I Raided the Demon’s Treasury

Chapter 37

Mana Stone.

These are literally ores containing mana, useful for mages and all players alike.

There are various ways to utilize them, but one of the most powerful methods is well-known.

Enchanting them with an explosion spell.

This turns the mana stone into a kind of bomb, causing the internal mana to detonate completely.

While the downside is that the mana stone is consumed in a single use, even the lowest-rank mana stone can easily demolish a building.

And Se-woon had done just that.

Boom! Boom!, BOOM!!

Rumble!

Before arriving here, he maximized his stealth techniques to plant mana stones throughout the goblin village.

Of course, the magic inscribed on the mana stones was:

– Opened the (True) Treasury of Greed.

[ Fire Burst ]

– The most basic explosion spell from the Fire Tower, causing small explosions within a certain range. The power can be adjusted according to the amount of mana used.

Fire Burst. It was an explosive spell.

He would have preferred to inscribe a higher-level explosive spell like Explosion, but…

Explosion wasn’t a spell that Se-woon, a 2nd Circle mage, could use, nor was it a spell that could be inscribed onto low-quality mana stones.

Although Fire Burst typically caused a “small explosion,” when all the mana within a mana stone was unleashed, its force was enough to demolish an entire building.
Furthermore, Se-woon had planted the majority of the mana stones he found in the goblin warehouse throughout the village.

BOOOM!!

“Kieeek!”

“Ke-Kehek! Khhek! Kek!”

The hut, already half-destroyed by the explosion, revealed the outside scene clearly.

All he could see were blazing flames.

Goblins rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but the heat they inhaled was inescapable.

Their lungs burned to cinders, and they died miserably.

Everywhere he looked, it was the same.

The village’s proud watchtowers and walls had collapsed, and goblins screamed as they ran around with their bodies engulfed in flames.

It was hell.

It looked like a scene straight out of the inferno said to be filled with sulfur and eternal fire.

“M-My village! My village! My subordinates!”

“So what? You said they were all worthless and idiotic anyway, right?”

“You dare speak to me like that!”

The chieftain of the goblin village, Kokongkak, grabbed his thick club tightly and charged at Se-woon.

There was no way to escape this blazing inferno, and with no hope for support from his subordinates, he realized that defeating Se-woon was his only chance for survival.

Crash!

Kokongkak’s club shattered the throne.

He had aimed for Se-woon, but Se-woon had already completely vanished from his line of sight.

“You know, not stopping the bleeding is going to be a problem?”

Slash!

“Kiaak!”

In addition to the previously severed right carotid artery, Kokongkak’s left carotid artery was now cut as well.

With the blood supply to his head cut off, Kokongkak’s face turned ghostly pale.

Desperately trying to staunch the bleeding, he wrapped both hands around his neck, causing his club to naturally drop to the ground.

“Dropping your weapon isn’t a good idea.”

Thunk.

Se-woon’s dagger pierced the center of Kokongkak’s neck, embedding so deeply only the handle remained visible.

The Named Monster that led thousands of goblins succumbed to a single player in less than a minute.

– You have defeated the Named Monster, ‘Cunning Hobgoblin, Kokongkak.’

– Your level has increased.

– Individual merit points have increased by 8,000 points.

– Additional 4,000 points are awarded for the solo defeat of a Named Monster.

– Acquired ‘Kokongkak’s Hexagonal Club’.

Kokongkak died clutching his carotid artery, a rather anticlimactic end for a Named Monster.

‘Well, considering the nature of this dungeon, that makes sense.’

A village in the second chapter of the tutorial with thousands of goblins. If the Named Monster here were too powerful, none would be able to clear it.

In reality, this dungeon was designed to be a Hidden Dungeon difficult even for two camps collaborating. However, for Se-woon, such conditions didn’t apply.

– You have flawlessly and perfectly cleared the Hidden Dungeon, ‘Cunning Goblin Village.’

– Your level has increased.

– Earned a remarkable achievement.

– Earned 20,000 points in individual merit as a reward.

Flawlessly and perfectly.

Even for Se-woon, this was the first time seeing such an adverb used.

Well, considering he didn’t just clear the dungeon, but blew it up entirely, it was hard to imagine a more thorough dungeon clearance.

– The Constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince,’ looks at you with bright eyes.

“Yes, yes.”

Se-woon used the Power of Gluttony on Kokongkak.

When the Demon God of Gluttony took a personal interest, it was impossible to forget to use the power.

As soon as the power was activated, numerous fangs appeared eagerly, opening wide.

Kokongkak’s corpse, still unable to close its eyes as if it couldn’t believe its own death, rapidly disappeared.

– The ‘Cunning Hobgoblin, Kokongkak.’ has been devoured.

– Absorbing its nutrients increases Agility by 5 and Intelligence by 10.

– A small amount of internal energy and mana has been absorbed into your dantian and circle.

As expected of a Named Monster. It provided stats equivalent to a level 5 increase.

Additionally, there was an extra line that hadn’t appeared before.

‘So, I can even absorb mana. I didn’t know that.’

Up until now, the Power of Gluttony could only increase his stats. Thus, he used internal power techniques and the training methods of the Magic Tower to gather mana.

But to absorb mana using the Power of Gluttony?

This changes everything. Now he could gather internal energy and expand his circles simply by hunting monsters.

‘Of course, there will be limitations.’

Even though this was his first encounter with this, Se-woon could roughly guess the limitations.

It would depend on whether the target contained mana.

For an entity like a hobgoblin governing a village of this scale, even if it couldn’t utilize mana, it would hold a small amount of it.

That mana was absorbed by Se-woon through the Power of Gluttony.

This was the condition Se-woon speculated.

Just as he was about to turn away, another message from Beelzebub appeared.

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ looks at a beautifully roasted, giant platter, saying it is still insufficient.

‘A platter?’

Se-woon tilted his head, unsure of what that meant.

Then he soon grasped the meaning.

A beautifully roasted platter referred to the entire village that Se-woon had blown up.

However, the number of goblins killed by Se-woon in this village was too numerous to count.

At least a thousand.

It was impossible to use the Power of Gluttony on each of them individually. Plus, with Beelzebub already tired of goblins, using the power wouldn’t even raise his stats anymore.

‘Should I just ignore it?’

Se-woon scratched his head in annoyance.

Did Beelzebub somehow read his thoughts?

Beelzebub granted Se-woon a new power.

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ has enhanced the Power of Gluttony by one level.

– It is now possible to designate an area and devour multiple corpses simultaneously with the Power of Gluttony.

– When consuming a certain number of corpses at once, additional nutrients are absorbed.

“Oh-ho.”

Range designation.

Given that Se-woon had recently been dealing with large numbers of monsters, this seemed like a very handy ability.

While it wasn’t particularly difficult to use the power on each monster, it had become quite tedious.

Moreover, the phrase ‘additional nutrients absorbed’ piqued his interest.

Without hesitation, Se-woon used the enhanced Power of Gluttony.

– You have designated the entire ‘Cunning Goblin Village’ with the Power of Gluttony.

– The Fangs of Gluttony descend upon the village!

Crunch!

Starting with the first goblin corpse at the center of the village being crushed.

Crunch, crunch!

Crack!

Beelzebub’s fangs descended upon the entire village.

– The Constellation, ‘Hungry Prince,’ cheers as he gazes at the feast filling the table!

At that moment, as Se-woon watched the jaws engulf the entire village, he felt it for the first time.

The immense power of the Demon God of Gluttony, Beelzebub.

What if those fangs didn’t just apply to the monsters Se-woon had defeated? What if they could be used on living targets as well?

The targeted beings would be consumed alive, entering Beelzebub’s belly amidst horrifying screams.

While he didn’t realize this when dealing with individual monsters, seeing numerous fangs descend upon the village reminded him that Beelzebub was indeed a ‘Demon God.’

Before long, all the goblin corpses in the village had disappeared.

– You have devoured 2,101 goblins designated within the village range.

– Absorbing a large quantity of nutrients has increased all your stats by 10.

– A large amount of internal energy and mana is being absorbed.

“Even mana?”

A 10-point increase in all stats—equivalent to a total of 40 stat points.

This alone was astonishing, but to also have an increase in internal energy and mana? The quantity exceeded Se-woon’s expectations.

Hummm!

A massive wave of energy, similar to what he felt in the cave of the ‘Forgotten Hero’s Training Grounds,’ surged towards him.

The mana contained within a single goblin was so negligible they couldn’t even sense it themselves, but collectively, from 2,101 goblins, it was significant.

Tiny amounts gathered into a massive mountain, the sheer presence of all the accumulated mana hitting Se-woon at once was overwhelming.

Hummmm!

Se-woon swiftly employed the Paragon Heart Technique and the training method of the Black Tower.

The turbulent wave of energy, which felt like it was blocked at every turn, smoothly flowed into Se-woon’s dantian and mana circles.

The dantian, which already contained a sizeable amount of internal energy, quickly expanded, and the recently formed second mana circle swelled to its limits.

Perhaps due to the energy from the monsters being closer in form to mana, the amount absorbed into the circle was immense.

The volume was almost too much for the second mana circle to handle.

As a result:

– Through the training method of the Black Tower, you have successfully created the third mana circle.

– With the creation of a new circle, you can now use 3rd Circle magic.

– The level of magic you can use, as well as its power and speed, increases based on the level of the mana circle.

– The destructive power of your magic further increases based on the mysteries of the Black Tower’s training method.

– Earned a remarkable achievement.

– Earned 10,000 points as a reward.

Se-woon had managed to complete his third mana circle in just the second chapter of the tutorial.