The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 144 (1/2)

The soldiers under Chief General Buzazeos’s cohtmare of a battlefield

“BUHIIIIH!” a noble Orc screa the skull of an ene out of his bloody abdomen

Seeing his spear enter the enee froh of relief at his victory

But despite having a crucial part of his brain pierced, the enerasped the handle of the spear that had pierced him

“BUHIH?!”

“Gobeh…”

The noble Orc let out a stiff-sounding noise as he tried to take back his spear, but perhaps because he had lost his presence of th

And as he stoppedto try to take his weapon back, other enemy soldiers closed in on him

“Gobeh…”

“Kill…!”

“Recognition… achievements…!”

“Buhiiiih… Buhiiiih…”

Orc Zombies and noble Orc Zo fro unique to those who had no future in their wide-open, hollow eyes, swung and thrust their weapons

“B-BUGYAAAAAH!”

Surrounded and unable toscrea the swarm of Undead

Such hellish scenes were unfolding all over the battlefield

“How many times do I need to tell you not to step out before you understand?! Don’t break your formations! Heavy troops, raise your shi+elds and act as a wall to stop the Undead! Spearmen, thrust your spears between the shi+elds! Leave it to the archers and es to finish them off!” Chief General Buzazeos bellowed

Each tier turned pale as he ran out to relay these orders to the soldiers

“Buguh!” Buzazeos groaned

What’s theof this? Before, the soldiers would have obeyed my orders faithfully I trained and selected the soldiers so that I could raise them to be able to do that So why now, of all times? Buzazeos couldn’t help but ask himself this

At first, he had felt shocked upon hearing that an arun a rebellion But upon learning that they were a group of Undead soldiers that had become far weaker than they hile alive, he had felt disappointed

Normally, even a swarm of Undead would have almost no coordination or proper distribution of roles They were just a disorderly gathering that had no intents other than attacking the living

So, the noble Orc e that they could win this battle However, looking back on it now, it had been careless to think this

The rebelling ar and another unfa expressions that it was difficult to believe that they were Undead And even though arrows and spells poured down on theate without faltering and destroyed it

Buzazeos had co to push the eneate, but… perhaps overly restless or overconfident in their own strength, soldiers had broken fore in, one by one These soldiers had been helplessly surrounded and crushed to death by the Undead, while the reaps left by the ones that had broken the for over and over

They were at the advantage overall; a third of the Undead aryap, had already been turned back into corpses They would likely be able to defeat the Undead army within another hour

But Buzazeos’s irritation would not subside

How iven the same orders?! When did h they can see the reckless idiots being killed they keep going out and acting on their own if I take my eyes off them!

The High Kobold, and High Goblin and Kobold troops offered and dispatched by Gargya and Gido were proving useful, but Buzazeos needed to speak hu to his irritation as well

Now that things have come to this, I must step onto the frontline myself… what did I think just now?!

Buzazeos cas were carrying him towards the frontline of the battlefield, and he stopped himself as he realized this

“Don’t be so hasty, Buzazeos-dono,” said a voice, calling out to Buzazeos in a flippant tone

It was Gerazorg He was a slender, playboy-looking individual with tisted horns on his head, blue skin, a goatee on his chin and piercings in his ears, nose and the triangular tip of the tail extending from his waist

“My Demons will exterminate the Undead soon,” he said

It seemed that he hadn’t noticed the fact that Buzazeos has frozen in astonishment He couldn’t reach Buzazeos’s shoulder due to the difference in their heights, so he gave him an overly-friendly pat on the side and stepped towards the frontline, taking his tamed Demons with him

“Wait, Gerazorg-dono It is too early for you toGerazorg

Gerazorg had always been nothing but a piece of scuh he was a fool beyond help, he was a piece of scuht

Though he had been dispatched to the Majin nation to stage a coup d’état by his ain supporters and fled sha for one hly useless as a spy

But as expected of aability

Despite his playboy-like appearance, he could use ic with considerable skill Most i a pack of more than ten Demons of various kinds

And like Gargya and Gido, Ravovifard had taken a liking to hiiven him his divine protection

Thus, with one and no top leaders other than Buzazeos, Gerazorg was the third-ranking individual aitas’s subordinates after Chief General Buzazeos and General buht the allied army formed by the smaller nations

“Huh? Why are you stopping me? Could it be that you don’t want me to build achievements for myself, since I already possess Ravovifard’s divine protection?” said Gerazorg, borrowing not a tiger’s, but an evil God’s strength

TLN: There’s a japanese saying where one “borrows a tiger’s strength” It refers to soantly under someone else’s authority/authority that isn’t their own This is a play on this phrase, where Gerazorg is acting arrogantly by borrowing an evil God’s strength

For a o, but hestrange about the ene, but they’re coainst the wall And we still don’t knohy they turned into Undead in the first place,” he said “It’s difficult to iine that thisis yet to happen during this battle Even if you step out after we make sure what this is, you won’t be too late”

“Hm strangely,” Gerazorg agreed “They don’t give off any rotten s at theo I thought that by the time corpses turn into Undead naturally, they’ve already started giving off a nose-wrinkling stink, but…”

It seeht, relieved

But what he had said to Gerazorg were his true thoughts

His intuition that had been honed over s would be dangerous if the ently investigated, but due to his foolish subordinates that were disobeying orders and stepping out to die on their own one by one, he had no time for that

I suppose we’ll have to defeat these Undead first But how should we investigate this? I wonder if we’ll be able to learn soes? … What is that?!

“BUGAH!” Buzazeos shouted in the Orc language immediately

He was looking at a storm of arrows that had been fired from behind the Undead army

The arrows rained down upon the heavy troops and spear with the Undead they were holding back noble Orcs screah Goblins fell, pierced by a countless number of arrows

With this opportunity, the Undead army pushed further in

And on the other side of the ar up a cloud of dust

“Those are the flags of Zanalpadna as well as the Ghouls, High Goblin and High Kobold nations! And the flags of the Centaurs and Harpies, and beside the flag that I’ve never seen before… isn’t that the Majin nation’s flag?!”

“Ngh, that daan! He couldn’t even hold out?!”

At the sight of the ene turned pale, while Buzazeos felt a strange sense of exhilaration

But Buzazeos suppressed that exhilaration and shouted his orders “Hold the line! Don’t break your foret restless, you fools!”

It was possible that his own soldiers, who had nothing but et their orders, werein

The thunderous noise of the gate being destroyed and the sounds of battle made by the army led by Chief General Buzazeos could be heard from the plaza in front of the castle

Though Bugitas could guess that his disappointing subordinates were fighting a difficult battle, at first, he was acting in a leisurely manner

He siht that he just needed to defeat the two enemies in front of him and then head out onto the frontline himself

One of the ene The other was his own older brother, Prince Budarion

Both were foritas had no doubt that he would be victorious The God he worshi+pped, Ravovifard, had provided hiainst the monster, and Budarion was an opponent that he had already defeated once before

It’s true that I had quite a hard tiht Budarion But my Level has increased since that time as well, and I have become able to summon an even more powerful Familiar Spirit Coic sword has changed, nothing else

Budarion had lost an eye and an ariven to hi abilities and the effects of any healing ets that it wounded, but it seemed that the curse had somehow been broken

It had likely been the doing of thatto admit that he was quite skilled But that was the exact reason why Bugitas was under the impression that he would be able to defeat Budarion as he had done before

Budarion and this h Budarion had regained his eye and arm, he should have had almost no time to improve his abilities

Even Ravovifard’s Divine Message hadn’t mentioned Budarion at all In other words, he wasn’t as much of a threat as the monster The different-colored eye and arm were likely some kind of bluff

With that being the case, even though Budarion was a Rank 10 noble Orc High King, even though he possessed the Swordsainst Bugitas, a Rank 11 Plunder King who possessed an awakened superior Skill

That hat Bugitas had concluded

“BUOOH!”

“BUGUGAH!”

The super-heavy reat scythe clashed Each tiitas’s leisurely attitude disappeared, little by little

“What’s the matter? Your movements are dull! Has the comfort of the throne you stole from me made you lazy?” said Budarion

The way he handled his sword had become more skillful, his blows faster and, most importantly, heavier

“Say what you like!” Bugitas shouted back in the Orc language, thrusting the end of his scythe’s handle at Bugitas’s solar plexus

Budarion stopped Bugitas’s attack with the body of his ic sword’s blade

“… Flowing Willow, Pierce”

With a naturalin the wind, he parried the attack At the same time, he released a thrust, as if the blade of his sas crawling up the scythe’s handle

In contrast to his quiet voice, Budarion’s round with sobeneath it was broken, the tip of his sword closing in on his enemy

“BUGIIIH! BUGIGYAGYAGYAGYAGYAH!”

Bugitas avoided it with Flowing Water, ahis scytheHundred Consecutive Beast Blade Flying Slashes at Budarion

“… An unsightly way to fight Flowing Water”

Handling hisof water, Budarion cut through only the attacks that had been sent his way But soitas had released wouldn’t have hit Budarion to begin with

These attacks would cut through the buildings behind Budarion and would likely keep going straight through the buildings without stopping

“De’s blood, activate, Stone Wall, Stone Wall, Ice Blood Stiff Wall”

But Vandalieu, theco’s blood spurted fro a wall, and Vandalieu activated martial skills from behind the wall that acted as his shi+eld

But the Hundred Consecutive Beast Blade Flying Slashes cut through the first talls But as they hit the third wall, the wall of ice created by Dead Spirit Magic thatinto the air

“As expected of a ic scythe, an Artifact no less I panicked a little,” said Vandalieu

“Vandalieu-kun, wouldn’t it have been better to use the De’s carapace instead of his blood?” said Orbia

“Orbia, the carapace covers my body as it activates; it would have taken time for it to turn into a shape where it could protect the faraway places behind us”

“I see But that Bugitas ene?”

“Yes, he’s quite the formidable foe”

As Bugitas glared at Budarion and listened to this conversation, he felt such huer that he felt like the blood vessels in his head would burst

Are they being sarcastic?! Don’t mess with me!

Bugitas’s initial expectation was that Budarion would have been severely wounded, unable to co Slashes No, he should have been heavily wounded before that, and the last attack should have cut him into pieces

And then he had intended to easily defeat Vandalieu, the re certain victory He would have offered the frag to Ravovifard, and headed towards the gate, holding the heads of his two enemies in one hand

But in reality, Budarion was unharitas’s awaked superior Skill, War-boar Scythe Technique

And the attacks that Budarion hadn’t stopped had been stopped by Vandalieu, onlyhim “panic a little”

In fact, Bugitas was the one as in the corner

He hadn’t been heavily wounded, but he had received several light wounds Because he had released several martial skills consecutively within a short period of tie a

He was already using Transcend Liic Scythe and Fa Fathen hiitas was at the disadvantage and unable to keep up

“BUGOOOOH! BUGUGAH! BUGIIIIH!” Bugitas shouted, his face twisting in an unsightly manner as he cursed Budarion

“Just when did I beco, you ask? Indeed, before, I was defeated by you and disgracedthe people of the eh hard tiitas’s question and answering with huuided”

“BUHIH?!” Bugitas opened his eyes wide in astonishment at the fact that there could be another with a False Guidance Skill He hadn’t even considered the possibility before

“Don’t misunderstand Unlike the fake that you possess, it is true Guidance,” Budarion continued “I have received the Guidance of the Deained power as a result It is siuardian Goddess, and I have succeeded in increasinga superior Skill within a short period of tiitas, I am not the defeated prince you once knew I a”

Iiven by Budarion

Guidance and False Guidance Skills were Skills that gave blessings not onto the Skill owner, but to others Thus, Bugitas was not strengthened by his own False Guidance: Beast Path

But Guidance: Demon Path increased Budarion’s Attribute Values and raised hi

And fro Budirud and Bufudin, his Rank had increased and he had awakened a superior Skill

Impossible, that’s ihts as I have?! Then there is no way that I can win, is there!

Bugitas was soinally been completely aware in the difference in talent between him and his brother; he had intended to suppress his co his older brother in the future He hadn’t believed that he would be able to defeat Budarion in the arena

“Danna, could it be that this Bugitas is even stronger than Gubamon?” Kimberley asked

“When he threw the Dele-layered wall of the De’s blood, after all,” said Princess Levia “Then does that er than a Pure-breed Vampire?”

“At the very least, I think that Bugitas is stronger than Gubamon when it comes to ability in martial skills,” said Vandalieu

“Eh, are you serious, Vandalieu-kun?” said Orbia

“I’her in Rank, but his Throwing Skill wasn’t a superior Skill, and the De’s Carapace as he used it back then wouldn’t have been any better for using itas’s skill in er overall Still, Bugitas is very impressive”

“… I would rather ask, are you serious when you say that you defeated a Pure-breed Vampire?” said Gizania

“Rather, it see down on both of them,” said Myuze

“Well, to Vandalieu, that’s all they were,” said Vigaro

“Leaving that aside… Darling, you’re wonderful! You look a!” said Princess Kurnelia