The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 103 (1/2)

TLN: Fidirg’s heads speak separately with separate dialogue lines and they speak differently, too One is super-polite (usually speaks first), one is polite with some hints of casualness (usually speaks second) and one is quite casual (usually speaks last)

Despite having no scales, Vandalieu had acquired the title of Scaled King

The Scaled King title was noron God of Five Sins, bestowed upon the those who had solo-cleared the D-class Dungeon known as the Lizardmen’s Nest as proof that they were the new ruler of thescales or not made no difference

Next, though it was unclear how effective this would be, Vandalieu tried to acquire Fidirg’s divine protection (or rather,had replied that it was i his head

“Huh… What do you mean?” asked Vandalieu

“That is, my current state is insufficient…”

“Divine protections are nor bestows upon an inferior being, so…”

“For exaer’s power But there wouldn’t be any point in a tiger borrowing a fox’s power It’s kind of like that…”

It was an easy-to-understand explanation of divine protections that would likely cause people to lose their faith in Gods

And it seeon God of Five Sins, was the fox and Vandalieu was the tiger

“I see,” said Vandalieu “So, you’re saying that it’s impossible because you haven’t fully recovered yet?”

The truth was that Vandalieu, as capable of reater total Mana pool than Fidirg, would not be so different in status fro had fully recovered In fact, it would not be strange to think of Vandalieu as the superior being, as he had more freedom with a physical body and possessed weapons that were capable of slaying Gods

But this was how Vandalieu had interpreted things

Although the being before Vandalieu was prostrating hinity he had, he was still a God Gods were beings that were capable of creation, incrediblepeople with terrible wrath

Vandalieu sireater than him once the God fully recovered

“N-no, even if I were toreplied honestly

He’shimself seem small for now He’s not so hly of him now

Fidirg could only see the gaze of dead eyes looking at hi as well, however

“Still, when I tried to grant you my divine protection, I touched your soul, and, how do I put it? Its shape is…”

“Perhaps I could describe it as beyond unworldly…”

“Could it be that you’ve eaten one of us evil Gods or one of our followers?”

Fidirg did not have the state oflearned that Vandalieu’s soul was not that of a person

The shape and color of a soul was unique like a fingerprint; there were no two that were alike But the shape of Vandalieu’s soul was siments were taken into account

“No, not that I remember,” said Vandalieu

“Has there ever been an incident where you touched a cursed ite siht afterwards?” Fidirg asked

“I did read a cursed book once,” said Vandalieu “My Mana increased by fifty ue”

“THAT’S IT!” all of Fidirg’s heads shouted together

The forbidden toes’ Guild of the city of Niarki in the Hartner Duchy Fidirg suspected that this tome had contained an evil God or a follower of similar status, and Vandalieu had absorbed him

“Boy, spit it out, you must quickly spit it out!” shouted Zadiris

“Bocchan, you et a stomachache!”

“No, I think it’d be aot was a stoaro

“And that was over a year ago; is it not too late to spit it out now?” said Princess Levia

Ah, I’ht in a carefree manner as Zadiris and Rita held him upside-down and shook him up and down

“Was he your friend? If so, then I’ “I’m sure Vandalieu didn’t mean any harm”

“No, I do not believe that there were any who turned away fro ould hide in a book”

“And judging from e have heard about that book, it seems that there was a trap that takes over the minds of any people that read it”

“Quite frankly, he got what deserved, being absorbed like that”

Fidirg seemed satisfied now that he had solved the mystery

The truth was that Buburdura, the evil God of the ic tome, had been an evil God as part of the re’s ar; he was an ene felt no sense of racial unity with the other evil Gods, so even if an evil God fron world as hi as they weren’t allies, he would simply feel happy that he had one less enemy

“However, I believe that this is one of the reasons I cannot grant you my divine protection,” he said

In fact, Fidirg was grateful that there was now a proper reason that proved that he wasn’t sirant a divine protection because he didn’t want to regret it later

“I-I see Well, it’s iaro

“Th-that’s right, it can’t be helped,” said Rita

“Indeed How about you raise your heads now?” Zadiris suggested

Everyone other than Vandalieu was a little inti They couldn’t tell the difference between the two by the size of their Mana pools, so they feared Fidirg, as the Dragon God of Five Sins, more

Onethe was a er than a castle, it was understandable

No aro and the others, a God was still a God

“Then please grant your divine protections to the Lizardmen and suitable individuals froe, I’ll place a statue of you in the Church”

The statues of Alda and his Gods had all been removed, so there was plenty of space in the Church of Vida

“This is so’s three heads exclaimed

An increase in the nu to him would mean that the recovery of his poould accelerate It made no difference to him that he would not be the only God worshi+pped by those people

“Also, I have a few questions, so please answer them,” said Vandalieu

“I understand”

And so, Vandalieu and his companions came to know the truths of what had happened a hundred thousand years ago that ale were aware of

They had acquired a certain amount of information about the past from Ternecia, whose soul Vandalieu had already broken, but she hadn’t been in a particularly pro the battle between Vida and Alda In contrast, while Fidirg had not been particularly influential, he had been the commander of a battalion

Most importantly, Ternecia had lost mentation and distortion of the memories of the distant past was severe But the , whose mental structure was different from those of mortals, were almost completely accurate

Vandalieu and his companions learned of the achievements of Zakkart and the other creation- their destruction at the hands of the De They learned of the state that Zakkart had been in when he became a parent of the True Ancestor of the Vampires

And they learned that Zantark and the other subordinate Gods had fought on Vida’s side, and now they were scattered all over the world

Vandalieu had thought that Vida and her allies had been ainst Bellwood and the other champions, so he was happy to learn the truth that she had many allies on her side And the fact that some of her allies were those ere considered to be evil Gods was a greatly beneficial piece of information

The fact that they could be negotiated as valuable as well, even if they weren’t Vandalieu’s allies now

“Well, I won’t be negotiating with Hihiryushukaka, though,” said Vandalieu

This was only natural, as Hihiryushukaka was responsible for his father’s death According to Ternecia, he had sent a Divine Message with an order to kill Vandalieu, and it didn’t sees out, either

Incidentally, as one would expect, Fidirg was unaware that Vandalieu’s soul was a combination of Zakkart, Ark and the other creation-minded champions

Despite being a God, he did not possess the eyes to know the hundred-thousand-year-old history of a soul by si at it

“So that is what happened,” said Zadiris “They never did anything good, did they, those people of Alda’s”

“Wouldn’t this cause chaos a Alda’s believers if it was known to the people on the outside? What do you think, Van?” asked Basdia

“… It’s probably i,” said Vandalieu

“That’s true,” said Darcia “Vandalieu is a Dhampir, Basdia-san and the others are Ghouls, I am a spirit and Levia-san and the others are Undead And the one who told us this information is an evil God”

Everyone here was sohtered at worst, by the believers of Alda The peaceful faction would likely listen to Vandalieu’s words, but it was difficult to iine that they would believe a truth that was inconvenient to the Gods and heroes they worshi+pped, a truth that was different to the truth that they had believed as soon as they had become conscious

And the source of this inforle piece of hard, immovable evidence

Even if he were to wear a Magic Item that made it impossible to lie, which Vandalieu wasn’t sure existed, people would si fooled by an evil God and being made to believe such lies”

“Now then, I’ll ask another question for a change of mood,” said Vandalieu “You seem to be on Vida’s side now, but why is it that you didn’t have the Lizardmen worshi+p Vida?”

Fidirg’s own revival was important, but Vida’s revival should have been ns of the Lizardenerations passed more quickly than those of humans, but there still should have been remains of shrines

Tens of thousands of years have passed since Fidirg created a Dungeon to produce Lizardmen to be his followers If he’dthat tiressed ht

But Fidirg had a unique, proper reason for this

“That is true, but that would have been harsh on me”

“Vida did indeed seem to have had her divinity taken from her by Alda, but even so, she was one of the most well-known Goddesses in this world Even now, there is a steady number of worshi+ppers who pray to her”

“But I’m a nameless evil God If I don’t make my own believers, nobody would pray to me”

In other words, it seemed to be a problem of hoell the Gods were known Even now, there was a steady number of believers in Vida ere not members of the races that she had created Despite the beliefs regarding the races originating from Alda’s followers, Vida was still considered a Goddess of equal rank to Alda and significantly respected

But Fidirg’s name was nowhere to be seen in historical records Because he was a nameless evil God, there was absolutely zero chance of people coh normal methods In fact, when he had awakened, he had found that he had no followers at all

That hy he hadbelievers of other Gods praying to hiain more power if those believers worshi+pped only him

And even if Fidirg had reat deal of difference to him, but for Vida, it would only have been a drop in the bucket

To give an extre half of the water in a cup into a lake

“I see, I understand now,” said Vandalieu “Now then, about the other frag…”

Vandalieu and his co’s Fragments, the other evil Gods that had joined Vida, the Gods such as the Sun Giant Talos, the current status of Vida’s new races, the situation of the continent’s southern region and Vida’s current state, but what Fidirg kneas limited to what had happened up to the point that he escaped the battle with Vida a hundred thousand years ago

“In any case, I slumbered for tens of thousands of years after that, so I do not have the slightest idea as to what the others are doing”

“I did search the area that I can see, but… that’s lio, I did get the feeling that I heard so But by then, I’d already been sealed by Luvesfol, the Raging Evil Dragon God, so it ination”

“However, I do believe that Mububujenge, the Evil God of Degenerate Corpulence, is within the noble Orc Empire”

“The evil God of octopuses?”

TLN: The kanji reading for “degenerate corpulence” is ダコ/dako, which can be a variation of タコ/tako, which means “octopus”

“No, degenerate corpulence It enerate and fat”

For a ht that this was a God of fishermen and marine products, but it seemed that he was actually a God who ruled over corpulence

The boar beast-king had betrayed the beast-God Ganpaplio and used the power given to hiive birth to the Orcs and noble Orcs The Orcs had apparently been created first, and then the noble Orcs created after them in order to act as the Orcs’ commanders

But the boar beast-king had been defeated and sealed away by the cha had failed to find a successor to the boar beast-king and apparently assigned nue, the Evil God of Degenerate Corpulence, to corow their numbers

And so when Mububujenge had accepted Zakkart’s invitation, the noble Orcs and Orcs that had been serving hied sides as well

“… Eh, are they allies?” asked Vandalieu

“Muh, then they could have executed hirumbled

The Ghouls, who had suffered greatly at the hands of Bugogan, and the Ghoul King Vandalieu, were not pleased by this

They likely didn’t have any ill thoughts against the noble Orc Ele and essentially exiled, but they didn’t know to react if the noble Orcs were to suddenly tell them, “We’re actually your allies, buhibuhi!”

“And ere going to have a noble Orc buffet once things settled down in the marshlands,” said Vandalieu

“Everyone was looking forward to it, too,” said Vigaro

“…” Fidirg shuddered

noble Orcs were Rank 6 at o, there had been no small number of noble Orc individuals who had surpassed Rank 10 Even now, their eht than ine Vandalieu and his co that empire into a pork buffet

“Err, well, they were allies in the past, but it is uncertain as to whether they are allies to us now…”

“After that battle, there h I cannot say for certain…”

“But I think it’d be best to check”

This was quite a strange viewpoint, but Fidirg couldn’t provide any guarantees on Mububujenge’s personality, either The relationshi+ps between evil Gods who had for’s army was such that they would steal each other’s achieveiven the opportunity, so there were no bonds of trust between them They had co Zakkart’s offer and changing sides, but apparently, they had simply been “acquaintances from the same place”

There had been soood relationshi+ps with each other, but most of those relationshi+ps were described as “abnormal”

It seemed that because they were evil Gods, even if they were all Gods, their mental structures were all different

And although Fidirg didn’t know this, there were those like the Pure-breed Vampires who obeyed evil Gods, such as Ternecia and her two fored sides once, but now that Zakkart and the other creation-minded champions had been destroyed and Vida had beco certain that they would be allies

“Well, I understand,” said Vandalieu “Let’s trycontact when the time comes”

“H asked

“There’s a place that I personally want to visit before that I don’t think it will take that long, though”

“I see”

“More importantly, this is the last question Would your power be useful for creating a Homunculus?”

Vandalieu’s question contained an enormous amount of silent pressure, as if to say, “If it would, then hand it over, right now”

Fidirg cowered instinctively as he answered

“H-Homunculus? I am not well-versed in Alchemy, so…”

“Even when I created monsters, I could only create Lizardeon”

“I-I think I couldone with scales”

“… Scales,” Vandalieu repeated

“I didn’t have any scales, did I?” said Darcia

The two of them could only shake their heads in response to this very disappointing answer

Vandalieu returned fro acquired resplendent treasures and the ‘Scaled King’ title The Lizardmen swore absolute loyalty and obedience to him

Perhaps due to the effect of the ‘Scaled King’ title, some of the Lizardmen had started to become affected by Demon Path Enticement At this rate, the Lizardmen would be able to remain loyal citizens of Taloshei as Vandalieu still lived

And now that his leveling had finished, he set about with Eleanora and Belleries

Name: Vandalieu

Race: Dhampir (Dark Elf)

Age: 8 years old

title:【Ghoul King】,【Eclipse King】,【Second Coes】,【Holy Son of Vida】,【Monstrosity】,【Scaled King】(NEW!)