SWDnovel Chapter 36: Room 103, Cursed Room – ‘Athanasia’s Human Farm’ (6) FIN
Chapter 36: Room 103, Cursed Room – ‘Athanasia’s Human Farm’ (6) FIN
Chapter 36: Room 103, Cursed Room – ‘Athanasia’s Human Farm’ (6) FIN
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Date: LaaTest novels on (
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 103 (Cursed Room Athanasias Human Farm)
Sages Advice: 3]
Elena grabbed onto my arm with a sniff.
Elena-unni. Did you just wake up at the facility?
UhukNn. I was a dog but I suddenly came to myself. The other four also came back.
The other four Seungyub and Eunsol-noona died already, so I guess thatll be Kain-oppa, Jinchul-oppa, Grandpa Mooksung and Ahri.
Nn. Everyones very confused. This place is scary. I have no idea whats happening Have you been searching through this place by yourself, Songee?
I woke up a long time ago. Too long ago for me to remember.
I see Lets hurry up and meet everyone else.
Stab!
In the middle of the conversation, Elena took out the knife hidden in her clothes in the blink of an eye and stabbed through Songee.
There was nothing else she could do, because Songee was being mind-controlled by an alien!!
Ending her life like this should be the best way to go.
Her mind turned fuzzy.
*
In front of my eyes, Elena fell on the ground after stabbing herself with the knife.
There was no other option.
And to be honest, it was way too obvious.
Hotel teammates waking up at a time like this was very questionable. Besides, that didnt seem like Elena at all. I had no idea why the Athanasia controlling Elena had interpreted her like that.
At least the Elena I knew wouldnt cry like a child while grabbing onto my arm.
But even so, I couldnt undo the command, Kill Songee that was embedded into her mind. I realised as soon as I touched my bracelet, that the one controlling Elena-unni was a being who was overwhelmingly more skilled than me at mind-control.
It was most certainly an Athanasia.
I couldnt dispel the mind-control itself, so all I could do was modify her five senses and induce her into killing herself.
I guess this was my second time killing Elena-unni. It actually didnt feel that repulsive.
The first time I killed her was when I possessed, and the second time was when I was sober. Would it happen the third time?
I used to grow up outside the Hotel hearing that I was so shy and timid that I wouldnt even be able to kill an ant, and
Even though I didnt like hearing that, I really wasnt expecting myself to do a 180 degree turn and kill a close acquaintance twice.
I wasnt able to lift the mind-control that was cast on Elena, but she probably was not lying when she said that the 4 of the others excluding the dead Seungyub and Eunsol-noona had woken up.
What was strange was that the Teacher should have paused the Athanasias of the engine room. How were they controlling the humans to attack me?
Was there an Athanasia that was stronger than the rest?
Whatever the case, I walked forth to meet the final trial that the Hotel had in place for me.
*
Kwang!
How could a persons fist sound like a hammer? Would I be able to survive after being hit by those fists?
Kwang!
For approximately 3 minutes, I mindlessly rolled and rolled.
Jinchul-oppa was absurdly strong.
Slam!
Ah, I ended up allowing a hit from Kain-oppa. Ill definitely take my revenge outside.
Even though Jinchul-oppa was strong, the main problem was that there was one more person.
The reason I could survive for over a few minutes from the combined attack of Jinchul-oppa and Kain-oppa, who was as strong as a normal adult despite not being at the superhuman level of Jinchul-oppa, was simple.
As soon as I saw them, I instinctively modified their sense of sight to change their focal points. I had no time to change anything else, because unlike Elena, they immediately dashed in to kill me!
Thanks to their twisted sense of sight, they attacked each other around 2 times. After that, they changed their course of action and started dashing forward one at a time, so it was somewhat avoidable but
How long would I last?
As soon as I was too exhausted to move, Jinchul-oppas ridiculous punch would come flying in.
Even the aftershock of a near miss might kill me, and it was meaningless to buy time because the opponents had better stamina than me.
All I needed was one split second. It would work as long as I could hold someone back for just 3 seconds
In the end, I had to make a decision.
Kung!
My left arm was crushed in an instant. It fell down and dangled like a piece of string. Normal people might have fainted from shock but fortunately for me, I was now rather used to mental manipulation through Diverse Perspectives, and I had already blocked my own sense of pain.
Its just that looking at my arm dangling like noodles was a strange sight to behold.
My left arm was destroyed due to the punch but I managed to buy 3 seconds. Using my right arm which was still okay, I grabbed onto Jinchul-oppas body and looked into his eyes.
It didnt even take that long. In just 3 seconds, I erased myself from his sight.
I then overlaid Jinchul-oppas perception of Kain-oppa as myself.
If Jinchul-oppa still had the intellectual ability, he wouldnt have been deceived by such a straight-forward manipulation.
However, the two of them blindly dashed towards me without even trying to carry out a conversation. Their intellects were clearly being suppressed which was why I thought that even a straight-forward manipulation like this would work.
My prediction was on point.
Wow, it took less than 10 seconds for Jinchul-oppa to bash Kain-oppa to death.
After that, I unhesitatingly made Jinchul-oppa think that he had to dive outside from his current location, which was about as high as a five-storey building, in order to catch Songee who was floating in the sky.
Everything worked out well.
What was I even doing here?
It seemed that my humanness, which appeared to have been parched a long time ago, still had some leftover moisture, as water drops left from my eyes.
I can finally see your horrendous true body.
True body, is it. Are you sure about that?
What do you mean?
We still have time, so lets have a short conversation. It should be okay for you to see something interesting.
My consciousness soared without an end.
The vast and expansive outer space broadened in front of my eyes.
Flying amidst space were dozens of small rooms that rotated around the engine where the Devouring One was.
The things that were happening in each of those rooms seeped into my brain.
Unidentifiable hands were reaching out from the walls of the rooms and were squeezing all the Athanasias dry.
From babies to adults without any discrimination, the hands thoroughly grabbed, ripped and squeezed the Athanasias and appeared like a scene straight out of hell.
This
Is this not a delightful sight?
Why are you doing this?
It is a simple story. This might be boring for you, but please listen to a little banter of your Teacher.
The puppet shows created by the Tower of Trials are in fact not completely made-up.
They reenact events that really happened in the history of the real universe despite some modifications.
Before being locked in the Tower, I was actually imprisoned by the Athanasias for epochs.
That is why I am returning the favour to them.
Estavio told me you cannot leave this place, and that you had a different objective. Is revenge your goal?
You can say that. You seem quite discontent. Do you feel sympathy for the Athanasias? Are you not already aware of what they had been doing to countless other intellectual beings? You humans werent an exception.
Besides, did you not massacre the Athanasian babies yourself?
I Thats because
I am not trying to blame you. I am merely commenting on the imperfectness of humans.
Imperfectness of humans?
Humans can never escape from the frames of their senses and their nature. Why do you feel displeased after seeing this?
Are you whole-heartedly considering their pain to be unjustified? You know better than anyone else that that is not the case.
Your innateness is simply feeling fear from the brutal scenery in front of your eyes.
Are you saying its wrong to feel fear and displeasure when looking at a brutal scenery?
Child. I am not talking about what is right or wrong. I am trying to talk about the mental attitude you should have to endure through the Tower of Trials.
You told me before. That you saw my true body and realised my horrendousness.
Look again.
My mind floated back down and I was back to standing in front of the Devouring One.
Before my eyes was the Teacher who I had met when I first woke up at the farm.
He was the most beautiful organism in existence. His body was sparkling like starlight. Small wings covered with ambient radiance were behind his back and the divine majesty of the heavens was in him.
Do I still look like a horrendous existence to you?
I have no idea. But I do know that you are shaking my thoughts.
Child. Do not be deceived by the sight in front of your eyes. Beauty, unsightliness. Divinity, wickedness.
All of your judgements are based on the beauty and ugliness before your eyes.
Close your eyes and think about it. Have I ever caused you any harm?
I have not changed once, and yet your evaluation of me flips like your palm just based on my outer appearance.
That is the weakness of humans, and that is what I wanted to tell you.
Be freed from the limitations of your senses and hold an unclouded rationality inside you. That is why I have bestowed the bracelet onto your hands.
My senses floated up once again.
No this time, it was my entire body that soared into the sky instead of my consciousness.
What was going on?
The spaceship crumbled down the space crumbled and so did the stage.
Left behind was the one and only truth. The true form of Room 103 was unravelled before my eyes.
A door appeared.
My body trembled as I held onto the door knob.
At last, my long nightmare was reaching its end.
My consciousness faded away as I thought to myself. So what exactly was the Devouring One? Was he the god? Or a devil?
Hah! That was a stupid question. I knew the answer to that question from the very beginning.
He was my Teacher. There was no need to place any other unnecessary titles under his name.
/You have succeeded!
A hellish and brutal human farm! But humans also domesticate lower existences depending on the necessity, do they not? Discussing the right and wrong of things like this might be meaningless.
In any case! The neutralisation of all of your teammates, and infinitely stronger foes! You were able to overcome all those trials to reach the final conclusion.
By freeing the Devouring One, you have successfully removed all the Athanasias and have resolved the root cause of the curse. Congratulations.
One of your teammates has successfully resolved the issue! Congratulations! The successful resolution allows everyone to return safely./
You have obtained the Inheritance, Diverse Perspectives.