Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 663
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EP.663 Episode 663 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (10)
Episode 663 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (10)
– Kim Ari
— Jiiing!
Following the ominous, imaginary malice that was spewed out in all directions, a golden light began to appear on Elena’s body.
The Duke of Iss was not human by any means, but with many of his comrades dead, his ‘self-defense’ was activated and justice was awakened.
Soon, the spiral waves drawn by the Scales of Judgement began to strike the Duke of Iss one after another.
The significant damage caused by the release of the bonds through Ga-in’s unknown trick and the final flash of light fired by Sang-hyun.
Here’s Elena’s sinister imagination and an offensive that uses justice in succession!
Looking at the situation alone, it seemed like the tide of the fight had turned, but it was only a brief advantage of about 10 seconds.
From the very beginning, the opponent was an entity that drove us close to annihilation as soon as he appeared.
If everyone including Gain had come prepared to fight, then it might be different, but if we start off by surprise like we are now, then we are an opponent we can never win against.
The blood flowing from the peacock’s body stopped.
The duke cut off the evil intent that was like a curse created by ominous imagination.
The Duke began to intercept the Scales of Justice one by one.
The peacock began to dodge the spatial isolation of the isosceles polyhedron as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
Once again, despair rises to the throat.
Fortunately, the survivors’ struggles were not in vain.
Because somehow I managed to stall for time, my brainless colleague on the floor had a chance to use his ‘big skills’!
— Saaaah!
I felt dizzy in the midst of confusion.
Soon, an incomprehensible vision flashed through my mind, creating a distant atmosphere.
A universe filled with emptiness, a whirlpool appears in its center, a gigantic force of gravity pulling all things together!
— Gooooooo…!
The distant sound of the Holy Spirit can be heard.
At first, I thought it was a sound coming from Ga-in.
Next I thought it was a sound heard by the peacock.
It took two mistakes before I realized it.
The sound is coming from everywhere!
“What, what is it?”
It looks like Gain used some great technique, but what is it?
What’s going on?
At that moment, I felt a solid sensation in my hand.
A small object soaked in Ga-in’s blood appeared on her trembling hand – an hourglass.
My first thought wasn’t something like ‘I’m alive!’
What’s the point of turning this around at this point?
It’s not like your dead comrades will come back to life just by turning them!
It would be different if it were a tool that could turn back time, like One More Chance.
However, the hourglass is only a tool to stop time.
Wouldn’t things get worse if we go back a week from here?
At that very moment, my hands became as frozen as ice.
I noticed that the peacock was watching me and the ‘hourglass’ in my hand!
Now, it’s a situation where even the hourglass can’t be turned.
Was it because I felt a creepy sense of pressure?
A voice came out of my mouth that seemed to have lost half of its rationality.
“Ah…! Yes, do you think you’re a god? It seems like you make us feel like insignificant creatures -”
I didn’t expect an answer when I said that, but surprisingly, the other person answered back.
‘No. You are beings of the infinite. Also, I am not God.’
I realized it too late.
The fact that I can speak because only my hands are frozen and not my whole body, and the fact that the other person is responding to me.
Combining these two facts, we can conclude that the other person has no intention of killing me right now.
You didn’t intend to kill me from the beginning?
“…”
no.
It started with a surprise attack, with Cain’s head blown off, and in a short while, he killed almost half of his comrades, right?
At first, they clearly came to kill us!
Not now.
Why did you change your mind?
The other person’s next message took my breath away.
‘If I flip it over, I get inviolability for a week?’
“…”
The peacock noticed the function of the hourglass.
There was no time to even ask how he found out.
Because the voice I heard next contained even more shocking content!
‘This is your first time.’
“Ugh, ugh!”
Did I mishear that now?
In this situation, if you say it’s the first time, it means one thing!
The other person noticed that I – we – came from a ‘hotel’.
Even the fact that this is my first attempt!
How is this possible?
It wouldn’t be surprising if the opponent was a prisoner.
Because the prisoners knew more about the hotel than we did from the beginning.
However, the Duke of Iss in front of you right now is absolutely not a prisoner.
I’ve seen the prisoner more than once or twice in the past, so there’s no way I could be mistaken!
Prisoner 301 is always separate.
—Whoosh!
A huge crash was heard from the sky.
Soon, a dazzling light descended and the Duke of Iss began to ascend into the sky along a mystical beam of light.
“… no way.”
It was only at this point that I accepted it.
For some reason, the Duke of Iss changed his mind and decided to spare us!
At that moment, Sang-Hyeon, who was lying on the floor groaning, clenched his teeth and shouted.
“Why are you sparing me?”
I’m curious too. I’m really, really curious!
“There must be a reason, a reason! Are you trying to use us? Shouldn’t you tell us something for that reason!”
Just before leaving the room, enveloped in a dazzling beam of light, the Duke of Iss left his final message.
‘… do it one more time. Next time, don’t come to this step and finish it.’
*
Plains stained with blood.
There are few survivors, and even the headless comrades who were writhing just moments ago have stopped moving.
The three survivors looked at each other as if they had lost their minds.
“…Ariya.”
“Elena.”
Sang-Hyeon said something after seeing the affectionate atmosphere between me and Elena.
“Please include me too.”
“…”
“It’s so… painful.”
“You, you are bleeding a lot from the stomach. You need treatment before you can talk -”
“It’s no use. This is just a result of Miss Elena’s sinister imagination.”
Elena was startled by those words.
“Ahh!”
Due to the nature of ominous imagination, precise range control is impossible.
If it were an evil intent close to a curse that could threaten the Duke of Iss, then even a human body would not be able to withstand it if it even touched him.
“I feel like I’m going to die soon.”
“…”
“I wish the escape had come before then.”
“I hope so.”
“That’s right.”
No one refuted Sang-Hyeon’s words.
I don’t fully understand the situation, but everyone here feels it.
An escape notification will appear soon!
Why? Because the Duke of Iss lost his will to fight and left.
“… I’ll tell you again when we’re all out and together, but this is what I felt.”
“Go ahead.”
“The Duke knew that this situation was the ‘Room of Curses.’”
“that’s right!”
“We also knew that we were on our first attempt. We also knew that the hourglass was a special tool.”
“… My eyes are slowly closing.”
“At the end, he even told us to do it one more time before he left. Since the enemy lost his will to fight and left, there is a high chance that the escape decision will come up soon.”
Sang-Hyeon didn’t answer any further.
“How can this be?”
Elena muttered, closing Sang-Hyeon’s eyes as if she felt sorry.
“I… I think I know. Actually, I think Ari knows too.”
“…”
“Didn’t you feel it? There was something different about the duke when he first came and the duke when he left.”
“The attitude has changed.”
“It’s not just an attitude, um, well… .”
Elena’s eyes swept over the headless corpse a few feet away.
“It was a bit like Gain.”
“…”
“I felt something like that. No?”
Elena’s voice says, “Don’t you think the same?”
I think similarly.
At the last moment, the Duke knew ‘too much’ of the facts.
If you simply knew that this stage was inside a hotel, you might be able to figure it out.
The prisoner would have known that information, so he might have told the Duke.
But the peacock was too much.
Let’s find out how many attempts we have and what the hourglass does?
I think it’s normal for even prisoners not to know this.
Elena said, driving a wedge into the conversation.
“Mr. Gain told me.”
“…”
“Ms. Gain competed with her opponent in an area unknown to us, and in the process, her opponent learned many facts.”
“Why did you tell me? Why were you convinced when I told you?”
“Let’s go out and ask.”
— Kookung!
The sound of the world collapsing, as if it had been waiting for it.
Soon, the notification the two survivors had been desperately waiting for arrived.
“You have successfully escaped!
A clash with the Baron of Iss, who was in charge of the human sanctuary, and a series of bloody battles with count-level entities!
I’m glad to see you take them down one after another, because it seems like your fighting skills have improved a lot.
But wasn’t that too ignorant of a progression?
If you kill the last of the forces that devoured the stars, an increasingly stronger pursuit force will come!
The improvisation to negotiate with the Duke at the end was brilliant.
But please keep this in mind.
There are no two negotiations.
You can’t escape the same way twice.
You have escaped the curse.
But I still feel that the source of the curse remains.
…
“One of my colleagues has successfully escaped!”
*
I came to my senses in the hotel hallway.
Looking around, I saw many colleagues with bewildered expressions.
Most of them died before the evacuation notification even appeared, so they probably don’t understand the situation.
Well, even I, who saw the notification, didn’t understand the situation.
“Uh, uh… Anyway, is it finally over?”
“Oh, I think so!”
Whatever the case, it is true that we managed to escape, and thanks to that, the faces of our comrades brightened.
And I… .
He now firmly held the arm of his colleague who had regrown his head.
“What the heck? What was it?”
Everyone’s gaze naturally gathered.
“… singularity.”
“what?”
“For a moment, the boundary between me and the Duke disappeared. And then… .”
“That, and?”
Gain muttered with a somewhat confused expression.
“Duke, Marquis, Count, Viscount, Baron.”
“uh?”
“It’s a class they divided among themselves. The last one to show up was the Duke.”
“Why the rank all of a sudden -”
“There is a king above the peacock. There is only one king.”
“The King of Is?
“The king is dead. Dead… The race of Iss is trying to awaken the king again.”
“Why did you die?”
The next words really caught everyone off guard.
On the other hand, it was also a slightly ‘touching’ story.
“…the administration killed him.”