Lyn walked up to a building which had the hourglass inside. It was a big marble church with 3 weapons on the top.

The sword, the spear, and the bow. Yep. One of those worlds. Lyn thought, as he went inside, putting on a mask. He changed his sword into a simple sword to copy Ren. He got it when he touched Ren's sword last night.

One of the nuns greeted him.

"Hello! I would like some sand from the dragon hourglass," Lyn said lifting his sword and slightly altering his voice.

"Of course sword hero. Right this way," the nun led him towards the hourglass and another nun gave him a bag of sand. He put all of the sand into his sword and lifted it up to the hourglass. A beam came out of the gem and a timer popped up in his vision. While no one was looking, Lyn used the sword to take a tiny piece out of the hourglasses frame and put it into his sword.

TRANSPORT SWORD/SHIELD UNLOCKED.

HOUR GLASS SWORD/SHIELD UNLOCKED.

He quickly left the church, thanking everyone, and before anyone was any wiser, he walked into an alleyway and took of his new armor, shoving it into his backpack which he quickly threw into his gem.

STORAGE SWORD/SHIELD UNLOCKED.

Switching back to his shield, Lyn ran back to the blacksmith shop. Luckily it seems the other heroes weren't there yet. But the old man seemed to be in the back. Lyn ran around and copied every single shield he saw, gaining a small metal shield of every color, a meteorite shield, and every other shield under the sun.

"Hey! Old man!" Lyn called out to the blacksmith.

"Ah! Shield Hero. What can I do for you?"

"I just remembered something. So the legendary weapons have an ability that lets them copy the same type of weapons just by touching them. So the other heroes will probably pretend to look around and touch every bow, sword, and spear in your shop."

"WHAT!? But why are you telling me this?"

"I feel like you will be a good ally and I don't want the others ripping you off. Now take care," Lyn answered, running out of the shop towards the beginner farming area.

Lyn arrived to the spot, but the view that would take away the breaths of many people didn't bother him at all. To him it all looked bland. A balloon jumped at him and tried to eat him. But no matter how much it nibbled at his clothes, the aura from his shield kept him protected. Lyn smashed the balloon with his shield, popping it and gaining one exp. Several more balloons appeared and bit into me, but Lyn continued to pummel one after another after another, going deeper into the forest, where more and more dangerous balloons were. While he didn't have any armor, his small shield defense was the same as his base defense, so none of the balloons hurt him. It only took a few more balloons for Lyn to level up, his shield sucking up all the drops as he went.

With the new level up almost all his stats increased. His regeneration and speed to defense ratio was still the same, but his attack didn't rise at all.

RUBBER SWORD/SHIELD UNLOCKED.

RUBBER HANDLE UPGRADE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL WEAPONS.

Lyn applied the upgrade to his sword and continued walking. Once he was finally away from prying eyes, he switched to his sword form and ran into the forest, slashing down any and every monster he could find.

1 exp

3 exp

7 exp

4 exp

The further he went, the more exp he got and the more rare loot he got. Lyn also picked up every material and plant he could, unlocking plenty of different shields and swords.

Lyn slashed down some rabbit monsters, porcupine monsters, deers, wolves, random balloons and many more.

Lvl 3

Lvl 4

Lvl 5

Just within the hour, Lyn has already leveled up to level 5. Absorbing some rope he got the airstrike shield and airstrike sword.

Lvl 6

Lvl 7

Lvl 8

Lvl 9

Lvl 10

Lvl 11

It was staring to get dark so Lyn transformed his sword into a shield and walked out of the forest, looking at his loot in the status' inventory screen.

Just then, he noticed Ren and his followers popping one ballon after another.

As he approached them, Ren turned around and started to walk back.

"Yo Ren!" Lyn called out to the sword hero.

"Oh, hey. How did your grind go?" Ren asked.

"Good. What level are you?"

"7. You?"

"6," Lyn lied, looking at Ren's companions. They looked at him with with either distrust or hatred. "So anyways, I was thinking you and I could talk about some upgrades, strengthening methods and wave preparations over dinner. How bout it?"

"Information is something you should acquire yourself. Why should I share it?"

"I never said I want some information from you. Quite the opposite. I have information I want to give you."

"And what do you want?"

"A powerful ally. Someone reliable. Plus, don't you want a leg up on Motoyasu and Itsuki?"

"... Alright, lets meet up later at the tavern closest to the blacksmith," Ren replied.

Lyn nodded and ran around, selling all of his rubber and any other monster loot he had. He visited the magic shop and bought a grimoire. Then he went to the medicine shop and bought some tools needed to compound medicine. And lastly he bought a map of Melromark, the capital, and the world map. When he finished and spent about 50% of his daily profit, he want back to the blacksmith shop to look for the nearest tavern.

"So you are telling me, you have a 200 page help manual with every enhancement method and tip, while we barely have 10 pages combined?"

Ren was at a tavern, siping tea while staring at Lyn.

"Pretty much. So want me to share a few pages?"

"And what will you take in return?" Rem asked, taking another sip of tea.

"In return I want you to be prepared for the third wave. The second one will be easy, but the third one is where you have to think outside the box just to summon the boss, and then you need serious firepower in order to beat it.

"You are talking and acting like you already know what's going to happen."

"..."

"Explain."

"*sigh* ok. I'm not only a summoned hero, I'm a resummoned hero. I get summoned from one world to the next as soon as I help save the world. Sadly my own world burned, and later my birth world also burned. Now I just travel the multiverse, getting summoned from world to world with no place to call my own. And most of the people I meet are predictable and most of the events play out the same. This world is no exception."

"So you replayed this game over and over? How many times did you rebirth?"

"Ren. I'll say this one time and one time only. This. World. Is. Not. A. Game. If you die, you die. You don't respawn, you don't have divine protection, and we aren't surrounded by NPCs. And your solo player cr*p is gonna get you killed."

"What are you talking about. This world is based on a game, it has in-game mechanics, it's literally a game."

"Ren, the multiverse is a vast place, anything is possible if you get far enough. Who's to say that a world where time flows backwards doesn't exist? Or a world where gravity is reversed, or a world built on superpowers or game mechanics? Please treat people here like you would treat a real person."

Ren stayed silent for a bit, trying to process the information.

"Ok lets say, just theoretically, that this world isn't a game and that the people here are real. And let's say if we die, we die. Why are you talking only to me?"

"Motoyasu is an easily manipulated idiotic simp, and Itsuki is a kid who jumps to conclusions without seeing the full picture while preaching about justice. You seem like someone reliable, if only a bit reckless. It'll be useful to have at least one hero under the king to not be an idiot."

"What do you mean at least one? What about you?"

"I'ma get blamed for either murder, arson, or rape."

"Wait, how did you come to that conclusion?"

"I walked around a bit. Everyone seems to glare at me, the church is calling me a devil, and the king ignores me."

"But a girl tried to join you this morning!"

"She is the kings daughter in a Matriarchy Country. I can bet you 50 silvers she is the one who's gonna frame me. I'll tell you more, the king was supposed to only summon one hero for 1 country. So every other country is pretty pissed."

"Bet. Is this you just guessing or did you already come to a similar world as this?"

"A little of both. Anyways, let's get back to making you stronger," Lyn pulled up his status and started to teach Ren a few methods. First was money to stats and upgrades.

"I don't see it. Are you sure we can all use the same methods?"

"The weapon adapts to your knowledge and beliefs. If you believe in this method that I'm teaching you, you will be able to use it. I need you to trust me on this Ren. What do you have to loose anyways?"

Ren looked at Lyn for a moment before talking a deep breath and looking back at his status screen. A few seconds later his eyes went wide in surprise.

"Holy sh*t it's so expensive!" Ren almost yelled, attracting a bit of unwanted attention. A few people looked at Ren weirdly before turning around the second they saw his sword.

"Shall we go onto the next method?" Lyn asked, smiling a bit.

Around 29 methods, including rarity, free level stat transfer, level rebirth, and weapon stackability later.

"Well that should be it. Anyways I'ma get a room and call it a day. See ya in the next wave."

"Wait what about tomorrow?"

"Can't. I'll either be exiled or busy. And you hanging out with me will give you a bad rep." Lyn replied, getting up from the table. "Oh and at tomorrows 'trial'... don't bother helping. I need you to be close to the king."

"If you're sure. So what will you do now?"

"Sleep," Lyn replied, walking away to his room.

Upon arrival, Lyn dropped his Jacket and shirt into his inventory shield and dropped on the bed. He knew the morning would be a nightmare to deal with. Suddenly he jumped up and started gathering random things around the room and dropping it into his weapon, unlocking random things like the Paper Sword/Shield and the Pen Sword/Shield. Lyn also threw in a bottle of ink. None of the shields increased his base attack of 20 unlike his sword, and Lyn couldn't add stats to his base attack while in shield mode, however he was able to add 10 more base attack for his sword form.

Lyn looked around and listened for any noise. It seems like someone was slowly walking to his room. He took out 1200 copper coins (the bank shield could turn copper coins into silver and back. The same applies to gold) and put it in his money bag, with 10 silver coins on top of the copper. Lyn put the money on the table next to his bed and then pretended to go to sleep.

The door opened and Lyn heard some light footsteps. The bag of coins were picked up.

"Wow, he seems to have made a profit. Shame it would have all been for nothing. Now where is his armor."

A few doors opened and closed, the drawers and closets were opened and closed, until finally the girl cursed under her breath and left the room. Lyn turned around and looked at the place where his money bag used to be. Well there go my 22 silver coins I'm never getting back.

Lyn turned on a light and pulled out his grimoire, scanning the pages quickly, barely giving them a second glance. After a few seconds and a scanned book, Lyn stood up and put his book away.

"Liberation guard" Lyn muttered and watched as his defense stat increased.

"Good. My magic still works," Lyn pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. After a few minutes of writing a rune from one of his old worlds, he absorbed it into his shield.

FAKER UNLOCKED.

Lyn opened his status and switched to his FAKE status. First he lowered his level to 6, then he lowered all his stats to about 10% of his real stats.

STATUS

NAME: Lyn Reith

WEAPON: Bastard Sword (Legendary Weapon) / Small Shield (Legendary Weapon)

LEVEL: 11

AFFINITY: Lightning /support, healing

EXP: 29 / 405

STATS

ATTACK: 142/20

AGILITY: 62/42

DEFENSE: 42/164

STAT POINTS: 50

HEALTH: 1500

SP: 1500

MANA: 1500

And for his fake one

STATUS (FAKER)

NAME: Lyn Reith

WEAPON: Small Shield (Legendary Weapon)

LEVEL: 6

AFFINITY: support, healing

EXP: 29 / 201

STATS

ATTACK: 2

AGILITY: 18

DEFENSE: 87

HEALTH: 550

SP: 550

MANA: 550

Smiling proudly, Lyn took out a small notebook from the jacket in his shield and looked through it. He added another tally mark next to the word 'world', and then looked through the 'runes' section.

Here Lyn kept the runes he could use for his weapon. Some special weapons meed materials that can't be found in some worlds. So for this, Lyn found a workaround. Each material could be drawn as a rune and imputed into his weapon. This would unlock the special weapon without consuming the material. Unfortunately you can't use this method for some upgrades that require the same material but it still unlocks some good combos and abilities.

Finally succumbing to exhaustion, Lyn lay down and fell asleep.

Lyn woke up to a loud banging on the door.

"Shield Hero!"

He stood up, put on his shirt, and opened the door.

There were several nights staring me down. It was clear they had hostile intentions.

And so the show begins.

"You've been ordered to appear before the king. Come with us."

"Ok. Lets go."

The nights were a bit surprised at Lyn's compliance, but still led him to the castle.

Once they arrived at the castle, the knights marched Lyn into the royal audience chamber. The king and minister were waiting with sullen looks on their faces.

Ren, Motoyasu, and Itsuki were also there, along with all of their followers, but so was the red haired chick that offered to be in Lyn's party. However, when she saw Lyn she shrank back behind Motoyasu and glared at me.

"So what am I getting called here for?"

Everybody was looking at Lyn as if he was a villain.

"You're saying you don't remember?"

Motoyasu questioned me with a threat of menace in his voice.

"Provide context."

"I never thought you would stoop so low you... you fiend!"

"Hm?"

Here we go again.

"Yes, please state the charges against the Shield Hero."

"L-last night the Shield Hero got drunk, burst into my room, and... and... f-forced me down against my will!"

"?"

"He... he told me that the night was still young, and then started r-ripping off my clothes..."

The red haired b*tch clung to Motoyasu's back, crying and accusing Lyn through her sobs.

"It was so scary... I only barely managed to escape from the room, screaming. Thankfully Lord Motoyasu was there to help me."

So it's rape.

Instead of looking confused, angered, or afraid, Lyn just looked bored. Like he was just waiting for time to pass.

"You monster! How dare you do this to her!"

"One, I can't get drunk. Two, I already said I have no interest in women. And three Motoyasu, you're a simp."

"Silence, fiend!"

"What idiots," Lyn blurted out.

"I said silence! Or else...!" the king started.

"Or else what? You'll kill me?" Lyn replied with a smirk. "Can't. Kill me and the world burns. Imprison me, and I teleport. All you can do is ruin my nonexistent reputation and send me on my way. Now if you'll excuse me, I have places to be," Lyn said, turning around. But before he could get far, someone grabbed him from behind. It was of course none either than Motoyasu.

"You aren't going anywhere yet!" Motoyasu yelled at Lyn. He then turned to the king. "Can't we send him back and get another hero?"

However, the king merely folded his arms and frowned.

"I wish there was a way to send a Hero like this back to where he came from, I truly do. However, my researchers have informed me that another summoning is only possible after all four of the current Heroes have perished."

"...What?"

"That can't be..."

While Motoyasu and Itsuki finally shut up, Ren just continued to look away.

"Plus even if you could, you'd just frame the next shield hero, and then the next. Just to keep the shield weak, just because you can't take out your grudge on the previous shield, you decide to get your revenge on me. So until we beat the waves, you bastards are stuck with me!" Lyn yelled the last part with a sh*t eating grin, before starting to walk away once more.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?"

"Don't even try escaping!"

One of the nights punched Lyn.

thud*

Hurt by his own punch. What an idiot.

The knight that punched him was clutching at the arm he hit with and grimacing in pain.

"Unfortunately you are correct. You exist to fight the Wave of Calamity, so there will be no official punishment. However. Your crime is already well-known amongst the citizens. That shall be your punishment. Do not expect to find any work in my kingdom."

"Not like I need it."

"You will return here in a month to fight. Even if you are a criminal, you are still the Shield Hero. Make no attempt to escape your duty."

"Oh I'll fight the waves, just not for your sake."

As Lyn left the castle, people pointed at him and whispered amongst themselves.

As the last hope for this world left Lyn's heart. He walked towards the exit of the capital with nothing but the things in his shield, and his clothes.

This world will burn on it's own. Such a shame I keep my promises. He thought to himself, as an image of a green haired girl popped up in his mind.

Ok so Question. Where can I read the Light Novel? Cause I have been basing this off of the completed Web Novel with 380 chapters. But the Light Novel is pretty good and it has more dimentional travel. And I don't exactly have the money to buy like 22 light novel books.!

If anyone knows where I can find the light novel, pls tell me.