The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

Guided by the Qasims, Vandalu was heading to the village where they operate, the seventh settlement.

"Where is the pioneer village?"

Fester responded surprisedly to Vandaloo, who was surprised by the remains of the town to the south and the mines beyond.

"I've never heard of a town. The only southern part of the village is a rocky mine with slave mines. Beyond that, there are other dukes."

"No, I've heard that there was a town a hundred or two hundred years ago, isn't that what Vanderlu says?"

"Oh, yeah. Your parents are vampires.

Apparently, the Duke of Hartner has declined more than two hundred years ago.

"Why so?"

When they asked, they tilted their heads.

"Sorry, we don't have much to learn. This country is like a duchy, a country governed by a nobleman, and we don't learn the history of other lands like us."

"Are you from another territory?"

"Oh, that's a complicated story. Listen, tear, talk.

"Fester, I'll talk. For now, let's just talk about what we know from what the town lost.

According to Zeno's explanation, the direct cause was the destruction of Tarosheim.

At that time, the town was set up as a relay point for trade with Tarosheim, so if that trade could not be made, productivity would drop immediately and maintenance would be difficult.

At the same time, the output of mines in the south was falling, and it was not profitable to hire ordinary people, so slaves began to mine.

The miners couldn't rely on the money they lost, and a few years later Duke Hartner apparently had withdrawn the town.

Vandaloo thought that the withdrawal of a town was something that could be done drastically in feudal society. Absolutely massage in Japan.

(But what happened to the first princess?)

Zeno's story did not mention the name of Levia, the first princess of Tarosheim. It may have been omitted if it had nothing to do with the story of the town.

(I'm worried, but is it unnatural if I listen now?)

With that in mind, Zeno's story jumped to a recent topic.

"In fact, five years ago, most of the Duke of Sauron north of the Amid Empire came and was occupied.

We're from the Duke of Sauron. ''

"The refugees are guys. They seemed to be well-behaved in towns and large rural areas, such as those of the empire, but in the small village where we lived, they were free to do whatever they wanted. Both are trying to help others-- ''

"Fester, isn't this a story to tell this little child?"

The war between the Amid Empire and the election of Orbaum, which I had been talking about until then. It seemed to Vandaloo that it was suddenly closing the distance.

"Well, rabbits are the refugees who fled from the Duke of Sauron to this Duke of Hartner. So after the war had settled down, Duke's second son, Duke Berton, began to fight for refugees. `` I was able to live with my family in the seventh pioneer village that I'm about to go to. ''

"I can't afford that much, we went to town in the third year after the village was built and became an adventurer."

"I see. That would have been difficult."

Developing a refugee countermeasure seemed like a good policy to Vandaloo. Unlike the earth, there are many unexplored lands. Especially in this area, there are no magical boundaries, and even if monsters appear, rank 2 is at best, and since there is only a slave mine at the end of the highway, there seems to be almost no bandits.

…… I just destroyed the Goblin settlement led by the Goblin King yesterday, but it's like a natural disaster.

The appearance of the goblin barbarian, which does not appear on the ordinary road where Kassims are wondering, must be related to that goblin king. Probably, a dispatched scout or a hunter.

"Well, I was taken by a soldier, pointed at the open land, and said," Let's make a village here, "and then made a field, dug a well, and built a house ..."

"They protected me from beasts and monsters until the village was made, they lent me tents and blankets, and the food wasn't very good or small, so they gave me out. I had a hard time. ''

Listening to Kassim and Festa's words, it seemed that it was more difficult than Vandaloo imagined. He said that he had prepared land for the village to be built and escorted during the settlement, and to guarantee a minimum living, but he had all the infrastructure such as houses, fields and wells handmade by the settlers.

"Well, it's better than struggling to find a day job in a slum. If you complain, you'll be punished."

Moreover, Zeno's words suggest that it is still a good category.

"And you're determined that this child is having a harder time.

"No, I don't mind. I didn't have trouble eating up to this age thanks to my mothers."

For a time, I had to lick the earthworm's juice and survive the hunger, but it was difficult to talk about it.

After that, he walked for about three hours to the village, listening to the adventure school and the Dukes of Hartner.

The Seventh Pioneer Village was a small to medium-sized village in the Lambda world with a population of about 300 people.

Villagers still have the highest race, but only about half the population, and the rest are beasts, dwarves, and giants. Elves, dark elves, dragons, etc. have a long life and have their own culture, so they often create villages for each race, and in cities it seems that rabbits are rarely found in small villages.

The same goes for refugees, with the dark elves and dragons of the Duke of Sauron recruiting to other tribal settlements.

And the giants in the village have nothing to do with Tarosheim because they were giants that lived in Sauron.

The settlements are all one-story buildings and not very solid, but they are probably the best class considering that they are handmade by pioneers.

In fact, it seems that the population among the six reclamation villages in this area is the largest.

"By the way, why is there only six reclamation villages around here even though this village is the seventh?"

"The first reclamation village that started first was abandoned because it was not profitable."

"I was doing my best. The spring water nearby died, and it seemed that no water came out even if I dug a well."

The human society in this world is truly worldly.

"First of all, let's cash out these ears."

That's why Kasim took Vandaloo to the only shop in the village, a general store, bar, and adventurer's guild branch, where they would also do inns if they had customers.

In this village, it seems that you can not eat unless you have multiple tasks.

However, since no villagers have ever paid attention to Vandalu, it is not surprising that people come to this village from outside.

He was much more worried than the villagers' reaction, but he found a shrine dedicated to the stone engraved with the Alda's holy sign.

"Wow !? Kasim, there's something behind you !?"

Everything was treated as "something" by the shopkeeper and pointed to.

"……Hello"

"Huh !? Speaking !? Someone call me the priest!"

Say hello without saying this word. Wouldn't it be too harsh for closed country baptism?

"Wait, father. This child isn't a ghost!"

"It's certainly a weak presence, but I'm alive!"

"I have a little situation! Please calm down and listen!"

It's a bit rough to say that Kasim and others are soothing the owner of the store, so he pulls back into the store.

At this time, Vandalu noticed that in the words of the Kasims, his presence was barely as sparse as being outside the scope of Enchanting Death Attributes.

Until now, the villagers were not told anything by simply saying that they were unnoticed.

"I'm sorry, my dad said something stupid."

That's Rina, an employee of the Adventurer's Guild's branch office and the only daughter of a shopkeeper.

It seems that the guild staff looks like a bright and simple village girl. Rather, the village girl seems to be working at a branch office after taking the adventurer guild test.

In small villages, the survival rate fluctuates greatly depending on the presence or absence of adventurers, so it seems that they had to create a small branch office rented to the village's only store.

"No, I'm used to it."

A big lie. However, even if the shock is still sounding, it will not appear in Vandaloo's expression. Lina also apologized once again to her face stained with Vandaloo's doll and said, "I'm fine, but I'm really sorry."

"Lina asks for more cash."

"Yes, uh ... this is a goblin soldier, a goblin barbarian !? I was able to get rid of this kind of thing, aren't you still class E?"

"No, I did-"

"Fester, you should talk about it later. Please cash in for the moment."

"Yes, that's right. Well ..."

Lina counts copper and silver coins with a little lag. Apparently, the village branch office staff does not require a high level of skill in the adventurer's guild like a part-time employee rather than a regular employee.

In fact, if the only adventurers in the village were Kasims, the work at the branch would be about once every few days.

But Vandaloo was worried about something else.

(I noticed now, how does the adventurer's guild identify goblins by ear alone?)

From the shape and color, the ears of the subjugation proof part are also Goblin objects, which can be seen in Vandalu. However, when asked what goblin ears are, I'm off.

If you have a different physique, such as a goblin king, you can't seem to be of the same race. However, it is the same size and shape as a normal goblin, except that it is impossible to tell a goblin soldier or a goblin mage, which is about equipment and ornaments, by ear alone.

So why do you know? Are you singing the magic of [Appraisal] one by one, or are you learning such skills in a guild, such as [Appraisal of monsters] or [Appraisal of subjugation proof]?

"Ten goblin soldiers and one goblin barbarian are supposed to defeat 400 Baum. And the magic stone is 380 Baum, for a total of 780 Baum."

When I was listening to it, the cash was over.

If the value of one hundred seventy-eight Baum and one Baum is one hundred yen, it is seventy-eight thousand yen. It seems to Vandaloo that it is not worth the cost of a deadly battle. But it quickly became apparent that it was just the feeling of the earth, and that of the Japanese.

"If you divide it into three people, each person is 260.

"Don't take a break for a while"

Fester holds his fist and takes a guts pose, and Zeno sighs of relief. From there, we can see that 266 Baum is enough income for them.

"How much is the money worth?"

"Oh, it's worth 260 baums. That's right ... if you do a good job in slums for around 26 days, you might make money."

Apparently, in slum day-to-day work, fortunately to earn 26,000 yen, it is necessary to get a good job and work without having to take a break for 26 days.

But there is no guarantee or safety net for benefits, injuries or illness. What's more, if you work day, you don't know if you can work every day. Given that, if there is a danger of life but you can make it all in one day, it may be a reward hanging from danger.

"But I can take a break with this amount because my father here can stay for free."

"Well, even those who use their eyes for their daughters are troubled if there are no adventurers."

As he was talking, his father suddenly broke into the story.

"I was bad before. When you stay in this village, you'll be free as well, so forgive me, young lady."

He said, and apologized with a gentle look like another person. That's good ...

"Dad! I'm a different eye for Lina--"

"What a Fester! You don't like my daughter !? Afterwards who's your father!"

"Stop it, Dad!"

"... Um, I'm a man."

"""eh?"""

I was surprised by everyone who was there for some reason.

I feel like I was shocked by the shock of touching a society or culture different from the one I belonged to.

(But the shock I've had in Lambda's human society is something else.)

I didn't think my presence was as thin as a ghost. Above all, I noticed for the first time that she had the appearance of making a mistake in gender.

Ghoul's children have also been mistaken for gender, but thought that it was simply because the Ghoul men had a lion's head.

Until now, no other companion in Vandalu has been mistaken for gender.

In fact, the Zadiris Ghoul and the Giant Undead only knew that Vandaloo's first person was "I" and that Sam had called him "Bochan", but did not think he was a man from the beginning. It seems.

In other cases, it was similar and the first person was "I", so he was a king, because he was not a girl, and so on.

(Well, I'm only seven years old, and now I'm in the second growth phase, and if I change my voice, grow a beard, or build muscle, no one will make a mistake)

So encouraging himself to recover from the shock, Vandaloo was talking about what he was doing now.

"Hey, this girl is Dumpel. I saw it for the first time."

"Oh, it looks like a doll. Are you eating properly?"

"I touched Dumpel!"

"Hey, I'm stuck."

"Kora! You're so rude!"

It is a wonderful rare animal treatment. Apparently, in this undeveloped reclaimed village, the "first look at dampirs" is a good show. For this reason, villagers came to the eating and drinking space of any store one after another.

Much better than haunted treatment, Vandalu himself does not care and the villagers do not hesitate to respond politely by the standards of the villagers if spoken to.

"Okay, you also struggled."

"It's hard, but I'll do my best."

However, the villagers were basically friendly to Vandaloo. He interpreted that the former refugees were sympathetic over themselves and that they were struggling, and that the pioneer village could afford pity over others. Was.

One is that the villagers thought, "I must have been very painful," after seeing the expressionlessness and dead eyes of Vandaloo.

Secondly, Vandalu is a compassionate partner without cost.

If Vandaloo is just a helpless orphan, the villagers can do little, no matter how sympathetic. Most of the villagers are young and will be able to work as much as they want, but they are still not rich.

We haven't paid the tax now, but the tax breaks will end in the next two years. You can't take it up and bring it up.

However, Vandalu is aspiring to be an adventurer, and if he believes in even half of the story of the Kasims, he seems to have an arm that can easily get rid of a goblin. Then it's enough to sympathize and encourage one of the dishes.

However, it will be much better than urban indifference.

"That's true! This guy beheaded the goblin barbarian from behind with a single shot!"

"Hmm, I don't doubt you, but you can't believe anything ..."

"No, I doubt! I believe you, Rina!"

"Fester, you can't believe we actually saw it, but it's impossible to tell Lina to believe it."

Federers are speaking behind the band, but he is silent because it is not enough to claim the truth from him, who can easily kill a rank 3 monster.

In fact, he just neutralized the rank four goblin king yesterday without difficulty. Goblin Barbarian is not much of a credit.

In addition, it was not possible to register as an adventurer at a branch office operated by Lina alone.

The only thing you can do here is to buy the certification part and other materials. You have to go to a solid guild branch in town to register.

I heard from Volks that 200 years ago it was possible to register even in a small village.

Apparently, not only has the Duke of Hartner declined in the last two hundred years, but also the adventurer's guild on the Orbaum election side.

"Is that child helping the Qashims, is that a Dampiel child?"

Asking so, two men came in.

Both are rare in this village, where there are many people under the age of thirty. But the man standing in front is dressed similar to other villagers, but the man behind is dressed in cotton dyed tightly with dye and hates Vandaloo. The decoration necklace was lowered.

"Mayor, Priest, have you finished the story?"

"Oh, I'm done. Rather, I have to thank him."

The village chief replied to the shopkeeper, and bowed out to take the hand of Vandaloo.

"Thank you very much for helping the Casims. No matter how aspiring adventurers, a child like you would have needed courage to attract the goblin."

Apparently, the villagers have written a story that said, "Vandaloo attracted a strong goblin, during which Kassim counterattacked and defeated the goblin."

Vandaloo is smaller than his peers, and villagers who don't know exactly about Dampir say that the goblin who commanded the small group had its neck beheaded from behind. But it's much easier to believe.

"I'm happy to help you."

In spite of the correction, he responded and said, "But don't do anything dangerous. The adventurer must survive."

(If you look back, it's kinder than anyone on the earth. People here.)

I'm so impressed that humans haven't thrown away. However, there is a smiling "priest" behind the good village chief, so I can't help being careless.

"If you happen to be staying on a pilgrimage, you can meet such a brave girl. This is also Arda's guidance."

The priest in such a gentle tone ... The priest of Arda hands a short thankful prayer by touching the Alda's holy sign resembling a cross on his chest.

I was wrong in gender, but I don't care.

"The priest, this child is--"

"Haha, don't worry, Mr. Mayor. Alda will only punish the wicked, not even those who do good in Dumpel.

I heard that I had lived in a remote forest or mountain. I guess baptism is still going on, but I'll do it if I can. "

There is no particular feeling of murder or disgust, but she offers a smile with a faint smile in the eyes of Vandaloo. There is no reaction even if it is activated all the time [danger detection: death].

"No, it was just a brief but my mother took care of Vida's baptism."

However, I do not want to be baptized by Arda even if it is not a trap, so I lie again.

"That's right. Good mother."

Without ever hearing back about Vida's baptism, the priest of Arda withdrew.

The Orbaum election is a group of small countries that protect themselves from the threat of the Amid Empire.

Because of that, the empire forbids the religion of the god of law, Arda, to be state religion-not necessarily. Although he acknowledges Vida's religion, he does not place any restrictions on religion in Arda. Some of the small countries worshiped Arda and his subordinates.

It is not exactly the same as the Imperial Ardaism.

First, there are multiple interpretations of Alda's religion. Some are heretical in the Amid empire's priesthood, developed in the Orbaum royal kingdom that recognizes human rights in D'Ampiel, saying, `` If you are good and obey the law, let the new tribe of Vida exist. '' There is a reconciliation school.

This is neither unnatural nor anything. Everyone knows that there is a god in this lambda, but that god existed on earth 100,000 years ago in the age of the Gods.

Now, they can only communicate to a limited number of people in a limited way, such as in an oracle.

For this reason, at present, the interpretation of the doctrine of each god varies depending on the country, region, and person, and each is often slightly different. The prime example is Arda's reconciliation.

However, the religion spread in the election kingdom because there were more new Vida tribes than the Empire, including the Duke of Beastmen, and the war had worsened their impression of Alda's religion. Perhaps the result of political decisions to survive in the kingdom.

(It is not unusual for Omoto to be the same god but different doctrines on Earth. I don't know what Arda is thinking, but I put a watch on all the believers, and "the interpretation is different." I wouldn't be descending, oracle, or sending an angel to point out.

Well, if it's harmless to me, is it okay?)

I don't like it, as I was told from the top, saying "I'll forgive you," but Vandaloo convinced that it was necessary to live in society without worrying.

"The priest, the medicine I received ... but it seemed a little ineffective."

"It's better to drink more at a time, so please drink twice as much as ever."

"The priest, can you look at the fields of your house?"

"I don't mind, Arda is also the god of life."

In front of him, the villagers provide alternative consultations and requests for the man of the priest. Apparently, she seems to be longing for her smile.

In pioneer villages, the anecdotes of past saints and heroes spoken by priests will be a few entertainments, and if intellectuals can even prepare medicines, they will certainly be admired even if they are somewhat fragrant.

At that time, there was a voice from outside.

"Come, Priest! Ivan's guy fell off the roof!"

Apparently, if the villagers were repairing or doing something, they accidentally fell off the roof and got injured. In terms of atmosphere, it looks like a serious injury. In fact, when Vandaloo used Life Sense, there was an unnaturally weak life response.

"Don't do it, let's go right away"

Hearing the priest's voice standing up behind him, Vandaloo glanced out of the bar. No one noticed that he was leaving, as everyone was distracted by the priest.

(I guess it'll work if I'm not dead ... oh, here)

When he rushed to the place where there was a life reaction with [flight], a man around his thirties lying on the ground and a woman with a big belly who seemed to be a little younger. And there was a child smaller than Vandaloo.

"You! I'll do it well, now the priest will come!"

"Dad! Dad!"

The man is moaning at his clinging wife and son without answering anything. Breathing also seems to be painful. There is a dark death phase on his face.

(This is a serious injury, not the bones, but the internal organs ... the worst part of the brain)

That's it for lambda medicine. Magic might be somehow, but here is out of the village. Before any priest came from the store, Vandaloo determined that the situation was likely to be catastrophic. … In the first place, if the priest's skill was not first-class, he could do nothing but shake his head.

Of course, if Vandaloo uses death attribute magic, there is a high probability that this man named Ivan can be saved. The wife does not lose her husband, and the child in and around her womb does not lose his father.

However, his goal this time is to "register guilds inconspicuously and return to Talosheim with a dash."

Children save lives that only high-level magicians can save. This will stand out enough.

(Whether it's Hatsushi Toru or emotional ... I can't help but give up)

"Excuse me"

As he says so, he approaches the child and touches Ivan's body.

"Huh !?"

"Wow !? What are you !?"

After all, she was surprised by a woman and a child who did not notice Vandaloo, so she introduced herself as "I'm rumored to be a damper in Imamura, Vandaloo." With the image of extending the tentacle from the center of the palm touching Ivan so as not to be seen by them, the spirit body extends into the body while assimilating with Ivan.

After all the brain seems to be a problem. Bleeding in the skull, pooled blood is compressing the brain.

(The collected blood is absorbed from the tentacles. The torn blood vessels are regenerated with [healing power]. After that, the skull cracks are also healed .... An aneurysm is formed in the blood vessels near this person's heart. Oh, there's a polyp in the large intestine. Let's save it because it looks like malignant.

"Hey, what are you ..."

"Mom-chan, Dad's complexion is improving!"

"Hey, it's true. Did you cure this person?"

"Ah, yes. Please wait a little longer."

The man Ivan was unhealthy. The image that simple slow life is healthy seems at least not to him.

Now that all the treatments that can be done have been completed, return the tentacles to the inside of the body and solve [Emperification].

"It's okay. I'll wake up right away."

Vandalou, who has assimilated his physical strength and nutrition to heal the injury, has consumed it, so there is no way to fall asleep. The blood that had accumulated in the skull was delicious, but I think it's a cure.

"Well, I ... ??"

Then Ivan woke up immediately.

"You!"

"Dad!"

And a woman and a child hug in Ivan. It is a moving sight. A home should be like a family.

"What does this mean? Why are you here?"

"Well, Ivan?-You fell down with a face that seemed to die until a while ago, why are you pinching?"

When Vandaloo remembers respect for Ivan, who has a good home, the priests and mayors finally arrived.

Here, if Ivanize that "Ivan's condition was really trivial, and the man who came to the store to call the priest just clicked away" was a solution, except that Vandaloo was here.

"This child has cured this Vandaloo! This child is a lifesaver!"

(Wife, honest woman has good feeling)

"Speaking of that, I had a dream. I was grabbed by my terrible reaper ... but when I realized I was stroking my head by the goddess.

(Who is the goddess)

Thus, Vandaloo saved the life of a strange villager, Ivan, and was very prominent.