The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

157 The Kijin nation and a kindred-spirit

Note from the translator:

I have an announcement to make regarding the future of the translation of this novel. I am moving to a new country and beginning a new job starting in early August.

As of the posting of this chapter, there are almost 12 chapters left in the queue. I intend to continue translating up until the end of this month at least, so there is still some room for more donations and chapters. I will make another announcement closer to the date when I think there are enough sponsored chapters in the queue to keep me busy until I leave.

As some of you might know, I have been translating Death Mage full time for a while now, which is how the current release rate is possible. Obviously, translating chapters at the pace I have been translating them will not be possible once I have another full-time job.

Once I leave, I will be increasing the base chapter price to $150. Some of you will disagree with this decision but it's how supply and demand works - once I have moved, the time I have to translate will be in much shorter supply. I am expecting and hoping that donations will actually slow down so I can reasonably manage to keep up with the donations with the limited time I'll have.

Unfortunately, this is overall bad news for the readers, so I'm sorry about that. But I'd also like to thank all the readers for enjoying my work. I also want to give a huge thanks to the sponsors. Without you, the translation of this series over the past year and a half would have been quite literally impossible.

Yoshi

The battles against the Six Horn Battle-Demons, including Kidoumaru, were fierce. They proved that the Kijin race's image in human societies as 'an inferior race of Majin with even their brains filled with muscle, incompetent in the use of magic' was wrong.

The Second Horn Kidoumaru had been exactly as human society imagined Kijin, wielding the large metal club that was likely the source of his Title of 'Great Metal Club,' and wearing clothes made of fur. But he was an exceptional user of Club Technique; he had not merely been boasting of his strength.

The Third Horn was in stark contrast to Kidoumaru; he was a stout, plump, black-skinned Kijin wearing a loincloth, the 'Thousand Hands' Gasuke. He was an exceptional user of Unarmed Fighting Technique, his skill focused on the use of palm strikes and tackles.

The Fourth Horn was a thin, blue-skinned Kijin woman known as the 'Starlight' Shagara, a fearsome Kunoichi that used Light-Attribute Magic to conceal herself as she attacked.

The Fifth Horn was the 'Fool Commander' Zanjou, a famous commander who commanded five trained Ogres that he had tamed, manipulating them like his own limbs. And the Sixth Horn, Dowan 'the Undefeated,' was a fearsome shield-bearer, fully clad in a warrior's armor.

"Even if I cannot defeat you, I shall at least land one strike!"

A spirited halberd swing closed in on Vandalieu. But he slashed at the halberd's wielder with his tongue!

"GUBUH?!"

Upon being struck by the tongue, the halberd's wielder lost his balance and fell onto the ground, and the halberd never reached Vandalieu.

"I-impossible... to think that you would really attack with your tongue..."

The halberd's wielder was greatly surprised and shocked, but he seemed to have received little real damage. He tried to get up right away, but he was astonished to find that his body wouldn't move as he wanted it to.

"That's probably because my tongue's paralyzing venom has taken effect, or because your head got shaken up. You should be able to stand again in a little while, Oniwaka-san," Vandalieu said to Oniwaka, who was the leader of the Six Horn Battle-Demons and first child of Tenma, the current king of the Kijin nation.