Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 71

I Plundered the Demon God’s Vault – Episode 73

Chapter 73

‘The children… seem to be back.’

Deep-sea spawning ground.

In its deepest part, a woman was thinking that.

No, could she even be called a woman? Her luscious hair was all gone, and her smooth skin was dried up black.

If someone saw her, they might mistake her for a mummy, she was so emaciated.

Only the spawning membrane, with hundreds of eggs throbbing, proved that she was once a ‘queen.’

‘How many years has it been?’

Back when she existed in the Tower, she was never a monster in this state.

The Tower’s sea. The queen who ruled over an entire floor.

All the monsters on the floor, as well as the players who challenged to climb it, had to bow and kneel before her.

Yes. That was until that incident happened.

‘Because of that X…!’

Around the time she came to rule a floor, she wasn’t satisfied with just one floor and coveted the seat of a Constellation [a powerful, god-like entity].

She forced the races on her floor who believed in other Constellations to believe in her, and those who didn’t were wiped out.

When followers emerged, and her status accumulated, reaching transcendence, the Constellation the merfolk believed in directly descended upon her floor.

Leviathan.

Even though only a fraction of that being descended, she couldn’t withstand it for even a moment and lost all her status.

A single attack.

The calm waves that were so familiar to her became a tsunami carrying the authority of jealousy, and all her power vanished.

Thanks to that, Leviathan was banished from the Tower, but she too was banished from the Tower along with Leviathan.

Having lost all her power, and even cursed by the Demon God of Lust who came to see her off as a farewell.

In the end, she had to endure the curse of spawning for the rest of her life, and her children did not see their mother as their mother.

They were merely loyal to their instincts, protecting themselves. No, confining her.

Without even knowing that they too were just being used by the Tower.

And so, she had to suffer here for a long, long time.

In the midst of all that.

“……So this is what they meant by spawning ground.”

‘Who is it?’

Someone’s voice was heard from the entrance.

For some reason, she thought it was noisy outside, and it seemed like they were indeed under attack.

But who? How did they get here?

Various questions arose, but what’s important now is not that.

‘It’s finally time to end this curse…!’

By using that human, she would end this long, long curse, wipe out the merfolk who followed the Constellation, and finally trample on the Constellation of Jealousy who dropped her here.

If she used that human to break the curse and used the hidden gem, it was something she could definitely do.

“Are you… human?”

As soon as she finished her plan, she squeezed out the power she had gathered and gathered, and a grotesque voice flowed from her mouth.

* * *

The voice was heard from inside, where the spawning membrane holding the eggs was connected.

Moving towards the voice, the figure of a monster withered like a mummy came into view.

“Did you speak to me?”

“That’s right. Please don’t stare so intently. My appearance is hideous, and I am ashamed.”

Unlike her bizarre voice, her tone was very gentle.

However, Se-un did not lower his guard.

“What are you?”

“……You’re quite impatient.”

“If you have nothing to say, I’ll end it here.”

Se-un gripped his spear tightly again.

The opponent was, after all, the boss monster of this dungeon.

Se-un, who had climbed the Tower before his regression and faced countless boss monsters, knew.

‘You must not trust monsters.’

Moreover, Se-un had just collapsed the ceiling of the dungeon and massacred countless monsters. There was no way the boss monster wouldn’t know this fact.

To speak to someone who killed her monsters, even her own children, in this way? She must be aiming for something.

“Please wait a moment.”

“It better be interesting, or I’ll stab you right away. You better speak plainly.”

Se-un pointed his spear at her skull.

The only reason he didn’t strike, despite his suspicion.

‘I might be able to get some clues.’

It was because he was currently blocked, searching for clues about Leviathan. Well, even if not, he was thinking of listening if she offered a decent reward.

Useful equipment was always lacking.

As Se-un listened intently, he flinched at her first words.

“A devil made me like this.”

A devil.

He didn’t yet know which devil she was referring to. It could just be a simple metaphor.

However, her location and the books Se-un had researched before his regression, etc. Various pieces of information combined, and he could tell that the devil she was talking about was ‘Leviathan.’

Noticing Se-un’s interest, she continued to speak.

“Once, I ruled the ‘Sea of Radiance,’ the 40th floor of the Tower.”

The story that followed was about her before she became like this.

It was embarrassing to say it herself, but she protected countless monsters from players who randomly massacred them, and endured the unreasonable demands and insults of the Constellations, etc.

It was like a novel.

The context was so natural that Se-un almost fell into the story without realizing it.

However.

‘It’s a lie.’

He could tell before long.

No, it wasn’t a complete lie. A lie based on facts.

The devil she was talking about was the root of all evil in the minds of ordinary players, but Se-un knew.

Even a devil wouldn’t curse the ruler of a floor for no reason.

Moreover, he could recall writings similar to what she was saying from various historical books he had seen before his regression.

‘The Queen of the Black Sea, Estrotsha.’

Dea Bakandel Estrotsha. The infamous tyrant who stained the Sea of Radiance with blood and darkness.

In the end, she betrayed the Constellation that protected the sea and coveted its position, receiving the curse of God and being expelled from the Tower.

He couldn’t trust the historical books 100% perfectly, but at least they were more trustworthy than the foolish lies she was spouting now.

He wanted to stab her right away for telling lies as smoothly as water, but Se-un clenched his fist and endured it.

At the very least, he had to find a clue about Leviathan’s location.

“So where is that devil?”

“Are you going to help me? You are truly a righteous hero! It must be that I have been alive until now to meet you!”

“I get it, so where is it.”

“Would you lift my curse first? Then, together with me……”

“No, I need to hear the location first. I think I can only believe it if I see it with my own eyes.”

From the start, he had no intention of releasing her.

She seemed a little hesitant, but since the queen was bound to this dungeon by the curse of the Demon God, she had no choice.

“It’s to the east. If you go east, you’ll find merfolk who have sold their souls and fallen, worshiping the devil.”

Smirk.

A small smile, small enough that she wouldn’t notice, appeared on Se-un’s face.

He had followed the monster only to find the monster’s nest instead of Leviathan, and he was feeling lost, but thanks to her, he could decide on a destination.

“Don’t you have anything to give me?”

“Give you… what?”

“I’m going to meet the devil for you, so shouldn’t I have some useful equipment?”

“……There is equipment for my subordinates stored in the back room.”

“Not that. I mean equipment to fight the devil.”

Now that he knew the location of his destination, there was nothing more to extract from her.

So, he urged her to find any items that might be hidden in the dungeon.

However, perhaps sensing the somewhat relaxed reaction of Se-un?

Her voice began to become anxious.

“T, there is a hidden room.”

“Oh, where is it?”

“That room is only accessible to me. First, if you lift my curse, I will personally present you with the best equipment.”

“Really? How do I lift the curse?”

At Se-un’s question, a look of joy returned to her face, which had been as dry as a corpse.

“It’s simple! Cut the shackles on my arm and take my hand!”

Se-un turned his head to check the shackles she was talking about.

Shackles of an unknown material, blue in color. He didn’t know the exact principle, but it seemed like her life force was being continuously sucked away through the shackles.

If he released those shackles and held her hand as she said.

‘It will absorb all my life force.’

Instead of her, Se-un would take on the form of a mummy in this place.

This made it even clearer.

She was not an unfortunate queen who was trapped in the deep sea by a devil.

A prisoner.

And also, an extreme prisoner who was cursed by a Demon God and confined to a spawning ground, receiving an eternal curse.

“That’s okay, tell me how to get that equipment.”

“A, as I said, only I can open that place! So first, if you lift the curse……”

“Ah, did you notice?”

“……Yes?”

He wondered if she might, but it didn’t seem like she would reveal any more information on her own. And it didn’t seem like the guards he was worried about would appear.

Then…….

“You, even in that body, you can still feel pain, right?”

“Wh, why are you doing this?”

-The Vault of Greed has been opened.

[Grad Imperial Torture Methods]

– Torture methods that inflict mental pressure or physical pain to extract secrets from the enemy. Hundreds of methods said to have been practiced only in the empire’s underground prisons are described.

Swish.

Se-un hung the spear he was holding behind his back.

He didn’t need the spear from now on.

Boogreuk!

“They say the moment when a living being feels the greatest pain is when their body is burning?”

The water began to boil on Se-un’s hand.

He couldn’t use fire magic in the water, so he applied that method to raise the temperature of the water to an extreme level.

Even if he couldn’t scorch her with fire, it would be enough to burn her skin with hot water.

Poong!

“Or, when you’re submerged in water and can’t breathe. No, would you rather not be able to breathe without water?”

The water swirled on Se-un’s hand, and as soon as he changed his words, the water disappeared completely.

A round bubble of air floated up in the place where the seawater had disappeared.

“Y, Hero. Don’t do that, let’s talk……”

“Ah, don’t worry. Just by looking at your body, I can tell it’s not in good condition, so I’ll save tortures that threaten your life like this for last.”

After finishing his words, Se-un took out dozens of sharp thorns from his subspace pocket.

Monster thorns.

It was a material he hadn’t been able to hand over to Go Chang-seok because he had entered the sea right after dealing with the monsters in the fifth area.

To think he would use such a material in a place like this.

“Ah, if possible, answer slowly.”

“What is……”

“This is my first time with this kind of method, so I want to experiment with as many methods as possible.”

“Th, th, this!”

“Got it?”

Puk!

“Kiyaaaaaaak!!”

The deepest part of the deep-sea spawning ground.

The queen’s scream echoed loudly there, but it was not heard by the monsters outside, who were in a mess trying to avoid the debris.