[{"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-330":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},1327450,1764,"Chapter 330: Ouroboros (5)","surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-chapter-330",330,"\u003Cp>A dazed sensation spread through my body from the back of my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I came to my senses at the sound of something falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the Fragment of Records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was clearly holding it when the light erupted, why did it fall?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly picked it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then I realized there was something else on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Clothes…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, the owner was more important than the material right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just an ordinary robe, it was the one Auril Gabis was wearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was lying on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the spot where he had been standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if only his body had been sucked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t tell me…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked down at the Fragment of Records in my hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… activated on him…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was starting to understand the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was momentarily stunned by the unexpected outcome…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Fragment of Records had reacted to Auril Gabis, not me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Ugh, this is confusing.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried to calm down and retrace my steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were two possibilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Auril Gabis was ‘called by fate’, just like me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the second…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Have you ever used the Fragment of Records?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I have.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Auril Gabis had already used the Fragment of Records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that was the case, it meant he had been living in this time period after being summoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then he met me, finished his ‘role’, and returned to his original time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So if it’s the former, it means he went to the past, and if it’s the latter, it means he went to the future?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s how I organized my thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘No, it’s too early to jump to conclusions.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I realized I didn’t know enough about the Fragment of Records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it was wise to keep all possibilities open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Being called by fate’ might not only happen from the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could also be called from the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I’ll think about this later…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I put the Fragment of Records back in my subspace pocket and picked up the robe that was on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I rummaged through it excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Loot…!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Auril Gabis’s loot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must have something interesting…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Are you kidding me?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing in the robe except for ordinary socks, shoes, and a pair of white silk underwear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I threw the underwear on the ground after realizing what it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was annoyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Why doesn’t this old man have anything?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had high expectations, seeing him exuding the aura of a final boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a complete bust…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I belatedly remembered Auril Gabis taking out water from his subspace pocket and drinking it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought it was just a subspace ring back then…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It must have been a dependent subspace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dependent subspace, only usable by high-ranking mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t have a physical form since it was directly connected to the mage’s soul through a tattoo or something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Uh, wait a minute…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then could I use a dependent subspace to take the equipment I had gathered back to my original time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had a sudden thought, but it wasn’t a ‘Eureka!’ moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I wasn’t a mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike magic tools, dependent subspaces could only be opened with the mage’s own mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Damn it, so this is also a bust…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sighed and dismissed my regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Complaining wouldn’t change anything, and I had something more important to do right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I have to find Amelia.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I picked up Auril Gabis’s belongings, put them in my subspace pocket, and then headed back to the sewers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they were just ordinary clothes, I wanted to check again, just in case I missed something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splash, splash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I found a few more bodies as I retraced my steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘This is where the fight happened.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looted them all since I wasn’t heartless enough to leave unclaimed equipment behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all heading towards the surface, so they had expandable backpacks or subspace rings, so I didn’t have any inventory problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Wow, how much is this worth?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I continued walking, my shoulders, neck, and arms laden with bags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Amelia wasn’t at the place where I had left her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by the traces of battle with the Captain, this was definitely where she had been lying unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where did she go?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t have to think for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘She must be there…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hurried on, unable to hide my bitterness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after some time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…I saw Amelia clearing the debris of a collapsed passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was working so diligently that she didn’t even notice me approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaaaaaaaaargh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell, why is she screaming?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked scary, clutching her head with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I quickly grabbed her wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia shuddered and turned her head as soon as our skin touched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…………Yandel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes widened in surprise as she saw me, and then she tried to shake me off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let go. I have to find…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell is she talking about?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You won’t find anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s why I told you. It would be all over when you woke up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia looked at me blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like she didn’t understand…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just follow me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…so I decided to show her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>________________________\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she regained consciousness, she was filled with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was alone in this dark sewer, and the familiar silence meant that it was all over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Right, it’s over…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia got up and started walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had somewhere to go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t do it back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Forget… all the painful memories… you had here.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your… normal life… is finally beginning.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to leave her sister’s body behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she came back later, it was already gone. The workers who were repairing the passage had removed all the bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had become her lifelong regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have to find her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to find her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it was just a corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to retrieve it and give her a proper burial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t leave her sister’s body in this filthy sewer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could at least do that, having returned to the past after twenty years. No, maybe that was all she was allowed to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh, heugh…!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia arrived at the place where the tragedy had occurred and started removing the rocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was so desperate that she looked half-crazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she wasn’t wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wh, why…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t find her sister’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should be here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was even this not allowed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaaaaaaaaargh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She screamed for the first time in a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could usually endure pain, even when her flesh was cut and her bones were broken, with just a groan…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…but not this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like her heart was being ripped apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt warmth on her wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…………Yandel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was him, the person she had seen every day for the past six months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let go. I have to find…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tried to shake him off, but the barbarian, as always, didn’t let go. And he lifted her up, saying something she didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…she arrived on the surface after a long walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast city of Lafdonia, where the royal family’s power reached every corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh, my eyes…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The midday sun was blinding after the darkness of the sewers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the barbarian didn’t give her time to adjust and dragged her somewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wh, where are we going?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ll see when we get there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia looked around as she was being dragged by his strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passersby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laughing children and their parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merchants hawking their wares and white marble bathed in sunlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a place she had longed for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A world filled with warm sunlight, where she could live a normal life, unlike Noark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, she knew now…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…that the surface wasn’t a paradise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were beasts with even greater malice than those in Noark, and tragedies occurred every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At least once…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…she wanted to see it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight of her and her sister living an ordinary life in this city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? What did you just…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yandel, go on without me. I have something to look for down there—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I told you, you won’t find anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barbarian looked at her with a frustrated expression as she stopped walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your sister is alive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll… explain later, just follow me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barbarian continued walking, and she didn’t resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was too shocked to think straight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Phew, I couldn’t find out which shelter she was taken to, so it took a while.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Amelia arrived at a shelter on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She described her sister’s appearance to the staff and found her room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened the door and saw a young girl lying on a bed by the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm sunlight streamed in through the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Si, sister…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a surreal sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia approached the bed, as if in a trance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she held her sister’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could feel her sister’s heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How… how is this possible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barbarian explained what had happened at Amelia’s question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His deal with Auril Gabis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How he had used the prototype of Lethe’s Blessing to erase her memories and disguised it as a carriage accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She probably won’t remember anything when she wakes up. She’ll just live her life, thinking the name on her ID card is her real name.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, ah…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But don’t be too sad. Everything will be fine when we return to twenty years later. You can just tell her the truth and be close to her again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump, her heart pounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was finally sinking in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And besides, you said the Dragonslayer was trying to recover his lost memories? We can find a way together when we get back. How to restore her memories.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Say something. You’re making me anxious…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia couldn’t help but chuckle at his anxious expression, even though he had just performed a miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? What do you mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t have to worry about me anymore. I won’t try to restore her memories…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amelia smiled at his question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt awkward, as she hadn’t smiled much in her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s better for her to not remember.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…her sister would be different from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The life she had longed for would begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And painful memories would only be a hindrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Goodbye, sister.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I’m not with you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though it’s far from the ordinary life I wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though I’m still awkward at smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go, barbarian.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s Yandel, not barbarian.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right, Yandel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I’m not alone anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>",1772,"2026-06-05T19:32:49.065Z",1,"novelbin.me","bfdf77b4c73ad33dc338fe0c7abf8827ee72f23facf03ffaac2fef69d6dcef47","surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-chapter-331","surviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-chapter-329",807,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-game-as-a-barbarian-cover.jpg"]