Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 512
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EP.512 Episode 512 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Third Trial ‘Miskatonic University’ (14)
Episode 512 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Third Trial ‘Miskatonic University’ (14)
– Kim Muk-seong
When I arrived at the university, I heard Sophia’s loud cry.
“Eternal winter is coming, freeze!”
Soon, Sophia’s magical power, which had been squeezing out all her strength, froze Fortuna, who was standing on the sky, and made her fall.
If it were a human, it would have been either a verb or a fall to death, but for that monster, it would only buy a few seconds of time!
Ari had been hit hard in the meantime and was lying on the floor with blood streaming from the corner of her mouth.
It seemed like he was recovering with the power of his old blood, but soon he got up, enduring the pain.
Soon, as Ari, with a pale expression, clasped her hands together and concentrated, translucent bulkheads rose from all directions and surrounded the fallen Fortuna.
“Is it done?”
“No. Just, to buy some time. A few minutes at most.”
“Ugh…!”
“More than that, Mukseong-ah, it’s strange.”
“what?”
“I’m talking about Seungyeop’s current condition.”
“…”
I was embarrassed.
Fortuna’s true identity is Seungyeop?
Ari, who has searched through Yumi’s memories, may think it’s obvious, but it’s such a shocking thing to me!
Of course, he didn’t have the luxury of explaining it kindly to Ari, who was recovering from old fatigue while also isolating Fortuna in an isosceles polyhedron.
“That’s strange. Since it’s Seungyeop’s first party, he can’t use blessing, so how can he use luck? And…”
“and?”
“The power of resurrection. The more I think about it, the more strange it seems. Even if there is a soul ship, it doesn’t make sense.”
I see what Ari is pointing out.
“I remember. If you die with your soul in the soul box, you become a kind of ghost and wander the world, but your body cannot be regenerated.”
The soul itself does not have the ability to regenerate the body.
If there had been, there would have been no need for the Hwanma to create the Divorce Magic and move around in numerous bodies, and the Yumi of the past would not have had to struggle to create a body.
“If what you say is true, Seungyeop must have lived a really long time, but didn’t he learn magic from Yumi?”
“No way. The Seungyeop I remember had no intention of learning magic. More than anything… .”
I understand what you are trying to say.
“You’re still not using it. If you could use magic, you would have used it for attack purposes a long time ago, but you’re only using martial arts. You only use magic at the moment of resurrection?”
As I listened to Ari’s words, I discovered another strange thing.
“Come to think of it, isn’t the way luck is used different from the past?”
“That’s right. In the past, it was just about making yourself lucky, and it didn’t seem to have the power to cause bad luck to enemies at long range.”
The more I thought about it, the more I sympathized with Ari’s words.
Fortuna’s power is somewhat strange.
So, let’s say Seungyeop’s powers are A, B, and C.
At first glance, Fortuna appears to write ABC, but when you look at it through the eyes of a colleague who knows her better, it feels like she writes abc or ㄱㄴㄷ instead of ABC?
“I kind of have a vague idea. So -”
“Ariya.”
He emphasized this by firmly grabbing Ari’s shoulder with a pale expression.
“You seem to be lost in your own complicated thoughts, but sometimes the answer comes when you look at a situation simply.”
“say it.”
“The third ordeal has been resolved! You and I both know the conditions. All you have to do is kill the boss.”
“yes.”
In the end, the most important thing is ‘who is the boss?’
“At first, I thought that guy, Fortuna, was the boss. But think about it. Has Fortuna ever threatened the world?”
“uh -”
“Has Fortuna ever targeted us?”
“…”
“Did you hear what Sophia said? Fortuna killed Eunsol. She probably killed Elena too. That means-”
“Fortuna was the boss of the second trial.”
Since her appearance, Fortuna has only been passionate about hunting chaos beings, and has never acted like an ‘enemy of the world’.
Also, I didn’t come here to target ‘Kim Muk-seong and Kim Ari’.
The goal was Miskatonic University, but we were just inside the university.
Above all, he is the boss of the second trial.
How could the bosses of the second and third trials be the same?
If it’s the same, then if you defeated Fortuna in the second trial, then there’s no boss in the third trial!
“… Fortuna was the boss that the second party failed to defeat. That’s why she’s still here causing trouble.”
So who is the boss of the third trial?
As if waiting, there was a voice cursing the whole world.
“Whoa! In the end, there is only one answer. There is only one salvation in this miserable world!”
“Lucas! Please -”
Sophia looks back at the dean in shock, and hears an ominous spell she’s already heard once.
I understand the motivation.
The logic of the Vatican was something that could never be accepted by the victimized minority, and he was the one who had everything taken away by the Vatican.
However, whatever the reason, he is a mad archmage who has attempted to summon an alien god not once but twice!
“To the truly great, the distinction between beginning and end is -”
What the heck! Again?
The moment I sighed and called out One More Chance, a pure white hand grabbed my arm.
“Don’t write, go tell Lucas. I have one more move left, so he should postpone the suicide.”
“There’s no way I can convince you -”
“If persuasion fails, then come back! There’s one last thing I want to try.”
“What do you want to try?”
“We need to see what Seungyeop’s situation is. Tell Lucas to use his self-destructive power to weaken Fortuna, even if only for a little while!”
“… i get it.”
Surprisingly, Lucas accepted the offer and changed the content of the order.
The old man spoke, clutching something strangely luminous in his hand.
“Priest of Horus! I will listen to you just this once, if only for the sake of my master who searched for Horus until the end. However, Fortuna is immortal. What good would it do to suppress her for a little while?”
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— Ta-da-dak! Ta-da-dak!
“Eww! Give me some feedback!”
This really fucking pisses me off.
No, if I put the flashing bow in front, shouldn’t you respond right away?
I’m always at Platinum because they’re all idiots –
“Seungyeop, is it that fun?”
“uh?”
The moment I turned my head, my breath caught in my throat.
Black hair flowing from her waist and bloodshot eyes that look like they’ve hardened with drops of blood.
It was so out of this world that I couldn’t breathe.
“Who, who, who, who are you?”
“This is too much. Can’t you even recognize me?”
“Who, sister? I’m an only child -”
“Really? Are you sure? Do you remember it exactly?”
“…”
It was confusing.
I’m an only child, but that may not be true.
Because most of my memories related to my family were blurry.
“Are you really my sister? Uh, uh, so your name is -”
“My name is Park Ari.”
A stunningly beautiful girl who claimed to be my older sister suddenly reached out and pointed at the monitor.
“Is this so funny?”
“yes?”
“But, Seungyeop, wasn’t it your mistake just now?”
“…”
What did you just say?
“I, um, don’t know much about this game, but you and your teammates are too far apart. Even if you think it’s a situation where you can start a fight, when your teammates are far apart -”
“you….”
“uh?”
“What do you know! What do you know about LoL!”
“Oh, oh, Seungyeop. I’m definitely your older sister -”
“Don’t teach me how to play LoL when you don’t know anything about it!”
“???”
I calmed down my excitement and grabbed hold of Sister Ari as I slowly explained.
The proper angle for starting a fight is essentially a cross-section of time, something that occurs and disappears in a split second.
A single opportunity captured in the flow of time, like a constantly flowing river.
To contain one’s entire life in that moment is the pinnacle of martial arts –
“Hey, weren’t we just talking about games? Why are you suddenly talking about the extremes of martial arts?”
“Sister, you really don’t know anything? Don’t you know that the laws of all things apply in extreme realms? Haven’t you heard the saying, “All streams return to their original state”?
“I don’t think even the best master in the world would say that the extremes of martial arts and role-playing are the same.”
“I am the best in the world! Me! That’s why I am right!”
“Wow… What is this feeling that sounds like nonsense, but is also subtly true?”
I had no choice but to sit my older sister down in front of the computer and teach her one by one.
After about 20 minutes, Ari-noona muttered with a somewhat bewildered expression.
“I forgot how many people I had in my family, and yet I subconsciously remember things like this….”
“what?”
“No. Seungyeop, do you want to watch a movie with me?”
“Movie? What movie?”
“I’ll look it up~!”
My sister lightly held my hand and used her other hand to type on the keyboard and search for a movie.
…
Suddenly, I heard someone’s voice, extremely cold and harsh.
‘Wake up. An intruder is attacking our minds.’
This is the power obtained by reaching the extreme of the art of division of mind, the clear reason that protects me from the evil power that plays with my mind.
‘Tapping on the keyboard or searching the Internet means nothing, and what the intruder is really searching is our memories.’
“You! How on earth did you -”
“Thinking about it again, wasn’t it Seungyeop’s mistake earlier? Because the team members were far away -”
no!
No no no no no no!
Why does this older sister make me so mad?
“Oh really! I explained everything!”
“The next backdoor is really the worst. I think it’s because of that.”
“… I am clear, it is not a backdoor, it is an operation -”
I’m angry.
I’m so angry my whole body is shaking!
Thanks to this, I don’t even know what a clear-headed person is or what a bullshit is!
“It’s nothing special. I found it.”
“Sister, how many times do I have to explain to you that you found it?”
Sister Ari smiled brightly and pointed to the movie title.
‘The First Encounter between the Black Knight and the Virgin – The Mirror of Nitocris’
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– Kim Muk-seong
— Wiggle!
Ari, who had been sleeping soundly, slowly wakes up.
He shouted in an urgent voice, as if Fortuna might burst into action at any moment.
“Ariya, what happened? Did you find the solution to Fortuna?”
The black-haired, red-eyed girl looked up at the sky with a blank expression.
“What happened?”
“… mirror.”
“what?”
“I think I know what a mirror is. I think I know what condition Seungyeop is in.”
“Don’t keep it to yourself; tell me too!”
Ari made a complicated expression for a moment, then asked a strange question.
“Do you remember the administration’s theory about the world?”
“What? Why all of a sudden -”
“There is no such thing as parallel worlds. We live in a single universe that vibrates endlessly.”
I was embarrassed.
There was no one around to understand what she was saying, and in fact, Sophia was just tilting her head.
This is one of the administration’s biggest secrets!
“Ariya, why are you suddenly saying this -”
“When the hotel cinema ended, the hotel promised Ga-in that it would give her a satisfying ending. What did it mean?”
A chaotic mess of thoughts, topics of conversation jumping around here and there.
While discussing A, they suddenly start discussing B, and before you even understand, they suddenly start talking about C.
“Why are you really like this?”
“Suddenly, this thought occurred to me. What color is the sky?”
I had this thought too.
Could it be that Ari has delved into Seungyeop’s memories and gone crazy, and has also gone crazy herself?
“… It’s blue.”
“What color is blue?”
“Ariya, now is not the time -”
It was confusing.
Now, Ari was too weird to be considered normal, and there was some logic to calling her crazy.
From a distance, an old man and a dean came running in a hurry.
“What happened! Fortuna is still fine. She will wake up soon! Even if you kill her, she will be resurrected. What do you want me to do? I’m sure you can stop her -”
Ari simply answered the dean, who was filled with despair and fear.
“You can do it.”
“… what?”
Soon, Ari got up and approached the dean.
“If just one person dies today, all our problems will be solved.”
The old man tilted his head.
“You found a way to kill Fortuna? Hoo…! Indeed, Horus’s -”
— Crunch!
That was the end of Dean Lucas.
He couldn’t even imagine Ari’s surprise attack until the moment he was beheaded by the invisible sword.
Of course, the same was true for other people there.
“Eww!”
“Whoa!”
Sophia screaming like a child.
Me, next to her, as surprised as Sophia!
No, even if you killed the dean, you could have told me, right?
No matter how I look at it, Ari is crazy right now.
Just use one more chance –
“are you okay.”
“…”
“Mukseong, calm down. It’s really okay. The third trial is almost over now.”
You’re almost done with the trials?
As Ari reached out and released the Dean’s tightly clenched hand, a shard of glass emitting an eerie light appeared.
Soon, the glass shard entered Ari’s smiling hand.
The room was in chaos, and the pitch-black knight rose from behind.
It’s clearly a life-or-death crisis, and even Lucas, who put Fortuna to sleep with the forbidden magic, is dead, so if we don’t turn back time, we’ll all die without a fight!
Ari continued the conversation from before, looking at me as if she couldn’t even see Fortuna behind her.
“I had this thought.”
“Ariya… .”
“We all live in boxes created by our own cognitive abilities. Is the blue you see really the same blue I see?”
A single vibrating universe.
The hotel’s promise to Gain.
A box created by each person’s perception.
The Mirror of Nitocris.
I had a vague idea of what Ari’s enlightenment was.
At the same time, I couldn’t know anything.
— Stab!
At that moment, the glass shards glowed ominously.