Vector Operation Directory

Accelerator, the No.1 student in Academy City, accidentally traveled to the world of The Rising of the Shield Hero. He was summoned as the discriminated Shield Hero and started a journey of stepping on faces, pretending to be cool, daily life, and picking up girls…

1: Summon
Academy City.
Because most of the city’s residents are students, the number of people walking on the streets is gradually decreasing at this time in the evening after the curfew.
With a “pop” sound, in the alley where no one would notice him at all, Accelerator kicked casually, just like a normal boy playing, and kicked the head of the brown-haired girl in front of him easily. The scene was quite bloody.
“That’s enough…” Accelerator closed his eyes and smacked his lips. Since he didn’t regard the other person as a human being at all, he naturally didn’t have any sympathy or guilt in his heart. However, after doing the same meaningless thing too many times, he couldn’t help but feel impatient and irritated.
“What a joke, doing this kind of thing can allow me to reach level 6? It seems that the calculation formula of the tree diagram designer needs to be recalibrated.” Accelerator muttered to himself unhappily, but he had already continued to kill more than 5,000 of the brown-haired girls just now – or should we say, dolls with a unit price of less than 20,000 yen. The plan was already halfway through, and if he gave up halfway, it would only bring more trouble to Accelerator himself.
“Tsk…” Accelerator looked at the body lying on the ground with a look as if he was looking at a prop. He turned around and walked slowly out of the shadowy alley. “Do we have to repeat this boring thing 15,000 times…”
Just as Accelerator walked out of the alley and went to the supermarket to buy two cans of coffee, the surrounding scene suddenly changed and turned into a white light as the background.
“Huh? What’s going on?” Apparently because he had been under constant stimulation since he was a child, Accelerator was quite calm about the current situation.
“Aleister? Or…” Accelerator frowned. As far as he could see, the only person in the entire Academy City who could do this was Aleister, the city’s general chairman. If not, then it could only be an action from outside the Academy City, but Aleister should know about it…
Suddenly, Accelerator felt the sense of contact between his feet and the ground disappear, but because he had no psychological burden and was already prepared to be alert, Accelerator still maintained his center of gravity balance, and the next second, he felt himself falling back to the ground. Accelerator stood firmly, and his vision around him began to gradually recover.
“Great, it’s a success!” Several men in blue robes were standing in front of him. When they saw the situation here, they said with joy on their faces.
“Brave man, please save this world!”
“Oh? Hero?” What are these guys talking about? Accelerator raised his eyebrows, feeling that the development of things was a bit unexpected.
The surrounding buildings were in the medieval Western architectural style, and there shouldn’t be such buildings in Academy City. So was it instantly transferred to Europe? That didn’t seem likely, even a level 5 space ability user wouldn’t have the ability to move so far, and what about the white light just now?
Next to him, there were three young men, but because not everyone had the ability to respond like Accelerator, all three of them fell to the ground due to unstable balance. It seemed that they just came to their senses, looked at each other, and then stood up pretending to be calm.
Accelerator also noticed that the three boys were equipped with swords, spears, and bows respectively, and he himself had a shield tied to his hand at some point.
Thinking of what the blue-robed guy in front of him had just said, Accelerator frowned and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Could it be… a time travel? Or is it a story about a stupid hero saving the world?
“My dear brave man, please save this world!” As if knowing that several people had not yet come to their senses, the leader of the blue-robed men standing opposite stepped forward and said.
“ha?”
“No way?”
The three people around him made sounds of disbelief, and the young man holding the bow asked further: “What does this mean?”
“The situation is very complicated. In short… our world is experiencing the so-called apocalyptic disaster, so we used ancient rituals to summon several of the legendary four holy warriors.” The other party looked at the four people who were summoned, and explained in a very respectful manner.
I don’t know why, but Accelerator felt that his eyes were different when he looked at me. But soon after listening to his explanation, Accelerator felt unhappy and wanted to destroy this place.
“Huh? Just because of such a despicable reason, you teleported me to another world? How are you going to compensate for this loss?” Accelerator said to the other party in a very bad tone, completely ignoring the first impression of the three people who came with him.
However, despite this tone, he was not dissatisfied with the current situation. To be honest, he was tired of his original life, so he did not mind being teleported to another world. However, Accelerator felt uncomfortable about being teleported without his consent.
“This…” The guys in blue robes looked around, their eyes were somewhat complicated, and no one knew what they were thinking.
At this time, the three people next to them seemed to react and stepped forward to express their opinions.
“I agree with the above statement, and I also reject it.”
“Yes, it’s really weird.”
“Can you let us go back to our original world? Otherwise, no deal.”
The black-haired boy holding the sword raised his sword and pointed it at the blue-robed man opposite him. He then said in a breathtaking manner, “Don’t you feel any guilt for forcibly summoning someone here?”
“Even if the world is at peace, if we suddenly return to the original world, wouldn’t it be like all our work was in vain?”
“To what extent will you consider our ideas? Depending on the actual situation, we can also become your enemy.”
“What…” The blue-robed man showed a different look of trouble and anxiety than before, but he still forced a smile and said respectfully with his hands clasped together: “Anyway, anyway… first, please meet our country’s King Melomag, and then we can discuss the reward. My brave men, is this… okay?”
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2: Contradiction (old version)
Sure enough, after hearing that there would be a reward, the three young men put away the tense atmosphere. Although Accelerator was still unhappy, he also knew that the blue-robed men in front of him were just minions, doing things for others, so he held back and did not get angry for the time being. Then the four of them followed the blue-robed men and left.
“Ah…we have really come to another world.” The young man holding a bow sighed as he walked on the road.
“yes.”
“By the way, the climate of this other world is similar to our Mediterranean region.”
“that is…….”
Along the way, the three brave boys, not knowing the environment, regarded each other as companions who would fight side by side in the future, so they chatted in a friendly manner. However, they soon discovered that the boy with white hair and red eyes following behind did not say a word, so they pretended to be concerned and asked: “Hmm? The one holding the shield over there has been so depressed. Is he worried about something? Or is he still unhappy about being summoned for no reason?”
“Huh?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows. What is this guy talking about?
It was indeed a bit unpleasant to be summoned out of nowhere, but this had nothing to do with him not wanting to talk. The real reason was… he was different from the other three. He didn’t treat them as companions at all.
Yes, although they were summoned to another world with him and became so-called “heroes”, Accelerator did not treat them on the same level as himself for this reason. At best, they were just three small fry. Moreover, he had always been a one-man army, and there was no such thing as companions, so Accelerator had no interest in participating in their daily conversations.
“Just mind your own business.” Accelerator replied coldly.
“Uh…” The Gun Hero, who had not expected Accelerator’s reaction, was speechless for a moment, then turned back, made a “tsk” sound, and said something like “What’s so great about this guy?” and quickened his pace.
——————————
In the presence of King Melomag.
“Oh? Are you the four holy warriors in the ancient legend?” King Melomag, who was sitting on the throne with great spirit and dignity, said, “Tonight, King Melomag, Autocle Melomag XXXII. Heroes, tell me your names.”
“Amaki Ren, 16 years old, high school student.” The Sword Hero stepped forward and said.
“I’m Kitamura Motoyasu, 21 years old, college student.” This is the Gun Hero.
“Next is me, Kawasumi Itsuki, 17 years old, high school student.” This is the Bow Hero.
To be honest, Accelerator felt confused about the fact that the three people had to talk about their academic grades after reporting their names and ages. Thinking that he was also a high school student, he decided to follow the words of the previous people, and just as he was about to speak.
“Ren, Motoyasu and Itsuki, right?” King Melomag nodded as if in approval, completely ignoring Accelerator who was standing on the far right.
“Oh…?” Accelerator narrowed his eyes, and a dangerous aura began to flash in his eyes.
Is this intentional?
Although I don’t know why they are targeting me and making me embarrassed, it is not the style of the villain to just swallow my anger and say something like “Your Majesty, I didn’t introduce myself and you ignored me”…
“Hey…” Accelerator sneered unabashedly and glanced at the king’s face with a frivolous look. Then he turned around, put his hands in his pockets, and walked casually towards the gate he had just entered as if he was treating the palace hall as a street or square, obviously wanting to leave directly.
“…….” King Melomag’s eyebrows jumped, but he didn’t say anything. Instead, he looked at the dozen soldiers standing at the door. Obviously, if Accelerator was allowed to leave like this, wouldn’t it mean that the palace could allow people to enter and leave at will? In this case, there would be no need for any rules in this kingdom in the future.
“Stop! You are not allowed to be so insolent in front of the King’s throne!” The soldiers guarding the door drew their swords, and pointed two knight swords at Accelerator on the left and right. At the same time, soldiers stationed in other places also moved over here, forming a circle with Accelerator as the center.
Tsk…Accelerator couldn’t help but let out a laugh. The situation before him was very familiar to him. Wasn’t that what happened to those who didn’t know his ability at the beginning? They thought that they could pose a threat to themselves with the advantage of numbers?
This overconfident thinking…
In his heart, he mocked all the soldiers who surrounded him. Unless he could get rid of the “reflex” state, these scumbags would probably break his limbs if they touched him. So he walked past them without paying any attention, as if he didn’t see the swords facing him.
Of course, among all the people present, only Accelerator himself knew his own abilities. In the eyes of others, his current behavior was tantamount to suicide.
“You…!” The soldier in front was also shocked. He didn’t expect that there would be someone who was not afraid of death. He immediately began to hesitate. Seeing that if Accelerator took another step forward, he would hit the tip of his sword, so he subconsciously took a step back and looked secretly at his king, not knowing whether he should take action or not.
“Enough! Everyone, step back. I didn’t expect that Shield is actually a lunatic with mental problems!” As expected, King Melomag here still had no intention of causing any trouble in this occasion. He slapped the armrest of the throne heavily, frowning deeply, and his expression was as gloomy as possible.
Of course, that’s only for now.
King Melomag said in his heart, and then on the surface he accused Accelerator, “You are being unreasonable! Is this your trick? Shield? Do you think that you can do whatever you want just because you are a hero who responded to the call?”
Hearing this, the surrounding knights laid down their weapons and retreated to their original positions.
“Oh? Can’t you see me? Was he blinded instantly just now? Hahaha…” Accelerator laughed loudly without any scruples, making a rather nasty laugh, “Hey, hey, what’s the matter, old man? Your face suddenly looks even uglier. If you feel uncomfortable, just tuck your tail between your legs and run back to your room and lie down. How about that? Hahaha…”
As Accelerator’s laughter gradually faded, the entire hall began to become dead silent. The nobles and ministers around him all looked at Accelerator with disgust, while the three heroes looked surprised and puzzled. The expression on King Melomag’s side was even more interesting.
In short, he was furious. There was no doubt that Accelerator’s behavior had caused him to lose face, to the point where the dignity of the king and the country had been violated.
In an instant, things became irreconcilable.
3: Contradiction (1) (old version)
After a moment of dead silence, the three brave companions spoke.
“That statement is so rude. If the other party is willing to pay, this is not an unsolvable conflict. Why do this?” The Archer Hero, Kawasumi Itsuki, walked over and said, looking like a peacemaker.
“Even if you want to express your dissatisfaction, there’s no need to do this, right?” The Spear Hero, Kitamura Motoyasu said, and as if to avenge Accelerator’s cold response to him before, he said angrily and maliciously: “Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you are a hero? It’s really shameful, come here and apologize!”
The Sword Hero, Amaki Ren, didn’t say anything, but he was looking at Accelerator with a frown, and it was obvious that he was quite dissatisfied with the “Shield Hero” who was about to become his companion.
“Oh oh?” The ministers around made a little noise.
“It seems that the heroes are not of one mind.”
“That’s hard to say. After all, he was the Shield Hero. Maybe he was a special case…”
There were voices of this kind coming from all around, and King Melomag coughed, and when the surroundings quieted down, he spoke slowly, “It seems that not all heroes are as irresponsible as the Shield Hero. This is really comforting.”
However, unlike what everyone imagined, Accelerator did not restrain himself after being accused by his “companion”. Instead, he showed an expression of incomprehension and surprise.
“Huh? What did you just say?” Accelerator ignored the gazes of others and did not even turn his head. He just looked at the Spear Hero Kitamura Motoyasu with his peripheral vision. There was a very dangerous light flashing in his pupils and his tone was completely different from before. It was cold.
At the same time, Kitamura Motoyasu’s entire body suddenly felt like it was being watched by a demon. He subconsciously raised his guard, prepared to fight with a gun, and looked at Accelerator warily and panickedly.
“You want me to come over here and apologize? Who… do you think you are? A God?” Just like King Melomag before, Accelerator also felt that his dignity as the highest among lv5 was violated.
“Ah…” Accelerator slowly turned to face Kitamura Motoyasu, with undisguised contempt and mockery in his eyes, and said: “Do you think that just because you were summoned to the same place as me and were given the same title of ‘hero’, you are qualified to use this tone…”
“Did you talk to me? Huh?! You filthy clown!”
With a loud “bang”, Accelerator crushed the floor of the palace the next moment after his roar, and arrived in front of Yuankang in an instant.
“What……!” Motoyasu had never expected Accelerator to be so exaggerated and actually rushed in front of him at such a fast speed. So he had no time to fight back and subconsciously wanted to reach out to protect his face.
But it was too late, because the speed of Accelerator’s fist completely exceeded his reaction speed. A shadow flashed by, and Accelerator punched Motoyasu directly in the face.
“Bang!” Half of Yuan Kang’s face was twisted, and his whole body was actually knocked flying by the punch. He twisted twice in the air, and then with a “bang”, he fell heavily to the ground.
At this time, the ministers who had been talking a lot fell silent.
“!!” The expressions of the people around him changed completely when they looked at Accelerator, and they all had expressions of horror. They had never expected that Accelerator would dare to hurt people in front of the King’s throne, and he also had the power to knock Kitamura Motoyasu, who was also a hero, away with one punch.
Lian and Uncle, who were originally standing very close to Yuankang’s previous position, looked at each other and took a step back.
Obviously, Accelerator is not the same kind of person as these three…
“Tsk, so stupid…” Compared to the surprise and fluctuations in the hearts of others, Accelerator found it quite boring.
“Are you just an ordinary citizen with no ability?” Accelerator smacked his lips and put his hands back into his pockets. “How dare you speak such big words in front of me? Do you think you are so capable, but you only care about your verbal pleasure like an idiot? You are just a small fry among small fry, right?!”
Accelerator’s tone was full of disappointment and contempt. He had thought that if the Spear Hero was also summoned as a hero, he would be able to enjoy some pleasure. Unexpectedly, he just felt the same as when he fought against level 0 in Academy City.
“Damn it…” Kitamura Motoyasu muttered to himself unwillingly, looking at Accelerator with hatred in his eyes. Although he was in so much pain that he almost cried out, he still held back and forced himself to stand up with his gun, because if he continued to lie on the ground at this time, it would really be the behavior of a coward without any ability and spine.
“Tsk.” Accelerator smacked his lips angrily. Seeing Motoyasu’s look, he didn’t plan to continue bullying Motoyasu. After all, he was just an ordinary person who was powerless.
So he shifted his gaze and looked at King Melomag, who had been shocked and puzzled since just now, and a wanton and bad curve appeared at the corner of his mouth again.
“Why… This guy is just a shield…” King Melomag muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear before he could react.
“It’s… our turn to play a game. From the inexplicable summons at the beginning to the deliberate targeting just now, ah… you are quite courageous. Let’s settle these two accounts, our new and old grudges, together, my king…”
As if it were the whisper of a devil, Accelerator’s words immediately cleared King Melomag’s mind. He stood up, slapped the armrest of the throne hard, and shouted, “Knights!”
The next second, not only soldiers from inside the palace hall, but also the door of the hall was pushed open, and dozens of knights in silver-white armor quickly ran in, surrounded Accelerator in three layers inside and outside, and pointed their swords at Accelerator from all directions.
These knights must be very powerful. Accelerator saw that they were very fast and their movements were very neat and orderly. If we use the terms in RPG games, these should be high-level NPCs in this world.
“Huh, Shield! Your behavior doesn’t deserve to be called a hero!” Only when Accelerator was surrounded by the Knights did King Melomag feel a little safe, and then he said to Accelerator sanctimoniously: “If you surrender now…what!”
Before he could finish his words, a scene beyond his physical understanding happened before his eyes.
Turn on lazy reading mode
4: Adventurer Main (old version)
King Melomag, who thought he had won, suddenly paused and his eyes widened. Not only him, but also the ministers around him and the three heroes who came through.
Accelerator on this side seemed to take the swords of the surrounding knights completely unimportant, and waved them casually as if to shoo away flies.
His hands would be covered in blood, did this guy think his sword was made of foam? The knights of the Knights Templar thought so.
The next moment, there was a loud “bang!”, and all the knights standing in the fan-shaped area in front of Accelerator were hit by a truck or even a train. More than a dozen people were directly blown away, spitting out blood in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground, and then trembled in pain as if all the bones in their bodies were broken. Among them, the knight who was facing Accelerator and whose sword was hit by Accelerator had his arm twisted 180 degrees. His entire face was distorted by pain and could not be seen in its original state. At the same time, he let out a scream that resounded throughout the palace and even outside the palace.
“Hey, hahahahahaha…!!” What made everyone feel cold inside was that while they were terrified by the bloody scene at the scene, Accelerator on this side felt happy because of his own brutal behavior and laughed wantonly.
“You…you devil…” King Melomag said with a pale face. What kind of existence is this turbid white devil in front of him? Didn’t they say that the four holy heroes just summoned were equivalent to ordinary people without any abilities? What is going on? He began to regret his decision to summon the Shield Hero as well.
At this time, the knights who were originally surrounding Accelerator in other directions also took a few steps back, with deep fear in their eyes. Are you kidding me? Who can withstand a guy who can cause such great damage with just a wave of his hand?
“Next…” Accelerator turned his gaze to King Melomag again.
“Shield… Shield Hero, there seems to be no need for the situation between us to develop to this point, right?” King Melomag suddenly said.
“Oh? It seems that you finally understand your position, King of Trash.” Accelerator put on a frivolous smile, “It took me a lot of effort to make you understand that I can take your life at any time.”
“You…” King Melomag got angry when he heard the first half of the sentence how Accelerator addressed him, but he was speechless when he heard the second half. His face turned blue and red and he couldn’t say anything. He was afraid that he had never been treated like this in this authoritarian country.
“Tell me, what do you want to do? What do you want?” King Melomag said calmly after taking a deep breath. If you think about it carefully, since Accelerator said this, it means that he wants something in his kingdom.
But Accelerator’s next words made him panic again after calming down with great difficulty, and his face even turned pale.
“Heh… request? What on earth are you talking about? You despicable trash.” The corners of Accelerator’s mouth once again pulled out a rather exaggerated arc, and his whole face looked extremely bad. At the same time, he spread his hands in a hugging gesture, and walked towards King Melomag with the look of a revengeful god of death.
“Do you have room to discuss with me? Hehehe…”
Accelerator chuckled darkly, and as if because of his bad taste, he deliberately slowed down his speed. King Melomag, as expected, felt as if he was a criminal who was about to be executed, and his heart was filled with tormenting pain and fear.
It’s really full of evil taste, a veritable evil party…
“Please, please wait a moment, Lord Shield Hero!” Suddenly, a woman’s anxious voice came from beside Accelerator.
The red-haired girl hurriedly ran out from a corner of the hall and ran towards Accelerator, saying in a tone full of worry and request: “Master Shield Hero, please calm down, this world needs you…ah!”
She seemed to want to run over and hug Accelerator’s arm, and then beg Accelerator to stop his behavior. However, because Accelerator did not eliminate his “reflex” from beginning to end, the red-haired girl felt a huge impact the moment she touched Accelerator’s arm, and she was pushed back several steps.
“Master Shield Hero…” The red-haired girl looked at Accelerator with a pitiful look.
“……” Accelerator glanced at the girl out of the corner of his eye, and there was no sympathy in his eyes. It would be more accurate to say that after Accelerator noticed that the girl was running towards him, he did not deliberately release the “reflection”, so the current situation was within his expectations.
After just a quick observation, I could tell that the red-haired girl was indeed an absolute beauty, with an innocent and pitiful expression on her face after being hurt… maybe a man who is often immersed in beauty would not be able to control himself.
“Hey! You scum! How dare you bully a girl!” Sure enough, the next second, Kitamura Motoyasu opened his mouth and angrily accused.
Originally, due to the strong suppressive power displayed by Accelerator, the three heroes including Motoyasu dared only to watch the show from the side for a long time. However, because of this scene, their brains somehow got hot, and Kitamura Motoyasu immediately seemed to have forgotten that he was killed instantly by Accelerator just now.
“Tsk…” Accelerator smacked his lips, a little unhappy with Motoyasu’s reaction, but he still took care of the current matter.
“Who are you?” Accelerator asked the red-haired girl. His tone was very calm, and there was no sense of friendliness or malice in it. Instead, there was a feeling of keeping people at a distance.
“My Lord Shield Hero, I am the adventurer Maine. I beg you to stop your anger and forgive the King of Melomag! The world no longer has time for the struggle between my Lord Hero and Melomag. Please have mercy on this country and the common people of this world and stop. I am willing to be your partner and contribute my strength to the future fight against the wave of disasters!” The girl who called herself Maine said righteously, her tone sounded like it came from the bottom of her heart, and many people around her were infected by her words.
(Alas, the author just published the book after writing two chapters. I forgot that I had something to do these few days. One chapter a day is already a stretch. There may be a day off. In two days, I will be able to resume the update speed of two to three chapters a day. Please forgive me.)
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5: Walking Alone (Old Version)
“Oh? World crisis?” Accelerator was not at all affected by the girl’s excited tone. Instead, he showed an interested look, as if he heard something interesting.
“Tell me about it.” Accelerator asked casually with a frivolous smile still on his face.
“It’s like this—” the red-haired girl who called herself Mai Yin began to narrate the story one by one.
At this time, the three heroes standing far away, the sword hero Amaki Ren, the bow hero Kawasumi Itsuki, and the spear hero Kitamura Motoyasu, all pricked up their ears one by one, after all, this was something related to them.
——————Time Division——————
Maine talked about a lot of things, including historical legends that happened in the past and the current situation facing the world. In short, a simple summary is this:
This world has such a thing as a doomsday prophecy. It says that the “wave” that will cause the world’s destruction will visit several times. If the disaster spread by the wave is not repelled, the world will be destroyed. Since ancient times, countries have possessed a prop called “Dragon Carved Hourglass”. When the sand in the hourglass runs out, the “wave” will visit, so the time of the “wave” can be known. Before the “Four Holy Heroes” including Accelerator were summoned, the first wave attacked this country. The knights and adventurers of this country barely repelled the initial wave, but the second and third waves will be stronger, and the sand in the hourglass will stop falling until the wave stops.
Now, there is less than a month left until the second wave. After the first wave, the country’s top leaders realized that they had underestimated the wave, so they followed the ancient rituals and summoned the Four Saints.
The three heroes on the other side nodded slightly as if they were listening to a story, and didn’t think much about it after understanding the background. However, Accelerator on this side fell into deep thought.
“Hmm…” Accelerator frowned, stared at Main for a while, then turned his gaze to King Melomag above and looked at him for a while, which frightened the other party for a moment, but Accelerator did not do anything, just frowned there, not knowing what he was thinking.
To be honest, Accelerator really admires the three “heroes” next to him who seem to have nothing to do with it. They are really three idiots. Don’t they think that these words reveal a lot of information while also bringing countless doubts?
Of course, Accelerator didn’t think that Myne was lying. He didn’t think that this woman would dare to lie in such an occasion, because although this matter was something that Accelerator and the other four summoned had never heard of, it was not something worth keeping secret for everyone present. It could be easily verified by checking afterwards, so there was no need for Myne to lie. But not lying was one thing, and Accelerator did smell a suspicious atmosphere from what she said.
“And then? Is there nothing else you need to explain?” To be on the safe side, Accelerator looked at Main and said, his tone a little bland.
“Eh? Lord Shield Hero, what’s wrong? Is there any problem?” Main asked with a confused look on her face, as if she really didn’t know what Accelerator was talking about.
“Heh…” Accelerator smiled calmly, then looked at the ministers around him, as well as King Melomag who was sitting on the throne. They didn’t seem to have any intention of adding anything, “…This is really interesting.”
“…” No one could understand what Accelerator was trying to do, and no one dared to jump out and do anything, so the surroundings remained silent for a long time.
“Hey! You garbage king over there!” Accelerator suddenly called out and gave someone a new nickname, then said, “Listen carefully, now you can thank me from the bottom of your heart!”
“What…!” King Melomag was stunned, and before he could react, Accelerator on this side continued to speak and let out a rather evil laugh.
“Because I plan to let you go and let you live through today, but you still have to wash your neck at all times, because I may make a special trip to your place at any time because I’m in a bad mood, and then cut you into pieces and use your corpse for fun. From now on, please be prepared to live in fear every day! Hahahaha……!”
The people around him looked at Accelerator, and that figure was like the world’s top villain who no one could punish. After making such a declaration to the king in the palace of a country, Accelerator suddenly turned around and kicked the door of the hall, and with a loud “bang”, he kicked it into pieces in a rather exaggerated way, and then walked away. This time, no one dared to stop him.
Even after Accelerator left, the hall was still silent and no one dared to speak.
“Damn…damn shield…!!” After a long time, unlike his previous pale face due to fear, King Melomag’s face turned red again because of anger. He sat back on the throne and gripped the armrests tightly with both hands, as if he wanted to crush them.
However, just as he was about to vent his anger by saying a few words to curse Accelerator, a confidant immediately ran over and whispered in his ear: “No, no, your Majesty… that guy…”
Before he could finish his words, he heard the sound of slow footsteps getting closer. He looked up and found that the white devil was slowly approaching this side and was turning back. Even from a distance, King Melomag could still see the evil smile on the devil’s face.
The next moment, King Melomag’s face turned pale again.
“This guy… why is he coming back again?!” King Melomag’s complex emotions just now all turned into fear for his own life safety.
“Don’t worry, trash. I promised you that you would survive today and I won’t break my promise. The purpose of my return is just to get back the necessary initial funds from you, the King of Trash. Of course, if I give you too little… I can’t guarantee that I will break my promise.” Accelerator blatantly stated his purpose and threatened.
“Crack…” It sounded like the friction of bones. At this moment, King Melomag clearly felt that he was insulted.
He had done so many things that trampled on his dignity, and now he was asking him for money? King Melomag was so angry that he was shaking all over, but…
“Give him…50 gold.” King Melomag said almost gritting his teeth.
On the other hand, Accelerator, who received the money bag handed over by the soldier next to him, turned around and left without stopping, as if he really turned back just to get the initial funds. It is just unknown whether Accelerator really forgot to ask for it before leaving, or did it deliberately to further humiliate King Melomag.
“You bastard!! Shield!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Anyway, Accelerator heard such a shout before leaving the palace.
(Tomorrow I will update only one chapter, and then I will update two to three chapters a day_)
6: Companion? (Old version)
It seemed that because of King Meromag’s timely order, Accelerator did not encounter any obstacles on the way out of the palace. All the soldiers kept a distance from Accelerator and subconsciously kept their distance when they saw Accelerator coming. No one knew how King Meromag delivered the order.
But in fact, Accelerator didn’t care much about this matter. He was sorting out all the information that was currently known and could be inferred along the way.
First, based on the fact that the adventurer named Mine did not dare to lie in that situation, Accelerator himself summarized several points that made him feel confused and even alert.
First, the woman clearly and emphasized that it was the world that was facing a crisis, not just the country. Similarly, the purpose of the so-called “Four Holy Warriors” was to save the world, not just the country. So why were the four heroes summoned to the same country at the same time? Normally speaking, in order to ensure their own interests, the top leaders of each country should gather in a place outside the borders of each country to perform the hero summoning ceremony, right? Even if the worst comes to the worst, the top leaders and even the heads of state of each country should not be absent, right? After all, it would be too arrogant to be absent at this time. But just now in the palace, Accelerator did not see similar people.
Secondly, since Main has said that countries have had things called “Dragon Hourglass” since ancient times to confirm the arrival time of the “wave”, if that’s the case, then it can be said that the “wave” is a disaster that occurs all over the world, including various countries, and it is impossible that it only occurs in Melomag. In this case, what are those countries that don’t have heroes coming now doing? Are they waiting to die?
Third, including the above two points, various key information can be said to be the initiator of the summoning ceremony must explain the case, but after Accelerator repeatedly asked if there was any additional information, including Myne, the king and the ministers, no one came forward to explain. What is going on? Accelerator does not believe that the top officials of this country are all crazy and can forget to explain such information. If it is one or two people who forgot or ignored it, it would be fine, but no one present mentioned a word, which is too weird. Obviously, they are deliberately hiding something.
The three heroes over there didn’t seem to notice anything at all. Accelerator didn’t know whether these three people were really so slow to react, or if these three people were in collusion with the group of royal nobles to deceive him.
In short, there are too many unknowns to be suspicious of. In that kind of environment, where everyone seems to be lying to him, Accelerator is unwilling to stay any longer. However, Accelerator did not directly teach King Melomag a lesson. The reason is not that he was afraid to do it because he was deceived. It can be said that no one present at the time could be taken seriously by Accelerator. The reason for not doing it is that Accelerator is worried that he is being plotted by someone in the dark and is being used as a gun. If he continues to follow the script written by that person, it will only make Accelerator feel more unhappy.
“Master Shield Hero! Please wait a moment!”
Accelerator was still thinking in his mind when he suddenly heard a familiar girl’s voice coming from behind.
Frowning slightly, Accelerator probably had some idea of ​​who the owner of the voice was, but he didn’t know why she followed him. Turning back, Accelerator saw the red-haired girl who was explaining the situation to him just now – the adventurer named Myne.
So after stopping and waiting for a while, Accelerator saw this guy actually jogging over and trying to put his arms around Accelerator’s arms in a very familiar and intimate manner. The result was exactly the same as before. The moment her arms touched Accelerator’s skin, Maine was knocked back several steps by an inexplicable impact force, and then she looked at Accelerator with a pitiful expression.
Ah…is this guy an idiot?
Accelerator thought in his heart, I just suffered a lot less than ten minutes ago, how could I forget it so quickly?
He didn’t think that Myne was thinking, “After wrapping her arms around him, I’ll pretend to accidentally rub my chest against the Shield Hero’s arm, give this man some benefits, and then I can easily win his favor.” But I have to mention that because Accelerator “reflects” many external elements that can stimulate human hormones, the hormones in his body are basically in a state of never being secreted, so when Accelerator maintains the “reflection” state, the feeling of color does not exist in his mind at all.
“What are you trying to do by following me? You’ve got your shirt so low on your chest, are you… trying to seduce me?” Accelerator said with a nasty smile on his face, but there wasn’t a trace of lewdness in his words. He just said this because he was used to being sharp-tongued.
“Eh… Hey!” Maiin seemed to have just noticed it, her face turned red, and she hurriedly raised her clothes at the collar, then lowered her head with an innocent look that didn’t dare to look at Accelerator.
“Ha…” Perhaps contrary to what many people expected, Accelerator felt a little bored after seeing this erotic reaction.
“So what are you here for?” Accelerator smacked his lips and began to show a hint of impatience.
In fact, he was not used to dealing with people like this. In Academy City, basically no one dared to approach him. And the only scientists who could talk to Accelerator, neither of them treated the other as a human being. If he encountered this situation, Accelerator would be impatient and annoyed because he didn’t know how to react.
“Master Shield Hero, I hope to be your companion. Please let me join!” Main said sincerely.
“Huh?” Although he seemed to have heard this woman say this before in the palace, Accelerator didn’t take it seriously, so now that Main specially ran out to catch up with him and explained it again, he was unable to react for a moment.
“Companion?” Accelerator looked at Main with a strange expression and repeated the word.
7: Three Heroes (Old Version)
“Not interested. I don’t need this kind of troublesome stuff. Go away.” After being stunned for half a second, Accelerator turned around and said these rather cold words as he walked.
I feel like his attitude is colder than ever before. Is it because in his subconscious, there is no such thing as “companion”?
“Huh? Why?” Maiin felt a subtle change in Accelerator’s attitude, a feeling of true rejection of others from the bottom of his heart. Noticing this, Maiin was stunned for a moment, and then followed Accelerator and asked.
“……” Accelerator simply ignored her and continued walking forward without any intention of responding to her.
And it seemed that Myne had no intention of giving up, because Accelerator was only walking at the speed of a normal person, so she ran directly, passed by Accelerator and walked in front of him, opened her hands and spoke loudly to Accelerator, as if to express her sincerity: “Shield Hero! Please let me be your companion, I really want to help…”
When she was halfway through her words, she met Fang Tongxing’s eyes and was stunned, unable to continue.
What kind of eyes were those… Although when Accelerator was making a scene in the palace before, his eyes were full of malice and madness as if he wanted to taint everything. But now, it was completely different from that, ferocious and… murderous.
Yes, the reason why Main was speechless was because of fear, fear of the murderous intent in Accelerator’s eyes. To be honest, she had no doubt that Accelerator would kill her in the next second.
But the next moment, Accelerator’s eyes returned to their usual indifference, and just when Mai thought she had escaped and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Accelerator lightly stepped on the ground.
With a loud “boom”, a violent shock wave appeared out of nowhere and hit Main directly in the face.
“Ah!” With such a scream, Mai Yin was knocked away and fell to the ground, with some wounds carved on her beautiful skin.
“Get lost.”
After leaving these words, Accelerator left immediately.
After a long time, Accelerator’s figure completely left this area, and Mai on this side slowly stood up from where she was, with a gloomy expression on her face that was completely inconsistent with her previous behavior, and looked in the direction where Accelerator left.
“Damn shield demon…”
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The perspective returns to the palace hall of the Kingdom of Melomag.
The three summoned heroes here are talking to King Melomag who is sitting on the throne.
“In short, you all have seen it. I have no choice but to entrust you with new tasks besides fighting the waves.” King Melomag sighed and said.
“Are we going to conquer the Shield Hero?” Amamu Ren, the Sword Hero, stepped forward and spoke in a calm tone.
“Yes. As you can see, the Shield, or the Shield Hero, has absolutely no awareness of being a hero in his actions. Rather than calling him the Shield Hero, I think the Shield Demon is more appropriate.” King Melomag said, and a shadow fell on his face again when he thought of what happened less than half an hour ago.
“That guy…” Not only King Melomag, but Motoyasu on this side also showed a look of gritting teeth on his face when he mentioned Accelerator.
When has Kitamura Motoyasu ever been treated like that? With a handsome face and a tall stature, he was also an extremely popular figure in his original world. But now he was despised and insulted in public, and even hit on his proud face, so that the left half of Motoyasu’s face was bruised and swollen. This was not a treatment he could tolerate. He was summoned to another world to live a happy life as the protagonist, with all kinds of pretense and beautiful women by his side.
The fact that he was completely defeated by Accelerator did not affect Kitamura Motoyasu’s idea that he was the “protagonist”. Instead, it made him believe that he was the “protagonist”. Well, don’t many YY novels have similar plots? At the beginning of the story, he was beaten up, and then after a struggle, he trampled the enemy who humiliated him. It’s the so-called “30 years in the east, 30 years in the west”. And in the game, doesn’t there also exist plots like “must-fail events”? And most of them happen at the beginning of the story.
Therefore, this unexpected defeat did not have any impact on his confidence at all, so he decided to fight monsters and level up diligently, and then give Accelerator a lesson later, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and finally walk away in style, continuing to improve his own realm to reach the peak that Accelerator could never reach. At that time, he will naturally understand the gap between him and himself as the Gun Hero!
Yes, Kitamura Motoyasu, who hasn’t started anything yet, has already imagined a series of plots in his mind…
Although Amaki Ren and Kawasumi Itsuki had never had a direct conflict with Accelerator, they also felt that he was a very dangerous existence and they really needed to defeat him themselves.
Of course, don’t get me wrong, the so-called “very dangerous existence” is actually just this concept in their minds: very dangerous = very high level, very rare = there will be very rich rewards after defeating it. Yes, these people have no worries about whether they can defeat it or not, because in their opinion, even if they fail, the loss is just a little experience and the durability of the weapon – that is, the so-called “online game death penalty”.
Yes, these three heroes completely regarded this world as the online game world they were familiar with. Presumably, such an understanding would greatly increase the number of dangerous situations they would experience in the future.
“That’s a different matter. We are willing to provide help, but it’s about the crusade against the wave.” Tian Mulian said.
“Don’t worry, we will provide a reward that will satisfy the three heroes.” King Melomag understood what he wanted to say and nodded directly. The three people here were relieved to hear that.
At this moment, the door of the palace hall creaked, and a red-haired girl adventurer walked in. Yes, Main, who was just an adventurer, walked into the hall without anyone’s permission.
Of course, the three heroes naturally couldn’t think so much, but if Accelerator was present, they would have to doubt the identity of this Main.
8: Level 6 and development route (old version)
After Main came in, King Melomag seemed a little surprised, and then looked at Main with a puzzled look.
“Your Majesty, I originally wanted to follow the Shield Hero and become his companion, but…” Main said very aggrievedly, and then told what had just happened.
Although her story was a little exaggerated, it was not completely nonsense, because Accelerator’s behavior just now was objectively so rude that it was difficult to understand.
“Damn it! That scumbag!” Yuankang shouted directly, looking like he really wanted to stand up for Mai.
King Melomag frowned after hearing this…
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As for Accelerator, after walking a distance, he used the money he got from the king and found a hotel to stay in.
Sitting on the bed, Accelerator had only now found the time to observe the legendary shield attached to his arm.
“Hmm… can’t I take it off?” Accelerator tried and found that although the shield could be held by switching hands, it could not be separated from the hands.
Honestly, if he could get this thing off, he probably would never get this shield. Because for Accelerator, his “vector operation” is the best weapon and shield.
“Huh? What is this?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, and suddenly saw something that was not there before appear in the lower left corner of his perspective.
It looked like a gear icon. Accelerator focused his sight for a moment, and the icon suddenly flashed, as if it was clicked in a game, and suddenly a page of information appeared in front of Accelerator.
[Name: Accelerator, lv1 (EXP: 0/50), Title: Psychic, Shield Hero
Strength: 7
Agility: 7
Durability: 10
Intelligence: 17
Spirit:**
Skills: None
Special ability: Vector operation (level 5, EXP: 24%)
Number of shields unlocked: 0]“Huh?” After taking a quick look, Accelerator was also stunned.
What is this? A game? And what is this spiritual attribute that has reached the upper limit? And the last one…
Special ability, vector operation noted behind… EXP: 24%.
What does this mean?
Yes, if this is a game, then this is obviously the so-called character information page. Level, title, etc. can be understood, and the reason why the spiritual attribute reaches the upper limit can be barely understood by Accelerator. It is to classify computing power as a part of spiritual power. After all, Accelerator’s computing power even exceeds that of modern supercomputers, so reaching the upper limit is not impossible.
But the note on the last information page, “Vector operation lv5, exp24%”, really made him jealous.
“Oh, so I have a way to reach level 6?” Accelerator grinned. It was indeed a different world, with many interesting things happening.
But where does this 24% of experience come from?
Accelerator couldn’t help but come up with a conclusion, and suddenly his whole body went cold again, thinking of the more than 5,000 Misaka sisters he had killed. If killing 20,000 Misaka sisters can reach level 6, then 5,000 means about 24% of the progress?
His mood was inexplicably heavy, but Accelerator soon stopped spending time on it and continued to observe the panel to see if there was any room for other operations.
The result was as expected. Accelerator discovered that this “Special Ability: Vector Operation” could actually be “clicked” to view.
In addition to a brief introduction to Accelerator’s ability information, the newly appeared page also contains a large number of icons linked together like a tree diagram with “vector operation” as the root.
After a detailed look, Accelerator discovered that these were nothing more than “current manipulation”, “speed manipulation”, “force manipulation” and other branch abilities of “vector manipulation”.
So he quickly exited this page and started to study other information. But the results did not surprise Accelerator too much. After opening “Skills”, it was all black, nothing. After opening “Unlocked Shield”, the same tree diagram appeared as after clicking “Vector Operation”, but the difference was that the tree diagram in “Vector Operation” was all lit up, which gave the feeling of “Unlocked”, while this one was all black, and even the information of the branch icon could not be seen, which gave the feeling of “Unlocked”.
As for his basic attributes, it is obvious that “mental power” is not in the reference range. If we only observe the other four attributes, Accelerator is obviously intelligent, plus this cheating spirit, if it is a game, it means that he is more inclined to develop into a magic-type character such as a “mage”. However, his identity is the Shield Hero, and I feel that his durability should be high. If he is a mage, it would be a waste of his talent in this area.
However, Accelerator soon stopped thinking about this issue. It was not because he had come up with a solution, but because he suddenly felt that why should he consider these things.
“Tsk, it doesn’t matter what these things look like.” Suddenly, Accelerator smacked his lips as if in trouble.
Because whether it is about attack power or defense power, these things are really unnecessary for him.
As for attack power? For Accelerator, fighting is the process of trying to touch the opponent with your body. As long as this condition is achieved, there are countless ways to kill the opponent. Blood flow manipulation, bioelectricity manipulation. As long as the direction is changed, the opponent will explode directly like a blood bomb.
As for defense, with Accelerator’s level of computing power, as long as the physical attack is not at the level of Mars hitting the Earth, it is impossible to break through Accelerator’s “reflection” and will be bounced back twice.
In short, Accelerator doesn’t need these two attributes at all. After thinking about it, it turns out that “Vector Operation Level 6” is more attractive to him…
(There will be another chapter tonight, I promise =)
9: Weapon Shop (Old Version)
After finding that these attributes were of no use to him, Accelerator closed these pages. At this time, it was already dark, so Accelerator blocked out the surrounding sounds and lay down on the bed to sleep.
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The next day, morning.
After waking up naturally from his sleep, Accelerator went out. He didn’t have any special plans today, so he just walked around to see if there was anything interesting. Then he looked for a place like a library. Accelerator wanted to learn more about this world.
“Master Motoyasu, wow, you look so handsome in this light armor.”
“Master Yuankang, show off your skills with a gun…oh, so cool.”
“As expected of the Spear Hero, you are so majestic.”
“Ah, I would feel embarrassed if you guys praised me like this, hahaha…”
“…” Accelerator, who was walking on the street, suddenly held his forehead with his hand, as if he heard a very familiar voice. Then he turned his head to the side and saw the handsome man with yellow hair and a gun.
It was Kitamura Motoyasu, the spear hero who was summoned with Accelerator yesterday. At this moment, he seemed to have gathered a bunch of licking dog partners around him, and they seemed to be all young girls with excellent figures and faces, and one of them was the adventurer Mai Yin who was coldly rejected by Accelerator yesterday. On the other side, the bald boss uncle standing there just took a light armor for Motoyasu to wear. Before he had time to say something about the advantages and disadvantages of this light armor, there was a voice praising Motoyasu, which made him feel like he was floating on the sky, causing the uncle boss to find no opportunity to speak at all, and could only stand aside and laugh dryly.
Accelerator didn’t have any special reaction when he saw this group of people. If there was nothing important, Accelerator would just ignore them and continue walking forward. But when he saw the shop they were in… a weapons shop? That’s interesting.
Although he had no shortage of means of attack, this was, after all, a cold weapon shop with medieval characteristics, so Accelerator walked in with great interest.
However, Yuankang was in high spirits, and the four female companions beside him were busy bragging. None of them noticed Accelerator walking in from the door of the weapon shop behind.
“How impressive, Master Yuan Yasu! I’m sure the Shield Hero is no match for you!”
“That’s right, Master Motoyasu is a spear hero, he must be much stronger than the shield heroes.”
“Yeah, yeah, what happened yesterday was just a surprise attack by that guy, it’s nothing at all.”
“Hahaha, everyone, stop praising me like that. I’m still a little bit short of that guy now. I need at least two more days of practice, hahaha.” Yuan Kang here said quite “modestly”.
“Huh?” The next second, a voice that left a deep impression on Yuankang’s mind came to his ears from behind.
Accelerator looked at the four men as if they were clowns, and said, “It will take more than 100 years for a scumbag like you to catch up with me!”
As a result, the four people who were beaming with joy just now suddenly changed their expressions. Yuankang shuddered and turned around suddenly, just face to face with Accelerator’s face with an extremely vicious smile.
“Shield…” Yuankang swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a gulp. The four companions around him also fell silent, and there was no longer the noisy atmosphere of constant chattering.
“Eh…” The uncle boss here didn’t know what happened. Anyway, seeing that the others were silent, he immediately stepped forward and added to Yuan Kang: “My dear, your ‘Swift Light Armor’ has the effect of resisting heavy blows and fire. If you use it well, it will have unexpected effects.”
Although it was a kind reminder from the uncle boss, Yuankang didn’t care at all. He was so panicked that cold sweat broke out on his head, fearing that Accelerator would punch him again like he did yesterday.
Even though he boasted to others just now, he is a family member and knows his own business. It can be said that there is absolutely no difference between him now and yesterday. He was still killed in one move by Accelerator.
“Okay… okay, Mai Yin, give him the money.” As Accelerator’s eyes were so ferocious, Motoyasu deliberately avoided his sight and turned to say to Mai Yin.
On the other hand, Mine was not so humble. Although she had approached Accelerator yesterday and was rejected, it seemed that she was thick-skinned enough that she could look him in the eye openly.
However, she quickly followed Yuankang’s words, paid the uncle boss, and left in a hurry with Yuankang.
“Tsk.” Accelerator smacked his lips and was too lazy to bother with this guy. He had originally planned to ignore Motoyasu from the beginning, but this guy mentioned him as if he was looking for trouble, so he just went with the flow.
“Oh? This guy, could it be… the Shield Hero who has become famous recently?” The owner of the weapons shop here said with a little surprise when he saw the shield on Accelerator’s arm.
“Famous?” Accelerator was stunned.
“Yes, recently, things like ‘The Shield Hero is doing evil in the palace’ are very popular and have spread all over the country.” The boss saw that Accelerator’s expression was a little strange and he became a little confused. After all, he was a person who knew the internal situation of the country and knew how unreliable rumors were, so he didn’t completely believe this unfounded news.
“Oh, so that’s how it is.” Accelerator sneered, but didn’t deny it. Although he was treated unfairly in the process, the rumor was not wrong in the end. So he quickly shifted his sights and looked at the various weapons in the weapon shop. As expected, Accelerator was not disappointed. There were various types of ancient cold weapons, including guns, swords, bows, axes, scimitars, etc.
Accelerator picked up a long sword and was about to swing it a few times, but the moment he touched the weapon, he felt a stinging pain all over his body. “Clang!” Accelerator was shocked because he hadn’t felt pain for a long time, and he dropped the iron sword.
[Triggering Legendary Weapon Prohibitions – Possessing Weapons Other Than Specialized Weapons]These words appeared before Accelerator’s eyes.
“What’s wrong, young man?” The owner of the weapons shop next door came over and asked curiously.
“Uncle, can you decompose my shield?” Accelerator suddenly said.
(My today refers to the time from when I woke up to before I went to bed. PS: This chapter took me four or five hours to code. I was really inefficient while playing games at the same time.)
10: The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Live (Old Version)
“Oh, brother, you really gave me a difficult task.” The owner of the weapon shop scratched his head, “Disassemble the legendary shield?… That’s too difficult.”
Of course, Accelerator was just saying it casually, and he didn’t expect him to be able to really do this, so he didn’t think much about it and tried other weapons reluctantly.
Guns, bows, axes, etc., Accelerator even used his ability, but the final results were all the same – Accelerator could not wield any other weapons.
“Hey, don’t be discouraged, brother. In fact, there is also the shield option that you can choose.” The weapon store owner kindly reminded.
“Huh? Shield?” Accelerator was stunned, then looked at the legendary shield on his arm and looked at the weapon shop owner with a puzzled expression.
“Yeah, although I think that if it’s you, you really don’t need a shield, but… the one just now was the Gun Hero, right?” The weapon shop owner scratched his head and suddenly said.
“Who knows?”
“Anyway, that guy asked me for some guns and weapons, and he looked very satisfied and surprised. Although I don’t know why he didn’t buy them.” The owner of the weapons store said somewhat strangely.
“Oh? Really?” Accelerator frowned. Logically speaking, since he already had a legendary weapon, he shouldn’t be looking for other weapons of the same type. However, considering that Motoyasu’s IQ shouldn’t be this low, Accelerator couldn’t help but start to wonder if there was some hidden secret that he didn’t know about.
“Well, show me the best shield you have.” Accelerator said after thinking for a while.
“Oh? It’s rare to see a customer making such a request right at the beginning. Wait a minute, I’ll go look for it right away. I remember the shield was placed in…” The owner of the weapons shop thought for a moment, then turned and walked into the inner part of the store.
After hearing what the weapon shop owner said, Accelerator stood there patiently waiting. However, the weapon shop owner was unexpectedly fast. Before he could even wait for a few minutes, he came out holding a shield with strange colors.
The shield was much larger than the legendary shield in Accelerator’s hand, and its appearance was also cooler. The owner of the weapon shop came over and handed the shield to Accelerator, saying, “This is the ‘Meteor Shield’. It was made of materials cut from a meteorite that fell into this country a long time ago. It has quite good performance.”
“Hmm…oh?” And the next moment after taking the “Meteor Shield”, Accelerator let out a rare sound of surprise.
[Unlocked the shield “Meteor Shield”, obtained the skill “Meteor Shield”]“This is…” Hearing this voice in his mind, Accelerator reacted immediately and understood why Motoyasu asked the owner of the weapons store for guns but did not buy them.
“Hey, uncle.” Accelerator thought for a moment and said, “Don’t sell the same weapons to people with swords, guns, and bows anymore.”
“Eh? Why? Hey, brother, I also want to do business. If you want to monopolize the goods, you have to pay a fee.” The owner of the weapons store looked very troubled.
“Tsk, idiot.” Accelerator smacked his lips unhappily, “So I reminded you because I was considering your business!”
“Huh? What do you mean?” The owner of the weapons shop was stunned, while Accelerator put the Meteor Shield aside, and then stretched out his hand wearing the Legendary Shield. The Legendary Shield changed wildly and turned into a shield exactly the same as the Meteor Shield.
“What! This is also… a meteorite shield?” the weapon shop owner shouted in surprise.
“Meteor Shield.” Accelerator waved his hand towards a spacious space on the left, and a transparent shield with brilliant sparks appeared directly there. It was almost larger than the door of the weapon shop and could protect five or six people.
“Even this skill exists…” The owner of the weapon shop seemed to understand something and said, “Could it be that legendary weapons can directly copy similar weapons? This is really…”
“Ah, this is so annoying. I can’t stand seeing the stupid faces of people who are completely unaware of the situation after being deceived and getting free goods. I’ve had enough.” Accelerator shook his head in annoyance, then turned around and wanted to leave the weapon shop.
“Wait, brother, what’s your name…” The owner of the weapons shop seemed to suddenly remember something and asked Accelerator’s back.
“…Accelerator.” After Accelerator finished speaking, he walked out of the weapon shop.
“Accelerator…” The weapon shop owner was somewhat grateful. To be honest, he felt a little uncomfortable when others could enjoy the products he worked so hard to make without paying any price. If Accelerator hadn’t reminded him, he would still be completely unaware of it.
The owner of the weapons shop walked towards the Meteorite Shield that Accelerator had thrown aside, and was about to take it back to his shop, but he found a gold coin left on the shield.
“Eh?” The owner of the weapons shop was stunned. Then he saw a label on the shield with the icon of the unit gold coin and the number 1 on it. After understanding what was going on, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “Hey, brother…”
Accelerator left the weapon shop and wanted to look for a place like a bookstore. After all, the lack of information was a big problem for Accelerator.
“Tsk, if I had known I should have just asked that uncle.” Accelerator walked aimlessly, but instead of finding the bookstore, he ended up in a dead end of a dark alley, and suddenly became a little annoyed.
“Oh my, look what we found? Isn’t this… the Shield Hero?”
“Oh? Really? It’s the Shield Hero who just blackmailed 5,000 gold coins from the King.”
“Should I say Shield Rich Man? Why did you come to this deserted alley by yourself? Hahaha.”
“……..”
Behind Accelerator, there were suddenly the footsteps of more than a dozen people and some sarcastic remarks.
“……” Accelerator said nothing. He turned his head with lifeless eyes and saw more than a dozen strong uncles blocking him.
How boring… There are such people who don’t care about their lives in every world.
(Thanks to Energy Saving Life for the 1000 reward v)
11: In the Alley (Old Version)
Suddenly, an extremely miserable scream was heard from the dark and deserted alley.
“ah!!!”
“Why, why can’t I touch it!”
“Yes, I’m sorry, it’s our fault, huh, huh, so please forgive me… Kaaaah!!”
In the alley, more than a dozen people surrounded Accelerator just a second ago, looking very impressive. But within ten seconds, the only one who could stand was the calm Accelerator. The rest were lying on the ground, either unconscious or unable to stand up due to the pain of broken limbs.
“Hey, hey, you are the ones who are looking for trouble. Do you think you can get away with it by just apologizing?” At this moment, Accelerator was stepping on the face of a fierce-looking brute. It seemed that Accelerator just put his foot there casually without any strength, but the fierce brute felt like he was pressed down by a thousand-pound weight. His nose was broken in an instant, and his whole face was slightly deformed because of the footprint.
“It hurts so much! It hurts so much! Ahhh! Why can’t I touch it?” The vicious strong man tried countless times to move Accelerator’s feet away with his hands, but found that he couldn’t do it at all and could only scream.
However, the next second, with a “crack”, the bones of the fierce man’s cheeks were broken. But Accelerator still had no expression on his face. Instead, he saw from the corner of his eye that a guy who pretended to be unconscious suddenly stood up, his face full of fear, as if he was planning to slip away quickly while Accelerator was not paying attention.
“Ah… did you think you could run? Are you still asleep?” Accelerator’s faint voice came from behind that guy, and the next moment, the ground he was standing on suddenly split open, and a shock wave hit him directly, disrupting his internal organs at once, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
“You guys should at least let me use this as exercise to digest my breakfast.” Accelerator said as he walked towards the guy who was trying to escape, with his hands in his pockets.
“No, don’t come over here!” The man seemed so frightened that he even made a whimpering sound like a child, and Accelerator also noticed that the guy’s crotch was wet.
“How disgusting… and you’re such a loser, you little rascal. If you’re so cowardly, you might as well just farm.” Accelerator sneered, then slowly stretched out his hand, intending to touch the guy’s head.
“No…don’t do it!” Before Accelerator even touched him, this guy started to attack him randomly, his eyes turned white, and he fainted from fright.
At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind Accelerator.
“Woooaaaa! Hey, kid! Did you do all this?” The weapon shop owner chased all the way, but it turned out that there was only a turning intersection and there was such a bloody scene behind it. The Shield Hero named Accelerator was standing unharmed among the “corpses” that were bleeding wildly, and his face was still calm with no expression at all, which made the weapon shop owner feel a little cold.
“Ha, uncle, why are you chasing after me? Do you want to get involved?” Accelerator on this side looked at the owner of the weapons shop in surprise. Although he did hear the footsteps, he thought it was the accomplices of these gangsters, but he didn’t expect it was the owner of the weapons shop.
“Hey, this is it. I saw you dropped a gold coin in my shop, so I came here specially to return it to you.” As he said that, the weapon shop owner directly threw a gold coin to Accelerator.
“Huh?” Accelerator took the gold coin with a puzzled look on his face, and then said, “This is the money for the shield. Isn’t the price one gold coin?”
“Hey, you told me that you heroes have this kind of free stuff, so you can make me more careful in the future. In return, I don’t need this gold coin at all!” The weapon shop owner laughed heartily.
“Heh.” Accelerator understood what the owner of the weapon shop meant, so he didn’t continue to talk to him about this matter. He put the gold coins back into his pocket naturally and asked, “Did you come all the way here just for this? You really have a lot of free time.”
“Yes, but I didn’t expect to see such a scene when I came here.” The owner of the weapons shop looked around and said with a wry smile: “Can you let them go for my sake?”
“Tsk, killing them will just dirty my hands.” Accelerator said nonchalantly.
“That’s good.” The weapon shop owner was obviously a kind and enthusiastic person. After hearing what Accelerator said, he looked relieved.
“Hey! Whoever is standing over there, it’s about time for you to come out? Do you still want me to invite you out?” Suddenly, Accelerator looked towards a corner and shouted.
“Eh? Is there anyone there?” the weapons shop owner asked in surprise and curiosity.
“I’ve been hiding there since these punks started causing trouble, sneaking around like a rat.” Accelerator said casually.
“……” But after waiting for a while, there was no movement in that place.
“Is there really someone here?” asked the weapons shop owner in disbelief.
“Hey, did you think I was going to blow him up? Looks like you’re going to have to suffer a bit.” Accelerator sighed, then picked up a small stone from the ground and planned to use his ability to launch it out.
“No, no, no, no… Lord Shield Hero, I’ll be right out.” Before Accelerator could jump out, he saw a short and fat businessman in a suit walking out.
“Too late, rat.” An extremely vicious smile suddenly appeared on Accelerator’s face, and he directly shot out the stone bullet in his hand.
The next second, there was a loud “bang!”. It was clearly just an ordinary stone, but because of its extremely exaggerated speed, it actually caused a shock wave like a bomb the moment it landed, and directly sent the guy flying.
“Hey, hey, little brother.” The owner of the weapon shop next to him held his forehead with his hand, “There’s no need to be so angry.”
“What are you talking about, uncle? This is what evil people do!” Accelerator said viciously.
“Villain?… But I don’t think they are that bad, brother.” The weapon shop owner scratched his head and said, while Accelerator had a strange expression as if he didn’t understand what he was talking about.
“Tsk tsk tsk, you are worthy of being the Shield Hero… The reputation is well-deserved, ahem…” The short and fat businessman-looking guy here stood up somewhat embarrassedly and said to Accelerator with a wry smile.
(If there are any mistakes or things you like, please point them out in the comments section. I will try my best to make this novel a little better.)
12: Slave Trader (Old Version)
“Oh my, the performance of the Shield Hero just now really impressed me. It seems that the rumors are true.” The short and fat businessman nodded with a slightly cunning smile on his face.
“Another rumor?” Accelerator frowned. It had only been one night, how could such a thing spread so quickly?
“Ah, yes, Lord Shield Hero, it is well known that you have been behaving recklessly in the palace, bullying ordinary civilians, attacking innocent women, destroying public property at will, swearing in public, raping the neighbor’s sow, etc.” said the short and fat businessman with a smile.
“Nonsense.” Accelerator’s eyes twitched and he spoke directly.
“That’s right! Aren’t the rumors about this young man only about his misdeeds in the palace? Where do all these other messes come from?” The owner of the weapons shop here also looked indignant.
“Oh. This must be the owner of the weapons shop. The version you have is from several hours ago. The one I have is the latest one.” The short and fat businessman explained to the owner of the weapons shop.
“Ah, so it’s really a rumor? There’s a new version so soon, it’s just unbelievable! Don’t you think so, brother?” The weapon shop owner said angrily to Accelerator.
“That’s right, this is simply slander.” Accelerator nodded.
“Oh? Is there a discrepancy between the rumors and the actual situation? That’s normal.” The short and fat businessman nodded with an understanding expression.
“Don’t worry, brother. I always believe in you.” The weapon shop owner said with a smile.
“Yes, although I have basically done all these things, it is too wrong to say this. Don’t they feel ashamed?” Accelerator said with some dissatisfaction.
“What? You’ve done all that?” The weapons shop owner and the short and fat businessman were both stunned.
“Yeah, oh, you’re wrong. Apart from raping the neighbor’s sow, this is absolutely slander. These boring guys… they can really blame me for anything.” Accelerator said angrily.
“……”
Yes, if you think about it carefully, bullying ordinary civilians, Yuan Kang is as weak as a civilian. Attacking innocent women, that adventurer Mai Yin…
If you think in this way, it seems that these rumors are not too far from reality. Accelerator said this after thinking about it in his mind. After all, he is a person who despises himself as an evil person in his heart.
“Well… you really didn’t disappoint me.” Soon the short and fat merchant here spoke again, and then said to the owner of the weapon shop: “I want to discuss some private matters with the Shield Hero alone. If you don’t have anything else…”
The short and fat businessman made a “please go” gesture. The owner of the weapon shop scratched his head and said, “There’s nothing else to do. I’ll leave first. Take care, little brother.”
With that, the owner of the weapons shop turned and left, but when he passed by Accelerator, he whispered, “Be careful of this guy. I’ve heard of him. His goal this time should be to drain your wallet…”
“…” Accelerator did not make any response. Instead, after the weapon shop owner left, he looked at the short and fat businessman in front of him with a bored look without much expectation.
“Ah, and then.” There was a hint of danger in Accelerator’s bored eyes. After being reminded by the owner of the weapons shop, as long as the guy opposite him made any unruly moves, Accelerator would take direct action and make this ignorant man spend the rest of his life lying in bed.
“Hahaha, what a dangerous look. It really satisfies me. It’s like a wild beast that has just been injured. It doesn’t believe me at all.” The short and fat businessman suddenly laughed cunningly, looked at Accelerator and nodded.
“……” Accelerator said nothing after hearing that, and slowly picked up a small stone from the ground.
“No, no, no. I’m sorry, Lord Shield Hero. I was playing tricks on you. I’m sorry. I’ll tell you my intentions now.” A few drops of cold sweat flowed down the forehead of the short and fat businessman, and he immediately shook his hand at Accelerator and said.
“Tsk.” Fortunately, Accelerator didn’t intend to make a fuss this time, so he just threw the stone aside and said, “Tell me, what’s the origin of it.”
“Hehehe.” Whether it was habit or instinct, the short and fat merchant here began to laugh cunningly again, and then said: “According to my observation, Lord Shield Hero, you don’t have enough manpower, right?”
“——Then I have exactly what you need.”
“Oh? You should be able to tell. Do I need companions?” Accelerator frowned and said, “So they are intelligent robots? No… In the case of this world’s civilization, slaves?”
“Oh, Lord Shield Hero’s brain works faster than I thought. Yes, let me introduce myself. I am a slave trader.” The slave trader here leaned on his cane and said to Accelerator with a smile.
“What a boring identity. Then why did you choose me?” Accelerator said with a pout.
“Because you have the look I like, I conclude that the rumor is very true.” The slave trader said with a smile, “Then… are you interested in going with me to see my ‘goods’?”
“Not interested at all.” Accelerator said directly, but added, “But if you just want to take a look… it’s fine.”
“Then please follow me.” The slave trader still said with a smile, then turned and walked in one direction.
(I just saw some friends discussing whether Accelerator is a man or a woman in the book reviews. I have indeed only read part of the novel of A Certain Magical Index, so the settings I wrote are only based on my one-sided understanding. I just hope that you will not show off your superiority in the book reviews and lead the tone. If you are right that Accelerator is a woman, I hope that your words can be tactful and persuasive instead of being so aggressive, so that even if you are wrong, others will not criticize you)
(My impression is that in the novel Magical Index, it seems that only the male protagonist guessed that Accelerator has a two-character surname and a three-character given name. The surname is already known to be Suzuko, but the given name is only guessed by the male protagonist to be Yuriko. And then there is no mention of this matter in the whole novel. It feels like the author of Magical Index, Hippo, specially left room for imagination for those second-person characters. The whole book does not clearly state whether Accelerator is a man or a woman = If there is something wrong, it can’t be corrected now. Can everyone bear with it? 233 If you can’t, you can also go to the upper right corner.)
13: In the Slave Market (Old Version)
Obviously, the slave trade was not an open industry in this country, and the slave traders’ trading base was very remote. Accelerator followed the slave traders and turned left and right, turning countless corners, and finally walked into a large dark market. Of course, Accelerator remembered all the ways he got here, and this level of complexity was too easy for him, the smartest student in the whole Academy City.
“It looks like it’s quite large.” Accelerator observed it and said casually. The entire market covers a large area, and the market is shrouded in black curtains. There are only oil lamps inside to provide vision, which looks quite dark.
“Hahaha, after all, I have routes in every country on the continent. And if the scale is too shabby, it will reduce the customers’ desire to buy.” The slave trader smiled and squinted his eyes, then made a “please” gesture to Accelerator and said, “Master Shield Hero, the ‘products’ I want to recommend to you are ahead. Please follow me to have a look.”
Accelerator nodded and followed the slave trader. On both sides of the road they were walking on were cages filled with all kinds of ferocious creatures with bloodshot eyes.
“Oh?” Accelerator suddenly stopped and looked at one of the werewolves who was staring at him fiercely, and said, “So the so-called ‘slaves’ don’t just refer to humans. This is really a different world.”
“Yeah, these are still humans after all, of course I’m referring to sub-humans.” Seeing Accelerator stop, the slave trader also stopped and looked back. As a result, when he turned around, he saw Accelerator reaching out to the cage where the “adult Black Wind Werewolf” was locked.
Shit! The slave trader suddenly became anxious and shouted, “Sir Shield Hero, stop it! This is a level 75 adult Black Wind Werewolf with extremely high destructive desire and attack power. Moreover, it has not yet been attached with a slave pattern. It may attack others at any time… What the hell?”
Before he could finish his words, Accelerator had already put his hand in. However, the slave trader, who thought that Accelerator’s hand would be torn into pieces by the Black Wind Werewolf’s teeth in an instant, was completely speechless in the next second.
Accelerator looked confused, and his hand was caught by the Black Wind Werewolf’s bloody mouth in an instant, but… how to put it, it was like a puppy trying to bite a piece of pig iron, its teeth kept grinding “click-click-click”, but it just couldn’t bite him. Accelerator seemed to have no feeling at all, and instead took the initiative to probe his hand in the Black Wind Werewolf’s mouth, and then suddenly exerted force.
“Ouch!”
The Black Wind Werewolf let out a scream, and Accelerator actually pulled out one of its teeth. Then he put the tooth into the Legendary Shield on his arm as if nothing had happened.
[Unlocked the shield “Black Wind Wolf Fang Shield”, and obtained the skill “Counter Bite”][Equipment Name: Black Wind Wolf Fang Shield
Quality: Excellent
Basic attributes: Strength +0, Agility +10, Durability +50, Intelligence +5, Spirit +5
Panel attributes: Physical defense +20, magic defense +19
Carrying skills: Reverse Bite][Counterbite: When attacked, causes magic damage equal to “10% of the physical/magical damage received + 10% of the player’s physical/magical defense” to the enemy.]Oh? The properties are pretty good, it seems to be even more powerful than the previous “Meteor Shield”.
Accelerator nodded secretly. Yes, he was also doing things like getting equipment for free. Unlike the weapon shop owner, he had to give the slave trader a taste of his own medicine.
The slave traders here certainly couldn’t think of such an operation even if they racked their brains. They just saw that Accelerator’s performance was too exaggerated, so they were stunned for several seconds before they reacted and said, “It seems that… the texts handed down in the documents are not necessarily completely accurate. It takes a long time for the heroes to become stronger after being summoned…”
“Heh.” Of course Accelerator didn’t explain anything, so he just let him misunderstand.
“Come on, take me to see what other goods you have here. Even though I’m just here to take a look, if I really see good stuff, then maybe I’ll buy it.” Accelerator said to the slave trader in a teasing manner with a wicked smile on his face.
“Oh? Then what do you consider to be good goods?” the slave trader asked curiously.
“At least… your strength should be enough to keep up with me.” Accelerator thought for a moment and said casually.
“Well, that’s really troubling. After all, the ‘Black Wind Werewolf’ just now is already one of the high-end products that our store can provide.” The slave trader said with a slightly regretful tone, but still followed Accelerator’s idea and continued to walk in front to lead the way.
So along the way, Accelerator “touched” all kinds of demi-humans around him who had no human form at all, and he specifically picked those who looked ferocious.
[Unlocked “Ogre Shield”][Unlocked “Tiger Shield”][Unlocked “Ivory Shield”]……………
In short, Accelerator has unlocked more than ten new shields along the way, but it is a pity that these shields do not have special skills, and their performance, that is, the added attributes, are not as much as that of the “Black Wind Wolf Fang Shield”.
But Accelerator was not too disappointed. Hadn’t he finished visiting the entire market yet?
Accelerator thought so, then looked at the next cage where the demi-human was held, and was stunned for a moment.
“Hmm? Hey, you bastard… What’s the point of this guy staying here?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows and turned to look at the slave trader next to him. There was suddenly a hint of danger in his blood-red pupils, because he saw a guy in the cage who absolutely shouldn’t be in this situation—
A little girl with raccoon ears was looking at Accelerator and the slave trader with wounds all over her body and extreme fear.
“This guy… is he also a commodity here?” Accelerator said. Although his tone was still calm and moderate, it slowly permeated with a smell of gunpowder, as if Accelerator would explode if the slave trader gave a wrong answer.
14: Lottery Pool (Old Version)
“Eh? What’s wrong?” The slave trader here was stunned and couldn’t react. Why did he suddenly feel that Accelerator’s attitude towards him had changed drastically?
“…” Accelerator didn’t say anything, but turned his head back expressionlessly, looking at the raccoon girl in the cage without pity or contempt.
He thought that perhaps as an extremely evil person, he was not qualified to be so self-righteous and say some righteous words, such as how it was abominable to capture such a poor little girl as a slave. Such words were not the right of him, a scum who had killed more than 5,000 Misaka sisters, to say.
Of course, the cunning slave trader opposite was the same, just like himself, a villain who only deserved to live in the dark side of the world. Just like in Academy City, the Academy City, which appeared bright and beautiful on the outside, was actually only known to people like them, and those stupid and ignorant guys lived naively on the bright side every day.
The same space, but like a coin, has two completely different sides. This kind of thing happens not only in Academy City, but everywhere, and this other world is no exception.
Accelerator calls himself a villain, and he is used to seeing what happens in the dark side of the world. In this world, there is no emotion, only interests and beliefs that one firmly believes in. Knowing this, he accepted the inhumane slave trade so calmly before, but…
These things are fine, they have nothing to do with this raccoon-eared kid, right? This guy looks innocent, right? You can tell from his eyes. This innocent idiot should live on the bright side of the world, just like we can only live on the dark side. Doesn’t this bastard businessman understand this? !
“Tsk, is this the extent of your ‘evil’? It seems like you’re just a small-time gangster in disguise as a black businessman.” Accelerator smacked his lips and said, he was too lazy to teach this ignorant man a lesson.
Because let alone teach a lesson, what’s the point of killing her? There are so many people like this. Accelerator is not a saint, and he doesn’t have so much time and qualifications to teach others. All he can do is to save this ignorant raccoon-eared little girl and throw her to a kind family.
“Forget it, little punk, I choose her, I want this slave.” Accelerator said lightly.
Apparently the girl with raccoon ears was completely unaware of the situation. She just realized that the boy who exuded a vicious aura actually wanted to buy her, so she raised her head and tried to look Accelerator in the eye, but she found that it was a pair of sharp eyes that made it seem like she could lose her life just by being stared at.
“……Woo!!” In a moment of desperation, the air poured out of her throat on its own. Then the girl saw the white-haired boy walk closer and look at her. She was really scared.
Because her previous owner liked to whip and torture her, the raccoon-eared girl suffers from mental phobia, but the eyes of the white-haired boy in front of her are filled with a strong malice that even the man who whipped her before could not match, as if he wanted to torture the world.
Why…If I fell into the hands of such a guy, I would probably be tortured to death in just a few days.
The raccoon-eared girl thought with despair in her eyes.
“Eh? Sir, are you sure you want to buy her? She is just the lowest-level slave we can provide, and she suffers from panic disorder that only occurs after nightfall, so even I am troubled by her.”
Are you talking about me? But I don’t know these things.
But she never expected that she was the one who was bought.
Well, it doesn’t matter. This person is definitely my last owner. Anyway… I won’t be alive soon.
Soon, Accelerator and the slave trader opened the raccoon girl’s cage, took her away and carved a slave mark under her neck.
During this, Accelerator did not treat the raccoon-eared girl with a particularly friendly attitude. He was so cold that he didn’t say a word, as if he really wanted to buy a slave to torture her. However, this was actually because Accelerator didn’t care about the other person’s thoughts. Of course, it was not just this raccoon-eared girl, he treated everyone the same, so he didn’t care about anyone’s thoughts.
[Obtain Slave A][Do you want to set up peers? ]“Hmm?” Accelerator was stunned. Although he didn’t know what “traveling together” meant, it sounded good, so he checked the box.
“Hey, let me see the ink of this slave tattoo.” Accelerator suddenly said.
“Okay, since this is just slave ink for ordinary slave tattoos, our store can still provide it for free.” The slave trader said with a smile, and then handed over the ink in his hand.
As for Accelerator, he dropped a drop directly onto his own shield.
[Unlocked “Slave Shield”, obtained the skill “Slave Growth Correction (Small)”]“As expected, this kind of thing is also possible.” Accelerator said to himself, and then turned his gaze to the raccoon-eared girl here.
Apparently because the process of having slave tattoos carved on her was extremely painful, the raccoon-eared girl lay on the ground in agony, gasping for breath.
“Hey, gangster, what is that?” Accelerator suddenly pointed in a direction, as if he deliberately ignored the raccoon-eared girl. It seemed that he just wanted the raccoon-eared girl to rest for a while before pretending to look at other things.
“Oh? Sir, you have a really good eye. This is the Monster Egg Lottery Pool, one of our store’s signature products!” It was obvious that Accelerator had mentioned something that the slave trader was interested in, and he immediately said excitedly.
“Huh? Lottery pool?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, but soon felt relieved.
The so-called lottery is a tried and tested means of consumption for merchants on Earth, but seeing such a strong sense of déjà vu in the other world made Accelerator feel a little emotional.
“Well, if it’s something like this, there should be some items in here that have a pitifully low chance of appearing, but are quite coveted, right?” Accelerator said.
“Ah, yes. Among the hundreds of monster eggs in the lottery pool, there is… a giant dragon egg.” The slave trader smiled with narrowed eyes, “My lord, please pay attention, this is not the egg of the dragon-shaped monsters nowadays, but a real dragon egg that can hatch legendary creatures.”
15: Raphtalia (old version)
“Well, speaking of fees, there is a chance to draw a legendary creature from the prize pool, so the price… 100 silver coins at a time, which is indeed a bit expensive. But if you are lucky, sir, and use 100 silver coins to ‘buy’ a dragon egg, I will cry for the loss.” The slave trader said with a smile.
“100 silver coins at a time, which is 1 gold coin if converted into gold coins, for a total of 100 monster eggs. In other words, at the very least, you can buy a legendary creature with 100 gold coins.” Accelerator sneered and asked, “Are there really dragon eggs in here?”
Although he didn’t know what level of dragon it was, and was not particularly clear about the purchasing power of gold coins, but if he thought about it, since it was called a legendary creature, it must be a priceless thing. As for 100 gold coins, it wouldn’t be too painful for the nobles of the country to pay this amount. After all, he just took 50 gold coins from the king as the initial capital.
“Uh…” A trace of cold sweat appeared on the slave trader’s forehead, and he was speechless for a moment, but soon he could only smile bitterly under Accelerator’s vicious eyes and said: “Oh, it’s really uncomfortable to deal with people who are smarter than me.”
“Okay, I will tell you the truth, sir. Actually, there are no giant dragon eggs among them. The highest level ones are just sub-dragon eggs commonly known as flying dragons, which are also known as dragon-type monsters.”
“Heh.” Accelerator didn’t feel surprised at all. Although he knew that there was no such thing as a dragon egg, to be honest, he was still a little curious.
“Then take a chance.” Accelerator threw a gold coin to the slave trader and said
“Thank you for your patronage! This time the cost of engraving the slave pattern will be included!” The slave trader immediately said with a smile.
“Surprisingly quite generous… But even so, it’s a good business that’s sure to make a profit.” Accelerator curled his lips, but he just bought some for fun this time, so it didn’t matter to him what he won.
Accelerator then began to observe the monster eggs arranged in the wooden box, which was the prize pool. Because the slave trader later added that a protective magic had been cast that made it impossible to investigate the species, Accelerator could only pick one at random.
“Then this one will do.” Accelerator didn’t really choose, and just based on his intuition, he chose one of the monster eggs on the right.
“Then please drop some blood on the surface of the eggshell where the mark is drawn.”
Accelerator followed his instructions and smeared blood on the emblem painted on the eggshell. Then, a red light flashed, and an icon of a beast envoy appeared in Accelerator’s vision. It seemed that he could set things up just like a slave.
…After thinking about it, Accelerator checked the “setting item that will punish those who ignore his instructions.” This thing is a monster after all, and it is not the same thing as the little girl with raccoon ears just now, so it is better to take a strict route – although it has not yet started to hatch.
The slave trader gave a wicked grin and took out a prop that looked like an incubator. Accelerator then put the egg into the incubator.
“If things don’t go as you said and the monster egg doesn’t hatch, I will definitely come to you to demand a penalty and make you lie in bed for the rest of your life regretting your fraud.” Accelerator said the threatening words nonchalantly.
“Even though there is a chance that he might win the turtle egg, the brave man refused to admit defeat. I really admire him!”
The slave trader’s interest seemed to be rising. That was enough. Could it be that this guy had a hidden desire for masochism? Accelerator had no interest in bullying men…
“By the way, when will this egg hatch?”
“It’s written on the incubator.”
“…”
I saw a string of numbers on the incubator constantly changing. Although the writing was different in different worlds, surprisingly, the numbers on both sides were universal, so Accelerator could still understand them.
Judging from the time, it seems that it will not hatch until tomorrow morning. Accelerator roughly estimated, then took the monster egg and walked towards the raccoon-eared girl again.
At this time, she seemed to be a little better. She barely moved from lying on the ground to sitting on it. She looked at Accelerator walking towards her, and she still looked a little scared.
“It’s time to go, kid.” Accelerator said directly, then turned around and walked towards the exit of the slave market.
“Eh…” The little girl seemed a little at a loss. She looked at Accelerator’s back, then looked at the slave trader next to her with a smirk on his face. Finally, she forced herself to use all her strength, stood up and chased after Accelerator.
The slave trader behind them looked at the two people leaving, shook his head and sighed: “The Shield Hero and the Demi-human…”
“Hey, raccoon kid, come here.” Suddenly, the white-haired boy who had been walking in front of him, who was now his master, suddenly stopped, turned around and waved to him.
Raccoon…you are calling me, what are you calling me to do? Are you going to hit me?
Although she was afraid, the little raccoon girl named Raphtalia still walked over. She was very aware of her status as a slave, and if she did not follow her master’s will, it would only make her more miserable.
Sure enough, the master looked at him without any kindness or sympathy on his face, and stretched out his hand.
“……!!” She was so scared and wanted to scream, but doing so would only make her suffer more. Raphtalia closed her eyes tightly, waiting as if she was about to be executed.
But she felt something unexpected all over her body. As a subhuman, she could feel the changes in her body better than humans. Just now, she clearly felt that several blood streams in her body began to flow abnormally in one direction. But this was not a bad thing, because these meridians passed through the surface of her skin and were originally distorted by the whipping. The current directional movement seemed to restore them. At the same time, she also felt that the mess in her body, such as the position of her internal organs, seemed to be gradually becoming a bit like a normal person.
Raphtalia opened her eyes slightly, and saw that her master had only put his fingers on her neck. She remembered that there seemed to be a wound on her neck that had not yet healed…
“What’s going on…”
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16: Room (Old Version)
“What’s going on…” Raphtalia was confused and surprised, staring at the master in front of her in a daze.
“It’s a blood flow operation.” It was somewhat unexpected that the indifferent host in front of me actually explained it to me, but I couldn’t understand it at all.
“By reverse-calculating from the electrical signals received on the skin, it is easy to thoroughly analyze the structure of the human brain. Similarly, by reading the direction of the electrical signals in the blood flowing in the human body, it is possible to investigate whether the other person is in a healthy state. And going a step further, it can be used as a first aid measure for medical treatment in certain situations.” The owner said lightly.
Oh, I see… I still don’t understand.
Raphtalia had a troubled look in her eyes, but just when she felt relieved, the next moment, the master in front of her raised a fierce arc at the corner of his mouth and said in a rather vicious tone: “Although there is only a theoretical basis, and there is a risk of blood vessels bursting and death due to operational errors, it is really a good idea to use you as a guinea pig. The worst result is at most the death of a slave.”
Accelerator didn’t know where he got the leisure to say such things. In fact, although he had never manipulated the direction of blood flow, this kind of child’s play was just like addition and subtraction problems in elementary school. It could be said that there would be no problem with it.
As expected, after hearing what he said, Raphtalia, who had originally looked relieved, shuddered all over and began to tremble again.
But soon, Accelerator put his hand back. At this time, the messy things in Raphtalia’s body had recovered to a certain extent. No matter how powerful Accelerator was, he couldn’t deal with the rest. It took time to reconcile.
However, because the blood came into contact with the scar on Raphtalia’s neck, a drop of blood was stained on Accelerator’s finger, and Accelerator dripped it into the Shield of Legend.
[Unlocked “Slave Envoy Shield III”, obtained the skill “Slave Growth Correction (Medium)”]Not surprising.
Accelerator thought about it and it seemed that there was a shield with the skill of “Slave Growth Correction (Large)”, but there seemed to be no clue to obtain it now, so Accelerator didn’t worry about it.
But this guy…what should I do with him?
As Accelerator walked, he glanced at Raphtalia who was following him timidly.
He didn’t really think of dragging this little girl to fight in the “wave”. First, he didn’t think a little girl could help him in any way. Second, he didn’t need help from others on the battlefield. Maybe other people who became the Shield Hero would need to train slaves to assist in the battle. After all, the legendary shield prevented him from even equipping other offensive weapons. But he was different, because apart from the power brought to him by the shield, even if he was not equipped with swords or the like, he was still a one-man army.
He bought Raphtalia just to rescue her from that place and hand her over to a trustworthy and kind person to take good care of her so that she could live the life of a normal little girl.
But now thinking about it, it seems that he thought too simply. Just one point – where can he find a kind person who is trustworthy?
In this country full of rumors, especially with so many negative rumors about him, I’m afraid that others would see him as a rat crossing the street, except that they would not want everyone to beat him up, because they cannot beat him, but they would still be full of rejection of him, not to mention finding someone to help take care of the little girl.
Then why not try other countries, which can also broaden your horizons?
“Gu~~” Just as Accelerator was thinking about what to do, a hungry sound came from behind.
“Huh?” Accelerator turned around and looked at Raphtalia.
“No, it’s not me…” Raphtalia immediately shook her head, looking as if she was afraid of being beaten for saying the wrong thing.
“Ah…” Accelerator sighed as he looked at her, then said, “If a slave is hungry, he can’t do anything. Let’s go and eat.”
“Huh?”
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Soon, Accelerator and Raphtalia continued walking for a while, found a high-end hotel that looked quite nice, and walked in.
“Hey, Master…are we really going to eat here?” Raphtalia suddenly asked as she followed behind, because judging from the scale of this hotel, it really seemed like a place where only wealthy nobles would come to dine.
“Ha, you’re already here, what nonsense are you still talking about?” Accelerator said casually, then looked around and found that this was indeed a high-end hotel, and meals were taken in designated private rooms.
“Hello, this guest… um.” At this time, a waiter saw Accelerator and Raphtalia, so he walked over and was about to say something, but he saw the shield equipped on Accelerator’s arm. So he looked at Accelerator’s face again as if to confirm, and then he was more certain in his heart.
What bad luck, isn’t this… the Shield Hero…
The waiter smacked his lips inwardly, and the polite smile on his face disappeared, replaced by an undisguised look of disgust and a hint of fear.
What version of the rumor did this guy hear? Well, it doesn’t matter.
Accelerator thought calmly, and then said to him very impolitely: “Dinner.”
“Sorry, there are no seats left. All the private rooms here are occupied.” The waiter said with no service attitude on his face.
“clatter!”
The next second, the waiter’s feet were off the ground. Accelerator lifted him up with one hand expressionlessly, and said with a fierce look in his eyes, “Stop putting on airs here, you bastard! Isn’t there another room over there? It’s a room that no one is using.”
“No, no…” The waiter panicked. What kind of strange power is this? He can lift himself up effortlessly with one hand…
“That place is…”
“Oh? Does anyone want to move into the room that I have always used?” At this time, a rough voice came from this side.
17: Zart (old version)
“Uncle Zart, you are here?” The waiter, who was still being carried, looked at the man who had just come in from the door with a flattering look on his face.
The man had short, neat hair, a scary scar on his face, and a big sword on his waist. He looked like a bad guy. At this moment, he was looking at Accelerator with an unfriendly look and walked up to him.
“Kid, this position has always been held by me. No matter who you are, if you get out of here right now, I will forgive you for what happened, even if you are the king’s man.” The man said to Accelerator, with no room for negotiation in his tone.
“……This is really interesting.” Accelerator suddenly said with narrowed eyes, and threw the waiter aside. The latter sat down on the ground, making a “hissing” sound in pain.
Come to think of it, it seems like this is the first time that Accelerator has been spoken to in this tone. Although there are idiots in Academy City who try to ascend to the throne of “the strongest” by defeating him, those people also act as if they are facing a great enemy. And this guy in front of him.
“Okay, then let me tell you, there is an insurmountable wall between you and me.” Similarly, Accelerator was also very confident. After all, he had never been afraid of fighting.
“Master…” Raphtalia, who was standing behind Accelerator, was a little overwhelmed.
“Just stay here and don’t go anywhere.” Accelerator said. He was confident that he could keep Raphtalia at such a close distance without getting hurt.
“Haha! Good! You are so arrogant. In that case, I will let you take the initiative!” Scarred man Zart laughed and drew out his greatsword, taking a defensive stance.
“Attack first? That’s troublesome. If I attack first, you won’t have any chance to show your skills.” Accelerator said, with a hint of contempt and ferocity in his eyes.
“I never thought I was so vulnerable!” Zart said with a serious look in his eyes for some reason.
“Then you have to think about it.” Accelerator said.
“Hehe… maybe you’re right, I’m a little too arrogant.” Zalt said. He was originally a soldier who had experienced many battles. After many years of fighting, he had already developed an intuition that was different from ordinary people. Just now, he saw a chilling look in Accelerator’s eyes – contempt, as if he saw a new toy. And that was not just a pretense, because at the same time, his intuition told him that he would be in danger next.
“Then, attack first and I’ll take it!” Maybe it would be okay if he retreated now, but that would be too unreasonable, so Zart snorted, pushed off the ground with his feet, and accelerated in an instant.
In less than a second, Zart moved from ten meters away to in front of Accelerator, but…
“It’s so slow.” Accelerator muttered to himself. It seemed that because of the influence of the “Spirit” attribute in the Legendary Shield, Accelerator’s energy, concentration, dynamic vision, etc. were all improved to an abnormal level because of his “Spirit” data. Now Zalter’s speed seemed to him to be no different from a turtle’s speed.
At this moment, Zart had already raised the greatsword high. Because of his “intuition”, he did not dare to underestimate Accelerator at all. So he held the hilt of the sword with both hands, intending to chop down at Accelerator.
What was surprising was that Accelerator didn’t even have the thought of dodging and simply raised his right hand in response.
“Ah! Don’t underestimate me, little brat!” Zart roared, then chopped down with the sword with all his might.
The next second – the greatsword drew a shadow in the air, but in the end, it didn’t even make a sound, and fell steadily into Accelerator’s hands and was caught.
“What!! Impossible!” Zart’s eyes widened in disbelief. The veins on his neck bulged and he tried his best to struggle the sword out of Accelerator’s hand.
But unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, the sword in his hand did not move at all and could not move forward even a little bit.
Accelerator was also a little surprised – this guy is a monster. The value of the “power” transmitted from his hand was too exaggerated. Well, although it was far from the upper limit of his calculation power, it seemed that there was a power that more than ten adult men combined could not match, which was equivalent to a level 5 power ability user.
This guy doesn’t seem to be a simple person, as can be seen from the threat he made before the fight, “Even if you are the king’s man.” Not only that, it seems that before Accelerator was about to take action, this guy actually seemed to sense the danger, and the whole person became alert, and… there was a look in his eyes that Accelerator had never seen in his life – fighting spirit.
Yes, it was the will to fight. Although he had never seen it before, he could tell what it was at a glance. This was not a reaction that ordinary people would have. Of course, there was no will to fight in this man’s eyes… Just kidding, his full-strength attack was caught so easily by his hands. No one would want to continue fighting.
But what needs to be said is that although this guy showed disappointment or shock in his eyes, more of it was a look of ecstasy.
“Too strong! Little boy, my full-strength attack is said to be able to cut through the scales of a legendary dragon, and you were able to catch it so easily!”
“Little guy, do you want to join my First Legion? The salary is negotiable!”
“Come on, kid, just because of your ability, I will allow you to share this room and eat together! Come on, come in, let’s discuss it in detail.”
“…….Huh?” Accelerator was stunned, then looked at Zalter who seemed to be very familiar with him, and wondered why it seemed that this guy and his style had changed completely.
Then he looked at Zart who had walked into the room first, and then looked at Raphtalia who was standing next to him with a cute look on her face and had no idea what was going on. He hesitated for a moment, and finally sighed.
“Tsk, let’s go, kid.” Accelerator said, and then led Raphtalia in.
(The reason why Filo and Raphtalia are taken away at once is because the plot is different from the original work, so there is a possibility that they will leave Melomag for an unknown period of time. But don’t worry, the main plot of the original work will be written out without omission, and most of the main characters have appeared in the original work, just adding some original plots. Because the author thinks it is a bit troublesome to write a comprehensive anime, he wants to write as many stories that happened in the Shield Hero as possible. It happens that the world view of the Shield Hero is also relatively large, which can be used for me to play, which can be fun all the time)
(If you don’t want to read this original plot, and just want to see Accelerator get slapped in the face and show off in the original plot, this is a momentary pleasure, please reflect on it in the book review, it’s still not too late to change it now, it will be too late)
18: The First Legion (Old Version)
“Let me introduce myself. My name is Zalt, and I’m the captain of the First Legion of the Melomag Nation.” At the dinner table, Zalt said to Accelerator and Raphtalia who were sitting opposite him.
The legion commander…it turns out he’s not a simple character.
“Accelerator.” When Accelerator spoke, Raphtalia on this side also paid attention to Accelerator. Before this, she didn’t know what her master’s name was.
“Accelerator… It doesn’t sound like a name, does it have any meaning?” Zalter asked, touching his chin.
“Hehe, if you have the chance, you may understand the meaning of this name in the future.” Suddenly, Accelerator said with a wicked smile on his face.
“Okay, what about the girl over here? What’s her name?” Zart asked, looking at Raphtalia.
“Eh?” Raphtalia seemed to have not expected that she was worthy of being greeted, so she looked at Accelerator hesitantly, not knowing what to do.
“Go ahead.” Accelerator said casually.
So Raphtalia continued to look at Accelerator, and said, as if she was not telling Zart but Accelerator, “La, Raphtalia.”
“It’s so long, I’ll just call you kid from now on.” Accelerator said without thinking.
“Eh…” I don’t know if it was an illusion, but I felt that Raphtalia here made a disappointed sound.
“Hey, hey, you two, is that all? I told you that I’m the commander of the First Legion of Melomag. It would be fine if you weren’t surprised, but you didn’t even tell me your own identity?” Zart slammed the table and said unhappily.
“Ha. Who cares about you?” Accelerator said impatiently. After hearing what Accelerator said, Raphtalia also shut up and said nothing to Zart.
“Forget it, but fortunately I have some speculations of my own. Do you want to listen to them?” Zalter suddenly said with a smile, and Accelerator responded with silence.
“First of all, you, monster boy. Although it seemed unlikely at first, after excluding other options, you are indeed the Shield Hero, right? Then look at the slave pattern on this little girl’s neck. You are the boy’s slave, am I right?” Zalt pinched his chin, looked at the legendary shield equipped in Accelerator’s hand, and said with a reasoning look.
“Yeah, that’s it.” Accelerator nodded.
“Hey! Is that your reaction?” Zart slapped the table again. He seemed to like slapping the table very much.
“Ha. How long do you want to be so proud of something that you can figure out with your feet?” Accelerator pouted.
“Eh? The master is the Shield Hero?” On the contrary, Raphtalia was stunned for a moment, then looked at Accelerator with a cute face.
“What? Little girl, don’t you know? Boy, there’s nothing to hide about this kind of thing.” Zart scratched his head and said.
“What are you talking about? I just didn’t tell you on purpose. This isn’t something you should brag about.” Accelerator said, supporting his chin with one hand.
“Yeah, that’s true. For Melomag, the identity of the Shield Hero is not very useful. But for the demi-humans, the Shield Hero is truly like a savior.” Zart said.
“Oh? Really?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Raphtalia out of the corner of his eye, only to find that this girl was staring at him in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.
“Ding Dong.” Just then, there was a knock on the door.
“Come in.” Zart said skillfully, and then the door opened, and in walked a waiter pushing a cart full of dishes prepared by Zart.
This waiter was not the guy who had just been dealing with Accelerator. He just walked over and put the dishes on the cart on the table one by one. He then said, “Enjoy your meal.” Then he left the room and closed the door.
“…….Wow.” Raphtalia had been a slave for so long and was always hungry, but in front of her was the delicacy she had never seen before. She was looking at the dishes with stars in her eyes.
“Can I…can I really eat?” Although she was already sitting at the dining table, Raphtalia still felt a little unreal and asked Accelerator.
“Haha, little girl, eat as much as you want. It doesn’t matter how much!” Zart on this side laughed.
Raphtalia on this side was still hesitant after hearing this, and continued to look at Accelerator, not knowing what to do.
“Hey… little girl, you really don’t know how to adapt.” Zart sighed, and then said to Accelerator: “Boy, give me your approval quickly, don’t worry, I will pay for all these.”
“Oh, I’m so annoyed, you lolita complex. Since you like this little girl so much, I’ll give her to you.” Accelerator smacked his lips and said with an impatient look.
“Damn… damn lolita con…” Zart held his forehead with his hand, looking deeply shocked, then thought for a moment and said, “That won’t work. The person I offended is thinking about how to mess with me. If I let the little girl follow me, wouldn’t that just give me an extra weakness for no reason?”
With a “gurgling” sound, Raphtalia’s stomach began to rumble again.
“Oh, I got it. Eat, kid. Just eat whatever you want.” Accelerator waved his hand and said.
“Yeah!” Raphtalia nodded, then immediately picked up the fork here, put a piece of meat in her mouth and started chewing, and then a happy look appeared on her face.
“By the way, uncle, what is this First Legion you mentioned?” Accelerator here was not very hungry. After eating two dishes casually, he asked Zalter.
“Oh? I thought you were not interested in this. It seems that my invitation to you to join my First Legion is still possible.” Zart said.
“It’s just a topic for casual conversation during dinner. Thinking too much about it won’t lead to any good results.” Accelerator said.
“Okay, I wanted to talk to you after we finished eating, but it doesn’t matter now.” Zart nodded, and then said to Accelerator seriously:
“Please explain in detail. This has to start from the country of Melomag, about the First Legion…”
(The question is, should Raphtalia grow bigger? If she doesn’t grow bigger, I will probably develop her into the relationship between Last Order and Accelerator, and she won’t have much combat power. If she grows bigger, she will have combat power and Accelerator can take her to kill high-level monsters in seconds to level up, and maybe have some ambiguity occasionally. I’ve initiated a vote, and it may take a while to be announced, so everyone pay attention 8)
19: Is it in the way? (Old version)
“You were summoned here as the Shield Hero not long ago, so you probably don’t know much about the conditions of this country.” Zalt said, and then he spoke on his own without waiting for Accelerator to answer.
“Mellomag has made some decisions on his own, and the current national situation can be said to be quite critical.”
“Because of the summoning of the Four Holy Warriors?” Accelerator asked.
“Eh? It seems you have guessed it a long time ago, but don’t be too proud, this is only part of the reason.” Zart said with some surprise, but still looked very confident, and then said: “The more important part of the reason is…”
“Those countries that believe in the Shield Hero as their state religion, right?” Accelerator smacked his lips and said casually, then picked up another piece of cake and put it in his mouth to eat.
“Ah?! Shit, how did you know? Didn’t you say you didn’t know?” Zart’s eyes widened and he said in shock.
“Ha… I thought that’s what you were going to say.” Accelerator sighed and spread out one hand, saying, “I saw something similar to a national flag in the palace before… It seems that this thing is everywhere. Any decent place has this flag, for example, this hotel has one, right? When I just came in…”
“And there seems to be a Vatican in the east of the main city, right? I haven’t been there, but from this distance I can see a huge national flag, bigger than any other place. So this thing… is something like the Holy Flag of the Vatican, right? And the state religion of this country is that, right?”
“But it’s very strange. There are swords, spears, and bows on the holy flag. If they respectively symbolize the Sword, Spear, and Bow heroes among the Four Saints, then what about the shield? They can’t just be too lazy to carve it to save materials, right? Obviously, this church doesn’t believe that the Shield Hero is their savior, and Melomag, who regards this church as the state religion, naturally doesn’t like the Shield Hero. Then there is a reason why I was inexplicably targeted by that bastard king in the palace before.”
“And since there is the ‘Three Heroes’, there should also be the ‘Shield Cult’. And for countries that have made religions like the ‘Three Heroes’ their state religion, I think there are also countries that have made the ‘Shield Cult’ their state religion, right? And you said before that the demi-humans regard the Shield Hero as their savior, which means that the country that believes in the ‘Shield Cult’ as its state religion should be, as expected, a country dominated by demi-humans. How about it, full marks?” Accelerator said with a grin.
“Uh…” Zart was stunned for a few seconds, then he was speechless, and finally he held his forehead and said: “It’s really easy, I don’t need to say anything.”
His reaction could be considered as an answer to Accelerator’s question, but Accelerator did not show a smug attitude, but said impatiently: “So, can’t you tell me something I don’t know?”
“Why are you in such a hurry? I just gave you some background information.” Zart said with a smile, “I was just about to start talking about the military issues of this country, that is, the First Legion on my side.”
“Do you know? This country has four main military forces. The first is the Knights who are directly under the current King Melromag’s 32nd generation. Then there is the First Legion which I control. In addition, there are the Second Legion and the Third Legion. However, the other two legions have now become the running dogs of the current King Melromag.” Zart said.
“Huh? No, what are you talking about? I think you are not very clear-headed. Are you crazy about rebelling? Isn’t that bastard the king of this country? How come you become a running dog just by obeying his orders and doing things for him? Isn’t this your responsibility?” Accelerator said after being stunned.
“Hey… kid, can you keep your mouth shut? Of course I know about this kind of thing, but I was about to explain and you scolded me. Is that okay?” Zart said with his hand on his forehead, “Mellomag is actually a feminist country, so you must be wondering why a man is the king now, right?”
“There is a hidden story. The person who holds the highest power in this country is actually Her Majesty the Queen.” Zart said, with a different look of respect from when he mentioned King Melomag. “That is the one our First Legion is loyal to, and that is also the one the other two legions were loyal to.”
“Huh?” Accelerator frowned. Why did he sound like there were two kings in this country?
“I can tell what you are thinking by looking at your expression. In fact, it is certainly not what you think. The current Melomag XXXII is only acting king. Her Majesty the Queen is now abroad participating in diplomacy. It seems that the original purpose of the diplomacy was to discuss with various countries on how to allocate the summoning of the Four Saints, but now… hey.”
Zart sighed. It was obvious that the Queen was in a very dangerous situation because the Melomag Kingdom, represented by the Queen, had summoned the Four Saints without permission.
“Heh, what an idiot.” It was obvious that Accelerator had also thought of this, so he said in a mocking tone, of course he was referring to King Melomag 32nd.
“For this reason, not to mention other countries, Sidwirut, who originally had a bad relationship with Melomag, seems to be ready to start a war with Melomag again, especially after hearing yesterday that the Shield Hero was treated badly in Melomag.” Zart sighed and said, “They are all facing a world-class crisis, but these guys are still fighting for their own beliefs. It’s really…”
“Oh…” Accelerator nodded. From this point of view, the country called Sidwellut is a sub-human country with “Shield Cult” as its state religion.
“So you want me to join your First Legion… just to strengthen your military? So that you can better suppress the enemy in the war?” Accelerator said.
“Yeah… After all, I am a general. When I see talented people, I can’t help but want to recruit them. Hahaha.” Zart scratched his head and admitted it readily.
“Hey, uncle, do you think I have nothing to do?” Accelerator sighed and said, “Besides, what’s the point of doing this? You should unite and stop the ‘wave’ first, right?”
“Eh… what you said does make sense, but it’s too difficult to just unite. Countries don’t completely trust each other, and they all have their own secrets…” Zart scratched his head, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Accelerator.
“Hey, Zart, right?” Accelerator suddenly stared at Zart, his blood-red eyes flashing with a look as if he saw a new toy, “Don’t you think these countries are too much of a hindrance?”
(You don’t need to vote for urging updates anymore. It’s a waste of money and useless, because the author can get the reward for urging updates without updating more chapters a day. At my current speed of updating three chapters and 6,000 words a day, I would have to vote for five urging tickets at once to allow me to update two more chapters a day.)
20: End of the Day (Old Version)
“In the way? What do you mean?” Zart asked.
“Literally.”
“……” Zart was silent for a moment, then asked: “Do you want to…take the initiative to provoke a war?”
It looked like Raphtalia was really hungry. Accelerator and Zart had been talking for so long that she didn’t pay any attention at all. She was just concentrating on eating. When she looked up after finishing her meal, she found that Zart had left at some point, and Accelerator was looking at her with boredom. It seemed that he had finally eaten enough, so he stood up and said, “Let’s go.”
“Eh…I’m sorry.” Suddenly, Raphtalia apologized to Accelerator.
“Huh? Why are you apologizing?” Accelerator looked puzzled.
“Because, because if it weren’t for me, the master wouldn’t have gotten into trouble.” Raphtalia said with her head down.
Oh, is she talking about the fight she had with Zart before?
Accelerator himself didn’t care much. It would be better to say that he met interesting people and discovered interesting things. So he didn’t say anything and walked out of the hotel with Raphtalia.
“Master…” Before he had walked far, Accelerator heard Raphtalia calling him from behind.
“?” Accelerator turned around and looked at her.
“Master, is he really… the Shield Hero?” Raphtalia still seemed a little confused.
“Ah… yes, the real Shield Hero, I’m really sorry that you discovered that the Shield Hero you admired was such a villain.” Accelerator said, and he probably guessed that Raphtalia would be a little disappointed. After all, he was not the kind of good man who could be a savior. He was more like a demon king.
“No! I’m not disappointed at all, not at all! I think the master is a very kind person. I just didn’t expect that the legendary Shield Hero is actually the master. I just couldn’t react for a while.” Raphtalia’s reaction was quite intense, and she directly denied Accelerator’s statement.
“Oh…” Accelerator was silent for a moment, because the slave trader said that slaves could not lie to their masters, otherwise they would be retaliated by the slave mark, and looking at Raphtalia’s current appearance, she should be telling the truth.
“It seems like you’re out of your mind.” Accelerator thought for a moment and concluded.
“But… didn’t Master use your own abilities to heal me when you saw that I was injured?” Raphtalia said unwillingly, as if she didn’t want Accelerator to continue to belittle himself.
“That was just a whim. I just wanted to test my ability ‘Blood Flow Control’ on you. It wouldn’t be surprising if you died of a burst blood vessel at that time.”
“What about just now? The master gave me such a delicious meal, and the ingredients looked very expensive…”
“I told you, if a slave doesn’t have enough food, he’s useless and can’t do anything. I don’t need useless slaves.”
“But you were very patient in waiting for me to finish eating. Normally, it is enough for a slave to eat until he is 60% full… and you even fought with the leader of the First Legion for me…”
“I just have nothing to do. Otherwise, why do you think I’m so bored?”
“Master…”
“Huh? What?”
“You are… a tsundere, right? QAQ.”
“Huh? What nonsense are you talking about, you little brat? If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll tear your mouth off.”
“…….”
Accelerator himself didn’t know how he started chatting with Raphtalia, anyway, they talked about random things along the way. At the same time, Accelerator passed by a bookstore and a weapon shop, so he bought a few thick books, and bought a set of average-priced leather for Raphtalia (she had been wearing rags from a slave trader before) and a dagger.
However, Accelerator originally did not intend to buy her a dagger, but Raphtalia said, “Didn’t the master say that he only wanted useful slaves? If you don’t have a weapon, you can’t help the master.”
“Ha…” Accelerator thought about it and thought he did say that, so he didn’t say anything. But in fact, his original intention was not to let Raphtalia participate in the battle. He just wanted to find a kind person to take care of Raphtalia, but he hasn’t found one yet.
Time passed quickly, and Accelerator didn’t even realize he had done anything today before it was already evening. By this time, he and Raphtalia had already returned to the inn.
Unlike Accelerator who was full of energy, Raphtalia was quite tired. After staying in the hotel room for a while, she fell drowsy.
But the funny thing is that Raphtalia actually fell asleep directly on the floor, and Accelerator threw Raphtalia on the bed with a look of annoyance on his face, and then put the monster egg he had been holding in his hand on the bedside table, while he sat on the desk, turned on the desk lamp, and began to read a book.
However, due to the language barrier, Accelerator could not understand what the book said at first. Fortunately, the language of this other world is the same as the language on Earth, and there are also some similarities in some expressions, so Accelerator studied for more than half an hour and was able to understand most of the words in this world. (Don’t blame me, the blank in the next door game No Game No Life can also do this, this level is not excessive)
Looking back at the book again at this time, Accelerator’s reading speed was quite exaggerated. He could read ten lines at a glance. His hands never stopped turning the pages. He was seen flipping pages all the time, as if he was not reading at all.
But this book is really thick, and it talks about something like world history. Even with Accelerator’s exaggerated speed, it took him around midnight to finish it, and by then he was already feeling a little tired.
It’s time to go to bed… Accelerator looked at the only bed that was occupied by Raphtalia, thought for a moment, and walked over to sit on the bed. He didn’t lie down directly, but leaned against the back of the bed and closed his eyes.
Accelerator didn’t notice that Raphtalia in the bed was sweating all over, with a frown on her face, obviously having a nightmare.
21: Philo (old version)
Late night.
Accelerator felt like he had just fallen asleep when he heard a crying sound next to him that woke him up.
“No!! Dad! Mom!” – sounds like that.
“Ah… this damn brat…” Accelerator opened his eyes and frowned. If he had known, he would have “reflected” the sound. But now that he has been woken up, reflecting is useless.
Accelerator turned his head and saw that Raphtalia was hugging him tightly and was still asleep. Her eyes were filled with tears and she kept shouting “Mom and Dad” or something like that. Accelerator knew at a glance that she was having a nightmare.
“Hey… it’s so noisy.” Although Accelerator said this, he deliberately closed his “reflection” wall, otherwise Raphtalia would have been bounced away.
He did not deliberately push Raphtalia away, but let her hug him and cry, because he did not know what to do. He felt that it would not be a good idea to wake Raphtalia up directly, as she would probably not be able to sleep in the second half of the night.
However, after Raphtalia held Accelerator in her arms, he seemed to feel a little better. After crying for a few more times, he gradually began to breathe steadily again, and Accelerator finally fell asleep.
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When I woke up again…
Accelerator felt that there was something extra in the calculation formula of “reflection” in his mind… It seemed that part of the direction of heat transfer was reflected, because the “reflection” wall would automatically block the direction of those unnecessary or harmful substances for Accelerator, that is to say… Is the surrounding environment very hot now?
“…” Accelerator opened his eyes curiously, wanting to see what was going on, but he found something that surprised him.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment. He looked at a creature he had never seen before sleeping on his stomach and couldn’t help but wonder, “What is this?”
Accelerator observed it for a while and found that it was a chicken-like creature, with white and cherry-colored feathers all over its body, but it was not yet full. Its body temperature seemed to be quite high, and Accelerator could feel the heat through the layer of clothes. Of course, after being reflected back by Accelerator, it had no effect on him.
But the fact that it had no effect on Accelerator didn’t mean it had no effect on others. Raphtalia, who was sleeping next to him, suddenly opened her eyes and sat up with a red face. It was obvious that she was woken up by the high temperature of the surrounding environment.
“Wow! It’s so hot! Eh? Master? Eh? What’s that on your stomach?” After waking up, Raphtalia first shouted “It’s so hot”, and then found that her master was right next to her. This made her a little confused. Wasn’t she sleeping on the floor?
However, before these questions could be answered, Raphtalia discovered something even stranger: a chicken-shaped creature on Accelerator’s stomach.
“It’s probably the monster that hatched from that monster egg. Eh… isn’t it a flying dragon?” Accelerator thought for a moment and said, looking a little disappointed.
“Gugu…!!” The young monster here actually looked a bit intelligent. When it heard Accelerator say this in a disappointed tone, it immediately flapped its wings with an unhappy look.
“Oh, I see…it seems like it’s very attached to its master.” Raphtalia was a little surprised, and then she stared at the young monster for a while.
“Master, do you know what kind of monster this is?” Raphtalia asked.
“I don’t know… but using the shield to analyze it should give us some clues.” Accelerator thought for a while and then looked at the bedside table, where he found a used incubator and a pile of broken eggshells.
Accelerator picked up an eggshell at random and placed it in the gem in the middle of the legendary shield.
[Unlocked “Beast Envoy Shield I”, obtained the skill “Beast Growth Correction (Small)”]“That’s not enough. You can’t tell anything from this…” Accelerator smacked his lips.
Then, after thinking for a while, Accelerator suddenly put his hand on the wings of the young monster again. The young monster thought that it was its master who wanted to caress and love it, so it closed its eyes and prepared to enjoy it with a comfortable look on its face.
As a result, with a “click” sound, Accelerator on this side pulled out a hair directly from its little wing.
“Wow…!!” the young monster screamed, then looked at Accelerator with an expression of “That’s too much!”, and it felt like tears were welling up in the corners of its eyes.
However, Accelerator completely ignored its reaction and placed the feather directly on the legendary shield.
[Unlocked “Warcraft Envoy Shield II”, obtained the skill “Warcraft Growth Correction (Medium)”][Unlocked “Philo Bird Feather Shield”]“Oh?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows. Finally, he got some clues.
“So it’s the Filobird.” Accelerator nodded and told Raphtalia by the way.
Originally, of course, he had no idea what the “Philo Bird” was, but the book about world history that he had read yesterday happened to have a story about the Philo Bird.
Simply put, it is a magical beast with the combined features of an ostrich and an owl. Its physical strength and leg strength are generally superior. In addition, this magical beast seems to have a habit of “wanting to pull a carriage when it sees it” and “its hobby is to pull a carriage” and will not actively attack humans, so it is usually used as a means of transportation for pulling carriages.
However, the previous world history book said that there was a Filo bird that was cultivated by the Four Holy Warriors hundreds of years ago. It is said that it later became the queen of the Filo birds, named “Fitoria”, and had the exaggerated ability to move mountains and fill the sea. She was known as the “divine bird among Filo birds”. There have been rumors that Fitoria has appeared in various places on the continent since ancient times. Of course, there is no way of knowing whether it is really Accelerator.
“Filobird?” Raphtalia seemed to know this creature as well. She said to Accelerator happily, “That’s great, Master. I didn’t expect it to be a Filobird. Fortunately, it’s not a turtle.”
“Oh? What’s the average market price of an adult Filo bird?” Accelerator asked casually.
“Eh… Sorry, I don’t really know either.” Raphtalia replied, her tail drooping dejectedly, looking disappointed that she couldn’t answer Accelerator’s question.
“Woo! Coo!” When the young Filo bird heard that its owner was planning to sell it, it immediately flapped its wings to protest.
“Yes, that’s right, Master.”
“Huh…what happened again?”
“Would you like to give this little Philo bird a name?”
“…Well, let’s call him Philo.”
“So casual Master, it only took a second.”
“It doesn’t matter anyway.”
“Coo-coo!”
22: Balloon Monster (Old Version)
Fortunately, the little Filo bird here didn’t seem to have much of an objection to the name he gave it. After cooing twice like a dove, it continued to rub against Accelerator.
Because this would make his movements somewhat troublesome, Accelerator simply picked up Filo and threw her aside, but her reaction was quite intense.
“Beep!” There was a sound of hair blowing up, and then Filo quickly pounced on Accelerator again.
“…” Accelerator was silent for two seconds, then threw her back.
“Beep!
……..
After repeating this action five or six times, Accelerator could only sigh helplessly. Finally, he compromised and put Filo on his head.
“Pfft——” Raphtalia here seemed unable to hold back her snickering, and in return, an extra “#” appeared on Accelerator’s forehead.
The two of them quickly packed up, and Accelerator went out with Filo and Raphtalia.
“Master, what are we going to do today?” Raphtalia asked cutely as she followed behind.
“Ah…” Accelerator thought for a moment. He talked a lot with Zalt yesterday, but in the end, Zalt said, “Let me think about it first. It takes some time. I’ll come to you when I’ve thought it through.” This also resulted in Accelerator being unable to do the interesting thing he had finally found.
“Anyway… let’s go to the suburbs near the south gate of the main city.” Accelerator said after thinking for a while. After all, he heard that some magical beasts would appear in the suburbs outside the main city. Although the threat level was not high, Accelerator was quite curious to see it.
But before that…
“Beep, beep, beep–!” Filo, who had been quietly nestling on Accelerator’s head, suddenly slapped Accelerator’s head wildly, making his hair a mess.
“Damn it, this beast.” Accelerator swore to sell her, after raising her of course, otherwise Accelerator would be at a loss. Although he didn’t care about the money, he would feel unhappy from the bottom of his heart.
“Hey… Master, is little Filo hungry?” Raphtalia asked after guessing.
“What a hassle…” Accelerator sighed, but then he thought that Raphtalia didn’t have breakfast either, so when he passed by a breakfast shop on his way to the south gate of the main city, Accelerator bought some food for Raphtalia and Filo.
The main city of Melomag was very large, but the south gate of the main city that Accelerator was heading to was very close to the inn where they had stayed before, so after walking for about ten minutes, they reached their destination.
However, it is worth mentioning that the rumors about him as the “Shield Hero” in this country seem to be getting less and less reliable. Because Accelerator did not deliberately hide the shield on his arm, he could hear passers-by secretly looking at him and whispering in disdain.
“Ah——that person is the Shield…”
“Shh! Keep your voice down, idiot. Do you want to be killed? Stay away from me even if you don’t want to die.”
“Oh, sorry, sorry, brother, I’m just a little surprised. By the way, did you hear that the Shield Hero dragged a group of innocent people into an alley yesterday and then…”
“And what?”
“I heard that he was planning to blackmail them, but they didn’t want to, so he killed them all.”
“What?! Is this something a human would do?”
“Oh, I knew I shouldn’t have summoned the Shield Hero. This country doesn’t need a shield at all.”
“I think the royal family should take this guy to death. Why hasn’t the king taken any action yet?”
……
These people thought they were speaking quietly enough, but they didn’t expect that their conversation was heard by Accelerator without missing a word. However, he didn’t even stop for a moment, pretending not to know, but this didn’t mean that he didn’t have anger in his heart.
But he also knew that these were just civilians. Affected by the fishing boat, the ones who were really targeted by Accelerator were the Trash King and others who were secretly manipulating everything.
South Gate Suburbs.
Accelerator and his group (one human, one demi-human, and one magical beast) had just walked out of the city gate. Accelerator was still wondering which way to go where he might encounter more magical beasts when he saw some movement in the bushes nearby, revealing a few pairs of blood-red pupils looking at Accelerator and the others.
“Ha. Could it be that things like ‘magic beasts’ can be found everywhere outside the main city?” Accelerator said casually, looking at the bushes over there without any tension, while Raphtalia next to him hesitated for a moment, then unskillfully drew out the dagger at her waist and pretended to point it at the bushes over there.
“Hey, hey! It’s time to come out, you beast. How long are you going to just stand there and do nothing?” Accelerator roared at the bushes over there, and thought in his mind that several extremely ferocious beasts would suddenly jump out, such as super-large wolves, evil wood elves and other magical beasts full of fantasy colors of another world.
As if it understood Accelerator’s roar, the bush shook, and the beast slowly emerged. However, it was not the ultimate beast that Accelerator had imagined, but… a few balls (?).
“Huh?” As expected, even Accelerator was stunned for a moment.
The monster here didn’t care what Accelerator was thinking. It jumped directly in front of Accelerator, opened its mouth and bit Accelerator’s right calf.
Of course, let alone these ball spirits, even a giant dragon couldn’t hurt Accelerator at all with its bite force, so the three balls just hung on Accelerator’s right calf, biting him hard all the time.
“Huh?” Accelerator on this side still looked unacceptable. He slightly raised his right foot and kicked forward, then kicked backward, but the balloon monster was still hanging on his leg, with no intention of letting go.
Accelerator’s face suddenly darkened, looking at the three balloon monsters with shadows on their faces. What kind of monsters were these? Was he going to fight against such monsters? He actually treated such monsters as strong opponents before. How could he be too wise?
“Huh…” Accelerator calmed down his extreme disappointment a little, exhaled, and said to Raphtalia: “Kid, these things…you take care of them.”
23: Awakening (Old Version)
“Eh? I…” To Accelerator’s surprise, he thought Raphtalia would be ready to fight since she had consciously drawn her dagger, but now that Accelerator called her, she looked hesitant.
And Raphtalia was a little panicked now. Although she was the one who suggested to help her master with the sword before, and she had already thought that she would definitely use this sword in the future, but when she really faced the battle, she became timid.
“Tsk, forget it.” Accelerator smacked his lips at her appearance, and then he didn’t count on her, since he didn’t buy her to help him fight anyway. So Accelerator bent down and gently touched the balloon monster with his fingers.
“Bang, bang, bang!” three times. Accelerator just poked the balloon monster lightly with his fingers, but the result was that the balloon monster was as if it was pierced by sharp spikes and exploded in an instant.
[EXP+6]These three messages appeared in front of Accelerator’s eyes, and at the same time, Accelerator also noticed Filo above his head and Raphtalia beside him, and three identical messages appeared beside them.
Is it the influence of the companion setting? It is exactly the same as the game…
Accelerator thought so, and then called out to Raphtalia behind him: “Hurry up and follow me, don’t get lost, kid.” After that, Accelerator continued to walk deeper into the suburbs.
“Eh… um.” Raphtalia at the back responded with a depressed look. It seemed that she was disappointed and blamed herself for not being able to help her master.
Anyway, the purpose of coming out this time is to see creatures like “Monsters”, so Accelerator runs to wherever it looks dark and dangerous. As expected, the more ferocious-looking the places are, the more likely Monsters appear. But… without exception, these Monsters are all balloon monsters.
“Damn it! Are balloon monsters the only ones in this world?” After Accelerator slapped a reddish-brown balloon monster in front of him to pieces, he couldn’t help but hold his forehead and complain.
[EXP+5]——It seems that the amount of experience gained from each balloon monster varies depending on its species.
Accelerator killed countless balloon monsters along the way. He and Filo both upgraded from lv1 to lv3, and because Raphtalia was originally lv2, her level was upgraded to lv4.
But to be honest, Accelerator’s need for LV is not very high, because the little strength and durability added by upgrading are completely unnecessary for Accelerator who is at level 5 of vector operation. However, he has read in a book that the bodies of demi-humans and monsters will grow rapidly in their childhood as their LV increases, and he is a little curious about the changes in Raphtalia and Filo.
Accelerator looked back at Raphtalia and Filo, but found that the two had not changed much because their levels had not changed much. Instead, he found that Raphtalia suddenly looked full of fighting spirit, as if she had made up her mind and seemed to be quite aware of something.
“Master!” Accelerator wanted to ask what was going on first, but Raphtalia spoke to him first.
“Huh, what?”
“Please let me join the battle with the master. I, I want to help the master!” Raphtalia shouted loudly to Accelerator, as if to show her determination.
“No need.” Accelerator answered simply and straightforwardly.
“But I want to help the master, why…” Raphtalia said in confusion.
“Stop talking nonsense. There’s no reason.” Accelerator said impatiently, but at the same time he didn’t notice that Raphtalia’s expression was gradually becoming a little strange.
“Why…” Raphtalia’s voice gradually became tearful.
“I’ve already told you…” Accelerator was only halfway through his sentence when he noticed Raphtalia’s condition, so he turned around and saw Raphtalia looking at him with red eyes, her eyes watery as if she was about to cry.
“Hey, kid, what’s wrong with you?” Accelerator felt a little headache. How could a slave make his master feel so troubled?
“Yes, I’m sorry, Master… I was too willful before, I shouldn’t have hesitated…” Raphtalia said to Accelerator while trying hard to hold back her tears, but Accelerator had no idea what she was talking about.
“Huh? Hesitation?” Accelerator thought for a long time before he remembered. He finally realized that this guy was blaming himself. When he just walked out of the city gate, he encountered three balloon monsters. He asked Raphtalia to take action but she hesitated. Accelerator was too lazy to use the Command Spell (?) to force her to do anything, so he just moved his fingers and crushed the three balloon monsters to death.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… Master, please don’t throw it to Raphtalia, I… I will definitely help you.” Raphtalia’s crying voice seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, as if she would burst into tears in the next second.
“Ha. I never said I was going to abandon you,” Accelerator said with a puzzled look on his face.
“But, but you said, ‘We don’t need useless slaves’, wuwuwu…” Raphtalia said, and at the end, perhaps she imagined that after being thrown away by Accelerator and having to go back to her previous life, she burst into tears with a “wow”.
“……” Accelerator scratched his head. Ah, did I say this? I think so? Or not? Anyway, I have no impression at all…
At this time, Filo, who had been motionless and seemed to be asleep above Accelerator’s head, suddenly moved, as if he had sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere. This spiritual monster rarely came down from Accelerator’s head, and instead jumped onto Raphtalia’s shoulder, rubbing her with its furry face, as if to comfort her.
“Master, no…Master… Shield Hero.” Just when Accelerator didn’t know what to say, Raphtalia barely stopped crying and suddenly spoke.
“?” Accelerator looked at Raphtalia.
“I, I want to be…your sword.” Raphtalia said. At this time, the tears in her eyes had completely stopped. It seemed that all the hesitation and indecision in her eyes had turned into determination.
“…” Accelerator was silent for a moment and did not respond.
24: Root Village (Old Version)
To be honest, Accelerator is really having a headache right now. It seems that this situation rarely happened when he was in Academy City, but after arriving in the other world, it seems that this situation is happening more and more frequently.
Become my sword? What nonsense is this guy talking about. So disgusting. Accelerator secretly smacked his lips in his heart. Not to mention that with his level, why would he need others to help him cut people. For a villain like him who kills without blinking an eye, there is actually someone willing to say such words that only companions would say. Is this guy crazy? If he didn’t know that Raphtalia couldn’t lie to him, Accelerator would really think she was lying to him.
Anyway, Accelerator and Raphtalia stared at each other for a while, and finally Accelerator couldn’t stand it anymore, so he turned back and said to Raphtalia while walking away, waving his hand: “Then come on, kid, at least you have to be strong enough to keep up with me, right?”
“Yeah! I’ll try my best!” Raphtalia said happily here. To be honest, Accelerator didn’t know why she was so happy.
Anyway, after a small incident, Filo jumped onto Accelerator’s head again, and Accelerator and Raphtalia continued to explore in the direction away from the main city. The only difference from before was probably that Raphtalia had become more aware.
On the other hand, seemingly because they were getting farther and farther away from the main city, Accelerator finally encountered creatures other than the balloon monster. Although this was a good start and this newly appeared creature looked slightly more ferocious than the balloon monster, but… it was really just a little bit.
I saw a white rabbit with blood-red eyes looking at Accelerator and others with a ferocious face, and then running towards Accelerator with a “da da da da”.
Accelerator sighed again. To be honest, he didn’t know what it mattered if he was bitten by a monster of this level. So he muttered something like “Are all monsters like this?” and then raised his hand, intending to knock him away.
Unexpectedly, while Accelerator was still waiting for the Rabbit Skin Monster to crash into him and commit suicide, Raphtalia next to him took action first, drew out her dagger, accelerated at a short sprint, and stabbed the Rabbit Skin Monster head-on.
With a “Puff!” sound, Rabbit Skin’s entire body from the mouth to the buttocks was pierced by Raphtalia’s dagger. In an instant, a large amount of blood spurted out and splashed all over the ground. Raphtalia, who was closest to him, was covered in blood.
“Oh?” Accelerator was a little surprised.
Of course, he was not surprised that a rabbit could have such a large amount of blood in its body, but he did not expect Raphtalia to be so decisive this time. After all, this rabbit-shaped monster was different from the previous balloon monster. It was a monster that would bleed when injured, just like humans and demi-humans. Raphtalia was able to kill it so easily, which really surprised Accelerator.
[EXP+15] These words appeared in front of Accelerator. Because Raphtalia and Filo had no relationship, the experience gained from killing Tupiel was shared equally between him and Raphtalia, and Filo did not gain any experience.
Accelerator looked at Raphtalia, who was standing in a pool of blood, gasping for breath with her hands on her knees. After a little thought, Accelerator decided to find a place to rest for a while. After all, they had been walking for a while, not to mention Raphtalia who had just fought hard.
But he had this plan not only for Raphtalia, but also for himself. He had never exercised much, and his physical fitness was much worse than that of ordinary people. After walking for so long, he felt a little sore in his leg muscles.
“Master, there seems to be a village nearby, over there.” Raphtalia, covered in blood, walked over and said.
When Accelerator saw her coming towards him, he didn’t mind her blood stain. After all, there was a “reflective” wall. Even if Accelerator jumped into the blood lake, the blood wouldn’t stain him. It was just that he would feel uncomfortable without air. But Raphtalia didn’t know this. She simply felt that her master was different from others. He was worthy of being the Shield Hero. He was really gentle to them, the demi-humans. If it were someone else, they would definitely push her away.
Accelerator pointed in a direction and saw a wisp of smoke rising from afar. Under the smoke was a village of normal size. Accelerator and his team were facing the entrance of the village. He could see a shabby sign hanging at the entrance of the village with the name of the village written on it – [Root Village].
“Master, do you want to go and take a look?” Raphtalia asked.
“Hmm…” Accelerator responded, and soon walked ahead, leading Filo and Raphtalia to the gate of Root Village.
“Oh? A stranger face I haven’t seen before, is it a traveler passing by? How can I help you… um, Shield, Shield Hero?” A villager along the way saw Accelerator and Raphtalia walking into the village, and walked towards them enthusiastically. However, he was speechless when he saw the legendary shield equipped on Accelerator’s arm.
“……” Accelerator frowned. Has the fishing reel been spread to such a remote village? But just as Accelerator was thinking this, the villager in front of him straightened his face and said to Accelerator again:
“Master Shield Hero, how can I help you?”
Oh? Accelerator raised his eyebrows. It seemed that the other party’s attitude was not as bad as he thought. What was going on? Could it be that the fishing reel did not reach this side?
“Ah… I didn’t expect the rumored character to suddenly appear in front of me. I was a little slow to react. I’m so sorry, but it’s actually like this.” Probably guessing why Accelerator had a strange expression on his face, the villager in front of him explained, “There are unhappy demi-human villagers in our village. After hearing the rumors about the Shield Hero, they all agreed that it was a fishing reel. They said that the Shield Hero must have been framed and must be an upright and kind-hearted great hero, so we…”
To put it simply, people are always influenced by the things around them, but in this village, the influence of fellow villagers on them is greater than that of fishing reels, so the villagers in front of them now show a friendly attitude towards the Shield Hero…
“You must be a great warrior, right?” the villager asked.
“No, they are just a bunch of bad guys. They are just a bunch of shitty bad guys.”
25: Magic Book (Old Version)
So sometimes reality is different from imagination. I thought I would be looked down upon, but I didn’t expect to be respected. Well, it’s good this way. It makes things much easier.
So Accelerator quickly spoke a few words to the villager. After the villager roughly understood that Accelerator and his friends needed to rest, he immediately helped them find an unused hut. Along the way, Accelerator asked some questions by the way.
“Is there a place around here where ferocious demonic beasts live?”
“Oh? Lord Shield Hero, you’re talking about that place… the mine over there.” The villager pointed in a direction and said to Accelerator.
“Mine?” Accelerator frowned.
“Well, it’s like this. Originally, people often went to that mine to mine minerals, but since the first wave of ‘waves’ came, all kinds of ferocious monsters have been entrenched in that place, so no one dares to approach it now.”
Inside the hut.
“Master, do you want to go to that mine?” Raphtalia asked. At this time, she had already cleaned herself up and was sitting in the hut with Accelerator (and Filo) eating some dry food and resting.
“…Let’s go check it out in a few days.” Accelerator said. As for why he didn’t wait and went there directly, the reason was very simple – laziness.
Yes, in the beginning he mentioned coming to see the legendary “World of Warcraft”. He came out for a walk out of curiosity, but the novelty had worn out after walking for half a day. Besides, he was a guy who didn’t like to be very active. To be honest, he just wanted to go back to the inn in the main city and lie down and rest.
However, Accelerator would not say these words directly. Besides, they had already arrived at Root Village, so they could go to the mine to have a look. However, Accelerator did not want to take a long-distance trip like today for the next few days.
Well, that’s just a small part of the reason. Actually, a bigger part of the reason lies here.
“So what does the master plan to do in the next few days?” Raphtalia came over and asked curiously.
Accelerator took out seven or eight thick books directly from the shadow of the other dimension inside the Legend Shield. Yes, he planned to study all these books in the next few days. But pay attention, this time it is different from the book about world history he read last night. Accelerator took out a magic book this time.
Yes, this is what he discovered when he passed by a magic shop yesterday – there is actually such a thing as magic in this world.
Ah… How should I put it? As a normal (?) 16-year-old high school student, I am quite curious about magic, an element that only appears in movies and novels. But for Accelerator, he is really just curious about this element.
This may not be clear enough, but for example, Accelerator doesn’t care whether he can cast magic or not, like the magicians in the movies, summoning fireballs and lightning. He doesn’t care at all. He is just curious about the structure of magic, a new thing he has never seen in textbooks, and wants to understand it. What he cares about is what magic is made of, what are the basic units, what are the vector components? That kind of thing.
To put it simply, it is curiosity about unknown things. Accelerator has always had this characteristic. No, it should be said that it is a common characteristic of all human beings, but Accelerator often shows it more strongly than ordinary people. After all, he can become the smartest student in the whole Academy City. In addition to his brain being researched and developed to a high level by the scientists of Academy City, it would be too strange to say that he has no curiosity about unknown knowledge and does not want to learn about these new things. This is also the reason why he obviously does not like sports, but still travels for half a day just to see the new creatures like “Monster”.
“You can take Filo out to play with balloon monsters these days.” Accelerator thought for a moment and said, he couldn’t let Raphtalia and Filo stare at him while he was studying the magic book. There were a lot of balloon monsters outside.
Accelerator sensed the bite force of that thing, and it couldn’t even break the skin of an average person. At most, it would be a little painful. It could be said that it had no fighting power. Accelerator thought that if you wanted to be bitten to death by such a monster, you would need some ability. And Raphtalia couldn’t just have such a terrible ability, right? So he didn’t have to worry about the danger of this little devil.
“Okay, I understand.” Raphtalia was straightforward, she equipped the dagger directly and planned to go out immediately. On the one hand, she really couldn’t just watch Accelerator stare blankly, and on the other hand, she wanted to improve her strength by killing balloon monsters, so as to help her master.
“Beep!” Filo on this side flapped his wings, looking very interested, and jumped directly from Accelerator’s head to Raphtalia’s shoulder.
Well, anyway, this man and this beast both seem to be full of energy, but Accelerator just can’t figure out what these two guys are thinking.
A few days passed quickly. Of course, there is no specific standard for this so-called “few days”. Anyway, it was the time until Accelerator finished studying the magic book.
And in the past few days, Raphtalia and Filo have been looking for balloon monsters to play with around, and the amazing thing is that these surrounding areas are only this big, and they will not go to a place far away from Root Village, so it stands to reason that all the balloon monsters in these surrounding areas will be cleared out in less than a day.
In fact, the small area where a balloon monster is killed will be re-occupied by other balloon monsters within a period of time, just like the monster refresh in the game. So Raphtalia and Filo can be said to have killed hundreds of balloon monsters in the past few days. If it were a game, they might have unlocked the achievement of [Balloon Monster Killer].
Accelerator, on the other hand, really read these magic books and studied them very seriously. He even forgot to eat several times in the past few days and focused on studying the magic words in the books. To be honest, it was too complicated. Even the magic words were not compatible with the mainland language of this other world that Accelerator had learned before. Accelerator had to re-interpret them. The content in the magic books was also different from the narrative books. It was the knowledge points that Accelerator really needed to think about and analyze.
Even for ordinary magicians in this world, it would take years of interpretation and practical experience to fully absorb the magic knowledge in these books. But for Accelerator… after only a few days, he has already digested all these books thoroughly.
26: Changes (Old Version)
“Huh…” After letting out a slight breath, Accelerator closed the magic book in his hand and stood up.
After reading these magic books, he had a clearer understanding of the concept of magic. If magic is compared to DNA, then the magic element units can be said to be the deoxyribonucleotides that make up DNA, and the magic skills composed of magic elements are effective fragments in DNA, which can be compared to genes. Obviously, if you want to fully master magic, it is just like remembering the arrangement order and structure of all genes. Even for Accelerator, it is a difficult task. But the good news is that through these magic books, Accelerator has mastered more than ten “genes”.
To put it in simple terms, Accelerator has learned more than ten kinds of magic.
“Ahem…” Accelerator coughed twice unnaturally, then looked around with a rare guilty look. After confirming that Raphtalia had not returned with Filo and that the door of the hut was not opened, he calmed down a little and exhaled softly.
“Swoosh!” There was a sound of flowing air, and Accelerator suddenly swung his arm forward, with his palm spread outward, aiming at a vase on the opposite table, and then read at a very fast speed: “As the source of power, the psychic (level 5) hereby orders to release the taboo of the sky, so that the frozen black blade of destruction returns to nothingness, and turns into a blow that can even defeat the souls of the gods! Together, we march towards the journey of destruction. For all the foolish things that stand in my way, gather our strength and grant them equal destruction!”
“Advanced – Demon King Sword!”
“………” A cool breeze blew in from outside the window, and the flowers in the vase opposite fluttered in the direction of the wind.
“…” Accelerator’s face darkened and he silently withdrew his hand. Well, if you think about it carefully, magic really doesn’t exist. . . Fortunately, no one saw it…
“Um… Master, what are you doing?” However, at some point, the door of the hut was opened when Accelerator was not paying attention. Accelerator looked back and saw that Raphtalia had been standing there since some point.
“…” Accelerator’s eyes twitched, and he was about to say something, but Raphtalia spoke first.
“Could it be… are you casting magic, Master? Did I disturb you?” Raphtalia said with some self-blame.
“Eh…” Accelerator was stunned for a moment. Why did his behavior seem quite normal in the eyes of Raphtalia? But this was just right. Accelerator made up his mind not to do these nonsense again, and said to Raphtalia casually: “Little boy, why do I feel that you have grown up a lot.”
Of course, what he said was not entirely nonsense, because Raphtalia had indeed changed a lot in the past few days from an eight or nine-year-old girl, and the one standing in front of Accelerator now was no longer a little girl, but a beautiful young girl around 14 years old who was in her prime.
But Accelerator of course knew that this was because Raphtalia was a demi-human, because demi-humans’ bodies will grow rapidly when they are young as their levels increase. This was what he had read in a book before, so Accelerator had actually expected it and was not surprised. But mainly now Accelerator did not want Raphtalia to recall the scene just now, so he deliberately asked.
“Ah… well, it’s like this…” Raphtalia was indeed easier to fool than a child, and she was diverted and started explaining to Accelerator. Of course, what she explained were things that Accelerator already knew, so he didn’t really listen to her.
“Well, pack up and get ready to go to the mine.” After calming down for a while, Accelerator returned to normal and said.
“Hmm? Where’s the chicken?” Accelerator suddenly asked again.
“Eh? Are you talking about Filo? She’s just outside the door, but she can’t come in because she’s too big. I’m a little distressed and wanted to ask you what to do.” Speaking of this, Raphtalia said with some distress.
“Too big?” Accelerator frowned. Although he knew that monsters and demi-humans had the same characteristics, he thought that not long ago Filo was just a small monster that could sit on his head and jump around, but after just a few days, it had grown to be so big that it couldn’t even fit through the door of this hut. Wasn’t it a bit too exaggerated?
Accelerator switched the legendary shield on his arm to the [Beast Master Shield II] and looked at it. After thinking for a while, he thought that it was because of this shield. And Raphtalia must have been affected by the [Slave Master Shield III] and her growth speed was accelerated.
This doesn’t seem like a bad thing. Thinking this way, Accelerator didn’t think too much and walked out of the hut.
“Beep—!”
Just after walking out of the door, Accelerator felt a large amount of heat coming towards him along with such a cry, and then Accelerator felt as if he was covered by a shadow, and the area of ​​the shadow seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, which means…
Accelerator stretched out his hand expressionlessly, blocking the sunlight as if it were his own. And then the next second——
With a “bang”, the huge owl-like creature that was originally trying to pounce on Accelerator seemed to have hit a wall, drawing a parabola in the sky, and then fell to the ground in apparent pain.
“Filo?” Accelerator looked at the creature in front of him with some disbelief. Seeing the conspicuous white and cherry blossom feathers on the other side, Accelerator was sure that it was Filo. Although he knew that the body of the monster would grow as the level increased, it was still beyond imagination to see it with his own eyes… Isn’t this too exaggerated?
Since Accelerator has been concentrating on reading the magic book these days, his observation of the things around him is very vague. He just vaguely feels that Filo and Raphtalia are growing, but he has not seriously looked at to what extent they have grown. Now it seems that Raphtalia is still within the acceptable range, but is Filo’s side a bit too much?
Is it possible to achieve this effect by just hitting a few balloon monsters? And not only this, but also… this size is obviously beyond the normal size of an adult Filo bird, right?
Could it be that this shield also has the effect of improving genes?
For the first time, Accelerator found this legendary shield interesting.
27: Secret Passage Unfolds (Old Version)
Speaking of adult Filobird, Accelerator couldn’t help but look to the upper left corner of his vision – from here he could directly see the status and level of himself and his companions.
Raphtalia was at level 11, but surprisingly, Filo was at level 16, five levels higher than Raphtalia. It seemed that Filo’s efficiency in spawning balloon monsters was much higher than Raphtalia’s. As for me, although I did nothing, because I shared the experience with Raphtalia and Filo, my level was actually higher than the two of them, at level 18.
Looking back at the giant white Filo bird Filo, it was just standing up from the ground and looking at Accelerator with a very aggrieved look.
“Okay, okay, little Filo, you’re already a big kid. You can’t always cling to your master, right?” Raphtalia on this side actually walked over quite maturely and touched Filo’s wings and said, well, although in Accelerator’s eyes both guys are little brats.
“Beep…” Filo made a very depressed sound. Yes, she was thinking of jumping on her master’s head a few times, but her master was unwilling. Although Raphtalia comforted her a few times, she still looked depressed.
“Little Filo, think about it, you have grown to such a big size now, and the master can’t stand your torture.” Raphtalia continued to try to enlighten him.
When Filo heard what Raphtalia said, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something and excitedly flapped his wings twice. Just when Accelerator and Raphtalia were puzzled, they saw a white light flashing on Filo’s body.
“Eh? What is this…?” Accelerator suddenly had a premonition, as if this scene was described in the previous world history book.
Philo’s body began to become illusory and turned into a white light, and then its appearance gradually began to change. When the white light disappeared again, the oversized owl-like creature Philo had disappeared from the spot, and the remaining was a naked blonde loli about ten years old with a pair of small white wings on her back, that is, Philo. Yes, she was naked.
Fortunately, it was still daybreak, and there were only Raphtalia and Accelerator around.
“Master!” Filo on this side seemed to not care at all that his body was seen by Accelerator and Raphtalia. Instead, he showed a happy expression when he saw Accelerator, and ran quickly with both feet and rushed into Accelerator’s arms.
“Is that so…” Compared to Raphtalia who looked cute next to him, Accelerator seemed much calmer. He seemed to know what was going on. He neither dodged nor evaded when Filo rushed towards him.
“Master, Master! Yeah yeah yeah!” At this time, Filo had already rushed in front of Accelerator. Probably thinking that he could get into the arms of his master in the next second, Filo shouted very happily, but the next second……
“Eh?” The expression on Philo’s face froze, because the imagined touch did not come. Instead, he felt as if someone was lifting him up from the neck all over his body.
“Anyway, let’s go change our clothes first…” Accelerator lifted Filo up from the neck with one hand, muttering to himself, and then carried Filo back to the hut.
[The legendary divine bird cultivated by the Four Saint Warriors, the queen of the Filo birds – Fitoria, has the ability to reach the sky, can change her physique to disguise herself as the size of an ordinary Filo bird, can also transform into a human form, and speak the common language of the continent…]Accelerator roughly told Raphtalia what he had read in the world history book, and took out the spare clothes that were originally given to Raphtalia from his bag and put them on Filo.
“That is to say… little Filo is actually the legendary divine bird, Fitoria?” Raphtalia asked.
“No! Sister Raphtalia, Filo’s name is Filo.” Filo, who had just changed his clothes, came over to correct, and then rushed towards Accelerator’s direction.
“Well, Fitoria should be a special individual, and wasn’t it said that Fitoria was trained by a hero? Then since Filo was trained by me, the ‘Shield Hero’, he should have some common characteristics with Fitoria.” Accelerator thought for a while and said, then he slapped Filo and “reflected” him back a few meters.
“Wow, why is the master unwilling to love Filo anymore?… He was willing to let Filo ride on him just a few days ago.” Filo said tearfully.
Tsk…this sentence feels a bit subtle.
“Do you want the master to ride on Filo? Filo is super fast!” Filo suddenly said with anticipation.
“…” Accelerator said that although he knew that this guy was talking about transforming into Filobird and carrying him on the road, but…
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Although there were some minor incidents in the middle, Accelerator did not forget the purpose of today, which was to go to the mine next to Root Village. The only difference was that the original combination of two people and one beast became three people, and there was more noise along the way.
At this time, Accelerator and the other two had already arrived at the entrance of the mine.
“Hey? Master, why do we come to this place to travel?” Philo ran over and asked curiously.
“…” Accelerator ignored her and frowned, observing the entrance in front of him. He always felt that… something was wrong.
“It’s not a trip, little Filo. The master wants to come here to find powerful monsters and gain experience.” Seeing that Accelerator had no intention of responding, Raphtalia helped Filo explain.
“Eh? Why do we need to undergo training?” Philo asked, tilting his head.
“Um… because you want to become stronger? No, no, the master is already strong enough, so it’s just for fun, right?” Raphtalia said uncertainly.
“Oh…” Philo nodded, with a natural look on her face that made it hard to tell whether she understood or not.
“Be quiet.” Accelerator suddenly spoke, and the two people behind him cooperated very well and shut their mouths, while Filo even covered his mouth with his hands in an exaggerated manner.
Accelerator walked slowly into the mine entrance, but after a few steps, he took a few steps back, then took two steps forward, as if he was sensing something. After walking back and forth several times, Accelerator finally stopped at a wall on the left side of the mine entrance, and then he gently pressed his foot against it.
With a “bang”, the stone wall fell to the ground, revealing a hidden dark path in the mine. Obviously, this was an unknown secret passage in the mine.
“What is this…?!” Raphtalia said in surprise. She had never expected such a thing to exist. Filo, on the other hand, could not understand the situation. He still had a neutral expression on his face and did not react.
(Thank you for the monthly ticket, thank you for the reward, Arigato v)
28: Secret Realm (1) (old version)
“It’s actually a secret passage…” Raphtalia said, and then asked Accelerator curiously: “Strange, Master, how did you know this?”
“When the surrounding air flows to the stone wall, a small part of it will be sucked in. It’s hard not to notice.” Accelerator said. Because of the vector operation, Accelerator is very sensitive to things like the direction of the surrounding air flow.
“???” Raphtalia couldn’t understand what Accelerator said, but it was obvious that Accelerator didn’t intend to explain anything to her, and he walked directly down the stairs in the secret passage. And she naturally followed him and walked behind Accelerator.
“What? Are we going to explore here?” Philo on this side looked quite excited. He followed while talking, with an attitude of being fearless.
So the three of them walked down the stairs, and Accelerator felt something was wrong. Not only him, but Raphtalia also felt something strange and said, “Master, this underground space is too big. Why does it feel like a mausoleum?”
Yes, originally Accelerator and Raphtalia thought that they had found some treasure hiding place, like a basement or something, but now it seems that is not the case.
“Oh, that’s perfect, Sister Raphtalia. The weirder it is, the more secrets it hides.” Filo said with increasing excitement.
About five minutes later, the three of them reached the bottom of the stairs. It was still pitch black in front of them and they couldn’t see anything clearly. Raphtalia walked to the side and saw an unburned candle on the wall, so she lit it with a torch.
The dim light of the candlelight slightly illuminated the situation ahead. The stone road, stone walls, and stone ceiling were indeed man-made buildings, but they felt very depressing. The passage ahead did not have an end in sight, and it seemed that there was some black mist floating in the air, which further compressed the three people’s vision.
“Could it be some secret realm or something?” After all, Accelerator here has some knowledge of online games, and he always feels that the current situation is like entering some hidden copy, but he is not too sure.
At this time, just as Accelerator was thinking about what might happen if he continued to move forward, suddenly, Filo here asked curiously:
“Eh? What is this?”
Then there was a “click” sound, as if a switch was triggered. The next second, Accelerator felt a “boom” and the entire ground shook.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, but quickly discovered the direction of the earthquake source, so he looked up and saw a horrifying scene.
The stone road that was originally flat suddenly bulged, and several stones suddenly flew up and combined and deformed in the air, and soon turned into a humanoid rock giant. As if a soul was injected into the rock giant’s eyes, they suddenly flashed red light and looked straight at Accelerator.
“Hey, hey. What did you do?” Accelerator quickly said to Filo.
“Philo didn’t do anything, he just stepped on this button.” Philo pointed in a direction and said innocently.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, and looked in the direction Filo pointed, only to see a conspicuous red button sunken into the floor, which had obviously been pressed.
“Huh? This is obviously a trap, how dare you touch it?” Accelerator was also a little stunned. It was a good thing that a rock giant appeared from the front. If it was an explosive arrow or some other mechanism, wouldn’t Filo be dead instantly?
“Don’t treat Filo as a fool! Of course Filo knows that this is an obvious trap!” Unexpectedly, Filo said to Accelerator angrily.
“You know that, but you still stepped on it?” Accelerator was a little confused about what this guy was talking about.
“But Master, don’t you think this trap is too obvious? It’s right there in the middle of the road, and it’s in such a conspicuous color like red. Even Filo can tell it’s a trap.”
“so what???”
“So Philo thought that this trap must not be an ordinary trap. It must be deliberately set by the designer for us to see, using reverse psychology to make us avoid this button, so I stepped on it…”
“It actually makes sense…” Raphtalia on the other side held her forehead and said.
“I…” Accelerator wanted to curse, but before he could finish, the rock giant had already moved in front of Accelerator, and raised its huge arm high, wanting to slap Accelerator into a pulp with one slap.
“Master…” Raphtalia was about to remind Accelerator to be careful, but Accelerator frowned and looked impatient.
“Stop making so much noise. Do you really want to be recycled? You’re just a pile of garbage.” Accelerator smacked his lips and then waved away the huge hand that was waving towards him, as if he was swatting a fly.
The scene looked a bit funny. After all, the palm of the rock giant on the opposite side was bigger than Accelerator’s entire body, while Accelerator’s palm was about a hundred times smaller than the opponent’s. It seemed that the two sides had a huge disparity in strength, but in fact…
There is indeed a disparity in power.
With a loud “bang”, the moment the rock giant hit Accelerator, his body, which was several dozen meters tall, flew dozens of meters away like an ordinary person being hit by a truck, and then hit the opposite wall hard, and then fell to the ground with a “bang”, and there was no reaction after that.
“Uh…” Filo aside, Raphtalia was stunned. Isn’t it a bit too much to say that it’s not her master? Although she knew that her master was very powerful and probably hard to beat among adventurers from various countries, the opponent was not a normal creature. He could actually slap a rock giant weighing at least ten tons away with just one slap. Isn’t this strength a bit abnormal?
“Tsk.” Accelerator didn’t seem to be using much strength, and of course he really wasn’t. But unlike what Raphtalia thought, it wasn’t because of his superhuman strength, but because his “reflection” wall could bounce back the enemy’s strength to a greater extent.
“Don’t cause trouble for no reason, kid.” Accelerator said to Filo with some dissatisfaction.
29: Secret Realm (2) (old version)
Accelerator was curious about the rock giant’s situation, so he walked over to take a look, picked up a stone from its “corpse”, and fed it to his Legendary Shield.
[Unlocked new shield “Rock Shield”]It doesn’t seem to be anything special. It should be no different from the shield unlocked by digging out a rock on the roadside outside.
Accelerator frowned, but then changed direction and found a gem that was faintly glowing red on the chest of the rock giant. It was obviously made of a different material than other places.
“Hmm?” Accelerator dug out the gem with just one stroke, and then put it into the Shield of Legend to digest it.
[Unlocked “Yinglong Familiar (Self-Defense) Shield”, obtained the skill “Rock Confinement Array”]“Yinglong’s familiar? Yinglong?” Accelerator was stunned. He had no interest in the newly unlocked shield and skills, but he was curious about the origin of the rock giant in front of him.
If he remembered correctly, Yinglong should be one of the mythical beasts. In this other world, did it appear in the form of a demon beast, or something else?
“Wait.” Suddenly, Raphtalia next to him called out, attracting Accelerator’s attention. However, Raphtalia was not calling out to him, but to Filo who had walked in front of them without them noticing.
“Well, what’s the matter, Sister Raphtalia?” Filo was stunned and looked around. There was no monster. He thought that someone called her because they saw some ferocious monster, but there was nothing.
“Filo, on the ground.” Raphtalia pointed to the ground in front of Filo and said.
“Hmm?” Filo lowered his head and shone the torch, only to find that there was another protruding piece of floor in front of him, and it was dyed with the same conspicuous red color as the previous one. “Is this another… trap?”
“It seems so.” Raphtalia nodded beside her.
“Hmm…” Accelerator also paid attention this time. If it was the same as the one Filo stepped on before, then it would indeed be a bit conspicuous. He looked at the protruding brick on the ground and thought it was a bit too strange. Couldn’t a trap be made so that people would sink into it when they stepped on it? Why did it have to be protruding and use such a conspicuous color?
“Well. Never mind. It’s just a trap. Just ignore it.” Accelerator said, shaking his head slightly.
Raphtalia also nodded and said, “Okay, forget it, let’s keep going.”
“Wait…wait…Master, Sister Raphtalia.” Filo stopped and said, “It has already appeared like this, it would be bad if we just ignore it.”
“Huh? What’s wrong with that?” Raphtalia said curiously.
“Don’t you think that if there is something on the ground, you will unconsciously want to step on it to see what happens?” Philo said, tilting his head.
“? No, isn’t this a trap? Just don’t step on it, what’s so strange about it?” Raphtalia asked.
“How about I try stepping on it?” Philo said suddenly.
Accelerator: “???”
“What kind of hobby do you have? This is too suspicious. What if dozens of arrows fly out when you step on it? Wouldn’t that be terrible?” Raphtalia said worriedly.
“What if a big treasure chest appears when I step on it? My master will praise me.” Philo said after imagining it.
“Impossible, absolutely impossible. Didn’t you just try it?” Raphtalia said immediately, “This must be a trap.”
Filo thought about it, and then suddenly realized, “Oh! I understand. Sister Raphtalia must be afraid that Filo will take away the love of the master, right?”
“What nonsense are you talking about!” Raphtalia said immediately.
“Anyway, I think it must be a treasure chest this time.” Filo suddenly said again.
“Nonsense, where does this treasure chest come from?” Raphtalia expressed her incomprehension.
“There was just a trap like this, wasn’t there? If the same trap appears again, it’s definitely not a trap, Sister Raphtalia, you’re not as smart as Filo.” Filo said.
“Don’t look so reasonable!” Raphtalia felt that she really couldn’t win the argument with Filo.
“Then I’ll try it.” Philo said and raised his foot.
“Hey, hey, don’t cause trouble.” Accelerator noticed that something was wrong and spoke up, but Filo’s foot had already stepped down, and then a familiar “click” sound of a mechanism was heard again.
With a “bang”, a wooden box suddenly fell next to the three people, right in front of the two of them.
Accelerator: “…”
Raphtalia: “…”
Philo: “…”
“What’s the principle behind this?” Accelerator was stunned.
“This is impossible!” Raphtalia said in shock.
“Wow! A treasure chest really fell down. This is amazing.” Philo on this side also didn’t expect it at all.
“Didn’t you guess it was a treasure chest? Why are you so shocked?” Raphtalia asked.
“Hey, Sister Raphtalia, how can I not be surprised that a treasure chest fell down when I stepped on such an obvious trap?” Filo said with a strange look on his face.
“So what was your purpose in stepping on it in the first place?” Raphtalia said, holding her forehead with her hand.
“I…” Philo was about to say something when he suddenly felt a “click” sound coming from the wall next to him. Turning around, he found that the wall on his right was slowly opening.
“Hey? Master, come and see, Filo has found a new secret passage!” It was very dark inside the wall, and Filo couldn’t see anything, so he just guessed. Then suddenly a huge log flew out of the wall and hit Filo’s face directly.
With a loud bang, Filo, who was hit in the face, flew out.
“Wow…Wow, wow…” Filo fell to the ground and looked at Accelerator, tears welling up in his eyes.
30: Secret Realm (3) (old version)
“That’s why I told you not to step on it.” Raphtalia said earnestly to Filo who was knocked away by the mechanism and then ran back.
“Wow… This is simply cheating, Sister Raphtalia. Why do you give me a treasure chest first and then hit me in the face with a hammer? How can I guess?” Filo said aggrievedly.
“So I told you it was a trap…” Raphtalia smiled and said, “Well, you’re not hurt, are you?”
“It doesn’t feel very painful.” Philo shook his head and said.
“Let’s go if you’re fine.” Accelerator walked over and said.
“Wait…wait…” Philo said again.
“What’s wrong again?” Accelerator turned around.
“Hey, master, isn’t there a treasure chest?” Philo said, pointing at the wooden box that had just fallen to the ground.
“…” Accelerator didn’t know what to say.
Raphtalia rolled her eyes and said directly, “This is definitely a trap. There’s no need to guess.”
“I don’t think so. Look, I set the trap and I’ve been hit once. This should be considered a reward.” Filo said, “Besides, there is a treasure chest on the ground. Wouldn’t you feel uncomfortable if you don’t open it?”
“Is this some kind of special hobby of the Filo bird? This is too suspicious. Wouldn’t it be terrible if dozens of arrows fly out when it is opened?” Raphtalia said again.
“If I open it and find a pile of gold coins, the master will definitely praise me.” said Philo.
“Impossible, absolutely impossible. And this conversation seems very familiar. You seemed to have said the same thing just now, and then you were knocked away by a wooden hammer.” Raphtalia said.
“How about I open it and try it?” Philo asked directly.
“……” Raphtalia stared at Filo blankly, then took two steps back, “Please… don’t be polite to me.”
“…” Although Accelerator didn’t say anything, he took two steps back like Raphtalia.
Filo looked at Accelerator and Raphtalia who were standing far away from her and said immediately, “Wow, Master, Raphtalia, your actions have shown that you don’t trust Filo’s judgment.”
“Yes, I don’t trust you at all. I just hope that this trap is smaller. Don’t let me and Raphtalia be implicated.” Accelerator said coldly.
“Wow… Master, your words make Filo so sad. I must prove myself this time, Master.” Filo said as he fiercely opened the treasure chest.
As a result, when the treasure chest was opened, a golden light shone out, so bright that Filo couldn’t open his eyes.
“This is impossible!” Raphtalia said in amazement.
“Wow! There really are treasures! It’s so amazing!” Philo was also shocked.
“Didn’t you guess it was a treasure? Why are you so surprised?” Raphtalia said.
“Who would put treasures in a treasure chest like this? It looks like a trap no matter how you look at it. What was the person who designed this treasure chest thinking?” Filo shouted.
“So I asked you, what was your purpose in stepping on the traps so frantically in the first place?” Raphtalia said. She was suddenly stunned. “No, what’s in the treasure chest? Why do I hear a ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound?”
“Yeah, I heard that too. Let me see…”
Before Filo could finish his words, he heard a loud “boom” from the treasure chest in front of him, and it exploded…
The whole passage shook with a loud bang. Sand and stones flew everywhere, and a few bricks fell off the wall, which was not very solid to begin with.
Of course, nothing would happen to Accelerator, but Raphtalia and Filo were in a bit of a mess.
“Ahem…” Raphtalia brushed off the dust that was flying everywhere, picked up the extinguished torch next to her and relit it, then looked around, “Master, are you okay? That’s great. What about Filo? How is she?”
“Over there.” Accelerator pointed in a direction, so Raphtalia looked in that direction and saw Filo walking towards her.
“Master, Sister Raphtalia.” Filo slowly walked towards Accelerator, and said with a serious look in his eyes, “I think we underestimated the designer of this place. I didn’t expect that he could fool Filo twice. He is amazing.”
“Hehe.” Accelerator said expressionlessly.
“What’s so great about it? No normal person would be fooled, okay?” Raphtalia couldn’t help but say, “And I warned you that it was a trap, okay?”
“No, it’s because the cunning designer is too insidious. How can we escape from such a trap?
. “Filo said with a heavy face.
“It’s totally dodgy. I told you not to step on it,” Raphtalia said.
“It seems that our opponent is not simple.” Filo nodded. It felt like he had met his match.
“Our opponent is a complete idiot.” Raphtalia couldn’t stand it anymore. She cursed and took a deep breath. “Okay, okay, now you have nothing to play with, right? Can we keep going?”
“Eh? I’m not doing this just because I want to have fun. Sister Raphtalia, what you said is too much.” Filo said dissatisfiedly.
“I think you’re causing trouble just because you want to have fun!” Raphtalia said.
Accelerator sighed. To be honest, he was a bit troubled by Filo, a troublesome guy, and he didn’t know how to deal with it. Fortunately, she didn’t cause any big trouble now, but if she continued like this, it wouldn’t be long before she caused big trouble. Accelerator thought he should find a place to correct Filo’s bad habits.
Of course, that was something that happened later. After that, the three of them advanced smoothly without any hindrance until…
“Be careful!” Raphtalia shouted again.
“Huh?” Philo was stunned, then subconsciously looked down and saw another protruding stone on the ground, with the same button marked in bright red.
“Again?” Accelerator said. He was a little speechless. What on earth was the designer of this place thinking?
“Don’t worry about it this time, just go around it.” Raphtalia said casually.
“Wait…wait…” Filo shouted again, a look of serious thinking appeared on his little face, “Sister Raphtalia, don’t you think this is a bit strange?”
“I…” Raphtalia held her forehead with her hand.
31: Mutation (Old Version)
“Little Filo, don’t tell me you want to go up and step on it again?” Raphtalia asked tentatively.
“Eh? How is that possible? Am I an idiot?” Filo looked at Raphtalia strangely and asked, “It’s just that I really feel that there is something very strange…but I can’t put it into words.”
“Really?” Raphtalia didn’t feel anything special, so she looked at Accelerator and asked, “Master, do you feel this way?”
“…..” Accelerator frowned slightly, did not answer Raphtalia, but looked around.
The environment around them had become very wide at some point, and Accelerator also noticed that the road they came from later had no end in sight. From here, there was only an endless stone road.
“Oh?… Is that finally the end? You really have no patience, bastard.” Suddenly, Accelerator’s mouth curled up as if he couldn’t help it.
“Eh? Master, what are you talking about?” Raphtalia asked in confusion.
“Raphtalia, let me ask you, what is your current level?” Accelerator didn’t ask anything else, but suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
Yes, he was now basically certain of what was going on, including all the details that had happened so far. Just to be sure, Accelerator asked this question, and in the end, he only needed to see Raphtalia’s reaction.
“Eh? This kind of thing… Master, you should be able to see it yourself.” Raphtalia said with a strange look on her face.
“This is an order, Raphtalia, answer me, what is your current level?” Accelerator ignored her and spoke firmly.
Raphtalia seemed to realize that this was an order and she couldn’t avoid it, so she said hesitantly, “Level 15 is almost here.”
“I’m sorry, I guessed wrong, fake.” Accelerator’s mouth curled up in a malicious arc, and then suddenly, he waved his hand fiercely at Raphtalia next to him.
With a “crackling” sound, a trace of blood was seen, and Raphtalia’s entire right arm was pulled off by Accelerator. The scene was quite bloody.
“What?!” Raphtalia and Filo were both stunned.
“Master… why?” Raphtalia asked Accelerator with a puzzled look on her face.
“Why? Because your disguise is so poor, you despicable bastard! It’s full of mistakes and omissions. How long do you think you can keep it secret?” Accelerator couldn’t help but sneered, and while speaking, he fed Raphtalia’s right arm to the Shield of Legend.
[Unlocked “Yinglong Familiar (Sub-Humanoid) Shield”, obtained the skill “Assimilation”]Yinglong’s sub-human familiar… Not surprising.
Accelerator thought with a smile, then looked at Raphtalia and Filo standing on his left and right.
At this time, Raphtalia looked quite terrifying. Her entire right arm was clearly gone and blood was still flowing out, but there was no expression on her face at all, as if it was not her body. The same was true for Filo next to her, as if both of them had suddenly turned into robots.
“Interesting. When did you find out?” Suddenly, such voices were heard from all around. It was strange that even with Accelerator’s perception, he couldn’t hear the source of the voice at all, and the voice sounded strange, and he couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman, or even whether it was a human.
“To be honest, I really, from the bottom of my heart feel very sorry and it’s a pity.” Accelerator did not directly answer the voice, but sighed and said.
“Oh? There have been humans here before, but you are the first one who is still so calm after reaching this point.” The voices came from all directions, but Accelerator still couldn’t tell the direction.
“The first one? It seems that you don’t know me very well…” Accelerator said, with a trace of regret on his face, but soon it turned into a contented expression: “To be honest, I’m very happy now. The game you designed is really fun. At least I’m having a lot of fun playing it now. It seems that I haven’t felt so much fun for a long time. It’s just a pity that this game is about to end…”
“Game? Can you tell me, what are you thinking about? Do you realize the current situation? How did you find out the identities of the two people around you?” The mysterious voice said without any emotional fluctuations.
“Oh? You are very strange. In your opinion, I should be a dying person. Is it necessary to ask so many questions?” Accelerator said with a grin.
“Because it’s interesting.” The mysterious voice responded lightly.
“That’s a very convincing answer, but…” Accelerator nodded in understanding, but the next moment, the smile on his face, which could only be described as evil, changed.
Crazy, murderous, and passionate. This is the expression on Accelerator’s face right now.
“Who on earth allowed you to talk to me in such a condescending tone?!” He suddenly raised his right foot and stomped it hard on the ground.
There was an immediate loud “boom!”, and the scale of destruction was much greater than before. With the stone road where Accelerator was standing as the center, the entire ground within a radius of dozens of meters sank seven or eight meters, and all kinds of sand and stones flew everywhere in an instant.
“Ugh… Damn human… What have you done!!” As expected, the mysterious voice seemed to feel a sharp pain and could no longer maintain its previous attitude, but roared fiercely.
“Great! Great! That’s the tone I want, you bastard! Hahaha!” Accelerator laughed, and broke the ground by stomping on it back and forth.
“Human!!” The mysterious voice here seemed to have finally lost its patience and didn’t want to listen to Accelerator’s explanation of why he discovered so many things. After he roared, the ground around Accelerator began to bulge, and the same rock giants as before appeared again, but this time there was not just one, but hundreds of rock giants crawling out of the ground one by one, but they all had only one goal – that was Accelerator at the midpoint.
If you look from above, you can see that the rock giants are densely packed in circles, and Accelerator in the middle is so small that he is really like the center of a circle. Surrounded by densely packed rock giants, he is so small that it can be said that he hardly attracts people’s attention.
“Huh? That’s it?” The tiny Accelerator was disdainful of these huge rock monsters. Instead, he felt a little unhappy because his abilities were underestimated. He looked at the stone ceiling above and mocked loudly –
“You’re going to fight me with this toy? You know who you’re fighting against?!”
32: Yinglong (1) (old version)
“…” It only took Accelerator five seconds to silence the mysterious voice.
Because Accelerator had seen the entire process of annihilating hundreds of rock giants in five seconds. It seemed that he did not do anything, just touched it with his hand, and then all the rock giants in that direction were shattered by the unreasonable impact force. In just a few seconds, all the rock giants were annihilated.
“If that’s all you can do, I’ll be so angry that I’ll tear you to pieces.” Accelerator said. The murderous intent and madness in his eyes told everyone that he was not joking. But the next moment, his expression softened a little, and he suddenly smiled maliciously and said, “Well, as a reward for making me feel happy before this, I’ll give you a break.”
Accelerator found a stone that looked comfortable and sat down. He then spread out his hand and said, “Is this your first time reading the memories of the Four Saints?”
“How…do you know?” asked the mysterious voice.
“Although their memories are correct, their thinking, judgment, and emotional expression are full of loopholes. You may be able to fool a fool like Filo. As for other people, you can’t fool even Raphtalia.” Accelerator said, “And the most important thing is that although these people you found know me, the Shield Hero, and this Legendary Shield, they are essentially just familiars. They don’t match the information of the slaves or the monster bodies on the information page of my Legendary Shield at all. As long as you ask them about related matters, they will start to avoid it. Just like in terms of lv, the slaves of the Four Holy Heroes will be classified as ‘companions’ by the Legendary Shield. They themselves are not very clear about their own lv, but they have a rough number in their minds. I am the only one who knows the specific value, and based on the reaction of your fake… it is really hard for me to not see it.”
“Just because of this?”
“Don’t get me wrong, these are actually unimportant. The most important thing is the first rock giant we met before.”
“After I killed the rock giant, information about my exp increasing automatically appeared around me, but there was nothing around the two impostors. Do you understand what I mean?” Accelerator said.
“Have you discovered it a long time ago?” asked the mysterious voice.
“That’s about right. When Filo and Raphtalia started talking after we entered the secret passage, I felt something was a bit inconsistent. Later, I was just verifying my guess.” Accelerator spread his hands. “And you set so many stupid traps along the way? You must be worried that I felt the secret passage was too safe and there might be a trap, so you can go back the same way, right? Speaking of reading memories, I didn’t expect that there really is such a thing in the other world. However, this shouldn’t be something like mental magic, right? It’s a skill that you were born with, am I right?”
“…Sure enough, shouldn’t I have dragged you to this place? The Shield Hero is just as unpredictable as the previous generation.” The mysterious voice made a sigh-like sound.
“And I also know why you dragged me here.” Accelerator said suddenly.
“You know?” the mysterious voice asked in surprise.
“From the moment we entered the secret passage, Filo, Raphtalia, and I were instantly teleported to different locations. Am I right?” Accelerator asked.
“That’s right.” The mysterious voice didn’t play dumb anymore and answered directly, “You are right, I have a high level of attainment in illusion magic, and each of you has been teleported to a different illusion.”
“And I can guarantee that the illusions of the other two people are completely different from mine. It is definitely not a similar place like this, right?” Accelerator said.
“Why do you know?” asked the mysterious voice.
“It’s simple. Because… you didn’t read my memory.” Accelerator said, “No, to be precise, you can’t read my memory.”
Obviously, Accelerator felt the entire space around him shake.
“I have verified that you know nothing about me, about the Legendary Shield. You also don’t know my abilities, nor do you know my requirements for Raphtalia and Filo when they signed the contract. I didn’t tell anyone about these things, and I’m the only one who knows.” Accelerator said, “Because you don’t know my memories, you can’t copy my memories, so my companions are definitely not in this game… And you, because you seem to rely on this innate ability of yours, it probably never fails on people, so you are curious about people like me who ignore your abilities, so you specifically guided me to this place.”
“It seems that your original plan was to have those two imposters fight with me here. Oh, of course, the targets I’m talking about are the other group of familiars you created. But of course, you will control those two imposters to stab me from behind at a critical moment, and then the me in your ideal will be in a state of confusion, so you can use your ability to read my memory, that is, take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in?”
“Do you know my purpose?” asked the mysterious voice.
“It’s not hard to guess. Judging from the names of those monsters, they are all Yinglong’s familiars. It’s obvious that you are Yinglong. And I happened to see a document about world history before I set out. It just happened to tell some stories about your tragedy. The legendary beast that has accomplished many great deeds was polluted by the waves hundreds of years ago. Now it has become an evil beast that confuses people’s hearts. It was sealed in a special place by the four holy heroes at that time. So it’s really a coincidence. I didn’t expect to encounter such a legendary event when I was walking in the mines. Do you think I’m lucky or unlucky?” Accelerator smiled maliciously and said, “With this background, think about it, your purpose is nothing more than absorbing the essence of the living, regaining strength to break the seal, or just seeing me, the Shield Hero, reminded you of the previous generation of heroes, so you just want to kill me to vent your anger?”
“…” Yinglong was silent for a moment, then sighed, “You are the smartest person I have ever met. It seems that my plan is nothing in your eyes… Everything is just as you said.”
“But… even if that’s the case, it only shows that you are a human being who is intelligent but ignorant. You actually dared to challenge me. It’s really foolish. Even if everything is the same as you said, can it change your current situation?”
Suddenly, Yinglong’s aura changed, and he spoke in a very dangerous tone.
“Rather, your explanation has put you in even more danger. Now I am willing to acknowledge your threat and do not intend to continue checking your memory. I have decided to turn you into nothingness.”
33: Yinglong (2) (old version)
“Alas, it seems that you still don’t understand the situation.” Accelerator sighed upon hearing this, but soon nodded in sudden realization, “Oh, so that’s how it is. Did I say that this is an illusion before, which gave you more confidence?”
“Um?!”
“Just kidding, do you think I can’t tell what the surroundings are like?” Accelerator said with a smile.
“You know?” Yinglong said in disbelief. Normally, no one would think in that direction, but if it was this human…
“Didn’t I prove it? Like this…” Accelerator said, stomping his feet again to crush the ground, and then Yinglong on this side made a “hmm…” sound that sounded like pain.
“Although the fluctuations are small, I can feel the whole space rising and falling like breathing. Others may not notice it, but for me, I can directly feel the constant change of my own gravitational potential energy, so it is easy to notice this.” Accelerator said, “This is the location of your internal organs in your body.”
“Yes. I see. So that’s it? And then? What makes you so confident? Now that it has come to this, it doesn’t matter if I tell you that I am invincible here against anyone I want to deal with. I only need a tiny bit of my strength to create hundreds of rock giants again. Not only that, I can also create countless individuals with higher functions than them. Even if they are still not your opponents, I can always wear them down one by one and wear out your strength.” Yinglong sounded quite relieved, as if he was already stable.
“Checkmate, human. If you try your best, you still have a chance of survival – before your strength is exhausted, use up my strength first!” Yinglong said in a very pretentious manner, and at the same time, several dark red creatures began to appear around Accelerator.
This time the dark red creature looked like a dragon, but it was much smaller and there were flames floating on its skin. It looked like a much more advanced fighting creature than the previous rock giant.
“Ah…” Accelerator remained indifferent to the dark red familiars slowly approaching him, and said, “Do you know the fifth trial of the twelve trials that Hercules went through?”
“Huh? What are you still talking about now… Wait, are you planning to do this?!” Yinglong was stunned.
“It is said that the hero was asked to clean a huge cattle farm, and Hercules directly broke the barrier between the cattle shed and the river. In the end, he completed the trial without even getting his hands dirty.” Accelerator suddenly put on a dangerous smile and said, “Although it is not exactly the same as the current situation, the principle is the same… In order to solve the current situation, besides taking the conventional route, there are other simpler ways, right?”
“…….” Yinglong was silent for a moment. To be honest, he had never thought of this before, and those who had entered his body before would not have thought of this either. Including himself, everyone felt that after entering such a dangerous place, the only way to escape was to use up all their strength. Normally, people would not have such an idea… But if this human was capable of doing something to that extent, then he was really in trouble this time.
“Legend has it that Yinglong’s body can be as small as a speck of dust or as big as the universe. It’s true. But that’s why you’ve never thought of this. You’re so self-righteous that you’re invincible when fighting others in your own body. You’re so pathetic.” Even when facing the legendary beast, Accelerator laughed without hesitation: “Hahahaha! How does it feel to be taught a lesson before you die!”
“Well, now it’s time for waste disposal! Maggots!” Accelerator announced, then bent down and gently touched his hand to the ground.
Root Village.
The villagers in the village were still living their daily lives, and today would have been as peaceful as usual, but suddenly.
“boom–!!!”
There was a loud bang, followed by an earthquake that affected the entire village of Rut.
“What’s going on?” asked Villager A.
“You…look over there, over there at the mine!” Villager B said in surprise, pointing at the mine.
“What……!”
As villager A’s gaze shifted, he happened to see the entire huge mine collapse with a loud bang as if it had exploded, and all kinds of sand and rocks flew everywhere in an instant.
Inside the mine.
“Human…you won. You directly destroyed my entire body. This is indeed something I never expected.” A weak voice came from Yinglong.
At the same time, the environment around Accelerator also changed. It was originally a pile of rock ruins, but now it has turned into a strange red space.
Accelerator also noticed that there was a red crystal-like thing in front of him, with various red meridian-like thin lines connected to it. The other end of the thin lines was connected to Raphtalia and Filo who fell unconscious next to the crystal.
Accelerator saw this and walked over to cut off the thin strings on the two of them, then said, “I see, if I fail, will I also become your nutrients?”
“Yes, but I have lost now. I have difficulty maintaining signs of life. Even inside my body, I cannot create a combat-capable familiar to deal with you.” Yinglong said, and there was indeed a sense of weakness in his tone.
“The purpose of absorbing energy from the outside world… is to break the seal?” Accelerator said.
“Yes.”
“Heh, as a divine beast you use this method to be reborn? It seems that what the literature says is true, you have indeed been contaminated by the ‘wave’.” Accelerator said.
“Stupid.” However, Yinglong here directly denied Accelerator’s statement: “On the contrary, my approach is to completely resist the ‘wave’ and completely set this continent in a protective barrier.”
“oh?”
34: Eye of All Things (Old Version)
“What do you mean?” Accelerator felt that Yinglong’s tone did not sound like he was lying, so he asked in some surprise.
Is there anything you don’t know about this?
“Oh, there’s no point in telling you. Your power can’t even affect the progress of the whole thing. Although you defeated my body, my power now is just a drop in the bucket of my heyday.” Yinglong said, without a trace of arrogance or contempt for Accelerator in his tone, as if he was merely stating a fact.
“…” Accelerator frowned slightly. Although he was arrogant and conceited, he was not the kind of person who would completely ignore other people’s advice. After judging that the other party was not speaking without purpose, he took Yinglong’s words to heart.
“Sigh… user of the Holy Shield weapon, you are not strong enough now, but you are already strong to a certain extent. However, what about the other three heroes? If the three of them are as strong as you, then the Four Saints of this generation may still be worth looking forward to…” Yinglong said, but his tone was getting weaker and weaker, as if he might disappear at any time.
“Huh? Those three trash? Stop kidding, they can’t catch up with me even if you practice for another hundred years.” Accelerator said with certainty.
“Really… Looks like we can only rely on the [Spirit Turtle Barrier] this time…” Yinglong said.
“【Spirit Turtle Barrier】?” Accelerator frowned. This was another word he had never heard of.
“The Holy Weapon of Shield?… In that case, I will give you an extra hand as a reward for defeating me.” Yinglong said suddenly.
“What do you mean?” Accelerator was stunned, and before he could react, he felt a change around him. When he came to his senses again, the surroundings were completely different.
“Illusion?” Accelerator looked around and saw that it was completely surrounded by a dazzling white light. It looked quite dreamy. Accelerator subconsciously wondered if this was Yinglong’s dying counterattack, or if the dying situation was a lie to him from the beginning, just to make him relax his vigilance and then pull him into the illusion.
But soon, Accelerator discovered two figures in front of him, two very familiar figures.
One is the back of a man holding a big sword blocking in front, and behind him is a white-haired boy with pale skin and a pair of ferocious blood-red pupils. You can also see a strangely shaped shield equipped on the boy’s arm.
But perhaps because it was an illusion, the faces of the two people in front of him were very blurry and he couldn’t tell who they were. But he was sure that the white boy was himself, after all, his features were too obvious.
A dreamy environment of light and shadow… A man’s back… A white boy… A strange shield…
Accelerator frowned, not understanding what he was being asked to do. Just as he was still wondering what was going on, the surrounding environment changed and returned to the original scene.
“What is that?” Accelerator asked directly.
“I don’t know.” Yinglong replied.
“Huh? Don’t you know what’s going on with this illusion you created yourself?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows.
“Well, who knows what will happen in the future?” Yinglong said.
“The future?” Accelerator was stunned. Could it be… the legendary prophecy?
When Accelerator asked if it was true, Yinglong did not respond no matter what. Accelerator also noticed that the red crystal that seemed to symbolize Yinglong’s heart had completely darkened.
A hotel in the southern area of ​​the Kingdom of Melomag.
Because Raphtalia and Filo both fainted, after renting a carriage and returning to the main city, Accelerator put them on the bed to rest, and he sat on the desk.
However, he was not reading the book, but sorting out the gains and losses of this trip.
“Yinglong?” Accelerator pinched his nose. To be honest, he didn’t expect to encounter this kind of creature that appeared in mythology. It was much rarer than the legendary dragon mentioned earlier. What he didn’t expect was that the mine next to Root Village was actually the body of Yinglong. It might be that after a long time and the magic of the seal, Yinglong’s body was turned into a mine, and it even retained self-awareness and tried to use illusions to confuse his group.
He looked at the angular blood-red crystal in his hand. Yes, he took it out of Yinglong’s body just to study it, but he soon found that he was not cut out for it. After thinking about it, he decided it would be more direct to do it this way.
Accelerator directly fed the red crystal to the Shield of Legend.
[Unlocked “Yinglong Heart Shield”, obtained the skill “Eye of All Things”]“I still can’t see anything… Eh? What is this?” Accelerator was feeling a little disappointed, but the next second, he found that his vision had changed.
It seems that my vision has suddenly become clearer? Is this the “Eye of Everything”?
Accelerator walked to the window sill with some suspicion and looked over, then looked towards a mountain far away. Then something very strange happened. At first, it was as expected. Even with the “Yinglong Heart Shield” equipped, Accelerator had a hard time seeing the situation on the mountain. But then, as Accelerator focused his attention, he felt that his vision was like that in a camera lens, which began to continuously magnify, and the clarity was always the highest.
The size of his field of vision was not fixed until Accelerator could clearly see the movement of a cicada on a tree on the mountain.
“This thing… is equivalent to a telescope…” As soon as Accelerator said this, he felt his right eye getting hot, and then a red light flashed.
In an instant, Accelerator saw that the cicada that was originally perched on the tree, along with the entire tree, was shot through by a red beam of light.
This thing… Accelerator was confused about the situation, so he withdrew his attention, and his vision returned to normal.
“Where is this… Master?” At this time, Raphtalia seemed to wake up and found herself lying on the bed without knowing when. She murmured in a strange voice.
So Accelerator turned around to look, and was about to say something, but was speechless again.
Because he happened to see five green characters appear above Raphtalia’s head – Raphtalia.
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35: Before the Wave (Old Version)
“Hmm?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows, looked carefully, and stared at the top of Raphtalia’s head for almost a minute before he was sure that there were really five words “Raphtalia” on her head, and they were in green fonts, and there were also five words on Filo’s head.
“Hey… Master, what’s wrong? Why are you staring at me like that…” Raphtalia suddenly said with a red face.
However, Accelerator didn’t pay any attention to this, but out of curiosity, he looked out the window again. But this time, his sight was not at the distant mountains over there, but at the busy streets below.
As expected, Accelerator saw a lot of dense yellow text flowing below. Fortunately, Accelerator’s brain was not normal, so his brain could handle such dense text. But what he cared about was that the color of these fonts was not green like Raphtalia’s.
But Accelerator soon figured it out. Isn’t this the same as in the game? Friendly units are green, neutral units are yellow, and so on, hostile units are red. It’s easy to understand.
If you think about it this way, leaving aside the previous skill that flashed red light, this skill is still useful to him, so he can keep using this “Yinglong Heart Shield”.
“Oh…right, Raphtalia.” While Accelerator was thinking about this, he remembered another thing at the same time.
“What’s wrong, Master?” Raphtalia came over and asked.
“It seems that the time for the wave is coming soon. According to the remaining time of the dragon-carved hourglass I saw last time, it should come in two days.” Accelerator thought for a while and said, referring to the incident when he passed by the Holy See when he left the southern part of the main city and happened to see the dragon-carved hourglass. It seems that this is his responsibility to be summoned to this world, and Yinglong has mentioned many times before how dangerous the wave is, so he does not intend to face it lightly.
“Well, the sand in the hourglass will run out by the day after tomorrow morning.” Raphtalia nodded.
“Well… in that case, Raphtalia.” Accelerator said. He couldn’t call Raphtalia a brat anymore, because she seemed to be getting more and more mature, especially after she killed a lot of rock giants in Yinglong’s body, and even killed Yinglong at the end and got a lot of experience points, Raphtalia felt like a beautiful girl of the same age as him. However, Filo still looked the same as before, like a perennial loli.
By the way, the experience gained from killing hundreds of rock giants’ familiars in Yinglong’s body and after killing Yinglong was quite exaggerated. Accelerator directly rose from the original lv18 to lv45, while Raphtalia and Filo were both lv40. This made Accelerator feel a little strange. It was a bit of a coincidence. Could it be that it takes a lot of experience for slaves and monsters to rise from lv40 to lv41?
But even so, Accelerator still didn’t count the two of them in his battle against the wave. He didn’t like the feeling of relying on others. Although he thought so, he also knew that it would be troublesome if Raphtalia didn’t follow him during the wave, because this guy seemed to be a little too conscious in some aspects. And Filo seemed to be in the same situation.
“It’s so troublesome. Really, why do I have to be so troubled by these things?” Accelerator smacked his lips, while Raphtalia looked at Accelerator in confusion.
“Let’s go.” Accelerator said and opened the door of the room.
“Eh?” Raphtalia was stunned for a moment, but soon she followed him without saying anything. However, after thinking for a moment, she said, “What about Filo?”
“Isn’t that girl still lying in bed? Just let her continue sleeping.” Accelerator said casually. He just went out to update Raphtalia’s equipment. Filo itself is just a Filo bird. If he really wants to fight, he doesn’t need the equipment required by a humanoid.
“Yeah.” Although she was a little worried about Filo, Raphtalia still followed her master away.
“Oh! Young man, you’re here to take care of my business again.” The owner of the weapons shop saw Accelerator and Raphtalia from a distance, and walked over to them enthusiastically.
“Oh? This is the little girl from before, she has grown up so fast.” The owner of the weapon shop said as soon as he saw Raphtalia because he had bought equipment for her from the owner of the weapon shop before.
“Because he’s a demihuman, boss,” said Raphtalia.
“It seems that you have been training very hard recently.” The owner of the weapons shop nodded and said, “So, are you here to update the equipment for the little girl this time?”
“Ah, yes, the budget is 10 gold coins. Uncle, please help me get a set of equipment for this guy.” Accelerator said, then took out a gold coin and put it on the table.
“Oh! Leave it to me! Little girl, please come with me.” The owner of the weapons shop patted his chest and said, then took Raphtalia to the other side of the store, probably to find suitable protective gear for Raphtalia.
Accelerator was not the kind of person who couldn’t sit still. Even though he had nothing to do, he could still sit quietly in the store and rest his mind. But after a while, he heard such a sound coming from outside.
“Damn it! How dare this beast dirty my clothes? Master Yuankang! Help me get revenge!”
“Yeah, whose fat chicken is this? How dare they let it run around in the main city? That’s too much.”
“……What!”
“Master Motoyasu! Be careful!”
“Bang!” The sound of a blunt object hitting someone.
“Puff!” A man screamed.
“Ah! Damn it! Unforgivable, you fat chicken, how dare you kick Master Yuankang in the crotch?!”
“Who is raising this monster? I know you are nearby, right? Listen carefully, I am the first princess of the empire, Maddie S. Melomag, and I am ordering you to come out immediately as a royal!”
“Huh?” Accelerator, who was sitting in the store with his eyes closed, was stunned. He looked outside and saw the Gun Hero Kitamura Motoyasu and his group, as well as the super-large Filobird surrounded by them.
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36: Before the Wave (1) (Old Version)
“Who is raising the monster? I know you are nearby, right? Listen carefully, I am the first princess of the empire, Maddie S. Melomag, and now I am ordering you to come out immediately as a member of the royal family!” On the street, Maine shouted loudly to the people around her, and at this time, a bunch of ordinary people who were curious had gathered around.
“If you continue to hide now, I will launch a nationwide search later. If you are caught then, the consequences will be much more serious than they are now! I advise you to show up and surrender immediately! Otherwise, I will start by killing this beast that injured Lord Yuankang!” Seeing that no one came out for a while, Maine threatened again in a sinister tone. At the same time, a group of armored soldiers rushed over from behind, pointing swords at Filo.
And this time, a young man in white finally walked out from one end of the crowd.
“…Really? You guys can have fun with such small stakes. You scumbags.”
This voice – hot, white, and crazy.
A few drops of cold sweat appeared on Yuankang, Mai Yin and his companions’ foreheads. They were deeply impressed by this voice. This was the voice of the Shield Hero who had overwhelming power among the Four Saints from the very beginning!
“It’s my turn now. Let’s have some fun together. By the way, I’ll let you guys learn what the style of a villain is.” The smile on Accelerator’s face was chilling. It was a smile that gave people a strong desire to destroy and take pleasure in killing. . .
Well… Although I said that, Accelerator really didn’t want to get in touch with these people when he was in the weapon shop before. Because… they were too boring and childish. Dealing with them was like dealing with ants. You could crush them to death with just a flick of your finger, and there would be a lot of trouble after crushing them. It was really not worth it.
However, just as Accelerator thought, the trapped super-large Filo Bird was indeed Filo, which made Accelerator no longer stand by and watch. It was probably because this guy woke up and found that Raphtalia and himself were missing, so he rushed out to find them without caring about anything. And because it is a magical beast, it has a strong intuition about smells, and the place it finally found was very close to them.
At this time, Yuankang and his group were also a little confused. Like Accelerator, they didn’t want to contact Accelerator right now, but how could this be related to this guy?
“Yuan, Lord Yuankang, actually if you think about it carefully, we don’t have to worry.” Suddenly, Mai Yin calmed down after panicking, thought for a while and whispered to Yuankang.
She thought that the current Kitamura Motoyasu was no longer the Kitamura Motoyasu who was just summoned. In order to help Kitamura Motoyasu quickly improve his level, she spent a lot of effort on national strength, such as information on rare monsters, divine water that can restore the hero’s SP, sending soldiers to first cripple the powerful monsters before letting Motoyasu go up to harvest… and so on. In comparison, how high can the level of a lone Shield Hero be? Level 15? Level 20? In the case of a huge difference in level, even if the individual strength is stronger than the average level of the level, it is impossible to defeat an enemy with a much higher level than oneself. Otherwise, what legendary weapons are needed? What other levels are needed?
What she didn’t expect was that when she was about to simply tell Yuan Kang about these thoughts, Yuan Kang said to her first: “Panic? Not really, Myin, I’m not stupid either. I know that my current strength should be able to suppress this guy. But the problem is that this guy is not a simple one. You also know that he has some unknown special abilities, which is too difficult to deal with. I can only fight him 60-40 at most. If you want to defeat him completely, you need to pay a certain price. In two days, the wave will come, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to help fight the wave by then.”
“What…are we just going to let this guy go?” Maine said reluctantly.
“There’s nothing I can do about it. After all, as the Gun Hero, my goal is to save the world and completely defeat the wave. I shouldn’t ignore the overall situation and use up my strength before the wave comes. Main, just be patient. Believe me, I will teach this guy a lesson after the next wave is over. I’m giving it to you and to avenge myself!” Yuankang said seriously, looking into Main’s eyes.
“Ah… Lord Motoyasu! What a noble spirit of sacrifice. Putting aside personal grudges for the sake of the overall situation, Lord Motoyasu…” Mai Yin looked emotional.
“?” Accelerator on this side didn’t understand what these two guys were doing. Just when he was about to step over them without thinking, Motoyasu on this side suddenly looked at him and spoke.
“The Shield Hero… No, I should call you Accelerator, right?”
“Oh?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, but soon realized that this guy had investigated him. Thinking about it, he seemed to have only mentioned his name in the hotel where he talked with Zart before. Is there a royal spy there? Tsk tsk, the princess’s intelligence network is really exaggerated.
“Heh.” Seeing Accelerator stunned for a moment, Kitamura Motoyasu on this side actually had the upper hand and an expression that everything was under control, and said: “Accelerator, since this fat chicken is your monster, I will not pursue it for the time being. If you are also considered a hero, then you should also stop for the time being.”
“…” Accelerator didn’t say anything because he knew that this guy had more to say.
“Beep, beep!” When Filo heard Yuan Kang calling her a fat chicken, she yelled twice in displeasure. However, due to the group of soldiers around her, she couldn’t express her dissatisfaction directly with actions.
“In two days, the next wave will come. I don’t want to spend a lot of effort to deal with you, only to have the water pass by while I’m dealing with the wave. I’m sure you feel the same way about this, right?” Yuan Kang said.
Huh? You? How come you are so confident after a few days? If you say so, I can crush you to death with just a flick of my finger. I don’t even need to use a little bit of strength, let alone a lot of strength.
Accelerator was about to say this when he heard voices of admiration from the people around him.
“Ah… As expected of the Spear Hero, your spirit is admirable!” and so on.
“……It’s so troublesome.” Accelerator sighed. That’s why it would be a lot of trouble if he just killed them. He was not in the right in this aspect.
But he was originally a villain who called himself a villain, so there was no need for him to be right – this was the original situation. However, now that Raphtalia and Filo were by his side, Accelerator did not want them to be treated like rats crossing the street like himself.
37: Before the Wave (2) (Old Version)
Since Accelerator didn’t say anything and also restrained his crazy and murderous aura, Kitamura Motoyasu and his group soon left, and the people who had gathered around them also dispersed.
But before leaving, they seemed to be still discussing the positive image of the Spear Hero and the negative image of him, the Shield Hero.
“Beep, beep!” As soon as Filo saw the soldiers surrounding her leave, she happily moved towards Accelerator.
“It’s so disgusting. The feathers are so hot. Go away.” Accelerator pushed him away with a look of disgust, while Filo on this side had a very disappointed expression, but the next second, she seemed to suddenly think of something and looked enlightened.
“If you dare to transform into a human form now, I will throw you away.” Accelerator immediately saw what Filo was thinking and said lightly.
“Beep…” Philo lowered his head in disappointment.
After all, Filo will be completely naked after changing from Filo bird form to human form, and Accelerator doesn’t want the rumor that “The Shield Hero is a pervert and a lolita complex” to spread around.
In this case, we need to find someone to make a magical coat that can be transformed and worn at any time. Accelerator thought so.
“Master, I seemed to hear some noise outside just now. What happened? Eh? Filo, why are you here? Are you looking for us?” At this time, Raphtalia had already equipped herself with a new set of equipment and walked out, and then saw Filo and said with some surprise.
“Beep!” Philo shouted in response.
Accelerator looked at Raphtalia’s new equipment with some curiosity. To be honest, it looked quite realistic, like a high-ranking female knight in a medieval fantasy movie. The silver-white armor and sword inlaid with magic gems, coupled with Raphtalia’s pure and bright facial features and beautiful figure, made Accelerator sincerely sigh at the concept of “beauty”.
“Hey, that’s really good. You look pretty good after dressing up. You’re so different from when I bought you from the slave trader. I can’t tell you’re the same person. It looks like I can make a lot of money if I sell you back! What a good deal.” Accelerator said with a wicked smile.
“Hey! Master, stop joking, really!” Raphtalia also knew that Accelerator was not the kind of person who was interested in money, so she didn’t worry about anything. She pouted in annoyance, and this part was just like a child.
“Wow, you two have a really good relationship.” The owner of the weapons shop also came out of the shop at this time and asked, “Brother, what do you think of this set of equipment I chose for the little girl?”
“Not bad, uncle. You’re quite capable.” Accelerator said truthfully.
“Yeah, I’m really happy to hear you say that. But even so, this set of equipment won’t cost ten gold coins.” The owner of the weapon shop scratched his head and handed five gold coins to Accelerator, saying, “This is the remaining money. There were originally a few silver coins, but I was too lazy to give the change. You won’t mind, will you?”
“Oh? That’s not the case, but what does this mean?” Accelerator said, then looked at the five gold coins in his hand and asked curiously, is this set of equipment of Raphtalia worth less than five gold coins? Is it some inferior product that the uncle gave?
“Because if we give her equipment that is too high-end, it will not match the girl’s current strength and she will not be able to use it easily, so it is more appropriate to give her equipment that best suits her.” The weapon shop owner scratched his head and said.
“I see, so what’s most important is to have it handy.” Accelerator said after thinking for a while.
“Yes! Yes, the boss is right, master. I feel that I can use this set of equipment very easily.” Raphtalia also nodded. The smile on her face should mean that she was happy to get a weapon that suits her.
“That’s fine…” So Accelerator didn’t care whether the equipment was cheap or not. However, when he turned around and saw Filo, he suddenly thought of something else.
“By the way, uncle, do you know that there are clothes that can be worn by monsters, which will not be damaged when the monsters transform into human form or transform back into monsters?”
The owner of the weapons shop nodded, pointed Accelerator in a direction, and said, “Oh, clothes made of magic silk? The tailor shop over there seems to make them.”
“Got it.” Accelerator said.
Accelerator soon brought Raphtalia and Filo back to the inn. Of course, before that, they had gone to the tailor shop to have their clothes customized. It seemed that the making process was a bit troublesome, so it would take some time before they could pick them up. Accelerator roughly calculated that it seemed that they could just get them before the wave came.
Accelerator plans to read more magic books in the next two days to improve his understanding of magic. Although he doesn’t know why he can’t cast magic, the principle should be correct. As long as he understands the principle, it will not only satisfy his curiosity, but more importantly, after understanding this magic, he can use this magic as an ordinary “vector” for “reflection”. In case there is an opponent who can cast magic in the wave, he can be more prepared.
Filo here seemed to really dislike maintaining her original Filobird form. No, or rather, she really wanted to hug Accelerator. After returning to the hotel, she directly changed into a naked loli form and entangled with Accelerator again.
“Hey, Fei, Filo, don’t bother the master like this!” Raphtalia said, pulling Filo.
“Why? Sister Raphtalia, do you really want to compete with Filo for the master’s love? Filo will not lose!” Filo said with fighting spirit.
“What nonsense are you talking about!” Raphtalia said with a headache.
“Philo will surely prove that the master’s most useful slave is Philo’s!”
“So what are you fighting about?”
“Ah… it’s so noisy.” Accelerator muttered to himself, then quietly sat down at the desk and set “sound” to the “reflection list”.
38: Wave (1) (old version)
Then basically, these two days were similar to what Accelerator planned. He read more than ten magic books in his room and could be said to have stayed at home. He asked Raphtalia to help get Filo’s clothes. As for Raphtalia’s situation, needless to say, she was naturally willing to follow Accelerator’s arrangements. Although Filo felt bored and had nothing to do, he did not try to sneak out to cause any trouble to Accelerator, and was quite obedient.
And now the day when the wave comes has finally arrived, but Accelerator and the others are still staying in the room. The one who is supposed to read is still reading, while the other two are full of energy and ready to fight at any time.
“Master, is it really okay if we don’t prepare anything now?” Raphtalia said after thinking about it, still a little worried.
“Ha, what are you talking about? We’ve been preparing for this the whole time,” Accelerator replied casually.
“Hey, master, where is that wave you mentioned? Is it fun?” asked Philo.
“How could I know where it is? Didn’t we say that we will be automatically teleported there when the time is up?” Accelerator said. Just as he finished speaking, there was a sudden flash outside the window, and a large patch of red light came in.
“It has begun.” Accelerator said, and golden light flashed around the three of them. Something like a magic teleportation array appeared under their feet, and then they disappeared from the spot the next second.
Halfway up a mountain around Root Village, several golden lights flashed, and then Accelerator and the other two were teleported here.
At this moment, the sky had turned blood red, redder than the sunset glow, and several strange huge holes in the shape of large paramecium described in biology books appeared. Because of the distance, ordinary people could only see a large number of black dots like locusts pouring out of these holes. But Accelerator’s eyes could clearly see that a series of undead creatures including skeleton soldiers, abominations, and three-headed dogs fell from the sky. At first glance, these densely packed creatures, at least tens of thousands, landed in an area including Root Village and the surrounding mountains.
“It’s really spectacular.” Accelerator sighed. This is a scene that cannot be seen on Earth. Just as he was thinking about what to do next, he suddenly saw a golden light flashing on several other mountains around Root Village. Then three rays of light flew out from three different directions, and their targets were all the wave hole in the center of the monster.
“These three guys…” Accelerator frowned. He knew without guessing that these must be the actions of the three heroes. It seemed that they had set their sights on Big Head and did not take the small monsters that were swarming around them seriously.
Indeed, let alone Accelerator, these minions were really weak even in the eyes of the three heroes. They should be the kind of “little monsters” that can be defeated in one move. It is natural that they are not regarded as opponents. However, there is such a big village around. Are these guys blind? No one has been notified in advance. How can those villagers who are powerless resist the attack of such a large number of monsters?
“Master, that’s…” Raphtalia pointed in the direction of Root Village and said to Accelerator with some concern, but was interrupted by Accelerator before she could finish.
“Ah, I get it. Really, why do I have to do this? Tsk.” Accelerator smacked his lips in displeasure. He looked really reluctant and it didn’t seem like he was pretending.
Although the monsters landed randomly in the wave, the number of monsters was so exaggerated, and this area was so small. Even if the percentage of monsters that fell in Lute Village was not high, there were still hundreds of them. Just as Accelerator thought, these villagers were completely unable to deal with them. Even judging from the momentum of these monsters, it might not take more than a hundred monsters, but twenty or thirty monsters could easily kill them all.
The general situation was that a skeleton soldier fell from the sky, and then immediately killed a villager with a backhand knife. The villager tried to attack the skeleton soldier, but could not cause any effective damage. The temporary combat force assembled by these villagers could be said to be collapsed at the touch of a button.
“Ah! No, don’t come over! Please…” A woman protected her child behind her and slowly backed away with a look of mourning and fear on her face. The child behind her was also trembling with fear and could only hide behind her mother and kept backing away. Unfortunately, both of them had already retreated to the wall.
But it was obvious that no matter how much they shouted at the skeleton soldiers, it was useless. They seemed to only be able to kill aliens indiscriminately. Several skeleton soldiers trapped the two of them in a corner and then raised their knives.
“Who, who can come and save us, brave man, hero, please save us…” As if she was praying, the woman closed her eyes, or as if she was waiting to die. As for the child behind her, he was already crying with fear.
But the skeleton soldier did not stop and swung his sword down directly.
With a “crack”, the sound of bones being cut into pieces was heard.
“Mom!!” The child looked at his mother in extreme horror, probably knowing what had happened. But the next second he found that his mother was still intact and not injured at all.
“Eh?” Not only the children, but even the women were stunned. A white figure had appeared in front of them without them noticing, and the young man was equipped with a shield on his right arm.
“Damn it! It’s so weird that a villain like me is standing in front of us! No matter how I think about it, this must be a mistake.” Accelerator smashed the skeleton soldiers in front of him to pieces with a wave of his hand, and then looked at the three heroes who were fighting the leader of the wave with an angry and irritated look, “Really? If you call yourself a hero, then hurry over here now, so that this misalignment won’t happen in the first place, you bastard!”
39: Wave (2) (old version)
After all, these skeleton soldiers were just ordinary small fry. The moment they touched Accelerator’s body, their entire bodies were shattered into ashes, which was completely unworthy of the force that Accelerator “reflected” back.
“Brave… Brave Master?” the woman said blankly. She seemed to be a little familiar with this figure. Wasn’t this the Shield Hero who had stayed in their village temporarily some time ago?
“Tsk, really. Since you have no fighting ability, just gather with the others and don’t cause trouble for others, Auntie.” Accelerator smacked his lips and complained, meaning that I will block it here, and you guys quickly go to where there are more people to take shelter.
“Yes, yes.” After a moment’s pause, the woman immediately nodded, looked at Accelerator with gratitude, and ran towards the village square with her child.
At this moment, Raphtalia and Filo were doing the same thing as Accelerator. They all wanted to gather the villagers together so that it would be easier for them to protect them from harm by monsters.
Accelerator observed for a while and found that Raphtalia and Filo had surprisingly strong strength. They could deal with these monsters very easily. Raphtalia killed them one by one without even swinging a second sword. She spent more time talking to the villagers to seek shelter than fighting. Filo turned into Filo Bird. Although she was fat, she was very flexible and efficient in fighting. After killing the monsters, she spoke in human language and told them to seek shelter. Although she scared them at first, they immediately went to the village square to seek shelter after they reacted.
As for himself, he knocked down everyone with one punch. He even kept paying attention to whether Raphtalia and Filo had missed any villagers. If so, he would throw a stone to help them out.
“Yes…we’re saved!” the villagers shouted as they ran.
“It’s the hero!”
“Master Shield Hero! He’s here to save us!”
“Ah…” Accelerator could occasionally hear such sounds, but instead of being unhappy, he felt even more annoyed.
It’s really annoying to listen to… What the hell are those three idiots doing? They are so hateful, bastards.
“Master, all the villagers have gathered in the square for shelter.” At this time, Raphtalia ran over and said.
“Beep!” Filo also came from another direction and called out twice to express the same meaning as Raphtalia.
“But… the number of monsters around doesn’t seem to have decreased at all.” Raphtalia said with some annoyance. These monsters are just like the zombies in zombie movies on Earth. They can never be killed.
“It doesn’t matter. These monsters are no problem for Filo!”
“But Philo, this is not the reason why there is a problem for us, this is…”
“Filo, change into human form!” Accelerator suddenly shouted.
“Eh? Master, are you going to love Filo at this time?” Filo asked, tilting his head.
“Hurry up! You fat bird!” Accelerator yelled directly, so Filo didn’t say much and directly changed into the form of a blonde loli angel. Of course, because of the magic coat, she was finally not completely naked.
Accelerator directly embraced Filo and Raphtalia in his arms, and then used his legendary shield for a rare time, transforming it into the form of [Yinglong Heart Shield], and then protected Raphtalia and Filo in front of him.
“Eh?!” Raphtalia didn’t react for a moment and her face turned red. Filo closed his eyes with a look of enjoyment.
But the next second, they heard several “boom, boom, boom!” sounds, which made them understand what was happening. They looked out of the gap and saw fireballs like meteors falling from the sky, indiscriminately attacking the monsters and Accelerator and the other two.
Accelerator could see more clearly because he had switched to the [Yinglong Heart Shield]. From a distance, he could see more than a dozen red and yellow characters floating on the opposite side. They were [Captain of the First Squadron of the Melomag Knights] and [Member of the First Squadron of the Melomag Knights].
“Hahahaha…I’m going to burn to death in one breath.”
“As expected of the group magic [Meteor Swarm], the killing power is indeed great. These low-level wave monsters are simply not vulnerable to it.”
“Oh? That’s over there?”
“The Shield Hero? He’s really strong. I didn’t expect he could survive this.”
……There was such a voice.
“Damn it! Master, are they planning to burn us to death together?” Philo said angrily immediately.
Raphtalia suddenly lost the thrill she had felt in her heart from being hugged by Accelerator. Her face turned gloomy and she suddenly pushed away the [Yinglong Heart Shield] that was blocking Accelerator in front of her. She drew her sword and rushed to the front of the knight team leader at an extremely fast speed, and slashed at him with all her strength.
“Clang!” This was the sound of metal hitting metal. Although the captain was stunned and did not react, the knight next to him, who was holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, reacted and attacked directly with shield and sword, trying to block Raphtalia’s attack.
But what level is Raphtalia now? Coupled with Accelerator’s [Slave Growth Correction Bonus], this little knight couldn’t withstand Raphtalia’s attack at all, and was directly knocked away. Raphtalia didn’t stop, and directly pointed her sword at the knight captain, and shouted in a low voice: “Knowing that the master is here, you still cast magic of this scale? I will decide whether to kill you based on your answer!”
“Uh…” The captain of the knights did not expect Raphtalia’s speed and strength to be so exaggerated. He took a step back in fear, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
“Raphtalia, stop.” A voice immediately stopped Raphtalia’s movements, because it was the voice of her most respected master.
“But! Master, these people……!” Raphtalia thought that her master wanted to spare these knights, and said unwillingly, but she turned around to look at Accelerator, and was immediately speechless.
Because Accelerator’s expression, how could it be said that he was going to spare anyone? Killing intent, madness, passion, malice, anger… and that twisted smile, basically it could be said that it was an expression that gathered all the negative emotions in the world. When Raphtalia saw this face, she immediately knew that she had misunderstood her master’s meaning, so she immediately obeyed her master’s words, put away the sword and stepped back a few steps.
40: Wave (3) (old version)
“Hey, hey, is it because I rescued these villagers that you guys got the illusion that I’m a good person and easy to get along with? Or do you think that an attack of this magnitude can hurt me? I don’t know what you guys are thinking, but…” Accelerator said, and then his smile gradually became distorted:
“I will kill you all.”
Accelerator lightly touched the ground with his toes, and the next second, he flew out like an arrow, arriving in front of the captain of the Knights’ first team in an instant.
“Hahahaha! You’re in trouble because I’m really mad at the moment!” Accelerator laughed crazily and stretched out his hand. He inserted his four fingers into the captain’s mouth, then pinched his chin with his thumb and exerted force.
With a “crack” sound, the captain of the Knights’ team had his entire jaw torn off by Accelerator. His flesh and blood burst out and he fainted in an instant. The expression on the upper half of his face seemed to be that he would not believe that he would die like this until his death.
“Hahaha! So happy, so great! I didn’t expect that such a scumbag could make me so excited, hahaha!” Accelerator laughed wildly, and threw the body of the knight captain aside. Then he spread his arms and said to the dozen or so knights in front of him: “Come on! I will let you die magnificently, thank me!”
Under such momentum, these dozen or so knights actually retreated as if it was natural for them to do so in the face of a person like Accelerator.
“Don’t, don’t be afraid! There’s only one guy! If we all attack together, there will be no problem!” Suddenly a voice shouted from the Knights, and this voice directly became the spiritual pillar of their team under this situation. Although they had no basis for the opponent’s strength, it was precisely because of this sentence that they finally had some hope of fighting.
So the knight who shouted this sentence took advantage of the momentum, raised his sword, and rushed towards Accelerator.
“Ahhhhhh!!” the knight yelled, as if to encourage his own side’s morale, and ran towards Accelerator while yelling, “Die! You monster!”
In stark contrast to him, Accelerator laughed excitedly: “Hahahaha! You came just in time, you bastard!!”
Then, Accelerator did not dodge or evade the oncoming sword, but laughed madly, allowing the sword to pierce him, and he reached out his hand to touch the opponent’s skin.
With a “bang”, the surrounding air was dyed red by blood mist in an instant, and the result of the confrontation soon came out. Accelerator was unharmed, while the knight didn’t even have time to scream. He exploded like a balloon, and blood spurted out like a fountain.
“Hahahaha! This is unbelievable, how can a human body have so much blood?! Then who’s next? Hey! You scum over there!” Accelerator shouted, but he found that the dozen or so knights who were originally standing opposite him were all scared and ran away in the opposite direction.
“Ah? Hey, you guys are just pretending? You’re so lame.” Accelerator shook his head and said disappointedly, “…Well, run away.”
The fleeing knights heard his whispers and felt relieved, thinking that the demon was not going to chase them, but unfortunately, Accelerator did not seem to intend to let them escape.
“Because the longer you run, the longer you live. This is a game where you’ll die if you’re caught.” Accelerator said viciously, then put his hands in his pockets and walked leisurely towards the fleeing team of knights.
“Wow… Master is too cruel. He wants to kill everyone.” Philo said, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
“What’s wrong, Filo, are you scared?” Raphtalia suddenly asked.
“How could you be afraid of the master? I know that the master is the best at pretending. In fact, he is very gentle at heart. It is impossible for him to be afraid, right?” Filo looked at Raphtalia strangely, as if he was really surprised that Raphtalia asked this question.
Of course, if Accelerator himself heard what she said, he would probably say something like “It’s strange that you would have such an illusion!”
“Eh? Filo, you…” After hearing Filo’s words, Raphtalia looked at her strangely and said, “You understand the master better than I thought.”
———————One hour later———————
At this time, it seemed that the three heroes over there had finally killed the leader of the wave, and the blood-red sky gradually faded and returned to its original color. And Accelerator also caught up with the last person slowly.
“Ah, is it finally over, over there?” Accelerator said while looking at the sky. Because all the monsters in Root Village were killed by the group magic [Meteor Shower], Accelerator played the cat and mouse game for a long time without rushing.
The other party, the knight who had been running away, probably knew that Accelerator was making fun of him, and now that the wave was over, he…
With a “bang”, a small stone pierced his heart and ended his life.
“Tsk, I really hope that after this lesson, the people of this country can grow their brains, so that I don’t have to deal with garbage like this so often.” Accelerator muttered to himself.
On the other hand, Raphtalia and Filo, who also learned about the situation, are still receiving thanks from the villagers.
“Thank you so much. Without you, we would have died here.” A man who looked like the village chief bowed deeply to Raphtalia and Filo.
“It is because of you that we can survive.” said another villager, also with a grateful look on his face.
“By the way, where is the Shield Hero? We want to thank that kind man in person.” The villagers asked Raphtalia and Filo.
“Eh… Master?” Raphtalia scratched her head, with a troubled expression, and said, “The master should be back soon, but… Although I also hope that you can thank the master in person, but based on my understanding of the master, if you thank him, the master…”
Philo next to him said, “The master will probably say something like ‘I just happened to do this when I was passing by. Whether you live or die has nothing to do with me.'”
Raphtalia also nodded and said helplessly: “Master… that’s the bad thing. It’s too dishonest.”
“Eh? Is that so?” The village chief scratched his head, but still said, “It was that adult who saved us. No matter what, we must go and thank him.”
“Well, I know, so I just said it in advance, I hope you don’t misunderstand the master’s meaning…” Raphtalia said.
After all, he thought of Raphtalia and Filo still in Ruth Village. Although he felt that if he went to Ruth Village, those villagers would say some troublesome and disgusting things to him, he still went back quickly.
“Thank you so much, brave man.” The village chief and a group of villagers came to the village entrance to welcome Accelerator. He bowed deeply and said, “If it weren’t for you, this village would have been ruined… We will never forget your kindness, and we will definitely repay you.”
“Ha.” It was almost as expected. Accelerator said indifferently: “I just happened to do it when I was passing by. Whether you live or die has nothing to do with me.”
village head:”……”
41: Banquet (Old Version)
On the night when the wave was resolved, the Melomag royal family hosted a banquet and invited all those who participated in the wave crusade and some high-ranking nobles. According to the terms that the four holy warriors negotiated with the king on the first day of their advent, they were to receive rewards based on their merits.
Accelerator thought about it for a while and thought that the reward was not a big deal. He mainly wanted to let Raphtalia and Filo experience the scene of this large-scale banquet, so he took Raphtalia and Filo to participate.
Looking at the surroundings, Accelerator felt somewhat familiar, because this was the palace hall where he had caused a big fuss before, but now it was filled with dining tables and food. Compared with other heroes, he, the Shield Hero, was quite unpopular. The other three heroes were constantly approached by nobles and young ladies, but he was much more miserable. Fortunately, he didn’t care about these. After eating something casually, he sat by the window sill alone to enjoy the scenery.
However, Raphtalia and Filo were very active, constantly looking for delicious food on various tables. For them, they were just there to eat.
“Hey! Accelerator, I didn’t expect you to be here too.” Suddenly, a big man’s voice came to Accelerator’s ears.
“If I wasn’t here, why did you come to see me, Colt?” Accelerator smiled and turned around. Sure enough, the person who came over was Colt, the commander of the First Legion, who had talked to him before. Yes, one of the main reasons for him to attend the banquet was this guy.
“Haha, you’re so annoying, kid, you speak so directly.” Colt said with a laugh. Indeed, although he had received the invitation to this banquet, he had not planned to attend. But when he thought that Accelerator, the Shield Hero, might attend, he came after thinking about it.
“Then what? What about what I said before? How have you considered it?” Accelerator took a drink from the side and said while drinking.
“Huh? Need I say more? Of course I did it!” Colt laughed loudly, then leaned over to Accelerator and whispered, “I’ve long been annoyed with the people of the Vatican and Melomag XXXII. The whole country has been messed up by these maggots. It’s a good opportunity to help Her Majesty the Queen clean up the country while she’s busy with diplomacy. I’m sure she’ll be very satisfied when she comes back.”
Yes, what Accelerator had discussed with him before was to raise the banner of rebellion and overthrow the current Meromag XXXII. Although if he wanted to overthrow Meromag XXXII, he could achieve his goal through violence alone, but in that case he would inevitably become the target of public criticism, and it would be inconvenient for him to do anything.
Because if he did that, he would give people the impression of being a natural disaster, tyrannical, unreasonable, and powerful enough to destroy a country, just like the Tide. This kind of unit would often develop into a unit that everyone would be on guard against, and even countries would organize to deal with it together. He himself didn’t care, but Raphtalia and Filo might have a hard time. And if he pulled the First Legion together, he could use “Her Majesty the Queen” as a shield, because the Queen was the supreme ruler of the country. In this way, he could raise countless banners of justice, and even directly say that Meromag XXXII had committed treason.
There are many benefits to doing this, one of which is the will of the people. Where the will of the people is, there is no enemy. That’s the truth. Even Accelerator has no confidence in accomplishing anything under the circumstances of being the target of public criticism. Of course, there is not only this point, but also another point, which is the most important point – interesting. Yes, Accelerator really thinks it is very interesting, this kind of ancient war… It’s rare for him to be so interested in something. If it weren’t for this, why would he have to go through so much trouble to deal with this Melomag XXXII?
“By the way, in that case, is there anything you need me to do?” Colt asked.
“You don’t have to do anything. Just wait for my news.” Accelerator said, “You are the general of Melomag. It will be easy for me to find you.”
“Is that so?” Colt nodded and said, “But what if King Melomag finds out about my situation? How can I contact you?”
“We’re not doing anything right now, so there’s no way we can find you. Don’t worry.” Accelerator said directly.
“Oh well.”
So the two of them chatted about nothing, and Colt left to chat with some other familiar nobles.
Just when Accelerator was about to enjoy this rare quiet moment quietly, Raphtalia and Filo came over. They had probably been there for a long time, but they didn’t come over to disturb him because they saw Colt chatting with his master. At this time, Colt left, so the two of them trotted over happily, each holding a plate of food.
“Master, please try this, it’s delicious.” Raphtalia said as she picked up a piece of pastry with the fork in her hand and placed it next to Accelerator’s mouth.
Seeing that she had already handed the food to his mouth, although Accelerator was a little reluctant, he still opened his mouth and ate a piece.
“How is it?” Raphtalia asked Accelerator with an expectant look.
“It tastes terrible, and the texture is like eating rotten fish.” Accelerator smacked his lips and said, well, although it was a bit too much, these so-called royal pastries were really just coarse grains in Accelerator’s opinion, and the only advantage was that the ingredients were relatively novel. But even so, Accelerator felt that the bread in any supermarket in Academy City was better than this, and it was indeed a gap in food processing technology.
“Eh…” Raphtalia lowered her head in disappointment, and her tail drooped down with it. This guy is really easy to understand… Accelerator thought to himself as he looked at her tail.
“Hey, master, come and try this. Filo just ate it and it was really, really delicious!” Filo on the other side also spoke, and handed Accelerator a…sausage?
“Hey, you little brat…” Accelerator’s eye twitched, and he was about to scold Filo, when suddenly, out of the corner of his eye he saw a black glove thrown in front of him.
“Oh?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows and looked up.
“Accelerator, let’s duel! If you lose, I want you to release Raphtalia and Filo immediately!” Kitamura Motoyasu danced with guns handsomely, then stared at Accelerator and said seriously.
42: Banquet (1) (Old version)
“Accelerator, let’s duel!” Kitamura Motoyasu danced with guns handsomely, then stared at Accelerator and said seriously.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned. To be honest, this scene looked very familiar. It seemed that when he was in Academy City, people often challenged him like this. But the problem was, wasn’t this guy beaten by him just a few days ago? Why did he suddenly become so confident?
“What’s wrong, Accelerator, are you scared?” Yuankang said with a smile.
“Huh? Afraid of you? You weakling? A waste that’s not even a soldier?” Accelerator retorted subconsciously. The expression on his face was really weird, as if he said this not intentionally to irritate the other party, but as if he really felt weird in his heart.
“…” A well-shaped character appeared on Kitamura Motoyasu’s forehead. He had originally intended to irritate Accelerator, but the other party angered him instead with just one sentence. “Well, in that case, let’s have a fair duel to see whether your shield is stronger or my spear is sharper!”
“Stop being so arrogant. I don’t even need a shield to deal with you. Bare hands are enough.” Accelerator sighed and said.
“You…” Kitamura Motoyasu’s anger level continued to rise, and he said, “Well, if I win, I want you to immediately free Raphtalia and Filo, and you are not allowed to enslave them any more!”
“Huh?” Not only Accelerator, but also Raphtalia and Filo were stunned. What was this doing?
“Enslaving slaves is not what a hero should do, you guy! Do you have any shame?!” Motoyasu said angrily, pointing at Accelerator.
At this time, the Sword Hero Lian and the Bow Hero Shu who heard this also discussed:
“Ah, you actually let slaves be your companions.”
“I have fallen…”
“???” Filo and Raphtalia were both puzzled. They had no idea what the people around them were talking about, nor did they know what Yuankang meant by what he said. On the other hand, Accelerator probably knew what this guy was thinking.
“Okay, but what if I win? What will you do?” asked Accelerator.
“If you win…” Yuan Kang was stunned. To be honest, because of his recent strength increase, from lv1 to lv43 in just a few days, he became unprecedentedly confident, and became more and more convinced that he was indeed the protagonist in the comic novel, who traveled through time after being chopped by a hatchet, learned all kinds of magical skills in a second, and had beautiful women throwing themselves at him… These were all the treatment of a protagonist. Although he was brutally beaten by Accelerator, who was also a time traveler, on the first day after arriving in the other world, he firmly believed that was the standard plot of the protagonist in second-rate novels where things go from bad to better in the first thirty years. So now that Accelerator says what he would do if he loses… Yeah, he really didn’t think that he would lose.
“If I lose, then you can just do whatever you want like before.” Yuan Kang thought about it and said, meaning that he wanted to get something for nothing.
“Ha, I say…are you really stupid or are you just pretending? If it’s the method of anger, I admit it’s really clever.” To be honest, Accelerator felt like he was being played for a fool. “Sometimes you really seem to want to destroy yourself. I don’t think you’ve ever thought about the price you’ll pay for your momentary verbal pleasure, have you?”
“Master, let’s go. There’s no need to agree to him.” Suddenly, Raphtalia came over and said. For her, the last thing she wanted to see was being freed from her slave status by Accelerator.
Filo on this side was staring at Motoyasu fiercely. It seemed that this guy had some conflicts with Kitamura Motoyasu. However, Filo was still in the form of a giant Filo bird at that time. Motoyasu obviously did not recognize it. He thought that Filo was looking at him with gratitude and accepted Filo’s gaze as a matter of course.
“…” Accelerator wanted to say something. He thought it was okay to accept Kitamura Motoyasu’s challenge. He was also a little annoyed with this guy. He could teach him a lesson, beat him half to death or even kill him. But Melomag XXXII, who was sitting on the throne, spoke first: “Well, I have heard about your conversation. As a hero, you enslaved demi-humans. Everyone has seen it. Those rumors are indeed true. The Shield Hero is indeed a sinner.”
“Yeah, I didn’t expect those rumors to be true… This Shield Hero is simply…”
“I knew I shouldn’t have summoned the Shield Hero. The Sword, Spear, and Bow Heroes are enough.”
“Alas, now that things have come to this…”
“Heh…” Accelerator looked at King Melomag sitting on the throne and the nobles around him with a slightly contemptuous look, but King Melomag continued to speak in the tone of a superior.
“The Shield Hero’s behavior is really embarrassing for the Four Saints. I think it is not an exaggeration to call him the Shield Devil. The Spear Hero took the initiative to stand up and defeat the devil in a one-on-one duel. This spirit is so admirable, so I hereby declare…”
There was a loud “bang” and no one reacted at all. The whole hall fell silent in an instant, including King Melomag sitting on the throne, the nobles beside him, and the three brave men around them, because just now, a black shadow suddenly flew past the right side of King Melomag’s face, making a loud noise.
King Melomag’s movements were frozen. He slowly turned his head to look to his right. A broken wine bottle with a green glow was standing upright on the right side of his face. The shark-tooth-like glass mouth of the bottle was inserted into the wall behind him, and the body of the bottle was sticking to his face, almost piercing his head.
King Melomag slowly turned his head and looked in the direction where the broken wine bottle came from. He soon discovered the source of the sword, which was Accelerator who was standing in the hall.
Everyone was shocked by this sudden situation. No one expected this to happen, including Kitamura Motoyasu, who had just announced a duel with Accelerator. How come this guy suddenly attacked before the duel even started, and he was directly targeting the king over there…
“Sorry, my hand slipped. Oh, by the way, Joker, don’t you want to duel?” Accelerator laughed evilly and said to Kitamura Motoyasu.
43: Duel Prologue (Old Version)
“My hand slipped?” Everyone was stunned when they heard Accelerator’s explanation. This is too fake. Everyone knows that Accelerator definitely did it on purpose, but why? Aren’t you too bold? This was in front of so many people.
At this time, the person involved, King Melomag, also came to his senses. He did not expect such a thing to happen, so he was stunned for a long time. But his first reaction was anger. This guy, he really didn’t take himself seriously, right? After all, he had accomplished countless great deeds, but now it was King Melomag. He was simply not treated as a human being by the other party. So he slammed the table, King Melomag stood up, pointed at Accelerator and asked: “Damn it! Shield, what are you doing?”
However, Accelerator didn’t seem to care about him at all. He turned to look at Kitamura Motoyasu and said, “So, the duel begins now?”
“Uh, this…” Kitamura Motoyasu was also stunned for a while. Is this guy trying to pretend that nothing happened just now? If he started a duel with Accelerator as if nothing happened, wouldn’t it be a sign that he also pretended that nothing happened just now, which would be bad.
“I agree to this duel!” While Kitamura Motoyasu was still hesitating, King Melomag quickly announced, “Hero of the Spear! Please help me teach this evil heretic a lesson!”
Yes, as his daughter, Mai naturally gave him a very reasonable analysis of the strengths of Accelerator and Kitamura Motoyasu, so he was extremely confident in Kitamura Motoyasu at this time, and for a moment he completely forgot about the situation of being bullied by Accelerator a few days ago.
“Okay! Your Majesty, I will live up to everyone’s expectations!” Kitamura Motoyasu said with full energy.
“So where do you get your confidence from…” Accelerator couldn’t help but complain, but Raphtalia behind him pulled him back.
“Master, why are you doing this? There is no need for us to engage in such a senseless duel. There is no benefit at all even if we win. Since they don’t intend to reason with us, let’s just leave and never come to such a place again.” Raphtalia said.
“Shut up and just stay aside.” Accelerator said directly. At this time, a group of soldiers came. One of them walked up to Accelerator and planned to take Accelerator to a place like a duel preparation room. The remaining group of soldiers suddenly broke out, and while Raphtalia and Filo were not prepared, they directly used joint techniques to suppress them.
At this time, King Melomag sighed and said, “Alas, poor slaves, in order to prevent you from being affected by the ‘curse of protecting the master’ and affecting the duel, I have to put you under house arrest temporarily…”
“Ah …
“Damn… shield!!” King Melomag looked at Accelerator angrily. Although he had no idea how he did it, and it looked like Accelerator just stretched out his arms, there was no doubt that it was definitely this guy who did it.
“No matter what your reason is, if you dare to touch these two guys, I will kill you, trash.” Accelerator stared at King Melomag, with murderous intent and madness in his eyes without disguising it.
“Hey, Master…” Raphtalia looked guilty, as if she felt that she had caused trouble for Accelerator. Filo, on the other hand, seemed to be afraid that the situation was not chaotic enough, and looked very excited, and even cheered for Accelerator.
“You…” King Melomag was also frightened by Accelerator’s eyes. He was speechless for a moment, and then ordered the soldiers: “Hurry up and take your shields and prepare for the duel!”
“yes!”
The preparation time was about ten minutes. Accelerator came to a place similar to a preparation room. There was very little light here, and there were only a few weapons of different types. Accelerator tried to hold the sword, but still couldn’t hold the sword because of the prohibition word that popped up in front of him.
However, since it was expected, he had no regrets, and according to his fighting style, he did not need to hold a sword.
Soon Accelerator’s preparation time was over, and the iron gate in front of Accelerator was slowly opened. Then, the person who came into Accelerator’s sight was Kitamura Motoyasu who was standing a hundred meters away.
But Accelerator was more concerned about the surrounding scene than him. The style of the duel arena felt very similar to the Roman Colosseum, and there were circles of spectator seats around it. Because the participants were all nobles and royal families and those who participated in the wave crusade, the seats were sparsely occupied and everyone sat very scattered, so Accelerator could easily see the positions of Raphtalia and Filo.
Raphtalia looked… a little worried. Did she think the strength of the Four Saints was similar? Filo next to her seemed a little too relaxed. When he saw Accelerator coming, he stood up and waved his hands and shouted twice. Although I couldn’t hear him from a distance, judging by the shape of his mouth, he must have said something like “Come on”.
Accelerator walked towards the center of the arena like a tourist, looking around casually, without any sense of nervousness. At this time, a person who looked like a host or referee stood at the side of the arena and said with amplification magic:
“This duel will be witnessed by King Melomag and the Pope! It will be a fair and open duel!”
The Pope? Did Sanyong teach him?
Accelerator took a look with interest and saw that next to King Melomag sat a middle-aged man wearing a white robe, a crown on his head, a pair of glasses, and a short and fat figure. He always had a kind smile on his face and seemed to be a kind person to everyone.
But Accelerator could tell at a glance that this guy was a complete hypocrite. It wasn’t that he could tell from his eyes, but Accelerator saw the big bold red words “Pope Melomag” on his head.
Full of hostility, Accelerator thought.
44: Duel (Old Version)
(5000 words)
“Lord Motoyasu, keep going!” Mai Yin, who was standing at the edge of the duel arena, encouraged Kitamura Motoyasu, and Motoyasu smiled and waved in response.
Accelerator glanced in the direction of Main and found it a bit strange. Although he didn’t have a good impression of this woman, he always felt that her attitude towards him was not too bad. However, now the red name “Maddie S. Melomag” was displayed above her head, and it was obvious that she was a unit hostile to him. And this name… I seem to have heard her call herself that before at the door of the weapon shop, and I thought I heard it wrong. Now it seems that it is true… Main’s name is fake, and there is Melomag’s surname after her name. Is she a royal family of the country?
Well… it doesn’t matter. It has nothing to do with me anyway. Accelerator thought about it casually, and then walked to the center of the duel field. Motoyasu on the opposite side arrived at the same time as him.
“Accelerator.” Kitamura Motoyasu walked to the center of the duel field and said to Accelerator standing opposite him: “You should have heard of that story, right? The story about ‘contradiction’ that came from the ancient East.”
“Ha…” Accelerator yawned in boredom, and without waiting for Kitamura Motoyasu to finish his words, he put the legendary shield on his arm on his waist, meaning that he would not be able to use the shield against you.
“Damn it! You, stop looking down on me!” Kitamura Motoyasu’s eyes twitched, and he said viciously, then said to the referee over there: “Can we start?”
“Well, let the duel begin!” the referee said directly and obediently.
It is better to strike first.
Yuankang thought to himself, then switched the gun to the lightning gun mode with agility bonus, and the next second, he flew directly towards Accelerator like an arrow.
It’s indeed much faster…
Accelerator saw Motoyasu’s movement trajectory and thought to himself. But for him, it was still no different from a turtle’s speed. Originally, because of the large number of “spiritual” attribute points, his dynamic vision was already abnormal enough. In addition, Accelerator was now in the state of “Eye of All Things”, so Motoyasu’s attack speed was really no different from a turtle’s to him. It felt like he could dodge it by just twisting his body, but he didn’t intend to dodge.
“Accelerator! Just surrender! Lightning spear!” Kitamura Motoyasu seemed to be very confident in this move. He rushed to Accelerator and stopped when he was still a certain distance away from him. The lightning spear in his hand instantly stretched several times longer, and actually brought Accelerator, who was still standing ten meters away, into the attack range.
“Hahahhhhh!!!!” Kitamura Motoyasu thrust his spear out with all his might, and in an instant all kinds of special effects of lightning and thunder flashed in the duel arena, and then it was as if a bolt of lightning suddenly pierced through the duel arena, and everyone’s vision flashed with white light.
After blinking——
“That’s it?” Accelerator’s somewhat lazy voice sounded in the center of the duel arena. At this moment, the concrete floor around him had been shattered into pieces by the powerful lightning gun shots, but even Accelerator, who was at the center of the attack, didn’t even have his clothes torn at all. Not to mention being torn, in fact, there wasn’t even a speck of dust on his clothes.
“What… this is impossible!” Kitamura Motoyasu said with his eyes wide open in disbelief. He was very clear about the power of that move just now. It could be said to be a high-powered killing skill that could achieve the legendary “killing people above their level”. So he used his ultimate move right at the beginning this time, just to catch Accelerator off guard. In the end, it seemed that he was caught off guard instead.
Kawasumi Shu and Amaki Ren were equally shocked. Those nobles and royals didn’t know the situation and thought that Motoyasu had just used a small skill, so they were still calm. But as heroes, they also had lightning skills, such as “Lightning Sword” and “Lightning Arrow”, so they also knew that this series of skills belonged to the special moves. As the current spear hero, Kitamura Motoyasu’s “Lightning Spear” was blocked by Accelerator without any injury. Does this mean that their lightning skills are also ineffective against Accelerator? Isn’t this a bit exaggerated?
“Huh? No [Reflection] back?” Accelerator was also stunned for a moment. According to convention, Kitamura Motoyasu’s lightning spear should be rebounded back twice by Accelerator’s [Reflection] wall, directly splitting Kitamura Motoyasu in half.
Could it be that the part of the spear that attacked him was made of fighting spirit and was not a physical entity, so it could not bounce back?
Accelerator felt a little confused. Although he had read a lot of related books recently and understood a lot about concepts such as magic and fighting spirit, the lightning magic in the lightning gun released by Kitamura Motoyasu just now should be very easy to understand… Of course, these are all theoretical things. After all, Accelerator didn’t know the ins and outs of these things and lacked practical experience. This was his first time to [reflect] fighting spirit magic.
“Eh?” Accelerator found that he had been in a daze for a long time, and Kitamura Motoyasu on the opposite side did not attack him. He felt a little strange, so he came to his senses and looked over, and saw that Kitamura Motoyasu was also looking at him in a daze.
“Ah? Why are you frozen?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, then he immediately reacted, with a malicious smile on his face, and said sarcastically: “Oh, yes, sorry, sorry, that move just now seems to be your treasured trump card, right? Hahaha… Yeah, I really overestimated you. After all, you are one of the Four Saints, and you dare to challenge me. I think you can at least play with me for a while, right? Didn’t expect it to end like this? I am really disappointed, clown.”
“But… Damn it, you bastard, you are looking down on me!” Yuankang roared, as if he was inspired by Accelerator’s ridicule.
Don’t panic, this bastard must be trying to provoke me on purpose, I won’t be fooled.
Kitamura Motoyasu suppressed the anger in his heart, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm down. Then he jumped back to create some distance between himself and Accelerator, and then he moved his brain to think for the first time.
Thinking carefully, this guy can’t be invincible. There must be a weakness, there must be something I haven’t thought of. That should be some rare skill that can make him invincible for a short time. There should be a limit on how many times he can use it in a day. Seeing how calm he is, he should still have more times to use it. Damn, what a troublesome guy. Not only does he have high defense, but his attack power is also ridiculously high. Is this guy really the Shield Hero?
Kitamura Motoyasu gritted his teeth, and thought somewhat unwillingly that before he had figured out the situation, he wouldn’t dare to use ordinary attacks to get close to Accelerator without authorization. His previous experience told him that doing so would only get himself hurt.
“There’s no other way… This is the only way.” Kitamura Motoyasu thought for a long time and found that this was indeed the only reliable move. So he looked confident and pointed his spear at Accelerator, saying, “Ha, Accelerator, that move was indeed a trump card, but it consumed very little SP and had a very low cooldown time. Do you know what this means?”
Yes, his solution to this situation is to use the “Lightning Gun” multiple times in a row! He knows (thinks he does) that Accelerator’s “Invincible Golden Body” has a limit on how many times it can be used, and normally it can only be used three times a day. He has just used it once, so there are two more times. Next, Yuankang only needs to release the Lightning Gun three more times, two times to consume Accelerator’s “Invincibility” times, and the third time to defeat Accelerator.
“Let’s go for it!” To be honest, what Yuan Kang said was a lie. Although the cooling time of the Lightning Gun was not long, it consumed a lot of SP. If he had to use it three times, he would be exhausted, and he didn’t have enough SP left. But fortunately, he had the “Recovery Water” provided by Mai Yin to help restore SP, so Yuan Kang took out a bottle of Recovery Water and drank a sip, then waved his spear.
“Go! Lightning gun!” Yuan Kang roared, and then the spear in his hand flashed.
“Idiot? It’s a meaningless attack, it’s the same every time.” Accelerator said calmly.
“Ha! You’re just bluffing!” Yuan Yasu roared, then raised the lightning spear high.
“Idiot.” Accelerator was too lazy to say anything, but to be honest he thought it was just right, he could use it to experience the feeling of [reflecting] the fighting spirit himself, which would help him further understand the concept of fighting spirit.
As he was thinking this, suddenly there was another flash of white light in front of him, and the lightning once again penetrated the entire duel arena, but Accelerator was still standing there unharmed.
Accelerator’s eyes revealed a thoughtful look, as if… he had figured it out a little bit. If he tried it again, he should be able to figure out how to [Reflect].
“This is the last time, right?! Drink aaaaah!!!” Yuan Kang was still talking to himself. He roared again and then, without stopping, swung the spear in his hand.
“Lightning Gun!!!”
The huge white lightning once again penetrated the entire duel field, and at the same time, Accelerator’s face, which was originally a bored expression, suddenly changed, and his pupils suddenly contracted. Finally… he understood the principle of fighting spirit.
At the same time, Kitamura Motoyasu noticed the change in Accelerator’s expression and was also shocked. Sure enough, my guess was right! His “times” were finally used up.
“Right now!! Hahahahaha!!! Take my last move.” Kitamura Motoyasu was filled with fighting spirit. Even though his SP was almost at the bottom, driven by this fighting spirit, he still unleashed his fatal gun skill.
“Lightning Gun!!!!”
The white lightning penetrated the duel arena for the fourth time, and on the other side where the lightning was striking Accelerator, there was also an inconspicuous blue wave.
“So boring, you really are an idiot…” To be honest, Accelerator was somewhat impressed by this guy’s stupidity. This move was completely ineffective, but he could use it so many times until he exhausted his own strength. He was truly a talent.
Accelerator gently stretched out his right hand in the direction of the lightning as a means of defense, and at the same time, the blue magic power hit Accelerator’s back.
——————The next second——————
The white lightning pierced through the arena for the fifth time, but unlike before, this time it was heading towards Kitamura Motoyasu. On the other side of the lightning, a black hurricane appeared inexplicably, rushing horizontally to the other side of the arena, and its target was exactly Mai, who had stood behind Accelerator at some point!
“Ah!!”*2, two screams resounded throughout the entire duel arena, Kitamura Motoyasu and Mai Yin fell down one after another. Motoyasu’s whole body was charred by the high-voltage lightning, and his body gave off a barbecue-like fragrance, while Mai Yin was attacked by an unknown black hurricane. The wind cut her with holes like a blade, and at the same time pushed her against the wall of the duel arena, causing the wall to cave in. She sank several meters into it, and she did not fall until the hurricane disappeared, and blood could be seen flowing out of the caved-in wall. As for her, she lost consciousness and fell into a coma.
“What?!” Everyone was stunned for a moment. They didn’t understand what was going on. What was going on? Why did the spear skills released by the spear hero Kitamura Motoyasu attack him? Why did the wind magic released by Myne turn into a black hurricane and attack Myne?
Yes, they all knew what the black hurricane was made of. Although the wind magic released by Myne was not very conspicuous, who among those present had not seen the world? They immediately discovered that Myne had broken the rules and released magic, but everyone knew it very well and didn’t mention it. They were all discussing what the black hurricane was and the lightning.
“Damn it! Shield! What did you do?!” After all, she was his daughter. King Melomag exploded and stood up angrily and said to Accelerator. At the same time, he quickly called out to the soldiers next to him: “What are you still standing there for?! Go and send my daughter to the doctor for emergency treatment!”
“Yes!” The soldier next to him didn’t dare to say anything else. He nodded quickly, then led a team of people and quickly ran to the duel arena.
“Ha, interesting, is this what you call upright?” Accelerator immediately realized what was going on. It seemed that the guy named Maddie had attacked him. As for whether it was the result of a discussion with Motoyasu, Accelerator didn’t know, and he didn’t care, because…
“The… the duel is over! It’s the shield… ah!” The referee was about to announce the victory, but he was knocked away by the shock wave created by Accelerator’s foot. He let out a scream and flew onto the opposite wall, where he and Main were stuck and couldn’t fall down.
“Shield?! What else do you want to do? Haven’t I been merciful enough to give you victory? What else are you going to do, you bastard!” King Melomag over there was yelling at the top of his lungs. It seemed that he couldn’t tolerate Accelerator.
“The duel is over? It’s still too early, right?” Accelerator smiled maliciously, and in addition to malice, he was also full of murderous intent and madness. “Hey, hey, rubbish, what nonsense are you talking about? Is this victory? Are you kidding me? This guy’s hands and feet are still intact, right? He’s even breathing from his mouth and nose! Aren’t you too hasty to declare victory right now?”
“You…” King Melomag’s pupils shrank, and he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. This guy…did he want it? !
“Damn it…you devil…” To Accelerator’s surprise, Kitamura Motoyasu, whose body was charred, was still conscious. He barely understood the current situation, then opened his eyes and said with difficulty.
“Ah, yes, I’m a devil. To be honest, I prefer the title of Demon King rather than the title of Hero.” Accelerator said this as he walked towards Kitamura Motoyasu.
It must be admitted that the power of that lightning gun was indeed very strong. Kitamura Motoyasu himself was in this state after only being hit by it. He was almost in a dying state. And the dying state means that there is still a glimmer of hope.
Accelerator is an evil party, not a good person.
At this time, those disgusting “good guys” would stop and turn away. Maybe they would show mercy and stay to take care of Motoyasu. But at this time, Accelerator just silently slowly stretched out his hand that had killed countless people towards Motoyasu. No matter what, when he chose to attack Raphtalia and Filo with that self-righteous attitude without knowing anything, he had no intention of letting him go. Although it was out of good intentions, Accelerator could imagine that if Raphtalia followed Kitamura Motoyasu, the final outcome would be miserable. It was not because of Kitamura Motoyasu’s violence. Accelerator saw that this guy was just a poor clown who was used by others. Raphtalia and Filo would eventually die because of the arrangement of those sinister people around Kitamura Motoyasu, just because they were not needed, and this was something he could not tolerate no matter what.
This is the difference between good people and evil people, Accelerator thought vaguely.
“Goodbye, clown.”
Accelerator’s deathly hand was almost touching Motoyasu’s face.
“Well, this is better than being killed by a good person.”
45: Exit (old version)
“Meteor Sword!”
“snapshot!”
Before Accelerator could kill Kitamura Motoyasu, two attacks suddenly came from this side, and Accelerator immediately recognized that they were attacks from the Sword Hero and the Spear Hero.
But to be honest, Accelerator didn’t even bother to turn his head to face an attack of this magnitude. He simply ignored it and touched Motoyasu’s face with his fingers.
The next moment, Kitamura Motoyasu on this side was subjected to some unknown vector operation with a “puff” sound. His whole body twitched, and then his pupils shrank, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood. Then his eyes closed and he became unresponsive.
At the same time, the attacks of Amaki Ren and Kawasumi Itsuki were all blocked by Accelerator’s [Reflection] wall and bounced back with even greater power. Of course, the two had never encountered such a situation before, so they had no reaction at all and were easily hit by their own moves and directly injured.
“Damn it…! Why is this? Our attacks can’t hit him?” Kawasumi Itsuki held the wound on his right shoulder and said gritting his teeth.
“I don’t know… Is there a rare skill that can make you invincible for a short time and rebound attacks? Well, it’s very likely.” Tian Mu Ren thought about it and came to the same conclusion as Kitamura Motoyasu, because if it’s not this, what else could it be? Is it cheating?
“Huh?” They didn’t whisper their conversation, so Accelerator was stunned when he heard it. It seemed like he was being looked down upon. Then he thought again. These two guys seemed to want to stop him from killing Yuan Kang. Are the three of them on good terms?
“Hey, Accelerator, you won this duel, right? That’s enough, isn’t it? We are all heroes who have traveled through time, and we haven’t yet confirmed whether we will be resurrected after death. What if Motoyasu is really dead?” Kawasumi Itsuki came up and said righteously.
“Yes, although we sometimes feel a little unhappy with Yuankang, there is no need to do this, right? It’s too much.” Tianmu Lian nodded and said.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned again. What are these two guys talking about? They are here to see if they will be resurrected. Have they always treated this place as a game world? They can be resurrected in the main city after death. Are they so careless?
“Then I regret to tell you that this clown is dead and can’t be saved.” Accelerator looked at the two and said, he really couldn’t stand these two ignorant and self-righteous people, and he still wanted to let them know that this is not a game, if you die, you are really dead. As for Kitamura Motoyasu, how to kill him is very familiar to a murderer like Accelerator. Unless the miracle doctor known as the “ghost chaser” in the urban legend of Academy City shows up now, Kitamura Motoyasu will definitely die.
However, contrary to what Accelerator imagined, Amaki Ren and Kawasumi Itsuki were looking at him with puzzled expressions.
“Ah… Although I said that just now, no matter how I think about it, I still feel that… it’s impossible, right? Such a thing.” Kawasumi Itsuki spread his hands and said.
“Yeah, we’re not NPCs, we’re players. After our HP is reset to zero, there should be a setting where we’ll be resurrected at a specific location.” Amaki Ren and Kawasumi Nori looked at each other and said.
Woo woo woo.
Accelerator held his forehead, he really has such a big heart. To be honest, he couldn’t completely deny the two people’s statement. He had to say that there was indeed such a possibility, but it was only a possibility. Compared to entrusting his life to such an unfounded “setting”, Accelerator still felt that it was safer to hold it in his own hands.
After being messed up by these two idiots, Accelerator suddenly felt uninterested, so he greeted Filo and Raphtalia sitting in the audience and prepared to leave.
Raphtalia finally felt relieved. She was nervous from the beginning to the end, but she was just a slave and knew that she could not influence the master’s will and behavior, so she could only watch from the side. Now that she saw that Accelerator was finally going to stop, she was relieved. As for Filo, she felt a little regretful, as if she hadn’t seen enough of the show. Because they were in the audience seats and could go out directly from the audience seats, there was no problem, but Accelerator had a bigger problem.
There was only one exit to the duel arena, and to prevent anyone from coming in to cause trouble, the exit was heavily guarded. When these soldiers saw Accelerator trying to leave, they all looked at each other, looking afraid of Accelerator. But since they didn’t have the king’s permission, no one dared to let Accelerator go out without permission.
“Damn it! Shield, you actually did this to the Spear Hero and my daughter. Do you think I will let you leave safely?!” King Melomag roared angrily, then waved his hand and said, “Leave him alone!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the dozen soldiers in front of Accelerator waved their weapons and stood in front of him, as if to stop him from passing. However, it could be seen from their expressions that they were only obeying orders reluctantly, and had no desire to resist the white figure in front of them.
“Huh? You really dare to stop me?! You scumbags!” Accelerator didn’t expect such a thing to happen, so he just stretched out his hand and was about to do something.
“Ahh, run! This guy is going to kill someone again!”
“Run!”
The next moment, the dozen soldiers dropped their weapons when they saw Accelerator reaching out his hand, and then ran away in fear. Yes, it seems that compared to the king’s order and their own sense of responsibility, their own lives are more important, although Accelerator did not intend to kill them.
“Damn it! What a bunch of good-for-nothings!” King Melomag slammed the table and yelled, his voice so loud that even Accelerator could hear it.
“Then see you later, trash king.” Accelerator felt much better after hearing this, so he smiled maliciously, waved to King Melomag, and then slowly walked away from the exit.
46: Weapons (Old Version)
“Shield…!!” King Melomag gritted his teeth and looked at Accelerator’s back as he left. He always felt that there was an endless anger in his heart.
“Your Holiness, is there any way to punish this Shield Demon? If we continue to let him do whatever he wants, I feel he will become a threat to the world.”
“Your Majesty, please rest assured that the shield issue… our church will definitely resolve it.” The Pope next to him narrowed his eyes and smiled mysteriously, then suddenly said: “Compared to the shield issue, don’t you think we should save the Spear Hero first?”
“Oh, yes, but… doesn’t that shield mean…” King Melomag said after thinking for a while.
“He can’t be dead anymore, right? However, the Spear Hero is still alive. Although according to his current condition, it is impossible to save him with normal medical technology, and he will die within five minutes, but… I have a treasure called ‘Ghost Chaser’ that can save a person as long as he has a breath left.”
“Master, master, you are so powerful. The way you bounced back all their attacks was so cool. Can you teach Filo? Filo also wants to be so cool.” Filo said to Accelerator with his eyes twinkling.
“……” Accelerator simply curled his lips and ignored this guy.
“Master, what should we do next?” Raphtalia also asked on the other side.
Accelerator thought about it and said, “Let’s rest for two days, then we’ll leave Melomag and go look somewhere else.”
“Yeah!” Raphtalia nodded. Although he had no right to influence Accelerator’s plan, he was still happy for Accelerator’s choice. Because if he stayed in this country that discriminated against demi-humans and the Shield Hero, his master would only be treated unfairly.
“In that case, since Filo happens to be a Filo bird, we can have free and superior travel on our way to other countries.” Raphtalia said again, and Filo next to her heard it and his eyes flashed again.
“Oh! Great! I can finally pull the cart for my master and Raphtalia?” Filo said excitedly, as if Filo’s bird instincts were aroused. To be honest, Accelerator didn’t know what was so fun about such hard labor.
“Master, Master!” Filo looked at Accelerator with sparkling eyes, and Accelerator sighed as if he couldn’t stand her look and said, “What’s wrong, little brat?”
“I want a carriage!”
“Ah, yes, if you want to pull a carriage, you do need a carriage.”
“I want a carriage made of gold and silver!”
“There’s no such carriage. Don’t make trouble, you little brat.”
“I don’t care. I want my master to order me a golden carriage.”
“Just go to a second-hand store and buy a carriage.”
“Eh?!”
The three of them chatted as they walked, and soon arrived at the door of the weapons shop.
“Master, are you going to buy new equipment?” Raphtalia asked with a strange expression. Didn’t you just buy equipment?
“That’s about right.” Accelerator said after thinking for a while. Of course, he was thinking about leaving the country soon, or saying goodbye to this kind and sincere owner of the weapons shop.
“But Master, didn’t you just update my equipment? Just before the wave.” Raphtalia asked curiously.
“Ah…” Accelerator shifted his gaze and was thinking about what to say when Filo on this side suddenly spoke excitedly.
“The master must want to buy equipment for Filo! Sister Raphtalia is so stupid. Filo doesn’t have any equipment yet.”
“Yeah.” Accelerator nodded, but in his heart he was thinking, but Filo, don’t you transform into Filo bird form when fighting? How do you use weapons?
“But Filo, don’t you transform into Filo bird form when fighting? How do you use your weapon?” Raphtalia asked.
“I can also fight in human form! Although I’m still not used to it, I will get used to it soon!” Filo said seriously.
I see… Raphtalia and Accelerator nodded at the same time.
“Hey! Young man, are you here to take care of my business?” The owner of the weapon shop here saw the familiar face of Accelerator and immediately greeted him. It seems that Accelerator’s behavior in the palace just now has not spread so quickly, at least the owner of the weapon shop does not know about it.
“Uncle, give this kid a weapon.” Accelerator thought for a while and said, since Filo wanted it so much, it wouldn’t hurt to buy her one.
“Oh. This little girl, as I remember, isn’t she the one you bought the magic coat for? Do you want a weapon that can be used in both human and monster form this time?”
“Huh? There is such a weapon? Magical weapon?” Accelerator said after being stunned for a moment.
“Oh, that’s not the case. We do have such weapons, but they may not be what you think. Anyway… let the girl return to her original form first.” The weapon shop owner scratched his head and said.
“Here?” Accelerator looked around the store, recalled Filo’s “fat bird look”, and said, “It seems that there is not enough space.”
“Oh?” The owner of the weapons shop was stunned, and then immediately said: “Then come in with me, the basement of our store…”
So the owner of the weapons shop walked in front to lead the way, and Accelerator and the other two followed him all the way, and soon they came to a wide space that was completely different from the store above.
This is probably where the owner of the weapons shop refines weapons. Accelerator also saw anvils, furnaces, and many weapons that looked like “failed products”.
“Is there enough space here?” asked the weapons shop owner.
“Filo.” Accelerator said, and Filo nodded. A golden light flashed on her body, and an oversized and fat Filo bird appeared out of thin air.
“Um… this is a Filo bird?” As expected, the owner of the weapon shop here also said in disbelief. Isn’t this Filo a little too fat? And too big?
Raphtalia scratched her head helplessly and said, “In terms of species, it is indeed a Filo bird… Maybe it was because of the owner that something unusual happened?”
“Well, that’s the thing. Is there any weapon I can give her, uncle?” Accelerator said.
“Yes, there is…”
47: One Day (1) (Old Version)
Soon, the owner of the weapons shop took out a piece of silver-white iron. Accelerator took a quick look and found that it was a weapon that could be equipped on the hand, similar to the tiger finger type.
“I see.” Accelerator nodded. As for the Tiger Finger, it was indeed an equipment that could be worn by either human form or Filo’s bird form. Filo next to him looked at the Tiger Finger with a fixed gaze as if he had discovered a new continent.
Filo seemed to be quite satisfied, so Accelerator quickly paid the owner of the weapons shop. After all, he didn’t have much demand for money, and it was best to spend it on something useful.
“By the way, young man, the owners of the magic shop and the pharmacy seem to be looking for you. They seem to want to give you something. You can go and take a look.” The weapon shop owner thought for a moment and said again.
“Looking for me?” Accelerator was also stunned. This was a rare thing. Besides, he seemed to have never been to the pharmacy and magic shop. It seemed that he had no connection with them.
“Got it. I’ll go over and take a look later.” Although it was a bit strange, Accelerator nodded and said.
After a while, Filo was still playing with the tiger finger he had just got, while Raphtalia stood quietly beside Accelerator and said nothing. The owner of the weapons shop felt something strange.
“Hey, you’re still in my weapon shop… Is there anything you want to buy? Or is there anything else?” The weapon shop owner scratched his head and said.
Raphtalia looked at Accelerator with a smile, a meaningful feeling. Although she had not been with Accelerator for a long time, she had already understood a lot of his personality. Combined with the previous performance of the master, it was probably that the master intended to say goodbye to the owner of the weapon shop before leaving, but according to the master’s extremely insincere personality, he would definitely not open the door and say “I’m leaving, I came to say goodbye to you”. But now that the owner of the weapon shop asked directly, Raphtalia could almost guess that her master was a little embarrassed.
“Hmm…” Accelerator smacked his lips, thought about it and decided it didn’t matter, so he said directly: “We should leave Melomag in a few days, so we won’t be here to take care of your business anymore…”
“Oh, so I see. Actually, brother, the reason you came to my place this time is not just to take care of business. The main reason is to say goodbye to me…” The weapon shop owner suddenly clapped his hands. It was obvious that he was not a fool. Combining Accelerator’s words with his previous hesitant look, he immediately thought of Accelerator’s original intention of coming. He was immediately moved. When he was about to say something, he was interrupted by Raphtalia who suddenly rushed over.
“Boss, you’re being too direct…” Raphtalia suddenly walked over and said, then she pulled the owner of the weapons shop aside and whispered a few words to him.
After a few words, Accelerator on the opposite side saw Raphtalia return to his side, and the owner of the weapon shop scratched his head and walked over and said to Accelerator: “Hey, brother, I was just kidding. What I meant was that your main purpose of coming here this time must be to buy equipment for the little girl. It’s just that I suddenly remembered this matter inexplicably, so I casually said goodbye or something. I understand, don’t worry, I won’t think you came here to say goodbye to me on purpose, brother, don’t take it to heart.”
“……” Accelerator’s face darkened, and then he looked at Raphtalia and said, “What the hell did you say to him?”
Accelerator soon left the weapon shop with Filo and Raphtalia. Originally, they planned to go back to the inn to rest, but when they remembered what the owner of the weapon shop said about someone looking for them, Accelerator asked passers-by for directions. They soon found the location of the magic shop in the main city and walked in.
“Welcome – hey, this shield, are you the Shield Hero?” The old lady owner of the store looked at the shield on Accelerator’s arm and said after a moment of surprise.
“Yes, what can I do for you?” Accelerator said straight to the point. After he finished speaking, the boss, whose identity had been confirmed, looked at Accelerator with eyes full of gratitude and respect.
“Thank you so much. It is thanks to your kindness that Root Village was saved.” The magic shop owner thanked Accelerator directly, and when he heard the three words “Root Village”, he realized what was going on.
“Are you a relative of the villagers in ‘Root Village’?” asked Raphtalia next to him.
“Yes, my grandson lives in ‘Root Village’. Fortunately, Lord Shield Hero, you came to the rescue, otherwise I, a poor old woman, would have to see my son die before me.” said the magic shop owner, and her sincerity could indeed be heard from her tone.
“How can I repay your kindness? Let me think. Sigh… I could have given you some magic crystal balls, but those crystal balls have been pre-ordered by the country for other heroes to use. I can only give you some more precious magic books.” The magic shop owner sighed, as if she felt guilty that she could only give you magic books.
“A magic book is enough…” Accelerator thought for a while and said, he has been very interested in knowledge related to magic recently. Although Accelerator feels that he can’t cast magic after reading and understanding it, it is enough to satisfy Accelerator’s curiosity.
“But what is a magic crystal ball?” Accelerator thought for a moment and asked. This was another new word he had never heard of.
“Hmm? Lord Shield Hero doesn’t know? Oh, yes, the heroes all come from another world, so it’s normal that they don’t know.” The magic shop owner nodded and said, “The magic crystal ball is a one-time item. Once you use it, you can directly learn the magic sealed in the crystal ball. It’s very convenient… But to be honest, if you really want to master the way of magic, it’s better to study magic books yourself and personally touch and comprehend the magic elements.”
48: Pulling a Cart (Old Version)
“In addition, the magic crystal ball can also show a person’s magical aptitude.” said the magic shop owner.
“Magic aptitude?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of something and asked, “Does it mean that you need to have magic aptitude to cast the corresponding magic?”
“Yes.” The magic shop owner nodded.
“I see.” Accelerator said. He seemed to understand why the dark magic he had cast before was ineffective. Was it because he did not have the aptitude for dark magic?
Just when he was about to ask what kind of magic aptitude he had, the owner of the magic shop said first: “Master Shield Hero, it seems that you have the aptitude for support and recovery magic, and the raccoon girl here has the aptitude for light and dark magic, and is good at using phantom magic. As for this little girl…is her true form a magical beast? As for magic, it is difficult to see the magic aptitude with a crystal ball…”
“Oh?” Accelerator was a little surprised. She could actually tell that Filo was a monster. It seemed not easy. But did he have the aptitude for support and recovery magic? It felt a bit useless, but he didn’t care too much. After all, he learned magic knowledge just to satisfy his curiosity and meet the [Reflection] condition, and he didn’t plan to use magic for anything.
On the other hand, Filo had no reaction at all when his true form was seen through at a glance. He seemed to be indifferent and just stared at the ceiling stupidly.
“It’s great to be able to help the Shield Hero.” The magic shop owner said, and then took out a thick magic book from the drawer of the table, pushed it in front of Accelerator and said: “This magic book was written by Master Attarinya himself. It is very precious. I give it to you as a thank you for saving my grandson. I hope it can be useful to the Shield Hero. Please cherish these three books.”
“I understand.” Accelerator nodded.
Soon, Accelerator brought Filo and Raphtalia to the pharmacy again. As expected, the owner here was in a similar situation to the magic shop owner. He was also a relative of the villagers of Root Village. He was very grateful to Accelerator for protecting Root Village. He gave Accelerator several valuable potions and prescriptions and some gold coins, and said a lot of words of thanks.
Accelerator’s gold coins were almost used up, and the gold coins from the drugstore owner solved his urgent problem. Otherwise, he would have no money to buy a carriage for Filo.
Of course, if it was really a second-hand wooden carriage, it would probably not cost even a gold coin, and more than ten or twenty silver coins would be enough. However, Accelerator took into consideration that he would have to ride in it after all, so he still spent a few gold coins to buy a large iron carriage that looked quite decent. Of course, Filo, who had been following along, was very happy. It seemed that she really wanted to pull the carriage, and she was particularly concerned about the appearance of the carriage.
“Filobird is such a strange monster.” Accelerator shook his head, feeling a little emotional. It was indeed a different world, with monsters of all kinds of habits.
After finishing all the necessary preparations, Accelerator and the other two returned to the inn to rest. Because they were indeed a little tired, they felt sleepy soon after returning to the inn. Since Accelerator booked a room with two beds, Accelerator slept in one bed alone, and Raphtalia and Filo slept in one bed together. Filo was still making a fuss about sleeping with Accelerator, but was directly persuaded by Accelerator’s eyes.
the next day.
Accelerator planned to leave Meromag today, so he didn’t waste any time. After buying some breakfast for Raphtalia and Filo, he asked Filo to put on the ropes of the carriage and start pulling it.
“Master…is there something wrong?” Raphtalia asked Accelerator in the carriage.
“It seems so.” Accelerator also said with a frown.
“What’s wrong, master? Sister Raphtalia? Is there something wrong? Filo is pulling the carriage so happily. Is it because the speed is not fast enough? Filo can go even faster.” Filo in the front seemed to be really happy, and it seemed that he still had enough strength to pull the carriage, as if it was not strenuous at all. It’s just… isn’t this scene a little too problematic?
“No, the speed is already very fast, Filo, but…” Raphtalia sighed and said, “Can you transform into Filo bird form when you pull the cart?”
Yes, Filo was pulling the cart in her angelic blonde loli look, which made Accelerator and Raphtalia feel guilty. The comments of passers-by were probably like this.
“Wow, you scumbag, actually enslaving such a young girl to do this kind of work? Is this something a human being can do?”
“How pitiful, that little girl, I feel so sorry for her.”
“What should I do? Should I go to the city guards and ask them for help? I can’t stand it any longer.”
Accelerator had heard such words countless times along the way. In addition, the way these passers-by looked at him were as if he were the scum of society. In this situation, Accelerator felt that it was not impossible for a few righteous people to suddenly appear and swing their swords at him.
Fortunately, Accelerator has shrunk the Legendary Shield and hidden it at his waist, so these people didn’t recognize him as the Shield Hero. Because it has been a day since the duel between Accelerator and Kitamura Motoyasu yesterday, according to the speed of news spread in this country, most of the unfounded rumors have become household names. If he was still recognized as the Shield Hero under such circumstances, I’m afraid Accelerator’s surrounding people would have surrounded him and taken up weapons.
“Eh? Why can’t we use the human form?” Because he was rather stupid, Filo was totally unaware of the atmosphere around him and asked curiously.
“No reason. You are not allowed to transform into human form when pulling a cart in the future, otherwise you are never allowed to pull a cart again.” Accelerator couldn’t stand the eyes around him and said directly to Filo.
After hearing what Accelerator said, Filo could only sigh in disappointment and regret. Then, with a flash of golden light, it “whoosh” turned into a Filo bird that was bigger and fatter than normal.
49: Metty (old version)
Fortunately, Filo later transformed into Filobird to pull the cart, so there were fewer eyes around, so Accelerator and the other two were able to leave the border of Melomag smoothly.
However, Accelerator originally planned to go to a neutral country or a demihuman country, but the problem was that the specific location was a bit difficult to identify. Fortunately, Accelerator bought a world map when preparing, so the general direction was no problem. When he walked a certain distance, he could ask passers-by to get the situation. But there was another thing that surprised Accelerator, and that was the problem with Raphtalia.
“Master… I feel a little carsick, ugh…” Raphtalia retched while sitting in the carriage, then said with an extremely pale face.
“It’s really troublesome. You will often move around in Filo’s carriage in the future, so you have to get used to it.” Accelerator frowned and said. It was indeed because this continent was too big and the distance from one country to another was too far. In addition, there happened to be a high-quality and free means of transportation like Filo, so most of the travel time in the future would definitely be in a carriage. So it was very troublesome that Raphtalia complained of motion sickness at this time.
“Hmm…” Raphtalia nodded. She probably knew that her situation was very troublesome, so although the discomfort on her face did not subside at all, she did not say anything, as if she planned to endure it for the time being.
“…” Accelerator thought about it for a moment, then sighed and asked Filo to stop.
There happened to be a big tree nearby, so Accelerator took out a piece of cloth from his bag and put it under the shade of the tree, then helped Raphtalia lie down on it.
“I’m so sorry, not only did I need to rest and slow down the trip, but I also had to take care of you like this.” Raphtalia said as she looked at Accelerator’s face that was very close to her. From her tone, one could tell that she did feel guilty, but for some reason her face felt blushing.
“…We’re going to be traveling by carriage more often from now on, so you need to get over it as soon as possible.” Accelerator said, “Huh? Why is your face so red? Do you have a fever?”
“There shouldn’t be…”
Accelerator was a little strange, but since Raphtalia said so herself, he didn’t bother to care. He quickly stood up and was about to take a look at the magic book when he suddenly found something strange about Filo.
“What’s wrong? Is there anything over there?” Accelerator walked to Filo’s side and asked.
“Master, over there…” Filo pointed in a direction with his beak and said to Accelerator. Accelerator looked over and only saw a few very small black shadows, and could not see clearly what they were.
While wondering if the Filo bird’s eyesight was better than that of humans, he switched the legendary shield to the [Yinglong Heart Shield] state and looked over again with the bonus of [Eye of All Things].
[Wild hybrid Philo bird]【Merty Q. Melomag】
These four names in red fonts appeared in front of Accelerator from afar, and then the specific scene became clearer. Three normal Filo birds of different colors were playing with a little girl. Well, it actually looked more like the three Filo birds were protecting the little girl, protecting her to a certain place, and the little girl was actively looking for these three Filo birds to play with along the way.
“Hmm? Would a wild Filo bird be so close to humans?” Accelerator asked curiously.
“No way… probably.” Filo said this. After all, she was just a Filo bird that was born only a few days ago, and she had never had any contact with other Filo birds. It was normal for her to be unclear about such things.
“And the kid’s last name…” Accelerator frowned again. Isn’t this surname Melomag the last name of the Melomag King’s family? Judging from the kid’s appearance, is she the daughter of the Garbage King? In other words, the princess of Melomag, but why would a princess appear in such a place? And she would be protected by three wild Filo birds.
Although Accelerator didn’t understand what was going on, seeing that the direction they were heading seemed to be his direction, he simply waited here until they came over.
“Master, those Filo birds look delicious.” Suddenly, Filo next to him said something out of the blue.
“Hey, hey, that’s the same kind as you.” Accelerator said, holding his forehead.
“I know…but I still want to try it…” Filo said, and then stared at the Filo birds with his saliva dripping.
Accelerator was also convinced. It turned out that this guy was staring over there because he wanted to eat those Filo birds. Thinking about the scene of Filo eating its own kind, Accelerator felt a little dizzy.
“Eh? They seem to have seen us too.” said Philo.
“Really?” Accelerator said, and then he found that during the time he and Filo had exchanged a few words, the three wild Filo birds and Metty had already advanced a long distance, almost to the range that normal human vision could reach.
The strange thing is that when Metty saw Accelerator, no, to be more precise, she saw Filo, Accelerator suddenly saw her eyes light up and kept staring at Filo. The three Filo birds next to her also froze for a moment after seeing Filo, then jumped back and forth a few times, looking at each other, not knowing what to do, as if they were frightened.
“Beep!”
“Beep, beep, beep!”
As if they had reached a conclusion through communication, the three Filo birds turned around at the same time and ran away in the opposite direction of Filo.
“Hey!” Filo was also stunned for a moment, then looked at Accelerator and said, “Master, if we chase him now, we can still catch up with him at Filo’s speed. What do you say?”
“No chasing.” Accelerator said without thinking. Raphtalia was still lying there.
“Okay.” Philo nodded and said without being willful.
After the three Filo birds escaped, the little girl named Maddie was left standing alone. At first, she was puzzled by the sudden escape of the Filo birds around her, but soon she seemed to be attracted by Filo again and ran directly towards Accelerator and the others.
“He looks like a troublesome guy…” Accelerator said with a headache.
50: Daily (Old Version)
As if she was really interested in Filo, the strange Filo bird, Medi ran towards Filo. Accelerator observed her for a while. She was a little girl with blue twin ponytails. Her clothes looked like those worn by nobles, which was more in line with her surname “Melomag”.
“Tsk.” Accelerator smacked his lips, feeling that this was also a very troublesome guy. Meanwhile, Filo felt nothing, still looking at the direction where the three Filo birds were running away with a somewhat covetous look.
“Wow…Excuse me, is this a Filo bird?” At this time, Medi had already come over. Seeing that Accelerator seemed to be the owner, she asked Accelerator.
“Eh? Are you talking about Filo?” Filo in bird form tilted his head and said.
“What? Can you talk?”
Then Philo and the little girl named Medi looked at each other in confusion.
“Yeah!” Philo nodded.
“It’s been my long-cherished dream to talk to the Filo bird!” Maddie said excitedly, her eyes twinkling as if they were shining.
“Uh…” Filo was also stunned for a moment, and then without thinking too much, he turned to Accelerator and said, “Master, what should we do?”
Hmm… what should I do? Accelerator thought about it. Does this mean that the daughter of a noble wants to get Filo? Although he would not mind trading Filo if he could really offer a matching price, Filo himself might make a fuss. And if the trading partner is the royal family of Melomag, then Accelerator has no intention of trading.
However, since Accelerator had already shrunk the [Yinglong Heart Shield] back to its original legendary shield and hidden it at his waist when Maddie came over, the other party probably couldn’t recognize him as the Shield Hero. Accelerator probably thought that this was why she could talk to him in such a friendly manner.
But it’s really thanks to this little girl that she could see at a glance that Filo was the Filo bird. Generally speaking, when you see Filo’s body shape, you wouldn’t think of it as the Filo bird.
“Talking Philo Bird, what’s your name?” Maddie asked as she moved closer to Philo.
“Philo.”
“Little Philo? My name is…Metty!”
“Then, I will call you Little Maddie.”
“Um!”
It was so strange that Accelerator, who was watching from the side, had no idea what was going on. The two of them suddenly became good friends. I don’t know if it was because Maddie was so sincere and kind that she easily gained other people’s trust, or if it was because Filo was too trusting. It was probably a combination of both.
“Little Philo, do you want to eat this?” Maddie kindly took out a piece of meat from her pocket and handed it to Philo. Because in her understanding, Philo birds are all greedy, as long as they are fed, they can become good friends with each other. Although Philo looks a little special, he should also be very greedy, right?
“Wow…thank you!” As expected, Philo enjoyed the jerky handed over by Maddie with relish, and Philo’s favorability increased.
“whee.”
Maddie smiled happily as she watched Filo eat the jerky, and then she began to gently stroke Filo’s cherry and white feathers.
Just from these actions, it can be seen that she likes Filobird from the bottom of her heart. Accelerator can also clearly feel that she is not the kind of person who wants to get Filo just for the sake of rarity and profit.
“A troublesome and strange guy…” Accelerator shook his head, but he didn’t try to stop Metty and Filo from getting close, although he did think Metty was a very strange and troublesome person, and if it were Accelerator himself, he would definitely not want to get close to such a person. But it seemed that she and Filo could become good friends, so he simply didn’t bother to care.
“Filo, let’s look for a place to rest nearby today. You can move freely from now on and do whatever you want.” It can be seen that Filo really wants to accompany Medi to play, so Accelerator said this, while he himself planned to look for places such as villages or inns nearby.
“Got it!” Filo nodded happily. And Metty tilted her head after hearing what Accelerator said.
“You said you want to stay here for a day? That’s great. I know there is a village nearby, but…” Medi said, and pointed in a direction to Accelerator, but she was speechless for a moment as if she had considered something.
“What?” Accelerator asked.
“That village seems to be in some trouble now. Although a petition has been submitted to request adventurers to resolve it, it looks like it will take some time.” Maddie said.
“Trouble? What trouble?” Accelerator frowned, but before Medi could reply, Filo let out a strange cry and seemed to be eager to play with Medi. He didn’t even notice that Medi hadn’t finished talking to her master yet, and he let Medi ride on him and rushed towards the plain.
“Is it a trouble…” Accelerator said. Although he was a little reluctant, he looked at Raphtalia who was still lying under the tree to rest, and thought it would be better to go and take a look at the village.
Accelerator walked to the side of Raphtalia and asked “Are you awake?”, but found that Raphtalia did not respond, but for some reason her face felt a little red, as if she was pretending to sleep and thinking about something. But after shouting a few more times, Raphtalia still did not respond, so Accelerator had no choice. Of course, he could not leave Raphtalia behind and go to the village alone. So he had no choice but to pick up Raphtalia and carry her to the village…
But don’t get me wrong, although he was holding her, Accelerator was “lifting” Raphtalia with one hand, holding her waist with his right arm, and then folding her body in half with her waist as the axis of symmetry. If she was a child, it would be fine, but Raphtalia was already a girl who looked sixteen or seventeen years old, and her height was almost catching up with Accelerator. Accelerator held her like a long piece of cargo, and her head was almost touching the ground.
“Master! Why are you hugging me like this?” The next moment, Raphtalia opened her eyes and immediately struggled to break free from Accelerator’s control. She then looked at Accelerator with a look of shame and anger, as if she even felt a little regretful?
“Huh? What are you expecting?” Accelerator said.
“Hey, I, I don’t know what you are talking about…” Raphtalia said, looking away.
51: Plague Village (Old Version)
Accelerator and his companions are now almost in the eastern area of ​​Melomag. Because Filo was temporarily asked to play with the little girl, only Accelerator and Raphtalia were heading in the direction that Medi pointed out before. As for Filo, she will follow the scent of her master to find her after she has had enough fun.
Accelerator and Raphtalia were in a strange situation. After walking in the direction pointed by the little girl for about ten minutes, he slowly began to find that all the trees around him were dead and the air was heavy. This place was obviously not a particularly cold area, but the color of the earth was dark and pale. If you want to give an example, it felt like the Dark Continent.
Looking up at the sky, even the clouds seemed particularly thick, and the huge mountains in the distance were getting closer and closer to them, giving people an extremely ominous feeling.
“Master, there seems to be something wrong around here.” Raphtalia also felt something was wrong, so she said to Accelerator with some concern.
Of course, Accelerator was not surprised and nodded slightly. Is this the trouble you mentioned? It seems that there is a plague or something like that going on here.
“Raphtalia, cover your mouth and nose with a cloth.” Accelerator said.
“Okay.” Raphtalia nodded, took out a piece of white cloth from the bag on her back and covered it, then looked at Accelerator who didn’t move, and asked worriedly: “Master, are you okay?”
“Just take care of yourself.” Accelerator replied. After all, with [Reflection], it would be difficult for things like viruses and plagues to harm him.
“Hmm…” Hearing her master’s words, Raphtalia nodded and felt relieved. Then, after she took the minimum precautions, the two of them walked quickly and soon arrived at the village they were supposed to go to.
Judging from the architectural style and scale, this is a relatively normal village. But it gives people a very strange feeling, probably because it is dark. And now the sky is covered with dark clouds, so it can be said that this village feels a bit gloomy.
Soon someone in the village saw Accelerator and Raphtalia standing at the village gate, so they covered their mouths and walked over slowly, saying, “Are you… here to do business? I’m very sorry, this village is currently being attacked by a spreading plague, ahem… you’d better take refuge somewhere else…”
Doing business?
Accelerator was stunned for a moment, then quickly remembered that Raphtalia was carrying a large bag. Since Raphtalia was now at level 40, she could easily carry a bag that was larger than her. Was it because of this large bag that she was mistaken for a businessman?
“Plague…” Raphtalia frowned. If that was the case, then they wouldn’t be able to rest here.
“Didn’t you ask the Kingdom or the Adventurer’s Guild to solve the problem?” Raphtalia asked.
“Ahem… We’ve already applied for it, but because the Spear Hero helped save the village from famine some time ago, we won’t be sending anyone to support us again in the short term, ahem…” the villager said while coughing.
“The Hero of the Spear?” Accelerator was stunned for a moment and asked, “When?”
“It was the day before yesterday.” the villager replied.
“Are you sure it’s the Spear Hero? The one with the yellow hair? And there are a few women following him?”
“Yes…Have you met the Spear Hero?”
“Heh…” Accelerator sneered and said nothing, but he didn’t understand in his heart.
The day before yesterday? Wasn’t that the day after Accelerator and Kitamura Motoyasu dueled in the palace? He should have been dead, right? Accelerator definitely killed him in the duel, but why?
To be honest, this made Accelerator feel a little bit unacceptable, because killing was too familiar to her, and she knew too well what organs needed to be destroyed to kill a person. In that situation, Kitamura Motoyasu should not be able to survive, how could it be…
“That guy is really unlucky…” Accelerator shook his head quickly and stopped worrying about it. Thinking about it, it’s not that it’s impossible. After all, this is a different world, and there are too many things that are incomprehensible.
“Ahem, in short, the village is too dangerous now. The village is currently discussing whether to relocate. We don’t have more energy to spend on commodities. Ahem, you’d better find shelter somewhere else as soon as possible.” The villager said, coughing violently as if he was going to cough out his internal organs. Just by looking at him, you can tell that he is in great pain.
“I know.” Accelerator said.
“Master…” Raphtalia said with some regret. She was kind by nature and hoped that her master could save the villagers here, but it seemed that Accelerator did not have this intention… Just when she thought so.
“So I’m here to sell healing medicine.” Accelerator smacked his lips and said.
“Eh?” Not only the villager opposite, but also Raphtalia next to him was stunned. I haven’t told her this before.
“What…what! So that’s how it is! That’s great!” After a moment of surprise, the villager immediately said excitedly. Then he ran away to inform the other villagers of the good news that a businessman came to sell medicine.
The owner of the pharmacy in the main city of Melomag had given Accelerator a prescription, which included the formula of the healing medicine. Accelerator had already taken the time to read and understand the prescription and the principle, and the materials were things that could be found everywhere, so there was no problem in preparing it.
Raphtalia was stunned for a moment but soon understood what was going on. She knew that her master did not come here for business, and he said that just to find a reason to help the villagers.
Alas, that is really not frank, master.
Raphtalia certainly wouldn’t expose this. Although she sighed in her heart, she looked at Accelerator with a smile on her face, as if she was very happy.
But honestly, considering the size of this village, if most people were affected by the plague, then the amount of medicine he was preparing might be too much and would give him a headache.
As a result, Accelerator’s anxiety came true, and calls for medicine were heard everywhere in the village.
52: Plague Wind (Old Version)
Under the guidance of the villagers, they came to a room where medicine could be made. Because Accelerator did not have any ready-made medicine, he had to ask the villagers who could move to collect some materials and send them to him. After a while, he began to prepare the medicine.
Although Accelerator had never formally practiced this process, it was not difficult after he understood the principle. Accelerator soon made a pot of healing potion, which was divided into about ten bottles.
[Unlocked the shield “Healing Shield”, obtained the skill “Expanded Effect Range (Small)”]This is a new shield unlocked by Accelerator after dropping the remaining few drops of healing medicine in the pot into the legendary shield. However, the basic attributes added are very poor, and cannot be compared with the [Yinglong Heart Shield]. It’s just that the built-in skills seem to have an auxiliary bonus to treatment. Just think about it, Accelerator switched the shield to the [Healing Shield] form.
However, once it was switched to the [Healing Shield], the shrunken Legendary Shield was enlarged and turned back to a normal-sized shield and equipped on Accelerator’s arm. Accelerator was stunned. You know, he had always shrunk the Legendary Shield and hidden it. It turned out that the size could not be changed after switching to the special shield.
“What, what’s going on? A shield suddenly appeared. Are you the Shield Hero?” The villager who had been delivering materials to Accelerator looked at Accelerator in shock. After all, using such a magical shield would indeed make people subconsciously think of the Shield Hero.
“……” Accelerator turned around and looked at the villager with a dangerous look. Although he was not afraid of anything, he felt a little troubled. Although it was in the suburbs, it was still within the borders of Melomag after all. The reputation of the Shield Hero was not very good. He didn’t know what these villagers were going to do after knowing it. Of course, Accelerator was not a good person. If they dared to do something unreasonable, Accelerator would make these villagers pay the price.
“Sorry! I’m sorry, I didn’t… that, I…” The villager immediately stammered, but he didn’t say anything. Although he knew it was just a rumor, and whether it was true or not had nothing to do with him, it was impossible for him to say that he had no prejudice against the Shield Hero.
“Don’t worry, the master is very kind-hearted. He has done this just to save you. Don’t be misled by those false rumors.” Raphtalia said to the villagers.
“Ah… Is that so? Are the rumors all false?” The villagers said with some relief, as if they were really afraid that Accelerator would hurt them.
“Yes.” Raphtalia nodded affirmatively.
“So the attempt to kill the Spear Hero is also fake?”
“Uh… that’s not the case…”
“What about threatening the king’s life with a sword?”
“Forehead……”
“What about…what about the casual use of a little girl as a slave, making her pull a carriage around town?”
With a “gulp”, when Raphtalia didn’t answer, the villagers swallowed and looked at Accelerator.
Accelerator sighed inwardly. Although he could explain it clearly now, he was too lazy to do so. He just picked up the dozen or so bottles of medicine and asked, “Where are the people who need to take the medicine?”
Although the villager’s statement is correct, it is not right to point all the blame to Accelerator. Because although the rumors spread by the Kingdom of Meromag are not false, they are not entirely true. Instead, they are exaggerated based on certain facts, and they are also very one-sided. They only talk about how evil Accelerator did, and do not mention the cause and process, such as how the King of Meromag and the nobles treated him with prejudice, and Filo’s true form is a monster, etc.
Although he never intended to explain anything due to his personality, it did not mean that he could calmly accept the slander against him by King Melomag and those nobles. Sooner or later, he would find the mastermind to pay back these debts.
“Oh…oh, I see. Please follow me.” After returning to the villagers, he was stunned for a moment and then nodded immediately.
Accelerator was soon brought into a building where seriously ill patients were gathered. It was probably a place similar to an isolation facility. Behind the facility was a cemetery, where several graves with new tombstones could be seen.
I think you can probably understand it by describing it as “full of the smell of death”. There is an atmosphere that is exactly the same as the incongruity between a hospital and a cemetery.
“Please save my wife!”
“Um.”
Accelerator helped the coughing woman up and fed her a medicine. A burst of light spread out from the woman.
Then the woman’s complexion seemed to improve. It seemed that the treatment medicine was working.
“Next.” Accelerator said. Then I looked up and found that the villager who brought me here was looking at me with astonishment.
“?” Accelerator looked at the villager and motioned for him to explain the situation.
“Um, that…”
He pointed to another child lying next to the woman. Just now, the child was coughing like the woman, but now he had stopped coughing.
“Hmm?” Accelerator was also stunned. He touched the child’s skin with his hand, and after confirming that he was not dead, he asked the villager: What happened just now?
“Almost at the same time when you fed my wife the medicine, the child’s breathing gradually stabilized.”
So that’s it, is this the effect of “expanding the range of drug effects (smaller)”? This is a lot more convenient.
So Accelerator asked the villagers to move all the patients who needed medicine together. Due to the lack of manpower, Raphtalia also went to help move them. When the patients gathered together, Accelerator took the treatment medicine to the people in the center, and the effect was pulled out. This way, the efficiency was much higher.
The treatment medicine prepared by Accelerator is a mid-level treatment medicine, which can deal with ordinary plagues without any problem. However, although it has been solved, there are still plagues in the surrounding areas. If the root cause is not solved, these villagers will cough constantly because of the plague sooner or later.
“Thank you very much!”
“I didn’t expect that it was the Shield Hero who saved us. I knew that those rumors were all false.”
“This is a reward for healing our village. Please accept it.”
It seems that the villagers have thanked him and changed their perception of the Shield Hero. Although this is not enough to make Accelerator happy, it is enough to make him feel that his help was not in vain. However, the current situation does not make Accelerator satisfied, because the plague problem in this village and the surrounding areas has not been solved at all. Although the plague infection has been cured for the time being, there is still a hidden danger of infection.
“Hey, the shirtless guy, how did this disease break out? Is it an epidemic or something?” Accelerator asked a shirtless villager.
Since so many people in the village were infected by the plague, it meant that this was a very vicious disease. Although the plague did not pose a threat to Accelerator, it was possible that even Raphtalia and Filo, who was playing somewhere, might be infected. In the worst case, Accelerator would have to give up staying here temporarily and evacuate as soon as possible.
“Well… In fact, the healer once said that the wind blowing from the mountain where the monsters live is the cause of the plague.” said the villager.
54: Zombie Dragon (Old Version)
Although it is a stone mountain, the frequency of magical beasts appearing is quite high. Moreover, due to the influence of the rotten dragon meat on the top of the mountain, the magical beasts that appear are all highly poisonous. Of course, Accelerator also let the legendary shield absorb them after defeating them along the way.
[Unlocked “Poison Tree Shield”][Unlocked “Venom Bee Shield”][Unlocked “Poison Frog Shield”][Unlocked “Fly Shield”]The properties of these shields are all the same garbage, the only bright spot is that they have poison resistance and “poison” attribute, which will make the unit touched by them fall into poison state. But even so, Accelerator feels that he will never have the opportunity to use these shields.
What also made him feel a little strange was the shield that appeared after absorbing the poisonous bee sting.
【Bee Sting Shield Ⅱ
Equipment bonus effect: Attack power 1
Special Effect Needle Shield (Small) Bee Venom (Poison)】
Accelerator has unlocked many shields so far because he absorbs the monsters after defeating them. But he has never seen a shield that increases attack power. This should be due to the same principle as his inability to wield a sword, that is, the Shield Hero cannot have attack power. Of course, he is an exception because he can cause damage just by touching because of the vector operation.
However, it can be judged from various situations that the setting of “Shield Hero cannot attack” is adopted. So the appearance of a shield that increases attack power at this time makes him feel strange. Although it only increases 1 point of attack power, it also violates the setting.
But this kind of trivial matter didn’t matter. Soon, Accelerator and Raphtalia followed the path on the stone mountain leading to the Eastern Kingdom and ran all the way to the top of the mountain.
As we got closer to the top of the mountain, poisonous miasma and a foul smell began to fill the air, becoming increasingly stronger. If we stayed in this kind of environment for a while, it would not be surprising to contract all sorts of strange diseases.
“Huh?” Suddenly, Accelerator was stunned. Just now, he clearly felt the ground shake.
“Master? What is this…?!” Raphtalia said with a look of astonishment, looking towards the top of the mountain. Accelerator then looked over there.
They were still some distance from the top of the mountain, but from here they could see the body of the giant dragon on the top of the mountain, but…
“GYAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
A roar of a giant dragon suddenly erupted, and Accelerator felt as if the entire mountain was shaking. And the rotten corpse actually moved now, as if it was fighting with someone.
“Master, what should we do?” Raphtalia was also stunned and looked at Accelerator in panic.
“Calm down, Raphtalia.” Accelerator said without thinking, “Go save Filo first.”
After saying that, Accelerator controlled the vector and flew directly to the top of the mountain, while Raphtalia was stunned for a moment, “Filo? Is Filo up there? Eh? Master, you…”
Actually, Accelerator had already noticed Filo’s location when he was on the road, because when he didn’t kill any monsters, the exp+ message bar kept popping up in front of him, indicating that Filo was fighting something. At the same time, he also noticed the tire marks on the muddy roads, so it was easy to think that Filo was likely on the top of the mountain, and if the corrupted dragon…zombie dragon was fighting someone, it was most likely Filo.
[Reflection] Ignoring the direction of gravity, Accelerator flew directly to the top of the mountain. As expected, he saw a fat Filo bird fighting a black rotten dragon. Accelerator got a little closer to observe.
It was less than ten meters long, a typical Western dragon… maybe. But now it was impossible to imagine what it looked like in its original form.
The corpse was so badly decayed that it was hard to tell what color it was in life. At most, one could only see the black outer skin. However, Accelerator noticed that the rotten parts began to regenerate while fighting Filo. Accelerator saw that the organs of the zombie dragon had regenerated almost completely, and it opened its bloody mouth towards Filo in front of him.
Other parts that have regenerated include the wings and tail. As for the teeth and claws, which have not yet regenerated, it is unknown whether it will take time.
“Huh? That is…” Accelerator was stunned for a moment, and looked at the carriage protected by Filo behind him. To be precise, next to the carriage, there was a blue-haired little girl, who was the previous Medi, who was constantly casting ice magic to attack the zombie dragon, but it seemed that the effect was not obvious. In simple terms, “the defense was not broken at all.”
Perhaps because he was more interested in the fighting power of the zombie dragon, Accelerator stood on a protruding rock and took a quick look, while Filo and Medi didn’t pay any attention because they were fighting seriously.
“GYAOOOOOOOOO!!!” The zombie dragon roared towards Filo and was about to launch an attack, but Filo was more decisive and took advantage of the zombie dragon’s organ regeneration period to explode.
“Drink!”
Accelerator just happened to see Filo leap towards the zombie dragon and kick it in the head. “Crack!”, there was a crisp sound, and the zombie dragon suddenly leaned back.
“Huh?” Even Accelerator didn’t expect this. Is the Zombie Dragon weak? Or is Filo too strong?
I originally thought that since it was a dragon, even if it was a zombie dragon, it should not be able to be defeated by a creature like Filo Bird that was used as a means of transportation. But now it seems that Filo can deal with it alone.
As Accelerator had expected, the strength, agility and other qualities of an individual zombie dragon should not be as good as Filo’s. Filo’s kick could easily knock a zombie dragon over, and the zombie dragon could not bite because it had no teeth, and could only carry out blunt attacks without sharp claws. Although Filo had a fat body, he was quite agile and could always dodge the zombie dragon’s attacks.
The battle had become one-sided in less than five minutes. The Zombie Dragon was no match for Filo, until…
“GYA**!”
It seemed as if something was running up the zombie dragon’s belly, and then it opened its bloody mouth and spewed a stream of purple gas in the direction of Philo and Medi.
“Ouch…what is this thing!” Medi at the back covered her mouth and nose and said, but she still accidentally inhaled a small part of it and immediately started coughing.
“Cough, cough, cough, cough!”
Obviously, the true identity of this breath is a high concentration of poison gas.
Filo didn’t take the poison gas seriously at all. No, to be precise, she might have stopped breathing. She took advantage of the flaw revealed when the zombie dragon spit out poison gas and jumped up to kick it.
It looks like the battle should be no problem. If the unexpected poisonous fog attack is avoided, the Zombie Dragon will only be kicked to death by Filo if it doesn’t have any other tricks.
Accelerator was thinking this, and the next second, he was dumbfounded.
At that moment, Raphtalia finally ran over, and she and Accelerator happened to see the zombie dragon open its bloody mouth and bite Filo, who was falling from midair, as if it was scooping him up from the bottom. The scene passed by him slowly, as if it was played in slow motion.
“Filo!” Raphtalia quickly stretched out her arms, but…
55: Peace (old version)
——Okay, what exactly is going on here? Accelerator stood there in a daze, thinking.
Although he possessed extraordinary comprehension and psychological qualities, it still took him some time to accept the tragic scene before his eyes. The little girl named Medi and Raphtalia were both unharmed, but Filo was eaten by the zombie dragon.
Think about it calmly…According to Filo’s physical fitness which is superior to that of a zombie dragon, it shouldn’t be a big deal even if he is eaten – just as he was thinking this.
A loud noise was heard at the scene, and bright red liquid quietly slid down from the corner of the zombie dragon’s mouth.
“Philo——!”
Was it Raphtalia or Medi who screamed? Accelerator, with his mind completely blank, couldn’t tell, but he was sure it wasn’t his own voice, because four black tornadoes had already spread out behind him, and at the same time, he burst out at the speed of a fighter jet and rushed in front of the zombie dragon in the blink of an eye.
Then, raise your fist.
“GYAOOOOOO————”
The frivolous and stupid bird that has been born for less than a month… the moment it hatched, it immediately rubbed against me, a spoiled little girl who wanted to stay by my side all the time. She was afraid that I would say that she was an ordinary little girl with no value at all.
Memories of Filo flashed through Accelerator’s mind like a revolving lantern.
What exactly happened?
In an instant, Accelerator’s eyes widened as wide as they could. With a roar, Accelerator punched the side of the zombie dragon’s head with all his strength.
Although the area of ​​Accelerator’s fist was very small compared to the Zombie Dragon’s head, because the vector direction was changed, the Zombie Dragon’s entire body was knocked flying from bottom to top by Accelerator’s punch, and half of the Zombie Dragon’s face was directly trapped.
“Boom!”
As the zombie dragon’s body fell from the air, the entire stone mountain shook. The zombie dragon seemed to have almost lost consciousness after being hit by Accelerator, and lay on the ground for a while without moving, as if he was trying to slow down, but Accelerator’s attack was more than that.
He descended on the zombie dragon’s flat abdomen at a speed close to Mach 3, thrusting his left hand downwards, piercing through the zombie dragon’s skin and deeply into its flesh, and Accelerator’s goal was only to stabilize his body. Next, he aimed at the zombie dragon’s head, trying his best to manipulate the directions of various vectors at the farthest distance around him, aiming at the zombie dragon’s head. He used brute force to smash his right hand downwards.
This blow seemed to be able to shake the mountains and rivers, causing the ground to sink, shatter the terrain, and even landslides to occur in some parts of the rocky mountains.
Accelerator, filled with anger, ruthlessly abandoned all self-control and chased after His Highness without caring about the impact on the surroundings. In normal battles, especially after coming to the other world, his abilities seemed to increase with the level increase. Accelerator, who always restrained himself to avoid causing secondary disasters, gave up all self-restraint for once and fully operated the vector to deal a devastating blow to the zombie dragon.
There was no other reason for him to abandon his faith and self-control.
Just like Raphtalia and Filo were deeply attached to him – thinking that Filo had been eaten by the zombie dragon, Accelerator was rarely so angry that he continued to attack the zombie dragon violently.
“Ah my god… ? This… This is not good…!” Medi was looking at the one-sided battle situation in front of her and pulling the carriage backwards, but she did not feel at ease in her heart.
“This is really…” Looking at the mad look of Accelerator that she had just seen for the first time, Raphtalia couldn’t help but take a breath, “Amazing anger…”
Medi and Raphtalia no longer had the tension and disgust they had previously felt. Accelerator, who was at the mercy of his anger, still displayed an overwhelming battle situation even when facing the ferocious dragon.
The third punch not only destroyed the surrounding environment, but also affected the mountain. The shock wave caused by the punch caused the entire stone mountain to tilt greatly. Although only three attacks were used, it was like a storm. But if there were a few more such blows, the stone mountain would probably really fall down.
“Master!” Raphtalia shouted in the direction of Accelerator, hoping that Accelerator would not be blinded by anger. She did not intend to personally go forward to stop him, not because she was afraid of accidentally hurting herself, but because she believed that her master had far superior judgment and rationality than her, and she had no right to tell her master what to do regardless of her status or ability. Although she was angry now, she believed that Accelerator did not let anger take over his reason, and did not go crazy because of negative emotions. This was her trust in her master’s ability.
Accelerator, who still had an angry expression on his face, raised his fist again, as if he hadn’t heard Raphtalia’s call.
His fist rushed forward, and the acceleration alone was enough to burn up the atmosphere.
Then he swung his fist without hesitation, trying to give the zombie dragon a final blow, however, his fist stopped at a critical position.
“This is……?!”
His target was the zombie dragon’s heart, but he saw something moving in its abdomen. Was it some part of the zombie dragon that was regenerating? No, this was…
Immediately, in order to confirm the situation, Accelerator switched the Legendary Shield to the [Yinglong Heart Shield], and then saw a row of very small green characters inside the zombie dragon’s abdomen, but they could directly penetrate the skin of the zombie dragon’s abdomen and appear – [Filo]Soon, the wriggling stopped in one place, and something bit through the dragon corpse’s abdomen and emerged.
“Puha!”
I saw the familiar fat bird with foul-smelling liquid dripping from its body crawling out from the dragon’s corpse.
“Huh…it’s finally out——”
Filo, who was supposed to be eaten by the zombie dragon, appeared in front of Accelerator alive and well.
“Huh? Philo? So you’re okay.”
“Eh? Master?” Filo was also a little surprised that Accelerator was here, and then immediately replied: “Well, I’m not injured.”
“Then…what was the blood that flowed out when you were eaten?
Blood? Filo just vomited out all the food because his stomach was squeezed when the dragon bit him.
Speaking of Accelerator, I seem to remember that Filo liked to eat the red fruit similar to tomatoes… Was it because she vomited that thing that made me, Raphtalia and Medi mistakenly think it was blood?
“Ah, I see…” Accelerator nodded suddenly. He felt it was strange to talk about it. Logically speaking, based on Filo’s physical fitness, the Zombie Dragon’s level should not be a threat to Filo.
“An attack of that level doesn’t hurt or itch Philo at all~~” Philo said proudly.
“Ha, so the Filobird is this kind of bird of prey.” Accelerator shook his head, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was impossible. How could this ferocious monster that could be eaten by a dragon be used as a tool for pulling carts by humans? Come to think of it, it should be the result of the [Monster Growth Correction] skill of his [Monster Messenger Shield].
“Master…are you worried about Filo?” Filo suddenly looked at Accelerator with a mischievous look and said.
“Huh? Are you dreaming again?” Accelerator looked at Filo,
“Oh my, Master, I am embarrassed.”
“I’ll kill you when I get back.” Accelerator said calmly.
Philo’s smirking expression really makes people angry.
56: Aftermath (old version)
“Master, what should we do with this dragon’s corpse?” Filo said as he looked at the zombie dragon here.
“Hmm…” Accelerator looked over and saw that the Zombie Dragon was no longer moving. Although Accelerator had intended to end it with one last punch, it looked like the Zombie Dragon was already dead, but it didn’t seem to be caused by his punch.
Although each of his attacks had the power to shatter mountains and rivers, the hitting area was small and the zombie dragon had amazing regenerative abilities. So when the first three attacks were merely used to vent anger and no weaknesses were found, the zombie dragon should not be killed so easily – although he was very angry, Accelerator was still able to judge this calmly.
“What happens after you are swallowed?” Accelerator asked.
“Well… I kept moving forward in the dragon’s belly, and finally I saw a large crystal emitting purple light.” said Filo.
Could this be the case? That huge crystal is the driving force that controls the zombie dragon’s body to move?
The place where Philo came out was near the chest…is that the heart?
Why would a zombie dragon have something like that hidden inside its body…
Is it because it’s a dragon? Even after death, the magic power contained in the body during life crystallized due to the corpse being abandoned, and further controlled the corpse to move…
“So what about the crystal?” Accelerator asked.
“Burp!” Filo replied.
Hmm. This answer probably has only one meaning, that is, she ate it. No wonder Accelerator saw her belly glowing inexplicably. This guy…
“There’s only a little left, I’ll give it to the owner as a souvenir.”
After saying that, Filo spat out a small piece of purple fragment to Accelerator. But perhaps because there was too little, Accelerator asked the Legendary Shield to absorb it but there was no reaction.
“Tsk, forget it.” Accelerator shook his head and didn’t bother to think about it. Then he looked at the corpse of the zombie dragon in front of him and thought about how to deal with it.
I have to say that the zombie dragon’s body is really big and feels quite difficult to handle. The corpse has been severely decayed to the point where it is hard to tell what color it was in life. The organs that were previously regenerating due to injuries are now stagnant, and the dark and sticky flesh looks quite disgusting.
In addition to the pain caused by Accelerator and Filo, there was another seemingly fatal injury, a blow to the abdomen. There was a huge scar on the abdomen, and the internal organs were exposed outside the wound, emitting bursts of stench. Although the zombie dragon had just fallen, the stench had been spreading. The poisonous flies from all directions swarmed over the moment the zombie dragon fell, competing to eat the dragon’s rotten flesh, making it even more disgusting.
All in all, it feels like it’s very difficult to handle…
“Master, I’m hungry—”
“It’s amazing that you can still have an appetite after seeing this kind of scene…” Accelerator rarely complained, but of course he couldn’t let Filo eat the meat of the Rotten Dragon.
At this time, Raphtalia and Medi had also come over. They were very surprised to see Filo was still alive from afar, and now they came over and spoke directly.
“Little Philo, I’m so glad you’re okay!”
“Philo, are you hurt anywhere?”
“No, don’t worry, Philo is fine.” Philo said, and then suddenly moved his eyes to the back, “Philo’s carriage! There is food in the carriage! Philo is hungry.”
“Let’s deal with the body first.” Accelerator grabbed Filo who was about to run away and said, “Raphtalia, come with us. The blue-haired kid over there can wait in the carriage.”
“Okay!” Filo and Raphtalia both answered.
“Blue-haired kid?!” Maddie was stunned. It seemed that no one had ever called him that. But she knew that she couldn’t help with dealing with the corpse of the rotten dragon. She might even make things worse. So she simply ran to the carriage.
“I’m going to start!”
“Hey, Philo. The meat is rotten! Don’t eat it!”
“Meat is best eaten when it’s almost rotten, Sister Raphtalia.”
“It’s not rotting! It’s completely rotten!
The aftermath of dealing with the zombie dragon was quickly completed. Although the zombie dragon left behind a lot of bones, meat, skin, etc., they could not unlock a new shield. However, considering how precious the dragon’s bones and skin were in the other world, Accelerator thought that these things would come in handy, so he loaded these materials onto the carriage and planned to transport them away.
“By the way, Master, Filo has made a new friend—” Filo said to Accelerator while cleaning up the last remains of the zombie dragon.
“Is that so?” Accelerator said, and casually asked, “That blue-haired kid?”
Although he was asking, Accelerator had already been convinced in his heart. This was something that could be seen at a glance. Speaking of which, this was Filo’s first friend. In his own case, he was equivalent to Filo’s owner. Raphtalia was equivalent to Filo’s mother… or it would be better to say sister.
“Well! Tell the master that the girl just now said that she has traveled to many places.”
“Oh… a so-called traveler? But it’s inappropriate for a traveler to wear such high-end clothes.” Accelerator said. He didn’t forget so quickly that the blue-haired kid had the surname of the Melomag royal family.
“Then, she told me a lot of things that Filo didn’t know – for example, what kind of monster the Filo bird was, and what kind of legends it had, etc.!”
“oh……”
To be honest, Accelerator just dealt with her casually. In fact, Accelerator didn’t hear what she said at all, and it went in one ear and out the other. Because Filo was not good at speaking, but she liked to talk a lot, so what she said was often nonsense with unclear meaning.
“And then – she said she got separated from everyone because she was playing with the Filo birds, and she felt very upset.”
“Oh…” After answering casually like this, Accelerator was stunned, feeling that he had heard something very troublesome.
Then he looked back and was surprised to find that the blue-haired little girl, Medi, was standing behind Accelerator and had walked out of the carriage at some point.
“I’m sorry to bother you now. Um…may I be able to go with you for a while?” Medi bowed politely, gently lifting the corner of her skirt with her hand, looking like a noble lady.
“No.” Accelerator answered without thinking. Filo, the troublemaker, was troublesome enough, and now there was also a naughty kid. How could he tolerate it?
57: Information update (old version)
“no.”
“Hmm…” Maddie was stunned. She didn’t expect Accelerator to refuse so directly.
“Master – Philo is also in your hands. Little Metty said she is in trouble.” Philo also said.
“I see you’re really in trouble.” Accelerator said.
“Master, I’m counting on you too. I can’t just leave such a young child alone when he accidentally gets lost,” said Raphtalia.
“You two are such troublemakers.” Accelerator had a headache.
“I will reward you well later, and I promise not to cause you any trouble on the way. Can you please escort me back to the city?” Medi asked.
“Ha…” Accelerator sighed. Even though he really wanted to leave this brat in the plague village and let the villagers deal with it, he couldn’t stand the two quarreling guys around him, so he decided to let Maddie go with him.
However, since Maddie is a member of the royal family of Melomag, her status in the country should be quite high. In the end, the guards were too useless to let such a noble daughter get lost while playing with wild philo birds. What if she got involved in some trouble? Or was there something hidden?
Shaking his head slightly, Accelerator didn’t care about these, because he wasn’t afraid if there was trouble. Soon Accelerator and the other two returned to the carriage. The carriage was very large. After putting a bunch of zombie dragon bones and skin in bags, there was still plenty of space to accommodate the three of them. Filo happily walked to the front to pull the carriage, and the group drove directly towards the village at the foot of the mountain.
Come to think of it, the villagers seem to know my identity as the Shield Hero. Will the villagers also show disgust when I return this time?
Accelerator sat in the car and thought about it for a while. Although he didn’t care about other people’s comments, it would be very troublesome if they couldn’t stay overnight in the village because of this. Because it was already very late, even Accelerator didn’t want to sleep in the wild.
“Hello, Miss Maddie. My name is Raphtalia. I hope you will guide me during this short journey.”
“Well, please give me your guidance, Miss Raphtalia.”
The other two people in the car interacted a little, and it seemed that their relationship would not develop in a bad direction.
By the way, when Filo pulls the carriage, she often bursts out with speeds that exceed those of ordinary Filo birds or even earth dragons, so the carriage shakes very violently, and even ordinary people are very likely to get carsick. As for Raphtalia, it seems that because she had fainted once before, her body has developed some resistance. Although her face is not very good, she can barely hold it in. On the other side, is Maddie… okay?
“Ahahahahahahaha, little Filo runs so fast——!”
“Hehe, Filo can run even faster!”
It looks like there’s no problem.
Accelerator shook his head. Of course, he was fine. He had never suffered from motion sickness since he was a child. So he took advantage of the time in the car to open the Legend Shield system and take a look.
The panel was still the same as when he first opened the Legendary Shield, but it was still slightly different from the first time he opened the panel.
[Name: Accelerator, lv50 (EXP: 8450/11000), Title: Psychic, Shield Hero
HP: 106100/106100
mp:30100/30100
SP: 200
Agility: 133
Durability: 563
Intelligence: 133
Skills: Seven Lights Magic Mastery (Advanced)
Special ability: Vector operation (level 5, EXP: 36%)
Number of shields unlocked: 31]As expected, because the Shield Hero was not worthy of attack power, his other attributes increased, but his strength attribute was still the value of an ordinary person. In contrast to attack power, the durability value that affects defense power was almost three times that of other normal attributes.
It is also worth mentioning that with the increase of level and attributes, he can definitely feel the significant improvement of his physical fitness. I won’t mention strength, because there is no feeling or improvement. Intelligence mainly affects spell strength and MP limit, not real IQ. So in terms of agility and endurance, he does feel that his physical strength has improved a lot, and it seems that he rarely feels tired due to physical exhaustion. Agility seems to affect Accelerator’s own movement speed. Now, even if he doesn’t operate the vector, he can run at a speed comparable to that of a normal car.
Of course, to be honest, Accelerator’s feelings about these things are not particularly obvious, because he usually uses vector manipulation to make these processes as convenient and labor-saving as possible for him when he fights or travels, so he can feel his superpower [Vector Manipulation] more clearly. Yes, up to now, he feels that his vector manipulation seems to have improved a lot compared to when he was in the Academy City, but this improvement refers to a quantitative change, not a qualitative change. In other words, Accelerator can be sure that he has not reached the level of lv6 yet, but he can also be sure that at this rate, he is not far from lv6. This can also be seen from Accelerator’s panel. When he first came to the other world, it showed [Vector Manipulation (lv6, 24%)], and now it is [Vector Manipulation (lv6, 36%)], and the progress has increased by 12%.
In the panel of unlocked shields, although there are now 31 unlocked shields, the majority of the shield icons in the tree diagram are still gray, indicating that there are still many shields waiting for him to unlock.
Then there is the skill section, the displayed skill is: Seven Stars Magic Mastery (Advanced).
He knew what the Seven Elements Magic was, because the magic books he had read recently all recorded the principles of the Seven Elements Magic. Accelerator, who had read through all of them, naturally mastered the skills of the Seven Elements Magic, and the “Advanced” marked at the back was the magic level that Accelerator mastered. The magic levels in this world were divided into low, intermediate and advanced levels from bottom to top. As for whether there were other levels above, Accelerator didn’t know because he hadn’t reached that level yet.
However, although he has mastered advanced Seven Luminaries magic, due to his magic suitability, Accelerator can only use recovery and support magic. But it doesn’t mean that learning these magics is useless, because after understanding the principles, Accelerator can add these magics to the [Reflection] catalog, which can also be regarded as an improvement in ability.
59: Promotion (Old Version)
Accelerator was very impressed by this thing because it was very useful. Because it can see the name and judge whether it is a hostile or friendly unit, and this function has many uses.
With this in mind, Accelerator switched the Legend Shield to the [Yinglong Heart Shield] and looked at the wall next to him. He saw a few green characters appearing behind the wall.
【lv40☆Raphtalia】
【lv40☆Filo】
[lv13 Medi.Q.Mellomag]Yes, this feature can directly see the name through the wall. If you think about it from another angle, this feature can completely prevent sneak attacks, such as you inexplicably see a red name moving towards you, or there is a red name behind the wall.
In addition, the Eye of All Things has a function of shooting red light, the range and penetration of the light are very large, but the problem is that I don’t know how to trigger it. According to the last experience, it seems that it can be fired by concentrating, but Accelerator doesn’t know how to operate it, and he doesn’t want to try it casually, after all, the penetration is too strong and it is likely to hurt someone by mistake.
In short, although this skill is attached to [Yinglong Heart Shield], that is to say, it is related to Yinglong, there are still many things that Accelerator does not understand. Now it seems that the last chapter of this magic book seems to be able to tell him something.
“Eh… is this Japanese?” Accelerator was stunned after turning the next page. Yes, he saw Japanese. You know, this other world has its own unique writing system, and Accelerator even studied it for a while.
But now the situation is interesting, there is Japanese in this book. Does that mean the person who wrote this book, or this chapter, is from Japan?
“Let me see…”
【If anyone who has been summoned from Japan is reading this, please keep it in mind.
The Eye of All Things is the lock that seals Yinglong. There is no seal yet. It is the last line of the world.
No matter how strong the seal on this monster is, in the end, the seventh seal will be broken.
The survey results stated that its purpose is···········, and··the world.
I hope that the seal will not be broken accidentally.
The sacrifice of many lives may help the world, because this price will be rewarded accordingly.
But…never arrogant.
End… If anyone can understand this text, please do your best to defeat monsters for the sake of people rather than saving the world.
The same is true for the sealed Qilin, the turtle, and the phoenix.
Gui Yi stayed. 】
Many of the words seemed to be illegible due to their age, but Accelerator was able to roughly guess some information through logical analysis.
The power of the Eye of All Things is actually a tool used to seal Yinglong. However, no matter how strong the seal is, Yinglong will be unlocked for some reason. The purpose of the seal is related to the whole world. The sealer hopes that someone can defeat the sealed monster, Yinglong. In addition to Yinglong, there are three other sealed monsters, Qilin, Linggui, and Phoenix. The person who left the message was a man named Guiyi, who sounds like a Japanese.
However, the introduction to the Eye of All Things ends here. There is no mention of the functions of the eye itself, nor is there any discussion of how to learn any magic. It doesn’t feel like the content of a magic book. Instead, it feels more like a page of information was forcibly inserted into the book.
“Owner?”
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned and looked back. He found that Raphtalia was standing behind him without him noticing. It seemed that it was time for dinner, so Raphtalia woke him up from his concentration on reading.
“I’m sorry, did I bother you?”
“No… Oh, it’s morning already? Let’s pack up and get ready for breakfast.”
“Master, have you been reading all night?” Raphtalia asked, looking a little worried.
“Hmm…” Of course, Accelerator didn’t care. He had plenty of energy so far, so he didn’t have to worry about health problems. He was more concerned about the contents of the magic book. After thinking about it, he asked Raphtalia, “Where’s the blue-haired kid?”
“Miss Metty? She is packing clothes in the room over there.” Raphtalia said. Since they were only staying in the village hotel for one night, they needed to change their clothes for sleeping and put them in the suitcase.
“Master, are you okay? Do you want to take a rest?” Raphtalia was still concerned about Accelerator’s health.
“It’s okay, just take care of yourself.” Accelerator said, then got up and washed up.
Soon the four of them sat down in the restaurant provided by the hotel and started to eat breakfast.
“Blue-haired… um…, Maddie, take a look at this book.” At the dining table, Accelerator turned the magic book to the page of “Eye of All Things” and handed it to Maddie. Even though she was just a naughty kid who liked to play around with Filo, considering that she was born into an aristocratic family, she should have read a lot of books and traveled around the world for many years. She must be more knowledgeable than Filo and Raphtalia, so Accelerator hoped to get some information from her.
“Oh… can you understand these words?” Maddie said in surprise.
“These characters look very strange. There should be no country on earth that uses similar characters. But if you are the Shield Hero, does that mean these characters belong to your world?” Medi asked. Because she was thanked by the villagers on the way, Medi also learned about Accelerator’s identity as the Shield Hero, but she didn’t seem to have any special reaction. It seems that he is indeed a well-educated person.
“Could it be the brave man’s writing?”
“Brave Words… a mere Japanese word is described as something extraordinary.”
“I’m very sorry, I can’t help you with this.” Maddie apologized to Accelerator.
“Forget it.” Accelerator shook his head. He had asked her with the mentality of giving it a try, so he was not too disappointed.
So the four of them ate their breakfast quietly. Although it was free food provided by the hotel, it was surprisingly delicious. I don’t know if it was because they were Accelerator’s four friends that they were treated specially.
“By the way, Filo, Raphtalia.” Accelerator had just taken a sip of porridge when he suddenly thought of another question, “Do you two feel like you haven’t made any progress in the recent battles?”
“Hey hey! Master, how did you know?!” Philo shouted.
“Filo, don’t talk loudly while eating, it’s very impolite. But speaking of it… Master, it seems to be true as you said. Is it because the level has not been upgraded?” Raphtalia guessed.
“Your levels have remained at level 40 for a long time and there is a ☆ symbol next to the level.” Accelerator said.
“Is that so…” Raphtalia and Filo looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.
“This means that you have reached the realm of advancement!” said Medi here.
60: Gun (old version)
“Don’t you know? The so-called promotion is the method of breaking through the limit of growth. After surpassing the promotion threshold, you can continue to improve your level, and your basic abilities can be greatly enhanced when you advance.” Medi knew what was going on with the three people as soon as she saw their expressions, so she began to explain.
“Oh?” Accelerator was a little surprised. This was the first time he heard of it. But soon he asked curiously, “But why can I continue to level up even though I haven’t advanced? I’m currently at level 50.”
“Well… I’m not really sure about this. Maybe it’s because he’s a hero, so his level can be increased without limit?” Medi said after thinking for a while.
Accelerator nodded slightly, thinking that this was probably the case.
“…Where can we go for the promotion ceremony?” Accelerator asked. The promotion would surely be beneficial to Raphtalia and Filo. He thought that this time he would send Medi back to the main city and then let them advance.
“Hmm? The dragon-carved hourglass will do.”
Dragon-carved hourglass?… Although he has never been there in person, from what Accelerator had observed from afar, it was a place with strict access control, and the guards’ attire seemed to be related to the Church. It would probably be a bit difficult for him, with his identity as the Shield Hero, to ask the people there to help him advance.
Anyway, since he was going to the main city, he might as well give it a try. It would be best if the other party could compromise, and he would be promoted directly. If he could make things difficult for them and prevent them from compromising, he would apply some extra pressure to make them compromise (referring to physical pressure).
After finishing breakfast, the few people quickly got on the carriage back to the main city. Because they knew the way and Philo was very fast, and they had not gone far from the main city, it only took them about half a day to reach the entrance of the main city.
“Ah! The Shield Hero!” Accelerator had just entered the main city and was about to ask Medi when she would get off the bus, but he heard this shout from behind.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned, so he looked slightly to the back of the carriage, and saw a boy dressed as a soldier, about fourteen or fifteen years old, rushing towards the carriage they were sitting in, breathlessly.
Since this is a town area, and a soldier-looking man is chasing us while shouting “Shield Hero”, it seems like it’s not a good thing.
“Master?” Similarly, Filo, who was pulling the carriage, also saw the situation, so he turned around and asked Accelerator whether he should stop immediately.
“Ignore him and keep walking towards the city center.” Accelerator said directly. Although he was not afraid at all, even a fly could be annoying.
Really, I don’t know what new false accusations the rubbish king who made me take the blame during this period of time has put on me.
I feel a little irritated and unhappy when I think of Accelerator. Although I have taught him a lesson, he never seems to learn his lesson… Accelerator really doubts whether this guy has a brain problem. Although he has not touched this guy for some reasons, it is only because the consequences will be more troublesome. It is impossible to say that he dare not kill him. If Accelerator is really mad, he will really slap his head off. Does this guy think he is an important person and think that I dare not kill him?
Shaking his head slightly, Accelerator looked behind the carriage again and found that the soldier who had been chasing their carriage was gone. It turned out that a soldier was thinking too much if he wanted to race with Filo.
When Accelerator was halfway through thinking——
“Ah …
What then?
Accelerator turned around and saw a group of people approaching him, pointing their fingers at him. The leader looked familiar, a handsome man with blond hair and holding a spear. The crowd around him then dispersed to the sides.
“Huh? You really aren’t dead. Are you here to seek death?” Yes, this is exactly Motoyasu and his group. Accelerator said directly when he saw them. Because he had already guessed that Motoyasu was not dead, Accelerator was not too surprised.
“Ha! Accelerator, you didn’t expect that, did you? I’m a player, you can’t kill me.”
“Are you insane?” Accelerator said, holding his brow.
“Insanity? If you’re a player, you should understand, right? I actually had the illusion that I was going to die, but it turns out that even if our HP drops to 0, we can be resurrected through some special means. For example, I was resurrected through the elixir of life given by the Pope.” Seeing that Accelerator “didn’t know”, Motoyasu explained to him with a smug look on his face.
“…” Accelerator was speechless for a moment. So that’s how it was. The duel between Accelerator and him made him believe in his own statement even more.
“Lord Yuankang…” The female adventurer named Mai Yin, who had been standing next to Yuankang, suddenly whispered something to Yuankang, and then Yuankang looked like “Oh! I almost forgot.”
“This guy…” Accelerator frowned slightly. To put it bluntly, this guy called Mine feels a bit… bitchy, and is undoubtedly a bootlicker.
This girl wanted to stick her tongue out to me at first, but after I rejected her, I saw her walking with Motoyasu the next day. And when I was playing one-on-one with Motoyasu, she even attacked him from behind. Accelerator didn’t have a bad first impression of her, but her subsequent actions made Accelerator feel a little uncomfortable. Now, I don’t know what bad things she said to Motoyasu secretly.
“Stop talking nonsense, Accelerator, set that lady free immediately! You brave man who orders slaves around!” Perhaps because he had overcome his fear of death (?), Motoyasu shouted directly at Accelerator.
“Here you are again, you little bastard. You are really annoying.” Accelerator sighed, then thought for a moment and said to Motoyasu with a pair of dead eyes, “Raphtalia should have shown her intention to reject you before, right?”
“It’s not Raphtalia…it’s the blonde lady with angel wings who came to the party with you guys earlier.”
“Huh? You, as long as she’s a woman, it’s okay?” Accelerator thought about Filo’s size and couldn’t help but said to Yuankang, this guy didn’t even let go of children, he’s really a scumbag. . .
61: Rescue (old version)
“Stop talking nonsense! Accelerator, set that little angel free! Otherwise I won’t forgive you!” Kitamura Motoyasu said with a gun dance.
“I’d really like to know why you won’t let me go.” Accelerator sighed. To be honest, dealing with this kind of idiot is really a headache, especially since the other party doesn’t seem to be afraid of death and keeps provoking him, as if he really thinks this is an online game and he can’t die. It really makes Accelerator wonder how naive this guy is.
“Huh? Are you talking about Filo?” Filo, who was pulling the cart, also stopped and turned around to ask Accelerator.
“Well, this guy wants to be your new owner, you go quickly.” Accelerator waved his hand and said, while taking Filo away, Facing would definitely go with him, so it would be just right to take away two troublesome guys at once.
“Hey! No way! Master, are you going to throw Filo away?” Filo said loudly, and then looked at Yuan Kang opposite him with extreme anger: “Damn it, you are trying to sow discord between me and the master? Filo is so angry!”
As he said that, Filo threw away the rope pulling the carriage and rushed towards Yuankang at an accelerated speed.
“What…?!” Kitamura Motoyasu didn’t react at all, and didn’t understand what was going on. He saw the fat chicken-shaped Filobird and Accelerator chirping and talking to each other. He had seen this fat chicken in front of the weapon shop before, and knew that she could talk, but because they were far away, he didn’t know what Accelerator said to the fat chicken. But the next second, he saw the fat chicken rushing towards him aggressively, and the speed was quite amazing. It rushed to him in the blink of an eye.
“Damn it!” Yuankang had no time to dodge, but after so much training, he was not completely useless. When faced with this situation, he took some action to react. He simply held the spear forward and upward to protect his head.
But these defensive measures were completely useless, because Filo’s attack angle was quite tricky and completely unexpected. Filo raised her strong foot and pulled it hard at Yuankang’s crotch from bottom to top.
“Ahhhh!” A scream suddenly rang out, and all the passers-by watching here felt a chill in their hearts.
Even Accelerator’s eyes twitched. He saw that Motoyasu, who was originally confident in his defense, had his face twisted and deformed due to the severe impact, and the whole person flew backwards in a spiral for a full 5 meters.
“How cruel…” Accelerator said.
“Oh my god! Master Yuankang!” Mai Yin and the others shouted in panic, “Doctor! Is there a doctor nearby? Come quickly!”
Not to mention her shouting, someone really came over and handed over a bottle of painkiller and recovery potion, so Yuan Kang was fed the two directly, and Yuan Kang felt a little better.
“Mmm…you!”
Yuankang, holding his crotch, slowly stood up. Judging from the cold sweat on his face, he must be in terrible pain.
“Master, master, how about Filo’s wave?” Filo immediately ran over and said to Accelerator with his chest puffed out.
“Filo, you…” Accelerator was speechless for a moment. He wanted to tell this guy not to attack so suddenly in the future, but now seeing Filo’s face asking for praise, he thought for a moment and said, “From now on, only use this trick on Motoyasu.”
“Oh! No problem!” Philo nodded.
“Damn it… Accelerator, you actually attacked me? Do you dare to fight me in a fair one-on-one?!” Kitamura Motoyasu said while covering his crotch.
“Fair and upright? I remember the last time you said this word, someone attacked me from behind with wind magic.” Accelerator thought for a moment and said.
“Huh? That’s nonsense, you.”
“And even if we ignore that, where on earth did you get the courage to say such things to me… It seems that your naivety and ignorance really gave you a lot of courage.” Accelerator said.
“Humph, of course I know I’m not your opponent now, but Accelerator, things change over time. Even if I can’t defeat you this time, there will be a next time, and the next time, and the next time… One day, I will defeat you fairly!” Motoyasu said with a righteous look on his face. It felt like something the protagonist would say, but there was a problem.
“You clown… Don’t you understand yet? After fighting with me, Accelerator, there will be no next chance.” Accelerator said with a headache. He really hoped that this guy could cherish his life.
“Here it comes again, why don’t you believe me? Didn’t I fight you last time? We used this, so even if the player died…” Yuan Kang spread his hands and said.
“Master Yuankang…” Suddenly, Mai Yin, who was standing next to Yuankang, stopped Yuankang and advised him tactfully: “Your spirit of fighting again and again despite failures is indeed admirable, but I think the most urgent task now is to improve our own strength first, and then find Shield for a second duel…”
“Huh?”*2
Accelerator and Motoyasu on this side were both stunned.
Accelerator was a little surprised. According to the current situation, Motoyasu would challenge him to a second duel. This time, Accelerator planned to cut Motoyasu into pieces without even giving him a second chance. But in the end, it seemed that Mai and Motoyasu had a disagreement on the decision to duel.
Yuankang didn’t expect that this guy would suddenly jump out and interfere. After all, Myne rarely interferes with his behavior. He thought for a while and said, “That’s true, but Myne, I’m not going to die anyway. Now that I see this guy, I can go and test his current level, right?”
“I won’t die anyway…” A drop of sweat fell from Mai Yin’s forehead. She forced a smile and said, “Um… Lord Yuankang, even so, that’s the case, but…”
It felt like I was trying very hard to make up a bunch of things in my head, and then Myne said, “Master Motoyasu, you are such a great hero, how can you keep losing to the shield? Dignity, Master Motoyasu! Do you want future generations to add the story of ‘the spear hero was defeated by the shield demon many times in a row’ when they pass on your epic?”
“Well… this is a bit…”
“So, Master Yuankang, improve your strength first. It’s just a shield. I’m sure I won’t be your opponent in the future! Investigating your current strength won’t help you in the future.”
“Yes, Mai Yin, you are right.” Yuankang nodded, looking as if he agreed deeply.
“Hehe.” Accelerator figured out that Mai was trying to trick Motoyasu in order to save his life.
62: Forbearance (old version)
“Oh?” Accelerator was a little curious. Although there was no conclusive information, he always had a feeling that Motoyasu was being led by the nose by that woman named Mine again, and he was completely unaware of it.
After all, no matter how you think about it, Motoyasu is just a guy with a brainless mind. His empty-headed behavior makes Accelerator suspect that he is actually a android. As for Mai, she is very thick-skinned, and from some of her words and deeds, it can be seen that she has a very domineering personality and likes to be clever. From this point of view, these two people together may indeed be the same as Accelerator thinks.
“In that case… well, Myne, you’re right, let’s just forget about it for now, but those little blonde angels…” At this time, although Yuankang sighed, he was almost convinced by Myne, and was nodding and preparing to leave.
“Swish!” A sound of breaking through the air was heard, and Accelerator flicked his hand seemingly casually. Then a stone flew past at a speed that could ignite the atmosphere, and then there was a loud “boom!”
“Ahhh!” Yuankang screamed. Although he barely dodged the stone thrown by Accelerator, the aftermath of the impact on his skin made him feel a pain as if his skin was torn apart. The stone thrown by Accelerator was as powerful as a grenade. The ground was sunk into a pit, and all kinds of smoke, sand, and rocks flew everywhere, as if there was an explosion.
“Accelerator!” Motoyasu yelled at Accelerator with a rather ugly expression, and it seemed that he was a little angry this time.
“Huh? What? Don’t you think I’m the kind of good guy who won’t get angry even if you challenge me to a duel? You dare to talk to me in this tone, do you think you can walk back safely?” Accelerator tilted his head and asked back.
“Damn it…Main, I can’t stand it anymore, you guy, stop going too far…!” Because he was not afraid of death, Motoyasu was immediately furious when he was mocked like this. He swung his gun and rushed towards Accelerator.
“Hey, Master Yuankang, wait…” Mai Yin was about to stop Kitamura Yuankang, but it was too late. Although she had also gained a lot of experience and leveled up with Kitamura Yuankang, the growth of various attributes and the final level were not as good as Yuankang. By the time she reacted, Yuankang had already rushed away.
She panicked the first time. What should she do? Compared to Accelerator, Maiin didn’t believe in Motoyasu’s “theory of immortality of players”. As the daughter of the king, she knew that the reason why Motoyasu didn’t die in the last battle with Accelerator was because of the magic medicine given by the Pope. In other words, it was just luck. He happened to meet the Pope at the scene, and the Pope happened to be willing to provide this magic medicine. The Pope happened to have the magic medicine with him at the time. Maiin didn’t believe that there would be a next time for such good luck. And now looking at the scene in front of her, in Maiin’s eyes, it was no different from Motoyasu running to die by himself.
“Chaos Thrust!” Motoyasu activated his skill and stabbed Accelerator fiercely. This skill seemed to be an AoE skill. All the gunshots that hit Accelerator were blocked by Accelerator’s [Reflection], but the gunshots that were not reflected hit the store behind Accelerator like a meteor, and the wall collapsed. Then came the crowd of onlookers, who were affected by Motoyasu’s skill, and screams came one after another.
“Spiritual Javelin!” Yuan Kang seemed to be completely unaware of this scene and directly released another aoe skill.
“Ha…are you serious?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows and was about to say something, but the skill of Motoyasu on the opposite side had already hit his face.
“Hmm…” Accelerator pinched the sharp point of the legendary spear with one hand and blocked Motoyasu’s attack with one hand as he did in the past, but Motoyasu felt something was wrong.
“What is this…?!” Motoyasu’s face was filled with ecstasy. Yes, this time he finally felt a bit of normal attack on Accelerator. Before, every attack on Accelerator felt like it was blocked in the middle. Even if it seemed that the legendary spear had pierced Accelerator’s body, there was no sense of attack. Moreover, he was inexplicably hit by Accelerator’s anti-injury shield (a kind of shield he guessed). But this time, not only did he feel a real attack, but he also didn’t feel any counter-injury. Could it be that…
“You…! I understand, hahaha! You can’t block my attacks with your weird moves anymore! Accelerator!” Motoyasu laughed, and then he took a look at Accelerator’s HP bar as if to confirm, and found that his HP bar, which had never changed and seemed to have unlocked a health lock, finally dropped a little, so he was more certain of his thoughts, “You’re done this time!”
“Huh?” Accelerator frowned. What on earth was he thinking about? “You, don’t you pay attention to your surroundings?”
“Stop talking nonsense! Watch out, Meteor Spear!” Yuan Kang didn’t pay any attention and just swung his spear.
“Hello……!”
“Chaotic Thrust!”
“Lightning gun!”
“Brute attack!”
After almost a minute of using his skills, Yuankang had used up most of his SP, and his stamina seemed to be running low, but he was quite excited now. Because he saw that Accelerator’s HP bar had dropped by half! Yes, he was finally going to defeat Accelerator.
Although Accelerator was more resistant because he was the Shield Hero, he couldn’t withstand the bombardment of so many skills. He looked a little embarrassed.
“What… Lord Motoyasu actually…!!” Mai Yin was also stunned for a long time, but then she was ecstatic. To be honest, she had never thought that this would happen. The seemingly powerful and ferocious Accelerator was beaten by Motoyasu without any chance to fight back.
“Lord Motoyasu! Come on!” Maiin cheered Motoyasu, and Motoyasu turned around and grinned very coolly, then turned back to Accelerator, looking quite pretentious.
“Master!” At this time, Raphtalia came running over from somewhere and shouted to Accelerator, “The surrounding civilians have been evacuated by Filo and I.”
“Is that so…” Accelerator muttered to himself, while Motoyasu on the opposite side seemed to be immersed in the joy of defeating Accelerator, and did not understand the situation at all, and just brandished his gun.
“Fanluansu…what!” Yuankang only shouted half of his moves. The next second, he felt his throat tighten and his whole body could not move.
“Ah… I’ve had enough, you trash…” Accelerator re-operated the vector, and in an instant, he burst out with a speed far beyond Motoyasu’s dynamic vision. He stretched out one hand and grabbed Motoyasu’s neck.
63: Human Evil (Old Version)
“Master Yuankang!” Mai Yin shouted, and then immediately ordered the people around her: “What are you common people doing! Go and help Master Yuankang defeat the demon!”
Now the people around have been evacuated to a safe zone at a certain distance away from where they would not be accidentally injured. However, after hearing Princess Mai Yin’s cry, these people looked at each other, swallowed their saliva, and no one dared to step forward.
Yes, the scene was bloody now. Accelerator pressed Motoyasu’s entire face to the ground, and Motoyasu’s face broke the concrete floor. A burst of blood flowed out. Accelerator bent down and punched Motoyasu in the face again and again.
The people around felt their scalps tingling just by hearing the sound of the blow. At this moment, Yuankang’s face was no longer recognizable as a human being. Not only was it bloody, but also Yuankang’s face was completely deformed. He seemed to have fainted and lost consciousness.
“You lowly people! Do you want to disobey me, the next queen? Do you want to die?!” Maine’s face was almost distorted from roaring, as if she found it very difficult to accept that these civilians did not obey her orders.
Hearing this, the people around felt even more chilled. Yes, Mine is the first princess of Melomag. If she inherits the throne in the future, then if they offend her now, won’t they be sentenced to death with just one word? Not to mention inheriting the throne in the future, even if Mine wants to attack them directly as the first princess, it is not impossible. Thinking of this, the people who were originally a little afraid of Accelerator’s performance decided to suppress the fear in their hearts.
Because if they fight with Accelerator, they may still have a chance of survival if they are lucky. But if they disobey Mai, they will die. Yes, now it is not a question of who is right or wrong for them, but an important decision of life and death. The person in charge is confused, but the bystander can see clearly. It is true that Kitamura Motoyasu tried to attack Accelerator with large-scale killing skills, and these attacks would undoubtedly hurt the helpless civilians, but Accelerator took all these attacks with his body to protect them. They, the bystanders, saw it very clearly and were very grateful to Accelerator. Because Accelerator can be said to be their benefactor.
But the reality is that they have to attack Accelerator before Myne mobilizes the power of the country against them, and serve as cannon fodder for Kitamura Motoyasu to defeat Accelerator. Because they can’t escape from the country’s pursuit, and of course most of them have nowhere else to go except Melomag, so they have no choice.
Yes, this is the thought of the common people at the bottom of this world, quite humble, anyway, no matter what, no matter good or evil, surviving is the kingly way. So they all raised the blunt weapons they could find around them and turned their eyes to Accelerator.
“Ha…” Accelerator also stopped attacking Kitamura Motoyasu at this time. Yes, he also noticed the shouts of Mai and the performance of the people around him. For a moment, the anger that arose in his heart because of Kitamura Motoyasu’s unilateral suppression for a minute disappeared like a bucket of water. Instead, he felt a little disappointed and cold inside, and a little self-mockery.
I actually volunteered to be beaten for a minute by a piece of trash like Yuankang just to save these scum…? This is too stupid. What does the life and death of these scum have to do with me… When did I become like this?
Yes, Accelerator is indeed slowly beginning to change inside as he comes into contact with the good side of humanity.
No, it’s more of an awakening than a change. When he was in Academy City and slaughtered those Misaka sisters, he couldn’t help but think. Ah… it would be great if these guys could say things like “Save me.” “I don’t want to die.” . . . In this way, Accelerator can let them go with a boring reason, and can also use such a reason to explain to those researchers.
As Accelerator killed more and more sisters, his mentality changed from “If these guys can say words of begging for mercy…” to “How can I make these guys beg for mercy”. Because he knew that the memories of the Misaka sisters were connected through the information network, Accelerator almost showed his overwhelming and invincible power every time he “performed a mission” and killed the Misaka sisters in a very cruel and bloody way. But it was useless. Those guys never said “I don’t want to die.” Every time, there was no fear of Accelerator on their faces.
After hundreds and thousands of times, Accelerator became numb, telling himself that these Misaka sisters were not human beings, but just props. The cruel way of killing the Misaka sisters gradually changed from purposeful to habitual.
If someone could physically punch Accelerator at that time, or if there was a Kind Blade willing to treat Accelerator sincerely, Accelerator might be awakened from that state, but unfortunately, no one strong enough to punch Accelerator appeared, and those around him who knew Accelerator did not dare to get close to this monster.
Now in the other world, as he spends more and more time with Raphtalia and Filo, although his temperament has not changed much on the surface, Accelerator has indeed changed a little from the bottom of his heart.
The acts of killing Misaka sisters were like a hidden cancer hidden deep inside, which would make Accelerator shiver from time to time. The thought of Misaka sisters’ miserable death even made him feel nauseous and want to vomit.
Perhaps Accelerator’s previous actions of adopting Raphtalia, taking care of Filo, helping the villagers, and protecting civilians were just a way of atonement for his past evil deeds.
But he never thought that he would be able to cleanse himself of all the evil, so he always called himself an evil party.
And because of this awareness, the good influence caused by the baptism of “goodness” he once received may dissipate at any time due to certain circumstances. For example, now.
The civilians who had just been protected by him were now pointing swords at him.
“Haha! You sewer rat? Are you still trying to help others?”
“This is disgusting. What are you dreaming about, you monster?”
“You are just a shield demon. Why don’t you just be defeated by the spear hero? What are you struggling for?”
He always felt that there was such a voice floating in his ears, and Accelerator could no longer tell whether it was an illusion or what these civilians really said.
Yes, how can a bastard like me be qualified to help others? Do I still dream of saving others? It really makes me sick.
Accelerator’s eyes flashed red.
People like me can only kill all of you scum…!
64: The Goodness of Man (Old Version)
The bad nature of human beings is very ugly, especially in the civilians living at the bottom of medieval civilization. Although Melomag is a relatively powerful country, the civilians living in the main city are usually quite docile, but this is only because they have not faced life-threatening situations for the time being. Like now, under the blatant threat of Princess Myne, they finally chose to deviate from morality and face Accelerator, their benefactor, with weapons in hand.
Accelerator’s emotions were also very dangerous, full of negative emotions, anger, murderous intent, and madness. His mind was completely occupied by these negative emotions, his head was empty and he didn’t think about anything, he just wanted to destroy everything around him instinctively.
At the same time, the legendary shield on Accelerator’s arm emitted a faint dark red glow, which looked quite strange, making people not want to approach from a distance.
A mysterious voice entered what was left of Accelerator’s consciousness.
Are you angry?
[Ah, yes, these damn maggots…! I hate them! I miss them so much!]The plain Legendary Shield turned into a bright red Artistic Shield, and its outline became larger.
【Who do you hate? 】
[Isn’t it right in front of me? These bastards…! Also, the rubbish king, the noble ministers, Maddie, Kitamura Motoyasu, Amamu Ren, Kawasumi Itsuki, the villagers, the uncle… Everyone, I will kill you all this time… Not a single one will be spared…]The anger flowed towards the bright red shield, staining it black, turning it into a dark red shield.
The last bit of consciousness left in Accelerator was also being invaded by anger and madness, and at the same time, his back twitched as if something was about to grow, and then black wings slowly stretched out from behind him, and at the same time, his last bit of consciousness began to be devoured.
And at that moment, Accelerator suddenly felt a warm current that seemed to extinguish the dark anger in his heart, gently touching his arm.
Plop…
This is… an indescribable warmth.
“Master, no matter what situation you are in, I will always be your sword. I will follow you to the ends of the earth, even to the depths of hell.”
“Master… don’t abandon Filo…!”
I seem to hear something like this, is it an auditory hallucination…? Accelerator’s dark and distorted vision suddenly shook slightly, and the sight in front of him became a little brighter. Accelerator saw the situation in front of him a little bit, and the people holding blunt weapons facing him were still facing him, but at this time there was already a group of people blocking them and Accelerator.
“How long are you going to be subservient to these tyrannical nobles, confusing right and wrong and acting like dogs? Wake up, you bastards! This guy just protected your benefactor from a fierce attack!”
The leader of the group was the old man from the weapons shop. He was facing the people holding blunt weapons with his back to Accelerator, shouting indignantly. The old woman from the magic shop, the boss of the pharmacy with a fierce look, the lady from the tailor shop, and several young warriors wearing the armor of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Melomag also held the same position. If Accelerator was more aware now, he would find that the young soldiers wearing the armor of the Kingdom were the ones who chased his carriage but were ignored by him.
“This…” The civilians around looked at each other, and saw that several familiar faces that they usually saw were now standing on the opposite side of their position, which made them a little confused.
“What…?! There are weapons shops, magic shops, pharmacies, tailor shops?! And you guards?! What the hell is going on?!” Maine seemed to be angry and yelled at the weapons shop owner and his gang: “How dare you disobey me, the next queen?! Do you still want to run your business?! Do you still want to stay in this country?!”
Mai Yin was blatantly abusing her privileges to threaten others. After all, her previously tried-and-true methods had failed. For a moment, she could not accept the fact that her brain was short-circuiting. But this was something she should never say. Yes, some words should not be said, even though everyone knows that this is the case and that you are abusing your privileges. But if you always appear to have even the slightest right, people will secretly find excuses for themselves and continue to compromise in fear. But now that you are blatantly saying “I am abusing my privileges”, the situation is different, because this is equivalent to blatantly telling people that you are being treated like slaves, and trampling on the last bit of human dignity in people’s hearts. Once this happens, people will only have two choices.
The first option is to truly treat oneself as a slave and lick the shoes of the aristocracy. This is a possible choice for the common people after they have been suppressed by the aristocracy and become slaves. The second option is to risk one’s life to start an uprising. However, according to the current level of oppression of the common people by Melomagri and the sanity of the common people, the possibility of choosing the former is very small. Then the effect of Maine’s words is only one – to bring out the last bit of blood in these common people.
“Princess Myne.” Perhaps because he knew that his current behavior was considered treason, the owner of the weapons shop looked completely different from his usual friendly expression. He said with a serious expression: “Everyone knows the current situation clearly, but some people choose to remain silent and compromise, and we just can’t stand such a situation where right and wrong are reversed.”
“When the other three heroes were not noticing, he protected the village of Root by himself and didn’t let any villagers get killed. He is a real hero. Even though he was summoned by you without authorization, he helped the world to eliminate the crisis brought by the wave without complaints. And you? Slander, abuse, discrimination, all kinds of unfair treatment. The country has become so chaotic and if no one stands up, then I think this country is hopeless.” The owner of the weapons shop said to Main seriously, but it was more like he was talking to the civilians around him.
“The Shield Hero once helped the village of Root where my relatives live. I cannot stand by and remain indifferent to this. Please have mercy, Your Highness.” The old woman in the magic shop said tremblingly. It can be seen that although she was afraid to stand up at this time, she still could not ignore the justice in her heart.
“Me too.” The drugstore owner said directly without saying much.
“Ah… Even though he just passed by my shop before, but since he is the one who can raise such a cute little Filo, I think he must not be a bad person.” The big sister in the tailor shop smiled and said, it felt like although she was helping Accelerator, it was more like doing it for Filo.
“You…you…!?” Mai Yin pointed at the weapons shop owner and his group in disbelief. To be honest, she never dreamed that these slave-like civilians would have the courage to disobey her orders.
“I… don’t want to do these things against my conscience all the time. You guys are right.” One of the civilians holding blunt weapons was deeply touched and put down the blunt weapon in his hand and said.
As the first person started talking, the original situation was broken by this first person, and more and more people began to talk about it.
“The Shield Hero is indeed an excellent hero… He was willing to withstand the attack of the Spear Hero to protect us under such circumstances. We are really… Alas!”
“Come to think of it… I seem to have heard recently that the Shield Hero saved the southern part of our country from the plague problem and eliminated the giant corpse dragon on the top of a mountain.”
“I’ve also heard that…”
“Rumors are so unreliable. Where did these unreliable rumors come from? The Shield Hero is obviously a very good person. We have all been deceived by the rumors!”
“Who knows, maybe it was passed down from the country’s aristocracy? Those people from the Three Heroes Cult must have been secretly interfering behind the scenes.”
On this side, Accelerator also woke up a little because of the warm feeling in his heart, but there was a mysterious voice in his mind that seemed to be blocking him.
Have you forgotten your anger?
[I won’t forget, but these have nothing to do with these two little ghosts, right? I want to protect the people I cherish. ][Do you want to resist me? ][You want to control my life? Stop dreaming, bastard! ][…Remember, I am always watching for your weaknesses…]The confusing dark sound suddenly faded away, and the vision became clearer.
“Cough! Cough!”
Accelerator regained his senses, and the black wings behind him disappeared instantly. He then realized that Raphtalia was holding his hand tightly while trying hard to hold back the pain of coughing. Filo did the same on the other side.
“Are you guys okay?!”
“Y-yeah, I’m fine… cough!”
Raphtalia looked like she had been severely burned. Filo shook her head. She looked slightly better than Raphtalia, but her fair skin, which had already transformed into a human form, also had some burn marks. However, there were no enemies at the scene who could use fire attacks.
What on earth happened…ah, is it because of the shield?
Accelerator noticed the dark red shield in his hand and quickly checked the information and immediately found out.
It was a special effect of the Shield of Wrath, and the protective magic flame also affected Raphtalia and Filo.
“You two guys? Why are you holding my hand?!”
“Because the master will abandon Philo…” Philo said weakly. It seemed that the fire had also caused her a lot of trouble.
“If I don’t… hold your hand, I feel like the master will just leave us… ahem——!”
Raphtalia smiled as she collapsed as if exhausted.
Extra: Raphtalia (not related to the main text) (Old version)
That was before I understood the master’s character.
“The weather is great today!”
After saying hello to my mom and dad, I happily ran towards the village square – I had agreed to meet up with Kiel and the others who were waiting for me there.
When I arrived at the village square, the other children in the village had already gathered there. I couldn’t help but smile innocently. The adults passing by also smiled kindly. It seemed that today was the same as usual, a day for these children to play happily together – I thought it was like this.
“Hey, look over there!” Kil, who was leading the game, suddenly stopped and shouted, pointing at the sky.
I quickly turned my gaze in the direction of Kiel’s finger and was immediately speechless.
Twisted cracks of strange colors quietly appeared, and the sky seemed to be pierced by a dagger, with a strange crack extending to the end of the grassland.
What happened next was a despair that was like hell descending. I’m afraid I’ll never forget the scene of that day, the color of the sky was a mixture of blood red, brighter than blood, and the pitch black of despair.
The streets of the town where I used to play were filled with monsters, turning into a real hell. Then, the monsters began to invade in all directions like a wave.
Mom and Dad, the adults in the village were discussing the current situation with serious and anxious expressions. The sky looked worse and worse, but the adults seemed to be arguing and quarreling. I felt that the atmosphere and environment around me were becoming more and more depressing, and it was slowly beginning to make me feel a little breathless…
Finally… a strange “click” sound was heard, and the villagers all turned to look towards the source of the sound.
“What is that…?”
It seems like… there is a large group of unidentified objects that look like human bones slowly walking towards the village.
The group of unidentified objects that looked like human bones were holding weapons in their hands, emitting a dim light.
So scary… So scary.
–monster.
Yes, they fit the word perfectly.
Woo, Wooaaaaaaaaaaah!
The uncle screamed and fled the scene. I remember this uncle, the elder who had kindly watched us kids play before…
Then, other villagers also screamed in fear as they were pulled by the uncle.
At this time, Dad stepped forward to stop the monsters.
“As the source of power, I give this order. Light, destroy the enemy before me!”
Instant Holy Light!
A burst of light appeared, and the skeleton was shattered by the magic cast by my father. At this time, my mother also took out a naginata and cut off a skeleton. However, countless monsters continued to pour in from all directions, and there was no end in sight.
In order to let the villagers escape safely, Mom and Dad stayed behind to resist the monsters. However, even though Mom and Dad were brave and skilled in fighting, they still did not have the capital to fight a war of attrition with such a large number of opponents. Moreover, a creature similar to the monster boss appeared next.
A three-headed, huge canine monster rushed into the village. Mom and Dad couldn’t even resist its attack, and the rest of the villagers, who were in a state of panic, no longer evacuated calmly, but began to flee in panic.
The villagers ignored my father’s advice and fled towards the seaside.
I was pushed and fell accidentally by the villagers who were fleeing in panic.
“Is it all right?”
My mother picked me up.
But my mother’s face looked very ugly.
The three-headed giant dog slaughtered the villagers who failed to escape in time with its fangs and claws.
“So, so scary…”
“It’s okay, we will definitely get out of this, don’t worry.” My mother comforted me, and my panicked heartbeat calmed down a lot.
Since my mother said so, it can’t be wrong…I think so.
However, the ominous premonition soon came true. The three-headed giant dog monster cornered the parents. Behind them was a cliff, and below was the bottomless ocean. If they jumped into the sea now, they would still have a chance of survival. However, if the three of them jumped together, they would be chased into the sea by the three-headed monster, and in the end, no one would survive.
Although I couldn’t understand this situation, I could sense the tension in the atmosphere with my demihuman sixth sense.
“Raphtalia.”
W-what’s the matter?
My mother patted my back gently as if to comfort me.
You should smile often and be good friends with everyone in the village.
Yes, if you smile, you can make others smile too.”
Dad also stroked my head.
“Raphtalia… I think you will face very difficult situations in the future, and you may even lose your life.”
“But, Raphtalia, even so, we still hope that you can survive… So, please forgive mom and dad for being so willful.”
At this point, the ominous premonition in my heart had reached its highest level of warning.
“No! Dad! Mom!”
I was also very sad because my parents had sad expressions on their faces that I had never seen before.
I stretched my arms out, but…
My mother pushed me hard, causing me to fall from the top of the cliff into the sea.
Bubbles gurgled and flooded my field of vision, and I quickly stuck my head out of the water.
Then… I witnessed the moment when three giant dogs leaped towards Mom and Dad.
“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
A lot of things happened later, and the other people in my village gathered together, but then came another disaster different from the monsters – soldiers.
The soldiers who were supposed to come to support the village brutally killed the old man who lived next to my house and took away all the children and women in the village.
A week has passed since then, and I have nightmares about the scene of my parents’ death every day.
That day, I was sold as a slave.
He was a fat man with extremely ferocious eyes when he looked at me. After getting along with him, I guessed that there seemed to be a so-called entertainment in this world that tortured subhuman slaves and watched their painful expressions. I was a rental type wailing slave for personal use.
In those few short days, I suffered the physical pain and mental pain that I had never experienced in my life – I lost my best sister, Lifana.
Yes, among the men, I found Lifana, my friend who was also bought by him and lived with me in the village.
“Dead? That’s really troublesome.”
The man roughly grabbed one of Lifana’s arms to confirm it, and then said this.
Lifana was seen lying limp with a dazed look in her eyes, allowing the man to manipulate her.
“The return deadline was almost up, but he died, forcing me to pay an extra penalty!”
After saying this, the man kicked Lifana away like a toy.
I reached out my shaking hand and touched Lifana.
The extremely frightening cold touch shocked me deeply.
How could this happen…Lifana!
Sadness, fear, anger at unfair treatment, and despair.
Many negative emotions converged and merged like a turbid current, causing my mind to fall into chaos.
The men hung me up and whipped me severely for a whole day, but I kept my eyes fixed on Lifana’s body, as if I didn’t feel any pain.
“Oh, by the way, I heard you still have a village to return to, right?”
There was no need to answer because everyone was waiting for me to return.
Yes, although most of the villagers have been killed by monsters, half of them still continue to live there.
“I heard that it has long been a deserted village. This is the proof.”
After he finished speaking, the man held up the crystal ball.
The crystal ball suddenly glowed, projecting the image of a village onto the wall.
All I saw… was a reflection on the wall of a village that had become even more dilapidated than the one I knew before… an abandoned village that was now completely deserted.
The remains of the burned flag are the most obvious evidence.
“Also, I heard that you were the kid who encouraged the villagers to cheer up. But then everyone seemed to abandon the village and flee.”
Ah… The man was referring to something I had done. Because I remembered what my parents had said: “You should smile all the time. As long as you smile, everyone in the village will smile too.” So after the monster attack, I have been encouraging the depressed people in the village to cheer up. I think my parents would be happy if I said that, but…
“Ah, ahhhh!”
At this moment, I felt like my inner support was broken in half.
I can’t hold on any longer.
My parents clearly entrusted me with the important responsibility of revitalizing the village, but the village is now deserted.
So, what should I do?
I have… nothing left.
“Cry louder!” The man laughed cruelly. He seemed quite satisfied to see me, who had never given in, showing a desperate expression for the first time.
My mind was completely filled with pain, and since then, I have never smiled again. I guess I will never be able to smile again…
Finally… the man sold me. I was handed over to a middle-aged man dressed as a gentleman as an intermediary. I heard that he was a slave trader. Finally, in his mall, I met my next owner.
“From left to right, they are a rabbit subhuman with a genetic disease, a raccoon subhuman suffering from panic disorder, and a hybrid lizard man.”
“Huh? Aren’t all of them sick?”
The white-haired boy began to negotiate with the slave trader. During the negotiation, I suddenly made eye contact with him.
Those were indeed a pair of sharp eyes that seemed as if one could lose his life just by being stared at, and the ferocity in those eyes was extremely exaggerated. I am sure that even the sadistic owner before did not have such ferocious eyes.
If I fell into his hands, I would probably be dead.
“Huh? Is this the extent of your ‘evil’? It seems that you are just a small-time gangster.” I was distracted by the momentary fear in my heart. When I came back, the white-haired boy had already said this to the merchant.
“Forget it, little gangster. I just want this slave.” The white-haired boy called the slave trader a little gangster. Although this made me interested in the boy’s identity, I should worry about my own safety now.
Anyway, this must be my last owner.
I thought so in self-deprecation.
Soon the new owner treated me in a very rough manner and tone, but this was not unexpected, but at some point while walking on the street, my stomach suddenly growled.
I’m going to be scolded again!
I shook my head to indicate that it wasn’t me, no, it really wasn’t me, please don’t lose your temper and don’t whip me!
“ha……”
The master just sighed.
Why? Isn’t he angry?
The host took me into another store. It was a high-end-looking restaurant, like a place that only aristocrats could afford to eat.
It seems that the master had a fight with a man named Colt because of me. After that, the master treated me to delicious food that I had never eaten in my life. When I came to my senses after eating, the master just sat next to me helplessly and waited for me to finish eating.
“Why…?” I wondered why the master was so nice to me.
But the master told me in a bad and rude tone that he just wanted me to be of good use to him after I was full, and he didn’t need a useless slave.
But is that really the case? If it’s just about food, why come to such a fancy restaurant? And why fight with others?
Master, is he a kind person who is very frank in his words?
65: Second Princess (Old Version)
[Curse Series——Shield of Wrath][Skills: Body Protection Magic Flame, Iron Maiden]Accelerator immediately opened the information page of the legendary weapon and took a look. Sure enough, he found that the black and red flames on his body were indeed caused by the new shield in his hand.
Although it does not actively attack others, once the body touches, it will cause severe damage to the opponent. And it is an attack that does not distinguish between enemy and friendly units. For example, now.
Raphtalia was severely injured by the protective magic flame and fainted. Although Filo was in a better condition than Raphtalia and could stay awake, he was also in a state of disarray.
Accelerator, who noticed this, immediately switched his shield to its initial state, the Shield of Legend, and looked at Raphtalia and Filo with some regret.
If I had known that my loss of control of my emotions would cause these two people to suffer this degree of harm, I should have been calmer.
“Master Shield Hero, I have some emergency trauma medicine here. Give them to the two little girls.” The pharmacy owner said to Accelerator as he handed over a few bottles of potion.
“Hmm…” Although Accelerator could use his ability to adjust the physical conditions of the two, this was not a long-term solution after all. So Accelerator nodded, took the medicine bottle without any hesitation, and quickly applied it to the injured skin of Raphtalia and Filo.
Filo was fine, but Raphtalia was covered with wounds. Many parts of her skin were burned by the flames into black and red. The black was the carbon color due to dehydration after burning, and the red was the color of blood and flesh.
“Sister Raphtalia…” Filo murmured as he looked at Raphtalia, worry written all over his face. It can be seen that although Filo and Raphtalia seemed to often quarrel over some inexplicable things, they actually had a good relationship.
However, Accelerator was not so worried, because he saw that after applying the trauma medicine, Raphtalia’s HP value stopped declining, stabilized at a certain stage, and was still recovering slowly –
It looked like Raphtalia’s life was no longer in danger.
Accelerator breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to pay attention to his surroundings. After he regained consciousness from the negative emotions, his attention was focused on Raphtalia and Filo, and he didn’t notice that there had been considerable changes around him.
Accelerator still remembered that the owner of the weapon shop and his group came out to speak for him, and it seemed that because of what the uncle and his group said, the civilians all lost their hostility towards Accelerator. Now it seemed that the situation had reversed, and everyone was pointing the finger at Main.
Come to think of it, after all, that woman treated these civilians very badly. Once someone started to resist, it would be easy for others to be aroused to resist.
But what was somewhat unexpected was that the situation did not seem to be as serious as Accelerator had imagined. The reason seemed to come from someone who settled the fight caused by the conflict between the heroes.
“Everyone, please be quiet! Private fights between heroes are not allowed. We must not target one side or the other.” The owner of the clear voice appeared through the wall of people.
“Oh…?” Accelerator was a little surprised.
That figure was like the appearance of someone who had the power to settle things. Thinking roughly, since coming to this world, Accelerator seemed to have never encountered such a situation, so he was really surprised.
Because the powerful people that Accelerator knows about right now are unable to do anything serious. After all, the ones who caused this trouble and enjoyed it were the king and princess of this country.
Who is the person who dares to intervene in this situation with such an attitude… Accelerator thought so, and quickly looked over to the source of the sound, just in time to see Maddie standing in the middle of the crowd calming everyone’s emotions.
“Why… are you here?” Maine, whose face was already flushed with anger because of the situation at the scene, looked even worse when he saw Maddie show up.
“Long time no see, elder sister.” After Maddie simply greeted Maine, she took out a signed book.
“That, that is it!” The people around were shocked when they saw the paper, and the rebellious emotions that had been aroused calmed down.
“Onee-sama, please understand. Don’t think that you can cause this commotion just by relying on the power of the hero or onee-sama.”
“…Tsk.” Mai Yin seemed to smack her lips, but she didn’t say anything to refute. It seemed that the power represented by the paper seemed to be greater than the power of Mai Yin, the first princess.
Then Medi turned to the civilians and said, “I also saw the process of you causing the dispute. My sister was going to do something that you cannot accept on behalf of the country. Do you understand now? As the second princess with the greatest right of succession to the next queen of Melomag, I can assure you that my sister is not qualified to make any decision on behalf of the country. Please rest assured.”
“I see…” Of course, for everyone, it would be best if they didn’t rebel, so they were happy to see this situation.
“Please, sister, take the Spear Hero to the hospital for treatment. Otherwise, the treatment medicine alone may leave hidden injuries.” Medi said to Maine. Although she is the second princess, her posture and temperament are far superior to Maine, the first princess.
“Got it…” After saying this, she quickly asked Yuan Kang’s other companions to stop giving Yuan Kang the treatment medicine, and sent Yuan Kang to the hospital with them. It can be regarded as Maddie giving Maine a face to step down.
“Dear people, on behalf of the nation of Melomag, I apologize to you for what my elder sister said and did.” Maddie bowed formally to apologize, her tone very sincere.
The surrounding civilians were also somewhat shocked by this. Medi, a member of the imperial royal family and the true heir to the next queen, actually bowed to them, the civilians. This made them feel somewhat flattered.
“Your Excellency Princess, your words are too serious…”
“Ah… In that case, there’s nothing we can do.”
“Yeah, let’s just pretend nothing happened this time.”
It seemed like she had easily calmed the people’s anger…Accelerator was watching from the side. This little brat was unexpectedly reliable.
66: Red (old version)
Soon after Maddie’s guidance and the compensation agreement, the victims and other people who were watching the show around quickly dispersed, and Maddie returned to Accelerator.
“You’re quite capable, kid.” Accelerator said when he saw her coming.
“Little brat…” Maddie held her forehead, but did not choose to correct the way Accelerator addressed her. She just sighed helplessly. Yes, Accelerator had been calling her a little brat all the time. She didn’t know how many times she had reminded him, but Accelerator didn’t listen at all. So she simply didn’t bother to correct him.
“Well… Little Filo, and the injuries on Miss Raphtalia’s body…” Medi frowned and looked at Filo and Raphtalia’s skin, and said with a slight frown.
“What’s wrong? Are there any sequelae?” Accelerator asked. Seeing Maddie’s serious expression, Accelerator wondered if he had taken their injuries too lightly. After all, they had just applied trauma medicine and stopped the loss of HP, so Accelerator thought it was nothing serious.
“Filo feels that there is nothing wrong. The pain is gone now. But what’s the situation with sister Raphtalia?” Filo shook his head to indicate that he was fine.
“It’s hard to say what the sequelae are… Although it’s a very powerful curse, it seems that because it didn’t invade the body for a long time and the healing medicine was applied immediately, the injuries of little Filo and sister Raphtalia were contained and will not be life-threatening. But… now it seems that the traces of the curse will always be branded on the skin and it will be difficult to eliminate.” said Maddie.
“Ha… is that all?” Accelerator didn’t think it was a big deal at all. Rather, it seemed that Maddie, who brought up this matter specifically, was making a fuss out of nothing.
He took a quick look at the parts of their skin that were burned by the protective flames, and there were indeed dark black marks. It looked quite scary and weird, but it was just a mark and would not cause any actual impact. To be honest, Accelerator didn’t care about their appearance, so he didn’t take it to heart at all.
“What do you mean it’s just this little thing?!” Contrary to what Accelerator thought, Medi seemed very excited. “Maybe it’s not something worth worrying about for you, the Shield Hero, but could you please consider little Filo and Miss Raphtalia? They are both young girls in their prime! How can they get married in the future if such ugly marks are left on their skin!”
“Eh…this is such a hassle.” Accelerator smacked his lips and said, how come this brat’s image has changed back? Where did the image of the fair and just ruler go?
“Filo, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble in advance, let me ask you first, you don’t think so too, do you?” Accelerator looked at Filo with an expression that said “don’t come to cause trouble”, but Filo seemed to not understand Accelerator’s eyes at all.
“Eh? Philo doesn’t want to have this kind of thing on his skin! Otherwise, the master won’t love Philo anymore.” Philo nodded quickly.
“Tsk…” Accelerator smacked his lips, and just in time saw Metty looking at him with an expression that said “I’m right, right?”
“Well, they are just troublemakers.” Accelerator sighed and said, “Is there a way to remove the traces of a curse of this degree?”
“Yes.” Medi nodded and said, “Ms. Raphtalia, we should use high-quality holy water. Little Filo is only slightly affected by the curse, so low-quality holy water is enough to eliminate it. The Holy See provides holy water, and the Shield Hero can buy it from the Holy See.”
“The Holy See? The Three Heroes?” Accelerator was stunned. If it was the Holy See of this country, it would probably not be so easy for them to provide him with holy water.
“Well… don’t worry, Shield Hero. If I accompany you, the people from the Church won’t go too far.” Medi said, “Besides, Miss Raphtalia and Little Filo are already level 40. It’s a good opportunity for me to accompany you to the complete promotion ceremony. Maybe I can help you in some way.”
“Yeah.” Accelerator nodded, and suddenly felt that it was indeed a lot more convenient to have Medi with him.
Soon, Filo changed back to the Filo bird form to pull the carriage, and Raphtalia was placed flat in the carriage. The group soon stood in a church in a conspicuous location in the town.
One must admit that this church was large and magnificent, except that the symbol on its flag…was a combination of a sword, a spear, and a bow.
The only thing missing is the shield among the Four Saints, which is a symbol that really makes Accelerator unhappy.
“Shield, Shield Hero!”
As soon as he stepped into the church, the nun immediately frowned and glared at Accelerator. As a nun of the Holy See, she actually behaved like this to someone who entered the church. It seems that Accelerator’s reputation in Melomag has reached a very bad level.
“Ah?!” Accelerator responded with a ferocious look, got off the carriage and stood slightly in the direction of the nun, which scared her so much that she took several steps back.
“No need to panic.”
At this time, a calm man who looked like a church priest spoke up to remind the nun.
“Your Holiness!”
“May I ask what brings you two to our association today?” The Pope walked up to Accelerator and showed a standard benevolent face of a priest. He seemed not to be affected by Accelerator’s identity and aura at all, and spoke very calmly.
“Well, my companion has been cursed by a very fierce curse. I hope you can sell me holy water strong enough to break the curse.”
Anyway, these guys don’t pose any harm to me, so I’ll just treat them with courtesy for now.
Accelerator thought so, but he was a little surprised in his heart. He didn’t expect that the Pope of the Three Heroes would be so peaceful towards him. Could it be that he was also a fair person in power like Medi.
“Then please make your offering,” said the Pope.
There is a price list hanging on the wall, and the prices are clear at a glance. But it is better to ask for clarification.
“How much money do you want to give?”
“If it’s holy water, the cheapest price is five silver coins, and the others are ten, fifty, and one gold coin. The effect will naturally increase with the price.”
Hmm…it doesn’t look like he’s asking for too much.
Originally, Accelerator was planning to punish this guy severely if he dared to frame him…
“Then give me two bottles of powerful holy water for one gold coin.”
“Huh? Can Philo also enjoy high-level holy water?” Philo said with some surprise, because she only needed to use low-level holy water to heal her injuries.
“Just a casual remark.” Accelerator said.
“Wow, thank you Master! You are so kind to Filo! I will try my best not to let you down, Master!”
Accelerator shook his head, took out two gold coins and handed them to the Pope.
“Understood.”
The Pope instructed the nun to fetch a bottle of holy water.
…….
To be on the safe side, Accelerator activated his appraisal skill to check the quality of the item.
Of course, Accelerator did not use the identification technique that came with the Legendary Shield, but used the more advanced “Eye of All Things”.
Low-grade holy water, poor quality
This bastard…
Accelerator was a little angry. This guy actually dared to deceive him. Thinking of this, Accelerator secretly mobilized the vector. When he raised his head and was about to reach out to strangle the Pope’s neck, he saw that the Pope himself was also surprised.
The Pope also shifted his gaze to the holy water, and his expression changed instantly.
“Why did you bring inferior goods?”
“but……”
“God is merciful. If this is just a barbaric act to satisfy your personal sense of justice, please repent and admit your mistakes to God immediately.”
“I’m so, so sorry!”
“I’m sorry, a disciple of this church has offended you.” The Pope apologized to Accelerator, and his attitude seemed sincere, but…
“Oh, it’s okay…” Accelerator narrowed his eyes and looked directly at the two big words above the Pope’s head –
pope.
red.
67: Sword and Bow (Old Version)
Yes, the word “Pope” is written on the Pope’s head, without even a specific name. Although Accelerator finds it a bit strange, it is obviously not this point that needs to be paid more attention to now. Instead, the red color of the name symbolizes that the Pope is undoubtedly the enemy of him.
Although he looked kind and there seemed to be nothing wrong, if it weren’t for the Yinglong Heart Shield, Accelerator might have really been fooled by this guy.
“I’m so sorry.” While the nun was getting holy water, the Pope apologized to Accelerator again.
“Heh…” Accelerator looked at the Pope with a little interest. At first glance, he did have the face of a kind and sincere elder, but that didn’t make him let his guard down at all. However, while he was on high alert, he couldn’t help but feel curious… What was this guy up to?
“As long as I can get what I want in the end, I have no intention of complaining.” Accelerator spat and said, yes, since the Pope wants to pretend like this, he won’t expose it first.
“Thank you for your compassion.” Soon the nun took out two bottles of holy water and came over. This time it was the Pope who personally verified the holy water. It seemed that after confirming that it was correct, he handed the two bottles of holy water to Accelerator for him to inspect.
Of course, Accelerator activated the ability of [Eye of All Things] the moment the nun came over and detected the newly brought holy water.
【Holy Water to Remove Curse (High Quality)】
“Yes, it is indeed genuine.” Accelerator nodded and accepted the bottle of holy water. Yes, he did not think that this was an item that could be hidden from the detection of the Eye of All Things.
“Please give glory to God’s guidance. All of this is due to the mercy of our God.” The Pope said with his hands spread out, looking very pious, while Accelerator frowned slightly.
“Tsk…” Accelerator spat. Although he was a little annoyed by the “forgive you” tone of a religious man like the Pope, he was even more confused about what the Pope was trying to do. Logically speaking, if he continued to pretend now, he would not have a good chance to suddenly strike a surprise, but this guy seemed to have no intention of doing anything.
Could it be because of a stupid reason like “arguing in the holy place of the Vatican would be blasphemous”? Hmm… Judging from the Pope’s behavior, it seems that this situation is not impossible. Tsk, how boring.
Accelerator got on the carriage with this thought, and quickly left the church with Filo. What disappointed Accelerator was that the Pope was indifferent even when facing Accelerator’s “unguarded” back.
“Ah, what a weird guy, so boring.” Accelerator sighed while sitting in the carriage.
“What’s wrong?” Medi asked while using holy water on Raphtalia.
“–Nothing.” Accelerator shook his head. Even if he told Medi that the Pope had murderous hostility towards him, it would be useless to tell Medi without evidence. Although they had been working together for two days, he still did not regard Medi as a companion like Raphtalia or Filo.
“Is holy water useful?” Accelerator thought for a moment and asked. But in fact, there was no need to ask. One could tell just by looking that the holy water had obvious effects. When applied on Raphtalia’s cursed skin, the dark curse faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Yes, high-quality holy water is the nemesis of almost any curse, so Miss Raphtalia’s curse has almost been eliminated. After we find a place to rest, we can give it to little Filo as well.” Medi said, and Accelerator nodded.
Next, because he planned to use Medi’s identity in Melomag to help Raphtalia and Filo complete their promotion, and Raphtalia was not awake yet, Accelerator now planned to find a restaurant to eat something and wait for Raphtalia to wake up.
“Beep!” At this time, Filo, who was pulling the carriage, suddenly beeped twice alertly, reminding Accelerator to be prepared.
“Oh?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows. Could it be that guy, the Pope? Really, he’s so slow… Just as he was thinking this, Accelerator got off the carriage.
“Ah! Found it!”
A young voice completely different from that of the Pope sounded, and Accelerator frowned slightly. He judged that it was the voices of Kawasumi Itsuki and Amaki Lian. At this time, the two of them and their followers immediately rushed towards Accelerator inexplicably.
Like Accelerator, the two were summoned to another world as the Four Holy Heroes, the Sword Hero and the Bow Hero. But to be honest, Accelerator really didn’t take them seriously from the bottom of his heart. He thought the Pope was more worthy of his expectations. So he was a little disappointed to see these two people looking for trouble with him.
When Accelerator glared at them with an unhappy look on his face, Kawasumi Itsuki spoke first, which was rare:
“Accelerator! It’s you, right? You pretended to be me and stole the reward for completing the commission!”
What is this guy talking about? Accelerator didn’t understand at all.
“Me too. You stole the commission that was originally supposed to be my job, right?” Before Accelerator could figure out the situation, Amaki Ren on the other side said this with a condemning look in his eyes.
This… Accelerator still has some impression. He was probably talking about the incident where he solved the problem of the Plague Village. If I remember correctly, it seemed that it was the sword hero Ren who killed the dragon that occupied the mountain, which led to a series of problems. Later, the commission issued by the village to the country seemed to have been accepted by Amaki Ren, but it was solved by Accelerator who passed by in the middle. The commission money and rewards handed over to the country were naturally all taken by Accelerator.
The two of them seemed to have become very confident in their own strength because of the experience they had during this period of time. This was especially true for Lian, who had killed the dragon. Therefore, when they saw that Accelerator did not respond to them for a while, they immediately stepped forward and said in a domineering tone:
“You’re going to refuse to admit it?”
“Stop pretending here!”
“Ha…” Accelerator scratched the back of his head, as if sighing. To be honest, he really didn’t understand. When he was in Academy City, there was basically no one who dared to talk to him in this tone, but why did such people appear endlessly in the other world?
Accelerator tilted his neck slightly, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and said, “Who do you think you are talking to?”
68: Title is blank (old version)
The ferocious look Accelerator showed for a moment stunned the two of them for a moment, but then they looked at each other and immediately responded with the same sharp look, indicating that they were not easy to bully.
And Accelerator could roughly infer from the tone and appearance of these two guys that they seemed to be the same as Motoyasu. As they “leveled up” during this period of time, they had a genuine fear of Accelerator at the beginning, but now it has completely disappeared.
Accelerator has nothing to say about these two guys. His brain is not very good. If possible, Accelerator hopes not to deal with them. But in the current situation… To be honest, Accelerator doesn’t understand why these two people are here to cause trouble.
“Master Shield Hero, what did you do?” Medi was also a little confused in the carriage. She stepped down and tilted her head. After all, she had been working with Accelerator recently, and she knew that they had not done anything related to the Sword Hero and the Bow Hero in front of them.
“I don’t know.” Accelerator said casually. But even though he said that, Accelerator didn’t completely have no guesses.
As for Amaki Ren, Accelerator thought that what he said was probably related to the plague village. Think about it, the villagers said that it was the sword hero who killed the dragon on the mountain that led to a series of troubles. The villagers issued a bounty mission to the country for this matter, and it is estimated that the person who took up the mission again was Amaki Ren.
After all, it was something that concerned him, but before he could act, it was already completed by Accelerator here. So naturally, the bounty that was supposed to be given to him was taken back by the people inside and transferred to Accelerator, which is why Amaki Ren said that Accelerator “stole the commission”.
The above is what Accelerator speculated in his mind. If there is no other hidden secret, Accelerator thinks that this is a very likely development. As for Kawasumi Itsuki, Accelerator has no idea about his situation.
“You guy… do you think you can get away with it by pretending to be confused… huh?!” Kawasumi Itsuki shouted at Accelerator with a look of indignation on his face, but he didn’t expect Accelerator to suddenly attack.
Yes, Accelerator’s temper is not as good as these two people imagined. He will patiently explain the situation to them. Although Accelerator is a little concerned about what is going on, it is more difficult for him to accept being verbally abused by such a guy.
When Kawasumi Itsuki was halfway through his words, he frowned. Although he didn’t make any movement, he directly applied a vector to the ground that was touched by his feet. The next second, five or six cones like spikes shot out from under Kawasumi Itsuki’s feet, trying to pierce through him.
But after all, Accelerator rarely manipulates vectors like this, and his proficiency is not high enough, so the speed of attack is relatively slow, and the Bow Hero seems to be famous for his agility, so these five or six ground spikes all missed without exception, only breaking Kawasumi’s skin from the side, which is not a big deal. But it doesn’t matter, because the effect that Accelerator wants has come out.
Accelerator’s shield mode at the moment was [Yinglong Heart Shield], so he could directly see the name on Kawasumi Itsuki’s head, as well as the names of his companions and followers suddenly changed from yellow to red.
“Master Tree! Are you okay?!” Among Kawasumi Tree’s followers, a girl with a purple name [Lishia] on her head hurriedly handed Kawasumi Tree the healing medicine. Because she was the only one among Kawasumi Tree’s companions whose name did not turn red, Accelerator also paid a little attention to it.
“No, it’s okay. Thank you, Lisia.” Kawasumiki stood up and thanked her. Then he quickly ignored Lisia and glared at Accelerator, saying angrily, “You actually attacked me… You evil devil! You don’t deserve to be a hero. There is no justice in your heart at all!”
“Oh? Justice? Interesting.” Accelerator was stunned, tilted his head slightly to think about it, and then said: “To be honest, I agree with you, but recently there are always some people who arbitrarily define me as a good person, which is really troublesome…”
“Of course! The master is the best person in the world.” Philo on this side nodded quickly and said with great agreement.
“Tsk… I’m talking about people like you.” Accelerator exclaimed.
“The talking Filobird…” Kawasumi Itsuki was stunned for a moment because Filo spoke human language, but soon found that Accelerator seemed to be calm and composed, so he said angrily: “Don’t ignore me, ah, it seems that I am really underestimated, am I underestimated by an evil guy like you?!”
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned. Although he did not take Kawasumi Itsuki seriously, he felt that this guy’s sense of justice seemed a little too strong. To be honest, such people are rare.
“Master Tree, there is no point in saying more. Let this villain in disguise of a hero be punished directly.” A big man wearing an iron helmet walked out from behind Kawasumi Tree. He seemed to be the leader among Kawasumi Tree’s followers. The name on his head was also red, but it was too long and smelly. Accelerator didn’t look at it carefully and didn’t intend to remember it at all.
“You sound so arrogant, bastard.” Accelerator glanced at the big man in the iron helmet, his eyes revealing a hint of danger and ferocity. The man in the iron helmet immediately felt like he was going to be killed, his heart skipped a beat, and even his breathing stopped for a moment.
It was truly a look like looking at a livestock that could be slaughtered at any time, as if his life and death were only determined by the thought of the young man opposite him.
“You…you devil, you actually…” Under such a vicious gaze, Accelerator could not speak clearly, but he quickly retracted this aura.
“I don’t mind… After all, it doesn’t take much energy, but…” Accelerator said casually, and then looked behind him.
“Please wait a moment, both sides calm down, Lord Archer Hero, and Lord Shield Hero, private fights should not occur between heroes, please stop.” Little Medi stood between the two sides. Although she was small, her tone revealed the majesty of the country and the royal family.
69: Committed suicide (old version)
“You are…” Kawasumi Itsuki was also surprised to see that Medi had some outstanding temperament, so he asked after a moment of hesitation.
“Hello, Master Bow Hero, I am Medi Q. Melomag, the second princess of the kingdom and the heir to the highest throne.” Medi introduced herself while not forgetting to state her own identity, probably to make Kawasumi Itsuki and Amaki Ren who was watching over there more aware of themselves.
“The second princess is the prince’s daughter…how is this possible?” Kawasumi Itsuki was stunned at first, but after thinking about it, he quickly spoke.
But Medi directly took out the paper that she had just shown to the civilians, and Kawasumi Noriyuki and Amaki Ren on the opposite side were shocked when they saw it.
“Really…” Kawasumi murmured in surprise, and then looked at Accelerator on the opposite side with some reluctance, as if he was very reluctant. But after weighing it, he finally spat and said to his followers: “Forget it, everyone, let’s just…”
“Aaaaah! How dare a mere evil shield be so arrogant in front of Lord Tree? Take this move from me!” Before Kawasumi Tree could finish his words, or rather, he didn’t hear them at all, the burly man in the iron helmet rushed towards Accelerator directly, raising a big sword high.
“Eh?! Wait……!” Kawasumi Itsuki raised his hand to stop him, but it was too late.
The Iron Helmet rushed directly in front of Accelerator and swung down the sword he was holding high – it was an attack that could kill people.
This idiot!
Kawasumiki couldn’t help but curse in his heart. He actually did this in front of the princess. Isn’t this embarrassing for himself? His treatment was not as good as Yuankang’s to begin with. Now, he might not be able to compare with Yuankang in the future?
It was just a little strange that his subordinates’ swords had already reached Accelerator, but neither the talking Filobird nor Medi had any intention of helping him. What was going on? Although his subordinates had very high ability values ​​after the LV correction, Kawasumiki himself did not think that he could really kill the Shield Hero Accelerator. But no matter what, after being seriously injured, there would still be various inconveniences. Isn’t it too arrogant to just let his subordinates attack like this without intervening?
“Be careful!” As expected, Metty stretched out her hand and shouted, but Kawasumiki felt something was wrong. What was even a bit unpredictable was that Metty’s “be careful” didn’t seem to be directed at Accelerator at all. Metty just stretched out her hand towards her subordinates.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Accelerator said indifferently. Even though the sword was swung through the air in front of him, Accelerator didn’t even blink, but looked very bored and did nothing. Yes – whether it was avoiding, defending, etc., Accelerator continued to stand there as if nothing had happened.
Ah, that’s enough, I’ve seen this kind of thing so many times. It’s so boring, this kind of idiot, if left alone, will soon destroy himself.
Accelerator was thinking this, and the next second, there was a disgusting sound of flesh being torn apart, followed by a scream that resounded through the sky.
Accelerator was still standing there, as if nothing had happened. But the man in front of him, who was swinging the sword with the iron helmet, had half-knelt down. No, it was hard to tell what that posture was.
Because Iron Helmet’s entire body had been torn from top to bottom, from left shoulder to right leg, half of his body had fallen to the ground, blood was flowing on the ground like a jet. But for some reason, maybe it was some kind of protection or simply because of the high-level vitality correction, Iron Helmet was only left with half of his body, but he didn’t die directly, but stood there with blood and flesh, and the eye on half of his face was wide open. To be honest, even Accelerator felt it was quite terrifying when he saw it.
Soon, the Iron Helmet, who was delayed in killing, also fell down. After all, with injuries of this degree, it was not something that could be survived just by having a strong vitality.
After standing there for a while, the surroundings were quiet, and Accelerator looked around. Well… I can imagine the expressions of these guys.
As expected, Amaki Ren and Kawasumiki and their group all showed horrified expressions, and looked at Accelerator with fear again – after all, they saw such a scene. Not only that, Accelerator also saw that Metty also had a scared expression, after all, she was just a little kid.
Actually, to be honest, it is possible to whitewash it, because Accelerator did not do anything at all. The current situation of Iron Helmet is just the result of the rebound of his own attack. It can be said that he deserves it. If he hadn’t attacked him, or if he hadn’t used such a killing move directly, Iron Helmet would not have been “cut” by the rebound attack directly – you can say that, but Accelerator said nothing, because there was no need.
After the surroundings remained quiet for a while, a child’s voice was heard.
“Wow… Master, that’s so exaggerated…” Philo blinked his eyes. Maybe because he had no relevant concept in his mind, Philo didn’t seem to feel scared at all. He just said it with some surprise.
“Filo, tsk… kid, don’t watch this! Turn around and close your eyes.” Accelerator frowned. He didn’t want to be seen by an innocent like Filo because of the dirty work he saw when he was acting with him. He didn’t want to cultivate a villain who was used to killing people like himself.
But he soon realized that he had misunderstood. Filo was even more innocent than he thought. She tilted her head and said to Accelerator, “There’s actually no blood on her clothes after killing someone. It’s really exaggerated. Filo is so envious!”
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned and looked down a little. Indeed, the place where he was standing was covered with blood from the Iron Helmet, and a lot of blood also spurted out from the wound of the Iron Helmet when the attack was rebounded. But not a drop of blood got on Accelerator’s clothes, of course, this was thanks to [Reflection].
But this is not the point!
Accelerator held his forehead slightly, looking at Filo who was looking at the pool of blood on his side with interest. It was obviously bloody but he looked so interested. How to put it? Although I know that this guy is a blank slate and knows nothing, but just looking at him or thinking about him, I really feel creepy.
70:vs bow (old version)
“You…what did you do?! You actually–” Kawasumi Shu’s face turned pale, his eyes widened, and he shouted with an unresponsive look.
“Ha.” Accelerator sighed. To be honest, he was a little surprised by this situation. He didn’t expect that this guy could be killed directly by “reflection”.
Although we have always been used to “double the rebound” of attacks on ourselves, the cases of killing the opponent by reflection are still rare. Because normal people usually subconsciously “hold back” when attacking for the first time, and do not use their full strength, so the reflected attack cannot kill. After being reflected once, normal people will not choose to attack again after knowing that there is such a situation that they are not aware of.
But the guy in the iron helmet seemed to really want to kill him. He used all his strength right from the start, and then died miserably.
Well… it was a little unexpected, but Accelerator had no other emotions. This guy… just kill him.
Thinking of this, Accelerator yawned nonchalantly, and this scene happened to be seen by Kawasumi Itsuki.
“You evil demon! You did such a cruel thing and yet…?! My companions, let’s go together! For – revenge!” Kawasumi Shu roared at the top of his lungs.
“Master Archer, please calm down.” Medi saw that Kawasumi Itsuki was a little agitated and immediately stepped forward to stop him.
Compared to Kawasumi Itsuki, Medi is obviously more intelligent, and after accompanying him along the way, she also knows that Accelerator has a skill similar to “rebound attack”, so she can judge that Accelerator did not intend to kill the man with the iron helmet.
“In fact, the Shield Hero did not intend to kill your companions. It was because of him…”
“Hey, do you think you can hurt me at all if we attack you together? You are so self-righteous.” Accelerator said nonchalantly.
“Master Shield Hero! Can you please stop adding fuel to the fire?” Medi shouted in frustration. This was really a headache. How much did this Shield Hero like to cause trouble?
“These guys on the opposite side are the ones who are looking for trouble first. Really, they are as weak as chickens, but I don’t know where they get the confidence to provoke me every time.” Accelerator shook his head. Of course, this sentence made Kawasumi Itsuki even angrier.
Since he was summoned to the other world as the Bow Hero, he has had a sense of pride of being “chosen”, similar to Motoyasu’s feeling of “I am the protagonist”. Kawasumi has a strange sense of justice and mission, and wants to be praised by others, but he thinks that as a messenger of justice, he cannot act openly for everyone’s praise. This is why, although Kawasumi himself is active all over Melomag, no one has heard of the deeds of the Bow Hero.
However, as he became more and more active, he still did not receive any praise. Kawasumi began to feel a little impatient and unhappy. At the same time, not to mention the Shield Hero Accelerator, he also looked down on the Spear Hero Kitamura Motoyasu and the Sword Hero Amaki Ren. Because these two had always been acting under the eyes of the people, Kawasumi thought they were children who acted only for fame and were far inferior to him.
In this way, while being impatient, Kawasumi Itsuki also had a strong sense of pride in his heart as an “Apostle of Justice”, and now hearing that Accelerator actually looked down on him in such a way, he was finally pushed to his limit.
“My companions, go ahead!” As expected, Accelerator’s few words directly angered him. No matter what Metty said, it was useless. Kawasumi Itsuki on this side roared, then drew his bow and rushed forward.
“Kid, quickly hide behind Filo.” Accelerator said to Medi in front of him.
“I understand.” Probably knowing Kawasumi Itsuki’s current state, he wouldn’t listen to anything she said, so Medi could only sigh and quickly ran towards Filo.
“Meteor Arrow!”
“Lightning Arrow!”
Kawasumi Itsuki here released three skills in succession, with various dazzling special effects flashing by. It was quite fancy, but useless.
Accelerator was bored to death standing there, not having to do anything, not even following Kawasumi Itsuki’s position. There were a few “bang bang bang!” sounds, a few beams of light flashed, and a few arrows were directly reflected back by Accelerator.
However, it seemed that Kawasumi Itsuki was not sure whether he was targeting Accelerator out of habit or on purpose, as his attack was released while moving at high speed, so Accelerator’s attack after reflection failed to hit him at all, and only left a mark where he had run before.
“Damn… It’s useless?!” Kawasumi Itsuki gritted his teeth, and at this time, the girl named Lisia seemed to be Kawasumi Itsuki’s companion, and rushed directly towards Accelerator, stabbing at him with a dagger in her hand.
“Eh…” To be honest, Accelerator was more concerned about this girl named Lisia than Kawasumi Itsuki. Although she was cute, it was not because of this reason. It was because even though she attacked him, the name on her head had not turned red.
Accelerator thought about it, was it because of Kawasumi Itsuki’s position that he had to attack him?
Seeing this guy rushing towards him as if he was completely unprepared, Accelerator thought about it and decided to tiptoe, directly shattering the ground. Then a shock wave flew up from the ground and knocked Lisia to the ground.
“Huh!” He made a very stupid sound before falling to the ground.
Is this guy an idiot…
Accelerator was a little puzzled.
“Good opportunity!” Seeing that Accelerator seemed to be distracted, Kawasumi Itsuki was delighted and immediately drew his bow and used his ultimate move.
“The Wind God’s Arrow!”
But unfortunately, Accelerator’s “Reflection” is not something that needs to be activated actively, but a passive skill. Even if he takes advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack, he has no chance.
Then, the dazzling green light of the powerful arrow flashed twice in succession. Yes, twice. Because the speed was so fast, the arrow was reflected back at the same time as it rushed past.
“How is it possible…” Because he was still moving, Kawasumi Itsuki didn’t react, but he still managed to dodge his ultimate move by a hair’s breadth. But he was really unable to calm down.
“Ah…” Accelerator had already guessed this would be the case, so he yawned out of boredom.
“Master, master, do you need Philo’s help?” Philo said from the side. Although she said help, even Philo could tell which side had an absolute advantage. She said this just for fun.
“Ahh, I leave it to you.” Accelerator said with a lack of interest.
71: Lisia (old version)
“Ah, I leave it to you.” Accelerator said casually. It was really difficult for Accelerator to get interested in such an opponent. If Filo wanted to play, then let him play.
As Accelerator was thinking this, he saw that after he finished speaking, Filo on this side suddenly accelerated and burst out at an astonishing speed in an instant. Kawasumi Itsuki on the other side saw Filo flash in front of him in just a blink of an eye.
“What…!?” Kawasumi Shu was shocked, but there was nothing he could do. Filo’s speed was too fast, and his body was completely unable to react. He just wanted to evade, but Filo had already kicked him directly.
Kawasumi Shu was hit in the abdomen by Filo’s kick, and the strong impact pressed his whole body into the ground and made a hole.
“Puff!” Kawasumiki’s eyes widened and blood spurted out of his mouth. His head felt a little dizzy, but there was still an incredible expression on his face.
To be honest, even Accelerator was a little surprised. Yes, the Archer Hero Kawasumi was killed instantly by Filo. This is too weak…
“I really overestimated this guy…” Accelerator shook his head. He thought he had underestimated the level of the Archer Hero enough, but he didn’t expect that he still overestimated him in the end.
“Eh…” Philo on this side actually seemed a little disappointed. He scratched his head with his wings and said in a strange way: “What’s going on… It’s totally boring. Philo didn’t even put in much effort…”
“What kind of monster is this… Damn it, don’t be so arrogant, I still have companions, my… huh? You…?!” Kawasumi Itsuki said unwillingly while gritting his teeth, and then he was stunned halfway through his words.
Because when he turned around and looked around, he found that his trusted companions were not around. He turned to look in another direction, and what made him feel cold inside was that his companions were standing far away and watching, with no intention of coming to help.
Yes, in fact, not all the members of the Bow Hero team are of the same mind. Although they admire Kawasumi Itsuki on the surface, in fact, most of them do not understand or agree with Kawasumi Itsuki’s behavior at all. Why can adventurers who follow other heroes become famous with them, while they have to do such “thankless” things in secret? ————Thoughts like that.
Based on this, many of them are not actually die-hard fans of Kawasumi Itsuki. Although they are not the kind of companions who are connected simply for the sake of profit, they are not willing to risk their lives to obey Kawasumi Itsuki’s orders.
For example, now, Accelerator’s deterrent power has been fully demonstrated. The strongest among them didn’t even touch the iron helmet of Accelerator before he was killed. After his death, he couldn’t even stain Accelerator’s clothes with his blood. And the one they followed, Kawasumi Itsuki, who was also one of the Four Holy Warriors, had a completely one-sided battle with Accelerator. Now he was even knocked down by Accelerator’s mount directly, which made them wonder if the fall was real.
Why is Accelerator, the Shield Hero, so strong? Why can Accelerator, the Shield Hero who is unable to attack, attack at will?
“Eh… aren’t your companions coming to help you?” Filo asked Kawasumi Itsuki with some surprise. She was feeling bored, so of course she hoped those guys could come and join in.
“……But these words, unintentional, pierced into Kawasumi’s heart like an arrow. But soon he seemed to motivate himself with something in his heart, and suddenly turned his eyes to his group of companions and shouted: “Hey! Everyone, don’t be afraid, there is still hope even now! We have experienced and overcome so many difficulties together. Think about the time we were together in the past. Go!”
“……Is this true?” Accelerator was stunned. To be honest, it’s rare to hear such standard lines from the protagonist in real life. Does this guy really think of himself as the protagonist of justice? Think about it, according to convention, if Kawasumi Itsuki is really the protagonist, then his companions will leave him in confusion, explode with all kinds of small universes, and then defeat him to protect Kawasumi Itsuki from him.
But it seems… it seems that Kawasumi Itsuki is indeed not the protagonist. When his companions heard me, they all showed indifference.
“You guys…” Kawasumi Itsuki is very sad now. Although he knows that he will not really die no matter what because he is a player (?), this sadness does come from the result of mental trauma.
No, it seems not everyone is indifferent.
“Huh hey hey!! Let go of Tree-sama!”
Licia looked a little panicked holding the dagger, but she quickly rushed towards Filo.
Kawasumi Itsuki heard the voice and looked over there. He seemed to find that the person coming was Lisia, and then he lowered his head as if he saw nothing.
“Come on!” Filo said happily, then he prepared himself to face Licia’s attack seriously.
Although the sword-holding posture was very standard and the sprinting method was the most labor-saving method, Lishia’s speed was not fast. Filo could have used her super high speed to dodge Lishia’s attack, but she didn’t intend to do so. Instead, she spread her white wings and planned to use them to block Lishia’s attack.
Then, Licia rushed to Filo and stabbed out with the dagger in her hand in a standard manner.
Then, there was a “snap” sound. There was no sound at all from a metal weapon attacking. The dagger seemed to have “touched” on Filo’s feathers, without causing any damage.
“Huh?” Even Filo was stunned. How come this blow was so soft and painless? Did this girl really use all her strength?
On the other hand, Kawasumi Itsuki didn’t seem surprised at all, he didn’t even raise his head, it seemed that he had expected this situation to happen.
72:Dream (Old Version)
I see, is he that type? He is useless in battle and acts as a burden to the team.
Accelerator only needed to take a look at Kawasumi Itsuki’s reaction and Lisia’s performance to guess what was going on.
But it’s really exaggerated that it can’t even scratch Filo’s wings. Is this true? After all, he is holding a real dagger, and Filo doesn’t have such hard feathers.
After shaking his head slightly, Accelerator soon stopped caring. After all, this level of strength and weakness is relative to others. In his opinion, everyone is the same. For example, compared with this girl named Lisia and Kawasumi Itsuki, to be honest, in Accelerator’s opinion, they are at the same level and can’t stand a single blow.
Soon, Filo on this side was stabbed twice by Lishiya on the opposite side. After being stunned for a moment, he felt that it was a bit boring, so he waved his wings casually and knocked Lishiya away.
“Ah, huff…” Lisia, who fell to the ground, seemed to have sprained her ankle. She couldn’t stand up and couldn’t continue attacking Filo.
“Hey, you guys over there, aren’t you going to come and rescue the brave warrior you’re following? If you don’t come, we can’t guarantee their safety.” Accelerator shouted to the people over there, hoping that they could think of a way to come and help Kawasumi Itsuki.
To be honest, in this situation, even Accelerator doesn’t want to kill anyone. There seem to be some people with bad intentions gathering around, and with Medi is also here. Even if it’s just a simple thing like moving his fingers, he’s afraid he’ll still be in trouble after doing it.
“This…” The people over there also looked at each other, looking somewhat at a loss. Obviously, although they had some differences in ideas with Kawasumiki, they would not go so far as to watch him die without rescuing him. Moreover, in the current situation, if they did not save the bow hero they followed, then even if all kinds of rumors were spread in their direction, even if they survived, they would still be treated as rats crossing the street.
This was a crime of the same degree as betraying the nominal monarch, and none of them wanted to commit the offense, but the problem now was that if they went to save Kawasumi Itsuki, they would have to confront Accelerator… and the result was even clearer, there was absolutely no chance, it would be a dead end, and it was obviously to the point where no human could defeat him – didn’t they see that the strongest of them, the Iron Helmet, died without even a touch?
Yes, in their minds, Accelerator is already a terrifying opponent to this extent. So in this case, they…
“Accelerator, stop it.” At this time, the Sword Hero who had been watching the battle in the corner for a long time suddenly came over and said with a cool and indifferent look on his face.
“Oh?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows with interest. To be honest, just by looking at him, among the Four Holy Warriors, the one that Accelerator is most interested in is the Sword Hero.
The sword is a piece of equipment that seems to be exclusive to the protagonist. He holds the sword in one hand, wears black clothes, likes to walk alone, and is voiced by Song Gang… In short, from the appearance, Amaki Renju does give Accelerator a feeling of a strong man. I am really looking forward to it…
“Although we are all players and will not really die, it is necessary to do it to this extent.” With the expectation of Accelerator in mind, Amaki Ren said this.
“Huh? Player?” Accelerator was also stunned. After all this time, this guy is on the same level as Motoyasu and Kawasumi Itsuki? Does he also think that he can be resurrected after being killed?
“Oh…” It’s really a bit disappointing.
“What are you sighing about?” Tian Mulian asked curiously, but Accelerator on this side was too lazy to even reply.
“Master Shield Hero, you…” At this time, Metty walked over from the side and was about to say something to Accelerator.
“Alright, alright, stop nagging. I know. You can find someone to clean up the rest of the mess yourself. I don’t want to take care of it.” Accelerator waved his hand and said irritably. Well, it was obvious that this guy was here to spoil the fun.
“Hey…” Although she addressed him as “Sir”, it seemed that because they were in the same industry, or maybe because of Filo, Medi was not that reserved towards Accelerator. Seeing Accelerator speaking to her in such a fly-shooing tone, she was of course a little unhappy.
But Accelerator ignored her and turned around and walked back into the carriage.
“Hey, what do you mean?!” Amaki Ren shouted in unhappiness, but soon he found that Accelerator ignored him, so he felt even more unhappy.
We are all players, I am not an NPC, why are you so awesome?
Thinking probably this, Tian Mulian was about to explode, at this time Medi went over to stop him.
“Sword Hero…”
Next is Maddie’s story. Although she is very young, she is very capable and is quite good at cleaning up messes.
Accelerator sat in the carriage, and Filo came back to put on the reins. Although Accelerator wanted to drive Filo away directly, they had already reached the main city of Melomag, and the task of taking care of the naughty child was almost over.
But because Maddie was Filo’s good friend, Filo was unwilling to just leave Maddie behind, and Accelerator didn’t want to force Filo for such a trivial matter, so he just thought about it and let it go, and wait for Maddie to come back.
At this time, Raphtalia, who was lying in the carriage, just woke up.
“Master, Master…” Because they were also sitting in the carriage, Raphtalia saw Accelerator at first sight.
“Oh…are you awake?” Accelerator nodded and observed for a while.
It seems that the holy water is working well. In just a short while, the black marks on Raphtalia’s skin have disappeared, but…
“What’s wrong? You look really bad. Did you have a nightmare?” Accelerator asked speculatively.
“Ah, um…” Accelerator really was right. Raphtalia nodded, and as if she had recalled a nightmare, a look of fear suddenly appeared on her face.
“I dreamed about… my former owner who abused me…”
73: Before the Second Wave (Old Version)
“Abuse…” Accelerator said. He had never heard her talk about her experiences before she met him. It seemed that the previous owner liked to abuse slaves.
And seeing that Raphtalia’s face was quite pale, if it was so ugly just by recalling it, it seemed that she had suffered a lot in the past.
She shook her head slightly. Although she wasn’t very clear, Accelerator didn’t intend to ask about her past.
Of course, Accelerator didn’t think that he didn’t ask questions because he didn’t want Raphtalia to recall the pain, he just had no interest in these trivial matters.
“Hey, Sister Raphtalia, are you okay?” Filo heard the voice in the carriage in front and turned around and said with surprise, “Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere? Do you want to sleep a little longer?”
“Filo…” Seeing that Filo cared about her so much, Raphtalia was also moved. She immediately came back to her senses from her memories and said, “Well, there is nothing wrong with my body now.”
“Eh… the time we spend alone together as a couple is about to end so soon.” Filo said with a look of disappointment the next second.
“Filo!” Raphtalia, realizing that she had misunderstood, shouted at Filo angrily. Accelerator looked at them with a troubled expression, “What does this have to do with me?”
“Filo! Where did you learn these words?!” Raphtalia demanded.
This is indeed a bit strange. After all, it has been less than a month since Filo was hatched. It would be fine if he could speak and think, after all, Filo is not smart, but where did he learn these strange words?
“Metty taught me!” Filo puffed out her chest and said proudly, but no one knew what she was proud of.
“ha……”
I seem to have noticed that Medi ran to the front of the carriage and kept talking to Filo who was pulling the carriage. Accelerator didn’t deliberately eavesdrop, but now that I think about it, was she teaching Filo something bad?
“Metty said that saying these words will make the master happy. Master, are you happy?” Filo turned his head and looked at Accelerator with anticipation as if his eyes were shining with stars.
“Huh?” Although Filo’s eyes might have an irresistible effect on some people, it was useless to Accelerator. He frowned slightly and said directly: “Boring.”
“Eh…” Filo said very disappointedly.
“Really, Filo, don’t suddenly say such nonsense all the time.” Raphtalia said unhappily.
At this time, Medi had almost resolved Tianmu Lian’s little emotion, and as for Kawasumi Itsuki, although he had always been very confident about his own safety, he was now feeling sad because of his companions’ problems. Although his companions came over, explained something and tried to comfort Kawasumi Itsuki, it seemed that this guy would not be able to cheer up in a short time.
Of course, the life and death of these people has nothing to do with Accelerator here, and he didn’t pay any attention to that side at all.
“Hey, kid, stop teaching Filo those messy things all the time. Are you causing me trouble?” Accelerator said as soon as he saw Metty coming over.
“Huh? What kind of trouble did I cause?” Maddie was stunned, then immediately put her hands on her hips and said angrily: “But, damn it! Why did I work so hard to help you clean up the mess, and this is the first thing you said when you saw me coming?”
“Hmm?” Accelerator raised an eyebrow, not quite understanding what Maddie was angry about.
“I…” When Maddie saw Accelerator’s expression, she roughly knew what he was thinking. She was immediately furious and was about to complain like “Do you take my hard work for granted?” But when she thought of her mother’s instructions to her before she left, the good upbringing she had received since childhood finally made her calm down and endure it.
“Forget it…” Medi took a deep breath, and then suddenly seemed to remember something, and said to Accelerator: “By the way, Shield Hero, although I think you should know this matter, I still want to ask for confirmation.”
“About the wave?” Accelerator asked directly.
“Yes.” Maddie nodded. “Because I have been abroad before, I just heard about it from the Sword Hero. The dragon-carved hourglass in our country is about to run out, and the time should be tomorrow.”
“I know.” Accelerator nodded calmly. As the Shield Hero, he could see a dynamic icon of a dragon-carved hourglass after opening the system panel of the Legendary Shield, which also directly displayed the remaining time. This thing… no matter how you think about it, it can only be the time when the next wave comes, so Accelerator can be said to be not surprised at all. The main reason why he didn’t mention it along the way was that Accelerator didn’t really care about the wave.
Compared to this, Accelerator was more curious about an icon next to the dragon-carved hourglass icon after opening the system panel.
It is also a dynamic hourglass icon, but its appearance is completely different from the dragon-carved hourglass, and it is all blue, with the remaining time displayed on it until the hourglass runs out, which can be as long as several months.
Due to insufficient information, Accelerator really didn’t understand what this meant. The only thing he could think of was Yinglong who had been defeated before.
Because if I remember correctly, this blue hourglass only appeared after he defeated Yinglong.
“The next wave?” Unlike Accelerator, Raphtalia had just learned about this, so she was also surprised. After all, she was not the kind of person who didn’t care about the waves.
“In that case, Master, I think we should replace our equipment.” Raphtalia said after thinking for a while.
After all, Raphtalia couldn’t afford to be careless when dealing with something like a wave. If possible, she hoped that the three of them, including Accelerator, could be fully armed.
“Yeah… that’s fine.” Accelerator nodded, rarely agreeing with Raphtalia’s point of view.
Of course, if he were alone, he wouldn’t need those things, but the problem was that if Filo and Raphtalia were to accompany him to the wave, it might be dangerous.
After all, Accelerator thinks that he is only good at using his abilities to hurt others, but not to protect others.
“Then let’s go visit uncle again.” Accelerator said casually.
“Well, by the way, let’s also thank the boss for standing up and helping us in the previous situation.”
“Ha… that kind of thing is fine…”
74: Preparation (Old Version)
Soon, Accelerator threw the matter of Kawasumiki and Amaki Ren into the air. As Accelerator and his group headed to the weapon shop in the Melomag district, they began to talk about “promotion”.
“Does it mean that after completing the promotion ceremony, individual abilities will be greatly improved and can continue to upgrade?”
“Well… on the one hand you can say that, but it’s not just that. During the promotion ceremony, the person being promoted can choose from many options for future development, some leaning towards magic, some towards fighting, some towards volunteering… and so on.” Maddie explained.
“I see.” Accelerator nodded and said, this is not a very difficult concept to understand. It is more like the feeling Accelerator feels like the “job change” in the game. It is probably the same concept.
Generally speaking, after your game character reaches a certain level and changes jobs, all aspects of its abilities will be significantly improved, and its combat power will also increase sharply. Although Accelerator had no interest in this kind of game when he was in Academy City, this kind of thing has become a well-known common sense.
In this case, we must complete the promotion ceremony for Raphtalia and Filo before the wave comes. We can go after we have updated the equipment for Raphtalia and Filo.
Accelerator thought so, and soon they arrived at the door of the weapon shop. But they found that the entrance of the weapon shop was a little different from before.
“Huh? Why is it closed? It’s still early.” Raphtalia said curiously, “And not only that, this area seems a bit messy…”
Several people looked at the ground and saw that there were many decorations that seemed to be originally in the store, broken into pieces and scattered on the ground, and there were also some strange marks carved on the door of the store.
“Tsk, a bunch of scum.” Suddenly, Accelerator on this side smacked his lips and said.
“Hmm? Could it be that… it’s because the boss just stepped forward to help us?” Raphtalia’s mind was working quickly, and when she saw Accelerator say that, she quickly thought of it in this direction, so she made a guess and said with some worry.
“It seems to be the case in all likelihood.” Medi nodded, and her expression became heavy as she saw the dark side of Melomag.
“Knock, knock.”
I knocked on the door twice, and to my surprise, the door opened from the inside with a “click”.
“Um… Oh, it’s you guys, are you okay?” the weapon shop owner said as he opened the door. His expression changed from a worried look when he just opened the door to joy and worry after he saw it was Accelerator and the others.
“Nothing.” Accelerator said simply, then frowned and asked, “What’s going on?”
“……” The owner of the weapons shop was silent for a while, and then after a few seconds, he said, “Come in and talk.”
After a brief exchange, Accelerator and his friends soon learned that Mai Yin was “retaliating” against him by withdrawing all the orders that the country had placed with the owner of the weapons store without authorization. Although the owner of the weapons store said it lightly, seeing that he had closed the store, Accelerator estimated that Mai Yin had withdrawn his marketing qualification certificate and other things.
“How is this possible?” Medi on this side frowned and said in a strange manner.
“Huh?” Everyone around was stunned.
“Because I was traveling abroad for a while, I’m not very clear about some of the details, but…if there wasn’t a new and famous weapons store in the city, my father wouldn’t have allowed my sister to do this,” said Maddie.
“What I mean is…” Accelerator frowned, probably knowing what Maddie meant, so he grinned and said mockingly, “Tsk, you are really a cancer of the country.”
“Come to think of it, Princess Maddie came to my shop before and said something harsh. She seemed to have said something like, ‘Don’t think you can do whatever you want just because you are the country’s top blacksmith. There are many powerful blacksmiths in other countries. At worst, I can just send all your orders to other countries.'”
“Really…” Maddie said with a headache, “If we go to other countries to find blacksmiths, the price of the same equipment will be doubled compared to what you have here, Boss. How could… Father allow my sister to do something that hurts the country’s funds?”
“Master is right. It is truly the cancer of the country.” Raphtalia beside her nodded after understanding it.
“Ha, is it strange that the rubbish tyrant is so stupid?” Accelerator didn’t seem to care. And Maddie, who knew the current situation, couldn’t think of any words to refute, so she had to remain silent.
“Forget it, forget it. This kind of thing doesn’t matter. But why did you guys come to me?” Suddenly, the owner of the weapons store waved his hand and said indifferently.
“How can it not matter… You’re being treated like this because you came to help us before, right?” Raphtalia said, looking a little self-blaming.
“Haha, it’s just a small matter. With my skills, I’m not afraid of not being able to survive anywhere. But you guys, you better be careful of being tricked by Princess Maddie and the others.” The weapon shop owner waved his hand and said.
“Heh…” Accelerator laughed. Those guys were probably scared by his beating and didn’t dare to bother him. So Accelerator didn’t say much. After thinking for a while, he said directly: “For this kind of situation, it’s useless to take care of your own affairs. Solve the root cause and the problem will be solved naturally.”
“Oh…” The owner of the weapons shop looked at Accelerator with a slightly surprised look, and then said, “Then it’s up to you guys.”
“Um……”
Accelerator quickly explained his purpose, which was to get Raphtalia and Filo to prepare the new equipment for the wave. The owner of the weapon shop said that since Raphtalia and Filo were at the level of most adventurers, there were a lot of ready-made goods here.
As for Raphtalia, the uncle chose a fine long sword for her, and considering the problem of Filo turning into a Filo bird, he prepared a high-level version of the tiger finger for her, which can be used in both human form and Filo bird. In this way, there will be no problem in preparing for the wave.
75:Exploration (old version)
The subsequent itinerary was a little different from what Accelerator had arranged before. Originally, he planned to use Medi’s identity to save himself some trouble and directly let Raphtalia and Filo advance. However, Raphtalia here begged Accelerator to go and take a look at the tailor shop and pharmacy owners who had helped them before.
Accelerator didn’t have this idea at first. Although they might be persecuted for speaking up for him, Accelerator knew that it would be useless to help them solve this temporary trouble now. If he wanted to continue to do business in Melomag as before, the only way was for Accelerator to start with the ruler of Melomag, the king. So instead of wasting time visiting the owner of the pharmacy and the tailor shop, it would be better to take this time to perform the promotion ceremony. If he could show the results of MVP in the next wave, then all kinds of troubles would be easier to deal with later.
And those guys came out to help him… He didn’t ask them to come, they were just a group of people who acted on their own. Did they think that doing so would make him grateful to them? That was a bit too self-righteous.
“Master…” Raphtalia murmured as she watched Accelerator turn and leave.
Then, at the entrance of the tailor shop, Accelerator was seen knocking on the closed door.
“Master, it smells so good.” Raphtalia said with a smile.
“Huh? You…” Accelerator frowned and was about to say something foul, but the owner of the tailor shop opened the door and walked out.
“Hey… isn’t this the Shield Hero? I heard that Princess Maddie seems to have issued wanted warrants for several of you. Are you okay?” The tailor shop owner came over and asked with some concern.
“I…” Accelerator sighed slightly after hearing this, and said in a somewhat unbearable manner: “Really, one or two people are like this. They are already in great trouble, but they still have time to worry about others? They are really good people with no hope.”
Accelerator doesn’t understand why such a good person would come to help him, but if he were facing a life-threatening situation, he would definitely not have the time to care about the life and death of others. This is probably the difference between him as a villain and a good person.
After all, it was Raphtalia who came to visit and she soon asked the tailor shop owner what happened. The answer she got was as expected, similar to the situation at the weapon shop, where all orders were cut off by Myne and the business license was revoked. Although her long-term savings allowed her to avoid a life crisis for the time being, it was not a solution to live on her savings for a long time.
Although it’s not to the point of despair, the tailor shop owner is still having a headache over this matter.
“Don’t worry, boss. I swear in the name of the second princess of Melomag that you will get corresponding compensation in the future.” Medi said seriously.
“Well, hearing Princess Medina, the Queen’s first heir, say this, I feel much more relieved.” The tailor shop owner nodded.
During this whole process, Accelerator didn’t say a word. For him, the way to help the tailor shop owner get out of his current predicament was very simple and crude. Originally, there was a long-term plan for Melomag – a continent-wide plan including the actions of Colt, the commander of Melomag’s First Legion. But in this situation, Accelerator felt that he couldn’t wait that long, so he simply planned to deal with the maggots of this country – the king and the first princess – as soon as the next wave was resolved.
As for Maddie…it looks like she’s planning to wait for her mother to come back before resolving these issues. We can look forward to that, but if all the methods are this straightforward, then Accelerator’s own is a bit simpler and more brutal.
In short, although they didn’t do anything practical, they conveyed to the tailor shop owner that “we will remember your kindness and won’t treat you unfairly.” Raphtalia meant that she didn’t want those who helped and supported them to continue waiting without any news. Accelerator felt that although it was a bit redundant, it was not meaningless. Anyway, it didn’t matter what happened. As for the promotion, although it might be possible that they would not have time to complete the ceremony because they spent the whole day on these miscellaneous things, to be honest, the last wave left an impression on Accelerator that it was indeed too simple, causing Accelerator to wonder if he was too nervous.
If you think about it carefully, because of the growth correction skills of “Slave Shield” and “Beast User Shield”, Filo and Raphtalia, who are now both level 40, will even burst out with strength that surprises Accelerator from time to time, just like Filo killed Kawasumi Itsuki in seconds without any suspense before.
From this point of view, maybe not only for him, but also for Raphtalia and Filo, the wave is in easy mode. In this case, it seems that the promotion ceremony does not have to be performed now.
Soon, they went to visit the owner of the pharmacy. Of course, the situation here was exactly the same. They entered the pharmacy and chatted with the owner for a long time. Before leaving, the owner also gave some high-quality healing drugs to Accelerator and the others.
“It’s true that doing good deeds will bring good rewards, don’t you think? Master?” Raphtalia said here as if she was in a good mood after leaving the pharmacy. She was referring to the rescue of Root Village during the last wave.
“Heh…” Accelerator didn’t take it seriously. He didn’t feel that he had done anything good that required others to repay him, so he smacked his lips and said nothing.
Looking at the sky here, it was already dark. It seemed that they could not go to the promotion ceremony. In order to let Raphtalia and Filo rest well, Accelerator had to find a hotel to stay overnight. After all, according to the countdown displayed in the Legend Shield system, the time wave should come early tomorrow morning. Before that, the two kids must have a good sleep.
But the more troublesome thing is…
“Hey, kid, go home by yourself. Aren’t we already in the main city?” Accelerator said to Medi.
“Hey, this…” Maddie looked somewhat reluctant.
“Master! Filo wants to sleep with Medi-chan.” Filo here also came up and said as if looking for trouble.
76: Trouble (Old Version)
The next day, when the sky was just beginning to turn white, Accelerator and his companions were already ready.
“Master, didn’t you sleep? Philo saw you sitting on the desk before he went to bed, and just when he woke up, he saw you still in the same position.” After finishing breakfast, Philo asked in a daze, it seemed that he didn’t get enough sleep.
“Ah? Master, have you been reading magic books all night again?” Raphtalia said, and then said with a concerned expression, “How come you are spending your energy reading books all night when you are about to face the tidal wave?”
“Ah, so annoying. Don’t I look more energetic than you two? Don’t worry.” Accelerator waved his hands irritably. Sometimes it was annoying that Raphtalia was always meddling in everything. He knew his own situation. After being affected by the spiritual attribute of the Legendary Shield system, Accelerator felt that he would not feel tired even if he practiced for a week. Not sleeping for one night had no effect on him at all.
“Is that so… But you usually look listless, Master.” Raphtalia said.
That’s true. Although Accelerator is very active in a fight, when he has nothing to do in his daily life, he is indifferent to everything around him. He always has a pair of dead eyes and looks like he is really listless.
“Huh? Stop causing trouble.” Accelerator said, then went over and pressed Raphtalia’s head with his hand.
“Hey…” Raphtalia’s face suddenly turned red, “Master, you…”
“Hey? Where’s Medi-chan? Master, aren’t you going to wake Medi-chan up?” Filo suddenly interrupted.
“A blue-haired brat? Do you want that brat to go to a place like the Wave Site? Considering that guy’s ant-like strength, it wouldn’t be surprising if he was killed at any time.” Accelerator smacked his lips and said.
“Eh… Is that so? Well, forget it, Maddie-chan should just stay in the hotel and have a good sleep. But Filo really wants to play with Maddie-chan QAQ”
“Don’t make so much trouble.” Accelerator frowned and said, then remembered that his hand was still on Raphtalia’s head, so he took his hand off and asked Raphtalia: “What were you going to say just now?”
“No, nothing.” Raphtalia said, turning her face away, but you could still see that her face was a little red.
“……” Although he was a little worried about her condition, it was not something that Accelerator could do to take the initiative to care about the health of others, so he remained silent and waited quietly for the wave to come.
I looked at the time displayed on the Legend Shield system.
00:05
Five minutes countdown. Because Accelerator set Filo and Raphtalia as “companions”, once the start time arrives and the teleportation starts, the two of them will be teleported with him to the wave site. Although he didn’t care, for safety reasons, Accelerator still changed his shield to Yinglong Heart Shield first.
Because of this shield, although Accelerator has not yet understood its full power and skills, putting these aside, just from the numerical point of view, this shield has the highest comprehensive ability among his current shields.
00:00
The time has come. A loud noise like glass breaking resounded throughout the world.
The next second, the scenery in front of Accelerator and the other two changed instantly, turning into a completely new and unfamiliar scene. The three of them calmly looked around to confirm the surrounding situation.
“Village?” Accelerator looked over and saw a village there. Of course, it was not the Root Village, because there was no trace of the mine that sealed Yinglong. After all, if it was true, it would be too unlucky to be the landing place of the wave twice in a row. And from the surrounding environment, it seemed to be the suburbs of the main city of Melomag.
Looking up, I saw that the sky was dyed blood red like last time, and a huge crack appeared at the end of the sky. It hasn’t happened yet, but it is estimated that countless dimensional monsters will descend from it soon.
Filo and Raphtalia, who were also summoned here, came towards Accelerator. In addition to them, three other heroes also came –
Tian Mu Ren was fine, but Kawasumi Itsuki still had a gloomy expression. It should be that the previous incident had dealt him a heavy blow, and he still hadn’t recovered yet. Kitamura Motoyasu was completely unscathed, as if nothing had happened before. I guess Princess Maddie must have spent a lot of national resources to cure Motoyasu.
“Oh! It’s the man with the gun. Master, do you want Filo to kick him in the crotch?!” Filo immediately said to Accelerator, and for some reason there was an expectant expression on her face, as if she really enjoyed doing this kind of thing.
Although he couldn’t hear the conversation due to the distance, Yuankang felt his lower body go cold as if by instinct, and subconsciously tried to protect his crotch with his hands.
“It seems like a strange habit has awakened.” Raphtalia said, holding her forehead.
“Behave yourself.” Accelerator didn’t bother to argue with this guy, so he said directly. Then he observed the three guys for a while.
The three heroes soon discovered each other’s presence, and then quickly gathered together and talked for a few words, as if they had reached some agreement. Then the three of them nodded, accelerated at the same time, and rushed towards the huge crack at the source of the wave.
“Tsk, you shitty hero, are you going to leave another troublesome task to me?” Accelerator spat.
“???” Philo on this side tilted his head with a black question mark on his face.
“There’s nothing we can do about it, Master.” Raphtalia also sighed.
“I know.” Accelerator shook his head and just complained. He didn’t intend to let the wave harm those innocent villagers who were helpless, so…
“Let’s go to that village.” Accelerator gritted his teeth and said unhappily, “Then we can extort money from the people in the village as a reward.”
“Master…” Raphtalia looked helpless, and quickly followed Filo.
77:lv95 old lady (old version)
After all, this was an exaggerated phenomenon without any signs, and the arrival of the wave really brought panic to the villagers. When Accelerator and the other two just arrived at the village, they felt the panic atmosphere. A bunch of adults gathered together to discuss what to move with the villagers to escape.
However, the appearance of Accelerator and his two other companions seemed to break this situation.
“Yes, it’s the Shield Hero!”
“Hero? The Shield Hero?! Great, we are saved!”
In short, seeing Accelerator was like seeing a savior, which made Accelerator a little dazed. If he remembered correctly, he should have a very low reputation in the country of Melomag, and was even slandered as the Shield Devil. Logically speaking, these villagers should not have such a reaction even if they saw him.
However, it seemed that Accelerator did not have enough time to think about these details slowly. As soon as they arrived at the village, they saw the army of monsters emerging from the waves rushing over and preparing to cause chaos.
There are monsters that look like black vultures and wild wolves that look like black shadows, as well as monsters that look like goblins and lizardmen. However, the appearance of the enemies that look like subhumans does not seem to be fixed, and they always feel a bit like shadows.
The shaky monsters showed red names such as Dark Vulture, Black Wolf, Shadow Assault Goblin, Shadow Lizardman, etc. And the word “dimension” was clearly added before the names.
Since there were too many of them, this bunch of monsters rushed over here. Although the three heroes over there did not stop them at all and just ran towards the leader in the center of the wave, this was partly due to the fact that, to be honest, Accelerator felt that they could not stop them even if they tried to stop them, so it was not their fault.
“If I think about it this way, maybe it would be easier to go to the center of the wave to defeat the boss. Accelerator held his forehead and said, why is it that trouble always happens on his side.
After muttering this to himself, Accelerator discovered that Raphtalia had already arranged the villagers over there to an open space some distance behind Accelerator, and in front of them was an army of dimensional monsters approaching.
“Ha…” A look of boredom revealed in Accelerator’s eyes. To be honest, fighting with these mindless monsters was really boring for him.
“There are so many enemies, Master, Filo is going to take action!” Unlike Accelerator, Filo next to him seemed eager to try. But just as she finished saying this, she saw her master in front of her take action before her.
With a “clack” sound, Accelerator seemed to have just stepped lightly on the ground, but it was as if some mechanism had been triggered. In an instant, the ground cracked, and a strong shock wave burst out in a fan-shaped manner from the cracks. It was more like a real deep-sea wave than a wave of disaster monsters, and it directly crashed into the group of dimensional monsters with a devastating momentum. In an instant, countless monsters died and disappeared.
“Wow…” Philo opened his mouth wide when he realized that he seemed to have nothing to do with it.
The process of clearing out the monsters was quite boring for Accelerator, because there was no difficulty at all. Wherever he went, he would deal with a bunch of monsters there, and the efficiency was so fast that the monsters were killed by Accelerator almost the moment they appeared. And because they were dimensional monsters in the waves, they disappeared directly after death. These piles of monsters felt like an illusion to this side, and they disappeared as soon as they were touched.
Of course, in fact, everyone knew that this was not the case. It was just that Accelerator’s attack frequency was too fast, which led to this situation. What could prove this was that there were exp+ information bars floating by the three of them.
Of course, due to the level cap, Filo and Raphtalia both show exp+0. Only Accelerator’s exp is really increasing rapidly, and his level is also rising like a rocket.
“Oh no, master, there seem to be villagers in distress over there.” Suddenly, Raphtalia, who was following behind, pulled the corner of Accelerator’s clothes, then pointed in a direction and said to Accelerator.
“Hmm?” Accelerator frowned and looked in the direction Raphtalia pointed, only to discover a scene that surprised him.
I only saw a bunch of dimensional monsters gathered together, tightly surrounding an old lady and a young man. It seemed that they had been fighting for a while, and there were traces of monster limbs and cracks on the ground around the old lady and the young man. However, it should be noted that the one fighting with weapons was not the young man, but the old lady with her waist bent.
What surprised Accelerator even more was that, because of the skill of “Yinglong Heart Shield”, Accelerator could directly see the old lady’s level——
lv95
Accelerator almost shouted out, although he didn’t care much about this level, but at least he knew the ability correction brought by the level growth. He hunted monsters so efficiently, and until now he was less than level 60, but here a random old lady’s level was 95.
In this way, with this old lady around, even if I don’t have to do anything, the village won’t be in danger.
This thought did not occur to Accelerator because even though she was at such a high level, the current situation was that the old lady was at a disadvantage.
After swinging her sword to kill several dimensional monsters, the old lady looked very tired, and her body was shaking as if she would fall down at any time.
“Strange.” Accelerator frowned and said. Raphtalia beside him pulled the corner of Accelerator’s clothes, signaling with her eyes whether Accelerator wanted to go up and help.
After thinking about it for a while, Accelerator didn’t say much. After all, everyone came here to save people, so it’s the same for everyone.
So when the claws of one of the dimensional monsters were about to touch the old lady, Accelerator controlled the vector of the wind in the air and directly knocked all the monsters, including the dimensional monster that rushed over, away.
78: In the Wave (Old Version)
It was still at the same level as the previous dimensional monsters, and it could be said that it was completely vulnerable. This was of course even more strange. Could a monster of this level actually force a guy with a level of 95 into such a situation? Did I overestimate the ability value correction brought by the level increase, or did I, Filo, and Raphtalia have a higher ability value growth than ordinary people?
“Yes, Lord Shield Hero?” The young man next to the old lady looked towards Accelerator with gratitude. Because Accelerator’s arm was equipped with the conspicuous Yinglong Heart Shield, he was recognized at the first sight.
“Huh…what are you doing here? Instead of gathering with other people in the village, you are alone in a place like this. Are you looking for death?” Accelerator frowned and said.
“Ah, actually it is like this, my mother…” The young man began to explain hesitantly, but was soon interrupted by the old lady behind him.
“It’s actually my fault. I have a disease and have to lie in bed all year round, which makes it inconvenient for me to move. The incident happened suddenly, and there was no time to inform other people in the village. I couldn’t bear to leave me behind, so I stayed with me. Lord Shield Hero, please don’t blame me. If you want to blame someone, blame my old bones.” The old lady said as she walked over with some jolts.
“Are you ill and having trouble moving? Then why are you…” Raphtalia pointed at the old lady’s legs as she stood up and said in a strange tone. Yes, the old lady didn’t kill so many monsters by herself just now while lying on a bed or a recliner.
“Ah, this almost cost me my life. Ahem, Master Shield Hero, don’t look at me like this now. I used to be a famous and powerful adventurer. Now my age is almost catching up with my level. I can still do this if I force myself.” The old lady said with another bitter smile, “I just don’t know if my legs will be able to move again after today.”
“I’m sorry, Mom. I’ve got you into trouble.” The young man next to her said with a guilty look on his face.
Although he was younger and stronger than the old lady, his level and ability were horribly low. Facing the monsters emerging from the dimensional wave, he was no match for the old lady with a hidden disease.
“What are you talking about, silly son? If you weren’t here, it would be a question whether this old bone of mine could still push myself. I might even be killed by the first monster.” The old lady shook her head, but she didn’t blame her son or anything.
In short, the mother and son have a deep affection for each other, and their conversations are all about caring for each other. Although Accelerator didn’t feel anything throughout the whole process, because there was nothing that could move him, but for the inexperienced Raphtalia and Filo next to them, they were already quite moved, especially Raphtalia, who had very painful memories, and she almost shed tears when she saw this scene.
“Master, they are so pitiful, please help them, please QAQ.” Filo said while holding Accelerator’s hand.
“Master, if it were you, you would definitely help them, right?” Raphtalia said with hope in her eyes.
“Ah! It’s a magical medicine, Shield Hero, thank you so much! I have regained my strength!” Like a drama, after drinking the bottle of medicine that Accelerator gave her, the expression on the old lady’s face was completely refreshed, as if she had been resurrected to her full state. Raphtalia, Filo and the old lady’s son all looked over with surprise.
“Huh? Does it have the characteristic of amplifying medicinal properties?” Accelerator was also stunned. Although the healing medicines configured by his Legendary Shield were all top-grade and had amazing effects, Accelerator knew that it would not be able to bring the dead back to life. It seemed that the old lady herself should have the relevant recovery skills.
Just as the old lady here recovered, a new large wave of dimensional monsters came over like a wave.
“His …
The monster let out a strange roar and rushed towards this side.
“Ahhhhhh!”
The old lady who recovered here seemed like a different person. She rushed out fearlessly and knocked down the enemy with nimble movements. It was hard to tell that she looked dying just now.
“Thanks to the blessing of the Saint, I have regained my former strength. Hahaha!”
“Wow, Master, what kind of weird medicine did you give the old lady? There won’t be any side effects, will there?” Filo asked with his mouth wide open in surprise. Accelerator shrugged in response.
Accelerator turned to look at the old woman’s son, and saw that he was also fighting with the old woman with all his might. However, his skills were much clumsier than his mother’s, and his condition seemed to be about the same level as those soldiers in the Melomag city area – his strength was obviously far inferior to that of the old woman.
“Hey! Old woman, don’t be so stubborn.”
Should we say that she is a one-man army? Accelerator feels that even compared with the three people on his side, she might be quite powerful.
There was no need for her, the Shield Hero, to block the enemy’s offensive. The old lady continued to defeat the enemies with a momentum that could rival that of an army.
Being reliable is a good thing, but I always feel that she will use up all her energy and die at the end of the battle. Filo’s worries are not without reason.
In addition to this, there is another good news. After Accelerator, another group of soldiers wearing silver armor rushed to the village. Seeing several dimensional monsters that had escaped the net approaching one after another, they quickly eliminated them. It seemed that they were the Self-Defense Forces of Melomag.
“Master Shield Hero, leave this to me and the soldiers. You go and support the other heroes, right?” At this time, the old lady suddenly came over and said to Accelerator.
“Huh? Why? It would make sense for me to go.” Accelerator shook his head and refused directly. What a joke, defeating the source of the wave was originally the job of those guys. Now that I have solved such a troublesome matter as protecting the village, do I still need to deal with the leader of the source of the wave? It’s a waste of time.
79: Dimensional Soul Devourer (Old Version)
Although it was related to his awareness as a hero, Accelerator definitely didn’t want to go to the center of the wave and get involved. It was a waste of energy, there was no benefit, and most importantly, it was boring.
What’s more, when it comes to this level of wave enemy, there are three heroes on the scene. Logically speaking, it doesn’t matter whether he goes or not. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Accelerator recognizes the strength of the three heroes. It’s just that compared to this kind of dimensional monster that can give a lot of experience points with a wave of the hand, the three heroes should have no problem dealing with it.
Just as I was thinking this—
“Oh no, Shield Hero.”
A voice was heard along with hurried footsteps. Accelerator and the others looked towards the source of the sound and saw a warrior wearing light armor and holding a knife running towards them in a hurry.
“Hmm?” Accelerator frowned. Of course he didn’t know this person and had no impression of his face. But the other person was running towards him while calling his name. Could he assume that someone had asked him to pass on a message?
“Master, I remember this person seemed to be a follower of the Sword Hero. We have met before, and I noticed that he acted with the Sword Hero.” Raphtalia, who was standing next to him, saw Accelerator’s expression and knew that he had no impression of this person at all, so she also spoke up to give a hint.
“Oh.” Accelerator replied indifferently. Does that mean that it was Amaki Ren who asked him to pass on the message?
Sure enough, this person quickly ran in front of Accelerator and said to him with a heavy breath, “No, it’s bad, sir. Master Ren and the Spear and Bow Hero are in trouble, and we need you to go and support them!”
“Huh?” Accelerator tilted his head. This was somewhat unexpected. Oh, of course, the unexpected thing did not refer to the fact that the Three Braves were defeated by the Wave. After all, the previous strength was estimated to be based on the combat power of the local people being at the same level as the miscellaneous soldiers that Accelerator had just encountered. It would not be surprising if there were any BOSS-level monsters in the center of the Wave that the Three Braves could not handle. What surprised him was that the three idiot braves who were so self-righteous that they thought this was a game world would actually send people to seek support. Did the sun rise from the west?
“Hmm…” After regaining his composure, Accelerator asked, “Did Amaki Ren ask you to deliver the message?”
“Uh…” The knife-wielding warrior paused for a moment before saying, “No, I came to you for help on my own initiative.”
“Oh, I see.” Accelerator nodded with a little relief. That made sense.
“Master, do you want to go and provide support?” Raphtalia only asked for Accelerator’s opinion. Although she thought that they should go to the center of the wave to provide support at this time, she did not intend to speak out to influence Accelerator’s judgment.
“Hey.” He shook his head slightly, and while sighing in his heart that the three heroes were really five, Accelerator said listlessly: “Let’s go, let’s go.”
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The only people traveling together were Accelerator, Raphtalia, and Filo. As for the swordsman, he was temporarily settled in the village for recuperation and rest due to his external injuries. Accelerator and the other two quickly headed for the center of the wave in Filo’s carriage.
“It’s around here…right?” Philo turned around and asked.
“It should be.”
I saw that the huge crack at the source of the wave had extended to the surface.
“Huh? What, what is that!” Philo shouted in surprise, pointing in a direction.
At the source, there was a huge… ghost-like ship floating in the air. And that ship continued to pour out monsters.
The tattered mast and the tattered sails are set against a background of interweaving lightning, and the wooden hull is covered with holes of varying sizes.
Although Accelerator, who is well versed in physics, doesn’t know what force it relies on to float in the air, this is a different world, and he also knows that he is facing a strange phenomenon called a wave. There is no need to pursue this matter.
The surrounding area was covered with thick fog, and to be honest, Accelerator really didn’t want to jump onto that creepy ship.
Could the monsters brought by this wave be pirates?
The three heroes and their companions were fighting against the ghost ship. What didn’t disappoint Accelerator was that it seemed that they were not trapped by ordinary monsters, but a super conspicuous and huge fish monster.
It looks like it is composed of countless small dimensional beasts combined into one, because the organs of various other dimensional beasts can be seen on the surface of this monster. Multiple small creatures gather together to disguise themselves as a huge creature. As far as Accelerator knows, sardines are the best example.
Perhaps because these dimensional beasts also look similar to fish, and are made up of souls, they have inherited that habit. However… because they have merged into one, their size is much larger than that of a single individual, and their abilities are much higher.
The name is——Dimensional Soul Devourer.
Now the three heroes and their companions were dying in front of the dimensional soul-devouring beast. Although they were trying their best to struggle to get up, they seemed to be unable to do so because they had exhausted all their strength. The dimensional soul-devouring beast on the opposite side seemed to be floating there unscathed, and was slowly moving forward to try to attack the three heroes.
“…Interesting.” After observing for a while, Accelerator said with interest, maybe this trip won’t be as boring as he thought –
The battle with the three heroes and their companions in the Three Saints was like a crushing battle. How strong will he be as the boss of this wave? It seems that we can look forward to it.
“Master? What should we do?” Raphtalia asked, meaning whether she was needed to join the battle. Filo beside him looked at Accelerator with the same meaning, with a little expectation in his eyes.
“Stay aside.” Accelerator said casually.
The Dimensional Soul Devourer over there, because of its huge body, had not noticed Accelerator and the other two who had just entered the battlefield, and continued to move towards where the three heroes fell, until Accelerator kicked a stone the size of a human head under his feet.
“Bang!!”
At the same time that Accelerator kicked the stone, a huge crash sound came from the Dimension Soul Devourer on the opposite side. At the same time, the entire huge body of the Dimension Soul Devourer was almost turned over by the sudden impact force.
“SYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
Naturally, the Dimensional Soul Devourer’s attention was also attracted by the side that was attacking it. It let out an angry roar, turned around, began to accelerate, and quickly crashed towards Accelerator.
80:Shadow (Old Version)
As the saying goes, the development and results of things are often far from what we imagine. Just like the current situation with Accelerator.
Facing the speeding Dimensional Soul Devourer, Accelerator used all the computing power in his brain with a rare serious expression. Originally, Accelerator was worried that even if he did so, there would be a risk of not being able to stop it, and considered whether to relocate Filo and Raphtalia in advance. However, the Dimensional Soul Devourer in front of him had already rushed towards him, and he had no time to prepare. So this worry in his heart continued until the Dimensional Soul Devourer really hit his [Reflection] wall.
“Huh?” Accelerator was slightly stunned, looking at the Dimensional Soul Devourer that seemed to be suspended in the air for a moment, struggling to shake its body to break free, and then he roughly estimated the burden that [Reflection] would bring to himself, and felt a little unacceptable in his heart.
“That’s it?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows, then waved his hand casually at the head of the Dimensional Soul Devourer.
“boom!”
With a loud bang, the Dimensional Soul-Devouring Beast flew out from bottom to top with its entire body. It then lost weight in the air for about ten seconds before crashing to the ground with a “bang”. At the same time, it smashed a wave of small monsters around it into meat paste, and then there was no reaction.
“Heh, I really overestimated these three guys. I thought that if I could crush them, they would be my equals…” Accelerator quickly shook his head with a subtle expression on his face.
On the other hand, the three heroes and their companions who were lying on the ground unable to move and who understood the situation clearly, looked at Accelerator as if they had seen a monster.
Although I knew this guy was strong, I didn’t expect him to be this strong? Could this guy be cheating? Did you find any bugs?
Such disrespectful thoughts are worthy of the three heroes.
“It worked.” Raphtalia stepped forward and asked.
“I guess so.” Accelerator said casually, without much sense of accomplishment.
“Ah… I have nothing to do with it at all. The master handled it all by himself.” Filo next to him pouted and said.
“Huh? Aren’t there so many monsters nearby? Can’t you just go and do whatever you want by yourself?” Accelerator said impatiently with a frown.
“Well…because Master, you didn’t allow Philo to go.”
“You need me to personally instruct you on this kind of thing? Do you think I have nothing to do?”
“Hmm…” Filo blinked in grievance, then looked at Raphtalia, hoping that she could say a few words for him. But even Raphtalia just raised her hands helplessly at this time, not planning to say anything.
Of course, Accelerator didn’t take Filo’s little thing to heart. He looked around again and found that the three heroes, Lian, Yuankang, and Shu, were all looking at him with unwillingness.
“???” Accelerator was stunned. What were these three idiots thinking? Although it was not intentional, he saved them in the end. Even if according to their thinking, he also exempted them from the “death penalty”. He should not be stared at like this.
“Although I lost to you this time, I will never let you succeed next time.”
“What? You said you wouldn’t participate in the wave crusade, you wanted to protect civilians, you didn’t believe our views, and so on, but you still ended up here.”
“It’s because you’ve been slacking off in the first half of the time that you’ve retained so much strength, right? Just to wait for us to consume the boss’s energy and then kill him alone, you despicable villain.”
“???” Accelerator had a face full of question marks. No, these three guys don’t have brains?
“I’m telling you, you guys—” Accelerator didn’t even have time to open his mouth, as Raphtalia on this side couldn’t stand it anymore and was about to explode. But just when she was halfway through her words, suddenly, everyone present, including her, Filo, the three heroes, and others, felt a chill on their backs.
What, what is this!? Suddenly, a creepy feeling of foreboding came over me.
Lian, Yuankang and Shu also seemed to notice something and looked around. One of Shu’s companions was so scared that his legs went weak and he sat on the ground.
This is a powerful pressure that even the dimensional soul-devouring beast cannot compare to, covering this area.
What’s going on?
Accelerator frowned. He was the only one among all the people who remained calm. He looked around and soon found the creator of this strange atmosphere.
Facing Accelerator’s current direction, a figure appeared with light footsteps.
Are there any more enemies?
“Why are you getting into such a tough fight against such a mob? Are you the only brave man on the scene?” The descending figure looked around, and when she noticed the three brave men and their companions lying on the ground with various injuries, she asked.
The girl was wearing a black kimono with silver embroidery on the surface. In terms of the world Accelerator came from, it felt like the mourning clothes worn at a funeral were pulled up a level.
With medieval-style clothing all around, wearing a kimono alone doesn’t seem to fit in.
She has long, shiny black hair.
They look Japanese, but they give off an eerie, ghost-like aura.
But how should I put it? From time to time, she would really become translucent like a ghost, and one could even see the scene behind her directly through her body.
“Playing tricks.” Accelerator smacked his lips and was about to attack and beat the opponent directly, but the opponent took action before him.
The folding fan-shaped weapon in her hand…suddenly, several rays of light shot out and flew towards Accelerator.
It’s not an attack on yourself.
Accelerator determined the direction of the trajectory just by looking at it.
Looking back, he happened to see a dimensional soul-devouring beast hiding in the dark, just about to launch a fatal attack.
“I really hope you won’t interfere with the battle. This is the beginning of a noble war.”
“call out!”
The dimensional soul-devouring beast was killed on the spot after being hit by this attack.
81: Battle (Old Version)
“Eh…” Accelerator raised his eyebrows when he saw this scene. This time he looked directly at the kimono woman in front of him and used the ability of [Eye of All Things] to observe her for a while.
“Huh? Can’t see the LV?” Accelerator was a little surprised. Originally, through the Eye of All Things, he could directly see the LV of others in any state, and it would be directly marked next to the name. It seemed that this trick had never failed since Accelerator got this ability, but this time it couldn’t be displayed. Only a red name called “Grace” was displayed above the opponent’s head.
Accelerator was wondering what was going on when the girl named Gras stared at him and asked, “Well, judging from the battle just now, you are the hero… After all, the others don’t look like they can fight, but you are different. As for the two people around you who have the aura of slave marks, they are probably not heroes either.”
“Ha, and then what?” Accelerator was too lazy to explain. There was no need to do such a thing to restore the dignity of the Three Heroes. On the contrary, the Three Heroes became excited because they were ignored. They kept telling Grace that they were real heroes, but Grace ignored them as confusing words.
“What’s your name?” Grace asked Accelerator.
“?” Accelerator said nothing.
“Sorry, that’s rude. You should tell others your name before asking them. My name is Grace. To be honest… you can regard me as a person who is hostile to you heroes.” Grace said. Although her tone was polite, she should be well-educated, but she didn’t look friendly at all.
“Accelerator.” Accelerator replied calmly, and then quickly prepared himself for defense. Although he still had some doubts about this girl, there was no doubt that she was an enemy.
“Accelerator, then… let’s begin this wave battle!” The beautiful girl who called herself Grass opened her fan and rushed forward without saying another word.
This is a very stupid way of attacking for Accelerator.
“Self-destruction?” Accelerator laughed when he saw this situation. Unless she could use an attack as powerful as Mars hitting the Earth, he himself would be unharmed. On the contrary, Grace would be injured by the rebound of his attack, and the extent of the injury depended on the damage of the attack launched by Grace.
Because there is a wall of reflection around him, Accelerator has become accustomed to this situation because he has seen it countless times.
Although Raphtalia and Filo didn’t know Accelerator’s specific ability, they knew the general effect, so they didn’t react when they saw Grace rushing up to attack Accelerator. The three of them thought that Grace would be hit by their attacks.
But it turns out that underestimating the final boss will pay a price. Grass waved her fan and attacked Accelerator. Although the weapon was a little special, its destructive power and specificity were undeniable. At the moment of hitting the wall of [Reflection], Accelerator felt a force that was even more exaggerated than the impact of the Dimensional Soul Devourer before. It was so exaggerated that Accelerator could hardly imagine that such a power could come from the kimono girl in front of him. Although, even so, it was far from the upper limit of Accelerator’s calculation, but…
“Bang!” There was the sound of a blunt object hitting the skin, and then Accelerator took a step back slightly due to the impact.
“Master!” Raphtalia and Filo became anxious and alert at the same time. They really didn’t expect this to happen. Raphtalia directly drew out her sword and pointed it at Grace, while Filo equipped himself with the tiger finger and prepared to fight.
“Tsk…” Accelerator spat out a mouthful of blood and was stunned for a moment when he looked at the blood. Was he injured?
However, despite saying that, Accelerator himself was not greatly affected by the injury. It seemed that his high defense as the Shield Hero finally came in handy. Accelerator looked at his HP value which could be observed with the naked eye in the upper right corner. It was indeed only deducted a little, and it was recovering very quickly, and it seemed that it would be fully restored soon.
“An element special to the wave? It can actually break through [Reflection], quite interesting.” Accelerator thought about it quickly and said to himself. Yes, after Accelerator calmed down and thought about it, there was only one explanation for Grass’s ability to break through his defense. Because according to reason, although her attack power is very high, it has not reached the upper limit of his calculation power, so for him, her attack power is equal to 0. If she wants to hurt him, it can only be because her skills or weapons have some special elements in the wave that Accelerator has never heard of or seen.
But even so, Accelerator is not panicking at all, because he is the Shield Hero, especially because he has awakened the [Yinglong Heart Shield], a shield with such high attributes, and the defense is too high. Even without [Reflection], Gras’s attack here can’t hurt Accelerator at all. And although he is the Shield Hero, Accelerator is not completely without attack ability and can only take hits, not to mention the situation in front of him…
“Sister Raphtalia!” Filo, who had transformed into the form of Filo Bird, shouted, and then his whole body seemed to have activated some acceleration skill, and suddenly turned into a beam of light and shadow, rushed directly in front of Grace, then raised his foot and kicked down.
But unfortunately, the opponent was very agile and Grace dodged this level of speed by just bending down, but Filo’s purpose of distracting the opponent’s attention was obviously achieved.
“Sha!”
Raphtalia, who had hidden herself using light and shadow magic, suddenly appeared behind Grace and stabbed her with a sword.
“Clang!” Grace used the iron fan to block the long sword and blocked it –
When Accelerator was thinking this, Raphtalia exerted force and Grace did not hold the iron fan tightly due to her hasty reaction. So in the next second, with a “clang” sound, the long sword directly knocked the iron fan away. Although Grace dodged in time, she was still scratched on the arm by Raphtalia’s sword, and blood dripped onto the ground.
Yes, in the current situation, it seems that Filo and Raphtalia are fighting Grass on equal terms, and they seem to be firmly in the upper hand.
82: Easy to use (old version)
Accelerator sighed slightly. Although Raphtalia and Filo seemed to have the upper hand, it did not mean that he thought that Raphtalia and Filo could defeat Grasse with their current level. Because as he observed Grasse’s battle, he found that more and more of Grasse’s specific ability data could be directly seen by his [Eye of All Things]. And as Grasse’s ability value became apparent, Accelerator also realized that Grasse still had a lot of spare power that had not been used.
Although Raphtalia and Filo were also able to hide to a certain extent, they were not as good as Grace.
By the way, while Raphtalia and Filo were attacking Gras together, the three heroes here were also trying their best to use their skills to attack. Accelerator thought about it and thought that it was probably because Gras ignored them and got angry. It should have nothing to do with wanting to help defeat the wave boss. It didn’t matter, but…
“Take it!”
Lian, Yuankang, and Shu each used their weapons to attack Grass.
“Meteor Gun!”
“Meteor Bow!”
While dealing with the tricky attacks from Raphtalia and Filo, Grass slightly raised her lips at the fierce attack from the three heroes.
“Want to sneak attack me? You are so naive. Rondo Zero Type: Reverse Snow and Moon Flower!”
It was broad daylight, but the wine-red sky suddenly glowed red.
Raphtalia and Filo were afraid of being affected by Grass’s move, so they stepped back and kept some distance, leaving Grass’s attack range.
Accelerator looked up and saw a blood-red moon shining brightly as if responding to her words.
Then, a bright red flash that outlined a circular ripple suddenly swept across the three heroes and their companions.
“Aaaaaaaah——!!”
Lian, Yuankang, Shu and their companions were all violently blown away by this invisible force that was like a tornado and fell to the ground.
“Huh?” Accelerator was stunned again. This was too rubbish, three heroes. Why did it feel like these so-called holy weapon heroes were not as good as the two slaves he raised casually?
Since this is a game, then they are familiar with this world from another perspective, so their level should be quite high, right? Logically speaking, it would be too embarrassing to be defeated so easily. Even Accelerator found it hard to accept.
No, they would have been in a tough battle whenever they faced the dimensional soul-devouring beast. Now they were facing an attack from an opponent who had the means to kill the dimensional soul-devouring beast with one move. Perhaps it was an unavoidable outcome that their entire army would be annihilated.
Accelerator couldn’t help but shake his head, thinking that it would be better not to hold out any hope for the three of them in the future.
But this Grace…
“What a bunch of useless dependent weapons. If they are only at this level, it would be hard for the holy weapons not to shed tears.” Grace said to the three heroes who were defeated at the first blow.
At this time, it seemed that Raphtalia and Filo saw this move of Grace and realized that the enemy had not yet fought seriously, so they also distanced themselves from Grace with some caution, thinking about countermeasures in their brains. At this time…
“Ah, this is so boring. I’m almost fed up with it. Can you please leave quickly?” Suddenly, Accelerator smacked his lips and said.
Even if the opponent had an unknown element that could penetrate his [Reflection] ability, he had no suspense about who would win or lose in this battle from the beginning, because he really couldn’t think of any plan that Grace could use to defeat him.
“Hmm? It seems like I’ve been underestimated.” Grace also turned her target to Accelerator here.
Because Accelerator’s aura made it clear that he was the strongest, Grass took him seriously from the beginning. She reserved her strength in the battles with Raphtalia and Filo for the subsequent battle with Accelerator, but she didn’t expect that the other party would look down on her so much.
“Underestimate?” Accelerator raised his eyebrows. He hoped that Grace would surprise him in some way, but the problem was that the Eye of All Things could directly open Grace’s information panel and show Accelerator all the data. There was even a note in the lower right corner of the panel that said “Analysis 100%”.
Although there is no solid evidence, he really doesn’t think the data displayed by the Eye of All Things will be wrong. It’s just like those early web games, where the combat power of both sides is clearly marked for you, and you know who will win and who will lose before the game. This feeling is actually a bit boring.
Thinking of this, Grass suddenly accelerated and rushed directly in front of Accelerator, and swung the iron fan in her hand directly at Accelerator. The speed she burst out with all her strength at that moment was so fast that Raphtalia and Filo couldn’t react. However, Accelerator didn’t even turn his eyes, but simply waved his hand and blocked the attack with his backhand.
“What…what? You can actually see clearly?” Because the unknown element affected the calculation formula of [Reflection], Grace was not rebounded by her own attack at the first time. At this time, her weapon was already grasped by Accelerator in one hand. At the same time, she was shocked that Accelerator could actually see the trajectory of her attack and block it so accurately.
She was absolutely confident in her speed, and it seemed that no one could react to her attack to this extent. But the guy in front of her actually…
“You’re so slow! You’ll need to practice for at least another hundred years if you want to beat me.” Accelerator smacked his lips and manipulated the vector in his hand, smashing Grace to the ground with a “bang”, making a hole.
Indeed, Gras’s speed was very fast. According to the level correction of dynamic vision effect in this world, Accelerator estimated that he would need to be around level 100 to barely see Gras’s shadow. But even at this speed, Accelerator could still see clearly under the effect of [Eye of All Things].
The Eye of All Things is really useful.