The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

13 The surprises that shorten a lifespan too much

Note from the translator:

Sorry about the delay, was on a bit of a short break. A sponsored chapter is coming soon as well! Enjoy the chapter!

Yoshi

「Well then, first of all, can you tell me about the magic you use and the skills you know, boy? Of course, if you do not wish to tell me, I will not press you any further.」

「No, I trust you... There'll be a hundred or so guys who know about it in the future anyway.」

In order to learn the basics of magic, telling Zadiris about his magic and skills was necessary for Vandalieu. He would be able to receive guidance and advice based on her knowledge and experience.

However, that meant giving Zadiris information regarding his death-attribute magic. Even normal adventurers and monsters would be hesitant about freely giving away information regarding their skills. This was because doing so revealed all of one's weaknesses.

However, sharing that information with people that one trusted was not uncommon. For adventurers, keeping one's skills a secret from party members would impede teamwork. But for monsters, this may be another story.

And though it was still some decades away, there would be a hundred people coming from Origin and reincarnating here, and all of them would know about Vandalieu's death-attribute magic.

Even if by some miracle Rodcorte didn't tell them about Vandalieu's death-attribute magic, there would likely be data left at the laboratory that he had been imprisoned in, and Magic Items created using his death-attribute magic were already widely circulating in Origin. At that time, those items were advertised as having been created not through death-attribute magic, but independently-developed life-attribute magic, but surely their true nature would have been discovered by now.

Therefore, it could be assumed that Amemiya Hiroto and the others found out about Vandalieu's death-attribute magic after he died in Origin. It was extremely unlikely that they wouldn't know about it.

That was why Vandalieu couldn't see a reason to keep it a secret from someone like Zadiris, whom he trusted.

「A hundred people? Well, in any case, about your magic, boy –」

Right now, Zadiris was under the impression that Vandalieu's magic was a special kind of life-attribute magic. At first, one would think that the Undead were completely unrelated to life-attribute magic, but in Lambda, the only ones who could control the Undead were life-attribute mages.

They forcefully poured life force into corpses, creating creatures with fake life that moved artificially. Since such Undead were forced into this unnatural state, they were fundamentally weaker than Undead that appeared in Devil's Nests and Dungeons.

Zadiris had thought that Vandalieu was using a special spell that overcame these limitations, so she was rendered speechless when Vandalieu told her about his death-attribute magic.

「D... Death attribute? A new... A ninth attribute? Such a thing really exists... No, I suppose it is true. You actually control the Undead and cast spells that I have no knowledge about.」

In Origin, the death attribute was the eighth attribute, but unlike Origin, the time attribute existed in Lambda, so that made the death attribute the ninth attribute.

「So you're surprised after all?」

「That goes without saying! Any monster that knows the potential value of a new attribute's magic would show interest!」

For monsters, magic was a power that allowed them to survive, as well as rise up in a society where the strong stood on top.

Nobody would know how to fight against a user of unknown spells. Since the entirety of the death attribute was unknown, there would be any number of ways to kill an enemy on sight with no reaction.