No-One's Pov

Balthasar, Lily, and Emiko looked at the man who had drawn twin daggers.

"The Dagger Hero?..I take it that your not here to help us with the waves?" Asked the Magic Hero

"On the contrary, I am here to stop the waves...by killing you" The Dagger Hero said as his daggers began to glow

The Dagger threw one of his daggers at alarming speeds, Balthasar rolled to the left dodging the blade with only a nick on his left arm, pointing his weapon at the Dagger Hero

'Bolt of Midnight'

A small ball of shadow formed at the end of Balthasar's staff before it blasted at the Dagger Hero at the speed of light striking the Dagger Heroes right shoulder, however it did little to no damage.

"Is that the best you got? and you call yourself a hero" the Dagger said as Balthasar started to feel dizzy

"I..am...a..hero..unlike...those....morons....fighting...the ...boss" Balthasar said as he dropped to one knee

"Balthasar!/Master!" yelled Lily and Emiko as they ran to the Magic Hero

Both Emiko and Lily stop as several daggers hit the ground at their feet

"I won't miss next time, this fight is between me and the false hero" said the Dagger Hero has Balthasar began to stand

"Pretty clever...using poison. A slow and painful death. However poison and venom is quite useless against me" Balthasar said as his staff glowed before changing to a green staff with a purple cobra wrapped around the pole with the jewel resting in its fanged mouth

HP +500, MP +500

Poison Immunity

"Tell me.." Balthasar said as he stood before the Hero with no problem

"You only wish to fight with me and not my party?" Asked the Magic Hero

"You are correct Balthasar, I'm a protector of the innocent as are you, I have no intention in harming them..however I will fight if they interfere" said the Dagger Hero

"Very well, Emiko I order you to take keep Lily from interfering" Balthasar says activating the monster crest on the Nine-tailed Kitsune

"Shall we?" Asked the Dagger Hero

"Lets" Balthasar said firing a fire spell at the Dagger Hero who immediately dodged

The Dagger Hero rolled to his left as his daggers glowed before changing shape to a straight red blade with a serrated edged, The Dagger Hero charged Balthasar delivering a flurry of quick and swift attacks dealing large amounts of damage on the attacks that did land, Balthasar thrusts his staff forward firing a torrent of orange flames

'Zweite Fire Flare'

The Dagger Hero simply steps right before grabbing the Magic Heroes weapon and hurling him towards his comrades. Balthasar gets up seeing his HP down to 10/5,610. Seeing his health low he stands before raising his staff

"It's over" Balthasar said stabbing his staff into the ground as the Dagger Hero charge

Time slowed as the injuries that the Magic Hero sustained vanished like they never happened, the glow on Balthasar's staff began to brighten as his damage took physical form in front of the Magic Hero in the shape of a condensed green sphere.

'Counter'

The sphere fired at a blinding speed the Dagger Hero didn't have any time to evade and was hit with full force, knocking him through several buildings. Balthasar fell to his knees breathing heavily as he was paralyzed from the skill cooldown, Seeing the fight was over Lily reached into her belt pouch and pulled out a health potion, uncorking it she began to give it to the Magic Hero. With health restored and his cooldown finished Balthasar began to stand, the next thing he saw was blood followed by Lillian's screams as she gripped her leg

"I warned them what would happen if they interfered" Balthasar looked at the building to see the Dagger Hero almost perfectly fine

Rage began to course through Balthasar's body as his staff glowed a dark red, The Magic Hero pulled his staff from the ground before spinning it 180° and placing his hand on the back of his fist

"Curse Series: Staff of the Seven Sins" Balthasar said as his staff and armor shifted to its cursed version with only one difference

On his left gauntlet was a white serpent-like monster going around his wrist, It was the image of the Leviathan

"You will not brin Balthasar said his voice becoming deeper

"You couldn't beat me before what makes you think you can do it now?" asked the Dagger Hero

'Air Strike Dagger'

Numerous glowing dagger were launched at the Magic Hore who just stood their taking minimal damage, the last dagger struck Balthasar's helmet causing him to turn his head only to turn his gaze back to the Dagger Hero. Unknown to Balthasar a timer had appeared counting down the last minute of the wave

Balthasar said as red lines began forming around the feet of the Dagger Hero

From the ground beneath Fint came a large red transparent dragon that had launched the Dagger Hero into the air before wrapping itself around the hero, the dragon began squeezing before exhaling a torrent of black flames on the Magic Heroes opponent. However the Dragon was torn apart by the sheer strength of the Dagger Hero, once he hit the ground the Dagger staggered to stand

"Damn...times up, well looks like you get to live this time" the Dagger Hero said as he began to glow before being sent into the Portals of the wave

Shifting out of his cursed form Balthasar fell to the ground from pure exhaustion, with what little strength he had he when to Lily who was being dragged by Emiko, without hesitating I pull out the dagger causing her to grunt in pain before firing off one of my healing spells

'Curaga'

With the Wave of Catastrophe over and Lily healed Balthasar began to help the wounded and injured, once he and his party were done they turned in for the night only for Balthasar to be ushered to the king in the morning with the Shield Hero Naofumi. Beside the king were two people who held crystal balls in their hands showing the events of the wave, the crystal ball on the right showed Naofumi defeating the Soul Eater with the Iron Maiden skill from his Rage Shield while left crystal ball showed Balthasar fighting the Dagger Hero with the Dragon Sin of Wrath skill from his Staff of the Seven Sins. Once the recording of Naofumi and Balthasar is presented to the King via a magical crystal ball. At the end of the recording, King Aultcray reluctantly "congratulates" Naofumi and Balthasar for their victory during the Wave in a very offhand manner. This does not go unnoticed by Naofumi or Balthasar, who reflect that they did not wish to return to the castle in the first place, and only did so at Ake's and Lily's insistence. Onto business, the King demands to know how Naofumi and Balthasar obtained such ludicrous offensive power. He states that such power shouldn't be possible for the defensive Shield Hero or the magic oriented Magic Hero who's attack was only a few numbers above the Shield Heroes, and wants to know the secret behind the Heroes New found power, threatening Naofumi and Balthasar not to lie to him.

Balthasar just began laughing saying he would only do it if two things happened, His daughter's head on a silver platter and the release of all Demi-Human slaves in the Kingdom of Melromarc. Naofumi, in turn, responds with a jab of his own. Pointing to the ground in front of him, the Shield Hero demands that the King to kneel before him and beg for the answer. His declaration shocks everyone present, whilst making Aultcray angry.

Naturally, the King responds to the Heroes insolence by having his guards surround them, swords drawn. However, neither the Shield or the Magic Hero is intimidated. Instead, Naofumi declares that if he wanted to, he could kill the King and walk out the front door unharmed. Aultcray insists this is a bluff, but Naofumi summons his Chimera Viper Shield while Balthasar had charged up his Ice Age spell ready to fire showing it is anything but. Turning to the guards, Naofumi challenges the soldiers, reminding them that he was the one that defeated the previous Wave's boss, not any of the other heroes. they regard so highly Aultcray's soldier's eye one another nervously but make no move to strike, further irritating the King.

Disgusted, Balthasar states he will fight for the people but his loyalty lies with the Demi-Humans while Naofumi makes his position clear, he will cooperate with Aultcray and Melromarc until the Waves are over and he can return home. He is finished with the King, however, and never wants to see him again. With that Naofumi and Balthasar rudely turns his back on the court, and walks past the shocked guards, unafraid.

The King, however, demands to be shown more respect. When that doesn't work, Aultcray then states that if they're unable to bring the Heroes in for they're "crimes," then he'll just make their slaves pay in their place!

This proves to be a big mistake, however, as Balthasar and Naofumi stop in their tracks and turn to face the King. Aultcray quails at the unhinged death glare Naofumi and Balthasar sends his way. Their patience now exhausted, The Shield Hero proceeds to threaten the man that set out to make his life a misery, simply because he was chosen as the Shield Hero. While the Magic Hero was very tempted to burn the king into a smoking carcass

With the soldiers and ministers watching on, Naofumi tells King Aultcray

"Use all the dirty, underhanded tricks you want. I will protect my party through it all. You'll never take anything from me again. I dare you to lay a finger on them. I'll chase you to ends of the earth and make you regret ever being born." Naofumi said glaring at the King

"And If you even attempt to lay a finger on my party I Will make sure you never see the light of day as I gouge out you god damn eyes out of your mother fucking skull, so by all means try it" Balthasar said glaring daggers at the King

This makes Aultcray shiver. With that Balthasar and Naofumi leave the throne-room unopposed, as the King is reduced to simply cursing them all the way out.

~Outside~

"God Damn pretentious mother fucker, I swear if he was in my world he would have be sent to prison on three different charges" Balthasar said as Naofumi agreed

"Hey Naofumi?" Balthasar said as he began to scratch at the back of his head

"Yeah?" Asked the Shield Hero

"I want to apologize for what I did...before" said the Magic Hero

"No need, you lost someone you care about" Naofumi said as the two of them gathered their parties to the Three Heroes Church

One group was there to acquire the class upgrade while the other was there to murder the pope, however both parties were met with disappointment as the Pope wasn't in the church and the class upgrades were not available to the Shield Hero, Once outside The Magic and Shield Hero voiced their anger until Balthasar gained an Idea

"You know I could always send you in there with a group of monsters to guard you while you forcible get your upgrades, That's what I did" Says the Magic Hero as he points to Lillian and Emiko

[Fyi, Emiko chose a Pyromancer Class, Lily chose a Knight Class]

"As good as that sounds I think I'll decline, these people already hate me rather not give them another reason, We'll just talk to the slaver to see if there's another Dragon Hourglass we can use" Naofumi said making his way to the slaver

"Very well, however since we just blew off that bastard king I would advise you contact me immediately if you need backup" Balthasar said to the Shield Hero and his Party

"How?" Asked Raphtalia

"With this" Balthasar said before reciting his summoning incantation

I summon the unholy beast of flesh and bone, slain by magic might to do my bidding

THUNDERBIRD HATCHLING

In the Magic Heroes hand appears a yellow and black bird with pointed feathers with a small harness on its body

"This is a Thunderbird Hatchling, I attached it with a little harness to carry a message on its back, once the Queen returns, if she isn't like her foolish Consort, I plan on giving her these to communicate with me and any village she wishes. Use this to contact me" Explained the Magic Hero

"Wait? what do you mean, when the Queen returns?" asked the Shield Hero

"Oh you don't know? the kingdom of Melromarc isn't ruled by it's King he only has power when the Queen is gone, It's the Queen who rules the Kingdom" said Balthasar as the Thunderbird jumped to the Shield Heroes shoulder

"This kingdom is a Matriarchy, and he has the nerve to order us around when he married into his power" Shield Hero said as he and the Magic began to part ways

"Contact us if you need help" Balthasar said has he, Lily, and Emiko began to leave the capital

Balthasar's Pov

Stopping at the Emerald gates me and my party enter being greeted by.....

Shit!! I was wasted when I got his name..Fuck!!

"Sir Magic Hero we have slavers and slaves awaiting you inside your manor to free and punish" said the Rabbit Demi-Human

"Good, has the Blacksmith finished what I requested?" I ask

"Yes Sir Hero it is in your study, but if I may ask why have the Blacksmith something like that?" asked the Demi-Human

"Punishment and Atonement" was all I said as I headed to my rather large house

Walking into my home I enter the Dining room while being followed by Lily Emiko and the Rabbit Demi-Human as I saw Demi-Humans with chains and scars on their bodies eating food with the most unrefined grace{Stuffing their faces} while three human men sat in the corner with three Arbocian Cobra's around their necks

"Okay Children" I say gaining their fear filled gazes

"I want you all to form a line in front of me and show me your slave crests" I order as they all get up and stand in front of me

"Don't you dare listen to him you brats you belong to...." the middle man began as he was bitten by the Cobra

The Venom entered his body turning his veins green before spasming and dropping to the floor

"Anyone else want to talk?" I ask the remaining slavers

Both Slavers Immediately shake their head with such ferocity all anyone would see a blur

"Good Now let's take care of these horrendous crests while you explain to me what happened" I say switching to my holy staff

Sp + 20, SP Recharge +20%

Holy Water, Curse Removal, Divine Shield

The Staff was pure gold topped with a jewel rosaria cross with the black orb in the center of the cross

~Hours Earlier~

{we'll call the rabbit Demi-Human Maxwell}

"Help Me Help Me Please" yelled a human girl in chains as she ran towards towards the emerald doors

The girl was being chased by four men all armed with barbed whips, Notching an arrow in my bow I fire it at the men stopping them in tracks

"Another step and the next one goes in between your eyes. Open the Door" I warn the men as the emerald doors open letting the girl in

However one of the men started to fire off a spell at the fleeing girl

'As soucre of thy Power I order thee, Decipher the laws of nature and burn my target in a blaze of Azure flame'

Zweite Fireblast

I could only smile as the mans spell quickly dissipated until there was nothing left, Master Balthasar had used his weapon to enchanted the Obsidian walls with a magic nullification skill. That spell led to the man's death as his veins were filled with venom, all three of the remaining men look in fear when they soon felt something crawling up their legs

"The Arbocian Cobra, Its Venom is extremely potent that a milligram of its venom killed your friend in a matter of seconds" I say as the cobras wrap around the men's necks

As the men stayed as some of the other Demi-Humans walked passed them and returned with a caged wagon filled with Demi-Human children

"Bring the children and the Slavers into Sir Heroes manor to receive judgement" I say as everyone enters the town while the slavers were tailed by a back of Hellhounds

Once Inside we release the children and the girl of their chains while putting the men in the corner

"You three don't speak or else the Cobras will kill you, David call the cook and tell him we need food I need to return to my post" I say having the slaves take a seat at the dining table

~Present~

I had almost finished removing the curses until I was face to face with a human slave, when she steps up the me, I move to the men as I shift my staff to my slaver staff

Slave Crest Application, Slave Crest Modification

The Staff was reddish black that was wrapped in chains and shackles

Aiming my staff at the men I place a powerful Slave Crest on both of the men

"The two of you will be working in the fields with some of the other former slavers, the curse I placed on you will kill you, you are not allowed to yell, threaten, touch, or even think about harming any of the Demi-Human here, you will follow any order given with no complaint, Lily, Emi I want you to help excort these Workers so that they don't try and run, and......

"Maxwell Sir" Corrected the Rabbit Demi-Human