The Death Mage Who Doesn t Want a Fourth Time

Chapter 351: Orbaume faces a trial

The distribution of gates producing the monsters attacking the city of Orbaume was mainly focused around the castle’s grounds, the nobles’ district, the commercial district, and the plazas where the Guilds were. Rikudou had deliberately chosen these locations so that it would be easy for Vandalieu to see the havoc wreaked upon the city.

But although there were relatively fewer gates in the residential and slum districts, there were still some gates there.

A monster with the upper body of an Orc and the lower body of a serpent appeared, crushing the dilapidated houses in the slum district.

“Monster! There’s another monster!” a young man screamed.

Two enormous people were approaching him from the other direction.

“What?! Where’s the monster?!” one of them exclaimed.

The young man screamed again in terror as he looked at the two. “An Undead! There’s an Undead here, too?!”

“We’re asking you where! Calm down and tell us, in an easy-to-understand way!” the other enormous person shouted.

The half-Orc, half-serpent monster let out a noise that was halfway between a roar and a hiss.

“Ah, over there!” the two giants said simultaneously as they turned around, spotting the monster.

“A half-Noble Orc, half-Gorgon, or something? Seems like it’d be delicious to eat with a drink!” said one of them – Godwin, the former king of the Majin nation inside the Boundary Mountain Range.

The young man fell over backwards in fear between the monster and the two enormous figures, and Godwin stepped forward to hide him from the monster’s view.

The monster made another strange scream as it bathed Godwin in its petrifying gaze. However, his dark blue skin did not turn to stone.

“Something like that won’t get through my ‘Status Effect Resistance!’ ‘Roaring Flying Fist!’” the former Majin king roared as his fist produced a shockwave that sank into the monster’s chest, shattering its bones and causing them to pierce its organs.

But perhaps the monster possessed an abnormal amount of Vitality, or perhaps its heart was located in a different part of its body; although it coughed up blood, it managed to swing at Godwin with its claws.

The other enormous figure – the ‘Sword King’ Borkus, hero of Talosheim – leapt forward. “Pork and snake meat, huh? Let me separate those! ‘Elder Dragon Slayer!’”

The monster’s upper body parted ways with its lower body. As the upper body flew through the air, Godwin caught it and snapped the monster’s neck, finally silencing it.

The lower body thrashed about, smashing the nearby rubble and stone pavement.

“What a lively lower body this is! While I’m at it, let me filet it into three pieces!” said Borkus as he swung his sword down at it.

“Let’s have Vandalieu smoke it for us later!” said Godwin. “Hey, human. Hurry up and evacuate! Can you still run?” he said to the young man who had just witnessed a fight so one-sided that it was questionable as to whether it could even really be called a battle to the death.

“A monster and an Undead are betraying the other monsters?!” the young man exclaimed.

“No!” Godwin and Borkus shouted together, finally realizing that the young man had been fearing them as a monster and an Undead.

“Yeah, sure, I’m an Undead, but look at this bow tie!” said Borkus, pointing at his neck.

“I’m wearing a collar as well, you know!” said Godwin.

Indeed, Borkus was wearing a bow tie, and Godwin was wearing a collar. But Borkus was three meters tall, and the right half of his skull was visible because it was missing its skin. Godwin was also three meters tall, with dark blue skin, a pair of twisted horns on his head, and a pair of membranous wings on his back.

Certainly, nobody could blame the young man for not noticing the items they were wearing on their necks.

“I’m a servant at the haunted mansion that the boy… I mean, the haunted mansion that Vandalieu lives in!” Borkus said.

“And I am Vandalieu’s familiar!” said Godwin.

The two of them told these lies with their chests thrown out proudly. Borkus had never been in Silkie Zakkart Mansion, and Godwin hadn’t yet been registered as a familiar at the Tamers’ Guild.

Rikudou’s vile attack had been on a greater scale than Vandalieu had anticipated, so the space-attribute Ghost Jane Doe had only just brought these two to the city today; it was the first time they had ever been to the city of Orbaume. They had put on the bow tie and collar after they were teleported here.

“R-really? S-so you’re not going to kill me or eat me?! Then save me, please!” the young man begged.

He was just an ordinary civilian. Given the situation, he didn’t have the perceptiveness or mental strength right now to notice how suspicious their story was.

“As I said, you should run to the commercial district – Hmm, never mind. That won’t be necessary,” said Godwin, suddenly looking up above him. “Hey, kid. Do you like the sky and ships?”

“Huh?” the young man uttered in confusion.

Godwin grabbed him and picked him up with one hand. “You love them? That’s great! Here you go, then!”

“W-what the hell?!” the young man shouted, and a moment later, he screamed as he was hurled upwards.

But he was quickly caught by a Gehenna Bee – a monster that looked like a cross between a bee and a woman.