The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

He all remembers the intense glow that burns his sight.

They have not forgotten the pain of chopping up the whole body, the humiliation of being trapped.

At first, he was dominated by passion that could go crazy. Not to mention emotions, reason explored opportunities for reversal, memories relentlessly looked back on the past for useful experiences, and magic, energy, and desires boiled.

But over time, all of them calmed down. He stopped his activities and waited for time, as if it had become inorganic.

They were separated and isolated, but strangely all of them came to the same answer.

"They are at best able to divide the souls of Bellwood and other heroes, Alda and Vida, and even of the professional-minded Rodcorte. It cannot be broken. Only I can do that, Devil King Gudranis!

Therefore, the soul shards of Gudranis wait for opportunities. Once again, the opportunity to avenge the Bellwoods.

Even if you know that the chance of getting that opportunity is near zero, you will continue to wait relentlessly.

Guduranis is not without admission.

He emphasized the Zacharts, who turned their subordinates down and strengthened the lower creatures with strange tools. As a result, there is no excuse for seeing Bellwoods, the fighting heroes who are only capable of fighting, that is, plain and ordinary enemies for the Demon King.

Gudranis did not even expect that the protected objects they had to protect would be forced into assault at the risk of extinction. Destruction or victory? He didn't realize he had hunted them down so he had to choose one or the other, and he was careless.

As a result, Gudranis was defeated by Fermaun Gord and Nine Road and Bellwood.

Gudranis is from a different world where human ethics doesn't work. He only admits the principle of weak eating.

A strong being has the right to eat, rob, and trample a weak being. Gudranis reigned as a demon king because he was strong, subordinated, and tried to rob the gods and humans of the weak Lambda world. But he was weaker than Bellwood and lost. That's it.

Yes, I lost. It cannot be denied. However, if you have the opportunity for revenge, reach out without hesitation. I can do it because I can get revenge. There is no reason to be ashamed of it. Gudlanis cannot be completely destroyed, because the Bellwoods are bad.

One day after many years of waiting for opportunities. The shards of Gudranis's soul, which is sealed in the sanctuary of Aruda and the sanctuary of Rodcorte, have noticed.

Someone is hijacking his body for something other than himself.

"Stupid! ? Even the brave who defeated me couldn't destroy my body and had to seal it, but ... take over it! ? Rather than take over my pieces! ?

Incredible, the soul shard of Gudranis doesn't know what's happening in Lambda during the last hundred thousand years. But there was no single piece of the soul that denied his sense of being "impossible."

"Someone is depriving my body and taking it in rather than being taken in ... Is it going to take over for me ?! ? Ore no ... not forgive! Do n’t forgive!

The shards of the soul became intensely fearful and hatred of beings who would take the place of themselves and become demon kings, agonizing with mad humiliation.

If its existence can break the soul in the same way as oneself, it means that the demon king Gudranis can be truly destroyed. In his current state, he is more alarming than the hatred Bellwood.

The soul shards of the Demon King Gudulanis noticed his presence and became frenzy like 100,000 years ago due to Vandalu's job of [Daemon King], but soon subsided as if nothing had happened. .

Because the seal of the shard of soul is much stronger than the shard of body, and is directly controlled by God, Lodcorte and Arda, respectively. No matter how much the Gudranis fought, it could not be solved.

So I decided to wait. Until the opportunity to destroy the newcomer Demon King comes.

In his sanctuary, Rodcorte noticed that the sealing of a shard of Gudranis' soul was strange.

"A piece of the Demon King's soul is shaking? ... Is it the influence of Vandaloo?

Speaking of the only entities that can affect the shards of the distant devil, Rodcorte knows only Vandaloo.

Until now, however, it only affected the sealing of the body fragment. It had no effect on tightly sealed and properly controlled fragments, only to induce runaway of broken seals or fragments that had already taken over a host that had already become infested.

But if it had any effect on the soul fragment ... Edgar, who used the Demon King's soul powder to heal his soul, passed Rhodocorte's mind, but he quickly denied it.

"Is it due to the fact that Vandaloo absorbed a lot of fragments?"

Since Edgar has just sent back to Lambda and hasn't done anything yet, it is unlikely that it will affect the Demon King's shards.

However, Vandalu has newly absorbed [Devil King's Fragment] by eating "Zosoleggin," the evil god of cannibalism and robbery. His approach to the Demon King may have caused his soul to resonate or do something.

"Well, not just the shards of the body, but also the soul, will we begin to recognize Vandalu as the main body? If it were, it would be a bad thing ... but no, there is no such thing. "

Fragments of the body have no intention or intellect of Gudranis, but merely misidentify Vandaloo as the body. On the other hand, since the soul fragment is Gudranis itself, there is no room to mistake it for the body.

Rodcorte concluded that, and shifted his attention to Origin and Lambda.

At the same time, in the suburbs of Town in Arda's Trial Dungeon, three members of Five Colored Blades played a mock fight with Edgar, who had returned.

"Well, aren't all three strong !?"

"It's obvious! I guess I was lazy while you and Heinz didn't come back!"

Jennifer recalls as she handles Edgar's dagger.

"I lost to him and made me think a lot, but ... just thinking about my body is dull and my head doesn't work!"

"It also helped relieve stress"

Most of this dungeon has been catastrophically damaged by the great magic that pierces the world of Vandaloo, and the original god of record, Cyratos, has been destroyed.

This "town", which recreates the human town of the Jindai era, can supply food and purchase weapons, but the human figures that have been reproduced have disappeared.

But the trials in the dungeon are working. Only the trials that have already been taken once and the trials that would have been challenged much later.

Jennifer and Diana, who had not hurt the soul by Vandalu, and Deliza, who had been hurt but were slightly injured, challenged the test again.

"I was tough because there weren't enough people .... Okay, let's do it here!"

When Jennifer stops his fist, Deliza announces the end of the mock-up. Edgar put the dagger in the sheath and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"I was completely overtaken. I can't beat the youth's growth potential."

"What are you saying, it smells old?"

"I'm already thirty, but stop Ossan. Please say uncle."

Diana offered a hand towel as Edgar tried to wipe the sweat again with his sleeve.

"But I was relieved. Not only did Edgar have no sequelae, but he didn't seem to have any trouble in the battle.

Then he smiled.

Damage to the soul causes a variety of sequelae, such as memory impairment, personality changes, paralysis and hallucinations. They were told by the gods. Heinz takes several months to a year to heal, but that aftereffects can be curbed.

However, Edgar, whose soul has been deeply hurt, does not know whether he will be able to return to an adventurer even after healing. I was told so.

That's why Edgar's mock-up with Jennifer made the same move he had before, which greatly reassured them.

"I haven't heard anything wrong since I came back, and there's nothing in my head ...

"Well, when I say so ... I can't remember the name and face of a younger childhood friend who promised to get married!"

"What !? Really?"

As Edgar screams holding his head, Jennifer looks back in a hurry.

"You don't have such a childhood friend. In the first place, our homeland will be the Milg shield country."

However, Liza was pointed out by Deliza and told a lie.

"Lies !?"

"It's really bad taste"

Edgar was alerted by Diana and continued, apologizing, "bad, bad."

"I don't have any memory while I was being treated. I was back in this" city "the next moment my consciousness was cut off, being intercepted by a Martina-like Kuratos. ...... No, four months? I can't believe I was sleeping enough to change the seasons. "

Unlike Heinz, who can talk to The Sleeping Goddess Mill, Edgar was unconscious while being treated by Rodcorte. That means his soul was so dangerous.

Meaning, Edgar wasn't coming in any way. Aside from physical injuries, soul injuries are unlikely to be noticed during life, so it's reasonable.

When alive, that is, when the soul is in the body, the body dies unbearably before the soul is hurt enough to be damaged.

What damaged Edgar's soul so much was the mechanism of this dungeon, which challenged with the soul in a fake body that was reproduced exactly like the god of Curatus, and eating and destroying the soul called Vandalu It can be said that this is a rare case that occurred when both fighting and fighting existed.

"So you don't know what kind of god you were treated for?"

"Oh, hopefully a gentle goddess would be nice ... I guess it's Nil Tak."

Edgar gives Jennifer the name of Niltak, the God of Condemnation, who blessed himself. He was told in an oracle received shortly after returning to Town, that a piece of the soul of the disappearing hero Luke was used in the treatment.

However, Rhodocorte was not enough, using even the powder of the soul of the Demon King Gudranis, which he knew neither himself nor the gods.

"Well, he treated me so well. Thanks-"

I have to thank. Edgar suddenly stopped moving. As it stands, he keeps his gaze far away.

"Hey, what happened?"

However, Deliza called out and returned to me.

"No, nothing. Just a little thought."

Edgar replied immediately, but he wasn't. Suddenly, a strange sight came to mind.

The sight of a strange creature, such as a mixture of beetles and octopus, escaping, the sky with seven-colored clouds floating in the squishy sun and the distorted sun, and unfamiliar humans screaming and escaping.

And the sight of a shining young man swinging his blade towards himself.

(What is that creature or sky?) Even if the creature is a monster, if you see such a monstrous monster, you will definitely remember it. The sky was not something of the world.

But those who flee are familiar. To be precise, in the clothes worn by humans)

People of the Jindai era, which were recreated in the "town" before the death of Curatus. Somewhat similar to the clothes they wore.

(Did the people of the Jindai era see Luke's memory? No, Luke shouldn't have existed 100,000 years ago .... and the last sight, why Bellwood would cut me Right?)

The statue of Bellwood, the god of heroes, was enshrined in the temple of Aruda, the god of law. And the young man was just like that.

Is it just a coincidence? Does this memory make sense in the first place?

"What's wrong with Edgar? Isn't he tired after all?"

"Yes. Even if you aren't aware, you may have accumulated fatigue in your body. Should we take a rest today?"

Before Edgar ponders, Jennifer and Diana say so, turning consciousness from memory to them.

"No, I just thought a little because there were so many things."

"Yes. We, while you were away from Heinz, thought about and discussed what he had said ...

Edgar pointed to a strange memory in himself, but Diana seemed to think that it was about what Vandalou, the partner who hurt his soul, said.

"... That's right. I thought about ghoul as" maybe. "

But for Edgar, what Vandaloo said was something he could not ignore.

Ghoul, who can speak human language and get a job, is not actually a demon but a new race of humans and Vida. Those who thought so existed. Not only Edgar, but also Heinz and Deliza.

But even the Heinz leaders, who were the leaders of the Arda Reconciliation, could not claim it. Because--.

"What!?"

At that time, the simulated sun glow, reproduced in the sky, suddenly became stronger.

Edgar and his colleagues quickly closed their eyes and couldn't keep their eyes open because of too much glare.

Has this partially destroyed dungeon finally reached its limit?

"... Everyone is back now."

But what I heard was not the sound of a desperate collapse, but the voice of a companion he had heard.

"Heinz !?"

The radiance suddenly settled, and Heinz was standing in front of Edgars who opened their eyes and was being treated by Mill, the goddess of sleep.

"Heintz is back!"

"Are you OK!?"

"Oh, it's okay. Thanks to Mill for healing ... Joshua for protecting me."

Heinz replied to Diana and Jennifer who ran up. And turn to Edgar.

"Edgar was happy that he was able to recover, and he was worried because Mill told me that his memory and physical disability might remain."

"I'm glad you're worried, but you're similar, and it's not the line of a person who has been treated for a day but longer than me."

"Unlike you, I was conscious during the treatment."

Heinz and Edgar hit each other and check each other's safety.

"I'm glad I came back safely, but now that I have five people, I have to decide. What will we do with" Five-colored blades? "

But when Deriza said, she smiled and nodded with a serious look.

The members of Goshiki no Hana were in full swing, but they were at a crossroads.

Defeated in battle with Vandalu. The trial was suspended due to the collapse of the dungeon. The disappearance of Curathos, Joshua and Luke. Above all, the truth is that Vandalu, what Arda calls the Demon King, was assembling the Vida faction inside the border mountains.

Will you keep the party or break it up? Will it remain an Arda reconciliation for the purpose of reconciliation with the Vida, or will it change its claim? Will we fight Vandaloo again or run away somewhere?

I don't know if I can, but I have to choose one.

"... I was thinking all the time while receiving Mill's treatment, asking the gods to get information about Vandaloo.

First, he is different from the "Demon King" that we think and is taught in the Temple of Arda. If you judge him based on the teachings of "Homei God" Arda, you are a villain. It's evil, but ... "

The body absorbs many of the contraindicated fragments of the Demon King and controls them completely. In addition, create countless undead, eat and destroy the souls of the gods.

"But on the other hand we are helping a large number of new Vida tribes ... and humans, including Ardas. While we were here, the evil that lurked in the Duke of Al Krems while guarding the city God was defeated.

Honestly, we are helping and protecting more humans than we are at this time ... including Vida's new race. "

The gods of the Ardas did not appreciate their work, saying, "Unlike Gudranis, Vandalu lives on the earth. Protecting the world is probably because of his own existence."

But Heinz, a non-gods, valued Vandaloo's behavior as one of the humans living on earth.

"The evil god !? Did he raise his arms even further ..."

"Ah. It seems that Fitin, the God of Thunderclouds, has disappeared. He took over the body of a young believer and descended to the ground ..."

"That's it. We're not going to struggle anymore now, he?"

Heinz replied in Edgar's words, "Maybe." Upon hearing that, Deriza and Diana turned blue, but Heinz continued.

"And that's how we are as Arda Reconciliation."

"We talked about ghouls, but haven't reached a conclusion yet."

Heinz nodded at Deliza's reply without showing any disappointment.

"Oh, yes. We're fine. We can't do like Vandaloo."

Ghoul may be a new race of Vida. The Holy Deity, not the Amid Empire, whose religion is Arda, could not be mentioned in the election of Orbaum.

Because claiming that "Ghoul is also a new race of Vida" has no meaning.

In the Orbaum election, Vida religion is certainly acknowledged. Some of the new races of Vida are beastmen, and some are reincarnated from their ethnic parents, but not all of them are duke of the giant race.

But it is not a country that favors Vida's new race.

Evidence suggests that new ethnic groups in Vida, such as vampires and demons, have been identified as dangerous to humanity, and have been asked to be defeated in the Adventurer's Guild. Some races, such as Scylla, have been pushed into the borough.

The Heinz became Honorable Earl thanks to the defeat of Tennessia, a vampire of a new race in Vida, who worshiped the evil god.

And just recognizing Ghoul as a new race of Vida has no meaning, as Ghoul joins the new dangerous Vida race, like vampires and demons.

Second, the majority of the ghouls do not even know they are a new race of Vida. They attack people like demons, eat meat if they are men, or make them family if they are women.

Heinz has no power to lead such ghouls. When they talk to Ghoul, "You are a new race of Vida, stop fighting with humans," it's another matter whether they believe in Heinz's words.

The ghoul's children were not willing to protect them, but they couldn't protect a lot because they were the same as trying to tamper the monster from the side.

And even if you protect it, it will still be treated as a demon that has been named. You can't release them when you grow up, you have to take them or give them to another tamer.

For that reason Heinz closed his mouth on ghouls. I made an excuse that I was procrastinating, and I couldn't just put all my efforts into ghouls.

In the case of Vandaloo, there is a "guidance" that obeys the ghoul and a "country" that can safely protect the ghouls who led it. In addition, in the Duke of Al Krems, not only the achievements and benefits of the aristocracy, but also the sense of danger of being killed by enemies! It is.

They are not in Heinz. His guidance is not of a type that will have a significant impact on the ghouls he has just met, and there is no place to protect it.

"But we don't intend to justify our inability to do anything. The leader in reconciling the new race of Vida with humans is that Vandalu is more appropriate and even capable.

But we can't do the same thing with him. ''

"Well, don't fight Vandaloo, leave this dungeon? But you, Edgar, and Deliza are enemy of him.

"I've heard from Deliza that his mother has come alive ... but he doesn't seem to forgive him."

Jennifer asks Heinz, who talks about advocating and admitting to Vandaloo. Diana seems to agree.

"Well, that's right. After robbery has stolen money, if you make money again, the crimes of robbers who stole gold will not be a chara."

"And I killed my mother again in front of him. Even the recreated impostor seemed to have nothing to do with Vandaloo ..."

Neither Edgar nor Deriza seem to believe that Dalcia has been revived and that Vandalu is forgiving.

So, even if you stop aiming at Vandaloo against Arda's intentions, I don't think it will stop him from aiming at them.

"I know that, but I want to make sure of their will before that. Jennifer, Diana, you aren't a victim of Vandalu. If you're going to be with us in the future, ――

"Don't listen to the obvious"

"I agree with Jennifer."

Intercepting Heinz's voice asking him to confirm his will, the two respond. If they were to leave, they smiled bitterly, thinking they would ask for Selenium waiting for their return.

"Okay. Let's say my will .... Fight Vandaloo and stop him by defeating him. Now he's not a Demon King ... Thousands of years later he could become a Demon King, or Because what he leaves is more dangerous than the Demon King. ''

Heinz gained information about the gods who knew about Vandalu, and learned that he had created a new tribe of Vida, some demons, and a land of undead within the Border Mountains.

In that country, under the rule of Vandalu, people enjoy freedom and equality more than the election of Orbaum and the reconciliation that the Arda Reconciliations aim for.

I couldn't help wondering if it was so different even though I was the same guru.

However, he also realized the danger of the country.

The country of Vandalu is united because the ruler, Vandalu, exists. As in other countries, there is no substitute for Vandaloo.

With the presence of Vandalu alone, the new races of Vida cooperate with each other, the monsters are wise and calm, and the undead live intelligently as if they were the indigenous personalities.

But what if Vandaloo is gone? Since the power of the mentor is not inherited, it is meaningless to have any relatives.

Even if you don't have to be there, what if Vandaloo became arrogant and crushed the people as a result of his long reign?

That is the time of the world crisis.

"I will stand before him again to ask this and, depending on the answer, to stop Vandaloo.

Of course, he would be killed shortly after asking a question, so he had completed the remaining trials of the dungeon and gained his strength. ''

"No, you get the power ... the safe trial that remains is just before the last ten levels. Even if you don't die, you don't know how long it will take to capture."

"In the meantime, Vandalu should be even stronger. Then the difference won't shrink."

Heinz nodded to Edgar and Deliza, who argued so, saying, "OK."

"At the end of this dungeon is the hero, Bellwood, sleeping. The purpose of this dungeon is to learn the skills to wake him up and descend into the body.

In the past, Bellwood defeated Demon King Gudulanis, dropping the god of law, Arda, into his body. We must have the same power as him. ''