Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 672

“Kugh…”

The Fallen King’s groans echoed.

One arm, not fully healed, was torn off at the shoulder, and a gaping hole marred his abdomen.

His skin was charred black, and dark fluid oozed from wounds all over his body.

The injuries were so severe they weren’t healing properly.

“Those bastards caught on…”

He hadn’t expected to be injured this badly.

Odin had discovered the Fallen King’s plan before preparations were complete.

Acting hastily, he was delayed in securing the passage, and attacks from the chief gods rained down.

He barely made it through, sustaining grievous injuries.

“I had to abandon a cherished specimen…”

The Outer Being created by using a god as a host.

A prized specimen he’d brought, even expending great power to reverse time.

Without it, his body would have exploded before he could cross the passage.

Gods wouldn’t normally inflict such wounds on the Fallen King, but this was different.

“Damn that second regressionist.”

The Demon God’s regressionist, Jung Se-woon.

Everything went wrong because of him.

At first, he seemed a minor variable.

Even when the Outer Being first fell, even when they exchanged blows, he never imagined the man would become so significant.

A single human.

For a single human to ascend to godhood, be recognized by all the gods, and offer a way to fight the Outer Beings.

Things were more twisted than anticipated.

“But, in a way, it shortened the time.”

The Fallen King looked around.

The Tower’s first Shelter.

A place called ‘Shelter,’ without a special name, like the others.

The place where all players arrive upon entering the Tower, a true shelter where weary adventurers rest.

It was the only Shelter unaffected by the Outer Being’s invasion.

“I thought the firewall would take time, but the World Tree’s roots helped.”

Originally, he’d start from the highest Shelter, Shineel, and collapse the Tower to reach this bottom floor.

But the plan changed.

When Se-woon banished him to the Divine Realm, he nearly lost his mind, but he confirmed something while talking with Odin.

The passage that ejected him to the Divine Realm.

He secretly changed the passage’s direction, connecting it to the Tower via Yggdrasil’s roots, without the gods knowing.

He reversed the one-way passage to the Divine Realm, changing the destination to the Tower’s bottom.

Whether the Administration allowed it, or the Tower’s security failed, he changed the destination.

Thanks to that, the Fallen King descended directly to the Tower’s first Shelter.

“No matter the process, it ends when I consume the system.”

The Fallen King trudged to a remote part of the Shelter and stretched out his remaining hand.

The hand swelled, pulsed, and spewed black liquid as if bursting.

The ground instantly stained black.

As the Fallen King clenched his fist, the black liquid dug into the ground.

Soon after.

Crack!

“Heh heh, finally.”

He could feel it.

He raised his fist, and the black liquid absorbed into it, lifting the floor.

The Shelter’s lawn tore away, revealing a massive door beneath.

The door was decorated with gears, like a lock.

The Fallen King stretched out his index finger and dripped black liquid into the lock.

“As expected, that X isn’t visible. Even a transcendent Constellation couldn’t be unscathed after using that much power.”

Like Chronos.

Even a god controlling time couldn’t reverse it at will without fading or disappearing.

It was a wall he couldn’t overcome before regression, but now he reached the door.

“Now.”

He felt it in his finger.

A complex lock, but the Outer Being could learn and convert its structure.

Now, he turned this finger, and it would be over.

The system would become the Fallen King’s.

The Tower would collapse.

The Divine Realm would be consumed by the Outer Being.

The world would belong to the Outer Being, and contempt for it would disappear.

“It’s over!”

The moment the Fallen King moved his finger.

Swish-

“Not on my watch.”

Constellation, Wolf of Destruction.

Se-woon’s sword severed the Fallen King’s wrist.

* * *

The Tuning [telepathic communication between Constellations] that came after Se-woon met Machina, the Constellation of Gears.

The words he conveyed were shocking.

“Fallen King! I’ve discovered his goal!”

“The Fallen King’s goal? To devour the Divine Realm, right?”

“That’s the ultimate goal! A middle stage to reach the ultimate goal? It was in the Tower!”

Se-woon’s expression turned serious.

Something felt off.

Why destroy the Tower first, drawing the gods’ attention and revealing himself?

Perhaps Tuning had discovered that.

“What is it?”

“The system.”

“System?”

“The Tower’s system.”

“He’s aiming for that. Can the Fallen King devour the system?”

“I think so. I watched the battlefield with the gods’ permission, and the Fallen King mentioned it.”

“…If he mentioned it, it’s one of two things.”

Either he gave up on an impossible goal.

Or he can reach that goal regardless of who hears it.

The Fallen King wouldn’t give up his goal.

“Yes, just now… he regressed through the passage and entered the Tower.”

No need to hear more.

Se-woon gripped Durandal’s hilt, checked his equipment, and prepared to depart.

“Where do I need to go?”

* * *

Swish-

“Not on my watch.”

The first Shelter, where he arrived following Tuning’s guidance.

Before memories resurfaced, he severed the Fallen King’s wrist, who was opening a massive door.

He felt it instinctively. Any later, and the door might have opened, and the Fallen King might have consumed the system.

“Kuaaagh!”

Se-woon stood in the Fallen King’s place, who was screaming and retreating, blocking the door.

– According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Earth Wall’ is enhanced.

The circles rotated, and stone walls formed in front of the door.

The Fallen King could destroy them, but it would prevent Se-woon from approaching and opening the door.

“You damn human! You followed me here!”

The Fallen King’s face was distorted.

The anger he suppressed burst.

“It’s really the end now! Do you think the future will change because you interfere!”

Not just resentment.

Black liquid spewed from the severed wrist, forming a black blade, and rushed at Se-woon.

Clang!

A powerful sword strike.

Skill and strength.

Even the previous Se-woon struggled to receive it, but…

Gagagak-

“Of course.”

Swish!

Se-woon’s sword moved along the Fallen King’s blade, cutting off his wrist again.

The swordsmanship felt different.

Like the swordsmanship used by Se-woon, who had regressed for the first time, which he had seen on the 100th floor.

– Thank you. Thank you so much. Another me.

It was as if he could hear the voice of the one who had vanished.

No, he couldn’t talk about him as if he were someone else anymore.

‘Because I remembered.’

The memory of when he first climbed the Tower.

Holding her hand, facing the Outer Being, and choosing regression, determined to turn back time.

Grasping the sword, the most familiar weapon, and climbing the Tower, thinking only of her.

Finally arriving at the 100th floor, but failing to defeat the Doppelganger and being frustrated.

“You can’t change anything with just one of you!”

The Fallen King leaped backward and shaped a new weapon from his wrist.

A bow.

A bow larger than the Fallen King was created, and an arrow as thick as an arm was fired.

[Goddess’s Golden Bow, Keraunos]

[Shower of Arrows, Iocheira]

In response, Se-woon prepared for the next attack.

The golden bow and arrow in his hand.

Following that, the bowstring was drawn.

However, it was slightly different from how Se-woon had drawn the bowstring.

He twisted and added rotational force while drawing the bowstring.

– This time, I will never fail.

Se-woon, who climbed the Tower with only a bow.

It was the appearance of when his memories gradually faded, and he even began to forget her existence.

Peeing-

The arrow that Se-woon shot rotated and moved towards the Fallen King’s arrow.

The arrows multiplied into thousands, befitting the name of Iocheira, the Shower of Arrows.

All of those arrows rotated rapidly and became one, creating a vortex.

Kwaaa kwaaa kwat!

The Fallen King’s arrow couldn’t withstand the vortex.

The arrow as thick as an arm was bounced off, and the vortex pierced through the Fallen King’s body, creating hundreds of holes.

“Someone like you… !”

Before the Fallen King could repair his body, Se-woon approached and raised a massive axe.

– No matter what…

Kwajik!

One strike, two halves.

The Fallen King’s body split with a single attack.

As much as it contained the power of destruction, there was a sizzling sound like it was being seared by fire in the split part, but the Fallen King did not fall.

This was because the black liquid burst out from the split area and connected each other, regenerating the body.

“You can never stop this body!”

The Fallen King’s grasp became so large that it blocked out the sun.

It seemed like he was aiming for the gap after wielding the heavy weapon, the axe, but Se-woon released the axe.

Then, he grasped a sharp spear and leaped towards the palm that was pouring down like lightning.

– I… why.

Machina’s power, which decreased as the regression repeated.

In response, Se-woon, who naturally lost the memory of the past regression, came this far without giving up on climbing.

Puk!

The palm was pierced, and a hole was also made in the Fallen King’s chest.

He had intended to aim for the heart, but unfortunately, the Fallen King’s heart did not exist in his chest.

No, perhaps he didn’t even have the organ itself called a heart.

He had already transcended the biological body structure since he had recovered his body even in a split state.

“Kuaaaaagh!”

Se-woon stood again in front of the Fallen King, who was wailing.

Grasping the sword that split the rock, Durandal, which he had held since the tutorial.

– I found it.

Remembering the time when he stood in front of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons without remembering the past regressions, as well as the fact that he had regressed itself.

“I decide the future.”

Se-woon silently slashed the Fallen King’s chest.

Episode 673