Raided The God’S Warehouse [EN]: Chapter 96

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-Welcome to the trial of the 2nd floor.

-Theme: Crossing the River

-Time Limit: 5 hours

Swish-

As the light faded, a cool river appeared before my eyes.

Seun wasn’t flustered, even though he couldn’t see all thirty-plus clan members.

‘It’s the same as before.’

A wide river with the opposite bank barely visible. Here and there, small and large stepping stones were sparsely placed.

As written in the theme, the trial of the 2nd floor was very simple: just cross this river and reach the other side.

‘Shall we go?’

Knowing the details of the trial, Seun stepped onto the first stepping stone without hesitation.

It was quite slippery due to the moisture, but it was a stable rock that didn’t shake as it was firmly embedded.

Tat, tat.

He lightly moved his feet without needing to use any special footwork.

The closer he moved to the center, the faster the river’s current felt.

As the current sped up, the waves crashed against the rocks, creating a refreshing spray.

‘It’s about time they showed up.’

Seun stopped his brisk steps and drew Durendal. A creature leaped out from the rough waves.

It was a fish resembling a piranha with sharp teeth, but it was twice the size of an actual piranha.

The teeth were even larger as the size increased, making it look quite threatening, but.

Swoosh-

With a light swing of Seun’s sword, it was sliced in half without even closing its wide-open mouth.

-The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ welcomes fresh fish anytime and crunches the piranha, bones and all.

You might say this is too easy of a trial with just this, but this was just a taste.

Flap flap flap!

In an instant, the endlessly blue water turned dark, and dozens of piranhas leaped out.

They weren’t very fast, but the current location was on a narrow stepping stone. It was difficult to dodge and difficult to assume an attack posture.

This was the true danger of the 2nd floor trial.

Seun already knew this, so he reacted immediately, but other players would be flustered by the sudden piranha attack.

Swish swish swish-

Even with dozens of piranhas rushing in, Seun didn’t move from his spot. He simply swung his sword while standing still.

Perhaps they didn’t like his confident appearance? The piranhas, even going against the river’s flow, aimed for Seun’s back.

No matter how fast the sword was, it was impossible to block them all at once.

At that moment, Seun’s dormant circle began to spin rapidly.

-According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Lightning Wave’ is enhanced.

Zzzzzzz!

Black lightning spread out from Seun.

The piranhas were soaked in water, so they were bound to take significant damage from the electricity.

Moreover, their threatening aspect was only due to their group behavior and the terrain advantage. Their individual combat power wasn’t that great.

As if to prove it.

Thud thud thud-

The piranhas, electrocuted, fell into the water, mouths still open, burning.

Before they could drift away, Seun reached out and activated the Authority of Gluttony.

-You have devoured ‘Sharp Piranha.’

-Absorbing nutrients increases Agility by 2.

-Absorbing nutrients increases Agility by 0.2.

…

-The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ takes a bite of the well-grilled piranha, extracting only the bones after savoring the flesh.

-The constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ especially savors the eyeballs, deeply relishing the taste.

Lightning Wave was an area-of-effect skill, so it swept away the surrounding piranhas at once.

As the enemies disappeared, Seun sheathed his sword and opened the clan chat, typing a short message.

[Piranhas appearing near the 20th stepping stone. Be careful.]

He wanted to inform them in advance, but he couldn’t reveal it too early without revealing his regression [his past life knowledge].

So, he deliberately typed the message only after being attacked by the piranhas.

As Seun quickly crossed the stepping stones, the quiet clan chat became active.

[Baekhyun: Ah, I almost had a big problem if I had seen it any later.]

[Han Areum: Thank you, Blood Wolf oppa!]

[Han Da-un: Wow, it would have been dangerous if I hadn’t set up a temporary wall in advance!]

[Park Jung-pil: Hyungnim!]

…

Even though their methods were different, they seemed to be overcoming it somehow.

Well, they were all capable players, only overshadowed by Seun’s performance.

There was no way they would fall apart in the trial of the 2nd floor.

-According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Lightning Wave’ is enhanced.

Zzzzzzz!

After that, piranha ambushes occurred several times, but they were completely ineffective against Seun.

Perhaps feeling threatened by the deaths of their kin, the piranha ambushes gradually decreased.

While quickly crossing the unexpectedly long stepping stones, Seun suddenly stopped moving.

‘Was it around here?’

Seun from before the regression had also challenged the same trial, and the Compass of the Journey had been activated. Of course, back then, he was too busy running away from the piranha attacks to even check.

But it was different now.

Seun recalled his memories as much as possible, observing each stepping stone as he moved forward.

Then.

“Found it.”

He was able to find the stepping stone he had stepped on when the Compass of the Journey reacted.

How could he remember the fleeting hidden piece he had experienced while desperately running away from the piranhas?

It was simple. The rock that the Compass of the Journey pointed to was an unstable rock, unlike the other rocks.

So much so that it wobbled just from one person climbing on it.

However, the problem was that he didn’t know what kind of hidden piece this was.

Zzzzz!

He sent a current around it, but there was no special reaction.

He concentrated his mind and used Searching Magic, but he couldn’t see anything unusual.

He wondered if his memory was wrong, but the memory of a stepping stone wobbling as he ran away from the piranhas was vivid in his mind.

Because of that wobble, he had faced a crossroads of life and death back then.

As Seun continued to ponder, a proverb came to his mind.

‘Was it, ‘Look before you leap’?’

It wasn’t a proverb that fit the current situation, but so what? He could just try it.

Since he could breathe underwater thanks to the ‘Mermaid’s Gills’ he had used before, he could just go into the water and check if things didn’t work out.

The current was fast, but it seemed like he could endure it enough if he used ‘Merman’s Fins’ as well.

‘This should be enough.’

Seun took out one of the weapons he had stored in his subspace pocket [an inventory dimension].

A hammer. No, it was a battle hammer that looked much more threatening than a normal hammer.

If it were another weapon, he would have looked for a martial arts manual related to the use of hammers among Mammon’s treasures, but he didn’t need such skills now.

He simply swung the hammer behind his head, took a breath, and then.

“Hup!”

He slammed it down with all his might.

Clang!

As soon as he slammed the rock, the vibration from the hammer’s head flowed through the handle.

The impact was quite large, to the point where his palms were tingling.

However, Seun wasn’t the only one who felt the impact.

The already wobbly rock couldn’t withstand the great impact and was shaking precariously.

Seun hurriedly jumped up and moved to the stepping stone in front.

‘Is this not it?’

Just as he was about to wonder if he should dive into the riverbed, a huge wave arose from the side of the rock, separate from the shaking of the rock.

Splash!

A huge creature revealed itself as the spray rose high.

Smooth skin without any fish scales, a pair of whiskers on either side of its mouth, and a large mouth torn sideways.

It was the first time seeing it in the form of a monster, but Seun had seen an animal similar to it on Earth.

“Catfish?”

A large fish known to inhabit reservoirs and lakes.

The difference from Earth was that its size was unimaginably huge.

The mouth it opened was so large that it seemed to be able to swallow a stepping stone with ease.

“Gwooooo!”

“Crazy.”

Thud!

It protected this absurd imagination, swallowing the stepping stone Seun was standing on in one gulp.

If he had moved even a little later, he would have ended up in the catfish’s belly along with the stepping stone.

-According to the mysteries of the Black Tower, the power of ‘Lightning Spear’ is enhanced.

Realizing that it was the hidden piece that the Compass of the Journey had pointed to in the past, Seun immediately cast a spell.

It was a monster he had never fought before, but monsters living in the water were basically weak against electric magic.

He threw a lightning spear at the creature that had swallowed the large stepping stone and was nonchalantly revealing its head.

Zap!

Zzzzzzz…….

“Gwooooo?”

However, the result was different from what Seun had expected.

As soon as the Lightning Spear touched its head, it flowed along its black skin and flowed out to the surroundings.

Even if the damage was dispersed, the creature that had been directly hit by the lightning spear on its forehead was looking at Seun with a dumbfounded expression.

“Electricity doesn’t work?”

“Gwoooo!”

Did fish originally make such sounds?

The creature made an irritating noise and rammed the stepping stone Seun was on.

The sturdy stepping stone instantly wobbled and tilted towards the river.

‘This, it would have been a little dangerous if I had dived in.’

It was moving perfectly fine in this rough current.

On the other hand, it didn’t seem like Seun could move freely in this current either.

Moreover, since electricity didn’t work, the right answer was to fight on the stepping stone, even if it was uncomfortable, if he was going to fight.

“Gwoooo!”

The creature leaped up again, opening its mouth wide. It was planning to swallow the stepping stone along with Seun.

In response, Seun didn’t dodge and drew Durendal.

‘If electricity doesn’t work.’

He would just cut it with his sword.

-Through internal energy, the Second Form of the Blood Wolf Sword Art, Blood Wolf Fang, is enhanced.

-According to the mysteries of the Limit Breaking Divine Art, the power of martial arts is enhanced.

Swoosh!

Just before colliding with the creature, he jumped back at a precarious timing and swung his sword horizontally.

The smooth skin of the creature, which hadn’t even been scorched by the lightning spear, split open softly.

It didn’t seem like he had inflicted a major wound because the skin was so thick, but he was able to clearly identify the creature’s weakness with this.

“Gwoooo, oooo!”

However, even though it looked dumb, it wasn’t completely stupid.

Realizing that Seun’s sword was threatening, it distanced itself and opened its mouth wide.

Soon after.

Glug!

“It really does all sorts of attacks.”

It spat out a brown pile of mud from its mouth.

It was mud made using the swallowed rocks, but he couldn’t figure out the principle at all.

However, the principle didn’t matter. The amount of mud it spat out was so much that it covered the sun.

Seun desperately moved several stepping stones before he could barely escape the range of the mud.

“Gwoooo!”

It cried out annoyingly, to the point where it was hard to believe it was a fish.