The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 92 (2/2)

Even Kasim and his party, who had become D-class adventurers, couldn’t earn this much in a year

Such a tax was being demanded not of each household, but each individual It was absurd

“What are you thinking? Even if we sell our houses and fields, it’s iht?!” Fester shouted

The nervous-looking Pablo opened his mouth to reply “The five-year exemption from taxes that Lord Belton established has been invalidated,” he said

Those who couldn’t pay poll taxes were taken away as debt slaves

Seeing the knights’ attendants preparing ropes behind Pablo, the faces of the villagers grew pale Even though debt slaves were treated reasonably well, there was no difference in the fact that they were bought and sold between owners Fa on the owner, they could meet fates worse than death

And if they were not sold, they would be treated like criminal slaves and sent to places where they would be worked to death The slave-run mine was no more, but there were other final destinations for unsold slaves

“That is nothing more than tyranny!” Lina cried

“That’s right, that’s right! Even Alda teaches that you should watch your limits!” Kasim shouted

Everyone grew angry, but Pablo and histheers

“Your naed with eation is completed, your qualification as an Adventurers’ Guild employee is void There is also a suspicion that the three adventurers known as Kasim, Zeno and Fester are accomplices in the Guild employee’s fraud Your qualifications as adventurers are void as well! We have permission to deliver your punishment on the spot if you make any attempt to escape!”

“No way!” Lina cried, al

“F-fraud?! There’s a lio with false accusations!” Fester shouted in rage

“Cal to calm them down

A ht on either side approached them

“Hand over your ee and your Guild Cards”

The adhts’ Order confiscated the identification iteht Lina and frustrated adventurers

Pablo seeers, ere noearing expressions of resignation

This is strange… Things are going too well

Lucas had expected Pablo to force the village to reveal its hiddencornered for these absurd reasons

The Red Wolf Knights’ Order had gained total control over the people, and that was the end of it Lucas had expected the behind-the-scenes negotiation with the Adventurers’ Guild to be the one thing that would take time, but the Guild Master of the Adventurers’ Guild headquarters, who had been taking bribes froed to Lord Lucas’s side

However, there were no signs of any arht that the ones who had killed Karcan and his e

At this rate, things will end with the villagers all being tied up and dragged off Is this not enough provocation? Maybe I should cut so in another cultivation village I suppose getting that inforht Pablo

So that they had no choice but to obediently beco to think of a way out of the situation, but they couldn’t coroup of several people, who had calate, appeared

“Who are you… people?” Pablo had thought that the armed forces had finally arrived, but these people hat looked like five ordinary villagers It was only after his question that he realized that the one standing at the front was a child as less than ten years old

“Vandalieu?! What are you doing here at a time like this!”

“Oi, that guy isn’t a villager! He’s just a passer-by!”

After noticing Vandalieu, Kasim and his friends hastily raised their voices so that he wouldn’t get caught up in this mess But it was one of the people behind Vandalieu who responded to their words

“Everyone of the Seventh Cultivation Village, do you ree chief-san, my father has always been in your care Kasim, Zeno, Fester, I’ve talked to you before as well, haven’t I?”

The villagers opened their eyes wide in shock at the sight of this young man, whose face had ordinary features that could be found anywhere

“You’re the son of the First Cultivation Village’s chief, Sebas You’re Sebas!”

“There’s no doubt about it; that’s Sebas! But why is he here? After the First Cultivation Village was deserted, they were supposed to have gone to another land for cultivation”

“Why are you with Vandalieu?”

The young man’s nae chief He had joined Vandalieu at the slave-run mine and become a citizen of Talosheim

“Everyone, listen tois a conspiracy conducted by the Hartner family We’ve been cheated nobody froe was sent to another land for cultivation We were sent to the slave-run mine to the south! We’re not cultivators, we’ve been abandoned!” he said to the villagers of the Seventh Cultivation Village, pointing at Pablo with a hateful expression on his face

The villagers were astounded and looked from Sebas to Pablo

Sebas was a friend that they knew Pablo and his hts, were ers into slaves It was clear as to which story should be listened to

“You’re the son of the chief of the First Cultivation Village, and you were in the slave-run mine?!” Pablo repeated

He and his ers, but this wasn’t a problem at all

The proble man, as in the slave-run mine where all of the soldiers and slaves were supposed to have turned into Skeletons, was standing here

“In other words, you are a runaway slave I shall hear your explanation later Give up quietly!”

With Pablo’s words, swords and spears were pointed at Sebas It seeroup of ordinary people

The knights for this, the villagers earing expressions of resignation once more

Even if there was a conspiracy or whatever else, there was no changing their fates This was so planned by the man as about to become the most powerful person in the Hartner Duchy, and even the Adventurers’ Guild had a hand in it Coees from another land, were futile

At this rate, even bringing up the fact that the Church of Alda was exempt from tax would be pointless

“Everyone, please listen to me,” said Vandalieu, who had rehts Completely independent of the desires of the people of this village, I will fight them and defeat them”

Hearing the young boy’s flat-toned declaration, the knights snickered They knew that they couldn’t judge an enee, but there was no way that they could be defeated by this sroup of unarers

That hat they thought

The people of the Seventh Cultivation Village seeree; they all shouted at Vandalieu to stop his reckless behavior, but he ignored the

“After I do this, please decide whether you will follow us back or not Now then –”

“No, I’ll decide now I’ Vandalieu It was Fester’s voice

He got back onto his feet fro position, picked up the sword that he had cast onto the ground along with its sheath, and pointed its tip at Pablo and his men

Rather than stopping him, Kasim picked up his shi+eld and Zeno picked up his weapon s they got to their feet as well

“There’s no helping it I suppose we’ll join you,” said Kasim

“Well, I suppose it’s better than beco a slave,” said Zeno

Fester blinked in confusion at the fact that his coave the you accompany me all the time,” he said

“No, wait a second,” Vandalieu said hastily “Why are you doing this? You don’t have to decide now, you can decide afterwards”

He thought that they should make a decision afterwards, but their minds were set

“Vandalieu After this, let’s go on adventures together in the next world!” said Fester

“No, no, no, we can do that in this world,” said Vandalieu

Fester turned to Lina “Lina, try to find an opportunity to run Sorry about this Even though I promised to make you happy…”

“Fester… No, I’ll come with you,” said Lina “I at least kno to defend ether on the other side”

Fester looked touched “You…”

“Uether here?” said Vandalieu “I’ll make you a dress, a tuxedo, a cake or even curry”

“shi+t, I can’t letto do this too!” shouted the Oyaji of the jack-of-all-trades store

“Me too! Even if we’re spared here, I have no idea ill become of my children! You saved my life before, so I’ll use it for your sake now!” said the former stonemason Ivan, whose life Vandalieu had saved before

The villagers continued standing up one after another, and even the Red Wolf Knights’ Order felt a little flustered But the one panicking the most was Vandalieu

“So then, Your Majesty, e do?” asked one of the other people with Vandalieu

“… Ah, there’s no other choice,” Vandalieu replied “I’ll support the villagers, and you guys go with the plan”

“Certainly”

“I suppose it was aas I did in the slave-run h

“SILENCE!” Pablo roared before gathering histhem orders “Cut them all down! Capture that one called Sebas and the other few people over there, alive!”

Things had gone a little differently than he had expected, but he had set his sights on theAll there was left to do was to dispose of the others in the way

Upon receiving the orders, the knights who had surrounded Sebas and the others hts, they were experienced with real battles, and unlike the Equestrians led by Karcan, they were as capable as strong D-class adventurers; they had a solid chance of defeating Rank 4 monsters in one-on-one combat

“Capture us alive? … Go ahead and try!”

“Do you think you feeble knights can defeat us, e have received the blessing of Eleanora-sama?!”

“I’ll avenge s who died in the slave-run mine!”

Sebas and his co cris and met them in combat

Their movements were faster than those of beasts; their bodies were strong in the face of the knights’ swords and spears, and their claere sharp

“Th-these guys aren’t human?! They’re Vampires!”

“That’s impossible; it’s still the middle of the afternoon!”

By the tihts realized it, it was too late They had already allowed Sebas and his companions to draw close

When they were rescued from the slave-run mine, they had still been humans, but the next day, they had asked Eleanora to turn them into Subordinate Vampires

After that, they acquired the Sunlight Resistance skill thanks to the effect of Vandalieu’s Eclipse King title, and now they obeyed Vandalieu

But Subordinate Vaes had been Vampires for less than half a year; they wouldn’t be a match for these numbers who outnuhts by surprise, the knights would regain their forh

However, the Vampires were citizens of Vandalieu’s nation

“Th-they’re strong!”

Due to the influence of Strengthen Followers and Strengthen Subordinates, their Attribute Values had increased and they were as powerful as Rank 5 monsters In addition, Vandalieu had already applied enchantments to them, and Dark Copper fibers had been weaved into their clothes, giving theainst bladed weapons Even if the knights outnumbered the Vampires three to one, once their formation was broken, they wouldn’t be able to defeat the Vampires

“dahts began

“That’s impossible for you”

“Eh –”

The knight’s head went flying

Braga, who had been hiding and waiting for things to begin, ht With the effect of his unique skill, Hu the hue bonus

If he took the average knight by surprise, decapitating hi an ear of rice

And then he concealed hihts spotted him

“There was so here just now!”

“There are other enemies! Watch your backs!”

“Iron Rend, Embrace of the Flame Spirits”

“GYAAAAAH!”

As the knights watched their backs, Vandalieu killed them from the front

The knights could not avoid being severely wounded by the frontal attacks of Vandalieu, who had the Superhuthened Attack Pohile Unarue, Fangs) as well as a level 5 Unar Technique skill He had already shown Kasi that without holding back as well

Sohts were turned into burnt corpses as Princess Levia embraced them, while others had their storound to be finished by Pain Worms that crawled towards them

Click-click-click!

Buzz-buzz-buzz!

The Lance Centipede Pete used his horn to pierce a knight’s torso straight through his shi+eld, while the Ceers and powerful jaws turned other knights into masses of meat

The villagers were fighting hard as well

The ers decided that they would “follow Vandalieu,” they had been acknowledged as Vandalieu’s citizens As a result, they received the benefits of Strengthen Followers due to the Eclipse King title, causing a steep increase in their Attribute Values They weren’t quite as strong as the knights, but they were at least as strong as ordinary soldiers; if they decided to put everything into escaping, it would have been difficult for the knights, ere equipped with heavy weapons and arive chase

“Coht-sama, over here!”

“How can you be so pathetic for such a young person, you simpleton!”

The knights chased the villagers ere running around while provoking thehts stopped to fire an arrohile another tried to attack with a martial skill

“You lowly villagers, die by my arr – OOOOOH?!”

“Curse you, Fl – AAAAAAH!”

The ground beneath their feet, which had been turned into a Golehts to fall into the hole it left behind

And then the Golehts, who had fallen two or three meters deep After they were buried alive, Vandalieu sentearthworms and mole crickets after them, as well as the roots of plant-type monsters, before they suffocated to death so that they could become Experience Points

“How dare you fire hter!” shouted the Oyaji of the jack-of-all-trades store

He, Ivan and so objects at the adhts It was an extreth they had trained through daily work on the farms was increased even further by their increased Attribute Values The rocks and hoes thrown by them wouldn’t be a joke if they made a direct hit

The ad more than an ordinary craftsman “Wait, I only did this because it was my job, because I was paid to!”

If a strong-willed government official had been dispatched, it was possible that he would have sided with the villagers, so this man had been selected after careful consideration But now that was backfiring

“Kuh, you coward!” shouted a knight He and two others were now unable to move, as they were forced to stay where they were to protect this ordinary worker

“Eat this! Triple Thrust! TRIPLE THRUST! TRIPLE THRUUUST!”

“Stone Wall! Stone shi+eld! Cranial Strike!”

“Rapid Fire! Consecutive Fire!”

In terms of their Attribute Values, Kasim and his friends, the D-class adventurers, had beco as C-class adventurers

They weren’t powerful enough to overwhelht with spectacular coordination and had already defeated two of the knights

“Please run and lead the knights ahile you have their attention”

“Ai you can find at him”

“Fall back for now and change places with Kasim”

These were the orders of Vandalieu, who had used Spirit For-like shapes to connect hier

Using the vision from Lemures positioned all over the place, Vandalieu was constantlythe situation He followed up on the individual dangers detected by Danger Sense: Death, and used Rapid Healing to treat small injuries

He was even casting his enchanty Absorption and Bloodshed Enhance Mana to Kasim’s party as well as Sebas and the other Vampires

Just to be absolutely safe, he was giving the villagers the benefits of his Co and Coordination skills as well, so there were no ordinary villagers in this place anymore

“W-what is this?!” shouted Pablo

Barely a iven his men orders, they were in the inferior position In fact, his subordinates were letting out their dying screams one after another as they were scattered

In order to defeat the roup that had defeated fifty of Karcan’s ht nearly one hundredas Karcan hihtered in a one-sided fashi+on

The battlefield was an irrational place, but wasn’t this a little too irrational?

“Those who aren’t injured, step to the front and use your ic, treat the wounded! Don’t engage the villagers; slay the monsters and the adventurers first!” Pablo shouted

He was still the captain of the Knights’ Order He had seen that the ones ere defeating the knights were Sebas’s group, Kasihts to stop attacking the villagers

As he regained his composure, he looked for the mysterious child who, unbelievably, seemed to be the enemy commander

But as the knights stepped forward to try and use their martial skills, an Ent suddenly appeared out of nowhere (or at least, that’s what it looked like to Pablo) and attacked by swinging its branches that were full of apple-like fruits; several knights were hit directly by the fruits and sent flying away

The ones ere trying to recite incantations for healingthat seeic; they were unable to cast their spells

And then Pablo heard groaning and viscous sloshi+ng sounds

He could see Stone Golems, Death Iron Golee from the forest

They were the Golems that Vandalieu had stationed around the Seventh Cultivation Village; he had called them here now The Skeletons were the Undead created from the skeletons of Karcan’s subordinates who had been slain by the Golems

“M… Make your own decisions on how to deal with the ene his men that there were no options left, and that he was now relying on every one of his men’s individual efforts

And then he joined the battle at the frontline as well, in this inferior position with no hope of turning things around

Kasi that Vandalieu hadn’t expected, but the biggest unexpected thing for Lord Lucas and Pablo was that they were desperately lacking in military power to deal with the problem on their own

Job Explanation:

【Insect User】

A Job that can be acquired after successfully ta a certain number of insectoid monsters One must have the trust of the tamed insectoid monsters

This Job provides bonuses to Vitality, Strength and Stamina It also provides bonuses to skills that cannot nor Technique, Parallel Thought Processing, Long-distance Control and Thread Refining

These are all skills that alter the skill owner’s mental state and make it difficult to rants the Mental Corruption skill and causes a gradual loss of sanity

For those who possess different mental structures from ordinary people and those who have already lost their sanity, this is not a problem