The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 52 (1/2)

Volu’s Army

On this day, tears of blood fell fro Peria, the Goddess of water and knowledge, in the Bahn Gaia continent and throughout the rest of the world Those who had received Yupeon’s divine protection heard the ‘scream of a God’ and lost consciousness

The cause of that was Vandalieu breaking and destroying the soul of Ice Age, the e’s consciousness never returned to Yupeon’s main body, even Yupeon who had lost a clone of himself did not know this

The people feared this o or the second resurrection of the fallen chaion became very busy

A heavy atmosphere had fallen upon the audience cha incomplete

Most of those who had challenged the Dragon Gole the Stone Golems still remained here

Bone Wolf, Bone Bird and the other Undead anie cry of multiple beasts at once

The only ones eren’t here were Vandalieu, the one who had repaired this audience chamber, and Bone Man whose spine and hips had been crushed and was still unable to move on his own

They were still beneath the royal castle

In order to find out whether the destroyed resurrection device could be repaired or not

After Vandalieu destroyed Ice Age’s soul, everyone received an incredible quantity of Experience Points that even Borkus had never earned in a single battle before The Dragon Goleed by the S-class-destined Divine Spear of Ice Mikhail and his co the lives of all of Mikhail’s co a fatal wound on Mikhail himself

Because they had dealt the final blow to such a foe, everyone gained an enormous amount of Experience Points

As a result, Vigaro had becohest, most powerful type of Ghoul that had been historically witnessed His enor the height of the titans, and he had groo additional arms He was a powerful, four-armed warrior

Rita and Saria’s arh-Magic Armors and their Spirit Form skills had i-like, vaguely-human-shaped bodies

… Though Vandalieu would consider them to be like a full-body, white version of the silhouettes depicting the criender couldn’t be detera

In fact, their Spirit For in various places; it was like some form of joke

And the levels of the other members had increased as well Bone Man, asn’t present here, had probably increased his Rank and Vandalieu’s Job level had likely increased significantly as well

However, the atmosphere in here wasn’t a happy celebration of these facts

“They sure are taking their time…”

Several hours had already passed, but there was no sign of Vandalieu returning He hadn’t suffered any injuries other than giving Eleanora a little of his own blood, but he had expended a large amount of his Mana and his Surpass Limits skill had been active There was no way that he wasn’t feeling fatigued

However, nobody could suggest that they go to see as happening

Everyone could re that the resurrection device had been destroyed

Aathered in this place, Eleanora had known Vandalieu for the least amount of ti, she had no fond memories of her family

But she kne much Vandalieu wished for the resurrection of his mother

HisThat alone isn’t unusual; it is an unhappy story one could hear anywhere Even as the surviving child bears the large emotional wound, the sorrow must be put in the past in order to move on Just as Eleanora had put the fact that she had been sold by her parents in the past in order to continue living

Even she, who possessed an affinity for the time attribute, could not erase the past

But Vandalieu-saht be able to achieve the perfect resurrection of the dead that was impossible even for the Goddess

It ht reach it; if he tried his best, heto put his mother’s death in the past

In fact, he had almost reached it Darcia’s resurrection

But his efforts had been hindered and trampled underfoot for reasons that there was no way he could understand It was terrifying to sie, shock and frustration

Vandalieu-sama is someone who hates those that try to take happiness away froer towards them, he hates them, he curses them, he fears them He feels true happiness at their ruin and takes comfort in their destruction

Eleanora had felt thiselse when Vandalieu had destroyed the souls of Sercrent and the Subordinate Vampires who had tried to kill Tarea That hy he had also destroyed the soul of Ice Age today

But unlike when he had destroyed Sercrent, Vandalieu was likely unsatisfied with the destruction of Ice Age’s soul

If I could comfort him, I would want to do so, but… I’s?

Eleanora let out a sigh and placed a hand on her chest This was the spot where Ice Age’s ice had pierced her, and the wound had healed without a trace due to Vandalieu’s ic and blood

Before, she would have been scared if her life had been saved and she had not been of any use She would have been terrified that she would be discarded for being useless and unnecessary

But the e other than fear A nausea-like disco squeezed

Do I want to comfort him because of these ain Vandalieu-sahtforward methods until now

Even if Eleanora didn’t do such things, Vandalieu still treated her well So just why?

“Is the Holy Son still underground?” asked Nuaza, who had entered the audience chas

“Yes,” replied Zadiris “He still has not come out”

“I see… There was soize to him for,” said Nuaza

“Are you talking about when you, o?” Borkus, who had been silently frowning with the re part of his face, interrupted “If so, I’ize, not you I’m the one who asked him to find Zandia-jouchan and Jeena If he had told ht about the possibility of Mikhail’s spear being an Artifact with its own mind… If I’d never lost to that bastard Mikhail two hundred years ago in the first place, if I’d broken that spear, things wouldn’t have turned out this way”

When they met, Borkus had resisted Vandalieu’s Death-Attribute Charm He could probably resist it even now if he tried

But he had stopped resisting it of his oill He had realized that doing so was less

A brat whose expressionless faceor where he was looking

That brat had brought the happiness of energetic, everyday life back to the previously-empty Talosheim

While being given nothing in return

Vandalieu could have received plenty of compensation if he had asked for it; for Borkus and the other Undead titans, such compensation would have been a necessary price to pay

The safe life they had in the city was because Vandalieu had repaired the walls; they were able to enjoy delicious food because he ic; he had even repaired the enormous rooms in the royal castle

The goodwill and respect he had received was only natural considering his actions, and though the title of ‘Holy Son’ was originally so title for Vandalieu to have

He still hadn’t recovered the corpses of Zandia and Jeena, but he had said that he would do so in the next few decades His enemies would be the Pure-breed Vampires ould likely be iathered, so facing them within the next few decades could even be considered too early

And now that Borkus had been on the verge of repay the debt that he owed to Vandalieu, it had becoain How pathetic How could he call himself an A-class adventurer when he couldn’t even co all the rewards in advance?

“No, that is not it”

However, it seeize to Vandalieu for was so else

“Huh? Then what is it?” asked Borkus

“I have willingly destroyed a part of the Church that the Holy Son was gracious enough to take the tiized to Vida and Peria, so…”

“Destroyed?” Eleanora repeated “Do you mean…?”

“The statue of Yupeon, the God of ice,” said Nuaza “It had ed with the pedestal, so I carefully detached it and buried it in the ground”

In many Churches, statues of Gods other than the main God of the Church are enshrined Not all Gods have statues gathered in every Church, but even if Yupeon was a subordinate God, he had existed since one hundred thousand years ago

Unlike Alda and his subordinates ere clearly the enee for Yupeon’s statue to be in Talosheim’s Church of Vida

Nuaza had buried that statue

“I-is it alright for you to do soasped and held her breath

Though Zadiris and the other Ghouls wouldn’t have immediately understood as they had never built Churches the in this world

This is a world where the existence of Gods is known to be true, so an action such as Nuaza’s would be a literal display of a lack of fear towards the Gods The armies of the Amid Empire and its nations that worshi+p Alda as its official religion often destroy statues of Vida, but that is because their God instructs them to

However, there was no sign of hesitation in Nuaza’s mummified face

“Of course Yupeon has clearly declared through his follower in Ice Age that we are his ene to be ashamed of, nor have we been punished So just as we are divine enemies to that God, it is only natural that we treat him as our enemy”

That God regarded everyone here as ene Vida who Nuaza and the others worshi+pped So even if he was a subordinate God of Peria like Tristan, who had sired the Mer-people with Vida, there was no reason to hold back

“However, it is a fact that I have buried and disposed of a statue that the Holy Son restored,” said Nuaza “Incidentally, the sun has set and a considerable ao and see what is happening?”

“Huh?” Borkus looked surprised “Has it been that long?”

“Well, we can’t see the sun or the stars from this room,” Rita pointed out

“I suppose Undead have a duller sense of time But too reement

“Alright, let’s go and see what’s happening,” said Vigaro

Though they had been doubting hoise it would be to all go down together, now that there was an opportunity and because everyone was curious about how Vandalieu was doing, they all descended underground once more

“Jyuuh? What is the matter, everyone?”

And then they encountered Bone Man before they reached the chamber

“What about you, Bone Man-san?” asked Saria “Did you have your bones repaired?”

“Yes And I have a e from my lord”

“A e?” Eleanora repeated “What did Vandalieu-sama say?”

“He said, ‘I will be here for a while longer to investigate the device a littleme some food Thank you’”

“… I’d thought that he wouldn’t eat or drink because of the shock, but it seearo

“Alright, we’ll all bea special dish for Bocchan!” Rita announced “Everyone except me, that is!” she added

“Rita, you are a maid, so you should at least learn toher

“No, now that I think about it, the boy is the only one a us who kno to cook properly,” Zadiris pointed out

“I couldmeat,” said Eleanora

“Even I could do that,” said Borkus

Bone Chimera let out a cry

If these women were on Earth, they would have been criticized for their lack of feminine skills

Vandalieu slept properly at night, ate breakfast, lunch and dinner without skipping a meal and, of course, took baths

After investigating the resurrection device for a month in this way, Vandalieu ca it was possible, but impossible for now

The resurrection device was truly soh Vandalieu had acquired the Alchee and he couldn’t make any sense of it at all It was like a cave to hand-build a supercomputer out of semiconductors

However, Vandalieu had the Golem Trans inanie their shape freely, restoring the broken device to its original form was possible

Ice Age’s ice had torn holes in the resurrection device and severed parts of it But fortunately, the components hadn’t exploded or warped into a different shape, nor had any important parts been bloay coinal form

However, the essential Gole on the components of the resurrection device

Even with the use of Appraisal, Vandalieu couldn’t learn anything about the resurrection device’s cos like, ‘A ely than Orichalcum and refused to become Golems

It was likely that either Orichalcum had been included as materials or they were made of some unknown God-ic, after all Since Orichalcue for Hihiirokane or other legendary divine metals to exist as well

TLN: A legendaryvariations that can old”

However, Vandalieu’s Golem Transon Golem, and he had become able toit If Goleht be possible to return this device to its original state one day