Surviving as a Barbarian in the Game - Episode 315
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“Come on, everyone, have a drink! I'm buying it, so don't think about taking it out! Hahahaha!”
After time passed and the labyrinth was closed, Amelia and I participated in the after-party. The location was the tavern run by Sister Lane Wales' adoptive father..
“Haha! Iron mask! Do you remember what he said back then while his intestines were spilling out? Save me! uh… Don't laugh……?”
“It's not funny at all.”
“Yeah, I guess so.……?”
I got excited and gave Dumbo a straight face, who was pretending to be friendly, and then got up..
And headed to where Felik Barker was..
“W, iron mask!”
“barker.”
“Haha, feel free to call me Fel.?”
“Okay, this is convenient..”
“Would you like a drink??”
“It's good.”
Soon, I sat down next to him and drank, and he started talking to me non-stop..
Most of the content was my official history..
The Fashion Barbarian strategy worked as expected..
No, I should say that it exceeded my expectations.?
When I heard the story, it was said that the 'warriors' who received training from me and were distributed to each team had a higher batting average than me..
Well, it was inevitable..
As my nickname “Iron Mask” meant, I always covered my face with a helmet. The one with the face covered was bound to look less suspicious..
“This is innovation! Somehow, I found it much easier to believe it than when I used a child as a trickster.!”
“Then there will be no need for a chaser from now on.?”
“Well, well. I think it's still too early. I don't know how long this method will work..”
I tried to throw them away just in case, but the clan leader had no intention of letting these sisters go..
There is an eye to see.
“Besides, I don't know about the others, but Sister Lane Wales is quite talented. Just give it a few more years and you'll be good to go.”
Yeah, I have no intention of releasing it nicely..
‘Ugh, I can't just throw this away here..’
I quietly ate my food..
In fact, Felix Barker was the biggest obstacle to our plans..
Well, to be exact, the problem was the one essence he possessed..
4Grade Rare Cimmerchant.
6It is a rare type of 'neutral' monster that can be encountered with an extremely low probability when sailing in the ocean..
In most cases, it will not attack first, and when you meet it, if you pour a certain amount of magic stones into the sea where it swims, it will give you the highest quality equipment material called bluestone as compensation..
Of course, you can also hunt monsters, and if you overcome extreme odds and drop essence, you can obtain a unique active skill called [Unhealthy Contract].…….
‘My sister was the only one currently bound by the contract..’
This [unsound contract] is the problem..
He has made a vicious contract, and this contract must be released in order to save Laura..
‘Ha, how did this precious essence end up in the hands of this guy?…….’
Feeling somewhat annoyed, I asked Felix Barker:.
“But how did you obtain the essence of Cimmerchant? I know that it is a very precious essence..”
“Oh, that? But why are you suddenly asking that??”
“I was originally curious. I just couldn't ask because we weren't close before..”
“Hahaha! So you're saying we're friends now??”
When I shrugged my shoulders and avoided answering, the guy who figured it out chuckled and started talking..
“This was when I was still active in the clan on earth. I was really young back then too.…….”
If you remove unnecessary information and organize it, his story can be summarized like this..
During clan activities, Essence was dropped by Cimmerchant, but he was obsessed with money and stole the test tube containing the essence..
“As time passed and things calmed down, I planned to put it on the auction house and try to make a quick buck. I thought that if I did well, I could live my whole life without worrying about money.!”
However, Felix Barker's crime, which was running a hopeful circuit, was soon discovered..
Therefore, he fled to Noark..
It is said that in the process, the purified water contained in the test tube could not be sold and was absorbed directly.…….
“Bjorn.”
When the conversation reached that point, Amelia came up next to me..
“Oh, Emily…….”
“I'm thinking of going back soon.”
“okay? I will wake up first.”
As I stood up and asked for understanding, Felix Barker smiled sinisterly..
“Hehehe, have a good time.!”
Looking at that smile, I thought.
I hope the day comes when I can break this guy's head off as soon as possible..
***
Tuk.
Arua Raven closed the book she had been reading all night..
And then I stood up and stretched..
Then, the items gathered in a corner of the lab caught my eye..
These were Bjorn Yandel's belongings..
“now… I guess I'll have to deal with this too…….”
Raven let out a long sigh..
Time is truly cruel.
At first, I looked through various books, thinking there must be some big secret. But nothing was found, and as the days passed, Raven became more and more faced with reality..
Maybe that was her essence.
Emotions were once.
No matter how angry and sad I am, in the end, after time passes, I find myself thinking rationally..
Bjorn Jandel is dead.
So now, these items should be sold and converted into money, and the rest should be divided according to what is written in his will..
Instead of looking through books until late at night,.
that's what i have to do.
However, the more Raven thought about it, the more she felt an inexplicable sense of self-destruction..
That's why I was reading the book just now.
With the death of Bjorn Yandel, Misha and Erwen's world changed. Those two will never be able to live in a world like before..
But what about yourself??
“ha…….”
Recently, I started eating it for every meal..
I'm worried that my body will break down like this.
Searching through books to find secrets isn't as desperate as it used to be..
Yeah, I don't think anything will change.
Where is that??
I drink black tea, and when seniors from my school talk to me, I force myself to smile and chat..
And Raven knew.
If this time continues, eventually you will return to your normal daily life..
She was like a match that could get hot but not burn for long..
‘It's me... It's not that he didn't like that person.…….’
She also liked Bjorn.
Although I didn't see it with the opposite sex, I felt the most human affection for it..
I learned a lot and it was fun to be together..
This may be the first time after 'that woman' that I have been affected so much emotionally..
But just like that, she was recovering.
And I felt guilty about the fact that I was recovering..
“……Let's get this sorted out first. You can sell it later…….”
Raven muttered to herself as if she were repeating the words to herself, and then began organizing Bjorn Yandel's belongings in earnest..
First, I appraised the equipment and put it up with an amount that matched the market price, and then I organized the items in the sub-space..
Then there was one thing that caught my eye..
“uh? This is definitely…….”
golden mask.
1It is an item that can be obtained from the 'Blood Fortress', a floor crack, but the exact method of obtaining it has been erased from her crack summary due to weathering..
“How did Mr. Yandel do this?……?”
At one point, she suspected that Yandel had a crack log after seeing that he used 'the tears of the goddess' to kill a vampire..
However, after taking the warrior's oath and hearing that it was truly a coincidence, I gave up my doubts..
But what on earth is this?.
“……Was it really a lie??”
Maybe he has or has read a compendium of cracks..
That's what I was thinking about.
I remembered that my teacher once suspected him of being an evil spirit..
‘Hey, what kind of useless thoughts are you having?…….’
Raven smiled and continued organizing her backpack..
It was that time.
“What is this??”
Raven discovered a magic tool whose purpose is unknown..
Looking at the technique, it seems to be a magic tool that combines 'conduction' and 'recording'.…….
Click.
Raven pressed the groove at the bottom..
Then a voice began to flow..
[What are you so worried about? They're NPCs anyway..]
[But still, a colleague who has been with me until now.—]
[It's funny. Do you think they would think that way even if they knew who you were??]
It's not Bjorn Yandel's voice..
So who are these two people talking to??
The answer came quickly.
[The person your colleagues thought of as a friend was really Hans. And you see, the real Hans is no longer in this world..]
[but······. I consider them my real colleagues.]
It was a conversation between Hans Krysen and a dwarf from Noark who met in the Doppelganger Forest..
This was my weakness and all at that time..
I never thought I still have this.
Anyway, if I want to sell it later, I'll have to reset it.?
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Raven channeled magical power into the magic tool and figured out its circuit structure. It was an easy task for her as she specialized in horse engineering..
‘You just have to press it twice in a row and then press and hold it once..’
Although she found the desired reset method, she did not recover her magic power and continued to learn the circuit structure..
The structure is unusual, so I wanted to look into it a little more..
It was a car that went even further and read the remaining horsepower..
‘Is there a maximum number of times a recording can be played back? Did they use a cheap core??’
Raven's hand twitched..
“uh?”
The magic tool could play back a single recording up to 100 times, and was automatically reset when the limit was exceeded..
however…….
‘Now there are two left?’
The number of recorded plays was a bit strange..
Feeling uncomfortable that it was just a simple error, she poured more magic into it and looked closely..
And I checked the playback history.
“what…….”
Except for two of the replay records, the rest were after leaving the doppelganger forest. To put it simply, it means that it was Bjorn Yandel who played the remaining 96 episodes..
“Mr. Yandel, why on earth do you have this conversation so much?…….”
I couldn't figure it out.
But Raven instinctively sensed something was wrong..
It was that moment.
smart.
Someone knocked on the laboratory door.
Raven stopped what she was doing and opened the door..
A completely unexpected person stood in front of me..
“Mr. Misha……?”
“huh… Can I come in?……?”
“Ah yes! Sure. Come on in! Wait a minute, I need to clean up the area.…….”
“You don't have to worry that much..”
“yes… But suddenly, what happened here?…….”
Raven, who was flustered by the sudden visit, asked with her tongue trailing off..
“There's something I need to say to you…….”
I felt something ominous.
***
“Is it alcohol again??”
“Ah, since I have nothing else to do…….”
Amelia returned to the dorm and glanced at me as she hung her coat on the hanger..
Well, noticing.
How boring it is to be here alone.
“I received the payment well.?”
Amelia chuckled at my question..
“I'm afraid I can't even calculate that properly.?”
“That's not true, you never know. They might have been playing around behind my back.…….”
“Don't worry. Because we made sure we got our share. Well, does this have any meaning?.”
“That's right…….”
Our purpose is not money.
It's hard to see it as completely meaningless, but money only becomes meaningful after saving Laura and finding a way to return to the original timeline..
“So what are you going to do next? After talking with him, it seemed like it would be difficult to terminate the contract and get out before the incident occurred.…….”
“Nothing changes right now. I keep trying. At least until a better way comes along..”
“okay…….”
Two weeks have already passed since I returned to Noark..
And during that time, we talked and discussed the whole time..
How can we save Laura?.
Even after several days of conversation, we were unable to find a suitable answer..
‘Ha, I think if I do something well, I'll get noticed.…….’
As the stuffiness continued, I looked forward to midnight on the 15th..
I was hoping that by meeting Auril Gavis again and getting information from other members, I might be able to get some good ideas..
“Today?”
“Exactly two hours later.”
Amelia nodded at my answer and went in to take a shower. After coming out, she was bored and just chatted..
And soon the time came.
[23 : 59]
10 seconds left until midnight.
I closed my eyes and focused on the sound of the second hand..
Tick, tick, tick…….
Before long, the sound of the tenth second hand was heard..
and…….
“…what.”
I opened my eyes immediately.
Tick, tick, tick…….
The sound of the second hand continued in the silence..
“……Could it be that they have already been there??”
Amelia looked at me with a question in mind, but I just stared blankly at the clock..
Tick, tick, tick…….
What, why don't you have it?.
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