The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 15 (1/2)

「As well as taking lessons, I a an effort to solve the proble birth rates」

As Vandalieu told Zadiris this, her eyes opened wide

「That is well, a happy thing for us, but I hope you are not going to propose that we kidnap women of other races and use a ceremony to turn them into Ghouls?」

「Is so like that really possible?」

According to the infor in human society that Darcia had heard, Ghouls were capable of doing this, but Vandalieu had dismissed it as a superstition

「Yes, it is, though we have never done it in this village The only females of other races we can abduct from this Devil’s Nest are probably feh And even if we succeed, that ht cause other adventurers to cos to worry about than increasing our population by one female」

Ghouls apparently possessed a way of transfor members of other races into h it was less effective as it only worked on fened to balance the race’s low pregnancy and birth rates

But in this village, the Ghouls had not done this before as they had no way to get their hands on feh to increase their female count as to take that risk

「But it is true that no children have been born here in ten years We cannot ask you to ain to rateful if you were to resolve this problelad to assist you in any way that we can And since you were able to use【Youth Transforic cannot perform, I am sure you will be able to do it」

It is a task that one would normally think to be impossible, but it was possible that this boy who only turned two years old just recently could do so about this problem It was now natural for Zadiris to believe this

「I will try and do whatever I can」

Vandalieuest that he would be able to do it for certain, and his e was limited to medical dramas and school lessons froed to absorb froin

In other words, his knowledge applied to hus like ultrasound ic froin were available

He wasn’t even particularly knowledgeable about the field of y in the first place In all honesty, he didn’t have any confidence

However, Vandalieu’s Death-Attribute Magic had advanced Origin’s medical standards so much that even Rodcorte hi so to treat the Ghouls’ infertility wasn’t impossible

「But I have to keep it a secret from Mom」

Darcia wouldn’t approve of her two-year-old son getting involved in such work Vandalieu experienced for the first ti a secret from a parent

Aabout the Ghouls’ declining birth rates, he was using the blue flaht】to deal with the heat of summer Vandalieu quickly identified the cause of the Ghouls’ low probability of beconant

The method he used was to have ten Ghoulthe act, Vandalieu used【Spirit Body Transforenitalia, sper correctly

TLN: The verb used here is the most polite way to say “to do”, it's pretty ular conversation

The cause that he found as a result was a simple, basic one

First, the sperm of the Ghoul males only survived inside the females for around half a day This was a much shorter duration than those of other races

Next, the egg cells of the feain, this was much shorter than for other races In addition, theirthat ovulation occurred only once a month

「Incell, or both, die before fertilization That explains why they can’t get pregnant unless they do it every day」

Ghouls had no way of deter in the menstrual cycle to try and conceive, so that contributed to the problem as well

「I see~ That’s hoas But Vandalieu, why do you keep calling baby- it?』」

「 I’e where I’m hesitant to say it so frankly」

Vandalieu was careful to not look at Bilde, as lying on the bedjust finished「doing it」

『I’m sure that on Earth, it would be the subject who finds this kind of research and treatment more mentally difficult than the researcher』

For soe mood No, he was happy that his work had produced results and he felt even htly downhearted? Like he was suffering? Why did he feel like this?

The reason for it was probably the fact that he was researching ways to treat the infertility of cute girls He hadn’t interacted with the other sex on Earth or in Origin, but noas in this situation in Lambda It was kind of unfair Yes, yes, it was Rodcorte’s fault, everything was Rodcorte’s fault

「So don’t you have to just stop those sper? Can you do it?」

As Vandalieu contemplated the probleestion It see cells were, but she was exactly right

「I can」

Indeed, lengthening the lifespans of the speric, he could even prolong the life of a fatally wounded person for days It wasn’t difficult for hi cells alive

「Really?! Then you’ve solved it, yay~♪」

Bilde sprang up fro Vandalieu around However, Vandalieu disagreed with her The method proposed was possible for him, but it was difficult to call it a solution

A solution required ress

「Now then, I want to figure out a way to prevent the es」

「But there’s nobody in the village who’s pregnant right now Alright, we just have to get pregnant, then」

Seeing Bilde’s dazzling se

As a result of having the Ghouls ic to keep the sper cells alive, Bilde and the other fenant He clearly felt the life in the fertilized eggs, and Vandalieu had now confir cells weren’t surviving long enough

And then Vandalieu figured out why Ghoul woes of pregnancy

The zygotes had low vitality

Using【Spirit Body Transformation】, he deter that could be an external cause The zygotes simply had low vitality

The h vitality, and it seeotes and fetuses in their wo them

This as causing the nancy

And now that he knew the cause, the rest was siain, this tiotes and fetuses He could prolong their lives until they became able to sustain life on their own

And in the month of Dece in the air, the results finally showed

「When I told the is okay now, Bilde and the other mothers were really happy Of course, it’s not just the e is happy as well」

「Indeed Because of you, boy, we are now able to welcoe I thank you from the bottom of my heart」

Basdia, Zadiris and Vandalieu had asse

「They should stabilize now after threeas nobody does anything careless」

As the Ghoul fetuses reached three nancy, they were full of vitality Vandalieu would observe until Bilde and the other er had to keep an eye on them every day

Previously, Ghouls had to ask thenant when they nancy would make it past three months if they did

「I see It has been said that Ghouls have never reproduced outside of Devil’s Nests, even in ancient tio well, we may be able to live outside the Devil’s Nests」

Monsters thrived in Devil’s Nests, orously than they would if they were living outside the Devil’s Nests and their young would also reach le for existence was harsh, and no matter how many adventurers ventured into Devil’s Nests to hunt them, monsters would always survive

Ghouls, ere partin Devil’s Nests The fact that they were receiving such effects and still had declining birth rates had been worrying them

That hy producing offspring outside of Devil’s Nests had been a hopeless thought That hy Ghouls lived in Devil’s Nests that contained h there were also plenty of monsters that they hunted as prey

「Now all that’s left for ic Ite cell life and prevent the death of the fetuses」

「Yeah, we can’t rely on you forever, Van」

Vandalieu had figured out aGhoul birth rates, and it was realistic for him to accomplish However, this had required him to cast spells on the Ghoul women every day

As Vandalieu planned to go to the Kingdom of Orbaume, he could only do this for a limited amount of time And a continuation of the current situation would be mentally difficult for him

「You are fairly quick to learntechniques like alchemy, boy」

As Zadiris said, Vandalieu was ai well

In Laic of the different attributes The other is techniques such as alcheic

The ic of the attributes is simply one’s affinity for attributes and hoell he or she can use those attributes For exaht and wind attributes, while Vandalieu possessed an affinity for the death attribute

Techniques such as alcheic represent different skills that applying the attributes that one possesses an affinity for in different ways

For exaic is a technique where one communicates with spirits of the desired attribute and transfers Mana to them to manifest an effect

And alchemy is a skill where one uses Mana and spells to utilize various catalysts to produce ic Items

As spirits of the death attribute didn’t exist, spiritual ic was impossible for Vandalieu, but if he studied alcheic Items of the death attribute

In fact, in Origin, Vandalieu’s Mana had been squeezed out of hiic Items Of course, his body had been taken control over at the time; he didn’t know the techniques needed to create them himself The techniques he had learned about froin’s high level of science and technology and ic Items, so he couldn’t apply it here

That hy he was learning it fro ic Mastery】

「At this rate, I ht not leave until the year after next On another topic, Basdia, are you sure about your decision? Because I’m here for now, you could have a child if you wanted to」

Unlike Bilde and the otherin Vandalieu’s research and wasn’t pregnant right now Vandalieu had curiously asked her about it since she had wanted to be pregnant so badly, but she had unexpectedly answered,「No, I’ood for now」

「If I get pregnant now, after you learn alchemy, I won’t be able to becoic Items you make work or not」

「Well, I suppose that’s true, but aren’t you worried about your age and such?」

Ghoul wonant That hy Basdia, who had never beconant yet, had the physical appearance of a twenty-five no, twenty-six-year-old

Though Vandalieu thought that she was beautiful and still looked young, so she didn’t need to worry about it for a few more years

「Are you sure? The results have already shown that the boy’sthat you have a child as well And you do not need to be so worried about being an experimental subject later」

「Mother, it’s fine Van said he doesn’t e a few more years」

「 Those words sounds like the boy is your partner」

「 That would take over ten years at a nant already」

There had been a e that Vandalieu and Zadiris were in that kind of relationshi+p, but that had been resolved already Basdia turned her head and gave the two of them a confused look

「I didn’t phrase that right I’ for so an experimental subject」

「Compensation?」

Vandalieu tilted his head in response to Basdia’s words Since he had coe, he hadn’t interacted with a h it would be accurate to say that he had never done so in any of his lives

「Ah, I do want to ask Van to be my partner for my second child」

「 Isn’t this quite a difficult request to make of a two-year-old boy?」

「It’s fine; I’ll just wait until you’re able to do it, Van」

「Hmm, is that not fine with you, boy?」

「No, it’s not」

Basdia’s aging would indeed stop once she becanant for the first ti, even as she approached three hundred years of age one day Even if she waited until Vandalieu developed his secondary sex characteristics, her physical appearance wouldn’t change

However, Vandalieu couldn’t ie years

「There’s no way that I could grasp the responsibilities of being a parent in e years And I’m not a human in the first place; I’m a Dhampir born between a Vampire and a Dark Elf I don’t knohether it’s even possible for me to have a child with a Ghoul」

「No need to worry; us races born of the Goddess Vida are all able to producewith each other」

「Is that so? That’s a relief, Van」

「Ah,this idea has vanished」

The problee that the elderly possessed was not to be underestimated

「And anyway, Van, you’re a boy so I don’t think you need to grasp the responsibilities of being a parent」

「Indeed; the role of the e to hunt for food Raising the child is a woman’s work」

「No, that only applies for Ghouls」

Vandalieu supposed that this was how harsh Ghoul society was; the fact that Ghoul men had to risk their lives was very inconvenient for them

「Well, we are Ghouls, after all」

「I know But there’s no way of knohether the child will be a Ghoul or not It see with humans definitely produces Ghoul children, but I’m a Dhampir」

「Ugh, you got me there」