Naofumi Iwatani/Chronology

Volume 1-4
Naofumi Iwatani would occasionally visit the bookstore or the library when he wanted to save money. On that fateful day Naofumi found an old-looking book called The Record of the Four Holy Weapons in the library. The book contain a fantasy world where heroes summoned from another world would fend off waves. When the book went to describe the Shield Hero all the pages were blank it was then where Naofumi started to lose consciousness.

When Naofumi awoke he found himself in a different room, below him laid an alter which glowed. Besides him stood 3 other people who each possessed a different weapon sword, spear and shield. Naofumi noticed on his right arm laid a shield which he couldn't remove. He would later learn he was summoned with the three other people as Legendary Heroes from another world.

The robe figures before them asked and begged for the heroes to save them. The three other heroes ignored their question and asked their own question asking why they were summoned, one of the heroes with the sword even threaten them by pointing his weapon towards them. Naofumi knew the three other heroes were actually leaping for joy inside to be summoned to another world.

The heroes were lead to the throne room where they would meet the ruler of the country. On the throne sat the ruler of the country, he later introduced himself as Aultcray Melromarc XXXII king of Melromarc. He talked about the prophecy of the waves and reason behind the heroes summoning, he later asked for the heroes to introduced themselves.

The order of the introduction was Ren Amaki the Sword Hero, Motoyasu Kitamura the Spear Hero, Itsuki Kawasumi the Bow Hero and lastly Naofumi Iwatani the Shield Hero. The King later acknowledges the heroes names expect for Naofumi's name which he later corrected and apologized when pointed it out.

The King later went on about the fundamentally of Status Magic and Legendary Weapons each of the heroes possess, the King ensured them that he'll secure adventurers to join the Legendary Hero's cause. The heroes were later escorted to their chambers.

When the heroes arrived at their chambers, they started discussing how the world they were summoned to was like a game. Each hero besides Nafoumi had an idea which game the world was based on. Motoyasu said it was based on a famous online game called Emerald, while Itsuki disagreed and said it was based on a console game called Dimension Waves, Ren later interjected saying they were both wrong and that it was based on a VRMMO called Brave Star Online.

Each of the heroes would consider them massive Otaku and haven't once heard of each other games. On a hunch, they all agreed to name the current president of Japan and the result was in the end that they each name different presidents, not convince they started shouting other random question. In the end, they all concluded that they all came from Alternative Japans.

After the discovery, the other heroes were quick to point out Naofumi's legendary weapon and his class. Motoyasu explained how the Shielder class in his game was the weakest class which later became obsolete, Ren's and Itsuki's answer were more of the same. This came to a shock to Naofumi, but despite all that, he still had a positive outlook of being summoned to another world. They later all went to sleep in different chambers after dinner was prepared for them.

The next day the king had prepared many adventures to join the heroes on their cause. Though instead of the heroes choosing the adventures, the adventures choose the heroes instead by standing behind their chosen hero.

The results were Ren 5 people, Motoyasu 4 people, Itsuki 3 people and Naofumi 0 people. Shocked and surprised by the results Naofumi asked in the order of Ren, Motoyasu and Itsuki if they could spare him some adventures to join his party but none of the adventures in each of the heroes parties wanted to swap over.

The reason why no adventures joined Naofumi's party was later discovered and explained by the King. Rumors about Naofumi had spread throughout the kingdom that the Shield Hero was weak and had no knowledge of the world. Motoyasu later whispered to Naofumi that someone probably eased dropped on their conversation last night.

Thinking all hope was lost, someone from Motoyasu's party decided to join Naofumi party, a red-headed female adventures, She was questioned by Motoyasu if she was sure and she replied with a simple "yes". Because Naofumi had the least members of the three heroes the King provided Naofumi with 800 pieces of silvers while the other heroes started with 600 silvers.

Naofumi gladly accepted the money and started his very first journey with his very first companion in another world. The female adventures later introduced herself as Myne Suphia. While Naofumi would refer to her first name, Myne would refer to Naofumi as Mr. Hero.

After exited the castle Myne brought Naofumi to a well-known Weapon Shop known throughout Melromarc. When the Weapon Shop Owners saw Myne entering the shop he asked if he has seen her somewhere before. Myne, however, shook off the question by answering she was a customer before one time.

Naofumi's objective was to get himself a weapon so he had a way of attacking. But it was later discovered while trying to pick up a weapon in the store that his Legendary Weapon restricted him from equipping other weapons except for the already designated weapon he is already equipped with. They later decided to buy a set of Chainmail for Naofumi which he got a discount at the price of 120 silver.

Upon exiting the castle walls, the valley was full of grass. While walking through the valley Naofumi encountered a Monster called an Orange Balloon, when the Balloon bit Naofumi he felt no pain due to the Legendary Shield emitting a defensive barrier around him. It took Naofumi a whole 5 minutes to defeat a single balloon by himself which only earn him 1exp. He later looks over in the distance to see Ren swiftly defeat 3 Balloons in one swing.

Naofumi later discovered he could use the monster loot from the Orange Balloon to absorb into the shield. For the rest of the day, Myne helped Naofumi defeat monsters out in the valley.

When evening hit both Naofumi and Myne returned to the Weapon Shop to obtain Myne new gear. While Myne was searching for new gear Naofumi and the Weapon Shop started haggling with each other when Myne returned with the set of equipment she wanted, Naofumi asked if she could downgrade because it was a bit too experience but Myne used her feminine charms to draw Naofumi to purchase the equipment while at it the Weapon Shop Owners kindly gave Naofumi a discount.

Naofumi made his way to an Inn and purchased two rooms for himself and Myne. Before going to bed both Naofumi and Myne were downstairs planning for tomorrow during this Myne asked for Nafoumi to join him drinking. Naofumi naturally refuses because of his dislike of alcohol because he had a high tolerance. Myne tried to push the topic but Naofumi refuses to drink after letting it go Naofumi went to his room to sleep. Before going to sleep Naofumi slips off his chainmail and laid it on the back of the chair in and slipped 30 silvers into his shield while at it he reckons he saw Itsuki and Motoyasu enter the tavern outside his window.

In his sleep, Naofumi could hear someone whispering "Heh, heh, men are fools. So easily tricked.... Can't wait until tomorrow." Naofumi woke up in the morning to see all the possession he left inside of his room stolen, he went to the Inn hallway to Myne's room to tell her the bad news but there was no reply on the other side of the door.

Knights eventually filled the hallways and surrounding Naofumi, they ignored Naofumi's plead for help and asked if he was the Shield Hero after confirming he as the Shield Hero, the knights grabbed and dragged Naofumi out of the inn all the way to the castle in nothing but his undergarments.

Naofumi arrived at the castle dragged and then surrounded by the castle knight holding him in a lock with their spears. When he saw Myne he instinctively called out her name but she hid behind Motoyasu while glaring daggers at Naofumi. Motoyasu was wearing the chainmail which belonged to Naofumi when called Motoyasu out for it he brushed it off.

Naofumi and Motoyasu quarrel were later interrupted by an announcement which stated they were now going to hear the charges against the Shield Hero. Myne started falsely accusing Naofumi of sexually assaulting her and how she escaped from Naofumi and ran into Motoyasu afterward.

While watching her Naofumi couldn't make sense what she was talking about, he even felt bad for Myne while watching her cry. Naofumi tried to plead that he was innocent, but he interrupted and by Motoyasu calling Naofumi a liar. Naofumi asked why he was speaking for Myne and asked where Motoyasu got his chainmail from, Motoyasu replied that it was a present from Myne.

Naofumi decided that talking to Motoyasu was getting him nowhere so he started pleading to the king about his missing money, cloth and equipment but he interrupted by the King to be silenced being called a scoundrel. In a desperate attempt for help he looked in the direction where Myne was standing it was at that moment he saw Myne sticking out her tongue to mock Naofumi.

At that moment Naofumi fully understood the situation he was in he was played like a fool and used by Myne. At that very moment, Naofumi personality transformed bitterly. Naofumi went to the conclusion that Myne and Motoyasu planned all this from the beginning to not only take his equipment and money but to their standing in society look better. Naofumi showed no sign of holding his anger and called out the two of them for tricking him, ignoring Naofumi outburst Ren and Itsuki came to the conclusion that Naofumi was guilty.

Fed up being treated like a criminal by everyone around him he didn't find the strength to care anymore and asked the King to send him back home and summon a new Shield Hero. The King wanted nothing more but to send Naofumi home but he explained that the waves didn't allow the heroes to return home and that all four of the heroes will need to die in order to summon new heroes.

Ren, Itsuki and Motoyasu did not hide their shock to the King's explanation. Naofumi in a fit of anger broke out of the lock the Castle Knight had him in, Naofumi then asked the King what his punishment was going to be which the King replied with that Naofumi had a job of defending the waves and crimes are well known around his kingdom which would be his punishment.

After sarcastically thanking the King, Naofumi headed towards the exit but before he did he removed the last 30 pieces of silver he had and forcefully threw them towards Motoyasu. Naofumi lost his respect, rust and his money just went his adventure begun. Naofumi stated when exiting the castle that the whole world looked awful and hideous to him.

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Naofumi was soon framed for having committed a crime by the country and subjected to harsh treatment. Although he experiences a slow start because of the Malty incident and is on a much lower level than the other heroes, he is still able to keep up and even occasionally outshine them. He is also the only one who treated the world as a world and not a game, even though he can see many similarities to a game. Being a shield hero, he has no offensive abilities to start out and so needed a companion which he could neither afford nor trust.

After the betrayal, he lost the ability to trust others and his motivation to help fight the waves so his approach became to just survive the waves until he was able to return to his own world. He bought Raphtalia because she was the cheapest slave and also because he wanted to subjugate the same gender as the one who betrayed him. Despite his negative approach, his kindness started to seep out, he took real good care of Raphtalia and saved the villagers from the wave who were ignored by the other heroes and knights. After Raphtalia and a few other citizens show their gratitude and loyalty to him, he decided to really give it his all to save their world.

Though Naofumi did save the village during the first wave, everyone in the castle and the other heroes berated Naofumi for not fighting the boss of the wave, even though they know he has no attack power. They called him a failed hero for not putting himself on the line for others. They even claimed that he was a failure as a human being. An attempt was made to take his only slave, Raphtalia under the pretext of Melromarc against slavery with a rigged duel in favor of his opponent, Motoyasu. but was failed.

At first, he firmly believed that he was poorly treated because of being a weak job(Shield Hero) and framed with a rape charge. Later, he learned that the true reason for this treatment was because the nation's religion portrayed him as a villain and the country's long-standing war with the neighboring country, which worships the shield hero as a god. Naofumi started with a serious of disadvantage, the other three heroes had some experience of how this world worked because of the games they played in their previous lives while he had none. Before he was even summoned, the country Melromarc considered the other three heroes to be saviors and the shield hero to be evil, this is because of the constant war with the nation which worshiped the shield hero and because the main religion shared this view of the heroes.

Later, he learned that the Church of Three Heroes hired many fake heroes of the shield to commit crimes and to ruin his reputation further. This was brought to light by the queen when she banished the Church of three Heroes while proving Naofumi's innocence. However his bad reputation remained. Naofumi was described in public as a vile demon who had committed fraud, extortion, abduction, and who will execute anyone who stands in his way, some of these accusations were literally correct, but not actually true. The information given by the Church and guild to the other Heroes was fake and meant to manipulate them, while Naofumi was able to gather information as a merchant from the common people, enabling him to understand the dire situation of the nation. However, even Naofumi also discarded any details which he felt were trivial, this eclipsed him from learning the root cause for his situation. Example, Naofumi refuses to listen to Melty and also missed times when Elhart brought the subject regarding Nation's religion. Raphtalia also though he knew about the Nation's religion, since he went to Church of three heroes for holy water and class up as if it was normal without regards.

The crown gave the other three heroes trained adventurers, crystal balls to learn magic, funds, guild jobs, information on how to use their legendary weapon. While Naofumi was framed for rape, all his possessions were stolen, denied any jobs and crystal balls, adventurers faking joining his party for money, He was even denied his promised living expenses. He was also denied class-up under various pretenses. The other heroes had already reached higher power and had their party class up before the first wave. Most of the guards and the general public gave him scorn and felt discomfort seeing him in their nation. The Knights who should be on his side tried to set him up, didn't respect him and tried to set him on fire. He was turned away, when he appeared for breakfast or dinner in the castle, during the celebration of the first wave subjugation, stating that the other heroes, knights are eating. During the same celebration, he and Raphtalia were not provided with any rooms, they themselves find some old dusty, uncleaned, store room or servant room in a remote corner to stay with no furniture or cloth. The cold treatment of the shield hero prevailed by almost all of the castle staff.

He has no attack features and no one joined his party due to his bad reputation and also because of fear of those in authority. He himself avoided everyone, due to his distrust of everyone and many adventurers tried to deceive him while other heroes had more than 3 members, with at least one new member joining their party. This forced him to look for alternatives, so he bought slaves to fight for him, He learned magic by studying books instead of using a crystal ball, He peddled for funds to survive & to buy equipment for him and his party. Knowing his own weaknesses and limitations, he chose to defend the villages and save them from the monsters of the wave rather than fight the wave itself.

All this turns out to be a blessing in disguise for Naofumi. By saving the villagers from monsters from the wave, many came to help and respect him. They gave him materials, let him stay in the inn for free, gave him books so he could learn magic(and the language), built him a carriage for peddling, and made clothes & armor for him & his comrades at a reasonable discount. They even asked their relatives and friends in other towns to help Naofumi, if possible.

By peddling he not only earned money but also the trust of commoners throughout the nation. People began to doubt the teachings of the Church of the three heroes which states the shield hero is evil. Naofumi also started making crafts, jewelries, etc. after receiving some teaching from accessory Merchant. The travelling also enabled him to encounter many types of monster that raised his levels and absorbing it.

He also started making medicine, thanks to the book given by the Medicine shop owner. Naofumi offered paid services to travelers and also for delivery of parcel through his cart. He also used efficacy skill booster on medicines while administering medicine to the sick, thereby saving them. People witnessing this called him the Holy saint with a bird god, thereby he earned the trust of many which led him to make more customers and profit. People who learnt who he really was, made his hero status firm and begins to doubt the rumor spread by the crown & three heroes religion.

Naofumi's party was only able to class-up after the third wave, by which time Fitoria had gifted Filo an item which doubled all of his party member's stats during the class up. This doubling status was said to be impossibly rare. By actually learning magic from books he was able to read magical words something which you cannot learn to do if you use crystal balls. Despite the fact that learning from books consumes more time, it is more powerful than the magic obtained from crystal balls. Naofumi chooses to use slaves as his comrades, which gives the slave to turn a new leaf and another chance at life. Because of that, they became more reliable and trustworthy in comparison to the adventures assigned to other heroes. The slaves also were treated as family by Naofumi and they treat him likewise.

Initially, Naofumi also committed some crimes, like throwing balloon monsters on anyone trying to trick him(the adventurers who deceived him to be in his party, sales person who gave him less money for his drop items and the children who tried to steal the ball from Raphtalia), He charged high prices for services & goods he sold. He also extorted the bandits who tried to do the same, as he was neither funded by the crown nor given any guild jobs and also because he can't hand them over to the guards, since the guards may choose the bandit's side over his.

The crown prevented Naofumi from crossing the border to travel to other nations, fearing the idea of him joining hands with Siltwelt (During the time loop series of the spear hero, Naofumi was killed for crossing borders with Siltwelt envoys). Despite all these setbacks, Naofumi made himself strong enough to face the third wave and the High Priest. But the other heroes failed, despite all the benefits they received. When Naofumi unlocked slave shield, it increased the power of his slaves to the point where they rivaled the power of the other heroes, this allowed Naofumi and his party to handle most incidents where the other heroes failed, despite the refusal by the king to allow him or his party to do a class up.

To make up for all the trouble in Naofumi's progress, the queen proposed an information exchange between the heroes to strengthen their weapons and offered a free trip to Cal Mira Island during its activation time. The cap of the leveling in the activation time was nearly 80, which was solely for Naofumi's benefit since the others had already reached that level.

During their first information exchange, the queen clarified that the other heroes had less chance of survival than Naofumi, pointing out their failure in the previous wave and in the fight against the High Priest. Other Heroes pointed out that it wasn't that they were weak it was Naofumi and his party who were stronger than their levels should indicate which Naofumi himself mentally agrees with and is puzzled by. They even go so far as to label his power that surpasses that of his level a cheat power. Naofumi learned all the weapon strengthening methods from them and after some trouble managed to implement it in his own weapon. During the activation event on the island, despite being a lower level than that of the other heroes, Naofumi's party took down three Karma series of animals while the rest struggled to fight a single one of the Karma animal, since these were more like the boss monsters.

As the story progress, while every other hero lost all of their party members, Naofumi had collected a village of party members. The adventurers assigned to the other heroes either left or tried to kick others out of the party, some even betrayed the hero. The game knowledge of other heroes betrayed them, as the viewpoint that their individual game gave them showed each of them that they were stronger than the other heroes, boosting their confidence to confront the wave alone, instead of working together. Hence they had only one success against the wave and the rest went down the hill. Even though the game foretasted the events that were going to happen, it exaggerated their own power. But Naofumi who was cautious of his limitations always takes careful steps and doesn't charge in without any hope.

He also cleaned up the messes which were created or worsened by the other heroes. Without his own knowledge, his reputation among the people rose and shook the very core of the national religion which teaches that the shield hero is evil. This forced the Church of three heroes to act desperately which led to their downfall. They tried to assassinate the second princess and then accused Naofumi of kidnapping her when he saved her and told the other heroes that the reason for his rise in public support was because he had obtained a brainwashing shield which at least one of them believed (Motoyasu), finally the Church of three heroes revealed their true intention and tried to kill all the heroes and their comrades, since all of them had contributed in one way or another to the people decline in faith in the religion. Despite the disadvantage, Naofumi pushed himself and destroyed the enemy saving himself along with other hero and their party.

The queen who just returned from trying to save her nation from war cleared all of the fake charges made against Naofumi and punished those involved in a conspiracy against Naofumi. She promised to prevent any repetition of his past trouble and give preferential treatment in return for his co-operation in the fight against the wave. The queen requested that Naofumi stay, as it may lead to war because of the ill treatment towards him by Melromarc. After considering all possibilities, he decided to give the nation one more chance in exchange for better treatment. He was somewhat treated with well-deserved respect in comparison to the past.

Later, Nafoumi also learned that he chased away all the envoys from the countries who worship shield, due to his suspicious nature and lack of trust for anyone after a few day of his summoning. It was revealed that Naofumi too had believers in this nation as well, like the volunteer soldiers who joined with him to fight the third wave, demi-human adventures and the noble that support the demi-humans. It was also mentioned by the queen that the adventures who tried to fake to be with Naofumi by joining his party during the first three days of summoning were brutally murdered without able to recognize, the Knight leader who tried to torch Naofumi along with the monsters was also murdered, the dress which Naofumi signed for a voluntary Knight was stolen and sold at the highest prize in auction at Siltwelt.

On the other hand, the other three heroes acted foolish, thinking this reality to be a game. They took everything lightly, even believing them-self to be immortal and that their defeat is leading to a special event. This self-proclamation of immortality disturbed both Nafoumi and queen. Despite, Nafoumi being much lower in level, the other heroes begin to feel inferior to him. During the information exchange they tried to extract his information for getting stronger, but he used it against them to get info from them. Nafoumi realized that this reality resembles similar to the game which convinced other heroes that they were living inside a game. For the first time Nafoumi, who always angered for the unjust done by the other three heroes toward him, felt pity for them.

Volume 5-12
He realized that the trust among the heroes is essential to use the weapon strengthening method of the others to work and shared this information with other the heroes, who never believed him. He realized that they might die with this attitude. Fearing that the wave might increase in strength because of the death of heroes, he forced them to work hard and train. Feeling bossed around, they decide to increase their level above Nafoumi. Trying to gain more strength the other heroes released (in web novel) the spirit turtle in hopes of defeating it. Soon the reality slapped them hard with their brutal defeat. Nafoumi under the queen's orders leadthe coalition force and succeeded in defeating the spirit turtle.

After the three heroes became MIA, and with how Naofumi became the only hero that succeeded in slaying the Spirit Turtle, people had then begun the belief that the heroes, other than the Shield, were false heroes. Thus, most of the countries, besides Melromarc, had decided to place restrictions on the movements of the heroes. Melromarc the only one that would accept them while also making the attempt to have rumors die down. Though gossip did not stop which became evident as a role reversal began where Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki had begun to experience similar conditions that Naofumi had went through, initially because of Bitch, while Naofumi himself was greatly praised as a great hero and received praise and all other positive treatment from the public. They were subjected to the scorn of the public with random people throwing stones, denied jobs from the guild, unable to approach the crown fearing of punishment for crimes, also betrayal by their comrades, individually used and betrayed by bitch, awoken their own curse series which pushed them into doing crimes such as extortion(Ren), brainwashing(Itsuki), and becoming completely broken(Motoyatsu). On the other hand, Naofumi became the lord of a land which happens to be the former village of Raphtiala, in hopes of rebuilding the village for the demi-humans. Mirelia then depended on Naofumi to monitor the three heroes so that they can make amends for their mistakes.

Volume 13
Noafumi objective was to stop the assassination attempt on Raphtalia from Q'ten Lo. Due to Silvelt a country that worships the Shield Hero and has ties with Q'ten Lo, Naofumi decided to visit Silvelt to see if they'll help Naofumi on his mission. They decided to travel on Gaelion to Silvelt, S'yne shorten the arrival time by teleporting Naofumi and his party to a nearby place closer to Silvelt.

Upon travelling to silvelt his path cross with Melty and Filo. Melty fired her magic at Naofumi at a fit of rage due to forcing her to level up with Filo against her will. Afterwards Melty and Filo explained that Fitoria requested for Naofumi help and already given him a reward in advance by giving Melty, Filo and Raph-chan status buff increasing their overall stats, Naofumi refused and said that he needed to prioritise Q'ten Lo and it needed to wait, Fitoria hesitantly agreed. Naofumi told Melty to informed the queen about his visit to Silvelt.

Because of Filo increase stats Naofumi chose for Filo to travel the rest of the way to Silvelt. He was provided a new carriage by Silvelt albeit being of low quality compare to Filo's previous carriage whom was stolen by Motoyasu. He chose Raphtalia, Raph-chan, Filo, Fohl, Atla and Seedena to company him to Silvelt.