Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 367
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Episode 367 – No. 205, Room of the Curse – ‘Absolute Master’ (16)
When the sudden death of the emperor’s advisor, Jo Hwa-mun-ju, became known, the area around the wall fell into chaos.
In the first place, the emperor was a boy in his early teens, so it was no different from the death of the actual ruler of the empire.
However, there were also people who did not care about external chaos at all.
The phantom demon that had stolen Sanghyeon’s body flashed its eyes.
“Hey~! Ja-seong: Are you very old?”
“…”
“Wonhong, that bastard looks so vivid even though he’s over 200 years old, so why are you so old already?”
“You’re the same as before.”
“Hey, I’m the best expert in the world, so I’m different from you-”
“I’m saying this because he was beaten like a dog, locked in a catacombs, and slept for 30 years, and his snout seems to be floating on the water.”
For the first time, the phantom demon’s expression hardened.
This is because being sealed in Heavenly Mountain for 30 years due to the combined efforts of the ‘bugs’ that he had ignored so much was a humiliation that was difficult for him to bear.
A soft sound came from the illusionist’s window, and five blue illusions appeared.
As the group dance of the spears rotating in a spiral flew in, filling all directions, it was like many masters doing the same movement in one breath.
The moment Lee Ja-seong’s eyes bloomed and penetrated the illusion, the intuition of an absolute expert informed him that all the windows were illusions and real at the same time.
‘In that case, all you have to do is cut them all down at once!’
As a bolt of lightning came from Lee Ja-seong’s sword and tore through the air, the spears created by the phantom demon were broken all at once.
The phantom demon showed a genuinely happy expression and this time twisted his right hand in a strange way.
The air seemed to tremble strangely, and a hand filled with indescribable ominousness appeared from thin air and attacked Lee Ja-seong.
“Taaat!”
At that time, Lee Ja-seong’s sword moved in a way that could not be explained.
It was not as fast as light, nor as hard as steel, nor as strong as an ox.
However, because there was no hesitation in the sword, the sword of no love was able to advance leisurely and tear off the sinister hand.
The Hwanma who saw the scene was amazed.
“amazing! “Is this a skill you learned recently?”
“…”
Lee Ja-seong stiffened his expression instead of answering.
This is because I know this because I have risked my life to trap a phantom demon.
The Hwanma’s mischievous attitude only comes out when he has some free time.
“Aye~! It won’t work. After all, it’s hard to defeat you when you fight with just one spear.”
Lee Ja-seong felt that his opponent had the skills to be one of the top ten in the world even if he was holding a sword or a spear.
It’s just that Lee Ja-seong himself, who stopped him, is the best in the world at this type of combat.
There was no sense of defeat on the face of Hwanma, who said that it would be difficult to defeat Lee Ja-seong.
The martial art of wielding a sword was everything to Lee Ja-seong, but for him it was just one of his many talents.
Finally, the moment when the Hwanma’s eyes shine with an expression that says ‘the joke is over’ –
Lee Ja-seong broke his heart.
…
“that’s interesting.”
When Lee Ja-seong finally came to his senses, the other person looked genuinely surprised, unlike before when he seemed to be joking.
“Have you created a wall in your heart? “What kind of talent is this?”
“… It’s all about dividing your mind.”
“Our hearts are divided, but we are still one? “A method to counter my divorce magic attack?”
“…”
“This is really amazing. It’s even better than that unusual swordsmanship from before. But, doesn’t it seem like an unnecessary burden has been added?”
It seemed like the Hwanma still wasn’t serious about this fight.
Just looking at this current attitude, it is the same.
If it were a matter of life and death, would you be able to pick up this and that during a confrontation like this?
It’s almost like the absolute being above is teaching the underlings a lesson.
That’s why Lee Ja-seong rushed in without hesitation.
“It was nice to have ‘divided feelings’ to share our hearts, but there is no reason to bring them together through ‘Ilyeo’ -”
— Come on!
As if in a lie, the phantom demon’s head rose into the air, and the body beneath the head fell down like a doll with its strings cut.
“There is no reason to gather them all together.”
And Sanghyun’s head rolled around on the floor as he continued the conversation.
“…”
Lee Ja-seong was not surprised again.
I’ve known for a long time that this monster won’t die even if you cut off its head and burn its body.
Instead, the old man took out a mysterious five-colored bead from his chest and broke it.
— Grumble!
The mysterious flame instantly spread in all directions and began to burn the entire room.
If things continued like this, both the old man and his head, which had been rolling on the floor, would have been reduced to ashes, but neither of them showed any sign of fear.
“No, what is this really?”
“Would Jo Won-hong have been playing around while I was creating distractions?”
“aha! Is this a trick created by an idiot from Baehwagyo? “You made it into an object and gave it to you?”
“You, in the flames of purification, you will no longer be able to steal the bodies of others.”
“Hey~! “Both Ja-seong and Won-hong lived really hard?”
“…”
“So am I finished now?”
“maybe.”
“good. Let’s finish talking about what we were talking about earlier. “Why did you gain the great enlightenment of dividing your mind through distraction, but then bring it back together through Ilyeo?”
“…”
“It’s obvious at first glance. Were you afraid that your mind would break apart? So I collected it back. “Make 10 hands and then tie them together with thread to make two lumps.”
— Come on!
Muae’s sword split the head of the illusionary demon rolling on the floor.
In a quiet space, amidst the burning black flames, Lee Ja-seong muttered with an expression of uncertainty.
“I am… . You’re not wrong. The self comes from uniqueness, so how can this be broken down? never -”
At that moment, a cold voice was heard from outside.
“That’s why you’re not good enough. “If you just take one step, you can reach heaven, but if you can’t go over that, you end up like this again.”
The burning wall crumbles like a piece of paper.
Feeling dizzy, Lee Ja-seong turned his head to see dozens of soldiers surrounding him.
The moment Lee Ja-seong looked into the soldiers’ eyes, he finally realized the true nature of the leisure that the Hwanma had shown.
From the beginning.
Even before Lee Ja-seong broke the marble and created a flame of purification.
The phantom demon had already stolen the bodies of multiple humans at the same time.
Kim Sang-hyeon was just one of the ten fingers of the Hwanma.
“Jaseong, this is the real ‘divided mind.’ “There is no need to add unnecessary extras here.”
“I shouldn’t have been able to do something like this in the first place!”
“Is there still any left? “Just give it a try.”
Only after seeing the devil’s grinning smile did the old man realize that victory and defeat had been decided from the beginning.
It’s just that the devil had no intention of killing the old man easily.
The Hwanma wanted to see the moment when Lee Ja-seong lost and despaired even after using all the tricks he had prepared.
“By the way, I found the best weapon out there. I have never seen a more outstanding body under the sky. “You mean the North Star General?”
*
– Elena
“hurry! “Get ready quickly!”
“Yes, Apostle. “You just have to wait a little while.”
He calmed his frantically beating heart and encouraged the soldiers around him.
When I looked at Seungyeop next to me, his face turned blue and he was trembling with fear.
When I returned from the wall and woke up from exhaustion, almost all of my colleagues were dead!
What on earth is going on?
When I woke up, Eunsol had been brutally murdered.
I was surprised and called my colleagues through the chat window, but no one answered except Seungyeop.
Of course, there is a distance limit in the chat window, so if you are too far away, you won’t be able to reply –
Damn!
Am I stupid?
I’m still not stupid enough to expect anyone to be alive in this situation!
A hundred ominous predictions are coming from the hotel?
I am certain that all my colleagues are dead except Seungyeop and me.
At this point, I gave up any thoughts of fighting back.
What if I write a definition?
This means that this idea itself has been abandoned.
In the first place, sinister imagination has been stretched to its limits a while ago, so it will be difficult to use it any longer, and it is also difficult to believe in justice since you don’t know if the other person is a human or a monster.
So, they dragged Seung-yeop, who was sleeping unconsciously, and started an escape operation.
It has to bounce!
Let’s jump to the west like we did in the first round!
Fortunately, preparations for escape were made quickly.
It may have been because I was urging them on from the side, and even to the people of the Avester Church, what was happening on the wall was unusual.
As soon as the carriage was ready, Seung-yeop and I got on board, and less than a minute later, the horses started running.
“Uh, sister… .”
“…”
“Can I live?”
“I hope so.”
While spending time in tension, suddenly a loud noise was heard outside and the carriage stopped.
I got out of the carriage, leaving behind Seungyeop, who looked out of breath.
“What happened?”
“It’s no big deal! You can get back in the carriage!”
As the article said, it wasn’t a big deal.
A guard at the guard post who did not understand the situation blocked the carriage, but the soldier dispatched from Avester Bridge resolved the situation by killing the guard without hesitation.
A situation where an unknown entity is trying to harm the emperor.
There was no one here who cared about the lives of guards or anything like that.
At that time, Seungyeop next to me showed signs of embarrassment.
“uh?”
“what’s the matter?”
“Heavenly luck suddenly -”
…
[Myunggyeong index is working.]
Suddenly, when I came to my senses… .
I was speechless.
What happened?
I lost consciousness due to an unknown force, and came to my senses when the Myeongjang Index started working.
The Myeongkyung Index is a power given by the patron to prevent the aftereffects of ‘ominous imagination’, so if there is a mental abnormality, it takes effect after some time.
therefore… .
“Ugh!”
The time it took for me to lose my mind through some kind of means and for Myungkyung Jisoo to restore me.
A few minutes at most.
“…”
Everyone died.
In that short period of time, everyone from the driver of the carriage to the servants had died, and the entire area was filled with corpses.
Seo, is Seung-yeop one of these corpses?
I killed Seungyeop with my own hands?
How could such a terrible-
At that moment, I heard a familiar voice that stopped my destructive thoughts.
“First Apostle!”
“… Seung-yeop?”
As I lifted my head in a half-fazed state, Seung-yeop came towards me, covered in blood and crying.
thank god.
thank god.
Since we both lived, somehow –
…
‘First Apostle?’
It’s just the two of us, Seungyeop and me.
He was called the first apostle.
— Phew!
A sharp sword pierced my heart in an instant.
What came into view was the face of a boy smiling like a mischievous person.
In the pain that felt like hot flames were engulfing my entire body, I clenched my teeth and unleashed the power of justice.
The golden scales swirled in all directions, lifting Seungyeop’s body in a split second –
I couldn’t throw it away.
First, because Seung-yeop was a victim whose body was stolen by an unknown devil, he was not subject to justice.
Second, my death is already inevitable, and if Seung-yeop dies, everything will truly end.
“…”
“Ahaha! Even though the person has changed, the power of Baehwagyo’s first apostle is the same as before? You can’t harm a child carelessly? Or is it that I cannot harm you because you are a victim whose body was taken from me?”
“…”
“You can’t defeat me because you cling to such trivial notions. okay?”
The body falls apart.
In the first place, there is no physical recovery from the power of justice, so you can no longer fight with your heart pierced.
Even if I could fight more… .
According to my definition, there was no way to judge a phantom demon while slaughtering innocent victims.
It’s the worst compatibility.
… A ‘different definition’ is needed.
To judge the devil, there is justice that can burn even a million people like feathers.
*
– maze
scared.
It’s really so scary.
I’m afraid to even imagine what the devil I gave freedom to would have done.
A breathtaking fear is eating away at my soul.
Paradoxically, what made me move in this situation was fear itself.
I was so afraid that everyone would die except me, and that my death would mean the end of everything… .
I gritted my teeth, stood up, and summoned Cha Jin-cheol.
He used the power of the star fragments to destroy the terrain and let me out of Heavenly Mountain.
I ran.
Getting from Heavenly Mountain to the capital in a short period of time by running on two feet.
It’s too much for a teenage girl’s body.
No matter how hard you try, it is physically impossible.
However, it was possible for even a teenage girl to use the power of a protective suit to destroy a tree with a single punch or level the ground with a single kick.
…
When I finally reached the wall, I realized it was already too late.
A hell that cannot be expressed in human words.
A world full of screams.
Thousands of skewers sprouted all over the plain.
There was a person hanging on the end of the skewer.
It’s coming.
Far away, in the dark.
A being that seemed to embody fear walked slowly.
He recognized me.
“Hey~! “You’re the kid who freed me, right?”
I put my trembling hands into my arms.
clock. Not an hourglass, but a pocket watch.
my legacy. My hope.
— Bang!
“What is that again? Is it different from the old hourglass? “You have a lot of interesting things, right?”
The hands of the clock point towards midnight.
My past, present, and future awakened.