The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

68 The Hartner Duchy has gone through a decline

『The levels of the Unarmed Fighting Technique, Venom Secretion (Claws, Fangs, Tongue) and Bloodsucking skills have increased!』

"I see. This city had already become the Goblin King's stronghold," said Vandalieu.

"Still, you're pretty impressive," Zran remarked. "To think that you'd be able to take down a disaster-designated monster on your own."

"I wanted to see King going wild, too," said Braga.

"No, it wasn't really that special," Vandalieu told him.

That evening, he and Eleanora, who had regrouped with the ninja unit, were having a hot pot together.

After Vandalieu had approached the city, he had fought the Goblins in earnest. He used Out-of-body Experience and Spirit Form to divide himself, used the Materialization skill to materialize his body parts, fired Death Bullets all over the place and slaughtered the Goblins with his claws while running endlessly around them. It was a one-sided massacre.

He had used Golem Transformation to create Stone Golem allies from the city's walls as well, so every single Goblin was turned into a silent corpse.

In addition, he didn't have to think about finding female Goblins that could become partners for Braga and the other Black Goblins. The Black Goblins didn't understand the Goblin language, and because Black Goblins resembled humans far more than Goblins, their sense of beauty wouldn't match.

"It wasn't anything amazing," said Vandalieu. "It was only a thousand Goblins."

"For normal people, that would be pretty amazing," Zran told him. "That's a number that even a C-class adventurer would run from if he was on his own."

"Well you know, I'm not really normal," Vandalieu pointed out.

"Yeah, King is amazing," said Braga.

A thousand Goblins led by a Goblin King. The pack of Goblins under the Goblin King's rule had still been small, but a normal adventurer or even a party wouldn't have been able to challenge them.

Though the Goblin King's Strengthen Followers skill was likely still low in level, it would still strengthen the Goblins beyond their normal abilities, and under the King's rule, even cowardly Goblins would become reckless soldiers willing to sacrifice their own lives.

However, these had proved to be enemies that Vandalieu could defeat one-sidedly on his own.

He was vulnerable to enemies who possessed enough power to break through his Impact-Negating Barrier or his Magic Absorption Barrier, but he was essentially invincible against enemies who couldn't break them.

Keeping his physical body and soul protected inside his barriers, he had left the outside fighting to his spirit-form clones. With Vandalieu doing this, it was impossible for Goblin Soldiers and Generals armed only with rusted weapons to deal him a fatal blow.

Though the Goblin Kings and Mages did their best to defeat the clones, they inflicted pain that Vandalieu considered to be tolerable, and he could simply make more clones again immediately afterwards.

With the remaining stone walls of the town turned into Stone Golem allies for Vandalieu, even escaping was difficult for the Goblins.

As a result, the Goblin King and his pack were annihilated after managing to make Vandalieu use only 10,000,000 of his Mana. Vandalieu had even recovered the majority of that 10,000,000 Mana with his Automatic Mana Recovery skill and by using Bloodsucking on the Goblin King.

"But Vandalieu-sama, couldn't you have defeated them faster by using disease?" asked Eleanora.

If Vandalieu wanted to, it was possible to quickly produce the pathogen that caused the disease that he had used on the Mirg shield-nation's army in the defense of Talosheim last year. If he had used this, the non-Black, normal Goblins would have instantly become unable to act. They wouldn't have died immediately, but Vandalieu would simply have to finish off the collapsed Goblins as if he were performing some manual labor task, so it wouldn't have even been a battle.