The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 25 (1/2)

As Vandalieu and the others made a triumphant return home, they elcoe

They had expanded the village beforehand in preparation, but since the population had increased by over a hundred Ghoul woe’s limits But nobody cared about that

And then the rescued Ghoul women and adventurers were allowed to rest while Vandalieu undid the Undead transformation on the food and spoils of war that had walked here on their oo legs so that they could be properly dismantled

The tongues and eyeballs of the Kobold Mages could be used as materials for Alchemy The fur of the Kobold Generals could be used for arood knives

The only thing to be gained from ordinary Orcs was their meat, but the tendons of the Orc Generals could be used to ues, eyeballs and livers of the Orc redients for Alchemy

And every part of the noble Orcs’ bodies could be used as materials Their meat would be used for food; their intestines would be used in Alchemy or to make medicine; their skin would be used to make leather items; their bones would be used to enitals would be used in olden hair would be used to weave stab-proof clothing

And, of course, their Magic Stones

If one were to bring these to an Adventurers’ Guild, they could be paid a hefty sum for them

「Ufufufu, materials~ materials~ I wonder what I should make~♪」

It’s a bit gruesoht as he saw Tarea skillfully handling a knife to dis to herself As he did so, she suddenly turned around

「Come to think of it, Van-sama, ill you do from now?」

The knife dripping ith blood and fat that she was holding close to her face was gruesome indeed, but it seemed that she was concerned about what Vandalieu’s future plans were

The Ghoul King was a role that only existed while ainst a co title of other races like Goblins or Kobolds

Now that the noble Orcs had been defeated and the rest of the ene to be the Ghoul King, nor was there a reason for all of the Ghouls to continue to stay in one place Tarea and her folloould return to their original village and go back to living their normal lives

(That is precisely why I must take Van-sama back with me!)

Tarea held this thought in her heart as Vandalieu replied

「About that, there is so I want to discuss tomorrow」

「Eh?! So you want to discuss with just the two of us~♪」

「No, with everyone」

「I-I guessed that would be the case Ho, hohoho」

That night’s dinner was a feast to celebrate their victory; the Ghouls praised each other’s deeds over grilled skewers and soups made from Orc meat The appetites of the women who had been held captive were particularly fierce

They devoured the Orcbeen treated as playthings for so long

Even the feorous appetites Right now, they only wanted to undergo the Ghoul transformation to become Vandalieu’s followers, so it seemed that Zadiris’s advice of,「Your bodies won’t be able to handle the ritual if you don’t build up your strength a little」had been effective

Vandalieu had never iined that the【Death-Attribute Charm】skill would be effective on humans that had lost the will to live and only desired death

「If I was on Earth right now, I could probablynear famous suicide spots」

Well, if he actually did that, he would probably end up as the founder of a new religion, so even if he was on Earth, he probably wouldn’t do it

Vandalieu ht about this

The meat had been srew in the Devil’s Nest before being cooked Each bite filled his mouth with the meat’s juice and melted fat, but the tare sauce provided it with a clean aftertaste; it was the kind of food that he could eat endlessly

He couldn’t help but to be emotionally moved by the taste of the meat

TLN: Tare sauce is a kind of japanese sauce used in grilled food, sushi+, nabeyoza

A in Lae Boars that he had been eating since he starting living in this village had been even tastier But the meat of the noble Orc surpassed even that

Even high-quality pork from Earth couldn’t compare to this It was so delicious that Vandalieu was sure of this, even though he had never eaten high-quality pork

「Uu, I won, I finally won one against them」

While eating the meat of the noble Orc that he would definitely not have been able to taste on Earth, he felt proud of his victory against his uncle’s family

The first step in the ritual to turn hue enough to contain all of the wo it Next, Ghoul blood and the veno prayers to the Goddess Vida

And thenthe women

They would then be transformed from humans into Ghouls after three days

「It just looks like we’re drowning them」

Staring at the mud that Kachia and the other feed in, he repeatedly used his ns of their life; he couldn’t help it After all, in nor to death

「There is no proble ago Though if we tried this on races other than humans, such as monsters or other races created by Vida, they would drown」

「Van-sama, this is how I transformed from a human into a Ghoul」

Hearing the approval of the two elders, Zadiris and Tarea, and sensing that he could still detect the fens of life after ten minutes, Vandalieu was convinced

「More importantly, we must continue the discussion from the other day, must we not?」

「You’re right」

A night had passed since the victory feast, and the Ghouls’ festive ether and aiting for Vandalieu Including Tarea, they thought that Vandalieu would now begin discussing the allocations of the one hundred Ghoul woes had been destroyed and now had no place to go and the fe turned into Ghouls, the proic Items that would increase the birth rate of Ghouls and Vandalieu’s future

The wonant by the monsters would heal back to normal a few months after childbirth, and there wouldn’t be a problees And they had even just obtained so much food that it would actually decompose before they could finish it all if it weren’t for Vandalieu’sit

The female adventurers would probably all be treated as Vandalieu’s spoils of war That way, it wouldn’t take any tis after their transforh to deserve that

It was strange that one of the the ritual and under Vandalieu’s personal care; that was probably Vandalieu’s favorite

Vandalieu had proic Itees would coe would have Vandalieu stay with the about that

The great nuathered here expected that these were the topics that would be discussed

However, Vandalieu proved those expectations wrong with the tone of his first word

「Everyone, please listen to e ar here to kill us all」

It was April About two e had been annihilated by a pack of Ghouls led by a Dhaanized under Marshal Palpapek’s leadershi+p, invaded the Devil’s Nest forest

There were three hundred D-class adventurers and a hundred C-class adventurers There was also a brigade of Holy Warriors of Alda with High Priest Gordan as their leader, the B-class【Green Wind Spear】Riley who had fored to the Five-colored Blades as well as the soldiers and knights

For the sake of perfection, the marshal had wanted to hire severaltoo many adventurers of B-class or above in one place would cause probleathered capable C-class adventurers instead to create an extermination force of this size

「Heheheh, sorry, but the Dhampir is mine Back then, I had to let it escape because Heinz didn’t agree with me, but I’m free now I’ll add this to my list of achievements」

「Do as you wish!+ As long as the blood of an evil Vaive his blessings no matter who performs the task!」

The grinning Riley and High Priest Gordan whose mouth was turned down at the corners were the centerpieces of the extermination force, and everyone expected these two to defeat the higher-Rank Ghouls and the Dhampir

Even the other adventurers and knights followed their commands

Both of the adventurers, and since they possessed the strength of B-class that surpassed the boundaries of hu treated this way as the exterher

Marshal Palpapek had constantly stationed Spies between the town and the Devil’s Nest to make sure that the Ghouls didn’t come to attack the town, but the Ghouls had shown no movements until now

「The Ghouls are expecting us to come to them I can only pray to uard is down, turning you into Experience Points for them」(Gordan)

The fact that the Ghouls weren’t co that the humans were on the move no doubtan ambush That was the conclusion that the leaders of the exterh Priest Bormack Gordan, had come to

That hy all of the members of the extermination force looked nervous

「I don’t need you to tellstones for me to surpass that naïve Heinz」

Since Riley had left the Five-colored Blades, the number of direct requests and the way the Guild treated hied remarkably He was still an obscure individual, so he was desperate to build achieve the marshal’s request That hy the expression on his face was that of excitement, not nervousness

His head was full of thoughts of raising the Dha the trust that Marshal Palpapek had in hi a ht and spearmanshi+p instructor

And so the exter for the enee was, but the locations of the villages of the Ghouls who had destroyed it were unknown

Since it was a dangerous Devil’s Nest, they had hesitated to send in adventurers to investigate the Devil’s Nest beforehand They couldn’t send Spies in, as they eaker in co abilities The reason for this was because they had concluded that the Dhampir was a Spiritualist

Spiritualists could coain information If the Spies and adventurers were discovered, they would be killed ain information from their spirits Since the dead were talkative, they had to be careful about losing personnel

The search for the enemy was difficult

「We’ve only found Goblin and Kobold villages We’ve encountered two or three Orcs, but not a single Ghoul has been seen」

「Yeah, and other than that, there’s been Huge Boars, the Mad Boars that are superior to the but beast-type monsters」

It wouldn’t have been unusual to at least co an eye on this area, but the extermination force couldn’t seem to find any Ghouls

No, they did find a Ghoul village, but

「No good, all we found there were Goblins who had settled in」

There was nothing left in what seee that they found

「The Ghouls are definitely gathered all in one place, waiting to ah we have a thousand people, if they were to co all at once」

「So what! I’er brother!」

The older brother of an adventurer thought to have been killed by Orcs ry declaration, but nobody reminded him that it was the Orcs, not the Ghouls, who had killed his brother

「Well, the woht have survived, but」

「There’s a high chance that they’ve been turned into a Ghoul, right? We have to save their souls as soon as possible」

The male adventurer didn’t object to the words of the devout Alda follower Even he agreed that after being treated as playthings and then turned into Ghouls, they would be happier si killed

The extermination force set up an encae had been as they continued their search of the Devil’s Nest

However, their search turned up only monsters that weren’t Ghouls, and even after several days, there were no signs of the Ghouls co to attack them

Of course, thatin a dangerous Devil’s Nest, but since they had athered to deal with the nor in this forest, the air of tension around the exteran to loosen

「More carriage wheel tracks What could this mean?」

「Doesn’t that h here before?」

「You idiot, the carriages are back at the encampment」

The exteres to transport supplies Even though this Devil’s Nest was a forest, there were five- down trees, so there were plenty of large anih

However, those carriages were either back at the encae or outside of the Devil’s Nest entirely, going back and forth fro in es could be using this animal trail that was in a completely different direction from the town and encampment

「Then what are these wheel tracks? Do they look like monster footprints to you?」

「Adventurers probably passed through here a long tio The lack of horse hoof-prints is proof of that; the rain’s washed away everything except the deep wheel tracks」

The soldiers and adventurers here decided that this man’s deduction was reasonable, so they didn’t bother reporting it to the higher-ranking individuals of the extermination force

Parties of adventurers brought carriages into the Devil’s Nest froe quantities of e Boars would yield a lot ofdown Ents would yield valuable ties were necessary to transport these iteh the Devil’s Nest

There were space-attribute e in a subspace, and there were also Magic Boxes created through Alchees But both of these were rare, so the vast majority of adventurers didn’t have access to these

And so these members of the extermination force assumed that these wheel tracks had been made by such adventurers

They would discover that this was an incorrect assumption teeks later By that tirown increasingly impatient and the extermination force’s tension had all but vanished