[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian":3,"chapter-surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-chapter-301":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Surviving the Game as a Barbarian",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1327421,1764,"Chapter 301: Evil Spirit (5)","surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-chapter-301",301,"\u003Cp>“Bjorn! I just watched from the back, but it was a fun exploration! Let’s meet again if we have the chance!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“……Okay.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief farewell, Kalton’s group left the rift. So it was time for us to focus on what we had to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go. We don’t know what else there is!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“……You’re planning to just wander around and search?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, I was planning to pretend to wander around and find everything I wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Follow me. I know a few things.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, if you say so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I followed Amelia, the experienced player, and we moved in reverse order, exiting the boss room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Fragment of Earth’, which increased Earth Resistance and Physical Resistance by 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And ‘Book of Souls’, which gave 3 additional experience points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For reference, Amelia had already taken them when she came here before, so I took them all, and that was the end of our hidden piece exploration in the Hundred Colors Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because those were the only useful potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest had to be ‘distorted’ to be taken out and sold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Then we got everything…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Amelia, how about we stay here for a bit before leaving?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Honestly, I’m tired after sleeping for only three hours every day. How about we take a nap here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia looked at me with a dissatisfied expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew what she was thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already late, and the labyrinth would be closing tomorrow, so why did we have to rest now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Tsk, we already achieved our goal, why is she so greedy?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But complaining wasn’t my style, so I gave her a rational reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My head is a mess, so I need some time to think.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia seemed to understand and then readily agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright. I’ll rest and then we’ll leave, so tell me when you’re ready.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’s kind in this aspect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Amelia.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Just rest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia then took out her sleeping bag and lay down, and I sat down about three meters away from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I started calculating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Let’s see…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had gained 156 experience points from first-time kills in the Hundred Colors Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if I added the High-Grade Variant kill bonus of 1, the Guardian kill bonus of 3, and the 3 from the Book of Souls, it was a total of 163.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was still far from level 7.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I might even reach level 7 in the mid to late stages of the 6th floor.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no denying that my character was nearing completion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had also obtained the Demon Crusher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘How can I take this back…?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was thinking about that when…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yandel, I have a question.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah! You’re talking about that Numbered Item? I, I don’t know what it is, but I like the weight, so I’m going to use it—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a different question.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, it’s not that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was worried she was going to suggest splitting the profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you… want to change it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yandel Jarku, your father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, that…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, I was trying not to think about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We might be able to save him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can we save him when we don’t even know how he died or when he died? We only know that he died when I was young.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you want, I can go up to the city and help after I’m done here—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cut Amelia off and said firmly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia asked, genuinely curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, I must seem strange to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know I was an evil spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If it could be changed that easily, it would have already changed when we met here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The future doesn’t change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like Amelia also felt that to some extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the weight of that realization was different for me, who had heard it from Auril Gabis and confirmed it with Raven and Dwarkey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean it doesn’t change?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia sat up and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hesitated for a moment and then told her honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About how I had tried to change Dwarkey and Raven’s futures, but failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s no way…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia bit her lip and tried to deny it, and I just asked her directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Amelia, you also knew, didn’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Knew…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What else could it be? You were surprised when you saw ‘Nibels Enche’s’ name, and you had that look in your eyes when I came here wearing this helmet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You knew, didn’t you? That the past wouldn’t change no matter what we did. No, that it happened that way because we were there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just clenched her fists and endured something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She finally spoke after a moment of silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…So you’re giving up? Even though you might be able to save your family.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tone was the same as usual, but there was a hint of aggression in her voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So did I respond a bit defensively?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s a father I’ve never even met.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you’re saying you don’t care enough?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia seemed to understand, but she clicked her tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She seemed disappointed in me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, I shouldn’t have brought this up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought we were getting closer, but I ruined it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We then rested in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after about five hours…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I woke up from a nap and suggested we leave. It would be better to do something than to just lie here on pins and needles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, can we stop by that place?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do what you want.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I approached the hut behind us after returning to the boss room to use the portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was out of pure curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game, it was just a background object that you couldn’t enter…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Oh, the door opens.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…but I entered the hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I felt a strong sense of familiarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bookshelf, a table, a carpet, a fireplace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing special about the interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just an ordinary hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the size, the structure, the arrangement of furniture…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘It’s exactly the same…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One place came to mind without even having to look around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch’s Hut, the only safe zone in the 3rd-floor Witch’s Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place where I had rested with Misha and offered a human sacrifice, which led to the summoning of the Lord of Chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can search if you want, but we didn’t find anything like Gavrilius’ Arrangement when we searched it before.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly came out after briefly checking the books on the bookshelf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, they were all blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The titles were written in the ancient language, so I couldn’t read them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, would Raven be able to find something if I brought her here later?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go if you’re ready.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, just in case, I’ll go first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We then stood in front of the portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would take us back to the place where we first entered the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stepped into the portal first, as the tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swaaaaaaaaaa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The portal’s light enveloped me, and my vision flashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And my vision slowly returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what the hell is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Phew! You’re finally out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of explorers were standing there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if they had been waiting for us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, a Numbered Item dropped—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We both flinched as we saw each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Iron Mask?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Bek’s team, the looters who were part of the Lord’s faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha, this is interesting. I didn’t expect you guys to be the ones who met those three inside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Three…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I unconsciously followed Bek’s gaze and froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could hear a ringing in my ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>__________________________\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind went blank for a moment, but my brain quickly processed the visual information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kalton Drek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aimburn Berta Garcia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Yandel, the third son of Jarku.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bodies of those three, who had left through the portal a few hours ago, were lying on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it wasn’t just those three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were two more bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could guess who they were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This is bad! Lemud and Hans didn’t get in!!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were probably the two who were waiting outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then how did this happen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Bjorn.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia, who had also come out, grabbed my wrist, as if sensing the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is she telling me to hold back?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, it seemed like it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ugh, it’s so loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I closed my eyes tightly and then opened them again, trying to regain my composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was still there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems like we’re fated, meeting for the second time during this expedition!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bek got up from the corpse he had been sitting on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia asked him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Why are you here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, we were looking around after the rift opened, and then we saw these two.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bek nudged the bodies of Lemud and Hans with his foot and continued,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We caught them and asked them some questions, and they said their three companions had gone inside. So we waited, and then those three came out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shrugged, omitting the rest, and Amelia didn’t ask any further questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They killed those three and extracted the information they needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like how the Guardian dropped a ‘Numbered Item’ at the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia and Bek were talking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t hear them properly because it was so noisy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I just thought blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ah, is it difficult for humans? Just call me Yandel Jarku!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew he would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I didn’t know it would be because of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If it weren’t for me…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yandel Jarku would have entered the rift with his teammates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they wouldn’t have been waiting outside and caught by these bastards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as a result…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, they wouldn’t have died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would have continued their journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And maybe…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Huhu, he’ll definitely become a great warrior. The child who inherited my and her blood—]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…he would have been able to see his son grow up. No, maybe he would have even entered the labyrinth with him after he became an adult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If it weren’t for me…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bjorn Yandel wouldn’t have been possessed by an evil spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ringing in my ears intensified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a kind of defense mechanism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To help me ignore the voice inside my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A coward’s sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hand clenched into a fist, but I felt blood rushing to my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If it weren’t for me…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dwarkey wouldn’t have died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he became an explorer, he wouldn’t have gone to that dangerous place on the 4th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If I hadn’t come here…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dwarkey’s love might have come true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe they would have met as companions and healed each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah, if it weren’t for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeeeeeep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My ears, no, my head was throbbing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, why is Iron Mask so quiet?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bjorn.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a homework assignment I had been putting off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That emotions are just emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bjorn, snap out of it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless emotions, which I had been suppressing and ignoring, overwhelmed me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to do something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For myself, not for anyone else, because I knew it was just hypocrisy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Amelia.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her real name, not her alias, ‘Emily’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did she understand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re from the Lord’s faction. Endure it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia’s grip on my wrist tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was meaningless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re an agility character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bjorn…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shook Amelia off and stepped forward, and Bek chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huhu, it seems like Iron Mask is angry. Did I even ask for it? I just wanted to see what you got. We waited for a long time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t hear their conversation properly, but I understood the context.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right, you’re curious about this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took out the hammer from my subspace pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No. 87 Kraul’s Demon Crusher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A hammer? There’s something like this among Numbered Items…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bek trailed off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his expression changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wa, wait a minute. Can I see it closer? I think I know what that is.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go ahead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a step closer, and Bek also cautiously took a step forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when we were at a suitable distance…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It, it really is that item! Did that really drop?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m glad your curiosity is satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thwack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now die.\u003C\u002Fp>",2026,"2026-06-05T19:32:49.065Z",1,"novelbin.me","3efacf8e8afc0f56a3a80459f4b8754bf93a19a082d74e5af42a8fc47d76ce2e","surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-chapter-302",null,807,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-cover.jpg"]