Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 368
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Episode 368 – No. 205, Room of the Curse – ‘Absolute Master’ (17)
– Park Seung-yeop
I look down at a world full of pain and despair.
People were impaled like fish and dying painfully on the ends of skewers that were everywhere.
What was happening on the ground was even more bizarre.
Even though they knew that they would become the devil’s playthings, the people living on the wall were putting themselves behind bars.
It looks like a pig spreading spices on its body with its own hands and then climbing onto the frying pan.
Like this, how cruel must it have been for people to break their will to resist the phantom demon?
I got scared just thinking about it, so I just closed my eyes.
“Open your eyes.”
“…”
“Do you want me to knit it myself? “By threading it with a needle?”
“Oh, no!”
“You are an emperor in name and appearance, but shouldn’t you see what kind of suffering your people are going through?”
“Are you looking for revenge? “Because the previous emperor participated in sealing you?”
“Umm… .”
“Je, j, j-”
“If you keep acting like a stutterer, I might rip your snout off.”
“… If you hate my father, how about destroying his grave and burning his body?”
“Hey~! Still, isn’t he your father? “Are you openly telling me to attend to my adjutant?”
“The living must live! “The Emperor must be burning in hell.”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t believe in life after death. God of Baehwagyo? “He’s just an extremely strong devil.”
“…”
“What should I do with the dead emperor? He gave up. It’s like death is out of my hands. “By the way, are you left?”
“Hi!”
“Don’t worry. Because I will hold you tight with my hand. very… . for a long time. Come have fun with me. so -”
At that moment, when I was out of breath and wished I would faint, the phantom demon suddenly stood up, tilting its head.
“Ohh? “Your benefactor has come?”
A benefactor?
“The person who freed me from that damn prison, Heavenly Mountain, has come!”
What kind of bastard released the phantom demon?
The phantom grinned and walked towards someone I couldn’t even see clearly.
I am… .
I wanted to rest now.
If there is a God in heaven, I begged him to please give me some rest.
That’s why I was able to laugh when the golden thunderbolt that seemed to set the whole world on fire appeared in the sky.
Now that I know it’s time to relax… .
This was my last memory.
— Qarring!
*
The moment the needle pointed to midnight, the girl realized.
I realized that summoning one’s own past through the power of time zone excitation is fundamentally different from summoning others.
The body, mind, soul, memory, and power of a long time ago – or rather, the totality of all of these mixed together overwrites the present.
The girl who found innocence again saw another future that either existed or will happen to her.
In the Nightmare Before Christmas, he saw himself entering the Bureau without his friends, the endless secrets of the world he learned as an agent, and the countless decisions he made along the way.
The girl who returned through time saw the pure potential she had lost.
Before losing his friends, he saw himself joining the hotel with someone’s help, his ‘daughter’, and his colleagues who created an ideal relationship.
At the end, the maze woke up.
At the same time, a mysterious vision filled her vision.
A woman wearing a robe weighed down the maze with an overwhelming presence.
“long time no see.”
“…”
“It seems like I have received a different blessing now. But when I wrote myself here in time, my blessing was justice.”
“Don’t you dare put ‘justice’ in your mouth. “It is its self-righteousness and its violence.”
“I remember we’ve had this discussion quite a few times. Are you planning on doing it again?”
“… iced coffee.”
A golden wave fell from the sky.
Miro considered the power familiar and at the same time unfamiliar.
For one of the two girls who were clumsily mixed up, this was a familiar phenomenon, but for the other, it was her first time experiencing it.
At that time, a panicked voice was heard.
“This? Is it the power of the first apostle? Apparently, I killed him a few days ago! “What on earth are you doing-”
“… I am.”
“what?”
“I have destroyed countless species like you.”
The phantom demon felt intense pressure and took a step back without realizing it.
“This time will be no different.”
The maze of justice, golden waves gather into the sky like waves.
At that time, the Hwanma implemented the ‘best response method’ that he learned from his long conflict with the first apostle of Baehwagyo.
He immediately moved back and hid among the innocent people on the wall.
Rather than simply hiding the body it was controlling, it split the mental body itself and infiltrated the terrified civilians.
Miro thought this was a pretty good response.
For example, Elena would not have been able to indiscriminately harm innocent citizens whose bodies were taken over by demons.
Even if it were a superhero with just character from the movie, not Elena, her hands and feet might have been tied in this situation.
Why is this so?
This is because their justice is a universally valid ethics for humanity.
‘Even if you miss ten criminals, don’t punish one innocent person.’
Isn’t this a utopia that humanity has reached after many years of deliberation?
…
Here, there is another ‘different definition’.
‘Even if it means burning ten innocent people, don’t miss one corrupt person.’
Ignorant people would consider this logic to be madness and violence, not justice.
Not like that.
Rather, this logic is very familiar to mankind.
However, it is only the logic of ‘quarantine’, not the law.
When foot-and-mouth disease occurs in a specific area, all pigs and cattle in that area must die.
In this process, it is not a subject of consideration whether or not an individual has a ‘sin’ or is infected.
This is because in order to save more livestock, they must die for the sake of humanity.
In Miro’s opinion, the Bureau’s beliefs were also similar.
This is because the ‘Chaos Disaster’, with all the demons, ghosts, and monsters spreading among people, was similar to a kind of great plague.
Not because we consider humans insignificant, but to protect humanity.
Because the object of loyalty is not individual humans, but humanity as a whole.
Because of this, Miro was able to sentence the 37,892 people on the wall to death without any hesitation.
*
Lightning struck.
Just one blow.
The power of judgment created by the maze shattered the entire barrier.
Eventually, a great silence fell over the entire wall.
People who were locked in iron bars waiting for death, people who were skewered and groaned in pain, and even the young emperor who was hanging from a pole and shaking in fear.
Equal rest was given to everyone.
The next moment, the silence was broken.
This is because a man radiating black energy came out through the pulverized debris.
His body was incredibly large and strong.
Burns all over his body were even being played in real time.
“Is that Cha Jin-cheol’s body? “The durability is amazing.”
Additionally, there were three people who survived by using Cha Jin-cheol’s body as a shield.
They were all puppets of a phantom demon, so whether it could be said that they ‘survived’ in the true sense was another question.
“this! this! Oh, you crazy bastard! “Do you have any idea how many people you killed?”
“As much as needed.”
The Hwanma was momentarily speechless at that calm answer.
“no… . “You, you, you-”
“You can’t protect humanity only if you are afraid of sacrifice.”
“Hey you bastard! “Even if I add up all the people I’ve killed over hundreds of years, it’s still less than the number you’ve killed right now!”
“A person’s life is lighter than a feather… .”
“Please have some humanity, you two bastards!”
Suddenly, Miro realized that he no longer had any power of justice left.
This may be because all the power given by the patron was used up while creating the lightning.
Also, it seemed like my sponsor was tired of me because of what happened a little while ago.
I guess it was good.
Because the power of justice was only a part of Maze’s power.
Blood flow accelerates.
The boiling power of ‘old blood’ gave her body superhuman physical strength.
Next, a jet black spear appeared out of thin air.
As soon as the ‘Spear of Mortality’ awakened, it began spewing endless hatred towards the living.
Lastly – the time zone needle here started to move strangely.
When I saw that scene, the illusionist’s first thought was:
Maybe today is the end of his long life.
The next moment, Miro kicked Daejeon and flew up.
On the contrary, the illusionist put all the dolls back and put both hands together.
A total of three dolls muttered ominous words and made hand signs, and their bodies distorted like clay and came together as one.
Three heads, six arms and six legs.
Rather than being a human being, he was no different from the incarnation of Asura, a monster that would never be seen in human history, that is, a phantom demon.
Asura rushed at Miro from the front.
In keeping with this, Hwanma moved Cha Jin-cheol’s body and occupied the rear of the maze.
Hwanma was confident in this attack.
The power of Asura (阿修羅), summoned with more than half of his power, was a monster of the past that even Lee Ja-seong or Jo Won-hong could not handle.
That wasn’t all.
The Hwanma assured that the Bukdu General who occupied the rear was a warrior born with the best body in human history.
“Graaaa!”
A lion’s tail that shook the heavens and earth burst out from Asura’s mouth.
It is so powerful that any human being, even if they are a master, will burst their eardrums and melt their corneas!
However, the phantom demon had no choice but to doubt his eyes due to the strange phenomenon in front of him.
‘What on earth is this?’
Suddenly, Miro’s body seemed to become blurry, and he escaped from Lion’s Roar as if nothing had happened.
Asura began to vent even more anger at Miro.
One day –
Asura’s six hands immediately occupied all the directions in which Miro’s body could move.
At the same time, the huge spear in the hand of the Great General of the North Star blocked her retreat.
Asura’s attack could not be imitated by the human body structure, even if he was the best expert in the world, and there was no way to block it.
Even if Lee Ja-seong is the number one close combat fighter, the same is true.
I was confident because I was the one who defeated Lee Ja-seong.
At that time, the second hand of the pocket watch that was in the arms of the maze, in a place out of the phantom demon’s sight, shook.
Then, Miro’s body disappeared ‘in that time zone’.
Asura’s six weapons and the North Star General’s spear split the air in vain.
Even if it is a sword wielded by an invincible expert, there is no way it can cut down a non-existent enemy.
It’s the same way we avoided Lion’s Roar.
A strange movement that cannot be understood at all. No, can this be called ‘movement’?
What kind of ‘footwork’ or ‘martial arts’ can something that suddenly disappears from the world and then reappears?
It would have been more understandable if the opponent had struck away Asura’s large body in an instant with ridiculous strength, or had withstood Asura’s attack with his body with absurd durability.
“What kind of power is this!”
That’s why the phantom demon couldn’t hold back and shouted.
Instead of answering, Miro stretched out his jet-black spear.
A whirlwind of infinite malice.
Infinite hatred for all living things pierced Asura’s massive body.
“Kwaaaaaak!”
A childlike scream echoes from Asura’s mouth.
The condensed magic beast, a condensation of the power accumulated over thousands of years by the three sacrifices and the phantom demon, began to collapse like ice melting in boiling water.
“Big!”
It’s torn.
It collapses.
disappears.
What was destroyed by that ominous spear a moment ago was not only the monster called Asura and the power of the phantom demon it contained.
Something more fundamental than that.
The soul of the phantom demon that resided in Asura itself, and furthermore, part of the source of immortality.
The Hwanma recalled a memory from a long time ago.
Now it is a memory of a distant past that even he had forgotten, or rather had mistakenly thought he had forgotten.
A feeling from when he was also a lowly mortal.
Fear and despair.
Pain and sadness.
When the phantom’s thoughts reach this point –
Cha Jin-cheol’s body turned back.
— Boom!
With the sound of a shell exploding, Cha Jin-cheol’s large figure flew into the sky.
“uh?”
Miro was embarrassed for the first time.
The opponent threw everything and started running away!
“Ah, this bastard is real! Where did your guts go? Where has the dignity of an absolute master gone?”
…
The Hwanma thought, recalling memories of a time when he was weak that he had forgotten for a long time.
‘I don’t have anything like that!’
Weren’t there any dangerous moments while working in secret for a long time?
The secret to a phantom demon’s survival is to run away without shame when it senses something strange!
‘It’s just that after I became as strong as I am now, it was rare to run away!’
The chase began.