Naofumi was sitting in the place he thought he wouldn't see again, the castle. There was a huge banquet as celebration of the successful wave. Naofumi was only here because they would give the heroes rewards for their efforts, and despite the free food, he despised the place, even now.

Naofumi was eating a snack and writing in a book to pass the time. He avoided everyone who looked at him and kept to a window sill for 'reasons'.

"HEY!" Naofumi was hoping he wouldn't hear that voice for a couple more years. He looked up and he could see the male hoe pushing through the crowd, dick spear in hand.

"Mother-£uker!" Naofumi cussed.

Motoyasu continued to make his way until he was in front of the shield hero.

"What do you want, Jack ass?!" Naofumi yelled.

Motoyasu backpedaled a bit at the insult but then turned red. "How dare you?! You commit another crime and you call me the jackass?!"

Naofumi sighed and slumped back. He spoke in a tired tone. "What am I being framed for now?"

"You attacked so many people, they're in the hospital right now!!" Motoyasu yelled.

Naofumi looked up at him. "Who even are these people?"

"HERE!" Motoyasu shoved a crystal ball into Naofumi's hands. He looked into it and could see a medieval style hospital room. In it he could see a bunch of injured people laying on stretchers, deep cuts, bad burns, broken limbs and bandaged bodies.

Naofumi literally recognized non of these people. Except a 3, Naofumi recognized them as the bandits that tried to rob him a bit back. They were in the room because of the wounds Naofumi inflicted on them.

"Do they look familiar?!" Motoyasu asked sarcastically.

"3 of them yeah, but the rest I haven't even got a glimpse of in my travels." Naofumi answers calmly.

"LIES!! THESE PEOPLE WERE ALL HURT BY YOU!!" Motoyasu yelled in fury. There was already an audience, now they had a crowd.

"Did you get their testimony?" Naofumi asked, just a bit to calmly.

"YES!! THEY ALL SAID YOU BRUTALLY ATTACKED THEM AND ALMOST KILLED THEM!!"

"The shield hero attacked the innocent?"

"How despicable!"

"I expected nothing less from the shield demon!"

The hecklers continued to say, Naofumi's blood boiling to the point you could see veins on his forehead.

Motoyasu proceeded to take off his glove and threw it and Naofumi's feet. The shield hero looked at it.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"DUEL ME!! IF I WIN, YOU ADMIT TO HURTING THOSE PEOPLE, HEAL THEM AND PAY FOR THEIR INJURIES!!"

"WHAT!! Hell no! What do I get if I win?!"

"You're let off the hook." the spear hero says with a scowl.

"So basically I get nothing? NO! I DID NOTHING WRONG AND I AIN'T FIGHTING YOU JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES!!" Naofumi yelled in anger, standing up and glaring a hole through the spear hero.

"How despicable!" A familiar voice said. The king, Aultcray, stepped up in front of the 2 heroes with a look of disgust. "You attack my subjects and think you can merely walk away?! You will duel the spear hero or else!"

"Frick off!" Naofumi shoved the king out of the way, making the nobles gasp at the callous disrespect. "I came here hoping for a reward for fighting the wave but I know I ain't getting anything now! I'm leaving this shirt-show while I can!"

Naofumi made his way to the doors in haste. "STOP HIM!!"

The knights by the doors blocked Naofumi's path and pointed their weapons at him. Iwatani-san let out a animalistic growl, he looked around and focused his glare on a select few knights.

The reason was because these knights had fought during the waves, meaning they saw his fury and destructive power. And it worked as a few began to tremble and look unsure.

Naofumi pulled out a Blast and Blade buckler from his inventory. "You all have 10 seconds to get out of my way before I turn from Naofumi the shield hero to Jack the ripper." Naofumi said in a menacing tone.

"10."

The knights couldn't believe he was actually counting.

"9."

Like a parent counting down to a child's punishment, the knights didn't know what to do.

"8...7..."

They could feel the time rapidly shrinking despite the amount of time they had left.

"6...5..."

Naofumi began to raise his blade and opened his HUD, ready to change his shield at a moment's notice.

"4...3...2...1-" Naofumi's countdown was cut off by the spear hero.

"Naofumi you coward! You think anyone's intimidated by your little threat and tiny shields?! Fight me already!!"

Naofumi death glared at the idiot. "Fine, if you're so obsessed with getting your ass-whooped then I'll accept your stupid duel! But on my terms! If you win I also get every item you got from the wave!"

"Deal! It's not like you'll win anyway!" Motoyasu said arrogantly.

The crowd and heroes left the party hall before going to the courtyard.

Naofumi was led to a armament room to get prepared. He put on his armor, armed his weaponry.

Motoyasu was doing the same but he was already in his armor.

"Spear hero, a word please." a knight asked.

"Yes?"

"I advise you don't underestimate the shield hero. During the wave he was able to easily dispatch most of the monsters, he even defeated several very large zombies without issue."

"Naofumi? Nah, it was probably just some talented adventurer! There's no way that shielder can do stuff like that!"

"Believe what you want to believe, but a important warning, avoid the claw at all costs." the knight warned ominously.

Motoyasu walked away confused.

The 2 heroes stepped into the arena, Naofumi in his [Steel valley armor mk. 1] and Motoyasu in his Steel Spearman armor.

"Whoa Naofumi, who made that armor?! Looks like you pulled it from a sci-fi store!" Motoyasu asks, looking over the shield hero's work.

"It's custom made. By me." Naofumi says in annoyance.

"Whatever, it's not that'll help you! I will bring justice on to the people you hurt!" Motoyasu says, sounding like a comic book protagonist.

"THIS DUEL BETWEEN THE SPEAR AND SHIELD HERO HAS BEEN MADE OFFICIAL BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE KING AND POPE!!" The announcer spoke. "BEGIN!"

The fight began.

Naofumi wasted no time, he rushed the spear hero with ferocity, claw ready to sever.

The spear hero raised his spear to defend himself from the fast claw strike.

"You really do have a claw! How are you using it! YOU ONLY HAVE A SHIELD!!"

"If you don't know, then I won't waste my breath or intelligence to tell you!" Naofumi said, then began to unleashed a flurry of attacks on to the hero, the hero actually being pushed back a bit.

Motoyasu swung his spear in a counter, Naofumi jumped back to avoid it.

The shield hero then threw a blade buckler at the Spearman. Motoyasu couldn't react in time and the blade pierced through his shoulder plate, however it didn't even touch his actual shoulder.

Naofumi threw a second blade buckler that Motoyasu actually deflected.

Then it was the third, it pierced right through armor and into Motoyasu's side. "GYAH!!"

Motoyasu took a step and looked at the blade buckler. He didn't take it out as it removed itself, but he didn't get the chance do so anyway as Naofumi slashed him with his claw.

The blade cut through his armor. Before the spear hero could counter, Naofumi jumped away.

"What the-"

BOOM

"AAHH!!" Motoyasu fell on to his back at the explosion on his chest. Everyone looked shocked. Where did that explosion come from?!

"Down already, you're depressing." Naofumi said, pointing his gun shield at the hero. A blue bullet shot out and hit the Motoyasu in the hole in his armor.

"AAHH!!" Motoyasu screamed once more from the attack.

The crowd looked on in shock. The shield hero had just struck the spear hero, multiple times.

Motoyasu finally got to stand up after taking those one sided attacks. He jumped onto his feet and pointed his spear at Naofumi. "[CHAOS SPEAR!"

A multitude of light blades shot from the spear towards Naofumi. Naofumi blocked and dodged the attack quite easily actually.

"Is that really it?" Naofumi asked, disappointed.

"LIKE HELL IT IS!! [AIRSTRIKE JAVELIN]!" A glowing red spear shot towards Naofumi. He grabbed it and stopped it it's tracks, but it kept pushing.

Motoyasu ran up to him and struck him with his spear, sending Naofumi tumbling like a boulder. The shield hero picked himself off the ground and rushed back at Motoyasu. The 2 conducted in a fierce melee, Motoyasu doing his best to avoid the claw.

Naofumi jumped over Motoyasu, the spear hero swung his spear back to him however he missed. Naofumi slashed Motoyasu, leaving a glowing mark, punched him off the ground and drop kicked him away.

"NO!" Motoyasu panicked and tried to run away, but he couldn't run away from his clothes.

BOOM

"GYAH! WHY?!!"

Naofumi grinned maliciously. As the blonde stood up, Iwatani shot his grappling hook to a spot behind him. Using a combination of the hook and hydraulics, Naofumi shot off like a bullet towards Motoyasu, and slammed his fist into the man's gut.

"AAAHHH!!"

Motoyasu was sent flying, as he did, Naofumi threw a blast buckler at his back. The explosion rocketed the spear hero into the air, making him scream again.

Naofumi jumped high into the sky, just in front of Motoyasu, who he ferociously punched back down to the ground. As the Spearman slammed into the ground, Naofumi threw a few blast bucklers down at him.

BOOM BOOM BOOM

A chain of explosion burst from below, covering the arena in smoke.

Naofumi dropped down, looking around for the downed spear hero.

Naofumi eventually spotted him, laying on the ground. Naofumi thought he was the winner, until the spear hero began to stir.

After a few minutes, he stood up and looked at Naofumi. The blonde's eyes betrayed pain, exhaustion and fury. The armored hero's betrayed boredom.

It's understandable how Motoyasu is still standing, the spear hero was said to have the second highest defense Stat behind the shield hero. His armor was some of the best and he'd already mastered a spear that gave Fire resistance (Small).

"Is that your best, why don't you just give up?"

Motoyasu didn't reply he just pulled out a healing potion, which he downed in one go. His wounds began to heal themselves and his Stamina returned.

Naofumi just stared, unamused.

Then he noticed something alarming. His stats had a dropped a significant amount.

"What the f-" before he could say anything, he looked and saw that Motoyasu was covered in a red magic aura. Then he rushed the shield faster than he could react.

"SHIT!" Naofumi raised his [Enchanted lightmetal alloy shield], blocking the strike but almost buckling from the impact.

Motoyasu swung around, attempting to stab Naofumi in the side. The blade was stuck in Naofumi's armor and bullet-proof membrane, stopping it and protecting Naofumi.

Naofumi jumped back for space but that was a mistake.

"[SHOOTING STAR SPEAR]!"

A beam of energy shot out and struck Naofumi's shield. "GYAAHH!!" He was pushed back by the beam and could feel his arms grow sore.

As Naofumi tried to recover, Motoyasu rushed him again. Attacking his shield with lightning fast strikes and pushing Naofumi back.

The shied began to glow as its counter activated. Motoyasu, seeming to expect that, jumped away.

"That won't work 3 times."

Motoyasu rushed back. He had turned the spear into a halberd.

"[SUPER SWING]!"

The halberd smashed into his side, blasting off the armor and digging itself into Naofumi's side. "AAHH!" Blood shot out of the wound as he get was sent tumbling like a rock.

Naofumi lay there on the ground, blood leaking from his side.

"You lose, Naofumi! This is over!" Motoyasu says resolutely.

The shield hero began to stir from the ground. He laid on his back and pulled out a potion from his shield, he poured it on his wound, it healed very quickly.

Naofumi slowly stood up. A dark feeling surrounding him.

Over the past week at the alchemist school, Naofumi had been gaining a grasp on the language at a good speed, he already could manipulate his magic to do enchants, and he was already learning about magic.

"I order thee, decipher the laws of nature and strengthen me! [First power]!"

A green surrounded him.

This spell was poorly performed, first time used and the caster was inexperienced. It dispelled the debuff magic and barely increased his original stats though.

Naofumi glared with rage at the spear hero.

He pulled out an item from his inventory. It was a small thick disk.

He threw just in front of him, then a black gas emerged from the disk, covering the whole arena.

"POISON!?" Motoyasu yells in fear, covering his mouth to block the gas, which had settled to through ground due to it's high density.

"Not poison. Worse."

Naofumi launched into the air with his hydraulics.

He threw down a blast buckler into the black mist.

BOOOOM

The explosion ignited the gas and the arena was bathed in flames.

The gas was a special chemical weapon he made himself. It starts off as a liquid but turns to gas very quickly when exposed to air. It was extremely flammable and could activate from a spark. It even had thermobaric or vacuum effect, absorbing surrounding oxygen to achieve great temperatures.

"AAAAAHHHHH!!" Motoyasu screamed in pain from brutal attack.

Naofumi stood on the roof of the arena, looking down at the place of smoke. He waited for it to clear to see if the spear hero still stood.

As he waited, he saw something that made his blood boil. The one who betrayed himz, the one who framed him; the bitch was pointing her hands at the arena, mostly likely where Motoyasu was, his 2 other party members were doing the same.

That was why he suddenly got debuffed! THEY WERE FUCKING CHEATING!!!!

Naofumi jumped into the arena as smoke cleared. Motoyasu stood there, looking chared like a piece of firewood, but the wounds he should of had being gone, even not from the explosion.

"You know when I heard you talking about justice and the good of the people, I thought were just a dumbass with good morals and a bad direction." Naofumi lifted his head and visor, showing off a bloodshot eye and hateful glare. "But now and you got you're damn harem helping you cheat?! I'M DONE BEING MERCIFUL!!"

Naofumi changed his weapon form into something unique, exotic, and most important of all, powerful.

It was a large armor like piece of hardware that covered the entirety of Naofumi's arm from the shoulder to his hand. Multiple magic motors of all kinds we placed on it's center, being covered in alloy plating. Beneath the plating of the shoulder rested a Mystic fission engine, a device that used Mystic Uranium and its magic explosion on impact to produce magic to pour it through out the tool.

The magic motors and inscriptions created a compressed lightning, fire and oxygen; creating an energy ball of white hot energy. There were also earth magic inscriptions that created minerals that surrounded the ball, generating carbon, sulfur and potassium nitrate; the chemical equivalent of gunpowder.

The ball of energy is then launched via electromagnetic waves, like a railgun that shoots a nuclear-tipped missile. The NI - 11 Hachiman was a weapon that would quote 'Shoot down the bastards at the top to laugh at their ashes' in Naofumi's words.

[NI - 11 Hachiman cannon]

Equip bonus: Blast resistance (Medium), Lightning resistance (Medium), Fire resistance (Medium)

Equip bonus: Skill: Blast shield

Special effect: Blast barrage, Hell cannon

Naofumi pointed the barrel of the cannon at Motoyasu. "Just know, I tried to be merciful, this is your fault."

Naofumi clenched the trigger.

After a second a yoga-ball sized blue electric fireball shot out and rapidly approached the spear. It wasn't as fast as a bullet, Motoyasu jumped out of the way just in time.

The ball changed direction on Naofumi's whim. It traveled high into the air before exploding.

Light bathed the arena, so bright it could be seen through out the city, and blinding the occupants. The sound was so loud the ears of certain people ringing. The Shockwave shook the walls and blew dust up...

Once everything settled down, Motoyasu was looking at Naofumi, fear and confusion on his face. "How...did you...Where did-"

"[BLAST BARRAGE!"

A relentless storm of blast shells (Explosive electric fireball) fell on to Motoyasu. They were smaller than the original but were still explosion packed.

"AAHH - AAHH - AAHH - AAHH - AAHH - AAHH -"

Motoyasu let out continuous screams as the super hot explosive bullets impacted on him.

His harem in the stands scrambled to increase his defense, almost clearly exposing themselves.

Naofumi stopped the barrage.

Against all odds and an unholy amount of damage, Motoyasu still stood. His armor was basically blasted off and you could see his bare chest and burns. "Last chance, fall or be destroyed."

"N...never." And as those words left his blackened lips, Motoyasu knew, he fucked up.

Naofumi his pointed cannon at him.

Before Naofumi could do anything his visor flashed.

[High magic concentration incoming from your left]

With little time to react, Naofumi jumped high into the air, did a backflip and landed on the ground. The only thing he saw was dust being kicked up and the sound of strong wind.

He turned to the left. He saw the red-haired bitch, a frantic looked was plastered on her face as well as a glare on the shield hero.

"You're whole shtick is making the lives around you a living hell isn't it." Naofumi said, a death glare pointed at the cheater.

Naofumi's then snapped back to look at the spear hero. The man had chugged a health potion and Soul healing water at the same time. Some burns healed but others didn't.

Naofumi aimed his cannon at him.

Motoyasu panicked. "[AIRSTRIKE JAVELIN]! [DIAMOND SKIN]! [SPEAR SHIELD]!"

A red glowing spear covered his front like a shield. A layer of energy covered his body. A energy barrier surrounded him.

"[HELL CANNON!"

A huge beam of energy shot out of the cannon and hit Motoyasu dead on.

The heat was so intense the ground began to glow red, the air contorts rapidly and everyone felt extremely hot.

As the blast of destruction finally ceased, it's duration being only 10 seconds.

The spear hero Motoyasu never looked worse. His face was body were covered in horrific burns, his armor had melted on to his skin and a good amount of his hair had been incinerated.

"QUICKLY!! GIVE THE SPEAR HERO MEDICAL AID!!" The king screamed.

Medics rapidly dropped into the arena, Mages tried their best to use all kinds of healing magic on him.

Naofumi calmly transformed the [NI - 11 Hachiman cannon] into his [Steel alloy bracer].

"I win."

With that Naofumi leaped over the arena with his hydraulics. Then using them and his grappling hook to travel across the city.

Author's notes: Did you like the fight, I tried to make it as epic as possible. Did you like the cannon? What should I add?