The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 71 (2/2)

“His ears weren’t pointed He was blacker than you”

“He didn’t have horns or wings”

Turning into spirits hadn’t made the Orcs any smarter, so this was all they knew

Froured that it was probably a human tae for sons of any suspicious people in the vicinity, but they didn’t find anything

Isn’t there some place that sells information about the terrain? Vandalieu wondered as he dismantled an Orc’s body with his claws

Vandalieu didn’t have the Dis skill, a skill that most adventurers orked alone would possess However, he had the Cooking and Surgery skills instead, so he could acco skill

Finishi+ng the disers, he decided to start cooking with the organs that would rot the fastest

But apparently water had been in rather short supply of late, so the villagers had told hie amounts of water to cook That would ans i hiic or the Golem Transmutation skill

That hy Vandalieu went to the back of the house, away froers, and used Gole a well

He searched the ground with Out-of-body Experience and found a cave with a source of underground water at a depth that would be difficult to dig by hand Hethe earth between the ground surface and the underground water and et to the water

And once Vandalieu had solidified the inner surface of the hole with Rock Golems, the as coround water was suitable to drink yet

“Huh, there’s a well in a place like this~”

Acting like a child playing detective, Vandalieu led the villagers to the well

“That’s impossible, there’s no way there would be a well… it’s a well! There’s a well?!”

“What?! H-how could this…?!”

“What about the water?! How’s the water?!”

The villagers rushed in Vandalieu took the water he had already drawn and returned to cooking

And then he carefully prepared the organs

“No matter how much I use Sterilization and Disinfect, it’s not like the contents of the organs physically disappear”

People wouldn’t want to eat the organs of an Orc, even if they were harmless to the body The same applied for Vandalieu

“Thank you very much, Familiar Spirit-saiven us such an abundant well! How could we ever thank you for this…!”

“Thanks to you, this village can prosper for many years, many decades to come! Thank you, thank you!”

Incidentally, as to be expected, the villagers had realized that the well had been created by Vandalieu

But then, Vandalieu hadn’t expected that he would be able to fool theers didn’t know that he was using unknown ic and water-attributea well

“Err, I’ a shrine to Vida would be h repayment,” Vandalieu told them

“Understood! We shall build a Church once the village is prospering!”

“No, a shrine is enough”

The village’s water shortage had been more severe than Vandalieu had expected Apparently they would have had to think about abandoning the village within the next few years if the situation hadn’t improved

“So, Vandalieu-sama, where are you headed now?”

“The last village, the Second Cultivation Village” Vandalieu was using Flight to travel while talking to Eleanora and the others through the coic Item, the shrunken Goblin head

“Pardon es, Vandalieu-saister at the Adventurers’ Guild, isn’t it?” She see around helping the cultivation villages

“Don’t say that,” said Zran “Helping people is a good thing, isn’t it?”

“You’re doing great, King,” said Braga “By the way, my encounter –”

“If you stand out too much, you will be noticed by the Vampires orshi+p Hihiryushukaka,” said Eleanora “I think you shouldn’t do anything unnecessary”

Zran had always thought favorably of the people in the Hartner Duchy that had done trade with Talosheies were originally refugees from the Sauron Duchy, but he didn’t see this distinction

But Eleanora was advocating that Vandalieu should quickly register at the Adventurers’ Guild

Vandalieu shouldn’t endanger himself to help people eren’t even citizens of Talosheim at no benefit to himself This was an extremely sensible viewpoint

In fact,by would think, “Oh es capable of using healing e

But would a , asn’t even an adventurer, have gone to the Fifth Cultivation Village afterwards? And would they have thought about going around to the other cultivation villages after that?

The reality was that Vandalieu gained nothing of use froained the thanks and respect of the poor people, lodging and meals at crude inns, and verbal promises that shrines would be built in Vida’s name None of these contributed towards the accooals at all

Registration as an adventurer could be done without getting involved with the people of the cultivation villages, and his registration wouldn’t be rejected because he hadn’t helped the people before registering

Popularity a the lowest co noble such popularity wouldn’t be a problem at all

Helping the people wouldn’t be of any help for resurrecting Darcia or getting revenge on Heinz and the others, either

That hy Eleanora thought that rather than gaining anything in return, he was actually si noticed by enemies, the Vampires orshi+pped evil Gods

“That’s true, but if I am able to help them, it’s better to help them, isn’t it?” When Vandalieu was asked to explain it, this hat it caood that you do to yourself If I do good deeds like this, I’s will happen for me as well”

“I-is that how it is?” For Eleanora, with her sense of values and previous experiences, Vandalieu’s reasoning could be said to be the reasoning of a foolish, softhearted person

But Vandalieu was firm in his response “That’s how it is”

He believed in the unsightliness, foolishness, evil intentions and wickedness of people He even thought that these hat made people people, and he couldn’t deny that he had these qualities as well

However, unsightliness had a counterpart in beauty; foolishness in wisdoood intentions; wickedness in virtue These concepts came into existence because their counterparts also existed If the entire world was unsightly, foolish, filled with evil intentions and wicked, words to describe these wouldn’t exist All of these negative qualities could simply be described as, “Nore”

That hy people having beauty, wisdoood intentions and virtue was a fact that could not be doubted

Therefore, it could also be said that Vandalieu believed in the beauty, wisdoood intentions and virtue of people as well

“I don’t intend to say that it’s the responsibility of people with power, or anything like that I dislike that way of thinking as well All I want is to beco others a little happier as well”

“But what about the Vampires…?”

After hearing all of this, Eleanora interpreted Vandalieu’s way of thinking, the idea that “If everyone is s childthat would only be applied to those other than enemies

If that was the case, she would be able to understand to some extent She would still think of Vandalieu as softhearted, but she herself had originally been an assassin sent to kill Vandalieu She was only alive and present here because of that softhearted way of thinking

Even so, Eleanora expressed that she would still like Vandalieu to thinknoticed by the Vaave her a carefree response

“It’s still alright Even Gubamon and the others orshi+p Hihiryushukaka, the most influential Vaanizational capability to have infores It will be a while before traveling er before news of me reaches the towns”

“Then I suppose that’s fine, but…”

“Then should we coes as well?” asked Zran

“Hmm, please e,” said Vandalieu

“King, my lov–”

“Also, make sure you ask about our descendants and Levia-sama if you can,” Zran reminded Vandalieu

“Okay But I don’t think the people in the villages would know anything about them”

When Vandalieu arrived in the final village, the Second Cultivation Village, there was no travelingto sneak inside, Orcs sent by a ta of the sort

However, instead of a sudden crisis, a long-ter time

“The first year was good, but the a year after year We have been i the land and such, but… At this rate, not only e be unable to pay taxes in three years’ time, but we may even have people die of starvation in this year’s winter O Fae”

Following the lead of the Dwarf chief of the village, the ers lowered their heads towards Vandalieu Was it really appropriate that they had begun treating hiht away simply because he had descended fro prayers for an abundant harvest?

“Well, I’ll do what I can, but… Also, I’m a Dhampir who believes in Vida I’m not a Familiar Spirit of Alda,” Vandalieu told them

Like the other cultivation villages that Vandalieu had visited, there were only shrines to Alda in the Second Cultivation Village Had that priest of Alda in the Seventh Cultivation Village been particularly zealous with his missionary work?

Leaving that aside, with the probles that Vandalieu could do were limited First, he went to have a look at the fields Incidentally, the fields were unflooded, dry fields

TLN: As opposed to flooded fields which, to row rice

Having a rough look with the knowledge and instincts fro skill, the rice plants did indeed look weak to Vandalieu

There was plenty of water, and the plants didn’t look like they were affected by disease As Vandalieu went to lick the soil and examine the soil’s coer Sense: Death spell

“Could it be poison?” Vandalieu wondered “Disinfect”

The reaction disappeared from the soil immediately It seemed that there were substances harmful to the body present in the dirt The Detoxification spell worked on the rice plants, so it seemed that this really was the cause of the poor harvest

“But why is there poison in the soil?”

This was strange The soil of this village seees If the poison had er Sense: Death would have reacted to the irrigation channels as well

“Have you been using a special fertilizer?” Vandalieu asked, but everyone, including the village chief, shook their heads

“We’re using compost made from plant and wood ash and hu the same,” said the chief

“Oyaji, there was one tihts’ Order caht some insecticide for us as well, wasn’t there?” said his son

“Now that you hts’ Order led by the duke’s eldest son, Prince Lucas, was it not? But he apparently delivered the saes…”

The conversation between the Dwarf village chief and his son, who couldn’t be told apart other than by whether their hair and beards were black or white, didn’tclear

Well, the insecticide was suspicious no ht about it, but he couldn’t think of a reason for the Knights’ Order spreading poison only on the fields of this cultivation village

As long as there weren’t any strange fa, anyway

If I recall, the cultivation project was started by the second son, Belton, and the leader of the Knights’ Order is the oldest son, Lucas The traveling e’s fields… I have a bad feeling about this

Even if there was a fa poor people like these on the edge of the region? It would be better off if they would just have bloody conflicts between family members in their own castles and mansions

“For now, I’ve erased the poison in the soil of the fields and the rice plants,” Vandalieu told the villagers

He ht have erased the evidence as well, but the culprit would likely have the backing of an influential person, so it would probably be pointless to preserve the evidence anyway

The villagers cheered, but Vandalieu questioned whether this was really a great achievement Even with the poison erased, if there was a poor harvest due to cold weather, pests or disease, there would be no change to the fact that people would die of starvation in the winter

Wasn’t there soe? If he spread his Mana into the fields, the beans planted in the ridges between the rice fields ht turn into Monster Plants, so some other method

As Vandalieu thought about it, he suddenly had an idea Perhaps because there had been a Goblin King, there were e than usual And if he looked for Gobubu grass, he could quickly obtain some

“Now then, everyone, I’ll teach you a way to make Goblins not taste terrible, so you can use theencies,” he announced

He would create the eobu