200. The Necromancer
Tumble.
The sound of Deus’ footsteps while talking to Mule grew farther and farther away, followed by the sound of the restaurant door closing.
Kikik.
She is a woman who opens the door and comes out of the room at the same time. Thread marks stretched all over her body, and she looked around her with wide eyes.
She was beaten so badly by Joe Letoux. Even if her whole body was fractured, it was an injury that would not have been strange to her, but before she knew it, her upper body was back to its original state.
However, her lower body is still bizarrely twisted, probably because of the lack of time yet.
Because of that, the woman quickly crawled across her floor and headed for the first floor entrance.
Clotted blood on the floor.
The white robe he was wearing was already dyed crimson red, and the beautiful face was also soaked in blood.
“Huh.”
Looking at her corpse, the corpse woman couldn’t help but grin.
A neat corpse, except for a stake driven into her neck. I’m a little on the thin side, but I’m tall, so it doesn’t matter.
“Hee hee hee.”
The woman grabbed his collar with her teeth and started crawling back to Room 108, her own room.
“Hee hee hee.”
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The laughter that came out was truly grotesque.
* * *
When they arrive at the restaurant, the three of them stop talking. It seems that the Dark Spirit and Hanso, centering on Luanes, were asking something, but it seemed to be a trivial matter.
“What about him?”
I didn’t bother to hide it when the dark mage asked me out of boredom.
“Dead.”
“Did he kill you?”
Hanso asked with a rather complicated expression, but of course she shook her head and denied it.
“I took my own life. He said he would see me outside.”
With that said, he explained the new rules I had seen through the death of Mule.
-11. The higher the room number, the more guests are coming from behind the times.
-15. There is no daylight in Nightmare.
“Hmm, I know it’s not an ordinary place, but it’s a strange place.”
“Because I am number 101, I am from the past.”
“There is no day?”
Hanso, Luanes, and the Dark Mage each show different reactions. In particular, I watched Luanes closely, and he was quite prudent and calm, not befitting his age.
“Hmm, there seem to be some strange people among the guests who came with me. How is it? How about we all work together to escape?”
As Hanso suggested while stroking his chin, Luanes was the first to respond.
“Can I join in too?”
In response to the good boy’s reaction, who was worried that he would be out of the way, Hanso replied by patting his head.
“Of course not. Didn’t we already survive thanks to you once!”
He secretly looks at me and the dark mage and wonders if it’s okay.
In the first place, the Dark Mage accepted because he was interested in Luanes’ black magic, and I, too, had no intention of leaving him alone as I knew the boy’s future.
Sharing rules started like that.
The rules we learned are listed below.
– Nightmare Rules –
-1. Private rooms are paid. Your room is number 110.
-2. Avoid going out at night. If you ever go out, you are responsible.
-3. The owner of this mansion is Archdemon Learic. Please always remember that.
-4. The number of floors allowed for guests is up to the third floor.
-5. You can stay in the Nightmare War for a total of five days, and if you exceed that, you will be forced to leave.
-6. Fighting inside the Nightmare is not recommended.
-7. The clock is in the center of the first floor. Don’t take up their time by asking other guests for their time.
-8. After five days, if you are kicked out of the nightmare, you will lose all memories of what happened here.
-9. The rules for the Nightmare War are written all over the mansion. If you find it, there is a prize.
-10. Among the guests-
-11. The higher the room number, the more guests are coming from behind the times.
-13. You must not explain to the other guests how you came to the Nightmare.
-14. You can only carry a total of 2 items obtained as a reward. (One piece provided)
-15. There is no daylight in Nightmare.
-17. Cleaning is done daily. (Courtesy of Luanes)
-20. Even if you don’t know the rules of Nightmare, the rules apply.
-21. Meals are replenished daily. Please feel free to eat to your heart’s content.
-22. Deceased guests leave behind the rules they know.
-23. The deceased guest’s belongings remain unclaimed in the mansion.
-24. When a guest dies, the room the guest is staying in opens. Until then, entry is prohibited even if the owner of the room permits it.
-27. There are 110 guest rooms. There is no 111. If you find Room 111 and there are people staying there, kill them immediately. This is an uninvited guest.
-28. There are no servants in Nightmare War.
-29. There is no 4th floor in Nightmare War.
I thought I already found quite a few rules by adding the rules that Hanso and Luanes knew.
“Rule 10 was cut from the beginning, right?”
“Right.”
I haven’t been there since I first came.
I agree with the answer of Luanes, who came first in room 101, saying that he felt uncomfortable.
I was concerned about the part where rule 10 was cut off from the beginning.
It means that there must be a reason why it was cut like that.
“I’m kind of scared of Rule 27.”
“Hmm, I checked all the room numbers. There was no room 111.”
As I listened to Luanes and Hanso’s conversation about the rules in one ear and watched the rules in the other, the dark wizard next to me asked me.
“How is it?”
There was a strange anticipation in her gaze as she brushed her flowing hair.
“If you look closely, there are conflicting rules.”
When I listed the rules of The Dream, it seemed clear that the great demon named Learic had quite a taste for bad taste.
“For example number 2. I told you to refrain from going out at night.”
My finger glides over the number of rules and points to number 15.
“If you look at number 15, it is written that there is no daylight before the nightmare.”
In a nutshell, it meant not to go out of the Nightmare Hall.
“If you look at number 4 again, the number of floors allowed for guests is up to the third floor.”
As I slowly let go of my hand, I turned my eyes to the rule at the very end.
“If you look at number 29, it says that there is no 4th floor in Nightmajeon.”
The characteristics of the two were that they decorated things that didn’t exist as if they existed.
There is no daytime, and there is no fourth floor.
When I knew only one rule, I was cleverly referring to it as if it were of course.
“It is like the great devil of deceit.”
After hearing my words, the dark spirit sighed and sat down on a chair in the dining room.
So we went to Room 109 where Mule was assigned and Room 107 where Jortu was assigned, along with a discussion about the Nightmare, where they found the rules and brought back the rewards they received.
Jortu, who knew the three rules, had a ring, a necklace, and a bracelet as rewards.
I wondered if the accessories were enchanted, but that wasn’t the case. They were not items of more than monetary value.
On the contrary, the things that Mule obtained, who knew the 4 rules, were all splendid treasures.
A staff made of black rattan tree that gives the illusion that it was prepared just for me.
The robe with a red magic circle on a black background has a time limit of 10 minutes, but it uses absolute defense magic.
Aside from that, other treasures such as a white dagger containing various magics and a thick round shield with a golden lion on it were poured out.
I gave the dagger to Luanes for self-defense, and the shield to him because he was the only one who could handle it anyway.
I took the rest of the staff and robe.
I was envious of the Dark Spirit, but it seemed like I was the cause of Mule’s death, so I was the one to own it.
After that time passed.
“Haam.”
The youngest Luanes yawned as if he was tired, so he and Hanso went back to their room first.
I too got up slowly to go back to my room, but the Dark Spirit sipping her coffee stepped on her eyes.
She doesn’t even think about getting up, she just blankly stares at the rules we wrote down.
She
She seemed to want to be alone, so the moment she was about to leave the restaurant without talking to her.
“Over there.”
The trembling voice of the Dark Spirit catches me.
Her
She opened Her restaurant Closed the door slowly and looked at her. Her Dark Spirit gave her a complicated look and shook her head.
“No, nothing.”
A word that leaves an afterglow.
If she were a different person, she would have gone outside without paying much attention, but since she was a dark wizard, she didn’t take her steps.
“You must be worried about something.”
“Huh?”
I slowly returned back to the restaurant at the reaction of the dark mage, who was taken aback, as if he didn’t know that I would continue the conversation.
Sit in a seat not too far from her. I wanted to drink coffee separately, but rather than that, I just put her hand on the table and put the pod on.
“Have you become attached to your colleagues?”
“Me? To you?”
At my question, the dark mage shrugged his shoulders, saying he was dumbfounded.
“The you I knew was a woman with a lot of affection.”
As soon as I spat out a word, the dark spirit’s body stiffened and her eyes were fixed on me.
“…… He said he didn’t know me well.”
At the first meeting with her, she was a dark wizard who pointed out that she didn’t know much about her, but I didn’t bother to answer.
She doesn’t have to explain the fact that she intentionally hid it, but she’ll find out if she’s a dark wizard.
“What kind of relationship was that?”
I answered the question of the dark mage without much hesitation.
“He was my teacher.”
“…… Uh?”
A completely unexpected answer.
The Dark Spirit, who was looking at me with her mouth open and round eyes, approached me, dragging her chair as if she wanted an explanation.
I continued with questions rather than explanations.
“So, by the way, I have a question.”
There was a question I wanted to ask the dark mage if I had a chance.
A question I tried to put into her mouth several times, but couldn’t in the end.
I spit out her past in a little wicked way.
“Why do you want to see the end of necromancy?”
“… ….”
I’ve been curious since long ago.
In the end, the reason the Dark Spirit accompanied me was to master all of her necromantic arts.
Nevertheless, when I was fighting Magan, I left a meaningful message saying that I wish I didn’t become like him.
If a dark spirit in my time zone finds out about this, she’ll say it’s petty.
Still, I needed to know.
As the woman who accompanies her.
The dark mage slowly closed his mouth at my question. But it wasn’t that he was difficult to answer, he seemed to be organizing her words.
Wait a little.
I wasn’t too impatient and looked around the restaurant for a while and waited. The Black Spirit gave me an honest answer.
“…… What was it?”
* * *
Rumble.
Luanes, who entered room 101, feels that his expression is relaxed and he is filled with excitement.
‘Colleague.’
Starting with Hanso, the Dark Rage and Deus Verdi. Being a colleague of three cool people was quite a fantastic thing for him when he was young.
Born as the king’s half-son, he was banished from the capital city of Greypond, treated as close to exile.
His father’s correspondence, which often flew in, was the only rest for him and a point of contact with others.
As they took responsibility for each other’s lives and formed an equal relationship as colleagues, Luanes felt like he was about to fly away.
“Don’t become a burden.”
I was tired, but I didn’t lie down on the bed right away, I swung the white dagger I was given as a gift into the air.
Since the magic contained inside cannot be used in the room, he thought of practicing at least some self-defense techniques.
As it happens, he was a prince who was not allowed to exist.
Because of the wide range of his learning, he brings out the self-defense technique through the dagger he learned in the past from his memory.
Kungkung!
At that time, Luanes was startled by the sound of a rough knock on the door.
“Who are you?”
Kungkung!
I thought I hid the trembling voice well, but the existence outside the door didn’t seem to stop knocking.
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
The feeling of knocking with something heavy compared to knocking by hand.
Clever Luanes doesn’t have a hard time realizing that his opponent is headbutting the door.
First of all, they are not colleagues.
Then he had no reason to open the door.
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Kungkung!
Continuous noise.
At this point, I wonder if people around me will notice.
Would you rather go out and fight?
I thought so, but Luanes immediately shook his head.
I know how to use black magic, but I don’t have enough skills to use it for combat.
The moment I just covered the blanket and tried to sleep pretending not to know.
The noise stops.
I wonder if it’s over, so I lift the blanket, stick my head out, and check the door.
However, a small thread slipped through the gap as if mocking the boy’s expectations. The strands begin to stretch exponentially and soon take the shape of a human hand.
“Huh?”
Ruanes, who had already been lying on the bed trying to ignore it, couldn’t even react.
Clap.
The thread-like hand unlocked the lock and turned the doorknob.
The boy’s room opened so gently to welcome the uninvited guests.
Ruanes stood up immediately holding a dagger.
The boy’s head was spinning so cleverly that it couldn’t be said that he was young.
‘If the other person is a guest like me, he can’t enter this room.’
-24. When a guest dies, the room the guest is staying in opens. Until then, entry is prohibited even if the owner of the room permits it.
Even if Luanes allows it, you can’t come in carelessly.
But.
“Huh?”
Standing in front of the boy’s doorway is Mule, wearing an iron mask and a bloodstained robe.
So it was the man who had just committed suicide. He thought the body was gone, so he sorted it out in the nightmare war.
“Hee, hee hee.”
The gruesome laughter of the morgue woman can be heard from behind Mule’s corpse.
“Did you grow up precious? It just shows.”
“… ….”
Outside the threshold, the woman goes on to say what is so exciting about her.
“A corpse of a child that even the least high-ranking nobles or royalty can see…… Touch it first!”
“You will regret it if you come into my room!”
It was a warning of its own, and the only resistance Luanes could do.
“Because I’m not going in.”
A woman’s remarks suggesting that she already knows Rule 24.
At the same time, the footsteps of Mule, a corpse, start heading towards Luanes.
After a while, the corpse woman crossed the threshold and entered her room.
The door to room 101 is closed.
-24. When a guest dies, the room the guest is staying in opens. Until then, entry is prohibited even if the owner of the room permits it.
Leoric smh, was that intentional or what? Someone found a loophole in one of your rules 🤣🤨