WN Volume 2

**Volume 2** of the Web Novel, written by Densuke, is 24 chapters long. Please note that there aren't really volumes in the Web Novel, so these chapter summaries are instead divided according to arc. Next to each heading is a citation, which can easily be copy-pasted into other articles when needed.

In this volume, we see Van and his friends entering Talosheim, and rebuilding the ruins with the help of the titans there. Pauvina is born, and Basdia becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the vampires track him down, resulting in Van crushing Sercrent's soul and Eleanora defecting. Building up defenses, and dungeon clearing, before facing off with the Dragon Golem and a magical sword. The volume ends with Rodcorte finally realising that Vandalieu has fallen out of his reincarnation system.

## List of Chapters

1. Chapter 27: *In a New Land. Apparently, I am the Prophesized Holy Son*. Translated by Yoshi.
2. Chapter 47:
4. Chapter 51: *You're an Enemy*. Translated by Yoshi

## Chapter 31: Forced to be White. What's Resting, again?

"TLN: The title of this chapter is related to chapter 29’s title (The Black Ghoul King and the One-Armed Sword King). Here’s ER’s explanation regarding this title, in case you missed it the first time: Black, in this case, refers to a ‘black company,’ (ブラック企業) or a sweatshop in English. Since Vandalieu is a workaholic and doesn’t properly rest for beans, he is ‘black.’ Japanese is fun with its occasional adopted English word not meaning what they do in English." (trivia)

## Chapter 33: A New Resolve on my Third Birthday

Vandalieu creates a frisbee and teaches the children. He uses *Preserve* on the vast goods flowing into the city, due to the inhabitant's limited processing capability atm. Ghouls has been using the Adventurers' Guild to change jobs. Datara is introduced in an exposition dump. Van treats Tarea for her back pain, and shares her condition with Zadiris. The Ghouls are rapidly earning EXP. The gang hosts a planned surprise birthday party at Royal Palace's great hall.

## Chapter 34: My First Time getting a Job, but I won't go into a Dungeon

Van wants to make a birthday cake for his next birthday, and plans for ingredients: milk, wheat, eggs, etc. He also gains the job Death Mage, instead of Golem Transmuter. Everyone wants to join him EXP grinding, and they want to decide it with a Reversi competition. Bilde goes into labor prematurely.

## Chapter 35: A New Life has been born, so let's Adjust our Living Environment

Van fixes the umbilical cord which was strangling the baby, and its born. Van postpones his EXP trip, since the other women would give birth in the following season too. He also discuss family planning measures for the community. He also makes a fertility tool (Alchemy 1) and consults the women on their preferences for the conception leg band, and for keeping the baby alive they decide on a belly piercing. He works on the city's defence and infrastructure: the sewer system and lets Golems maintain them. Basdia teaches him unarmed martial arts. He helps deliver the other babies. He makes walnut miso, fish sauce, and tries cultivating wasabi and ginger. He makes jenga. In September he begins dungeon diving. Somewhere else, vampires meets to dicuss the dhampir issue.

## Chapter 36: Spartan Training Supported with Praise

Exposition dump on the Evil Gods, and on the vampire community following Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joy. Birkyne and Ternecia and are updated on the dhampir issue, while Gabumon has been absent 20 times. Ternecia is furious the dhampir crossed the Boundary Mountain Range, since he could team up with the Pure-Bred vampires of the Vida faction opposing them. The noble vampire in charge of the case, Sercrent Ozba, is punished. Birkyne sends Eleanora, one of his lovers, to assassinate Van alongside Sercrent. He also orders her to bring back some of Sword King Borkus' bones. The rest of the meetings are as regular: Shadow Guild's state, recent movements of Amid's Church, and general information exchange on various projects, transformation of Subordinate Vampires.

Van is clearing Garan's Valley, a D-class dungeon, with his usual crew, only Sam is replaced by Basdia. He gains the *Unarmed Fighting* skill, and Basdia notes his "talent" for it.

## Chapter 37: Can this be Called Clearing a Dungeon?

Exposition on why Unarmed Fighting combined with magic fits Van, and a little more about Garan's Valley. The black goblins and Anubis have grown up. Memediga seems to be dating Berg, and Zemedo is worried. Undead Titan Stonemasons are mining in the dungeon led by Nuaza, to make a stone statue of Van in front of the Palace, transported with the help of Gorba.

## Chapter 38: The Dungeon Boss is Disappointing

Undead Titans are harvesting salt, seems to be addicted to miso. Dungeon clearing finally begins on 8th floor. Basdia had changed from Apprentice to Warrior. He decides to ask Borkus if there's different level caps on different jobs. They defeat a mid-boss: Rock Gorilla. They then defeat the dungeon boss: Orc General. Mixed bath, since Vigaro discovered Van with his head under water, so it was decided he must be accompanied into the bath. Fertility tools give ghouls the same fertility as normal humans.

## Chapter 39: With Honor and Fame, without Land or a Successor. That's the kind of Nobleman I want to be.

Van tries making dandelion coffee and a golem fan. He treats Basdia's low fertility, to make her ovaries work more vigorously. He treats Zandia's hand. Darcia asks what kind of nobleman he wants to be in the future. She asks about Basdia, considering becoming a nobleman, incl. potential succession problems. He decides to become an honorary noble. He Mana Transfers to the other mages so they may gain the *Chant Revocation* skill, while Van himself tries emptying his Mana pool to increase its size.

## Chapter 40: Human society is in good shape, but more importantly, I want seaweed

Viscount Balchesse's region is reclaiming the Devil's Nest forest. Marshall Thomas Palpatek has to resign, but will probably be reappointed after cultivation project finalizes. At an upper class inn in town, Eleanora is gathering info about spiritualists from adventurers, while Sercrent maps out the route across the mountain range. Nuaza gains the Chant Revocation skill. Van is planning to head to Doran's Aquatic Cavern (D class), to get his hands on seaweed. He's joined by Sam, Braga, Zran, Kachia and Vigaro. He gathers salt water in barrels from the dungeon.

## Chapter 41: Let’s take life one step at a time without rushing things

Van is leveling slowly because Dark mage is a specialized job, according to Borkus. The black goblins like Braga has fearsome potential to become assassins, after being taught the short sword technique. The team continues to clear the dungeon. Van teaches Kachia that seafood sashimi is fine to eat. They set up camp, before dealing with the dungeon boss: Crusher Turtle accompanied by Bullet Turtles. Van steps in to help the team. Kachia shares her past troubles as an adventurer struggling to level up.

## Chapter 42: Shadows of unrest approach unseen

Pauvina is delivered by Basdia a little before Van returns from Doran's Aquatic Caverns. Van's uses Spirit Form Transformation to check that her anatomy is human and not orc. It seems Pauvania has lost parts of her memories, so she doesn't understand what Basdia nor Van are telling her. Van tells Basdia she's pregnant. Three months later, Pauvina has grown to the same size as Van already. After her birth, the titans begin calling him the *Prophesized Holy Son*. He pauses his dungeon clearing, to take care of Pauvina and Basdia at the settlement. In the clear winter weather, he tries making kombu using Withering and Ageing spells. He succeeds and uses it to make Dashi for a miso soup. He's struggling to make katsuobushi though. "Pauvina refused. Vandalieu spent the fourth winter of his life being held in the air."

Eleanora contiues her search for the Dhampir on the mountain range. They've lost a third of their subordinate vampire force to the hundreds of monsters. Eleanora suggest they head to Talosheim, since it would be easier establishing a village there. Sercrent obstructs her leadership once again, but they eventually go. Their jaw drops when they see the city repaired, and are still in disbelief as they explore the compound as they see the variety of new races living together peacefully as if it was a human settlement. Then they finally notice several ghouls; Sercrent sends Eleanora to capture one to interrogate.

## Chapter 43: Something that cannot be run from, cannot be disobeyed, that doesn’t exist

Tarea is resting in the moonlight after taking a bath, admiring the development of the settlement. She considers getting pregnant with a daughter as an excuse to get closer to Van, who's been busy acting as a maternity ward. But as a former human in contrast to Basdia, such a method fills her with shame. The Eleanora appears before her and uses charm to interrogate her. Upon butting Tarea to sleep, she stops Sercrent from assassinating her, since they wouldn't be able to prevent her corpse from being noticed as an undead. They head to the Minister chamber where Van is sleeping. Accidentally, Eleanor encounters straight away with her charmed eyes, and hopes he's charmed. She interrogates her and begins to hesitate to kill him. Sercrent eggs her on, and she plans to carry him and kill him with her claws, while maintaining eye contact. Sercrent grows impatient and orders his subordinate vampires to kill them both, upon which she realizes Van wasn't charmed after all.

## Chapter 44: I will end you completely; there is no future for you

Van wakes up suddenly to the spirits making a lot of noise. He casts Detect Life and notices numerous life-forms has entered the castle, and is heading towards his room. He reckons they’ve got business with him, so he gets up to wait patiently. When he notices murder instinct, he places Darcias remains in his breast pocket. The following scene follows the last chapter, just from Van’s POV this time. When Sercrent attacks, he sends the both of them flying onto the bed with Telekinesis, and Golem transmutes the floor into quick sand, while letting the bed float down gently. Borkus arrives to defeat everyone, leaving Eleanora. Sercrent keeps trying to attack Van, but his magic is nullified by Magic Absorption Barrier, and Van casts Healing Negation on him, so that his wounds doesn’t heal. When he utters Valen’s name, Van breaks his soul as punishment for insulting the man his mother loved. Eleanora and Borkus are dumbfounded at the young master’s new Soul Break skill.

## Chapter 45: Apparently I’m her number one and only

Van lets the dinosaur Zombies eat Sercrent's body, and brings Eleanora to the dining hall, so everybody may listen to what she has to say. Tarea is very apologetic for being charmed so easily, and is embarrassed when Van has shortened the distance between them after learning of Tarea’s worries. Eleanora defects and formally swears allegiance to Van, by kissing his hands and praying to Vida. She also apologizes solemnly to Tarea, and requests a remote-controlled self-destruct piercing on her tongue, as an assurance for Van that she will not betray them. She also explains the situation outside with the vampires, and that her motivation for who to follow is driven by fear; Being tortured is preferable to having your soul crushed.

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Eleanora shares that the Hihiryushukaka vampires had been involved in the destruction of Talosheim, by instigating Mirg Shield-Nation to attack. According to what she's heard, Gubamon used the war to have his subordinates collect the dead bodies of Talosheim’s heroes. Jeena and Zandia were carried out first, but Mikhail returned and fought them off, before they could take Borkus. They speculate that Mikhail was the one who set up the ice barrier. Borkus resolves to retrieve Jeena and Zandia's bodies one day, which Van doesn't oppose, as he's fated to combat the Hihiryushukaka vampires. Eleanora assures him that the Pure-breed Vampires didn't trust each other enough to break their stalemate, and thus would never willingly cross the Boundery Mountain Range personally.

Moving on, the titans keeps trying to put Van on the Talosheim throne, which everyone seems to agree on, except Van. For instance Borkus is trying to marry him off to Princess Zandia. Van is hesitant out of consideration for Princess Levia, who's in asylum in Orbaume Kingdom. To this, Nuaza argues they'd probably praise him as the Holy Son for restoring the city to its past splendor; an achievement that would have otherwise taken them decades and an unimaginable amount of labour. Given none of the current residents of Talosheim are recognized as people, Van is worried that Orbaume could dispose of them without legal repercussions. Thus he wishes to build up defenses not only against monsters but people as well, as he has no intentions of relinquishing their new home easily.

Eleanora apologizes to Tarea, and explains that having one's soul destroyed is a power more fearsome than that of the gods. «Destroying a soul is something that only the legendary Demon King was capable of. Even the Evil God of Joyful Life could not do such a thing, let alone my previous master.» Because the circle of transmigration is Rodcorte's domain, not of the Lambda Gods, Van is the only person capable of such a feat; Of truly destorying all hope for a better life. Sercrent and the other subordinate vampires had been offed in this way. Van applies a rather harsh insurance method, by piercing her tongue with a Golem, which functions as a GPS and remote-control bomb should she betray them. He hopes this will help the others accept her into the fold more readily. After this is dealt with, they return to the matter at hand: Talosheim's defenses.

## Chapter 47: Let's Launch things with a High Amount of Bloodthirst

As two Ghoul women leave the bathhouse (currently the only functioning facility in the royal castle), they come across a Tarea trying to evade Van, who've been performing Youth Transformation on her daily the past few days.

Elsewhere, the Vampires are holding a millennial gathering. The three Pure-breds try to summon Sercrent and Eleanora, but the undead ritual fails, so they conclude they've been betrayed. It's been a year since they sent the two Noble-born to slay the Dhampir. They wouldn't have been impatient, had Hihiryushukaka not sent a divine message: «Slay the Dhampir born between the Subordinate Vampire Valen and the Dark Elf Darcia.» Now that both Gubamon and Birkyne has played their cards, it's Ternecia's turn. They decide to make a guy in the Amid Empire's army mobilize to attack the Dhampir, planning to take him down with their numbers.

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Back in Talosheim, Van is testing his catapult, which he's made with Golem Transmutation. He discusses his design with the pregnant Basdia, witnessing the tests in the shade. While Pauvina playfully throws Van into the air. He tests regular ones, moving it, and hollow projectiles containing poison. Basdia is reluctant to kill too many humans, as Ghouls are raised to avoid adventurers. Van also says he's no tyrant, but he won't hesitate to protect those he cares about.

## Chapter 48: It seems I've Become a Place for Insects

Van goes around testing their defenses. At the collapsed tunnel pointing towards Hartner Duchy, he notes it's strange that it's been so thoroughly destroyed with no large rocks. «It was as if someone had used sophisticated earth-attribute magic (…) to make it impossible to rebuild the tunnel.» He speculates the Vampires may have wanted to prevent Vida Vampires from taking advantage of a possible trading route. They finally discover the hidden tunnel leading to Mirg Shield-Nation as well, which has been covered by a large boulder. With this, the surveillance network is complete. Everybody has also been improving the past few months.

* Vigaro changed jobs from Warrior to Axeman, and has become a Rank 6 Ghoul Berserker. Axeman provided bonuses to Axe Technique and the Deforestation skill. His strength is now equivalent to a B-class adventurer.
* Eleanora and Vigaro (Level UP!)
* Nuaza had become a Rank 5 Lich.
* Braga has become a Rank 4 Black Goblin Assassin, seemingly heading toward the ninja path. Other Black Goblins has become Black Goblin Scouts.
* Zemedo has become an Anubis Rider. Memediga has become an Anubis Monk.
* Gorba hasn't ranked up yet, but has grown to the size of 3m tall Borkus. He's also found and captured a Giga, ensuring a fresh supply of Eggs.
* Zadiris finally gained the skills required to rank up to Rank 6 Ghoul High Mage, granting her a third eye-like red jewel, assisting her magic use.

Van begins working on the resurrection device behind the castle and obtaining Vida's legacy. He resumes his dungeon clearing: Borkus' Sub-Dragon Savannah. Van offs raptors with his superior Mana Bullets on the earlier floors. On the 5th floor, Bone Man defeats an Armored T-rex, and later on the 10th floor the Living Armor sisters defeats the Tri-Horn demi-boss. They discuss the sisters new Long-distance Control skill. Van begins practicing the skill using his long hair.

On the 11th floor, Bone Man challenges an ammonite, while Vigaro faces a hard-headed herbivorous dinosaur. Van lends Zadiris some mana, after she wordlessly chants a light-attribute spell slashing an Ankylosaur-like dinosaur. Borkus brings them to a Cemetery Bee nest, since Van wanted something sweet, and they're surprised the bees seem to like Van so much due to Death-Attribute Charm. The Queen Bee lands on his head, and even seem to tame itself.

* Rank 5: Rita, Saria, Bone Man and Bone Bird.
* Bone Man becomes a Rank 5 Skeleton Baron, after Van adds more spirits to his body. Swordmanship LV5, while other skills like Archery and Shield Technique LV4.
* Saria and Rita has become Rank 5 Magic High-Leg Armor and Magic Bikini Armor respectively, and have gained the Spirit Form skill, and Long-distance Control.

## Chapter 49: The Victory against the Mid-Boss was Unfulfilling, but the Dragon Golem is Next

The Cemetery Bees are now carrying Van around, as it's the season for them to migrate their nest. They even follow Van's party down to the next floor. Van takes on the 20th floor mid-boss, a Venom Wyvern, to test his strength in preparation for facing the superior Dragon Golem.

We skip to some time later, after Van has failed for the 5th time, due to his five self-imposed restrictions. The rest of the team had continued to the 30th floor and defeated the Dungeon boss there. He's currently resting and working in Talosheim. He attends a meeting with Bilde and the other mothers, exchanging ideas on childcare. Basdia says baby food is still too early for Jadal, while the older babies eat honey-covered fruit. Darcia is able to join the conversation thanks to Van's newly invented Visualization spell.

Meanwhile the now tamed Cemetery Bees has begun building their nest in the royal castle. He has continued developing his katsuobushi recipe. He's also made noodles, which hasn't existed in Lambda before. He's also combined agar and honey to make tengusa, which has become a very popular dessert, despite it being more labor intensive as it cannot be created with the help of spell.

For his 6th attempt, he's disappointed that a weaker Hydra appears, instead of the most difficult mid-boss Venom Wyvern. He defeats it easily with a Death Bullet.

Appendix: Vandalieu's status is updated.

## Side Chapter 1: In a Divine Realm

Rodcorte predicts Origin's inevitable lapse into chaos and perhaps war, due to Death-Attribute Magic Items. We learn of what happened in Origin following D-01's death, and how the world is trying to find a way to keep creating Death Magic Items, although they condemned the military nation for their inhumane experiments. Rodcorte Amamiya Hiroto died before research could discover immortality, as that would cause problems for his reincarnation system.

He then checks in on his reincarnation in Lambda, as his memories should have returned now that five years have passed. When trying to look through his record, he notices that Van has fallen outside of his reincarnation system. Looking through the memories of other people in his system, and discovers that Amamiya has been reborn into Vida's system. He reckons this is because he had not given him any fortune nor destiny, meaning there was always a constant danger that he would go along a path that even Rodcorte himself wouldn’t be able to predict.

He considers sending the Evil Gods like Alda after him, despite their terrible relationship, to make sure immortality would not be discovered. But running the risk that the Alda would be even more infuriated, and kill all 100 reincarnators, he ultimately decides to let everything play out for a while. “A few of those reincarnated in Origin should die in the next few years. I’ll ask them to kill Vandalieu.” With this conclusion, he turns his gaze away from Lambda.

*"If he had searched the memories of the adventurer Luciliano who had encountered Vandalieu through his Live-Dead, he might have felt a greater sense of danger. If he had made contact with the evil gods, he would likely have learned that the soul of the Vampire Sercrent had been destroyed by Vandalieu and made a move before the souls involved in his own system were destroyed."*

## References

1. ↑ Death Mage Web Novel — Volume 2, Chapter 49: The Victory against the Mid-Boss was Unfulfilling, but the Dragon Golem is Next