Chapter 12
Wow, when I started to write this story I had no idea it would be this popular, the last chapter has been read by over 500 and it has only been a week since I published it! I want to thank all those who are reading, following and reviewing my stories.
As before I do not own Rising of the Shield Hero or Destiny 1 or 2
Also I have been making plans for the sequel of this story which involves another anime, but this all depends when the next season of shield comes in. What I see happening is me writing the sequel of this story while I am still writing this story all the while avoiding anything inconstancies (such as character death) but I'm going to try dropping some hints (such as a strange moon) anyway on with the story.
"So this is where we get our upgrade?" I ask Ino
"Yes, though it can be expensive but most adventures can afford it went it comes time to upgrade." answered Ino
Walking into the building the first thing I notice that a lot of people are giving us nasty look and whispering each other.
"Raph walk right behind me, everyone else block everyone's line of sight." I ordered quietly
With that Raph sticks to my back while Ino and Ar'na walk on either side, with everyone's sight blocked I put my hand behind my back and summon Casper
"Raph, place an illusion on him to hide from sight." I asked quietly
Raph quickly mutters an incarnation as she places an illusion on Casper, continuing on we came across three nuns in front of the dragon hourglass, one scowling quite heavily, one smirking and the final one showing no emotion.
"Shield Hero, what brings you here?" asked the smirking nun
"We are here for class upgrades." I answered
"Class upgrades are quite expensive, that will be fifteen gold pieces for each person."
"THATS NOT TRUE! Callum she is trying to rob you, while expensive class upgrades don't cost nearly that much."
"That may have been true in the past but we have had a number of unexpected costs...and as a consequence the price has gone up." says a nun that is smirking even more
"So be it, Raph you go first we will get the others some other time."
"Very well." answered Raph, but as she approached the dragon hourglass
"I'm sorry but there seems to have been a mistake, we are forbidden to giving any upgrades to the shield hero's party by direct order of his majesty."
At this I notice that a large crowd has gathered on the floor above us.
"So the bastard king is interfering once again."
"I'm sorry but it seems we can't help you and must ask you to leave." says the new nun, who is smirking and sounding anything but sorry
"That's okay...I've already got everything I came here for." giving my own smirk we left, leaving a bunch of very confused nuns
When we left Filo seemed quite agitated
"Daddy, why did you let them be so mean to us!"
"Because they weren't needed anymore so we had no reason to be bothered by them anymore." I answered
"But we didn't get the upgrade." protested Ino
"Oh yes we did, Casper?" with that Casper appeared before us, Raph's spell having worn off
"I analysed the hourglass and I can replicate the class upgrade."
"See problem solved!" I said
"But why did you offer to pay for an upgrade if you could just get it for free?" asked Raph
"Because that would be stealing, not our fault that they wouldn't serve us...if anything the only one they can blame is the king. Anyway lets get back to the carriage and upgrade everyone."
After we reach the carriage we set around looking at the upgrades.
"Ok Filo lets get you done, Casper can you mimic the hourglass?"
"Sure thing." with that Casper started to give out a white and yellow glow and a screen appeared before me, I take a minute to look at the screen.
"Ok the upgrades seem to me made up of four fields, all of which divide in two those then divide even further between increased stats and extra abilities. The first is direct combat which branches into attack and defense, the second is ranged attack which divide into more efficient attacks which means greater range or higher damage. The third revolves around healing and you choose between greater health and recovery time, the fourth in mana and branches between mana efficiency and mana production. Of course it is a lot more complicated than this as there is all these abilities thrown in that go into each section."
Taking my time to look at these abilities I come across one that sticks out to me.
"Ok there are a number of abilities that I can get Filo, but as she prefers close combat I've been focusing on looking at direct combat. There a number of unusual abilities, one even allows her to spit acid!"
"Ohhh Daddy I want that one!" said Filo excitedly
"No."
"But since it's Filo's ability, shouldn't she get to choice."
"It may be Filo's ability but it is my face and I would like keep it as it is." I answered quickly
"I don't?" Raph starts to ask
"Filo gets a cold, I tuck her in and kiss her good night when she sneezes and melts my face."
"Oh...that does sound bad."
"It really would be, but there is a ability I found in the defensive section, it will allow Filo to harden her feathers into a steel like hardness allowing her to take a lot more damage with little risk, and I believe with her wind ability she will be able to use them as sharpened projectiles. How does that sound Filo?"
"It doesn't sound as cool as spitting acid but ok daddy!"
"Okay Raph what do you want to look at?"
"Well since most of our party can use ranged attacks and I don't use mana that often how about some kind of attack?"
"Okokok, well we have a quick attack...it doesn't do that much damage however it seems mainly for wounding opponents and to be honest your quick enough without it. But this other one allows you to unleased a charged attack, the longer you hold in the more powerful it is and when you stop holding it back you unleash a crescent shaped and sharpened wave off energy so it can also function as a ranged attack." (Think Ichigo's cutting moon attack)
"That sounds useful, and I don't have many heavy type attacks."
"Okay that's done, Ino what do you want?"
"I'm not sure, thanks to the staff you gave be I already have power and efficiency with my mana attacks. How about something supportive?" asked Ino
"Okay lets take a look, there is this one ability that allows you to augment the abilities of your entire party. You can focus on increasing everyone's base stats by 25% across the board or put it all in one and increase it by 100%."
"That sounds perfect!"
"Okay we have the rest of today and tomorrow before the wave so I want everyone learning their new abilities."
That night we went out to a pub/inn to get a bite to eat, the only down side was some of the people in it.
"Look like Ren and Itsuka are eating here too, hopefully they won't bother us." with that said we all found a seat and enjoyed our meal, until Ren and Itsuka came over
'Bloody hell, I jinxed myself.' I thought to myself
"It's you that's been impersonating us and stealing our jobs!" accused Itsuka
"What?"
"You've been taking rewards that belong to us!" said Itsuka firmly
"Right...because I can so easily be confused with a little boy with a bow and no pubic hair." I said insultingly
"Who else would do it!" raved Itsuka
"Ever thought that it might be because your doing such a shitty job that no one pays you? No you seem to think that you shit rainbows and F-ing unicorns! Same as the other idiots, news flash I have been cleaning up after your shit! That revolution you started? The people that came into power were even worse then the guy you over threw! As for you Ren, it turns out that if you leave a dragon to rot it turns into a fucking zombie that was so poisonous it was killing a nearby village just from breathing the same air! SO how about to back the fuck off and let us enjoy our meal!"
"You expect us to believe that?!" said Itsuka
"I'm sorry but you seem to have me confused with someone else, first name 'don't give' with the last name 'a fuck' so go ask him! Or how about you go back and look around."
With that Itsuka backed off grumbling while Ren seemed strangely silent, either way we went back enjoying our meal.
"Sorry about that but these guys are really starting to piss me off."
After we finished our meal we left the inn only to run into people I'd much rather see.
"Shield Hero!" Shouted out a voice, turning around I saw that it was the young knight I talked to before along with three others
"Hello, I assume that these are the people you were talking about?"
"Yes, if you are willing we will fight with you."
"I am willing." with that a further four people joined the party, all under a sort of sub-party with the young knight as the leader who I now know was called Ake "Ok, now you have joined us we need you to get some better gear. Ar'na and Raph can you take them to that blacksmith you like so much, here is twenty gold coins, spend what you need, after that we will make plans for the next wave."
