Shield of Destiny ch5
I don't own Destiny 1 or 2
I also don't own rising of the shield hero
Guardian/organic "hello"h
Ghost "hello"
Boss "hello"
Shout "HELLO"
Mental conversation'hello'
Emphasis 'hello'
Grammarly is my beta
Story Start
The next day we gathered once again in the throne room, I laughed when saw Motoyasu nursing a bruised face and tatter hair that he obviously spent some time trying to salvage.
"As a reward for your efforts during the wave and for fulfilling my request Motoyasu will receive 4,000 silver, Ren and Istuka will both receive 3,800 silver. And as agreed I have set aside 500 silver for the shield hero, however, due to the injuries that Motoyasu he will be getting the silver in reparations." said the king smugly
"That's not fair, its quite obvious that Callum won the duel a number of times, you just refused to acknowledge it. What's more your daughter interfered in the duel, a duel that Callum was forced to participate. And now you refuse to pay what is owed." spoke up Istuka
"Itsuka is correct, if you followed the rules Callum would have finished that duel a lot sooner and Motoyasu wouldn't have been injured." added Ren
"What, no way I would have won that duel." protested Motoyasu who was becoming more agitated as Ren and Itsuka talked.
"How on earth did I cheat?"
"You used all those abilities and you have so much more experience than me!"
"Going by that logic you can't beat these maids in a duel without cheating. Face it your nothing more than a looser who will make any excuse to make himself look better. So unless you want to go back and fight this time without weapons...I'd suggest you shut the hell up. Now as for you king" saying the word king with as much disgust as I could "you can either give me what I am owned, or I can beat the shit out of you and everyone here until I get it."
"You threaten me, the king."
"Yes I do, you just don't seem to understand. To me you are nothing more than a small fish in a smaller pond at the moment your beneath my notice...however at this rate you will eventually piss me off enough to kill you."
"You can't speak to me like that I am..."
"YOU ARE NOTHING! You are nothing but a toothless worm who thinks that they are a mighty dragon."
"Besides, it was Callum who protected the village in the knight's stead. So he should be compensated for it." said Ren
"Very well I will give him the minimum amount, now get out!"
"You act like I enjoy being in your shitty presence in this shitty throne room-I've seen far better. But before I go I will give you a message and a warning."
"What's this message?" asked the king
Dismissing my shield I summon my hand cannon and shoot right next to the king making a long but thin cut on his face as the chair he was sitting on got a massive hole blown into it.
"The threat is that eventually, this castle will come under attack. When that time comes don't expect me to lift a finger to save you or this castle. Now goodbye."
Ignoring all the angry looks we left the throne room.
"I wonder when someone is going to explain to them what our weapons are?" I asked
"They might already know, I've heard that one of the other kingdom's has some sort of gun powder. It's just that our weapons are so much more advanced than theirs." replied Ar'na
Before we left the city we got some shopping done, the funny thing was that every shop I went to the owner was related to someone in Lute. I got some clothes, camping gear and food at a discount from numerous stores, I also got a book of medicine from a middle-aged man who also told me that an old lady at the magic store wanted to see me.
"You have a great affinity for healing magic, lighting with a lesser one for fire and one other that I don't recognise."
"That's not surprising, while I have experience as a sunsinger and voidwalker I mainly use my stormcaller."
"Really, anyway as for the ladies Raph has an affinity for light and dark magic so I recommend that she learns illusion and similar while Ar'na has fire and darkness. For that purpose, I want you to this book as a thank you for saving my grandson in Lute. If I could I'd give you a crystal ball."
"Why would we want a ball?" I ask curiously
"Don't you know? If you have a crystal ball you can learn one of the magics sealed in it."
"How curious, I have never heard of this before."
"That can't be right, the royal court ordered a number of them for the heroes."
"For the others maybe, the royal seem awfully keen to make my life miserable. But thank you anyway."
Leaving the city we head toward the Lute village. "Raph I want you to learn as much from the book as you can in the coming month ok."
"I won't let you down!"
"Just do your best, that's all anyone can ask of you. We can spend a few days there helping with repairs and working out where we are heading next."
The next few days pass quickly pass with Raph often falling asleep reading while I blend medicine for future use. Things were going well...until the idiot came around.
"Hey there are knights here what do they want?" murmured a villager. Soon enough the entire village came and gathered to the village square where it looked like the piece of garbage Malty was making an announcement.
"In his light of exploits during the last wave, the spear hero Motoyasu has been awarded this village and the surrounding area as its lord."
At this Motoyasu gives a smug look and tries to do a hair flip with some sort of smouldering look, which is completely ruined by the state of his hair...I knew he would really hate having bad hair.
"To help with the building efforts we've decided to levy a toll. It will now cost fifty silver to leave and fifty to enter this village."
At this, I decide enough is enough "Hey I don't think that is going to work."
Seeing me seems to enrage Malty "You what are you still doing here!"
"Oh you know, helping just like I did during the wave...unlike your knights so I'm wondering why the people have to pay the royals when they lent no aid when it was needed."
"That doesn't matter." exclaimed Malty
"OH I believe it does, hey Motoyasu do you know how much it costs for a room and a meal here?"
"Why would I know that cheater." he answered snottily
"It's one silver for room and food, so use those college skills of yours and work out how many nights of rent and food you can get for one set of tolls."
"U-uh?"
"The shield hero is right, we will be broke within no time and this town will have become a ghost town!" The villagers cried out angrily "And you can't just turn up and call yourself our lord, what have you done for us? It's the shield hero that saved us not you."
"You dare to question a royal decree?" with a motion of her hand she signals to her men who took up their weapons and began to threaten the villages.
"You dare to threaten innocents!" summoning my hand cannon I point it directly at Malty "first person who harms a villager dies...after Malty here of course."
Before things could go any further a group of individuals in dark clothes appear in front of her and hand her a scroll. From this distance, I can't tell what's going on but it certainly shook her up.
"Shield hero! Fight us for the right to rule this village!"
"Hahahahahahah your joking right, I kicked his ass not three days ago you really think it's going to be different now?"
"Then a race, you against the spear hero."
"How about it Callum, me and my dragon against you and your filolial. That's if your not too chicken."
"I'm up for it but you seem confused, that filo is Raph's ride, now this is my ride" summoning my iron gjallarhorn sparrow
"What the hell! How do you have that!"
"That's your problem, you're always running your mouth without thinking it through."
"But that cheating." said Motoyusa lamely
"Wow, you do realise that you challenged me right? And you can either race me on my sparrow or Raph on Filo, it's up to you."
Looking at the sparrow to Filo Motoyasu comes to a decision "Filo, I'll race Raph and Filo!"
Soon enough we were gathered for the start of the race, and once again Motoyusa decided to be an ass.
"So lame, it's just a stupid bird dragons are so much cooler. I mean how can you think that this thing can stand up to my dragon." mocked Motoyasu
Filo seems to have taken this rather personally and did full powered kick to his groin.
"Filo...I have never been more proud of you then at this moment." I said as I give her plenty of affection. "But while he is gone I want you Ar'na to go along the racecourse. We all know Malty is a cheater so its almost sure that she has men along the road to interfere with the race."
"If I find anyone what do you want me to do with them?"
"Kill them, I have no sympathy for those who have no issues attacking helpless citizens. If they want to be corrupt soldiers and knights then they can deal with the consequences."
After Motoyusa...recovered ;) the race was set to go.
"The course will be three laps around the outskirts of the village. Whoever reaches this gate first wins! On your marks...Go!"
Despite Motoyusa earlier word his dragon was quickly overtaken and left behind, the first lap passed without any incident much to the shock of Malty. And when the second lap came around with Raph and Filo still in the lead she became quite worried. Soon enough the race was over with Raph clearly being the winner.
"You cheated. Motoyusa should have won that race!"
"Oh, and why is that?"
"...because he is so much better than you." says Malty as she stumbles to find a reason
"And what does that have to do with a race I wasn't in? Face it Motoyusa lost fair and square."
"No, I won't accept this, race again!" she demanded
Once again the figures in black appear from nowhere "Now the princess wouldn't go back on her word...would she?"
"Fine, have this stupid village! We are leaving." said Malty angrily
"You only one because I let you, I won't be so nice next time." Said Motoyusa
"It's ok Motoyusa, I know why you really lost...after all riding after being kicked in the balls like that must be hard." I said with a smirk
"Callum!" exclaimed a blushing Raph
"I'll get you back for this." Motoyusa says angrily before stalking off, something which was quite ruined by the massive limp he had.
I have to say that I'm enjoying this a bit too much when suddenly I see a flash of green light behind me and when I turn around I see...a fat Filo.
"Raph I swear if you have been overfeeding her again!"
"It wasn't me!" protested Raph
"Sir hero how can we ever repay you?" Asked the lord of the village
"Well judging from how Filo is acting around that cart we will take that as payment."
"Why would we need the cart?" questioned Ar'na appearing from nowhere.
"I doubt we can rely on the king for future payments so we will make money selling medicine and a cart will go a long way in making that happen. So let's load up and get ready to leave."
