The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

At an earlier meeting, various things were announced. The fact that Vandaloo is a reincarnator from another world, that he is not the only reincarnator, including Kanako Tsuthya, exists in multiple ways. And a hundred thousand years ago, it was Vandaloo who was born after an incalculable rebirth of the soul fragments of the four brave Zaccarts crushed by Gudulanis. And various other hidden identities and truths.

A severe earthquake ran to the dukes moving the Orbaum-elected kingdom when they heard about it.

The first emperor of the Amid Empire, who now changed his name to Holy Nation, rejoiced in the empire by naming himself a descendant of Belwood. As you can see from then on, if you can make them believe you are a descendant of a brave man, you can get enough of a great name to be able to interest a nation.

Moreover, in the case of Vandaloo, tattoos are obtained from the 'Goddess of Life and Love' Vida via Dalcia. If you need it, that's as many times as you want.

The royal family of Amid is truly a descendant of Belwood in modern times, or there are many who doubt it. Even if it subtracts the fluttering language that the enemy kingdom, the Orbaum-elected kingdom, is circulating through secret detectives, or just a whim against the royal family.

But those who deny that in Vandaloo's case it is the rebirth of the brave… however high a social status it stands and can show grounds and evidence for suspicion, cannot shake the fact that "Vandaloo is the rebirth of the brave".

For whoever complained that there was suspicion would not be rivaled by the assurance of the Great God. The Duke of Arsaba, still declaring his neutrality, and the Duke of Lext, who delayed in expressing his pro-Vidal demon empire because of opportunism, were wary that Vandaloo had a great deal that could even set out the ambitions of world unity.

... Most of all, for [the leader] Vandaloo, who is already supported enough by the people of the Vidal Demon Empire to build giant statues voluntarily, he is nothing more than an omache, such as the newly gained support as the "rebirth of the brave".

By comparison, the fact that Canada is also a reincarnated person, that they are a new species of Vida called Chaos Elves, not Dark Elves, that if they continue to use V-Cream, they may mutate into a species called the Underworld Race, that Zorkodorio in "Storm of Atrocities" is a primitive vampire, and that the territory of the Vidal Demon Empire extends to the legendary Demon Continent and the Mythical Demon King's Continent is small... not at all small, but the scale was already too large in the second half to be immediately understood by the Dukes.

By the way, the fact that Katie Hartner and the others are reincarnated, the fact that Zyk's fruitful father, Zorkodorio's stepson, is Mashkuzar, remains on the ground. The former is not a citizen of the Vidal Demon Empire. If anything happens to Katie by revealing her secrets on her own, she can't take responsibility, so the latter seems to have nothing good to reveal, because the intention of her parents, Zorkodorio, took precedence.

Nor does it reveal that Darusia is alive once he dies after being executed in the Milg Shield Nation. Whatever Hadros or Tucker was, it was because the other dukes couldn't believe if they weren't driven by desire knowing that the miracle of a complete resurrection of the dead could happen.

… although it may be worrying because mutations to underworld races, etc. and pseudo-reincarnation into undead, daemons, and demons are already known.

The fact that there would be a truth that the Vandaloos had not revealed as such was guessed by all the dukes who participated in the meeting, but no one pursued it on the spot. Interested, but because of the emphasis placed by the Vidal Demon Empire on the overwhelming powerful, the Truth.

Information is something that is gripped and kept secret by a powerful bearer of power, and one day the truth will always be exposed under the day, but it may be discovered by archaeologists after a hundred or a thousand years of research.

In this world, where the concept of human rights is also ambiguous, there is almost no one to think about the right to know.

Most importantly, if diplomacy starts in earnest, the intelligence services of each Duke's territory will investigate.

In addition, the renaming of the Vida fundamentalism to the Vida faith, which he proclaimed before revealing such secrets, was taken by the Dukes with some satisfaction, not shock.

Unlike 'Earth', in today's 'Lambda' world, fundamentalists have taken no incidents or conflicts by taking drastic action such as terrorism. But nobles and temple officials know about the Belwood extremists who once went so far as to punish Alda for being so radical and atrocious.

The Bellwood extremists were so-called radical fundamentalists, putting Bellwood's claims first. For this reason, "fundamentalism" is a vague and alert name for aristocrats and temple officials. It was convincing enough to change it.

On the contrary, what was shocking was about the personnel to be assigned to the embassy of the Vidal Demon Empire, which was to be set up.

Since embassies are diplomatic points of contact to be set up in each other's countries, the fact that the embassies of the Duke of Orbaum's chosen kingdom will be placed in the Vidal Demon Empire means that the embassies of the Vidal Demon Empire will be placed in each Duke's territory.

"In the meantime, we plan to send a few demon kings to use," Vandaloo said of a person to be sent by the Vidal Demon Empire to that embassy.

"I put up with that statement. Unexpectedly, seriously, the words almost came out of my mouth."

The most fruitful part of this meeting would have been the Duke of Gerald Birgit, who so nearby punches the real deal.

"I didn't know there was a second sheet in the stepping picture. Unless it was explained that the purpose was to reduce the stress of the ambassadors and the deputies until they elected the ambassadors, I was under the mistaken impression that they were going to erode each Duke's territory from within, like Orbaum."

The Duke, a hard-faced werewolf beast race, showed the stepping picture presented by Vandaloo as if he had expected it… vowed to take a confrontational stance towards the Duke of Fazon territory.

Located south of the Duke of Hartner territory, he pushed his sentence to show it without looking upset that it was close to the Duke of Fazon territory. And most importantly, even though I don't go through with Vandaloo like the Dukes of Alkrem and Jahan, and the new Duke of Sauron.

"Well, the new species of Vida, of course, are going to have to be prepared to set up exchanger status in embassies because they're going to be diplomats with countries that recognize demons and undead as citizens."

"Bombarde, you seem to have more liver than I do. I wasn't ready until you told me to."

The ambassador shall travel to a country where he has national relations as the representative of the country. But I didn't expect a trader's shift to take place.

I didn't envisage it, but eventually he would invite himself as a national guest, so Gerald stepped on it without showing hesitation or upset on the surface. In contrast, the other dukes, and Vandaloo, were slightly surprised...

"I'm still immature, too. However, the conditions other than treading were lighter than I had assumed. There's not much point in not stepping on that stepping picture, either, if you think about it. We've got a lot going on, but we've wasted it."

Duke Gerald Birgit expected to be asked to give some testimony from Vandaloo at this meeting. Clarifying in it the attitude of confrontation with the Duke of Fazon and the Holy Nation of Amid was only considered to be the minimum necessary… to the extent of the prerequisites for attending the meeting.

I had turned my hand in advance assuming other favourable conditions in the trade treaty, the establishment of the Temple of Vandaloo in the territory, mistress service in the name of dowry and bridesmaid training in beautiful parts of the territory, including my own kin in the dignitaries of the Vidal demon empire, and the devotion of family heirlooms...

"I even looked forward to a political marriage that would welcome the children of other dignitaries on the side of the Vidal Demon Empire as son-in-law's son-in-law, and the future annexation of our realm... surprisingly cautious, or reluctant.

If he had told me from me, he might have been seen as a light duke to the point where he was immediately overwhelmed by the strong. No, I'm glad I didn't. "

It should be noted that some dukes had contemplated offering relatives and minister's children as concubines and mistresses as well as Gerald's as a political marriage, but in the end no one has spoken of it.

Because at the crowning ceremony of Duke Elizabeth Sauron, we received reports from those who saw Bachnawa introduced as Vandaloo's first child.

That look and size, it was too out of standard. Not much of a shock, so much so that I'm calm that I should gather some more information and think about the VIDAL demon empire dignitaries later.

Conversely, Gerald tried to poke the gap that the other dukes hesitated to... but didn't have to.

"Admiral, isn't it a means of strengthening the relationship that made it all seem respectful except for the annexation? And I haven't heard anything about the merging plan."

"Naturally. There's no way you can say that in advance."

Bombarde, a knight of the nearby Bear Beast race, sighs like a shudder.

"Don't imitate selling your own country because even with Vida on it, it's still a country you don't know how to handle. The elders will fall."

"I'm already behind Alkrem and Jahan and Sauron. Don't sell in while the rest of us are on our two feet. What do we do? They really don't know what they're good at yet, but we just don't know that yet, and if the embassy can, they can change the number of digits of information they get, so they know what they're good at.

Besides, the Vidal Demon Empire is better than the frigid old raccoons in the center like Terkatanis' grandfather. Besides, it's too late. The Orbaum kingdom is half like their umbrella. "

Stay and confront the Vidal Demon Empire in order to preserve the independence and ideology and culture of the kingdom of choice. Gerald was analyzing that the time had passed to think about it.

"I'm just not going to slap and sell my hometown for abandonment, of course. I was going to let you at least recognize your autonomy."

The territory of the Duke of Birgit is located southwest of the Orbaum-elected kingdom, a territory that is difficult to come and go with other dukes than the territory of the Duke of Lext, where the eastern neighbor Duke of Fazon and the northeast border a little. The western part is separated by the boundary mountains, the rugged rocky mountains from the territory of the Duke of Hartner in the north and the rocky mountains from the sea in the south. My ancestors struggled to dig tunnels and connect them to the sea, but not enough to be used for large-scale trade.

But it was such a land that before the kingdom of Orbaum was founded and renamed Duke of Birgit, various beast races gathered in that land to form a tribal union.

The land of Birgit was a natural fortress surrounded by mountains and rocky mountains for the beast races, who were less suited to witchcraft than race and elves, but were blessed with tough flesh and superior senses.

That continued after the founding of Orbaum... but has changed dramatically in the last few months.

While sending the Duke of Sauron his power against the Amid Empire already, the time was over when he worried about his relationship with the neighboring Duke of Fazon and just wondered if the central nobles would do anything extra.

"Because you can move the mountains, that demon emperor. There's no way you can win."

The natural fortress that has defended the Duke of Birgit's territory has ceased to make any sense with Vandaloo moving the border mountains. The natural walls, which were immovable, became uncertain that Vandaloo could change shape lightly if he wanted to.

Once again, defensive bases such as fortifications and fortified cities exist in the mountains and on the rocky side of the Duke of Birgit. But it's for demons that have stormed out and overflowed from demons and dungeons, not enemy military ones that set up operations and act. An army that can use its head against the crowd will be able to easily slip through defensive strongholds and attack the city.

No, whatever, you should just hit a fort or a fortified city with the mountains and rocky mountains you moved. A dull, but surely imminent, supermassive mass would destroy the walls more easily than the blow of a dragon.

If the western boundary mountains and the north-south rocky mountains move out at the same time, that alone will give the Duke of Birgit territory no chance to cross blades and be crushed.

Moreover, in that case, the land of the homeland is stirred in the mountains and its original figure is lost forever. There is no hope or hope that once you run away, you will endure the femininity and aim for a comeback. It becomes a stray people who have lost their country.

"Even if you didn't think about it, do you think you could win when it's war? Bombarde, it's bad for you, but I just think it's gonna either fail me miserably or ravage me."

I can't win because of that situation, but I can't win even considering the power of the Vidal Demon Empire and the Duke of Birgit's army.

Vandaloo himself, whom I saw in Orbaum, and the former 'Demon King' from inside the Kunochen and Dalsia, the Quattro and the 'Sword King' Bourkes and the Boundary Mountains... everyone and everyone is overwhelmingly strong. Besides, I can't imagine how much total power Gerald has, because this still leaves his country with the power of war.

If still fought, the Duke of Birgit's territory would be isolated. Because the territory of the Duke of Birgit is a natural fortress… surrounded by prisons. The Duke of Fazon territory next door, which is easy to get to and from, is hostile and reinforcements cannot be expected.... If you come, you have to worry about getting stabbed from behind, so you can't count on it.

And the center is with the demons who believe in Vandaloo walking wide, there's no way they can get reinforcements out. There will be a riot and Orbaum will be a pile of rubble again.

What's more, to Gerald... there's too little point in hostility with Vandaloo for the inhabitants of the Duke of Birgit. Nothing so far, either the will to invade this one, or the conspiracy to squeeze it out financially. Although he was forced to step on the Duke of Fazon's territory, Gerald did not think that a people rebelling on that ground existed in his own territory.

It would be natural for Gerald to adopt a policy of exploring the path of coexistence and co-prosperity from Kyoshu, because so far there is no need for disadvantaged factors to fight side by side.

But Bombarde seems to have something to say.

"Admiral, the tone is completely back from the margin. Though in the carriage, you should be aware of the tone for once..."

"That way. Why don't you say something more like," Don't look at our strengths sweetly "?

"Admiral, even I choose."

The Duke of Birgit is a duke territory that, at the time the Orbaum-elected kingdom was founded, held the head of the tribe of the werewolf beast race, which was in a leading position among the beast race nations, as a duke, making it appear to have a system of rule by nobility in line with other duke territories.

For this reason, in fact, it has become a new race-like society of Vida, a beast race that honors those who are stronger than blood muscles. The current lord of the aristocracy… In other words, if someone emerges who is stronger and has no personality problems than the trace of the chiefs of each tribe, it is natural to welcome him as son-in-law and adoptive daughter and nominate him as his successor.

Strength also includes knowledge and technology, so that those who are not fit for battle are not generally persecuted, though.

Anyway, Bombarde, who has grown up to be direct to the Duke in such a meritocratic society, is also quite powerful. If a class A adventurer equivalent raider raids Gerald, he's also proud to protect it and show it off.

But Dark Avalon appeared, and I saw it in that battle where Gudulanis the Demon King was resurrected, the non-standard strong... Gudulanis and Vandaloo fighting in the sky among them. Bombarde found out that there was a battlefield that he could not even step into.

That's someone humans shouldn't fight. That is a being that should not be challenged, unless it is also God or the brave man who brought God down to him.

One of its fellow beings might be able to fight a good fight. It may be possible to meet once in a while and reward them with arrows ready to die.

However, at the time of the battle, defeat is determined as the vicinity of the Duke of Birgit.

If it becomes a full-scale battle with the Vidal Demon Empire led by Vandaloo, I don't even want to think about how much damage will go into the Duke of Birgit territory in the aftermath of that battle.

"The rest of the Duke's kingdom will be treading in front of the Vidal Demon Empire to show it because they know it. And yet, the fazons don't know why... honestly, I don't understand."

If a miracle could continue to stand and beat the Vidal Demon Empire, Bombarde said, "But what happened to that because you could win? Think."

Even though nothing would be the same as losing if the management of the realm collapsed where we won.

"Fazon has been a bunch of people I don't like for a long time, but what the hell is wrong with you?

"I don't share what they're thinking, either, but they're probably going to be fighting jihad, not war."

"Jihad, is it?

Bombarde accidentally listened back to the unfamiliar words Gerald had spoken.

"Yes, it's jihad. The village burns, the city destroys, the country dies, we must fight. Not for rights and territories, resources and treasures, but for the survival of justice, faith and entire races, and the survival of the world."

"Doesn't that mean you don't have to be hostile to the Vidal Demon Empire to protect it?

Vandaloo asked the Orbaum voting kingdom to recognise the rights of the new race in Vida. But it's not compulsory. As someone who has been intimidated because of the overwhelming use of force, they have not actually intimidated him.

If it is unacceptable, there is also a path of perseverance in negotiating and buying time while exploring mutual compromises. For example, instead of sending Vida's new species into exile to the Vidal Demon Empire, you want them to capture the dangerous Demon Nation terrorists operating in their territory and take them to the Demon Empire?

Even Bombarde, who is not a political expert, soon realizes that this is about it. The rest of the Duke's kingdom will be very aware. Besides, I don't think the aristocrats of the Duke of Fazon can come up with it.

"Exactly. It is not a problem to give up a hundred steps and avoid actually crossing blades, whether hostile or just diplomatic or economic relations.

But I guess the Dukes of Fazon are full of faith, justice and justice in their heads, and they can't do that. Belwood extremists, Alda extremists, and dangerous demons. "

A moment of sympathy for the people of the Duke of Fazon passed in the eyes of Gerald, who said so.

Familiar with the history of his own territory, he knows the harshness of isolation from other duke territories. Because the Duke of Birgit's territory has been an easily isolated national pattern since the founding of the Orbaum-elected kingdom.

Unlike the territory of the Duke of Sauron, which has come to believe in Vida within the context of repeated wars with the Amid Empire, the people of the Duke of Birgit territory are rooted and enthusiastic Vida believers. For this reason, it has no good relationship with the Duke's territory, where the Temple of Alda has power.

In recent years, the eastern neighbor Fazon, which has been steeply overwhelmed by the Alda moderates, is not close enough to have a skirmish. Even from Chancellor Terkatanis, with the Temple of Alda and a thick pipe, he was ridiculed as "the Duke Territory ruled by the country beast". Of course, relations were not good with the Duke of Jahan, where there had long been a large number of Alda believers, or with the Duke of Hartner, where the Alda faith had been a majority for two hundred years.

I think somewhat that the people of the Duke of Fazon will bear that hardship from now on.

"Well, I think I was born in the wrong place, and I just have to ask you to be"

But sympathy quickly disappeared from his eyes, as I only think somewhat.

"It's more important than that, because instead of stepping on a picture, the proposed conditions are important."

"You know what I mean. Wicked Vampires lurking in our realm disappear, because the Demons are all moderate and friendly tribes, but the visits of His Majesty the Demon Emperor and Lord Darcia must be made only with promises.... or the bloody people and I could try to cross the mountains."

"Keep the Admiral down, anyway, the people. And what about the rabbits?

"Oh, them? They're, well, good for what they hire as adventurers.... From the information we got at the conference, those three would also be reincarnated from different worlds, so I guess there's some cause"

Gerald, the Duke, has not exchanged words directly with the rabbits. However, the reputation from the distribution and the progress and results of the research are in my mind.

All three have been promoted to Class B Adventurers, strong enough to be comparable to Class A. In addition, all three have unique skills, especially Tatsuya Tendo's [Chiriya Eye] is powerful, and if he has one, he can round-nake all the internal structures of the enemy's military bases. Asagi is also expected to be a valuable force because he can almost seal off the sorcerer.

In terms of character, the rabbit seemed to have some drawbacks, but Gerald did not see it as a problem. Because the rabbit was only involved to the extent that it had some shortcomings for the people of the Duke of Birgit.

The only real companion for him was the same reincarnator as himself, so he was distant from other people. For that reason, he was only considered a slightly bloodthirsty boy.

And the research that seals [Demon King Shards] is also useful in its current progression. It was guaranteed at the meeting that if you call Vandaloo, you would absorb it safely, but from Gerald's point of view, whenever [Demon King's Shard] runs wild... that's not what happens... because I want to avoid calling the rulers of superpowers who have not yet formed a definite friendship.

Since it is too late for great damage to occur within the hesitation, I cannot say that.

But what if we can safely seal [Demon King Shards]? Nothing. I don't need to seal it until a hundred or a thousand years away. To Vandaloo, "It's a [demon king's shard] found in the realm of the house," you just have to be able to seal it safely until you give it to him.

As it turns out, giving it to Vandaloo is no different, but a diplomatic debt lends it.

And the technique of safely sealing [Demon King Shards] was actually completed thanks to the cooperation of the Asagis.

Until now, we had no choice but to seal our attempts to parasitize the new host by rendering it incapacitated, for example, by destroying the host of the rampant [Demon King's Shard]. Failure to seal it was a job that entailed the danger that my people would be parasitized and rampaged by [Demon King's Shard] and would have to fight again.

However, if you use a sealing magic item developed with the collaboration of the Rabbits, you can seal it by defeating the current host of [Demon King Shards]. There is no danger that [Demon King Shard] will gain a new host.

For that matter, the use of magic items will require demonic stones that can be picked from high-ranking demons, but would be a commensurate cost given the effect.

It will then be taken to Vandaloo, so it will be a disingenuous way to use research results for the Asagi. But their research results are a safe way to seal them, not a way to keep them safe.

Besides, the [Demon King's Shard] is no place in Gdulanis' hands than it was resurrected even if Gdulanis was part of it... best let Vandaloo absorb it.

And well, as a Gerard because of that background, I wasn't going to do anything about the Asagis.

"They're adventurers belonging to the Adventurer Alliance in the first place, and I don't have the authority to do anything about it. I should not say anyway because the letter I sent to the Demon Emperor was also given to me through the Adventurer Alliance. I can act as a good neighbor.

Until something happens, just think about choosing the power to send to the Duke of Fazon or diplomacy with the Vidal Demon Empire. "

That's how Gerald turned his consciousness to his diplomatic strategy with the Vidal Demon Empire, which also plagues the other dukes, and returned to a separate residence in Orbaum.

It should be noted that the Dukes of Pilchkov and Arsaba were looking to use the embassies that would be set up in the future to infiltrate intelligence agents and send their own Duke territory intelligence organizations to the Vidal Demon Empire, but that would surely end in failure.

Because in Talosheim there are demon kings of use lurking in all the streets, and in dozens of units. They have been dealing with the people of the Vidal Demon Empire from day to day. And Vandaloo, who shares his five senses and memories with them, is the owner of the [Full Recording] skill of not forgetting what he saw once.

If there's someone you don't recognize, that's all that makes you stand out for Vandaloo.

Twenty-four hours, 365 days, the identity of the supreme power, able to confirm the faces and names of all the people and share information instantly, resides from the boulevard to the unpopular back alley.

There was no way they could do the same intelligence work in a country like that.