Surviving as a Barbarian in the Game - Episode 533
533Tue Escape Plan (6)
Exciting-!
While my heart beats hard, my head goes cold and sinks..
‘dead body.’
It's a human corpse..
And the village chief, who is standing close behind me while showing me these corpses, says:.
These corpses are our town's secret.
Exciting-!
Despite the cold sweat forming down my back, I gathered my thoughts as calmly as possible..
Didn't he show me first that he could just say he didn't want to show it?.
Now that I know the secret, I won't act like I have to disappear..
“what are these corpses?”
“You're a lot calmer than I expected..”
“There must be a reason why you showed it to me.”
Of course, there is a possibility that he deliberately lured me underground with the intention of getting rid of me..
But, I don't think that's the way it feels..
“You're smart. It's as you guessed. I was hoping that if I showed you this place, your misunderstanding would be lessened..”
“Misunderstand…….”
Soon I took a quick look around the basement..
Literally, corpses piled up like a mountain..
There's definitely something suspicious about it..
Should I say the numbers don't match? Even if you kill all the explorers of the Silver Lion Clan, there will never be this number..
“so who are these?”
“I don't know.”
“…what?”
When I looked at this as if this was some kind of trick, the village chief slowly opened his mouth..
“In fact, you are not the first explorers to come to this island. There were people who appeared before that too..”
“But the reason you pretended it was your first time seeing us?”
“Ah, I guess I should talk about that first. I wasn't pretending it was my first time..”
Are you trying to play with words??
I was just about to retort with a frown. The village chief continued..
“You were the first living explorers..”
“What does it mean??”
“That's literally it. The corpses here have been in this condition since I first saw them. His entire body was twisted, and he was dead with his arms and legs connected. And no matter how much time passes, it has not decayed at all. As if time stopped at that moment.”
“In other words, does this mean that all these corpses were picked up during the rainy season??”
“No, it's not. The expression ‘picked up’ is not wrong, but… The fact that they fell from the sky had nothing to do with the rainy season. However, the cycle was very long..”
The village chief bent down, grabbed one of the corpses on the floor by its head, and lifted it up. He looked at the half-rotten head and spoke in an emotionless voice..
“At least ten to fifteen years. Every thirty to forty years at most, these corpses fall from the sky. And I'm guessing it might have something to do with the dimensional collapse..”
“dimension collapse?”
“That's right. The cycle was somewhat similar, and one of the journals obtained from these corpses also contained a story about dimensional collapse..”
Saying that, the village chief took out a notebook from his pocket and handed it to me. And he explained that you only need to read the last chapter.
Anyway, the damage was so bad that the other chapters were difficult to read.?
First, I opened the notebook and read the last page..
[…………The whole world collapses and twists. I think I understand why so many seniors described it as a disaster. This is by no means a disaster.]
[……Mulk is dead. Ilya is dead. Lord Swalky is dead, and so is Mr. Quiriane. And maybe… I probably won’t be able to hold out for long either..]
[……No, I will definitely return alive. Because I have a duty to pass on the words they left behind..]
Someone's exploration diary that ends with words of determination..
I think I understand why the village chief chose dimensional collapse as the cause. The fact that the last record in the notebook was a dimensional collapse was suspicious enough..
Of course, that is that and this is this..
“So why are these bodies gathered in the basement? Why did you keep it a secret from us??”
“This is going to be a long story..”
When the village chief waved his hand, the surrounding monster warriors quickly retreated..
Well, I can’t even speak human language anyway, so why send it to me??
I had doubts, but I didn't address them..
“These corpses meant a lot to me. Through their presence, I was able to see that time passed outside, and I was able to hear what was going on outside through the records that appeared occasionally..”
“however?”
“I started research. I was wondering if I might be able to find some clues that would help me leave this horrible place. But my expectations were always wrong. We tried everything we could, but these corpses were just ordinary corpses. Time just doesn't pass.”
After the last experiment, which was to send these corpses up into the labyrinth and let the world know about their existence, failed, the village chief gave up the research..
Then they collected the bodies and stored them underground..
I was discouraged and gave up right now, but I had a lingering thought that I might be able to use it again someday..
but…….
“In the meantime, you guys came. It was the last hope for me who had given up on everything deep inside..”
“So you decided to hide the story about these corpses??”
“I'm still wary of him because of his monster-like appearance, but I thought I'd misunderstand him if I showed him this. Even if I had to say it someday, I was planning on saying it as carefully as possible..”
But in the end, Amelia broke into this place and saw the real situation, so she had no choice but to decide to tell everything honestly..
To summarize, this is the story.…….
“Was there an answer??”
“well.”
It's not a story that doesn't make sense at all..
However, it cannot be denied that there is something unclear somewhere..
What didn't surprise me when I talked about the outside world.
Knowing that time passes, etc..
If this story is true, it explains many of my questions.…….
‘I feel like it was put together roughly..’
If you think about it, it was like that in any world..
The best way to hide the truth was to tell only a few of them.
From the beginning, the biggest question was not resolved..
“So you're saying you had nothing to do with the disappearance of the Silver Lion Clan??”
“That's right. Why would I hurt them in the first place??”
Write… What should I do now??
It would have been better if he had just hit me in the back and told me I was right and that would have been the end..
Things got a little complicated.
‘You just have to believe this, you shouldn't.?’
I was worried for a moment, but the answer came quickly..
‘I can't believe it.’
There is no one in this world you can trust except your colleagues..
Yeah, I mean…….
‘Okay, end of conclusion..’
What I have to do in the future becomes clearer.
“Since there are things we hid, I will not hold you responsible for your colleague's violation of our village's laws or for your 'mistakes' that resulted from it. What is it like??”
When the village chief said that we should move on happily, I responded with a hearty smile..
No, exactly—.
“Thank goodness. I'm glad the misunderstanding has been resolved..”
“Yes, I'm glad your misunderstanding has been resolved... uh?”
I hit the hammer with a smile..
Powok-!
A strong touch from a hammer stuck between the eyes.
Soon, thick blood flows from the open wound..
In that state, the village chief showed his emotions for the first time..
“………why?”
The emotion was too calm to be anger, but too vivid to be sadness..
I answered while looking at the fish's eyes full of questions..
There were many questionable parts in the story..
I somehow felt like I was wasting time..
If I gave it time, I had a strong intuition that it would eventually hit me hard on the back of the head..
There was no need to even provide such illogical grounds..
Just one sentence was enough.
“Because my eyes are in a bad mood.”
“…………?”
“So I hit him, is there a problem??”
The Barbarian needs no other reason..
***
Is the village chief an enemy or friend?.
If it is an enemy, what kind of plan is it hiding?.
What is true and what is false.
Such worries no longer make sense..
Because the complicated story became much clearer with one hammer blow..
The village chief and I have become irrevocably connected..
So, I'll kill you right here..
If you fail to kill…….
‘Escape this town with your friends.’
A situation that falls so cleanly.
However, the village chief still seemed to not understand and asked me.
“There was no reason for you to take such extreme measures..”
“oh! Did you do that??”
“You care terribly for your colleagues. But it's not like you to put his colleagues in danger like this..”
I'm not sure how much he said that because he saw me, but it wasn't something I would listen to carefully..
So at this point…….
“Behel—laaaaaaa!!!”
He lets out a battle cry and strikes the hammer again in a surprise attack..
Kwaang-!
Unfortunately, the village chief did not panic and pulled out his sword to block the hammer. But was it clear that they did not want any further conversation?.
The village chief muttered in a cold voice..
“Responsibility comes with wrong choices.”
Well, it's not cool at all to say that with a fish head..
Is the patient in need of mirror therapy this time??
I don't know, but I stuck out my snout like a fish and followed suit..
“There's a sticky feeling in the pierced sun..”
For some reason, the response came after some time..
“……He was crazy..”
Well, even if I give you high praise here, I don't think anyone will appreciate it..
Wow-
As I held the hammer with both hands and applied more force, the village chief's sword began to gradually move away..
‘When I saw that they were being pushed in a situation where they had both hands, their strength was lower than mine..’
But did they make similar decisions??
The village chief also ended the struggle, raised his sword at an angle and gently let the hammer go to the side..
Kwaang-!
A hammer slammed into the floor with its mass preserved..
At the same time, the village chief's sword emitted a strong light..
Huh-!
The very same thing that sent Hipramagent to blows before..
It looks similar to an auror, but…….
‘There must be a lot of skills like this in the labyrinth..’
Because of that, I haven't found out what that skill is yet, but it wasn't a big problem right away..
「The character casted [Iron Fortress].」
「[The effect of [Evolved Shell] increases by 1.5 times..」
That's right too.
「Resistance to sword-type weapons is 75%..」
Anyway, it's a sword.?
Kwaaaaang-!
The sword that pierced Hipramagent's head like a tofu was blocked by the shield and bounced off..
The condition of the shield is…….
‘I guess this is just a few scratches.?’
Yes, they say there is nothing as scary as imagination..
After experiencing it myself, it is more worth trying than I thought..
Well, it's not like there's no problem..
Huh-!
His agility level is much higher than mine, and except for the first hit, he misses everything..
「Character casted [Eye of the Storm].」
Even with [Eye of the Storm], which is especially effective in small areas, Tahal remains at 30%..
Powok-!
Even if it did hit, it didn't cause much damage..
‘I think my tolerance is low... It has quite a bit of regenerative power..’
The wounds from the first and largest blow have already completely healed..
Soon I quickly reconsidered my judgment..
‘It is impossible to kill 1:1 here..’
I give up killing the village chief by myself..
So, what I should do next is this.
“Chief, do you know two ways to make people angry??”
First, after distracting people with strange questions,.
“……?”
When I question what I said.
Cheonggrang-!
Throw the Molotov cocktail taken from the subspace bag onto the pile of corpses and break it..
and…….
Grumbling-
Leaving behind the burning fire.
Tadat.
Rush up the stairs with all your might.
“Behel—laaaaaaa!!!”
Perhaps because the soundproofing was quite good, there were no monster warriors on the stairs, and I climbed the stairs, smashing the ceiling so that the village chief could not easily follow me..
Tou doo doo, too doo doo-!
Perhaps because he wasn't very good at architecture, the basement started to collapse on its own like dominoes when he broke it down a bit..
Cooung-!
I just climbed the stairs, hitting my head and shoulders with the stones falling continuously..
And about 30 seconds passed?.
Kwaang-!
Finally I was able to break down the bottom door and get out. In the living room on the first floor, my colleagues and monster warriors were standing in front of each other and waiting for me.…….
“Something must have happened! Come on, we have to go down too.—.”
[I need to make sure the village chief is okay.—.]
The two groups spot me and open their mouths blankly..
The only one who was rational and spoke with an open mouth was Versil..
“uh… Mr. Yandel? What situation is this now?—.”
Well, you can’t tell just by looking at it.?
I destroyed them all, but there was no time to explain because it was clear that the village chief would come up soon..
Yeah, I mean…….
So that anyone, even a three-year-old, can immediately understand the situation clearly..
Kwasik-!
I shouted as I smashed the front of the head of the nearest monster warrior with a hammer..
“I'm escaping this town from now on.!”
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