasn’t that big, so he activated the Stigmata and stepped on it.

Squish!

The Outer, stepped on by Se-un, was crushed, making a deflating sound.

However, when he came to his senses due to a strange sensation different from usual, he could see that the Stigmata was not emitting light.

The Outer collapsed without using the power of Destruction?

Moreover, the state of the Outer was also different from what he usually knew.

Se-un, holding his throbbing head and trying to come to his senses, was horrified by the existence that filled all directions.

“Glug glug-”

“Glug.”

“Glug.”

Whether he looked in front, behind, or even to the sides. No matter where he looked, it was full of Outers.

There was no space to escape.

What on earth was going on?

‘Is it a dream?’

Se-un recalled the time he went to meet Belphegor before.

At that time, a demon who could be called Belphegor’s butler had made Se-un recall a nightmare.

Perhaps, wasn’t this a similar situation to that time?

As he grasped the situation, Se-un looked at the sky, the only space where the Outer did not exist, and felt a sense of familiarity.

“Red sky?”

A red sky that looked damp and eerie, as if blood was dripping.

He had definitely seen it before.

The tenth resting place of the Tower.

No, to be precise, it was the appearance of the tenth resting place implemented within Se-un’s inner world.

“Glug-”

Regardless, the Outers were approaching Se-un.

Slowly, as if trying to take revenge on Se-un, who had killed them and thrown them into this place.

He tried to move the circles, but he couldn’t feel even a trace of mana [magical energy] within his body.

At that moment.

“No!”

“Krrr……”

A girl with purple wings flew in from the open sky.

Turik.

As she appeared, the Outers surrounding Se-un shrank as if crushed by gravity.

Then, trembling, they moved away, centered around Turik.

This was the pure power of fear that she possessed as the spirit of fear.

“Master, are you okay?”

“……I’m okay. But why am I here?”

“I don’t know! But I kept what Master asked me to do until the end!”

“What I asked you to do?”

“You told me to take you home, right?”

His memory was hazy.

Clearly, his last memory was…… he seemed to have continued fighting in the Black Rope Hell.

‘Was the fatigue more accumulated than I thought?’

He had only rested for a day after facing the Outers in the Scavenger’s Desert.

No, even that one day couldn’t be called a complete rest.

In that state, he immediately conquered the 73rd floor and entered the Black Rope Hell.

He thought he was fine, but when he thought about it, there was no way that a body that had endured the possession of the Devil in a state of life and death would be fine.

It was clearly an overexertion.

However, even so, he couldn’t understand why he had entered the inner world.

‘The last time I entered was thanks to the magic circle and magic stone created by the Great Sage of Azure.’

The inner world is not a place that can be entered so lightly.

It’s not a place you can arrive at just because you’re tired or deeply asleep.

“Come to think of it, it’s strange. Master, how did you get here?”

It seemed that Turik didn’t know anything either.

If they didn’t know the reason or method of entering, they wouldn’t know how to get out, so this was a more serious situation than he thought.

While he was trying to judge the situation, holding his increasingly throbbing head.

Squish!

The Outer, which had been retreating from Turik, was torn away with a bang.

It didn’t even scream and soared into the air, then disappeared with a ‘gulp’ sound.

“Krrr…….”

Behind it was a dark red wolf.

It hadn’t been long since he had encountered Ruin in the inner world during Elheim, but its size had grown noticeably in the meantime.

At least two or three times bigger than before.

The Outer it had just swallowed was enough to cover his vision, and just swallowing such an Outer in one bite was enough to guess its size.

“Ruin.”

“My master.”

Se-un and Ruin’s eyes met.

At that moment, Se-un knew.

Ruin had brought him into this inner world.

“Do you have something to say?”

“Krrr…….”

Instead of an answer, a low growl was heard.

Ruin’s power mixed in with that growl pressed down on Se-un’s shoulders.

His heart turned cold due to the Authority of Fear emanating from Ruin, and his fist clenched tightly due to the Authority of Frenzy.

Finally, the Authority of Destruction seemed to be constantly stimulating something precarious within Se-un.

“Ruin, what’s wrong! Stop it!”

At that time, Turik stood in front of Se-un.

Still, thanks to her, the power that Ruin exuded weakened a little, making it easier to endure.

Soon, a confrontation continued for a while, and Ruin started speaking while maintaining his momentum.

“I am your fear, your frenzy, and your destruction.”

Se-un nodded.

As Ruin was an ego born from Se-un’s Stigmata, he possessed the power of the Stigmata as it was.

“You knew fear better than anyone else, you could indulge in frenzy, and you were the one who faced destruction.”

Ruin put his front paw forward and took a step forward.

As the distance narrowed, the momentum did not stop even though Turik blocked the middle, pressing down on Se-un even more strongly.

“I acknowledged you as my master.”

Ruin was born from Se-un’s Stigmata, but he did not swear unconditional loyalty to Se-un.

He had only acknowledged Se-un as his master for a while.

“But, I had doubts.”

Ruin’s growl grew louder, and accordingly, Turik’s shoulders, which were blocking the middle, trembled.

It seemed that it was getting difficult for her to block Ruin’s momentum.

“Seeing you getting weaker and weaker, I had doubts.”

What Ruin was talking about now was not physical weakening.

Even though he was an ego born from the Stigmata, the Stigmata was also a part of Se-un.

Se-un could guess that the weakening Ruin was talking about was something mental.

“Are you really qualified to be my master?”

What would happen if Ruin didn’t acknowledge Se-un?

Would the Stigmata disappear?

Or would Ruin take over Se-un’s ego?

Before such questions, Se-un took his hand off his head, which was now aching as if it would break, and put it forward just like Ruin.

“Master, it’s dangerous!”

“It’s okay.”

Soothing Turik, who was protecting him, he took another step forward.

Then, he forcibly lifted his arm, which felt as heavy as if he had hung a thousand pounds on it, and placed his hand on Ruin’s nose, who was growling.

“I am your master.”

He couldn’t prove it.

But, Se-un did not waver.

He met Ruin’s eyes with unwavering eyes and murmured once again in a firm voice.

“I am your master.”

At that unwavering voice, Ruin gritted his teeth. Then, he lowered his head a little more and took a step back.

However, Ruin still did not completely acknowledge Se-un’s words.

“I hope you prove your strength before I devour that giant. My…….”

Squish!

“My master.”

As Ruin turned his head and tore apart another Outer, Se-un’s vision quickly darkened.