Chapter 129 (2/2)

“Well, how about saying what is on yourwhat,” said Zadiris

It seeh Borkus’s troubles Perhaps realizing that his thoughts showed on his face even though half of it was a skull, he pressed a hand against his forehead on the bony side

However, confiding in and asking for help noas like betraying Zandia and Jeena, and betraying the old Taloshei unlike hi troubled

“Then I’ll say it, but… I want to release that bastard Mikhail fro dummy It’s hard to say that he should be acquitted andif he could at least be able to open his rounds… so, I was thinking of asking the kid…”

The thing that Borkus was troubled over was the betterment of the treatment of Mikhail, the Divine Spear of Ice, for shi+eld-nation, responsible for the destruction of the old Talosheim

Currently, Mikhail had ments as well as explosive devices buried in his body He was being used as a training dum he could move of his oere his eyes

It was far too tragic a fate for a hero, but to the citizens of the old Talosheim, he was the detested enemy who had destroyed their nation

And to Borkus, Mikhail was his own killer

“But, well, he’s an Undead now, and he can’t return to his homeland He probably doesn’t have any faith for Alda left now, and he regrets what he did while he was alive It’s not like I feel sorry for hi… if he could at least be like a cri…” Borkus said in disconnected words, gazing at Zandia and Jeena with a dull look in his already lightless, dull Undead eyes

Mikhail was the one who had killed Zandia and Jeena as well After Borkus was killed, Jeena had been stabbed to death, and Zandia’s left hand had been sliced off before she fell in the same way

After that, Mikhail and his coon in order to destroy the Goddess Vida’s relic, where his co his precious spear, Ice Age, he barely escaped alive, only to run into the Va the three corpses

Although he ed to repel the Vampires, his wounds were deep, and he had died because he was not treated in time After that, his corpse had been stolen and added to the Pure-breed Vampire Gubamon’s collection of Undead heroes

“Hmm… well, isn’t it fine?” said Jeena

“I suppose I’m okay with it as well,” said Zandia “I would be reluctant to have hi to be a criminal slave”

The two of them approved of Borkus’s idea

“Are you serious?! We’re talking about that Mikhail, you know?!” Borkus shouted

“This is surprising,” said Rita “You rounds, so I thought your guts were still boiling with anger at him”

“My guts aren’t boiling, they’re cold You want to see them?” said Jeena

“I wouldn’t go that far,” said Borkus, placing his hand firmly on Jeena’s head before she could float the upper half of her body away

It seemed that Jeena was proud of the fact that she could float with just the upper half of her body and couldn’t resist any opportunity to show it off

“So, why?” asked Zadiris “The boy once told ive those that they once hated”

“It’s not really that I’ve forgiven hi defeated him once I think Jeena-nee feels the same way,” said Zandia

When Zandia and Jeena faced Mikhail in the training grounds before, when they had still only recovered a small amount of their power, they had stood at a distant spot and fired spells at him endlessly until he fell

Mikhail, unable to leave a certain area or even ready himself for combat unless someone approached him, had simply stood there and received their spells Jeena and Zandia had chosen thishi dummy and there had been measures taken to ensure that he would not prioritize protecting himself

And after defeating him once, it seemed that their pent-up resentment towards him had faded considerably

“And you’re livelier than we are, Borkus… and it’s not like the old Talosheim was destroyed by Mikhail alone I think that the city would have been destroyed in the end even if Mikhail hadn’t participated in the battle,” said Jeena

“W-what?! Are you saying that we’d have lost to the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s army without him there?!” said Borkus

“Yeah Though I think we’d have lasted longer”

By the time Mikhail joined the war, Princess Levia and the others had already evacuated Taloshei on the walls to hold the city

At the ti for reinforcements from the Hartner family, but they no that the head of the family at the time had been an Alda fundamentalist who had decided abandon Talosheim and rob the national treasures that were carried by Princess Levia and the other evacuees Thus, the battle to hold the city had been one where reinforcements would never arrive

With that being the case, the titans would have had to resist until the Mirg shi+eld-nation and the Aave up, but would that have been possible for Talosheim back then?

“Impossible Definitely impossible,” said the Second Princess clearly

“That’s not true! If Mikhail wasn’t there, we could have won!” Borkus protested

“So, do you resent Mikhail, or do you wish for his treatment to be improved? Which is it?” Zadiris asked

It see defeated by a powerful ene to an ar that his pride would not allow

“I understand how you feel, but it can’t be helped Back then, we did have Barigen and Ogbahn with us, but we only had one wall and far less people capable of fighting than we do now And the Dungeons were all outside the city, so we couldn’t secure food and supplies while holding the city,” said Jeena “Of course, I think we could have killed ten or twenty thousand enemy soldiers, but I think ould have been defeated in the end”

In Lambda, where there were many ould seem to be superhuman physical abilities from the point of view of soed by the presence of a single person

However, there was a limit to this

If the Mirg shi+eld-nation and the Ahting resources into the battle… if they let their religious fanaticis their eyes to the large number of casualties, Talosheim would likely have fallen even without Mikhail

If it cah-class Adventurers or used some other equivalent trump card

“That’s how it is, sothat it’s fine now He spent two hundred years being petted by that creepy old man as well, so he’s suffered a lot as well,” said Zandia

“Yeah, if I had to pick, I’d say I hate that Gubamon and the other Pure-breed Va shi+eld-nation and the Amid Empire We think they all deserve to be castrated,” said Jeena

“Jeena-nee, don’t just include me in your opinion”

There were several individuals in Talosheieneral Chezare, as essentially acting as a prieneral Kurt, but it see out their hatred on such individuals

Incidentally, in the old Talosheim, where the Goddess of love and life Vida orshi+pped, castration was considered a punishment equivalent to execution or even worse It was such a severe sentence that it was more of a symbol of fear; it had never actually been carried out in a hundred thousand years of history

Vandalieu had already handled the punishht have been painful for the men of the family

“Ngh… Well, if that’s your reason…” Borkus muttered

“For so Borkus-san at so Bocchan,” said Saria

“The boy is the type to hold a grudge, after all,” said Zadiris

The next day, after returning froen’s Fall Life Mountain, Borkus requested for Mikhail to be treated as a cri du to leap off a precipitous cliff Vandalieu looked at Borkus with even less life in his eyes than usual

The surroundings were littered with gold, silver, iron, copper, Obsidian, Mythril, Adaemstones as well as minerals and metals that Borkus and the others hadn’t seen before, in lu sizes

Vandalieu was sitting on a sht in the center

“To be more specific, you want me to restore Mikhail’s freedom to some extent and remove the self-explosive devices?” he said

“Y-yeah Is that too much to ask?” said Borkus

Vandalieu had a strange, intense aura about him, while Borkus seemed a little timid

Behind the to a worried Darcia

“He see happen?” Zandia asked

“About that, he acquired the Golem Creation Job, and with the effect of the Job’s skill, he beca, but –”

“What a e around?!”

“Th-that’s right Also, Vandalieu has created Mythril, Adamantite, Death Iron and Dark Copper as well,” said Darcia, looking like she didn’t knohy Zandia was surprised at that part, but sounding a little proud nonetheless

“Wow…” Zandia breathed as she looked around at the s once more “I don’t knohat I’”

“Isn’t it~? But you know, he couldn’t create Orichalcum,” Darcia added

“No, it would be too incredible if he could,” said Zadiris “If I recall, that is one of alcherails, the only one that the boy has not achieved”

Vandalieu, who had beco all kinds of materials Obsidian, emstones, as well as aluminum, which was known as aluminium in this world And then he had tried the materials that he had invented himself – Death Iron, Dark Copper, Life Gold and Spirit Silver He had been able to create all of them

The amount of Mana required differed based on the quantity and type of e ae quantities Thus, he could create iron more easily than copper

Huge amounts of Mana were needed to create Death Iron, Dark Copper, Life Gold and Soul Silver, which didn’t exist naturally So much that it was far more efficient to create iron or copper and then use the ordinarydeath-attribute

And creating materials directly into the shapes of tools needed eveniron knives or brilliantly-cut diamonds needed several times or even several dozen times the ordinary amount of Mana

Creating a well-forged Death Iron sword or Dark Copper suit of armor could cause even Vandalieu, who possessed over one billion Mana, to run out

Overall, it could be described as an ability to create , albeit very inefficiently If Vandalieu’s Mana pool wasn’t so great, it wouldn’t have been very helpful at all

It would be better to obtain noreons or even purchase them

However, Vandalieu had wanted to be able to create Orichalcue and control the shape that Orichalcum took

However, he had not gained either of these abilities si the Golem Creator Job

“He’s becoe the shape of Orichalcum far more freely than before But he said that he was unable to completely repair the resurrection device,” said Darcia

Zandia looked in the direction that Darcia was looking, and saw the pool that had once contained the quivering luion’s body, that had been created as a result of activating the incomplete resurrection device The pool had been filled once more

It was likely that Legion would fuse with it once they returned fro

“So, he’s depressed because of that,” said Zandia

“A resurrection device… it’s hard to make possible what even the Goddess herself couldn’t do,” said Rita

“Yes,” Saria agreed

The ical resurrection device that could revive the dead if completed Even with such a device before them, Zandia, Rita and Saria felt no desire to come back to life

This didn’t apply to just them; almost none of Taloshei back to life Though it ht have been different for ordinary Undead

“But Borkus-san came at the perfect time, so I’m sure he’ll feel better now,” Darcia said

Meanwhile, Vandalieu was requesting so of Borkus “Well then, please th into your muscles and put on a side chest pose” And then he e movement

TLN: This is that bodybuilder’s pose to show off the chest le it if you want

“Y-yeah, side chest?”

“Side chest~”

Borkusin for some reason as well Unlike Vandalieu’s thin body, they had powerfulsound

Borkus and Jeena wereposes, one after another Partway through, they became aware of Vandalieu’s intentions and

“… What should I do? I feel an even higher hurdle to cli a nice body,” said Zandia

“Apparently surgery to transplant ery,” said Saria

“We don’t even have bodies for transplanting to, anyway,” said Rita “How about you, Zadiris-san?”

“No, well, the boy should have interests in things other than muscles… I wonder if he does?”

“I-it’s fine, everyone! Vandalieu will go through puberty soon!” said Darcia

After enjoying Borkus and Jeena’s physical display for a while, Vandalieu replied calht Well then, let us treat Mikhail as a criminal slave”

“Oh, are you alright with it?!” Borkus exclaimed

“That was unexpectedly quick,” Zadiris remarked “I did not think that he would really object, but did he not have the tendency to not forget past grudges?”

Every see Mikhail’s treath he would still be a slave)

However, Vandalieu didn’t reallygrudges But I don’t have any direct grudges towards Mikhail I do resent his to Borkus and everyone else, but if Borkus hiht, then I think it’s fine,” he said

Grudges were nothing but ees were not things that could be held and discarded through logic and reasoning

If that was possible, the world would be a more peaceful place

For that reason, Vandalieu didn’t resent Mikhail particularly fiercely In fact, in terms of evil acts coht Knights’ Order, were far greater in number and severity

That hy Vandalieu didn’t mind if Borkus and the others wanted to allow this

“But I can’t acquit him,” Vandalieu said “There are still people who resent him, after all Well, there are nu durounds, so I’ll leave it to them for a while”

The Undead heroes stolen fro them ere members of Vida’s races, like Zandia and Jeena, but there werethem had hunted even more of Vida’s races than Mikhail to increase their fame

Neither Vandalieu nor the citizens of Talosheim intended to punish those whose names they didn’t even know for sins they had coained their sense of self and were tor theained sense of self

It see the theuilty

He had even tried to lessen their feelings of guilt directly with Mental Encroached and this had been mostly ineffective

“That’s how it is,” Vandalieu said “By the way, to of one week Have you finished leveling?”

The day of departure for the noble Orc Empire was upon them