Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 162
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Episode 162 – Room 201, Room of the Curse – ‘The Cube’ (11)
– Kim Ari
— Clink!
As I stepped back, a hand outstretched like a blade swung past where my neck was.
“uh? Did you avoid it? Quite a bit -”
Before Beatrix finished speaking, a flash of light flashed from Songi’s wrist.
“What is this-”
With a panicked voice, he started rubbing his eyes. In a little while, there will be snow everywhere again.
I have no intention of giving you that leeway.
The narrow mansion was filled with dazzling brilliance.
In an instant, the scale flew through the concrete wall and struck Beatrix’s body.
At the same time, Cha Jin-cheol and I started using rifle fire to explode the eyeballs that Beatrix had started making all over the place.
This is our first operation!
Song-i distorts Beatrix’s senses, and Cha Jin-cheol and I continue to destroy her eyeballs with rifle fire.
While Beatrix is struggling, Elena takes charge of the attack.
Even Beatrix’s strong body, which treated bullets like a cool shower, could not continue to receive the scales of justice that had the power to crush a building.
Soon, Beatrix’s upper body was completely crushed.
Shockingly, even in that state, the monstrous body was constantly regenerating!
The power of justice alone is not enough.
At the moment when Cha Jin-cheol, who until now had cherished the star out of concern for damage to his allies due to the ambiguous size of the mansion, made a gesture that seemed to inevitably summon the star –
— Rumbling!
The entire mansion shook. It wasn’t just shaking, the mansion actually rotated 360 degrees!
What is the structure of this damn cube that allows something like this to happen?
While we bounced here and there, unable to maintain our balance, Beatrix calmly ‘flew’ and disappeared out the window, even though more than half of her upper body was gone.
“Can you fly?”
Cha Jin-cheol shouted as if he was dumbfounded.
“Durability stronger than concrete, regenerative power that would make a planaria cry, the ability to make snow everywhere, and now the ability to fly. They even go so far as to create monsters. What on earth can’t you do that? Did the management bureau make something like that? Ari, are there people like that on Earth too?”
I had nothing to say so I kept my mouth shut.
There was a brief lull.
Songi said as if she was embarrassed.
“Is this the end? “I didn’t think it would end this easily?”
“Of course not. “Look at Elena.”
Elena’s justice was still emitting light everywhere. It’s not over yet.
“Seungyeop.”
“yes?”
When I silently pointed at the mirror with my hand, Seungyeop gasped and ran towards the mirror.
I have a feeling the second round will start soon, right? Escape must be secured.
— Enemy!
Seungyeop, who was trying to get out of the mirror, was caught by something and flew into the air.
The roof, or rather the ‘lid’, of the mansion was taken off.
I realized the structure of the cube.
*
I looked outside to see Elena using two scales to block the hand that was attacking us.
It’s a mysterious space.
Unless you have to fight Beatrix, you’ll want to just look around.
Countless translucent boxes floating in all directions in a strange space covered with dark blue fog.
The floor visible in the distance looked like a red wasteland.
The boxes were connected by cables that we called ‘underground passages’.
The inside of most of the boxes was filled with ‘mansions’. Is that perhaps a mimicry room or an escape room?
In some boxes, there is no mansion, but only a huge monster appears blurry. Are those boxes probably ‘slammed’?
It is completely different from the sight that Cha Jin-cheol awkwardly looked through through the gap in the wall where he swung his protective suit.
The ‘true structure’ of the cube was so mysterious that it was fascinating to see it with your own eyes.
The lid of the box we were in was taken off, and Beatrix’s laughter could be heard from above as her shattered torso was rebuilt.
“Ahaha! Thank you everyone~! “It’s been a while since I’ve had such an interesting fight.”
Meanwhile, the fight between Elena and Beatrix continued non-stop.
Because Beatrix was in the air, Jincheol and Songi, who did not have the ability to fly, did not know what to do.
It’s not within the range of the bracelet’s power, and rifles are originally treated as BB bullets, so it’s meaningless.
Elena virtually continued the battle with Beatrix alone.
A bear almost as big as a bus blocked the scale, which flew away with a sonic boom, with its body.
It is felt that the power of the scales is diminishing in front of the monster.
At least, since Beatrix is human and the monsters are her tools, the power of justice does not seem to have become powerless… .
It did not show the same power as when dealing with Beatrix itself.
Thanks to this, Beatrix couldn’t stop laughing.
— Ugh!
The outer walls of all the boxes began to open one by one.
We saw the monsters in the other room walking on cables to the box we were in.
under! Now you’re calling out monsters from other boxes as well? It really won’t be easy.
In the meantime, the scales continued to fly towards Beatrix and poured golden waves, but defeat could not be avoided this way.
I don’t know what happened to Seung-yeop, who was trying to escape, and I don’t know how to escape because the structure of the cube is distorted.
“Elena! “Can you hear me?”
“huh.”
“Justice is at a disadvantage in this state because it loses its power against monsters.”
“Ari… .”
“Justice forces the fight itself, but you can choose where and how it fights, right? Just fly away and be tied 1-1 with Beatrix. “Don’t hold out here!”
“If I leave-”
“It won’t change anything if you stay here for fear of us dying. “The only way for us is for you to kill Beatrix!”
Elena looked back at us with a somewhat sad expression, then her expression hardened and flew towards Beatrix.
— Kwaaaang!
Meanwhile, a blade came through the crack in the collapsed wall and hit Songi.
Jincheol said, striking the blade with a metal rod that he seemed to have picked up from somewhere.
“Doesn’t what I just said apply to you too? Unlike us, you can fly. Just fly over and help Elena.”
“If Elena is an opponent she can’t beat on her own, helping me alone isn’t enough.”
“Even so, it’s better than nothing -”
“I should go with you. “Your star will definitely work.”
“Can you fly with me? “Didn’t you say before that it’s difficult to fly while carrying another person?”
“It’s possible for a while. If you give up the thought of living. So grab me and jump up! “With all our might!”
Cha Jin-cheol didn’t open his mouth anymore, but grabbed one of the rebars that appeared as the mansion collapsed next to him, and then grabbed me with his other hand.
Just before I ran, I waved my hand at the bunch scattered on the floor as if I was okay.
The wall next to it collapsed, and a wasp the size of a house attacked Songi.
— Boom!
With the sound of the floor exploding, Jincheol and I rose almost 10 meters into the air!
“Did you learn to pole vault?”
“Just fly!”
Blood is consumed at an incredible rate in an instant. As expected, I had a hard time surviving this episode.
Cha Jin-cheol and I flew to the other side of a strange space, to a place like the scene of a battle between angels and demons between Elena and Beatrix.
*
The judgment in ordering Elena to fly and fight was correct.
Most monsters did not have the ability to fly. In the 1-1 match, Elena was clearly gaining the upper hand.
Beatrix seemed to be busy dodging and blocking the scales.
“Can you see it?”
“see. “Do you think Elena will win even if we leave her alone?”
“You can’t just think about the short term. “Unlike Elena, that guy has excellent regenerative abilities.”
On the other hand, the brilliance in Elena’s body was gradually losing its shine.
Elena looked back at us.
The next moment, through some kind of harmony between the scales, Beatrix was thrown into a box.
“now!”
Beatrix placed her hand on the box where she was stuck.
Cha Jin-cheol flew further forward due to the law of inertia and fell towards the box.
I guess this is enough, right?
It’s really so hard. In the first place, the fuel efficiency of my flying ability is shit… .
Jincheol, next time, ask your sponsor to give you some wings.
Too much blood was consumed. Even staying afloat is difficult anymore.
As soon as I relaxed, I fell helplessly to the floor.
The red wasteland-like floor seen from afar approached.
…
…
…
???
What on earth is this?
What was on the floor was neither wasteland nor dirt.
A vast space, an endless mountain of strange corpses filling the horizon.
The end of the world, where the endless hell spoken of in Buddhism has become a reality.
This was the last memory I had.
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– Elena
Isn’t it really ridiculously strong?
That monster is not a creature made of protein, but rather an absurd being with the durability of a concrete building or more.
On that subject, it even went so far as to endlessly regenerate itself like a mold growing in a petri dish full of nutrients!
The scale’s destructive power alone cannot put an end to it.
Even when more than 90% of the power of justice was exhausted, Beatrix still held on.
Fortunately, the attack power did not feel as strong as the durability or regeneration power.
Perhaps he has a strong body, and as long as he flies in the sky and maintains his distance, didn’t he plan on having the monsters he created attack him?
However, in the end, the aerial battle is Beatrix’s defeat!
I can fly, and Ahri flew to join Jincheol, but most of the monsters that were Beatrix’s strongest weapons did not have the ability to fly.
At the moment when the power of justice was almost exhausted and it seemed like they could not continue like this, Ari joined Jincheol with him.
Use all your remaining strength to bind Beatrix!
Mr. Jincheol arrived and summoned a star and shoved it into Beatrix’s mouth.
Indeed, Beatrix’s body, which could not be easily killed even with the power of the balance, was instantly distorted and lost its durability and regenerative power.
All that remains are just grotesquely twisted lumps of flesh!
By that time, the balance had lost its shine and disappeared, but Jincheol just hit it with his fist and shattered all the flesh.
Smiles of victory appeared on the faces of the remaining people.
Will it be the turn of one of us, Jincheol and I, to receive the inheritance this time?
“ha ha ha! “Isn’t the combination of me and Miss Elena invincible?”
“Thanks for your efforts!”
“Thank you for your effort. “Let us gain one more legacy -”
Jincheol’s expression hardened in an instant.
— Swish!
When I came to my senses, Jincheol had already grabbed me and was rolling me around on the floor.
“You avoided it? Well, you guys are really strong~! This is my first time seeing such strong people. “What are you?”
Beatrix’s body begins to be ‘created’ out of thin air.
At first, only my arms appeared, targeting my vital points, then my torso, then my legs, and finally my head.
iced coffee… . I finally found out.
Beatrix’s abilities were so diverse that they were difficult to understand.
It’s not that she had numerous superpowers.
Because all abilities come from just one power.
She created a monster named ‘Beatrix’ with the power to create monsters.
I collapsed on the floor, my entire body feeling weak.
There was a scene where Jincheol summoned the star again and ran towards it.
If it were the power of the stars, it would take less than 5 seconds to destroy Beatrix… .
Five seconds was the time Beatrix could rip Jincheol’s head off about 10 times.
Jincheol’s neck rolled to my side.
…is this the end? really? like this?
There is an indescribable despair.
Something sharp pierced my stomach.
Just before she lost consciousness, Beatrix’s expression hardened.
“what? you! “What on earth did you do to headquarters?”
Sorry, but you should have asked that question before you put a hole in my stomach.
I lost consciousness with just a little, very little hope.
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