After all of that, one would have produced a Golem.
That was why it was impossible to make Golems from the outer walls of the town that had already been built, the ruler's house and Adventurers' Guild building that had been in use and the earth of the fields that the farmers had been plowing every day to produce crops.
If there was an alchemist who could do this, then not only the shield-nation of Mirg but the entire Amid Empire would do their best to apprehend him. If that was impossible then they would cover up his existence.
「Indeed, it is just a coincidence after all.」
There was no way for a Dhampir who was three years of age at most to be such an exceptional individual. Thomas took on the facial expression of Marshal Palpapek once more as he picked up his pen and turned his attention back to the documents.
Perhaps if Luciliano had realized that Vandalieu had turned the Ent-made outer wall of the Orc village into Golems, if he had figured out that Vandalieu possessed an abnormally large Mana Pool, then Marshal Palpapek might have come to a different conclusion.
Well, even if he were to figure it out now, it would already be too late.
His mistake was the poor choice of relying on his【common knowledge】to deal with the【unprecedented】situation of a Dhampir child being a King that had united the Ghouls.
Around the time Marshal Palpapek was having a private conversation with a Vampire, Vandalieu and the other Ghouls were traveling back towards their home village.
The one hundred or so captive Ghoul women that they had rescued were in poor physical states after having been left in poor living conditions for so long and because their food intake had been deliberately restricted to keep their strength low. Some of them had limbs that had been broken and then healed at crooked angles. They weren't in any state to walk long distances.
The female adventurers who were aspiring to undergo the Ghoul transformation ritual weren't any better off; they were considerably weakened as well.
More than a hundred women in this state had to be carried through a Devil's Nest that monsters dwelled in. It was quite the difficult task.
The one carrying out the task was Sam and the other carriages created by Vandalieu.
「Get up, combine, transform.」
The remains of the Ent-made Wood Golems that the Orcs had destroyed. Vandalieu turned them into Wood Golems once more and used the【Golem Transmutation】skill to have them combine into a single piece of wood. And then, using Sam as a model, he created carriages from them.
Normally, making a carriage using only wood with no metal parts wouldn't go very well, but because the Ent logs were as hard as iron while still possessing the properties of wood, and because the entire carriage was a Golem, it moved without any problems. In fact, the wheels turned on their own without needing anything to pull the carriages.
Fortunately, there was an incredible amount of ruins lying around to be used as materials. Under Bugogan's orders, the Orcs had probably cut down enough Ents to make them extinct in this Devil's Nest.
「If you were to live in a human city, boy, I am sure you would be able to make a living doing this.」(Zadiris)
「Building carriages? The materials here are good, but I'm sure they're not particularly worth selling if you compare them to something built by a specialized craftsman.」(Vandalieu)
「No, I am talking about the lumber. In human cities, they pay gold to obtain lumber, don't they? With this technique, you could even create lumber from sawdust, could you not?」(Zadiris)
「I can definitely make lumber as long as the wood hasn't been burned to ashes, but...」(Vandalieu)
Unlike metal, one could not put a piece of wood that had already been cut into a furnace to melt it to have a piece of usable material again. That was why carpenters devoted their time to improving their technique.
However, if Vandalieu used his【Golem Transmutation】skill, he could freely turn already-cut pieces of wood back into a larger piece of timber, even though he didn't possess such techniques.
If he wanted, he could turn branches and sawdust produced by sawing fallen trees into lumber that could be used to make pillars or floorboards.
Even the Ghouls who possessed no monetary system knew that this was an innovative technique.
「But I don't really want to make that my occupation.」(Vandalieu)
「Hmm? Why is that? Could you not make a large profit by doing so?」(Zadiris)
As Zadiris asked the unenthusiastic Vandalieu these questions, he answered with a sigh.
「Getting to the point of being able to make a large profit seems like it will be very troublesome.」
What Vandalieu was able to do was essentially wood scrap recycling. Since it was a recycling process, the timber he produced would be second-hand goods. On Earth, people might think of it as regenerated wood and he might be able to play the ecologically-friendly game, but Lambda hadn't seemed to have even invented steam engines, let alone reached technologically advanced civilization. It was doubtful how much value ecologically-friendly products would have or if people would even understand the concept of ecological friendliness.
Considering that, what kind of price would second-hand goods made from scraps sell for...?
On top of that, this process was impossible without the【Golem Transmutation】skill. He would soon be learning Alchemy, but he wouldn't be able to create a Magic Item that would allow others to use this skill.
In other words, Vandalieu would have to do everything personally.
In the end, if he tried to profit by using the【Golem Transmutation】skill to create ecologically-friendly timber, there was a chance that he would be working long hours for little gain.
For Vandalieu, who had lived with a luxury complex, this was an unacceptable choice.
「Well, if it was high-quality lumber like ebony on Earth, I might be able to earn a lot and I could do the same with building stones, so with marble... Ah, but if there is something like a Stonemasons' Guild, they might investigate the source of my stones. For lumber, there might be something like a Lumberjacks' Guild, too...」
「It seems that human society is complicated. Boy, let us leave the deliberation at that, shall we?」
Zadiris patted Vandalieu's head with these words, as he had begun to use his brain to contemplate the potential troubles.
Incidentally, the Ent lumber that Vandalieu had used to create the carriages was worth ten times more than common wood like cedar and pine in human society, but Vandalieu would not learn that for quite some time to come.
【Vandalieu has acquired the Carpentry skill! The level of the Strengthen Follower skills has increased!】
『Bocchan! Leave the women to me!』
And Sam's Rank had increased from the great amount of Experience Points that he had earned in yesterday's battle.
The Level 3 Ghost Carriage had run over and killed Rank 5 Orc Generals and the Rank 7 Noble Orc Bugogan in addition to the Rank 3 Orcs. There was no doubt that a huge amount of Experience Points had been poured into him.
Thanks to this, the dangerous spikes that Tarea had attached to the carriage had fused with the carriage's body, and he was now a Rank 4 Blood Carriage.
And with the skills he had gained when his Rank increased,【Size Alteration】and【Comfort Maintenance】, he was particularly useful for transporting the weakened women.
【Size Alteration】was a skill that changed the size of Sam's body, allowing him to grow from his original size of being a three-horse carriage to a four-horse carriage, or shrink to a two-horse carriage.
【Comfort Maintenance】was a skill that allowed him to maintain comfort inside the carriage at all times, no matter what the conditions were like outside.
And thanks to the【Impact Resistance】skill, the carriage didn't vibrate at all when traveling normally.
His race had changed into a dangerous-sounding one, but Sam's convenient features were steadily increasing.
Because of the Experience Points earned in yesterday's battle, Vigaro and Sam weren't the only ones whose Ranks had increased. Many of the Ghouls had increased in Rank to become Ghoul Warriors or Ghoul Grapplers.
Among Vandalieu's servants, Saria, Rita and Bone Bird's Ranks had also increased.
Though Saria and Rita had Ranked up, their races hadn't changed; they were still a Living High-Leg Armor and Living Bikini Armor.
This was probably because the two of them hadn't been able to fully manifest the powers that their armor possessed before, but with the Experience Points that they had gained, they were now able to manifest them to some extent.
The fact that their races hadn't changed was because they had developed, but still weren't using the suits of armor to their full potential.
『I want to hurry and become a powerful monster, a maid who wouldn't have to let Bocchan allow his enemies to cut his flesh and bones in order to break the enemy's bones*!』
TLN*: There's a Japanese phrase that translates to something like, "Let your enemy cut your flesh and you will break his bones." It's apparently similar to the English phrase that goes, "Give an inch to take a mile." In Vandalieu's case, he let both his flesh and his bones to be cut to beat Bugogan, so this variation on the phrase is something of a pun/joke/humor thing.
『I know that you want to say that that's not what a maid does, Bocchan. But both Rita and I are serious about this!』
It seemed that the two of them had been greatly shocked by the sight of Vandalieu lying on the ground, covered in blood with his torso cut open.
This had renewed their drive to become stronger. This was very promising news.
『Gueeeh.』
Bone Bird had become a Rank 4 Specter Bird. The Spirit Form that had covered its bones was even brighter, and from a distance, it would look like a sparkling bird of good omens.
But apparently the people of some regions considered the appearance of such a monster to be a bad omen. Vandalieu could only hope that there were no such regions in the Orbaume Kingdom.
And the heaviest luggage that would be problematic to transport back to the village... the spoils of war, the corpses of the enemies. But this problem was the easiest to solve.
After all, it was simple to have the spoils of war walk the distance on their own.
『Bufuuh.』
『... Giih... Bugiih...』
With the【Preservation】spell cast on them after draining their blood to suspend their decomposition, the Orcs, Kobolds and the corpses of the beasts that the Orcs had been using didn't need to be carried after they had been turned into Zombies.
In fact, since they could carry the weapons and armor they had used while they were alive and the belongings that they had stolen from adventurers, they were luggage carriers rather than luggage themselves.
Even though they were Zombies, their decomposition had been halted with death-attribute magic and not even one day had passed since they died, so their flesh and organs were still nice and fresh.
After getting back to the village, Vandalieu would take the spirits possessing them back out and they would turn back into normal corpses and there would be no problem in harvesting materials from their bodies and eating their meat.
But monsters didn't know this; to them, these were Zombies, not prey. And so the Zombies wouldn't be attacked by monsters and there was no need to have someone watch them to make sure monsters wouldn't take them away.
One problem was that the Zombies walked slowly, but since the weakened Ghoul women were being transported, it didn't matter that the Zombies were slow.
「Having Vandalieu turn all the prey that we hunt into Zombies from now on would make them easier to transport back to the village!」
Vigaro and the others approved of this method.
After Vandalieu regained his composure from Zadiris's soothing words, he walked on, not paying any attention to the Zombie of Bugogan who was letting out a moaned『Bugoh...』
It's not that there was no space for him to ride on Sam or one of the other carriages. He was turning three soon, so he wanted to start building up his physical fitness.
『Say, Vandalieu. What do you think about me becoming an Undead or Golem? And then I would become strong and fight with you. Don't you think that would be wonderful?』
「I'm happy that you feel that way, but I don't know about that. If you stay in the same vessel for too long, the shape of your spirit can change so I don't know if that might affect me resurrecting you later.」
If a creature's spirit stayed in a certain vessel for a long time, the shape of its spirit would change to match that vessel.
For example, Sam was originally a human man, but if Vandalieu were to remove his spirit from the carriage that he possessed, his spirit would likely resemble the carriage, not his appearance from when he was alive.
That was how easy it was for spirits that had lost their bodies to change shape. Strong malice, hatred and lingering regrets were necessary for a spirit to maintain its original shape.
「And since you have almost no malice or hatred, I think you'd be influenced really easily by the shape of your vessel, Mom. That's why I think it's better not to do that.」
Honestly, Vandalieu couldn't believe that. The fact that Darcia had almost no hatred and malice.
How could she not lose herself to hatred and malice after having been killed in such a cruel way?
He had once asked her directly, but she had only told him,「Because Vandalieu is alive and doing well.」
『I see, well then, make sure you don't do anything like letting your enemy cut your flesh and bones to break his bones*, okay?』
TLN*: The same phrase as earlier.
If Darcia's words were true and Vandalieu still being alive was the reason she worried about him without feeling any malice towards those who had killed her, then that only made his desire for revenge on them burn even stronger.
『Don't do anything dangerous against the people who are coming with an extermination force this time, either.』
But now wasn't the time for that. It was nowhere near, not even close to the time for that. Vandalieu suppressed his desire for revenge back into the bottom of his heart.
「Yeah, I promise. I won't do anything dangerous.」
Name: Bone BirdRank: 4Race: Specter BirdLevel: 37Passive skills:Dark VisionSpirit Form: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)Superhuman Strength: Level 2Active skills:Silent Steps: Level 1Swift Flight: Level 2 (LEVEL UP!)Projectile Fire: Level 2 (NEW!)Name: SamRank: 4Race: Blood CarriageLevel: 72Passive skills:Spirit Form: Level 3Superhuman Strength: Level 3Rough Road Travel: Level 2Impact Resistance: Level 2Precise Driving: Level 3Comfort Maintenance: Level 1 (NEW!)Active skills:Silent Steps: Level 1High-Speed Travel: Level 1Charge: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)Size Alteration: Level 1 (NEW!)
Monster explanation:
【Blood Carriages】
Chariots covered in an indescribable amount of death and hatred, so much that they are stained pure-red with the blood of both their enemies and allies on the battlefield and turned into Undead to become Blood Chariots... These are the carriage version of those.
Normally, the body of a carriage wouldn't be covered in such an indescribable amount of death and hatred, so Sam may be the first instance of a Blood Carriage appearing in Lambda.
Blood Carriages are Undead that feel only the urge to murder and think only of crushing living things to death, so they they do not allow anyone to ride them even if there is space for them to do so.
However, Sam allows people to ride him (mainly Vandalieu) and even does everything he can to make his journeys comfortable for his passengers. Perhaps because he has been training using his【Precise Driving】skill every night so that there will be no problems when they cross the mountain range in the future, he has acquired the【Comfort Maintenance】and【Size Alteration】skills.
In addition, his strength in battle has been improved due to the spikes and armor that Tarea has installed. Furthermore, this additional equipment was fused with the carriage that is Sam's body when his Rank increased.
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