The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

The room that Zadiris had prepared for Birde's birth was one of a number of ruins in Tarosheim.

After cleaning it neatly, the soft fur of the needle wolf's belly is laid on the floor and the bilde lies there.

"First [sterilization]. Are you alright, Bilde?"

In the room there were three girls ghoul besides Bilde. Maybe they are the role of midwives who have given birth.

"Va, van!"

Bilde, who is repeatedly breathing rough and sweating on his forehead, probably because of labor, notices Vandalu and reaches out. He's a little ... but he's bigger than him and he's gripped.

"Oh, I'll do my best and give birth to a healthy baby."

When this is said, how should a man answer? It's annoying when I'm in Vandaluu position. In particular, he is aware of his expressionlessness and flatness of his voice, so he is hesitant to think that he might feel cold when he normally says "do his best." Sound as reliable as possible ...

"OK, I'm with you, so don't worry"

I don't know what's okay and where there is relief in my absence without a doctor's license and no experience of attending a childbirth, but now the priority is to encourage Birde.

In such cases, expressionlessness is useful. Lack of confidence does not appear on the face.

"Yeah!"

Seems to succeed. He seemed to be suffering but smiled.

Given the results, it's just a trivial matter that a claw hits her right hand that she's grasping. Oh, I feel like I stabbed it.

...... But a slight death phase can be seen on the face.

"I'm breathing in, I breathe in short, and breathe out long."

"If you can afford, look at your status, isn't your vitality reduced?"

"N, I'll take it up. Don't worry."

Looking at everyone else, there seems to be no visible abnormalities or upsets in Bilde. She had no signs of getting sick, and her fetus should have been normal.

"I'll look into it a bit."

However, it is certain that the death phase can be seen, so Vandaloo turns into a free-spirited left arm and puts it in Bilde's stomach.

Then, it turned out that the umbilical cord seemed to be tangled in the neck of the fetus in the womb. If this is not done, the neck of the fetus will be squeezed.

"I'm glad Zadiris came to call me"

With that in mind, remove the cord from the neck of the fetus. ...... It's easier to do it with your right hand.

"How was that boy?"

"Okay, we've solved"

The bones of Vandalu's right hand are creaking and the claws of Bilde have finally digged in and the paralysis poison has come in, but there is no problem for both mother and child.

"Okay! After that, it's up to you to do your best, Bilde!"

After this, the birth progressed largely due to her hard work, as Zadiris said, and Vandaloo only squeezed her with her right hand squeezed.

It only took six hours to give birth, and Vandaloo knew the greatness of his mother.

Gray brown baby with a crumpled face. She is a new ghoul born to this ghoul community for a long time.

"Look, girl. I can't get the name of Vandaloo, but can I give this child half?"

Bilde, holding her child, was embarrassed but seemed really happy.

Good, but is the child's fruit father good? I'm hesitant to ask.

"OK"

So I answered so.

I heard later that the name of a ghoul newborn without a marriage system is basically determined by the mother or in consultation with the tribal elder. So, if her mother, Bilde, decides to give her child half of Vandalu's name, the outfield won't be a problem.

"Can you hold this child?"

"Willing"

The baby who is sleeping right now with both arms ... The right arm has not yet healed and the nails that secrete paralytic poison have been stuck for a long time, so it is still bad. So I picked it up with my left arm and sat down on my knees.

"Light and very warm"

The baby's body felt very light. But this baby will grow up and live three hundred years. When I think so, I feel the mystery of life.

The birth of a new life is moving. It was for the first time in his third life that Vandaloo realized it.

When I was alive on earth, I thought of a documentary of that kind as "Hmm", even though it said "It is the birth of a new life." After all, it was the birth of other people and animals that had nothing to do with me over the screen, and I did not remember the excitement at all.

However, after experiencing two deaths ... including the undead, three times. And now, with the goal of reviving Darussia, I can feel the excitement.

Do whatever you can to protect this child. I'm not a father but a ghoul king.

"That's why I will postpone going to the dungeon."

He told Volks and Vigaro a lonely face, but was convinced that he couldn't help.

The remaining nine pregnant women will give birth one after another. If an unexpected event occurs at that time, if Vandaloo is in a magical area or dungeon, he cannot respond.

"I heard the baby's cry after a long absence!"

"If you calm down, show us your baby"

"I'm pleased that new life is born in this ruin that just waited to return to dust."

"Prominent, drinkable"

"If you have sake"

"It's not so good!"

Not only Vigaro and Ghoul, who were suffering from the declining birthrate, but also the Volks and the Giant Undead were really blessing the birth of the baby.

By the way, you may think that the hygiene problem is all right by bringing the undead closer to the baby, but there is no problem. All giant undead have already used the magic of [sterilization], [killing insects], [deodorant], and [keep freshness] by Vandaloo's hands.

When the sewers are ready, Tarosheim will be a sanitary fortified city like the city of the Amid Empire. Because there are few people for the size of the town, the ghost town feeling cannot be wiped out.

"I want to strengthen Talosheim's defense power later, and I want to make items to counter the falling birthrate with [alchemy].

Adventure and training in between. "

Those who are serious about pursuing the martial arts path and the magical path may say that they shouldn't do it in one hand, but this time no one told Vandaloo.

"Okay! I'll decide the order here!"

"It's just good. I don't know anyone in the dungeon for 200 years. There will be more monsters inside, so I'll just thin them out!

"Maybe it's left too much and the unknown hierarchy is increasing."

"What do you do in martial arts? I'll just start with the basics."

"New! Lord, meanwhile, I will try to raise my level and catch up with my friends!

"We'll take the skills right now."

Today, I think again, that my third life is wrapped up in everyone's kindness.

What started immediately was the creation of magic items to combat the declining birth rate of ghouls. The only way to improve your town's defenses is if you haven't been able to get rid of the forest wonders from Tarosheim, you'll end up with Raptor and Needlewolf in your pocket.

"Son, wait a few days later."

It was that. After all, the number seems to be more problematic than strength. If a ferocious Needle Wolf is a rabbit, and if a smart raptor can't win, he runs away, so it's hard to get rid of it.

"Well, it's the magic item in question, but I'm going to make two."

"It's an item that increases the activity time of sperm and eggs, and an item that keeps the fetus from dying until it grows up to a certain size. It is difficult to make a magic item with more than two functions."

In the building next to the building where the delivery room (temporary) is located, Vandaloo was consulting with Zadiris and Taleah, Basdia, and several other female ghouls to make magic items.

"Some of the items that increase the activity time of sperm and eggs should be made into accessories that are easy to put on and take off."

"Certainly, if you always wear it, you're likely to have an endless child."

"Yes, it's hard for everyone to change suddenly."

Until now, ghouls were difficult to become pregnant and had little if any child. For this reason, there was no marriage system, and it was natural to strive to make children. Although Bilde's pregnancy started to be suppressed.

And just because Vandaloo has made a magic item doesn't mean he'll suddenly say, "Let's think about family planning in the future."

This is even more so because there are no contraceptives or contraceptives that are as useful as the earth.

Well, if there is a little child, there is no problem. The good news is that there is still plenty of space and a lot of food in Tarosheim.

However, it is difficult to increase the number of people to fill the land. Unlike Braga, ghoul doesn't mean to grow up within a year.

"I'm going to have a hard time. If I have one and two children at a time ...

"In addition, many people experience child care for the first time, including Bilde."

There is no nursery school like the earth, and there are no books, TV programs, or the Internet where you can get information on child care. Just as Talea and Zadiris, who have experience raising children, are worried that mothers will become absolutely child-rearing neuroses.

Well, that doesn't mean that an only child won't be a neurose.

"Well, why should I explain birth control while making items?"

"That's right. If you are a race, rabbits, we have a long life. We should have many children, but we should give birth every five or ten years."

In the case of races, especially in rural areas, there may be circumstances where it is not possible to say, "Because it is difficult to raise children, so keep an interval." In the first place, the concept of family planning will be weak.

In the first place, medical care has not been developed, so the idea of "giving birth while being young and strong" should be strong. In that respect, the long-lived ghouls, as Basdia says, were easy to persuade.

If this were a race, there would have been a lot of rebound.

"But can a man stand it? I think it's impossible to do it every five or ten years."

"That's why it's an accessory that can be put on and taken off. You only need to wear it when you want a child."

It's a reverse contraceptive.

"So what kind of jewelry do you want?"

"For now, let's make it a pendant or an anklet wrapped around the thigh."

The shape and location of the magic item is very important. It depends on the difficulty of making alchemy, the cost of materials, and the strength of the effect when completed.

For example, if you hear a magic item with the effect of “walking in the sky like the ground”, do you think that most people are in the form of “shoes”?

At least, no one would think of them as "glasses."

Conversely, if you hear a magic item that "can be seen through when worn", you don't think it's "shoes" if you think it's "glasses".

Depending on the magic that can be put in this way and the effect that you want to exert, there are shapes and mounting parts that are easy to make and exert the effect.

A ring or bracelet if you want to "strengthen your strength." If you want to "see" something, you need "glasses" and the next point is "circlets". If you can "run fast", say "shoes" or "anklets".

Of course, there seems to be a magic item in the world that "wears socks that can see darkness like daytime" for some reason, but it requires high [alchemy] skills and expensive materials to make become.

Currently, there is more material than food. In any case, the hunt for monsters can only be done by using the materials that are available.

There are no adventurer guilds that carry magic stones, so when Braga was smaller than they were, they were playing instead of playing.

However, Vandaloo, who can only create a magic item with the death attribute, has a skill level of 1. So the limit is an anklet wrapped around the thigh near the lower abdomen, or a magic item with a pendant top as the same torso.

There is also a belt, but it may be unpopular because there is no culture of tightening belts in ghouls.

…… Items that can be worn closer to the target are resistant to making and recommending.

"So, do you have a favorite color or a design you like?"

To hear this, Basdias also consulted. The color and shape you prefer is better because you wear it.

… Due to the purpose, you wear it during the affair.

"Yes ... I like white or black, silver and gold."

"Red may not be preferred except in battles"

"Everyone likes the shape of a feather. The rest is a heart."

Basdia who will tell you the trends of ghoul women. Vandalou is very helpful because he is not confident in his fashion sense.

By the way, the heart shape seems to be the symbol of the goddess Vida in this lambda. A true goddess of life attributes.

However, since a black heart seems to be auspicious, is silver better?

"I'll make some for now."

"Thank you"

And what actually makes things is the craftsmen's unit of Talea Ghoul. Making magic items is an alchemy skill, but only when you put magic on an item, and the item itself is usually made by another craftsman.

There are alchemists in the world who do everything from collecting materials to creating objects by themselves, but those are the exceptions.

"So what about the fetal life sustaining items? Conversely, those that can be easily put on and taken off may be a problem."

When Zadiris muttered, "Is silver the gold? Recently, young people are gorgeous," Vandalou replied, "I'm a little worried."

This shouldn't come off easily as Zadiris says. This is important if the fetus dies while you accidentally remove it or forget it.

However, it can't even be implanted in the body ...

While being watched by the surroundings, um and two people groan ...

"What about tattoos?"

"Is it still piercing?"

"eh?

I gave a completely different answer and stopped my face.

"Boy, piercing would be too far from the womb. Tattoos will disappear and can be carved anywhere."

"Pierces aren't ears, nose, or lips, they're on the navel. Who tattoos tattoos in the first place?"

Ghoul did not seem to have the idea of piercing the navel. And there was no idea in Bandarou to use tattoos as magic items and engrave them on the body.

As a result of the discussion, I settled down on the navel piercing.

"Is tattooing strangely distorted when my belly gets bigger? At that time, the fetus will be bigger, but it won't be possible to resculpt it at the next pregnancy.

Then I think piercing is better. ''

At last, Basdia's opinion was adopted.

By the way, it was not only ghouls but the whole lambda that had the stereotype that piercings were to be lifted from the neck, and the navel piercing boom would spread from this Tarosheim, but that was a long way off is there.

Then Vandalu sent a more harsh routine to three-year-olds than before.

Basically one day off a week, but if a pregnant woman who notices birth on that day comes to work. Instead, take three hours of rest the next day. With this as the basic rhythm of life, we first repaired and maintained Talosheim and trained martial arts until the Taleas made a prototype to make it into a magic item.

Repair and maintenance was easy.

"Get up, be one, get out"

[Golem training] is used, so this is all you need. The rubble that rolls on the ground moves around with its own limbs, coalesces, changes shape and heals as before.

It is difficult to build a building from scratch, but it was easy enough to restore a little collapse. [Carpenter] Somehow I understand what to do because of my skills.

In this lambda, it seems that a pit dwelling for ghouls and a stone house for giants can be built with the same skills.

Furthermore, not only buildings but also civil engineering skills will be used to repair and maintain sewers and roads.

This Talosheim has no water supply but a sewerage. The water used in the magic item of purified water is purified, and manure is collected in one place and fermented to make fertilizer.

Of course, 200 years have passed, so you can't use it without changing it.

Use the ground as a golem to expose the sewer pipe, and then use the sewer pipe as a golem to repair cracks, clear clogs, raise your skill level, and use the [anti-deterioration] technique. Put it back inside.

Provides magic power to the magic item of purified water.

We have bone people defeat sludge-like unidentified monster which occurred in processing tank which fermented manure.

At last, the sewer can be used.

You have to draw the water you use from wells and waterways, but it's very easy to throw away the used water and throw it away.

Three years after I was born in Lambda, I realized that the earth's sewage system was so great. In particular, I feel even more so because Vandaloo was Japanese.

Once everything is fixed and usable, maintenance will be automated with a golem.

On the other hand, in martial arts training, Basdia was taught from the ground up.

"Van's physical abilities are almost the same as adult ghouls. Let's do it in a combat style."

He learned several types and learned how to defend and avoid. …… with my body.

Basdia was walked, kicked, thrown and stepped on ... surprisingly unilaterally. Even though I did not use any magic, I doubted that the word that physical abilities are almost the same as adults is true.

"Van is strong and susceptible to killing, but it's easy to be aggressive and monotonous. Moving faster and using feints is stronger.

After that, I have to predict the next move of the opponent. ''

Basdia knew that she would not panic when Vandaloo was scolded severely, and knew that she did not like spiritually-centered teaching, so she did not leave out the training itself, but when teaching she should speak slowly and in a gentle tone I took care.

Vandaloo was trained calmly.

He has relied on magic for all his defenses, and his attacks were overwhelmingly monotonous. Until now, there were parts that couldn't be helped because of their youthfulness, and he himself thought he couldn't help. He is a Japanese who has never had a fight before, and the next is an experimental animal from Origin who can only rampage like a beast. He assumed that martial arts and martial arts were far from himself.

However, my father seems to be surprisingly good.

"It's particularly amazing not to close my eyes. It took me three months before I couldn't close my eyes when my face was attacked, but Van doesn't close my eyelids from the beginning. It's a great talent."

"Thank you"

Vandalou, whose face and cheeks were lightly struck but had a more complexion than usual, had his eyes open.

"Well, even if my eyes are crushed, should I make my face [spirited] so that I can see it with the eyes of the spirit?" Such recognition seems to affect instinct and reflexes.

And pregnant women noticed birth every few days, and Vandaloo witnessed all the births.

As always, there was no umbilical cord entangled in the neck of the fetus, and this was normal-after ordinary pain, drama and excitement, the baby was safely born.

The postpartum process, including Bilde, has been going well, and it may be related to the fact that ghoul, which is physically more robust than race, and that this is a mid-world.

Veterans with childcare experience, such as Zadiris and Tarea, have taught a lot about postpartum, so it seems to be going well.

Magic items were in full swing around mid-July.

It was difficult to apply magic to the items made by Talea. In this case it was much easier to repair the walls.

"At this pace, are there three limits a day ..."

"No, the boy is still at skill level 1, isn't it?"

"Even if it's too fast, I can't keep up with the pace. I'm not really specialized in making ornaments."

There are about 600 ghouls that require magic items. At this pace, it would take more than three hundred days to make it for everyone.

However, not all the ghouls wanted children right now, so there is no need to hurry.

"And if it's a boy's calculation, I'll make it up to me and Taleah. Or what is a confession that isn't confusing?"

"Well, don't, I'll look younger, but I'm going to be 260.1, but if Van wants ..."

"I can't make fun of a three-year-old. I'll do it more than ten years later."

We make magic items while talking happily like that. Using the demon's internal organs and magic stone powder that you have defeated.

Oh, was the crushed magic stone a Noble Oak?

And I tried various things using my leisure time.

"Pack the fish ... [fermentation]"

I didn't have soy, so I made fish sauce instead of fish. Origin did not develop fish sauce in any way, but succeeded after only three attempts.

Fish sauce has a rather strong smell, but can be lightened with herbs.

Next, they tried walnut miso and acorn miso using walnut and acorn instead of soybean, and struggled a little. The fermentation using magic was successful, but the taste was unsatisfactory.

Making miso was a handy task, as researchers who squeezed magical powers from Vandalu were many times, but this was the first time they made walnuts and acorns.

"Doesn't this taste as good as the reputation of walnut miso heard on the earth? But is this good because the flavor of a walnut and the aroma of acorns remain?"

The walnut miso I heard on the earth was not a fermented walnut and salt instead of soybeans, but a Vandalu who did not know that it was made by combining the already-made miso and walnut.

However, something that was satisfactorily savory was achieved, so that after aging, the taste became deeper and everyone behaved.

Later, I found wasabi and ginger in Tarosheim, which had been turned into a semi-magical state, so I cultivated it immediately. Well, ginger just leaves the place where it grew up as a field, and sometimes only applies fertilizer. …… This is so wonderful that ginger can be harvested weekly.

It took a lot of time to cultivate wasabi. Wasabi emits a bactericidal component to prevent other plants from growing around it, but the bactericidal component also affects the growth of wasabi itself and does not grow as it is.

Therefore, I made a pile with [detoxification] and devised to reduce the sterilization component of the wasabi surrounding the pile.

…… Fairly failed, but managed to succeed. It was almost time that I had to go around the magical area to find a new wasabi.

Later I made Jenga. It was easier than Reversi, as it was just a piece of wood going into a wood golem and letting it fall into the same shape.

"What if this gyo show was a legendary soy sauce?-That legendary hero, Zaccat, tried to create it, and it never came true ..."

"Everything is delicious"

Because soy sauce is more difficult to make than miso, even a brave man would have found it difficult for Zaccato to reproduce.

It seems that the miso had been successfully reproduced, but it was apparent that Bellwood set off the miso warehouse before it spread. For that reason, most people now do not even know the existence of miso. ...... Bellwood forgive.

Ginger and wasabi were originally used for food. However, I was pleased that it became stable after cultivation.

Jenga was as popular in Tarosheim as Reversi. Since the woodworker did not undead, the giant undead and the ghouls said they would exchange Jenga for this, and they visited Vandalu with the monster meat.

"If I make seasonings and toys here, wouldn't that be safe for my whole life?"

It's a primitive barter, but life is going to be rich.

By the time the magic items were settled down and Talosheim returned to the original, white, fortified city, summer had passed and the footsteps of autumn were heard in September.

"I'm going to dungeons today."

Finally, he started an adventure to gain experience.

"[Alchemy], [Carpenter], [Public Works], [Cooking] skills have been raised!

In the darkness that is unknown, a long table was prepared.

A red liquid is poured into the wine glass and served to those who have gathered.

They were equally good, and if sold alone, the commoners would be dressed in clothing that would make the whole family comfortable for the whole year and decorated with jewelry.

You may think it's a noble dinner, but it's not the nobility in the ordinary sense.

They seem to be elegant and noble.

They are beautiful and may be more ephemeral.

Everyone here may have deep intelligence.

But its essence is ruthless, ruthless, brutal, and bloody demon.

"Okay, let's start the meeting. The first agenda is ... about the example Dumpel.

The red eyes radiated with pleasure, and the facilitator, the original vampire, soaked his throat with fresh living blood poured into the glass.