The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

Side Chapter 4 Meanwhile, an S-class adventurer...

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A waterside town in a maritime nation called Kalahad, in the Amid Empire's southern region.

This place in that waterside town, which resembled a bar, was the base of the only S-class adventurer in the western region of the Bahn Gaia continent, the Thunderclap Schneider.

It seemed rather unfitting to be used as a base by an S-class adventurer, but he was not using it as a 'guest'. He had bought the entire building and was using it as the 'owner'.

Four men faced each other in seats placed far inside the bar.

Two of them were sitting in the seats. One of them was a man in his thirties with numerous scars on his face, and it was easy to tell even through his clothes that his body was well-trained. Standing behind him were two men who appeared to be accustomed to fighting.

The man facing them was a tall man with blonde hair who appeared to be in his early-to-mid-twenties.

His face appeared to be well-featured and feminine on close inspection, but his body was packed with enough muscle to dilute that impression and there was a wild air about him.

If the beauty and ferocity of a large, wild carnivore were turned into a person, this man might be the result.

"So, you're saying that you're messengers from Duke Marme?" said the man.

He was the Thunderclap Schneider. He was sitting with his legs outstretched and crossed over each other as he gestured for the messenger from a duke of the Amid Empire to continue speaking.

"That's right. We want to request that you investigate the southern region of the Bahn Gaia continent." The man who gave this response had sweat forming on his forehead. As he was a lesser nobleman himself, he should have been reprimanding Schneider for his arrogant behavior, but this was something that he would never do.

Schneider had the privilege of the 'strong'.

Numerous noblemen who had incurred Schneider's wrath in the past had been buried.

Among them was an earl who had been directly punched to death in a public place without any schemes or hidden plans.

However, Schneider received no punishment whatsoever. No, the earl had forced him to accept an illegal request that would normally have ended in his death, but... he had completed the request easily and returned quickly.

Marshukzarl, the current Emperor, had acknowledged Schneider's results, acquitted him of his crimes and crushed the family of the earl who had been punched to death.

That had been the moment the Emperor declared that Schneider was more important than foolish noblemen.

"Investigate, huh? How long do I have to investigate for and what am I supposed to investigate?" Schneider asked. "If you just tell me to investigate, all I'd have to do is go there, come back and say, 'I've investigated the continent's southern region,' and that'd be it, messenger."

In reality, however, anyone with superficial skills would become monster food on even a short trip to and from the continent's southern region.

Even if one took the sea route from Kalahad, there would be numerous Devil's Seas, seas that had become Devil's Nests, along the way. They would be crawling with enormous monsters such as Krakens and Sea Dragons that were capable of sinking large ships.