Surviving the Game as a Barbarian – 237



Episode 237: Awl (2)

The energy to kill.

The intention to kill someone.

Usually it’s just a creepy ending but in this world of imagination the effect is amplified dozens of times.

Since it is not transmitted through the physical body in severe cases the spiritual body may be severely shocked and permanent aftereffects may occur in reality.

‘Mental pollution.’

Players named this phenomenon that way.

When this condition is reached the subject may permanently develop language impairment such as stuttering and in severe cases the person’s mind may collapse and become divided.

Therefore…

“It’s like a bug.”

I stare at the clown with even more suspicion.

The clown asked even though he was drooling.

“Why…”

The reason is simple.

The clown is a necromancer.

It will take a year to recover the summons lost in this battle and they cannot come out to the city and harm me until Noark’s barrier is lifted.

but….

‘Orculis.’

The group that the dragon slayer who killed Dwalki belongs to.

In the end this guy is an enemy that must be defeated someday.

If it can be done in advance it would of course be reasonable to do so.

“…Ugh!”

The release of deadly force continued for a long time causing a sharp pain in the back of the head. Since it was a technique that used mental power as a cost it was something that could not be helped.

I’ll probably just have to sleep all day tomorrow.

Well I might end up sleeping for two days.

But the more it happened the more pressure increased.

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It’s clear that this bastard considers ‘Bjorn Yandel’ his enemy by now and is plotting revenge.

‘It’s best to screw it up here.’

This guy is more dangerous than the dragon slayer.

Unlike the guy who lost his memory he has clear hostility towards ‘Bjorn Yandel’.

If he can’t kill me this time he’ll kill me someday.

It will hurt my colleagues.

“…!”

A life that has become so intense that not only the clown but all members here can feel it with their own skin.

‘Shit.’

As the words went on a painful feeling suddenly arose in my brain.

It was something he had experienced before.

All of the mental strength needed to use it to kill has been used up.

“Stop that. please….”

I thought I could do just a little more.

Even though I feel regretful I struggle to survive until the end.

How many more seconds could I have held on like that?

“…Huh!”

The clown took a deep breath like a person coming out of the water.

Then he coughed and vomited gastric juice.

“Kek keheek ugh…!”

Although I was a clown with a miserable appearance I was not in a good condition.

The feeling that I could pass out just by closing my eyes.

“Why… why on earth….”

The clown must have come to his senses and with difficulty stands up and looks into my eyes.

His breathing is a little rough but he doesn’t seem to have any problems with his speech function.

That’s right it doesn’t even come close to mental contamination.

‘After all it happens like this….’

It was an expected result.

Even when I spewed out murderous energy at the fox the other day my mental power ran out before I got to that point.

A clown who had killed countless people was likely to have a stronger mental barrier than a fox.

‘Well just by looking at my life I feel like I’m a lot stronger than before but it still doesn’t work.’

Even though I felt bitter I observed the clown’s eyes carefully.

In my trembling pupils I felt more doubt than resentment. The fear that blooms there because I don’t know the reason for my actions.

“….”

I kept staring at the trembling clown.

So what do we do now?

There were no such worries at all.

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There must be some reason to understand that the first bread that I tried so hard to hit ended up failing?

It’s a useless worry.

That’s because I’m a investigator not Bjorn Yandel.

“Is it only this much?”

Life mode does not end due to mental exhaustion.

I felt sorry for him so I finished it off.

He has self-hypnotized himself like that and now turns his back indifferently as if he is not interested.

and….

“Tsk.”

He spits it out as if he is annoyed.

“If the rumors were true I thought it might be of some use.”

As if he had just tried it out.

***

The plan to kill the clown failed.

But I didn’t have much regrets.

Even in this case there are advantages unique to this case.

Hasn’t there been a saying since ancient times that you should keep your enemies as close as possible?

‘I guess I’ll just have to suck it up from now on.’

The clown is an executive of the criminal group Orculis.

Since we have Noark as our base if we use it well we will continue to receive useful high-quality information.

“Hey… are you okay?”

The queen who was watching the situation with bated breath carefully approached the clown and held out her hand.

But did it hurt her pride?

fault.

The clown slapped her hand away as if to vent his anger grabbed her chair and stood up on his own feet and sat down.

And then he saw me.

He behaved indecently in front of other members but it seemed like it was okay.

Just keep your eyes fixed on me.

I spit out words whose meaning I don’t know.

“…Investigator are you by any chance ‘he’?”

huh?

What is ‘he’?

It’s not a character you can’t call by name.

“….”

Since I had absolutely no idea I just kept quiet.

As always I decided that if I continued like this I would be at least halfway there.

In fact after waiting for a while the clown muttered as if gathering his thoughts.

“…No that can’t be possible. You are not him.”

He asked if he knew anything about deer antlers.

“Yes ‘he’ is unable to participate in the rally due to restrictions.”

The queen who was watching with interest also opened her mouth as if there was no need to hold back on her words.

“…The standard here is higher than I thought? yes. He can never be here. “This chat room doesn’t open until three o’clock.”

I can’t do it because it’s three o’clock…?

Wait a minute this sounds like something I’m talking about.

‘…Are you sure you mean Lee Baek-ho?’

Such a hypothesis suddenly occurred to me but there was no way to confirm whether it was true.

This is one of the few drawbacks of an investigator.

Even if you have questions you can never ask first.

Especially if it is low-level information that everyone knows.

There’s Gao the big lion.

‘Anyway I’ll figure this out later.’

It was time to intervene.

Everyone knows it’s not the case anyway so there’s no need to stay still.

I laughed and blurted out.

“Yeah I’m not ‘that guy’.”

As if they find you cute and reward you for working hard.

‘That guy’ not ‘him’.

I don’t know who it was but I chose words that implicitly put me and him on the same level.

But was this strategy effective?

“What are you…”

Even though he got hit and ended up like that the clown looks at me with a shocked look in his eyes.

There was not the slightest hint of resentment.

He probably didn’t have any intention of being hostile.

“Are you curious about who I am?”

At my question the clown swallowed his saliva and nodded his head. However I immediately flinched probably because I had done it without realizing it.

Oh but there was no need to correct the answer.

After being beaten once I think I really became curious about who I am…

I slightly shrugged.

A gesture that everyone will recognize except for the new member the queen.

“…What does that mean?”

The jester answered the queen’s question like a subordinate.

“What I’m saying is that if you bring interesting information I can tell you about it.”

“Oh by the way that was the concept of this secret chat room right?”

“Yes that’s right. So who is the ‘he’ everyone was talking about earlier?”

The goblin asked quietly but the queen ignored it as if she hadn’t heard her.

It was then.

“Are you serious when you say you’ll reveal your identity…?”

The clown asked blankly and I didn’t bother to answer.

I just stared at the clown.

Even if it’s something related to my personal life there’s nothing I can’t tell you if it makes me ‘fun’.

As if even that situation would be fun for me.

“I’ve been watching you for months but I just can’t understand it.”

She said that the deer antlers were tired of looking at me.

“I don’t know how long you’ve been in this world but even though you’re broken you’re still broken. “If that’s the case you won’t be able to live a proper life when you go back.”

He was a sweeter man than I thought worrying about other people’s lives.

But that is that and this is this.

When he didn’t even listen or look at him the deer antler bit his mouth tightly as if it was angry.

It was then that the queen stepped forward.

“Anyway this is kind of interesting. If I bring you the information will I be able to hear your identity? “I was a little curious too.”

“As long as you make me have fun.”

The queen smiled at my answer.

“Look forward to it. Even so I know quite a few interesting stories. Hehehe.”

Hmm now that you say that I’m a little excited.

This woman is also unknown.

She said ‘If you came into this country unlike me I think you came here on the recommendation of a master….’

At first I didn’t pay much attention because I was busy educating the clown but I think I’ll have to pay closer attention in the future.

“Well then how about we get started soon…?”

No one opens their mouth and there is natural silence. Soon the goblin opened her mouth first and the confusing situation was somewhat resolved.

“Well the door was already closed a long time ago so it can’t continue like this forever. In the end Crescent Moon did not attend until the end.”

“The fact that you didn’t come at this time means that you couldn’t avoid disaster.”

As expected everyone seems to think that Crescent Moon did not survive this incident.

Hmm he was the most active out of all of them.

“So who will go first this time?”

Normally the fox would have taken the role of emcee and led the meeting but due to the strange situation the goblin took the lead.

“I will do it later. “It’s my first time so I think I’ll need some time to get used to it.”

“Please do so. “Then who will do it?”

“If no one is there I will do it first.”

The first turn in the meeting was her antlers.

“Since we mentioned ‘him’ earlier let’s leave it at this. “He was released into the world five days ago.”

“yes? “You mean him…?”

The clown was surprised as if he had never heard of this story.

“Hey… to be fair shouldn’t you first tell me who ‘he’ is…”

The goblin was wondering what this was but the fox’s eyes didn’t change.

Did you even listen properly in the first place?

Huh.

Anyway the jewel on the round table gave off a green light.

This means that the above information is true and that more than half of the people in this room did not know about this information.

“But I don’t understand. “Is it okay to release such valuable information like this?”

He answered the clown’s question as if the deer antlers were not a big deal.

“Anyway most people who know will know in a week. “I have to write it like this.”

“Then can I try next time?”

The Queen slightly raised her hand.

Originally the national rule was to go clockwise from the beginning but everyone agreed and allowed it.

That’s what I’m curious about.

What kind of information will this woman spit out?

“Hehe this is my first time in a place like this so I’m a little nervous.”

Despite that his voice wasn’t tense at all.

The queen met each person’s eyes as if enjoying her attention and slowly opened her mouth.

“He is in the magic tower now.”

His current location information.

‘Huh this again?’

Since I wasn’t sure who ‘he’ was in the first place I wasn’t particularly impressed when I heard it.

But were these two different?

The moment the Queen spit out the information Jester and Antler’s eyes turned to the center of the round table.

A place where there are gems that can determine authenticity.

“It’s the truth….”

“Don’t you suddenly become interested in the place you went to as soon as you came into the world the Magic Tower?”

If I get a chance later I think I’ll have to find out who ‘he’ is. If they are like this they really seem like great people.

‘…If it’s really Lee Baek-ho what on earth is he doing?’

While I was thinking about something else I felt eyes on me from somewhere.

She was where the queen sat.

I don’t know when she started but she was staring at me.

“Investigator aren’t you surprised to hear this? “As if I knew.”

Oh does that happen?

I just didn’t know who he was so it didn’t really matter where he was.

“I guess there are people in the Magic Tower too?”

“Well maybe so.”

The queen looked at me secretly and I just ignored it as if it was a cute trick.

“Next time… I’ll do it.”

From then on her turn was a fox.

The fox who had nothing to say even after the rally began was judged to have failed three times in a row.

The first two were up-to-date information but everyone knew it and the third was judged by everyone to be less useful information.

“It’s a bit surprising that the master of the Elcapad Clan was a player. But this seems so useless doesn’t it? “I think he died as soon as he crossed the portal this time.”

“…Value is relative. For example neither I nor Mr. Goblin even know who ‘he’ is. “It was a useless story.”

The fox’s logic made some sense but this was in front of a round table ruled by majority rule.

“But didn’t you find out that there are people like that in the world? Fishit.”

“…are you all of the same opinion?”

Everyone was silent at her question and that silence became the best answer of all.

In the end the fox had to make a fourth try.

“The Master of the Tavern Clan has Number Nine.”

Information about single number items.

“The clan master of Tavern….”

“It’s like putting a pearl necklace around a pig’s neck. Fishit.”

Soon the round table’s gem gave off a green light and of course this time no one had any disagreement.

Because single numbers have that much value.

To be honest I feel like I’ve finally released the information I’ve been saving.

“I’ll do it this time.”

Next was the goblin.

As a former Holy Knight he once again revealed information related to religion.

“In the end all denominations decided to withdraw their support for the royal family. “In a few days we will probably be back together like before.”

Since it was information that could not have been known to anyone other than a key figure in the religious field of course the decision was made to pass immediately.

“Fishit then it’s my turn.”

As soon as it was his turn the clown made a shocked declaration as if he had been waiting.

“I live in Noark.”

What the hell is this guy?

Did you get a problem with your head after being beaten so hard?

***

Information that reveals your personal information.

Everyone including me was shocked by that incomprehensible behavior.

“…!”

Oh to be exact everyone except the queen.

“Noarkrani Clown you are a very funny person!”

The queen talks to the clown in an innocent voice.

However her clown gaze was fixed on me and showed no sign of leaving.

I don’t know why but it reminded me of a demon hunter.

At that time that guy threw the bait and looked at my expression like that.

‘Are you really trying to figure out how much information I have?’

Suddenly a thought occurred to me.

So I also looked closely at the clown’s eyes.

There seemed to be a sense of relief somewhere.

“Seeing how surprised you are I guess you don’t know who I am? Fishit.”

What a crazy guy.

“Mr. Crescent Moon said that Mr. Suja seems to know our identities. “I don’t think that’s true either.”

It’s a kind of interrogation.

I know the investigator is a great guy but to what extent is he really?

Is he only a personal force?

Or is he an absolute person with enormous power and information?

“How do you think this was fun?”

In addition it can be seen as an efficient move since you can get an additional fun stack.

but….

“surely.”

I smiled and answered.

“It was a fun move.”

At that moment the green light on the jewel turned off indicating that its turn had passed.

Now it’s my turn I’ve been waiting for.

The information to be spit out was already decided.

“Clowns are corpse collectors.”

Where are you fooling around?