Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 601
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EP.601 Episode 601 – The Stolen World (16)
Episode 601 – The Stolen World (16)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 228
Current location: Delight Hotel, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
“Today, I have come to lead you, who has lost your memory, to the right path. Fight with us. Just like you did in the past when you freed the prince from the hands of the Administration!”
His comrades couldn’t hide their bewildered expressions when he was asked to fight together.
Eunsol Lee: Ari, you didn’t know about her?
Kim Ari: Not at all. There was no information about the Virgin Mary of the Moon.
Even Ari and the Administration knew nothing about the Virgin of the Moon, Aidia.
This is probably because the descent of the Virgin Mary and other events usually occurred after the ark left.
At that moment, Aidya smiled brightly and answered.
“It was the Administration that first sealed the temple. It was a very… long time ago.”
Did he read something by looking at his colleagues’ reactions?
I don’t think it’s any special superpower.
It is an experience accumulated over a long period of time, but this skill has reached its limit and has become almost like mind control.
Aidyah in Room 207 also had a similar aspect.
Ari asked honestly.
“Have we forgotten you as time has passed?”
“Have you forgotten any information? I was the first person to discover a mirror underground in Spain.”
“…”
An attitude that seemed to subtly mock the administration.
Aidy of Room 207 feels a bit strange when she thinks about the fact that she was the head of the management bureau.
Let’s keep this in mind.
The Aidia in Room 207 and the Aidia in front of you are actually different people.
If the first mirror was discovered in Spain, it would mean that people had been living since the time of the first ark.
I don’t know when it was sealed by the administration, and when it was taken by the moon… .
It is unknown how many loops it has repeated, and it is a being that has accumulated power over eons of time that even the wisdom of the ancestors can ignore.
— Ouch!
He clapped his hands lightly and focused his attention on me again.
“When you say, ‘Fight with me,’ you mean fight against the looters?”
“That’s right.”
“Would you like to hear more details?”
At that moment, Aidy looked up at the sky with a somewhat ominous expression.
“It’s impossible in such an open space.”
“…”
“A man of peculiar wisdom… He really has keen ears.”
It speaks of the wisdom of our ancestors.
He is someone who can approach anyone he wants, anywhere, anytime.
“We need to go to a safe place.”
“A place where the influence of the moon is stronger?”
“Yes.”
Is it right to go to a place where the moon’s influence is greater?
Well, at this point, it makes no sense to say that it is dangerous.
“I also prepared tea.”
This time, I decided to leave Grandpa, Elena, and Miro at the Delight Hotel.
“Haha! Are you guys really worried that I’m going to kill that blonde girl?”
No one answered.
Aidy walked to the car with a slightly disappointed expression on her face at that reaction, but it seemed like she was genuinely disappointed.
I wonder if they think we are the ‘saints’ and are on their side?
*
While riding in the car prepared by Aidia, the surroundings suddenly became dark.
“Current location: Delight Hotel, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul -> Searching… .”
“Be careful. It seems like looters are encroaching on this area. It was fine this morning.”
“…is that what it meant?”
“yes?”
“Is this the erosion of the plunderers?”
“Yes. It’s still early -”
“I can physically get away. I think I just need to get away about 100 meters.”
“You know a lot, don’t you?”
“You’ve been through a lot before you woke up.”
The current location in the status window suddenly changes to ‘Searching…’ and then an unidentified other world appears.
I thought it was just an ordinary building, but inside there was a living clown lurking, trying to kill people.
I thought it was an ordinary house, but when I went inside, it was full of wiggling cocoons.
It’s a peculiar thing that happens often after returning to reality.
As the owl said, the omen caused by the plunderer was present from the moment it arrived in reality.
I just didn’t understand what these phenomena meant.
It was only at this point that they realized that the cause was an intrusion by marauders.
“…”
The ark is half-collapsed, the silent ones have fled to suicide, and the moon awakens.
It is at this point that the third force, the Marauders, truly reveals their power.
If we use a game analogy, it’s as if phase 2 has started.
Ari, who was sitting next to me, whispered softly in my ear.
“It seems like there are three major forces.”
“Administration, Moon, Marauders?”
“I had a hard time understanding what the wisdom of the past was. It certainly wasn’t on the side of the Administration, but it wasn’t on the side of the moon either.”
You can feel it just by looking at the Virgin Mary’s reaction, as she fled in shock when the moon began to awaken.
If it is not on the side of the Administration or the Moon, then where does the wisdom of the past belong?
“I get it now.”
“me too.”
The wisdom of the past is on the side of the plunderers!
Then the question arises: what kind of people are plunderers?
As if she had been waiting, Aidy in the front seat answered.
“It’s nothing.”
“…”
“If the Prince of the Moon accomplishes his great deed, then he can easily drive out those losers. Those half-dead people who think they are gods… .”
They said they were nothing special and that they were losers, but their attitude was different.
The truth told by the body’s trembling that cannot be hidden.
Aidia fears the ‘looters’.
Ariga asked pointedly.
“It seems like there are more than just one plunderer?”
“… Yes. There are many.”
I had a vague feeling.
Each and every one of them is insignificant from the moon’s perspective.
However, when there are many of them and they gather together, it is not easy to handle them even by the moon.
“…”
There are many of them, and when they gather together, they are demigods that even the moon would have a hard time handling.
According to the owl, a being I already know.
I was starting to get the hang of the looters’ true identity.
“I’m not afraid of them.”
That’s what I say because I’m afraid.
“I believe that one day my God will drive them all out. Those half-assed people -”
Adia’s confession of faith, which in some ways feels devout.
This aspect is strikingly similar to what was seen in No. 207.
Back then I served my voice, now I serve only the moon.
When I heard this, the following words came out of my mouth without me knowing.
“That’s how it is.”
“yes?”
— Crunch!
Aidia in the front seat turned her head toward me as if to ask what I meant.
“If you go all the way, the moon will win in the end.”
It’s not an unfounded claim.
Because I heard from the maze that the prophet had foreseen a gloomy future.
A world where the Administration is defeated and a crimson moon rises.
In the future that Yeji saw, there was nothing but the moon.
The two-phase battle between the moon and the plunderers also ends with the moon winning.
“Indeed! As expected of a saint, you know something. Thank you for telling me. I feel relieved.”
At this point, Ari must have found it difficult to endure, so she quietly stepped forward.
“Aidia, in the future seen by the ‘Saint’ -”
I know what Ari is trying to say.
The future that Yeji saw where the moon won was close to a cosmic apocalypse without any life or hope.
Ari is emphasizing that point and asking if you too are possessed by the moon.
“it’s okay.”
“…”
“Why are you like that?”
“No. Let’s go faster.”
It’s a pointless attempt.
Can you convince someone as great as the Virgin Mary with just a few words?
The moon must have been brainwashing us for tens of thousands of years?
It’ll be even more of a headache if we say something unnecessary and Aidia starts to get wary of us.
But, keep this in mind.
The victory of the moon is also the destruction of the world –
— Doo doo doo doo…!
“ah?”
“uh?”
“Oh my god, this is crazy!”
I instinctively started cursing!
I’ve heard this twice already!
“Get out of the car right now -”
There was no need for further explanation.
Because not only Ari and I, but even Aidia had already jumped out of the car.
Jincheol hyung also started running like lightning, holding Eunsol noona in one arm.
The image of the wisdom of the past began to float in the air!
“No, didn’t the moon wake up and go off to do its work?”
Aidy shouted in a cursed tone.
“I did! I sent a signal to the looters -”
“You took care of the urgent matters, so now you have some free time? So you’re going to kill us -”
— Doo doo doo doo…!
The unique, oppressive vibration sound becomes increasingly louder.
It means that the manifestation of the wisdom of the past is right before our eyes!
Aidy looked at me, her face turning pale.
“Saint! Call me right now!”
“what?”
“Elena! Make that girl kill herself!”
Look at this!
He acted like he would never kill Elena to regain his powers, but he was lying!
“Are you crazy!”
“Ah! It’s so frustrating! At this rate, we’re all going to be defeated by that old man!”
“If we all join forces -”
“Idiot!”
“You said you were a saint earlier!”
“You stupid bastard! If you keep doing this, you’ll all die!”
The polite appearance disappeared and I couldn’t help but laugh at the harsh words that suddenly came out.
Aidyah #207 was classy until the very end!
—Whoosh!
Finally, the distant image of the wisdom of the past leaps out and mocks reality!
“It is time to break the bad relationship.”
“Oh really, senior! Stop trying to kill me -”
“I saw the chaos beyond the veil….”
The turquoise energy gathers into the air and forms a sphere.
“How funny is the puppet show of this tiny world?”
The moment the sphere begins to shake, almost like a spell!
A wave of overwhelming force struck the center of Seoul.
— Beep!
A confusion as if a huge high-pitched sound is piercing my eardrums!
The noise was so loud that no sound could be heard.
A light so intense that it filled the surroundings and turned my entire field of vision white!
The gentle light of the divine sun took the lead, and behind it, Ari built up layers of walls with the power of the isosceles polyhedron.
Ari and I both put in all our strength, to the point where our blood vessels burst!
If I had known there would be such an ignorant fight, I would have filled the sacred sun even if it meant going all out!
“Ugh!”
Just as my mind was starting to spin, the shock waves finally subsided.
Fortunately, the first attack was somehow blocked!
Ari cried out, gasping for breath.
“Hey, Aidya!”
Surely he didn’t die from one attack from the wisdom of the ancestors?
Fortunately, the thick smoke cleared and a golden silhouette appeared floating in the air.
“…”
Disheveled hair, half-torn clothes, blood streaming from the corner of the mouth.
Perhaps because he was attacked alone in a different location, his condition is much worse than ours.
“Virgin Mary, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you. It looks like you’re not feeling well.”
“This… devil-like bastard! If only my strength was intact -”
The moment when the Virgin Mary and the ancient wisdom reveal their hostility.
I floated up into the sky and looked around at the scenery, lost in thought.
“…”
As the white dust slowly disappears, the half-ruined landscape of Seoul is revealed.
All those who had praised the moon were buried in dust, and every building in sight had collapsed, turning into an ugly concrete mass.
Did a nuclear bomb fall in the middle of Seoul?
Did an earthquake happen or something?
Likewise, Ari’s muttering as if she had lost her mind.
“This is ridiculous… This kind of strength is ridiculous!”
If it’s a similar power, it would be something like Final Flash or Justice.
The final flash is a one-shot legacy.
The definition is also strict in its activation conditions, and to achieve this level of power, you have to use all your strength at once.
On the other hand, to the previous wisdom, this attack seemed like just a ‘slightly strong technique’.
—Whoosh!
Once again, the azure energy began to gather in the sky.
“Mom, do you have an hourglass? Use it now -”
“Not yet.”
He approached Aidyah, restraining Ari.
“Can’t you do something?”
Aidya answered blankly.
“…I told you to kill Elena.”
“Not that!”
“Let’s all die here together.”
“Oh really!”
— Phagec!
This time, an even greater force is gathering!
As the overwhelming energy condensed into the sphere, the aftermath alone was enough to make your hair stand on end.
“Please! Saint! If I can fully recover my power, I can stop that guy from using such a great technique -”
“Saint, Virgin Mary.”
“yes?”
“You are the Virgin Mary and I am a saint.”
“What is that -”
“Okay, let’s get on our knees.”
I grabbed Aidy’s shoulder, calming my trembling heart.
“yes?”
“Haven’t you read the Bible? You can overcome these things just by praying.”
“What -”
I knelt down and prayed without hesitation.
“Prince of the Moon in Heaven. Here are the Holy Virgins!”
“Are you really praying?”
Ariga hurriedly made Aidia kneel too.
“You do it too, you idiot!”
“Please don’t just shout at the Virgin Mary with your mouth, help me! If you keep doing this, I’ll end up getting fried alive!”
“…Please save me.”
—Whoosh!
So, the second offensive of the wisdom of the ancestors hits the ground.
…
The sky darkened.
I saw a huge tongue extending from beyond the curtain.
“Prince!”
“Does that look like a prince to you?”
As the giant tongue sweeps across the city, the old wisdom hurriedly escapes without even being able to catch her breath.
Not a single bit of the confident appearance he had shown just a moment ago, as if he were a god who called down natural disasters, remained.
“ha ha ha!”
Ari laughs as if she has lost her mind.
I also laughed beside him.
The wretched people who walk the earth would kneel down and say they have seen God if they were just like me.
A demigod who is so difficult to take a single punch from, plots schemes and runs rampant in the world,
The demon that the other half is afraid to make eye contact with is about to descend at any moment.
But why didn’t such a powerful moon help me and the Virgin Mary until it got to this point?
It must be because I didn’t have much energy to fight a war of nerves with the looters!
Yes, it is a world where even the distant gods cannot fully carry out their will.
iced coffee….
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this distant as I do today.
“…”
It was dizzying.
Even if we had the power to turn back time.
Can I create the situation as I wish among these absurd beings?
‘What can I really do with those monsters?’
“Advice: 3 -> 0”
“Be glad that your opponent is not one. If there were one, you would never be able to defeat him. Rather, because there are many, there is room for improvement.”