Chapter 17: Working together
"How did—?"
Before Naofumi could finish his own question in regards to Motoyasu, he quickly created a green projectile shield to block away one of the Spear Hero's attacks.
While Motoyasu was attacking Naofumi, the monster Idol Rabier summoned started to attack all of them.
Garfiel quickly used all of his strength to transform both of his arms into their beast forms in order to push back the monster's attack.
Although he was barely able to push back the attack, he was sent flying off towards the mansion and crashed into a wall.
"Garf!"
"Tsk. Tough bastard!"
As Garfiel said this, he slowly got himself out of the rubble.
While he did this, Motoyasu continued to attack Naofumi, somehow unable to see that the real problem is the monster that is roaring at them.
"Naofumi! This time you won't escape!"
"Motoyasu, dumbass, do you realize that there's something more important than our fight?!"
As he shouted this to the stubborn Spear Hero, he blocked a couple of his attacks before using Chimera Viper variation shield's counter to try and force Motoyasu back.
As he succeeded on this, the monster looked at the two cardinal heroes and made another roar before swinging its tail right at the two.
"Naofumi-sama! Look out!"
He heard Raphtalia's shout, prompting him to turn his attention to the monster, managing to just barely block away the attack though he was pushed back.
Motoyasu noticed this and quickly jumped back, avoiding the attack.
As the two cardinal heroes did this, the monster roared before turning its attention towards the buildings nearby.
As a couple of the buildings were being easily destroyed, Garfiel turned towards Reichnott and Melty.
"Oi! Get th'others outta here! We got th's!"
As he shouted this, he charged directly towards the monster as he prepared himself for an intense battle.
He jumped up and attempted to land a hit on the monster's face only for said monster to move its tail right towards him, managing to land a hit on the demi human boy.
This hit sent Garfiel flying straight into a building, collapsing it by him just simply crashing in.
"Garf!"
"That moron!"
As Naofumi was prepared to grab the monster's attention, he was once again attacked by Motoyasu.
"Would you fuck off?!"
"I will best you here and now!"
Motoyasu was stubborn at this point, having been fed up that he's lost to Naofumi three times at this point.
"I won't lose again, you prick!"
"Tsk."
The Shield Hero was becoming impatient by this fight since they had a literal monster attacking everyone.
Seeing that there's no other option, he prepared himself to go all out on Motoyasu, viewing him as a problem.
Just as the two were about to clash, a sudden building right near them started to collapse right towards them.
The two noticed this and quickly moved out of the way with Naofumi reaching near Filo and Raphtalia's positions all the while Motoyasu ended up where the monster was at.
Seeing the monster prompted Motoyasu to redirect his focus to said monster, though he did say:
"Damn you, Naofumi! How dare you summon this monstrosity!"
"Are ya fuckin' serious?!" Garfiel shouted as he closed in to try and land a hit on the monster, annoyed at the Spear Hero's comment. "Are ya fuckin' stupid?! Why th'fuck would anybody summon th't thing?!"
"..." Motoyasu turned towards Garfiel, annoyed by his questions though he couldn't respond due to the monster suddenly charging at Filo's direction.
"Filo-chan!"
"Filo!"
With both Garfiel and Motoyasu shouting this at the same time, Filo was able to notice this as well as Naofumi.
This prompted Naofumi and Filo to both jump out of the monster's attack before Raphtalia took this chance to try and land a hit on the monster's face.
As her sword managed to land a hit, the monster looked at her for a second before turning its attention back towards the filolial.
As it looked at her, Filo didn't hesitate to close the gap between the two and land a hit of her own onto its face.
"Amazing!" Motoyasu shouted, happy to see her in a fight. Garfiel wanted to punch him for that comment yet the focus was on the battle ahead.
He jumped high up to be above the monster before turning his left leg into its beast form to land a powerful kick.
This did knock the monster to the ground, though it only resulted in pissing it off.
It roared angrily before slamming Garfiel onto the ground with its tail, catching him off guard as well as almost being killed by this attack.
"Garf!"
Filo and Raphtalia shouted in unison, worried for his safety before looking at the monster with anger.
Both didn't hesitate to charge right towards the monster's direction to land their strongest hits onto it.
While they did this, Garfiel was slowly getting up since he refused to be knocked out of this fight.
As he was back on his feet, he coughed some blood before attempting to charge at the monster only to see along with the others the monster's chest and Filo's stomach began to glow.
"What?!"
Everyone was caught off guard by this yet Naofumi saw this as a benefit since he can use Filo to get the monster out of the town they are in.
He turned towards Reichnott to ask him about the children only for the nobleman to say:
"Don't worry. I'll take these kids and run." The nobleman said this as he knew that the Shield Hero was worried about the demi human children due to the situation going on. Naofumi nodded before saying:
"Thanks. Please do."
As he said this, Keel slowly walks right next to him, still struggling since he's recovering.
Naofumi noticed this which prompted him to say:
"You should be resting."
"I know...but I want to help Raphtalia-chan."
"You will when the time comes, but right now you need to get to safety."
"..." Keel was silent for a second since he knows that the Shield Hero has a point, he's in no position to help and should get to safety.
He took a moment before smiling, looking at how much Raphtalia had grown.
"Please keep her safe, Shield Hero."
Naofumi looked at Keel and just nodded before watching Reichnott carry the demi human child. Reichnott turned towards Melty to ask her,
"Shall you join me?"
"...I appreciate the offer, but I must stay by the Shield Hero's side."
Reichnott bowed at the second princess before taking Keel to safety. As the nobleman leaves, Melty turns towards Naofumi as she notices him say to her:
"You should've gone with him. It's much safer."
"You still need my assistance."
"Hmph."
The two start to follow Filo out of the town they were in with the two noticing Garfiel, Raphtalia, and Motoyasu all running together with Raphtalia assisting the demi human boy.
"You should be resting!" Raphtalia said, scolding her ally.
"I know but I wasn't gonna let ya'll have th'fun—"
Raphtalia smacked him in the head, hating how reckless he can be.
Garfiel couldn't help but just feel excitement since he's found an opponent that's powerful enough to test his skills to their limit.
'Kinda wished 't was a dragon...but th's 's a close second.'
Gaining a lot of motivation to defeat this monster that made the previous cardinal heroes fear, he started to run fast enough to be able to handle himself.
"Careful Garf! You are still injured!"
"Don't ya worry, th'earth's my friend." As he said this, Raphtalia looked at the ground where Garfiel was running and saw that he was stepping in grass, meaning he's being healed by the earth.
"S-Still, you shouldn't be reckless. That monster almost killed you!"
"True, but my amazin' self won't back down from a fight!"
As he shouted this with immense pride, he started to jump with enough force to try and close the distance from himself and the monster chasing after Filo.
While he did this, Motoyasu had a longer lead than both demi humans, allowing him to be the first to assist Filo once she stopped in a large open area where there's a large lake.
After feeling that this is a good distance, the filolial turns towards the monster, prepared to fight it.
As the monster was closing in on it's target, the Spear Hero jumps high up while shouting:
"I won't let you hurt Filo-chan, you monster!" As he shouted this to try and get the monster's attention, he thrusted his spear to shoot a projectile while saying, "Lightning Spear!"
A bolt of lighting was directed right at the monster's head, with the attack managing to land though it didn't seem like it had any effect.
'Curse this monster!'
He closed the distance between himself and the monster.
Once he was close, he stabbed the monster's head with his spear, hoping that would do something.
The monster felt a sting but nothing serious, prompting it to ignore him and focus on Filo.
It roared before charging right towards the filolial, prompting Filo to charge as well towards the monster.
As the two were about to clash, Motoyasu prepared to try and have his spear reach the brain to kill it only to see that something was fast approaching him.
He looked up and saw a sudden tree be thrown towards him, causing him to jump off the monster's head to avoid being crushed by the tree.
"What the hell?!"
As he shouted this, confused about what had just happened, he noticed someone high up in the sky carrying a tree.
"What the—?! Is that—?!"
Motoyasu cut his own words as he couldn't believe what he's seeing, Garfiel holding a tree despite the massive damage he took from the monster earlier.
The demi human boy was fast approaching the monster while shouting,
"Take th's!"
As he closed the gap, he swung the tree he was grabbing with both hands and managed to land the hit with the result being the entire tree exploding from the impact.
Filo and Motoyasu were caught off guard by the sounded explosion all the while the monster was somewhat fazed by the hit.
Garfiel wasn't done yet as he quickly transformed his right arm into its beast form in order to grab the tree that's still on top of the monster's head.
Once he managed to accomplish this, he quickly acted on his plan to land a second hit, only this time using the strength of his beast arm to slam the tree on the top of the monster's head.
This tree had caused some impact since the monster's head was sent down onto the ground while also causing this tree to explode as well.
"How'd ya like th't?!"
As he shouted this, he landed onto the ground while returning his arm to normal. He was standing confidently despite his body feeling sore.
The monster roared with pain for a second before getting back up, turning its attention to Garfiel Tinsel.
It roared at him before attempting to bite him.
This prompted Garfiel to jump in order to avoid the monster's mouth and quickly attempted to counter-attack with a kick.
Before he had the chance to land his counter-attack, the monster moved its head in order to try and block off the demi human boy's attack.
This sent Garfiel back which gave Filo and Motoyasu an opening for their attacks.
Filo charged in head first like how Garfiel would and landed a barrage of kicks onto the monster's face all the while Motoyasu used more projectiles onto the chest area of the monster to see if he could land a fatal hit.
Once he had landed his projectiles at the same time Filo landed her barrage of kicks, the monster roared and attempted to eat Filo.
"Like hell yer gonna do th't!" Garfiel shouted as he managed to get close to Filo and move her and himself out of the monster's way.
Once avoiding its mouth, Garfiel quickly transformed his right leg into its beast form in order to land a powerful kick onto the monster's mouth, attempting to break its jaw.
His kick landed though all it did was disoriented the monster, which annoyed Garfiel since his leg was sore.
"Th's fucker's strong!"
As he shouted this, Motoyasu once again attempted to attack the monster to get it's attention away from Filo.
"Over here, ugly!"
The monster turned it's attention towards the Spear Hero, hearing him as well as feeling his projectiles on the side he was being attacked from.
"Meteor Thrust!" He shouted as he gave it his all in attacking the monster once again, trying to bring it down on it's knees yet these projectiles didn't do anything to it.
Motoyasu was surprised by this, seeing that all of his attacks weren't doing anything.
This only pissed him off since he wants to look good in front of Filo, prompting him to get a little more reckless by trying to go for the monster's eye.
As he attempted to get closer, Garfiel and Filo landed on their feet with the filolial telling her friend and ally:
"Give me some footing, Garf."
"Sure thing."
Filo and Garfiel jumped up with Garfiel holding both his hands together and waited for Filo to land onto his hands before using all of his strength to send her flying directly towards the monster's face.
The monster roared as Filo landed her strongest kick, seemingly pushing the monster away though not doing any damage to it.
'Damn it all!'
Garfiel thought to himself as he landed on the ground, seeing that they are currently not strong enough to face this monster.
'I gotta beat th's damn thing 'f I wanna beat a dragon!'
As he said this, he noticed someone that isn't Filo or Motoyasu arriving to the scene.
"Took ya long enough, Shield Boss."
"Shut it Garfiel., now what's the situation?"
"Normal attacks aren't doin' shit."
"Hm." As Naofumi takes note on what Garfiel just said, he notices Motoyasu attempting to close the distance by firing more projectiles yet the monster showing to be unfazed by the Spear Hero's attacks.
He also saw Filo charging towards the monster to land a hit only for the monster to just tank the hit without any signs of pain.
'This might be a problem.'
While Naofumi was thinking on how to deal with the situation, Raphtalia pulled out her sword and quickly joined Filo, Garfiel, and Motoyasu in attacking the monster.
She ran towards the closest leg and swiftly with all of her strength swung her sword to try and do as much damage as possible.
Unfortunately, she realized that her sword attack didn't do anything.
'I can't cut it!' Raphtalia thought to herself. Naofumi saw this and knew that they are in trouble.
'It's slow, but we can't even scratch it!'
"Oi! Naofumi!"
"...? What?"
"Assist me!" As he shouted this, he started to run towards the monster. "I need to land on the creature's head. Place a shield for me to jump on!"
"And why do I have to do that?" The Shield Hero questioned, not really in the mood of assisting the Spear Hero after all the shit he put him and his party through.
Motoyasu turned towards Naofumi with an annoyed expression before turning forward.
"There's no time for fighting! We need to blind this creature!"
"You can handle that yourself." The Shield Hero said as he crossed his arms, not wanting to help Motoyasu.
This annoyed the hell out of him and just as he was about to say something to him, he was suddenly hit with the tail of the monster.
"Hmph!"
"Spear guy!" Garfiel shouted as he noticed Motoyasu coughed up blood before being send towards the forest.
"Oi! Shield Boss! Shouldn't we try t'work together fer now?"
"Just focus on the task at hand."
Garfiel looked forward after Naofumi said this, noticing the monster attempting to eat him.
He jumped back though as he did this, he knew that in his current state he won't be able to do much.
This prompted him to go full beast transformation, figuring that they might need a monster to defeat a monster.
As he was transforming, Raphtalia and Filo both looked with concern since they know that Garfiel can't control his beast form.
Motoyasu slowly got up while taking a look at Garfiel's transformation, thinking that this'll buy him time to recover.
Naofumi looked at his shield after a moment of seeing Garfiel Tinsel transforming, thinking to himself if he should use the Rage Shield to combat against the monster.
Before he can even think more into it, his mind suddenly was shifted to the roars of Garfiel as he fully transformed into his best form.
As he roared, he charged towards the monster's direction with the monster charging towards him.
Once the two clashed, the monster's power was still overwhelming for Garfiel Tinsel yet he was able to somewhat hold his own.
He planted his feet onto the ground as he attempted to push back the monster...though this wasn't working since he was slowly being pushed back even with his feet into the ground.
Garfiel continued to try and push the monster back even if it isn't doing much due to the monster's strength still being much bigger than his.
Despite this, he was distracting the monster long enough for everyone to attack it from the sides.
Motoyasu was the first to attack, firing another barrage of projectiles with Filo and Raphtalia attacking from close range.
Naofumi observed and only joined in with one simple attack, using air strike shield to create the green projectile shield to send flying towards the monster to land a hit on it.
Once it did connect, his projectile shattered into pieces with the Shield Hero realizing that they can't do anything to this monster.
'This is bad. None of our attacks are doing anything to this thing.'
As he thought this, he along with the others notice Garfiel in his beast form eventually get overpowered and pushed back by the monster's head.
The demi human boy in his beast form attempted to use his footing to stop himself from being pushed back yet the monster's strength was still too much for him.
Just as he was about to be pushed into the water by the monster, it stopped and decided to attack Garfiel with its tail using all of its strength.
Garfiel wasn't fast enough to dodge this attack, causing him to receive the full strength of the monster.
This attack would've been fatal had he been in his human form yet his beast form is somewhat strong enough to at the very least survive this attack if barely.
"Garfiel!"
"Garf!"
"Kid!"
Naofumi stayed silent as he saw Garfiel be sent towards the lake with the boy's chest being damaged from the monster's attack.
Though he was a little caught off guard by Motoyasu showing some concern for Garfiel.
'I have to do something.' He thought to himself, knowing that they don't have the stamina or strength to take on this monster. He looked back at his shield. 'I need to use the rage shield. It's the only way to—'
His thought was interrupted when he heard an unfamiliar feminine voice speak to him:
"Don't."
"Huh?"
"Naofumi, something seems wrong here." Melty said, feeling the atmosphere suddenly shift.
Naofumi also felt this and before he could respond to her comment, a sudden mist appeared.
"Is this...magic mist?" Melty questioned before continuing, "It's a high-level magic field."
"A magic field? You mean we're trapped here?" Naofumi questioned.
As everyone was on their guard, Raphtalia was the first to hear footsteps before the others started to hear.
"I hear footsteps!" Raphtalia said. The moment she finished her sentence, a bunch of filolials began to run out of the forest and into the magic mist.
"Filolials?" Both Melty and Motoyasu questioned at the same time, each interested to know what a bunch of filolials are doing here.
These filolials all surround the monster in a large circle, catching everyone off guard.
"What the hell?"
The monster was looking curiously at first towards everyone for a moment, uncertain at what's going on yet it eventually started to attack all around since it can't see anything.
While the monster was going on a rampage, Raphtalia and Filo regroup with Naofumi and Melty.
"Hm? Where's the Spear Hero?" Melty asked, having lost him once the magic mist came in. Naofumi and the others noticed the question and were unsure with the Shield Hero not carrying that much about him.
"Who cares about him, we need to get Garf out of the water. Filo, you know what to do."
"Right." Filo nods and just as she was about to go and save Garfiel, Motoyasu suddenly said:
"No need! I have this annoying boy."
As he said this, he appeared in front of Naofumi's party while carrying a human form Garfiel that was badly injured.
"Garf!" Both Filo and Raphtalia shouted as they saw Garfiel injured.
Motoyasu set the demi human boy down as he turned towards the monster's direction, seeing that they still have a lot of work to deal with such a thing.
"As much as I want to take you out, we need to work together here, Naofumi."
"Once again, we aren't allies. I rather deal with that thing on my own than team up with you."
"This isn't the time to be fighting amongst ourselves!"
"Ha! That's rich, coming from you!" Naofumi pushed Motoyasu to the side, not wanting to owe him at all. "I'm handling this."
Right before he could summon the rage shield, he heard the feminine voice once again:
"Don't resort to that power."
"...Who's there?"
As Naofumi asked this question, everyone looked up to see the wind moving wildly with the water having something come out.
A large thing raised from the lake and shot up onto the sky, reveal to be a large filolial, so large that it made everyone watching feeling like they are nothing but ants.
"F-F-Filolial–!"
Motoyasu was shocked by this that he ended up passing out, with Naofumi shaking his head with disappointment.
"What a moron."
He turned back towards the large filolial as she landed right next to the monster, her majestic exterior completely catching Filo and Melty off guard.
"It can't be!" The second princess says in disbelief. "The Filolial Queen?!"
"So cool!" Filo said with her eyes sparkling with excitement.
The Filolial queen turned her attention towards Naofumi and the others for a moment before turning towards the monster. While she was looking at them, she said:
"Fall back."
As the Filolial Queen looked at the monster, she seemed calm all the while the monster was just in a neutral state.
"Your body reacted badly to the Dragon Emperor's fragment and grew beyond control. If you hand over that fragment now, I shall spare your life." There was a calmness when the filolial queen said this, though the next part had a bit of intimidation added to her voice, "But begone at once!"
As she said this, the monster roared in response before charging at her.
"Watch out!" Melty shouted, worried for the filolial queen's safety.
These words were enough to reach the unconscious Garfiel, allowing him to wake up if only for a moment.
The demi human boy looked as the world was disoriented for a moment, uncertain if what he's seeing is real or his mind messing with him.
"B-Big...ass...filolial..."
The filolial queen looked with a blank expression..
"As you wish."
Right as the monster was within reach, it received a powerful kick to the face. This kick was enough to send it flying a few feet away.
Once it managed to recover, it angrily breath fire to try and burn her.
"Weak." The Filolial Queen calmly says as she easily blocks away the fire with a simple shield.
As the fire was ineffective to the filolial queen, it was passing by her and about to reach Naofumi and his group.
He quickly created a large air strike shield to protect everyone, including the knocked out Motoyasu, from the fire.
"I'll end this at once."
The filolial queen was suddenly gone for only a second before appearing right behind the monster, leaving a strong amount of wind to nearly send everyone in Naofumi's party flying away as well as the monster suddenly spilling blood from it's entire chest area.
The monster collapses to the ground, not having stand a chance against the filolial queen.
Once the monster was on the ground laying in a pool of it's blood, the filolial queen took the chance to take the Dragon Emperor's fragment from it's corpse before turning towards Naofumi.
"The Shield Hero, I take it?"
"Yeah."
The filolial queen looked at everyone else around the Shield Hero and spotted Motoyasu.
"I take it that's the Spear Hero?"
"Yes, but don't worry about him. He's nothing more than a nuisance."
"..." The Filolial Queen took note of what the Shield Hero said, prompting her to respond with, "I wish to discuss many things with you both, but I know this form isn't suitable. One moment."
As she said this, she began to glow while also shrinking down. While she was doing this, Melty and Filo took care of Garfiel, checking on the wound in his chest.
"..." Garfiel was slowly moving which prompted Melty to say:
"Don't move! Your already hurt."
"Don't...worry 'bout 't...just gotta stay on th'grass..."
As Garfiel weakly said this, Raphtalia did took a quick look on Motoyasu to make sure he wasn't injured though this resulted in him waking up.
"Huh? What's going on?"
As he said this, he noticed the filolial queen's transformation into a human like form.
"..."
Everyone was shocked by this, with Motoyasu being the most paralized by the form.
"Now, to introduce myself. I am the queen of all filolials over the world, Fitoria—"
"YAAAAAH!"
Motoyasu had suddenly lost his mind and started to run at full speed towards Fitoria's location.
"Oi!" Garfiel shouted as he quickly with all of his current strength he could muster grabbed hold of Motoyasu just as he was about to grab onto the filolial queen.
The demi human boy turned towards Raphtalia, giving her a sign to knock the Spear Hero out before he does anything crazy.
The raccoon girl nodded and quickly used the bottom hilt of her sword to knock Motoyasu out.
This nearly knocked him out, with the main knockout attack coming from Filo. Using her human form with her gloves, she knocked him out with one punch.
'That should take care of that moron.'
Naofumi thought to himself before turning his attention to Raphtalia.
"Tie him up."
She nodded before turning towards the knocked out Motoyasu and tying him up with a rope Naofumi had in his inventory.
Once she did this, they turned towards Fitoria to see that she was just looking at the Spear Hero with extreme fear. While she was shaking, she began to speak:
"I was so scared...the current four heroes are strange indeed..."
"Man, her attitude changed from bad ass t' scared lil' girl."
Garfiel commented, having realized that the giant filolial that killed the monster was indeed real.
Naofumi noticed this which prompted him to switch his shield onto the one that's Garfiel's type before smacking him in the head.
"AH!"
"Watch what you say."
"Aight. Aight."
As he was rubbing the top of his head, Fitoria shook herself in order to get back into topic.
"Apologies about the Spear Hero's bad manners, but are you really her?" Melty asked.
"You know her?" The Shield Hero questioned.
"Of course. Centuries ago, a hero of the time is said to have raised a filolial. Her name is legendary."
"Centuries ago? So she inherited the name?"
"No. I have always been Fitoria."
"Will I also be as big as her one day?" Filo asked.
"I couldn't feed you if you grew that big, so you'd be on your own."
Filo's smile turned into a pout.
Garfiel had the urge to laugh at this response however he knows better...that and he knows he'll just get smacked in the head again. Fitoria speaks:
"That would take dozens of times longer than a normal filolial's lifespan, so don't worry yourself over it."
"What?!" Filo was shocked by this revelation. Naofumi remained with a blank expression as he thought to himself:
'In other words, she'd live that long?'
'Th't's pretty damn long.' Garfiel thought.
"It's your turn to introduce yourselves, Shield Hero's party."
"Iwatani Naofumi."
"Okay."
"I'm Raphtalia. Nice to meet you."
"Likewise."
"My name is Filo."
Fitoria remained silent and just gave a nod to Filo, annoying her while also pouting.
"Name's Garfiel Tinsel, Th'Shield 'f th' Sanctuary."
"Quite an intriguing name."
Fitoria turned her attention to Melty.
"We've met before, haven't we? Thank you for your help that time."
"No problem. I'm Melty Melromarc. It's a pleasure to meet you again." As Melty finishes speaking, she bows in respect towards the Filolial Queen.
"Mel-tan, then."
Instantly Melty was caught off guard by this.
"Mel...tan?"
"You've met before?" Naofumi curiously asked.
"Yes." Melty responded as she turned towards the Shield Hero. "I ran into her on the way back to the capital after a diplomatic visit."
"So you've made a habit of that, huh?" As he said this, he turned his attention towards Fitoria. "Anyway, I'm grateful that you took out that monster. But what do you want with us?"
"It's a long story, and this isn't a great place for a chat. Let me take you somewhere suitable."
As she said this, she revealed a fancy carriage behind a couple of filolials.
Filo and Melty were extremely excited, Garfiel was intrigued by the design, and both Raphtalia and Naofumi remained calm.
"Wait, before that..." Naofumi turns his attention to the dead monster. Fitoria quickly caught on to what Naofumi wanted.
"I don't like a Cardinal Hero using dragon material in his equipment."
"It serves as precious fodder to develop my shield." Naofumi countered. Fitoria didn't like this one bit.
"And I already sense an ominous aura in your shield." Naofumi slightly shook when he heard this, recalling when he lost control of himself and forced everyone to deal with him when the rage shield was out. She took note of the shake, "Curse powers are certainly immense, but so are their consequences. You mustn't use them."
Naofumi had no response since he didn't have the Rage Shield under control when he used it. He looked at his shield for a moment before turning back to the Filolial Queen.
"I'll have it under control."
"Like the last time you did."
"..."
"I heard it took your party to calm you down." Fitoria said, having known this knowledge for a while now thanks to her filolials.
"Tsk. Regardless, I need dragon materials and the Rage Shield in order to survive."
She gave him a cold look before sighing.
"Fine. Do as you wish."
She along with the others watched as Naofumi grabbed a couple of the monster's skin to add to his shield but he also grabbed a few for Ren whenever he encountered him again.
He looks at his level tree and notices that more skills pop up.
"That does it."
"Are you finished?"
"Yeah. But the rest of this..."
"I'll order my family to bring it along."
"Thanks."
"Get in the carriage." Fitoria ordered, feeling that they've wasted enough time here. "I'll need you to answer several questions when we get there."
"Oi, what 'bout Spear guy?" Garfiel asked as he just remembered they left Motoyasu knocked out and tied up.
Fitoria's body shook as it was in fear from the way Motoyasu had treated her...though she reluctantly responded with,
"Bring him..."
"Are you sure?" Naofumi questioned. "He won't be much help, not to mention he's probably still after me."
"He's unfortunately a cardinal hero. This matter is important to him just as much as it is to you."
"Fine. But he isn't riding with us."
"Here, i got's an idea." Garfiel said as he picked up the unconscious Motoyasu. He went up the carriage and just set him there. "There. Outta sight, outta mind."
"That works." Fitoria said before telling the two to enter the carriage. Once everyone was in the carriage, Fitoria closed her eyes as she said.
"Portal."