[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 14
Current Location: Floor ???, Sanctum of Blessings
Sages Advice: 3]
It was a strange place.
Perhaps because it was a sanctum, brilliant light like that of a starlight fell endlessly from the sky. There was a huge aggregation of light and a display screen that we had seen all across the Hotel.
At least it didnt feel dangerous.
Words appeared on the display screen as we were starting to feel relieved.
/Congratulations on reaching the Sanctum of Blessings!
At the Sanctum, you may understand your own blessings and empower them.
However, that will be limited to those who have the qualification./
Unlike the usual announcents of the Hotel that confused its readers by adding unnecessary lines upon lines, the announcent of the Sanctum was very short and straight-forward.
You can understand and empower blessings. But empowering required a qualification.
Shortly after standing around in confusion, everyone understood the situation.
This doesnt look that dangerous to . It literally feels like a place that gives help regarding blessings.
Understanding and empowering. Theyre both great options, arent they? There are so like who have a system window that can go, Ah so this is my blessing!, but so blessings arent clear, so I think understanding will be very helpful, and empowering is of course going to be good. I replied.
Thank goodness. I was so frustrated because I was just given sothing ambiguous like, Justice without being told anything while everyone else had super powers, said Elena.
By the way, Jinchul-hyung said. What is this qualification that we need to empower the blessing? Besides, what happens when we empower them in the first place? Do I beco stronger to the point that I can break concrete with bare hands?
Lets go into that light first. That should tell us sothing.
The display screen changed imdiately after everyone entered the cluster of light.
1. Understand 2. Empower
Two big words appeared in the middle.
Urged by sothing unknown, I pushed my hand forward and touched Understand as the screen imdiately flashed in response. It seed to be a touch-screen.
Han Kain (20) Wisdom -> Acquire knowledge that assists with survival at the Hotel
Cha Jinchul (31) Courage -> Enhancent of physical abilities
Yu Songee (17) Affinity -> Creates an affinity towards beings of chaos
Park Seungyub (14) Fortune -> A periodic manifestation of luck
Lee Eunsol (32) Wealth -> Access to HP Market and supply
Kim Mooksung (64) Communication -> A ntal connection between participants
Elena (23) Justice -> Punishnt to evil people
Kim Ahri (16) Allusion -> Hypnosis of self and others
Most of them were the sa as what we had assud.
Wisdom, Courage, Affinity, Fortune and Wealth werent very different from what we had predicted, and Allusion wasnt too different either.
As expected, what everyone was most interested in was Justice.
Punishnt to evil people?
Miss Elena? Do you have any clues about what this ans?
I have no idea, she replied. We already t a lot of evil at the Hotel but I never received any abilities that could let punish them.
I raised my thoughts.
I think I have an idea. Its not evil beings but evil people, aning that they at least have to be existences that look like humans, right? Looking back, Athanasias werent humans and the family of farrs werent evil at all, so thats probably why it didnt activate.
Eunsol-noona rebutted with a question,
As you said, Kain, Room 103 the Human Farm might be because there was no evil person, but what about Room 101, the Strange Family? They must have been evil.
And even in Room 102, the Mansion of Fear, the last person Elena t the possessed Songee was definitely an evil back then.
Room 103 was easy to understand but I wasnt sure about why Justice wasnt activated in rooms 101 and 102. We were keeping our silence when Ahri opened her mouth.
Maybe its only when you perceive it yourself?
You an Elena needs to be aware that the opponent is an evil person?
It was possible.
In Room 101 the Strange Family, her mind had been distorted and it was impossible to make a normal judgent, which was why she couldnt perceive it. In Room 102, she died during her sleep so she probably didnt have the ti to perceive the evilness of the possessed Songee.
Arent there way too many restrictions for my blessing then? Its hard to even tell what happens in this Hotel.
Noona! Seungyub said with a shout. Think about it this way. This Hotel is a bit like a ga. If there are a lot of conditions, that ans you will be super strong when all those conditions are t. Because thats how balance works!
Balance.
He was probably right. If our assumptions were correct, it ant that Elenas blessings were a lot harder to activate than the other ones.
Considering how difficult it was to et the requirents, it would only make sense for it to be very powerful once all those conditions were fulfilled.
After coming to that conclusion, I pressed the next button of the display.
2. Empower
You may empower Park Seungyub, Han Kain and Yu Songee. Would you like to proceed? (Yes / No)
There were only nas of 3 people, with no other nas on the list. Everyone understood what the qualification was as soon as we looked at the 3 nas.
It was that you needed an imnse contribution to the escape / resolution of a Cursed Room!
In Room 101, Seungyub escaped by himself,
Room 102 was honestly pretty much done by myself,
And Room 103 was resolved by Songee.
Thats a bit of a sha. I did use my brain as much as possible every ti but I guess it has to be those 3 people anyway.
Try clicking it. Lets see how the empowering works.
I imdiately clicked on yes.
/Empowering in progress Complete!/
!!!
The orb of light that had been brightening up the centre of the Sanctum suddenly struck Seungyub, Songee and .
I imdiately felt my consciousness fading away from my body.
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Up.
Up and up.
Ahh, was I flying in the skies?
Was this how it felt to be a bodiless soul?
Without a body restricting , my soul was endlessly soaring high up. Rather than a physical sense of the word, up, it was an ascent in a more fundantal sense of the word.
I was reaching a place that truly transcended the ground.
A land that existed nowhere.
At one point, my soul stopped going up.
And a large bird was standing in front of .
An owl.
Looking closer, I realised it looked familiar. It looked similar to the sculpture I picked up on the night before coming into the Hotel.
It has been very disappointing recently.
Was it talking to ?
I was thinking you werent a fool, but to think you couldnt even notice the simple trick of those Athanasias.
Was this about Room 103?
However you werent that bad at the Mansion, so overall, I will say you stand a chance.
What was this bird, and why was it giving an evaluation?
Lets say I am your sponsor. You will see a few more tis
I will give you a bit more. Hope you earn yourself an Inheritance by the ti you co to this place again.
It was a short conversation or rather, a one-sided conveyance of words.
After that, my consciousness plumted from the endlessly high plane
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[Han Kain (20) Wisdom -> You may now see the locations of your teammates.]
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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 15
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sages Advice: 3]
I checked imdiately after waking up in bed. It was Day 15.
Absurdly enough, that short period of ti had gotten rid of an entire day.
I wanted to spend my sweet 3-day holiday as nicely as possible but
Day 13 went by with our bracelet experints; the morning of Day 14 was gone due to the exploration and the evening of Day 14 and the morning of Day 15 were all gone in the blink of an eye.
If I heard so complints and stuff, I wouldnt be feeling this down either.
What a disappointnt. Get an Inheritance before you co next ti.
It was utterly dumbfounding to hear such an annoying evaluation.
Did I ask them to kidnap to such a strange place or sothing? I was about to swear when I suddenly noticed the new function in my system window.
[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 15
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sages Advice: 3
Teammate Location Information (!)]
I checked just in case and it said everyone was currently in Floor 1, at the Room of Rest. Would this beco more specific after entering a Cursed Room?
This definitely was a helpful ability.
It just happened to be alti, so I headed to the dining room and found everyone.
Hiya! Youre finally out. Do you know how surprising it was to see the three of you suddenly collapse? I carried all of you guys back! And Seungyub and Songee woke up ages ago, so I was wondering what was taking you so long.
So Kain, did you get anything new? Eunsol-noona asked.
Yes. Now I have a button called Teammate Location Information that tells about where everyone is. Right now, it only has the rooms but I assu we will have more specific locations once we go into a Cursed Room.
Unlike who could imdiately check the difference, Songee and Seungyub tilted their heads when explaining about their change.
Hmm I cant say anything because there are no beings of chaos next to us right now.
I just got an opaque window. It says [98%].
Jinchul-hyung replied to Seungyub.
So hitting [100%] is probably going to refill your cooldown. Maybe you can choose when to be lucky? 98% is pretty much back to full.
After a slight conversation about the changes to our blessings, I also joined them for a late dinner.
It was depressing.
I was forced to co to this place and yet was pointed out for being bad, and one of my rest days was just gone.
Even the military wont be this heartless.
*
After the al, we started a full-on discussion.
The agenda was, What should we order through the HP Market?
I said this yesterday, but I will make one of them capsaicin. I gathered all the sprays I saw and made four, but we dont have the capsaicin itself.
Are we going to order a weapon for the remaining two? Like my tonfa?
Thats debatable. Whatever it is, a physical tool would probably be less effective than a capsaicin spray for girls, and besides, there are plenty of ornanted blades here. Even Kains silver dagger is sothing we picked up at the Hotel.
She had a point.
It wasnt as if we could buy a gun or a sword through the HP Market. The most we could get was probably a kitchen knife.
They werent any better than the ornanted daggers and blades that were located throughout the Hotel.
Ahri broke her silence with a word.
Lighter.
A lighter?
I think sothing that can help light a fire will be helpful in a lot of ways. And I didnt see any lighters around the Hotel.
Thats not a bad idea. Then for the last Eunsol-noonas words were cut off by Jinchul-hyungs interjection.
Noonim. Its not like were going to light a cigarette, so how about we get a blow torch since we can use that sowhat like a weapon as well?
Hyung. Dont you think a blow torch is too hard to carry around?
Lets make it a gas lighter then.
Whats a gas lighter?
You know, the long ones they use at the BBQ places. Youll recognise it when you see one.
We talked a bit more afterwards but couldnt co up with anything good for the third item.
Since capsaicin was a consumable, we decided to order two bottles of that and a lighter, and that marked the end of that day.
The next day, on the morning of Day 16, we entered Room 104.
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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 16
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 104 (Cursed Room Preparatory Selective, Hotel High School)
Sages Advice: 3]
RINNGGGGGG~~~~
A familiar uniform.
My teammates were looking around with blank looks on their faces among crowds of countless student NPCs.
a forr high school graduate that hadnt yet entered university from one of the few golden ages of a persons life
I returned to high school. To one without any hope called Hotel High School.
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