Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 524
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EP.524 Episode 524 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (10)
Episode 524 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The Fourth Trial ‘The Fallen King’ (10)
– Han Ga-in
To be honest, I was momentarily overwhelmed by the destructive momentum that had taken over Seoul.
This was because the screams of citizens could be heard from all directions and the gloomy song created by the countless chaos entities that seemed to know no end could be heard.
If this was the cursed room, this is the time to realize that the round is ruined and think about escaping.
But this is room 207, the gateway room.
A place where there is no concept of escape and there is only one chance.
There is a ‘One More Chance’ that has a similar effect to a retry, but the owner of that legacy has not yet joined.
There is no time to ponder impossible choices.
Just choose from the available options!
“Min-ah, did you hear the call just now?”
“Wow, that voice just now was Hong Go-hak, right? I didn’t even open my phone -”
“Contact the Vatican and ask them to track your location. Track your calls, use satellites, whatever!”
“You want to go to Honggohak? Even if you knew the location, it’s still a problem! There are monsters everywhere. For some reason, it seems like you can’t enter this church, but if you go outside-”
“I can handle that part.”
“… good.”
While Mina was contacting the Vatican, I also contacted ‘someone’.
— Ring!
“Have you checked the outside situation?”
“…”
“I wish you could help me now. The location is the church entrance I mentioned yesterday, so if you use the map app -”
“Joining?”
“Not yet. Just kill the monsters around us from afar.”
“- Click!”
After finishing the call, I checked Minah’s side and she was already approaching.
“I found it! It was so obvious that there was no need to track it or anything.”
“Is it open?”
“If you go towards Yeouido from here, you’ll come across a park -”
“You know where it is! Is it within walking distance?”
“There’s a car! Let’s go right away?”
“No, wait a minute.”
The monsters outside looked ready to storm in as soon as the church door was opened.
It was like trying to drag the believers out, but is there some kind of power in this church that can repel enemies?
At that time, Mina asked carefully.
“Who did you just talk to?”
“…”
“That guy is coming to take care of the monsters around us? A colleague? As I explained yesterday -”
“You know him well. We’ll meet soon.”
“what?”
“I’ll explain it to you shortly. You’re busy right now. Let’s go.”
*
All the way to the parking lot, Mina couldn’t hide her surprise with her rabbit-like eyes.
It seemed as if a thick fog had covered the surroundings, but the monsters that were targeting us began to melt away one after another.
In fact, I also found every moment amazing.
Didn’t it originally not have this kind of power?
What strength did you gain after entering room 207?
Because this is a trial that has been ongoing for a very long time, such unpredictable things happen.
“Car key!”
“here!”
Because time was of the essence, I stepped on the accelerator without hesitation.
— Boohoo!
Checking the location that Minah shows on her phone –
— Boom!
I tried to avoid the monsters running wild everywhere, and ended up hitting a few of them –
— Crunch! Crunch!
I frowned as I watched citizens being eaten by monsters right before my eyes –
— Thud! Sa, save me!
At this point, Mina couldn’t stand it anymore.
“hey!”
“…”
“Do you know what kind of bumper car this is? It goes around hitting everything!”
“Choi, I’m doing my best.”
“Why do you drive like a dog? You’ve been through a lot!”
It’s unfair.
I’ve had all kinds of trouble with hotels, but I’ve never really driven a car!
What if your driving skills don’t improve even after 100 or 200 years in the primitive era?
— Bam! Bam!
“Why are you honking the horn? The cannibal clown runs away at the sound of bread.”
“This, this is a habit!”
“Is it a habit to keep pressing the accelerator instead of the brake?”
“…”
Come to think of it, it was a mistake for me to sit in the driver’s seat.
But, think about it.
I was getting into the car, planning everything until my head exploded, and the girl next to me was a high school girl.
In this situation, 99.9% of adult men would naturally sit in the driver’s seat!
Minah sat in the passenger seat as if it was natural –
“Get out of the way! Get out of the way!”
“…”
— Swish!
Seoul, where wind and rain suddenly rage.
The sight of the road filled with swaying figures looked like a scene from a nightmare.
A papal lady who doesn’t even know what she is and a young man who can see the future but often confuses the accelerator and the brake.
The security vehicle carrying the dazzling duo rolled down the gloomy road.
*
By the time we reached the desolate park, we knew that the information from the Vatican was not wrong.
This is because Hong Go-hak did not hide his position at all.
I thought as I approached.
How did things get so weird?
“…”
At first, when I knew nothing, I thought of stealing the sacred sun that the Horus Cult leaders would have.
After I joined the sect, I realized that the ‘Horus’ they served was me, and I thought there was no need to fight.
It is in this context that the short-term goal was revised to securing the dream kingdom around the middle.
Given the circumstances, the Horus Cult was probably founded by his colleagues, so if he could contact them, he would naturally be able to obtain the Horus Cult as well.
If I get my hands on the sect, won’t the sacred sun return to me without a trace?
So I was working on it step by step, but then suddenly Hong Go-hak started going wild like a madman!
“…”
When I connected with Honggohak, I felt it vaguely.
There was a strange twist deep in his heart.
“Pastor. Why on earth are you doing this?”
The old man said, clasping both hands together politely.
“What did I do to make you say that?”
“…”
“If you were shocked by the tragedy in Seoul, I would say I was simply revealing the truth.”
“what?”
“The Vatican has been deceiving everyone with its crude veil for many years. Lies have an end.”
Something, I felt like I knew what he was talking about, but I couldn’t figure it out.
If we were to interpret it, it would seem that for some reason Seoul has already become hell, and the Vatican has been covering up the disaster with powerful miracles.
Could it be that Hong Go-hak made a finger-sized hole in a solid dam, instantly destroying its balance?
“Even if what you say is true, it seems like you’re the one who broke the curtain.”
“It’s an illusion that will eventually collapse. Today is just the beginning.”
“what -”
“The Holy See knows. The dull-witted pawn behind you doesn’t know anything, but the Virgin Aidia, who is crouching in Spain, knows.”
I kept my mouth shut for a moment and waited.
Because it seemed like the parish priest was going to say something meaningful.
“…”
“…”
About 5 seconds of silence, if it’s long it’s long, if it’s short it’s short.
Suddenly Hong Go-hak laughed.
“Ha, haha! How was the imitation from earlier?”
“…Imitation?”
“Didn’t it seem like I knew all the secrets of the world? Wasn’t that a pretty plausible pretense?”
“…”
“Horus.”
Finally the name came out.
I did not say ‘no’ to the priest who called me Horus.
“I served Pope Sophia for many years, and she had a strange habit.”
“…”
“If someone asked you a question, you had no way of giving a clear answer, and you enjoyed using indirect answers or beating around the bush.”
“…”
“Thanks to this, many people came to believe that Sophia was a more mysterious and secretive being, but I realized something a little different.”
“What did you know?”
“Aha! This person is also human! The reason he doesn’t speak clearly is because he himself doesn’t know the exact answer, and the reason he enjoys answering Zen questions is because if he does, the other person will fall for his tricks.”
“…”
“Isn’t it?”
When I heard it, it wasn’t wrong, and it was a little funny.
Although I have not yet met her, the behavior of Pope Sophia seems subtly owl-like.
“That makes sense. Since my knowledge is not perfect, a little bit of bluff is essential to overwhelm the opponent.”
“okay!”
“So, Hong Go-hak, are you going to try imitating Sophia from now on?”
“Haha, that won’t work?”
Are you going to play a game of riddles with such flimsy information when you’re not even an owl?
— Flutter!
When the book of magic that gave off an evil aura appeared, the old man smiled regretfully.
“As expected, it seems that it takes strength to imitate a god.”
— Beep!
Again, I feel an indescribable unpleasant sensation.
My mind was consumed by strange, endlessly circulating thoughts!
A square inside a square inside a square inside a square inside a square inside a square.
Square-oval motion of a square-oval motion of a square-oval motion of a square-oval motion.
A person who sees through the soapy water of a blood vessel through which soap passes.
What the hell is going on!
13 children are running down the road.
(The road is a dead end.)
The first child is said to be scary.
Even the second child is scary, they say.
Even the third child is scary –
This is the work of a famous eccentric poet!
The two friends who just arrived at the restaurant door parted ways.
A sugar cube with blue ink spilled on it is loaded onto a three-wheeled cart.
Military boots that trample on business cards. Furniture-crushing cauldrons.
I waited, enduring the confusing strings that seemed like they would drive me crazy.
Fortunately, it didn’t take long for the match to be decided.
Because I had a ‘second sentence’!
“If what is other can be yours, then can’t you also be other?”
“Ugh! What, what is this!”
I look at the mysterious shadow that suddenly appeared behind the Hongohak.
He was my age, but I was not.
“…”
For a moment, I became curious.
When it was first split, one side contained ‘Madness of the Grimoire’ and the other side contained ‘Erosion of the Sacred Sun’ to isolate them, but what about now?
Perhaps this distinction itself is meaningless.
“Ugh!”
I was honestly amazed when I saw the red crane wriggling all over its body.
Even though it was a being with special powers, who would have thought it would be able to resist another of my attempts at possession to this extent?
It’s just a matter of time.
Hong Go-hak possessed magical powers that shook the mind, but he was not skilled enough to resist the Grimoire.
in the end.
The squirming old man suddenly became calm.
“it’s okay?”
“Okay.”
Every time I talk to myself like this, I feel strange.
Soon, the information I had gained through the ice began to occur to me as if it were a given.
“…”
Crisis, despair, pain, frustration, and… betrayal!
“This was it.”
With Sophia gone, the Cult of Horus is left in crisis due to a lack of leadership.
The Vatican’s offensive is getting more intense by the day.
The laypeople, who were close to the general public, were better off, but the high-ranking officials of the religious order were practically like flies.
“Ugh… There were this many non-humans?”
Even many of the high-ranking members of the Cult of Horus were not human, but intelligent beings such as werewolves or yetis, beings for whom the Holy See could not possibly show mercy, even in empty words.
“…”
Hong Go-hak in his memories lost his relatives every day.
Yesterday I lost a close friend of 20 years, and today I lost a disciple who had served him for many years.
In the midst of all this despair… .
Horus never once extended a helping hand to him.
“… this.”
The final moment when the candle of faith fades.
Someone whispered to Hong Go-hak.
‘Foolish priest, you still seek a god who does not answer. I will give you true salvation.’
“Well, so Honggohak became the puppet of an unknown person?”
Another me answered.
“Unable to overcome the persecution of the Vatican, I betrayed the church. The problem is what happened next. I abandoned my faith, but surprisingly, God returned.”
“… It’s a little disappointing.”
“Now that God has returned, a normal priest would have to put his hands together and pray like that guy at the church earlier… But that wasn’t the case for Hong Go-hak. He had already committed the ‘unforgivable sin.’”
“If you’re talking about apostasy, I think I would have just let it happen if he got down on his knees.”
“That’s what we think, and this guy probably thinks that the situation is already irreversible. That’s good, but… .”
He tilted his head again.
“Is it in your arms?”
“what?”
“That ‘true salvation’ is in your arms? Just wait. I’ll take it out.”
Soon, another me rummaging through my bosom found something.
“I think someone gave this to the parish priest?”
A small object wrapped in a round cloth.
“It’s really small.”
“I know.”
When I removed the cloth, I saw a tiny shard of glass glowing eerily.
“What is this? It looks like a piece of mirror. What is this -”
— Teeing!