The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 65 (2/2)

“Ah, to think that such a versatile ingredient would be in a place like this…”

Ain, there had been those who believed in tomatoes in addition to the mayonnaise believers After they suffered heart attacks and died suddenly, the tomato believers would talk on and on about the wonders of to complaints about the food of the laboratory’s cafeteria

Vandalieu liked mayonnaise when he was on Earth, but he was someone who preferred ketchup

“We haven’t had toiven up on it But with this, finally… Get up, get up, get up”

Well, it wasn’t as if he didn’t have the other ingredients he needed, so things would probably work out

Vandalieu also acquired potatoes, carrots, daikon, onions and other vegetables fro the whole fields It would be possible to make potato starch from the potatoes

Incidentally, Vandalieu was using Golem Transmutation to create piles of dirt to fill the holes created by re the fields

“Now then, shall we head back to Talosheim?” he said

Taking his field-Gole shi+eld-nation behind them As previously planned, the fare and a thousand Undead were left behind

He spread deadly poison in all of the irrigation channels and water reservoirs, and also in the fields where nothing but dirt remained

It wasn’t poison that would dissipate with tiround and er for decades

With this, the cultivated land would become uninhabitable and unusable for humans

Leaving Undead in the villages was Vandalieu’s way of showing ‘kindness’

They served as warnings so that the villagers wouldn’t return and unknowingly try to use the poisoned water to raise more crops

And another point of ‘kindness’ was that Vandalieu hadn’t touched the wells, knowing that there would be a chance that the contamination would reach all the way towards the town

“Viscount Balchesse, you stole the Devil’s Nest forest from us, but let’s say we’re even now,” Vandalieuthe tunnel through the entrance on the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s side

“Come to think of it, Bocchan, you can make Wood Golems out of trees, can’t you?” asked Saria

“Hmm? I can, why?”

“Couldn’t youthe plants themselves into Golems?”

“… Ah”

Vandalieu had the feeling that he had done things the long way, but he had acquired meat and soya beans, so his efforts hadn’t been in vain

At the same time, in the Divine Realm of Alda, the God of Law and Fate, the Gods were conducting an e

The reason was that Bormack Gordan, the one who had been considered a candidate to beco on his work, had noandered astray fros

“Curatos, show everyone the Record”

The God of Records, Curatos, opened the book he was holding at Alda’s coes Their surfaces bore ies of what the expedition army had witnessed in Talosheim

They began bursting and disappearing one after another In the next instant, the last ree of Gordan’s Undead face disappeared

“This is the record from a child as a part of the expedition army,” said Curatos

“… What of the records after that?” asked Alda

“Unfortunately… It seehtered, or they turned into Undead as Bormack Gordan did However, please look here” Curatos opened another page, showing a scene where the wall of Balcheburg was broken and the Undead expedition ar battle with the soldiers

This was the scene witnessed by Alda’s believers, Recorded by Curatos Curatos had been able to Record the things seen and heard in the instant the believers made the unconscious prayer of, ‘Oh God,’ and noas able to share those Records with others

The things shown in these Records were things thatAlda, were aware of After all, they were the ones who had been prayed to when the soldiers whispered, “Oh God”

However, there was no s this for the first tireatly shocked

“This is… A Dha like this…”

“How could this be! This disease has never existed before; are you to say that this Dhampir created it himself?!”

“He isuse of Undead… He is just like Za–”

“Silence!” Niltark, the God of Judg so careless “I would like to ask you to refrain fro but ‘Dhampir’ or his name, ‘Vandalieu!’”

“My apologies Thank you, Niltark-sa Niltark’s furious expression

Co of Zakkart’ or ‘A being similar to an evil God’ wasn’t a problem of character for the Gods

They wanted to avoid Vandalieu fro a title

titles appearing on one’s Status are not s that have an actual effect A title of Goblin Killer would grant increased daainst monsters known as Goblins, and titles such as Invulnerable or Immortal would make it more difficult for the bearer of such titles to die

The conditions for acquiring a title is for a large nureat influence, to call someone by that title

Though their power and positions varied, everyone gathered here was a God They were the s in the world of Lambda

If the Gods were to call Vandalieu ‘The second co what kinds of powers he would be granted

“But Alda, why have we been gathered here? This Dha young of age, created a disease, slaughtered an army of six thousand, turned that ar shi+eld-nation But looking at it another way, that is all he is capable of, is it not?” The one speaking was Fitun, the God of Thunderclouds He was a God of a younger generation co only become a God within the past few tens of thousands of years

Fitun’s words could be interpreted as cruelly disregarding hus that Vandalieu had done, seen in the Records, were not so fuss over

Up until now, over ten thousand lives had been claimed with each war, and there had been countless countries brought to ruin by es Compared to such historical losses, the deaths of the expedition ar, which totaled to less than ten thousand, were very small

The fact that only soldiers and adventurers had been killed as a direct result of battle only reinforced that notion

Of course, the family, lovers and friends of the deceased would be tortured by feelings of grief and loss, but it wasn’t as if powerless civilians had been mass-murdered

And as Gods, they could not support a single nation tooproblems

“But aren’t this Dhampir’s actions simply too cruel?” another God asked

Fitun felt an urge to laugh at hi? This Dhampir’s actions seem halfhearted to me”

“Halfhearted?!”

“Yeah As proof, the disease that the Dhampir used on the expedition ar, did he? That’s why the Undead were repelled” As Fitun said, Vandalieu hadn’t used that disease when attacking Balcheburg Despite the fact that the town of ten thousand could have been annihilated by three thousand Undead if the disease had been used

No, the limitation of the disease that caused it to stop its effects after half a day… If that lile person in Balcheburg, that alone would have spelled the end of the town

Its rate of spread and the speed at which it produced its symptoms was probably too fast for it to spread to other towns and villages, but ten thousand citizens would be reduced to crippled, ill people within hours

Even if they were lucky enough to recover, the disease would siain, so there would be no survivors

The people of Balcheburg would writhe and suffer plenty before all dying Only materials to create Undead would be left

“He didn’t do that, so that’s why his actions are halfhearted… no, naïve,” said Fitun “He is not someone we should be wary of”

“… Fitun, it sounds to ?” asked Curatos

“What are you suggesting, Curatos-dono? I as this Dha and discussing the, should it not be the evil-God-worshi+pping Va in your territory, Alda?”

Fitun, the God of Thunderclouds, wasn’t a particularly zealous supporter of Alda He was sireat achieveainst Vida’s races and the evil Gods to his name; he wasn’t a devout follower of Alda like Gordan

My word, the days have been excruciatingly dull since I became a God I don’t care if it’s Dhampirs or Undead, I wish there was a worthy foe that would havelike it did when I was a human

Alda opened hisGod for his impertinence “What Fitun says is reasonable”

The Gods, including Fitun himself, stirred at Alda’s unexpected words

“However, things are not so simple,” Alda continued “There is reason to believe that this Dhampir, Vandalieu, has destroyed the Artifact created by Yupeon and broken the ‘divided spirit’ within”

The Gods were nowan uproar

“I so similar to a soul?!”

“So that is the reason that Yupeon is not here…”

“Perhaps the fact that he did not spread the disease to the toas not due to naïvety as Fitun suggested, but as a warning to us? To say that he can do such a thing anytime he wishes”

“But he could not possibly be so audacious as to threaten us… If he is, then the ancient –”

“SILENCE!” It see to share his sense of ier with the Gods who had become so relaxed recently

Even though Alda had declared that this was a war against the re and Vida, with a hundred thousand years passing without any real progress, even Gods would feel weary and soft This was only spurred on by the lack of organized movements from the remnants that were supposed to be their enemies

“Then will you send a Divine Message that this Dhampir should be exterminated?” asked Curatos

“No,” said Alda “There is a chance that that would have the opposite effect”

If Alda gave the order to exter hi the Divine Message h risk that it would be interpreted in a dangerous way, such as, “Kill the children”

TLN: This misinterpretation would be possible in japanese because there’s often no plural distinction, so “Kill the child” would interpreted as “Kill the children” in this context

And if they sent knights and exter scrupulous in preparations and infor, they would simply repeat the failures of the expedition army

As a result of the discussion, it was decided that Divine Messages would be sent to every church, allowing the clergy thereat things The Gods anticipated that he would stay holed up in the Boundary Mountain Range for a while, gathering his strength

And there was soerous… Alda had sent nuerous” But despite that, the ned a contract with an evil God, the Thunderclap Schneider, was stillabout freely They had to be wary of him as well

TLN: Depending on context, in japanese, this can also e has been misinterpreted repeatedly up until now

In the ather candidates for champions and heroes, raise them and prepare… I suppose Oh, wise Alda, you are halfhearted as well, thought Fitun He laughed bitterly to himself

If it were up to him, if there was even the smallest chance that the Dhaladly sacrifice ten thousand or even a hundred thousand lives in order to exter pain of creating divided spirits and have them descend upon the world, prepared to risk the annihilation of all of the servants and heroic spirits

He wouldn’t grant the Dhaather more power

However, Fitun did not voice this opinion Though the others likely wouldn’t listen to him, if by some tiny chance they did adopt his plan, it would only trouble him

This is the first eneht to the death that has appeared since I becarow more

A fight to the death is not where the strong kills the weak in a one-sided ht where both have the ability to take his opponent’s life

Now then, ser, crueler, more relentless and most importantly, more powerful I, Fitun, the God of Thunderclouds, atch over you until I kill you by my own hands!

Job explanation:

【Soul Breaker】

A Job that one who has broken a soul can acquire

It grants a bonus to the acquisition of skills such as Soul Break, Spirit For, and though it provides great growth in the Mana and Intelligence Attribute Values, growth in other Attribute Values are low

The Job’s naest that it is an offensive Job, but because one h power to break a soul to acquire this Job, it is a Job that simply provides support for Soul Break

Skill explanation:

【Materialization】

This is a skill that inally have physical form It is mainly acquired by Astral-type monsters, spirits that have been contaminated with Mana, such as Ghosts and Specters

The e, but it does not have flesh and blood, so the daic Items

It has a greater effect than the Spirit For a body of flesh, but as it allows dae from the aforeravity, it cannot be said to be superior to the Spirit Form skill

No people other than Vandalieu have been confirmed to possess this skill