Chapter 96.2 (1/2)

The protagonist who is approximately two months away from turning eight years old at the end of volume 4. Now that he has acquired dairy products, he has hopes for the future that he will grow taller.

He has realized that he has lost the resistance to solitude that he had developed on Earth, but now he is capable of equipping insects and plants within his body and is constantly followed around by Princess Levia and the other Ghosts who can become invisible, so he does not feel lonely at all.

He fears G.o.ds as he believes that they are beings that are absolutely superior to him, but that is because of the experience of great failure carved into his mind when he could not strike a single blow back at Rodcorte after dying in Origin. As for the fact that he destroyed the Spirit Clone of the G.o.d of ice Yupeon that resided in Ice Age, he does not think anything more of it other than, “It was nothing more than a Spirit Clone.”

In addition, he is unaware that the pseudo-reincarnations that he is conducting is causing damage to Rodcorte. As Alda and Fitun are also G.o.ds, he knows nothing of their movements other than the fact that they are hostile to him.

He does not think much of the fact that he destroyed Kaidou Kanata, the first reincarnated individual that he encountered in Lambda. However, he does think that things will be troublesome once other reincarnated individuals arrive. But as he has no way to prevent their arrival, he believes that he should just take care and prepare as much as he can, just as he has been doing up until now.

After Heinz and his party defeated Ternecia, the Lemures who were watching them ran out of Mana, so he did not monitor them after that. Thus, he is unaware of the fact that Heinz was promoted to S-cla.s.s or the fact that he gained the status of honorary n.o.bleman that Vandalieu has been aiming for.

Vandalieu has succeeded in refining new metals, eliminating Ternecia and attracted new citizens to Talosheim.

Talosheim's current population exceeds four thousand, so it is still considered a small city-state in Lambda, but its infrastructure is as complete as any great nation's capital.

But Vandalieu himself isn't aware of this and works like a workaholic; he does not seem to have the sense that he is living luxuriously.

During the fourth volume, he was stared in the eyes by the reality that the Orbaume Kingdom he had so many expectations for was not a dream-like country but simply another nation, so those expectations rapidly vanished.

His eyes have been opened to the Hartner Duchy in particular; even if the Amid Empire was to invade it, Vandalieu would do nothing about it; if there wasn't an S-cla.s.s adventurer in the Hartner Duchy, he would consider trampling over the Empire's army from their flank when both sides were exhausted.

He is currently planning to start cultivating a marshland to the south in order to produce more Capricorns and increase production of milk products.

He rapidly became more unworldly in the past volume, but he doesn't really mind.

In terms of power, if he fights while being careful not to stand out to others, he is in the lower to middle area of C-cla.s.s.

If he uses Insect Binding Technique, Plant Binding Technique, his tongue and threads, Dead Spirit Magic and reveals how much of a 'Monstrosity' he is, he is between the upper area of cla.s.s to S-cla.s.s.

And if he uses the Demon King's fragments and fights without holding anything back, he is truly as powerful as an S-cla.s.s adventurer.

Eleanora

She studied combat diligently in order to be of use to Vandalieu, so her magic-related skills have not developed.

But while she is by his side as a servant, she looks more and more like his guardian. She feels apologetic to Darcia every time she is mistakenly a.s.sumed to be Vandalieu's mother, and she feels angry, thinking, “I don't want to become a mother! I haven't even had any experience!” She also feels depressed, wondering, “Do I really look that old?”

Her master is rapidly becoming more otherworldly, but she acknowledged Vandalieu as the most fearsome master in the world right at the beginning; she does not feel a renewed fear of him.

While she feels a sense of closeness with Vandalieu's new servant, Bellmond, she also feels a burning sense of rivalry.

She turned five people from the First Cultivation Village including the chief's son, Sebas, into Subordinate Vampires, but she has never actually had any subordinates of her own before except for Isla and the other Vampire Zombies, so she is troubled as to how to treat them.

Thus, she has currently told them to first undergo a Job-change and become Rank 5 and is now leaving them be.

She has polished her skills in swordsmans.h.i.+p and undergone a Job-change, so she has become a little stronger than she was in the third volume.

Braga

From being single, he has now married Marie and the former prost.i.tute Linda, joining the ranks of the successful in life. In addition, their wedding ceremony was held at a time of year known on Earth as Christmas.

He has been unexpectedly careful with his family planning; he has already discussed with his wives that once they have a child, they should wait for that child to reach Rank 4 before having another.

Black Goblins have a starting Rank of 2, so they lack the strength they need to make a living by hunting in Talosheim.

Braga is currently spending fulfilling nights with his family while polis.h.i.+ng his skills so that he can teach his children his specialized killing techniques once they are born.

Name: Braga

Rank: 6

Race: Black Goblin Ninja Adept

Level: 85

Pa.s.sive skills:

Dark Vision

Status Effect Resistance: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)

Enhanced Agility: Level 4

Intuition: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)

Detect Presence: Level 5

Strengthened Attribute Values when equipped with Ninja Equipment (Medium)

Active skills:

Short Sword Technique: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)

Throwing: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)

Silent Steps: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)

Trap: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)

Dismantling: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)

Unlocking: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)

Surpa.s.s Limits: Level 2 (NEW!)

Unique skills:

Human Slayer: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)

Kasim

An adventurer, a former refugee who fled the Sauron Duchy, and a former villager of the Seventh Cultivation Village. He was promoted to D-cla.s.s, but that qualification has now been invalidated.

He formed a party with other boys from the same cultivation village of the same age as him, and he is the s.h.i.+eld-bearer and leader of the party.

Incidentally, if one asks why he aspires to become a s.h.i.+eld-bearer, the answer is that he was moved by an old hero's tale he once heard, and that hero was known as the person who first invented s.h.i.+eld Bash.

That hero's name has been left in history as the one who invented offensive martial skills at a time when all other s.h.i.+eld-bearer martial skills were for defense and provoking.

Kasim has dreamed of being like that hero. Perhaps because of this dream, he sometimes attacks with his s.h.i.+eld while shouting, “s.h.i.+eld Bash,” despite not being able to use the martial skill.

He is currently in his growth phase, so Vandalieu feels an unstoppable envy for his wonderful body that becomes more robust by the day.

However, Kasim feels an unstoppable envy for Vandalieu, who possesses a harem.

Incidentally, his family was a farming family.

Zeno

An adventurer, a former refugee who fled the Sauron Duchy, and a former villager of the Seventh Cultivation Village. His qualification as an adventurer has now been invalidated.

He formed a party with other boys from the same cultivation village of the same age as him, and he is the Scout and second leader of the party.

Because he has always been small, agile and bad at physical labor, he decided that he would be a Scout when he became an adventurer.

It seems that he had an apt.i.tude for it, partially because of his calm personality.

He is frequently dragged along by Fester's antics; it is a common pattern for him and Kasim to stop Fester together.

In truth, he was quite cautious of Vandalieu when he first met him. But he began treating Vandalieu normally once he saw his behavior and realized that he was a child despite being expressionless… though he was taken aback to realize that Vandalieu was the king of the place that he was about to migrate to.

Since tasting Talosheim's delicious food, he realized that he is quite the gluttonous character.

Fester

An adventurer, a former refugee who fled the Sauron Duchy, and a former villager of the Seventh Cultivation Village. His qualification as an adventurer has now been invalidated.

He formed a party with other boys from the same cultivation village of the same age as him, and he acts as the frontline for the party and keeps the party's mood up.

He is the type of person who gets easily carried away, and is in love with Lina, who is the poster girl of the jack-of-all-trades store and the sole employee of the Adventurers' Guild branch.

One might think that he treated Vandalieu like a very normal child, but he has an unexpectedly sharp, flexible mindset that led him to asking Vandalieu for training and advice on how to prepare to kill someone.

His ability is growing rapidly and his relations.h.i.+p with Lina is progressing as well. It is possible that he has the elements of a protagonist.

Daene

Also known as the apple lady.

She was a middle-aged woman who raised her son while making a living selling fruit in the city of Niarki while enduring the abuse from her mother-in-law. Just when her son married a woman and Daene thought it would be her turn, the couple eloped. One could feel sympathy for her situation, but she reaped what she sowed.

She stole money from Vandalieu, saying that the coin he gave her was fake, and when he fled the Adventurers' Guild and left the city, she tried to capture him and sell him off, only to die in madness through his Scream and Mind Encroachment.

After that, she turned into an Undead and fought Heinz and his party and showed wonderful effort by becoming the core of a Zombie Giant.

After that, she was pseudo-reincarnated as an Ent that Vandalieu found in the Eclipse King's Orchard, which produces iron-hard apple-like fruits. She is currently equipped inside his body.

Like Chezare, she is the type of person who is s.h.i.+ning more brightly after death.

However, Vandalieu does not remember what kind of person she was in her previous life.

Levia

Talosheim's First Princess. Unlike her younger sister, in her previous life, she had meager ability in battle. When the Mirg s.h.i.+eld-nation attacked, she escaped to the then-friendly nation, the Hartner Duchy, with her warriors guarding her along with the children and elderly who couldn't fight.

After that, she was betrayed and burned at the stake and then her ashes were abandoned in the underground cemetery.

After that, her feelings of regret turned her into a Ghost and when she was intending to move on to the next life, Vandalieu instigated her. Her Rank increased and she became a Flame Ghost and then a Blaze Ghost after killing Kanata.

Her existence is necessary for Vandalieu's Dead Spirit Magic, and currently she is the most prominent of the spirits haunting him with the exception of Darcia.

She is a beautiful woman with an air of elegance, and has a kind, graceful personality. But because she is a t.i.tan, she also has the trait of not minding smaller details.

Her skin currently has the same dark color that she had when she was alive, but her hair and clothes are made of flames and below a certain point above her knees, her legs are missing. Her hair and clothes are a part of her, so she can change their shape at will and use them to attack during battle.

She normally exposes her skin a lot by having her clothes in the form of a leotard in order to save Mana, but the t.i.tans of Talosheim actually prefer highly-exposing clothes other than during cold winters, so there seems to be no deep meaning to this.

Incidentally, when she was alive, she wore a long, simple piece of cloth (though when examined closely, it had many revealing slits).

As for her bust size, she reigns supreme among the people of Talosheim in terms of absolute size. However, that is due to the fact that she is a t.i.tan who is over 2.5m tall; in terms of relative size to her body, her bust is not much different to Tarea's or Basdia's.

Thus, as a result of discussion, she has been treated as an exception in the bust rankings of Talosheim, and for some reason, is treated as a special adviser.

Name: Levia

Rank: 5

Race: Blaze Ghost

Level: 65

Pa.s.sive skills:

Spirit Form: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)

Mental Corruption: Level 5

Heat Manipulation: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)

Flame Nullification

Materialization: Level 5

Augmented Mana: Level 4 (LEVEL UP!)

Active skills:

Housework: Level 5

Projectile Fire: Level 5

Possession: Level 3

Kaidou Kanata

The second person reincarnated from another world into Lambda. He cleared military training at a fairly exceptional level. He used fire-attribute magic that was considered almost genius-level in Origin, as well as his ordinary wind-attribute magic. He also had the cheat-like ability 'Gungnir” that allowed penetration through target objects.

In Origin, where things like sniper rifles and infrred scopes exist, he possessed the greatest mission success rate among the Bravers.

He performed much work, such as rescuing injured people during disasters by pa.s.sing through the rubble to save them.

However, his personality can only be described as that of a low-life.

When he was on Earth, he was nothing more than a common high school student who aspired to becoming special, but after being reincarnated in Origin with cheat-like abilities, magic and talent, he was drowned in the feeling of being special.

In addition, he thought of the people of Origin not as humans like him, but as characters in stories or games. Thinking to enjoy himself more than everyone else, he used his cheat-like ability to stain his hands with crime.

He performed deeds such as dealing the final blow to s.h.i.+houin Mari's mother when she was wounded and on the verge of death in order to sell her organs. But he simply thought of this as role-playing a villain in a game.

His sense of life being a game was not cured in his third life; it worsened horribly due to the existence of the Status and skill systems. And as a result of being reincarnated again, his view on life and death become ambiguous as well, so he seriously thought that if things went badly, he would simply need to hit a reset b.u.t.ton.

Before being reincarnated in Lambda, Rodcorte requested him to erase Vandalieu, but Kanata asked to be reincarnated for a fourth life in a world with developed science as a reward.

But that irresponsible thought became his enemy; because he used his cheat-like ability that needed to be used to kill the enemy the first time they saw it, and committed reckless acts of violence, Vandalieu learned how he fought and disarmed him.

In the end, he didn't know that Vandalieu could break souls, so he ended up declaring that he would be back for a rematch, only to have his soul broken to avoid that danger.

Pete

An aggressive centipede monster who was basking in the sun on a tree branch and performed a spectacular dive after being immediately tamed by Vandalieu who pa.s.sed by underneath.

He is the number 1 creature that has been equipped through Insect Binding Technique.

After that, he became an underling of the Cemetery Bees.

He was Rank 1 to begin with, but as of the end of volume 4, he is a Rank 4 Lance Centipede.

He has a playful side such as sleeping in Vandalieu's hair with his head sticking out, but he has become more like his older Cemetery Bee sisters, who are always building their nests and gathering honey and larvae. Pete looks after the other insects that Vandalieu equips… apparently.

He cannot communicate anything specific other than through the clicking he sounds he makes with his jaws and wings, so n.o.body other than Vandalieu can understand him.

Incidentally, he hates water.

Name: Pete

Rank: 4

Race: Lance Centipede

Level: 95

Pa.s.sive skills:

Hunger Resistance: Level 2

Self-Enhancement: Following: Level 2

Venom Secretion (Neurotoxin): Jaws: Level 4

Active skills:

Silent Steps: Level 1

Charge: Level 4

Surpa.s.s Limits: Level 2

Gopher

One of the daughters of the Sword King Borkus. She is two hundred and thirteen years old, and evacuated to the Hartner Duchy from Talosheim, but she was separated from Princess Levia and her warriors, was told that she would be taken to the place that she would live while taking shelter in the Hartner Duchy and spent two hundred years being forced to work.

As a result of having received Vandalieu's age-reversing ma.s.sage, physically, she is currently about a hundred years old.

Her personality is that of someone who takes care of others, and when the elderly among the t.i.tan slaves died, she became one of the leaders.

She gave birth three times in the slave-run mine, but she currently only has two sons. After reuniting with Borkus, her parent-child relations.h.i.+p with him was rekindled, but her father has changed in all kinds of ways and she is now struggling to mediate the relations.h.i.+p between her sons and the grandfather that has suddenly appeared in their lives.

She admired Levia when she was a child, and had the childish thought of wanting to be like a princess herself, but as a result of the harsh mine work that she was forced to do, she has grown into a strong woman who looks as if she could strangle an ox to death; Vandalieu acknowledges her as having “nice muscles.” In fact, she has experienced strangling Earthworms that emerged from the ground. All of this is the Hartner family's fault.

After returning to Talosheim, she didn't feel like doing any mining for a while and her body was feeling unusually good, so she decided to aim for the broken childhood dream of becoming an adventurer.

Name: Gopher

Race: t.i.tan

Age: 213 years old (Physical age 100 years old)

t.i.tle: None

Job: Skilled Miner

Level: 88

Job history: Apprentice Warrior, Slave, Apprentice Miner, Miner

Pa.s.sive skills: