Slayers: Volume 3 by Hajime Kanzaka

Author:Hajime Kanzaka [KANZAKA, HAJIME]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

“Darn it... Why do I have to go along with this?” Eris groaned.

“This is what I get for bein’ nice. I never shoulda gotten involved...” Lantz moaned.

“My mistake was being too persistent. If I’d known that pursuing him would get me dragged into this nonsense...”

“It’s always demons, man. Can’t believe they went and picked a fight with a guy who can control over a dozen lesser demons at once...”

“Ugghhh...”

“Ahhh! Shut up!” I screamed and stopped in the middle of what I was doing. “Lantz! Eris! Enough with the pity party already! Just shut your mouths and pick your mushrooms!”

“You can boss us around all you want, but...”

“Yeah...”

They shared a knowing glance and a nod of agreement.

You... You little...

We’d settled on picking mushrooms as a group, and Sylphiel led the way. The area was bigger than your standard cave, but there was less of the luminescent moss around, so it actually felt darker than before.

“This still feels pathetic,” Zelgadis said, voicing a rare complaint.

“Truly, swordsmen and spellcasters digging for mushrooms... It hardly feels dignified,” Sylphiel agreed.

“Quit your bitching. Oh, hey, Zelgadis...” I said, snagging a mushroom. “I meant to ask earlier, but it slipped my mind. You know Vrumugun—”

“What’s wrong, Eris?”

“Uh, I thought I saw a bug...”

“Hey, Lantz, Eris... Could you kids shut up a while? The grown-ups are talking.”

At my words, they exchanged another look, shrugged, and went back to picking mushrooms. Darn it... I shook my head to clear it, then tried again.

“There’s a sorcerer named Vrumugun with that Rezo wannabe. You heard of him?”

Like I mentioned before, Zelgadis had once worked for the real Rezo, so I thought he might know a thing or two about the sorcerer.

“Oh, that guy,” he said with a groan.

“You know him?”

“Sort of... Have you beaten him a bunch too?”

“So I’m not the only one having that problem?”

“It’s the same pattern every time. This totally unremarkable-looking guy—except for a ruby embedded in his forehead—shows up and claims he’s Vrumugun. You figure it can’t really be because you beat him already, but he just keeps coming...”

“So you’ve killed him a bunch too, huh?”

“Five... No, six times, I think. Once, after making sure he was dead, I burned him to ashes with a Fireball. I then separated his ashes into multiple urns, sealed them, then threw some in the river and buried the rest...”

“Wow... overkill, much?”

“When someone proves that hard to kill permanently, it’s not out of the question that he could be undead.”

Fair point. Lower-class undead like zombies were one thing, but powerful creatures like vampires demanded extraordinary measures. What Zelgadis was describing was the only way to make sure they wouldn’t climb right back out of their graves... and even then, if someone managed to gather up the ashes and perform the right ritual, you could still end up with vampire redux. The only way to be rid of them forever was to use purification magic to get them to ascend, or to uproot them from the astral plane like you did with demons.

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