Protoshield
The raising of the virulent Shield
A [Prototype] x Tate no Yuusha crossover
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Chapter 5 The Smiting of a God
"The sword and bow heroes have been located my eminence" a shadow said as the pope readied himself, grabbing the perfect weapon to use against the fake gods and the demon.
He did the consecration ritual and made the power of the faithfully be added as fuel for the weapon… Many faithfully would die due to magical energy depletion, many more would die when fighting their enemies, but no matter how many died, it would be for a worthy cause. None stepped back fully believing in the righteousness of their actions, their lives were to be used and thrown away to further their glorious faith.
And so, they readied their forces from the continent, assembled their fighting force which was akin to twice the size of the kingdom's and all of them being the elite. Easily many times more than the fake heroes and the demon, according to calculations.
However their faith blinded them to facts. The demon and his companion had a class up not long ago.
However, due to the numbers on their side they would be excused for forgetting such truffle things.
If that was the only thing they forgot, or rather did not know.
Alex was not the shield hero, he was an amalgam of people biomass, a viral malediction in the shape of man.
He was the monster of monsters.
A virus is nothing but RNA, in other words proteins.
It could not be killed by conventional means, even magical ones would prove ineffective save for healing magic. But who would think that using magic to heal would harm someone?
As the church was setting out to make the ambush area, the heroes had to return as they had less than 4 days for the next wave.
3 hour distance from the castle town
As they reached the gates Alex met up with Motoyasu on his own.
"Motoyasu-san? Are you okay?" Raphtalia asked as he saw the look in his eyes.
Motoyasu looked depressed and heartbroken. Unable to be able to trust after what he had seen, but remembering Raphtalia was a slave thus unable to act in a way ontowards others.
"Ok? No… not really, haven't been ok for a few days now" Motoyasu said with an awkward smirk.
"Companion trouble?" Alex asked.
"Trouble uh? That would be putting it lightly… if I see those girls I am not sure I would be able to hold myself back" Motoyasu said as he grasped his spear even harder, his knuckles turning white.
Alex sighed, "wanna talk about it?", he knew Motoyasu needed to vent, he looked like shit, so what he saw and did was eating him up inside.
And so Motoyasu began telling what had happened. Raphtalia and Firo were shocked at what they heard. Thankfully the ending was good, Motoyasu left the girl back in her home after she leveled to level 25 and left her with 300 silver coins that should let their family last till next winter.
Finding out what his most trusted companion had done behind his back he then tracked down every slave trader and freed his companions that were sold due to them not being ass-kissers to the princess. Either legally or by killing their captors.
He managed to free them all, and left compensation for what happened. He took the slavers' coins as well, as dead people had no need for it.
"To think the princess would treat her own subjects like that… I trusted that witch" Motoyasu said.
He really loved her, but when he learned the kind of monster she was… the image he had of her could not reconcile with reality.
"After this wave, maybe you should take a breather, just keep adventuring solo until you think you are ready to get companions" Alex said.
Motoyasu nodded, and then noticed the big bird pulling the cart.
"Ah, Alex… I been meaning to ask… what is…that?" He said pointing at the big bird.
"Firo is Firo!" Firo said smiling.
Alex decided to elaborate as it did not really answer much. "Her name is Firo, she is an advanced species of the Filolial. You know those birds who pull carts? That's what she is, but an advanced series"
Motoyasu nodded, now understanding.
"You've been working as a merchant?" Motoyasu asked.
"Yeah, by keeping a low profile I managed to make a good coin, not to mention obtain more information and materials… by the way, did your group happen to go to a small village that was suffering from lack of food?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, I left them with a bit of silver that should at least help to procure food for a week," Motoyasu said.
"Well the princess seems like she helped a LITTLE too much, she gave them the seeds" Alex said.
Motoyasu groaned. "What happened?" He asked with pain in his voice.
"For the first 2 weeks the seeds worked as intended, however after that it ran rampant, it became parasitic to humans, we managed to cull them and even got a skill to manipulate the genetics of the plant, made it so it won't run rampant, is resistant to pests and illnesses, and it's fruit would be able to provide all nutritional values needed" Alex said.
"Wow… sounds like a perfect GMO" Motoyasu said with a chuckle
"Yeah, it is… the place won't go hungry, and don't worry, they don't hate you, they know it wasn't your fault but of that princess" Alex said.
"Yeah, I ditched her and her group of crownies, this MAY come back to bite me in the ass later on I just know it." Motoyasu said with a groan.
"I know it's not my place to say this but… I believe that you are better off without them, Motoyasu-san" Raphtalia said.
"Ren and Itsuki should be coming, we decided to come back by foot for this wave, as a way to warm up and rank some EXP." Motoyasu said.
Just then from the bushes appeared the haggard bodies of both Ren and Itsuki, along with a young woman with green hair.
"ru…run away"
With a thought Alex called into his full viral armor and changed into his Virus series Shield.
"Shield Prison!" Alex shouted.
He felt his ball of shields slowly crack… until nothing…
He undid his defense, he looked around, the area had been devastated, as if a nuke had hit this area.
The shield prison crumbled down, as the attack had exceeded by a slight margin their defense capabilities. It was thanks to his armor that they managed to weather this attack.
Itsuki was badly hurt, his left arm was broken and hanging uselessly at the side while Ren was riddled with damage.
"Raphtalia quickly give them the healing potions, high grade ones, you should know the labels", Alex barked out as Raphtalia quickly obeyed and gave both heroes the whole potion each, restoring their bodies to working condition.
"T…thank you Alex" Ren said.
Itsuki was whimpering from phantom pain, they finally understood that this was 100 percent reality. The pain was a rather good motivator, thankfully they listened to Alex's advice.
Thankfully before they got ambushed, they ordered their party members to scatter, that way they wouldn't be targeted, that was just a bonus as the reason for scattering was to look for provisions.
"I see that the demon and the fake heroes have finally gathered for us to vanish from that world" a familiar voice said.
From a tactical vantage position the pope and a rather large group of followers gathered.
"To think the demon would even endure "judgment" truly a filthy demon through and through that won't allow the work of god work as intended" the pope said as he fixed his glasses.
"God uh?" Alex said with self depreciation, as he had played God and created the virus who took over his body, creating a virus with Alex's half completed memories and personality. "You could say that, in my world, me and other people played God, so sorry if I don't subscribe or care about your religious faith, especially since you use it as both a weapon and a shield."
"A shield? You DARE insult US as needing such filthy thing? A shield only is used to defend, we have no such need of weakness as we can attack and stamp out any who dare oppose us, specially with this" he said showing the weapon he held in his hands.
It quickly changed to a rather strong looking spear, Motoyasu gasped "that's a high level spear skill Brionac! But how?! Only the holy weapons can change like that and use skills?!" He said in shock.
Alex charged and pierced the pope, only for his body to turn into another faithful who smiled as he died with blood choking him as it filled his lungs.
"Now he is using "mirage arrow! He is making illusions of himself! What's going on?!" Itsuki said in shock.
The Pope's weapon had changed into a bow and arrow as Thousands of arrows were fired.
"Thousand swords!" Ren yelled as he shot thousands of swords to the veritable rain of arrows.
There is no use using his regular vision, and viral vision won't help as he is the only viral entity here, so that left his thermal vision.
Mirage arrow skill could NOT fake heat signatures it seems. So he rushed to the body in the Pope's shape.
"Million stab!" A veritable rain of spear jabs at lightning fast speed and power shot out as the pope glared at Alex and tried to mix himself up with the other illusions.
"Everyone duck!" Alex yelled as he changed into his whip arm mode.
He shot it towards the pope, however…
"PROTECT HIS HOLINESS! KILL THE DEMON!" A female voice shouted as a huge fire attack rained down making Alex abort his attack.
The others also backed away. But many of the faithful got incinerated by the princess attack.
The floor had melted and turned to glass.
On the cliff was the princess with a shit eating smirk.
"The heroes have committed high treason and have attempted to papicide! This is a royal decree! Kill the heros with EXTREME PREJUDICE!" She said as she gave a savage smirk.
She pulled her eyelid down and pulled her tongue out. Mocking the heroes, believing herself untouchable.
"Mein, I am giving you one chance… stand down or I will MAKE YOU" Motoyasu said.
"YOU DARE TELL ME, THE NEXT QUEEN TO BE, WHAT TO DO!? YOUR INSOLENCE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!" She screeched as she pulled out a whip and lashed out at the heros from a safe distance while raining fire on them.
Alex had to admit, her control over fire was VERY good, to be able to heat the ground till it turned to glass? That had a LOT of power, and while he was resistant to heat AND fire, such temperatures would surely harm him, viral armor or not.
Thankfully the attacks from the zealots didn't really pierce his defenses, save from the weapon that the pope wielded.
Still an elephant would fall if swarmed by enough ants.
"Shield demon! Enemy of god! We cast you off this beautiful world!" The pope said as he switched to another weapon.
"Fenrir fang", it was a sword that had a special skill, it was the sword hero's analogue of the Fenrir rod that the staff hero had, it gave its user a x2 attack damage multiplier against other heroes.
The pope smiled "DEATH TO THE HERETICS, THE PRETENDERS AND THE DEMON!"
Alex put on his viral armor, switched to Viral Shield Series II, used shield prison 4 times around his party and added defensive buffs to all.
The shields were shattered as if they were fine china.
The attack bypassed it and left them scattered, bruised and hurt.
"Yes, this weapon of the gods… it makes me the chosen one by god… no I AM A GOD!"
They all struggled to stand up.
Alex was not having a good day so far…
"Damn… this guy… he drank out of his own kool-aid" Alex said as he groaned, a large part of his body was hurt, but he could still function, it just… he needed to replenish biomass or else he would cease bodily functions, he had no desire to do so in front of the others… but what choice did he had?
After all… the pope just raised a flag.
He thought himself a god… someone on top of the food chain uh?
Let's see how this "god" can deal with the Apex predator.
He donned his viral armor, absorbed the shield unto himself… it was time to fight not as the shield hero but as the walking apocalypse that he truly was.
"So I am a demon uh? Well you got something wrong… I am nothing so tame as a demon… no… I am…" Alex said as tendrils of red and black biomass began to erupt from within.
It hit one of the followers and pulled it towards him, the body began to dissolve, the tendrils and armor color began to gain more color and luster.
"More than a human"
He rushed at breakneck speeds and consumed the zealots much to the shock and horror of the church and the princesses' forces.
His armor had reduced his speed from what the normal was, but not enough for the other humans to be able to capitalize with.
He barreled through them, crushing them underfoot. Consuming them.
However the one who had their limbs broken stood up. They groaned but stood up resolutely and continued to fight and die.
They cared not for their lives and offered it only to buy seconds more for the pope to keep attacking with hero skills as he used their own life force to fuel the attacks.
Alex could respect such bravery and resoluteness… however he pitted them.
No matter what they did… the outcome would be the same.
However the others were shocked.
"A…Alex is tearing them apart… and they keep going on?! What is WRONG WITH THEM?!" Ren yelled in shock.
"Fanaticism… pure and simple, they have the same look as the slave hunters who came to my village and took them all and killed my parents, many were mortally wounded but they ignored it just to finish their oh so noble cause…" Raphtalia said as a baker's dozen bodies flew into the air. One of the still functioning people was grabbed and then flung onto a large group.
Itsuki was shooting a barrage of arrows and spamming skills, taking out enemies who were outside the range of Motoyasu and Ren.
Motoyasu was covering Itsuki and Ren running interference, while Rishia attempted to help. While clumsy, she took quite a few of the fanatics down with projectiles such as throwing knives and the like.
Raphtalia and Ren were fighting side to side, Ren had to admit… Raphtalia was a beast in battle, she had little in knowledge of sword forms, Alex taught her as much as he knew, but not many in his world were experts on it, however she took what little he taught her, combined it with her own demi human instincts and she became a force to be reckoned with.
Meanwhile Motoyasu was fighting alongside Firo who took her human form, which shocked and took him by surprise. However due to the urgency of the situation he would fawn over Firo's cuteness once they managed to survive this.
For and Motoyasu were quite a team, with Firo's brute strength she sent enemies flying while Motoyasu finished them off.
They were heavily covered in blood and gore, but the 3 heroes didn't notice… or rather couldn't notice as they were hyper focused on surviving.
The zealots pulled the man flung by Alex to recuperate so he can join once more.
That person was a booby trap…
Alex smirked.
"Boom" he said as the body exploded and dark tendrils bursted out of the poor fanatic, pulling others in and collapsing them as a singularity.
He got rid of over 30% of the Pope's forces.
Viral bomb, an attack that infected a person and used it as a weapon against others. It used the hosts biomass to enhance viral growth and cause an explosion, however it has near 0 infectivity rate, still the tendrils that grow from the virus could kill as it pulled everything into it and collapsed them upon itself.
The others continued to fight, Firo opting for her human form and hitting with punches and powerful kicks, as well with her natural ability to use wind magic.
The wounded stood up, as if they were zombies. Their faith made them unable to feel fear or pain and charged once more.
Not only that but many of the church casted healing magic to restore them to if not full , near perfect fighting condition. They rotated to allow the ones spent healing to recover so they could do it again. A rather ingenious and insidious strategy. However with the viral bomb attack they couldn't heal them, you cannot HEAL something like this.
Time to end this….
"You demon! You dare use the faithful against their God?! You deserve to be exterminated a Thousand times over!" The pope said as he shot projectiles and magic at Alex.
The princess started to launch more magic of the fire element of the same intensity "DIE DIE DIE DIE!" She yelled as her face changed into an ugly this due to her rage as Alex kept dodging her attacks. "As the next Queen I command you, the element of fire turn the world into a sea of flames and leave nary an ash! Inferno!" She shouted as a veritable tsunami of fire rushed as she gave a sadistic smirk.
"You can't protect them all, demon!" She yelled as she laughed.
The others saw as the hellish wall of fire continued turning the area to glass.
It was true… even surviving this seemed iffy for him… the heat from that would surely destroy any and all protein bonds…
He would truly "die".
It was due to the influx of desperation, stress and natural ability of a virus to show resilience that a miracle occured.
Viral Shield series II growth!
Viral Shield Series III unlocked!
NEW SKILL Accelerated Adaptation
By using excess biomass you can enhance personal parameters or those of other shields to adapt to the situation.
Enhanced evolution: Skills will evolve into 1 higher tier skill level by consuming biomass
Infectivity rate up!: Biobomb skill can infect others causing chain reactions. Enhances with biomass. Rate of infectivity 15 percent, ignores friendlies.
With that Alex knew what to do, he looked towards himself and increased his strongest anti-magic shield and poured the excess biomass that he held, and then did the same for the pipe shield.
His body glowed with a deep dark red light.
"Whale Magic Core Shield, change, dritte shield! Change! Shield prison EXPAND!" Alex yelled as he boosted his magical defenses to the max.
While traveling, Alex decided to explore the sea, as there would be rare monsters to use for materials to unlock new shield series.
He was not wrong, this shield exponentially increased his magical defense… and now, with the Viral Shield III he further enhanced it.
A wall of shields…
The tsunami of fire hit against it and pushed as the princess shouted putting more power behind it.
"DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE! YOU SHOULD ALL JUST DO AS I SAY AND DIE!" She yelled in fury.
The attack finished… The area looked like a glass table.
Alex was nowhere to be seen.
"The demon has been vanquished by the next Queen!" The pope said as he tried to manipulate the events.
Alex's allies were shocked… he…
Alex…
"No… it can't be" Raphtalia said, unable to believe what happened. She fell to her legs, unable to carry her weight.
"Master? Where is Master?" Firo asked as the other 3 heroes were unable to do or say anything to the innocent girl.
"Ah, finally judgment has fallen to the insidious demon of the shield…As the new god of this world we shall stamp all demi humans and give back to the humans that which was taken from us" the pope said with a smile as he extended his hands to the heavens."now… let's exterminate these fake heroes as well"
*Splosh*
The Pope's look of satisfaction changed into one of confusion. He couldn't understand the shocked looks of his believers and faithful until he felt something in his mouth.
It was a liquid and so he whipped it off…
It was blood.
He looked down to find to his horror that he had been impaled by a rather grotesque looking blade. Behind him was a man from the church.
They all looked at the faithful who had done such a thing… only for the body to melt and reform into Alex.
"Y…YOU!" COUGH
"Seems gods are not made as they used to… with this, your deranged wish has come to an end… without you the faithful will lose their zealotry as they will be deprived of moral and spiritual support with your death… but don't worry, they will all join you" Alex said. "And now… everything that you know… will be mine"
Oh no… the pope understood what was going to happen, but he was too weak to stop him!
He tried to heal himself but it was all in vain, he was just prolonging the inevitable and adding biomass to be consumed by Alex.
All the secrets, all his plots! The attempted regicide! The secret pacts with that nation!
"No… oh… oh god..why have you let this demon win? Why have you forsaken humanity?" He said as he was absorbed by Alex.
"There is nothing in this world that I cannot kill" Alex said as his body morphed into the pope and then back.
All the memories of this man organized into the web of intrigue…. All his skills and abilities and knowledge now his to use.
"YOUR HOLINESS!" They yelled in shock and horror at his demise… the princess yelled in frustration as she hightailed it out of there… she had to tell her father!
They dropped down as they saw the bladed arm of the demon as it swung down at them.
They had no desire to live in this world that was abandoned by their god.
And so he slaughtered them and absorbed them, any excess biomass went to enhance any skill and abilities the shield had.
"Damn it! Why isn't anything going the way I WANT IT TO!" She mentally yelled as she rushed to warn her father.
No, not warn… use him.
As the Staff hero he had a weapon most potent against the heroes as well. He was known as a brilliant strategist.
"This is not over you bastards! Not by a long shot!" The princess said.
Unknown to her was that her younger sister was being sent to the Kingdom.
Their mother had heard news of what was going on and was most displeased. And thus, the younger sister would be left in charge and try to undo all the evils her father and older sister did.
It was telling that the mother, or rather the Queen and de facto ruler, gave the second daughter the right to ruler over the first born, as it would have been traditionally done.
The eldest sibling had no clue about the sucker punch she was about to receive.
Evil, in the end, was such a short lived thing.
"Something feels off here" a young girl with dark hair and regal clothes said as she felt the oppressive aura around the town. Escorted with her knights she entered her home, the castle.
"Is time to end this farce once and for all… sister" she said as she pushed open the audience hall doors.
Chapter end.
Author notes: to quell some questions:
This Alex is post prototype 1 and BEFORE prototype 2.
The church calls the church of the 4 Holies HERETICAL due to them worshiping the shield as part of the heroes. Crazy doesn't have to make sense to others, just to those who subscribe to their crazy.
He was not staying with Dana because he is NOT Alex, he found the truth that he was just a virus shaped human who took on the identity and memories of Alex… he wants to find his own place in the world.
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