Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 615
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EP.615 Episode 615 – The Stolen World (30)
Episode 615 – The Stolen World (30)
– Maze
…
I feel like I had a very long dream.
A truly infinite dream with no beginning or end.
Prison of Eternity.
Just before I woke up, I saw another me in a blurry vision.
If the soul or spirit has a physical body, the ghost story maze has become like slime.
A writhing mass of flesh without eyes, nose, mouth, face, or limbs.
No one told me, but I could tell.
This is probably because in the first place, the ghost story maze and I are not complete strangers.
Another me had endured tremendous pain to protect me, and I knew it would be a long time before I could call her back again.
Just looking at it made me feel sad and in pain, so I hugged the lump of flesh and cried endlessly.
Then, at some point, I woke up with the words, ‘Go out and do your job.’
“…”
When I opened my eyes, Ari was right in front of me.
My only family, worn down by the eternities, just like the other me.
Ari was already dead.
Could it be that he is brain dead due to the extreme pain?
Or maybe he committed suicide using the power of the old blood.
If the ghost story labyrinth and Ariga have become like this, then the Virgin Aedia must have been completely ruined as well… .
The moment when I tried to hold Ari’s hand tightly while shedding tears again.
—Whoosh!
A thunderclap was heard from the sky.
The moon is trying to kill me!
The first thing I did, feeling breathless with fear, was to summon Gain.
— Clank!
Didn’t Gain say she would save time for Songi’s important moment?
Now is the moment!
As soon as Ga-in appeared, he shouted.
“The moon will come and kill us soon!”
“what?”
“How do you do it?”
“You, you’re so sudden!”
As soon as I came out, I saw the expression on his face as if he was wondering what the fuss was about, and I came to my senses.
Yeah, even if you’re Gain, what countermeasure would you have if you were suddenly told by the moon that you’d die soon?
I have to do it!
So, Gain gave me the hourglass?
The moment I opened my eyes wide and took out the hourglass – Gain grabbed my hand.
“Not yet, not yet.”
“what?”
A hand pointing into the air without saying a word.
“What – ah, the status window?”
“It looks like the moon went to my side before here.”
The moon went to kill Cain in the lab before it killed me!
“Well, then?”
“They said they were going to waste time.”
“Is it possible?”
“I guess there is a way. It has to be me!”
Gain is secretly a narcissist.
“Let’s focus on this.”
After that, Gain took a moment to look around.
I spent a long time reading and writing because there was something incredible written in the status window.
Also, I looked closely at the details of Aidy, who was sitting on the floor in a daze.
— Kookung!
“Whoa! Hey, I guess I’ll just use the hourglass now -”
“Hold on tight. It looks like you have some free time.”
Do you have any free time?
How can Gain of this time zone take so long against the moon?
My heart was pounding like crazy, but the summoned being in front of me, Gain, seemed unfazed.
“What, aren’t you scared?”
“It’s scary.”
“however -”
“Be quiet.”
“…”
“It’s difficult.”
“what?”
“Here’s what you and I have to do.”
“…”
“One of the reasons I brought you here.”
One of the reasons why Gain brought me here?
“Do you still have dreams?”
“huh.”
“Make a wish.”
“What, what did you say?”
“Please restore Aidia’s spirit.”
The moment I got down on my knees and decided, ‘I’m going to use my dreams!’
A mass of pale, hazy light appeared before me.
The 2nd floor breakthrough reward given when escaping from the hotel is ‘Dream’!
“Aidia’s mind is as good as dead right now.”
Ari died as soon as she was released from the Eternal Prison.
Considering the pain she went through, it wouldn’t be surprising at all if Aidia were brain dead too.
“It would be normal if he were already dead, but he is forced to stay alive thanks to the boundless life force of his legacy.”
Clifford Crystal.
Aedia’s legacy that grants its owner near-immortal life.
“Make a wish! Completely restore Aidia’s broken heart -”
Before I could finish speaking, Gain touched my shoulder again.
“Not completely.”
“… what?”
“Just ask that it be fixed to a level where conversation is possible.”
“…”
“That’s the only way to convince them.”
Not to completely heal the Virgin Mary for the purpose.
I understood it in my head, but I felt creeped out by the coldness of that judgment.
How did I end up liking this kind of person?
“…Please slightly change Aidia’s mind to a level where she can have a conversation.”
The ninth dream shines.
I felt the brush of the one shedding tears for the three thousand worlds approaching.
*
When the Virgin Mary’s body began to move, I held her hand and looked into her eyes.
A poorly stitched up mind.
Memories of indescribable pain.
Ga-in’s voice is so calm and composed.
“Virgin Mary, are you of sound mind?”
“…Saint.”
“Do you understand now? What fate awaits the soul that the moon swallows?”
“…”
“Do you still believe in the Prince’s promise? Do you believe in salvation?”
“What are you trying to say?”
“Your soul has already been mortgaged to the moon.”
“…”
“If one day you die, or the moon feels that it doesn’t need you.”
“That, that can’t be -”
“Are you sure?”
“…”
“The suffering you experienced today is just a preview of the hell that will come one day. Next time… . It won’t last ‘only’ five seconds.”
The fallen saint spoke to the Virgin.
The god you serve only promises hell to his followers.
You are the highest of the religious order, and you will fall into the deepest part of hell.
I saw the unmistakable fear in Aidia’s trembling eyes.
“What should I do?”
Gain said, pointing to my ‘time rental machine’.
“Say, ‘Miro, I’ll lend you an hour.’”
*
Aidyah lent me an hour and disappeared.
I think this is the first time I’ve had someone other than a colleague on a time-lending trip.
“What do we do now?”
“I think I’ve done everything.”
“what?”
Gain said, pointing to the status window again.
“I already found out a lot of information. I thought I just had to convince the Virgin Mary, but you actually did it yourself.”
“Huh?”
“Good job. I’m glad I brought you.”
Can I say that I did it?
Songi brought here.
Silver Sol using a flute.
A maze of ghost stories that crack through the mortal spear and endure pain.
Ari, who ended her suffering.
Even Gain, who finally sorted out the situation!
In fact, didn’t all your colleagues do it?
All I did was bite Songi’s hand?
Gain spoke as if she had read my mind.
“The only thing that can bring together the strength of many people is a time machine.”
“… thank you.”
“…”
“What are you going to do now? Kill yourself? If you kill yourself on the moon and our souls get eaten or something -”
Gain tilting her head.
“Two things are strange.”
“huh?”
“First of all, if it was going to end like this, why did you bring an hourglass or a camera?”
“…I told you to bring it.”
“I thought it might be necessary. Why would I need it?”
“…”
“Second, how long has it been since you woke up, Miro?”
“Maybe 5 minutes? I’m not sure exactly.”
“That means that somewhere along the line, I’m dragging the moon for five whole minutes.”
“uh?”
How does Gain from the lab hold onto the moon for so long?
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 242
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
* Colleague location information
Eunsol Lee: —
Kim Ari: —?
I was shocked by the deaths of the two people for a moment, but soon I realized what was going on.
No matter how strong the moon is, it can’t harm my comrades hiding in the ‘absolutely safe zone’ called the Pioneer Hotel!
Is Miro doing something?
In a time of crisis, Eun-sol and Ari were summoned, but they died instantly, but Miro himself is still alive!
As my thoughts reached this point, the lab suddenly disappeared without a trace and the sky began to split apart.
—Whoosh!
A truly destructive momentum sweeps across the area in an instant.
This must be the wrath of a mad god who realized that his precious weapon had been destroyed.
A gaze that was so fearful that I was even afraid to meet its gaze looked down at me.
There was no longer any favor in those eyes towards the ‘teacher’.
Only the boundless malice of the prince who realized the betrayal remained!
“I would have been kind to you and given you valuable information.”
Oh really!
Miro was the one who caused the accident, so why did he come to me first!
I can guess.
The moon thinks I am the head and the maze is the servant.
He’s trying to kill me first because he doesn’t know what I, the head, might do while his eyes are on the servant!
“…”
I guess the next summon target for the maze will be me?
If I am still alive, then ‘Summoner Gain’ is also still alive!
I frantically scribbled on the status window, thinking I would try to buy some time.
— Kwajik!
“Ugh!”
An irresistible pressure was pressing down on me, as if it would crush me in an instant.
Fuck, this is too much!
“Considering the past and your merits, I will give you one more chance.”
“… What do you mean by opportunity?”
“Tell me why I should save you.”
A chance out of the blue without killing you right away?
Well, it’s not like you see in comics the villain cliche that lets his guard down –
You little bastard, you still have some regrets!
I think I might have gotten some information regarding the 3rd stage of growth!
“… I originally planned to organize it further and report it -”
“Let’s get to the point.”
“Ugh…!”
As I try to talk a little more, the pressure increases without mercy.
Stop talking nonsense and get straight to the research results.
“…”
You fucking retard!
Are there any research results already?
How can I figure out something so quickly that you couldn’t figure out even after studying it for tens of thousands of years?
If that’s possible, then either I’m the greatest genius in the universe or you’re an idiot –
The new information appearing in the status window caught my attention.
According to the summoner, Gain, the moon is ‘purifying’ the souls it has swallowed.
Let’s make a rough statement.
If you mix in the analogy of the paint that the owl used before, it might come out as something plausible.
“The essence of the soul conglomerate is like an ocean made up of countless drops of water. The prince is painstakingly purifying the souls he has swallowed, which means purifying the drops of water -”
“This is something I already know.”
Again, the pressure felt like it was going to crush my limbs.
I just found out!
“ – As a result, the sea is purified. Through this, the prince tries to unify the sea into one color called ‘transparency.’ But it wasn’t enough.”
“It’s not enough. It wasn’t enough… .”
Why is it not enough?
The answer came out naturally.
As if I were truly an expert in these lofty principles.
“When a certain number of souls gather, a new consciousness naturally awakens. This is true even if each soul is purified.”
Right now, the moon is like several Stage 1 soul ensembles awake within its body.
“How do you overcome that problem?”
I also found out this answer naturally.
“It is impossible. When souls gather, a great will awakens, just like the providence of the universe. There is no way to overcome it unless the Prince causes the Big Bang.”
In the face of a life-threatening crisis, wisdom whispers brighter than usual.
What I am talking about now goes beyond the level of laboratory data.
How did I know?
“That’s right… . It is the providence of the universe that when souls gather, a higher-dimensional will awakens. There is no way to escape.”
Up to this point, the moon has also been discovered after many years of research.
The moon doesn’t know what comes next.
“I can never reach level 3?”
“…”
“The being you saw in the hotel went over the wall. There must be a way to get over it.”
Suddenly, you could no longer feel the pressure that had been weighing down your body.
It seemed like I wasn’t bothered by these ‘minor’ forces at the moment.
Suddenly, I felt a strong sense of base.
The wall that blocks the moon now, the question the moon holds.
Memories of a great being who passed through this process a long time ago.
Soon, words that I had never imagined before began to flow out.
“You are a fool who is only strong. You have gathered so many souls and spent so many eons of time, yet you have not yet reached Nirvana?”
Sentences that are closer to mockery than polite.
Strangely enough, the moon didn’t get angry.
“I can hear the voice of the ancients. Are you a fragment of the greatness that remains in the legacy? Or are you the trace of a researcher caught up in a dream?”
“Haha! Prince! Your talent is such that you won’t be able to reach Nirvana even after 10 million years. However, you were lucky enough to obtain the crown and have the chance to become a god.”
In the eyes of the owner of the voice, the prince is truly unworthy of attaining such a high position.
The prince answered without a hint of hesitation.
“I may not be as talented as you, but I have the opportunity. You, trapped in a crude tool, are not.”
Even though the crown was mentioned openly, there was no particular reaction.
The pain of longing for the third stage of growth was too great to be shaken by such mere ridicule.
“Tell me. If you tell me the supreme truth, I will not prevent your master from escaping.”
A book opened in my hands.
There was an empty space at the end of the book.
First sentence: Accept that there is no unchanging self.
Second sentence, if what is other can be yours, then can’t you also be other?
I realized as I blurted out the following words.
Ironically, even the being who first conceived the Grimoire was unable to fully digest this realm and moved on to another realm called ‘Sacrifice’.
A strange situation where the shadow of the unborn bluffs the moon with a realization that even he himself could not digest.
Third sentence.
“Know that you are the only one under heaven.”
Like the unborn, I too could not fully understand these words.
Also, I could understand.
Because I had the divine sun that the unborn had not, and the wisdom that the hotel had given me.
There is only me in this universe.
That is the only truth.