Chapter: 83
Chapter 83 – Party Time (5), Checking Souvenir Functions, Entering Timeless Safari.
[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 25
Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor
Sage’s Advice: 2]
After returning from our hike, I was absolutely starving.
Only after finishing a fair bit of dinner did I start testing the tools I’d just acquired.
The pen I got, the badge my sister received, and the gloves grandpa found.
The most straightforward item among them was definitely my sister’s badge.
“Hey! S, she just disappeared!”
“Hm. Since I can feel something, it seems like she didn’t physically vanish, did she?” Grandpa Mooksung observed.
“Grandpa, could you maybe tell me where you’re touching right now?”
“Oops! That was unintentional!” He said, hurriedly retreating.
The badge’s power was none other than invisibility.
It felt like an embodiment of the hotel’s ability to keep everything tidy while remaining unseen, huh?
My sister flickered for a moment while wearing the badge, and after several checks, we discovered the precise conditions.
If she wore the badge and held her breath, she would turn invisible for that duration.
Clearly, this was an incredibly useful tool, and everyone was in awe.
Grandpa’s glove turned out to be equally shocking.
“…”
“Does it hurt?”
“I can’t feel a thing, really.”
As soon as grandpa put the gloves on, his hand started floating in the air. The spot where his hand should’ve been was just surrounded by a hazy light, while the glove and his hand floated around.
When I grabbed the hand in mid-air and took off the glove, his hand vanished from the air and returned to its rightful place.
“Looks like a kind of remote hand?”
“Controlling this is tougher than I thought.”
According to him, it felt like his arm had extended several times over, but that was hard to picture.
“Can it work this way too?”
Grandpa picked up a gun with the remote hand!
Wow, that’s useful! At this rate, he could aim from behind obstacles!
Bang!
…No matter how I looked at it, the bullet went off in a complete wrong direction.
“Oops! Aiming while shooting is a real challenge. Seems like I need a lot more practice.”
Lastly, my pen’s function was rather bizarre.
“A pen that can write anywhere.”
When I thought, “I’m writing in thin air!” and drew in the air, letters actually appeared. If I then pressed the button on the back while thinking, “Erase it!” it would disappear.
I could write in the air, on my body, on paper, and even in water! But when the water flowed away, the letters vanished with it.
…What am I even supposed to use this for?
The two who didn’t get any tools looked at us with envious eyes, but honestly, even having it, I wasn’t sure how to use this pen.
Maybe the concept of “writing anywhere” was key to its application. Wouldn’t its true function come out when writing on an object that normally can’t accept writing?
I couldn’t think of an easy way to apply it.
It seemed all three of us needed some practice to use our tools.
My sister would have to practice holding her breath, and grandpa should continually work on controlling his remote hand to use the gun effectively.
As for me? Should I be practicing writing fast?
No matter how I saw it, my tool seemed the weirdest of them all.
While I was diligently writing in thin air, my sister caught on to another characteristic of my pen.
“Doesn’t it feel like you’re writing from a distance?”
“Excuse me?”
“Normally, letters are written from the pen tip, right? But maybe because your pen doesn’t actually have ink, it looks like the writing is happening slightly further from the tip.”
Indeed, I double-checked. There truly was a small gap between the pen tip and the writing location.
Even more surprising, once I became aware of it, I realized I could consciously write letters from a distance. The limit seemed to be about 1 meter.
…
Writing anywhere, even from a distance, huh. I suddenly thought of a potentially aggressive way to use it.
This pen was actually more useful than expected.
All of our tools shared a common trait.
Only the owner could utilize their special functions. If anyone else picked up my pen, it turned into a regular pen, grandpa’s gloves were just ordinary gloves, and my sister’s badge had no special powers either.
Only the designated owner could unleash the pen that writes anywhere, the remote hand, and the invisible badge.
From the sanctum in the morning, hiking in the evening, and verifying our tools at night, sleepiness overwhelmed me.
The first day of Party Time came to an end.
*
On the second morning, everyone was suffering from muscle soreness and ended up not being able to do anything.
As we blamed Grandpa Mooksung every time we passed him, it seemed he hadn’t left his room for a while…
By lunch, those who had enhanced their blessings yesterday began to wake one by one.
As soon as we gathered, we discussed the changes in their blessings and what tools we had acquired while they slept.
“So, Elena can now detect lies, Jinchul-hyung gained some regeneration powers, and Ahris’s allusion ability has gotten slightly stronger, right?”
“Yes.”
“Yeah.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Can you detect lies all day, Elena?” I asked.
“Not exactly. I mean, wouldn’t it be an exhausting ability to have on all the time? I think I can do it for about 10 minutes a day.”
“Well, since we’re not going to the Cursed Room today, let’s give it a shot.”
At that, Elena’s eyes turned ‘golden.’
Everyone stared at her with wide-eyed wonder.
Let me go first.
“I’m 2 meters tall.”
Elena chuckled lightly.
Jinchul-hyung followed up with his turn.
“I weigh 200 kg.”
This time, Elena tilted her head slightly.
“What’s it feel like? Does it hit you like lightning when you hear a lie?”
I felt something while talking to you two. Check this out.
Elena casually grabbed the table.
Crack!
…The corner of the table crumpled.
“It seems that when I hear a lie, it’s not just about knowing; I gain some sort of ‘punishing power’ as well. It’s not as if I feel like a volcano about to erupt like when I’m enforcing something, but I do feel like I have just enough power to swing my fist a couple of times hard.”
“Want to give it a shot, Jinchul-ssi? You might want to test your ‘regeneration’ while we’re at it?”
“…No thanks.”
After seeing the table break, hitting back felt out of the question.
This power is scarier than I expected.
After goofing around for about 10 minutes, the golden glow faded from her eyes.
“Shouldn’t we try out your regeneration ability, hyung? Maybe by cutting off a finger or something?”
“You seriously can’t say anything sensible! After all, is regeneration really an ability that requires testing?”
It was hard to test out Jinchul-hyung and Ahris’s abilities.
Jinchul-hyung outright refused when I suggested cutting off his finger to test regeneration, and neither of us exactly wanted to be a target of Allusion to check the extent of her enhanced hypnosis.
After a light demonstration of our new strengths and tools, it was time to decide what to do next.
It was one of the schedules explicitly mentioned by the hotel.
“Timeless Safari” for practicing our inheritance!
*
On the afternoon of the second day of Party Time, our first task was to visit the “Timeless Safari” located underground.
What could it possibly be?
I couldn’t make much of it just from the name, and I struggled to understand why a safari was the best place to practice inheritance.
We had some discussions, but in the end, it seemed we needed to experience it ourselves to know.
Grandpa Mooksung took the lead.
“Let’s head to the safari! Talking here isn’t going to get us any answers—seeing it for ourselves is the only way. Besides, given that it’s recommended for ‘training’ it shouldn’t be a dangerous area.”
“Is that so?”
This hotel claims to be ‘The Land of Hope,’ yet it starts off killing us with monster trucks…
Each time I head down, I wonder just how many rooms there are in this underground area?
The corridor seemed endless, and the rooms appeared to stretch into infinity.
What’s more, Grandpa Mooksung, who had taken special care reading the floor plans, pointed out that the underground structure changes every time we arrive.
Today was the same.
As we made our way down to find the safari, right by the stairs stood a room with the hugely labeled sign that read “Safari.”
I could have sworn there was another room in this location when we hiked yesterday…
Letting that topic linger seemed futile; I quickly brushed that thought aside.
Upon entering the “Safari,” we were greeted by a vast area resembling an amusement park.
At the entrance stood what looked like a gigantic kiosk.
“How do we use this?”
“I think it’s for getting tickets?”
I read the explanation displayed on the screen.
1. The safari is only open during Party Time.
2. Inside the safari are animals from ‘all eras.’
3. The era is chosen randomly every time you enter.
4. You can exit at any point. If you die inside, you will revive outside.
…
“If you die inside?” It sounded terrifying, but considering the hotel’s usual standards, that felt like a regular clause. In fact, I was a bit relieved by “You will revive outside.”
“I mean, let’s be real. The hotel wants us dead, no matter where we go. Even this place specifies what happens upon dying.”
“Well, they at least bring us back outside.”
“Hey, boar! Have you ever tried summoning your fragment yet?”
“After I got it, I vaguely understood how to summon it, but I’ve never actually summoned it. Calling it out would probably create chaos all around me; no thanks!”
“Then this is the perfect time to try! Songee!”
Songee stepped up to Jinchul-hyung with her sparkling bracelet.
“Let me use the bracelet on you!”
Everyone pressed the display to receive tickets like they were handing out candy before heading toward the entrance.
Anticipation buzzed in the air.
Unlike the Cursed Rooms, where if we died, we’d just end up back outside, why was I still feeling so tense?
“Timeless Safari.”
What’s the deal behind this bizarre name?
Shoving those thoughts aside, I stepped through the entrance.
*
—Han Kain
/Deciding the Era.
…
…
…
—155 million years ago
1. 2. 3. Initiating!/
My world spun and I fell to the ground.
What? 155 million years? What even is happening?
As soon as I hit the ground, I panicked and looked around, realizing it was dark. Must be nighttime.
What is this? A wall? I fiddled with the huge wall beside me while trying to move forward. Should’ve brought a flashlight, maybe?
In the next moment, everything became bright.
…
It wasn’t nighttime at all.
I just happened to be underneath something overwhelmingly enormous.
As the “massive foot” I had touched lifted off the ground, I broke into a mad dash!
Wait. Is this the dinosaur era?!
Some monstrous thing, even larger than concrete pillars, was hurtling toward me.
Alert! Warning! Where are you?!
Oh wait, dying doesn’t even matter in the safari, right? So that explains the lack of notifications. And honestly, even a heads-up wouldn’t have changed much.
BANG!
My body catapulted into the air as my consciousness began to fade.
…
Ah, that’s a Brachiosaurus.
My first death in the safari happened due to an enraged tail swipe from one.
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