The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 17 (1/2)

The noble Orc was planning to attack a hue village of Orcs to attack the Ghoul village before doing so

Vandalieu was to fight the the title of Ghoul King

Vandalieu was in the midst of an alchemy lesson

He crushed the contents of thea certain amount of Mana into it Incidentally, the contents were Kobold bones, Magic Stones froans and his own blood

He used the resulting product to draw a ic Iteardless of whether it succeeded or failed, he would repeat this process until he obtained the skill

Though the contents of the mortar varied a little, the contents of his lessons did not

An individual of a higher race of Orcs, the noble Orcs, was leading a group ofthe Goblins and Kobolds under its coht for hi the title of Ghoul King?

While he was doing this, the Orcs were treating the captured Ghoul wos!

But Vandalieu continued crushi+ng the contents of the s

「If we panic and rush things now, it’s certain that only bad things will happen」

The Ghouls and Vandalieu knew this

Of course, they were gathering infors to detere and find other Ghouls, and es whose locations Zadiris and the others still remembered

There was no need to athered The earliest the ene And it was still the end of Deceh winter

Orcs had a gestation period of half a year when they bred and they only took another half year to grow into adults This hy the Ghouls did plan to ot the inforreat

「Still, this skill is quite hard to obtain」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu honestly found it difficult to learn Several an his alchemy lessons and he still hadn’t obtained the skill

「That is to be expected In fact, you are quicker to learn it than most monsters, boy」(Zadiris)

However, Zadiris encouraged him

「Though if you were a human, that may not be the case」(Zadiris)

The levels of skills generally range from 1 to 10

Those with a level 1 skill are novices that have just learned the skill For combat-related skills, this is the level at which the user can just e to use the skill in real battle Those with level 1 crafting skills would be at the level of an amateur hobbyist

The average soldier possesses level 2 co skills are considered unskilled craftsmen

Adventurers and mercenaries that possess level 3 combat-related skills are considered fully qualified Craftsmen with level 3 skills are quite skilled, but not allowed to operate independently

Those with level 4 combat-related skills are considered co skills are the minimum requirement for an independent craftsman

Those with level 5 combat-related skills are top-class users of those skills, and it is common for C-class adventurers to possess skills at this level

Those with level 6 combat-related skills are fit to be instructors for nobles, and are close to being B-class adventurers Those with level 6 crafting skills are able to run stores in large cities

Those with level 7 coht after by countries and noblemen; adventurers with skills at this level are B-class unless their behavior is considered greatly problematic Craftsmen with level 7 skills have multiple people that apply to be their apprentices every year

Those with level 8 skills are masters whose names are known across the entire country

Those with level 9 skills leave their names in history A-class adventurers possess skills at this level

Level 10 skills are in the realm of superhuman abilities

And there are rare cases where a skill surpasses level 10, beco such a skill could make one worshi+pped by others One would be called na or Flame Emperor, and be considered a God

It would perhaps be equivalent to Miyamoto Musashi+ on Earth It is unlikely that Miyaht for a week straight without eating or drinking, or cut through a mountain-sized rock that’s harder than steel, however

TLN: A legendary samurai/ronin

These were Vandalieu’s estimations of how skills worked, based on what he had heard from Darcia and Zadiris

With that in ic-related skills took numerous months

However, in this world, there is a coin

The bonuses to skills offered by jobs

The people of la jobs This increases the rate at which one obtains and levels up skills

Because of this, an amateur can become a master swordsman or craftsh, ain the experience they need

Looking at it another way, acquiring skills and leveling the a job is difficult Even with an excellent teacher, the apprentice having an appropriate job is al skills

In that regard, Vandalieu was quite exceptional considering that he had learned skills and leveled them up without a job

Because of his curse, Vandalieu’s experience from his previous lives didn’t manifest directly in his skills But he still re skills and still had the experience which helped him learn theic dozens of tie person

Also, he received racial bonuses by being a member of the Dhampir race

As proof of this, he hadn’t learned anyat all on Earth or in Lambda

「So in short, obtaining a job would make it easier to acquire new skills」(Vandalieu)

「Well, that is correct」(Zadiris)

「 I’ve found another reason to hate this country」(Vandalieu)

Changing jobs required special rooanizations such as Guilds, so it was impossible for Vandalieu to acquire a job in the Amid Empire where he was treated as a monster

Even if Vandalieu was able to use such a roo jobs】curse would likely e jobs

「But since pouring ain skills, I’ll just have to keep working diligently」(Vandalieu)

「Indeed That is wise of you, boy」(Zadiris)

Zadiris patted Vandalieu’s head, but if she are that his【Status Effect Resistance】and【Limit Break】skills had increased in level, she would likely have hient work

These skills were increasing in level because of the Status Effect known as “overwork” that Vandalieu was affected by, and because he was pushi+ng past the limits of what an infant’s body could withstand, every day

However, Vandalieu had no intention to stop pushi+ng hied ever since Darcia had been killed

The next day, he learned where the other Ghoul villages were There were ten of them in total However, they only needed to make the multiple-day journey to visit four of them

The other six had already been attacked by the Orcs

『Th-the men were killed and the omen GRRRR!』

『GAAAH! My village, it’s been burned down! THOSE PIIIIIGS!』

『It hurts! It hurts! Mother was screa! It hurts! I can’t breeeeaaaathe!』

『We attacked! The Ghouls! Bugogan-saic, no work on us!』

Vandalieu listened to the words of the spirits of the Ghouls and Orcs who had died in battle that had followed his Undead insects back to the village Many spirits were only capable of howling and crying because too much time had elapsed since their deaths and even those capable of speaking did so in fragether what had happened

The noble Orc Bugogan had apparently been attacking Ghoul villages one after another, starting with the se had between thirty to fifty hty or so slave Goblins and Kobolds attacked them, with the noble Orc’s sons in command

There were apparently so individuals like Ghoul Mages or Ghoul Barbarians In those villages, a Rank 4 Ghoul Warrior that e acted as the chief

It wouldn’t be surprising for them to be annihilated in a one-sided battle when the Rank 6 noble Orc attacked And it seees were able to cast spells that granted resistance against the paralyzing venom that Ghouls secreted from their claws

This ic would be cast on the Orc soldiers and some of the slaves before the battle

The Ghouls’ resistance had been fierce, killing many of the Goblins and Kobolds But since the Orcs captured Ghoul feain for them

And so Bugogan had killed over a hundred Ghoul men and kidnapped over a hundred Ghoul women Ghoul women had much sturdier bodies than humans, and made excellent mothers

It seean had used the Ghoul women in addition to the female Goblins and Kobolds to further increase the number of his Orc soldiers

The Kobold Shas, likely because it was a Spiritualist as never sent out onto the frontlines and because it was a slave

「So it seems that the Orcs increase in number by about a hundred every year I think a lot of them actually die in the harsh battles that they consider their training, but I think their breeding is accelerating, so let us tear out their entrails while they are still alive and scatter their brains across the ground」(Vandalieu)

「Boy, I understand that you are angry, but you must calm yourself」(Zadiris)

「Yeah, calet heated」(Vigaro)

「I’ with the spirits」(Vandalieu)

「Isn’t that even worse?!」(Vigaro)

「Boy, the Mana that has leaked out of you has taken the shape of skulls and is rather terrifying」(Zadiris)

Zadiris and Vigaro, Vandalieu’s close friends, stepped away from him in fear as countless black skulls swarmed around him

Ghouls froers to Vandalieu, and not people that he should have any particular feelings for However, after hearing the words of the spirits, he couldn’t contain his feelings of anger towards the Orcs

「Since Orcs are a race with only males, I think they cannot help that part of their behavior If they don’t do what they’re doing, then they cannot maintain their own race The instinct to reproduce is one of the three main needs, and it would be cruel to tell the and the evil Gods forcreatures that live and reproduce this way But I also can’t help being angry」(Vandalieu)

TLN: The other two are the need to eat and the need to sleep

「 Vandalieu, I can’t tell if you’re calaro)

TLN: As a rearo doesn’t understand them

「Even I do not know Well, I am relieved to see that you do not seem to have lost control over yourself In any case, there are four surviving villages, correct? Let us hurry and send ers to them」(Zadiris)

Tarea gave orders to theon a hand- her co pleased with herself

With golden pupils, gray-brown skin and claws stained purple with paralyzing venom, she was clearly a Ghoul woman However, one could possibly tell from the fact that the letters of her nainally a human

TLN: Dakuten are a pair of dashes that change a hiragana or katakana character’s pronunciation in japanese For example, た/ta is pronounced だ/da when those two dashes at the top-right of the character are added Every single Ghoul naaro, Basdia, Bilde, etc) contains two characters with dakuten, but Tarea’s name doesn’t have any

As a huhter of a skilled s talent at a young age, and people had expected her to one day be an exceptional smith, even more skilled than her father

However, a large company expanded into the city that she lived in and her parents lost their store And then theydecision They sold Tarea as a slave

Tarea was indeed a talented girl, but she also had two younger brothers In those days, the ones who succeeded the family, whether it was a noble family or a commoner family, was always a son

Even though Tarea’s younger brothers also had clear talent and ability No, because they did, her family decided to sell her and take back their store

Tarea was talented, but she also had a refined physical appearance As a young girl, she already possessed a body that was highly attractive to h price

After being sold, she was forced to work as a prostitute and suffered deep emotional wounds from her family’s betrayal and the circumstances she now found herself in She was forced to serve arrogant clients countless times, and in the end, she was unable to bear it and decided to escape

She found an opening to kill her client and escape the brothel, leaving the city As she fled, she ran into a Devil’s Nest to throw off her pursuers

And so she ht by Ghouls

Tarea despaired as she thought she was going to be eaten alive, but the group of Ghouls that captured her was small and lacked females What they desired fro function as a woman

Tarea was transfor already lost her willpower to resist, she opened her body to the Ghoultheir commands

Because she had become a Ghoul, even if she escaped, she would be killed if spotted by humans

And because she was originally a huained superhu venom

For Tarea to survive, she had no choice but to obey the commands of the Ghoulon like this?

Her eyes were clouded with despair, but her days of living such a life changed when she laid eyes on the fur of a Huge Boar that the ht back

As Tarea stroked the fur, she reood ar that whisper, the Ghoul men said,「Make it, then」

She obeyed the Ghoul-fitted leather armor of the sa the limited materials available

Froroup of Ghouls changed to the person destined to become the next chief

Tarea made pieces of equipht to her by the Ghoul h she had transformed from a hu

A Giant Scorpion’s carapace would become a shi+eld; an Iron Turtle’s shell would become armor; an Impaler Ox’s horns would become a spear

The warriors in the group of Ghouls Tarea belonged to were as well-equipped as adventurers and they kept hunting h to even kill adventurers who attacked them

Having regained her willpower, she used techniques she had learned during her times as a prostitute to control the ht the other women ere jealous of her how tothem under her

And a hundred years after she becaroup, despite being weaker than everyone else

And roup of less than twenty Ghouls that had been on the brink of exteres desired Tarea’s equipht food to trade for it The influence that Tarea’s group of Ghouls had was even greater than Zadiris’s village that had over a hundred Ghouls

「Fufu, at this rate, I’ll have control over this Devil’s Nest in another ten years」

Tarea sat on a comfortable throne carved out of a Treant, her body decorated with jeweled accessories taken fro her rich black hair and hiding herfan made from the shell of an Iron Turtle carved thin With this appearance, it was completely appropriate to call her a Ghoul Queen

Though she had h

Tarea had no contact with Zadiris’s village and hadn’t learned about the large group of Orcs led by Bugogan, so she had no doubts that her ambitions would become reality

「For me, as once aa slave, to rule this Devil’s Nest full of monsters far 」

「Tarea-sama, please make my shi+eld」

「Tarea-sama, my armor too, please!」

「Wait a little longer! Even if you do not ask me, I will make it for you!」

Wondering if the chief’sas finished, so to herself like this was Tarea’s daily routine