Resilient Shield

Chapter 9

To say Naofumi was irritated at his fellow heroes would be like saying the ocean is a little wet.

Massive understatement.

He has half a mind to come chasing them and give them a good head bashing for the sheer clean up they forgot to do and left to Naofumi. Is this their way of saying "since you didn't participate in boss fight, here, we give you leftovers. Oh, clean up after the other monsters too, yeah? That's what you can do to repay us back for out kindness."

Because those rot-addled morons left the pile of corpses right where they kill the beasts! Do they have no idea what kind of health hazard this is?! Give a day or two and the stench would not only be unbearable, but also attract all sorts of predator. If that was not a danger to nearby settlement, then the potential said predators evolved or mutated after eating wave monsters and whatever they contain definitely is!

Were they sleeping in their lessons or something?! Even a child would understand that if you leave trash around, it will only attract trouble in the future!

Naofumi want to wring those idiots' neck.

He really does.

"At least you can feed them to your shield?" Raphtalia suggested, seeing Naofumi's incredibly dark aura. "Or... or sell them? I think some materials can worth pretty silvers!"

"Good material..." muttered Lucas. Eyeing the remaining corpse of Chimera with appraising eyes.

Naofumi take a deep breath to calm himself. Right. They were right. Since none of these idiots leave stakes of the remaining wave monsters, Naofumi and the villagers has free claim of them. The Chimera may be hacked for what those stooges think is the best, but there are enough remains. Isn't Chimera pelt quite tough? That would make fine rug. Assuming the Shield doesn't eat it in its entirely.

Entirely...

What if Naofumi hacked it to pieces? That way he can see what happens. What doesn't get absorbed by the shield, he can sell for materials.

"Help me gather the monsters and cut them into pieces." He then paused, remembering a certain type of monster this Wave spammed. "Except for the Zombie. Just get me one, and told the villagers to dig a massive deep hole to dump in the zombie to burn them. And salted whatever the remains." He doesn't like dealing with Zombie more than necessary.

Via games? Yes he doesn't mind. Real life? He burns the corpse and salted the remains. Maybe dump whatever this world equivalent to purifying herbs into the fire as well.

And thus, began the task of harvesting the monster remains. And yes, Naofumi unlocks several new shields along the way.

Interdimensional Locust Shield, Interdimensional Zombie Shield, Bee Needle Shield, Interdimensional Lower Bee Shield—what's the lower was for? Because there's no Queen Be or they were lesser version of what they could be? Anyway, next. Chimera were chopped up to pieces, deboned nicely, and each piece was only had a portion of it fed to the shield. Unlocking Chimera Bone Shield, Chimera Meat Shield, Chimera Leather Shield, and Chimera Viper Shield.

Naofumi was almost chokes when he saw the Chimera Viper Shield status. Particularly, its defensive status that was far above and beyond any other shield he has so far. Including the other shields he got from Chimera beast—even if the leather one come close.

He was almost salivating at money and goods he can get using them. Good thing he only use some parts and not the whole thing, huh?

"Alright!" He put a few kilo meat to his inventory before waved at one of villager to come. "Dried the meat or whatever you can do to preserve them for long duration. But I'll ask for the bones and leather."