The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

Six episodes Leveling Experience sources are good for bandits

The seven bandits were drinking alcohol from today's prey in a simple hideout.

"It was a good harvest today."

"Oh, bring it home and everyone in the village will be pleased."

It seemed as though the farmers who had completed the field work were doing their best in the company, but they are definitely bandits.

The proof is that the wine they are drinking is taken with their lives from peddlers who didn't hire an adventurer escort due to a commission.

Their weapons are old and have many traces of repair, handmade spears, bows and arrows, axes used for wood splitting, and so on. Moreover. The skill level has never received any formal training. At worst, they are just groups that can swing weapons.

In fact, most of them are farmers and have never undergone combat training. The reason why they imitate bandits was because they were poor.

A young people in a village, which has become poor for various reasons, runs offenses away from the village. That's not the case with this lambda.

"Well, now we'll be watching and sleeping."

The bandit's hideout was a simple one with only a few tents, mowing grass in a meadow full of tall grass. They have watch towers, but they don't seem to be using them.

In fact, the grassland is only safe, as long as it's open to fire, as it has only wild beasts. Still, keep an eye out for the occasional goblins coming off the flock.

However, the goblin was approaching, shouting and shouting, so the lookout was less motivated.

So there was no way to notice the enemy approaching quietly with their footsteps.

"I'm overturned, a little overdrinking-Uh?"

The lookout, who seemed to have drunk too much wine, was grabbed by a bone bear's arm extending out of the grass wall, and was taken away.

The buzzing and dull sound echoes as it is, but no one comes out of the tent. Instead, bones, bone monkeys, bone wolves and bone birds on their backs emerge from the grass walls.

And it was the last Vandalu.

“Six people left.

The sound of the bones rubbing.

Bandits no longer return to the village.

For Vandaloo, finding the bandit's hideout was easier as the bandit was more evil. The source of the spirit of the victims killed by bandits can be sourced.

The victims who were attacked by bandits and lost their lives as well as their luggage. The regret and hatred of the perpetrators were tremendous, and the insect undead was easy to find.

And even a spirit in a distant place, once found, can call and listen to the story using the technique of [geisha].

And if you release the insect undead based on the information obtained from the spirit, you can find the hideout in a few days.

In this way, Vandaloo had already found four bandits operating near Vastero's Baron.

After finding it, he continued to gather information and investigated the number and armed of bandits. The bandits of the collapsed villagers who attacked today were the smallest and poorestly armed bandits.

"Okay, the practice was a success. Everyone did well."

After confirming that the bandits were annihilated, Vandaloo looked expressionless, but was in good mood and worked with the undead.

Of course, the undead are all bones, so they won't laugh, but the blue flames of the eye sockets shimmer happily. Their MVP is a bear bear who has taken care of the lookout with a bear hag, and has since buried another bandit with claws.

The bone man also stabbed them with a dagger, and the bone monkey and the bone wolf each strangled and bitten one by one.

"Um, okay. I'll be able to fly."

The only bone bird that had fallen was killed as a result of the steady work of piercing the head of a bandit who could not move with his head buried under the ground that had been turned into a golem by Vandaloo.

Only one bird can helplessly, but it can not be helped. Because bone birds can't fly.

As you can see right away, you can't fly with feathers without feathers.

"If you gain experience and rank up, you will be able to fly. Trust yourself."

When encouraged by Vandalu, the bone bird flutters his wings and expresses joy. Alright, are you saying you'll do your best?

Looking at it with a smile and stroking the skull, Vandaloo checked the treasures stored by the bandits.

The first thing I noticed was a cart with three large wine barrels. The bandits opened and drank, the rest.

Evvezia is a town that specializes in wine, so it is probably a good wine.

"... Is there anything else?"

One-year-olds are worth less than water. There is no means of cashing, and there is no point in making friends only bones. Is it enough to use it for cooking at best?

No, you can drink it. With a condition-resistance skill at three levels, a one-year-old child's body should not get drunk unless he drinks too much if it is wine.

"Dah-me ♪ What do you do if you are one year old and drink alcohol if you get drunk in the future?"

However, it was Vandaloo who wanted to stop drinking because his parents did not allow him.

"But I'd like to bring a barrel. There are carts.

Afterwards-"

Vandalu explores the area around the wagon and inside the tent, but the result is that ordinary adventurers and soldiers can just say "Don't be shy." There is a pile of cloth bags containing copper and silver coins that seem to have been robbed by peddlers, as well as bags filled with millet such as millet and oats and cheap wheat, which were used to feed pets and livestock on earth. Some dried fish of river fish. After that, daily necessities used by bandits.

The centerpiece is a pot filled with about 5 kg of salt.

It's a pretty detailed treasure, but it might be natural. After all, the bandits usually consist of just seven farmers, but only seven men.

Naturally, they wouldn't have aimed for a profitable prey-a carriage that hired an adventurer's escort.

But for Vandalu, it's a good harvest.

"It's a great harvest. I'm just getting tired of eating meat and blood alone, and my mother's salt has run out. I'm glad I got a cloth later."

Until now, Vandalu's life has been supported by hunting forest beasts. Stockpiling of barley, cheese, vegetables, salt, etc., was exhausted very soon after Darussia was killed. Originally, she was ready to go on a trip, so she only had enough stock to carry.

And as they grow, they eat more and more.

It's hard to feed all your meals with blood, and if you get too close to the vampires and become vulnerable to the sun, it's awkward and you just want to eat with a regular meal. However, the meat that had just been drained and baked had a monotonous taste, and there were times when you could only get prey that did not taste good with raccoons, foxes and meat. Still a few steps better than goblin alone.

And it's not just clothes but just wrapped fur.

It's like a barbarian child.

"I might be able to make clothes with bandits changing clothes.

After that, it ’s money… Well, sometimes I use it? "

The currency of the Amid Empire and its dependencies is Amid. One amid is approximately one hundred yen when converted into a circle of the earth.

In addition, although it only deals with large merchants and high-class nobles, there are also banknotes, and it seems that there are 100,000 Amid bills and 1 million Amid bills. It may not be exactly bills, but something like government bonds or bills.

The bandit's pool of cash is about 1,000 amid. That's about twice the average monthly income of urban workers.

It's unclear if Vandaloo will enter the town and guards and adventurers will come to kill without question, so there is an opportunity to use it.

However, you may be able to exchange money when you go to another country, so I will keep it.

"Hmm? What's this bag?"

I noticed that there was a smaller leather bag under the bag containing the coins. It is light in weight and makes a small clicking sound when shaken.

I unraveled the string and looked at the contents, and found that there were two colored, subtle, transparent stones. It looks like a gem, but it doesn't look very beautiful.

"Mom, do you know this?"

"This is a magic stone. This is a goblin with this size and color. Certainly, you should be able to buy it for 10 Amids each. "

The magic stone seems to be a substance that crystallized the moment the magical power of the demon died in the body. It is used as a material for various magic items and potions and other elixirs, and also as a power source for general-purpose magic items that can be used by ordinary people with little magic.

If it is used as a power source, it will be disposable because it will be just a stone if the magic power lost is lost, but if it is refined by alchemy, the magician can process it again and again by using the magic power again.

However, the magic stone of a low rank monster like a goblin seems to be disposable as it is without refining it, but the purchase price seems to be very cheap.

"By the way, there are many cases where low rank monsters do not have magic stones even if they are defeated. The probability of a magic stone coming out of a rank 1 monster is that you can only get one by defeating one hundred.

Conversely, you can almost certainly get magic stones from higher rank demons. If the rank is 5 or higher, you will definitely get a magic stone. "

It seems that Darussia did not tell Vandalu about magic stones because he thought that there were no meaning to teach because only a few goblins of rank 1 had been defeated so far.

By the way, there are monsters that can easily produce magic stones even if their rank is low, and monsters that produce magic stones with higher quality than the original rank.

However, Vandalu, who is now busy hunting bandits rather than demons, has only reference knowledge.

You want to register as an adventurer guild early and become an adventurer.

"Lastly, let's check the status of the boners-oh, just killing two such bandits, we're up thirty levels, and the bone bears.

The bone monkeys have gone up more than ten levels just by killing them alone. ''

This sudden rise in level just killed one or two farmer-collapsed bandits without any sudden surprises. It is an incomparable amount of experience compared to goblins and forest beasts.

If this is common to monsters other than the undead, does it mean that humans are a good prey for monsters?

It's no wonder that demons are offensive to humans.

"Okay, let's hunt bandits around here and raise the level of the boners."

Seeing this huge rise, you can no longer return to steady beast hunting.

Still around the Vestello's Baron, there is one, the dozen or so, and about twenty as the bandits have wiped out today.

By the time of the annihilation, all the boners will have risen to rank 3.

"The southern guys are easy if they can kill us."

"They went west from here, they are from the next three villages. Even if there are many people, it is easy

"But those in the north are professional bandits. It seems that he was a guard in some town, and he seems to have gathered his underarms in his minions. We were also threatened with the payment

Collecting information from the bandits' spirits, their bodies create and bury earth golems. After that, he put his harvest on a cart and Vandaloo left the tragic track.

It's been a month since we reached our first birthday. Today, when it's time to drop mosquitoes every night with insecticide, at this time, Vandaloo has finally begun to capture the largest and most trained bandits in Vestero's Baron.

He traveled so as not to be found by travelers and guards traveling on the highways, and trained himself and the bones in the forest and deep grasslands to improve his skills.

"Our opponents are different from the bandits of the past. The head is a soldier's crumble, and the minions have some training from the head. An enemy. "

That, too, is for this day.

"Ooooooo ..."

"Gururururu ..."

Listening to Vandalu's speech are the undead, who literally have fire in their orbits. Bonemen rank as skeleton soldiers, bone monkeys and bone bears, and bone wolves as bone beasts.

The skills of the undead were also learning [Skill] and [Sneaking Feet] probably because they had just beat the bandits unexpectedly. Thanks to this, when using the skill, I couldn't make any sound of the bone hitting the crouch. In addition, Bonemen also gained skills in Swordsmanship, Archery, and Shields.

It's still one level, but it's a good one if you wear it in about one month in a mock game against a golem.

"..."

Bone birds are still rank 2. However, it is already in the 90th level, so if the raid tonight is successful, it will be ranked higher.

"So be careful with your fight today. There are plenty of spare bones, but be careful not to break the skull.

Later, humans who are not bandit-like ... If there are humans tied with ropes or caged, do not kill them.

Finally, if you apply support magic, the operation will start. ''

Vandalou spelled the spell with no expression of insidence, with a plain expression and a plain tone.

"First, [Enhancing killing power] for weapons, fangs, and claws. Then, [Energy capture] for armor and bones."

[Enhancing killing power] is a magic that increases the attack power against living things. Even if you touch an enemy even through armor or shield, you can scrape its life force.

[Energy Capture] is a magic that absorbs magic, heat, electricity and even kinetic energy. In this lambda, it is a defensive magic that is effective against both magic and physical attacks.

Both are powerful spells, but they are easy to control because they are not so difficult with death spells.

"Oh ..."

Among the undead who wore dark magic, the bone man first moved.

Strike the strings against the bow taken from the Olbyes with an arrow at the watchtower watching the bandit's hideout--a simple hut surrounded by wooden fences-- .

The bandits of the watchtower, which was being targeted, had a bow and a quiver, but had no motivation.

"It's not at all. I'll withdraw tomorrow and watch the day."

They were planning to move to another location with their previous earnings today. He intends to take the ransom of the hostage caught on the way, go to another territory or country, and start a new bandit business there.

Recently, other bandits have suddenly disappeared, and rumors suggest that a lord who had been working on the deteriorating security of the highway had formed a suppression squad. Then it's about time.

Tonight, we were in the midst of a bandits' banquet to sip on extra alcohol and food that would be an obstacle to moving.

The lookout bandit, who couldn't participate, was unfortunate, but was overwhelmed by the bad luck.

"Gha !?"

The bone man's arrow that flew through the dark night and pierced his throat. After leaking a short scream of the sword, he lost his balance and fell off the turret.

The bandits, who have been in a good mood after being drunk, also get sick if a watchmen fell from the turret grows an arrow in their throat.

"That's an enemy attack!"

"You guys! Get your weapon!"

The moment when bandits try to get up with weapons such as axes, maces and spears-

Baggy!

"Gooooooooon!"

"Wow! Wow!"

Bone bears and bone monkeys break through the wooden fence, and rush in while scattering pieces of wood.

"Oh, undead! Demon, monster raid!"

"Cool down! Ax and Mace get out of the way! Swords and spears come and go! Bows!"

The heads of the bandits calmly give orders to their minions, and they themselves hold halberds.

This man had experience fighting skeletons, zombies, etc. as a soldier. So, against undead, recruits like minions are more hairy than swords, spears, and slashing or stabbing weapons, like smashing or breaking like an ax or a club. I knew that a better weapon was better.

"If there are some demons of rank 1 or 2, it's not our enemy with 20 people!

The morale of the bandits, who had been withered by the death of their allies and the flashy raids, has been picked up by head command and fierce. Bandits rush to return to the savage undead who have watered the banquet.

"Goooooo!"

"Gyu !?"

A bandit swinging an ax is bounced off by receiving a bone bear's forefoot standing on his hind legs.

Swaying, the bone monkey crushes the bandits skull like an egg.

The bone wolf's fangs pierce the bandits' feet and bite their throat when they fall.

"Ooh ... Ooooooo"

The boner puts a bow, pulls out the long sword taken from other bandits, and cuts into the bandits.

"Hy !? Phy!"

Bones and bandits. The exchange between those who did not learn formal martial arts each other quickly rose to the bones.

The skill is only as good as the acorn's height, and the long sword of the boner is made of iron taken from other bandits, and it is also a poor cast sword, so the weapon is slightly higher on the opponent.

However, the rank 3 skeleton soldier's physical ability surpasses that of an average human, and the bone strength of a [strength] skill is overwhelmingly superior, especially in terms of muscle strength.

Martial arts and sorcery were originally learned by humans with no physical or special abilities to improve their skills in order to combat demons, so humans cannot be suitable for demons if they have the same skills.

"Ooooooooooo ..."

The boner, who was reddened by the returning blood, lost his life and shook with the pleasure of gaining experience points, and started cutting on his next prey to gain more experience points.

"Head! This is not Rank 2 of these guys!"

"Very we are not enemies, please help me!"

He fell into inferiority, and his head shouted at a sad scream of his minions going down.

"Useless! If this happens, do I have to escape alone? '

The head of the bandits chose to escape without hesitation. Fighting the undead for your minions doesn't even seem like an instant.

In the first place, his skill is that there is no victory even if he fights one-on-one with demons of rank 3 or higher.

His head is certainly a soldier's crumble, and he has two levels of [Spearaxe] skills to deal with halberds. But after all, the town's guards collapse. In the adventurer's grades, their combat abilities are at best E-class.

It is said that you need a D-class arm to defeat the rank 3 demons one-on-one.

If you use your minions well, you may be able to defeat one of the bones.

But there are four undead. No, five?

“…………”

He notices a bone bird stuck with a beak at the beak of a bandit of an immobile insect that has fallen, but considers that an exception.

There is no point in killing the rest after killing one. If you can't survive even if you reward yourself, it's pointless.

"Teme-ra! I'm getting weak, push it!"

He gives unreasonable instructions to the minions who are still alive, and his head pulls back quietly so that the minions are not noticed. Jump on the carriage that you took from the merchant and run away. If you escape, you can form a bandits again.

"Get up"

Such thoughts were suddenly shattered by the earth wall that grew out of the ground and emerged behind him.

"Wow! What ?! Alchemist !?"

The head, intuitively aware of the work of the high-pitched voice like a young girl's voice, sewing the screams of the minions and the undead's grudge roar, looks for the form of the voice.

Then I found it immediately.

A ragged child standing a little far away, no wonder baby.

"Is this kid's work! ?

I can't believe it, but I can't believe the child's ... Vandaluo's strangeness.

White hair, hollow crimson and navy blue odd eyes. And even though it's a bloody battlefield, there's no sign like a ghost. If you didn't say it, you might not have noticed it at your feet.

"Are you manipulating the undead?, Then surrender, surrender, do all your treasure, stick out everywhere in the adventurer's guild."

He dropped the Halberd and his head surrendered with both hands raised.

If you can't win, you escape. If you can't escape, survive even if you surrender. Guts and pride can never be an amid.

"Surrender?"

"Oh, yes."

He replied in a flat tone and nodded his head with a friendly smile.

"I have a prize on my neck and I have information about other bandits around here, and half of the money I sold as a criminal slave goes into your pocket.

How is it better to catch it alive? "

Everything the head said was true. It's this guy who sells other colleagues to survive.

In addition, captive bandits are often sold as criminal slaves, depending on the degree of injury. Many are heavily abused for mining and military chores. The selling price is something that can not be underestimated, and it is not uncommon for the price to be higher than the treasure of bandits, depending on the number of people who have been captured.

"... are you stupid?"

But what came back was a humiliating response, asking the infant to hear about his head.

"What ?!"

"I'm Dumpel, as you can see.

If you stick it into the adventurer's guild, I will be killed. I'm that way before you're sold as a criminal slave. ''

In the Amid Empire and its dependents, whose religion is the god of law, Arda, Dumpir is not a human but a monster. Therefore, even if you catch a bandit, if you enter the town, soldiers and adventurers will come to kill before bandits.

The bandit's head wasn't an adventurer, and he didn't know about last year's dungpiel turmoil, so it was late to notice that Vandaluu was a dumbpiel.

"Then take me down! I'm helpful, your undead is strong, but do you need human subordinates?"

At that moment, Vandalou renewed his impression that the bandits were smarter than they looked.

In fact, the word I was saying was that Vandaloo had long felt. Bones who are absolutely obedient to what they say. The spiritual darcia. That alone cannot solve the inconvenience of everyday life.

However, it is unlikely that it will be solved using the man in front of him.

"I definitely want a living companion, but I don't need a bandit to forsake my minions and try to escape alone.

But if you're dead, you can be friends. ''

He points to his hope in the first half and despair in the second half, and asks the bone bears to "do it."

"Well, wait! I don't want to die!"

"...? No, not the people you killed?"

Don't say this thing I don't understand. When Vandalu looked back, a bone bear was crushing his head.

"G, guru"

Have you done it? Waving his hand at the bone bear that looks like ,“ Very good, ”Vandalu exhaled deeply.

"Oh, I'm nervous. It's my first time talking with a mother other than Darussia, so I'm thrilled."

Even if it's just a communal obstacle common to the three worlds, Earth, Origin, and Lambda, I would like you to stare at a place with such a bloody smell and talk about it.

"The smell of blood is too thick and I am hungry.

For now, let's make sure there are no survivors. [Life detection] "

Use death attribute magic to sense life within the range to divert consciousness from the smell of dense blood that stimulates appetite.

Ignore various reactions of insects, weeds, fungi, and molds, and look for life reactions of large animals, humans and monsters who have magical powers.

The reaction ... There are three large animal reactions behind the big hut. Maybe a horse. Later, there was one reaction in the basement of the hut. This reaction is human.

According to information received from the spirit, there are twenty-one bandits. The number of dead bodies is twenty-one.

"I'm alone in the basement of the hut.

"No, no, not minions. A peddler who was caught a few days ago. Ugh, you can expect a ransom from the fact that there is a merchant family in the neighboring town of Viscount Maggiot, so I keep it alive. Neck, neck, neck

The shock and fear of a fatal wound at the moment of death caused Vandalu to hear from the spirit of a bandit's head, whose neck was distorted even after becoming a ghost, wrinkled between his eyebrows.

When it became troublesome.

Name: Bone

Rank: 3

-Race: Skeleton Soldier

Level: 39

Passive skills

Night vision

Mystery: 1 Lv (NEW!)

Active skills

Swordplay: 1Lv (NEW!)

Shield art: 1 Lv (NEW!)

Archery: 1 Lv (NEW!)

Stealth: 1 Lv (NEW!)

Name: (bone monkey bone wolf bone bear)