Rising Of The Shield Hero Web Novel ver

The reason it was sealed

After hearing that there was a village that had huge demand for herbicides, we quickly rushed over...
It might be that Filo was excessively fast, but we were able to make it to the region in just a few days.

“Master-”
“What is it?”
“Uhmm, the plants here are pretty crazy-“
“Huh?”

Raphtalia and I both look outside of the carriage.
And when we do, we see the road completely buried in some sort of viny, squirming vegetation.

“T, The hell?!”

It’s advancing slowly and gradually, but the vegetation is most definitely expanding its domain.

“The village is…”

I take a look around and notice there were people gathered over at somewhere that looked like a refugee camp.

“Filo, head over that way.”
“Okay.”

We head over to the camp and start to set up shop.

“Alright, what should I price these herbicides.”

I’m sure these will be used to try to exterminate those slowly encroaching vines.
I can see what the accessory merchant meant when he said I’d be able to make a killing here.
So then, just how much profit will I be making.

“Though there might already be a specialist here dealing them out.”
“You might be right.”

I get out of the carriage to try and gather some information.
On a side note, I changed my shield into Book Shield.  I then turned the shield around to make it look like I was just any old peddler holding a book.
By setting my shield to something that doesn’t really stand out, I can hide my identity as the Shield Hero.

“I came by since I heard I can sell herbicides for a good price here.”

I ask someone at the camp who looked like they had some authority.

“Oh, a trader. It would definitely help.”

He responded quickly as if he was waiting for me.

“But what exactly is going on here?”

I inquire as I look towards the invading flora.

“What exactly… Our village was hit by a famine.”

Ah now that I think about it, I did hear of a rumor along those lines.
But didn’t Motoyasu handle that?

“However, we requested aid from the Spear Hero and he returned with a miracle seed that has been sealed since ancient times.  While it did resolve our famine it…”
“That can’t be the miracle seed can it?”

I look towards the encroaching vines.  Now that I observe carefully there are fruits and other vegetable produce stemming from the vines.
It doesn’t seem like this camp is having any issues with food, and there aren’t any food relief aids in sight. The vines also apparently have potatoes as I notice some farmers approaching the vines and digging them out.
In other words, the villagers have no trouble whatsoever with food, but because the plants are growing out of control, they’ve been driven out of their homes…