Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 574

“Heh heh, another one bites the dust.”

The demon watched Se-un’s retreating figure as he headed towards the Bloodbath, unable to suppress his laughter.

His confidence made it seem like he knew everything, even though it was his first time at the bath.

The demon had often seen players like that enter the bath with such confidence, only to emerge as corpses.

The baths here were not something that could be overcome with mere confidence.

“Well, I got the advance payment.”

Foolishly paying the bath fee in advance as a gift. That was the kind of confidence that came from ignorance.

The demon thought so.

“Well, since luck is on my side today, maybe more guests will come. Should I prepare another bath?”

Just in case the human who just went in managed to return with some stamina left.

Even if he immediately entered a new bath in that state, death would be almost certain, but since he had received the advance payment, he had to earn his keep.

The exchange of contribution points through the system was strictly regulated, so it was right to be prepared.

“Anyway, it’s fun. Who knew the pit the higher-ups made would be used like this.”

This place was not originally meant for humans.

The various resistances and immunities that demons naturally developed as they roamed the wild, shedding blood and flesh.

This was a place created by high-ranking demons to enhance the resistance, immunity, and regenerative abilities of their offspring, instead of having them roam the wild.

Now that the Demon Realm had been subjugated and all the high-ranking demons had disappeared, it had become useless, but it had been transformed into something humans now used.

“But not many humans can withstand the curse of the Demon Realm. Heh heh.”

The demon prepared a new bath.

Preparing didn’t mean lighting a fire.

The bath boiled not because of heat, but because of its deadly toxicity.

All he had to do was condense the unique curse he possessed into his blood and drop it into the existing bath.

Boil, boil-

He just had to wait for the bath to be activated through the blood as a medium.

“I should wrap it up with this today.”

However, this was no ordinary task.

The curse he possessed was the fundamental power that made up his body.

Therefore, condensing and releasing the curse weakened him.

As soon as he activated one bath, the fluorescence of his body weakened. He looked down at the boiling bath with satisfaction and returned to his seat.

Shortly after.

“Shall we go collect the corpse?”

He grabbed a harpoon-like tool and stood up.

By now, the player who had entered the Bloodbath would either be dead or alive, and the bath’s effects would be wearing off.

“Since he went into the Bloodbath, will he be a mummy from excessive bleeding? Or will he stagger in front of me with anemia, begging me to cancel the next bath? Heh heh heh.”

The thought of contrasting it with the human’s confident appearance made him laugh.

The Bloodbath wasn’t far from the entrance anyway, so finding it was easy.

But something was wrong.

Something was off.

“……Huh? Huh? What, where is it? Where’s my Bloodbath?”

The bright red Bloodbath that should have been visible was nowhere to be seen.

Even if the amount decreased each time it was used, a human couldn’t have absorbed that much.

It was impossible for it to have decreased that much.

“Th-the human?”

The human was not in the bath either.

What on earth did he do? Just as he was thinking that, he felt a presence behind him, and at the same time, someone’s hand gently landed on his shoulder.

“Screech!”

The demon, startled, fell on his butt.

Behind him stood the human, his whole body dyed red, as if to prove that he had just been in the Bloodbath.

Looking more unscathed than any human he had ever seen.

Instead of anemia, the human looked healthier and said.

“Where’s the next one?”

* * *

The name of the bath the demon, who was so surprised for some reason that he fell on his butt, guided Se-un to was ‘Molting Bath’.

It was a bath that writhed as if it were made of hundreds of snakes instead of water.

‘This is my first time here.’

Se-un got into the bath without hesitation.

He felt the unique slimy sensation of the Molting Bath.

As he had seen from the outside, it felt like hundreds of snakes were crawling on his skin, giving him an eerie feeling.

But the problem with this bath wasn’t feelings or sensations.

Swoosh-

Se-un’s skin began to peel off.

At that moment, the water in the bath opened its mouth like a snake and swallowed the peeled skin.

This was the power of the Molting Bath.

As the name suggested, it had the power to peel off the skin, hide, or shell of anyone who came into contact with it.

But if that was all there was to it, no one would use the baths here.

The only reason players took the risk and paid contribution points to soak in this bath was one thing.

– You have entered the Molting Bath.

– The skin all over your body is starting to peel off.

– Resistance to abrasions has increased.

– Skin regeneration has increased.

As much as the body was damaged by the bath’s power, the corresponding immunity or resistance increased.

To fully apply this effect, you had to stay in the bath until the effect wore off.

However.

‘This is vicious too.’

The baths here were all made with demons in mind. Meaning, they were not places that humans could easily endure.

Even if you gritted your teeth and endured with high mental strength, you could die from shock if your body was weak to begin with.

For example, the Bloodbath that Se-un had visited first could have killed him from excessive bleeding if he had just endured without thinking.

So, why did Se-un come out of the Bloodbath unscathed?

It’s simple.

– You have opened the Treasure Trove of Gluttony.

[ Recovery ]

– The highest-level recovery magic of the White Tower, a healing magic that instantly heals almost all wounds.

Using magic to heal wounds.

This was also useless if you had low stamina to begin with, but Se-un had gained tremendous stamina by using the Authority of Gluttony.

Frankly, he could withstand one or two baths with his bare body, even without using recovery magic.

‘But I can’t erase the pain.’

Of course, there were also spells that could erase pain.

But this bath wasn’t just applied to the body.

Even if you became immune to abrasions and your skin didn’t get scratched easily, disharmony would occur if your mind couldn’t bear the pain of the skin being scratched.

So, even when healing, the mind had to be kept intact.

Sizzle!

The skin peels off and recovers repeatedly.

The more it did, the more severe the pain Se-un had to endure.

‘I can endure it.’

– The skin all over your body is starting to peel off.

– Resistance to abrasions has increased.

– Skin regeneration has increased.

…….

As the wounds continued to heal, the bath was consumed faster.

The water level was visibly decreasing.

At that time, the demon who had been hiding and spying, wondering why the Bloodbath had shrunk as if it had withered, suddenly raised his head.

“What! You, are you human? Or a troll? How can a human body recover this fast!”

“Don’t you have to guard the entrance?”

“I’m not getting any more guests today anyway! More than that, what the hell are you! I can’t believe what I’m seeing!”

“Shouldn’t you be preparing the next bath instead of leisurely watching?”

“What? You’re going into the next bath right away? Most demons lose their minds if they go into more than three a day!”

The demon jumped at Se-un’s words.

No matter how great a demon was, there was a limit to how much they could withstand the baths.

Physically and mentally.

Among the guests he had received so far, the highest record was eight times, not even reaching ten.

This was the highest record, and for the average demon, the limit was two times.

It would be even lower for humans.

“Perhaps you can’t prepare it?”

“What?”

The water level of the Molting Bath was already about half as low.

It had gone down to Se-un’s navel, so his upper body was now fully exposed.

At this rate, it was hard to say how long the Molting Bath would last.

The demon, who had been making an absurd expression at Se-un’s provocative words, soon pulled his lips up into a long smile and said.

“Heh heh heh! This, it’s been a while since I’ve had such an interesting guest! Yes, yes. I’ll prepare as much as you want! I want to see you begging me to stop.”

Activating the baths was quite difficult for the demon, the manager of this place.

But he couldn’t just stand still after being provoked by a human.

More than anything, he was enjoying this situation.

Most of his guests took a long break after entering one bath, let alone one bath a day.

“I, in the name of Hidro, will provide you with as many baths as you can handle! Heh heh heh!”

A battle of pride that had been made in a daze.

The demon squeezed the curse contained in his body and began to activate the surrounding baths.

Se-un also entered the next bath without hesitation when the Molting Bath stopped working and the water level reached the bottom.

– You have entered the Scorching Heat Bath.

– The skin all over your body is burning hot.

– Resistance to burns has increased.

– Skin regeneration has increased.

The Scorching Heat Bath felt as hot as if he were soaking in lava.

He wanted to use ice magic to cool down the Scorching Heat Bath right away, but he had to endure it.

If he gritted his teeth and endured this moment, he could have a body that could withstand any heat, even without armor.

‘If I can endure this a little longer, I won’t collapse this time even if I go to a place like Avici Hell [the lowest level of hell in Buddhist cosmology].’

By the time the bubbling Scorching Heat Bath had all decreased, he entered a blue bath that was completely opposite to the Scorching Heat Bath, with frost flying around.

– You have entered the Freezing Cold Bath.

– The skin all over your body is freezing cold.

– Resistance to frostbite has increased.

– Skin regeneration has increased.

The skin was freezing solid and cracking.

Blood flowed out from the cracked skin and froze again.

Even if he used healing magic, there was no way to stop the chill that penetrated to the bone, and he felt the urge to cut off his fingers and toes right away.

Still, Se-un endured.

He gritted his teeth and endured the pain.

If he could reduce the pain of the future with the pain of the present.

If he could increase the possibilities of the future with the pain of the present.

The pain of the moment was nothing.

“Crazy human……. Even if a troll king who has swallowed demonic energy were to enter, he would die of shock. And he’s enduring it.”

The demon, Hidro, who had given up receiving guests and was watching Se-un right next to the bath.

He was simply amazed by the current situation.

Se-un’s level, both physically and mentally, had already far surpassed that of a demon.

Back in the old days, even when a descendant of a high-ranking demon came, it wasn’t this much.

No, even when a high-ranking demon entered himself to check the effectiveness before letting his descendant in, it wasn’t this much.

Just as he was briefly lost in reminiscence, the cold air of the Freezing Cold Bath gradually decreased.