Surviving the Game as a Barbarian – 347



Episode 347: Seclusion (2)

Magician Yurven Havellion.

A wizard who is the head of a school and is respected by many wizards in the production world.

Sweat beaded on his forehead.

It was not an easy task.

Interfering with the laws of the spiritual world.

“Shit.”

The man in the robe muttered as he looked at the jewels on the workbench.

The jewel on the workbench was something the man received from an old man he met shortly after coming to this world.

Nowadays it can be considered as a server and system of the spiritual world named Ghostbusters.

“What on earth went wrong?”

Inside this small jewel nearly infinite magic circuits large and small are intertwined and intertwined.

The man developed his skills by analyzing and studying them and modified the identified circuits one by one to create the current Ghostbusters.

but….

“…Is this method impossible?”

After that the man who had been fixing the circuit by infusing magic into the jewel for a long time sighed as if he had lifted both his hands and feet.

Actually it was a bit funny to feel regretful.

There’s no way that something that couldn’t be achieved for decades can suddenly be achieved within a few days.

The biggest recent achievement was updating the nicknames of players who entered anonymous chat rooms so that they could be secretly viewed with administrator privileges.

Jiiiing.

At that time my personal pager vibrated.

There was no need to see who the contact was.

“Yes Soul Queens. Were there any issues regarding me?”

[Yes… I haven’t heard anything about Havellion anywhere yet.]

“…okay.”

The man felt her annoyance and relief at the same time.

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This is because her identity which she had kept well hidden for nearly 20 years was revealed in an unexpected place.

“Please keep an eye on that. These rumors need to be suppressed well before they grow bigger. “I will continue to look for numbers so that I can find out the identities of other members.”

[yes. And… I’m sorry.]

“….”

The woman in the crystal ball apologized and the man silenced her.

Even if it was just empty words she didn’t say anything like she had nothing to be sorry about.

“Then… if any issues arise in the future please contact me again.”

[Yes take a break.]

The man soon ended his contact with her and headed towards her workbench again.

and….

She said ‘I think backtracking will be possible just by changing the circuit so that the location information when connected is stored on the server….’

The man analyzed the complex internal circuitry of her gem.

The answer she always said would lie within this jewel.

***

dripping.

The moment she heard the knock she jumped to her feet.

‘…Who is it?’

I don’t know.

Erwen doesn’t come knocking so I guess she’s an outsider…

She says an outsider knocks on the front door and not even the front door?

‘Nimiral.’

She held her breath and lowered her posture as she approached the door as quietly as possible.

And that moment.

Druk Druk.

She heard the doorknob rattling and then her locks came undone.

I’m sorry.

A door that opens slowly.

I was clenching my fists with the intention of subduing whoever the opponent was but when I saw who the opponent was I froze.

“…Luckily you were inside.”

“Amelia…!”

“Tsk…! “I would have told you not to rush in so suddenly…!”

No it’s because I’m glad to see you.

It’s embarrassing for people.

“…come in quickly.”

“Excuse me…”

Amelia seemed to hate her reunion hug so she skipped it and hurried into her house.

There were more than one thing I was curious about.

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However if I ask you sequentially…

“How did you know I was here?”

“… She was waiting in front of the bank and saw the fairy and ran after her.”

“huh? But why now…”

“Because there was no way to approach.”

Huh?

So he always goes out during the day to go to a sacred place?

When I told this Amelia shook her head.

“It can’t be. “She was still near her house.”

Goosebumps ran down her spine.

“… Oh so she said she’s never been to the Holy Land?”

“Could it be… that you didn’t know?”

“….”

“But recently he seems to have had a change of heart and is away somewhere. “I was late because I was watching for a few days to see if it was a trap.”

Still I felt a little relieved by those words.

If it’s a change of heart it’s probably referring to that conversation we had a while ago.

“So… what happened to the blood spirit? It must have been difficult to understand that you came back alive. “The same goes for the problem of evil spirits.”

“Oh that worked out well.”

I briefly summarized what happened with Erwen and told only the important parts.

Amelia looked a little surprised.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s an evil spirit or not… That’s a way of thinking unbecoming of an explorer from the surface.”

“He got a little weird. “Maybe in the past it would have been difficult to think that way.”

“Well I don’t think so.”

“huh?”

“Aren’t you the woman who didn’t stop seeking revenge even after it was announced that you were an evil spirit? She must have already finished organizing her things a long time ago. “It doesn’t matter what your identity is.”

Well that could be true.

“Anyway I nailed it and said it wasn’t an evil spirit. “I don’t know what will happen later.”

Amelia chuckled.

“Then am I the only one in this world who knows your identity?”

“No there is one more person.”

“…Didn’t Misha Karlstein say he didn’t know you were an evil spirit?”

“She is a different person. I’m not even a local to begin with. “He is from my hometown.”

Since there was no reason to hide it and there was a lot of room for him to become a variable in the future I told him about Lee Baek-ho.

But the reaction was a little strange.

“Lee Baek-ho…? “He’s from your hometown?”

It was as if he had heard the name of someone he knew well.

Well if you think about it there were quite a few kids at Round Table who knew about Lee Baek-ho.

I was originally going to ask Erwen subtly but I think it would be better to just get the information from him.

“Do you know the name?”

“…I know.”

“Well since you came over to this time zone much faster than me you might have heard of it. Ah but how long has it been since you came back?”

“It was two years ago.”

“Oh then you just passed 1:1 time there—”

“But it doesn’t matter when I return. “I got to know that guy a long time ago.”

huh?

You knew Lee Baek-ho before that?

As I stared at it as if hoping for a more detailed explanation Amelia soon opened her mouth.

“Do you remember what I said before that I worked as a team with an evil spirit for over a year?”

uh….

“That evil spirit was Lee Baek-ho.”

What is this guy?

There’s nowhere you can’t wear it.

***

Amelia met Lee Baek-ho about five years ago.

She says that she approached him intentionally after receiving instructions from the castle lord.

At the time she had a suspicion that the guy might be an evil spirit and she wanted to confirm this.

Well if it’s an evil spirit appeasement will be possible.

“Explorers who could use Aurors were rare so it wasn’t difficult for him to join his team. “I stayed on his team for about a year.”

Amelia says that it was around that time that she obtained [self-replication] in the Doppelganger Forest and cleared the White Temple on the third floor….

Wow I somehow know all the hidden pieces.

If I went out with Baekho Lee it would be worth it.

“so? So what happened?”

“Nothing special. After a year passed and no significant clues were found Seongju lost interest and I made an excuse to get another mission and left the team. And… I heard about it later.”

“That news?”

“I don’t know the details either. Because the royal family at the time thoroughly concealed the incident. It’s just that his identity was revealed due to a colleague’s betrayal and countless people died in the labyrinth that day. “That was all we could find out through the background investigation.”

Afterwards Amelia destroyed Lee Baek-ho’s materials in the royal family and she controlled information for several years leading to his existence being forgotten in the city she said.

One question here.

“But then how did you know the name Lee Baek-ho?”

“That’s a relatively recent thing. I wonder if he really has a falling out with the royal family. These days he appears everywhere and introduces himself as Lee Baek-ho. Oh by the way in the past I used his pseudonym or just called him ‘him’ like everyone else.”

I see….

I never thought that there would be people around me who knew about Lee Baek-ho’s past.

“What was he like before?”

“Well we weren’t very close. Because I don’t like such light words and actions. Instead except for me the rest of us had a very close relationship.”

“A close relationship?”

“Yeah just like the teams you made.”

Out of curiosity I heard several stories related to Lee Baek-ho and the more I heard the more strange I felt.

“what? Except for him everyone on the team is female? Do you even date all of them? Wow what kind of labyrinth did this guy set up a harem in?

“harem? “I don’t know what it is but aren’t you also the same as all your team members being women?”

What can you say about this guy?

Mr. Bear is firmly maintaining his position.

Moreover during Team Banpuni everyone except Misha was male.

“If that’s the case. “Let’s do it like that.”

“That’s not true it’s true. “I ended up like this because I only selected people based on ability and aptitude and I never saw them as romantic partners—”

“There is no excuse. “I don’t care at all.”

“…?”

“Isn’t the country we originally lived in different? “I don’t know what Korea is like but that part must have been similar to the aristocratic culture there.”

No Korea is normally monogamous….

What on earth does this person think of Korea?

For some reason I felt like Lee Baek-ho and I had completely ruined Korea’s image but we decided not to make any more excuses.

Because it’s not that important.

Now that I’ve heard enough of the story it was time to move on to the next topic.

“Amelia. What was the content of the note left at the bank?”

“…What do you mean? “Just as I wrote?”

“Ah the last part of the letter Erwen gave me was torn. “I only read ‘Demon Crusher…’ and couldn’t read the rest.”

“…That’s right.”

When the topic soon turned to my big precious hammer Amelia looked visibly embarrassed.

“For some reason they didn’t mention that… I guess it was because they couldn’t read it…”

“No that doesn’t make you anxious. say it What happened to the hammer? “It’s okay—”

“If it’s a hammer it’s okay.”

Amelia cut me off firmly.

and….

Sigh.

He said somewhat vaguely avoiding my gaze.

“In the vault of the collateral loan department of the Alminus Exchange….”

ha….

***

Amelia and me.

A heavy silence fell between us.

Amelia who has always been a confident woman seemed to know that she was wrong but she was avoiding my eyes. In the end I was the one who opened her mouth first.

“…So why did you sell it?”

There must be a good reason for that.

Not anyone else not Amelia—

“There are some corrections to be made.”

“…huh?”

“I didn’t sell it but I borrowed money using it as collateral.”

Oh that’s what I mean.

When I glared Amelia cleared her throat.

“But we need to properly address the mistakes so that no problems arise in the future—”

“It’s okay just answer what’s asked. Why are you selling my hammer… or borrowing money as collateral? “For what?”

“…To protect you when you return.”

Hu she knew it would be like this too.

I don’t know what it was but she had a good reason to do it —

“…I bought purified water at an auction house.”

“……what?”

After a long silence she finally regained her senses and opened her mouth and Amelia hurriedly continued her words.

“Don’t worry. “You can get it back as long as you repay the money by the repayment date.”

Those words brought me to my senses a little.

Well if you need money urgently you can do that.

Just by looking at it it looks like Twin Hydra’s [dual rule] was saved using this money. It was so good that it was natural to buy it if you could buy it with money.

But I guess I’ll have to check what I need to check and then move on.

“…When is the repayment date?”

“Two months later.”

“…How much money do you have to pay back?”

“Not right now.”

“Then what are your plans to raise money?”

“…there was.”

Yes it’s in the past tense.

While I was already busy a quest was added.