Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 602
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EP.602 Episode 602 – The Stolen World (17)
Episode 602 – The Stolen World (17)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 228
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
“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.”
While my body froze for a moment at the unexpected answer, the situation on the battlefield filled with transcendent violence quickly changed.
The wisdom of the past could not avoid the tongue of the moon in the end.
“Ugh…!”
It wasn’t a perfect hit.
Just a slight brush against the edge of a mass of flesh larger than a building?
With just that, nearly 30% of the body of the previous wisdom was instantly disintegrated into dust.
If the Moon Demon had just a little more leeway, the wisdom of the past, no matter how cunning the strategies accumulated over the years, would have disappeared without a trace.
However, the Moon Demon was not given ‘a little leeway’.
Because even the great devil had an opponent worthy of his stature.
— Phagec!
“That’s -!”
“Marauders!”
It seemed as if white lightning was striking here and there in the dark sky, and then the air began to split here and there.
Beyond the gaping chasm were holy beings whom it was not easy to even dare to meet their gaze.
They were all equally noble and great beings.
Also, they were all equally fallen losers.
“Hey! That, that -”
Eunsol’s surprised voice is heard from behind.
I recognized one of the marauders.
Yes, as the owl told us yesterday, the Marauder was also someone we already knew!
— Kugu Palace!
It’s as if there’s an endless, giant ship firing its cannons.
That might actually be the concept.
The pure white rays of light shot out from here and there, striking the tongue of the moon one after another, and in an instant, the flesh of the moon began to fall here and there in the ruined city of Seoul.
“Whoa!”
“Enough with the appreciation, let’s run away! Quickly! We have to run away while the evil prince of the moon protects us!”
Suddenly, I burst into laughter as I was running around the battlefield of the gods, which was full of chaos.
“Haha!”
“Oh, are you laughing?”
Aidya was dumbfounded, but I laughed.
Isn’t the current situation a perfect example of the hint the owl gave me a little while ago!
The fight started with us and our ancestors’ wisdom.
However, Dal, who did not want to lose Aidia and me in vain, was dragged into the battlefield.
Soon, even the marauders who did not want to lose the wisdom of their ancestors joined in.
This is a typical situation where adults are dragged into a children’s fight!
“You don’t have to have power to cause chaos.”
“yes?”
“let’s go!”
*
The night sky has already become dark.
The great battle that took place in the distant skies ended long ago.
“Where are we now?”
He answered Aidy, who was blankly looking at the sky.
“Bucheon.”
“I don’t really understand if you say it like that. Korean place names change frequently in a repeating loop.”
“… Do you know Incheon? It’s nearby.”
“We’re nearing the sanctuary. I don’t know when we’ll get there though.”
“…”
The destination is said to be the sea off Incheon.
If it were true, I would have arrived in Incheon from Seoul, not even in the US, by now.
“I’m tired. How many other worlds have I been swept up in in just a few hours…?”
It is a hideous otherworldly phenomenon created by the encroachment of marauders.
With each step you take, the location changes to Searching and a bizarre place appears.
Thanks to this, it was not uncommon to move 30 meters in an hour.
“I sense malice. It feels like it’s eroding everything in our path.”
“Of course. Thanks to the wisdom of our ancestors, even the raiders have begun to recognize us.”
“…”
“I guess we should take a break here. Over there, do you see that house? Let’s take a nap over there and leave in the morning.”
“You’re taking a breather? Is that possible?”
What if the interior of your home changes into another world while you sleep?
“It’s okay here. This area is where the moon’s energy reaches strongly.”
“…”
A place with strong lunar energy… .
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but let’s do it that way.
As soon as I entered the shabby house near Bucheon, my colleagues started collapsing.
The aftermath of the absurd attack by the wisdom of the past.
The clash between the great ones in the incomprehensible realm that follows.
As if that weren’t enough, there are otherworldly abominations placed by the raiders!
This was because everyone was physically and mentally exhausted due to the pressure that was difficult for humans to endure.
“Brother, what about sister?”
“I’ve been unconscious for a while now.”
At least Jincheol hyung looked okay.
His body is very strong, and as for his mentality, Eunsol would have been right next to him playing the flute.
“Is Ari okay?”
“I hope so.”
As soon as the word “let’s rest” was mentioned, Ari fell into a deep sleep as if she had fainted.
A moment ago, Ari was looking straight at the moon and laughing like crazy, and my heart felt heavy.
“… Where is he looking?”
“Him? Aidya?”
Aidy was leaning against the window, looking at the sky with a dazed expression.
Following the end of my gaze, I saw a blurry sphere glowing crimson.
The distant shape of the moon finally begins to come into view.
“… Aidya.”
“yes.”
“What exactly is there when you go to the sanctuary off the coast of Incheon?”
“An arrangement to drive out the looters!”
The reason why Aidia leads us to the sanctuary.
“I think it would be good for you to sleep too, Your Majesty.”
“you?”
“I’m fine. I need to be on guard duty. Also, this is the power of my legacy.”
Aidia’s body, which was smiling brightly, had turned into purple rocks here and there.
Is this the principle of recovery where the injured area turns into rock and then returns to flesh?
It seems that this heritage is the source of the Virgin Mary’s powerful physical abilities.
“What is your name?”
“The Clifford Crystal. A legacy that humans cannot use.”
“…”
“Isn’t it amazing? That a legacy that the human body cannot endure has fallen into my hands?”
Aidia seemed to have no intention of hiding the fact that she was not human.
“I always wonder. What you and I experienced in our respective hotels. Did we really do it the way we wanted?”
“…”
“Perhaps it was decided from the beginning what blessings you and I will receive and what inheritance we will receive -”
“My fellows, like you, have received a legacy that is difficult for humans to endure.”
Jincheol, who obtained a star from another world where his body collapsed.
Elena gets ominous visions of her mind collapsing.
“At the time of obtaining it, I was wondering how to use it, but when I went to the Sanctuary of Blessing right after, they told me that I could use it somehow.”
Jincheol Hyung, who gained regenerative powers.
Elena who gained the clarity index.
“Your legacy, the Clifford Crystal, must have been similar.”
“If a human obtains it, they can use it immediately afterward through blessing enhancement?”
“okay.”
“That could be the case.”
This is my interpretation.
Aidia didn’t seem to have any intention of refuting it either.
“Let’s stop talking about the hotel. You told me to focus on the task at hand, didn’t you?”
“Do you know? The reason I said that is because I couldn’t protect myself. It’s advice and a promise.”
“The identity of the plunderer. I was not sure before, but I know for sure this time. The being that Eunsol met once appeared again.”
“okay.”
“The raiders are also an ark, right? Another ark?”
We’ve already encountered the looters twice.
The being that Eun-sol, who was dragged to another world at the Esper ship dock, met.
A whitish ball of light that appeared with a giant whirlpool.
The place where Ari lived after fleeing from the punishment of the stone tablet.
A creature of unimaginable size, an abandoned and fallen god who has lost even his intelligence.
“Ari said they were old arks. They were destroyed by accidents during dismantling or construction -”
“That’s not wrong, but it leaves out a lot of important parts.”
“Then you fill it in.”
Aidy looked up at the dark night sky again and muttered.
“I originally planned to tell the important story at the sanctuary. I didn’t want to attract the attention of the wisdom of the ancestors.”
“…”
“It doesn’t matter anymore. We’ve already fought a game.”
I took a deep breath and focused all my attention on Aidia’s words.
“Saint, did you know? It is said that the first ark was built after studying the regressors.”
“…I heard.”
This is what Dominion told Miro.
“There is one strange characteristic about regressors: they cannot control the moment of awakening.”
A regressor cannot control the timing of his awakening.
Some people wake up in the Middle Ages, others wake up in the 21st century.
Maybe there was someone who woke up in primitive times.
“It’s the same with the ark. You can’t control the exact time of arrival.”
“…”
“Nobody knows the exact reason. Because no one clearly understands the logic of the ark in the first place.”
The two core elements of the Ark are the soul gathering circuit and the mirror.
The mirror is a mysterious object that fell from space, and as we learned in issue 207, it is a sacred object that contains the power of the practitioner.
The soul gathering circuit is also something that is not understood.
“I know Ari-yang is sleeping on the sofa, but-”
“Just call me Ari.”
Ari seems to have woken up as Aidia tells an important story.
“If you think about it carefully, the ark is actually nothing more than an invasion of the next loop of the past loop.”
“…”
“If we arrive around the 5th or 8th century, there won’t be any problems. The humans of that period don’t look much different from primitive people to us.”
“…”
“They don’t even know what the ark is, and they just bow their heads, saying that a god has come down from the sky. Since they serve it obediently, the ark forces don’t necessarily fight the natives.”
The following words were received by Ariga.
“On the Ark side, we will enlighten the savages of the primitive world and lead them to the light! We have this sense of mission. We even bring people who are worthy of doing so onto the Ark.”
If the ark reaches the pre-modern world, there will be no major problems.
Because the natives of that time did not understand the concept of an ark and had no ability to fight against it in the first place.
They mix naturally, and in the process… .
The corruption that the ark contained spreads throughout the world.
“What will it be like when we arrive in the 21st century?”
“…”
“Your Majesty, imagine if the Ark of the Old World had arrived sometime late last year. Do you think the Administration would have readily accepted their rule?”
“There’s going to be a fight.”
“If the Ark forces win, the indigenous forces will literally be wiped out. The Vatican and the Society of Reason will disappear into history, and the memories of the returnees will be manipulated with their teeth to erase the history of the conflict. Even so, the few who remember -”
“Is that the wisdom of the ancestors? What if the indigenous forces win?”
“The ark is running away. Ah, it’s impossible to settle down in this loop. Let’s go to the next loop.”
At this point I felt a problem.
“… When the indigenous powers are destroyed, won’t they build an ark?”
“Oh my! There are two arks? The next world is only one!”
“…”
“Has something like this ever happened before? The number of possible cases is very diverse.”
“…”
“The previous example was a case where a perfectly good ark arrived too far into the future, and in some cases the ark may have been defective from the beginning.”
Ariga muttered softly.
“The place where I stayed to avoid the stone tablet. That guy is an ark that was destroyed while going wild with excessive survival instincts during the decomposition process.”
“Those guys also go to the next loop because of their instinct as an ark when the world is about to end.”
Some arks arrived too far into the future and were driven out by native forces.
Some arks malfunctioned during the dismantling process, turning them into fallen gods.
Which ark… .
As a result of this process being repeated endlessly, there are now more than 10 arks floating through space and time!
— Hurry up!
Aidy approached the table with a gloomy expression and cleared away all the chairs except one.
“In other words, this fight is a fight for the chair.”
“…”
“The chair – that is, the ark that wants a sane world is roughly more than ten-”
“There is only one chair.”
“- That’s the problem.”
A room filled with silence.
Judging from the change in breathing, Eunsol and Jincheol, who seemed to be sleeping, seemed to be listening as well.
My sister opened her mouth.
“I understand the story of the ark and the raiders. What about the moon?”
“That’s a very long story. It’s connected to what we’ve talked about so far.”
“Again! It seems like the looters only really started to become active after the administration collapsed, right?”
“Be patient. There is still plenty of time.”
The night is very long.
The conversation isn’t over yet.