Alots happened... I got a slave seal on my Grimmy, kissed Damien and made a spirit contract with him, finished my project, spread info about the king and church colluding against the shield hero (anonymously of course).

spread rumors about the womanizing spear cursing a famines village with monster plants only for the shield hero to not only clean up his mess, but solved the famine problem properly as well(again, anonymously).

I spread rumors about the sword hero causing a plague by killing a dragon emperor, whose only crime was nesting near a village, and leaving the corpse to rot. Only for it to leak a lethal miasma causing said plague and it being resurrected due to the miasmas strength, only for the shield hero to put it down and dispose of the corpse properly. He even made high quality medicine for the plague victims who got better in a few days.

I spread word of how the bow hero ursurped a nobleman town cause the taxes were too high. But I also added that the reason they were high was because of the waves and now the new nobleman was taxing even HIGHER taxes and not even for the sake of the village.

I also spread word of lute villages plight. How the Guards burned down the town during the waves trying to kill the shield hero and at the same time nearly killed civilians. And how the princess and her boy toy the spear hero tried to tax the village of lute 1 gold piece for entry and exit(A/N it was 1 gold piece right?) But the shield hero dueled the spear again, the princess cheated again, but the shield won out again, not just because of skill but also because the princess likes to cheat cause that's what nobles do when they're about to lose.

I also made a point to spread news about naofumi's first day here and the rape accusation. It included pictures of mynes behaviors throughout the day and at the trial. And it aaaaall came in a nice little newspaper left on every housholds and establishments doorstep throughout every kingdom. Needless to say it caused a huuuuge uproar.

It wasn't easy, but it was worth it. How did I do it? Lots of paper and mana, the help of wind spirits, staffy, Sheri, and Umbra. I called the newspaper: "Heroes Activities Archived Daily." Or H.A.A.D. for short. Under the title of the paper it says "sponsored by The Queen🤑" it's not incorrect. I DID get a sponsor deal from her. She said it wasn't a great idea, but I convinced her of it. How? Well, first I started by saying that it would be good for multiple reasons. It would keep every kingdom up to date on what's going on with the heroes, and she would get the first copy when it's distributed. So while she's eating breakfast she can read the special paper and only need to ask the shadows for more info so they can focus on other things, like repairing relations with the other kingdoms.

It would also help dispel the illusions on how the heroes do things and increase naofumi's reputation while making the other heroes question whether they're actually doing good. "Besides wouldn't this make things more interesting? And this way I can spread life improvement information more easily. Yknow like, agricultural tips, recipes, easy training tips and tricks, how to help protect yourself from the waves and village fortification..." aaaaand that's how that happened!

Right now it's like an hour before the wave- well more like 50 minutes now since I've just been sitting here drinking and eating and watching the other heroes read the news. Malty's reaction in particular was.... "who the hell wrote this slanderous bullshit?! I'll have them executed!" She screams as she stamps about the room. Motoyasu is trying to calm her down, Ren is talking to his party about the paper, itsuki is looking distraught while his party prattles on about justice, Raphtalia is reading looking super happy and proud with the papers contents, and naofumi has a look mixed between amusement and violated confusion.

He glances at me as if to say, 'is this your doing?' And I just wiggle my eyebrows and try not to laugh as the room delves into total chaos. It fails when Malty hits her nail and starts crying. FUCKING CRYING!!! "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I FUCKING CAN'T DUDE! THIS IS THE KIND OF CHAOS I LIVE FOR!! HAHAHAHAHA! DID THE PRINCESS BREAK A NAIL?! HAHAHAHAHA!!! LOOK BOYS! THE WANABE MEREDITH BROKE A NAIL AND IS CRYING! SO MUCH FOR BEING A WARRIOR PRINCESS AND CHOOSING YOUR OWN FATE YOU DUMB BIMBO! AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU'LL NEVER BE THE CROWNED PRINCESS! YOU'LL ALWAYS BE THE BIMBOSONIC SLUT ENGAGED TO A FAT PIG WITH SICK SEXUAL DESIRES!" My giggles die down a bit as silence reigns. "And that fact will never change no matter which hero you support or frame. I mean, this papers got pretty damning evidence of your lies and schemes, not to mention your dishonorableness."

I stand on the chair and hold out the paper for all to see. Grimm's holding my sides so I don't fall off. I open up the newspaper to the collage of images with malty in them. I thumb the photos. "I mean, the author makes valid points. Not to mention the calculations and images of catching you in the act... you really thought you were sneaky didn't You?" I point to the pictures of her sneaking into naofumi's room and sneaking out with his stuff. "You have no dignity or honor. You only care about a strong hero that could make your spot as crown princess return. A powerful hero who has many heroic accomplishments and owns a fief? It'd be impossible for your little sister melty to take the throne! But you know, who would want a queen that cheats in duels and frames a hero for rape, hmm? Who would want a king who thinks with his dick and tries to tax villagers way more than they can afford? And what noble in their right mind would support a princess who and hero who does all these things for king and queen?"

I drop the paper. "You're truly a disgustingly true villainous. Most villianous's are that way because the heroine is trying to steal their fiance. You're just a bitch to be a bitch." She grits her teeth but says nothing. The scrutiny of the other heroes and their party's. She looks at motoyasu and he just looks pathetic. That's right bitch, your white knight won't even defend you. He knows his reputation would only plummet and that's all he has.

"In any case," Ren clears his throat. "Is what this paper says true? Naofumi?" Naofumi glares at him and scoffs, I snort. Raphtalia, seeing Naofumi wasn't gonna answer, answers for him. "Yes it's all true. If you don't believe it, why don't you go back and check on those villages and ask them if it's all true after the next wave."

Ren nods and itsuki perks up. "Thanks Raph-chan we will! But... who wrote the paper? It's spread all over the kingdom!" Motoyasu says. I shrug haphazardly now sitting back in the chair. "Who knows? Must be someone pretty important and powerful. They got the backing of the queen and were able to distribute it throughout the kingdom over night! I wonder just how far it's spread? Maybe it's spread even farther than melromarc? Speaking of which, has anyone been out of the country recently? I'm getting pretty tired of melromarc scenery, and the leveling areas are tired out. I heard there's a country that values warriors and it has a colosseum! I also heard there's a more steampunk style country! They must have dwarves! We've got beastmen, humans, magic, why wouldn't there be dwarves?! Ooooo! I'm so excited!!! We can go there after this right Grimm???"

Grimm sighs at my enthusiastic expression. "Yes milady we will have to. The other countries experience waves as well. So it's only logical that we go and assist." Naofumi, for his part, looks alarmed. "The other countries experience these disasters as well?!" Grimm nods sighing. "Yes. It's tradition for the countries to each summon 1 hero to combat the waves and protect that country. However, because melromarc summoned all 4 heroes plus my ladyship, melromarc is in hot water with the other countries. Especially with stilvelt and shieldeden since the rape accusation and laughable trial. The two countries that worship the shield hero are calling for blood and I can only assume that because melromarc left them defenseless against the waves, the other countries don't at all feel inclined to assist melromarc. They might even back up the two beastmen countries with weapons and supplies."

Ren, Itsuki, Motoyasu and Naofumi look shocked by this revelation. "Why are you all so surprised?" I said. "The summoners and king said please save our orld" not country. So it shouldn't be surprising that this countries conduct regarding the heroes would spark serious conflicts. Haven't you wondered where the queen was all this time? She's been at the world conferences discussing the problem of the waves... although now she's probably getting verbally abused while trying to difuse the situation and avoid war. War is the last thing that this world needs right now! Think about it logically, if one country harbored enough H-Bombs, atomic and nuclear weapons to destroy the world, wouldn't every other country set aside their differences to deal with the immediate looming threat? That's what this is. Except, WE'RE the weapons of mass destruction and melromarc is the greedy country who refused to equally distribute, and is now public enemy number 1 of the entire world."

"It's a given that this country is on the decline now. Maybe if the princess didn't frame the shield hero then this all could have been solved by simply sending each of us to another country, but now that the beastmen countries are out for blood and though the other countries don't worship the shield, the gross misconduct against a hero whose worshipped like a god is not something they could or would ever ignore. Especially since they have their own hero worship and such, they definitely are like 'i understand how they must feel.' And are politely getting to the sidelines. Beastmen are fearsome. Not only do they have class systems, their physical form and abilities grow as they level. For example, raphtalia was a smoll child when Naofumi bought her. A few days of leveling and she was a full grown adult. Now consider this: cats are agile and quiet and fast and have night vision, eagles are all those(minus the night vision) and can fly, those kinds of things are just a few of their species traits. The beastmen have human and animal characteristics making them superior to us in many many ways. In hunting, and fighting they can easily mop the floor with us humans. Not to mention they've got monster compatability. They can easily raise powerful and loyal war beasts like dragons.... that FLY. Which means Ren is DEFINETLY on the Draconic shit list."

Ren frowns. "Draconic? You mean dragon descendants?" I roll my eyes. "Yes genius. Dragon descendants. Dragons are a prideful but respectful race. They pay respects to fallen warriors and their ancestors. They look out for each other. So this news will undoubtedly put a target on your back. Aaaanyway, let's not bother with any of that eh? It's almost wave time! I can't WAIT to test out my new toys!"

Malty scoffs. "As if you could do anything worth while. You're just some useless fake hero. You'll definetely be killed. The waves are the most convenient place to die after all! Stupid sl-!" She doesn't get to finish before she's a few nails and teeth short and is extremely swollen with a bruised up body and frost bite.

I don't know who did it but, thank the Lord! "Most convenient place to die? Oh that's rich coming from a FUCKING skank like yourself! Threatening to kill me eh? Right here in front of everyone? Even... The shadow guards and your own citizens? You royals just don't know when to quit do you? Thankfully for me, I brought something eeeextra special today. A new spell meant specifically for the waves. A recording and broadcasting spell. So everything that's happened here and during the waves are being broadcasted throughout the kingdom. Even the church and royal castle are watching, and they just saw you threaten me. Let me tell you something else, I made a LOT of powerful allies with beasts of legend. And I don't know which one you pissed off by threatening me and insulting me but this is the result. And I'd also like to say this to everyone watching, the princess just said she was gonna assassinate a HERO in during a time of desperate need when even the king would not dare execute a hero assumed to have committed a crime punishable by death. Therefore when I get attacked during the wave trying to save you guys, if she is not held accountable for it consider this hero out. I won't lift a finger during any waves after this one until she is punished for attempted assassination of a hero in a time of war. Even if she doesn't lift a finger towards me, I will still assume she orchestrated an assassination if I get attacked because anything is possible with money and power, and the royal family has more than enough of that. Especially malty of the 2 princesses evident by the fact that the king clearly spoils her and has not disciplined her a day in her life. If he DID discipline her, she wouldn't act this way in public and towards a hero no less! I don't know much about the religion here but in my world it's considered blasphemous to harm or threaten to harm others or show any Ill will to others in words or actions. And doing that to an important figure? Either death in one of many ways or a lifetime stuck in a prison with people who make others their who're or will stab you While you're not expecting it in you're orange or black and white jumpsuit. But while I personally believe that if such things are done in play with a friend it's not a 1 way ticket to heck, acting out on it or intending to is widely considered as bad karma and the more bad karma you have the further from salvation and god you are. Her statement was made with very clear malice. I want you all to remember that as I stay back and take care of the small fry."

Malty's face pales exceedingly now healed with a high quality healing potion given by motoyasu. I smirk as the wave counter reaches zero...

~Wavu, START!~

with a flash of light I open my eyes to see. A village in tatters in the distance... villagers are heading towards us.

V1: mage hero!

Alyss: you guys! Are any of you injured?

V2: no no. just minor scrapes and bruises. We were watching your broadcast at the bar and so we came here!

Alyss: *sighs* It's good that your all alright... did you see the shield hero? Or soldiers?

V1: yes. They helped us escape the village! They should still be there.

Grimm: your orders milady?

Alyss:.... Damien, Nikolav you two will guide the villagers to a safe spot and erect a protection barrier! Give them food and potions and such. Your jobs will be to defend them till I call for you! Grimm, your with me. Yuki, Umbra, gather any remains human or monster. Freeze the human ones. All corpses are to be delivered to the barrier once it's set up for identification and burial or harvesting respectively. Villagers, I know it'll be hard but I need you to identify the bodies... I'll have umbra look for anything that belonged to them and Niko will help you prepare them for burial... And since I don't know if I'll get a chance later, I'm sorry for everything you've lost...

Villagers: what a saint!/She's a saint hero not a mage hero!/thank you kind hero!/what a gift from the goddess!/must be an angel!

Alyss:😓 jeez.... how troublesome.... anyway, it's time to break! Don't you go dying on me boys!

The boys: Right!

We split up. Me and Grimm head to the village but on the way I stop. Grimm turns confused. "What are you doing milady? We need to go!" I smirk as I say, "hey Grimm? Ain't it just the dandiest time to try out my new toys? You go on ahead. Boots on the ground and all that!" He's confused before he smirks and nods finally understanding. "Very well then. I expect a great performance milady!"

As Grimm runs off I strike a pose as I hold out my staff. "I've always wanted to do this but.... LET'S GO STAFFY! TRAAAAAAAAANSFOOOOOOORM!"

In a flash of blue light I'm in my mecha suits sniper form!

If I remember correctly it was named Fafnir? So we're just calling it Fafnir! I move around with casual ease, partly thanks to practice and partly thanks to Staffys pilot assist function. Handy!

I start to laugh. "BEHOLD THE POWER OF MY HOLY WEAPONS FIRST FORM! FAFNIR, THE ICE QUEEN OF SPEED!" I use the magic the waves emit to fuel the Fafnir. The pact with Damien helps out immensely so! I snipe out enemies giving the soldiers a hard time before I spot Naofumi(who I almost called Natsumi as in yuujincho lol) killing a lizard thing while protecting the soldiers.

They all stare at me as I land. "Yo!" I say as naofumi snaps out of his daze and scowls. "Don't 'yo!' Me Alyss! Is this the new toy you were talking about? How the hell did you build the Fafnir in this techless world?! And where's your weapon?!" I chuckle.

"To answer that in order; yes, magic, and this IS staffy! I'm the greatest aren't I!? Praise me! Praise me!" I say with a cartoon tail and ears. He sighs. "I'd expect nothing less but such craziness from you... have you seen the others?" I see Grimm running this way. "Nah. They're probably with the boss. I know I said I'd stay out of the main fight but, if it's taking them this long then they're either dumber than we thought, dead, or too weak to kill the boss. Especially since this waves not letting up any time soon. Should we go check it out?" As I'm speaking a hear a scream like a martial artist.