The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 14 (1/2)

At Vandalieu’s sudden request to be alone, Zadiris opened her eyes wide in surprise

「Alone, you say?」

「Yes, it’s a very important matter」

As Vandalieu spoke to Zadiris with an unusually firm tone, Zadiris wondered whether he had decided to finish his training and leave the village

She had heard that he was headed for the country of Orbaue to the east of this Devil’s Nest However, he had not yet finished learning No-Attribute Magic, Magic Mastery or Alchee his hoer

「Very well Let us speak in my house」

Thinking that she should persuade hier somehow, she picked up Vandalieu in her arms and headed for her own home

「 I can walkto be two years old soon」

「You are not two years old yet, boy Did you not say that a while ago and trip over a stone?」

Vandalieu had thought that he had come closer to adulthood now that he was nearly two years old, but from others’ point of view, he was but an infant who had co boy

They entered Zadiris’s pit dwelling in which Vandalieu noric Inside, there were alchemy-related tools that Zadiris had invented herself, as well as a crystal ball that apparently had so in a conspicuous spot

If there were a cauldron, then this ht have been the perfect description of the hoht out of a fairy tale, but such a cauldron was absent

「Say, boy If possible, I wish to teach you all of the spells that I know」

Zadiris spoke with a serious expression as she sat down on the rug They were not words of gratitude for saving her life or of wanting to repay his contributions to the village, but words expressing her expectations of him

「Boy, you have no real talent in the normal sense of the word I a slowly However, you possess a lot of insight and sense that compensates for that」

The insight and sense that Zadiris spoke of were ideas from the fictional works that Vandalieu had read and seen on Earth, the inforin and the power of i aware of this, didn’t think that it was insight or sense or anything worthy of praise

「Most importantly, you possess that outlandish amount of Mana If you were to devote yourself to study, it would not even take you a hundred years to becoe that I could not even compare to」

Sie, but the size of one’s Mana pool was still a conored In this world, the level of a skill increased the e Mana pool was essential to support the repeated casting of ic necessary to increase the level of one’s skill

For huic-related jobs were important, but even those jobs required certain skills to be at certain levels to obtain the jobs in the first place

And so, for both hues, the first step was to learn basicthey could to increase their Mana pools In the case ofable to put in the effort required or die before becoic

In that regard, Vandalieu was very fortunate He didn’t need to go through lessons to frantically increase the size of his Mana pool No, one’s Mana pool naturally expanded even without lessons At any rate, he was not even two years old yet and his Mana pool exceeded a hundred rew older, it would increase by tens of millions more or perhaps even increase by another hundred million

And so even if he learned soh talent for such concerns to not be a problem

Those were the expectations that Zadiris had for hireater

「That is why I wish for more time I am aware that you are on a journey with a purpose, but will you not give me a little more time?」

「Yes, please leave it to me」

Vandalieu gave an immediate reply

「Oh, so you have cos!」

Though Zadiris found the way Vandalieu had worded it a little strange, she was happy with his response However, as he continued speaking, she realized that there had been so

「Well then, I’ht away, so please lie down and make yourself comfortable」

「T-treating?」

「Yes Please leave it to me」

On one hand, Vandalieu looked full of ic, he could see the shadow of death on Zadiris’s face, the presence of death around her That hy he had decided to extend her lifespan

Vandalieu had thought that the greatest obstacle to doing this would be Zadiris’s oishes

Zadiris had been saying things like「I do not have long to live」and「I already have a successor ready」; she hadn’t see alive Vandalieu had been worried that she ic

However, she was now saying,「Give me more time」

If she had said,「I will let things run their course」, or「It is best for me to pass naturally」, or doubted Vandalieu when he told her that her death was close, he wouldn’t have knohat to do But to think that Zadiris would be aware of her own ih trust in Vandalieu to ask him to extend her life Vandalieu was moved

Realizing what a happy thing it was to be trusted by so

However, it was just a

「This is necessary for you to learn ic from me, is it?」

「Yes There is no other way」

Zadiris’s age was at a point where she ht last as little as a few days, or a ic from her was to extend her lifespan

「Alright But what are you doing?」

Zadiris laid down, face up This reminded Vandalieu of the first ti to save her life back then

「I’er」

「Eh?! Makeis possible!」

With a bizarre sensation, Zadiris watched as Vandalieu’s hands and arms sank into her stomach, all the way up to his forearms

「Kah! Haah?!」

Zadiris opened her eyes wide in surprise and was rendered breathless by the foreign sensation of having her internal organs being stroked by a pair of cold hands

「Right now, I have used【Spirit Body Transformation】on my hands to directly examine your body’s situation I know it is a little painful, but please bear with it」

Cold sweat formed on Zadiris’s face as she looked up at Vandalieu to complain to him with her eyes, but he didn’t notice as he was focused on what he was doing It was actually his first ti【Spirit Body Transformation】, so he didn’t know just how painful it would be for the subject

However, he had a good understanding of how to do it correctly Like a veteran surgeon

When he was being toyed around with by the researchers of Origin, they had forced his This included other living subjects like himself and lead containers of nuclear waste The Mana produced by Vandalieu had been used to create Magic Itereatly advanced in

Putting that aside, he was exaht now The【Spirit Body Transformation】had taken Vandalieu’s ared into her abdo into a liquid-like state and getting carried away by Zadiris’s circulatory syste into every corner of her body

And then Vandalieu’s arined His Spirit Body was directly linked to his 【Spirit Body Transformation】

『 I feel like it’s easier than it was in Origin; is that becausethis offorced to do it?』

Vandalieu was surprised that it was so sihts

「Guh, agh Haah Haah」

He had noticed the agony that Zadiris was in He cut unnecessary thoughts froet the treatment finished as quickly as possible

Blood, blood vessels, brain, heart, nerves, stoe intestine, ovaries, uterus, bones, muscles, lymph, skin Their locations and shapes were mostly identical to humans The only difference Vandalieu could see in Zadiris’s body was that there were glands that produced the paralyzing venom that was secreted from her claws

Other than the fact that the function of her organs eakened, her condition was satisfactory In short, there were no loose blood vessels, aneurysht be a cause of death, and no sign of any viral of fungal infection

It seee after all

Since the cause was old age, thewith it were difficult but simple to understand First, Vandalieu had to choose fro Death-Attribute Magic to halt the breakdown of Zadiris’s cells while having another ans to restore their declining function This technique had been used in Origin, but there were no Life-Attribute Mages available, so this method was impossible

Since Vandalieu could only use Death-Attribute Magic, he was only capable of speeding up or slowing down cell death Unlike Life-Attribute Magic that controlled life itself, he couldn’t grant vitality to another

『If it were a wound, I would stop cell death while applying a Potion, but surely even Potions aren’t powerful enough to cure old age Well then, on to the second method』

The seconda spell to directly preventing her fro closer to death That was a si as Vandalieu cast the spell on her regularly, Zadiris could continue living in her current state

『But I reject that method』

Looking at it another way, that method would only e or an allergic reaction, he could postpone her death and let her body’s natural recoverywith old age, it was si the inevitable Zadiris would never recover and forever be in her weakened state

And since Vandalieu would need to cast the spell regularly, Zadiris would die soon after he left the village

There would be no point in such a treatment option Such a ic froain from this, he didn’t want Zadiris to die

That left one option The in had failed to accoe」that mankind always dreamed of

It was a technique that ree』from the cells and caused『restoration of youth』In the experi the youth of individual parts of the body such as the skin, blood vessels and bones had succeeded, but there had never been a successful experi of the entire body

But those had been experi Vandalieu’s body and ic had decreased since dying in Origin and being reincarnated in Larown

『Let’s try with the usual forceful approach』

First, he let his transforhout Zadiris’s entire body

「Ugh!」

Conscious of Zadiris’s , he tried to be as careful as possible as he let his Spirit Body diffuse into her capillaries, her skin cells and the ends of her nerves

「【Youth Transformation】」

And then he began to pull the『death』from her body

「Ah?」

Masters of the fire attribute controlled not flames, but heat directly They are able to freely increase heat to melt a steel bar, or decrease heat and freeze the surface of an ocean

In the saic, Vandalieu controlled death directly and theoretically should be able to freely control whether a creature lived or died

「Kuh fuh!」

Like gently scooping up dirt that had gathered over tie from Zadiris’s cells

And slowly but surely, Zadiris’s age began to reverse The energy returned to her cells and her organs began to work vigorously once more

「This takes a lot ht it would」

The Mana cost of every other spell that Vandalieu had cast up until noas inco on this process It was costing hie that he reversed

「B-boy, ha What are you kuh!」

Fortunately, Zadiris seemed to not be in the discomfort that she was in before, but in pleasure Since Vandalieu had to reverse the aging on her whole body evenly, he had to patiently and calmlythat Zadiris wasn’t suffering

「For now, I’ve er」

「Madeis not ah, uhyii, aaah!」

「To befro like that」

It wasn’t as if he had reversed tie, there was no way she would turn into a fetus or anything of the sort Re one closer to death

If Vandalieu did the saed hue years Though if he studied harder and caht even be able to turn a huote

「Kuaaaaaaah!」

Unable to contain herself, Zadiris let out a high-pitched voice

The pleasant feeling of one’s stiff hout her entire body, not only in her limbs and torso, but even inside her head She couldn’t keep her reater than being treated by an expert s, that pleasure suddenly stopped

「Haah haah haah Boy?」

As Zadiris regained control over her breathing and looked over at Vandalieu, he was lying on his back The arms that had been in spirit form inside Zadiris’s abdomen were now back to their normal, physical state

「 It’s been a while since I used my Mana to its limit I’ll sleep a little」

Vandalieu’s Mana pool was coe by ten years, so he had quickly returned his arms to their physical state and collapsed, and noasperson

「 It would not have killed you to explain yourself a little more」

Zadiris whispered these words as she felt her own eyelids grow heavy as well The fatigue that she had felt the past few days had disappeared, but a feeling of exhaustion, as if she had just finished soered in her body

It was a very strange sensation

The aging of all the cells of her entire body had been reversed, and this exhaustion was the side effect of her body undergoing such a large change in such a short period of ti at the tinancy, the process didn’t affect her physical appearance If Zadiris had been a human, she would have likely passed out on the spot

「Well, it is fine It see that benefitsbad will happen Now, let me sleep a little as well」

Cuddling closely to Vandalieu as already asleep, Zadiris fell asleep on the rug

And a young Ghoul warrior by the nauest as being treated like a full member of the co outside Zadiris’s house, sing his saliva

He had seen Zadiris and Vandalieu entering her pit dwelling And when he had put his ear against the wall, he had heard Zadiris’s moans and screams of pleasure

「Who would have thought that the chief and Vandalieu would To be able to do it at that age, Dha」

Banad whispered to himself with an expression of awe on his lion-shaped face He should stop the others fro Vandalieu as a child Vandalieu was already a fully-fledged adult no, a king

The next day, as Zadiris ate with a large appetite, she showed aic could do when Vandalieu explained what he had done, but also scolded hi first

「However, that makes little difference to the fact that you have saved my life twice now I thank you froh that if you were a taladly be tamed by you and become your servant Now then, how shall I return the favor?」

The races that Vida had spawned that had originated fro tamed successfully were low, as they possessed huinated from a Goddess However, if the individual desired to be tamed, it was a different story

More than just wanting to repay Vandalieu for saving her life by giving him her own, Zadiris said those words because she had beco him wherever he went

Though her heart throbbed in a way unfitting for her age, she couldn’t decide this easily because of her social position

「I’d be happy if you cae have problems if you did that?」

As Vandalieu pointed that out, Zadiris came out from her fantasies and back to reality

「Well, you are right The village would do ithout e to replace me, so that is a source of concern」

She did think that the village would be fine without her, but now that her life had been extended, she had new desires She wanted to teach her skills to other young women as well as Vandalieu, and she orried about whether her youngest daughter Basdia would be able to have a child

「And I still haven’t learned No-Attribute Magic or Magic Mastery yet, so I’ll be in your care a little longer」

「Oh, I see I ain our lesson」

「 My Mana hasn’t recovered coer」

After that, they ate Gobu-gobu for breakfast and then began another lesson

However, from today onwards, their lessons would end in another session of age-reversal treatment for Zadiris

One’s Mana pool increased as one’s level increased, but like other attribute values and skills, it also increased with use

However, since Vandalieu’s Mana pool was so vast, thishis Mana pool had been mostly impossible for him Vandalieu’s Mana exceeded one hundred million To use up all of that Mana, a spell that cost ten thousand Mana would need to be cast ten thousand times

assu that each cast took ten seconds, ten thousand casts would take a hundred thousand seconds That would be twenty-seven hours It would take over a whole day

However, casting【Youth Transformation】on Zadiris took only ten minutes, even if he cast it until he used up all his Mana and fainted

And so he had No-Attribute Magic and Magic Mastery lessons in the , and in the afternoon, he made walnut sauce and acorn powder After that, he took an afternoon nap like an infant should In the evening, he had a continuation of the lessons fro to bed, he performed the【Youth Transformation】on Zadiris at her house until he fainted And then he would sleep He began to spend every day living this cycle