Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 410
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EP.410 Episode 410 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects in 100 Days’ (12)
Episode 410 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ (12)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 272 (+40)
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 1]
– Han Ga-in
The moment the restaurant ceiling collapsed, Miro fell onto the table like a missile falling from the sky.
“Whoa! A, a maze?”
Elena screamed and took a step back.
The condition of the maze was somewhat strange.
Unfocused eyes, paler skin than usual, and awkward movements.
It’s like a puppet being controlled by someone.
“Who are you? Are you Miro?”
— Crack!
Strange noises coming from my joints.
A strange noise shook the entire restaurant.
“Eight!”
— Ting!
Elena slammed the chair down with a yell, but it made a sound like something was hitting metal.
“Oh, it’s gotten really hard! I think you should try it out -”
Instead of answering, he grabbed Elena’s arm.
The maze is not currently unsealed.
Someone, perhaps the ‘Devil King’, is controlling that body.
In this situation, it would be dangerous for me to enter that body.
In the first place, possession is not an easy task because of the labyrinth’s blessing of ‘unchangeability’.
“Let’s go out first!”
The moment we kicked open the restaurant door, an alligator the size of a house turned to look at us.
I thought about it for a split second.
Could it be that the Demon King is directly controlling that maze too?
If so, then ice skating can be dangerous.
— Flutter!
A pitch-black energy extending from the west took over the crocodile’s body.
Soon, the monster crocodile moved to the other side and began to bite and hang on to the giant’s leg, which was covered in snow-white fur.
“Run!”
Outside the city, it was an indescribable hell.
“Yohoho! Today is a festival!”
In front of me, a skeleton captain who was over 3 meters tall beheaded a civilian with a scimitar and swallowed his head.
Next to him, a monster with the body of a snake and the face of a man devoured a child alive.
At this moment, a truck with spider legs sprouting out of it rolled sideways, crushing people.
Looking at this sight, Elena finally began to vomit.
“Ugh!”
I thought I had seen a lot of pretty brutal scenes, but this one was so damned over the top.
I suppressed the feeling of wanting to vomit and used the power of the book to have the skeleton captain cut the snake.
“Ugh!”
“Mr. Cain?”
Sudden headache.
This is because he was afraid of being possessed and then being controlled by the Demon King, so he repeatedly used the power of the incarnation.
The power of incarnation is a power that can only be used for 10 minutes at most.
It was not made to be used repeatedly.
“Hey, is there anyone else?”
“Seungyeop….”
“yes?”
“Seungyeop is alive!”
The rest of the people, including Ari, all died.
“Colleague location information (*)
Park Seung-yeop: “Outside Paradise”
There is no specific place name, just the words “outside paradise.”
According to Ari, Seungyeop had already gone missing before returning.
Were you already out of the city by then? If so, you wouldn’t have been affected by the regression.
“Are you all happy?”
“We’re in big trouble!”
What kind of luck is that?
I was secretly hoping that Seungyeop, who was alone, might have escaped.
If the prisoner comes back to life and slaughters the living, it’s only natural that Seungyeop will die in the process!
Somehow we have to do something.
“All citizens who are still alive, take note! Bite your tongue and get out immediately!”
During this time, a crazy broadcast was heard from the building.
I thought as I ran with Elena absentmindedly, my ears covered.
What on earth should I do?
Elena asked.
“Hey, don’t you have to use Kangrim?”
“…”
I thought that too! I said it earlier!
But when should I use it?
You want me to write now because there are monsters all around?
These monsters are obviously summoned beasts by the Demon King.
The power of the descent is not infinite, and there are significant time constraints!
What if I just keep killing summoned creatures and use up all my descent power?
What if the Demon King’s body pops out then?
Elena understood my hesitant thoughts.
“Can’t I use it now? Should I use it after the Demon King appears?”
That’s a problem, but can you defeat the Demon King just by writing in the first place?
The Demon King turned the entire city into hell before even revealing his true identity.
Just by looking at him, he’s on a whole other level compared to the rascal like Apollyon who was outside the hotel!
“Ugh!”
I was scared.
A fear I hadn’t felt in a long time seemed to be eating away at my heart.
The prisoner is on the verge of resurrection.
Seungyeop is in a situation where he cannot escape.
Kangrim can’t even find the right time to use it.
— Ohhhhh!
A strange singing voice echoes from somewhere.
In response to that sound, a gloomy hymn echoes throughout the city.
Citizens who had been hiding here and there came out of the building with ecstatic expressions on their faces and slowly began to rise into the sky.
Ah, salvation! Rapture!
Didn’t the Gospel say that when Jesus returns, the faithful will ascend to heaven?
Therefore, I too must accept the call.
Surely, there will be a kingdom in heaven for all –
— Ouch!
“Ah, ah, ah… .”
“Mr. Gain, come to your senses.”
“…”
I almost got possessed for a moment.
No matter how much the status window filter protects my mind, in the end it’s a problem with my mind itself.
A weak mind swayed by fear cannot withstand the temptations of the Demon King.
Elena didn’t seem scared, let alone disgusted.
I found this so fascinating.
“Aren’t you scared?”
“So-so.”
“What, how on earth? What do you believe in? No one escaped, and we have to stop it with our own strength! Descent? That’s an awkward timing to use -”
“Hasn’t this happened before?”
“what -”
“When the sea god was resurrected in room 202, and when we all fell for the whale’s trick in room 203. I think the level of despair was similar.”
“…”
“Of course, there are differences between you and me. You are someone who fundamentally believes in ‘yourself’, and I am not.”
You’re not so stupid as to not understand this.
The person I believe in is generally ‘me’.
The person Elena believes in is also ‘me’.
I started to tremble in fear because I didn’t trust myself, but Elena wasn’t so scared because she trusted me.
What kind of irony is this?
—Whoosh!
It seemed as if lightning was striking from the sky, but then strange monsters with red wings began to descend.
— Hahahaha!
The laughter shook the heavens and the earth, and the demons who came down from the sky laughed at the toys that filled the ground.
Survivors who were lucky or unlucky enough to survive were abused in agony for the devils’ amusement.
and….
Once again, the maze fell from the sky with a thunderbolt.
“hi.”
Before, even his movements were awkward, but now he has started to speak.
Are you getting more comfortable with manipulating mazes?
Unpleasant waves began to emanate from Elena’s body.
“Elena… .”
“I’ll hold on, so run away. It seems like Ga-in needs some time. Right!”
Elena smiled faintly.
“I’m just thinking about it, isn’t this the ‘original Ga-in’?”
*
I think as I drive down the road that has begun to shake.
‘The original Ga-in.’
What does this mean?
…I actually know.
Because I, too, have been noticing subtle changes for some time now.
My heart beats faster than usual whenever I see Elena or Ari.
A fear that seems natural when you see demons and monsters filling the city.
Within a few days, my mind slowly returned to being a freshman at K University.
Why?
Because the indomitable reason severed the connection between me and the grimoire for a long time.
“You said the Grimoire dyed me black?”
I vaguely understood what those words meant.
Also, a sad realization crossed my mind.
“…”
— Yohoho! Cute friends, where are you hiding!
The hotel doesn’t need Han Ga-in, a freshman at K University.
What is needed in this position is a magician who has abandoned humanity.
— Flutter!
He summoned the grimoire again and held it tightly in both hands.
*
“Whoa!”
“Ugh! Huh!”
“Ahhhh… ahhhh… .”
The entire underground is filled with people’s screams.
My ears hurt, but that doesn’t mean I can stop ‘working’.
Soon, a mass of writhing tentacles took up the task.
“How much more should I put in? I’ve already put in quite a bit!”
As I was starting to get anxious, I heard someone’s footsteps from behind.
“This is incredible.”
Who is it?
A cute girl in her late teens with short brown hair.
It’s quite pretty, but it’s nothing compared to Arina Miro.
“Are you going to be Kadyrov’s successor?”
“What are you talking about? Kadyrov -”
When I paused for a moment, she chuckled.
“You and that blonde girl killed Kadyrov. I know that. I was secretly hoping for it back then.”
“expectation?”
“I thought there was some grand vision for keeping the city going. So I left it alone.”
The girl looked around with a dejected expression.
“Whoa!”
At that moment, the writhing tentacles picked up the old woman and threw her towards the ‘Indomitable Reason’ that was left with only embers.
“… So you’re like this in the end. Are you trying to activate your indomitable reason again?”
It’s cruel, but this is the only way for now.
In the first place, wasn’t it because the market couldn’t find another way that it poured people into its unyielding reason every day?
“Is there another way?”
“I don’t know either. I didn’t know, so I had no choice but to leave the mayor alone… If that was the case, why did you kill the mayor?”
“Because the market tried to kill me.”
She had an extremely dejected expression on her face.
“That was it. Ahh… .”
“Well, it’s not like I don’t have any plans.”
“plan?”
“If we somehow reactivate the Indomitable Reason, many of the monsters remaining in the city will disappear, right?”
“The Demon King who has already awakened cannot be brought back.”
“I guess so. I guessed that far.”
“What on earth are you trying to say -”
“You, Shijo? I thought about it for a while, but in this situation, the only person who would suddenly pop up is Shijo.”
“…”
“Three-way battle, creative cliché. Is this also a reversal? The market regresses, we are the ones who are possessed. Then you are reincarnated?”
“What the hell are you talking about!”
“It’s true. You’ve been reincarnated and survived until now? I guess so. If you want to prevent everything from ending, you’d better help me.”
“what?”
“There’s no way to deal with the current situation where the city is overrun by monsters, but if I can somehow get rid of them and come face to face with the Demon King one-on-one, I have a plan.”
“…”
“So, help me. The indomitable reason, the hearth of the soul, has gone out and caused this chaos, so shouldn’t we rekindle the fire?”
Suddenly, I felt the poet’s face become filled with despair.
For someone who stood up to save the world a long time ago, he seems to have a very weak mentality.
She muttered in a voice that sounded like she was about to cry at any moment.
“How much more do I have to give?”
I know the clear answer to this.
“As much as needed.”