The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 62 (1/2)

With a dripping noise, cold fluid fell from a helmet

The soldier wearing the helmet didn’t take much notice of it This was a battlefield A place where blood would norh the air If he was too concerned over a few drops of fluid, he would lose his life

But that soldier soon began coughing A headache folloithout warning, alongside terrible nausea, dizziness, joint pain, a sto a fever

He coughed some more “P-poison…”

His throat was in pain; he wasn’t in a state to speak loudly And everywhere across the battlefield, troops were experiencing deterioration in their physical conditions just like the soldier… No, to be roup were the only ones unaffected

It’s gone well

Vandalieu gave a satisfied nod atop the second fortress wall after having used the trebuchets to scatter the virus projectiles packed full of water containing the pathogen he had made

The soldiers and knights ere trying to regain their cohing and suffering

Even Gordan and Riley, who had been striking down the boulders, were no exception The ones who looked like , flustered at the situation around them They were likely to be the Vaathered in one spot

The disease Vandalieu had created was a disease that didn’t infect those who by nature could be affected by Death-Attribute Charm

It had no effect on Ghouls, Cemetery Bees, Pauvina or Vampires, but the hu shi+eld-nation’s expedition arh every possible infection route and the disease took hold within seconds

That was the kind of disease it was

“Guh… Antidote Potions… aren’t working…”

“Don’t lower your shi+elds, the shi+eld-nation will be disgraced if we fall to a poison like this!”

“Why, even though I have the Poison Resistance skill…”

Many of the soldiers had mistaken the disease created by Vandalieu for a poison They couldn’t be bla this, as their physical conditions had si

But even as they drank the antidote Potions that they had been equipped with, their conditions improved for only a moment This was only natural, as even if the antidote reens continued to produce more

“Cure Disease! This isn’t a poison, it’s a disease!” shouted High Priest Gordan “You lot, heal the ones around you! Mages, hurry and stand up, will you!”

As expected, he was the first one to recover As his passive life-attribute healing ic healed his disease, he also cast his own spells as he reprimanded those around him

“Messara, h-hurry… up!”

Messara coughed violently “W-wait, my throat…!”

Things weren’t so si norht away, let alone reciting an incantation

And on top of that –

“Wait…! W-why, this disease is supposed to be…!” Gordan, as supposed to haveviolently once more

“Unlike poison, diseases can be spread froh,” Vandalieu whispered as he watched Gordan suffering

Gordan had indeed cured hiic However, there were thousands of infected people around hi without masks

Each cough and sneeze would send large quantities of pathogens flying several meters This had caused Gordan to become infected once more

There are some diseases that cannot cause a second infection due to an i after the first infection, but there was no way Vandalieu would have gone out of his way to create such a forgiving disease

“This is my special disease that mutates even faster than influenza,” Vandalieu murmured “You can experience it repeatedly until you die”

To escape from the disease in this place that was filled with it, one would have to wear a Magic Item with a continuous anti-disease effect, completely heal the disease in those in the i possible to escape the battlefield and then treat the disease with ic afterwards

Alternatively, they could try to survive until the period after which Vandalieu had set the disease to stop working, which was half a day, but that would be impossible

Isla and her Vampires, who couldn’t contract the disease even if they stopped worshi+pping the evil God, were forced to make a decision

“How could this be!”

Ternecia had taken uise themselves as humans to sneak into the army, but that army had been turned into a mass of pitiful, sick people in an instant

The Vampires were unaware that the disease would disappear after half a day and that it wasn’t fatal on its own, so in theirthey could use for cover, let alone as a fighting force

With this, they had to abandon their original plan

Isla clicked her tongue “Everyone, keep going! We’ll fly up to kill the Dhampir and hunt down the traitors!”

“Is that really alright? If we do that, the fact that we are Vampires will be exposed, will it not?”

“We’re already as good as exposed! Who would believe that there are this many humans with the Status Effect Resistance skill!”

The Vampires had noticed that this was a disease, not a poison However, they didn’t know the exact effects of the disease that Vandalieu had created Because of this, they had assumed that it was their Status Effect Resistance skills that were preventing it fro them

Though it seemed that the expedition arht now, they knew that if the aret time to think about it later, they would become suspicious of the Vampires

“We’ll take care of things afterwards! Think about how to co to beco to keep up appearances Her tone was harsh, as if her master Ternecia had possessed her body

The Vaorously

They knew that if their responses were a moment late, they would be killed by Isla, as known by the title of ‘Ternecia’s Hound’

“Then let’s get !” Isla undid her unique skill’s transformation and flew into the air She threay her full-face hel, and instantly discarded her crude, weak ar a contraption that had been built into it

She drew her trusty sith no sharp point, a weapon that would have been called an executioner’s sword on Earth, as she flew straight towards the second wall

And then Isla sneered as she fleards the expressionless, white face that was looking up at her

“You’ve given us a lot of surprises but this is where it ends! Come now, and become rust on my sword, half-breed!”

But before she reached him, her vision was filled hite

The Vampires around her screamed

“It’s so hot! I-Isla-sama, the sun, THE SUUUUUUUN!”

It had already become dark in Talosheim to the point that Vaht was shi+ning down on the them

“The first part of the plan is complete Commence the second part,” Vandalieu whispered as he watched Isla and her subordinates writhe in agony like live ani oil

Zadiris, after leading those who could use light-attributeon standby

A skull, large enough that one could barely wrap arhtly above her head It was Vandalieu’s familiar, a Lemure

Lemures would normally be mostly transparent, but Vandalieu had used the Visualize spell to make it visible

“I think it is almost time, but… Oh, it seems that they have come”

The Le

On that signal, Zadiris and the others turned the nearby mercury mirror

These acy left behind by Zakkart, a coic of this world Because of these ht onto Talosheim, the city surrounded by ht hours had been known as the Capital of the Sun, and its farmlands had produced abundant crops

But two hundred years ago, they had been destroyed by the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s army The mirrors of liquid metal had been broken and the pillars that supported them had been destroyed

Vandalieu had repaired the his Golem Transmutation skill It seemed that Zakkart had built them with future maintenance in mind; after Vandalieu had fixed the structures, he had been able to restore their function with his Alchemy skill

“Take aim!”

Vandalieu had also turned these mercury mirrors into Golems Given commands like this, they would move as instructed

“Everyone, align yourselves… Extreht!”

Zadiris had becoht so bright that it could burn one’s eyes

“Sunlight!”

“Sunlight!”

“Extreht!”

The other es, the Ghoul women, the Undead titans and the Anubises, released similar spells

Sunlight was a spell that released the light of the sun

Extreht of a h to burn the skin

Both were anti-Vao How ironic it was that Ghouls and Undead were using them under the orders of a Dhampir

“Everyone, keep releasing your ic until you are out of Mana!” Zadiris instructed “We will turn those evil-God-worshi+pping Vampires into ash!+”

They were distant from the battlefield, but the sudden influx of Experience Points told Zadiris that their spells had successfully incinerated their enemies

“Impossible! The relics left behind by Zakkart should have been destroyed! So how can this be?!”

Like silver, the pain of being burnt by the sun was difficult to endure for Vampires It would easily overcome the Vampires’ immortality that otherwise rendered them otherwise impossible to kill unless their heads were cut off or their hearts were completely destroyed

Their Status Effect Resistance skills and their high regenerative abilities would be of no use

In fact, the Vampire Leaders, the weakest of the Varound, unable to bear the sunlight They were trying to crawl and hide therass

“Isla-saain our…”

“You fool! Can you not see that?!” Isla pointed at the Va defeated one by one

“You damn Vampires!” a soldier yelled

“daroup!” shouted another

The nearby soldiers weretheir swords and spears to attack the Va to shi+eld therass

For the soldiers of the expedition army, Isla and the Va up into the air and being burned by the sunlight, were nothing but enemies It was likely that they assuroup with hi to kill him

Even the huroup of useless sick people, posed plenty of threat to the Vaht Those who had been unfortunate to fall near Gordan had already had their heads turned into lumps of meat by his war club

General Mauvid and Riley were unable to tell them to stop, of course, so they simply looked on with stiff expressions and eyes wide-open

“Do you understand?! If you do, then hurry up and get over the wall!” Isla ordered her subordinates, protecting her body as ic to produce white ice around her body that refracted the sunlight

The other Vaic to protect their bodies froht, and then attempted to continue

And then a particularly bright ray of sunlight strea down one of the Va him to fall with a scream

The mercury mirror Goleht onto one spot, turning into a sunlight cannon Even ht alone Of course, a little darkness and fog was useless against it

“Spread out! Don’t stick together, if it hits you, you’re dead!” As Isla gave her subordinates a reckless order to avoid the sunlight and pressed forward, she saw countless ene up to meet her

The one leading them was…

“How do you do? Perfect weather for sunbathing, isn’t it?”

The Va at them

At the saround’s surface, Ghouls and Undead suddenly appeared on the right side of the expedition army

Vandalieu had never intended to rely on Talosheie in a defensive battle

Taloshei indeed, but since there were no reinforce up in the fortress would make any difference

And if things dragged on, the expedition ar shi+eld-nation, and it would be terrible if the Pure-breed Vampires lost their temper and showed up personally

That hy he would quickly exter him

To that purpose, Vandalieu had used Golee cave in which his allies could wait

“UOOOOH!”

“KILL THEM AAAALL!”

“Protect the children! Slaughter the intruders!”

“Don’t you dare set foot in our nation again!”

The morale of the Ghouls and Undead, who had been on standby underground for several hours, was high None of the in complete darkness, and more importantly, this was a battle to defend their home

There was no way that their morale could fall

“E-enemies!”

“Rise up and… face theh…”

The expedition arht back like the elite soldiers they were, but the disease was eating into their bodies and robbing theain their formations, astric juices all over the ground

“Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up –” Vandalieu, still standing on the second wall, revived the Golems that were supposed to have been destroyed by the expedition army

They groaned as they rose once more

“Iain!”

“GAH!”

The stone giants trae for the earlier battle

The Golems had indeed been destroyed by the expedition army’s men But the spears and swords had not physically reh split and sround

It was a simple matter for Vandalieu to take those ain

And then Vigaro and the others flooded in At the sa, but a slaughter that rendered that fact an

“Follow aro roared

The knights, ere unable to regain their formations due to the disease and the Gole by his axe

A knight, enraged by the death of his coan to speak “damn you, cowards –”

“Shut up and die!” an Undead titan shouted as he ht doith his enormous club

They slaughtered the enehts or even norht have hesitated to do this But the Ghouls and Undead felt no hesitation whatsoever

They had a different sense of values from humans, and they felt it was the expedition arathering infor a plan

“damn it, Screw Thrust!”

The expedition arht Many of them had forced the martial skills

One such soldier thrust his spearhead into Vigaro’s sto motion that increased its penetrative power With his sta he had into this attack as he knew that he wouldn’t survive afterwards, but the spear would surely find its mark –

“Huh?”

The tip of the soldier’s spear shattered into pieces His eyes opened wide as he stared at his spear that was now nothing but a long stick Vigaro swung the shi+eld held by one of his four ar him to fly away and lie still where he landed

There was an Orichalcuaro’s stomach

“That was soaro murmured

But no ood that soldier’s skill was, he had only been wielding the iron spear he was been provided That spear was one that a blacksmith hadpoured into a cast, but it had been unable to coainst Orichalcuical metals

Instead of landing a blow, the soldier’s excessive force had caused the spearhead to break and shatter Of course, Vigaro’s waistband didn’t even have a scratch on it

“… Well, you’re the ones who caaro did pity the soldiers, but he realized that they were reaping what they sowed and continued swinging his axe