The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 64 (1/2)
“Just what… happened to me?” Gordan was bewildered
His eyes couldn’t see, his ears couldn’t hear, his body was cold He didn’t know anything
“I had… an important mission… Yes, I should have had an important mission from my God…”
“That is right, Gordan, my servant,” a voice said suddenly From the divinity contained within the voice, Gordan knew immediately that this was the voice of a God
“?! You are…!”
“However, you were unable to accomplish your mission”
These next words almost caused Gordan to crumble He had been unable to accoreat God The frustration and regret caused pain in his heart
“But I will grant you one ht, Gordan,” said the voice
“What?! Is that true?!”
“Yes, of course And if you fight as I a, I will erase the sins of ‘this occasion’”
“Certainly, ent of your divine will, shall fight until my last breath!” As Gordan made this vow, color returned to his world
He couldn’t feel any warmth, but he felt as if his body was in even better condition than before
“High Priest! Are you alright?!”
“He’s opened his eyes! Hurry and bring the Potion!”
At the sa around him
“Get away fro a nearby ene onto his feet
“High Priest, what are you –?!”
“What, you ask?! I a you bastards, of course!”
Conveniently, Gordan’s war club was lying nearby He used his feet to kick it up into his hands and struck down another foolish ene like a hoarse chicken as his lungs were crushed straight through his ar away
“High Priest! It is me, Arjen!” another priest-warrior pleaded
“Oh, I see! Then die, Arjen, enehtered the priest-warriors that he had taught and guided while he was alive “Fuhahahaha! God! Please witness this!”
At the hands of Gordan, as now a Zombie Priest, the expedition army was finally annihilated
He finished those ere trying to flee and those ere on the ground, leaving none alive
『The levels of the Superhu-distance Control, Parallel Thought Processing, High-speed Thought Processing, Unar Technique, Surpass Limits, Multi-Cast, Chant Revocation, Soul Break and Death-Attribute Charm skills have increased!』
『You have acquired the Co skill!』
『You have reached level 100!』
Vandalieu was satisfied with the overwhel victory
There were no factors that could make them lose, so this was the obvious result
Vandalieu had acted right after Eleanora turned to his side He had gathered trump card after trump card, and made all the preparations
He had anticipated there would be a tunnel the enemy would use and found it first to set up a surveillance network
He had built walls with Golems, prepared crossbows and built catapults
He had developed a disease that would only infect the expedition aron Golem, created weapons and armor with the Orichalcum and distributed them to his allies As an anti-Vampire measure, he had repaired the destroyed mercury mirrors and turned them into Golems
And everyone had put in the effort to increase their own individual strength The weakest of thethen Followers and Strengthen Subordinates skills Their actual fighting strength was equivalent to Rank 5
In contrast, there were plenty of factors that caused the expedition army to lose
The stronghold had been in a state where it would be divided if anything happened between E shi+eld-nation, and the supreme commander had been a illed traitor who had sided with the Vah to create a miracle, either
Most iather information on the state of Talosheim
The expedition army had been made of elite soldiers ere individually capable of defeating a Rank 3 monster, but their destination was a place where there were no enemies weaker than Rank 5
As a result, though Vandalieu’s forces had sustained injuries, they had gained an incredible victory with no casualties
Pauvina and the others had taken shelter in the royal castle that Vandalieu had turned entirely into Golems, and he had made sure they were safe
“Now then, let’s deal with the aftermath of the battle,” said Vandalieu He had recovered fro Gordan’s blood, and noas turning the expedition army’s corpses into Zombies, one after another
There were around five thousand of theinal number of soldiers was because soinal shape to the way they had been killed or their legs had been crushed, rendering them useless
Vandalieu could repair even those corpses with Corpse Healing or ery skill to stitch ether, but he didn’t intend to spend thatmore disposable pawns
Five thousand would be enough He would use the other one thousand as experience for the Undead, food for the Cemetery Bees and manure for the Immortal Ents, and add their bones to Knochen As for their spirits, he would turn the
While busy with this work, Vandalieu gathered information from the spirits The most important one was Isla, who had been the close aide of a Pure-breed Vampire Unable to resist the Death-Attribute Char she knew in order to try and please him
“I see,” said Vandalieu “So it really was the Pure-breed Vadom’s side Well, that was after the princess and her companions made it to the Hartner Duchy, so it doesn’t matter More importantly, can Ternecia repair the tunnel?” he asked
“No, I heard that it is impossible even for Ternecia-sama… Ternecia,” replied Isla
Thisshi+eld-nation’s tunnel was destroyed in the same way, the Pure-breed Vampires would be unable to use it Vandalieu felt relieved
Isla told him that Ternecia and the other Pure-breed Va to the evil God, swearing loyalty to hi his divine protection They had become true monsters
That explained why Zombie Maker had appeared as a new Job
He also learned useful information such as the names of humans connected to the evil God, especially of those in the Orbaudom
After that, he quickly turned her into a Zombie The Pure-breed Vampires could apparently conduct a ritual that would summon the spirits of the dead noble-born Vampires and turn them into Undead, so there was a risk that information would be leaked if Vandalieu didn’t turn them into Undead first
“Vandalieu-sama, you can break their souls like you did with Sercrent’s instead of doing soestion
But Vandalieu shook his head “I don’t really hate her that much”
Because of his trauma, Vandalieu felt a reflexive bloodthirst whenever he sao hurt and tormented However, to him, Isla was not a woman
She was nothing but an ‘enemy’ who had tried to kill Eleanora
However, Vandalieu had the feeling that it wouldn’t be good to destroy someone’s soul si the them in cruel ways
“Ah, but I’uys work under you, so if you don’t want that, let me know and I’ll break them,” he said
Just because he stopped hating theative emotions would return to neutral; they wouldn’t become positive
“! I… ork under this…?!”
“Certainly, Vandalieu-sama,” said Eleanora “You understand, don’t you, Isla?”
“… Yes, Eleanora… sama…”
Without even glancing at the Vaathering information from the dead
Putting up with Riley’s flattery, he learned about Heinz who had crossed over to the Orbaudom He learned the names, faces, Jobs and skills of each member who had been in the Five-colored Blades However, the information about one of them was useless
An Elf woe by the naeon
She had entered the saeon related to the cha to the Orbaudom and been defeated there
With that, there were only three enee on
“I probably can’t expect to find her spirit… though it would be interesting if she turned into an Undead in that Dungeon” Vandalieu gave a sigh and then continued
He learned of an S-class adventurer in the Adom, the Thunderclap Schneider
He was a saint so beloved by Alda that er; he was apparently a great hero who had saved nues, and exterminated dozens of monsters over Rank 10
But apparently, he was currently living on an island that he had received as a reward, living a life of luxury that even noblemen would be envious of and constantly surrounded by wo him
Having decided that it would be bad if he were to suspect that the Vampires were involved in the expedition, the Vampires had planned to make moves behind the scenes so that he wouldn’t participate in it, but he had sioing to a place without women and alcohol”
“I wonder why,” said Vandalieu “Well, that definitely saved us, though”
If there had been multiple powerful adventurers in the expedition army, the victory wouldn’t have been so easy An S-class adventurer as even more powerful than Mikhail would have been terrible to face
After this, since he had reached level 100, Vandalieu decided to quickly go and have his Job-change This war had been great for Experience Points and his skills
『Jobs that can be selected: Venom Fist User, Insect User, Archenemy, Zombie Maker, Tree Caster, Corpse Demon Commander, Disease Demon, Spirit Warrior』
TLN: This is so of a play on words because the word for “commander” is 指揮官/shi+kikan In this Job’s title, the first two kanji in 指揮官 have been replaced by 屍鬼/shi+ki which means “corpse demon” This results in a Job title of 屍鬼官 which is still read, “shi+kikan” but now has the “corpse de added to it
“Yay, there are more” Vandalieu was happy to discover new Jobs, but it was happening so frequently that he wasn’t particularly excited He had the feeling that if he reported these new Jobs to an Adventurers’ Guild, he’d be able to live off the reward money for a while
Corpse Demon Coained the Co skill It would likely be related to skills like Coordination and Cothen an army
Disease Demon… Was this really a Job? Wasn’t it the name of a monster? Well, it probably was a Job after all
This battle was clearly the cause of this Job appearing It sounded rather exaggerated considering that Vandalieu had only created one disease that turned harmless after twelve hours
Spirit Warrior was thereTechnique skill and because he had now experienced the Soul Breaker Job? It was likely that this Job would provide bonuses to co Technique
But if he chose this Job, wouldn’t he have to wear arn?
“For now, let’s try going with Venom Fist User,” Vandalieu decided
He wanted to visit the Orbaudom next year to see its situation and learn about the adventurers’ school, so he wanted to increase his own individual fighting strength
At first, he had thought that people would refuse handshakes if he took this Job, but he had come up with various ideas recently, so he wanted to test them out He would take Spirit Warrior at another opportunity
『The level of the Status Effect Resistance skill has increased!』
『You have acquired the Poison Secretion (Claws, Fangs, Tongue) skill!』
Name: Vandalieu
Race: Dhampir (Dark Elf)
Age: 5 years old
title:【Ghoul King】,【Eclipse King】
Job: Venom Fist User
Level: 0
Job history: Death-Attribute Mage, Golem Transmuter, Undead Tamer, Soul Breaker
Attributes:
Vitality: 160
Mana: 328,116,728
Strength: 108
Agility: 105
Stamina: 105
Intelligence: 757
Passive skills:
Superhuth: Level 2 (LEVEL UP!)
Rapid Healing: Level 3
Death-Attribute Magic: Level 5
Status Effect Resistance: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
Magic Resistance: Level 1
Dark Vision
Mental Corruption: Level 10
Death-Attribute Charm: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
Chant Revocation: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
Strengthen Followers: Level 7
Automatic Mana Recovery: Level 3
Strengthen Subordinates: Level 4
Poison Secretion (Claws, Fangs, Tongue): Level 1
Active skills:
Bloodsucking: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
Surpass Limits: Level 5 (LEVEL UP!)
Golem Transmutation: Level 6
No-Attribute Magic: Level 4
Mana Control: Level 4
Spirit Form: Level 5 (LEVEL UP!)
Carpentry: Level 4
Engineering: Level 3
Cooking: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
Alchemy: Level 3
Unar Technique: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)