Aftermath

Waking up covered in sweat and smelling like a brewery, I pry my eyes open and head to get cleaned up. After a nice shower and some food, I head over to see how the old turtle is doing. I find him in the throne room in a corner drinking from a wine bottle. "Hey, old man how was your night." He cracks his eyes "It was the most fun I have had in decades" I nod "that's good glad you celebrated with us" He nods and takes a drink "Yes we had some interesting reports about the princess selling her party members into slavery because of jealousy and if the reports are to be beloved the capital of the Melromarc kingdom was raided pretty hard something about a crusade happened it has been ages since one of those happened". He looks at me with a knowing look "Now how did that happen..." "I have no clue it was weird that the Cult of the Three heroes was slaughtered by masked unknown priests who smashed heads with shields...weird" *cough*cough* "Yea weird I need to head to the church and check on how long until the next Wave is away and get some leveling in." He smiles "yes that sounds wonderful we will be having meetings later would you like to come?" "Not particularly I do not feel like joining a pissing contest on how much better one party is better than the other." He smiles.

Walking into the church and was pleasantly surprised that the place is clean as the first day I arrived. "Hello, Shield hero what can we help you with?" I am just checking my levels when the next wave is happening and heading out to level up some of my people." she nods "Please follow me".

Walking over to the hourglass it says twenty-nine days until the next wave so about a month between the waves that are good to know. I wonder what happens to the world when all the heroes die. I could 'experiment' and see if a hero dies the time between waves decreases. Is it worth experimenting it kind of is but then again I don't care enough to try too much ill just level like crazy. I check my status page

Charles Smith

Classes: Shield hero lv 178, Conqueror lv. 126, Mage lv- 363, Berserker lv- 54, Elemental- 649, Necromancer lv- 271, Thief -ERROR ERROR

Equipment: Legendary Shield, Legendary Valyrian steel armor,

Other-Bonded Dragon(stolen), 490,995 metica tons of gold(stolen), Soul world, Giant gorilla(kidnapped), One with the elements, Chimera (kidnaped send help), Bonded Filo (Stolen, but happy)

Magic-(mastered) Charms, Transfiguration, Dark Arts, Ritual magic, Mind Magic, Elemental Magic, Elemental Transformation, Runes

(student level)-Herbology, Potions, weather magic

I need to just focus on my shield the only shield I really use is The healing shield looking over the status of the shield-

[The Healing Shield] (SR)

-Within 30 feet any 'enemies' cannot gain health

-Within 30 feet any 'friends' gain 200% health regeneration

-Host heals automatically using stored potions (208 Liters stored)

-immunity to poisoning

(The SR is a super rare class of weapon from the increasing rarity which can level up by resetting the weapon mastery back to zero. The more energy absorbed the more it increases the rarity after it reaches a threshold point you can reset the mastery class they go common (C), Uncommon (UC), Rare (R), Super Rare (SR), Super Rare + (SR+), and then Artifacts (AV))

Besides that and a few shields that I haven't looked at too much a bunch of random animal, and plant shields ill have to look at them. I don't need different shields but it couldn't help. I will look into this later just in case I need to find a shield to attack. I don't think I will be getting a cursed series or blessed series since I don't think I will get cursed and overcome it. Who knows shit happens all of the time. I have a month to kill. Heading into my world I see Filo and Raphaelite sitting and eating. Filo jumped over the table and hugged me "You left again" I nod "Yea I had a wave to deal with some crusade to make happen you know the usual." Raphaelite walks over "Will you take me out to level?" I smile "Sure I will we can start today if you are not sick anymore." She smiles "Yeah I am already better and healthy enough to go out and besides I trust you." she smiles. "aww I want to come too." Looking over at Filo "Sure you can come but you will have to kill monsters." She looked determined. I pat her head "Well let us go murder some monsters we only have twenty-nine days until the next wave so let's work hard".

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Meanwhile in the Melromarc kingdoms throne room

The queen sits on her throne looking down at her husband and daughter kneeling on the ground. Behind them is some rough-looking heroes. "So you summoned ALL of the heroes, chased off the shield hero, framed him for assaulting you, then someone who you swear is the shield hero stole everything in the city with any value besides two shops, then all of the demi-humans in the kingdom are stolen forcing our citizens to do all of the dirty work that they were too good to do, then when he leaves the city you send out people to arrest him he breaks all of their limbs, then you send the hero's out to attack him he beats them then fly's away on a DRAGON, That would be a lot but then you put a bounty on his head with gold we do not have..."

The king is sweating hard trying to think of a way out of this "It is the shield hero's fault, he was not supposed to leave..." The queen froze him in ice "So you expected a hero to take all of the abuse like a stray dog, and are surprised when he just said fuck you I am out... that is what I am getting from you? Do you know how stupid that is? He is the strongest out of all of the heroes.." The sword hero speaks up "But that is not possible I killed the evil dragon!" The queen narrow her eyes "That was you was it.." "YES" "So you are the one who is responsible for killing tens of thousands of people?" he pales "What? I killed the dragon thought?" "Yes, but did you clean up the corpse of said dragon so it does not spread the plague and raise as an undead dragon???" he shakes his head "No it was supposed to disappear in particles and give me XP" the queen is shocked "What kind of bullshit are you spouting, you kill an animal what is left?" "Its body....shit." The bow hero is now realizing this is not a fucking video game. "Sorry" "Say sorry to the dead" she dismissed him leaving him on the verge of tears.

The queen keeps on her rant "Now we have to deal with a rebellion in the southwest of the kingdom" She notices the bow hero pale "What did you do??" He squirms under her frosty gaze " I removed a tyrant that was abusing his privileges." he says trying to convince himself. "So you were the one who killed the duke?" He gulped "Duke?" "Yes he was the one who put down rebellions all around our kingdom, now that he is dead the area is in open rebellion.. and you are the one responsible." "No, I killed a tyrant for abusing his privileges!" "He was a fucking duke and you killed him, are you fucking special?" He looks down "Now we have a rebellion to deal with on top of a plague undead dragon, and tree-sized man-eating plants in the South."

The spear hero pales. "OH you have to be kidding me, what did you do spear hero?" he looks at her chest "I gave seeds I found in a dungeon and gave them to the starving population!" he declares expecting her to praise him. "SO you gave unknown seeds from a dungeon that spawns monsters that kill people..." He not being the smartest "Yes I saved the people in the town.." she cuts him off "They are all dead the plants have killed thousands while spreading unchecked for weeks and a subjugation army was nearly wiped out. So if I don't thank you you will have to excuse me.." "No problem just here to help." She just looks at him realizing he is just stupid.

"Now on top of all the damage and death you three have caused here, during the wave we had the shield hero religion crusading army show up and kill all of our priests some with wooden poles up their asses and the rest hung... and we lost all of the villages that had monsters attack them leaving nothing but burned farmland left behind on top of that it has been salted and the wells contaminated with literal shit so it is useless land and useless water sources for about a dozen villages and the Shield hero showed up with a personal army and just watched the show?"

They all do a chicken impression nodding "yes" and they all mutter. "From the reports, the Shield hero has a personal army with the size unknown topping out at thousands, he has a dragon mount, and he reportedly said 'yea fuck those guys' I.E. US, Now we need his help to get our kingdom stable, which he also said 'let's just watch that shithole burn'.." The spear guy "why do we need his help?" The queen has to take a breath "well he has an army, is the strongest hero, several kingdoms behind him, has not killed anyone in MY kingdom,*flinchx3*, he is supposed to be over level 100 in his class." "WHAT" the three heroes exclaimed "So why would we not need him?" "He attacked the princess!" the queen grits out "Lie she made up." sword hero yells "he is a thief" she keeps gritting out "We have no proof and because of all of the King, and princesses manhunt for him we are a hair away from a 4v1 war with the shield hero who is going to help the army kill us all..." *silence*

"Fuck I need to meet him As of now I am placing Malty and the king under slave seals and they are to follow me to reach the Shield hero and beg for help. You 'Heroes' are to not leave the capital except to level with my trusted guard you are under house arrest" They can only nod " I am leaving Melty in charge her word is mine anyone who disagrees will immediately be put to death." *silence* "All of the nobility who tries anything while I am gone will be stripped of all titles and lands and then be killed immediately." She prepares for her departure 'hope he is reasonable.'

A/N: dam that was a long ass chapter I tried to keep it on track but I was having fun tearing the hero's malty and the king a new ass

Hope you enjoyed the chapter Thank you for reading!