Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 97
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Episode 97 – No. 102, Room of the Curse – ‘Mansion of Horror’ Re (10)
* Fourth attempt
– Han Ga-in
Light fell from the sky. The pain of your whole body exploding in an instant!
The eyes began to see colors they had never been able to see before.
My ears began to hear sounds they had never heard before.
The six senses beyond the five senses and the seven senses beyond the six senses were endlessly awakened, and a flood of information that the human brain could not process poured out.
…
I realized it through the excruciating pain.
Advent means ‘breaking away’.
Do you remember anything from before the age of 5?
No one will retain childhood memories even after becoming an adult.
Perhaps, as toddlers, we resented the slippery floor that made crawling difficult.
You may have felt extreme anger at your parents for feeding you tasteless baby food.
But, looking back, aren’t all those things really trivial?
Even if there was a video recording of the emotions at that time, as adults, we would just laugh it off and forget that we thought it was really cute.
Like this, my childhood self and my current self are similar to before and after the shell was broken.
As people grow up, they realize their ego, and after coming out of the shell of infancy and gaining reason, they take lightly what happened before.
… After my infancy, I felt my shell cracking ‘again’.
From now on, I will be Han Ga-in, but I also knew that I will not be Han Ga-in.
*
– Son of Heaven
I opened my eyes.
In the past, the extrasensory feeling I felt when I first received power from the Lord in a hotel filled me.
When he lightly kicked the ground, his body soared toward the sky and the surface was crushed.
The air that filled the entire star hindered my movements like water.
The world is truly small and frustrating.
How can humans live in such a small prison?
I guess it’s good.
I have shed my skin, so there is no reason to be sad about the wretchedness of the past.
What should we do with the apostle?
There was no need to consider the difficulty of fighting at all.
As an apostle of a fake god, wouldn’t he be a bit of a big bug at best? Let’s treat it like a scarab.
However, the possession ability is a bit annoying.
I thought of several ways to stop it, but I decided to just use a simple method.
I stretched out my hand to the sky and lightly drew an arc.
Soon, another sun rose on the earth.
If the first sun in the sky is the sun of loving-kindness that energizes all things,
The second sun that rises on this earth today will be the sun of anger that purifies the pollution of all things.
The heat rays extending from the sun of anger burned down the village in an instant.
It didn’t take long for all the humans in a radius of several kilometers to burn to death.
Somewhere in the village, an apostle who had been hiding with a trivial talent appeared.
“What are you? How can a person have this kind of power! “Did the Vatican even summon an angel?”
It’s a ridiculous story.
“Do you think the Vatican or something can call me?”
The apostle’s body began to burn.
Since I had no intention of playing tag with the bug, I burned all the humans nearby.
Since I have no body left, I will now return to my humble body in that shabby world.
After catching a glimpse of the burning world, I walked towards the mountain behind.
I recall the ‘memories of people’ that remained in the back of my mind.
ah! How can human life be so weak and shabby?
They have eyes, but they are like blind; they have ears, but they are like deaf.
A life in which one cannot properly perceive any changes in the universe is itself a tragedy.
…
I feel unpleasant gaze.
I raised my head.
sky. 30,000 km from the ground.
I felt like a man-made satellite was watching me.
Is this a satellite used by the Vatican to monitor the world?
Uncomfortable. What do you see in the subject?
When I clenched my hand, the power of lightning filled me.
—Rumble!
A thunderbolt pierced the sky on the ground and exploded a satellite.
*
As I passed through the gate of the mountain behind me, a world appeared that had lost God and was rushing toward the end.
As soon as I crossed over, tentacles rushed at me from all directions.
I ripped it off and looked around.
There were literally tens of thousands of otherworldly creatures gathered together.
“What is this? Are you holding a welcome ceremony?”
A funny voice came from somewhere.
“You monster! Please just die. Oh God! “Give me strength!”
“You’re such a funny guy too. “Would you be able to kill a tiger by collecting all the chicks in the world?”
With one wave of my hand, I am in the other world’s sky for the second time – no, this is the first time here.
This crappy world doesn’t even have a sun?
The heat rays emitted from the burning mine sphere instantly began to destroy the other world’s ecosystem.
“Ahahaha!”
This is pretty fun, right? I wanted to relax my body.
He waved his other hand and summoned a sword that reached from the ground to the clouds in the sky.
As I was having fun swinging my sword, there were no creatures or terrain left around me.
At this rate, the entire sanctuary has been destroyed, right?
The apostle realized the futility of resistance and did not run away.
“What on earth are you?”
“I see you’re a little more polite now.”
“I knew that he was truly born from heaven.
But why are you pointing a sword at the person I serve?
I believe that he was not summoned by the Holy See.
There’s no way they could summon someone like you.
“If you put away your sword now, God will forgive you.”
“What if I don’t forgive? “Do you have the ability to punish me?”
“…”
“It was fun. But I’ll let you go without any pain.”
“…I don’t know who you are, but it’s already too late.
“Many high-ranking souls have already been sacrificed, and the birth of the person I serve is approaching.”
“Oh, I guessed it, but it got a little annoying.”
“So, please put away your sword and -”
—Squeak!
I didn’t feel the need to talk further.
By the way, I guessed it, but it seems I couldn’t stop the birth of the moth in the end.
To begin with, too many hotel participants had already died.
Ari and Songi, who died in a faraway place unrelated to the ritual, would not have been sacrificed.
But other people are the problem.
Seungyeop and Elena were killed by monsters in the mansion, so they must have been sacrificed.
In addition, it is highly likely that Mukseong and Eunsol, whose bodies were taken away, were judged as sacrifices.
Although it is not comparable to Ari, who was in the second hotel, the level of the soul of the remaining participants has risen to the point that it is difficult to compare them to ordinary humans.
Normally, a solution would not be possible at this point. Escape is best.
However, it did not occur to me that there was no possibility of solving it.
Why is it impossible to solve it? Because an evil spirit was born?
Even if there are gods, they are not all the same.
In the eyes of a chick, a newborn elephant may look like a god, but in the elephant world, a newborn elephant is just a baby.
How can a god born from the remains of a dead god and a lowly mortal be called a proper god?
*
After escaping from the other world and returning to Earth, a loud noise was heard near the mansion.
A wave of power emitted in earnest from near the mansion.
A cocoon will appear soon.
Seeing that the cocoon hadn’t been summoned yet, I came up with a better plan.
I came here with the intention of fighting the moth if I had to, but is there really a need to give it time to become a moth?
It would be easier to kill a caterpillar wriggling inside its mother’s belly than a moth.
Before proceeding with the plan, I knelt down looking at the sky just in case.
I speak to the Lord.
Please give light, for your son is about to embark on a dangerous path.
…
“uh? what? “What is it?”
“W-what is it?”
“you… !”
While Yoo Song and Cha Jin-cheol were confused when they woke up with a puzzled expression, Ari looked at me closely.
“You resurrected us?”
“okay. And, be polite.”
“… yes. I apologize for my rudeness. Resurrection. “Such an absurd miracle could not have been possible only for a daughter of heaven.”
Songi and Jincheol, who looked at me for a moment, sat down completely absorbed.
Although Ari was shaking, he stood with his own spirit and looked at me.
I asked because the sight was interesting.
“Why do you think I saved you? For your information, resurrection consumes a lot of power for me as well.”
Ari looked at the surrounding situation without saying a word and then answered.
“The cocoon will appear soon. You are probably going to have a fight with the unborn. “You seem to be mindful of possible defeat.”
It’s not that I don’t have any sense.
“okay. Even though he was not born, God is God. It is difficult to guarantee a win, and in fact, there is a high possibility of losing. However, if I hit him, his birth will be delayed.”
“And we out there will be able to escape.”
“So don’t do anything unnecessary and just be quiet.”
Just before turning around and going down to the basement.
Ari suddenly bent down and spoke in a polite manner that I had never seen before.
“He who came down from heaven. I sincerely pray that you can resolve it this time. “Wouldn’t it be a shame if you were to use the power of a god and not be able to defeat even one caterpillar?”
It wasn’t a polite attitude, it was a rude attitude.
You can’t believe you’re saying such ridiculously arrogant things even when you look at me now. That kid is really amazing.
But, it’s not entirely wrong.
I went down to the basement.
*
A book that glows blue.
Ah, is this the legacy of this room?
It appears to be a grimoire given to the apostle by someone who was never born.
I gently picked it up and looked around.
It doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it has some useful functions.
I think this can be put to good use in a hotel.
A distant voice came as if piercing my head.
‘Why are you doing this to me?’
“Are you still questioning that?”
‘Why, why, why, why! Why are you tormenting me! I will make you my servant!’
With those words, an extremely vicious energy came out of the book.
Of course, it wasn’t a big deal.
“haha! Do you still have regrets? But how does a wolf cub get under a dog?”
‘I’ll kill you myself!’
*
It is a murky space. As I continued to fall, I thought back to what happened during my third attempt.
The moth entered the cocoon to regenerate its misshapen wing, allowing us a fourth attempt.
…Why did he do such a foolish thing?
If the moth hadn’t entered the cocoon itself, there would have been no way for us to escape.
To recreate wings and create a new world?
We’re trapped inside the hotel anyway, so what’s the point of creating a new world?
His behavior seemed as if he didn’t know that he was trapped in a hotel.
Is it because it’s not the fifth attempt?
That can’t be possible.
In Room 103, Song Yi received a miscarriage on the first try, and the ‘swallower’ clearly understood the hotel’s system.
It takes the fifth attempt to understand the hotel as an adversary, not as a prisoner.
The prisoner knows from the beginning that he is trapped in the hotel.
But why does this caterpillar act like it doesn’t know that it’s trapped in a hotel?
Other than that, the strange conversation from earlier.
Isn’t this an overly childish conversation?
The caterpillar shouted like an angry child rather than a god.
… I don’t know.
Despite gaining superhuman powers, this hotel is still full of mysteries.
I saw a caterpillar crawling from afar.
Let’s focus on the current fight.
See next episode