After studying it for a while, Roy started to regret not bringing Lilith along.
If that seasoned witch had been here, maybe she could have figured out what was wrong. But Roy, despite having the knowledge of the Key of Solomon, hadn't fully mastered it.
Especially since the magic circle in front of him also involved runes, which was a total blind spot for Roy.
"No way around it, looks like I'll have to brute force this!"
Roy was just about to transform when he suddenly felt someone watching him. He turned his head and saw a young man with shoulder-length blonde hair, wearing a priest's outfit, standing at the end of the hallway.
The blonde young man had a Follower's crucifix around his neck and was holding a black religious book in front of him with both hands.
When the heck did this guy get there?
Roy narrowed his eyes.
Feeling Roy's gaze, the blonde young man spoke with some surprise.
"Huh? You can see me?"
Wait, what? Does that mean this guy has been standing there since the beginning, but he was invisible before, so I couldn't see him?
"Who are you?"
The blonde young man gave a faint smile.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that? I don't seem to remember anyone like you in the Order."
Sometimes being too handsome is a pain. Everyone remembers Roy very clearly, making it hard to even try and blend in.
But thankfully, Roy had already thought ahead before coming in.
"The Bishop sent me. Please don't misunderstand."
A strange expression appeared on the blonde young man's face.
"Oh? Bishop Gillespie sent you? How come I don't know about this?"
Dahlia Gillespie was the publicly known Archbishop of the Follower's Order. Roy had already learned this name from Sibyl.
Since this blonde young man addressed Gillespie as "大人" (Dàrén - roughly "respected figure" or "sir"), his position in the Order should be lower than Gillespie's.
"Not Bishop Gillespie, Bishop Wolfe."
Leonard Wolfe, the guy who entered Carrie's dream on the island in Crystal Lake to brainwash her.
This guy was also a well-known Bishop within the Follower's Order, second only to Gillespie in rank, but he rarely appeared in public, so not many people outside the Order knew about him.
It just so happened that Sibyl's parents were quite devout, so they knew this person's name.
Conveniently, Roy knew there was a factional struggle between Leonard Wolfe and Dahlia Gillespie, so he planned to use that to confuse Gillespie's people.
"So, you're with Bishop Wolfe? Too bad, Bishop Gillespie gave orders that no one is allowed near this room."
As he spoke, the blonde young man picked up the book in his hands and opened it, looking like he was about to cast a spell.
Roy immediately pulled out his Smith & Wesson M629 ivory edition and fired a shot at the blonde young man.
Bang!
Roy's goal was to stop the blonde young man from casting a spell, not to kill him, so he didn't aim for any vital areas.
But when the bullet was about to hit the blonde young man, it was like it entered water, only causing ripples in the air before disappearing.
Roy's eyes widened.
Could it be an illusion?
Impossible! Even an illusion shouldn't be able to fool the Eye of Truth he got from Marbas, unless it was an illusion cast by Elizabeth!
Roy immediately realized that this blonde young man actually existed in another dimension, and what he was seeing was actually an image, like a projection.
Damn it! This is trouble!
The blonde young man didn't stop his actions, seemingly having expected this outcome. He calmly began to recite prayers.
"Pray, for I am the Scarlet God!
The embodiment of death and wrath, the one true God in this world!
Believers, listen to my words!
..."
As the blonde young man spoke, Roy noticed the hallway changing.
The originally beautiful wallpaper and paint peeled off, revealing rusty metal walls underneath. The floor also turned into metal wire mesh, and through the mesh, he could see a bottomless abyss of darkness below.
This scene surprised Roy greatly. This guy could actually summon the Otherworld of Silent Hill into reality?
But it seemed like in the second Silent Hill movie, someone did manage to do this, but that was because the female lead, Heather, possessed divine power herself and was attracted to the power of Silent Hill.
Yeah, the protagonist of the second Silent Hill movie and the third game is the same person, and her name happens to be the same as that one in Sawyer Estate.
But this Heather shouldn't have been born yet.
This guy can't be allowed to succeed!
Roy quickly ran towards the blonde young man. Even if the other guy was on a different plane of existence, there had to be a way to deal with him.
Fear Domain, activate!
Roy could see the blonde young man visibly freeze for a moment, and then a look of intense fear appeared on his face. He stopped reciting the prayer and started calling for his mom.
"Mommy, please! Please don't leave me!"
Who knew this guy's biggest fear was his mom abandoning him?
But the changes in the surrounding environment didn't stop even though the blonde young man had stopped praying.
Wait a minute! Could it be that this prayer wasn't actually a spell at all? Maybe it was just lines to set the mood?
Soon, the blonde young man came back to his senses. This kid's willpower must be pretty high. He looked at Roy angrily.
"What the hell did you do to me?"
At this moment, Roy had already rushed up close to the blonde young man.
"You should be asking me what I'm about to do to you! Dark Touch!"
A mass of shadow appeared from behind Roy, and five tentacles made of dark energy extended from the shadow, grabbing the blonde young man.
The blonde young man hadn't expected the tentacles to be able to grab him at all, so he was completely unprepared.
It worked!
Roy had only tried it on a whim, because he didn't really have any spatial abilities, and Dark Touch was the closest thing he had.
The Slender Man's Dark Touch was originally a spatial ability combined with dark elements. You could tell from how it could ignore a person's skin and directly absorb the flesh and blood inside their body.
"Gotcha!"
"This is impossible!"
The blonde young man's expression at this moment was even more terrified than when he was affected by the Fear Domain and saw those terrifying illusions. After all, his most prized magic had been broken by someone.
"Now, tell me how to break the magic on Room 302!"
302 was the hotel room where Madison and the others were staying. Roy suspected that the magic circle was drawn by the blonde young man, judging from the spatial magic skills the guy had just displayed.
"I won't tell you!"
The blonde young man gritted his teeth, seeming pretty tough.
Then there's no other way. Shadow of Fear!
Roy resorted to his best interrogation tactic, wanting to use the power of fear to force the blonde young man to talk.
However, the blonde young man's will was very strong. Roy kept increasing the output of chaos energy, but it didn't make him yield.
Okay, even though the other guy was a bad guy, not all bad guys are pushovers who will cave in just by being scared.
There are still some tough nuts out there, especially in these kinds of religious organizations. There must be a lot of brainwashed fanatics.
Just as Roy was pondering how to pry open the blonde young man's mouth, a long sword suddenly pierced through the blonde young man's body, almost stabbing him as well.
Fortunately, with the help of Assassin's Heart, Roy reacted in time and jumped back, dodging the blade.
The blonde young man wasn't harmed by this attack because he was in another dimension.
A burly man wearing a metal triangular helmet walked through the blonde young man's body towards Roy. The long sword in his hand dragged across the wire mesh floor, creating sparks. This guy also had a clear red inverted pentagram branded on his chest.
Triangle Head!
(Gender-bent version of Triangle Head)
Triangle Head, also known as the Executioner, is one of the most iconic monsters in Silent Hill, second only to the faceless nurse.
However, Triangle Head is a purely physical monster, and physical monsters are what Roy fears the least.
"Get lost, you!"
Taking the chainsaw sword out of his inventory, Roy swung it at Triangle Head.
Although Triangle Head raised his long sword to block Roy's attack at the first moment, the 60 points of strength still forced Triangle Head to retreat several steps.
Roy judged Triangle Head's approximate physical attributes. This guy's agility shouldn't be high, and his movement speed wasn't too fast.
But his strength and constitution were quite good, probably around 40 points.
These kinds of attributes were enough to slaughter ordinary people, which is why Triangle Head was almost invincible in the original work, but his opponent now was Roy.
The blonde young man had already escaped under the cover of Triangle Head, which made Roy very angry.
"Bastard! Die!"
Roy directly entered his demon form. After the Defiler was upgraded to Ashbringer, his form change was upgraded again.
First of all, his demon form became even larger. Roy was now four meters tall, and his head was touching the ceiling.
At the same time, the temporarily increased attribute points for his physical body also became 30 points, which made Roy's constitution attribute break through 100 for the first time.
What was the concept of 100 constitution attribute?
Roy could now withstand a direct hit from a cannonball without taking any damage!
The originally tall and burly Triangle Head looked like a child in front of Roy, and Roy grabbed him in his hand.
[Detected special character Triangle Head. You can absorb the Power of Fate to obtain rewards!]
Triangle Head still wanted to resist, but Roy directly ripped off his metal triangular helmet.
Underneath the helmet was a bloody, blurred face with empty eye sockets and no nose.
He easily crushed Triangle Head, but the blonde young man had already disappeared without a trace.
[Ding! Obtained Triangle Head's Fate Treasure Chest! Open it?]
"F***!"
If Triangle Head hadn't dropped a treasure chest, Roy would have been furious.
With the death of Triangle Head, the surrounding environment returned to the normal hotel hallway.
It seemed that this spatial change was caused by Triangle Head, and that blonde young man might have just summoned him.
Returning to the front of Room 302, Roy punched the door. His 90 points of strength made each punch as terrifying as a cannonball, and some cracks appeared on the magic circle on the door.
Roy threw a second punch, and the cracks on the magic circle became even more obvious!
With the third punch, the magic circle finally shattered with a crack, completely breaking the door as well.
Zoey, inside Room 302, was startled by the loud crash. She thought something had happened again, and then she saw a four-meter-tall red demon standing in the doorway.
"Who are you?"
"Zoey, it's me!"
Roy returned to his human form, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to fit through the door.
Seeing that it was Roy, Zoey finally relaxed and rushed over to hug him.
"Roy, I thought I'd be trapped in this room forever. I'm so glad you came!"
Roy gently patted Zoey's back, comforting her. At this moment, he noticed that Zoey was the only one in the room. He couldn't see Madison and Maria.
"It's okay, Zoey, I'm here now! By the way, where are Madison and Maria?"
Zoey then remembered her two little friends.
"Madison and Maria left this room through a cave. We haven't heard from them for several hours!"
"A cave? Where's the cave?"
Zoey immediately pulled Roy to the bathroom, but found that the cave that was originally on the wall had disappeared.
"How could this be?"
"Zoey, tell me the specific situation in detail."
After listening to Zoey's description, Roy looked a bit dumbfounded.
Roy knew about the cave setting. It was a setting from the game Silent Hill 4: The Room. In the game, the protagonist is trapped in his apartment and can only travel between his apartment and Silent Hill through a mysterious hole.
So, that blonde long-haired young man from just now was Walter Sullivan, the antagonist from Silent Hill 4: The Room? His appearance did fit the description quite well.
How much stuff has been stitched together in this world? It's like the Silent Hill movies and games have all been mashed together, right?
"I'm guessing Madison and Maria should have already entered Silent Hill!"
"What? They went into Silent Hill?"
"What do we do now?"
Roy also felt a bit troubled. His biggest problem right now was that he couldn't enter the surface world of Silent Hill.
"F***! I refuse to believe that storming the Follower's Order's lair won't give me a way into Silent Hill! Zoey, you're sticking with me from now on!"
Zoey nodded.
As soon as the two of them left Room 302, they heard a series of rapid footsteps. Several strange people in protective suits appeared in the hallway, holding various firearms.
Roy quickly pulled Zoey back into the room. The next second, bullets rained down on them like a storm.
These people in protective suits probably hadn't received professional training and didn't know how to conserve ammunition. Once they pulled the trigger, they wouldn't let go.
Roy calculated the capacity of their magazines, then suddenly jumped out of the room, firing his two Smith & Wesson revolvers in quick succession.
Several of the protective-suited figures were instantly riddled with bullets.
"Quick, let's go! We must have been discovered by the Follower's Order!"
Footsteps kept coming, clearly indicating that the Follower's Order was still sending reinforcements. There were people everywhere in the stairwell and the hallway.
"He's over there!"
Roy himself wasn't afraid, but he was worried about stray bullets hitting Zoey. So, he directly activated his Fear Domain. All cultists who got close would immediately face a fear check, and then Roy could easily take them down.
Then, the fire alarm in the hotel suddenly went off.