Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 209
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Episode 209 – No. 104, Room of the Curse – ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’ Re (3)
[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]
– Han Ga-in
“Holy Sun… .”
Aurelia’s expression as she looked at the flames was filled with joy and tears flowed down her face.
‘Divine Sun’
Is this room’s legacy? It seems to be an item that appears when a certain number of cultists die. If it is a religious group, there is likely to be a legend of a sacred object appearing to save the religious group when it is in danger.
During the first attempt, I left Aurelia in a dying state, but I realized why something incomprehensible had happened. When her saint was stabbed with her own sword and was in danger, a holy relic, recognizing the situation as a crisis of destruction for her order, appeared and allowed her lord to intervene.
The flame, which was weak at first like a match, suddenly flared up as if light was drawn from all directions. In a split second, the expanded flame gave off an overwhelming force that was incomprehensible. Everyone in the hall became as hard as stone.
look at the sun look at the sun look at the sun look at the sun look at the sun The sun came to me. My naturally outstretched hand caught the sun.
Son, the time has come.
I saw the sacred sun in my hand. I saw light reaching the distant sky. Just a little while ago, I was in the middle of an underground city where I couldn’t see the sky, and strangely enough, I saw a lamp in the sky that illuminated the entire world.
Son, where are you looking? The light is in your hand. There is no need to look at the sky with a headache.
I absentmindedly lowered my gaze to the ground. As soon as the small sun appeared, Aurelia and her companions all became as hard as rocks.
Everyone froze? no. It was then that I realized that not everyone was frozen, but that I was speeding up inexplicably.
“What on earth have you done to me…” .”
Don’t be afraid. Look at yourself.
In the sensation of rising into the sky, as if from a third-person perspective –
I felt the Lord seeping into me.
[Advent: 2 -> 1]
Aurelia cried and crawled in front of me.
“father… . father! Were you there! “You didn’t abandon me!”
Despair disappeared from her beautiful face and was filled with a distant feeling of adoration and victory.
“Aurelia, my faithful daughter.”
“father!”
“Now there is only one step left for me.”
— Sigh!
The outstretched finger instantly pierced Aurelia’s neck.
The Lord is trying to fix this room!
*
slow. All changes in the world are infinitely slow. Is this the world God sees? The changes in all things seem to have stopped.
Of course, we know that the world has not actually slowed down. I just went too fast. In real time, only about five seconds passed between losing control of her body to the Lord and the Lord suddenly piercing Aurelia’s throat.
However, my floating mind watched the sight of droplets of blood slowly scattering as if in slow motion. I heard the voice of the Lord occupying my body.
“Do not be afraid. The solution to this room is near. Kill Aurelia and deal with the remaining remnants of the church to complete this room. You will receive your inheritance, the ‘Divine Sun’. “I would like to congratulate you in advance.”
‘Aurelia’s punishment and the extinction of the church, were these the conditions for solving this room?’
“Isn’t it easy? The original scenario of No. 104 was not that difficult. To put it simply, you just have to kill Aurelia and her followers by force. “If you use your brain a little, there is a way to get help from outside forces.”
‘If Aurelia is in danger, won’t that holy relic appear? So your first attempt must have failed?’
“Holy relics always appear in this underground city.”
The underground city is Aurelia’s ‘headquarters’. Aurelia can never be defeated in this place. This is because the moment a person becomes dying, the sacred relics of the church appear and solve all crises. Was it the right solution to somehow use her brain to get Aurelia out of the Order and kill her?
At the same time, I realized that all this worrying was meaningless!
The reason is unknown, but it turns out that solving the room itself is the state’s goal. In this situation, what meaning is there in worrying about ‘how to solve this?’
‘What on earth are you thinking? Why on earth are you trying to fix the room?’
“Son, be humble in your words. I have promised you endless glory.”
It seemed like he had no intention of saying more. Let’s think calmly. The overwhelming acceleration of consciousness caused by Advent was also affecting me. So far, not even the first drop of blood from Aurelia’s body has fallen to the floor. There is still time.
What on earth is this guy’s purpose? Are you taking my body? But how is that possible? Once the room is solved, the prisoner will disappear, right? I don’t know how they’re trying to steal my body. According to my limited knowledge, the solution to the room is the disappearance of the prisoner. But now is not the time to waste time trying to understand the Lord’s plan.
Now is the moment to act. A book appeared in front of me. ‘Ju’s’ brow furrowed.
*
As soon as the power of the incarnation was manifested, consciousness emerged. I looked at myself from a higher place of consciousness, free from the shackles of my body under the Lord’s control. The situation in the arena came into view. The Lord in control of my body was holding on to the ‘Divine Sun’ that suddenly appeared in the air with one hand and piercing Aurelia’s neck with the other.
…
I saw a thread. When you first mastered the power of Avatar, or to be precise, part of it, did your colleagues say that this power resembled puppetry?
I see the thread connecting consciousness and the physical body. I see the line connecting the soul and the body. What controlled my body now was a thread that burned like a flame. A thread was sticking out from the holy relic of the cult called ‘Holy Sun’ and was touching my body.
What to do?
I realized it instinctively. I had a strange feeling that the grimoire was telling me what to do. A ‘black thread’ stretched from the grimoire. The moment the pitch-black thread touched my body again, I commanded my body.
‘Don’t move!’
As the instructions were given, my body became as hard as stone. At the same time, the thread of flame controlled by the Lord stirred!
At the moment when the black thread and the flame thread collided as if in a contest of strength, my entire body staggered and blood began to flow from my eyes, nose, etc. In the process of clashing between me and the attention control, which borrowed the power of the grimoire, an unbearable load was placed on my body.
The next moment, the Lord retreated. Unlike me, who didn’t mind death because I could be resurrected if I went outside anyway, the Lord didn’t seem to want my body to die. Thanks to this, even though I borrowed the power of the grimoire, I was at best a human wizard and succeeded in making God retreat.
… When the situation is confusing and you don’t know what action to take, it is very important to understand the enemy’s intentions. Just by interfering with what the enemy is trying to do, you will get halfway!
The fact that the Lord did not desire the death of my body gave me a direction.
I must kill my body.
The contradictory commands between me and the Lord stopped my body and about 3 seconds passed. In that split second, Aurelia, with a hole in her neck, had an expression on her face filled with confusion, and she began to run frantically somewhere.
What on earth is she thinking after losing her followers and being betrayed by God in a short period of time?
You never know. And now is not the time for me to worry about others. A hole was pierced in her neck, but she seemed to still have remnants of her transcendental power, as she was able to run, let alone die. In that moment, the hole in her neck was even closing up.
— Grumble!
The sun moves. I felt the wrath of the sun illuminating the universe. The sun, which was nowhere to be found, glared at the disembodied wizard.
“You’re making work a hassle!”
‘It’s not going to work out the way you want it to, either way.’
“Don’t be arrogant. “Do not mistakenly believe that the evil enlightenment you have gained is entirely your talent!”
Like a hazy cloud, a vague realization seeps in. Is it because I and ‘Lord’ share one body? Is it because in the aftermath of Advent, the spirit of the Lord and I were awkwardly mixed? Numerous secrets that the state had been hiding were leaked out.
I began to realize the reality of the plate the Lord had created. At the same time, I knew what I had to do now.
Another thread emerged from the grimoire. As the battle between superhumans began in a corner of the underground city, the stretched thread felt fear and flew towards a bird that was hiding with Lee Eun-sol and Kim Sang-hyeon.
— Beep!
*
As soon as he entered Pero’s body, the first thing he did was bite his sister’s hair mercilessly.
“Ugh~! “What is this-”
“Go towards Ari now! “Because I have something to tell everyone!”
I’ve been practicing speaking with my body a few times, but I’m using it faster than I thought! My sister, who was momentarily taken aback by the sight of a parrot that spoke so much like a human, quickly followed my instructions and joined Pero in the center.
The situation in the center was total chaos.
Let’s think about it from our colleagues’ perspectives. She thought she had defeated Aurelia when suddenly a mysterious object in the shape of a strange flame appeared in her thin air. At the same time, Han Ga-in used Kangrim, emitting golden light, and seemed to be about to kill Aurelia, but then stopped still, and in the meantime, Aurelia escaped.
The situation up to this point alone is confusing, but ‘Advent Gain’, who caused all the confusion, is frozen like a mannequin without saying anything or moving. The situation itself was confusing, but the overwhelming presence I gave off to subjugate mortals added to the confusion, and in the end, all my colleagues were lost.
Upon arrival, I gave instructions to everyone.
“Beep! fist!”
Everyone’s eyes were focused on Perot.
“Kill Han Ga-in right now!!!”
My instructions seemed to add to the confusion rather than calm it down. Ari asked, looking worried for a moment.
“Did you possess Pero? Then your original body… . Now, you wrote Advent, right? “What are you doing, the state?”
“that’s right! There is no time to explain, so hurry! “I don’t have much time to stop that body!”
The expressions of the group hardened. The situation that everyone feared, the clash with ‘Advent Gain’, came true.
Under extreme tension, I felt different pressure from my colleagues. Even though I vaguely understand the plan the state has made, I don’t know how to break it. If we ended up in this situation because we made a mistake, we just need to escape somehow and not make a mistake. but… .
We haven’t made a mistake since entering this room.
If there had been a mistake, re-entering this room itself might have been a mistake. An indescribable sense of crisis gripped my mind.
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