The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 31 (1/2)

Subue faded away and he was enveloped in warmth

He closed his eyes, stretched his ars out and felt completely at ease

It had been more than twenty years since he had taken a bath like this, but it reminded him that he really had once been a japanese person

『How ain? The last tiuess』(Vandalieu)

Answering his own unimportant question, Vandalieu remembered what had happened after he learned that there was an incomplete resurrection device below the royal castle

First, he had athered Borkus’s broken bones that were lying in the audience chamber and restored their shape After that, he placed the bones against Borkus’s shoulder and poured Mana into the the arm in his mind

And then flesh sprouted and expanded from Borkus’s shoulder and his arm was restored!

『UOOH, this feels disgusting!』(Borkus)

He received this kind of overreaction, however

It see not only the bones that made up the bodies of Bone Man and the other Undead, but flesh and skin as well He decided to na】

But the right half of Borkus’s face couldn’t be restored This was possibly because holding an iic, and the ie of Borkus’s half-skull face had already left a deep impression in Vandalieu’s mind

『I don’t understand the theory behind it, but don’t worry My right eye can still see even though the eyeball isnow that I have ht?』(Borkus)

「Certainly」(Nuaza)

『Shut up! The one I’ to is this brat!』(Borkus)

Though a little angry that Nuaza had agreed with him immediately, Borkus was very pleased He was happy that his arht as he had done while alive

Vandalieu was a little shocked to learn that there were people like Borkus,『good people with bad mouths』

Up until now, he had only known『bad people with bad mouths』With this, he would possibly be ht dom At least, he wouldn’t immediately assume they were enemies and attack them

After that, he decided to go over the Magic Items and materials that had been left in Talosheim one more time

Even with Borkus’s ar that they would be able to defeat the Dragon Gole that they would be slaughtered if they tried There was now a genuine need to build up fighting strength

The really important items had been taken by the First Princess when she escaped the city, andshi+eld-nation; not even the legendary-class and upper-class Magic Items that were Talosheim’s national treasures remained

「The only things left are 5th-grade potions and low-class Magic Items that you can find anywhere Well, even if there were better things re, they’d be rotten and rusted by now」(Vandalieu)

『Well, it’s been two hundred years, after all』(Borkus)

The only other things left were the ite, but Vandalieu wasn’t interested inthem hand those over

『There’s no other choice; I guess I’ll go and get soeons nobody’s entered theeons should be rolling in Magic Items Oh yeah, what happened to the Adventurers’ Guild?』(Borkus)

The Adventurers’ Guild had been prepared for ee A them, there should have even been some Potions that temporarily raised the drinker’s attribute values, but Nuaza shook his head

「In the Adventurers’ Guild, there was a battle between the enemy and the adventurers who bravely stayed in Talosheim and shared its fate All of the Potions were consu that was left unda chamber」(Nuaza)

「Eh? What did you just –」(Vandalieu)

『Tch, those outsiders really pushed theht them more drinks』(Borkus)

「You can still treat some of them to drinks They have become Undead as well」(Nuaza)

『Oh yeah! I forgot about them because I’ve been holed up in the royal castle for two hundred years! Ah, but there aren’t any bars left』(Borkus)

「Hahaha, that is true as well」(Nuaza)

「U room is still usable?」(Vandalieu)

Job-changing rooms in branches of each Guild were facilities that existed in every society This was soe even if one journeyed frodom or, of course, Talosheim

And so the Mirg shi+eld-nation hadn’t bothered taking the time to destroy it, and it had simply been abandoned In fact, Borkus, Nuaza and the other titans were no longer people, but monsters, now that they were Undead Since they couldn’t undergo a Job change, it was now a useless facility

「Then the Ghouls and I can use it, right?」(Vandalieu)

However, this was good news for Vandalieu and the Ghouls, who had never been able to enter hu room

To be ood news for the Ghouls Though society had branded them as monsters, they were people of a race created by Vida They could possess Jobs Tarea and Kachia, who had transfor the Jobs that they had while they were hu proof of that

Vigaro and Zadiris had been i their skills up until noithout Jobs If they were to acquire Jobs and receive the Job-related bonuses to their attribute values and skills, they would certainly becoer

However, in Vandalieu’s case, he was under Rodcorte’s【Cannot learn existing Jobs】curse so there was a high chance that he wouldn’t be able to undergo a Job change even with the use of the Job-changing room

But he had decided long ago that he’d try as hard as he could The probably of hi a Job wasn’t zero

And so Vandalieu returned to the Ghouls with a spring in his step, intending to share this good neith the for him

「I order you to rest until your birthday, boy」(Zadiris)

After consulting everyone, Zadiris had decided that Vandalieu wouldn’t listen if asked to rest in indirect ways, so she si a rest

「No, but the resurrection device, the Job-change!」(Vandalieu)

「It would defeat the purpose if you were to collapse before dealing with any of that! Your endurance is dangerously close to its limits, boy!」(Zadiris)

『That is right, Bocchan! This is a condition that will cost you your life!』(Sam)

『I’ you, please rest, Vandalieu! If you don’t rest, I’ration!』(Darcia)

Vandalieu’s words fell on deaf ears

While they were conte on how to make Vandalieu rest, they had looked outside theto see the usual hollow-looking Vandalieu approaching thee way that they had never seen before This sight had apparently ht now!』

It see with joy

However, his pupils were always like those of a dead fish, so he didn’t think that they needed to be so alare the fact that they were forcing him to rest

They begged hiive his body some rest, so he was unable to refuse

Well, the Job-changing rooine that they would be able to defeat that Dragon Goleht have been a good idea to recuperate his strength during the ten days leading up to his birthday

And it wasn’t as if he was being forced to rest without doing anything He was still doing Alche for an hour a day toa lot of other things to rest

Repairing this public bathhouse, for instance

Talosheim once had public bathhouses Perhaps because of Zakkart’s influence, the titans were a race that liked bathing; there were five bathhouses in the city and there was even a large bathhouse in the royal castle

However, the baths weren’t cypress baths1, but stone baths like the ones used in thermae2 in ancient Rome and the saunas estern-style rather than japanese-style

TLN:

1 Luxurious bathtubs made of cypress wood

2 Bathhouses in ancient Rome

The bathhouse hadn’t been da shi+eld-nation had attacked viciously, it seemed that they hadn’t had the time to destroy bathhouses that didn’t have temples or any facilities that would be useful for defense in a battle There were Magic Iteoods inside, but the Mirg troops had probably carried back as s of even more value than these

But after having been abandoned for two hundred years, all of the bathhouses, including the one in the royal castle, had been in a terrible state when Vandalieu first saw them

Out of the city’s five bathhouses, the three that were towards the edges of the city had been collapsed by the trees growing out of the Devil’s Nest, and one of them had been hit by a stray spell and turned into a mountain of rubble

Theall over the one that was intact They weren’t ordinaryMushroo out of them and the Poison Mushrooms that released toxic spores

They weren’t particularly strong monsters; they turned out to be very delicious once defeated and roasted The Walking Mushroo trumpet mushrooms The Poison Mushrooms were like shi+take mushrooms, perhaps?

In the end, he decided to repair the bathhouse in the royal castle Well, even this bathhouse had its baths turned into ponds by leaks fro the the water

Using 【Gole and the cracks in the walls and tiles, and began to clean the bathhouse up As to be expected of the royal castle of the titans With just that, the bathhouse becaain, two hundred years after the war

The Ghouls, who had never experienced anything other than washi+ng the to the culture of hot baths as well, and now they were lining up every day to wash away their fatigue in the royal castle’s bathhouse

『Once I finish resting, I’ll have to repair the other bathhouses Not ets packed in here I only ever had showers in Origin, so this feels good Hmm?』

As Vandalieu got the feeling that he could hear a deep-sounding screarabbed his head firmly and lifted him out of the water

「Vandalieu! Were you drowning?!」(Vigaro)

「No, I was just putting my head underwater to warm it up」(Vandalieu)

It would have been different if it was a bathhouse built specifically for dom, but the bathtubs in the bathhouse of the royal castle that was built for titan use were very deep

It was a bathtub that a 25 up, so if the almost-three-years-old Vandalieu were to stand up inside the bathtub, his head would be well below the water’s surface

Well, when he had repaired the bathtubs, he had built stairs to create shallower regions as well, so he wouldn’t drown unless he was careless or was trying to drown hi his head in the water on purpose

「I was thinking of puttingto a hundred」(Vandalieu)

「You’d die, you know?!」(Vigaro)

「No no, I’ll be fine for up to five minutes」(Vandalieu)

Thanks to the his【Status Effect Resistance】skill, he would take over five ic, he could survive underwater even longer

「Still, stop that; it’s scary to watch What would you have done if aro)

「Oka~ay」(Vandalieu)

Bathing by sub his whole body underwater, officially prohibited

After Vandalieu finished bathing, he was deep in thought

『Now then, what a to do to rest?』(Vandalieu)

There were still several days until his birthday He was conte that time

Sleeping all day would be unhealthy, and spending the whole day eating was out of the question Staring into space and sitting completely still to meditate He wasn’t interested in that

When he tried to reot the feeling that he just did things and time just passed before he knew it

Training his No-Attribute Magic and Alche acorns into powder, polishi+ng the bones of Bone Monkey and the other Undead When he had been in the Devil’s Nest forest, ti these

However, he was resting now, and he wasn’t allowed to do tasks like these

So he thought that he would pass the ti his that amused him

Vandalieu didn’t have access to the ga consoles, PCs, televisions or sames should at least exist in this world, but he didn’t have those, either Well, now that he thought about it, he didn’t have access to s while he was on Earth

The survival-of-the-fittest lifestyle in the Ghoul village hadn’t allowed for h the Ghouls had stripped the corpses of dead adventurers of their belongings, there weren’t any odd-ames with them into a perilous Devil’s Nest

There were several books, but they were either spell toy ofthem, and he had already read them multiple times

He still had so at the Devil’s Nest forest, but those were all practical manuals that he had already skimmed multiple times as well

『That makes me wonder, how do the people of this world amuse themselves?』(Vandalieu)

Feeling curious, he went to ask Kachia who had once been an adventurer and Nuaza who had a good memory of details before his death, and they answered him cheerfully

「Ways to a? H street performers and stuff? If you were rich, you’d attend concerts Ah, you could also listen to , of course」(Kachia)

Kachia’s answer included the pasti shi+eld-nations’ commoners as well as an exaht enjoy But the outdoor theaters of Talosheirounds forup their own bones and the city had no in with

「Other than the things that Kachia-san hason things, such as whether a tossed coin will land on heads or tails? And praying to the Gods at the Churches」(Nuaza)

Vandalieu didn’t think that the last item that Nuaza mentioned was a pastime

Incidentally, Vandalieu intended to wait until he beca He considered himself to have the kind of personality that , and even if he were to drink alcohol now, his【Status Effect Resistance】skill would turn it into a training exercise rather than a leisure activity

「Err, then」(Vandalieu)

「Then you should play with us for today」(Kachia)

「Eh?」(Vandalieu)

「It’s fine, just come」(Kachia)

After that, Vandalieu passed the ti Kachia and the other former adventurers teach hi them how to play rock-paper-scissors in return

And then he checked up on Bilde and the other pregnant wo and the day ended

The rock-paper-scissors that Vandalieu had taught Kachia and the others quickly spread throughout Talosheim, and one day, it would spread across the entire Bahn Gaia continent

The next day, Vandalieu visited the Black Goblins, Anubises and Orcuses in search of amusement

Last night, before he went to sleep, he had thought,「That’s right, I should play with the other kids now that I have free time」

Since they developed quickly, their bodies were already larger than Vandalieu’s, but they were the only minors in the community

Vandalieu was sure that they would be playing tag and hide-and-seek, and they would gladly let him join in

On Earth, his behavior had been unusual because of his uncle, so he’d had no friends This would undoubtedly be a great opportunity to forget that lonely childhood

Though his heart would be broken if he were to be rejected

Talking to Kachia and the others had been fun, but children playing together would be so different

『Listen up, this is how you use a short sword!』(Borkus)

「Take good aiet! Good, now fire!」(Basdia)

「This is the club technique martial skill,【Skull Bash】If it hits, even a head made of stone will have its contents crushed, but it creates a big opening on yourself so be careful when you use it!」(Vigaro)

So he had thought, but everyone was busy training

They would one day have to go hunting in the Devil’s Nest for thee, so they had to receive training fro

It see the lifestyles and cultures of other monsters, they were very blessed

Monsters such as Goblins and Kobolds gave their children alht the roups, such as the rule of not disobeying their bosses

They were expected to gain techniques and knowledge by observation or learn it themselves, and they had to either make or steal their own equipment and tools

Goblins and Kobolds reproduced quickly, producing large numbers of children in a short amount of time Even if two-thirds of their children died, it was sufficient if the surviving one-third made it to adulthood

If the individuals with the ability to gather food on their own and the knowledge to build equiph

They didn’t bother spending the effort needed to educate the inferior members of their race

As for Orcs, ence needed to use tools

The concept of providing all of the Orcs with equipan had done was only possible because he was a noble Orc, a member of a superior race