The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

82 The shadow gnawing at the slave-run mine and the approaching threat

After completing his Job-change, Vandalieu left the Seventh Cultivation Village and used Flight to catch up with Eleanora and the others, who had gone ahead of him.

But there were a lot of giant ravens around today and flying over the trees would be troublesome as he would run into them, so he was flying at a height below the trees' branches, weaving in between the trees.

Suddenly, there was a plopping sound and Vandalieu felt an unpleasant sensation on the back of his head.

"Hmm?"

Thinking that bird excrement or a tree's fruit had fallen onto him, he stopped and ran a hand through his hair, but there was nothing there. But it felt as if there was something crawling around. Even though he tried tracing the sensation with his finger and using Out-of-body Experience to look at the back of his own head, there was no sign of the object that had fallen onto him.

"... Well, whatever."

Danger Sense: Death wasn't responding, and though it was ticklish, it didn't really bother him. He decided to leave it be.

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Rodcorte became aware of the destruction of Kaidou Kanata's soul before the circle of transmigration system raised its alarm.

Although there was no chance that Kanata would turn into an Undead, Rodcorte had already realized that there was a chance that he would have his soul broken by Vandalieu or be turned into a member of one of Vida's races.

Of course, this would have been a needless worry if Kanata had been able to dispose of Vandalieu, but in the end, he had been defeated. And it wasn't just a mere defeat.

"The situation is one step away from being the absolute worst it can be," Rodcorte murmured to himself.

It was unfortunate that Kanata's soul had been broken, but the reward Rodcorte had promised Kanata if he was able to defeat Vandalieu... This reward was to reincarnate him into a world with no magic or monsters, similar to earth, as the peerlessly handsome son of a rich family. Because Rodcorte had already removed Kanata's soul from the system to prepare to grant him this reward, his soul's destruction hadn't caused large damage to the system.

The problem was that Kanata had blurted out to Vandalieu that the rest of the people reincarnating from Origin would be coming to kill him, and that even if they were killed in Lambda, they would be reincarnated again right away.

This had caused Vandalieu to become warier and made him think that the people trying to kill him would reincarnate endlessly unless he broke their souls.

"In reality, things are not going that well."

Even after Kanata had reincarnated in Lambda, three of the reincarnated individuals in Origin had died. The fact that Shihouin Mari had killed Kanata, and the fact that she had done so because of the evil deeds he had been doing in the shadows, had become clear. Because of these events, there were fewer casualties than Rodcorte had expected, but it seemed that the group of reincarnated individuals had been disbanded.

Although they had all been reincarnated from the same Earth and been riding on the same boat, they were a group of people who didn't necessarily all share the same views. And within three years of reincarnating in Origin, there would have been changes to their sense of values.

The reason they had been part of a single group up until recently was likely due to the great presence of Amemiya Hiroto, whose ability was far above the others.

The problem was that the three who had died hadn't been happy about Rodcorte's request.

They had been surprised that the Undead they had killed was someone who had been reincarnated from Earth like them, but when asked to kill him again in Lambda, they had shaken their heads. Rodcorte had tried offering them rewards similar to the ones that Kanata had asked for, but they had still declined.