Bjorn Yandel the Barbarian

Episode 101 Rumor (3)

Darkness came upon entering the labyrinth.

Quickly take out a torch and light the surroundings, then place your hand on the tombstone in front of you.

How much is this after?

Whoa-!

A tombstone that has not yet been touched by anyone.

The five-colored brilliance emanating from it.

And for some reason, even the unique sense when eating life raw, as if the heart is being stabbed.

「You opened the portal for the first time. EXP +2”

Misha muttered as she watched the shimmering halo of light that suddenly turned into a sphere.

“What the hell? Could it be that you just opened a portal?”

I bet you didn’t even know there was such a bug.

I repeated exactly the explanation I had given Einar before.

“Dimensional instability phenomenon? If you use it, this will happen?”

Unlike Einar, who gave up on understanding, Misha tries to understand on her own.

Of course, I didn’t have a jaw to do well.

The proper principle is difficult even for me to explain.

I’m just using a ‘phenomenon’ that I came across by chance.

“…I pity Rottmiller.”

“huh?”

“If you find out that there is such a way… it will be very futile. Just like I did when I signed a contract with the number of souls with that ring.”

Oh that’s what it sounded like

I did something because it was pitiful without context.

Certainly, Rottmiller would feel a great sense of deprivation if he found out about a raw bug like this.

[Even if it’s not now, if I try hard, maybe someday I’ll be able to open the portal with my own hands. That’s my dream as a searcher.]

Just like the aspirations he carefully revealed at a drinking party, he was serious about his job as a searcher.

It wasn’t even a wild dream.

In fact, his path-finding ability was considerable.

I don’t know about the other floors, but he belongs to the top of the first floor where he clings like crazy. Maybe if I could shorten it by two more hours, I could make that dream come true.

It will never be easy though.

“Then go upstairs.”

Anyway, the chat ends here.

I rode into the portal with Misha.

“I have entered the rocky desert on the 2nd floor.”

The sand crumbled under my feet.

Hot air rising from below.

Stone rubble casts shadows along with flickering torches in pitch-black darkness.

“It’s a rocky desert.”

Jeop why are you here?

I led Misha down to the first floor again.

Then, following the compass, we headed east.

‘It took the opposite side, so I guess I’ll just walk for two days.’

Probably, if I had entered the labyrinth in the usual way, it would have been enough for a day to go to any destination… but

if something is gained, something is lost.

In addition, the experience that can be obtained by opening the portal is only 2, but it is a type that overlaps permanently.

It is an unconditional benefit if you can get it by walking for just one more day.

“Uh, it seems that there is no Rottmiller, so I can feel the vacancy.”

“…….”

For about three hours, he escaped from the outermost part of the Dark Zone. Even if you say you are going according to the compass, it is because you sometimes take the wrong path and encounter a dead-end wall.

“Still, isn’t it nice that the two of us are walking together?”

“What are you talking about?”

“No, it’s just… It’s good to be noisy with the five of us, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad either.”

At first, I wondered what it meant, but after listening to it, I think I know what I want to say.

Too many dwarfs and dwalkies talk.

To be honest, there are a lot of times when I laugh, but most of the time I get exhausted just listening to it.

“Gigeek!”

After getting out of the dark zone, I was walking in the softly lit crystal cave, and monsters kept attacking me.

The monsters that appear in this western district are gnomes.

Like a 9th grade monster, if you hit it, it will become evil and die.

“gig……?!”

A clay doll that disappears in a single hit of mace. It’s not a problem to catch it, but it’s annoying.

The gnome’s active skill is [Unity].

It’s a stealth skill, so you have to enter within a 3m radius to see it.

‘If Rotmiller had been there, he would have killed everyone in sight.’

Would it be like that after working as a 5-person party?

Even if the dwarf said so, I miss him a little. Should I say it’s a position like Dr. Cheokcheok, who always silently does what he has to do behind the scenes?

Oh dwalkie too.

If he is there, you don’t have to pick up the magic stone yourself.

“There’s someone coming over there, Bjorn…!”

As I was walking while thinking about this and that, Misha patted me on the back and quietly called out.

Like a sensitive beastman, he seemed to feel the presence before me.

“What should I do?”

what to do

The other side must have recognized us a long time ago.

clap clap clap.

Before long, a party of five appeared from the front.

A regular party with wizards and priests.

As an explorer who reached this place in only 3 hours, the level of equipment was considerable.

‘…It must be at least the 6th floor.’

I don’t know what integers they have.

However, equipment made of 3rd and 4th grade materials covered from head to toe proved their level.

Equipment is like an explorer’s identity card.

However, was this the same thing over there?

“Hmm.”

Questions and vigilance are seen in their eyes as they pass by.

I guess so.

You wouldn’t have thought that you would be meeting barbarians and beastmen wearing equipment made of only second-class materials here, exactly at this time.

‘Hu, please just pass by.’

Fortunately, they passed us by without speaking to us.

Rather than my desperate wind blowing…….

It would have been great that I simply didn’t have time for that.

“Mr. Levron, speed it up a little bit.”

“That’s right.”

It was fortunate that they were speedrunning.

I don’t know what, but since we’re out here, the other contenders must have thought that they could have gone faster.

‘You guys are the fastest.’

Since they are running in reverse from the portal, I know that they are at the forefront.

Anyway, if you go, you’ll see a portal that’s already open.

“Wow, those people really run around.”

Perhaps it was the first time she had ever seen an explorer on a speed run, Misha exclaimed in admiration.

It took less than two seconds for them to come into view and pass by, but it seemed to be quite an impressive sight nonetheless.

“What do you see that way? Someday we should too.”

“…we?”

Misha tilted her head.

Well, no matter how much I say it, it doesn’t make sense.

It wasn’t long ago that I was treated like half a penny by my family because I couldn’t even sign a soul water contract.

“Just looking at it, it seems like you have really big ambitions. Is it because you’re a barbarian?”

“…Are you being sarcastic?”

“You fool, I meant cool!”

“Kuhm.”

…He’s sometimes too direct.

Do you know what kind of barbarian he is?

***

“Did you see the weapon the prosecutor was wearing?”

“You mean the sword made of Orichalcum?”

“Yes, that! Of course Orichalcum is right. How much would it take to make a weapon out of it…”

Even after that, Misha continued to talk about the party she had just met.

He seemed to have a longing for a top explorer.

Well, I’d say it’s a much more positive emotion than jealousy

or arrogance.

“Stop talking and move your feet.”

“Hey, if anyone hears it, they’ll know if I’m stopped.”

Anyway, as I continued walking eastward, I encountered more and more explorers.

In the beginning, like the party we saw earlier, most of them were high-ranking explorers, but as time passed, their level gradually went down.

I got out my watch.

[18:57]

It has been 19 hours since the labyrinth opened.

That means I’ve been walking all day.

Thanks to that, it’s already a starting point. In other words, we reached the center of the first floor crystal cave.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about raising their suspicions when encountering the top explorers, but…

‘I didn’t think of this again.’

When I came here, this is what caught my eye.

“Did you just see it? What size mace is…”

“The backpack seems to be an expandable backpack as well.”

Explorers who looked at us with envy every time we passed by.

Well, it will look strange.

As you can see, there are cages in the center of the first floor that should be hunting on the upper floors.

“Why are those people still here…”

It’s time to find a night friend and take a break.

Every time the explorers in groups of 3 and 4 pass by, they spit out a word.

It was a bit of a strange feeling.

‘There was a time like that too.’

When you first enter the labyrinth.

Like them, I found a night mate and took a break.

The problem is that I met Hans A for the first time.

“Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”

“It was just because I thought about the past.”

To be precise, I laughed at the thought of myself pretending to be asleep with Hans A by my side, even though I was supposed to be tired.

Before I met Erwen, I really went through all sorts of hardships.

‘Oh, how is he doing?’

Since I have a golden spoon sister, I suddenly wonder if she will get along well.

First of all, they are colleagues I met for the first time in this world.

Shall we find out and meet up later?

As I was walking with such thoughts in mind, a man caught my eye.

He didn’t do anything that stood out, but

…….

Should I say I don’t like the look?

I can feel envy and greed glistening in that nasty look at me.

But for some reason, I laughed again.

‘I’ve grown up a lot too.’

If it was me in the past, I would have been nervous inside, assuming the worst with just one glance.

But then and I have changed a lot.

Rather than being mushy

…….

There is no reason to be frightened by the goblins now.

Well, I’m not saying he’s a goblin.

If you only look at combat power, there won’t be much difference.

Even if it’s a country that assumes the worst of the worst.

I can’t imagine myself being stabbed to death by that crude knife.

Um, yes… I’m sure it must have been.

‘Why do I feel like a dick the more I look at it?’

I needed to check it out once.

“you.”

When I suddenly stopped and looked at him, I stood up startled from the posture of leaning against the wall.

The eyes that I didn’t pick were only full of vigilance.

“Do you have something to say to me?”

“Oh no…?”

“But why are you looking at me like that?”

“…I’m sorry.”

When the man apologized, Misha punched me on the waist.

“Bjorn! Why are you suddenly like this? What did this person do wrong…”

For some reason, I think I’ve seen a scene like this on the roadside before. When Yangachi started a fight with a passer-by, the lover who was with him stopped him.

No, but he’s the only one whose eyes look like a dick?

“What’s your name?”

“I’m Hanst Ivan.”

“Hanst? Isn’t it Hans?”

The man shuddered at my question.

It must have been insulting that some savage suddenly came and played with his name.

But this was the really important part.

“Is it really Hanst? Did I misunderstand it or not?” “I

‘m really Hanst…….”

Hmm then, was it really because of my mood

?

was Hans, but it was a very common name, so I changed it.”

“…What?”

Fuck, I felt kind of fucked up. Still, I

even changed my name.

“Never go back to your original name .

I mean keep living with Hanstro. Do you understand?”

“That’s right.”

Hanst nodded vigorously.

It was

at

that moment .

He looked at me.

“Bjorn?” His

eyes looking for an answer to the question.

Of course, I know the answer.

Because there is only one thing that accompanies this phenomenon in the labyrinth.

“Run!”

The crack opens soon.

It’s still a day later. In a period that has not passed.

‘Fuck.’

Few people know, but the original cracks have to be at least 3 days old to ‘generate naturally’,

which means

‘what the heck are they?’

I mean someone took the plunge,

using the method I was trying to do.