Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 211



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Episode 211 – No. 104, Room of the Curse – ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’ Re (5)

afraid. I am so scared of this situation.

I recall the memory of the second time I came to my senses in the hotel while listening to the thunderous roar of a battle that seemed as if the world would collapse. At the moment of resurrection, my first thought when I saw my new colleagues in front of me was simple.

How on earth did these people make it to the second floor?

It’s something I never said in front of my new colleagues, but I think I would have felt the same way even if someone other than me had been resurrected.

In a dangerous place like a hotel, when you see a girl who looks like she’s in her teens at best, a boy who looks younger than that, or a girl in her 30s who seems to have lived in a precious environment, anyone can’t help but ask, ‘How on earth did you get here?’ !

So did the rest. Is it any better for a boy who has just entered college or a girl who is an aspiring actress?

At least there is an old man from the management bureau, a giant with a bulky physique, and a mysterious young woman called Miro’s daughter. I guessed that the three people leading the party had somehow come here.

It was only recently that I realized how foolish I was.

iced coffee! In the world of the supernatural, how worthless is the common sense I have accumulated over 40 years? Didn’t the ‘she’ who terrified everyone in the deep sea hotel in the first place look like a girl in her mid-teens at most?

It was only after experiencing the bloody battle between the demigods that unfolded in the center of the underground city that I finally realized it.

There are no humans in this place. The weak have already been crushed like insects, and the only ones left standing are evil gods and demigods who mistakenly believe they are still humans.

…

I heard a divine voice.

‘You, Kim Sang-hyun, what made you so afraid?’

“… Oh God.”

‘Do not be afraid. I have prepared a place for you; why are you sitting in the wrong place? Come to my side. The day I go out, you will sit right below the greatest seat.’

*

– Eunsol Lee

After the hotel high school was devastated, he carried Pero and Elena on his back and started moving towards the location where his grandfather was. As time passed, my mind slowly began to calm down. If you think about it, the current situation is not a major crisis. I don’t know how to solve the difficulties in this room, but I’ve prepared two means of escape!

In the first place, if the worst happens, the possibility that we may end up fighting Ga-in, especially the descended Ga-in, is a risk factor that our party had thought about from a long time ago. So how should we respond to this? The night before entering Room 104, the conclusion reached in a meeting that lasted until late at night was simple.

I can’t win. Kanglim Gain can never be defeated.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there were no solutions. If there wasn’t a solution, they wouldn’t have come in the first place. The solution is simple.

First, let Seung-yeop escape in advance.

Second, entrust the escape button to Grandpa Mukseong and send him away separately.

The first measure is underway. According to Ari’s experience who succeeded in escaping during the first attempt, in the case of room 104, being caught by the police did not mean escaping immediately. You can only escape if you go through trial, get a final sentence, and completely eliminate the possibility of returning to Hotel High School.

Of course, this method of escape takes longer than expected, as it takes at least a month until the first trial verdict is issued, and there are many variables in the middle. So now it seems like we need to implement the second measure. Shouldn’t Grandpa press the escape button? Let’s at least have a meeting.

“sister.”

… For the sake of convenience, let’s refer to Cain, who was possessed by Pero, as ‘Perot Cain’ from now on.

“huh?”

“I was thinking about it as I came, does your grandfather have an escape button?”

“that’s right.”

“Did you tell me to press a button through the chat window?”

“What are you talking about? If you used a chat window, you know. Haven’t said anything yet. “I want to meet you and talk.”

“…Sister, I can’t use the chat window anymore.”

I was momentarily speechless. Several hours have already passed since Ga-in became possessed by Pero. Pero Gain is no longer a participant as per the hotel.

“sister. You can’t escape now. “Please tell your grandfather never to press the escape button.”

… It seems like something unusual has happened. Ga-in relayed to her grandfather not to escape as he said.

“I delivered. I’ll arrive at Grandpa’s place in about 15 minutes. “When we arrive, I think you’ll have a lot to explain to us.”

“yes.”

The meeting began as soon as we arrived at the hideout where my grandfather was hiding.

*

“If I escape now, I’ll be in big trouble? what are you talking about? “Did we come here believing we could escape?”

As expected, as soon as we arrived, the grandfather asked back with a puzzled expression.

Pero Gain began a long explanation.

“First, let me tell you what the current situation is. To start with the negative factors, my incarnation power was released a while ago. To begin with, I could only use the power of Avatar for about 10 minutes. So the state is now free to act. Of course, right now, I’m busy recovering my body.”

The state can already move freely! That fact alone made my grandfather and I look pale. Her grandfather asked right back.

“But why are we still alive? If he could move freely, he would have killed us right away, right? “Is it still because of that injury?”

“There may be injury issues, but the bigger reason is that Kanglim is over. The power and duration of Advent are never infinite. We poured everything we had into it and succeeded in ending the duration of Advent. This is a good element. “The sad thing is that there is one more episode left.”

The second advent has already ended. That’s why the Lord didn’t immediately pursue us and kill us! However, when we heard that there was a third advent left, our expressions turned pale again. Faroe Cain began explaining again.

“According to information gathered shortly before the connection was lost, the Lord’s injuries were still very serious at the end of the descent. Jincheol, Songi, and Ari’s sacrifice was a valid blow. Elena’s destruction of the ground was also very effective. Also, Advent has the power to force the Lord himself to suffer a great deal of bleeding, so there is still some time before the third Advent is used.”

There is still time. At those words, my grandfather and I touched his heart.

“You asked me earlier why I couldn’t escape, right? That’s because of the hotel’s system. As I will emphasize several times later, you are truly very different from other prisoners. He’s not a prisoner… .”

“Rather than a prisoner?”

“Like a game player, I’m poking around in the hotel’s system. As you know, the ‘Status Window’ is attached to the body, so even if my mind moves to another body, it does not move accordingly. I don’t see the status window right now. This means I am no longer a participant. “Blessings are proof of the participants.”

This is what I guessed. Now ‘Faro Gain’ is no longer a participant.

… So, who has Ga-in’s qualifications as a participant now passed to?

“main! “The contestant’s qualifications have now been passed over to that guy!”

“that’s right. The status window and participant qualifications were transferred to the owner who took over my body. In the first place, he used ‘Descent’ the moment he first took over my body. At that time, they had already started sharing their participant qualifications with me, and now that I have lost my participant qualifications after exceeding the one hour limit for possession, only Joo is left with participant qualifications.”

“I’m curious since you said the status window and participant qualifications have passed. What happened to the grimoire?”

“That’s a bit of an interesting part. I was curious as this was my first time experiencing something like this, but I still have the grimoire. If you think about it, it seems natural. “I have possessed other people’s bodies several times in the meantime, and each time the status window did not follow, but the grimoire did.”

Now, the status window and participant qualifications belong to the state buried in the underground city, not to the ‘Faro Cain’ present here. Should I say that it is fortunate? The ownership of the grimoire belongs to Faro Cain.

Pero Cain continued his explanation.

“As you know, escape is different from resolution. When the cursed room is resolved, the entire room disappears, but there is no escape. The room is still available. If any of us escape, the remaining can continue on. “Didn’t we use this principle several times in the first place?”

“It’s a tactic that has been used several times since the media changed common sense. First, let 1-2 people escape and try to resolve the rest.”

“That principle also applies to states that qualify as participants. “What will happen if Grandpa, Seung-yeop, or Sister escape now?”

“I guess I’ll just stay in this room and continue on.”

“And he’s going to fix this room someday.”

Here, my grandfather made a puzzled expression. Unlike me, who had already realized that the Lord was trying to settle her room by killing Aurelia, my grandfather, who was not at the scene, did not understand what Perogaine was talking about.

“Am I the only one who can’t keep up with the conversation? Why on earth is the prisoner cleaning up the room? Are you a suicidal person? If it is resolved, won’t the Lord disappear and Cain come out by acquiring your inheritance? Are you worried that the Lord will remain in your head?”

“That’s not it. “The moment the Cursed Room is resolved, all the damage we suffered disappears.”

“That’s what I said. Even though your body has been taken over by Lord, at best he is like Son Goku in the palm of Buddha in front of the hotel. “As soon as the room is fixed, the hotel will treat you and erase that guy from your head.”

“Grandfather, once the cursed room is resolved, everything inside the room will disappear. Prisoners, opponents, NPCs. “But there’s only one thing you can do to get out of the cursed room.”

“we?”

“Not us. ‘Legacy’.”

My grandfather and I were momentarily speechless.

“Grandpa, sister. The legacy, the ‘Divine Sun’, is another self created by the Lord. His goal now is not to take my body. Stealing my body is simply a means of robbing us of our qualifications as participants and making our escape meaningless, and is just a kind of short-term goal. His goal is to somehow get us to resolve this room and release the ‘Divine Sun’ into the outside world.”

So, to roughly summarize what I understand now… .

1. The Lord’s purpose is to solve the room and send out another self, the ‘Divine Sun’, into the outside world.

2. Joo gained qualification as a contestant by stealing Ga-in’s body. This gave him the right to proceed through the room alone even if we escaped using means such as the escape button.

I feel dizzy.

Once you enter the room, there are only three outcomes: solution, escape, or extermination. Extermination is something that should not happen, and the solution itself serves the Lord’s purpose. If you try to escape, they will only let you proceed on your own!

How on earth should we break this plan designed by the state? Faroe Cain’s explanation continued for a long time afterwards.

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