Protoshield
The raising of the virulent Shield
A [Prototype] x Tate no Yuusha crossover
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Chapter 4 Botanical Mayhem and assassination plots.
Motoyasu was feeling rather confident, however, like his other 2 fellow heroes, he internalized what Alex had warned them.
It started out small.
There was a young girl he managed to rescue and added her to the party, he figured that if her level increased a bit then she wouldn't get captured or be defenceless.
After she reached mid tens in level however she vanished. Mein assured him that she had to leave due to her family needing her.
He felt something was wrong, a cold shiver run on his back. The girls in his party were also odd, trying to curry favor with Mein, when things went bad they turned on each other rather than trying to learn.
This happened many times, when a girl who is not a noble would join his party before they reach level 18 they would up and leave, a realistic sounding excuse was given by Mein and the cycle repeats.
During their meeting Alex had given them something to help out, it was the fangs of a chameleon like monster, it unlocked a new spear for him the Prismatic Chameleon series, which gave him the ability "invisibility" and "soundless", albeit the attack stats was low it was perfect for recon.
He couldn't sleep and decided to "rip the bandages" as it were.
Mein and the other girls were with the young country girl, they were bullying her and Mein looked most angry.
"How dare a lowly peasant try to disrupt MY PLANS!" She yelled, thinking them far away from Motoyasu as Mein lashed out with her whip and hurt the poor girl.
The other girls were smiling in delight at the cries of pain from the girl. "Princess Malty, you have to be careful, the slave hunters will not pay much if she is hurt"
"Yeah, so don't forget to use SOME healing magic, we want to get the most of of this"
The poor girl was crying, what did she do to deserve this?
She was sold to the slavers, while unknown to then Motoyasu look at this, his hand closing into his spear, his knuckles turning white, the spear shivering as tremors of rage and indignation coursed through him.
He followed the slavers and once they were sufficiently far away he switched spears series and killed them.
No noise, no battle cry, no showboating.
The slavers did not even see him coming.
The first one was killed when he pierced its heart, the other had his neck pierced and the other had his left lung pierced, so he was slow to die as it filled up with blood and choked on it.
Motoyasu cut the bindings of the young girl, she started to cry and she hugged him. He set a camp for her and asked her to hide herself, he would tie some loose ends.
Motoyasu went back to camp and acted as if he had not seen anything, Mine and the rest acting as if they didn't just try to sell a poor girl into slavery.
He felt sick.
"Hey Mine, could you give me the treasure bag for a second?" Motoyasu asked.
She gave him the bag, as it was his to begin, however he had initially trusted her to keep tabs on it.
"Well, thank you very much for your services, but from now on I am going solo" Motoyasu said as he changed his happy go lucky facade he was using to a serious one.
"Eh? But lord Moto-" Mine began but Motoyasu gave her the fiercest glare she ever seen "Shut up, all of you, I saw what happened last night, what you all tried to do with Jessica, how DARE YOU!" I don't need nor want beings like you with me, consider the party dissolved and lucky that I don't lay hands on you", he said as he changed to the portal spear series and vanished.
His group of women that used to be his party were now running around like headless chickens. They had no money and no fast travel to go back.
Mine yelled and raged, how all her plans were going to shit due to that shield asshole!
Such was her fury that she launched a fire spell at the face of one of her hangerons and disfigured her.
Just as this happened a shadow made himself known.
He had a message from the pope… apparently they would start to implement their last resort. They had decried the 3 heroes as fakes and thus to be eliminated and the shield to be struck down as to restart the summoning for a fresh batch of heroes which would be easily manipulated.
"NO ONE breaks up with ME, I BREAK THEM!" Mine said with a cruel and sadistic smile.
Elsewhere
Ren was having a tad difficult of a time to change his modus operandi.
He used to be a solo player, he lived and died as one in his favorite game, however slowly he began changing, he felt his team was akin to close friends, Alex told him to be wary and so just as a precaution he did as told.
Thankfully none were compromised and most held no hatred to demi humans, in fact many considered them as friends and dealt with them as fellow human beings.
He was glad that religious zealotry had not infected all the people in this kingdom.
They continued until they found a peculiar cave… he saw a dog-like demi-human rush in when seen.
He and his team went to investigate…
Elsewhere
Itsuki noticed some changes in his group, specially from Mald, for some reason they had established a hierarchy of sorts and items and food were given according to the ranking they had.
At first it did not seem anything out of the ordinary.
However as time went by, he noticed how… fervent Mald was becoming.
He was beginning to excuse anything he did with "justice" and when someone tried to stop him, regardless of legitimity, they would be "evil".
It got even worse once he discovered that he was a firm believer in the faith of the 3 Holies (heroes).
Not to mention the incident with their newest party member.
It was a girl named Rishia.
She was meek and walked as if she was on eggshells, but she really wanted to show she was part of the team, however she was rather clumsy so she barely saw much fights, therefore her levels were just going up at a snails pace.
However she was perfect when it came to logistics, she learned new information very quickly, she was also the one who started to teach Itsuki how to read this world's language, as the bow only translated spoken language.
This alone gave her high marks, anyone could swing a stick… it took knowledge and talent to learn stuff like that, and they way she taught made it easy for him to be able to start reading short sentences in a few weeks.
Itsuki also noticed that Mald was hoarding money, it was supposed to be a communal resource, to use when eating and getting an inn… however he took many coins to add to his own personal coffers.
He decided to have private conversations with each of their team members. But before that he asked to be given vials of truth serum, so he can get the real answer from them.
He began to question their motives on being with him and part of the party he had, not before asking them to drink the potion, obviously he did not tell them WHAT potion it was.
Many answered "for Glory", "to protect my loved ones from the waves"
Until it was Mald's turn…
"Please have a seat Mald." Itsuki said as he poured a glass for drink.
Mald drank and felt refreshed, it was a rather good ale.
They started talking about inocuous things as to not rise suspicion, slowly the topic began shifting towards justice, the were 10 tankards in, however Itsuki refused to drink anything but water as he was still a underage in his world.
"Mald, what is justice to you?" Itsuki asked.
Mald, at this point, was drunk enough to not notice that he was saying the unabided truth.
"For me… justice is being to do my desires without anyone stopping me wether good or ill, anyone who stops me is evil cause justice is me, that's why we also must massacre the demis… filthy plague… once the church of the 3 Holies fully cement their power, we humanity will finally be the true power of this world" he said smiling, his face heavily flushed with alcohol, unable to process what he just said.
Itsuki smiled, "I see"
He could not help but smile, finding the rotten apple had been accomplished quite fast, once they got rid of Mald they will be looking for someone else, someone who was not like him, but could play the tanker role he would be leaving, on the meantime he would have to play as a kiter… "this sucks… I am not particularly good in sports and am very slow" he sighed as he asked Mald to leave and removed him from the party.
He explained the sudden removal of Mald while he was shouting in anger and then cowing when the whole party glared at him, as Itsuki had recorded the conversation with a viewer orb.
Unable to enact violence as all the party members liked Itsuki and rather hated Mald's personality and thus he left, cursing at them all and calling them fakers.
Due to Mald's departure, the party's growth had actually increased, as they were not bullied around by Mald and Rishia began florishing, thanks to her now being able to speak freely rather than being shut down by Mald, logistics in the team got better, item management and party's needs were meet for efficiently.
In other words while Mald DID contribute heavily in the combat aspect of the party, he dragged down every other aspect of it, sure they got hit with the loss of combat personal… but all other areas had shown more progress.
"If it wasn't for Alex… what could had happened?" Itsuki thought to himself.
Indeed, taking Mald's domeneering personality he would either created to much friction and caused the party to split…. Or had them all join HIS cause and by proxy the church of the 3 Holies.
He also had another thought.
"We are gonna be a thorn in their sides now" Itsuki thought, and he was right, the church wanted to USE them, but they would NOT allow themslevs to be used…
He knew enough history to know what might happen.
If a weapon refuses to be a weapon then the best thing is to get rid of it.
Itsuki deiced to farm and grind materials for any series that allowed him to detect poison, use of stealth magic or skills and the like.
"Wait… there is that!" Itsuki thought.
And so, every night he covered the camp when outside and the door with an alarm booby trap he had once seen on a documentary back in his own world. It was a hassle to reset it, or set it when in a new place, but it gave him a peace of mind.
Church of the 3 heroes
The preists and the nuns were in disarray, the news on how the Bow hero expelled a faithful of their church had spread far and wide, even recording was made publicly viewable. Obviously the church had tried to stomp it out, but they acted too little too late.
"Pope what will we do?! If this goes on that heretical faction will return! It is only 3 who are needed not the demon!"
Many voices shouted similarly.
However it warmed the Pope's heart that even in such dire circumstances they STILL priorities their faith.
"Since the heroes have been swayed by the devil's tongue, we shall purify them and bring forth new iterations, it is time… for a crusade!" He shouted.
All the faithful rejoiced as they brought it…
Holy weapon: Replica
"Find were the heroes and the demon are, and bring them close to castle town, we shall do a public execution, people will see the truth"
With Alex
He had to admit, the Prismatic chameleon shield gave some pretty nifty skills.
It allowed to blend light around him, or any targeted object/being making it invisible to ANY visuals, magical or otherwise.
It was not an illusion as it used the laws of nature to create the effect.
The perfect optical camofflage.
The other one was a hookshot skill.
Basically working as a grapling gun, interesting skill, but useless for me as I can run up the walls due to his inherent speed.
Another skill was omnidirectional awareness, this worked akin to a 360 degrees sonar that had Alex as the point of origin, anything will be detected should they move when the skill activates. It has a 10 second delay from activation thought so they could exploit that should they find info on this, however it could be reduced by mastering it, by how much? Unknown so far.
Raphtalia had grown a costumed to his new "job" which had increased her status by 2.5 times over all across, save for hee defence with increased only by 1.5 times.
Her defence was weak, as her way of attacking was more by brute force and speed, anything defensive would be dealt by Alex himself.
When they reached a village they saw something right out of a horror film from Alex's world.
There was a child who had vines growing out of him, his body slowly being drained from fluids.
Raphtalia quickly cut off the plants growing but the kid still was suffering.
Against all knowledge Alex gave the herbicide to the kid…
The plant life that had grown from inside the child the began to die, while the boy was spared.
Potions and poisons in this world worked as their name suggest, if it was a poison for plants, it would ONLY harm plants.
That was a pretty good nugget of information and knowledge to have.
Once he recovered ENOUGHT, the child explained what had transpired.
The spear hero had come through here and tried to help end the famine, it was the red haired companion of his that brought some weird seeds with her, she said they would grow and give plenty of food, and indeed, that is what happened, for the first few weeks.
However… after that, the plant began to grow out of control, and then… this happened.
The child showed them where the main tree was located, it was quite an impossing thing. Easily 20 stories in height.
Alex asked where the water was.
He then began to do calculations, using a stick and the soft ground to write out a rather complex math equation, taking into consideration the thickness of the trunk… and so he wrote many times and teased it many times over.
The kid, Raphtalia and Firo looked at this with awe.
"Is…is that a magic formula or something?" The child asked.
"No," Alex said "it is a mathematical equation that should give me an answer as to how strong I need to make this herbicide in order to, if not kill it, weaken it enough to finish the job" Alex said.
Neither of them had ever seen such math, they have seen addition, they have seen substraction… but this? There was letters in there!
"Okay, so I gathered how much volume of water runs through here, I need to make a herbicide that will still be strong when diluted by the running water, it needs a concentration of 8 times the strenght mine has, however I also have to alter it so only the native plant life will remain unnafected, using the plants we harvested from you I made this herbicide to fully kill this plant, however as I said we would need a concentrated doze of 8 times it's normal power, that is an estimate, to be safe we will make it 12 times, that will also harm the ground however, making it barren, however I also have a solution, I have many bags of superior grade fertiliser, your village will buy it, at a reasonably price, and in turn you get to be freed from the plant life. Does it sound like a reasonable exchange?" Alex asked.
The boy nodded, he didn't want anyone else to die from this, and if they had to sell him to a slave trader to pay the hero, so be it.
Alex spent the day inside the cart increasing the potency of the herbicide, enhancing it by changing certain parameters, mixing it with other poisons and managing the effects, disposing of the failed product in a way that was not harming the environment.
He managed to create the product after many long hours. The herbicide had a rather beautiful jade color.
"Superior herbicide" was the name of the potion.
After a meal they went to the waterway that run through the village.
He poured it making the water turn a beautiful jade color and then back to it's normal color.
Slowly, the invasive plants began to dry out slowly wither and dying, buildings freed from the wrapped plants that invaded all if the village, villager's bodies that were being sucked from vitality slowly began to be freed as plants died.
However the main tree was taking longer, as a defence mechanism it launched it's fruit to save itself and propagate.
"Not on my watch" Alex said as he, Raphtalia and Firo rushed in.
Alex absorbed the first fruit to unlock a new shield series, then kept the second fruit as an item, while the 3rd one was destroyed.
Filo was eating them all up, thanks to her phisique she disolved them and digested them rather easily.
Raphtalia just slashed and destroyed them.
The tree then attacked them by using it's roots as whips, however Alex had enough.
Changing into his fists he jumped high into the air, consuming biomass to enact his killer move. "EVERYONE MOVE OUT OF THE WAY NOW!" Alex yelled, both Raphtalia and Firo rushed away with the kid in tow.
"DEVASTATOR!" He yelled a she hit the tree and virulent spikes began to grow out of the tree, piercing it from the inside, corrupting it.
Then, an explosion of viral matter which was absorbed back into Alex.
The tree was no more.
Alex, Raphtalia and Firo stayed with the villagers until they were well enought to be able to stand and talk. Then Alex told them about the deal they made.
The villagers could rebuke the child, he had managed to save them.
"For the manure… it will be a total of 500 silver, to be paid in instalments for 24 months at a 3 percent rate of interest a month, a minimum of 20 silver a month, should you pay OVER 20 silver it will count towards your interest, making it easier to pay your debt." Alex said, shocking the villagers.
A measly 20 silver a month for superior fertiliser? Which would last them at least 3 years?
The villagers hugged the boy as they not only saved them but also found a way to be able to grow more and higher quality food as well.
Once a formal contract was drawn and signed by the village leader.
What no one knew is where Alex had gotten such strong fertiliser…
The answer was easy…
It came from Firo.
She ate a lot, and thus…
Best not tell Raphtalia or Firo.
The fertiliser not only supercharged the earth with nutrients, it also sped up the growth process of any plant.
Before leaving he looked at the new shield skill he unlocked… bioplant modification.
That meant, he could edit the plant however he pleased, not unlike how he was edited and created in a lab. But by using plant life, he could discard the tendency of the plant to run rampant and invade the area, and increase the fruit yield, nutricional value and resistance towards weather AND parasites/illnesses.
"For your purchase… here" he gave the new modified bioplant, with assurance that after a year the plant will wither and die, and only be able to grow if it's planted not if the seeds fall from the fruits. He told them it should help them as they probably had little to no food, so with this fruit nutricional needs will be meet with a single serving.
They cried and thanked the Shield hero, calling him the sain of the holy bird, much to his chagrin.
"I am a plague, not a saint" he moaned internally.
Still he felt… what could be considered in a human as… happy.
Unknown to them the Chruches forces had began to build themslevs.
"TO RID OURSELVES OF THE FALSE IDOLS!" They yelled as they all cheered, fanatismo in their eyes. The pope giving a gentle smile as he adjusted his square glasses.
For the glory of the 3 Holies.
A group had been sent to kill the Sword and Bow hero… however the spear hero had been difficult to find due to him getting rid of the parasite of a princess.
And as for any sent for the shield… none came back.
Things will end and glory will once again bless them with heroes who listened.
For a world of humanity…
Chapter end.