Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 486
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EP.486 Episode 486 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The First Trial ‘Eternal Life and Resurrection’ (4)
Episode 486 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The First Trial ‘Eternal Life and Resurrection’ (4)
– Park Seung-yeop
It’s been about 5 days since I landed in ancient Egypt, like I’d only seen in movies.
“… I want to drink some cool water.”
“me too.”
It’s been a long time since Miro and I have had the same thoughts.
It goes without saying that it is a hot place, but it is terribly hot during the day and there is no refrigerator or air conditioning.
In the first place, in this day and age, ‘cool water’ was something you could only drink in the winter.
Let’s be patient.
Considering that we are now riding in a carriage-like thing drawn by servants and camels, cold water and such sounds like a luxury.
“Aidya gave me this to eat on the way.”
“…”
Miro handed me the bread that Aidia had given him.
It’s not like I was being kind because I looked hungry, I just didn’t want to eat that dirty bread.
When you chew ancient Egyptian bread, you feel a lot of hard grains crunching in your mouth.
Of course, it’s not the grains or anything like that that are put in for health, it’s sand.
Since it was made in the desert, isn’t it inevitable that it gets mixed?
“You eat it.”
“No, you eat it.”
“…”
If the bread eaten by Pharaoh’s daughter is like this, then the food eaten by ordinary people is nothing to be desired.
These days, I have only one wish.
Please, my turn is over and I can go back to the train!
“Huh? Huh? What? What is that?”
I thought Miro would be a really scary agent of the Administration before he was resurrected, but he was actually so cute that I was disappointed many times.
– I see people freaking out when they see things like scorpions or spiders.
“You idiot! Hurry up and look outside! It suddenly got dark!”
It really got dark?
When I looked out of the carriage in a panic, I saw that everyone was staring at the sky in a daze.
So when I looked up –
I was also dumbfounded.
*
– Kim Sang-hyun
As always, the crisis came suddenly and without warning.
And then, the stopped clock in room 207 started ticking like crazy.
One evening, when a cool breeze was blowing, it suddenly got dark and I thought an eclipse had begun.
I would have thought so if it weren’t for the ghostly wail coming from the sky.
A darkened sky, a skull pattern bursting into mad laughter.
People walking along the street were all paralyzed with fear and fell flat on the ground, while some knelt down and began to pray to Malkab.
After the incident happened, I had a vague idea of what was going on.
A high priest who suggested that the sick Pharaoh become Malkab’s apostle.
When Pharaoh finally accepted the offer, incomprehensible things began to happen.
Since this was certain to happen, should the Pharaoh have been killed in advance?
I burst out laughing.
I’m confused about who’s the boss and how the scenario is progressing, and now they’re telling me to kill someone out of the blue?
In Room 206, the mayor who was thought to be the enemy turned out to be suppressing the Demon King through human sacrifice!
“Hoo…!”
This is not the time.
*
While moving to the temple outside the city to join Songi Yang, I met some unexpected people.
“teacher!”
Magnificent carriages pulled by camels and servants, and people dressed in fancy attire.
In normal times, it would be a procession that city residents would watch with curious eyes.
Of course, right now everyone is busy praying and crying like crazy.
“Mr. Seung-yeop? The one in front is Miss Yumi. Aha, Miss Miro is here too -”
“What? How do you know your father’s doctor?”
‘Father’s doctor’
We looked at each other for a moment as Aedia looked puzzled at revealing herself as the Pharaoh’s daughter in just two words.
— Hahahaha!
“Eww! Again, again Malkab’s scream -”
“Eight, now is not the time to be leisurely like that! Everyone, this way!”
Now is not the time to be concerned about Aidya.
Without hesitation, I joined my colleagues and explained the situation.
“So, Pharaoh became the apostle of a strange god?”
Miro-san turned pale and Yumi-san was thinking seriously.
“Oh no! I was planning on taking Yumi to heal Pharaoh!”
When I heard Seungyeop’s words, who was stamping his feet in regret, I too felt breathless.
If Yumi had joined just one or two days earlier, as you said –
“Stop. This is not the time to worry about things that cannot be undone. Now is the time -”
At that moment, a woman who had been observing intervened.
“Now is the time to go to the palace and check on your father.”
“… Aidya.”
“Suspicious. Miro, you’re suddenly Yumi? Something felt strange from the moment I recognized this person, but now it’s definitely strange.”
Miss Miro made an awkward expression.
“I’m curious to know what your relationship is, but I won’t ask any further. I must go to the palace and see my father immediately!”
Seungyeop and Miro looked at me in confusion, and so did Yumi.
Since many of my colleagues have followed the decisions made rather than making the decisions themselves, I have to set the direction.
Aidy, who read this atmosphere, also looked in my direction.
— Caaaak! Caaaak!
“Daughter of Pharaoh, let us confirm one thing. Is that in the sky the symbol of Malkab?”
“that’s right.”
“Isn’t Malkab an Egyptian god? A god you worshipped, so to speak. Why would such a god do such a thing?”
“Our relationship with Malkab is not as simple as you think. I don’t know about the people, but….”
“Isn’t it simple?”
“…”
“There is no time.”
“When the great Menes united the entire Nile Valley, the Malkabite sect resisted until the end. In the end, the sect compromised by serving Menes, and Menes recognized Malkab as the state religion.”
As the rat worked its brain to the bone, a plausible story soon emerged.
The evil forces that resisted the superhuman emperor until the end.
A situation where neither side could win unilaterally, so they joined hands to form a kind of joint ruling class with a unified government.
The fact that the Order ‘gave immortality’ to Menes may have been the result of a compromise between the two.
During Menes’ reign, the Pharaoh clan would have been dominant.
As time passed, the superhuman Pharaoh was buried in a sarcophagus and was succeeded by his lesser descendants.
As the balance tilted back toward the sect, Omar, weakened by illness, finally succumbed to Malkab’s temptations?
“Please… Doctor! This is not the time to be worrying! Let’s go to the palace and see Father!”
An ominous noise coming from the sky without pause.
Although we don’t know exactly what happened, it’s clear that something terrible has happened.
The cause must lie with Omar, who became Malkab’s apostle, so we must either kill him or turn him back.
Either way, I have to meet Omar first.
“Let’s go.”
*
When we arrived at the palace, Songi Yang was there, surprisingly enough.
There was no need to move outside the city to find her.
Of course, it wasn’t a waste of time because I met other colleagues along the way.
“Hesperia made me dance and sing -”
“Did you perform a magical ritual?”
“At one point, Omar looked up at the sky, muttered something strange, and then suddenly he turned into a monster! That crazy guy -”
“Hey! Even if you are a priest, be respectful to your father!”
“Who is this?”
“She is the Pharaoh’s daughter!”
“oh.”
As we entered the palace, hell unfolded in earnest.
“Ugh…! Gasp!”
“Please… Please kill me!”
“Grrrrr!”
The soldiers who were still conscious begged to be killed, unable to properly control their rotting bodies.
A situation where many more soldiers have already lost consciousness and are turning into an army of the dead!
Before we could even meet the Pharaoh, half-dead soldiers surrounded us.
“Ugh! What, what is all this?”
— Chaeng!
“… Malkab, who protects the world of the dead forever -”
“Hey! Daughter! Tell me how to get rid of that thing!”
“I don’t know! You’re a priest of Malkab, aren’t you? And you’re asking me?”
“Oh my. I’m going to have a hard time dealing with these guys. They don’t have a single healthy piece of flesh on their bodies.”
In the midst of an already serious situation, when Yumi said with a calm expression, “I can’t use my strength anymore,” the expressions of her colleagues immediately darkened.
Yumi-san has a hard time dealing with enemies without flesh.
Songi Yang’s bracelet is also not suitable for destroying such a large army of corpses.
My Final Flash has such a long cooldown that it can’t be used to deal with these bugs.
There is only one thing left.
Soon, Miro Yang grabbed my wrist with a stern expression.
“teacher!”
If you pretend, it’s just pretend.
“What time is it? Call the right person right away!”
“A test run? What’s that?”
It’s not a situation where you need to worry about Aidy’s eyes anymore.
— Clang!
Soon, the air seemed to ripple and a girl who looked very much like Miro appeared.
“…”
As always, Ari didn’t waste any time and took action immediately.
In the first place, there were corpse soldiers everywhere, so there was nothing to worry about!
“Everyone get down.”
Without hesitation, everyone fell to the floor –
“What? Why is everyone like this?”
“Ah! Daughter! You too, just lie down!”
As Songi Yang and Miro Yang forcibly knocked Aidia down, Ari grabbed the ’emptiness’ with both hands.
“Haat!”
A strange aura emanating from an ominous polyhedron floating in the air.
The moment when the gaze of the audience was transfixed by the polyhedron.
— Crunch!
The corpse soldiers were split in two.
As if an invisible sword were slicing the world horizontally!
Can an isomorphic polyhedron be written this way?
I thought it was just a matter of creating an invisible wall to block access.
In an instant, my cursed curiosity brought to mind several hypotheses.
Swing the invisible wall like a giant sword?
Did you slightly twist the upper and lower spaces?
or not –
“What do we do now?”
Huh!
This is not the time to indulge in useless thoughts.
Ari doesn’t understand the current situation.
“You can deal with Pharaoh together with us.”
“Che, it’s not a matter of processing! I’m sure I can persuade Father -”
“If you ignore my orders one more time, your upper and lower bodies will be separated.”
“…”
There was an undeniable majesty to the words of the demigod who swept away dozens of corpse soldiers with a single gesture.
Thanks to that, Aidia, which had been noisy since earlier, became as quiet as a mouse.
“Let’s go. If we rip off the head of that Pharaoh or that chieftain, something will work out.”
“Hipp!”
*
What happened after that was just a repetition of what had happened so far.
After defeating at least 100 corpse soldiers, the current Pharaoh – Omar appeared in his magnificent attire, and Ari tore Omar apart, whether Aedia screamed or not.
The difference between Omar and other corpses is that Omar did not die in that state, but began to regenerate.
The sight of Omar, who could not die and instead regenerated even when he was turned into a pile of meat scattered everywhere, was so disgusting that it made Seungyeop and Miro vomit.
Ironically, that disgust blew away Aidy’s feelings of ‘love for her father’.
“… This is not my father. It’s just a monster.”
“I’m glad you know that now. So, you’re the Pharaoh’s daughter? How can you get rid of that?”
“…”
Aidya was deeply troubled by Ari’s question, and Miro gave her opinion.
“Right now! Jincheol is in the watch!”
“Me in the morning, Ga-in at noon, and Jin-cheol in the evening?”
“That’s right! Wouldn’t the power of the star fragment be enough to kill this thing?”
“It makes sense, but it doesn’t seem to have much meaning. Don’t waste Jincheol’s time.”
“what?”
Instead of answering Miro, Ari came to me.
“Did you say Omar? That doesn’t sound like the boss.”
“Because it’s too weak?”
“It was neutralized with one space attack and is now nothing more than a lump of immortal flesh. This is not a boss.”
“then -”
“Malkab? From what I’ve heard, he seems to be the culprit behind the situation. Where is he?”
“…”
I don’t know either.
Fortunately, there was someone who could answer that question.
“Are you guys… another god? I guess it’s fine. I know where to go.”
“Where is it?”
“The royal tomb! The great Menes sleeps there!”
“Menes? Can he solve this phenomenon?”
“… maybe.”
“maybe?”
Even Aidia herself seems unsure.
Let’s think about it for a moment and then we can see what kind of train of thought Aidia went through to arrive at the conclusion of ‘awakening Menes’.
Long ago, when the great Menes united Egypt, it is said that the Malkab cult eventually surrendered and offered a sarcophagus to Menes.
What does this mean?
This means that Menes had the power to suppress even Malkab, who could float a skull symbol in the sky and cover the entire palace with a curse in an instant.
“…”
Conversely, waking up Menes to restrain the rampaging Malkab might be like summoning a tiger to stop a wolf.
At that moment, my intuition, honed in the hotel, spoke.
The current situation is a desperate crisis and a crossroads.
In other words, this is the ‘most important moment’ that Gain-kun was talking about!
— Flutter!
“What is that? An envelope? Is that Ga-in’s handwriting?”
“…”
I was a little confused because there were two pieces of paper.
Luckily, each piece of paper was kindly numbered 1 and 2.
When I unfolded the paper corresponding to 1, the following words appeared.
“1. Please respect the historical flow that we know.”
“…Respect the flow of history? Mr. Gain, what on earth does that mean!”
“Sang-Hyeon, give that to me.”
Ari carefully examined the note and soon gave instructions to everyone.
“Let’s go to the royal tomb. We need to wake Menes. Miro, stop wasting my time here and summon me back.”
I was momentarily taken aback.
How should we interpret the contents of this letter to arrive at the conclusion, ‘Let us wake up Menes’?
At that moment, Aidya reacted.
“Is this… a document containing prophecy? A revelation from your god?”
“…”
There was no one who could answer that question.
For a moment, it occurred to me that Aidia had made a very sharp point.