Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 625
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EP.625 Episode 625 – The Oldest Wish (6)
Episode 625 – The Oldest Wish (6)
– Elena
“Yay!”
A purple flash of menacing power emanates from the Virgin Mary’s fingertips!
It is a power that would make a normal human unable to even react and become a piece of meat, but there is no such thing as a normal person in this place.
Fortuna dodged in a line that moved exactly half a step, as if she had eyes on her back.
What about me then?
— Boohoo!
A being created from ominous imaginations as soon as blessings disappear.
This is the moth that helped me a lot in #202 and #203!
The ungodly creature simply received the flash of light with its body.
— Crunch!
In an instant, a fist-sized hole was made in the torso and crunchy powder flew out, but it wasn’t a big blow.
It was possible to restore it without difficulty.
The Virgin Mary, having lost her blessings, was certainly greatly weakened.
It’s not just that the hexagons have shrunk in size, but the balance of their abilities has been disrupted.
Clifford Crystal and Taegeukgi.
While both Legacies are not without their offensive capabilities, they both fall short when compared to Justice.
Not to mention the complete definition, even compared to the half-baked definition we used just a moment ago!
Purple rays emitted by crystals?
First of all, the power is ambiguous.
The ungodly creatures have been receiving it with their bodies since a while ago, but if it were the hammer of judgment created by the blessing of justice, it would never be possible to receive it with their bodies.
Also, the Legacy’s attack method is too simple.
Even I, who am physically normal, experienced this about 20 times, and I began to see a pattern: ‘part of the body glows -> light beams fly in a straight line from that part.’
Fortuna, you probably knew it the first time you saw it.
Taegeukdo?
This one was more problematic.
“Taegeukdo (???), Gyeok-”
To use it, you must memorize the spell while performing a special action.
What’s wrong with maintaining a posture while reciting a few words of a spell?
It’s not difficult because Fortuna is right in front of you.
— Crunch!
“The preparations are too noisy.”
“- Aah!”
“You should only use this kind of technology at home.”
I realized anew how useful justice is in battle.
After manifestation, there is no preparation time, and the power of judgment changes freely in response to my imagination, so the attack routes are endlessly diverse.
— Kwajik!
As the Virgin’s right arm shattered, purple ore instead of flesh and blood came out.
It was a bizarre scene, but everyone was numb to it because they had already seen it ten times.
— Boohoo!
Immediately the unholy creature began to scatter dust all around, and the crystals covered in dust could not stick properly.
There are crystal shards everywhere, preventing people from returning to the Virgin Mary!
“you….”
The Virgin Mary with sparks flying from her eyes.
“The regenerative power is shocking.”
Fortuna answers as if she is relaxed.
However, Fortuna is not in a very comfortable situation.
It is because of the dust that the impure creatures constantly send towards the Virgin Mary.
If it’s an extremely toxic substance that can suppress the regeneration of Clifford Crystals, what about humans?
I try my best to avoid exposure behind the creatures, but Fortuna cannot avoid it.
It’s not obvious because he’s wearing pitch-black armor, but his body underneath the armor must have been damaged repeatedly.
The soul is held in the soul box, and the body’s strings are held together with Fortuna’s unique magical power.
“…”
Although it wasn’t my intention, I found myself observing Fortuna while fighting alongside her in this fight, following our past fights.
Thanks to that, I naturally felt his limitations.
For example, you can never hit a narrow-range attack due to your unique sense and luck, but you are often helpless against wide-area attacks.
When there is no angle to avoid, luck is of no use.
Once you get it right, you get pushed back more vainly than you thought.
This is because, apart from the fact that he is able to regenerate and revive with magical powers, his body itself is not extremely strong.
Is the diamond indestructible?
Would a durability as solid as a rock be of any use in a fight of this level?
Even the Virgin Mary, whose fingers are stronger than a building, is helpless as her body bursts and splits apart!
I also understood what Gain said about being instantly defeated by the wisdom of the previous generation before turning back time.
The wisdom of the ancestors who united with the ark is said to have caused the destruction of a city with a single swing of the sword, so there was no way to avoid it.
“Recovery is slower than before?”
“you also!”
Both the Virgin Mary and Fortuna’s recovery was noticeably slow.
Me in the back?
“…”
I’ve been feeling increasingly dizzy since a while ago.
I’m hungry and thirsty.
It is an appetite and thirst for forbidden meat and forbidden water.
I’ve been fantasizing about ominous things for too long without the help of a clear vision.
If this gets any tastier, you might just tear my arm off!
“Let’s finish this quickly.”
Fortuna’s final offensive, which came like lightning.
The Virgin Mary didn’t even have the strength to dodge, so she took the Black Knight’s fierce sword strike with her body.
— Kwajik!
The Clifford Crystal collapsed, scattering countless shards everywhere.
This time, the crystal could no longer regenerate.
The ruined moon church, purple ores scattered everywhere.
A belated calm.
Soon, the pitch-black armor that was the symbol of ‘Fortuna’ began to disappear like fog.
So this is the limit of awakening?
The unholy creatures that saw this sight also collapsed, bubbling like bubbles and groaning vaguely.
The Virgin, the impure creatures, and Fortuna were all gone.
All that’s left is me and a slightly frightened boy.
“Sister! Is it over now?”
“… Seungyeop?”
“yes yes!”
“…”
This is really weird.
Clearly, the voice that said, ‘Someone’s good luck is someone else’s bad luck. Next time, I’ll be lucky and you’ll be bad luck,’ and the voice that said, ‘So, it’s over now?’ are the same.
However, when I actually experienced it, Fortuna and Seungyeop had completely different vibes.
The former looks like he’d be swinging a black sword and slaughtering demons even in hell, while the latter looks more like he’s typing on a computer keyboard than on a battlefield.
That’s why Sophia was so shocked when she saw Seungyeop.
Seungyeop approached with a worried look on his face.
“Sister? Are you okay?”
“…”
Sorry, but I’m not in a position to have a leisurely conversation.
Does Seungyeop know?
The fact that the smell of blood coming from the wound on that kid’s side has been so fragrant!
I feel my criteria for judgment being distorted in real time.
If you don’t get help from the Mingjing Index quickly –
“ah!”
“Sister?”
Why isn’t the Mingjing Index recovering me?
Because you can’t use the Blessing of Justice until the fight is over by a just trial!
That means the fight isn’t over yet!
— Ting!
The moment when the scattered remnants of the Clifford Crystal glow eerily!
Instinctively, I wrapped my arms around the boy in front of me.
—Whoosh!
I feel a strange sensation as if the world has slowed down, as if in slow motion.
The Virgin Mary’s last struggle.
Crystal debris exploding everywhere.
A boy with his eyes wide open, still not understanding the situation.
Is this what they call a kaleidoscope?
A shock wave sweeps through the room.
Immediately afterwards, I couldn’t see ahead.
I couldn’t even hear a sound.
Even the feeling of Seungyeop being wrapped around me disappeared.
I felt unspeakable pain, but even that pain was fleeting.
There is nothing left.
As if the human body of ‘Elena Ivanova’ itself had disappeared without a trace.
So then, what is this ‘me’ that I am thinking of right now?
…
Unholy creatures made by my heart and hands.
Caterpillars, moths.
Feather transformation
…
I feel my unholy imagination filling the gap.
*
– Kim Ari
“Next section coming soon!”
Even before Aidy spoke, the room was already filled with tension.
Because the words ‘Plain of Sinners’ were blinking on the elevator dashboard.
Not to mention Miro and Eunsol, even the older sister Jihye had a hardened expression.
According to Cain’s guess, what awaits us in the Plain of Sinners is a horde of evil spirits.
“Arrived now!”
— CLANG!
Just after the elevator reaches the Plain of Sinners.
“…!”
Before I could even breathe, the whole place began to distort.
Damp stalactites, gray concrete, old trees and rotting grass, rocks of unknown composition, sticky liquids, salty air, milky colors, cold ores –
Countless substances, too numerous to even gather in one place, were created, disappeared, and rose again like bubbles.
“Eww!”
Eunsol lost her balance and fell.
This is because the elevator floor, which had been solid until just before, has turned into a slimy swamp.
Jincheol Cha, who was next to him, immediately grabbed it, but this time, the space beneath Jincheol Cha’s feet turned into an empty void.
“no -!”
— Hwarurur!
While Gain, who immediately summoned the sacred sun, grabbed Miro and the Virgin Mary, Cha Jin-cheol held on to the wall that was still intact.
But, how can a wall be safe when the floor turns into a swamp and then into emptiness?
“Get my side!”
A firm cry from the ancestors.
The clothes he was wearing seemed to flutter strangely, and then his body was frozen in midair.
Jincheol held on to Seon-dae’s arm as if he had finally come to life, but –
This time, the sky suddenly turned into dark clouds and lightning started falling!
—Whoosh!
“That’s ridiculous! That’s ridiculous!”
The first time I heard the bewildered voice of wisdom from my ancestors.
Even for him, who has experienced all sorts of bizarre things in his long life, the current events are extremely bizarre.
This is a realm of chaos where ‘stable space-time’ has completely disappeared.
At a time when everyone was confused by the constantly changing surrounding space, the ‘Isomorphic Polyhedron’ emitted an ominous aura.
“Yay!”
As I concentrated my mind, opaque barriers began to appear all around me.
Only then did his colleagues find some relief.
“Is this wall safe?”
Eunsol’s question, which had turned pale in an instant.
Cain’s own analysis on this.
“It’ll be okay since Ari’s wall is made of isomorphic polyhedrons! Right?”
The wisdom of the past also expressed its own opinion.
“This space is like the border between dreams and reality… The wall made of heritage is a completely different, independent mechanism from dreams, so I think it’ll be okay.”
I’m the one who built the wall, but I’m not confident, so look at them analyzing each other!
Isn’t this some kind of wisdom cartel?
After a moment of being dumbfounded, Miro pointed to a corner of the destroyed elevator as if he was about to scream.
“Hey, what is that!”
“…”
Since when did this kind of thing come into being?
No, more than that… .
What on earth is this miserable sight?
Rotting bones, writhing flesh, a soul that sways like a candle.
Something that was a person rather than a person.
“It’s not just one. Of course, that’s what it is.”
The deep voice of wisdom from the past, who realized the surrounding situation belatedly.
As the saying goes, ‘every place’ one looks at is filled with souls in a miserable state.
Spirits that are rotten and decayed and only cry out in pain.
Hideous beings that seem to have shaped the concept of ‘pain’ into human form groan incessantly.
The despair they spew out becomes bricks and pillars that constantly transform the surrounding space.
Gain added to the previous explanation with a pale expression.
“Our Lady said before: Do not go into the open space without caution. The twisted dreams of countless souls will consume us.”
“You’ve never been out in the open space, have you? You were in the elevator.”
As the wisdom of our ancestors says, we never went outside the elevator.
The elevator itself was twisted.
“I think it’s because the density is so high that there are no safe places -”
“Whew!”
“Hey, Aidya!”
“Holy Mother!”
Then, the Virgin Mary suddenly fell to her knees and began vomiting like crazy.
Bloodshot eyes, trembling body, spewing out things like crazy – purple mineral?
Holy Mother! Putting aside whether it’s human or reptilian, is it really a living thing?
“Dreams… I have so many dreams….”
“Can you fix the elevator?”
“There are too many… too many…”
“Eunsol! First of all-”
“I’ll play the flute!”
Eunsol clung to the Virgin Mary and used the Flute of Peace, but the Virgin Mary’s condition did not improve immediately.
This is a realm where dreams and reality are intertwined.
The elevator to the sanctuary is also a dream, and the person who created this dream is the Virgin Mary.
Following the attacks on the elevators in the Moon Church and the Plain of Sinners, could it be that the spirit of the Virgin Mary, who created the dream, was also hit?
I took a deep breath and looked around.
An endless, resounding wail.
A dream of hell created by the twisted souls that fill the world.
Re-drawing the elevator under the influence of this violent nightmare?
It’s like painting a delicate watercolor painting in the midst of a raging storm.
That’s why the Virgin Mary is now gasping for breath, let alone restoring the elevator.
What should I do?
“after….”
The moment I saw the old box appearing in the hands of the sighing ancestors’ wisdom, I realized.
The second legacy of our ancestors’ wisdom!
A moment when everyone looks at the box with a bit of anticipation.
“…”
Suddenly the box disappeared.
The wisdom of the past has summoned back its legacy?
Eunsol asked as if she was dumbfounded.
“What are you doing?”
Surely you’re not bragging about having two legacies, but what is this?
“He gave me advice as soon as he was summoned.”
“ah?”
“They say not to use the Joker recklessly.”
The old man shrugged and looked at Gain.
After thinking for a moment, Gain answered similarly.
“I wrote some advice a little while ago.”
“Why is this place called the ‘Plain of Sinners’?”
“Oh?”
“How to stop the nightmare and restore the elevator?”
“Aha, I get it! That’s it!”
What did you understand?
Isn’t this a real wisdom cartel?
As soon as I get back to reality, I’ll have to make some laws.
How about a pronoun ban?
Every time a wise guy uses expressions like ‘that’, ‘this’, or ‘that’, we should rip out their tongues!