Harry was walking out of the temple when he spotted the three stooges. "oh great the weak peanut gallery and the annoying harpy is here." harry said irritated. "honestly shield hero, you are so low level that you are going to die. I don't really have to do anything. Let's go sir motoyasu." the princess said. The blond haired young teenager smirked "honestly kid, you need to get better gear, otherwise you just slow us down when it comes to defending this world."
Harry snorted "my name is harry potter. But then I guess I never told you all my name. That was probably my mistake. But that is in the past. We will see who saves what in the end." he started to walk away when the princess snapped "DON'T TALK TO MOTOYASU LIKE THAT." she walked up to and harry spotted her reaching for something. He immediately grabbed her hand and broke it causing the young woman to scream in pain "MINE. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER." harry stared at the idiot spear hero.
"i tought her a little lesson that should teach her that when you try to reach for something that doesn't belong to you might get reprecussion that is of the negative kind." harry walked towards the door "you should learn to read people better. Motoyasu, or you will once again get stabbed in the back."
the spear hero shouted "MYNE WOULD NEVER LIE TO ME!" harry just snorted and walked towards the outer gate. "she won't learn will she master harry?" raphtalia asked. "probably not but that is something that we will have to deal with when the times comes raphtalia. A wise dragon waits for the time to strike and never attacks too early or too late." raphtalia stared at harry's back and tought "he must have gone through something terrible."
harry looked at his amount of gold and thought "this will set us back 400 gold leaving us nearly broke. But its worth it for now. I don't want to rely on teleportation magic too much. Maybe I should get a filolial as well after this wave." harry walked up towards the cart vendor and looked at the smallest one "how much for the wagon and a horse too pull it." harry asked the vendor.
The fat man smiled and said " 250 gold sir. I have a feeling your gonna need this more than me. It has served me well but I have as I said a feeling you will get more use of it then me." harry looked at the man in the eyes and scanned his surface thoughts. He wasn't very skilled in legilimency as he had some bad experience with the art so he prefered to avoid it if possible. He was more towards the act of oclumency.
Harry spoke "very well. Here is the money." he handed over the cash and sat up in the wagon. Raphtalia climbed onboard and was fidgeting with the straps to realigned the plate armour for more confort. "i think I should get something else than this blasted plate armour" raphtalia spoke and put the sheath of her sword at her waist. They managed to arrive at lute village before the time was running out.
Harry looked at the timer which said
FIRST WAVE
15:30
the chief of the village of lute walked out. "hello sir shield hero to what do we owe this pleasure of a visit." harry spoke calmly "there is going to be a wave here and I am here to help defend your village. Thoose of you who can fight will go with lurid. Any able body man or woman will help me build a mudd palisade. We will then divide the fighters between archers and thoose who are physically stronger into men at arms. We will use whatever bladed weapons we have available to us."
the chief swallowed nervously as he spoke "there ain't that many who can fight. But I will scrounge out anyone who can." harry nodded as he started to instruct the men and women who was builders in how to organize and build the mudd rampart. Harry gave the working men and women enchanted spades that removed the weight of the mudd and dirt as well as pierced the ground easily. Lurid was in the meanwhile instructing the men-at-arms whit tactics, how to use swords and shield as well as giving them slight training to help them increase their ability to fight.
By the time that the counter was at 10:00 had the rampart almost been completed. "sir we are making great time." a villager spoke as he reached harry. The demigod stared at him "one of my cousin's had a rule. Never say never or you will bring forth the bad luck of ages." they worked tiredlesly to make sure that the village would be decently protected.
Harry stared at the clock that said that there was only five minutes "GATHER AROUND EVERYONE!" he shouted and the villagers walked up towards him. "i'm not going to sugar-coat it. Some of you will probably die. There is no guarantee that all of you will come out of this alive. But stick to the training and you will have a chance to survive this. We just have to take it slow and be careful and not do anything idiotic. We have five minutes left before the wave hits. I recommend you say goodbye to your families and rest. Better to have it done and have no regrets then to die with them."
the men and women of the village nodded towards harry's words and started to say goodbye to their families when raphtalia walked up to harry. "you sure don't spare words do you master harry." "harry shook his head and spoke "better for them to know the truth and be prepared for it then get a hammer blow right in the face." raphtalia smiled and gently placed her lips on his. Harry froze and was stunned. "that is what I admire about you harry. You know how to be harsh and gentle at the same time." she turned around and stared out at the village. "kind of quiet don't you think."
Harry snapped out of the trance and turned to stare out at the horizon. "it always is quiet before the eve of a battle. Seems to be a universal law everywhere." he said. Raphtalia sneaked her hand into harry's gloved one. Harry worriedly stared out at the distance. "let's just hope that everything will happened accordingly to the plan."
finally the wave happened. Monsters poured out everywhere. The fighting was horrible as the village was fighting tooth and nail. "EVERYONE GET BEHIND ME!" harry roared and as the villagers did just that did harry change into the basilisk shield. The mighty serpent head opened it's eyes and a lot of the monsters where undead which just turned to stone as they stared into the shield. They then crumbled to dust. Harry pulled out his axe and was fighting desperately. "RAPHTALIA WE NEED TO GET THE VILLAGER'S INTO THE CAVE." raphtalia nodded and shouted "RIGHT. I'M ON IT!" as she decapitated a massive ogre zombie.
Suddenly harry received a message
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP
harry cursed. Now was not the time he grumbled and he had to duck underneath a mighty swing from a massive zombie. He preferred not to test his invulnerability if he could help it. He swung his axe cutting the zombie in half and he was about to decapitate another zombie when something hit him from behind. He turned around and stared angrily into the eyes of a bee monster.
KILLER BEE LVL 15
harry ignored the rest of the information as he literally punched it in the face so hard that it exploaded. Time passed by at the speed of a snail's pace as harry fought. He started to ponder if he should start to use magic to finish the rest of the enemies off when the monsters started to suddenly trickle down.
"master harry we have." raphtalia spoke only to blink as harry appeared before her enveloped her in his embrace and raised his shield and activated the phoenix shield. A dome of solid fire envelopted them in its protective embrace as missiles bombarded the two of them. One of the knights walked up and spoke "so the shield devil is still alive huh. Figures it would be too much to ask for him to die with the rest of theese monster vermin. Let's go support the other three real heroes with their task." raphtalia's eyes widened with anger and she burst out of the embrace and smashed the sword of godric gryffindor against the knight's sword who just barely managed to block it.
"ANSWER ME. DID YOU DECIDE TO USE THAT SPELL EVEN THOUGH YOU KNEW THAT MASTER HARRY WAS HERE FIGHTING TO PROTECT THE VILLAGERS. WHAT ABOUT THE VILLAGE ITSELF!" she screamed. The knight smirked "they are just peons who doesn't even deserve to be saved since they are working with the shield devil." raphtalia kicked the man right in the groin and raised her sword above her head "you don't deserve to live."
raphtalia swung her sword downwards but harry shouted "STOP!" raphtalia turned to speak but when she saw harry's eyes did she blink. "it's not worth the trouble that it will bring later on raphtalia. Just let the moron go to his precious heroes."
raphtalia sighed at that but spoke "seem's lady fortuna has deemed you worthy of her blessing this day as my master has deemed fit to spare your life. Don't make me regret it." the knight scoffed and muttered "filthy demis." as he walked away. Harry started to walk around checking in on the villagers. Some had gotten broken bones and others had received cuts and slashes. One even had his arms cut off by his shoulder.
Harry started to work at the wound. First he stopped the bleeding. He then made a cast of the arm and started to get to brewing. Raphtalia helped by doing first aid to anyone who needed it. It took harry and hour to make the skelegrow draught followed by another 30 minutes for the limb regrowing potion. "it will hurt like crazy but it will do you good." harry spoke and the man nodded.
Harry started to walk out of the village when a young knight came up towards him "sir shield hero, you need to come back to the castle, the feast has already started." harry nodded and raised his arm and spoke "put your hands on my arm and make sure to hold your breath." the two of companions blinked as he spun around and arrived outside the capital. Everyone was glaring at harry but he ignored it.
They arrived at a clothes store and the store's clerk was a bit nervous but harry paid for the dress that raphtalia was wearing, a beautiful open back piece and harry choose a simple smoke dress suit for men.
Raphtalia blushed as everyone stared at her in am "it feels wrong wearing this thing. I am more acustomed to wearing armour." she said fidgeting. Harry handed her a dagger and spoke "wear this on your thigh then if it makes you easier to the mod." raphtalia smiled thankfully.
Harry and raphtalia arrived at the capital keep and the guards glared at him but harry used his divine gift of fear from hades. The wave smashed over the guards and caused them to faint outright. Raphtalia bent down causing her massive breast to hover over the man's face as she took the man's pulse. There was none.
She turned around and spoke "he's dead." harry just snorted derisively and spoke "that's his fault for choosing to stand in my way." they arrived at the feast and the king roared "HOW DARE YOU INSULT ME BY BEING LATE, FILTHY DEVIL OF THE." harry just turned around and glared at the king and said coldly "shut up. Your voice is like nails on a chalkboard and I have half a mind to just remove your head to end my sufferings with you. That and your stupid broad of a daughter."
the king glared at him but his self preservation sense won over his hatred for the shield hero. Harry sat silently at a window staring out at the raining scene outside. "master harry, you should really try this." a voice spoke and harry turned around to stare at raphtalia as she held a small piece of cake up towards him. He took the confection and silently casted a spell to detect poison but found nothing and started to eat silently.
The princess had overheard raphtalia speaking harry's name and smirked evily and she walked up towards motoyasu and whispered in his ear. "HARRY!" harry turned around at the sound and looked at the spear hero. "HOW DARE YOU USE SLAVES! THAT'S IMMORAL AND UNJUST. AS HEROES WE SHOULD ASPIRE TO!" harry snorted walked up and slammed his fist right into motoyasu's stomach causing him to vomit and throw up saliva.
"you are living in a fairy tale world dweeb. This isn't a game. I don't care about your laws since I need everything I have to fight." he then grabbed motoyasu by the head and lifted his head "next time you say something stupid, you will lose an arm."
Harry let the spear hero go when suddenly a voice shouted "SHIELD HERO. I ORDER YOU TO ACCEPT THE DUEL THAT SIR MOTOYASU WAS ABOUT TO GIVE YOU. THAT OR I WILL HAVE YOUR COMPANION EXECUTED FOR BEING A FILTHY DEMIHUMAN!" the king smirked as raphtalia had been surrounded by several knights. She had her hand on the sword of gryffindor but hadn't moved yet.
Harry knew that while they could fight their way out of the situation, it wasn't the smartest move to make so he just silently nodded but motoyasu smirked and spoke "when I win raphtalia is going to be free of her slave crest and join my party." harry's eyes hardened and narrowed dangerously. Later he was sitting in his room planning on best how to destroy the spear hero and damn whore. The morning dawned and harry walked into the arena smirking evily at the arrogant spear hero. "i told you I would take your arm. If there is something that you should know about me is that I always keep my promises."
the spear hero frowned and the king roared "BEGIN THE DUEL!" the spear hero charged and ready a attack but harry simply slashed upwards using the limb removal curse and blood spewed from the shield hero. Motoyasu screamed as he lost his left arm and tried to stem the blood from the wound. The princess screamed "STOP THE DUEL. HEALER'S DO SOMETHING!" harry walked menacingly towards the princess and spoke coldly "i haven't forgot you, you little irritating pig." harry slowly raised his finger and the princess eyes widened and before she could do anything harry envelopted her in a fire spell causing the flames to shift into a hurricane of fire. The princess screamed as the flames burned the second princess body to a horrific state, completely removing her beauty.
Harry smirked as he leaned in and whispered "you seemed so proud of your beauty. Lets see how you do without it." harry conjured a mirror and handed it to her and smirked. The princess screamed and fled the scene. Motoyasu was getting treatment but the wound was only slowly healing and harry turned towards the gathered people and spoke hard and cold "I HAVE WON THIS DUEL. NOW RETURN WHAT IS MINE AND I WON'T DESTROY THE LOT OF YOU."
everyone whispered nervously but didn't say anything as harry glared up at them. Raphtalia calmly walked up towards harry and smiled warmly at him. She grabbed his hand and reached up and kissed him right on the lips shocking harry. Raphtalia blushed as she poke "i really fallen for you harry."
as they left the arena did harry hear mutterings and whispered that he cheated but nothing happened as they were completely terrified of him. Good better to be feared then to be loved in this world. Many stared at him with fear after this event.
Harry walked up towards the slave trader and stared at the eggs that the slave trader had infront of him. "what is this?" harry spoke confused. "my dear sir shield hero. This is a monster lottery. You buy an egg and then waits for it to hatch and when it finally does you have a worthy companion should you manage to level it up to the right level."
harry stared at the monster vendor but didn't see any lies in the mans face. He randomly selected an egg not really caring for what he choose. He picked the egg and placed it in his bag ofor safe keeping. Harry and raphtalia spent time in the city and started to do small jobs to earn more cash for them to have budget. They were sitting in a tavern when they overheared ren, the bow hero talking to his companions. "i am glad we stopped that despot. With great power comes great responsibility." harry snorted and spoke up "your not some kind of hero, you moron. Your just a kid who thinks he is something that he is not."
ren shoot up "YOU THINK THAT YOUR BETTER THEN ME!" harry coldly stared at the bow hero and smirked "i don't think, I know I am." the bow hero just stormed out of the area and walked off. Harry walked up towards the bartender and asked "any news of the sword hero." the bartender shrugged his shoulders and said "last time I heard was that the shield hero killed a dragon and just left it to the natures whim. The village close by the hill top is suffering from a pandemic that they don't understand and is calling the gods wrath. Pure madness is what it is if you ask me."
harry knew now what he needed to do. But he had a monster egg to hatch first and it was unknown of how long it would take for the egg to hatch. Harry hated to be inactive and started to kill monsters around the city in order to have something more to do while waiting. More time passed and harry finally had the egg hatch and it turned out to be a small bird. Raphtalia said "she's a filolial. They are rather useful harry." harry just shrugged and started to raise the bird. Harry was annoyed at how long it took for the bird to grow but finally the filolial that he had named filo for some reason that he didn't know was big enough to actually fight and she could now talk.
They got a carriage and travelled up the road. "master, where are we going?" filo asked curiously. "to fix the sword hero's mess. We have a dragon to fight and we need to prepare accordingly. Because if I have my hunch right, then we are going to have to fight a dragon zombie and that is something that ain't risk free."