The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

49 The victory against mid boss, Dragon Golem is next

Note from the translator:

As I keep gaining translation experience and get better at it, I want to keep trying things to make improvements to my translations. I want my translations to read more like normal English literature, though I'm never going to go so far as to remove honorifics or things like "Bocchan". But I am going to try an experimental change in this chapter.

I'm localizing the way dialogue is written (or more specifically, the narrative/lack thereof surrounding dialogue) rather than following the way it is written in Japanese. Though it's pretty much at my liberty and relies on my questionable writing skill, it might make it smoother to read. With the way I'm doing it, the actual meaning shouldn't change at all other than that I'll do my best to make it clear who's speaking when the Japanese raw doesn't specify (which I was already doing with the names in brackets). Alongside this change, I'm removing almost all use of non-standard punctuation such as these brackets:「」『』【】

Like I said before, this is a very experimental change and if I receive overly negative feedback regarding this, I'll revert it back for the next chapter. Let me know what you guys think.

Yoshi

Insectoid monsters have no ability to think and move solely on instinct.

Upon hearing this, one might think that this would make it easier for Tamers such as those with the Animal Trainer skill to control them. However, the reality is that their instincts are too powerful for humans to manipulate.

There have been those who came up with ways to use special herbs, incense and certain sounds to control them to a certain extent, but the final result was too unstable to be called taming. It was a dangerous method where one mistake would end with the would-be tamers being eaten.

And thus, the fact that insectoid monsters and Undead cannot be tamed became widely-known.

"Is that how it's supposed to be?" Vandalieu asked after listening to Borkus's explanation.

Buzzing.

"It is," replied Borkus.

More buzzing.

"I find that hard to believe." Vandalieu had been captured by the countless Cemetery Bees and was now being carried around by them.

They're so friendly, though.

It apparently happened to be the time of year where the Cemetery Bees would change the location of their nest when Vandalieu had found them. And then they had been caught by his Death-Attribute Charm.

There had been a previous incident where the Undead in a Dungeon were friendly towards Vandalieu, but he hadn't managed to tame them and bring them outside the Dungeon back then. However, these bees had followed Vandalieu's party even down to the next floor.

It was likely because the level of Vandalieu's Death-Attribute Charm skill had increased since back then.

Or perhaps it was simply that Cemetery Bees were more compatible with Vandalieu.

"Ghouls, Vampires and Cemetery Bees. This Death-Attribute Charm works on a lot more things than I thought," said Borkus.

Cemetery Bees were originally one of the types of monsters created by the Demon King to fight against humans and take over this world. It is possible that they were actually created by an evil god who rules over death.

Either way, if Death-Attribute Charm levels up any further, it might be a good idea to start avoiding Dungeons and Devil's Nests where there are lots of Undead.

It would be pandemonium if I was followed by hordes of Undead each time I entered and exited such places. It might be an effective way to gather forces quickly, though.