The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 18 (1/2)

The female adventurer who surrendered to the Orcs without resistance was bound with vines instead of rope and taken away

The young noble Orc had a vulgar s on the end of the vine as if she were his pet dog The

They were likely happy because while this wo for their master, their master’s mood would be improved

And so the fe by the noble Orc and taken into the Orc Kingdom that his father had established

Even though she would soon be forced to start giving birth to monsters until she died, the female adventurer had no expression on her face However, nobody noticed this, even the noble Orc himself

It was impossible for monsters to read the detailed facial expressions of humans, and the noble Orc had no interest at all in the woin with

An oval-facedas if he was sleeping Suddenly, his eyelids flew open and he pressed a handkerchief to his mouth

「Oh, how repulsive」

The bloody-s Kobolds To top it all off, the pigs ere under the ih-class creatures And, of course, the wo treated like cattle, unable to die even if they wanted to

The man had been prepared to see this; he had knohat he was being requested to do Even so, he struggled to contain his nausea

「Are you alright, Luciliano-dono?」

「N-nothing to worry about Uegh More importantly, steward-dono, please call for the viscount I have so to report」

「Certainly; I will summon the master I am terribly sorry, but please hile I do so, Luciliano-dono」

The butler, who apparently had happened to corant black tea before leaving the roo Luciliano so for the master

With the wonderful aro his nostrils, Luciliano felt the disgusting scenery that had been burned into his et it, however, as it was his job to remember it

「Your reconnaissance succeeded?!」

Shouting loudly about this top-secret request, a handlebar mustache entered the room No, a nobleman with a handlebarhis cup down, Luciliano gave the nobleman a bow

「I will now report, Viscount Berno Balchesse」

This nobleion and the one who had hired Luciliano

He appeared to be a smart noble characteristics other than his nificent handlebar mustache; he was not an incompetent man He was your typical nobleman

「My Live-Dead has safely infiltrated the Orc village」

Live-Dead This is a special kind of Undead no, a creature classified as an Undead, created using Life-Attribute Magic

It is created by casting a spell on a fresh corpse whose heartbeat and palpitation has only just stopped, restarting its biological functions

Though its heart and lungs move, it is classified as an Undead because it does not have a soul, but it looks no different fro creature It is war ic It does appear to be an expressionless, flat-toned person, however

Its only drawback is that the spell is directly granting life to the body, so it still requires food and sleep Also, unlike Undead, it is affected by poison and illness

Viscount Balchesse had hired Luciliano to use this Live-Dead as a familiar and borrow its five senses to confirm whether the rumors were true or not

The ru the adventurers The ru the forest-like Devil’s Nest that was further away from the town

For so to the distant forest-like Devil’s Nest hadn’t been co due to the adventurers being unskilled, but a Thief acting solo had witnessed so Orcs, Goblins and Kobolds

In her race of Orcs were capable of organizing groups of monsters, and there were several hundred of them around the world

Luciliano’s job was to determine whether the monster that the Thief saas really a noble Orc, and if it was, he was to also find out how many monsters the noble Orc commanded

「The Live-Dead I a has been captured by a medium-sized coe The location is about three days’ journey froe of the Devil’s Nest」

「So, how roup?!」

「So far I have confirmed that there are at least two noble Orcs, the one in co of the village However, it seemed that there are one or two more I believe the total monster count is around four hundred or five hundred」

「Three noble Orcs, and five hundred monsters!」

Viscount Balchesse looked as if he was about to faint after hearing Luciliano’s report noble Orcs were Rank 6 monsters at minimum, and individually superior noble Orcs were even said to be capable of slaying Dragons There were at least two of these, possibly four or even more With five hundred monsters under their command, even if Balchesse hts, city guards and even the active adventurers in the region, defeat was the only iinable outcome

「However, I believe that the noble Orcs, including the king, are not superior individuals Ah, of course, I mean in comparison to other noble Orcs If you would allow me to express my personal opinion, I would think that the situation could be dealt with if you were to gather around two hundred C and D-class adventurers with a B-class adventurer in command」

「Really?!」

As Viscount Balchesse heard these words, blood returned to his face that had been as pale as a sheet of paper However, a h

「Even if that is the case, this is a serious ather two hundred adventurers as well as a first-rate adventurer of B-class or higher I aainst monsters It is beyond my capabilities to deal with this on my own I must consult Earl Marshal Palpapek」

As a ruler, Balchesse had the power to request help froher positions in situations that he couldn’t deal with on his own If he allowed his pride to get in the way, tried to deal with this probleraced, but his entire territory would be overrun by monsters

In that regard, Viscount Balchesse was a noble up to his handlebar mustache

「The noble Orcs are apparently planning to roup of monsters in the Devil’s Nest that is not under their co to deal with that first Those monsters are Ghouls, I presume」

「So we have some time Good work, Luciliano I will pay the fee for your services to the Adventurers’ Guild, but I request that you still keep this situation a secret It would cause a panic a the people」

「Thank you very much」

Luciliano felt relieved, having finally earned so time to escape the Amid Empire and its nations, where the Church of Alda’s influence was strong and the use of Undead was restricted

He had decided to head to the neighboring Kingdom of Orbaume, and then find a comfortable city to live in

「Well then, you will accept my next request, won’t you?」

However, Viscount Balchesse’s words postponed his plans

Around the beginning of February, Vandalieu organized the surviving Ghouls of the Devil’s Nest into an arainst the noble Orcs

Norhold, but Vandalieu had personally visited the other Ghoul villages to convince them to ith him

The reason for that was to use the effects of the【Death-Attribute Charather the Ghouls smoothly, but

「I wonder if I’」

「That’s not true, King By the way, our nu」

「Yeah, yeah」

Vandalieu used the【Golee their shape and build pit dwellings He lacked the knowledge to build proper houses, but he had lived in pit dwellings for over a year, so he was fah with them to build them

The materials moved on their own to the places that he coed into the shape that he needed the Gole as he had the le pit dwelling

「Oh, a! Ten more houses, please!」

「King, we’re expanding the village so please build some outer walls as well」

「Yeah, yeah」

He turned felled trees into Wood Goleed their shape to turn theround’s surface into an Earth Gole the pit dwellings As long as they were all in his field of vision, he could build ten pit dwellings simultaneously

Would Vandalieu be able to dom? He didn’t knohether that country actually needed pit dwellings, but he was relaxed enough to wonder about these things

After finishi+ng building the ten pit dwellings, he began to work on the outer walls This was even easier than building homes for the Ghouls All he had to do was build sturdy walls

He just needed to give the command and the walls built themselves, so it was finished in only a few minutes

「That’s our King!」

「How splendid!」

『King, King, King!』

The Ghouls raised their fists in the air and began chanting for their King Ghouls were a fundamentally lazy race, so they didn’t hold back as they praised Vandalieu as able to quickly complete all of the difficult work

It didn’t see his example, however

「He~ey, Van Mother is calling for you」

「Alright Well then, I’ the rest to you

Vandalieu gave a short bow before leaving As the Ghouls no longer had to do any hard labor thanks to hier

The Ghouls had absorbed four villages including Tarea’s village, and they now had over two hundred and seventy h they were few, there were some elderly individuals as well However, Ghouls were a race whose members made excellent warriors up until they were nearly three hundred years old, regardless of gender

The strongest Ghouls in these villages were Rank 4 Ghoul Warriors, and there weren’t any strong Rank 5 or higher Ghouls like Vigaro and Zadiris, but thanks to Tarea, they were all fully equipped

Ar the defensive capabilities of full plate ar nowhere near as heavy

A spear with the horn of a Lance Bull as its tip, capable of piercing through iron armor

Even D-class adventurers wouldn’t be this well-equipped Though not all of their equipic Iteed by their Rank

Humans are physically weaker than monsters and don’t possess special abilities like monsters do To defeat monsters, they rely on three major components Those are their coordination with each other, their skills and their equipment The Ghouls had obtained the last of these components

However, there was also so

「What do you e? Have you really lived ten tier than me?」

「What about it? I have used my ability to smith equipment and the weapon a woman is born with to rise to this position in the world A little girl who has never even given birth to a child should just stay quiet」

Basdia and Tarea glared at each other One was a 190cm-tall female warrior in her mid-twenties, while the other was a se years In reality, one was a twenty-six-year-old young woman while the other was a two-hundred-and-seventy-year-old female leader who had lived an incredible life

For so

But the reality was that Tarea and the wo They could not even use the ic that they were supposed to have an aptitude for other than the spells that they used in their everyday lives, let alone coine that they would be useful in battle

However, thanks to Tarea, they were a group of capable workers befitting of the Ghoul race Though their skills weren’t at Tarea’s level, each of them were more than fully qualified as s more equipment for the warriors to use

「V-Van will give me a baby!」

「Van-sairl?! Is that true, Van-sama?!」

「 It’s true, though not in the way that you’re i」

They were referring to how Vandalieu would deal with the problem of low Ghoul fertility But Vandalieu looked into the distance, wondering why these tere so hostile towards each other

「You’re being over-familiar with Van」

「You are the one who is over-fa -sama to his name」

They glared at each other with sharp looks The loud grinding of their fangs was particularly Ghoul-like

The two of them had been on bad terht Tarea back with him

In order to curry favor with the Ghoul King i,「I have things to discuss with you regarding the upco battle」And when Vandalieu took his afternoon nap, she had held Vandalieu in her are

As Basdia caus were like this

No, Vandalieu had a good idea of as causing this But he couldn’t understand why Basdia was so angry with Tarea, considering that Ghouls had no concept of er brother whoine that she would act and speak the way she was doing now And ere the two of the so seriously over a two-year-old in the first place?

「How about acting your age for once?」

「Oh inally a hue without thinking I arown so old」

「 All things considered, they’re quite saggy」

「S-saggy?! You are e!」

「Really? Mine don’t hang doards at all, though」

Tarea lost her corily, and Basdia simply looked down at her calmly Both of them were owners of plentiful busts, and in fact, Basdia’s breasts were like cannonballs that projected forwards, showing no signs of sagging

「You muscle-head!」

「You don’t know? Van likes muscles」

「Well,them, I admire them」

Muscles were power, and those with poere strong In other words, if Vandalieu could getone of the people ere trampled over by others Ah, hoonderful muscles were

Whether they could hear Vandalieu whispering such thoughts to hi As Vandalieu watched Tarea shouting while Basdia dealt with her caline a future where the wisdoster However, as Tarea refused to give up, that future was still distant

The future where they would have a constructive discussion about how to deal with the noble Orcs, ould that come?

「What can I do to make them stop?」

Though Vandalieu asked hi yourself in my position, where you have neither ht with his arms folded or at least, he appeared to be As the chiefs of the other villages were lower than Tarea in the hierarchy, they see

『You should stop them here, Bocchan』

Sae that was his body, so Saria was here in this place, saying these words to him

『You wish to become a nobleman, do you not, Bocchan? Then you must be able to do at least this much』

「 I think the io through a lot of changes」

『noblele with relationshi+ps omen It was no different in the noble family that orked for』

The conflict between a wife and a ht to behold This topic reminded Vandalieu of the stories he had heard when he was living in japan about the Edo Castle’s inner cha the Edo period

TLN: 1603-1868

Neither Basdia nor Tarea were his wife orthe cause of their conflict was a fact Vandalieu knew that he should be the one to stop them, so he stood up

「Hmph! I will settle this after one of the weapons that I created takes the noble Orc’s head off!」

「Yeah, after I use your weapon to do it」

Why did they finish their argument just as he stood up?

「Well then, I want to build a plan to defeat the noble Orcs now」

Vandalieu was al able to say that without tre

Their current military forces were represented by around two hundred and thirty Ghouls and Vandalieu hiic Items that Vandalieu had distributed and the equipment that Tarea had created, they were all fully equipped

They were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, but their equipment was clearly superior to that of the noble Orcs’ troops No athered, their subordinates wouldn’t become any smarter, so their equiproups of monsters

But they were unsure whether that alone could counteract the difference in nuth

In regards to nuht to mass-produce Golems and Undead, but as this was a forest, rocks to use to create the Stone Goleainst Orcs were scarce, and so the idea of using Golems was rejected

Undead created from the corpses and bones of ainst Orcs, so Undead were also rejected

There was also the option of creatingsuits of armor to equip the Ghouls better was a th, so that idea was also rejected

It was a difficult situation