Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 472
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EP.472 Episode 472 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (31)
Episode 472 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (31)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 573
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
The moment the Ultimate leaped into the Divine Sun, he felt an absurd spiritual mass.
“What the heck! How many people are there?”
Even though he had experience putting 100,000 souls into the sun, the spiritual mass that the Ultimate One had now pushed into the sun while uniting with it was shockingly large.
How many people are there, really? Isn’t it ‘only’ 100,000?
1 million? 10 million? Or more?
It’s such a ridiculously large number, I can’t even begin to fathom it.
“… What is it? Something a little strange -”
weird.
The ‘unity’ of the ultimate was somehow subtly different from the soul-eating I had been doing with the divine sun.
If I had time, I would have checked what this ultimate bastard was up to –
There was no time to worry.
— Gulp!
“Ahh! The Demon King is waking up!”
The underground city began to collapse in an instant, and Ari staggered, losing her balance.
Move quickly and fly with Ari –
“A, a maze! There’s a maze on the floor!”
“…”
I controlled the labyrinth’s body with the power of incarnation and manipulated the city control device in the depths.
Now, Miro is lying on the floor, unconscious.
… I don’t have time.
“Let’s meet outside the maze. If the plan goes without a hitch, we won’t need the maze anymore.”
“…let’s go.”
It immediately flew up into the sky.
*
—Whoosh!
The underground city that contains all of humanity’s efforts to prevent the apocalypse is collapsing.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the ceiling was also collapsing, so I didn’t have to make a path with my own hands.
As I was performing acrobatic maneuvers to avoid falling concrete fragments from all directions, I felt that the flow of time had returned to normal.
The date change that used to pass by in 10 minutes has also stopped.
This means that we have left the depths of paradise.
— Gooooo!
A nightmarish roar echoes from the abyss.
Surely, the Demon King is rising towards the surface right now.
I resisted the urge to turn my head to check and continued flying.
Up, up, up higher!
Just as the sight of the crumbling paradise came into view, Ari, who had been flying nearby, approached.
“Da, n, h, eok! Do you see any other people?”
I looked around for a moment after hearing Ari’s words, which seemed to be exhausted from the intense flight that seemed to be testing the limits of her wing boots.
Finding the other comrades wasn’t difficult, as they had all been transformed into golden statues.
“There it is.”
“Ugh! Over there? Where over there? Ah, I can’t see it with my eyesight -”
— Snap!
He quickly reached out and grabbed Ari, then moved.
Immediately afterwards, something resembling a writhing viscous liquid brushed past the spot where we were.
“Uh, uh -”
The Demon King began to exert full influence on Earth.
There is no place where one can be comfortable.
“We have to go up further. From now on, hold my hand.”
We have to go higher.
Not just escaping the depths, not just escaping paradise, but as if escaping the Earth!
While flying towards the high sky, I fell into an unavoidable dilemma.
What are our plans for the fourth attempt?
Before the Demon King devours human souls, he temporarily slaughters humanity, and resurrects them after the Demon King realizes that he has nothing to eat and leaves Earth.
There are too many logical gaps in this plan.
My colleagues also used to point out problems in various aspects.
For example, what about other cities beyond paradise?
Those cities have also restricted access and cut off water, but there is no guarantee that there will be no survivors.
What if the ruling class of that city holds on to their monopoly over the remaining water?
Let’s leave that problem aside.
Even if there are some survivors left here and there on Earth, it is not a fundamental failure as the Demon King would feel that there is a ‘severe lack of prey’.
A tiger can’t be satisfied with just a few rabbits left.
The real serious problem is the Demon King’s actions.
Will the Demon King really leave when the Earth runs out of food?
I don’t know about anything else, but I couldn’t be sure about this part.
… are my colleagues alive?
“Colleague location information (*)”
“Everyone is still alive.”
For a moment, I burst into laughter.
Since I used an hourglass, isn’t it natural for me to be alive?
Not at all!
The absolute inviolability of a week created by the hourglass.
I can confidently say that this is the ultimate wisdom and miracle that mankind will never be able to attain.
A cosmic despair that swallows up stars in a single breath covers the surface, but the great Demon King cannot break through the miracle created by a tool the size of a child’s fist.
Only the Demon King? That can’t be!
The stage is room 206, so the Demon King was humiliated, but it would have been the same even if there were other prisoners.
The director, the dragon of the nebula, the devourer, the lord, the eye of the zeroth dimension, the sea god, Adravita, and even the pitiful someone from room 205.
No matter how great a prisoner is, he cannot break the hourglass’s inviolability.
How on earth is this possible?
The answer is extremely simple.
This is not reality, it’s some kind of giant simulation, and the creators of that simulation gave the hourglass that power.
No matter how strong the god in the simulation is, it cannot penetrate the developer tools.
Let’s not forget.
As the absurd tool called the hourglass proves, the cursed room is not reality, but a kind of difficult exam question created by the hotel.
What matters is the hotel’s rating.
You don’t need to find the ‘perfect answer’ to be judged solved in the Room of Curses.
It is not possible in the first place, and such an answer has never been given.
Looking back, the answers I found in other rooms were also ambiguous or left me with uncertainty about the future.
Of course.
Could the apocalypse be completely prevented by a few mortals with some supernatural powers and a few weeks or months of thinking?
Doesn’t that mean the natives of that world who couldn’t prevent the apocalypse are stupid and idiotic?
“…”
It may not be perfect, but it should be plausible.
Even if there are gaps, the direction should be plausible, or at your level, it should be okay.
Are we writing plausible answers on our tests?
“Ugh! Go, Gain… .”
Ari’s panting voice.
It seemed like he was having a hard time holding back since a while ago, but now it seems like he’s really reached his limit.
“I… now… feel like I’ve reached my limit.”
I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t think Ari will be of much help at this point.
It’s not just Ari, it’s anyone else too.
“Just hold on a little longer, just a little longer.”
Even so, two is better than one.
— Laaaaah!
The Earth was no longer the domain of humans.
A wave of incomprehensible light and impulse sweeps across the star.
The mad creator, the hungry beast, has risen.
“Ariya, close your eyes so I can carry you.”
If Ari, who is now weakened, were to see something like that with her naked eyes, she might die immediately.
Soared higher.
Beyond the depths, beyond paradise, beyond the sky –
“Colleague location information (*)
Kim Ari: Space”
“ah.”
The location changed to ‘Space’.
I, so… .
He flew into space naked.
“…”
At that moment, I forgot everything.
The suffering she has endured in the hotel, her longing for her family, her worries about the book of magic and the sacred sun, what should she do with Room 206? What on earth is the Demon King –
All the worries that had been weighing on my mind until just a moment ago disappeared in an instant.
“Ah, Ariya! We, we arrived in space! I, I flew into space with my bare body?”
Unfortunately, Ari, who could have shared this emotion, had long since passed out from lack of oxygen.
“Ah, ah, ah… .”
Look down at the stars from the highest point in the world.
Even though the state of that star was far from the Earth I knew, the fact that I had arrived in space did not change.
It was only after I arrived in space naked that I realized that I had truly reached a ‘great state’.
An indescribable sense of omnipotence that not even the despair of the Demon King can take away soaks my soul.
A tear fell down without me knowing.
And then I heard a voice from space.
“I envy you.”
“… you.”
“I can feel how you feel right now.”
“…”
“I’m really jealous. How does it feel?”
“…”
“As far as I know, no human has ever reached this realm. No, the term human is awkward for you.”
“…”
“You are a Taoist immortal, a Buddhist bodhisattva, and a Christian angel.”
Funnily enough, the moment I realized the existence of the ultimate being who had revealed his last move, my excitement was shattered and I returned to reality.
“I knew you had a plan, but you’re going to reveal it now?”
“Haha! Are you talking about a plot?”
He said that, but I really didn’t think he would hurt me.
I don’t believe in the Ultimate, but I did believe in the owl that advised me to accept the Ultimate’s offer.
I was just curious.
What on earth is their plan in this situation?
“Wow, what a beautiful view. Let’s look down at the Earth. I can see the Demon King.”
“…”
“Do you know what troubles the person I brought to the Demon King is having?”
“The Demon King’s worries.”
I look at the Demon King, who is like a wave of endless impulse.
Certainly, at one time he showed an intellectual side that communicated with believers.
“…”
Personality, reason, intellect.
In short, the mask of the Demon King that can be wrapped in the word ‘rationality’ is slowly being removed.
The empty space was filled with endless emptiness and hunger.
“What do you see?”
“get hungry.”
“Is there anything else?”
“Only hunger and emptiness. That’s all.”
“Now my god has thrown off the mask that was used to seduce humans and returned to his primordial form.”
“…”
The primordial form spoken of by the ultimate being.
Actually, I also knew this appearance.
Because it was the appearance that was confirmed when I faced the Demon King using the descent the first time.
“What should you do now?”
The ultimate character’s attitude of speaking as if he has seen through everything is quite funny.
“You said you couldn’t even imagine something like this before we told you?”
“I admit it.”
“But why do you act like you know so much?”
“Haha! Isn’t it true that empty carts make the most noise? That’s what it’s like. I knew a lot about the Demon King, but I never thought about it from a ‘completely different perspective’ like you guys.”
“…”
“I realized something when I took your perspective -”
“Ah. You, surely -”
The realization came in an instant.
According to the owl’s advice, this guy’s purpose is ultimately survival and salvation.
And once again, the true nature of the Demon King is realized.
I had a gut feeling about what was going to happen.
I knew how to put an end to a plan that was so imperfect!
— Hwarurur!
It’s burning.
Souls united with the divine sun shine as if they were filling the empty universe!
Soon, the Demon King’s gaze turned towards space.
I was at the end of that horrible gaze.
The most perfect food, made up of 18 million souls, appeared in the eyes of the beast suffering from endless hunger!
“What the heck -”
“Ahh… Great Bodhisattva. Please, save everyone -”
“Shut your mouth, you little shit!”
— Gulp!
Finally, the Demon King rose from Earth and headed towards space.
To be exact, towards me!