Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 625

Gurgle-

Below the Shainen, where the Outer sprawls like a vast ocean, lies a cloud.

Upon it, a white-haired woman, utterly incongruous with the Outer, lay collapsed.

‘It hurts……’

She tightly shut her eyes to avoid facing the painful reality.

‘It’s hard……’

She clenched her fists, trying to steady her weary body.

‘I’m lonely……’

Hugging her knees, she curled up, enduring the unbearable loneliness.

How much time had passed?

She couldn’t remember the time outside.

Having overused the power of time, she had forgotten her own time.

She didn’t know how much time had actually passed, but it felt like decades had gone by.

‘I want to stop……’

She had pondered this hundreds, thousands of times.

Why must she remain here alone, enduring this torment?

Until when must she endure this torment?

But no answer came.

There was no reason why; she was already enduring the torment, and there was no promise of when it would end from the start.

She could only turn back time; she had no way to defeat them.

Whenever she wanted to give up, she remembered him.

‘Lord Chronos.’

The God of Time, Chronos.

The Constellation who had saved her before the regression.

To repay his grace, she used his relic to successfully regress to the Tower before its destruction.

Giving up now would render his sacrifice meaningless.

For Chronos, who had abandoned his own existence to send her back to the past, she couldn’t give up.

‘I just need to endure.’

If she just endured, the Tower would not be destroyed.

She didn’t know how long she could endure, but she believed.

She believed that before she collapsed, Chronos would regain his strength and come to save her.

He would stroke her hair, telling her she had suffered enough, and offer her a warm embrace.

She had endured until now, thinking of that.

If she didn’t think that way, she felt like she would give up at any moment.

‘It’s okay. I can do it.’

She steeled herself once more.

And so, more time passed.

A day, two days, three days, four days.

A fortnight, a month, a year.

Perhaps because she was constantly using the power of time, her time really did flow faster than others, or maybe it was just her imagination.

Although only two or three years had passed outside, her mind had already experienced twice that amount of time.

Her mind was growing old.

The reason that had supported her was fading, and the Outer writhed even more violently.

Then.

‘Ah……’

Was it an illusion?

She felt a warm sensation on her shoulder.

How long had it been since she felt the warmth of another person?

“Are you alright?”

Soon, she heard a man’s voice.

A voice that felt stiff, yet subtly warm.

It resembled the voice she had been waiting for so desperately.

“Lord Chronos……?”

* * *

As soon as he discovered the first regressor, Se-un moved towards her.

At first, he unleashed the power of destruction to avoid being consumed by the Outer beneath his feet.

Gurgle-

The Outer couldn’t consume Se-un’s body, even without the power of destruction.

No, to be precise, it climbed up his legs to consume Se-un, but it turned back as if time had been reversed.

‘This is the power of time.’

The ability to reverse time itself.

As far as Se-un knew, the only power that could reverse a lifeform consumed by the Outer.

A power strong enough to withstand causality was continuously being manifested.

It was hard to understand how this was possible.

“Umm…….”

As he approached, he heard her groan.

She seemed to be having a nightmare, sleeping with her eyes tightly closed and her body curled up.

‘She’s been here alone, stopping the Outer all this time.’

What she used was not the imitation Se-un used, but the real relic of Chronos.

Thanks to that, she seemed to possess the same power she had in the past, even after regressing.

Unlike Se-un, the place she regressed to must have been the tenth rest area, not the tutorial.

That was why she was able to immediately stop the Outer writhing in Shainen.

‘It was a mistake to think that the Outer of Shainen was the source of destruction……’

The Outer beneath his feet.

It was impossible not to be mistaken when seeing this vast amount.

If Se-un had seen this at the point of regression, he might have thought the same thing.

Yes, it’s definitely a mistake.

But can it be said that it was wrong?

What if she hadn’t stopped the Outer of Shainen from overflowing as soon as she regressed?

‘The Tower would have collapsed immediately.’

It was obvious. Even if Kashalakaas was in Shainen, he wouldn’t have been able to stop the Outer in the end.

Shainen would have collapsed, and the Outer, which had consumed all the former residents of Shainen… even Kashalakaas, would have taken advantage of that momentum and gone down to the lower floors.

At the time, Se-un, who had just regressed to the tutorial, would never have been able to stop them.

‘It’s cold.’

Se-un placed his hand on her shoulder.

He felt a chill that was hard to believe came from a living person.

Then.

“Are you alright?”

He called out to her.

They were strangers meeting for the first time, and others who had completely different experiences, but somehow, he felt a strange sense of kinship.

He wanted to save her.

And Se-un had the ability to do so.

“Lord Chronos……?”

She seemed to have mistaken Se-un for her Constellation [a powerful being or deity].

Perhaps that was the person she was most desperately looking for right now, but that was not something Se-un could grant.

He simply held her hand and quietly comforted her.

“You’ve worked hard.”

A warm word.

She, who hadn’t even opened her eyes yet, hugged Se-un and sobbed.

Se-un silently embraced her and accepted her tears.

For a while.

Time passed, and after she regained her composure.

She, who had been constantly shedding tears, realized that this was not a dream and that the person she was hugging was not Chronos.

Slowly, her eyelids opened.

As soon as she made eye contact with Se-un, she was startled and dropped to the ground.

“Wh, who are you?”

She seemed quite flustered.

Whether her mental state was affecting her power, a great wave momentarily arose in the sea of Outer.

“I am Jeong Se-un.”

“I’m Ella. No, not the name, what are you!”

“I am the second regressor.”

“The second… regressor?”

He didn’t bother to lie.

After all, the other person was also a regressor. There would never be another chance to reveal his identity with such a comfortable heart.

Of course, she, no, Ella, didn’t easily believe Se-un’s words.

“N, no way. Regression, there’s no way.”

“Isn’t Ella also a regressor?”

“How did you know that!”

“There were quite a few hints.”

“Hi, hints?”

“The real Chronos’s hourglass and the Outer outside. And the Tyrant King, etc. Perhaps there are many things Ella doesn’t know.”

“T, Tyrant King? What’s that? And how do you know Lord Chronos’s relic?”

“I also used it to regress. Although it’s not genuine.”

Had he ever spoken so comfortably about the topic of regression while climbing the Tower until now?

He was just answering, but his heart felt light.

Well, Ella’s reaction was quite noisy, though.

“N, no way. Lord Chronos’s relic only reacts to Lord Chronos’s divinity [divine power or essence]. No one else can use it!”

“Perhaps it’s because it’s a replica?”

“A replica? There’s no way there could be such a thing… No, even if there was, if it was made by following Lord Chronos’s relic, you can’t use it!”

“But I regressed like this. Unlike Ella, I lost almost all of my power from before the regression.”

“Still, still! There’s no way……”

Ella fell into thought.

Shortly after, the Outer, which had been waiting for the concentration of the one suppressing them to scatter, moved all at once.

The Outer, which had spread out like a sea, soared from various places and tried to attack the two or escape to the outside.

“Ugh…….”

Woong-

Her stigmata [a mark or wound resembling those of the crucified Christ, often appearing spontaneously] reappeared. It was difficult to see it as intentional; it looked as if the stigmata had activated on its own mechanically.

At the same time, the writhing Outer returned to its original calm state as if it were a lie.

Se-un, who was watching the scene, asked.

“If it’s a power that manipulates time, the price must be enormous, can you continue to use it like this?”

“I can. …As long as I’m alive.”

“Are you saying the price is your lifespan?”

“Yes.”

“Then how long can you last from now on?”

“I don’t know. But it’s okay. Surely, Lord Chronos will come to save me before I die.”

Chronos.

Did Ella know that he had disappeared from Olympus?

If he had given her this much power and even made her regress, even if he hadn’t completely lost his divinity, it would take an enormous amount of time to recover his divinity.

He didn’t know well, but even if Chronos was recovering his divinity while leaving room for it…….

‘It’s impossible.’

It was impossible for Chronos to return before her lifespan ended.

Se-un had climbed the Tower and gathered divinity in various ways, but even for a Constellation, there was a limit to recovering divinity just by resting.

“How about going out to find him yourself rather than waiting?”

“Directly? There’s no way that’s possible. I have to protect this place. I don’t know how you came here, but you know roughly, right? If I leave here…….”

“I will take care of it.”

Se-un stood up from his seat.

However, she didn’t trust Se-un.

“No. Don’t take it lightly just because I’m suppressing it. The Outer… the Outer, can never be defeated.”

“It can be defeated.”

Se-un took out Durandal. Then, without hesitation, he stabbed it into the floor.

Wriggle.

The Outer reacted lightly as if it was ticklish.

Ella shook her head and reached out to stop Se-un, but Se-un continued to speak.

“Before the regression, even the gods couldn’t defeat the Outer, and the Tower collapsed in the end, but.”

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

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

“It’s not like that anymore. …No.”

Chiiiiiik!

“Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle-”

As the power of destruction was manifested, the Outer stabbed by Durandal screamed.

It tried to escape by writhing violently, but it was useless.

The Outer emitted black smoke as if it had been stabbed by a hot iron skewer, and then slowly burned away.

Then, it disappeared without a trace.

Complete annihilation.

As Se-un said, something that even the gods couldn’t do before the regression.

Ella, who was watching the scene, widened her eyes without realizing it.

“I won’t leave it like that.”

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