The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 26 (1/2)

This e Apparently, its official nae It wasn’t the boundary between the Adom, but supposedly the boundary between the world of humans and the world of e was mostly unexplored land and there were Devil’s Nests all over it Passing through it with these numbers would cause monsters to assume they were prey and attack

However, since Vandalieu and the Ghouls were avoiding the Devil’s Nests and building their own road through, theon the edges of the Devil’s Nests

「I defeated a wolf that looked like a hedgehog!」(Vigaro)

「I have never seen that monster before, have I? I wonder if it is tasty?」(Tarea)

「Looks delicious, looks delicious!」(Basdia)

In addition to that, they were erous it was to attack a pack of hundreds of Ghouls, so they were killed immediately and offered their meat to use as food and fur to use to

Their stores of Orc meat had decreased considerably recently, so this was very welcome

However, there were still tie monsters attacked

「It’s a flock of Wyverns!」

Today, a flock of Wyverns was attacking them from the sky These creatures whose front lion-type ons Scholars in this world were disputing over whether they should be classified as deons

They didn’t breathe fire or use ic, but they were Rank 5 h the air with sharp fangs and claws that were just as dangerous as they looked

If their flight could be prevented, they would be about as strong as a Rank 4 e at an (estimated) altitude of over two thousand meters No matter how one looked at it, the Wyverns had the terrain advantage

Despite theons, they were plenty intelligent coe nues and other places where the defense seemed thinnest, so they were quite problematic

There were five Wyverns in the flock today It was quite a troublesome number to deal with

「GAAAH!」

As a coe, the warriors simultaneously fired their arrohile the women released various spells

But since the Ghouls had been living in a forest and their prey had been creatures that would approach to try and eat theed attacks was relatively low

There were quite a nu Basdia, but their levels with this skill wasn’t very high

「GUEEEEEEH!」

「GYAOOOOOHN!」

The one they could rely on at times like this was Bone Bird, who had become a Rank 4 Specter Bird

Since Bone Bird had reached Rank 4 and was strengthened by the【Strengthen Followers】skill, even the Wyverns couldn’t let their guard down against it As if instinctively sensing this, two of the five Wyverns fleards Bone Bird They had decided to commit two Wyverns of the flock to quickly take it down, rather than simply keep it busy with one Wyvern

Preventing Bone Bird’s th, its mobility, so the Wyverns had made the correct decision

However

『SHAAAAAAH』

As the transparent『Lemures』vanished, they released their powerful bloodthirst

「Gyaoh?!」

「Gyugiih?!」

The Wyverns were thrown into confusion by the bloodthirst that attacked their natural instincts Three of theet ahile the movement of the other two faltered

「Aim at those two!」

「Nikuuuuh!」

A flood of arrows and spells assaulted the two Wyverns With their ets, and their scales weren’t hard enough to block the spells and the arrows fired with the Ghouls’ Superhuth

The three Wyverns had chosen to escape and defenselessly turned their backs towards Bone Bird Bone Bird fired spirit feathers at one of theled its neck with its talons

「GYAAOOOOooh」

Three Wyverns fell onto the mountain’s surface while the other two fled in a hurry Vandalieu raised his hand towards the two that were escaping, but then lowered his hand again without doing anything

「You have to save your Mana, Van, so helping us with your Leh」(Basdia)

『This great journey will become difficult if you were to collapse, Bocchan Please take care of yourself』(Sam)

「Yeah, I know」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu had been thinking of testing whether he could use death-attribute Mana to erase the lift force that the Wyverns needed to fly But since he was responsible forout of Mana, the Ghouls would have to stopoccurred in such a situation, it would be a huge problem And so Vandalieu had to pay much more attention to his Mana pool than usual while they were crossing this e

Even Vandalieu’s Mana pool of 110,000,000 Mana wasn’t enough to face the entirety of nature

「And I think that’s plenty of meat」

As the young Ghoul woe said, the three Wyverns would provide enough nourishue at bay for today Though they were the lowest class of Dragons, they were still Dragons, so their ans could be used as materials for Alchemy, but they were nutritious to eat as well

In addition, their scales, bones and wing membranes could be used as s and claws could be turned into weapons

「But to defeat three Wyverns out of five If you took these to the Adventurers’ Guild, you could live in luxury for a while」(Kachia)

「Could you defeat them, Kachia-san?」(Vandalieu)

「No way I wouldn’t even want to fight one of them」(Kachia)

Kachia shook her head as she spoke She had been a female adventurer that Bubobio had captured and turned into his private property, but now she was a Ghoul noble Orcs were individually stronger than normal Orcs, but they weren’t as fertile, so she had been rescued by Basdia’s group of Ghouls before becoone the Ghoul transformation ritual

「The Guild considers us dead and I’d much rather be a Ghoul than treated as a wo I don’t even have a family, anyway」(Kachia)

Back then, she had been h to say such things But it seeree, so she was riding in Sae

Since Vandalieu was a child and Sam was an Undead, they were apparently fine for her

They stopped to dissect the Wyverns’ bodies and Vandalieu set Bone Bird and Lemures in the sky to keep watch

The fact that they were under such dangerous attacks at least once a day showed just how harsh crossing this e was Normal adventurers wouldn’t have lasted more than a few days

If it weren’t for Vandalieu’s abnormal amount of Mana and the【Status Effect Resistance】skill that prevented hi affected by altitude sickness, he wouldn’t have lasted very long either

But monster attacks were also an opportunity to obtain fresh food

The next problem was more complicated

「Gyah Gyaaah!」

「Uu, kyauun!」

With the carriages stopped, a black Goblin child tried to take tottering steps to get down froround and burst into tears Surprised by that, a black Kobold child burst into tears as well

「Ah, hey, you can’t get out of the carriage」

「What is it? Are you hungry? You’re such a greedy child, aren’t you?」

Two Ghoul woan to breast-feed them They were this Goblin and Kobold’s mothers

Many of the Ghoul woe had been pregnant Well, that was the purpose that they had been held captive for, so it was only to be expected

Vandalieu had indirectly suggested that it would be possible for hiic to cause abortions for them, but the mothers had rejected his offer

「If we care for therow up to obey us」(Zadiris)

Apparently that’s hoas If tione so far as to use their oombs to raise Goblin and Orc children, but in this time of crisis, they apparently declined abortion to increase their numbers as much as possible

Because the villages of the Ghoul women that had been held captive had theirforce

Incidentally, all of the Goblins, Kobolds and Orc children were born with black skin and fur Goblins norht pink tone Kobolds nor black was unusual

Vandalieu guessed that his Mana was the cause of that

Thinking that it would be bad if the fetuses that the Ghoul woive birth to were affected by the Ghouls’ departure from the Devil’s Nest, he used【Mana Transfer】to transfer his thick Mana to the pregnant women and their unborn children

As a result, the fetuses developed at the same quick pace as they would have done in the Devil’s Nest and were born healthy Though they were black, for some reason

It wasn’t a bad thing, and nobody intended to co But just in case, he examined them with【Appraisal】to find –

【Black Goblin Baby】

【Anubis Baby】

【Orcus Baby】

These were the names displayed for the Goblin, Kobold and Orc babies

For some reason, they were new races

「I wonder what this means? Tell me please, Darwin-sensei」(Vandalieu)

「Who is that, Van? Was it one of the horrible researchers in that world called Origin?」(Basdia)

「No, it was a very famous person in the history of another world」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu, who had inadvertently created new races of aze, but he was likely looking to the wrong person to answer his question

「Well, it is alright, is it not? They seeer than normal Kobolds and more well-behaved than normal Orcs」(Zadiris)

「Don’t worry about it, those children just need to be trained by the aro)

「Yeah, I’ve only been trained by Vigaro as well」(Basdia)

Zadiris didn’t seearo and Basdia told Vandalieu about the relationshi+p that Ghoul men had with children

Well, even if Vandalieu were to be concerned about it now, it was too late He had already shared his Mana with all of the pregnant women

『That reive you milk like that too You would be reserved at first, but then you would start drinking it in a daze』

「H-hello, anyone? He suddenly seeony!」(Kachia)

『It is fine; Darcia-sa of the ti that is what is causing Bocchan his agony』(Saria)

『Bocchan, you’re still a child so there’s nothing to be embarrassed about Please have some more confidence』(Rita)

As Kachia couldn’t see Darcia, she was naturally surprised to see Vandalieu silently agonizing over soular scene for Saria and Rita

Even Zadiris and the other Ghouls who couldn’t see Darcia weren’t surprised at this point

The problem of the rush of babies was that Darcia would re Vandalieu to suffer in embarrassment!

But this rush of babies would soon be over Monsters reproduced quickly; the woive birth to the last of the children soon Monster children developed quickly, so they would stop being breast-fed a month after that

「Vandalieu, if the child in my belly is a boy, can I really name him after you? There are two pairs of dakuten in your name, so it’d be perfect as a lucky charm」(Bilde)

TLN: I’ve e 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 All of the Ghoul naaro, Basdia, Bilde, etc) contain two characters with dakuten, with the exception of Tarea and Kachia because they were originally humans Vandalieu’s name happens to have two characters with dakuten as well

As Vandalieu could tell fronant for seven nant with Ghoul children would be giving birth soon

Incidentally, Ghouls apparently developed at the same pace as humans

「If I solve the birth rate of Ghoul children, I’ll be dealing with this for years more to come」(Vandalieu)

As a spirit, Darcia’s s caused her to repeat the saain As Vandalieu wondered if he siain

And the last proble care of the Ghouls whose physical conditions had deteriorated fro attention tosick Tarea had become particularly weak

「Uu, I am terribly sorry, Van-sama」(Tarea)

Tarea had aged to the point that Vandalieu felt the urge to ansith,「You promised not to say that, otottsuan」

TLN: Okay, this is a weird one Here’s the result of ins of this おとっつあん/otottsuan is a term for “father” that was used in the Meiji era (1868-1912) and the entire line seems to be a cliché/overused line in historical drama films This is basically just a very roundabout way to say that Tarea is really old

She had been healthy while living in the Devil’s Nest She had even been excited about the ration, but when they left the Devil’s Nest, her body and roeaker

「How pitiful, show a little more spirit, will you?」(Zadiris)

「Kuh, it is just unnatural for you to be so healthy when you have aged even more than me」(Tarea)

It seee was indeed the cause of this However, Vandalieu had used【Youth Transfore to match her mid-teen physical appearance Since Ghouls had the unique characteristic of not aging after pregnancy, nobody had noticed this, however

「Cough cough, ere even able to obtain Wyvern materials, but I am in no condition to use them When I was a human, I touched them once; they are materials that I yearned to use」(Tarea)

「Once we arrive at the new Devil’s Nest, you’ll becoain」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu patted Tarea’s back and co to see if he could see the shadow of death When her time came close, he intended to use【Youth Transformation】on her as well

Having strange ruain her health

「Thank you veryonly about irl」

Tarea pointed at the Live-Dead that was lying down nearby The Live-Dead that Luciliano had abandoned showed no signs of ; since it was just like a living corpse, it needed someone to take care of it

The Live-Dead was an Undead in the sense that it didn’t have a soul But since its body was living, it would starve to death if it didn’t eat, become sick if left in unsanitary conditions and develop bedsores if left lying in the sa

Even though it didn’t have a soul, treating it like that wouldn’t be pleasant to see and ative effects on the unborn child

The Live-Dead had been an and Vandalieu had thinned out the enes and had the spirit of the woman whose corpse had been used to make the Live-Dead possess that fetus That fetus was now developing inside the Live-Dead

It was only the second e in the Live-Dead’s abdoenes

「 Well, taking the Wyverns apart will probably take a while, anyway」(Vandalieu)