Chapter 120 (1/2)

Kasi his mace sideways, met less resistance than he had expected and watched du

Eleanora, Basdia and Kachia also watched as he rolled across the ground

“Ah, that was surprising,” Vandalieu said, quickly getting off the ground

“W-what do you ht?!” Kasim asked

“Vandalieu-sama, have you hurt your back?!”

Kasim, Eleanora and Kachia hastily ran towards hi; he quickly stood up

“There’s no problem,” he said “I was just a little surprised”

He hadn’t received a single scratch, and though his armor and shi+eld were covered in soed as well His arms didn’t feel numb, nor did he find it hard to breathe

“I didn’t think that I would be sent rolling across the ground Your skill has improved, hasn’t it, Kasim?” he remarked

“EH?! I-I have the strength to send Vandalieu flying…?!” Kasi the mace

“It doesn’t look that way at all to me,” said Eleanora “Have you acquired some kind of unique skill?”

“It would be a if that was true, but it didn’t look like your skill has improved,” said Kachia

Eleanora and Kachia seemed suspicious And then Basdia, who had remained silent, spoke

“It’s not that Kasirowth is re in one hit is siht,” she said

“Light?” the other three repeated in unison

“Yes, light,” said Basdia, and then she began her explanation

First of all, Vandalieu was strong He could bore holes into an iron plate with a single swing of his claws, and if he used a martial skill, he could shred it to pieces However, he was a boy, less than nine years of age And he was clearly se

Norer someone was, the more muscle and body mass they would have, but in Vandalieu’s case, all of that strength was centered around his Superhuth skill

And the liquid Dark Copper ar and the shi+eldwere both hter than they appeared so that he could move more easily

“And to hit Van’s shi+eld, you swung your mace sideways instead of frohtly below you as well, Kasi so easily,” Basdia concluded, folding her arms

“Wait a second,” said Kasi froe, and back then, we never thought that he was light”

“Kasi a shi+eld back then,” said Vandalieu “I wasn’t hit by any of your attacks, either”

“Ah, you’re right! But didn’t you deflect Fester’s sith the back of your claws?”

“Now that you mention it…”

Vandalieu had trained Kasie in the Hartner Duchy, as well as the frontline fighter Fester, asn’t here Back then, not only did he not use a shi+eld, he hadn’t been wearing ar most of the attacks from Kasim and his friends

However, he had deflected Fester’s sith his claws numerous times

“That’s because Van redirected the force of the attacks,” said Basdia “And back then, Van was , wasn’t he?”

“I see If Vandalieu-sath resists the attack,” said Eleanora

“And this ti still and took a sideways swing from a mace, a weapon that transfers its force particularly well, he was sent flying, huh?” said Kachia

Kasim and Vandalieu nodded, satisfied with Basdia’s explanation

Up until now, Vandalieu had been reliant on death-attribute ic barriers, Golem walls and allies with powerful defenses for his own defense against enemy attacks

There had been several occasions where he had engaged in hand-to-hand co, but he had keptaround actively, and many of the attacks he had received were from spears and swords that would pierce or cut his flesh, not send his entire body flying

The only time he had been mowed doas the time he had deliberately received the attack froan’s sword

“I see But Vandalieu is still small; unless his opponent is a Goblin or a child like him, attacks that aren’t front kicks willdoards, so I don’t think this would happen very often,” said Kasim

If it were an attack from above, even if Vandalieu stopped it with his shi+eld, he would be able to withstand it by bracing his legs against the ground

But an attack that scooped him up from beloould easily make him lose his balance if he were to stop it with his shi+eld

Well, outside of training, it was unlikely that Vandalieu would ever find hied in hand-to-hand coic while separated from his allies

“Still, the fact that I’ht… I’ve never realized it up until now,” said Vandalieu

“Yeah… but now that I think back, don’t a lot of different people hold you up in the air? Just the other day, old man Borkus picked you up like a cat,” Kasim said

As he said, Vandalieu was picked up freely by various people Borkus, the half-noble Orc Pauvina as like his younger sister, Basdia and Eleanora all picked him up or held him in their arms

“That’s true, but everyone has the Superhuer than me,” said Vandalieu

Thus, he had unconsciously believed that it wasn’t because he was light, but because everyone picking hi or because they were adults

“For noe’ll avoid sideways attacks until he gets used to it and switch to attacks from above,” said Basdia “Van, be careful not to lose your balance Instead of stopping the attack with your shi+eld, try to use the rounded parts to redirect its force I don’t think there’d ever be a situation where you’d be fighting one-on-one against an eneet used to it just in case”

“Okay,” said Vandalieu

And so, Vandalieu spent every day leading up to his ninth birthday receiving the attacks of Kasim, Eleanora and Basdia

While being sent into the air on several occasions

And for some reason, Kachia picked him up and carried him back home on their way back

“But I can walk on my own,” Vandalieu said

“It’s fine, I just realized that I’ve never picked you up, so I’ the opportunity to do it while I can!” Kachia said

『You have acquired the shi+eld Technique and Armor Technique skills!』

However, Vandalieu was the king of a nation He could not spend his entire day training

He was also busy with paperwork that he did byZandia and Jeena’s adjust the Black Goblin Ninjas in their training and patrolling the on Zombie, and his rider, Bone Man

“Kings have more free time than you’d expect, don’t they?” Vandalieu remarked

“That only applies for you, Your Majesty,” said Chezare “I a the newly forhts’ Order and the Scaled Dragon cavalry unit… kufufufu”

“Your Majesty, won’t you letto this tireless Undead? I would like to point out that your younger brother is a human made of flesh and blood,” said Kurt

Vandalieu, who could simply multiply with spirit form clones if he wanted roup of over a dozen people by himself He was the ruler of a nation, even if that nation was still small, but he had an abundance of free time this way

Chezare had been de his qualities as an exceptionalUndead, he no longer felt physical fatigue And when he was doing the work of a general, he demonstrated marvelous concentration for those tasks

As for Kurt, as being made to accompany him… he had been praised as a commander with a steady work method, but he was a human who needed sleep and food

He was a military man, so he could push himself further than ht

The knights and soldiers being trained were Undead oractivities than Kurt was

“Kurt, Chezare will easily forget to let you rest while working, so you have to decide on your ohen to rest,” said Vandalieu

“You ht say that, Your Majesty, but it’s difficult for a subordinate to say that he is going to rest while a superior is still working,” said Kurt

“… That ht be true”

In Vandalieu’s case, though he worked busily, he was enjoying himself as well, so nobody felt the need to be reserved around hirossed in work, so perhaps Kurt, Chezare’s direct subordinate, couldn’t be bla reserved

“I must implement a paid leave system, mustn’t I?” said Vandalieu

He’d been careful to prevent working environone far enough More living people would take up administrative positions in the future as well Vandalieu decided that the working environments of such positions would need to be improved

“As you wish,” said Chezare “Well then, please explain this paid leave syste of It must then be put into written document form, reviewed, the administrative positions decided –”

“Your Majesty, it seems that I have more work to do now,” Kurt remarked

“Huh?”

It seeed paid leave syste environment would ier

In between the usual work and training, Vandalieu was also trying to create and refine new ets obtained fro’s Nest

“It’s not going very well,” he said

“It’s disappearing, isn’t it?” said Pauvina

“I wonder why that is?” said Zadiris

“I don’t know,” said Tarea

They had been obtaining silver and gold since last year, but unlike the Death Iron and Dark Copper created by i iron and copper in death-attribute Mana, the creation of old and silver hadn’t succeeded yet

For soold and silver disappeared

“It’s coone I wonder where it went?” Pauvina patted her large hand around the area where a silver nugget had been, but there was nothing there except the floor

Basdia’s mother, the Ghoul Wizard Zadiris, and the leader of the sh Artisan Tarea, watched with the eyes of a e and a craftsman respectively, but they didn’t understand why the silver nugget had disappeared

“If the Mana stops before the old So, I believe that disappearing is the change that occurs for it to becoical metal,” said Tarea

“Is there such thing as a disappearing ical metal?” asked Pauvina

“There are not that in with,” Tarea replied

Orichalcum, that could only be created by the Gods, the flexible and reparable Damascus Steel whose method of creation was passed on only to certain Dwarf individuals, Mythril and Adaical metals, and Obsidian, which could be made by skilled blacksmiths

These were the coical ly with Mana of a certain attribute, but they were rare and not well-known

To begin with, ical metals were nor periods of time in places filled with Mana Other than Obsidian, which was created by using existing ical metals and materials, and Daicalthat could be newly created

It was only possible for Vandalieu because he possessed an absurd amount of Mana and the ability to accelerate ti spell

“But silver and gold disappear in different ways, do they not?” said Zadiris “Silver just vanishes iold just disappears the moment you take your eyes off it”

“That’s right,” said Tarea “At first, I thought someone had simply moved it, but…”

It wasn’t as if the gold nuggets had escaped on their own, so they had thought that sons of that having happened, so their whereabouts were simply unknown

Suddenly, the white object that Vandalieu was leaning against gave a si”

“H about this?” Vandalieu asked

This white object was the Cerown to become plump and shi+ny

As one ht expect of a queen bee larva, she did not move much Normally, she stayed equipped inside Vandalieu, but she came out like this from time to time

“Pigii, Kikiki, pipigigigih”

“Hmm, hmm”

“… How does the boy understand what Quinn is saying?” Zadiris wondered “The other day, he was conversing with the large centipede Pete as well”

“Are those even words to begin with?” asked Tarea “To ihs’ sound the same”

“Is that not because of your old age?”

“What did you say?! Zadiris, you are around thirty years older than I am!”

In reality, both of their physical ages had been reversed with Youth Transformation so that theyin their e years

“Van said that Quinn and Pete are smart, so when they combine their noises with the les and h idea of what they want to say,” Pauvina said to the tere having a useless argument

It see to tell him

“Rapiéçage is collecting so?”

Everyone turned to see Rapiéçage, as often seen together with Pauvina, ru in the corner of Vandalieu’s workshop