The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

In the cold, when the snow had not yet fallen, but the breath exhaled, a party led by the knight Karlkan was heading south along the road.

The number was about fifty, and although only a member of the Knights, only three, including the Vice Commander, had officially received the Order of the Knight.

The squad is composed of those who are in the position of quasi-knights, who are prospective knights and children of the knights. The skill is inferior to the knight, but is equal to or slightly higher than the average soldier.

They are not wearing armor helmets with the coat of arms of the Duke of Hartner, but rather old leather armor with traces of repairs. At first glance, it looked like a pretty mercenary corps.

"It's certainly not a pleasant task, but it's also for the son of Lucas, for the future of the Duke of Hartner, and for our weeds. Don't look like that, it's like a remnant."

"But is it really necessary? Is it almost as if Lucas has already decided to take over the family?"

Float, believing that Lucas operative Vandalou, a member of the Chief of Staff, is a good Arda priest, speaks to Karlkan. As he said, the inheritance of the eldest son of Prince Lucas, whose eldest son was expected at first to be difficult to succeed, but whose mother was a concubine, was almost unanimous.

A large scandal in which multiple nobles led to vampires of the evil deity, apparently revealed by the actions of the former guild master of the magician guild, Kinapu. The resulting storm swallowed the son of his wife and his son, Prince Berton, who was second-born to the duke, who was initially believed to be inherited.

Although he was protected, his supporters revealed that he had given the vampires, which resulted in his withdrawal from the struggle. Becoming a Duke in the election of Orbaum means gaining the right to run for election. Opinions from other Dukes and the current elected kings continued, saying that if there were human traitors in their relatives, they could not leave it.

On the other hand, Prince Lucas scrutinized whether any of his supporters and subordinates were in communication with the vampire, and performed a performance of hunting out and showing himself.

Kimiko Belton also appealed for his innocence by requesting the five-colored blade, but once suspected, those who were hunted out weakened, saying, "Is not the tail of a lizard?"

He lost credibility and strong supporters, and lost his heart because of his distance from all temple officials, including Arda.

Of course, at worst, he could be taken to somewhere for recuperation due to sudden illness, or live in religion in a secluded temple.

He will live as a branch of the Duke family when Prince Lucas succeeds the Duke in the future.

And the current Duke of Hartner is unlikely to have it until spring. With all this in mind, it is safe to assume that if there isn't much happening, Prince Lucas will be a duke.

It is inevitable to wonder if there is any meaning in crushing the pioneering business that Kimiko Belton has been conducting.

But Karlkan whispered in Froth's ear.

"Hey Frotto, but if you don't do anything else you'll just return to your former job."

Froth's face is stiff. He who was content with the magician guild's resignation, dressed as a priest of the pilgrimage, gathered information around the pioneer village, and flowed it to the Kalkans. It was to become.

They have struggled to get the prosperity. If it is this way, it will be attributed to blisters.

"Do you do another job to get the reward you want, or get the word" Thank you for your help "and return to where you were before?"

"……I understand"

If so, I couldn't refuse.

In fact, the actions of Kalkans are not profitable for Prince Lucas. On the contrary, it is slightly disadvantageous.

However, Karl Khan's superior was also busy dealing with the ongoing incident, and he had not explicitly signaled him that he would cease his crushing mission.

`` Stand by now ''

This is the order Karlkan received. It is a simple statement that Lucas himself and the supporters of the Knights who support him are not the time to move around.

Karlkan, however, scrutinized it and wondered if he had said, "I don't expect you anymore, don't move." And he feared that he would be cut off if he had no help in the successor struggle.

And they are trying to carry out the strategy they had originally planned, saying, "I would leave the town and enter the road, masquerading as a bandit to attack and destroy the pioneer village."

Though calmly considered, he seemed discouraged, but Karlkan, who had been assigned to work behind the scenes, was more suspicious and narrowed his field of view.

If you don't move, what you say to Frotto may fall on you. He is being driven by such doubts.

However, on the surface, he does not show any signs of being in such a cornered mental state, and Karlkan looks around the members of his squad. Froth was convinced, and the fake merchant, who was originally a spy, is proceeding silently. But the morale of the others did not seem high.

"Is this the case?"

The strength of the reclamation village is not significant. The largest settlement, the seventh settlement, has a population of about 250 and no dedicated soldiers. There are three adventurers from refugees, but information suggests that they are still in the E class and have only recently begun to move up to the D class. Effectively, it will not be different from the squad's associate knights.

It is not difficult to kill everyone if there are fifty people. Adventurers need to be careful, but with care is fine.

The only concern is the Dumpel boy. I couldn't confirm my location because I ran away from the town for some reason, but even if I was still in the reclamation village, they had the same strength as a D-class adventurer except for healing magic (they speculate). . Surrounded by the knights, including Karlkan, who underwent Frost's magic, you can unilaterally get rid of it.

But the morale is not good. If you feel relaxed, you will fail unexpectedly. Surviving from the pioneer village, surviving in the face of ourselves, or being guarded back.

I want to avoid it.

Kalkan was unavoidable and uttered words that would motivate the young people he leads.

"You guys, this task is a dirty job. If you do, you'll never be praised, since we're just practicing exercises.

However, due to the nature of the mission, we need to dress up as bandits. What would bandits say in a helpless village? "

At first, the faces of the knights who heard Karlkan's words with a face that he could not understand were surprised.

The theory that bandits do in villages is assault, rape, and abduction.

"Captain! Is it good?"

The quasi-knights usually live under strict discipline. Since they will soon inherit the knighthood from the parents of the regular knights, they must regularly work in martial arts and academics and become examples of soldiers.

In the future, he is in command of a soldier and holding a sword to protect the country. Therefore, it is not easy to enjoy gastronomy and alcohol, and to hold a woman in a colored street.

Especially after the Sauron territory was occupied by the Amid empire, there was a lot of air that could be said to be a permanent battlefield, and even a few squirrels could not be removed.

Kalkan said to the associate knights.

"Of course, there is no kidnapping. If you enjoy yourself like a bandit, kill it like a bandit.

Don't worry about having children, don't remove too much! The one who can't ride a horse because he's pulled back will drag it. ''

The quasi-knights who boil as soon as possible. While some expect extra income to be earned over women, the majority still cannot hide their excitement in an unusual situation in which they can commit a woman to their liking.

Meanwhile, Frotto turned blue, imagining the future they would have in the reclamation village.

Originally his role was to gather information, so he didn't think he would see the villagers directly assassinated and killed.

Seeing a corpse and seeing it assassinated in front of you are still different.

But I can't say I'm going to stop it now, I can't escape.

(If you grudge, please grudge the Amid Empire, which robbed your hometown, I'm not bad at all, I just wanted a position worth myself.)

False priests simply passed on.

Vandaloo looked around at the villages that had successfully prepared for the winter, treating each village with occasional treatment, sneaking out a golem, and returning to the seventh settlement.

Then, they were asked to cook a rat monster, a rank 2 blood-sucking rat, caught in the middle of the journey in "Anything Store", and gave everyone a delicious meat that was richer than it looked.

And we stayed in the same room as Kasim.

(Anyway, well)

No peddlers have come to the reclamation village due to the disappearance of slave mines, but there seems to be no problem until spring. When it gets warmer, Kasim and others have to go to the town to escort the young people in the village. At that time, they will stop by a commercial guild and ask if anyone can come to the peddling.

They are people who yearn for themselves, even though they are not Tarosheim citizens. To help the Gofas, Vandaloo felt a little guilty of detriment to them.

(If the fangs of the dark night were alive, I was able to turn my hands ... Is these people coming to my country?)

Then you won't have to put up with everything. You can give home, furniture, food and arrange work like the people of the first settlement.

Gobgob is not a preserved food but a delicious dinosaur meat that is seasoned with plenty of seasonings.

There is no need to place a remurus lookout or tens of stone golems or dead iron golems in each village. Whatever the Dukes of Hartner does, you can now live safely in Tarosheim, where the sixth wall is under construction.

It's not surprising that I'll talk about it all.

But that's the same as forcing the villagers to break away from human society.

Vandalu is not confident that it will lead to their happiness.

If the Duke of Hartner was a bit more credible, there would have been more options if he wasn't connected to the original vampires deep within the government and guilds.

(After all, the original vampires and Heinz are in the way. I will erase them somehow ... unless I reduce the number at least.)

The original vampires get in the way if you try to do anything by just means. Heinz and his colleagues get in the way if they try to do something wrong.

The original vampires and Heinz are supposed to be enemies, but they are blocking the path of Vandaloo as if they were holding hands.

(One person can get rid of it if the situation is right. If it goes from there ... Oh, but is it dangerous to assume the possibility of going well? I don't know how far it can be hunted down by the information provided by Kinnarp If the timing isn't right ... Chiprass are so badly injured that they can't listen to anything, just information from Ira ...)

Heinz's way is flashy. Thanks to that, you can understand that there is a battle just by letting Remulus look over the city, and you can find the spirit of the dead and [spray] ... but what if the damage to the spirit is great? .

The confidant of Tenesia, the [hound] of the [five dogs] was undead immediately, so there was almost no memory damage. However, the spirit of Chiplas of [great dog], which was made into two in Heinz, is full of damage.

The remaining [Radio] and [Fighting Dog] are likely to get spirits. The fifth [fool dog] seems to be stuck in a secret retreat. I hope [crazy dogs] or [fighting dogs] provide good information.

While looking at it, I look up at the ceiling of the room, which looks like a daytime thanks to the [dark vision] skill.

can not sleep.

For some reason, tonight, Pete in Vandaloo's body was moving around late at night due to the effect of the [insect art] skill.

Tickling and laughing unintentionally, "Huh, huh, huh, huh".

[State anomaly tolerance] also suppresses sleepiness, so you will wake up completely when this happens. If nothing else, Vandaloo decides to get up.

It is almost dawn soon. Kill your time in the morning training.

Vandalou, crawling down from the bunk bed without sound, lays down tanned leather on the floor, about the size of a handkerchief, and begins to lay his tongue out so as not to wake up the sleeping Casims.

It is a tough training that supports the overall weight with the tongue extended by the effect of [body stretching: tongue] skill, not the arm. The tongue is made of muscle, so it will be very effective.

It would be quite a problem if seen by Kasims, but since they are racial and unable to watch at night, it is okay to stop as soon as they come up.

But Vandaloo discontinued it only a few times. Remruth, located around the village, found several shadows of bandits.

(... what is this guy?)

Looking through Remulus, there are dozens of armed groups wearing leather armor and cloth wrapped around their mouths, and if that were just a bandit, many of them were riding horses for some reason.

If you are two people, there are about 20 rabbits. It's just a strong horse, and it's so muscular that a man with a kite shield at the top wants to touch the horse on it.

Ordinary bandits carry looted goods, wagons and horsemen are not available. Horses don't eat anything, so they pay for food, and they're originally timid creatures. And since the bandits themselves are fallen farmers and slum dwellers, they do not have the skills to mount and fight. Therefore, even if you have a war horse, it is a waste of food.

In the first place, it is more profitable to sell that horse than to attack a small village.

In fact, there were no cavalry in the bandits that had been attacked and plundered by Vandaloo.

(Then, this bandits might be a bitter mercenary)

He usually works as a mercenary, and when he has no work, he eats by bandits. Such people exist in Lambda.

And because they make money on the battlefield as mercenaries to sell their armed forces, they are overwhelmingly stronger than ordinary bandits.

At least they are stronger than average soldiers, they have skills and they use martial arts.

And [danger detection: death] reacts to the delay. The village may be destroyed if left unchecked ... No, it will definitely be destroyed.

"I'm sorry ..."

It is not a threat as a pure enemy. If the bandits simply attack at one of the Bandarhus, he can overwhelm the Goblin King somehow, as well as a herd of thousands.

The difficulty is to win without sacrificing the villagers. If you are weighing yourself as before, you will definitely not have enough hands.

... I can't help but get a little serious.

Vandalou quickly applies [Energy Capture] and [Enhancing Killing Power] to the Casim's equipment in the room.

"A bandit attack!"

Then, yell out using your [screaming] skill and wake up the Casims.

"Shu, attack !?"

"Do you want this village?"

As expected, it is still an adventurer in the new rice. Vandaloo explains the situation quickly to the astonishing and quick-starting Casims.

"Dozens of strong bandits are approaching the village."

"What?!? Really?"

"Yes, with the news of bugs"

It wasn't a lie because the Petes noticed early because they couldn't sleep well.

When they hear it, they start wearing weapons and armor in a hurry.

"I would doubt if it was a fester."

"Because it is Vandalu!"

"Unlike me, I can't sleep!"

Apparently Festa has been asleep in the past.

"But is a strong bandit okay with us?"

"I'm a dozen, say dozens, you'll have to do it if it's not okay!"

"I guess it would be something if one-on-one."

Vandalou guarantees that Zeno and Kassim are nervous in their voices (and that they have applied magic).

In fact, yesterday, the Kassims said, "I'm about to be able to take the D-grade test soon." After that, if you can kill people, if you can kill them without disturbing your heart, you should not lose easily if you are one-on-one.

But surprisingly, neither Kassim nor Xeno, Fester spoke to Vandalu with a serious face.

"Well, Vandaloo. Do you know the knack?

Apparently, as they rehearsed and practiced with Vandaloo, they felt that he had some experience of interpersonal play. So humanoid creatures are seeking advice from themselves, who have only killed goblins and Kobolts.

"A trick?"

However, when asked again, he was in trouble to answer. Until now, he killed many people directly, drank live blood, and used the dead body undead, but at that time he did not think or remember anything special. Killing humans and dealing with fish caught is nothing different in his subjective opinion.

Meanwhile, bandits are preparing for the raid. The archers and infantry wrap around and surround the village, waiting for the siege to end, half of the cavalry from the front gate facing the inner road of the village's two gates, and the other half narrow. She seems to attack from the back gate.

It seems that the villagers who were first disturbed by cavalry and who escaped will be killed by archers and infantry.

(Golem activation, elimination as soon as enemies approach)

(The princesses of Levia are waiting in the sky while being transparent)

(Hmm, what advice would you give to Fester?)

[Parallel thinking] gives instructions to Remruth and Golem, puts the levia into place, and Vandalu's head spins busy.

The resulting answer was stale.

"Imagine what happens if you don't fight, if you lose."

"Imagination?"

"Yes. If we lose, what will the bandits do in this village, what will they do with Lina?"

Rina is the signboard girl of "Anything Shop" and the only employee of the Adventurer's Guild branch. Needless to say what the bandits will do if they find her young.

And Fester, who likes her, clenched her sword.

"... I see. I'm not confident that I can kill anyone yet, but I'll wait until I'm both afraid and vomiting."

He used a heroine's line that inspired the hero who reluctant to fight, as seen in a cartoon of the earth, but it seemed to be more effective than expected.

(I was wondering which was better than saying "I think the other person was a pumpkin or something", but was this the correct answer?)

"Be reassured, I'll protect you properly."

"I'll protect my back, but I won't wear it. Ask Lina later."

"No, it's really vomiting ... shit, so Vandalu, where should I go?

"Three people ask for the back gate. About ten cavalry will come, please hold up until I go. Ask the villagers not to leave the house.

I will handle the front gate. ''

"Do you get it!"

Usually, if a boy about half their age tells them to do it alone, they should stop, but Kassims know that Vandaloo is not capable of winning at the same time with three of them, so remove the door. He did not stop him from jumping out and headed to the back gate.

"Attack! Attack ! Attack of bandits! Lock up and wait at home!"

[Screaming] While listening to the loud warning to the villagers who will soon wake up with their skills.

"It's noisy, isn't it noticed?"

"Even if you notice, the strategy will not change! After all it is a newcomer and just a villager!"

Karl-Kan drew his sword, shouting loud at his frightened subordinates.

Karlkan told the start of the operation, ignoring the high pitched voice heard from the reclamation village, but ignoring it.

"Don't be shy, steal and kill! This is justice!

Come on, let's go! "

As the commander ran, the knights, dressed as bandits, screamed wildly.

"Huh! Really came !?"

"Dumb, don't be upset!"

The men of the village, watching the night at the village gate, tremble with a blue face to the approaching screaming and horrible noises of their hooves.

Goblin and beasts and bandits seem to have different impacts.

"Teacher! I'll ask you later!"

"Dore"

Vandaloo, who was often referred to as a teacher because he practiced medical care every time he visited, set up procedures to kill all bandits.

The bandits are usually mercenaries, but from the perspective of today's Vandalu, they are just small fish. Hit the approaching spot with [magic bullets] and shake the claws appropriately, and that's it.

But they are on horseback.

(It should be a good cash income for this village)

So I want to keep the horse alive. If the wind direction was reversed, it was good to just spray volatile paralyzed poison, but unfortunately this is downwind.

"Thank you."

In that case, eight spears of black flame appear.

"Well, magic !?"

"Yes, it's fire magic"

Lightly lie to the villagers and release [Death Magic].

"The gate will be destroyed by my martial arts, continue to me-huh?"

A spear of black flame pierces the chest of the man who was raising the sword at the beginning, and continues as it is the second and third, burning the man-Karkan's gut.

Karlkan is appalled when he finds a little white-haired boy floating above a wooden gate.

(Is it stupid ?? Wasn't healing magic and martial arts alone ?!)

Then, she fell from the horse with her appalling face.

"That captain !?"

"Karukan !?"

Watching Karlkan's subordinates and Freto stop moving and stop the horse, Vandaloo continues to throw a black-spear spear, throwing a kunai as if to say a chance.

"Higia!"

"Set, [Stone Wall]!

"Wow ... how poisonous! Poisoned ..."

Subordinates of Karlkan who are pierced one after another and burned from the inside of the body, or are damaged and poisoned by a special Kunai (cars weapon converted) made by Datara and Tarea.

Some of them have a shield in place and activate their martial arts. However, the level of [Shield Art], which is level 1 [Stone Wall], is meaningful for Vandaloo's [Death Magic] and [Throwing Art]. I don't.

[Strength] At the 4th level of skill, he throws a kunai, which is made of dragon bones and dead iron, and made into a cars weapon. Moreover, the poison has been applied, so if you get a scuff, you're done.

"Hi!"

Frodo at the tail escapes quickly, but Vandaloo tries to throw a kunai on his back. He receives the effect of [Captivating Death Attribution] because he died, and hears the words of the spirits of the Karkans who rubbed up and moved. Stopped.

"Peet, everyone, please catch and leave."

Dozens of insect-type monsters, including Pete, fly out of Vandalu and follow Flot.

The horse is infused with paralysis poison with the remaining insects, and the bandits who still breathe are charred with [Death Magic].

"I don't need to do anything ..."

"I'm still breathing, just in case."

Vandalu tells the villagers several times. But I can't help, because the bandits ... Kalkans were knights in this country.

I haven't heard the details of why the Kalkans attacked the reclamation village, but ...

(It was a bad thing. In this case, all the knights have to be killed so that their identity is unknown)

With that in mind, Vandaloo turns.

"What's that bug-like thing?"

"My pleasant friends. Don't worry. I'll be looking at the back gate."

Listening to the villagers saying, "I understand!" "I asked you!", Vandaloo headed toward the back gate where the Kasims are fighting.

"The teacher was a tamer."

"Oh, it's terrific. Oh, but should I say a word later that I silently brought it to the village?"

"Yes ... but I just gotta have a cure for athlete's foot yesterday."

"Speaking of which, I also have a toothache ... just to be careful."

"That's so."

The gatekeepers, who keep the horses running so they don't run away, didn't know that insect-type monsters were considered to be untamable monsters in the Tamer Guild.

The knowledge of those who do not actually see Tamer is that much.