The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
Quiet story 4 S-class adventurer of that time
A port city of the sea nation Karahad, one of the dependent states located south of the Amid Empire.
This place, like a tavern in the harbor town, was the base of Schneider, the only S-class adventurer on the west side of Bang Gaia Continent.
Although it does not seem appropriate for S-class adventurers to use as a base, he does not use it as a "customer." They buy the entire building and use it as the owner.
Four men were facing each other in a seat behind such a bar.
Two of them are sitting in the seats. One is a fearless thirty-something man who cut a lot of scars against his face, and he can see that his body has been trained even from his clothes. And, behind him, two men who seem to be accustomed to storms are standing and waiting.
The man against it is a silver-haired man who looks tall in his early twenties or halfway.
She looked like a well-defined woman's face, but as her impression became thinner, her body was tightened with muscles, giving her a wild atmosphere.
This might happen if a large wild carnivore is personified with the beauty and ferocity as it is. Such a man.
"So you're the messenger of the Duke of Malmo?"
And this man was Schneider of [Jinrai]. He turns his legs crossed over, urging him to continue on with the angels from the Duke of the Amid Empire.
"Yes, I want you to do a survey of southern Bang Gaia."
The sweat was oozing on the forehead of the man who answered so. The man himself should be scolded for Schneider's irreverence, as long as he is a nobleman, but he never does.
Because Schneider has the privilege of being "strong."
Until now, several nobles who have touched Schneider's scale have been buried.
Among them, there was a count of Hoi, who was beaten and killed directly in the public without any ingenuity or work.
But Schneider has not been punished. No, I was forced to accept a request for death assumption that would normally be punishable ... but I achieved it without difficulty and came back straightforwardly.
The current emperor Maskhuzar acknowledged the consequences, acquitting Schneider and condemning the beaten-down House of the Earl.
The moment the emperor declared that Schneider was more important than the idiot.
"Survey, hey? How long have you been investigating what kind of thing is it?" If you only need to examine it, go back and say "I've been examining the southern continent." Messenger! "
In fact, the southern continent can simply go and return, but with a half-armed arm it can only feed on monsters.
Of course, there are many seas and magic seas that have turned into magical borders along the sea route from Kalahad as well as crossing the border mountains, and large monsters that sink large ships such as Kraken and Sea Dragon. I'm doing it.
So, even if it isn't what Schneider says, even if it can be accomplished, it's a great achievement that will go down in history.
"... I want you to get rid of a certain dumpy."
However, what the Duke of Malmö, who sent the man, really wanted Schneider to do was not to investigate, but to kill Vandaloo.
Duke Malmö, Maskhzar's cousin, is a religious devotee of Arda and himself a cardinal honorary cardinal.
For him, the case where the high priest Bomak Gordan was undead as a result of the previous expedition and attacked the town as a member of the demon was an urgent issue to address.
"Huh? Tell me in detail. Risana, it's a long story. Drink me."
"Hello!"
An elf-like woman dressed like a dancer brings a pot and a cup. The awaiting men withstand her gaze on her barely exposed legs, called Rissana, and their swaying breasts, but the messenger's man involuntarily opened his mouth.
"Schneider"
"Oh, bad, please refrain from drinking, because you're not drinking for health."
"No, not this, it's a secret story. If possible, people--"
The messenger's man can no longer continue his words.
She was shuffled by Schneider's eyes and her tongue stuck.
"Are you sure you've checked in the guild? Resana is my party member. If I can't trust it, I can't lose it. Or will I help?"
"Oh no! I'm not gonna stop! I was a slap! I'm apologizing for Miss Rissana! I'll forgive you!"
The messenger's man apologized with the full power of the whole body. If you apologize here, Schneider grabs his head and throws you outside. In the empire, [Flyer Manufacturer] is famous for its two names.
"Okay, I don't care."
And what time it is, Rissana pours tea into the arranged cups without any concern.
"So, what do you say?"
Then the killing disappeared, as if nothing had happened. The men moistened their dry throats with tea that had no taste or smell for spiritual reasons and managed to talk.
The reason Duke Malmö asked Schneider for the defeat of D'Ampiel was not only the pride that he could not overlook the prestige that damaged the prestige of the Temple of Amid, but also the dangerous existence that could somehow take thousands of undead. He said he couldn't leave it, which was the most likely reason.
The reason why we ask Schneider is that the southern continent where the target Dumpir is located is an unexplored magical area that can not be reached with a half-armed arm, and above all, it seems to be able to name the undead.
If you send a large number to the numbers, the dead may fall to the side of Dumpir. Given the thousands of expeditionary forces returning undead, it is almost certain.
In other words, it is desirable to gather a small number of Ikkitosen even when dispatched.
"That's me."
"Yes, and that involves, though not sure, the oracle from God Alda."
"The oracle? Oh, was it" preparing for illness? "
The oracle, which was announced just the other day, was the one that Arda gave in a follower's [record] that Vandaloo said that the expeditionary force would render the expedition incapable of illness. Did not.
However, there was no point in raising additional budget for magicians who specialize in studying diseases in the magician guild, or trying to get priest warriors to acquire [disease resistance] skills.
"No, not that one but the one before."
"How is the Demon King? ... Is that a dumb peel?"
"The Duke of Malmo thinks so."
"Hey ..."
A man with a messenger who thinks he has a pulse wraps around Schneider, who looks thoughtful while holding a cup.
"Schneider is so depressed by God Alda. I think he is interested.
Also, the commission fee flies. The Duke has stated that he has 100 million Amids and that he wants to bring up to ten Duchess and Amid Temple women.
Of course, what you get in the process of requesting is from Schneider regardless of its shape. ''
The reward will tell you what Schneider thinks externally.
Despite being deeply loved by the god of life, Arda, his favorite image of gold and women is his image of nobles.
"No, I refuse."
But the answer was a rejection.
"Well, why !? I'm saying that you can take as much as you want from the monastery if you will receive the Pope, and if you want even a female priest, you'll be returned soon!
When he comes out, he talks about becoming a terrible scandal, but he is worried about it about Risana who mutters unintentionally, "Kora Kora ...".
In fact, Arda is often thought of as a god who preaches ascetic teachings because he teaches `` keep the law and order '', but in fact, `` if you keep the law and order, the others are better. '' It is a teaching to say.
Therefore, the reality was that innocence marks such as "this is also for order" and "because of the law" are prevalent in the upper part of the Great Temple these days.
The priest Gordan, who was alive, kicked the Cardinal's chair and stayed on the scene for the reason that he hated such a senior.
"No, I'm not dissatisfied with the reward."
"Why?"
"... I've been getting cold recently."
When asked why, for some reason Schneider extended his hand while saying so.
"It's summer now, but it's going to be winter soon in the fall. It's going to get cold even if you go over the mountains or by the sea."
"... I guess that's why I refuse it."
Schneider frowns at the men who drop their jaws.
"I'm like you, I'm a fifty generation, even if I look like this. Is there a guy who looks like a good old man suffering from cold?"
In fact, Schneider was over fifty years old. Although it looks only like a twenties, it was recorded in the Adventurer Guild more than 40 years ago and is on record.
There's no doubt about displaying your guild card status.
Nevertheless, there are various rumors of maintaining a fortified, fortified body in his twenties.
Rumor has it that he has been immortalized by defeating too many dragon species and dragons and bathing in their blood.
Rumor has it that one of his mistresses is a master of Bosochu and that she keeps her youth.
There are rumors of half-slandering, saying that they have signed a contract with the evil god they should have defeated and have acquired youth.
However, when I asked him, he only said, "I just look young."
"Do you see this gray hair in Temee's eyes? Phu, it used to be that she used to be a blonde in the past ..."
While saying so, Schneider shows platinum blond and, in his own words, picks up white hair. In fact, there are testimonies that he was blonde in the past, but no one else thinks he is gray because of his luster and richness.
"Shuna, have you lamented for the same thing for ten years?"
"Oh, ten years ago, I was already gray."
"... No, no."
Resana, nicknamed Schneider, also shrugs and throws a spoon.
"That's why. Bad, come back. Tell the Duke of Malmo that he's too busy with his old age to refuse."
"Well, I understand ... then I'm sorry."
The messengers went out of the tavern. As a reason to refuse the request, I was absolutely not convinced, but there is nothing they can do.
There must be no force to do anything to superhumans who can defeat dragons and evil gods. If they try to intimidate, they will destroy themselves, and if they do poorly, Duke of Malmo will be managed somehow. The emperor does not move to protect opposing cousins.
So they left with only a report saying "refused."
"Well, what do you think now?"
That's right, Schneider says, and those who turn off their signs and have no presence like the background open their mouths.
"That's right ... it seemed that the Pope was impatient, rather than what God Alda did."
"But that's okay. It doesn't make sense to make that Hebo noisy, and if that emperor thinks it's too noisy, the Pope will erase it."
"That's the other way around. What if the next Pope is competent?"
"surely"
Laugh with each other. Gathering around Schneider and Resana was a drunk man who was just a bartender, waitress, drinking, and wrapping a tube with his waitress, except for the seemingly beautiful and terrific taste.
But, in fact, everyone shares a secret.
"But I'm pretty sure ... Hick. I wouldn't want to go to the southern continent."
Mohawk's drunkard is actually a dark elf. Although it hides long ears with special magic items, it looks just like a muscular darma with brown skin.
His name is Dalton, a tribal warrior of the Dark Elves.
"I'm drinking too much, Dalton. I can drink tea and have tea."
"Well, can you drink colored water !? And complain to Zod, who serves such delicious sake."
"I'm sorry for this"
The laughter is the bartender who has no special features other than slimming and chobi beard. But knowing its identity, most will scream and flee.
His real name is Zolco Dorio. The original vampire.
"Please take your place."
"Thank you very much.
"Aren't you drinking too much?"
Zodid replied to Risana.
"That is mint flavored water."
True, he does not say "it's liquor" when giving it to Dalton. Even if the contents are water, it must be a substitute.
"Health issues are all about rabbits.
Merdin, the dwarf waitress, said it was back. She is an ordinary dwarf.
My main business is not a waitress, but an A-class adventurer.
"If the oracle of Pope Hebo is related to rabbits and devils, I must be irrelevant. If the Demon Lord is resurrected, I may be destroyed this time."
With that said, Risana's appearance changed quickly.
The white skin is dark blue, and if the wide forehead is cracked vertically, the third eye opens and the red tongue becomes fluorescent pink and extends to the rich breast.
"Hey, he's back."
"I'm sorry I'm sorry if I remember the old days"
Risana returns to her original elf shape when she retracts her tongue into her mouth with a laugh.
She is an elf woman, as in the guild card.
[Evil god of intoxication] Although the introductory claim that Purizanapipe was incarnated is often omitted.
She is the only evil god that [Shunrai] Schneider defeated.
"So what do you do, Shuna? I refuse to defeat him, but are you going to see him?"
"I want to go ... I don't think so. Here and there, there are many things to do. In addition, the Duke of Malmo has a rabbit, and the emperor is aware of my identity."
Schneider. He is definitely a racial man. Neither vampire nor evil god nor a new race of Vida.
They are just followers of Vida.
"The Emperor has long noticed that I am not a pious Aldaist. The Pope announced that" I am dangerous "and that the oracle actually means" Be careful because I am a dangerous person. " I understand that. "
In the past, Schneider has been prophesied several times by the Pope as "received an oracle," but nothing has actually happened. Arda warned the Pope that Schneider was a dangerous person.
Schneider knows the difficulty of understanding all the meaning of the oracle, so I don't call it Hebo.
Schneider does not know the circumstances of the gods, such as the reincarnation system, because he is a human being. I don't know, but I doubted Alda's teachings as a child.
I couldn't understand why he hated the new race of Vida so violently. It became an adventurer and turned into conviction when he encountered Lamia, one of the new races of Vida.
Arda is wrong.
…… It may just be that Lamia ’s beauty was her last first love.
The conviction that the rabbits came in contact with Lamia was that it became unwavering as they spent in their village.
However, she thought that the only Lamias might be special and contacted other new Vida tribes.
And Schneider chose Vida over Arda.
He then hid himself and trained himself to gain track record as an adventurer. He had the option of crossing to the Orbaum Kingdom, which recognizes Vida's religion and, to some extent, Vida's new race, but for him it was foolish.
If you flee to the Orbaum election, you will not be able to help the new races of Vida, who now suffer in the Amid Empire.
There are things you can do because you are in the Amid Empire. It wouldn't be a big deal for an adventurer from the commoners to do it, but it would be enough if that helped a lot.
When I thought so, I was in S class sometime.
Life is something you don't know.
"Well, you probably didn't know about Resana."
"Well, why aren't they all aware? Some evil and evil gods have turned over to the brave side like me."
The myth describes the existence of gods, giants, and dragons who surrendered to the Demon King and fell asleep. However, there were also evil and evil gods who betrayed the Demon King and fought with the gods and braves of the Lambda world just because they were not written.
They are certainly called evil gods, and they have an abominable evil power in terms of the values of this world.
But it is not another evil incarnation.
The hero Zakart calls the Demon Kings "invaders from another world", but that name was true.
From a Lambda world's perspective, fighting the Demon King would have been a holy war to protect the world. But, objectively, it was just a war between invaders and natives.
Of course, the Demon Kings who came to a different world and asked for help saying `` Please relocate '', learned the local ethics, values and manners, adapted well, and did not choose to assimilate, it is not bad, sin There is no such thing.
However, there were those who thought, "What is it to start a war suddenly? I can't follow a little?"
One of these pillars is the “Drunken Evil God” Zurizanapi.
Zachart persuaded them and turned them over to the heroes.
The former evil gods of such rollovers then fought in the battle between Arda and Vida on the side of Vida, where Zaccat was revived.
He was killed by Arda and Bellwood, and sealed off with much less power.
He was buried in the darkness of history under the initiative of Bellwood, who had originally opted to allow the rollover, but had reluctantly compromised on strategic reasons.
"The emperor will move, thinking that if I go to the southern continent, I will finally come into contact with the Vida-primal vampire.
Now I am swimming because it is still useful for the empire, but it would be awkward to see it as harmful to the empire. ''
Even though it is an S-class adventurer who kills evil gods (the same meaning as a female killer), the empire is not small enough to defeat alone. It should have ten or twenty hidden forces that can't be beaten lightly even by an A-class adventure guard or a Schneider.
"And I'm also an oracle.
"What is an oracle? Help my mother and child ..."
I received that oracle more than a decade ago. Schneider, who was first entrusted with the oracle, was surprised, and Dalton said that he could understand and manage something like a ciphertext that mixed a great deal of information and intention that came into his head. It was content.
To be precise, he said, "Help the mother as a shield and save the child from the blood, but do not cross the peaks and the sea."
"That would have been done already. That's how many groups helped my mother and child, and thanks to that I found the sealed Zod."
"Yes, I was saved then."
Schneider, who thought the meaning of the oracle was "to save the mother and child on the west side of the present continent of Bang Gaia", saved several sets of mothers and children, as Merdin said. Sometimes it's just helped by bandits, and sometimes it's a big adventure that unpacked the original vampire Zod.
Of course, there are other interpretations, such as visiting the grave of a sleeping mother in Schneider's own hometown, or warning that some of the women around her are pregnant and are approaching her. I was looking for it.
As a result, Lamia, Scylla, Arachne, Centaur, and the mermaid were found to have a real child that they did not know, and Dalton said, "No, how about that as a man?" I was young! "
Despite the humorous story, the oracle had settled on the interpretation that it was to have Schneider break Zod's seal.
However, in a story earlier mentioned by the Duke of Malmö's messenger, Schneider realized that he had failed.
"No, that oracle meant" help my mother in the Milg Shield and save her mixed-race children. "
"It's ... then what do the peaks and the sea mean in the second half?"
"That means, 'If you fail to help, stay away for a while.' In fact, if you were on an expedition, I might have been ridiculous."
"Well, can that dumpile kill you?"
"I'm backing 6,000 people anyway, it's an extraordinary kid. Well, if you were to say as an S-class adventurer, Vida would have wanted to avoid having to hostile with that dumpile."
"If it's true, at least it has nothing to do with the Demon King. Vida can't help the Demon King."
"That's right ... I think it's bad that I couldn't help, but I'm not versatile either. I apologize when I meet, but until then I do what I can."
I have no time to worry.
That said, Schneider began work tomorrow-preparing to defeat the Kraken School to help a family of mermaids.
"Well, seaweed is good for hair-"
"What Zachart was saying is superstition."
"No, but yes, the hairline recently--"
"Because I'm not retreating at all,"
"I see. But I feel like my hair is getting thinner recently."
"It's an illusion!"