The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 28 (1/2)

「O Prophesized Holy Son, thank you for gracing us with your presence and descending upon the【Capital of the Sun】, Talosheirant salvation to us, who only await to return to dust!」(Mysterious Undead)

As the ether in prayer with these words, Vandalieu was dumbfounded for a short while He quickly came back to his senses when Darcia called out to him

『Hey, Vandalieu, are you alright?』(Darcia)

「! Ah, yes I’m fine, I was just a little surprised Could you please explain? Err」(Vandalieu)

「Of course, o Holy Son I am the Lich Nuaza」(Nuaza)

A Lich These were people with e and techniques after death and beca

「The tragic sight before the Holy Son right now is the titan race’s fortress city-nation of Talosheim, renowned as the【Capital of the Sun】This city flourished through the secrets left behind by the fallen hero Zakkart and the blessings of the Goddess Vida But as you can see, due to the destruction in the wake of the sudden invasion by the Mirg shi+eld-nation two hundred years ago, it is now a Devil’s Nest Please grant salvation to us, who only await –」(Nuaza)

「I’m sorry, but could I have you explain the details further?」(Vandalieu)

Conversing with this Undead required patience, but it was also iuide the conversation from time to time

To summarize Nuaza’s explanation, the titans had participated in the battle between the Goddess Vida and Alda a hundred thousand years ago Though they were defeated, the surviving titans gathered here and built this city-nation

This place was in the e that was mostly made up of Devil’s Nests, and the hours of the day that this place received the sun’s light were short But thanks to the secrets and knowledge left behind by the hero Zakkart, the city received abundant blessings from the sun

And then the titans used their naturally robust bodies to open up the land, cultivated it, made affluent fields of crops, used the name of their ancestor to name the city Talosheim, the【Capital of the Sun】and worshi+pped the Goddess Vida and the hero Zakkart

They trained their bodies, ieons in search of materials they lacked to find an abundance of stone to use in building, and then erected a sturdy, beautiful, white fortress

The titans obtained stone,monsters

And then they discovered a tunnel in the eastern e that had been built in ancient tido

The products of their Dungeons sold for high prices in the Orbau prosperity and wealth to Talosheim

However, that prosperity was laid to waste by the sudden appearance ofshi+eld-nation

「With no prior notice, an are and marched onto Talosheim」(Nuaza)

The following is what could be deduced from the stories told later to supplehters who had been e shi+eld-nation in their past lives, and Kachia aiting for Vandalieu and his party’s return

About two hundred years ago, the Mirg shi+eld-nation was ordered to wipe out the nation of the titans in the name of the Amid Empire and the Church of Alda

To preserve the relationshi+p between the shi+eld-nation of Mirg, which had been building up its power as a nation, and the Aathered by forcing it into conflict with the titan nation To act in accordance with their religious worshi+pping of the hero Bellwood These were the reasons behind the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s invasion

TLN: This hero was the one who founded the Amid Empire, mentioned in chapter 8 I incorrectly translated his name as Berud back then (fixed now)

Bellas the representative of the three heroes that had fought on the side of Alda, the God of Law and Fate Vandalieu learned for the first ti carelessly brought here to share the knowledge and technology fro the people of this world of the opportunity to ht produce good results in the short-ter term

Because of this, Bellwood had frequent disagree his best to spread the knowledge, technology and culture froic to selectively breed them to advance the cultivation of rice, before Zakkart was revived as an Undead by the Goddess Vida

And so with the battle between Alda and Vida as an opportunity, Bellwood and the other heroes went around and destroyed as y and culture that Zakkart had built as possible

The Amid Empire that considered themselves Bellwood’s descendants and the Church of Alda that praised him as a saint lived with policies and doctrines based around him and his beliefs, even today Of course, only the heroes and the God that suies were from other worlds and which were developed in this world, so the Auous criteria to deteries were left by Zakkart and which were not

Incidentally, this is the justification that the Amid Edom, whose civilization utilized the cultivation of rice

With these political and religious reasons, the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s forces, led by the military personnel of the A a safe route across the Boundary Mountain Range and marched on Talosheim with an army of over ten thousand

It was certain that the Amid Empire wanted to take the riches of Talosheim for itself, in addition to the above-mentioned reasons

And for the reluctantly-dispatched troops of the Mirg shi+eld-nation, the titans were not humans, but a race inferior to humans birthed by the corrupted Goddess There was no doubt that they pillaged and slaughtered the titans with no mercy

A large nues were burned and taken, but their warriors’ bravery and excellence didn’t shi+ne only when fighting against monsters

They didn’t have any experience in large-scale battles against other civilizations, but their warriors’ swords cut down the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s soldiers with ease, and their knights’ shi+elds crushed the flesh and bone of the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s knights, along with their thin spears

Best of all, there were numerous heroes in Talosheim

The【Sword King】Borkus, who could defeat any le sword

The【Saint of Solace】Jeena, the young leader of the Church of Vida who excelled in the use of life-attribute ic

Ogbahn, the【Hungry Wolf】who preferred solitude and had solo-cleared every single Dungeon in Talosheim

Barigen, the【Dual-Halberd】who held a halberd in each hand and swept through his enemies like a windstorm

Zandia, the young Second Princess who possessed an affinity for every attribute of eneral inaptitude with ic, the one renowned as the【Tiny Genius】

『Do all of their names contain dakuten because titans are a race created by Vida, just like Ghouls?』

TLN: Dakuten are the dash-things in hiragana and katakana that I’ve already mentioned Like the Ghouls’ names, all of these titan heroes’ names contain at least one pair of dakuten

So Vandalieu thought, but reading the serious mood, he didn’t mention it out loud

Because of these heroes, Taloshei army, but the enemy had a hero as well

The hero that participated in the war to reinforce the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s forces, the A-rank adventurer as a candidate for the next ascendancy to S-rank – the【Divine Spear of Ice】, Mikhail With hi shi+eld-nation’s favor once more

「The legendaryshi+eld-nation’s national treasures,【Ice Age】, was a legendary-class Magic Item said to have been created as a weapon for heroes by an ice God who served Peria, the Goddess of water and knowledge With this weapon in the hands of Mikhail, the titan warriors fighting alongside the heroes fell, one by one The fortress walls were finally broken and the savages of the Mirg shi+eld-nation poured into the city」(Nuaza)

The only thing the people of Talosheiht escape through the trade tunnel to the Orbauuards

「Though I was but an apprentice, I fought until the very end as aable to send a single arrow flying into the detestable Mikhail or defend Jeena-sama or Zandia-sama, I died」(Nuaza)

And the Mirg shi+eld-nation didn’t stop their destruction and pillaging after Nuaza died Mikhail attempted to destroy the treasure of the Goddess Vida that had been hidden deep beneath Talosheim’s royal castle

But the Goddess had personally stationed a Dragon Goleround to protect the treasure Even Mikhail, whose ascendancy to S-rank had been all but confirmed, could not destroy the treasure

In fact, the Dragon Goles were destroyed, half of its tail was cut off and its head was crushed, but at the cost of all of Mikhail’s cohtered Mikhail himself sustained a serious wound; all he was able to do was to throw hisGolem to imprison it briefly, and then use that opportunity to escape with his life

Though the Mirg shi+eld-nation was victorious, they were exhausted due to the fierce resistance of the titans and the hero that led thee of death Unable to maintain their occupation of Talosheim, they decided to make a retreat

Even if they slaughtered every last titan in Talosheim, there would be no end to the monsters attracted from the nearby Devil’s Nests to the city by the smell of blood

Nuaza didn’t knohat beca shi+eld-nation and Amid Empire after that, but it wasn’t a victory that they could have celebrated

The desperate medical treatment of Mikhail was unsuccessful; he died several days after his return to the Mirg shi+eld-nation Many of the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s other elite individuals had also perished in the battle, andas soldiers

On top of that, since Talosheim’s First Princess had escaped with the truly valuable treasures and all of the city’s funds, the aained were lower than the estimate that they had made before the war It didn’t even compare to the enormous cost that they had paid for their victory

And since the First Princess had dom learned of the invasion of Taloshei shi+eld-nation and the Amid Empire as divine punishment for the immoral, unjustified attack on the nation of titans that it had been allied with

During the battle of Taloshei shi+eld-nation had sent reinforcements from border due to the unexpected difficulty of the battle The border’s defenses were easily broken through because of the lack of soldiers; ’s fortresses fell and its cities were occupied

The Amid Empire was forced to hastily dispatch soldiers in order to protect the country that was supposed to be its shi+eld

The Ado its territory, but with this defeat, all of the land that it had conquered was taken back in one movement Most of the wars that had occurred in the last two hundred years were apparently the Amid Empire’s efforts to recapture that land once ained some new territory in the most recent one

The population of e had been controlled by the adventurers of Talosheim, but with Talosheim’s destruction, their numbers suddenly eons now that there was nobody to clear them

As a result, the Devil’s Nests expanded and it becao near the Boundary Mountain Range, let alone find a safe route back to Talosheim to take back the national treasure lost there

In summary, the invasion of Taloshei shi+eld-nation in particular

When Nuaza learned this, despite having the face of a mummy, he broke into a smile that covered his whole face –

「Serves them r–!」(Nuaza)

He accidentally overdid it and almost passed on to the afterlife

Since his nation had fallen and he had lost his own life, it was only natural for him to feel this way

Vandalieu was exasperated at the foolishness of the A shi+eld-nation

They shouldn’t have attempted a sudden, brute-force invasion Talosheie to the east that allowed safe passage to the Orbaudom They should have instead doression pact with Taloshei it and then passed through the tunnel and launched a surprise attack on Orbaume

If they had done that, they could have purchasedprovisions, to eous battle

As they had prioritized their strange national policies and religious beliefs, the Mirg shi+eld-nation had lost far th than expected and suffered a counter-attack from the enemy nation instead Even Vandalieu, who didn’t even possess any experience with ames, could come up with this plan Was the Amid Empire run by idiots?

It wasn’t as if Vandalieu agreed with Rodcorte, but he really thought that this could only be expected from the Empire of an inferior world

「Mh shi+eld-nation and the Aood They should just all die out」(Vandalieu)

「Boy, I do believe that Sa shi+eld-nation」(Zadiris)

『Bocchan, there are so shi+eld-nation, so I don’t know about killing all of them』(Saria)

『That’s right Well, ere chased out of that Devil’s Nest by the Mirg shi+eld-nation, but that doesn’t mean that all the people there are bad』(Rita)

『We were born in the Mirg shi+eld-nation, but if you were to order it, Bocchan, I would not hesitate to run over and kill et to keep your views open』(Sam)

「Holy Son, even we only feel hatred for the Mirg shi+eld-nation and Ao For us titans, that is long enough for parents’ and grandparents’ generations to have passed; for huenerations to have passed Even the Goddess tells us not to direct our hatred towards their descendants」(Nuaza)

『That’s right, Vandalieu Don’t forget the kindness that you showed in Evbejia I’ll be happy as long as you don’t forget how to be kind』(Darcia)

As the hatred that had been gathering at the bottoed out and manifested itself in his words, he received remonstrations from every direction Incomprehensible No, he could coht

「Yes, I’ll moderate myself By the hat is the Prophesized Holy Son?」(Vandalieu)

Putting a lid on the hatred in his heart, Vandalieu pressed Nuaza to continue Nuaza explained what had happened to the titans after the war

Half of the titans revived as Undead within akilled and the fact that their bodies weren’t buried Seeing the soldiers of the Mirg shi+eld-nation who had also revived as Undead, they began killing each other again, even though they were already dead

And they were victorious However, their feelings of wanting to protect their ho Undead, so they didn’t leave on an expedition to take revenge on the Mirg shi+eld-nation

However, they were anxious about whether the First Princess and the people had dom, so some of them headed towards the tunnel

But the tunnel had been collapsed with its entrance sealed They had planned right fro to use a hiddenshi+eld-nation’s ar chase once the titans had already traveled through

The fact that the tunnel had been sealed meant that the First Princess and the others hadwhat difficulties she and the others were facing in the Orbaudom that was their allied nation and Duke Hartner, hom they had done business directly

They were Undead, and though they believed that they had retained their sense of reason, they didn’t know if that was true or how long it would last If they were to chase after the First Princess and the other titans in this state, they would be more likely to hinder them than to be of any help

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