The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

91 It would have been good if nothing happened, but...

In terms of actually protecting the village, the battle to defend the Seventh Cultivation Village from Karcan's unit of knights disguised as bandits was going well.

By the time Vandalieu killed Karcan, half of the thirty archers and infantry surrounding the village had already been killed.

"OOOOOOOOHN!"

"UOH! A Golem?!"

"WAAAAH! What the hell is this Slime?!"

The Equestrians who were on standby after surrounding the village should have only needed to be shooting the villagers who had barely escaped with their lives, the only things that approached them were Stone Golems and Golems made of liquid Death Iron, which looked like Slimes at first glance.

The Golems that Vandalieu had diligently made and placed in the ground were ten Rank 3 Stone Golems and three Rank 7 liquid Death Iron Golems. All of them were affected by his Strengthen Followers and Strengthen Subordinates skills; they were as powerful as monsters one or two Ranks above them.

If the Equestrians were all gathered together, even if they couldn't defeat the Golems, at least half of them would have been able to escape because the Golems were slow to move. But because they had been surrounding the village, they were all separated.

"W-why are there so many Golems and black Slimes in a place where there are only supposed to be Goblins?!" shouted the final knight, before being covered an engulfed completely by a Death Iron Golem.

The Death Iron was a liquid, but it was just as heavy as the iron it had originally been made from. And since the Golem had its own superhuman strength as well, escape after being swallowed by it would be impossible without a tremendous amount of physical strength.

And then the Golems groaned as they carried the Equestrians' corpses to the small-scale Dungeon that Vandalieu had created in order to hide them.

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Kasim and his party were putting up a good fight against the ten mounted bandits.

"UOOOOH! Stone Shield! Shield Bash!"

Unable to withstand the blow of Kasim's strengthened shield that he had swung with all his might, one of the Equestrians fell off his horse.

Zeno aimed for that fallen Equestrian, but one of the other Equestrians stood in his way, blocking his line of fire.

"Guh! Are you trying to show off?!" shouted the Equestrian. Fortunately for him, the leather armor he was wearing was lighter than what he normally used, so he got to his feet quickly.

As usual, Kasim's skill level was still too low to use Shield Bash. "It's the embodiment of my fighting spirit!" he yelled back.

They were being forced to fight three against ten; they wouldn't last without some fighting spirit.

Fester was swinging his sword bravely next to Kasim as well. "UOOOOH! Lina, I'll protect you! Triple Thrust!" He used a Swordsmanship martial skill, releasing three swift, consecutive thrusts, aiming at one of the enemies on horseback.

The Equestrian twisted his body to avoid the first thrust, deflected the second with his own sword and was hit by the third, though the third thrust only took a little flesh off his side.

"There's your... weakness?"

Triple Thrust was a martial technique with three consecutive thrusts at a fearsome speed, but once the three thrusts were endured, there was an opening where the user was vulnerable.