The Death Mage Who Doesn t Want a Fourth Time

Chapter 349: The battlefield expands and an identity is revealed

“There is no need to fret; I shall eradicate the scary monsters. Here! ‘Mysterious Space Rend!’” said Borzofoy, who had come to be known as the ‘Mysterious Person’ among the city guards, waving his staff with a smile.

The space warped around the mutant Minotaur in front of him, whose skin was made of metal, and its right shoulder exploded.

The mutant Minotaur bellowed in pain and anger.

This was an advanced spell that bent space and destroyed its target by utilizing the force generated when that space returned to its original form. But this high-Rank mutant Minotaur would not fall, even with its right shoulder and arm in tatters. It raised its axe with its left arm so that it could crush this Dwarf mage.

However–

“‘Life Tree Bind!’” cried Kalinia.

Her spell caused plants to suddenly sprout from the handle of the mutant Minotaur’s axe, which grew rapidly and extended their roots towards its body.

The mutant Minotaur let out a groan that quickly faded as the roots violently sapped its life away. Already wounded from Borzofoy’s spell, it was unable to withstand this attack, and only an emaciated husk of metallic skin and bones was left behind.

“Now is your chance, Smith-san. Go on ahead,” said Borzofoy.

“Take care, Mark,” said Kalinia.

Smith and Mark, were two city guards that Borzofoy and Kalinia had protected from the mutant Minotaur. They had previously remembered Borzofoy and Kalinia’s faces, as they had been the ones dealing with them when people reported them for being suspicious.

“Yeah, you guys be careful, too!” said Smith.

“Once we take these people to the Hero Preparatory School, we’ll be coming back here, alright?” said Mark.

And then they left, heading for the Hero Preparatory School while protecting the civilians.

But naturally, there were numerous entrances to the Dungeon Rikudou had created in the Hero Preparatory School’s surroundings, as well as in the roads leading to it.

But the monsters appearing from the gates, from ordinary Wyverns to Flame Dragons, from Ogres to Minotaur High Kings, were being slaughtered one after another, their heads severed or their bodies cleaved in two.

The one carrying out that slaughter was the temporarily-hired teacher, Dandolip-sensei – also known as Randolf ‘the True.’

“Shit, so much is going to waste because of that bastard!” he spat.

With his dagger, bow, and spiritual magic, he massacred the monsters as they streamed out of the gates. His expression was filled with fury and irritation.

“A countless number of monsters appearing all over the city at the same time was outside our expectations… Because of that, I didn’t have time to disguise myself properly, and I couldn’t afford to just provide some support while keeping myself hidden!” he cursed.

Having been temporarily hired as a teacher, Randolf had been at the Hero Preparatory School, which was his workplace. Vandalieu had asked him to protect the teaching staff and the students, and to protect the school building and underground Dungeon in the event that people took shelter in them.

Intuitively sensing that this was an emergency, he had dashed outside and slaughtered dozens of monsters on his own in a single instant.

And although the monsters that had appeared were of no significant threat to Randolf, their numbers were too many. And yet, the gates had appeared at reasonable distances from each other. Thus, he had been forced to wield his full strength in order to protect the city and the school building.

“What incredible power. He destroyed the monsters’ heads and hearts accurately so as to not cause any damage to the surrounding area!” said one of the teachers, who had followed Randolf outside.

“The rumors that Dandolip-sensei might be Randolf were true!” exclaimed another.

Randolf clutched his head with one hand as he continued slaughtering the monsters that were still appearing from the gates.

Meorilith sighed. “… I did warn you that you should reveal your true identity yourself.”

If Randolf had revealed his true identity to Vandalieu in advance and told him that he didn’t want to make it public, Vandalieu might have been able to help him keep it a secret, perhaps by preparing a fake Dandolip-sensei to provide an alibi for him.

“Shit, I won’t be able to disguise myself with red hair for a while,” Randolf muttered.

“And you really think you’d be able to get away with turning it blue or green?” said Meorilith.

“… I’ll be back after I go to the plaza on the main road.”

And with that, Randolf flew off like the wind, killing monsters instantaneously in his wake – likely to tell people to evacuate and to secure a path for them to do so by exterminating all the monsters on the way to the main road’s plaza.

With swift thrusts from her rapier, Meorilith stabbed both eyes of a Basilisk Lord, a monster that resembled an enormous lizard.

The Basilisk Lord screamed as it was blinded, but in the next moment, its tongue poked from its mouth, and on its tip was a third eye – a Demon Eye of Petrification – that stared at Meorilith.

But Meorilith did not turn to stone.

“‘Silver Flash!’” she shouted, and her rapier pierced the Basilisk Lord’s third eye.

With its most powerful weapons destroyed, it was nothing more than a large lizard, and Meorilith quickly ended its life.

“As expected of you, Principal…! The name and skill of the ‘Piercing Shooting Star’ is still alive and well, I see!” one of the teachers said, praising her brilliant skill.

Before she left the profession, Meorilith had been a capable A-class adventurer known as the ‘Piercing Shooting Star,’ a Title that she had earned through the speed of her thrusting attacks.

But Meorilith made a bitter face. “I’ve gotten rustier than I thought. My body feels heavier than when I was still an adventurer. I suppose I shouldn’t expect myself to perform as well as when I was clearing A-class Dungeons almost every day.”

“How about taking up dancing with Kanako-sensei?” suggested Randolf, who had returned. “They say that dancing is a skill that transfers to combat. It will also help you lose weight.”

“Randolf, I understand that you’re in a bad mood because you can’t keep your identity a secret any longer, but it’s quite immature to take it out on me. More importantly, how was the plaza?” Meorilith asked.

“There’s no problem with the plaza in the direction of the nobles’ district. Some promising youngsters were doing some good work there, so I left it to them. There’s no problem at the residential district and the slums, either. The upper-class nobles’ district… I don’t think I need to even mention it,” Randolf reported matter-of-factly.

“Y-you weren’t even gone for a minute! How have you grasped so much about the city’s current situation in that time?!” one of the teachers asked, astonished.

Orbaume, the capital of the Orbaume Kingdom, was a large city with a population of about a million. Surely it was impossible to go around the entire city – while defeating monsters on the way, no less – in a single minute.

“I would say ‘grasped’ is the wrong word. I just went from the plaza in front of the nobles’ district to the plaza in the commercial district, exterminating the straggling monsters on the way, and returned. Most of this information is what I heard from the wind spirits; I didn’t see it for myself,” said Randolf.

That’s still incredible, the teacher thought as he stared speechlessly at Randolf. Even though he’s retired, the strength of an S-class adventurer is extraordinary. With him here, we can get through this, can’t we?

“Hey, I said that things look alright, but that doesn’t mean that it’s certain that there won’t be any casualties. If you let your guard down, things will collapse in no time. If you’ve got time to stand there in a daze, go and fight instead!” Randolf barked.

“Y-yes, sir!” said the teacher, as well as the other teachers who ended up receiving Randolf’s scolding as well.

Breaking out into a cold sweat from Randolf’s presence, which was even more intense than that of the monsters, they went to face the monsters that were still emerging from the gates.