The Rising Of The Shield Hero

Chapter 11: Slave's Accomplishments

After our lunch inside the restaurant, we headed off into the meadow.
Raphtalia was humming cheerfully by the way.
However, upon seeing the meadow, she began to tremble with fear lingering in her eyes.

"It may be scary but I will definitely protect you from the monsters."

She tilted her head upon hearing my words.

"C'mon, these small fries can only make me itchy when they bite, I don't even feel any pain."

Raphtalia was dumbfounded when I showed her the gallery of Balloons hidden under my mantle.

"That's not, painful?"
"Nope."
"Then..."
"I'll tank."
"Yes... *Koho*..."

I was a bit concerned over her coughing, but she seemed to be fine.
We picked up medicinal herbs along the way while heading towards the forest.
Oh, here they come again.
Three Red Balloons came flying out from a bush inside the forest.
I sacrificed myself to make sure that none of them bit Raphtalia.

"Alright, just do it like we had done it awhile ago."
"... Hai!"

A motivated Raphtalia vigorously charged and backstabbed the Red Balloons.
POP!* POP!* POP!*
With this, Raphtalia raised her Level to 2.

The requirement for Red Small Shield has been unsealed.

Red Small Shield
Equipment Bonus: Defense +4 <Unmastered>

I immediately changed my shield.
Raphtalia's eyes popped out when she saw my shield transform.

"Goshujin-sama... just who are you?"

She didn't seem to know that I was the one and only Shield Hero. Well up until now, she was nothing but a demi-human slave after all.

"I'm a Hero. The Hero of the Shield."
"The legendary hero?"
"So you know?"

Raphtalia timidly nodded.

"That's right, I'm a summoned Hero. There are 3 more people like me... but I'm the weakest of them all!"

I began biting my fingernails, trying to contain this sudden outburst of rage.
My head was filled with nothing but bloodlust when the face of that fucker popped up.
Raphtalia was frightened by my eyes, instinctively knowing that she shouldn't dig any deeper into this.

"For the time being, today's task will be hunting monsters in this forest. I'll seize them and you'll pierce them."
"Hai..."

She had become somewhat accustomed to this as Raphtalia nodded obediently.
And then, whenever we encountered enemies inside the forest, we'd always use the common tactic where I aggro'ed and disabled them while Raphtalia went in for the kill.
Midway through, we encountered an enemy other than Balloons for the first time.

Roux Mush
A white, moving mushroom. It had sharp slanted eyes, and was roughly the size of a human head.

I experimentally hit it, and it gave off a response identical to a Red Balloon's.
Raphtalia then knocked this one down too.
This type of mob also appeared in different shades of color, there were Blue Mushes and Green Mushes.

Requirement for Mush Shield has been unsealed.
Requirement for Blue Mush Shield has been unsealed.
Requirement for Green Mush Shield has been unsealed.