Chapter 6 (1/2)

Chapter 6

The seven bandits sat in their si the alcohol that they’d stolen from their victims today

「Today’s haul was pretty good, wasn’t it?」

「Yeah, if we take it to the village everyone else will be happy as well」

It looked as if they were far their work in the fields, but they were definitely bandits

The proof of that was the fact that the wine that they were drinking was taken froy to hire adventurers to escort the with their lives

Their equipment was old; their leather armor had numerous patches where they had been previously repaired and their weapons consisted of hand hatchets, bows and arrows – they were incredibly poorly equipped In addition, they hadn’t received any forhting came from experience in real battle and brawls If you looked at it another way, they were just a group of people whotheir weapons around

In fact, most of their jobs were Far for battle The reason that they were bandits was their poverty

The young e that had becoe to commit crimes Such cases were not rare in Lambda

「Well then, I suppose someone should stand watch so we can sleep」

The bandits’ base sirass, in a spot where they had cleared sorass away They did have a lookout tower, but they didn’t see it

In fact, there was nothing in thisas they kept a fire lit The reason they still kept watch is because sometimes a stray Goblin came to attack

But even such a Goblin would scream loudly as it approached theuard

That hy they had no way of knowing if any ene the sound of their footsteps

「Hic, I’ve drank a little too much – UOH?」

The bandit on watch who had apparently drank too much as snatched up by Bone Bear’s paw that had risen up frorass and disappeared

muffled sounds came from inside the tents, but nobody came out Instead, Bone Man, Bone Monkey and Bone Wolf with Bone Bird on his back erass

And behind them was Vandalieu

「There are six left Finish them quickly」

The air was filled with the sound of rattling bones

The bandits never returned to their village

For Vandalieu, finding the hiding place of bandits was easier the more atrocious their crimes were, as he could use the spirits of their dead victims as sources of information

The victims ere attacked by their bandits and had not only their belongings taken, but also their lives Their regret and hatred towards their assailants was fierce, and having bugs find the spirits was a simple task

Even if the spirits were far away, he could use the【Spirit Communication】technique to summon them to hear what they had to say

And then he would send out the Undead using the inforot from the spirits, and the hideouts would be found within a few days

With this roups of bandits operating in the area around Baronet Bestero’s territory

After finding theather information such as how er bandits that he had attacked today were the sroup out of the four

「Nice, the training’s successful Good work, everyone」

Vandalieu was eroup had been exterood mood as he praised the Undead

Of course, the Undead, being low in their sockets seemed to flicker in happiness Their MVP was Bone Bear, who had killed the one on lookout duty with a bear hug and then buried another bandit with his claws

Bone Man had stabbed two of theer, and Bone Monkey and Bone Wolf had taken one each, strangling and biting them to death

「Err, it’ll be fine You’ll be able to fly soon!」

Bone Bird was the only one to be depressed Vandalieu had made a Golem of the earth and buried one of the bandits from the neck down, and Bone Bird had defeated this bandit by diligently stabbing him with its beak repeatedly

With only one wing, it was just a burden, but there was no helping it Bone Bird couldn’t fly

It was obvious that wings made of only bones and no feathers would not be able to fly

「If you keep gathering experience and rank up again, you’ll definitely be able to fly Believe in yourself!」

As Vandalieu encouraged Bone Bird, it flapped its wings with a rattle to express its happiness, as if to say that it would try its best

After looking at Bone Bird happily and giving it a pat on its skull, Vandalieu exaathered

The first thing that caught his eye was the wagon with three barrels of wine still left in it They were the leftovers of what the bandits had been drinking

Evbejia prided itself on its wine, so it was probably of reasonably high quality

「 I wonder if there’s anything else」

But to a one-year-old, it held less value than water He had no way of selling it for money and his companions were all made of bones, so it was co

No, it was probably possible for him to drink it Even as a one-year-old, Vandalieu possessed the Status Effect Resistance skill at level 3, so he would likely not becoe quantity of it

『No~♪ You can’t drink alcohol at the age of one What if you become a drunkard later in life?』

However, his guardian would not allow it, so he decided not to drink it

「Well, I ht as well take at least one barrel back There’s even a wagon for it And next is -」

Vandalieu searched around the wagon and inside the tents, but concluded that they were「completely broke」compared to normal adventurers or soldiers They had apparently stolen cloth purses from the merchants who had normally stored copper and silver coins in them, but there was a whole pile of pouches filled with only seeds and oats that would normally be fed to pets and livestock on Earth There were some dried river fish The rest were items for the bandits’ daily necessities

The special feature was perhaps the vase filled with about five kilograms of salt

It was a considerably re treasure, but perhaps that was to be expected They were merely seven men that were normally farmers

They would have been unable to aier payout - the kind that would hire adventurers as escorts

But for Vandalieu, it was a decent harvest in its oay

「This is a great result I was getting sick of eating only o And I’ot my hands on some cloth」

Vandalieu’s lifestyle up until now had been sustained through hunting the deer in the forest Darcia’s eetables and salt had been used up relatively quickly after her death In the first place, it was only one person’s worth and it was for the journey that she had been planning, so it was only an amount that she would have been able to carry

And as Vandalieu developed, the amount that he ate also increased

It would be problematic to use blood for all of his dietary needs, and if he became too much like a vampire, he would become weak to the sun so that would be problematic That hy he wanted to eat nor its blood extracted was dull as well and there were tiet his hands on the meat of raccoons and foxes and such, whose h it was much better than the times he only had Goblin meat available

The clothes he earing were not really clothes, but furs that he had wrapped around himself

He was like a barbarian child

「If I use the bandits’ spare clothes, I ht be able to make proper clothes for et a chance to use it?」

The Amid was the currency of the Amid Empire and its countries One Amid orth about a hundred yen on Earth There was a half-Amid copper coin, a one-Amid copper coin, a ten-aold coin and a 10,000-Amid platinum coin

TLN: 1 Amid = 087USD

In addition, there was apparently also paper money used only by wealthy merchants and nobles, notes worth 100,000 Amid and 1,000,000 Amid To belike handwritten government bonds

The bandits had saved up about 1,000 A in an urban area

But if Vandalieu were to enter a town, guards or adventurers would kill him without any questions asked, so it was doubtful whether he would get a chance to use it

However, itto another country, so he decided to keep it

「Hmm? What’s this pouch?」

He realized that there was another leather pouch beneath the pouches containing theclinked around inside softly when he moved it

He untied the string and looked inside to see two transparent, colored stones inside They looked like soem, but they were not very pretty

「Mom, do you knohat this is?」

『These are Magic Stones You can collect them from monsters, and from this size and color, I think they’re from Goblins If I remember correctly, they sell for ten Amid each』

The Mana in monsters’ bodies crystallized in the ic Stones were apparently the result of that They were used as ingredients in various ical items and spiritual medicines such as potions, or used as sources of power for even norical items

If used as sources of power in this way, they became normal stones after the Mana they contained was depleted, so they were consu, Mana could be iain, so they could be used over and over

nobody would bother refining the Magic Stones of Goblins and they would be used as disposable items, which hy their value was low

『Incidentally, it’s ic Stones when they die The probability for a Rank 1 monster to drop one is about one in a hundred On the other hand, higher-rank ic Stones when they die Rank 5 monsters and above will definitely drop them』

Incidentally, Darcia had apparently thought it pointless to tell Vandalieu about Magic Stones earlier because he had been fighting nothing but a few Rank 1 Goblins at a time

Also, it seemed that there were soic Stones, and also her quality than their original rank But to Vandalieu, as focusing on hunting bandits for now, this was all just information for future reference

He wanted to register with an Adventurer's Guild and become an adventurer as soon as possible

「Finally, let’s check the status of Bone Man… Oh, just by killing two of those weak Bandits, you’ve gained thirty levels You too, Bone Bear The rest of you too Just by killing a single ained more than 10 levels!」

Just by a one or two bandits that had failed as farht properly, their levels had risen this ot from Goblins or the monsters in the forest couldn’t even be compared to this amount

If this applied to not just the Undead but all ood source of experience of the ressive against humans

「Alright, I’ll wipe out all the Bandits in this area and increase everyone’s levels」

After seeing this explosive increase in level, he couldn’t go back to hunting small monsters

There were still roups left in the area around Baronet Bestero’s territory One of them had the same number of people as the one they had killed today, one of them had more than ten people, while another one had around twenty

The Undead would surely reach Rank 3 after they were all exterminated

『Since you were able to kill us, the guys to the south will be a piece of cake』

『The guys west of here are froes over They have a lot of people, but it should still be easy』

『But the guys up north are professional bandits Their leader was apparently a guard in soathered his They extorted some money out of us as well』

While learning some information from the spirits of the dead bandits, Vandalieu used the Earth Goleon, Vandalieu left, leaving the tragic scene behind him

Around a month had passed since Vandalieu’s first Birthday It was the season in which he had to get rid ofKiller】, and he was finally ready to take on the largest and roup in Baronet Bestero’s territory They uard patrols on the highway found therass to polish their skills

「Our opponents are in a different league fro up till now Their leader is a ex-soldier, and his subordinates have been trained under him to some extent In other words, we can’t just raise our weapons and scare the eneht』them」

「Oooooooooh~」

「Gurururuuuuu~」

The Undead listening to Vandalieu literally had fires of deter in their eye sockets Because of the experience they had earned fro all the bandits, Bone Man had increased his rank to become a Skeleton Solider, while Bone Monkey, Bone Bear and Bone Wolf had become Bone Beasts

They had also gained the skill【Superhu bandits by aained【Silent Steps】When this skill was used, the sounds of their bones hitting and grinding against each other coained the skills 【Swordsmanshi+p】, 【Archery】 and 【shi+eld Technique】

They were all still level 1 skills, but the results were pretty good considering that they had obtained theolems for a month

Bone Bird, however, was still at Rank 2 But it was at Level 90, and if today’s plan ell, it would also rank up

「That’s e need to be extra careful today We have a lot of spare bones for you, but ed or broken Also, if there are any humans that don’t look like bandits… For example, hues, don’t kill thein the plan as soon as I cast the support ic」

Speaking in his usual indifferent tone and expressionless face, Vandalieu didn’t show his internal nervousness at all as he cast the spells

「First,【Enhanced Bloodshed】to their weapons, fangs and claws Then【Energy Absorption】to their armor and bones」

【Enhanced Bloodshed】 was a ic spell that boosted the attack power of whatever it was cast on; even shi+elds and are the enemy if they came in contact with them

【Energy Absorption】 was a defensive spell that could absorb y, and in Laical and physical attacks

Both of these spells had very strong effects, but since both were not that hard to use with the Death Attribute,them was easy for Vandalieu

「Ooooh…」

The first to ic was Bone Man He headed towards observation tower the bandits’ base - a s of si an arrow into the bow taken fro

The bandits in the observation toere holding boith quivers on their backs and seemed completely unmotivated

「Man, we’re really unlucky Getting guard duty on the day before we’re supposed to withdraw」

The bandits were planning to take all that they had earned up till now andto pick up the ransoo on to a new territory or even a new country, and start their jobs as bandits all over again

Other bandit groups had been disappearing lately and they had heard rumours that a Lord had becohway and put together a subjugation team If that was the case, then it really was time to leave

They had decided to get rid of things that would get in the way of traveling, and were in the middle of a party to consuo

These bandits were the unlucky ones that were unable to participate in the party, and they were too distracted by their own

「Gahhh!?」