The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 64 (2/2)
Soul Break: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
Multi-Cast: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
Long-distance Control: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)
Surgery: Level 1
Parallel Thought Processing: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
Materialization: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
Coordination: Level 1
High-speed Thought Processing: Level 2 (LEVEL UP!)
Co: Level 1 (NEW!)
Unique skills:
God Slayer: Level 1
Curses
Experience gained in previous life not carried over
Cannot learn existing jobs
Unable to gain experience independently
“Eh? It’s supposed to be venoue as well?”
Vandalieu had become able to secrete poison from various places To think that he would literally have a ‘poisonous tongue’…
TLN: This is a japanese figure of speech that e”
“Bocchan, we have acquired all of the expedition army’s materials!” Saria reported
“Well then, shall we depart?” said Vandalieu
“Vandalieu-sama, may I come with you…?” asked Eleanora
“We’ll be traveling in basic carriages, but if you’re alright with that,” Vandalieu replied
“I want to go too!” said Pauvina
“Pauvina… well, alright”
“Yay!”
“Now then, the Eclipse King’s arin its march”
The soldier on lookout duty at theover the wastelands with his partner
He had already become completely accustomed to the frequent phenoht rising into the sky without warning and lightning strikes
He had been scared of the, signs thattheir numbers
The C-class adventurers hired by the army had exterminated almost all of the monsters in the area near the fort It seemed that there had been a lot of very profitablethe sto oods
However, the air around the fort was filled with a strange tension
“Hey, rumors have it that…”
“Shut up”
“What, I haven’t said anything yet, have I?”
“You’re going to say that soht?”
“So you know already?”
Ten days had already passed since the expedition ar to the schedule, they should have reached Talosheinals rose up in the sky
There were apparently other signals and communication methods that the ordinary soldiers hadn’t been told, but it seeh those, either
This was the reason for the tension at the fort
“There’s a fully loaded supply unit on the other side of the tunnel that’s about to get here, isn’t there? Considering that, isn’t it strange that we haven’t heard anything?”
“I do think it’s strange, but… try letting the captain hear you say that, you’ll get a good scolding”
Of course, if it was discovered that the soldiers hispering s to each other, they would be reprih that they would discuss it and risk facing lectures and punish boss
They , beautiful woman, however
“But you know… Hmm? What’s that?”
“What’s what?”
“Look, over there Isn’t there so there?”
As the soldier looked in the direction his co It was flickering blue and white
“It’s probably a ,” he said “It’s far-off, too, so just ignore it”
Perhaps because humans were rare here, monsters frequently observed the fort from afar At first, they had been terrified whenever they sawin their direction, but noell-known that suchas they stayed in the fort
The soldier thought that the light seen by his partner was another pair of monster eyes, but –
“Hey, those lights, there are ination, but aren’t they co this way?”
The soldier looked again and saw that there were indeed hts
One light turned into two, then, three, then five, ten, dozens More andby the second!
And on top of that –
“There’s a sound… no, voices I hear voices”
“Report this to the captain! Those aren’t ordinaryHe blew the horn that signaled an e to his feet and the leader of the adventurer party that was on night watch came
“What’s wrong… What’s that?!”
There was no need for the soldiers to hts had clearly increased There were over a hundred of therown louder as well
“If I recall, you can use light-attribute ic, can you not?!”
“I’ve got it, you just need ht?” Aa Flare spell He threw the glowing sphere that had appeared in his hand into the sky with all his strength
In an instant, the darkness over the wasteland was dispelled, as if a sun had appeared in the night sky
The light revealed the expedition ar for contact from
Groans and shrieks rose from them
Their eyes were rolled back and their tongues were hanging out of their mouths Gruesome wounds were visible on their bodies and their entrails were being dragged along the ground But these were the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s elite soldiers, whose march would not stop
The soldier screa so
“Is that the expedition ar? Does that mean that the expedition army was annihilated?”
“I suppose so There are thousands of them there; I don’t think there are any survivors,” said the adventurer
There were several thousand Undead soldiers of the expedition arht The adventurer wasn’t optih to believe that there were any survivors or that any of these Undead were still alive
And on top of that…
“The fort! Take! Kill!”
“How dare you… bring us… to this place… I’LL KILL YOOOUUU!”
The Undead were screa furious expressions that in with
“Captain-san, co confir with
Even the spineless soldiers were startled by these words
“R-retreat?! Don’t be stupid, how can we do so blades with the enemy!” said the captain
“If we cross blades, we’ll be wiped out! Captain-san, including us adventurers, there aren’t even four hundred of us at the fort!”
There were three hundred soldiers in the fort There were nine C-class adventurer parties
Each of the C-class adventurers could defeat Rank 5 and 6 monsters individually, and an entire party could even stand up to a Rank 7 monster
But the soldiers in the fort could hardly be called elite One of the a Rank 2 ht somehow take down a Rank 3 monster
“But our eneht? With you C-class adventurers, things should work out!” said the captain
“If they were Rank 2 Zoe,” the adventurer agreed “If all of us fought together and you didn’thalf-destroyed, that is But you heard their voices, didn’t you?”
“Voices? I heard them, but what about them?”
“Lower-Rank Zo They’re like beasts; they can only howl and screaht have a word or two nized this fort, spoke discernable words of hatred and there were clearly soent than Zombies”
As the captain co of the adventurer’s words, his face turned pale
A the thousands of Undead, there were some Zombies that were Rank 3 or above
“If there are even a few hundred Rank 3we can deal with,” the adventurer continued “Undead of Rank 3 and above can use the martial skills they used while they were alive And since they’re Undead, there’s no limit to their stamina”
A future where everyone would be crushed and slaughtered helplessly flashed through the captain’s mind
“All forces, prepare to retreat!” he shouted “Fill the tunnel with all the traps we have, pour oil on the fort and set it on fire! Archers and es, attack the enemy and buy time until we’ve made our preparations! We’ll have you adventurers ith us as well!”
“Yeah, leave it to us!”
“All forces, prepare to retreat! All forces, prepare to retreat!”
They hastily began
The soldiers protecting the small fort in front of the tunnel had succeeded in their retreat
After having successfully decreased the nu any casualties, they frantically proceeded through the tunnel
They knew that if the Undead caught them, they would meet horrific fates
Still frantic, they ca shi+eld-nation’s side of the tunnel had already been infores who had been hired just in case the iic
With this, the Undead would not be able to come out
They felt relieved, but a h the collapsed tunnel and carrying on, around a hundred meters from the tunnel’s entrance
“This is hopeless! Abandon this fort and retreat to the town!”
This fort was to prevent adventurers and crially; it wasn’t so out of the tunnel
“You can’t collapse the tunnel one more time?!” the captain demanded
“What are you expecting us to do so that’s already collapsed?! I’ll have you know that these spells won’t reach them a hundred ain, it’s impossible! All of us will take a day to recover our Mana!” shouted the e
The Undead h the tunnel at a terrifying pace The h a third of the collapsed portion of the tunnel
Retreat was the only option after all
“What are we going to do about the cultivated land?!”
“Send a er, have them evacuate!”
“Hurry up! All forces, retreat!”
Sending a er back to the cultivated land, the soldiers retreated
Fearing thein the cultivated lands were evacuated to the town under the protection of the guards, an urgent request was posted at the town’s Adventurers’ Guild and adventurers were sues and towns
At the saathered all of the soldiers that he had
It was uncertain if they would make it in time, but they somehow did in the end
The Undead had been expected to continue day and night without rest, but for some reason, their footsteps had been a little slower than the huh insufficient, were made
Even so, the battle to defend Balcheburg, Viscount Balchesse’s toas beyond fierce
“Hyahahahahaha! This is the return of your herooooo!” The Green Wind Spear Riley, who had been hailed as the second co of Mikhail, releaseddown the arrows fired by the soldiers protecting the town
“I-I aates! Open the gaaaaaaaaates!” General Mauvid, who had led the expedition ar, resplendent clothes, now commanded the Undead army in their invasion
“Guhihihyaehehehehahaha! You evil flesh of filth! I, Bormack Gordan who serves God, will destroy you aaaaaall!” To top it all off, Borye holes in the wall protecting the toith his Club Technique
“The Undead are co in – GYAH!”
“Hihihi! Offer your flesh and entrails to your herooo!” Riley’s spear pierced the sto blow to another Undead
“You i-i-i-i-impure filth! Diiiiiieeeee!” Gordan crushed another soldier, straight through the shi+eld he was holding
“Fuhahahaha! This is our triuhter and screams filled the air as he led the Zombies on
However, the expedition ar Undead and they weren’t as coordinated as they had been while alive Though Viscount Balchesse suffered casualties, they succeeded in protecting all the civilians and other than its outer wall, the daht
It was also fortunate for them that Riley’s spear and Gordan’s war club had been replaced eapons provided by the arhts’ Order hadn’t become Undead
No, thewas that the Undead had been slow to move
Viscount Balchesse hired a Spiritualist to investigate what had happened to the expedition army
But the spiritualist shook her head “The spirits of those Undead have all gone back to the e; not even one of the out to them at all”
“Well, it was all deliberate, though,” said Vandalieu
He and his folloere busy burning and destroying the unoccupied cultivated land on their way back