The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 11 (1/2)

That day, Zadiris was holding a study e to teach therasses, fruits andmedicine or food

Many of the race that Zadiris and her group belonged to did not place a high priority on passing on their knowledge, but she knew the is and often talked about it to the people around her, so the people of her village were likely aware as well

The reason she was only bringing girls with her was the great difference in appearance and characteristics between the two sexes in her race Males ell-suited to fighting andThough this was a general rule, she had already taught the s them with her today

Of course, just because uard down Zadiris herself was confident in her strength and e of the forest Strong monsters wouldn’t appear, and at this time of year, adventurers shouldn’t come this way either

「She went that way!」

「shi+t, she's fast! Don’t let her get away!」

However, the reason things had turned out like this was because she had let her guard down after all

They were found by a group of five adventurers

「Be careful, she’s a Mage, a high-class one! Don’t let your guard down!」

「I know! We let all of the others escape; if we don’t catch this one on’t h the winter!」

Zadiris had succeeded in using her irls to escape However, she had expended tooso – to the point that it would be difficult to defeat the adventurers if she fought them now

With that being, the case, her only option was to run, but –

「Haah, haah, haah」

Her breathing beca or a wild ani painfully, but she couldn’t do anything about it

『To think that I’ve run out of breath already! I guess I can’t win against time』

As Zadiris lae, an arro across just to her side As the adventurers took aiht

「AH!」

Three seconds later, her feet were standing on ee of a cliff It was a small cliff on the boundary of the forest It was a cliff of a height such that one wouldn’t die by ju off it, and one would nor in the forest

However, this time it was fatal

Zadiris, losing her balance, hit the cliff’s slope like a ball and began rolling down

「Ugh」

She crashed into the ground and landed face-down She tried to stand up, but she couldn’t put any strength into her legs and arer, they demanded rest and refused to obey her commands

She was already winded, but this was the effect of leaving the Devil’s Nest She was really feeling her age taking its toll on her

『Well, this is fine The clan will not perish just because I aone』

Her successor had already been noed to let the young ones with the future on their shoulders escape

Considering that she had only ten years or so re in her life, hadn’t she done pretty well? It was probably better for her to die already, before she became any more senile than she already was

Several laughing voices and sets of footsteps came closer It was the adventurers From here, they would certainly finish her off and collect the Magic Stone and her body parts that would become raw materials

She didn’t really care about this; she had done the saone out of her way to do so, but she had even killed adventurers in the past

She harbored no grudge against them They should finish her quickly

Zadiris quietly stayed face-down and closed her eyes, but the adventurers grabbed her legs and turned her face-up

If they wanted to kill her, they could have stabbed her in the back, so why? As Zadiris thought this, she opened her eyes to see the adventurers looking down at her with vulgar smiles on their faces

「Heh, I thought this while ere chasing her, but isn’t she quite the pretty woman?」

「You think so? I like rown-up」

「nobody asked about what you like What’s ih price」

Zadiris had thought that they were perhaps inspecting thebefore they killed her, but upon hearing the word “sell”, she realized that this was not the case

「The feround slave traders for quite a lot Thanks to that, we’ll be able to take it easy during this year’s winter」

The adventurers hadn’t been chasing her around to kill her and harvest raw materials from her, but to capture her alive and sell her to a slave trader

Zadiris opened her eyes wide Being defeated and killed was one thing, but she wouldn’t allow herself to beco until she died

「You bastards!」

「Oh, she understands language I suppose that’s to be expected of Mages; this one should sell for even more than the market price」

Zadiris bared her fangs and glared at the down on her only widened She th and tried to take at least one of them down, but one of the adventurers stabbed her with a knife

「Guh! Ah, AAAAAAAAAGH!」

Violent pain flooded through Zadiris’s body

Her vision turned pure white, and she couldn’t help but let out a girlish scream

「It hurts, huh? You guys are pretty tough when it coic Ite cut by this knife will hurt three times more than usual」

「A little while ago, we caught a bandit and all we had to do was give hiht cut with this knife for him to spit out where his base was」

「Guh Haah Haah」

By the time Zadiris had recovered a little fro with the tears from her eyes

「Heheh, I bet you’ve done it plenty, right? With that being the case, isn’t it alright to have a taste of the goods before we sell you off?」

「Hey, if you’re not careful, you’re going to get scratched」

「It’s fine, but don’t go overboard And be quick about it, it’ll be a pain if other monsters were to come」

One of the adventurers lowered hi off her clothes He exposed her grey-brown breasts and grabbed hold of theive the response that the man desired

「Tch」

Dissatisfied, the man reached for the knife that was still stuck inside Zadiris

「Hyii!」

Thinking that she would experience that intense pain again, Zadiris tried to scream, but –

「Gyah!」

The Thief that had been watching to ave a hoarse grunt

There was an arrow protruding froht that her allies froe had coht the same

「They’ve come to save her?!」

Including thethe adventurers pulled out their weapons and faced the forest However, the robed Mage gave a shout as he pulled the arrow out from the Thief

「You morons! It didn’t come from the forest, it’s from behind us!」

Before the Mage’s eyes was a carriagevery little sound, and a group of beasts made of bones

「U-Undeadfrom the plain and not from the Devil’s Nest?!」

「Who cares! More importantly, there’s one of theet in front of me!」

Shouting at his flustered shi+eld-holding coed to avoid a fatal wound thanks to his leather armor put a Potion to his mouth

And as the adventurers prepared to have him recover from his injury, Vandalieu’s army attacked Bone Man nocked another arrow into his bow and fired a second shot, but the Thief e it It couldn’t be helped, as Bone Man’s skill with the boas level 1

Vandalieu’s options for long-ranged attacks were too limited Perhaps he should have had Saria and Rita learn archery as well

As this thought ran through his e who see an incantation

「【Magic Absorption Barrier】」

A black e He immediately tried to block it with some kind of defensive spell, but the black mass absorbed and nullified it completely

「U-uwah! That Ghost Carriage used soic! What the hell is this?!」

The black e like a doe

「Don’t worry about that, hurry up and chant your spell!」

The ones at the front holding swords, spears, axes and shi+elds stepped forward to meet the enemy, but in the next moment, their well-prepared front-line crumbled

『Haah! If you will not fall back, then I shall trample you!』

Saave a shout as he ordered an increase in speed The faint, white horses gave a neigh as the carriage closed in on them at incredible speed

『CHAAAARGE!』

「R-RUUUUN!」

As the ave a shout, the adventurers all jumped out of the way of Sam’s path No matter hoerful their defense was, even if they possessed shi+elding techniques such as【Stone shi+eld】and【Stone Wall】, they wouldn’t be able to stop the 【High-Speed Travel】+【Charge】coe

Because they reacted quickly, they succeeded in avoiding Sanificent drift turn just twothat he was only able to do because the spirit horses were a part of him

The carriage should have been shaking violently, but thanks to the【Impact Resistance】skill, everyone inside was able to re with the exception of Vandalieu

「Gaaaah!」

「Guoooh!」

And as the adventurers’ formation collapsed, Bone Wolf, Bone Bear and Bone Monkey attacked The adventurers seeed to avoid the first attack and retake their stances with their weapons ready

「Geeeeh!」

「Ooooooh」

With Bone Bird’s Talon attacks co out of the carriage, things weren’t just looking bad for theht disastrous

「W-what are Rank 3outside the Devil’s Nest?!」

「How the hell should I know?! 「【Single Brandish!+】」

「Oi, how long is that supportto take?!」

One of theof Bone Bear’s front paw that was powerful enough to break his shi+eld, another had his basic swordsle Brandish】avoided by Bone Monkey, and the last was shouting at the Mage that seeic without turning back to look at him

「O flaic, ic!」

The Mage was clearly chanting a spell, but every time he drew his Mana forth from inside his body, it was taken away froic Absorption Barrier】If one atteic within the barrier, the Mana was stolen away before the spell could be completed

To overcome the effects of such a barrier, one must release a sheer amount of Mana that the barrier simply couldn’t absorb, use an anti-barrier spell or simply move at a speed at which the barrier cannot follow hie would be able to overco amount of Mana into

Of course, it was iic

「D-dauy?! Where am I supposed to attack?!」

On one side, the Thief was fighting against Saria and Rita Nor ability would be at a disadvantage fighting against two monsters head-on

However, Saria and Rita were barely able to swing their weapons, and it was not difficult for the agile Thief to avoid their attacks

But it was difficult for the Thief to attack the Arer into the gaps between the ar the joint between the helmet and the torso, he would be able to separate them into pieces

Unfortunately for him, neither Saria nor Rita possessed a helmet portion In Rita’s case, the torso proportion of the armor was already separated into two pieces

Trying to separate the ar Ar Bikini Armor were already in pieces

「Where’s the head, where are the vital points, Goddamn it! Gyah!」

He tried to stay cale already Their Mage had been made useless And then the bewildered Thief let out a screa like a rubber ball

The adventurers, given no chance to turn the battle back around, lay on the ground as corpses

The only casualties for Vandalieu’s party were several broken bones on Bone Wolf and Bone Bear, and Vandalieu’s own injury that he sustained while rolling around in the carriage

『I-I am terribly sorry, Bocchan』

「 I said it’s fine It’ll heal soon anyway」

There was a deep, bleeding gash on Vandalieu’s forehead, but as he possessed the【Rapid Healing】skill, it would heal within a few days

As for the broken bones, they were easily repaired as Vandalieu had recently discovered that he can use Death-Attribute Magic to restore them

In the end, their losses were basically non-existent

「Fuh, looks like I need to reflect upon my actions」

However, Vandalieu was reflecting on his rash decision to attack these adventurers

The reason he won this battle easily was because his surprise attack had gone well, he had used Death-Attribute Magic that they had never seen before and because they weren’t all that skilled

He had checked the Guild Cards that were the identification docu to those, these adventurers were D-class If they had been C-class or higher, it was likely that he would have had the tables turned on him

Attacking adventurers whose strength he couldn’t judge at a glance was a dangerous move

However, the option of leaving a girl to be attacked by these thugs was out of the question

「Next time, we’ll do our surprise attack better」

End of self-reflection

Leaving the tasks of stripping the adventurers of their belongings, taking care of their corpses and gathering infor to do was to help the girl who had been attacked

When he had used his【Sense Life】earlier, she had not been in a state where she reatly weakened This here the Potions that he had acquired in the Dungeon that he had kept just in case came in handy

「Ugh」

Zadiris was fully prepared to be killed at this point It was not her allies who had killed the adventurers, but Undead So she thought that the Undead would kill her next

「Are you alright?」

So she had thought, but time passed and the Undead didn’t attack her Not only that, but an infant with blood dripping fro to her

She was astonished, bewildered and fearful that this infant host And because of the strong, stinging pain from the wound in which the knife was still inserted, she was unable to answer his question

As Vandalieu looked down at Zadiris, he thought,「Her skin color is unusual, but she is a cute girl, huh」

She seee years Her lovely features and wet eyes made Vandalieu want to protect her Her physical appearance was such that she would have easily been able to make a debut as an idol on Earth

Her grey-brown skin was unusual, but this was another world, after all It ht not even be considered unusual here

Even her exposed breasts –

『Ah, I shouldn’t look at any more than that』

Vandalieu quickly averted his eyes away froe aside, his physical body was that of an infant, so fortunately he had not yet experienced sexual desire, though it would have been fine as long as his gaze didn’t become a lewd one

Well, his eyes were as lifeless as those of the Undead, and his gaze instilled fear ust

Not realizing this, Vandalieu thought that the treatment of her wound came first, and reached out for the handle of the knife

「Wait, stop!」

But this knife was a Magic Ite it out would cause that violent pain once more, Zadiris tried to stop Vandalieu’s hand

「【Painlessness】」

Knowing that she was in pain, Vandalieu used Death-Attribute Magic to erase the pain that she experienced

As Zadiris was bewildered by the sudden disappearance of the pain, Vandalieu pulled the knife from her abdomen in one movement And then he poured the 3rd-class Potion on the wound

The wound closed in a ridiculous fashi+on The deep opening that pierced through her flesh closed before his very eyes to becon that there had been a wound there

Surgically treating such a wound and the plastic surgery required to rereat deal of tile Potion In this regard, Laht Vandalieu

Though he probably wouldn’t have thought so if he knew just how much that 3rd-class Potion orth

「My name is Vandalieu Should I prepare water to wash your body and clothes to change into?」

He spoke to the girl looking up at him with a dumbfounded expression She was probably in a state of shock; it was to be expected, as she had just been stabbed by a thug and almost raped

『On Earth, a female police officer would handle this kind of situation』

The only females here were Darcia (whom only Vandalieu and the Undead could see), and Saria and Rita (who siht not immediately assume that they were females) Therefore, by process of elimination, the only one who could offer Zadiris support was Vandalieu