Protoshield
The raising of the virulent Shield
A [Prototype] x Tate no Yuusha crossover
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Chapter 3 Taint and Holiness
Alex discovered somethings as he self experimented.
Holy magic, while it could hurt him, did not do any more or any less damage to him, however healing skills would infact harm him, that is to say if his HP was 1000 most attacks would do between 3-7 HP damage, while healing spells would do 12-28 in damage to him… that would be around 4 times more power than normal attacks, however still nothing that could outright kill him, also noticed that in places that held miasma and or toxins, he would be in turn empowered.
He also learned that they are many categories of spells which made the attack larger, have an area of effect, or even increase the potency.
The shield and himself had come to an… understanding.
Monster parts and items would be fed to it as to unlock new series, while he would consume any human opponent should they have some worthwhile skill.
Raphtalia was taken back by it at the beginning, but gradually got used to it.
In a way, her master was the ultimate infiltrator.
He had shown her his mimicry skill where he completetly changed his looks, even his stats changed to showcase the person he was mimicking. Not only that but he also held to all the memories the person he consumed had to that point without being overwhelmed by them.
That is why, the witch that gave them the grimmore was shocked and taken back by the sheer amount of compatible magic and elements that he had. The church had sent many agents to tail and sabotage his growth, so he made said problems… disappear.
It was due to that, when he used healing magic on himself, he actually felt hurt and pain.
Thankfully, so long as even a small piece of himself survived, he would never die, it would take time and copious amounts of biomass, but regeneration was possible, specially with the size of some of the monsters around.
So he went to help with reconstruction efforts, this village would serve as a hub for him. While on the village he saw many of the villagers greeted him heartily and many gave thanks for comming here and helping out.
After the wave rather than to turn on each other they came together to rebuild what was lost.
With his stenght and vitality he did the work of 5 men, Raphtalia was helping doing odd-jobs around while the women commenting how pretty and beautiful she was.
The lord of the village then called for us, we meet on his home, it still had damages of the wave, but fortunately it only required minimal work. He even accommodated many of the children in the empty rooms he had on his home.
He wanted to reward Alex, however due to reconstruction efforts it couldn't be monetary.
Therefore he gave him a peddlers pass, it allowed him to travel to other cities without having to pay the tax as well as a second hand peddler carriage. It was a bit old, but it was well taken care of.
Alex gave his thanks, he understood that if he had anything more valuable to give he would, but it was all going to help his people retake their lives.
It was around that time when the egg hatched.
From it hatched a rather small but plump chick.
"Oh? You hatched quite a large Filolial chick, when they grow they love to pull carts and the like, they are very fast runners." The lord said.
He explained how to rise it which helped him, as he didn't have any information about how to take care of this creature.
I decided to feed the egg shell to the shield and it unlocked 2 new series.
Monster user shield and monster egg shield.
The first gave similar abilities like Slave Shield I, but only for monsters I had under my control.
Also one thing we found out was the reason for the star next to Raphtalia's level.
Aaprently due to her high level she needed a break trought ceremony, one that had to be made in the hourglass of the dragonvein, not only that but also approved by the government.
Ah… burocracy… even being an impediment to saving the world it seems.
Got to say, at least in MY world burocracy went out the window when it came to trying to stop AND contain me.
Then again, I was an anomaly that had to be dealt with, I was discovering all their dirty little secrets and I WAS their dirty little secret.
So we forged documents… well not forged as they were written by the person who mostly administrates said things.
It just so happened that I consumed that person.
When using all the knowledge that burocrat had and signed it and even left his own magic imprint on it, he gave it to Raphtalia.
In it was that she was allowed to class up, by order of the king to allow the shield hero to continue his dutties to the Kingdom, while also writing a smaller note stating that they were observed more closely by the Queen's Shadows, making sure that they would shut up and do their thing, else they would be purged.
Raphtalia exited Alex's victim office. Alex meet up with her a couple buildings away and was given the scrolls, of course after dropping his mimicry skill.
Church of the 3 Heroes
The nuns and priests looked at Alex and Raphtalia with a look akin to disgust and barely concealed hatred. Raphtalia sensed it and shrunk into herself, however Alex poked her as to make her stand upright.
"Is there a problem with my companion?" Alex asked.
The clerical group in there felt it… a wave of bloodlust.
In front of them wasn't the shield hero… they felt the presence of something stronger, something powerful… Predatory.
A few of the nuns began to shiver and shed some tears.
"Would you kindly move? I do have little time to waste as the Waves will be arriving soon and I require my companion to class up" Alex said as the clergy group stepped aside for them. They looked worried as the other heroes' companions were not even close to doing this ceremony.
"A moment, Shield hero" a voice came out.
It was a face that Alex recognized very well from all the people he had consumed so far from this world. He was the pope of the church of the three heroes and he was sure that he was going to try to stop him regardless of the document he had.
"I am here for a class-up for my companion, I have the necessary documents that certified the accreditation for the breakthrough ceremony" Alex said.
"Ah...I see however you still require to leave a dyme for the church… it should be around 50 gold" the pope said looking saintly and beatifical.
"That is very odd you eminence, I have a signed document that allows my partner to do the breakthrough ceremony, I was also given this to give to you should you find an excuse to try to stop us" Alex said as he pulled a smaller parchment.
The pope recognized the handwriting as one of his shadows; it was alerting him that the queen's shadows were watching them and that they should proceed with extreme caution. "Ah, Don't worry we can make other arrangements it is true that you are the hero and your partners require the breakthrough in order to keep protecting our world so a service for your continuing dedication towards the fighting of the waves just this once, it is the least we could do as a servants of God" The Pope said.
Alex is smart as they went to the dragon hourglass, the pope closed his hands, a cracking popping sound could be heard from the amount of pressure he was exerting on it while he had a kind smile, the feeling he was giving was anything but.
After the ceremony they left in were gearing up to fight the waves that were coming, he was preparing all the shields he had while enhancing all the shields he possessed with all the power-ups methods of all the other heroes.
However for some reason the Virulent Shield series had no way to be powered up at least not by the means used by the other heroes that must mean that he will have to find illnesses and sickness and consume it into the shield in order to further power it will be a bit hard to do as he was not sure how he would be able to do it, but Alex knew that he was anything if not resourceful.
They continue to grind for levels and added the small filolial chick to the party, it seems that she would be gaining levels even if she was safely snuggled inside Alex's armor.
Of course he commanded the virus to not infect her in order to protect her as he had no idea how the virus would react to the local natives and he had no desire to make a new New York incident happen again. At least, not yet.
He noticed that Raphtalia's growth was slower, he attributed it to the low level of the monsters when compared to hers as it was the same for him, however the chick was getting experience even if she was not directly involved in battle.
After getting the small chick into the mid 10s of levels they went back. Leveling had become harder and they needed to leave further away, however going back and forth was getting annoying. However the little chick had grown quite a bit. Now she had to put on Raphtalia's messenger bag to carry her when she used to fit inside Alex's breast pocket.
Alex also noticed that the chick ate quite a lot.
It was a week later when the chick had grown into a bird that resembled an ostrich of sorts.
Alex was quite taken by this, according to other tamers they take a while to grow that big. He guessed it was the maturation adjustment at play.
However this ALSO carried another set of problems.
The amount of food this bird ate was HUGE! I had to hunt middle sized monsters to cook for her alone.
Still, she was FAST, fast enough to keep up with him even.
We continued to level her up until she hit the mod 20s, a level we thought it would be ideal to move out so she wouldn't be in much danger once we set off. A safety net of sorts.
Using his scientific knowledge and the skills given by the shield's Alex concocted potions of many kinds, ones that alleviate flu like symptoms, others that healed by stimulating the body's own healing factor (had a healing over time effect), herbicide potions to control weeds (seems all worlds had THAT problem) potions that healed outright (the classic health potions), however his always came out at WORST as middle quality, due to his scientific acumen his ability to deal with this actually played a positive role in the compounding process, as a multiplier of sorts.
They filled their cart up and stocked it nicely as they prepared themselves.
To keep things simple Alex decided to name the bird after its species Filo, short for Filolial.
The bird loved pulling the cart and also loved playing fetch for some reason. Could it be a weird genetic thing? Or maybe it was the stimulus of a fast moving object?
Alex, however, had to delay his trip a bit more as Filo had another unexpected change happen.
This time she became bigger and rounder. It towered over Alex even.
Raphtalia was concerned, "Am I gonna grow like that?! Noooo! I am scared!" She exclaimed horrified at the prospect.
The reason for her fear was due to her abnormal growth, it was said that Demi humans would grow according to levels, however she reached the age of maturity rather fast and her hunger has always been rather high probably because of her growth.
Because of it her body required more nutrients and therefore she had a higher than average hunger for any kid or woman her age.
She envisioned herself looking the same size as Filo.
From what Alex understood it would be impossible, but the idea was funny and made him chuckle… something he hadn't done in ages or at all once he became what he is.
So, to get to the root of it all they went back to Beloukas, he said that, according to his ledger the egg was indeed a Filolial, so he had no idea as to why… until…
"Could it be that this one is a leader? And considering it's a female… a queen?" Beloukas said.
Alex was taken back "What do you mean? Explain properly" he said.
"Ah, yes… sorry is just that those are barely mentioned spoken only in legend, the Filolial leader is called King if male or Queen if female, but none has ever seen one with their eyes and so it's all hearsay, would you mind allowing us to study it?" Beloukas asked as his two huge assistants came in.
Knowing more about the species would come in handy, "Very well, make sure the taming crest will work, cause if it's a leader the current one applied at the egg wouldn't be so effective, if what I can understand the seals have a certain effectiveness affording to the power of the beast being placed into."
"Ah, the shield hero is very wise! Thank you for telling us that, so we shall apply an even stronger one, free of charge this time" Beloukas said with his infamous grin "think of it as service for allowing me to see such mythical animal"
They places Firo in a huge cage and Alex and Raphtalia begun to leave as Firo became distressed and began to bang and trash about.
"A..master Alex, I think Filo may be feeling distressed, she has afterall, just been born for such a short time" she said.
It was then when a flash of light enveloped the tent.
"M…master don't go!" A young nude winged blonde girl cried out as her arms reached out of the nards of the cage she was in.
This made everyone blink at this.
"This… this adaptation… is something close to my own? How is this possible?!" Alex said to himself as the Filolial had adapted to the situation, it's slender body had adapted to a bigger and rounder to be able to pull the cart with less strength necessary, and now her humanoid body for interaction with himself and others and to plea to not be left alone in this place.
After putting her seal and turning to her Filolial form we went to Erhard to try getting something for her to wear when in her human form, even if he was a virus it felt morally wrong to let a childlike being going around nude everywhere and his own reputation and Raphtalia might take a hit as well.
Erhard felt a bit annoyed, thinking that Alex was just showing off his newest slave until he explained the situation.
"Well shield bro, I can't help you with that, I make armor and weapons, not clothes, however I know someone who will DEFINITELY help you" Erhard said.
So they went to a place they been before.
The witch lady who gifted them the grimmores.
Apparently many humans and demi-humans had skills that allow them to transform into monsters.
She stated she could make some clothing using the magic power from Filo to create clothes that when she transforms into a monster would disappear and when she turned human, it would come out and dress her.
The process would be automatic as it would be controlled by her own transformation.
She won however that her spinning loom is in operation due to the gem used for it being cracked, therefore they would need to mine for one.
Alex understood and loading the Witch's cart Filo took them to a certain cavern rather swiftly, her big round body was a mask as she was rather fast, almost if not the same as Alex himself.
They arrived near some ruins, while interesting the Witch lady simply stated that it was an evil alchemist's place, and the mine would be further along. Raphtalia however was unable to join due to feeling motion sickness.
"Just rest up, no use of going if you feel unwell, that's an order" Alex said as he oat the young girl's head.
With that, the witch, Alex and Filo entered.
Filo was having fun in the cave as she made echos, Alex was using his thermal vision ability to scout ahead while the witch held the torch at the back.
While walking Filo noticed something, it was an open chest, it was empty, however the inscription near it was a bit… troubling "to this echo would break the seal on the seeds… I pray that the seeds don't reach the outside world"
Alex scoffed, "seems like people never learn, rather than to leave a cryptic message they should just say why it is dangerous"
The witch nodded, she too wondered why people did that, as it could be left to interpretation.
And so they continued down, he felt something wrong in his mind, many images coming in and being drowned down immediately, on the other hand Filo was acting strange.
"ANTI-BIND!" She chanted, dispelling whatever ailed Filo, Alex noticed strange bats and noise like monsters and quickly killed them with his virulent Shield and absorbed the remains unlocking many new shields.
"Oh my! You must have a rather strong mind, to resist these creature's found magic, I apologize but I forgot to earn you all, this cave makes the monster cast magic that make you think you been betrayed, to think you withstood it and even negated it without any need of skills or magic" the witch said.
Alex couldn't just say the truth… there are too many memories to just make one perfect betrayal scenario for him, as he is an acomglomeration of biomass and memories.
In other words, it is like opening 500 tabs in a browser, it would just crash.
After eliminating the rest of the monsters they managed to get deeper inside.
Another monster was inside waiting… however unlike the others that were small, this one was large, almost as big if not a tad bigger than Filo.
A Nue, a Japanese monster of folklore.
When suddenly Filo shot out and kicked the monster.
The monster in turn retaliated. He shot lightning that hit Alex.
He grunted in pain, as elements still hurt him, still the damage had been reduced thanks to his shield and his own psisionomy.
"Miss Witch, go back to the cart, this might get violent, I will send Filo for you once we finish cleaning up here" Alex said as he used his shield to block a swipe of the monster and forced it back.
The witch nodded and turned back.
Alex closed his eyes, changing his body.
Full armor mode.
The genetic makeup of the virus changed and turned his body into an unbreakable armor made with proteins and biomass. His arm with the shield then changed and became claws.
The Nue rushed at him, Alex moved as fast as Filo and dodged by jumping to the ceiling of the cave and then using the roof of it as a springboard.
He was slicing the monster, weakening it.
"NOW FILO! FINISH IT OFF!" Alex shouted
Filo jumped while dashing and delivered 9 powerful kicks, which ended in the complete destruction of the monster's head.
It had exploded like an overripe watermelon.
"Wow! Master is so strong and fast! Fast as Filo and tougher too! So strong!" Filo said.
She started to peck at the dead Nue's body.
The shield absorbed the Nue and new shields got unlocked.
Alex send Filo to get the witch and Raphtalia should she be feeling up to it.
The witch was amazed that they managed to kill the Nue, but also noted that it was smaller than they normally supposed to be, so it was probably one that had not fully matured yet.
So with Raphtalia in tow we kept going until we found the gem needed. After mining it and having it both polished and fitted the witch asked Filo to pass her magic energy as she looked the thread, it made her sleepy as she was using her magic energy to create the threads for her clothes but once she was done we gave it to a seamstress who was delighted to see Filo, the outfit she finished doing was rather simply, but pretty it suited Filo as it gave her an angelic look.
With payment made he decided it was time to travel and make coin by selling his wares and finding more thing to feed the shield AND himself.
Not far away
A shadow of the church saw the aftermath of the fight… the shield was actually growing stronger AND faster than the other 3, and that strange Filolial…
"This must be told to his holiness asap" he said as he vanished.
Church of the 3 Heroes
Sub basement
The pope was raging as his plans were going down the drain, the king was also fuming as well.
Who cares? Afterall the pope was thinking of killing all of the royal family and fully cementing his religion and making this a theocratic nation.
The 3 heroes, while not bad… were sorely lacking when compared to that filth.
What worried him was the new information he received, his Filolial had grown into a never before seen species, not only that but had power and speeds at such young age that left the shadow wanting.
"Then, what shall we do for your holiness?" A believer asked in fear.
"This demon! He shouldn't be allowed to roam this world, your holiness!" Another said as they cried in indignation and fury at their 3 gods being overshadowed by this demon.
He nodded, all were true.
"Then we must do what MUST be done, let us refresh this iteration, these heroes have betrayed our faith, we shall in turn call upon a new iterations that will respond to our faith and devotion!" He said as he smiled while looking towards, his hands outstretched as if wanting to touch the heavens.
"The shield and the 3 phonies must die for their sins!" They yelled
Yes… all affording to plan.
The Shield hero must be eliminated, his taint will NOT be allowed to corrupt the faithful and good humans of this world, all demi humans must also be eliminated, as they are heresies and blasphemers who worship that demon of the shield.
Chapter end.
