The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

The residence of the Duchess of Al Krems was nominated for an informal tea ceremony in a suburban villa.

Although it looks like a splendid mansion, the surroundings are not popular in the peaceful countryside, and people of the Duke family rarely use it. Usually, there are only a few guards and servants who go to maintain the mansion.

However, it was actually used to hold secret meetings that you did not want to reveal. The servants entering and exiting are members of an intelligence organization serving the Duke family. The inside of the mansion is full of hidden passages and rooms, and there are escapes that can enter and exit from outside the house.

"Unfortunately I could not confirm. If you can disappear through the wall when you disappear, you can not break it down.

But, well, I've seen the air flow, so it's definitely there. ''

It was Kimberly, a former Amid Empire scout, who reported to Pedal and the sensitive secrets of the Dukes of Al Krem.

While he was meeting Arthur, he led ghosts, other than the main one, around the Dukes of Al Krem and the fake facelifter.

A former recon, he also knows spying and is sensitive to airflow because of his lightning ghost, which is part of the wind attribute.

"That said, it's like having a tea ceremony in the courtyard. It's like a mansion or a splendid rose garden, you can't peek outside unless you fly in the sky, it seems like a good place to have a tea party. ''

"... Hmm, were you too cautious? I'm not doing anything else, though."

Vandalou dropped his shoulders while making radish and fried miso soup for breakfast.

He does not intend to flirt with the Duke of Al Krem. If he was willing to do so, he sought to kill himself with all his might, inciting the Earl of Moxie to independence and downgrading the Earl territory, and to make the Duke of Al Krems a Duke of Moxy.

However, on the contrary, I do not intend to hunt down the Duke of Al Krem more than necessary, and if there is not enough, I will make it easier ... I will only make promises of non-interference with each other.

Nevertheless, the other party has designated a tea ceremony in a villa that would have more often been the stage of a conspiracy drama than a peaceful talk.

"I just missed Lalmaire, who was a knight of the wisdom. Well, I'm alarmed because of the information he sent me.

Lalmea, a man who has been so sick as to acquire the [Mental Pollution] skill by seeing the status of Vandaloo with [Magic Eye of Surveying]. There is no doubt that the duke has raised his vigilance with information passed by him.

"No, I guess the location of the villa's garden is because of me. In a mansion built for ethnicity, my body will not fit."

"Oh, that's right."

However, a large species of Arachne ... reconsidered at Gizania with the lower body of a large spider larger than a three-headed carriage.

"Because it's an informal tea ceremony, it's not funny to use this annex instead of your home."

"... he's a weak man, so he would have thought that if he had an unforeseen trouble, he would have less damage in a separate residence than in his home near the center of the city."

"Sharper ... No, I don't care about accurate evaluation."

In fact, due to the size of Gizania's body and the response to what Yuliana had to say, Tuckard chose the courtyard of his residence for both reasons.

"Ordinarily, no matter how much Tamer's follower you invited, you wouldn't put us on the grounds of the mansion, but that wouldn't put in Juliana too.

"I was worried when I was told that he was going to separate himself from Juliana and what was he doing?"

Kachia and Darussia describe it as such. In the official tea ceremony of the Duke, Vandalu has no veto. If the duke has enough power to denounce him if he refuses, if Vandaloo is willing to do so.

However, today's tea ceremony is unofficial ... an event that doesn't officially exist. Still, it is possible to sue with the power of the Duke, but as a tackard you wouldn't want to. If you have heard about the status of Vandalu and others from Lalmea, be sure.

"Well, isn't the discussion going to be over easily? I don't know exactly how Lalmaire passed the information of the bots, but if I knew that she was more than an A-class adventurer, I wouldn't have any strange feelings. "

Vandalou nodded at Sam's words, but unintentionally clenched his fist.

"That's why I missed Lalmere, but ... I think some important information, such as your three size and weight, has been passed on to the duke and its organizations, and there are things that are shameful.

It would be nice if we could get rid of it too much, but limit it to limiting the information we catch and report to the Duke. ''

"Vandaloo, I don't care so much, so it's okay, let's release the ball."

"I don't mean to defend them separately, but I don't think that the Duke and the other Five Knights share information about the size and weight of Darussia's bodies in the current situation. I don't want to think. "

Dulcia receives the ball that Vandaloo squeezed the handle, and Juliana looks away as she says.

Aside from Lalmeia seeing the physical information of the Darcians in The Survey's Magic Eye, she is a younger sister than the Duke has heard and recorded from him as important information. As a knight serving the Duke, she didn't want to.

"... Well, it seems enough to stop again at Lalmeier later. By the way, is there still any information about the annex or today's security?"

"No, that's definitely something hidden, but there are some places you can't enter. There are places where barriers are set up so that the spirit cannot enter. '

Wood, stone, and iron walls make no sense to the ghost Kimberly. However, it is blocked by holy water, holy ashes, light magic, and other things that pay undead.

However, Kimberly is a high rank ghost. If immersed in holy water or ashes, average ghosts are as fatally injured as melted iron, but at Kimberly's level, they're only as damaging to take a slightly hot shower and be surprised. I do not receive.

So it is not impossible to break through the barrier.

"Of course, if I'm serious, I can easily break through ... but the traces that broke through remain flashy."

However, after that, scorching marks by lightning would remain, which would have invaded the people in the separate residence.

"I tried to look across the space ... but it was difficult with our skills ..."

"Forgive me ... please punish me ..."

Following Kimberly's words were ghosts with spatial attributes. The challenger who died in "The Trial of Zaccato" gained the magic of spatial attributes by being captured by Gufadgan for many years, and was born as a result of being ranked up in that state, and is a rare entity among attribute ghosts.

He has lost his personality and memory before his birth, and has not yet developed a new personality.

"For the security system too, one of the five knights, Bravaille, hired a man who seems to be a psychic medium, and they couldn't get closer, so today all the five knights who can move to their villas and their elite I only knew that a dozen or so men would wait. "

"... I feel like I understand enough."

"Since Brabatille had always heard that he was a loud voice, he wouldn't think that a spy who couldn't seem to be in the room was in the room."

"I'm sorry for your convenience."

Why did Muse say it was convenient? It is because it is likely that there is a possibility that there is a “fake face-peeling devil” himself or his co-workers in the upper ranks of the Duke of Al Krem, such as the Duke and Five Knights.

"We came, the skin left by the impostor, was it useful?"

Braga swapped and stolen the skin of the face left by the "fake face-peeling demon" stored in the guards' room and the fake face skin that Vandaloo made with [the Demon King's skin] yesterday.

When the skin was examined in detail, it was found that a small amount of holy water remained on the skin. And it turns out that False Face Stripper, unlike Braga, kills the target and then peels the skin.

Only the belief of the offender and the true culprits, Braga and the mastermind, Bandarou, believe that no part of the victim's face has been found. In other words, no corpse has been found.

You're probably killing the ghosts and corpses that are created when you kill the victim, but it's not the usual way that false face strippers do.

There are nearly a hundred crimes involving "The Face Stripper," including those not disclosed by the guards. In order to solve the case, "Alkrem 5 Knights", which are not normally used in such criminal investigations, have been introduced, and even rare [prayers] have been hired.

The investigator is conducting the investigation with all the power that can be invested. The case would have been settled if it was not an insane technique, in which a group of high-ranking demons like Braga and users of [Transition] like Legion and Gufadogan were assembled.

That is true for the uncaptured fake facelifters as well as the true culprits, Braga.

In particular, since the corpse must be treated in some way, the difficulty of the false face stripper is higher. More than ten criminals are believed to have been killed by the fake face-stripping demon.

Had it been buried, burned, or spelled out normally, the fake face-struck would have been caught.

In the past, there were criminal who used the spatial attribute magic to throw out of the city of Al Krem, feed them to their bones as bait for their followers, and killed the corpse with such techniques. So, if the fake face stripper's tactics are similar to them, they should have been caught.

In addition, I am worried that holy water is applied. Holy water is reasonably expensive, perhaps to keep the victim's spirit from developing, and, above all, where you can buy it.

Holy water can be received by donating more than a certain amount at each temple.

Therefore, if you are not a cleric specializing in undead eradication, you will find that you keep purchasing holy water frequently. If you ask in the temple, it will be gone soon.

Even if the investigator doesn't know about holy water, if you're doing a wide range of investigations, you'll notice a suspicious person who gets holy water over and over.

However, it would be weird if the fake face remover used holy water to keep the victim's spirit from coming into contact with the [necromancer] or Vandaloo. Even if the fake face-stroker kills the victim with holy water, it is unnatural for all of the victim's spirits to disappear.

As in the previous Darussia, the spirits do not immediately leave the earth if they are horrified and grudged even if they are holy watered. If you are a victim of a murder, you may well be able to overcome the hatred of the holy water.

Anyway, a few days ago, the fake facelifter had been committed since Vandaloo began searching for the victim's spirit. So, at least one spirit is strange unless Vandaloo finds it.

Therefore, even if the spirits remain on the ground, they cannot go to Vandaloo. Is the victim killed inside a barrier or sanctuary where the spirit cannot pass?

Considering that, the bandaloos are in a position where the false face stripper is beyond the reach of the investigating side and can use such barriers and sanctuaries freely ... "Alkrem five knights", the duke himself and his wife, his son Guessed that it was someone.

As long as the Al Krem Five Knights is running, nobles under the Marquis of the Duke of Al Krem, nor any temple chief or high priest, cannot refuse the investigation.

Therefore, they thought that they were fake face peelers or their co-workers.

"The skin on the face was useful, but ... it's an absurd argument. I'm almost accused of saying," You can commit a crime, so there's no evidence but a criminal. "

"Well, don't condemn it, don't send rumors, and let's be good."

"Teacher, isn't it different? I don't understand the motivation to imitate the face-striping demon, even if the great man was the criminal."

However, this reasoning was unreliable for Vandaloo himself, and Simon said that he was just twisting his head.

"That's right. I don't think it's okay if you're great, you're not going to 'struggle evil that cannot be judged by law."

"Nataña says, if you want to slay evil, you should twist justice by overthrowing political opponents and rebels. Don't do a miserable imitator. Oh, really miserable, deplorable."

"Yu, Yuliana-san, it's a reasoning! It's just a reasoning!"

"... Well, if you're sorry, you can just leave the motives behind, but it's troublesome to move the authorities right and arrest them, so we asked Braga to abduct them. What is the cannibalism between the members?

But some of the victims are not guilty of killing, and will we continue to investigate? "

While saying so, Arthur and others stare at Vanderlu's splitting the finished miso soup into bowls.

"What is this misosil ... that Abraage?-Something, skin ... no, offal. Is it an intestine or something?"

"A white touff is a monster's brain?"

"Brother, Borzofoy, if you're so unidentified, is that radish really a radish we know? Maybe it's a common name or jargon of radish, and it's actually another--

"Please stop! You will not be able to eat breakfast!"

"That's right! I'm afraid even if I know the ingredients!"

Three people curious about miso soup, and Miriam and Katya stop them with blue faces.

After the discussion, the four Arthurs joined the rental house where the Vandaloos were. Of course, we talked about the truth about Kimberly's ghosts, Braga's monsters, and “The Face Stripper” yesterday.

Arthur was surprised at the undead, but quickly convinced that "a great tamer who can talk to God will be able to taunt the undead."

Their reputation for Vandaloo, the fact that they spoke of Princess Sam and Levia, Olbia are usually rational, and they still meet with those who are not usually rational, such as the Beerkerts. Fortunately there was nothing.

In addition, Arthur and his tribe lived in a closed village, living in isolation more than halfway, and lost their common sense.

Miriam was quite confused, but was convinced that Arthur was so used to insane circumstances that he might give up and understand that he might say so.

It's been more difficult to convince about "Face Stripper" than the undead.

It's good to slay the bad guys, but given the victims and their bereaved, Arthur argues that he should be caught in a sensible way and should be brought to justice.

How difficult and time consuming it is for the investigative agency to take the right steps. Vandalu and Darussia, and even Chiplas, explain the importance of preventing damage that would have occurred while doing so.

Eventually, Juliana, a former member of the Duke of Al Krems, apologized for the negligence and corruption of the Duke's investigative agencies, and Arthur said, `` No, I receive the oracle while receiving the blessing of God like me. Those who have been comfortable until now are not entitled to the apology of a child like you. "

By the way, Arthur didn't care about the end of the bad guys who stripped their faces. If they were originally captured, they would be hanged, tossed a glass of poisoned wine, or dropped by criminal slaves after torture to squeeze information.

Neither did Arthur have the passion for them.

"At the tea ceremony, what should we do?"

"In the worst case, you'll have to break out of the city and forcibly escape from this city, so let's all go together. You can go to Tarosheim first."

Vandaloos were gently eating miso soup and Kraken salted breakfast, while the Duke of Al Krems were busy preparing for the tea ceremony.

Already evacuated by the Kimberlys, the security has been put in place, and non-legitimate families of the Duke of Al Krem have been out of the city under the guise of hunting, visiting nearby territories, and visiting.

And in the worst case, the Five Knights will earn time, and legitimate men and the Knights will evacuate the people of Al Khrem from the city.

For a group of less than 10 people led by an individual, you may think of it as anything, but all is based on the information provided by "Knight of the Eyes" Ralmeier, and Vandalu has the ability to be an S-class adventurer It turned out to be the cause.

A-class adventurers can use a sword to smash a few hundred-meter-high hills with all their strength. In the battlefield, he cuts the lives of the elite knights as if harvesting rice ears with a sickle, and kicks and smashes through a strong fort as much as a thin-walled wall.

If you want to compete, you have to have at least three to five times as many B-class adventurers as enemies or as many A-class adventurers.

Class A adventurers' jobs are avant-garde or rear-guard, the skills and gear they have, and even the same A-class from pin to drill, so it's exactly different for each individual. However, it is commonly said.

In fact, there is an anecdote of a great military master who, using only personnel equal to or less than a C-class adventurer, has devised a skillful strategy and hunted down a general who was equivalent to an A-class adventurer.

(If Vandaloo thought it was an A-class equivalent, the Duke would have been satisfied with only two of the five knights except Lalmeia ... only three or so.

However, it has been skipped as an S-class adventurer ……)

However, S-class adventurers are superhumans among superhumans. They are monsters that go underground and crack the sea without exerting their full power, and are not disaster-like enemies on the battlefield, but disasters.

Naturally, it is a force that can be used even in the era of Jindai, such as fighting a dragon, a true giant, and a resurrected evil god evil than a castle.

It has been reported that the "true" Randolph effortlessly defeated ten mercenaries who consisted of fierce A-class adventurers hired by a nobleman who did not appreciate his presence.

Even in Heinz, who is much younger and younger than Randolph, if he is indiscriminately attacked in the city, Alklem will fall into ruin.

It doesn't matter how many knights, guards, adventurers, and mercenaries you have. Only the amount of phantoms that blow off with the rubble changes slightly.

So, even if you put all the "Alkrem 5 Knights" on a separate house where the tea ceremony will take place, it's just a rest of the duke's knowledge.

(It's difficult to point out that from my point of view. If possible, I just wanted to be absent with my mission as a shield ...

He exhaled and gave up, sighing in the secret room of the another house, extinguished.

I've already given instructions, so my buddy should do it. Just pretend you don't know anything and provoke the other five knights.

(A hundred or two hundred years later ... I wanted to do something when Randolph died and there were no S-class adventurers in the Orbaum election, but this is not the case. There's no better opportunity tomorrow than tomorrow. )

The gods are able to use the Five Knights as a flesh shield, the people of the Al Krems as hostages in the fight against Vandalu, with the power stored, and from the gods of the Ardians who previously existed in the city. Almost no one has been blessed.

It's hardly an opportunity when you have to fight Vandaloo ... but as long as he's in the Duke of Al Krems, it's legendary that someday he's been sealed in the mountains north of Al Krem to see the evil gods Should be attached.

Rather than being abruptly crushed by the abandonment of Vandaloo and his hordes with no bindings, it would be better.

If I could, I wanted to get rid of Lalmeier without saying anything more, just in case, but I missed the opportunity because Sergio and his direct reports were always on.

However, the tea ceremony starts soon after. After things have happened, there is no point in the information and life of Lalmeier.

Suddenly, while comforting himself, the entrance to the secret room suddenly opened, and a tied black man fell down. He reflexively realized that he was his buddy and breathed involuntarily, but he couldn't speak out.

"... did this capture the singer?"

"For a captive companion, it's probably not too much a troupe." Knight of the Fallen Mountain "Goldi"

Goldi is frowned upon by Galldi, who is staring at Baldilia.

"You seem to have made a mistake."

Despite his appeal, Valdilia, with a harsh look, took out the ring instead of responding.

Gordy's frowning eyes became more bitter. Because it was a cheap item box that my buddy had.

There was a heavy noise, and the peeled face of the corpse stored in the low-priced item box rolled, and a stench in the secret room.

"Is this going to escape?"

"... I guess you'd say swallowing in case of something.

In response to Baldilia's question, Goldi stomped so loud and pulled a sword, whose ancestors were given by the Duke.