Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 467
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EP.467 Episode 467 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (26)
Episode 467 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (26)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 554
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
In Sang-Hyeon’s experience, the sanctuary is full of duplicates of ‘us’ with twisted blessings and legacies.
Could it be that the Demon King, who recognized us from the circumstances, implemented it on his own?
If the goal was to shake our spirits, I’d say it’s half a success.
Just like now.
“Keep on! Keeek! Tongue, tongue… . Hyung Gain… .”
“…”
— Ugh!
Watching Seungyeop grow colder, I have mixed feelings.
I knew the truth was out there, but that didn’t make me feel at ease.
But the real problem wasn’t this emotional bitterness.
“Seungyeop, who has a status window and old blood from the beginning….”
The content of the trials of the sanctuary is different for each person who enters.
According to what the Ultimate himself said, who was waiting at the end, a special trial awaited us.
Sang-Hyeon Hyung experienced trials that were much more difficult than those of the Demon King’s cult.
And it seems the Demon King has prepared a more tiring task for me.
I don’t know why this is happening, though!
“…”
Sang-Hyeon said that he spent a long time figuring out what abilities each room’s clones had and then conquering them?
I don’t have time for that.
Didn’t Ari tell you to come back within a day or two if possible?
*
As soon as I came to my senses, I looked around.
A chaotic plain filled with dust.
Half-collapsed concrete buildings everywhere, and even fighter jets in the sky!
Is the background a battlefield?
Then I –
[Advice: 3 -> 2]
[Get down.]
Before I could even think, my body was already on the floor.
As if it had been waiting, a sharp sound split the battlefield.
— Bang!
“No, what are you talking about, sniping as soon as you arrive!”
Demon King, isn’t this a bit too much?
Even the hotel’s truly cursed room doesn’t start with gunfire!
— Bang! That’s right!
I crawled frantically on the floor and leaned against the half-ruined wall.
Who is the enemy in this room?
Judging from the way he shoots his gun like a ghost from a distance that can’t be seen, he’s not someone like Seung-yeop or Song-i.
Kim Muk-seong, Kim Ari, Kim Sang-hyeon, one of these three Kims is definitely –
— Whoosh!
I thought as I watched the anti-tank rockets flying majestically as if they were going to blow the wall away.
From here on out, I’m going to use my strength without holding back!
— Hwarurur!
The moment the flames ignited, the flow of all things slowed down.
The rocket soon seemed like a leisurely floating balloon.
And then, my leisurely outstretched hand struck the side of the rocket.
— Boom!
“ah.”
I was planning on flicking the rocket with my hand like a superhero in a movie, but instead of flicking it, it just exploded.
It seems that reality and movies are different.
Of course, even if a rocket explodes right in front of me, it’s not a big deal because my eyes only hurt a little.
— Taat!
I kicked the ground and rose into the sky, observing the world.
“…”
The power of the divine sun is essentially similar to descent.
Because it is a power created by the same being in the first place.
The difference is that it allows continuous use through charging, but the output is much lower.
“…”
My cognitive abilities, which have expanded endlessly in real time, scan every corner of my surroundings.
I felt the presence of a landmine installed in the ground.
I knew the speed of the bomber flying high in the sky.
I saw the greed of termites eating away at an old wooden building.
Then, I felt as if I could catch the floating feather and the subtle eddies surrounding it with my fingertips.
“Found it.”
I found a human being hiding in the crevices of a matchbox-like concrete building, revealing his hostility towards me.
— Gulp!
It took less than 3 seconds for the distance of over 500 meters to be closed.
The opponent tried to run away in surprise, as if he had spotted me through the telescope, but it was as meaningless as a turtle trying to avoid a hawk.
Soon, the identity of the enemy who had generously gifted me not only guns but also rockets was revealed.
“I thought you were good at handling weapons. It was you, hyung.”
I reached out because I had no intention of dragging out this fight for either of us.
A delicate flame rises from the tip of the finger and burns the air as it moves forward.
Suddenly, I felt a little curious.
What is the principle by which I am shooting out these sparks now?
“…”
As is often the case with heritage, the principles were unknown even though the effort was made.
If I had to describe it, it would be like blowing out hot breath with your fingertips and directing it with your nose?
It’s an absurd analogy even to me, but I don’t have the confidence to explain it any further.
The moment the flames reached the building, turning the protein-made human into ash before he could even realize what had happened.
— Flash!
A flash of pure white light instantly blocked my five senses!
“Ugh! I didn’t think you had a bracelet -”
As I usually feel when looking at Songi, the bracelet’s range is not that long.
That means, by the time I entered the bracelet’s range, the fake would have already been on the verge of being struck by the flames!
So soon that fake will die and the hallucination will be lifted –
— Click!
“Fuck!”
Oh my god.
Did you step on a landmine in that short time?
— Quagmire!
I think as I am blasted into the sky with a thunderous roar that shakes the heavens and earth.
Even though I’m fine going through all this, how can there be a landmine in this exact place?
How on earth do you predict where exactly I will move when I momentarily lose control while flying because of my bracelet?
No matter how unlucky I am –
“ah.”
Meanwhile, I thought about Kim Sang-hyun’s clone, which had become a half-burnt piece of meat.
This kid was the lucky owner of the bracelet.
…
A door leading to the next trial has appeared.
I’m starting to feel a little uneasy now.
Because even if I just think about it for a moment, a very tricky ‘combination’ comes to mind.
*
—Whew!
The surroundings are completely white.
Because it was filled with a blizzard so fierce that it was difficult to see ahead.
“… Anyone, please come out quickly.”
With every step I took, I was buried in the snow, so my movement speed was very slow.
I tried to summon the sun again and fly away, but it wasn’t an easy task.
“…”
The sacred sun is ultimately consumable, so do you mean to say that you use the sun without thinking, knowing where the enemy is?
I thought about that too, but in fact, it’s easier to find that enemy by using the sun.
“Should I just use the sun…?”
— Rustle!
There’s a sound!
Even very close.
“Ah, achwi!”
A coughing silver-haired girl named Miro appears.
“…”
Looking at the silver-haired, red-eyed girl appearing in the snowstorm, it really felt like a scene from a dream.
Any man with normal sensibilities would look at this sight as if he were possessed.
“Ugh… It’s cold! Gain? Are you Gain?”
“…”
It’s just a fake imitated by the Demon King.
Don’t worry about useless things.
I opened the grimoire without hesitation.
“Huh? Huh? What is that – huh!”
Since there would be no immutability anyway, I thought there was no need to bother with it, so I held the grimoire up to Miro’s eyes.
Soon, the girl fell to the snow, shivering, with the sound of the fake maze’s retinas bursting.
“… what?”
I thought you would use something against me, whether it be a blessing or an inheritance, but there is nothing.
He died like a truly powerless civilian.
“This can’t be happening.”
Was the blessing or legacy a type unsuited to combat?
For example, the blessing of wealth and honor?
“…”
I checked by gently touching his body, but he was definitely dead.
Since I saw the book of grimoires without any resistance in the first place, there is no way I can live with a normal body.
The moment I tilted my head because I couldn’t understand the situation at all –
— Laaaaah!
A wave of golden light, blazing white, swept over me, driving away the snowstorm in an instant!
“Eww! This is such a nonsense!”
She appeared with the ever-spinning scales of scales.
The ‘real enemy’ of this ordeal was the labyrinth of justice!
“Was the first maze just a trigger for activating justice!”
If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have killed him!
Ha, that doesn’t make sense.
If a similar situation had arisen again, I would have killed him again.
— Hwarurur!
The sun is burning again.
This time, the action I took was to run away.
*
The blizzard was so harsh that it could freeze a normal human to death in an instant, but the one pursuing me now couldn’t be stopped by anything like the blizzard.
Of course, I’m also running away from the damn maze of justice!
— Laaaaa!
Even though this speed is faster than that of an average light aircraft, the distance is not increased.
Just fight with brute force?
The Blessing of Justice has strict conditions, but when it is activated, it is incomparably stronger than other blessings.
Even so, isn’t it worth fighting in the current situation?
— Gulp!
The moment I twisted my body to avoid the shockwave that seemed to split the sky, an overwhelming force struck the ground.
The sight of a massive landslide occurring all at once took my breath away.
It’s not a question of whether you can win or not.
Even if we could win by force.
How much of the power of the sacred sun will have to be used?
I had a really hard time recharging by using up the precious curse room turn by turn twice!
I can’t waste this precious power on a doll made by the Demon King, let alone the Demon King.
“…”
I turned my head slightly and looked at the fake maze.
An expression as frozen as a rock that would never be possible in a real maze.
“…”
The blessings of justice are greatly influenced by the mental state of the parties.
The reason they are trying to kill me now is because they saw me killing innocent civilians.
Still, my real colleagues don’t know that I understood the ‘second sentence’.
— Phagec!
For a split second, I felt a terrible headache as I simultaneously manifested the Grimoire and the Sacred Sun.
Soon another singer appeared, burning brightly in the air.
There was no need to explain again, saying, “Do this, do that.”
Because we are beings who essentially originate from the same roots.
He laughed so ‘evilly’ that it made me laugh out loud, then he hit my body and made me fall into the snow before flying into the air.
“…”
He lay still in the snow.
It was so damn cold that I felt like my whole body was freezing, but now was the time to endure.
Acting with soul is usually accompanied by some pain.
“…”
A little noise is heard in the air.
Another me who resisted moderately and then pretended not to win and disappeared.
and….
Her presence was felt along with the sound of footsteps in the square.
“…”
Acting with soul!
Until just a moment ago, I was being controlled by an evil spirit.
The being that killed the innocent Miro is the evil spirit that left my body a little while ago!
I am a victim of demonic manipulation.
He is not a villain who deserves to be punished by the power of justice.
“Gain-ah! Hey, are you okay? Aren’t you cold?”
A voice that doesn’t convey any sense of hostility.
However, we must not let our guard down yet.
“Ugh… .”
“Cain!”
“What the heck… is going on…!”
“Are you okay? There was a strange monster hiding in Gain’s body!”
“… A monster?”
You were fooled, right?
Then slowly –
[Advice: 2 -> 1]
[Detecting lies.]
Are you really more meticulous than Miro?
“Gain, tell me honestly what happened.”
“… A strange, strange room. When I entered the room, a strange phenomenon I had never experienced before occurred.”
“and?”
“Since some time ago… I feel like I’ve been split in two. Sometimes, it feels like another me is controlling my body.”
I just told the truth as it is.
“… Really? What happened? First, wake up. Don’t forget that Ga-in was saved by Miro!”
The girl stood me up with a proud look on her face.
She was quite similar to the Miro I knew, having achieved the blessing of justice and even lie detection.
Because all the copies of the Sanctuary retain a significant portion of the original’s memories.
This is a being that knows me and thinks of itself as a maze.
So, it’s obvious that you like me.
“It’s a little cold.”
“Huh? It’s cold?”
“Miro, won’t you come over here? It might be warmer if we stay close together.”
“Eww! What the hell are you talking about! Ah, Ari would be surprised if she heard that -”
“Hey~! Ari isn’t here right now.”
“…”
She came towards me in an instant, her face blushing like a carrot.
“Hey, wait a minute! It’s too cold right now… .”
“… What was the Labyrinth Legacy?”
“My heritage? Ah, the star of the other world -”
— Flutter!
A book covered the girl’s eyes.
With that, the chaos in the snowfield came to an end.
“Surely there is nothing more terrible than the labyrinth of justice?”
The door to the next trial has opened.
Numerically, this is probably the final test.