Surviving the Game as a Barbarian – 315



Episode 315: Legacy (4)

“Come on everyone have a drink! I’m buying it so don’t think about taking it out! Hahaha!”

As 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? Please save me!! Uh… aren’t you laughing…?”

“It’s not funny at all.”

“Is that so…?”

After giving a straight face to Dumbo who was excitedly pretending to be friendly I got up from my seat.

And then I headed to where Felik Barker was.

“Yeo iron mask!”

“Barker.”

“Haha can I just call you Fel?”

“Okay this is convenient.”

“Would you like a drink?”

“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.

Or rather should I 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 higher batting averages than me.

Well it was something that could not be helped.

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 I guess we won’t have to have a chaser from now on?”

“Well I don’t know. 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.

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“Besides I don’t know about the others but Sister Lane Wales is quite talented. “If we just keep rolling for a few more years we’ll have a lot of power.”

That’s right I have no intention of releasing it smoothly.

‘Ugh I can’t let this die right here.’

I quietly ate my food.

In fact Felix Barker was the biggest obstacle to our plans.

Well to be exact the problem was with one essence he possessed.

A grade 4 rare seamerchant.

It is a rare ‘neutral’ monster that can be encountered with an extremely low probability when sailing in the ocean on the 6th floor.

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 hunt monsters and if you overcome extreme odds and drop essence you can obtain a unique active skill called [Unhealthy Contract]…

‘It was only my sister who was currently bound by the contract.’

This [unsound contract] is the problem.

The guy 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…’

I felt somewhat annoyed and asked Felix Barker.

“But how did you obtain the essence of Cimmerchant? “I understand 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 a bit closer now?”

When I shrugged my shoulders and avoided answering the guy who understood it to his liking chuckled and started talking.

“It was when I was still active in the clan on earth. “I was really young back then…”

If you remove unnecessary information and organize it his story can be summarized like this.

During the clan activity 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 was planning to put it on the auction house and 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.

In the process it is said that he could not even sell the purified water contained in the test tube and absorbed it himself….

“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 he stood up and asked for forgiveness Felix Barker smiled sinisterly.

“Have a great time!”

I thought as I looked at that smile.

I hope the day comes to crush this guy’s head as soon as possible.

***

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Tuk.

Arua Raven closed the book she had been reading all night.

And she stretched and got up from her seat.

Then the items she had gathered in a corner of her 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 was truly cruel.

At first he thought there must be some great secret and he searched through various books. But he found out nothing and as the days passed Raven became more and more faced with reality.

Maybe that was who she was.

Emotions once.

No matter how angry and sad you are eventually after time passes you will be able to think rationally.

Bjorn Jandel is dead.

So now these items must be sold and converted into money and the rest must be divided according to what is written in his will.

It’s not like looking through books until late at night.

That’s exactly what I have to do.

However the more Raven thought about it the more she felt an inexplicable sense of self-destruction.

That was why he had been 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 the same world as before.

But what about yourself?

“ha….”

Not long ago I started eating it for every meal.

I was worried that my body would break down like this.

Searching through books to find secrets is no longer as desperate as before.

Well I don’t think anything will change.

Where is that?

I drink tea and when seniors from my school talk to me I force myself to smile and talk.

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 not that I didn’t like that person…’

She also liked Bjorn.

Although she was not seen as a person of the opposite sex she was most liked as a person.

She taught me a lot and was fun to be around.

This may be the first time after ‘that woman’ that I have had this much emotional impact.

But just like that she was recovering.

She felt guilty about herself and the fact that she was recovering.

“…Let’s get this sorted out first. “You can sell it later…”

Raven muttered something to herself as if she were repeating it to herself and then started organizing Bjorn Yandel’s belongings in earnest.

First he appraised the equipment and put it up with an amount that matched the market price and then he organized the items in the space.

Then there was one thing that caught my eye.

“uh? This is definitely…”

golden mask.

This is the same item that can be obtained from the first floor crack ‘Blood Fortress’ but the exact method of obtaining it has been erased from her crack log due to weathering.

“How could Mr. Yandel…?”

At one point she suspected that Yandel had her crack gun seeing as he had used the ‘Tears of the Goddess’ to slay her vampires.

However after taking the warrior’s oath and being told that it really was just an accident she put her doubts aside.

But what on earth is this?

“…Could it have been a lie?”

Maybe he had or had 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.

‘What another useless thought….’

Raven chuckled and continued organizing his backpack.

It was then.

“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 voices began to flow.

[Why are you worrying so much? They are NPCs anyway.]

[But still my colleague so far—]

[You’re laughing. Do you think they would think that way even if they knew your identity?]

It’s not Bjorn Yandel’s voice.

So who are these two people having a conversation with?

The answer came quickly.

[It was really Hans who thought your colleagues were friends. And as you know the real Hans is no longer in this world.]

[but······. I think of them as 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 right?

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Raven channeled magic power into his magic tool and figured out its circuit structure. It was an easy task for her as she specialized in horse engineering.

She said ‘It’s just two presses in a row and one long press.’

Although she figured out how to reset her she did not regain her magic power and continued to learn the circuit structure.

The structure was unusual so I wanted to take a closer look.

It was a car that went even further and read her remaining magical power.

‘Is there a maximum number of times a recording can be played? Did you 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 of her magic into it and looked through it.

And I checked her 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.

“Why on earth does Mr. Yandel have this conversation so much…?”

I couldn’t figure it out.

But Raven instinctively sensed something was wrong.

It was that moment.

dripping.

Someone knocked on the laboratory door.

Raven stopped what she was doing and opened the door.

A completely unexpected person was standing in front of me.

“Mr. Misha…?”

“Yeah… can I come in…?”

“Oh yes! Of course. Come in! “I need to clean up the area for a moment…”

“You don’t have to worry that much.”

“Yes… But what happened here all of a sudden…”

Raven who was taken aback by the sudden visit asked his tail trailing off.

“There is something I must tell you….”

I felt something ominous.

***

“Are you drinking again?”

“Oh since I don’t have anything else to do….”

Back at her quarters Amelia glanced at me as she hung her coat on her hanger.

Noticing that.

How boring it would be to be here alone.

“Did you receive the settlement successfully?”

Amelia chuckled at my question.

“Are you afraid I won’t be able to calculate that properly?”

“That’s not true but you never know. “They might have been playing a prank behind my back…”

“Don’t worry. Because we made sure we got our share. “I don’t know what this means.”

“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 happened…”

“Nothing is changing right now. I keep trying. At least until a better way comes up.”

“okay….”

Two weeks have already passed since she 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 if I’m good at something I think I’ll get noticed….’

As the feeling of discomfort continued I looked forward to midnight on the 15th.

I was hoping that if I met Auril Gavis again and got information from other members I might be able to get some good ideas.

“Today right?”

“Two hours to be exact.”

In response to my answer Amelia nodded her head and then she went in to wash up and after coming out she was bored and just chatted.

So before long the time came.

[23:59]

There are 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 right away.

Tick tick tick….

The sound of the second hand continued in the silence.

“…Could it be that you’ve already been there?”

Amelia looked at me and expressed her doubts but I just stared blankly at the clock.

Tick tick tick….

Why don’t you have it?