Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 40
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Episode 40 – Sanctuary of Blessing, Entering Room 104
Episode 38 – Sanctuary of Blessing, Entering Room 104 [User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom)
Date: Day 14
Current location: Hierarchy ???, Sanctuary of Blessing
Sage Advice: 3]
Strange space. Is it because it is a ‘sanctuary’?
Brightness like starlight poured down from the endless high sky,
There is a huge condensation of light on the ground and displays that we have seen here and there in the hotel.
At least it doesn’t feel like there’s any danger.
As I was about to relax, a string of characters appeared on the display.
/Congratulations on reaching the Sanctuary of Blessing! Challengers can understand and strengthen their blessings in the Sanctuary.
However, only those who are eligible for reinforcement./
Unlike the typical hotel notices, which are confusing and full of all kinds of rhetoric, the ‘Sanctuary’ notices were short and clear.
Blessings can be understood and strengthened. Strengthening requires qualification.
Everyone stood there in a dazed mood and then understood the situation.
“This… doesn’t seem like a particularly dangerous place? “It literally seems like a place that provides help related to blessings.”
“Understand, strengthen. Are you both okay? Just like me, the status window pops up and says, “Oh, this is my blessing!” There are people who do it, but
Because there are still people who don’t know what their blessing is. Needless to say, Ganghwa is good.”
“I’m so glad. “Honestly, everyone seemed to have some sort of superpower, but I was the only one who gave them random words like ‘justice’ and nothing, so I was very frustrated.”
“But what is this ‘qualification for strengthening’? I don’t even know how it gets better once it’s strengthened in the first place.
“If I become stronger than I am now, will I be able to break concrete with my punches?”
“Let’s go to that light first. “I think something will pop up if I go there.”
The moment the power source approached the light source, the contents of the display changed.
1. Understand 2. Reinforce
Two words that came to mind.
I felt like I understood something, so I held out my hand and touched ‘Understand’.
The response came immediately. Oh, you can touch this too.
Han Ga-in (20) – Wisdom -> Acquiring knowledge to survive in the hotel Cha Jin-cheol (31) – Courage -> Strengthening the body
Yoo Song-i (17) – Affinity -> Generates affinity against chaos entities
Park Seung-yeop (14) – Luck -> Luck that appears periodically
Eunsol Lee (32) – Wealth -> Access and distribution of HP market
Mookseong Kim (64) – Communication -> Mental connection between participants
Elena (23) – Justice -> Punishment for the wicked
Ari Kim (16) – Suggestion -> Hypnosis of self and others
Most of this has already been guessed.
The contents of wisdom, courage, friendliness, luck, and wealth are as expected.
The hint is no different from what I had guessed.
As expected, what everyone found fascinating was ‘justice.’
“Punishment for the wicked?”
“Miss Elena, do you have any guesses?”
“I still have no idea. “To begin with, I have often encountered evil beings in hotels, but I have never once developed the ability to punish them.”
“I think I understand a little bit. It’s not an ‘evil being’, but an ‘evil person’. This means that they should be at least ‘human-like beings’, right?
“If you look at it that way, the Athanasias are not ‘humans’ at all, they are a farm family. Looking at it now, they are not evil at all, so they were not activated.”
“In No. 103 Human Ranch, as Ga-in said, it was because there were no ‘evil humans’, but in No. 101 Strange Family?
They must have been evil people.
“Even in Room 102, the Mansion of Horror, the last possessed Songi that Elena met was clearly an evil person.”
Issue 103 was easy to understand, but I don’t know why ‘justice’ was not invoked in Issues 101 and 102 as well.
While everyone was silent and thinking, Ari spoke.
“Wouldn’t it only work if you are aware of it?”
“Elena must recognize that the other person is an evil person?”
It’s persuasive.
In No. 101, Strange Family, the person’s mind was in a distorted state, so normal judgment would have been impossible, so he could not ‘recognize’ it.
In Room 102, the Mansion of Fear, he died in his sleep and was not aware of the evil nature of the possessed Songi.
“If that’s true, isn’t my blessing too restrictive? “It’s very difficult to know what happened to this hotel.”
“sister! I think it’s good. This hotel is a bit gamey. If there are a lot of conditions, the moment those conditions are met will be very strong. “That’s how the balance is right!”
balance.
I don’t think it’s wrong. Certainly, according to our reasoning, the conditions for ‘Elena’s’ blessing are more stringent than other blessings.
If the conditions are difficult to meet, then the ability to meet them must be strong enough to balance the situation.
After sorting out the situation to that extent, I pressed the next button on the display.
2. Strengthen
Park Seung-yeop, Han Ga-in, and Yoo Song-i can be strengthened. Do you want to proceed? (yes/no)
Just 3 people. There are no names for the rest.
The moment they saw the three names, everyone realized what the ‘qualification for Ganghwa’ was.
It would have made an absolute contribution to escaping/solving the cursed room!
In room 101, Seung-yeop escaped alone.
To be honest, I did almost all of No. 102.
Songi even cleared issue 103 by herself.
“It’s a little disappointing. I also wrote that I always use my head… but I think those three are correct.
Click it. “I’m curious about what Ganghwa will be like?”
Naturally, I clicked ‘Yes’.
/Strengthening in progress————-Completed!/
!!!
The light that had been lighting up the center of the sanctuary suddenly came out and struck Seungyeop and Songi.
In an instant, I felt my consciousness leaving my body.
*
Increase.
Increase.
Oh, am I flying in the sky now?
Is this what out-of-body means?
Right now I don’t have a body.
Something – only my consciousness rises endlessly upwards.
‘Above’ in a more fundamental sense rather than ‘above’ as a physical concept.
A truly out-of-this-world place
A land in the middle of nowhere.
At some point, the rise stopped.
A huge – bird stood in front of me.
owl.
I looked at it without thinking and realized it. Sounds familiar?
The night before entering the hotel. The statue I grabbed. It resembles that shape.
Lately it has been disappointing.
Did you say it to me?
I didn’t think he was stupid, but I never thought he wouldn’t notice Athanasia’s simple trick.
What about room 103?
However, it wasn’t that bad in the mansion, so looking at it all together, I’d say it has potential.
Who is this person, and is he evaluating me?
Let’s call him your sponsor. You’ll see me a few more times in the future…I’ll add some more. Next time, I hope to get at least an inheritance.
A short conversation. No, can it be called a ‘conversation’? One-sided communication of intention.
My consciousness fell from the endlessly high space…
*
[Han Ga-in (20) – Wisdom -> From now on, you can know the location of your colleagues.]
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 15
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sage Advice: 3]
I checked it as soon as I got out of bed. Day 15.
Ridiculously, a day was deleted in that short period of time.
A sweet three-day break. I wanted to spend my time at least a little leisurely…
The 13th was spent testing the bracelet, the morning of the 14th was spent exploring, and the afternoon of the 14th and the morning of the 15th were deleted because I just closed my eyes and opened them.
I don’t know if I’ve even heard anything good about it.
I’m disappointed. Next time, get an inheritance.
It’s just absurd to hear such abusive ‘evaluations’.
Who asked you to kidnap them in such a strange place?
While I was swearing in bewilderment, I suddenly noticed that a new function had been added to the status window.
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 15
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sage Advice: 3
Colleague location information (!)]
I checked just in case, and it says that everyone is in Tier 1, the Rest Room.
When I enter the cursed room, will it give me a more detailed location?
It’s definitely a useful feature.
It seemed like it was during meal time, so I went towards the restaurant and found my colleagues there.
“scent! It’s coming out now. Do you know how embarrassed we were when the three of us suddenly collapsed yesterday? I carried it all, dude!
And Seungyeop and Songi came out already, so I was wondering why you came out so late.”
“So, Ga-in, did you get anything?”
“yes. Now, ‘Colleague location information’ appears and your location is displayed. Right now, only the room appears, but perhaps a more detailed location will be revealed once you enter the cursed room?”
Unlike me, who could immediately see the change, Song-i and Seung-yeop reacted with a tilted look.
“Hmm… I don’t have any ‘Chaotic Body’ around me, so I have no way to check.”
“I just have one opaque window. [98%] It looks like this.”
“When it reaches 100%, it seems like the ‘cool time’ is reached. When that time comes, I guess I can get lucky at the moment I want. “If it’s 98%, it’s almost full.”
After talking about the changes in blessings, I also had a late dinner.
It’s unfair once again.
I was brought in forcibly, but I was criticized for not doing well, and my rest day was deleted.
I don’t think the military is this ignorant of concepts either.
*
After the meal was over, the discussion began in earnest.
The agenda item is ‘What kind of products should we order from the HP Market?’
“As I said yesterday, I’ll do one with capsaicin. “I went around collecting all the sprays I could find and made up to four, but I ran out of capsaicin.”
“Are the other two also weapons? “With something like my tonfa?”
“That’s my concern. I think such physical tools, whether tonfa or anything else, are just as bad as capsaicin spray to women.
Plus, this hotel has cutlery everywhere as decoration. “Gain just picked up the silver dagger at the hotel.”
It makes sense.
There are no guns or proper blades in the HP market anyway. You should buy a kitchen knife.
There’s nothing better about that than the cutlery that’s just decorated here and there in hotels.
Ari, who had been silent, said something.
“lighter”
“lighter?”
“I think the fire-starting tool will be useful in some way. And while I was walking around, I couldn’t see the lighter.”
“It’s not bad. Then one-”
“Sister, we have no use for lighting cigarettes anyway, so if you’re thinking of using it as a weapon, how about a blowtorch?”
“Brother, isn’t the torch too portable?”
“Then let’s use a candle lighter.”
“What is a candle lighter?”
“That lighter with an elongated snout used in places like restaurants. “You’ll know when you see it.”
Afterwards, we had various conversations, but none of us could think of a suitable third item.
In the end, since capsaicin for making pepper spray is a consumable item anyway, I ordered two cans, decided on a lighter for the other, and ended the day.
The next morning, the 16th day. We entered room 104.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 16
Current location: Tier 1, Room 104 (Curse Room – Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam)
Sage Advice: 3]
Ding dong ding dong~
Familiar school uniform.
Colleagues looking around with blank expressions. And numerous student NPCs.
A high school senior who completed the college entrance exam. The golden age of your life right before entering college.
I’m back in high school. And that too, to a school with an unanswerable name, ‘Hotel High School’.
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