The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

Side Chapter 14 Luciliano's report - Lower section + Epilogue

I let out a scream of delight at the sheer number of Undead that Master recovered from Gubamon.

"Master, you are the greatest!" I exclaimed.

"You can praise me more, you know," Master said arrogantly, though with no expression on his face.

There were countless Undead filling the underground workshop beneath the royal castle, so many that even the moment it would take me to look back at Master would have felt like a moment wasted.

All of them were the handmade Undead created by the Pure-breed Vampire Gubamon.

"Kufufufu, I cannot stop drooling! I will become dehydrated at this rate!" I said.

"It somehow seems to me that the Zombies are scared of him, Holy Son," said Nuaza.

"Luciliano-san is very happy, isn't he? He's like a child who has received a new toy," said Darcia.

"This is bad, kid! Your mother's eyes are looking crazy!" said Borkus.

Even Nuaza and Borkus's rude words coming from behind me did not reach my ears.

First of all, there were the recently-made, mass-produced Zombie Giants and Vampire Zombies that make up the majority of the Undead. These were wonderful.

"How effective..." I murmured. "Surgical modifications and processing has been done where needed, but corners have been cut where they should have been!"

"... Jyuuh? Is it not a bad thing to cut corners?" asked Bone Man, who was assisting me with inspecting and modifying the Undead.

"It depends on the situation," I replied. "This is obvious, but to Gubamon, these were mass-produced products... equivalent to cast-metal weapons, for instance. The only meaning to them is their numbers. Thus, one must not spend more time on them than necessary. However, it would also be meaningless to cut too many corners and have them be of no use. Over here... Observe!"

The Zombie at the core of a Zombie Giant retched as I opened its skull along the stitch-marks on its head, exposing its brain. I then pulled out the metal plate separating the left half of the brain from the right side.

"This metal plate restricts the Undead's own will, emotions and thoughts! This is a trick to ensure that the only thing it can perceive clearly are the orders of its master, Gubamon," I explained. "But this is no simple feat. This metal plate that bears Hihiryushukaka's holy symbol, in order for it to exhibit its effect, it requires precise surgery to insert it into the correct place at the correct depth within the brain!"

The fields of medicine and biochemistry are apparently far behind the worlds that Master lived in previously. I was able to immediately understand how Gubamon's surgery works because of the knowledge that Master shared with me regarding how the brain functions.

With that said, it seems that even on Earth and in Origin, the brain is not fully understood.

It is likely that Gubamon and the other Pure-breed Vampires either learned the mechanisms behind the brain's function from the champions who were summoned here from another world, or given this knowledge by Hihiryushukaka.

The Zombies making up the Zombie Giant groaned as I then cut through their joints and the seams joining the corpses together.

"But look here!" I said, pointing at the exposed muscle and bone. "Only the skin and superficial muscles have been sewn together; the deeper muscles remain separate! In this state, the superhuman strength of the Subordinate Vampires used to create this Zombie Giant cannot be fully used, and it would lose balance when it moves. However, effectively joining the muscles and skeletons of multiple corpses so that they maintain good balance is almost an impossible task. It is a great undertaking that would take me numerous days."