Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics

He figured there would be plenty of occasions requiring passwords thereafter, so he casually allocated two points.

Afterward, he used his Password Decryption skill on those letters, rolled a dice, and passed the check. A series of mystical arrangements immediately appeared in Shiller's mind.

Shiller suddenly understood.

He took the door plaque he had removed from the Captain's Room, placed it in front of Batman, and then asked, "What about adding these letters?"

The Captain's Room door plaque read "captain room," but the addition of the letters transformed it completely.

Batman immediately found the solution.

Latin has five cases, and the changes in words before and after could identify which case they belonged to. After scrambling and rearranging the letters, eight words appeared, forming four pairs.

Based on the sequence of missing letters, the sequence numbers for the cases were 1413.

This obviously appeared to be a room number.

Shiller recalled for a moment and had no impression of this room but still etched the number onto the back of the downsized Captain's Room plaque.

Then he stood up, tried the original screws from the Captain's Room plaque, found the screws too large, and completely incompatible.

He then pulled out the screws from a hotel door plaque given to him by Nya and perfectly affixed the flipped Captain's Room plaque.

A door appeared on the wall, and this time, there was no lock.

Shiller and Batman exchanged glances, Batman reached out to turn the doorknob, and with a creak, the door opened.

The Captain's Room shone with dim yellow light.

"This has been unlocked for you," the Transcendent said, his voice tinged with frustration.

"Having Batman truly is remarkable," Shiller said as he stepped into the Captain's Room.

He reflected on the entire puzzle-solving process. It wasn't specifically challenging; it was unrelated to the hotel's door plaque except that the plaque had sparked some inspiration for Shiller.

Basically, it required some clues to link to the door plaque's problem. These clues could be obtained in two ways, either by investigating past incidents at the hotel to get some leads, or through communication with an evil spirit, obtain clues on how to enter the room without unlocking it, and eventually find the issue with the door plaque.

Then, one would need the Password Decryption skill. The Transcendent was quite generous with Skill Points, giving some in virtually every encounter, and they could be utilized on the spot.

But if one didn't max out the Password Decryption skill, one would only know the need to integrate the letters from "captain room," and would still have to arrange them independently.

However, in any team of players, there are always a few with high education, having received elite education in Europe and America, who could probably recognize Latin at a glance.

Because the words are in pairs, and most letters between every two words are the same, one just needed to pick out the paired letters and piece them together to almost figure it out.

The only challenging part was needing to be familiar with Latin declensions, but the Reading Literature skill includes Latin reading, so it was just a matter of using a skill and rolling a dice to pass.

The hard part was finding the screws for hotel door plaques, a key tool, Shiller also didn't know where the Transcendent had hidden it, and guessed it would be somewhat difficult to find, but Nya just directly gave him the screws.

After entering the Captain's Room, they began searching. There was a bookshelf on one wall and a rack on the other, the books on the bookshelf being ordinary, but the small sculptures on the rack were rather interesting.

Shiller found a small octopus sculpture, similar in shape to a lock, seemingly made of silver, with gemstones inlaid around the eyes emitting a subtle glow, clearly an unusual item.

"Do we have any antique appraisal skills?" Shiller asked the Transcendent, then added, "Or should we use Cthulhu Mythos appraisal?"

"That could work," the Transcendent responded.

Shiller understood this meant the item probably had some significance, but he also knew that not identifying anything was fine, yet actually identifying something could decrease mental health value.

Shiller decided to hold onto it for now and appraise it later when he found related clues.

Then he approached the desk in the Captain's Room, instantly noticing a bottle of wine positioned directly in front of the chair. The wine bottle was slender and square, tapering at the bottom and widening at the top, resembling the silhouette of Batman cloaked.

The upper part of the bottle featured a silver skull, from which numerous tendrils stretched out, densely intertwined and creating a spine-tingling sight.

The bottle was transparent, but the liquid inside was golden yellow. Shiller picked it up, smelled it, confirming it was the legendary golden honey wine.

This was a mysterious liquid that could leave one's body and spirit in a stasis, also enabling breathing in a vacuum, typically used for traveling in spaceships.

It was also a significant prop in role-playing games, able in some scripts to restore health and Sanity Points, but Shiller felt that in this game, it seemed to be the real charm to survive the disaster.

Pike's fleet had indeed been entirely decimated, but from the state of the Captain's Room, the captain was no ordinary person; he was likely a Cultist.

The complex method of opening the room implied that the disaster could likely not invade here, indicating the Captain had anticipated what the fleet faced next.

Or rather, the disaster was deliberately summoned by his design.

Securing his own survival through the disaster, a special room might not suffice; the bottle of wine on his desk was crucial.

Old Sirteck, misled by Jeff, believed that as long as one neither heard, saw, nor felt, they could survive the disaster unscathed, but as long as a person was alive and their brain was functioning, how could one entirely not feel? Even a drunk or anesthetized person couldn't manage that.

But this method might not be entirely wrong; it just required a bit of external assistance, and the golden honey wine could place a person's spirit and body into complete stasis, achieving true avoidance of sensation.

If the Pope was a Cultist like the Captain, the Great Prophet wanting to confront him would require a means to deal with the disaster. He came here likely in search of the golden honey wine that could immunize against spiritual pollution.