OBS Chapter 3486 Hunter's Bones
Chapter 3486 Hunter's Bones
Chapter 3486 Hunter's Bones
Shad quickly refused the black-haired hunter's dagger:
"No, no, it's not necessary. I can't take that with me. But can a real unicorn's horn break through the walls of the [Pseudo-Human House]? I actually know some unicorns, though they're not with me, they should be able to help me when I need revenge."
But Miss Cohens' knowledge only came from the inheritance of her predecessors; the "House of Pseudo-Humans" is not something that can be encountered casually.
The description of the rooms on the nineteenth floor of the hotel in the undead's notebook does indeed contain information about "Room 1908," and the undead had attempted to explore that room while searching the entire floor for test subjects.
The door was refusing my touch; this wasn't a room I could enter right now.
Therefore, Shad was almost certain that what he wanted was in that room.
With little time remaining and the need to return to the first floor to complete the mission, Shad and Miss Cohen returned to the elevator room after walking two more rooms without seeing the "1908" sign.
On the way back, apart from lighting matches again, nothing else happened. They then started exploring to the right from room "1900", and the first room on the right turned out to be the "safe room" that Miss Cohens had visited before.
There must be supplies inside, but Xia De simply didn't have enough time, so they didn't go in.
They agreed that if they still hadn't found anything after going through ten rooms, they would go directly to the first floor. Although they hadn't obtained the sacred object, they still had a spare key to the "Eye Demon," which they might be able to use to ask the gods for a bargain.
Fortunately, Shad was always lucky; the number "1908" finally appeared on the doorplate of the eighth room on the right. Shad reached out and touched the door, opened it, and quickly went inside.
The room was still laid out like a normal suite, except that in the center of the living room directly opposite the entrance, a long-dead skeleton sat cross-legged.
After confirming that the skeleton wouldn't move, Shad looked behind the door and, sure enough, saw a holy emblem of the Old God, the Lord of the Walls, hanging there. He breathed a long sigh of relief and even whispered his thanks to the emblem.
Miss Cohens then walked over to the skeleton, examined its clothing, and picked up the notebook that was placed in front of it:
"The mark on this... He was a witcher in his lifetime. I am not the first hunter to arrive here."
She quickly flipped through the notebook:
"This is the Witcher's own notebook, and the latter half is filled with descriptions of this inn. No, he wasn't trapped here; he stayed voluntarily to guard the things in this room."
"what?"
Shad, holding the holy emblem, asked warily, "This explains why the emblem was placed behind the door; it's to prevent things in the room from running away."
Miss Coens stood up with her notebook in hand:
"He successfully made that indescribable thing sign a life contract with him. Neither of them can voluntarily give up their lives, but if one dies, the other will also die. His mission is complete."
She handed the notebook back to Shad, but Shad simply wrote it down in his library and returned it.
"Let's quickly search the room and then leave; I don't have much time left."
"Ok."
The origins of the supplies and matches in the various rooms of the inn are currently unclear, but even in this room that has not been opened for a long time, there are things that everyone can use. The personal belongings of the dead witcher are placed in the corner, and although most of the materials have rotted, the remaining materials are still very useful to Miss Cohens.
Seven more matches were found, and the [Witcher's Seal] was, of course, standard equipment. After confirming that Shad wouldn't take the ring, Miss Cohens decided to keep it as a gift for her apprentice later.
"Our school's lineage is now down to five people, and we still have seven seals. These are symbols of identity and are very important to hunters."
Shad even found what appeared to be a water bottle that the hunter had used in the cupboard, and when he opened the bottle, he was hit with the smell of strong liquor.
Miss Cohens further explained:
"Hunters in the Third Age liked to use strong liquor as a solvent for potions, supposedly to enhance their effects, and drinking it also made them more excited and energetic when they were in action. However, during the potion revolution in the late Fourth Age, many inexpensive potion solvents were invented, so we no longer use strong liquor."
However, she still took the kettle with her, but since it was something a man had used, she only kept it as a souvenir and would never use it herself.
With only five minutes left in the fifty-minute time limit, the two quickly ransacked the area and returned to the elevator room from the corridor. The ancient hunter's body remained in its original place, fulfilling his own wish.
Time was running out, so they didn't return to the tenth floor, but instead took the elevator back to the ground floor. This was with Miss Cohen's permission, as she was quite nervous about it, since there was a real god on the first floor.
The first time I went to the first floor, there were no rooms for elevators except for the doors connecting the hotel to the outside. But this time, after Shad said "go to the first floor" in the elevator, it started rumbling and running again.
After another half-minute descent, a door appeared outside the elevator's gate. Upon opening that door, Shad's "divine afterglow" immediately manifested.
The counter was on the left side of the hotel entrance, while the door he was walking through was on the right side. Xia De was quite certain that last time this place was just a wall.
"So, there are actually other rooms on the first floor, but they are all hidden?"
The relationship between the Dream Eater and Miss Cohens was unclear to Shad, but she still managed to follow him shakily to the counter.
The huntress carried the lantern, while the candles were placed on the counter. The two greeted the seemingly kind-looking bald "middle-aged man" behind the counter, and then Shad took out his spoils: two keys and a holy symbol.
God first put away the key to the nineteenth floor, then touched the holy emblem with his finger and pushed it to Shad.
Shad then took the holy emblem, which almost instantly transformed into pure miraculous elements and entered Shad's body, while "she" gently reminded him:
[Stranger, you have received a one-time blessing from the Old God, "Lord of the Walls": no matter where you are, throw out the crystal slipper, and you will be able to return home.]
"Thank you so much, you saved my life."
Shad thanked him again, but God shook his head:
"At most, I've only provided you with a way to leave; I haven't saved your life. You have at least three ways to leave the 'House of False Humans' on your own, but now is not the time—the story of fate is not over yet. If you are truly at your wit's end, try opening the deepest door of the 'House of False Humans' and let the story of creation begin ahead of time."
He didn't continue, and Shad didn't press the matter. He did indeed have at least three options: burning his divinity, attempting to open the door to the [Creation Chamber], and actively jumping into the blood pool to see if the other party assimilated him, or if he could absorb the other party.
But he didn't want to use any of these three methods; of course, the best option was to go straight home safely.
God then pointed to the key from the third level:
"So, what goods would you like to exchange this key for?"
Maps, resident directories, matches, and "lost items"—strictly speaking, these things are useful to everyone. But since everyone is part of a group, Shad didn't make the decisions on his own:
"Can I use this key to exchange for goods next time I come back?"
God granted it:
"Of course. Now listen carefully to your second task: the walls between rooms 2547 and 2548 on the 25th floor are damaged, making the two rooms connected and forming the same space. This is a serious violation in this hotel. You need to go to the 25th floor, find these two rooms, and then repair the damaged walls."
The witches had only ever reached the 23rd floor, and the 25th floor was unfamiliar to them, so they would probably have to climb the stairs again next time. However, Miss Novare mentioned that the werewolf girl's room where she came into contact with the "moon beast" was on the 25th floor, so Shad might have a chance to take a look next time.
"How can I repair the wall?"
Xia De then asked, in his opinion, this hotel itself was no ordinary building, and repairing the walls must require very special methods and materials.
"Just like a regular bricklayer, you fill in the bricks and then apply lime mortar or cement. As long as the wall is restored to its original state, the specific materials don't matter. When you reach the 25th floor, you will know the location of the room. Note that the original occupants of these two rooms still exist somewhere on the 25th floor."
The god instructed him, and Xia De nodded to indicate that he understood. Therefore, he would go back and learn the craft of a bricklayer, and bring some building materials next time he came.
Of course, the difficulty of this task isn't how to build the wall, but rather dealing with the inhabitants of those two rooms. Breaking through the hotel walls certainly requires extraordinary strength, and that strength is very likely hidden within the rooms.
Miss Cohens didn't say a word while Shad was talking to the deity behind the counter. Only after the two returned to the elevator and it began its rumbling operation did she whisper:
"If you hadn't shown up, I really can't imagine how the three of us would have managed to leave here."
Xia De then offered a reminder:
"Perhaps what's holding you back isn't this hotel, but yourselves. You all have other things to do here, don't you?"
The female hunter carrying the sword nodded, pursing her lips.
“But those are things that must be done. I know you want to persuade me to give up the pursuit of the enemy, but after seeing the remains of that hunter predecessor, I am even more determined. We have long been prepared to sacrifice ourselves, and it is the sacrifice of generations of hunters that has brought us to this era. If it is my turn to sacrifice myself this time, I will embrace death calmly.”