The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

The last goblin barbarian fell down with a high-pitched scream piercing his ear.

After confirming that the enemy did not move and that no new enemy appeared, Kasim muttered.

"... I won."

"Oh, I won. We alone"

"And four at the same time."

Exhale big and inhale to the full of your chest. And shouted.

"Well done!"

"I did it! We did it!"

"Yeah ... but we'll be quiet now, we're still in a dungeon."

"Yes ..."

"Xeno, you're always calm."

"What do you do if the scout is not calm?"

The three calm down quickly turned off the goblin barbarian's corpse looking for manastones.

Returning to the ground from the Valley of Galant, Kasims were watching a thin metal plate resembling a guild card, carrying magic stones and materials.

"This dungeon card is pretty useful."

It can be used to find out the magic items for entering information on the guild card at the adventurer's guild branch office in Pioneer Village, and modify and issue the magic items for the guild card of the adventurer's guild remaining in Tarosheim. That's what I did.

Copper and the blood of Vandaloo. And the card, which is made using the blood of the person who wants to issue it, has a function that allows transfer within the dungeon, subject to the condition of the owner.

"Vandaloo wants to be able to transfer from dungeon to dungeon, but it's still convenient enough."

"You can only transfer to the level where the card owner has reached, but that's normal."

"It's not normal. It's normal to go up and down the stairs, except in limited dungeons, where there are equipment made by top alchemists."

A dungeon is a dangerous monster's nest, but also a treasure trove of resources. But in most cases, the only way to use the resources is to carry them outside. Unless you have an item box or a degraded (but still rare and expensive) magic item, or a friend of spatial attribute magic, or if the dungeon is not designed to carry a carriage or cart, you can carry it at most. I can only take home minutes.

And the amount must be lowered, considering the risk of being attacked by monsters.

But this dungeon card makes it much easier. Once you have reached the target level, you will be able to transfer to the next level with zero physical strength and time, which you would otherwise consume.

Furthermore, if you can reach the stairs when you return, you can return to the ground in an instant. After all, consumption of time and physical strength is also zero.

So depending on how you hunt monsters near the stairs, collect enough material and enter the stairs to return to the ground, and once you have the material, dive into the dungeon again within the day. You can do that.

"After all, the dungeon is different. Strong monsters come out even now, so you can earn more experience points."

"Yes. Rank 2 was the largest around the reclamation village."

But for newcomers like Qasim, what matters is the very existence of the dungeon. Dungeons that encounter monsters more frequently than normal magical boundaries are a treasure trove of experience if you can beat them.

"When we were in the settlement, it was difficult to get to the lower floors of the Valley of Galant,"

As Zeno said, they were able to defeat the Goblin Barbarian flock without serious injury, but their ability was improved, but their ability value was exploded by Vandaloo's [Reinforcement] skill It is big that the level of equipment has increased.

The Casims received special high-performance gear because they were friends of Vandaloo ... not necessarily. Because of the backlash of weapons and armor in the battle with the Red Wolf Knights, he only had access to the cheapest beginner's equipment among the weapons commonly distributed in Tarosheim.

…… just because their cheaper beginner equipment was much better than the cheaper equipment they originally had.

"Sure, the previous shield and armor would have hurt me."

What he sees is his iron turtle shield and armor. The protection is exceptionally high and slightly lighter than cast bronze shields and armor, made by pouring molten metal into the mold he was originally equipped with.

"Oh, I told you that I could use a casting, and I was angry at that old man. I only made forged weapons."

Festa's sword is another dish that Datara has trained. Because it is a cheap product, his sharpness and hardness are much lower than those of his whole work.

But if you say "cheap" at the adventurer guild in the town of Niak, adventurers of the same generation will only interpret it as a rich hate.

"Oh, including the Taleas ... I'm a good person, but everyone's a little out of tune."

Xeno's equipment has also been upgraded to be plain. He was given a standard product that would normally be used by mid-sized adventurers, saying "it's a surplus."

Because Talosheim is isolated from the outside, no outside economy or information comes in. Therefore, when you leave the town, you will be ranked 3 ... The minimum surviving level in a violent raptor with sharp tusks and claws or more than a monster is defined as the minimum.

As a result, there is no point in making cheap goods distributed in ordinary towns.

"Well, it's not just a good thing."

"Sure."

With that said, he entered the old adventurer's guild ruin, which is now completely renovated and the signboard has been lowered.

Inside is nothing different from a real adventurer guild.

"Yes, it's a purchase? It costs 5,000 Luna"

"Replace with a set of mayonnaise, ketchup and ent syrup?

"I'm sorry, fresh cream is sold out."

The difference is that it can be exchanged for goods other than cash?

"Cream sold out?"

"Wasabi Mayo, aren't there yet?"

"You decided to buy it in cash today."

Xeno pokes lightly on the back of Kasim and Fester, who have a sad face.

Although Talosheim, a currency called Luna, is circulating, there are still a few shops. Therefore, there were many people who exchanged goods for cash here.

The feathered Feather reminds her, "That's right," and she lines up with a glowing smile and talks to the girl at the counter.

"Lina, I'm back now."

"Welcome to the exchange. Is it cash ?? Exchange?"

"Hey, I'm Lina."

"Is it a cash? A replacement?"

"Hey, lender?"

Lina, a receptionist at the counter and a non-regular staff at the Adventurer's Guild Branch Office in the Seventh Village, responded to her lover's feather with a sales smile, but her smile gradually began to cramp.

"Leener?"

"That's why I'm working now! I'm worried I'm glad I was safe and injured!"

"Hah!"

Festa arranges the materials he has been carrying in a hurry on the counter. Kasim and Zeno apologize to Lina for the gesture behind them.

By the way, Fester and Lina are two people in normal operation. It's already firmly laid on the butt, but that's probably a good thing for a feather.

"Except for the subjugation proof, it's all gemstones. Ah, I didn't. I achieved the goal by defeating the Goblin Barbarian alone.

Yes, 500 Luna in all. "

"Five hundreds ..."

"Yes, I didn't underestimate because I'm angry, but ... it's here."

The defeat rewards and gemstones for the demons hunted by the Casims that Lina compiled are the quantity and quality that adventurers guilds of the Duke of Hartner would buy for over 2,000 Baum.

However, in Talosheim it will be around 500 Luna.

This is the quality of the giant undead and ghoul seekers (not registered in the adventurer's guild, but doing the same thing, so this name was established sometime in the meantime), Because the rank and encounter rate of monsters that appear around Talosheim and in dungeons are high. And that's why Vandaloo exists.

Rank 3 demons appear frequently, and over 2,000 explorers routinely hunt them. So, the monster subjugation reward is necessarily set cheaper than the outside world.

Furthermore, the magical power that powers the magic items in the entire city is filled with unusual magical power, so the demand for magic stones is lower than in the outside world.

Until the reclamation villages came, most of the people had a fighting ability equivalent to a C-class adventurer, but conversely, to eat as an explorer, the fighting power of a C-class adventurer was necessary. It becomes necessary.

"It's pretty harsh here."

"Well, I'm patient until I get stronger. Let's do my best."

"That's right. The level has actually improved."

"I'm asking. You can work together, but I'm not going to feed you."

After cashing, the Casims left the exchange with Lina, promised to eat after work hours.

After finishing light snacks at the stalls, head to the public bath to sweat in the dungeon.

"... I said that it was harsh, but I wouldn't refuse if I was asked if I would go back now."

"me too"

"I absolutely refuse."

Festa and Xeno agree without hesitation on Kasim's words. In their hands there is a street food that is about to be eaten.

Casim is a hot dog, and Fester and Zeno are hamburgers.

When you eat a sip, the gravy and sauce will pop into your mouth, the texture of lettuce and chopped onion will resonate comfortably with your teeth, and the soft fluffy bread will suck it moderately and will not stay in your mouth. And if you swallow it, you'll want to eat the second bite.

This is sold for one and a half luna. It's not a hidden stall run by famous cooks who know it, but an ordinary stall serving visitors who come in and out of the exchange. What's more, they are the same villagers of the excavated village as Kasim.

"How long would it take to eat the same delicious food in a Niak town?"

"Hmm ... white bread, meat, fresh vegetables, sauce ... about 10 Baum?"

"Once before, the instructor once let me eat oak meat, isn't it?

"After this bread is obviously softer than the white bread sold in town."

"So, about 20 Baum?"

Three people look at the snack they have in their hands again.

A hot dog with fluffy bread and meat made with an unknown technique called intestinal stuffing. A hamburger that is rich in gravy that you can't think of being minced and then molded and baked, onions and lettuce to enhance the texture, and ketchup sauce.

A dish combining them is only 5 Luna. It's not exactly the same value because of the different currencies, but ... a street food that can be bought at a budget of 5 Baum in a town of Niak.

"Um, a sandwich of black bread and dried meat. With an unidentified sauce."

"Dried vegetable and bean soup, with some lucky pieces of meat if you're lucky."

"A large serving of mixed rice"

At the end, Zeno said the mixed rice is a stir-fried food that the owner of the stall cheaply obtained with the southern rice. Since the ingredients change from meat to fish depending on the day, the same stalls are often hit or miss.

Selling is quantity and cheap.

If the feasts in your hands change to them, you may laugh and accept some changes.

"By the way, why is this a hot dog?"

"I guess he's using Hellhound meat."

"... Hellhound's meat was eaten?"

"No, didn't you usually bring the name of another world as it is? Like a taiyaki or a Cuban sandwich"

After having a light meal while saying so, I enter the public bath. Incidentally, the number of non-giant inhabitants has increased, so a racial-sized bathtub is also provided. Sometimes the giant undead is "half-bathing".

"I'm here, Father-in-law"

"You say that the call is still early!"

Lina's father, the father of "Anything Shop" shouted back at Fester.

There is no exchange with other cities, and there is no demand for inns in Tarosheim, where all residents are provided with housing. Therefore, he refused to invite Vandalou to ask, "Do you not want to be a clerk?" And he works in this public bath.

It seems that he will save money and start business again by the time Tarosheim trades with other cities.

Take a bath, take off your clothes and take a bath. Incidentally, this public bath is gender-specific. The mixed bathing area is a place for men and women to meet, so feathers cannot enter.

"Well ... I can take a bath."

Soak up your shoulders, a word, and the other two agree.

The first time Kasims took a hot water bath was after coming to Tarosheim. Neither in the Sauron territory nor in the reclamation village, there was a convenient hot spring, and there was no economic power to boil a large amount of hot water.

In modern Japan on the earth, you can easily boil water, but in lambdas, you have to collect firewood, use expensive magic items, or even learn fire attribute magic to boil water.

Even if you use firewood normally, the wood will not burn easily unless it is cut down and dried. It takes time and effort and cannot be consumed every day for bathing.

If it is Tarosheim, feel free to put it in cheaply. These days, boilers contain flame ghosts instead of fuel, making them friendly to nature. It seems to be a popular part-time job because ghosts can earn a reasonable salary just by staying still.

"And the soap is cheap. When I saw it in Niak, it was one hundred baum, but here it's three lunas."

"Sure, are you making it from monster fat?"

"The cheapest one. It's expensive to make from fruit, but it smells good. It's a pleasure to give it to a woman."

A ghoul man, who is present in a roaring tone, speaks.

"Ah, Bodan.

Apparently, the ghoul named Bodin is the same explorer as the Kasims and apparently faces.

"... Fester, I'm Baden."

"Well, I'm sorry!"

He seemed to be acquainted, but apparently made a mistake for another ghoul. But it can't be helped. Because the face of a male ghoul is a lion's face, it is very different from the race, so it is difficult to distinguish it if you are not familiar with it.

It is indistinguishable when the bathhouse is completely naked.

"By the way, Mr. Baden, know more about the soap!"

"How much is it?"

Kasim and Zeno, who feel lonely every day, talked about the topic, and Baden did not seem to care much about the differences.

Baden went out of the bath when Casim and Zeno concluded that there was no one to give away, as a gift from a recently launched honey soap.

In addition to Baden, Anubis, Black Goblin, Orcas, and Giant Undead are sweating (although not all) in this bath.

The ex-pioneer villages, including the Kasims, were surprised when they first moved to Tarosheim, but quickly got used to them. [Reinforcement of the kin] has the effect of a closeness, but when you talk and see it, you can communicate unexpectedly.

Events are also held to exchange old and new residents, so the troubles that have occurred have not been as severe as they have been in fighting.

It may have been good that the settlement had several tribes living in the village due to the collection of refugees.

And this one word suffices for most strange neighbors.

"Everybody is normal compared to Vandalu"

The person himself would be reluctant to say that.

"But there are some pretty childish places."

"Oh, it's easy to understand what you're thinking."

When he heard about Pablo Merton before his birth, he replied, "Did you go crazy?"

Vandaloo has no expression and his voice is flat, but when he looks at anything other than his face, it is easy to understand what he is thinking. He uses limbs and, recently, some freely movable hair to express upset, surprise, and emotion.

He knows that his facial expressions and voices remain the same, so he may be balancing his emotional expression by using parts other than the face.

It's easy to understand because when you're nervous, you stop expressing your emotions altogether.

And it's no surprise that Kassims, who have been aware since they were in the reclamation village, come into contact with Vandaloo normally.

If you hear it, you'll be objectively aware of the regression of your mental age, and you'll be shocked.

Soon, eight-year-old Vandaloo. He lives in his mid-forties, when he includes the earth and the origin, when he can see the middle age.

"And when I'm scared or a monster, it seems like I'm depressed. Let's not be scared as much as we do."

"Kashim, you said that when you met Vandaloo last time in a public bath, you screamed."

"No, that's ... it can't be helped! I guess you were afraid!"

When Casim was immersed in the bathtub, in fact, Vandalou, who had been immersed in the bathtub first (without shaking), came out to the side without sound. He seems to have closed his eyes in the hot water and just raised his head for breathing.

It is no wonder that Casim claims it is force majeure.

"Well, surely I can't help it. I didn't even notice.

Remembering that his pride as a scout was hurt, Zeno has fallen soberly.

"In any case, let's not say" scary ""

"Yes."

That's why he decided how to treat this Tarosheim king and friend.

At dusk when the sunlight reflected by the mercury mirror weakens.

As they headed to their meeting place with Lina, they were curious about the crowd that had been passing by and saw it.

More than a dozen children are playing with playground equipment built on open land.

Although the Kassims were unfamiliar, the illustration of children playing cheerfully using sandboxes, slides, jungle gyms, and horizontal bars, which are typical playground equipment on the earth, might be a smile.

However, the scene in which all the playing children have the same face, do not leak a single laughter, have only a doll-like emptiness, and are moving around without sound, does not seem very smiling.

"""scared……"""

"Oh, strange."

It was at the same time that the Kashims muttered unintentionally and Vandaloo noticed them.

At that moment, a myriad of vandaloos break their outlines and converge on vandaloos whose bodies are the only ones.

Fortunately, they did not hear Kassim's muttering.

"Well, what were you doing?"

"Since we created a park as a place for everyone to relax and playground for children, we were checking if there were any problems with the equipment we set up."

Originally, there was no park in Tarosheim, so it seems that Vandaloo relocated the surrounding buildings "I will move it a little sideways" and created a park in the space I made.

And he seems to have tried himself on the playground equipment that changed the shape of the material with [Golem Training] and found that there was no problem.

"A park? ... Is there a place like this in the city?"

"Well, it wasn't in Nineland, but it would be nice to have such a place."

"Do you say so?"

Kasim and others who do not understand the reason and value of the park, say so, but I can not explain in detail because Vandaloo says that it is better to have it somehow.

The park has various advantages, such as a playground for children, a place for parents to interact, and a variety of recreational opportunities.

"So, is the inspection over?"

"Yes"

"Now, what about early dinner? I'm waiting for Rina."

"If you can eat at the Royal Castle. Today we are going to try new dishes with new utensils."

"Seriously !? Lucky!"

"What makes it so?"

"Curry and Nan"

"What? Curry and what?"

"Nan."

Apparently, Vandaloo intends to make his own tandoori oven and make curry before curry.

"Because she said she would make it when Fester and Lina were tied.

By the way, information gathering will soon be over, so the cream expedition will start in earnest. "

"Oh, that one. Lizardman? ... I still want to train my ground."

They talked about new dishes and the upcoming expedition, and went peacefully to their meeting place with Lina.