Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 489
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EP.489 Episode 489 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The First Trial ‘Eternal Life and Resurrection’ (7)
Episode 489 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The First Trial ‘Eternal Life and Resurrection’ (7)
– Kim Sang-hyun
A great struggle that will be recorded as a scene from Egyptian mythology.
On one side, the great Menes who commands the golden army, and on the other side, the primordial evil god Malkab.
At first, it seemed that Menes would win easily.
Because most of the powers Malkab wielded were useless against Menes’ robot army.
If you were a god of ancient times, it wouldn’t be difficult for you to split the sky and dry up rivers with just a word!
As the seated Pharaoh statue stretches out his hand, his fingers turn into missiles and fly out.
The leopard running across the ground suddenly opened its mouth and released a ray of heat powerful enough to melt even rocks.
A black arrow flew into the sky and tore Malkab’s huge body apart.
Of course, Malkab regenerated his destroyed skeletal body over and over again, but didn’t he expend some power in the process?
It seemed as if Menes was going to single-handedly subdue Malkab.
At that very moment, the evil god vomited out a cursed sentence, signaling the start of the real fight.
There is an arrow that can never be avoided: death.
A black arrow like tar suddenly appeared in the sky and flew towards Menes, ignoring the robot army!
“Huh! Huh!”
“illustration!”
Menes, who was physically just an old man, couldn’t even react properly, so I had to push him.
“Oh, thank you -”
“This is not the time to say hello!”
Menes’ army of golden robots, which must have been created with science fiction technology, are clearly unmatched by the powers of this era.
Even the primordial evil gods could not find a way to destroy the robot.
but….
Now that most of the robots are fighting Malkab at the front, Menes at the rear is not invincible!
If he was invincible, why would he lie in the sarcophagus of immortality?
“this!”
One, two, three – I can’t even count how many there are!
Black arrows fill the sky, all flying towards Menes.
In this sudden situation –
Menes looked at us with calm eyes.
Not a single word was spoken, yet everyone understood the great Pharaoh’s intentions.
‘If you don’t want to fight that skeleton god among yourselves, use your talents to save me.’
— Clang!
The hands of the pocket watch moved and a black-haired, red-eyed, peerless beauty appeared.
She, as always, responded quickly.
—Whoosh!
The arrow of death that had covered the sky with a cracking sound as if the air was being torn apart stopped in the air.
As if an invisible wall was blocking the arrow’s trajectory!
“Hoo! Is this lady also a great god? Or, the daughter or wife of Horus?”
Ari and Miro flinched at the same time at the question of whether she was their daughter or wife.
Thinking about the emotional exchange between the two people and Ga-in, I couldn’t help but laugh.
Of course, it wasn’t a situation where I could laugh leisurely.
— Boom!
Because skeleton soldiers started falling from the sky.
*
“Ouch! My fault!”
A desperate fight for everyone has begun.
Yumi melted the skeleton soldiers by spraying green foam from her fingertips, and Songi made the corpse soldiers with a faint sense of self kneel down while making her bracelet glow.
Not only me, who was swinging my cold weapon without stopping, but even Seungyeop and Adia, who was just a princess until yesterday, were all helping out.
The only one who stayed one step away from the fierce battle was Menes.
It would be better for me or Songi Yang to fall, because if Menes died, there would be no way to deal with Malkab!
The one who shined the brightest on the battlefield was Ari.
“Yay!”
The majesty of a glowing, rustling isomorphic polyhedron with a sharp roar.
In an instant, the opaque wall rotates like a propeller, grinding down the corpses surrounding it.
At this moment, the presence that Ari exuded was truly like that of an angel descending from heaven.
“… Ugh!”
As I observed from the side, I also felt its limitations.
It seems that you can’t create multiple ‘rooms’ by building multiple walls, and that the walls you create can’t be maintained for a long period of time.
If that were possible, most intrusions would have been prevented simply by creating an isolation area.
Instead, he actively moves a small number of walls and uses them like giant swords.
Compared to the legacy utilization of the senior researcher that I heard from my colleagues, it seems that his ‘stamina’ is far behind, but his ‘reflexes’ are somewhat ahead.
It may be the difference between a senior researcher who was essentially a desk-bound genius, and a girl who received gifted education from a young age while rolling around in a hotel.
At that moment, blood spurted out of Ari’s mouth.
“Ahh! Ariya!”
Have we reached the limits of the use of isomorphic polyhedra?
The aura of the isohedron that protected everyone by ceaselessly cutting down legions of corpses fades.
Even Menes, who knew nothing about the heritage, hardened his expression at the sight.
Because the outcome of the bloody battle depended on whether Menes’ Golden Legion defeated Malkab faster or Malkab killed Menes faster.
and –
Remember.
The end of all is death.
Malkab’s cursed power pierced through Ari’s gap and struck Menes directly.
“Kwaaah!”
It seemed as if a swarm of insects were flying out of the old man’s mouth, and maggots were crawling out of his ears.
Yumi, who was blocking the skeleton soldiers, hurriedly joined Menes.
“Treatment, can you cure it!”
“I don’t know! Why are flies coming out of my mouth in the first place!”
Skin that cracks in an instant, teeth that fall out, hair that melts.
This is how you can save yourself –
what?
What on earth is Menes’ body… Did I see something wrong?
“What? Why is this ‘organ’ attached to the human body?”
For a moment, Yumi and I looked at each other and confirmed that we saw the same thing.
“Doctor! No matter how I look at this -”
— Bam!
Ari’s cold hand covered Yumi’s mouth.
“Now is not the time to argue. Look at the battlefield!”
“Eww!”
Yumi, who looked ahead as she was told, screamed like a child.
I wanted to scream along with him.
When Menes fainted, all the robots began to freeze!
“What the fuck!”
“Sang-Hyeon, this is not the time to curse. Is there no way to save this human?”
For a moment, complex thoughts flash through my mind.
Should I just let Menes die and snipe Malkab with the final flash?
If both of them die, it might be a kind of fisherman’s paradise!
‘This kind of thinking,’ asked Ariga again, reading like a ghost.
“Are you planning to try using Flash after Menes dies?”
“…”
The question is whether Malkab can be killed with a flash.
If you look at the missiles and lasers fired by the golden robots, it is clear that physical destruction is possible.
The problem is that Malkab is repeating destruction and regeneration.
The Final Flash is a legacy that must be decided in one shot, and if Malkav regenerates after we shoot, it’s our loss.
Ari didn’t comment any further.
Does this mean that the use of the flash is up to me, the owner?
“Phew… .”
I made a decision.
“I am now death, the destroyer of worlds.”
A single flash of light split the surface.
At the end of it was a huge skeleton god as big as a mountain.
*
As ominously predicted, the final flash failed to annihilate Malkab.
However, as most of Malkab’s body was destroyed, the curse that had been weighing on Menes also subsided.
“You are truly amazing.”
“…”
“I apologize. I have been lightly treating you. Who would have thought that you would be able to unleash the wrath of Horus!”
The Final Flash is a power unrelated to things like ‘Wrath of Horus’, but it’s not something to be discussed again.
“Menes, so Malkab is finished?”
“no.”
“…”
“Although he is a ferocious beast, Malkab is clearly destined to be immortal… Even if his body is completely burned, he will not die.”
“So, what are your servants doing now? It looks like they’re doing some digging work or something.”
“The messenger is trapped in the abyss. To put it simply, you could say that he is sealed.”
“…”
“He will wake up someday. It may be in the distant future.”
My judgment in ‘saving’ Menes was correct.
If he had flashed the light at Malkab after he died, the reaper would have eventually regenerated.
Because there was no way for me and my colleagues to seal Malkab in the abyss.
“…”
The land where the god of death had fallen, the once desolate plains had changed as if a nuclear missile had fallen there.
Menes, who had been looking at the surrounding scenery with a deeply moved expression, soon spoke calmly.
“Let’s go to the palace.”
“…”
“We’ll have a lot to talk about. Let’s talk about it as we go. And…”
“and?”
“It seems my worthless descendant is still alive in the palace.”
“ah.”
Menes’s unfortunate descendant.
A being who almost destroyed Egypt by surrendering to Malkab.
It looks like Omar is still alive.
*
I was in endless thought on my way back to the palace.
The secret of Menes that Yumi and I discovered earlier.
“…”
If that’s true, all of Menes’ questions are answered.
Also, he and we can never coexist.
When is the time to fight?
Menes’ physical condition is not normal now?
If we fight now, can we win?
Why not just bow to Menes and wait for the final flash to recharge?
Worries, worries, worries.
The worries continue one after another.
Fortunately or unfortunately, my worries were not mine alone.
“Your head is complicated. Are you like that too?”
“…”
Do you feel at ease just because it’s Menes?
Ari’s power to manipulate space, even though you saw me take down Malkab with a single gesture?
“Horus, Horus… what a great man you are.”
These words helped me read Menes’ thoughts more accurately.
The great Pharaoh is more concerned about Horus than about us, who rules over us as servants, although this is Menes’s illusion.
I decided to add a little bit of that concern.
“Horus is watching all this.”
“So you want me to just stay still? And not crawl around like a mortal?”
“…”
“Did Horus say that he would kill me if a mere desert king acted arrogantly, believing in toys?”
I feel a considerable amount of hostility towards the Gain Army.
Menes is a mortal who is incredibly strong.
That is why he may not be able to accept the god who made him kneel down even for a moment.
This time I thought I needed to appease him a little.
Shouldn’t we buy some time to recharge the final flash?
Just charge the flash and it’s a one-shot, Pharaoh.
“Calm down. Horus has no intention of ruling Egypt. If you doubt, read my sincerity.”
This is real.
Because there’s no way the Cain army would want to rule over something like ancient Egypt.
“… It’s difficult.”
Extreme tension.
Two groups that appear ready to draw their swords at any moment, but still keep a low profile.
The uneasy cohabitation continued until they arrived at the palace.
*
Finally, we return to where the disaster began – Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital.
We were greeted by the terrible words of the Pharaoh, who desired eternal life, a being more like a living piece of meat than a human being.
“Grrrrr!”
“Oh my… Omar! How can you be so miserable -”
What happened next was something no one here could have expected.
Menes, congratulations on your victory.
“Huh? This voice is -”
And you fools who call yourself servants of Horus.
Look closely with your miserable eyes at whom you have dedicated your victory!
The moment when the Grim Reaper’s final struggle reverberates throughout Memphis.
— Oh my god!
Two people – no, two ‘monsters’ whose skin was torn.