madnovel Chapter 94: Room 102, Cursed Room - 'Mansion of Fear' Re (7)
Chapter 94: Room 102, Cursed Room - 'Mansion of Fear' Re (7)
Chapter 94: Room 102, Cursed Room - 'Mansion of Fear' Re (7)
Third Attempt
- Lee Eunsol
I quietly looked at him while holding his hand until Lee Sehyun finally started revealing his story.
“This is when... Siwoo was young. This was over 10 years ago. Do you remember Yoojin, Siwoo’s mom?”
The man talked for a long time.
10 years ago, Lee Sehyun found out about his wife’s affair, with the partner of the affair being an old friend of his, and a major shareholder of the company he was running.ViiSiit novelbi/n(.)c/(o)m for latest novels
He wanted to punish his wife but due to the documents that she stole and the conspiracy of the major shareholder, Lee Sehyun was almost forced into losing everything he once had. On top of that, his son fell incredibly ill.
...I see. So something terrible like what you would see in a TV drama happened to you, huh.
I’m really sorry, but I seriously couldn’t really care less.
Maybe I would have shed a tear or two if I was your real sister, but I’m not. More importantly, that moth is about to finish its cocoon so please get straight to the topic!
I rushed him without making it obvious and he finally started to move on.
“One day, I climbed the mountain behind the mansion thinking of committing suicide. Actually, back then it was closer to being a small house than a mansion, and—”
“So what happened at the mountain?”
Brother, please. That moth is literally about to close the cocoon!
“...Why are you in so much of a rush? While trying to find my way through the mountain, I came across a strange door and arrived at a place filled with sacred light.
I met a fairy there. It was mysterious and beautiful...”
It looked like he was going to enter his reminiscent mode again, so I quickly gave him a punch.
— Bam!
“Uhk! E, Eunsol?”
“If you waste any more time, I will punch Siwoo as soon as I go back in time, okay!”
“A, alright. Calm down. I’m almost there. After a short conversation, I realized he was the apostle of a great existence.
The Apostle gave me the revelation to serve a new god. He said all my sufferings would vanish if I started serving him...”
The mysterious ‘Apostle’ suggested Sehyun serve a new god, and that all of his sufferings would disappear if he served the new god with all his heart.
Surprisingly, as soon as he did that, everything turned out incredibly well and he was able to punish his ex-wife and the partner of her affair.
All of his wealth came back, and his business worked out so well until he acquired a large amount of wealth.
And as if natural, his son also became a lot better than before.
‘...Everything turned out well? More like the Apostle guy possessing humans left and right to fulfill your wish,’ I thought to myself.
“After that, I decided to build an altar in the basement to offer back my wealth, which I regained thanks to him. I prayed regularly and diligently and—”
“An altar?”
“It wasn’t anything grandiose. It was just—”
“Wait, oppa. Where is this altar?”
Please, Sehyun! Stop all the other nonsense! I swear this is important.
We have to break that altar, right?!
“Huh? It’s a bit hard to explain where the altar is in words. The Apostle put a lot of emphasis on security and the way to get there is incredibly—”
— Kugung!
A deafening roar filled the heaven and the earth.
Ah, no way!
Looking outside, I found the moth had finished its cocoon and had gone back inside.
...
I grabbed him by the collar in a fit!
“Lee Sehyun! Just explain how to get to the altar!”
“Like I said, it’s hard to explain that in—”
You have successfully escaped!
...This damn Hotel. How could they cut me off like that? Even though we clearly have to break this altar!
***
User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 30
Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor
Sage’s Advice: 1
- Han Kain
Kung!
I came to myself in the corridor while feeling like I fell down from somewhere.
Looking around, I saw everyone else standing up with a blank look on their face. This was how we always looked when escaping from a Cursed Room.
Black chains emerged from everywhere but as expected, they were powerless due to the bell. Priest Jinchul didn’t even need to do anything – they were weak even for me.
We restrained Lee Siwoo on the bed and rang the bell without an end. Before long, he lost consciousness and drooped down.
After that, we tried to persuade Lee Sehyun.
We told him that there was an evil being that possessed Siwoo that was sacrificing the kids of the village for the rebirth of the demon god. We also told him how the god he was serving was an incredibly evil being and that we had to destroy the altar.
After explaining ourselves, we asked him to guide the way but naturally, Lee Sehyun fiercely resisted and refused to believe us.
Of course, we weren’t here to peacefully persuade him either.
Ahri walked closer and hypnotized him.
What do we do now? Do we kill Lee Siwoo straight away?
Before I could do anything, the Cardinal picked up the gun and approached the unconscious boy.
...Heaving out a sigh, I turned somewhere else.
— Bang!
— Ting~!
?
What was that? It sounded like something bounced off.
I turned back in curiosity and realized that Lee Siwoo was imprisoned in a large crystal that popped up from nowhere.
“What is this?” I asked.
The Cardinal was similarly dumbfounded but he soon came up with an explanation.
“It seems that he had a final measure to protect himself. This thing appeared as soon as I shot the gun.”
I rang the bell but the crystal stayed the same. Both the bell and the gun weren’t working, so what did we have to do now?
Priest Jinchul approached with a grin.
“Take a step back, folks. Something like that I can destroy with my Star–”
“You idiot! Don’t use the Star here!”
“Eh?”
“‘Eh?’ my ass! Don’t you see Kain still ringing the bell as hard as he can? As if the bell can resist the Star that can even distort the wings of a demon god!
The bell will break before that crystal does, and once the bell is gone, this guy will return to his original body in the other world. Do you want to see all that happen?”
Priest Jinchul understood what was happening and began to bash down at the crystal with his fists instead.
Unfortunately, not a single dent was made in the crystal. Next, he brought pieces of rock and metal to strike down at the crystal but it still stayed the same.
In the end, the Cardinal said with a sigh.
“Enough! Looks like we can’t break it by pure force. It would be difficult to destroy it through normal means.”
What do we do then?
It was blocking bullets and didn’t crack at all even when being pounded by Priest Jinchul. There were no other means to break it apart from the Star, but using the Star would end up destroying the bell, and if we were to make the bell go out of the range of the Star, the Apostle might regain his ability to possess others.
...We were all thinking about our next step in silence when Ahri made the decision for everyone.
“He won’t be able to sustain that crystal forever. It will disappear over time. Let’s have a few of us stay behind to ring the bell and keep him like that, while the rest can take Lee Sehyun to destroy the altar.”
We decided to separate ourselves into two groups.
In order to destroy the altar, Jinchul-hyung as well as Songee who had to use the bracelet on him, and Ahri who had to maintain the hypnosis on Lee Sehyun headed off to destroy the altar, while the rest of us stayed behind to ring the bell and supervise the Apostle.
***
- Lee Sehyun
...My mind was foggy.
What am I doing?
I had no idea. It all felt strange like a dream.
Why was I leading the priests of the Vatican, whom I met for the first time, to the altar?
...
Open your eyes.
My faithful lamb! My devoted servant Sehyun!
Those following the deceitful god are treating you like livestock.
...
Open your eyes.
The sanctuary you have built with sincerity and maintained with devotion is close to crumbling down.
The life of the child you have protected over 5,000 nights is in peril.
Wake up. For you are the only one who can overturn all this.
My consciousness started to return. I realized that I was being surrounded by deceitful hypocrites.
‘Ahh! Lord! My lord! What do I do?’
Follow what I say. You will serve as my hands and my /genesisforsaken