Stole the Demon God’s Warehouse – Episode 532
Episode 532
The trial on the 76th floor, ‘Demon Blood Forest,’ was just like that.
It was a jungle-like terrain, thick with crimson grass and trees.
Every plant here had grown saturated with demonic energy, making each one a monster in its own right. Demonic beasts, perfectly adapted to the Demon Blood Forest, popped out from everywhere.
“Ugh, Brother! That’s dangerous! So dangerous!”
“Stop exaggerating.”
“That grass just opened its mouth! Its teeth were fiercer than a tiger’s!”
“It’s weaker than you think. You won’t die.”
Crunch.
“A, a demonic beast just got eaten over there, didn’t it?”
“…I won’t die.”
“Uwaaaaaa! Save me!”
It was a complete delusion to think he might have finally come to his senses.
He had reached the Demon Realm, climbed the tower, and recently even defeated the boss monster of the Gyu Hwan Hell alone, but his fear remained unchanged.
Thanks to that, Se-un had to grab him by the scruff of the neck and drag him through the Demon Blood Forest.
After walking for a while, Se-un took out a small piece of paper from his pocket.
A fragment of screams.
No, a complete ‘Scream’ artifact, created by combining fragments Park Jung-pil had obtained from the opposite path.
“Kkyaaaaaaak!”
“Heukkyaaaaaaak!”
“Shut up.”
“Yo, you surprised me!”
As soon as he channeled mana into the paper, it opened wide like the beak of the jade bird he had seen in Gyu Hwan Hell and emitted a piercing scream.
The scream was directed towards the Great Gyu Hwan Hell.
The reason Se-un couldn’t find it before his regression was because he didn’t have this artifact.
“Go and bite them!”
“Kkeuheong!”
At that moment, two-headed wild dogs jumped out of the surrounding bushes, baring their teeth at Se-un.
Although they were called wild dogs, they were as big as an average person, their muscles were as thick as a bull’s, and they writhed fiercely. These were the demonic beasts native to the forest.
‘This is the disadvantage.’
The paper guiding the way, named Scream. Each time it was used, it let out a tremendous scream, broadcasting their presence in all directions, so he had to endure enemy ambushes every time he used it.
“Uwaaaaaa, save me!”
Se-un pressed down on Kang Han-cheol’s head, who was screaming, and scattered sword energy in all directions with the Blood Wolf Howl stance. Then, he stepped onto a tree on the right and ran up it.
It was a smooth tree, seemingly impossible to climb, but Se-un’s footwork didn’t need the tree’s permission.
“Human, how!”
“How could I not know when you’re reeking so much of demonic energy.”
As soon as he broke through the leaves that thickly covered the sky, he found a demon holding a horn.
A demon controlling the demonic beasts that had just emerged.
He had sensed that faint presence and used the Journey’s Compass [a skill that pinpoints locations] to find the enemy.
No matter how hard they tried to hide, no matter how great their stealth was, they couldn’t escape the Journey’s Compass at this level.
“You’re just a human anyway…”
The demon’s body swelled.
Its head became as huge as a hippo’s, a lion’s claw grew on its left hand, and its right hand transformed into a snake’s head.
In addition, its entire body morphed into a grotesque amalgamation of demonic beast parts, drastically increasing its size.
However, the demon didn’t even have a chance to move.
– Through internal energy, the sixth stance of the Blood Wolf Sword Technique, Blood Wolf Neck Twist, is enhanced.
Kwajik!
“Keueok-”
As soon as Se-un’s sword, swirling with a crimson aura, was swung, the demon’s body was torn apart as brutally as if it had been mauled by hundreds of wolves.
Above that unrecognizable form, a message appeared, announcing the successful hunt.
– You have defeated the demon ‘Perpus,’ ranked 38,856,120th.
– The defeated demon’s number is transferred to you.
He defeated a demon of this rank with a single attack.
Even though it was a demon from the 76th floor, the difference in combat power with Se-un was overwhelming.
– The constellation ‘Hungry Prince’ is very satisfied with the effectiveness of ‘Scream’.
– The constellation ‘Hungry Prince’ urges you to use Scream liberally so you don’t get lost.
Well, there was one person, no, one constellation, who was satisfied with the effect of Scream.
“Brother, can’t I really stop going? I’m really busy…”
“You have to conquer the 76th floor anyway. If you think about it, aren’t I helping you?”
“I don’t conquer it like this!”
The ambush wasn’t over yet.
A huge beast-type demon that had flown from afar after hearing the scream broke a thick tree and charged.
Defeating those dangers one by one, Se-un was finally able to reach the place indicated by the scream.
‘I’ve been here before, even before my regression.’
A land where the grass was lush, but strangely, there were no trees at all.
He was sure there was something there, so he dug up the ground, even using the Journey’s Compass, and fought off monsters, but nothing happened.
When he unfolded the Scream paper there.
“Kkyaaaaaaak!”
Kugugugung!
The ground shook and the earth cracked open.
A shape closer to the mouth of a giant monster than the entrance to a dungeon.
[You have discovered the hidden dungeon, ‘Great Gyu Hwan Hell’.]
[The Great Gyu Hwan Hell is a dungeon that can only be entered with 4 or more people.]
“4 or more people…”
He had a bad feeling about it, and he was right.
Like the word Great in Great Gyu Hwan Hell suggested, this dungeon required twice as many people as the previous Gyu Hwan Dungeon.
“Bro, Brother. We have to call people anyway, right? If we’re going to call them anyway, please leave me out…”
“You’re my right arm, aren’t you?”
“That’s true, but… Heueuk.”
He didn’t want to burden his busy guild members if he could avoid it, but he had no choice here.
Even with Park Jung-pil, it was impossible to find two more people here on the fly.
Se-un reluctantly left a request for support in the guild chat.
[Harry Kane: I’ll rush over right away. Master!]
[Choi Su-chang: Where are you?]
[Han Areum: Heol, Blood Wolf oppa! We’re almost done building, can’t you wait a little longer?]
[Han Da-un: It would be perfect if the two of us went! But it looks like it’ll take some time to finish this!]
[Lee Ha-neul: I was collecting herbs in the Demon Blood Forest, so I think I can go.]
…….
As if it were a lie that everyone was busy, countless support responses came flooding in.
* * *
While clearing out the monsters around the hidden dungeon, the support force soon arrived.
“Master!”
The first to arrive was Harry.
He seemed to have been quite far away, but he arrived faster than anyone else, riding on a leopard.
And without waiting for the second person to arrive, another Diablo guild member got off from behind Harry.
“Choi Su-chang?”
“I was conquering the same dungeon, so I followed right away.”
“Choi Su-chang was helping me conquer the dungeon I found. He was a great help because it was a water-related dungeon.”
With this, all four of the hidden dungeon’s entry requirements were met.
When he posted that the slots were filled in the guild chat, he could see the other guild members regretting it, but he didn’t care and headed for the entrance of the dungeon.
Because the wide-open mouth was too ominous for a dungeon entrance, Se-un jumped inside first when Harry and Choi Su-chang hesitated.
Of course.
“Ugh, Brotheeeer!”
While grabbing Park Jung-pil, who was secretly trying to run away from behind.
[You have entered the hidden dungeon, ‘Great Gyu Hwan Hell’.]
Great Gyu Hwan Hell.
As the name suggested, screams louder than what he had felt in Gyu Hwan Hell could be heard.
“Is this the place Master is conquering? Indeed, it’s on a different level from the dungeons I’ve found.”
“You better be careful.”
“Hic, I’ve come in. I’ve come in again…”
Unlike Gyu Hwan Hell, this place was not a single path. Far from a single path, there were dozens, hundreds of paths winding in all directions.
Just looking at this, you could tell the characteristics of the Great Gyu Hwan Hell.
‘Is it a maze-type dungeon?’
He roughly understood what kind of method it was.
It seemed like a cooperative mission where four people spread out in all directions to find the path of the Great Gyu Hwan Hell, but Se-un didn’t need to do that.
“Follow me.”
“Yes! Master.”
“I understand.”
“Is it real? Yahoo! I’m really good at following behind!”
Journey’s Compass.
Se-un’s unique skill shined the most in this kind of maze-type dungeon.
Without the need for four people to split up, if they just followed the Journey’s Compass, they would see the end of the Great Gyu Hwan Hell.
“Master! There’s a trap right in front of us.”
“A trap?”
“I’ll check it out.”
Choi Su-chang pointed to the path ahead using a harpoon.
A stream of water created by his authority stretched forward along the harpoon, and the moment it reached the path that Harry had pointed out.
Kwareureuk!
Chiiiiik-
Lava erupted like a volcano, instantly evaporating the stream of water.
He was focusing on finding the end of the dungeon, so he wasn’t paying much attention to the surroundings, but Harry filled that gap.
“Kkyaaaaaaak!”
“Heeeee-”
The Great Gyu Hwan Hell also had monsters.
The jade birds he had seen in Gyu Hwan Hell filled the sky, and on the ground, jailers with long tongues were holding red iron clubs.
Due to the nature of the maze, the paths were narrow, and lava was teeming everywhere.
It was definitely felt that the difficulty had increased compared to Gyu Hwan Hell, but.
– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Frozen Tempest’ is enhanced.
Se-un was at the forefront.
As he had done until now, ordinary monsters, not even boss monsters, could not block Se-un’s path.
Even if they were monsters from the Great Gyu Hwan Hell.
Kkwadeudeuk!
The cold air that did not subside even in the heat of the lava teeming from all directions covered the monsters.
While the jade birds panicked at the cold they were feeling for the first time, and the jailers knelt down.
Poouk!
“Finished dealing with them.”
Choi Su-chang’s harpoon flew and threw the coldly frozen jailers into the lava on both sides.
Thanks to that, they were able to run towards the cleanly cleared path.
“The heat is no joke.”
“You called it the Eight Hot Hells? Indeed…”
“I almost died too, you know? Aoh, did I tell you? The brilliant story of me, Park Jung-pil, who overcame Gyu Hwan Hell with Brother!”
Just because Se-un didn’t show it didn’t mean the Eight Hot Hells were less hot.
Just like the Eight Cold Hells that Yoo Seo-ah and Kang Han-cheol were conquering, this place was constantly emitting tremendous heat.
For ordinary people, just stepping into the entrance would be enough to burn their skin and scorch their lungs.
But, that wasn’t the case for the others.
Park Jung-pil had overcome Gyu Hwan Hell by using tools that were resistant to heat because he carried so many tools, but that wouldn’t be the case for the two new participants.
But.
“Ah, you don’t have to worry about us.”
Shureureuk.
The two of them didn’t need Se-un’s help anymore.
Choi Su-chang borrowed Forneus’s authority to cover his body with cold water, and Harry also borrowed his help.
The cold water was evaporating quickly because the heat was so strong, but it seemed like they could endure it enough.
“Then, let’s go as fast as possible.”
Looking at the two of them, Se-un increased his speed even more.
Now, the end of the Eight Hot Hells was not far away.