Legendary Shield

The Legendary Shield (伝説の盾) is one of the Four Legendary Weapons. The person who possesses this weapon is called the "Shield Hero (盾の勇者)." It retains a green gem at its center while undergoing transformations.

History
The Shield Hero, alongside the other three Legendary Heroes, has been summoned repeatedly through history to defend against the Waves of Calamity when they surge up.

It is not known how many Heroes of the Shield there have been, with some indications that there has only been one, and some indications that there were in fact many. There have at least been two confirmed Heroes, the first one and his eventual successor Naofumi.

Legends about the previous Heroes of the Shield were erased from the records of the country of Melromarc.

According to Melromarc's queen, previous exploits of the heroes (or perhaps just one hero) include:

One previous Shield Hero sought for good relations between the Demi-humans and normal humans, Melromarc, being a human supremacist country, hated this idea, and it also stained the relationship of this Hero and his successors towards the other heroes. Because of his actions, Demi-human countries, like Siltvelt, worship the Shield Hero and have a religion entirely devoted to them over the other three heroes, Melromarc, in response, gained a religion worshiping the other three heroes and denouncing the Shield as a devil.

A previous Shield Hero, which may or may not be the one above, lived luxuriously in the Demi-human kingdoms before he was mysteriously murdered, likely by the very people who worship him, making Naofumi convinced that Silt Welt is a fanatical country.

A previous Shield Hero, alongside his fellow heroes, fought with the Spirit Turtle and sealed it away by binding its heart with a spell. Since they left details telling future generations about how to kill the beast, yet warnings that it should not be killed, it's likely they chose to seal it due to the consequences that killing it would have had.

While after his generation new Heroes of the Legendary Holy Weapons are summoned for the other 3 original Holy weapons, only the Shield never reappears due to Naofumi still possessing the Shield long into the Future as He travels to other worlds to protect them from invading gods. As a result of the world being a fusion of 8 different worlds, there is a total of 8 Legendary Weapons and 16 Vassal Weapons.

= Owner = The current Shield Hero is Naofumi Iwatani.

= Power = The Legendary Shield gives its user great defensive power and can evolve and transform to become stronger however the user cannot equip any other weapons. It has a special jewel in the middle which can transform the Shield under specific conditions.

In the Web Novel, Naofumi describes that his base, ignoring equip bonuses and power up methods, defense stat is three times a normal person but his attack stat is 1/10th.

= Shields =

Miscellaneous Shield Sets
= Extra Information =
 * The order in which shields are unlocked affect the abilities gained by future shields for example originally the "Anti Poison Shield" should have received the Equipment bonus "Poison Resistance (Intermediate)" however it changed to "Defense +5" because Naofumi had acquired the "Chimera Viper Shield" first.