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Hero And Fighter Chapter 14

Forest

6/1/0000: 1500

Third Person: Omni

"This process will take several minutes, please wait." The female voice finished the statement as Noafumi fished the phone out of his pocket. Quickly bypassing the screensaver of the paladin's neo artwork, he reaches the regular operation. Quickly switching to contacts, there was a number slowly counting down by Des's contact info.

"Naofumi-Sama, Lute Village is over there." Senka immediately reported after a few moments of looking, the other heroes had already left the general starting area. Naofumi quickly put the phone back into an easy to access pocket, whatever it was doing, he would know when the timer finished.

"A flare, they must be signaling they are being attacked." Raphtalia noticing the sudden burning of a flare, quickly said. They were all looking to him for orders.

"To Lute Village to evacuate them." Naofumi quickly stated before running over. They all nodded before running after him.

Forest

6/1/0000: 1520

"Raphtalia, Senka, evacuate the villagers now. Take them to the Mine. Melina, you are with me, I will be baiting the wave monster, you are to thin them out as much as possible." Naofumi immediately noticed several burning buildings, though most of the village is still intact despite the arrival of monsters.

"Right!" Raphtalia and Senka immediately left the two in order to do their job. Naofumi pounded on his shield in order to get some of the more aerial enemies after him, the loud sound was able to dissuade them from attacking nearby villagers.

"Ge out of here, it ain't safe," Naofumi said to the animals in the stables, several lizards, and from what he thought were Chocobos. He quickly opened the pens with a sift and careful hand before running through the back end and into the village proper.

"Shield Of Blessings I, Everyone, run to the mines, you will be safer there than here," Naofumi stated while drawing aggro from the monsters that he noticed were zombies. Quickly changing the shield to his best one in defense against undead, he started changing a canteen of water into Holy Water.

"Melina, Chaser Evolution: Light Naofumi ordered as Melina slashed some monsters that got too close to a pair of villagers. She nodded while using the skill, originally her chasers were a bunch of different elements, but from the next batch, a set of big light element chasers appeared.

"The Shield Hero is saving us!." The villagers shouted, putting together the connection of him being the one to clear to mine and the newly summoned person infront of them.

"I said run, get out of here and get to safer ground!" Naofumi shouted while running, opening his canteen of recently converted holy water. He quickly splashed it onto an undead, practically burning it from the divinity dwelling within.

"Air Strike Shield" Naofumi quickly used the named skill in order to protect a man from getting attacked by a zombie. Running past in order to draw it into the crowd behind him.

"Shield Prison" Naofumi quickly used the other ability, stopping a gang of bees from harming a woman and her child. Clanging the metal of his left bracer and the holy shield brought their attention onto him. Melina quickly rushed past them, making sure to get as many chasers as possible.

"Melina, fall back for a second," Naofumi ordered while targeting one of the burning buildings, she nodded and let off his side, making sure that none of them went after him. He quickly went under a burning pillar, having some bees follow him.

"Launch Chaser" Melina quickly used her skill in order to launch her older chasers into monsters that were targeting villagers, exploding on contact and harming several monsters at once.

"After me you monsters!" Naofumi yelled out while jumping over the burning pillar, causing the parade of monsters to come after him once more, but this time, he had a burning torch in his hand. He spotted the watchtower…knowing the bell up there would attract more monsters away from the more dense parts of the village, he quickly ran for it.

_(RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO)_

Mines

"Is everyone evacuated?" Rapihtalia asked Senka when she saw the scout treating some injuries that the villagers sustained, becoming a medic for the group.

"The able-bodied men ran back, they seem to be going to help Milord," Senka reported to her co-slave, finishing off the bottle of burn solution, one that lasted quite a bit actually.

"Are we good to return?" Raphtalia asked while watching the surroundings, though it was a bit redundant with Senka already doing so easily. It did help calm the elderly and children though.

"I will stay here and protect them, you go over and assist Milord." Senka quickly threw a stick covered with holy water into a zombie that wanderer its way up here. Her movement surprised the villagers.

"Right! I leave it to you Senka!" Raphtalia quickly ran to the village. Senka just saluted and went back to helping the injured, though most of them were fine thanks to the quick timing of the Hero and her medical skill efficiency. Couldn't be an assassin without knowing poisons, and poisons were one step away from being medicine after all.

Lute Village

"Air Strike Shield" Naofumi once again used the skill, but this time to use it as a double jump to get over a zombie and onto the ladder of the watchtower. Melina being more athletic just ran up the supporting pillars.

"Start shooting chasers after they gather quite a bit, the AoE is needed," Naofumi advised Melina who nodded in confirmation that she got it. Naofumi quickly started ringing the bell, attracting many zombies to its base, though less than it would have due to the party's efforts.

"Contact Des is calling." The female voice chimes in after the last of the bell's ringing have finished. Naofumi quickly took the phone out of his pocket, seeing that it was indeed Des calling he answered.

"This is Iwatani Naofumi, how may I help you?" Naofumi said while Melina was shooting chasers to thin them out a bit more. He is trying to be as nonplussed as possible.

"I leave you alone for one minute and you go to another dimension… in a whole nother multiverse even? What am I going to do with you." A young man's voice comes over the line, extremely exasperated at Naofumi's new location.

"Well sorry that I got summoned to be a Hero… and one that is hated by the nation but still, a hero." Naofumi still somehow found humor in the situation.

"Wait summoned to be a hero?" Des asked in a surprised voice.

"Yep, and fighting other-dimensional zombies to boot, this tear in the universe keeps summoning them," Naofumi stated while looking at the sky, the shades of purple that spelled calamity.

"Well shit, I knew that you were likely to be summoned but you do not sound like you are in a good situation. Do you need back up?" Naofumi felt surprised at the conversation with Des, it was surprisingly quick that he accepted Naofumi's word.

"Yeah, that would be nice, the zombies are breaking down the tower I am in, despite Melina's best efforts," Naofumi stated, surprised at his own nonchalant attitude by fighting beside his own creation.

"Right, I'll see if I can get Yukari and Okina to send me over, the boundary between the two shouldn't be too powerful." Naofumi heard names that he was familiar with, despite never meeting with the supposed Gap Witch or Back Door Goddess… it would seem that the titles are more literal than he thought.

"Anyway, I already sent you a bunch of data, just as much as your phone has been sending me. Next time one of these "waves" opens up, you should be able to contact me quicker… or anyone besides our guild sans your brother." Naofumi was about to say something but the call disconnected.

"We got some back up from my end coming soon… but the knights should come in first," Naofumi stated while pouring oil onto the zombies below and the tower itself. He could already feel the structural integrity of the tower slowly collapsing.

"I have enough chasers to do a Quasar Explosion," Melina reports while looking at her chasers, whittled down quite a bit when compared to before.

"We need to go now. Rope Shield." Naofumi knew that he didn't need to say the shield's name aloud, but it did help him imagine the shield he would be using more strongly. He used the torch to light the oil before snuffing it out, offering his back to carry her.

"Air Strike Shield" Using the skill as a platform once more, he used the extra distance to latch on with Rope and swing to safety. Though he knew that Melna was having fun swinging around. Naofumi noted in his mind that when they take a vacation, he would try doing this in a pool or lake.

He looked back to see the tower falling down, crushing about a quarter of the horde they attracted. Naofumi shook his head when she was preparing for Quasar Explosion motioning for her to wait a bit to observe the situation. The skill did have a long cooldown after all and he did not know if more showed up due to the loud crash.

"Sir Hero!" Naofumi recognized the man as one of the first he saved from the village. He was quite surprised at the man coming back.

"What are you doing?!" Naofumi yelled while making sure that Melina was okay, they were in quite a bit of rubble.

"We all changed our minds when we saw how courageously you were fighting. This village is our home. We can't just run away and abandon it. We will fight with you." The man explained while Naofumi observed the situation around him, able-bodied adults with various farming implements were fighting the monsters.

"Alright, help evacuate the rest of the people… but be careful and be ready to find shelter. My companion with the spear will be using some powerful attacks to help thin the enemies." Naofumi said while standing up from the rubble now that Melina was off his back. She nods while observing the situation.

"Roar" Naofumi immediately noticed the hulking figure of a giant zombie arriving behind the bandanaed man. He quickly pushed him away while slanting his shield at an angle, hoping to redirect the blow instead of absorbing it.

"Die monster!" One of the villagers tried to stab it with his pitchfork, forcing Naofumi to redirect another blow when the monster turned its attention to the man who attacked it.

"Get to shelter, you guys aren't equipped to handle this!" Naofumi spoke while stopping on the ax the monster had, embedding it more into the ground, despite being smart enough to wield it, it was dumb enough not to let go and attack Naofumi with his hands.

"But"

"Go now, think of your family. And I get the feeling that the knights will use some sort of high damage magic to get the job done, don't get caught in the crossfire." Naofumi yelled for the others to get out before his feelings could be proven.

"Naofumi-Sama!" The signature voice of his slave was all he needed to know. Melina was currently dealing with another of the zombies while Naofumi dealt with the other.

"Heh, you are easier than a Tau to fight," Melina states while slashing the monster, finishing it off as she seared the neck of the zombie.

"Raphtalia." That was all Naofumi needed to say before the monster that he was holding off fell to pieces with a swift array of slashes from his swordswoman.

"Good work." Naofumi gave the well-deserved praise, it looks like his training did her well. Naw, if only he could find a way to have her learn Sword Master skills…

"Amazing…" They all had surprised faces as they watched her sheth the sword, sure, she was quite powerful when getting them out of the village. But to be this strong is extremely surprising.

"Please get to shelter and notify our last party member. We have this handled" Raphtalia stated after turning to the group of villagers.

"Right." The villagers quickly left the village to the hero's party. Thanks were not stated, they would just hope they were safe.

"Tsk. The numbers aren't going down, what are the other three doing…?" Itsuki was getting the feeling that the other heroes were having trouble. The wave depended on them to finish the boss monster. Suddenly, flares of fire created a cage around the village.

"Both of you, to me. Light Metal Shield." Naofumi immediately got a bad feeling from the attack that would soon be upon them. He quickly puts the two under his cloak before blocking a ball of fire that attacked him.

"Ha ha ha, We burned them all to death at once." Naofumi felt the thorn in his heart pulse as he felt righteous anger brew within it. Several soldiers slowly walk through the burning village, set even more ablaze due to the army's actions.

"The Shield Hero…? You are quite tough." It seems that they scouted him out and knew he was in the village when they attacked, forcing the anger inside of him to burn hotter.

"Tsk, they didn't care that we are here…" Naofumi spoke under his breath, angering his two companions that he sheltered. Raphtalia rushed out when Naofumi shifted his position slightly, attacking the head knight. Melina rushed out behind her, a frosted anger in her eyes despite the smile on her face.

"Did you do this knowing that Naofumi-sama was here?" Raphtalia was in a total rage, her snarl warping her features as she pressed onto the head knight's bodyguard.

"Depending on your answer… I guess we will have you court-martialed and dishonorably discharged." Melina spoke from behind them, her spear settled over her shoulder. She knew organized military terms far better than Raphtalia and was able to articulate a statement far more dishonorable than dying in battle.

"Draw your swords." The second in charge spoke while looking at the situation.

"I would recommend you not point them at us and instead of the monsters still around us… otherwise, you will be caught for treason during a disaster and executed by the queen." Senka said while walking in from the other edge of town, playing with her knives in a threatening manner. She knew far more about laws than anyone else in the group.

"A knight that refuses to protect the innocent is no knight," Raphtalia stated while moving back, with all the statements the other soldiers hesitated in their actions. The party returns to Naofumi's side.

"What took you so long Senka?" Naofumi asked while they readied for a fight. But it wasn't for the knights, no, it was for the monsters behind the lackluster figures that called themselves royal knights.

"Honestly, for peacekeepers, you are horrible at it." A young man's voice filled the space as footsteps on the cobbles clacked even above the crackling of the fire. Naofumi's backup had arrived.

Word Count: ~2600 Words

Date Completed: 12/22/2020

Note: Who might this Des be... Hope you all enjoyed it. Well, on another note, Operation Siren on Azur Lane has caught me.

Comment Cove:

FFN:

Arraia: Perfect

Unique shield?

Response: Why thank you… as for Shields, new shields will be made.

Dcraus: so when will the the others female characters from dungeon fighters online make appearance in rising of the shield hero world. I looking forward to see Female Slayer and Female Knight has part of Naofumi harem

Response: Light Bringer will be here soon… in a strange way of course.

AO3:

Robbie2413: You misspelled Raphtalia's name as "Raphiatlia", and "Raphitalia". Please fix that in this chapter.

Whew, you have updated 2 chapters so fast I didn't have time to give feedback. Anyways the last chapters were good and so was this one despite the spelling errors noted above.^^

So derailment went up hehehe. Naofumi has Itsuki's method way earlier like 1st wave instead of post-pope battle. That end bit though what does it mean by "one he hadn't heard of besides the starting days of having it"? What is "it" in this context? You have me so intrigued.

Response: Well that was my mistake… and I am annoyed with myself for that. I am glad you enjoyed it.

As for it, that would be the phone.