The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 12 (1/2)

Warning from the author:

This chapter contains elements of cannibalism Readers who are uncomfortable with this, please proceed with caution

「A toast! A toast to the savior of our chief!」

「Delicious, the ood!」

Vandalieu had saved the chief Zadiris, and the Ghoul community in the Devil’s Nest had welcoaro, the leader of the warriors

The Ghoul village was far larger and more civilized than Vandalieu had expected

The trees of this forested Devil’s Nest were densely packed, but they had been cleared away to create a plaza, and pit-houses with roofsthe leaves of trees were lined up in rows

Vandalieu wondered if the buildings didn’t get too humid, but as this wasn’t the Aion, it was probably not a problem

A well dug in the ground served as their water source, and there were fields for growing food, though they were prietable gardens There was also alcoholplants harvested in the forest, and a warehouse where meat from the prey they hunted was preserved and stored

The Ghouls’ lifestyle was sienous cultures that lived in forests that Vandalieu had seen in TV programs on Earth At the very least, they were far more civilized than monsters such as Goblins and Kobolds that relied entirely on hunting and gathering to sustain themselves

『And they’re living far more human-like lives than I have』

Vandalieu, who also relied entirely on hunting and gathering other than the spoils from the bandits, realized just how i how the Ghouls lived A person only lived a normal life when the necessities of life like food and water were readily available

And the Ghouls were using the meat as well as the bandits’ wine that Vandalieu had offered to host a banquet

There were about a hundred of them in total There were around tentrip to hunt Goblins, so that nu to increase even further Vandalieu wasn’t particularly well-informed on how ine that this was the es in the Devil’s Nest

Incidentally, the leader of the warriors hunting the Goblins was apparently Zadiris’s youngest daughter For soh she was a woe

And so the Ghoul er than their legs and the Ghoul worey-brown skin praised Vandalieu, who had saved Zadiris and offered theht was enough to calood」

Even though he knehere the e

Eating together with everyone made the food taste better

「Vandalieu, you should eat too」

Vigaro offered him a skeith some well-cooked meat on it, but Vandalieu shook his head

「I’ human meat」

Indeed, theon skewers and boiling with herbs was the flesh of the five adventurers that Vandalieu had killed when he saved Zadiris In other words, it was human meat

Though the Ghouls weren’t Undead as he had thought that they would be, their love for eating huined

「Really? They’re s, you know?」

Vigaro tilted his head as he eyed the roasted Poison Toad leg that Vandalieu was eating, but Zadiris, as sitting next to Vandalieu, chided him

「Do not be so forceful about it; Vandalieu is a Dhampir, so even if he drinks human blood, he does not consume the flesh」

「Is that so? Then how about alcohol?」

「Vandalieu is only one year old; alcohol is nothing short of poison for hi to test his resistance skills at a banquet?!」

「One year old?! Is that right? I thought he just had a small body and he was surely older」

Vigaro opened his eyes wide in surprise, but it was not strange for one to think that Vandalieu was older than he looked based on the way that he talked In fact, it was to be expected that one would make that assumption

「Well, he is a boy who uses ic, tae for you think that he is merely an adult with a small body, but」

「Is that so? I’h」

「Doesn’t look that way」

「It does not seem that way」

Zadiris and Vigaro spoke at the saht,「They’re probably right,」and paid no further attention to it

In fact, even if one ignored the ic and Undead, nobody would look at Vandalieu and think that he was an innocent one-year-old He was expressionless, with lifeless, dead-looking eyes and his presence was difficult to notice As Darcia had been killed when he was only six rown freely since then, and the only thing he earing was an inadequate cloth rag

No host

「Chief, reet the savior?」

「Please, we are begging you」

But it seemed that wasn’t the case for the Ghoul wo at Vandalieu with their sparkling yellow eyes

As Vandalieu received their attention, he simply blinked In all his lifetimes up until now, he hadn’t been popular with anyone other than spirits, so he was surprised

「He; I as」

The wo Most of thee years However, Zadiris, who their chief, had the appearance of a young girl

「How cute; his hair looks like a mane!」

「Such pretty eyes, they’re different colors as well!」

But they were certainly younger than Zadiris mentally As soon as Vandalieu was introduced to the turns to hold hiainst each other

「H-hey, you should not be so rough with him」

They were lifting hi hih treater than a grown man, so he was unharmed

Though he was unhar if he found such treater towards their treatment of him

『Huh? Could it be that I’m popular?』

He had never been pampered by members of the opposite sex in any of his previous lives Now that he was in his third life, he was experiencing rohts had stopped cory over how roughly he was being treated

All of these Ghoul woe in the Devil’s Nest, their clothing left much of their skin exposed Even hu their eyes off them

If they didn’thuman flesh, that is

「My name is Vandalieu Nice to meet you」

Vandalieu didn’t care in the slightest

Thinking about it, it wasn’t as if those huirl and then tried to sell her off as a slave The one that they had attacked was Zadiris, whom society had labeled as a monster

Of course, selling her as a slave was illegal, but for that they would have only been charged with「bringing an untae coirl as a slave

And at the moment that Vandalieu attacked, those adventurers were al act What kind of country would enforce a law that al to sexually assault a female monster? Well, perhaps such a laould be enforced, but only to prevent strange diseases fro

Ethically, it uild receptionists But it wasn’t technically against the rules

In the first place, adventurers existed to exterh the Ghouls could trace their roots back to the Goddess Vida, they were defined as monsters in the Amid Empire and its nations

So it was perfectly legal for the them

Therefore, Vandalieu killing the adventurers was an unwarranted attack, and taking the equipment from their bodies was exactly what bandits did

However, thinking further, one would ask,「so what?」

The reason for that: Vandalieu was a Dhampir In the Amid Empire and its nations, he was not considered a person, but a「monster」

In other words, he was in the same boat as Ghouls He was a creature that attacked and harmed humans

With that said, as so strange about hi the their flesh with his companions afterwards?

In any case, for those adventurers, Vandalieu was in the saory of creatures as Goblins and Poison Toads There was nothing unusual about what happened to them

If Vandalieu had been planning to fight for Dhaht have been concerned about it, but he had no intention of doing that He wouldn’t do it even if soed him to; it was such a troublesome task

He felthim than he did with hu hu bandits’ corpses? He should do that from now on

「I wishas Vandalieu, too He’s already thirty years old, but he’s still dependent on his parents」

「Hey, can you strokeas you」

「My name is Bilde If my next child is a boy, can I name him after you?」

Suddenly, Vandalieu’s heart dropped They were apparently all mothers or women ere about to become mothers Their stomachs were still flat, so he hadn’t noticed

He hadn’t really thought that he would be able to form relationshi+ps with them, nor did he really hope for it In any case, he was still just a one-year-old child Even so, he felt his

At the sa disappointed over such a thing that he hadn’t felt even when killing the adventurers

「Hey! He is already tired and lio of him, you fools!」

But from someone else’s point of view, it seeth

Ghouls are Undead reater intelligence and societal structure than subhuman-type monsters such as Goblins, Orcs and Kobolds, and the physical appearance of the two genders are very different

All of therey-brown skin, are physically strong, secrete paralyzing veno or, also possessing resistance to pain and poison

Thewarriors, as they surpass the fe venom

On the other hand, the feh they are physically weaker than the ic, and most of them are able to cast simple spells

However, fees also exist

Sometimes, Ghouls perform a special ritual to transform human corpses into a member of their own

High-level Ghouls such as Ghoul Warriors, Ghoul Berserkers and Ghoul Mages exist, and in the past, even higher-level Ghouls such as Ghoul Tyrants and Ghoul Elder Mages have been seen

『This is all that I know about Ghouls Do you plan to stay in the Ghoul village until spring?』

「Yes Also, Moinated from Vida like Vampires」

Darcia had a worried look on her face, but as Vandalieu replied to her, he was expressionless as usual

『That’s what makes me more worried If they were Undead, they would be more friendly because of your skills, but that’s not the case, you know? If they get hungry and try to eat you, ill you do?』

To Darcia, who had only just woken up and so had not seen the Ghouls for herself, that was a very real possibility that she orried about

「I think it’s fine Probably At the very least, I don’t feel the『presence of death』here like I did when I snuck into Evbejia」

Because of the Ghouls’ friendly behavior, he let his guard down to soh not completely

However, neither Darcia nor Vandalieu himself had realized that his Death-Attribute Char fully on the Ghouls

「Also, I need to wait until spring in a suitable place regardless Zadiris and the others have toldas I like」

Vandalieu had already confirht for hi The charreatly effective

「Also, I want to have Zadiris teachup to winter」

『That can wait until you get until the Orbaudom I can’t say that, can I?』

「Yeah, because I’ve realized that there is a problem with the Guild Cards」

Vandalieu ran his eyes across the five Guild Cards that he had left in the carriage, which was now considerably eiven the Ghouls the alcohol The Guild Cards were so, and they had the adventurers’ names and their D-class status written on them

Of course, he was planning to dispose of them later, but he had heard some very important information from the adventurers’ spirits, so he had done a little research before that

Guild Cards had the function of displaying one’s status to other people Noric Item to see the status of others

The owner of a Guild Card could apparently adjust how much of their status was displayed They could decide whether to display just their name and current job, or show their job history up until now, or even show their attribute values and skills That was up to the owner of the cards

However, when creating a Guild Card for the first time, all information is revealed to the Guild staff member

「Which means, the moment I become an adventurer, my skills and curses will be revealed」

『Hmm, that’s quite a problem Normally you would be happy since they would pay you a reward』

The Adventurers’ Guild paid out rewards to adventurers who discovered and acquired unknown jobs and skills

And the【Death-Attribute Magic】and【Death-Attribute Charm】skills that Vandalieu possessed were unknown skills

Darcia had first heard of them when Vandalieu had explained about his previous two lives To be more accurate, she had learned of her son’s skills and noticed that there were skills that she had never heard of before

『You’d also becoister at a Guild And you’d definitely get noticed by the Mages’ Guild I think even your curses would receive a lot of attention』

「But I can’t forget ain soister myself」

For Vandalieu to survive in this world with no parents, he needed to secure his own social position, and for that, he needed to register at a Guild And since every guild used Guild Cards, Vandalieu’s skills and curses would become known

However, as Guilds were organizations that protected their members, Vandalieu wouldn’t be unjustly i his unknown skills and curses Even though Vandalieu possessed unknown skills and curses, nobody would be able to do anything about it, whether they were Guild members or not

At least, not officially

Vandalieu kneell that not everybody in this world upheld rules and morals

『I suppose there’s no choice It seeic, so have her teach you lots of things Even if you can’t learn thethat you can apply to your Death-Attribute Magic』

「Yes, Mom」

And so Vandalieu ca in the Ghoul community

【The Death-Attribute Charm Skill has increased to level 3!】

【You have acquired the Strengthen Followers skill!】

At first glance, it was a blue-purple, fin-shaped, inexplicable object It gave a wet sensation when touched, and it was partially soft

At the very least, it was an object that one would not presume to be food

Was it really edible? Was this some kind of joke? Vandalieu wondered this as he tentatively tried a mouthful

It had an unusual texture and its flavor was a strange mix of bitter and spicy, and a bizarre scent that was neither unpleasant nor pleasant ran through his nostrils

If he hadn’t asked what it was made of, he wouldn’t have been able to tell whether it was etable

「How is it, Van? How does the Gobu-gobu taste?」

「 It’s delicious」

As the tall female Ghoul who called hiave an insincere coly incurable lack of co itself once more

「Van, what have you been eating up until now? None of us Ghouls think that this stuff is delicious」

But as Vandalieu was expressionless as usual, the co back to the fe him with pity in her eyes, he realized that his diet wasn’t so that he could readily mention

「 The rear legs of big frogs」

Other than his mother’s milk and blood, those had been the most delicious

「Well, there are a number of tasty monsters and fruits to be found in Devil’s Nests You’re only a year old, so don’t worry about it」

The na his head was Basdia She was the leader of the warriors who had been out to hunt Goblins and cohter

She was a beauty, over 190c to be in her ht have been a beautiful athlete or martial artist

And she also rese the two of the tier sister, and Basdia the older one

「Huobu, huh Can you eat a lot of delicious things in hues? That would explain why the adventurers were so delicious」