Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 128
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Episode 128 – No. 107, Gate Room – ‘Secret of the Esper’ (19)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 46
Current location: Tier 1, Room 107 (Gateway Room)
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
As I was running frantically, I checked the updated scenario at midnight.
/Scenario: Gate Room – ‘Secret of the Esper’
The hotel group finally made a decision. In order to find out the truth, Kim Muk-seong personally participates in an offering ceremony for Markas, the demon of the deep sea.
Recognizing the reality of the evil ritual, the hotel party rushes to stop the ongoing ritual.
Can the hotel group stop the evil ritual and save their friends?/
Many new keywords appeared.
An offering ritual for the devil of the deep sea, Markas.
Is this the true nature of the secret hidden by this ship?
There is no information about when the next scenario will appear. Is there no more story?
If so, that’s a relief. The story is that if we go and run amok with Elena now, it will be over.
While running, Ari suddenly stopped.
“Why don’t you go quickly?”
“We’re not going to fight anyway, so there’s no need to run too hastily. It’s dangerous because the ship breaks down. “Look down.”
I turned my gaze toward where Ari’s finger was pointing.
… What on earth is that?
As Elena penetrated the ship, the ship was literally destroyed.
Thanks to this, a huge hole was opened leading from the floor where the guest room was to the basement far below.
There was a place in the basement of Lake Esper that I could not understand.
“What kind of place is that?”
“It looks like a dungeon from afar. “It’s not a good place to be on a ship.”
“Should I go over there too?”
“Someday. But for now, let’s go to the Colosseum.”
For now, let’s focus on rescuing Grandpa and defeating the enemies.
When Ari, I, and Songi ran around like crazy and arrived near the Colosseum, Elena, who was flying at incredible speed, had already arrived and was fighting.
To be exact, they were massacring.
I think it would be difficult to describe that scene as a fight.
Even though there are hundreds of enemies and there is only one Elena, it doesn’t make any difference.
Can hundreds of chicks gather together to defeat a tiger?
The fight was going on in exactly the same way.
Every time Elena made a gesture, more than five or six people were crushed, and an invisible wall was even created at the main entrance of the Colosseum, preventing the crew and passengers from escaping.
Someone on the crew fired a gun, and the passengers jumped out of the wall or stretched out their limbs with an unknown force.
Of course, it didn’t mean much. The bullet stopped in the air, and the passenger who jumped out of the wall was soon stuck in the wall and turned to mush.
Soon, the crew and passengers were so scared that they began to be swept away without even being able to attack.
Cries filled with despair began to fill the square.
As I was overwhelmed by the sight of an angel coming down from heaven burning a sinner, Ari grabbed my arm.
“This is not the time to watch. “Let’s go quickly and rescue Grandpa.”
“Oh, right. “Let’s go right away.”
As I ran into the center of the Colosseum, I saw an old man nailed to a pillar in that moment.
…
It was truly ‘nailed down’. Is it an imitation of Jesus Christ crucified?
There were huge nails stuck all over the grandfather’s body.
If the nail is forcibly pulled out, the bleeding will become worse, so it is difficult to do anything.
Songi and I supported the grandfather’s body and at least reduced the pain caused by gravity, but that was all.
A hoarse voice came out of the grandfather’s mouth.
“Couldn’t you have come sooner?… .”
“sorry. I ran just because I wanted to, but I never thought it would be this much in that short period of time… .”
“Hehehe… . They’re bastards. “I feel relieved to see Elena calming down.”
Songi cried.
“grandfather. What should I do?”
I looked around my body frantically, but I couldn’t see any way to do anything.
The grandfather called Ari in a tired mood.
“Seniors. please.”
“… Make it comfortable?”
“Please.”
White foam was already flowing from the grandfather’s mouth every time he said a word.
It seems that even if he is taken to the emergency room right away and the doctors try to save him, there is no question of whether or not he can be saved.
Songi, who realized there was no way to save her, began to cry.
Ari quietly hugged his grandfather’s face and aimed the pistol at his temple.
“Go and rest first. “See you later.”
— Bang!
There are now 4 people left.
… By the way, was Ari your grandfather’s senior? It seems that his grandfather was in so much pain that he unconsciously revealed the truth that he had always kept hidden.
The moment my grandfather passed away, something strange occurred in the hall.
— Clap!
A sound so loud that it echoed throughout the Colosseum was heard from the ceiling.
Everyone raised their heads in surprise.
The hands of the huge clock on the ceiling moved.
0 -> 1
The needle was now pointing to 1, not 0.
What on earth does that mean?
As the clock hands turned, the screams that filled the Colosseum became harsher and more terrifying.
The sailors and passengers who had remained resisting Elena looked at their watches and began to sing songs of sorrow.
“iced coffee! “Marcus!”
“Please, please have mercy on us… .”
I realized this after seeing that reaction. The turning of the clock hands is like a nightmare to them.
On the flip side, we have to turn the clock!
What should I do to make the clock hands turn? Why did you go back now? Her head started to spin.
In a space filled with grief, only the angel wielding golden waves continued the slaughter without stopping.
The rotating scale flew through space, crushing and crushing crew members and passengers as they came across them.
It was like a scene where drones used by developed countries were flying around the entire battlefield and slaughtering humans.
I feel this every time I see it, but I don’t know the battle mechanism of Justice.
At first, it seems like people just died without any intermediate steps, at other times it seems like a giant invisible hand is throwing people around, and now it seems like the flying scales have become war drones equipped with high-performance AI.
There is absolutely no consistency in combat methods. ‘Overwhelmingly strong’ in some way. Other than that, I couldn’t see anything in common.
I think I had similar thoughts. Ari, who was standing next to him, intervened.
“Does it just embody the plausible power that Elena thinks it has?”
“Didn’t you say you’ve seen other justice users before? “Is it much different?”
“It’s incredibly different. To that extent… .”
“That much?”
“It wasn’t that strangely strong. Also, it didn’t feel like I was fighting at will at that level.”
“…”
“It seems like there is some kind of AI in the blessing itself.”
“ai?”
“Look closely. Elena’s eyes can’t even track where the enemy is. “She just stands still and the scales take care of intercepting her enemies.”
“If we develop further from there, will the scale say anything to Elena?”
It was similar to a joke in its own way, but Ari didn’t change his expression one bit.
“That might really be the case.”
Suddenly, the Colosseum became quiet.
The glowing waves that filled the entire space calmed down, and the spiraling scale stopped still in the air.
“Are you finished?”
“We are the only survivors in this space.”
Is it finally over? Everyone stood still and waited with bated breath.
…
Songi asked curiously.
“Why doesn’t it say resolved?”
Ari also noticed something strange.
“They say we are the only survivors, so why hasn’t the execution been completed?”
As he said, the scales of justice merely stopped in midair and did not disappear.
— Rumble!
Suddenly the whole ship started vibrating!
We panicked and held on to the objects around us.
— Gooooooo!
A loud roar echoes throughout the ship.
The next moment, time on the Esper began to go back!
The flesh, blood, and bones of the enemies scattered everywhere came together again in the air, and a human shape appeared.
Hundreds of the dead were brought back to life, and their endless malice was ignited.
Elena’s scales spun again, attempting to tear the resurrected dead apart.
But time reversal is starting to affect us too.
In an instant, Elena floated and flew backwards, and we also repeated the movement of running from the cabin to the Colosseum in reverse, as if rewinding.
The ship that Elena had destroyed as she flew from the guest room to the Colosseum began to be restored to its original state in an instant.
It’s overwhelming. We didn’t know what to do in the face of such a surreal miracle.
— Squeak!
The sound of something stopping roughly.
Our bodies, which had been taking steps backwards, stopped with an incomprehensible vibration sound.
Elena, who had been flying backwards at incredible speed, appeared in front of us again.
Golden waves emanating from the rotating scales enveloped us.
Ari shouted in the confusion.
“Elena! “Can you keep holding on?”
Elena shook her head with a pained expression.
Even a tiger that slaughters hundreds of chickens is just a big cat in front of a dragon!
The power of justice has reached its limit in the face of the devil’s power to turn time.
— Dismissal!
The scale began to crack. Ari shouted with an expression full of despair.
“memory!”
“what?”
“My memories are fading. “I remember after arriving at the ship!”
I recalled the memory of quickly arriving at the ship.
I couldn’t remember what I ate yesterday. Why is Pero not with us?
What did grandpa call Ari?
I immediately asked for advice.
‘Tell me the best response I can now!’
[Sage’s Advice: 3 -> 2]
[Write it in a place where it will never be erased.]
A place that will never be erased.
A power that even the devil who can turn back time can never intervene!
The status window has been expanded. I took out a pen.
I wrote and wrote frantically.
Flash!
… My consciousness became blurred.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 46
Current location: Tier 1, Room 107 (Gateway Room)
Sage Advice: 2]
– Han Ga-in
When we came to, we found ourselves standing in a very ornate room.
I was wearing a very old-fashioned square tuxedo.
Ari, Songi, Elena and others were wearing dresses so beautiful that it was hard to take your eyes off them, with soft fur-covered shawls on top.
Are you in the mood for some kind of party?
Ari showed a strange reaction.
“This dress is of a very old style… .”
Old style? I do not know. At first, I was completely confused because it felt like a Western-style suit.
When I looked around, Grandfather Mukseong was gone.
Song Yi said in confusion.
“Where is my grandfather?”
“Did you start in a different place? Like Seung-yeop in the Mansion of Horror before?”
During the Gateway Room, my colleagues never started in a different location, so did something change in the fourth trial?
While everyone was puzzled, a knock was heard at the door.
Soon, a person dressed like a hotel employee came in and gave a general description of the ‘ship’ and information about the dinner party before leaving.
Elena answered curiously.
“This place looks like a ship.”
“I can definitely see the sea when I look out the window. “Let’s check the scenario first and proceed.”
Now, let’s enlarge the status window and see the scenario –
???
What on earth is this? Why is the scenario like this?
As I was looking at the status window alone in confusion, my colleagues started talking to me.
“Is something strange?”
“yes. It doesn’t feel like the scenario has just started, but it feels like it’s already progressed quite a bit? uh?”
“What else is strange?”
“There’s a lot of confusing writing written in the empty space of the status window.”
The moment I enlarged the empty space as much as possible, I was speechless.
The first sentence of the messy piece was as follows:
‘Now our time is going back.’
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