Light Novel Volume 2/Synopsis

Prologue - Shared Pain
Naofumi and Raphtalia wake up in the storage room they had spent the night in and decided to get breakfast in the castle kitchen, but are turned away by the guards saying the other heroes aren't done with their meals yet. Later when all four heroes are summoned before the king to receive their rewards and support funds. Raphtalia asks the king why the other heroes got 4000 and 3800 silver coins while Naofumi only received 500. The king explains it is because they completed quests from the guild as well as stopping the wave. When she asks why Naofumi didn't get any quest the king mockingly says "what can the shield do?" causing Raphtalia to tighten her fist in anger. When they leave Raphtalia immediately says they should go to the slave trader to have the crest put back on since Naofumi wouldn't be able to fully trust her otherwise, Naofumi tries to dissuade her from getting it since he feels he could trust her because of the simple fact she stayed with him despite his bad reputation. Raphtalia says she wants it anyway to have proof that she trusts him and that she will always be his sword.

Chapter 1 - Egg Machine
At the slave trader's tent, the slave dealer expressed his shock at how beautiful Raphtalia had grown and said he could buy her back for 20 gold coins on looks alone if she's not a virgin. When Raphtalia says she's still a virgin he raises the price to 30 gold coins causing Naofumi to express his shock as well. Raphtalia got mad because Naofumi wasn't defending her even though she was being evaluated to be sold, Naofumi tried to play it off saying he was just surprised she was worth that much causing Raphtalia to be embarrassed. Raphtalia then has the slave crest reapplied on her chest. On the way out, the two notice a box of eggs and the slave dealer says that it's their cover business of dealing monsters. They pay 100 silver coins for a random monster egg from the lottery game and leave the tent.

Chapter 2 - Gratitude for Life
Naofumi and Raphtalia visit the apothecary to sell medicine and the owner greets them with a smile saying he wanted to thank them for saving a relative of his during the wave. He gives Naofumi a novice recipe book for medicines which he accepts and gives his thanks even though he is unable to read it. The apothecary then tells them the magic shop owner also wishes to meet them. Afterwards, they head to the magic shop and the owner also wants to thank them for saving her granddaughter during the wave and decides to give them a magic reading. She tells Naofumi that he specializes in healing and support magic while Raphtalia specializes in light and dark(shadow) magic meaning she's good at illusions. They receive more novice level books from the shop owner as thanks and make their way to Riyute village. When they arrive at the village they find the remains of the wave boss and Naofumi absorb some of its remains to unlock some new shields, they book a room in an inn and start studying the language to learn how to read before going to sleep.

Chapter 3 - Filo
The egg that Naofumi brought from the slave trader hatched and, after asking one of the villagers, they found out it was a baby Filolial. After naming the chick Filo they went out to hunt and level up. Raphtalia kept charging the monsters ignoring Naofumi's calls to let him go first. He tells her to be more careful and Raphtalia responds saying she wants to quickly get stronger to fight the wave and be a better fighter for him, Naofumi says they have plenty of time so she needs to calm down before she hurts herself. At the end of the day, Filo grows three times bigger and they head back to the inn to study more before going to sleep.

Chapter 4 - Growth
The next day, when Naofumi entered the stable where Filo was he noticed she grew more and resembled an ostrich now, so they all decided to go level up after breakfast. After leveling, Filo was big enough to be ridden and motioned for Naofumi to get on its back then took off running at a speed much greater than an average Filolial and quickly made a lap around the village. At the end of the day, they stayed in the stable with Filo studying until she fell asleep because she was lonely and didn't want them to leave.

Chapter 5 - Kick and Run
As the party is deciding on what to do for the day, Motoyasu, along with Myne and the rest of his group, shows up in the village announcing that he has become the new lord. When Myne announced that a new tax of 50 silver coins was going to be issued for entering and leaving the village to help pay for the cost of repairs, the villagers started getting upset before a group of ninja-like people appeared and handed Myne a parchment. After reading it she became angry and challenged Naofumi to a race between him and his Filolial and Motoyasu and his dragon to determine the new lord. Naofumi was against it saying he had no reason to race in for them. The current lord then promises compensation if he saves the village. The race was three laps around the village, Myne and the knights that were following Motoyasu tried various cheats to win but still lost and was escorted out of the village by the ninjas and the lord of the village got to keep his job. To reward Naofumi for saving them he offered to build him a carriage and give him a commercial bill of passage suggesting he tries his hand as a traveling merchant since he makes and sells medicine and has a fast Filolial. After agreeing to it, they help the village out with the reconstruction by transporting lumber and realize Raphtalia gets motion sickness because Filo runs too fast.

Chapter 6 - Wings
After transporting the lumber, the group continued leveling for the rest of the day before retiring to bed. The next day Naofumi and Raphtalia noticed that Filo has grown much larger than a normal Filolial and decide to go to a slave trader to find out why. By the time they reached the slave trader's tent Filo's appearance changed once again to resemble a fat owl and Naofumi questions whether he was really sold a Filolial egg. The slave trader assures him he did sell him the correct egg and suggest leaving Filo with him to research why she changed so much, to which he agreed. A few hours later a messenger from the slave trader meets up with Naofumi and asks him to come back to the tent when he does the slave trader says Filo keeps rampaging and broke three cages and sent five people to the hospital to which Naofumi says he's not paying for that. The Slave trader says Filo might be a Filolial queen, going based on legends and rumors of wild Filolial who gains leader status in a pack, but when everyone turns to the cage Filo was in they see a young naked girl with wings inside yelling out "Master."

Chapter 7 - Transformation
Information to be added later on.

Chapter 12 - Rumors of the Heroes
While traveling to the next village, they run into a villager trying to get to his sick parents. After helping this villager and his parents, they proceeded to the village they were initially heading for. During the journey, Naofumi continues studying medicinal recipes. They continued moving from village to village and selling medicine to people for two weeks, building a reputation for themselves. According to gossips, Motoyasu was to the southwest of the castle, where he broke the seal of a legendary crop saving a starving village. Ren went to the Southeast of the castle and had apparently defeated a violent dragon in the east. Itsuki's whereabouts were unknown however he had gone to a country in the north with a few other adventurers to overthrow a corrupted government. Naofumi, Raphtalia, and Filo had also leveled up a lot and had reached levels 34, 37, and 32 respectively. Over this entire period, Naofumi has successfully translated 10 new recipes, 2 of which were already known to him. He unlocked even more shields by absorbing monsters they ran into during their traveling. Raphtalia had made some progress in her magic studies and is able to produce a floating orb of light for a few seconds. Naofumi, on the other hand, has not made any progress on his magic studies

Chapter 13 - Take Everything but Life
There is a small skip ahead to a point where Naofumi is on a carriage with a merchant. This merchant then told Naofumi that it was an honor to ride the carriage pulled by a bird-god and that he is quite famous. The people speak of Filo as a 'bird-god that showers people with miracles everywhere it goes' and also speak of Naofumi as a 'holy man who arrives in a carriage and blesses the sick with special medicine'. Naofumi then learns about the merchant being a jeweler expecting him to sell expensive bracelets. However, he actually sells broaches, necklaces, and bracelets made of bronze and iron with jewels embedded in them which go for 30 silver coins. Magic can also be imbued into the bracelets increasing the price from 30 silver coins to 100 silver coins. This was when Filo spots a group of people carrying weapons who turns out to be bandits. The jeweler had kept an item in his pocket that was worth more than the jewelry he had shown Naofumi. Naofumi prepares for battle while telling the merchant that he expects payment for helping him out. After clearing out some of the underlings, they run into a bodyguard who is basically the boss of the group of bandits. Naofumi, Raphtalia, and Filo have a tough time fighting the bandit. Raphtalia and Filo still had tricks up their sleeves and uses shadow and wind magic respectively leading to their victory. After that, Naofumi threatens the bandits to release information on their hideout. Naofumi then loots all the bandits and threw them into his carriage and heads for their hideouts. He steals all the loot from the bandits and the hideout and dumps the bandits he had defeated beside the hideout. The merchant from before decides to give Naofumi a bracelet with magic imbued on it and share business routes with him.

Chapter 14 - Magic Practice
The accessory dealer continued traveling with Naofumi for a bit, he taught Naofumi how to procure the materials one required to imbue jewels and things with power. One of his acquaintances helped out with this. Afterwards, the accessory dealer spoke about how to form precious metals into accessories. Naofumi was able to get the tools necessary for the process at a low price. The accessory dealer then proceeded on with imbuing magic into the accessories which Naofumi had some troubles with as he could not use magic yet. The merchant handed Naofumi a translucent object and asked him to feel the magic power that worked out and the object began to glow. Words then appeared in Naofumi's vision he then casts a spell called "Fast Guard" on himself which greatly increased his defense rating. Naofumi then attempted to imbue the stones which he managed to do at a basic level. He headed to a mine to grab some ores which he did for free as he offered to do it himself. He was able to break the stone walls in just one hit and grabbed the ores. He then made a ruby bracelet of excellent quality, after imbuing it the quality dropped to normal. He allowed the shield to absorb the ores and the bracelets. He then unlocked the metalworking skill and some defensive stat boosts. He then hurried to the southwest.

Chapter 15 - Why it Was Sealed
The village in the southwest had apparently required large amounts of weed killer. Filo then informs Raphtalia and Naofumi that there was a high amount of vegetation ahead, Naofumi notices how they were slowly moving and were slowly spreading out over the entire road. He notices a refugee camp and heads for it. He disguises himself by using a shield that looks like a book and heads to speak with the people at the camp. They explain to him that they were having a famine and Motoyasu had planted a miracle seed and recalls the ancient words written beside the seed when he ventured with the witch. The villager also explains that the crown had been informed but it would take time as the heroes were apparently too busy and that the situation was worse the deeper into the village they went. They tried many methods to get rid of the plant but the weed killer is the only one that has an effect on the plant so far. Naofumi hears a shriek who came for an adventurer that wanted to level up and ventured to the main village to farm monsters for levels. Naofumi then asks Filo to grab them and bring them back when Filo returns explaining the situation the villagers noticed her speaking and realizes Naofumi is the "Saint with the Bird-god". Naofumi then proceeds to feed the sick medicine and afterwards pour weed killer on the plants growing on their body. He then charges them a higher price in case of an interruption from the crown. The villagers then offer money if he would stay and completely rid the village of the plant. He then asks for up-front payment which they villagers crowd around him to make. He then agrees to wipe out the plants. He prepares for the upcoming fight by changing his shield which was still one that looks like a book to his chimera viper shield. It was then that the villagers realized he is the shield hero.

Special Extra Chapter - Presents
Naofumi tells Raphtalia and Filo about hot-spring as they come across to the hot-spring village. After the return from the hot-spring bath, Raphtalia ask Naofumi to check her injury and try to confess to Naofumi. But Naofumi responds with "I like you too, you are like my daughter." The next day, Raphtalia remembers her mother say she fell in love with her father when he gave her a gift. To look for a gift, Raphtalia ask around town and found that there are rare ores in the volcano under some monster nest. As she heads up the volcano, Filo follows, Filo says she is looking for a gift (rare monster egg) use to confess to master. They rushed up the volcano and found the monster nest they looking for. As they try to collect the Ore/Egg, a silver boar appears attacking them. It charged at the nest and smashed both the ore/egg, then it feels murders intent and tries to escape, lastly, after a scream, it's over. Raphtalia and Filo try to look around but can't find what they looking for and return sadly with the silver boar. As they return to the village, they found Naofumi waiting at the gate, they give the boar to Naofumi. As Naofumi thinks about cooking it, the villagers came wanting to buy the silver boar, since its tradition for the village to offer silver boar at the festival. Naofumi sold the boar and give Raphtalia and Filo each half the money from silver boar, telling them to get something they want with it. But Raphtalia and Filo give the money to Naofumi saying it a gift from them.