Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 206
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Episode 206 – Party Time – Last Meeting (2), re-entered issue 104.
– Eunsol Lee
In the past, in the Mansion of Horror, we repeated several attempts until we reached the fourth attempt. At that time, we were in a crisis due to an error in judgment that caused many of the group to leave for the underground facility, and in the end, Ga-in had to use Kangrim as the final solution.
If you think about it, none of us have ever seen Ga-in fight when he actually arrived. Ga-in just explained it himself after everything was over. At least he had a conversation with the Son of Heaven, and Ari, who understood Cain’s explanation in his own way, answered.
“I’ve never seen a fight in person either. However, you can guess its strength by considering who it is fighting.”
“You mean the person you fought with?”
“Did you say he was the prisoner in room 102, or rather, the prisoner’s eldest son? ‘The Unborn One’ was a moth as large as a mountain range, and he had the power to terraform an entire star with a single flap of his wings.”
“At that level, he is completely god himself. Are you saying he fought such a being one-on-one and killed it?”
“Strictly speaking, I killed it at the larval stage, before it became a moth. It may have been much weaker than the moth state, but it would be meaningless to discuss its strengths and weaknesses at our level. “It would be like ants discussing the growth stages of an elephant.”
“I know what you mean. It is said that he is strong enough to defeat a god of half a penny with force. Surely, if that’s the case, there wouldn’t be an answer even if this entire party attacked me right now.”
“i think so too.”
“At the same time, I find the power of ‘Advent’ to be absolutely absurd. It’s a pity why those of us who were dying in a hotel in the deep sea weren’t given that kind of luck… .”
Everyone was momentarily speechless and looked at Kim Sang-hyun. After patting his grandfather on the back a couple of times as if comforting him, Kim Sang-hyun soon opened his mouth again.
“Now I know why you said Room 104 was so strange. In my view, the value of the power of ‘Advent’ is more than legacy. “If I exaggerate a bit, it’s like a free pass for three rooms.”
Free pass for 3 rooms.
Although it may seem like an exaggerated expression, it is not wrong if you think about it carefully. The ‘unborn’ are the children of prisoners and were in an imperfect caterpillar state when they were defeated by the Son of Heaven. Considering this, it is unlikely that the Son of Heaven will do anything to the prisoner itself.
However, in the Cursed Room we have experienced so far, there has never been a case where we had to kill the prisoner to solve the problem. The prisoner was generally in a position of watching from a distance.
Except for prisoners who don’t need to fight anyway, there is no one who can stop the Son of Heaven in the Chamber of Curse. At that point, there is no need to devise tactics or strategies to solve the room. Even if you charge into an enemy right from the start, it’s strong enough to handle it within 3 minutes.
“It’s a power I originally thought was amazing, but after listening to Sanghyeon, it’s even more amazing. How on earth did the Lord bestow such power on Ga-in? “I don’t think it’s a legacy either.”
Ari pointed out the problems he felt from a different perspective.
“How did the Lord give such power? “There is something even more strange than that.”
“What’s the strangest thing?”
“The most surprising thing is why the hotel allowed such power. As Sanghyun said, a free pass for 3 rooms. In fact, it is an ability that has more value than legacy within the hotel, right? “We got that power for free.”
“There is no free lunch… . “I told you that when I first got Kangrim, this kind of notification appeared to Ga-in.”
“That kind of power must come at a price. “You just haven’t paid the price yet.”
My grandfather, who was listening quietly, expressed a different opinion.
“Gain may not necessarily pay the full price.”
“yes?”
“In the first place, did Cain or we ever ask the ‘Lord’ to give us that kind of power? I say this because it feels unfair to discuss the price of giving so much power when I never asked for it. Of course, no matter what, we used that power to break Room 102, and since we will be indebted to him twice more in the future, both Ga-in and we will have to pay a certain price.”
“But we won’t pay ‘all’?”
My grandfather didn’t answer as if he had nothing more to say, but this hypothesis felt plausible. He said that immediately after obtaining Advent in the first place, there was an unknown ‘negotiation’ between the great ones. Who were the beings who participated in the negotiations?
I think there was a ‘ju’ on at least one table. So who are these people on the other side? Who negotiated with the state and made a deal that gave us superpowers of enormous value? sponsor? Buddha?
If we don’t pay the full price, who pays the rest?
My head gets confused. So I decided to change the topic of conversation.
“Let’s stop talking about the price of advent. Fundamentally, it is a problem that Ga-in must solve on his own, and it is a topic that cannot be meaningfully discussed just by talking about it among ourselves.”
Sanghyun Kim nodded.
“Let us return to our original topic, the response to the Son of Heaven. “Seeing your reactions has convinced me of two things.”
“Two certainties?”
“First, let us avoid fighting with the Son of Heaven at all costs. I feel like I can never win.”
“Everyone will agree.”
“Second, so you won’t have to fight the Son of Heaven.”
“There is no need to fight in the first place. Actually, I think so too.”
Grandpa and Songi nodded as there were many people who had similar thoughts. Jincheol said with a slight smile.
“Sister, don’t you know enough about this hotel now? It’s not the hotel’s way to send you out to fight for your life against a demigod who can suddenly cause an earthquake with a wave of his hand. “If you’re going to kill us like that, just throw it in front of the prisoner’s mouth.”
“that’s right.”
“So, as soon as Cain starts, he comes down and wipes us all out. “There is no way the hotel could have created the same scenario.”
“Just don’t let down your guard. “Even if it’s not such an extreme case, I think the state will touch Ga-in somehow.”
“Let’s divide the response into two parts. First, keep the main details of the meeting hidden from Ga-in like you are now. Second, everyone watches Ga-in and if they see him acting ‘abnormal’, they immediately knock him out.”
Anyway, it seems difficult to come up with a response further than this right now. In the end, the Cursed Room is a structure where you have no choice but to find a solution by crashing into it and dying.
Elena, who was listening, brought up another story.
“What are you going to do Aurelia? “The Son of Heaven may not know, but Aurelia has figured out her ‘conditions for her appearance’ to some extent, right?”
“If you start making a fuss at school, you will step in. Because I already experienced it once. Elena what do you think? In fact, you are the only one who fought Aurelia on the first try.”
Elena seemed to recall a memory for a moment.
“I can’t compare with numbers, but at the time, I was the first to use the definition, and I think it has gotten stronger as I’ve used it several times since then, right?”
“I guess so. “I feel like everyone’s blessings and legacy are getting stronger.”
“I think I can handle it by myself now. “It would be easier if other people helped.”
Without realizing it, I was amazed. Apparently, Ari and Ga-in, who first encountered Aurelia in Room 104, said she was so transcendental that they couldn’t even dare to approach her, and I heard that Elena couldn’t last long and was defeated… .
Now, Elena is naturally saying that she thinks she will win 1-1. Of course, Elena, where justice is at work, is really strong, but I think we’ve grown quite a bit.
…except me.
If you think about it, the hand of greed has already been activated. At this party time, so many things happened at the same time that everyone needed a break, so I didn’t find the right time to use Greed’s Hand, which put another burden on me, but I’ll definitely use it next time.
Let’s stop thinking about this. It’s time to roughly allocate roles. The night before entering Room 104, the meeting lasted until very late.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 97
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage advice: [X]
– Han Ga-in
Unstable.
I have been through many cursed rooms and various trials! Aren’t you now an expert in strange things? But it’s been a long time since I entered the cursed room without knowing anything like this! It feels like the first time I woke up in a hotel and went into room 101 without any clue what was going on.
I started feeling anxious when I talked to my colleagues in the morning. Since she was in a meeting until late at night, she expected to hear a lot of information explained, but surprisingly, it took less than 10 seconds for the explanation to end. I decided to try the interpretation of the hint again after gathering more information, and I decided to mark Aurelia with Elena like before.
Really, these two sentences are everything. It took about 10 seconds to hear everything explained. Is this really the result of the late-night meeting?
Of course, I am not an idiot, so I understood the situation. My colleagues suspected that I might be manipulated by the Lord, so I decided to hide my plan. I understand. Because I’m not a childish person who gets upset over something like this. However, anxiety is inevitable.
Let’s think of something else. It is reasonable to suspect that the Lord may be manipulating me. Because I am keeping that possibility in mind. Is there any way for me to respond to this myself?
It’s called ‘manipulation’. The ability I realized this time is also the ability to ‘manipulate’.
The voices of my colleagues were heard from afar.
“Cain! “Do you have anything else to prepare?”
“no. “Go now!”
Just before entering, Ari said something meaningful to me.
“Gain.”
“huh?”
“Don’t be too surprised when you go in.”
“What are you telling me not to be surprised by?”
“Anyway, don’t be surprised.”
I was already anxious because I went in without knowing what my colleagues were planning, but hearing things like this made me even more anxious.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 97
Current location: Tier 1, Room 104 – Room of the Cursed ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’
Sage advice: [X]
Ding dong dang dong~!
When I came to my senses, I found myself wearing the hotel high school uniform again.
There have been many attempts to define what music is in terms of the specific att- If you look at the meaning of this sentence through the context before and after, ——–
I automatically exclaimed at the ‘friendly’ sound coming from the front of the classroom, and then looked around with glares. Her familiar colleagues appear. Ari with a subtle expression, Elena wearing a school uniform, and Songi with a parrot on her shoulder.
No, the hotel sets it up anyway, but does it make sense to bring a parrot to school? She is stroking Song-Ido Pero and laughing as if she is dumbfounded.
— Shake it off!
When I looked in the direction where the loud sound came from, Seung-yeop, who had grown in size, was standing up. Seungyeop had a hand hammer in his hand.
…Hand hammer?
“Park Seung-yeop! “What on earth are you making a fuss about during class?”
— Boom!
I lost my mind.
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