Surviving the Game as a Barbarian – 318



Episode 318: Memory (3)

“Holy shit!”

As soon as I opened my eyes I straightened up.

It was cloudy in front of me and I could smell an acrid scent through my nose.

And it was especially noisy outside the window.

“Those on the streets will be considered traitors. Everyone get inside the building!”

Intimidating shouts coming from everywhere.

“Aaaah!”

Occasionally there would be a scream and a ‘Kwaaaaang!’ from afar. Every time a loud noise erupted a slight vibration was transmitted through the bed.

What kind of situation is this?

Information is needed.

thus….

plod trudge.

I forced my weak body to move towards the window. The moment I opened the window wide black smoke came in and a dry cough came out.

“Kolok kolok.”

While coughing I glanced out the window.

Soldiers were roaming the smoke-filled streets controlling the citizens.

and….

‘There’s a real fire.’

A city engulfed in fire came into view in the distance.

It was the eastern region which was also the home of Orculis.

Although it is quite far from the current location it is an underground city with poor ventilation so when a large fire broke out the entire city was filled with smoke…

Quang! Kwaaang-!

Looking at the artificial roar that erupts intermittently it does not appear to be a simple fire.

“It’s going to turn… What the hell is going on?”

I pressed my hand to my throbbing head.

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I feel like my head is spinning several times slower than usual. Maybe it was the remnants of the poison Amelia had fed me.

‘Yes I took poison…’

I suddenly came to my senses and a panorama of what happened before I lost consciousness came to mind.

‘What on earth is he thinking? ‘Where have you disappeared to now?’

I don’t know.

But the more I did the more I focused on one thing.

It was the same as the day I first woke up in this body.

Putting everything aside what should I do right now?

The answer came quickly.

“drawer.”

Amelia told me to open the drawer.

Perhaps therein lies the explanation for this situation.

I closed the window and headed to the side of the bed.

Thankfully only a note with a few lines was left in the already open drawer of the nightstand.

“under….”

The note started with a short apology saying that I was sorry.

It didn’t take long to read the whole thing and as soon as I finished I tore the note to shreds.

Even then the anger did not go away.

‘I never thought D-Day was today.’

Amelia tricked me.

It wasn’t written in the note but the reason was obvious.

The purpose was probably to prevent me from interfering with the past any further. Then it may have been a judgment that the future might change.

‘I didn’t know that Hay would be a character who behaved unexpectedly like this…’

The back of my head felt tingly but I tried to calm myself down and check the time.

[04:31]

Four thirty in the morning.

It was a little after 10pm when Amelia and I had her drink so she had been asleep for about 6 hours.

‘Now then what should we do….’

I closed my eyes for a moment and gathered my thoughts.

The note left behind by Amelia said that she would do the rest on her own and that when she woke up she should go back and find the record fragment stone.

Looking at the state of the city it certainly wouldn’t be difficult to infiltrate the Yeongju castle.

but….

‘You’re laughing. Then what do you mean you’re going to stay here alone?’

I also don’t like this method.

However contrary to those feelings I also have this thought.

What happens if I really don’t do anything?

So will the future change in some way?

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“…That’s it let’s just get out of here for now.”

I ended my worries there.

And I quickly put on my gear.

Since time is running out I decided it would be enough to think about the rest while I was moving.

I’m sorry.

I quickly headed to Yeongju Castle.

***

Acrid smoke.

And after passing through the soldiers who were busy controlling the civilians on the streets I soon arrived at Yeongju Castle.

However the castle gate which was already tightly closed could not be opened even by the forces of the castle lord.

“The lord of the castle gave instructions not to allow anyone inside. And when was the order to convene in the first place and has it arrived now?”

“…I was sleeping.”

“Then please move to the eastern region now. “I checked and found out that the clan you belong to has already gone on a campaign a long time ago.”

Ha bother.

“I get it. Good luck.”

Without any hesitation I turned my back and walked out of the castle gate.

Just because the door is closed doesn’t mean there’s no way to get in anyway.

Barbarians don’t ask for permission.

‘There’s smoke and you won’t be able to see it like this.’

After moving along the castle wall for a while I made sure that there was no one around so I [jumped] high and jumped over the castle wall.

But unfortunately there was a person just beyond it.

“Who are you?”

A soldier is scared when he sees a blade falling from the sky while on patrol.

Wow!

I quickly quieted the crowd before it became noisy and ran towards the inner room.

Just as Amelia said that on the day of the wedding it would be like an empty house there were no people in the castle that could pose a threat.

Just patrolling soldiers.

By now the cores are probably fighting against the forces in the eastern region occupied by Orculis.

“It’s the enemy!”

Wow!

“The enemy has invaded!”

Wow!

Thanks to this I quickly skipped this section.

But the problem started with tolerance.

Kwaaang-!

The moment I broke down the door of the inner room and entered the first floor alone explorers with vicious expressions surrounded me.

‘Okay no matter how empty the house is this much is left behind right?’

An elite military unit awarded the title of knight.

Thanks to the countless times I visited Yeongju Castle over the past few months I knew some of them.

“…Why are you here? “Not in the eastern region where the fighting is taking place?”

“Oh I have something to talk about with my lord.”

“I never would have guessed that you were Orculis’s henchman.”

A gangster whose name I can’t quite remember glared at me with eyes full of anger as if he had been betrayed by a trusted colleague.

I didn’t feel any remorse at all.

Not only am I not Orculis’ liaison…

In the first place I never thought of these guys as colleagues.

“Okay go for it.”

“I don’t know why you crawled all the way here alone but this is your—”

What can I say at most they are level 5 idiots.

I keep telling you to attack me.

If you don’t come I’ll go.

Kwaang-!

Without wasting time with meaningless conversation I immediately activated [Giantization] and [leap] into the middle of their formation.

and….

“Behel—laaaaa!!”

Thanks to [Giantization] the already monster-sized hammer was made about three times larger by combining [Transcendence] and [Swing]—

Huuuuung-!

It spun like a top and swung the hammer.

It’s called Whirlwind.

It’s taken from the game I liked the most before I got into [Dungeon & Stone]…

The special feature is that you can enjoy a cool hitting sensation and sound while the body rotates.

Just like this.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The glass bodies burst like balloons the moment they were hit by the hammer and some of the hard bodies flew straight into the wall.

It was an expected result.

Because the hammer I’m holding right now is not a normal weapon.

‘Obviously I raised him to be a tank but somehow he’s now set up to do better damage than a tank.’

No.87 Crowl’s Demon Crusher.

A double number item with the option to increase damage by 500% when using blunt weapon skills.

Simply put just holding this weapon increases the power of [Swing] a level 3 skill by five times.

But there can be someone who can endure this.

Oh of course there is no point in avoiding it.

“What on earth is this….”

As soon as I swung the hammer the people who had escaped the anger by falling flat on the floor looked up at me with dumbfounded faces.

Among them there was one who came to his senses and fought back.

arrow.

fire.

lightning.

ax.

I chuckled after checking their weapons.

‘How is it that no one uses a sword?’

This is the funny thing about Noark.

Just because you’re a knight doesn’t mean you know how to use Aurors.

A true knight who has been recognized for his loyalty and received a title and is even capable of using an Auror is probably one in a hundred or so.

‘As expected all those kids were taken to the front lines.’

From then on the battle unfolded by striking each person manually with a hammer.

Even the warriors whose bodies were covered in heavy armor couldn’t come to their senses right away and lay down on the floor after the 50% armor penetration option was activated with ‘slash down’.

Did about 5 minutes pass like that?

The battle ended with the remaining few fleeing.

I didn’t necessarily follow him to catch him and skipped rooting.

Not only do I not have time for that but…

I had been piling up loot in the subspace ring for several months and now there is no space left.

‘…Ha I have to take this hammer back with me somehow.’

Even with that thought in mind I hurriedly resumed my movement.

The destination is not the upper floor where the lord’s study or office is but the underground shelter that Amelia told me about.

Ta-da-da-da-da.

I barely found the stairs leading down to the basement and almost ran down them before stopping.

It was because someone was coming up from below.

“I was wondering what the commotion was up above….”

Coincidentally it was someone I had met once before.

A knight who came to recruit us under the lord’s instructions.

So the name is…

“Iron Mask why are you here?”

Rick Omanus.

He looked at me and drew his sword.

***

I accidentally took a wrong turn.

There was no time to make such an excuse.

Huh!

His judgment was so quick that upon seeing me he imbued his sword with aura and was ready to enter battle at any time.

The next attempt was to start a conversation.

“Answer me Iron Mask. the reason you are here And even more so how you knew about this place.”

To answer your question Amelia told us.

No one may know about the underground shelter now but that won’t be the case in the future.

“Are you saying you won’t answer?”

At those words my heart started beating violently.

Exciting-

‘Knight’ is no different from a counter to tanks.

Tanks are strong but slow but Aurors ignore defense. Tanks also have low damage making it difficult to inflict damage to knights.

You can tell just by looking at the battle with the knight-turned-marauder with the nickname ‘Snake Knight’ that you met in the Crystal Cave.

His arms were cut off like tofu.

All I did was take advantage of that gap and pounce on it clinging to it like a cicada.

The main factor in the victory was Raven’s magic.

Exciting-!

Even now the situation is completely different from then.

A one-on-one structure with no teammates.

I haven’t even touched on the Aura preparation settings yet.

but….

Exciting-!

The heart rate becomes shorter and the hand holding the weapon becomes stronger.

It was not a physical change caused by fear.

It’s natural for this level of tension to arise before a battle.

“So you’re saying you won’t answer?”

“….”

“Let’s cut your arm first.”

Soon Rick Omanus took the lead.

I answered.

“Do it if you can.”

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