Legendary Shield (Web Novel)

The Legendary Shield (伝説の盾, Densetsu no Tate^?) is one of the Four Legendary Weapons. The person who possesses this weapon is titled the Shield Hero (盾の勇者, Tate no Yuusha^?). It retains a green gem at its center while undergoing transformations into different forms.

The hero is chosen by the Legendary Shield, notable for having the highest defense among the heroes by far, easily able to endure attacks from the other weapon users, even when at a noticeably-inferior level. The Shield Hero's exact Enhancement Method is unknown, but Naofumi himself relied on unlocking the passive abilities of all of his weapons, thus carrying their benefits over to the other forms, and also on the Growth Corrections of various series, which perfectly suits its user's role as a supporter in battle. The current Shield Hero is Naofumi Iwatani.

History

The Shield Hero, alongside the other three Legendary Heroes, has been summoned repeatedly through history to defend against the Waves of Calamity. 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 Shield Heroes, the first one and his eventual successor Naofumi.

Legends about the previous Heroes of the Shield became obscured from the records of Melromarc, potentially out of negligence or omittance. 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 humans. Melromarc has a bias of human supremacy against such a compromise, and so stained the relationship of this Hero and his successors toward 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 previously mentioned, lived luxuriously in the Demi-Human kingdoms before he was mysteriously murdered, likely by the very people who worship him, making Naofumi convinced that Siltvelt is a fanatical country.
• A previous Shield Hero, alongside his fellow heroes, fought with the Spirit Tortoise and sealed it away by binding its heart with a spell. They left instructions on how to slay the beast, yet caveat the importance of not killing it. It's likely they chose to seal it in fear of the consequences of its death.

After Naofumi's generation, new Heroes of the Legendary Holy Weapons continued to be summoned for the other 3 original Holy weapons, except for the Shield that he still possesses long into the future as he travels to other worlds to protect them from invading gods. As a result of the world is a fusion of 8 different worlds, there is a total of 8 Legendary Weapons and 16 Vassal Weapons.

Power

See also: Legendary Weapons

The Legendary Shield grants its user great defensive power, most notably a firm pain tolerance and defensive posture due to high defense stat. In the Web Novel, Naofumi describes that his base defense stat is effectively three times an average person, but in turn, his attack stat is 1/10th the normal caliber.

As a legendary weapon, the shield's variety of transformations focuses on resistances and trade skills; allowing Naofumi to sometimes improvise his ability usage. Like the other weapons, the order in which transformations are unlocked affect the bonuses of future branching shields, 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.

Shields

Version	Requirements	Equip Bonus	Equip Effect
Small Shield	Base Form	Defense +3
Orange Small Shield	Absorbing Orange Balloon Remnants	Defense +2
Yellow Small Shield	Absorbing Yellow Balloon Remnants	Defense +2
Leaf Shield	Absorbing Weeds	Gathering Skill +1
Fish Shield	Absorbing River Fish	Fishing Skill +1
Red Small Shield	Absorbing Red Balloon Remnants	Defense +4
Mush Shield	Absorbing White Mush Remnants	Plant Appraisal +1
Blue Mush Shield	Absorbing Blue Mush Remnants	Simple Compounding Recipes +1
Green Mush Shield	Absorbing Green Mush Remnants	Apprentice Compounding
Small Medicine Shield	Absorbing Medicine	Medicine Efficacy Up
Small Poison Shield	Absorbing Medicine	Poison Resistance (Small)
Egg Shield	Absorbing Eggug Remnants	Cooking +1
Blue Egg Shield	Absorbing Blue Eggug Remnants	Appraisal +1
Sky Egg Shield	Absorbing Sky Eggug Remnants	Simple Cooking Recipes
Calorie Shield	Absorbing Nutritional Supplements	Stamina Up (Small)
Energy Shield	Absorbing Nutritional Supplements	SP Increase (Small)
Potential Energy Shield	Absorbing Nutritional Supplements	Stamina Decay Down (Small)
UsaLeather Shield	Absorbing Usapil Remnants	Agility +3
UsaMeat Shield	Absorbing Usapil Remnants	Dissection Skill +1
Sharpening Shield	Absorbing Whetstone	Mineral Identification +1	Automatic Sharpening (8 Hours) - Heavy Consumption
Pickax Shield	Absorbing a Pickaxe	Mining Skill +1
Rope Shield16	Absorbing Rope	Skill "Air Strike Shield"	Rope
Two-Headed Black Dog Shield	Absorbing Remnants of a Two-Headed Black Dog	Skill "Alert Shield"	Dog Bite
Light Metal Shield	Absorbing Light Metal	Defense +1	Magic Defense Up
PikyuPikyu Shield	Absorbing PikyuPikyu Remnants	Simple Weapon Restoration +1
Wood Shield	Absorbing Wood	Woodcutting Skill +1
Rock Shield	Absorbing Rocks
Butterfly Shield	Absorbing Butterflies	Paralysis Resistance (Small)
Pipe Shield	Absorbing Pipes	Skill “Shield Prison”
Animal Needle Shield	Absorbing Porcupine Needles	Attack +1	Needle Shield (Small)
Wrath Shield Ⅲ 0/0 C Proficiency 0 (Replaced by Shield of Compassion)	Achieved due to released emotions.	"Grow Up" Armor that consumes the user. Change Shield (Attack) Strength Up Clothes of Anger (Intermediate) Magic Sharing	Iron Maiden Blutopfer Dark Curse Burning Physical Roar of the angry Dragon Frenzy of Companions
Slaver Trainer Shield	Absorbing Slave Seal ink from a plate	Slave Growth +1 (Small)
Slaver Trainer Shield Ⅱ	Absorbing Slave Seal ink from a plate	Slave Condition +1 (Small)
Slaver Trainer Shield Ⅲ	Absorbing Raphtalia's blood	Slave Growth +1  (Medium)
Mortar Shield	Regaining a sense of taste	Novice Compounding
Novice Mixing	Regaining a sense of taste	Liquid Solutions Bonus
Beaker Shield	Regaining a sense of taste	Harvesting Skill +2
Medical Research Shield	Regaining a sense of taste	Gathering Skill +2
Dimensional Locust Shield	Absorbing Dimensional Locust	Defense +6
Dimensional Bee Shield	Absorbing Dimensional Bee	Agility +6
Bee Needle Shield	Absorbing Dimensional Bee	Attack +1	Shield of Needles (S) Bee's Poison (Paralysis)
Dimensional Corpse Eater Demon Shield	Absorbing Dimensional Corpse Eater Demon remnants	Decay Prevention (Small)
Chimera Meat Shield	Absorbing Chimera Meat	Cooking Skill +1
Chimera Bone Shield	Absorbing Chimera Bones	Darkness Resistance (Medium)
Chimera Leather Shield	Absorbing Chimera Meat	Defense +10
Chimera Viper Shield (Awakened) 0/30 R	Absorbing Chimera snake tail	Skill "Change Shield" Compounding +1 Poison Resistance (High)	Snake's Fang (High) Long Hook
Demon Trainer Shield	Absorbing a fragment of Filo's shell	Demon Growth Correction (Small)
Demon Egg Shield	Absorbing a fragment of Filo's shell	Cooking Skill +2
Demon Trainer Shield Ⅱ	Absorbing Filo's feathers	Demon Status Correction (Small)
Demon Trainer Shield Ⅲ	Absorbing Filo's white and cherry blossom colored feathers	Demon Growth Correction (Medium)
White Usapiru Shield	Absorbing White Usapiru Remnants	Defense +2
Dark Porcupine Shield	Absorbing Dark Porcupine Remnants	Agility +2
Usapiru Bone Shield	Absorbing bones of a White Usapiru	Stamina Up (Small)
Porcupine Bone Shield	Absorbing bones of a Dark Porcupine	SP Up (Small)
Kino Tree Shield	Absorbing Kino Tree Wood	Woodworking Skill I
Les Tree Shield	Absorbing Les Tree Wood	Low Level Wood Working Recipe
Crystal Ore Shield	Absorbing Crystal Ore which was thrown away	Craft Skill +1
Book Shield	Absorbing some of the intermediate recipe books	Magical Power Up (Small)
Treant Shield	Absorbing Demon Treant Remnants	Plate Appraisal 2
Blue Treant Shield	Absorbing Blue Demon Treant Remnants	Intermediate Compound Recipe 1
Black Treant Shield	Absorbing Black Demon Treant Remnants	Half Compounding
Anti Poison Shield	Absorbing Antidote	Defense +5
Glyphosate Shield	Absorbing Herbicide	5% Damage Reduction from Plants
Medicine Shield	Absorbing Healing Ointment	Medicine Effect Range Expansion (Small)
Plant Fire Shield	Absorbing Gunpowder	Fire Resistance (Small)
Killer Insect Shield α	Absorbing Insecticide	3% Damage Reduction from Insects
Iron Ore Shield	Absorbing Iron Ore	Smelting Ability +2
Copper Ore Shield	Absorbing Copper Ore	Smelting Ability +1
Silver Ore Shield	Absorbing Silver Ore	2% Damage Reduction from Demons
Lead Ore Shield	Absorbing Lead Ore	Defense +1
Bio Plant Shield	Absorbing Bio Plant Remnants	Plant Remodeling
Plantriwe Shield	Absorbing Plantriwe Remnants	Intermediate Compounding +2
Mandoragora Shield	Absorbing Mandoragora Remnants	Plant Analysis
Bee Needle Shield Ⅱ	Absorbing Poison Bee Remnants	Attack +1	Shield of Stinger (Small) Bee Poison (Poison)
Shadow Shield	Absorbing Inter-Dimensional Lizard-Man Shadow and Dimensional Assault Shadow Goblin	Darkness Resistance (Small)
Soul Eater Shield (Awakened) +6 35/35 SR Proficiency 67	Absorbing Soul Eater	Skill "Second Shield" Soul Resistance (Intermediate) Psychological Attack Resist (Small) SP Up Sp Recovery (Small)	Soul Devour Drain Effect Intangibility Undead Control
Blue Shark Shield	Absorbing Demon Shark Remnants	Swimming Skill +1
Shark Bite Shield 1/20	Absorbing Demon Shark Remnants	Shipboard Combat Skill +1	Shark's Fang
Shark Leather Shield	Absorbing Demon Shark Remnants	2% Damage Reduction from the Aquatic System	Shark's Skin
Shark Meat Shield	Absorbing Demon Shark Remnants	Agility +3
Karma Rabbit Familiar Shield	Absorbing Karma Rabbit Familiar Remnants	Scan (Small)
Iron Shield 0/10 C	Weapon Copy: Iron Shield	Skill "Shield Bash"
Prani Shield	Absorbing Prani Ore	Defense +1
Karma Squirrel Shield	Absorbing Karma Squirrel and Karma Squirrel Familiar Remnants	Skill "Hate Reaction"
Karma Penguin Shield (Awakened) 0/25 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing Karma Penguin Remnants	Diving +2 Fishing +3 Water Resistance (Small) Speckle Status Correction (Medium)	Diving Time Up
Karma Penguin Familiar Shield (Awakened) 0/10 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing Karma Penguin Familiar Remnants	Diving +1 Fishing +2 Speckle Status Correction (Small)
Iron Meteorite Shield          0/20 C	Weapon Copy: Iron Meteorite Shield Quality: Normal	Skill "Meteor Shield"
Spirit Tortoise Carapace Shield 0/40 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing pieces of the Spirit Tortoise's Carapace	Skill "E Float Shield"	Gravity Field C Soul Recovery Magical Barrier (Large)
Spirit Tortoise Heart Shield 0/45 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing pieces of the Spirit Tortoise's Heart	HP Recovery Increase (Small) Life Force Enhancement	C Magic Snatch C Gravity Shot
Balloon Shield 0/5 C	Absorbing Balloon Remnants	Monster Book
Spirit Tortoise Sacred Tree Shield 0/40 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing tree-like structures from the Spirit Tortoise	Recipe: Medicine of Miracles Divine Protection of the Sacred Tree
Dragon’s Era Sand Shield 0/60 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing sand from the Red Hourglass of the Dragon’s Era	Portal Shield
Spirit Tortoise Armor (Awakened) +8 70/70 SR Proficiency Level 100	Weapon Copy: Spirit Tortoise Shield	Skill "S Float Shield" Skill "Reflect Shield"	Gravity Field C Soul Recovery C Magic Snatch C Gravity Shot Tenacity Enhancement Magic Defense (Large) Lightning Resistance SP Drain Block Growing Power
Dragon Familiar Shield	Absorbing part of the Dragon Emperor's Core	Growth Correction Up for Dragons
Wanui Shield	Absorbing Kiel's fur
Shield of the New Seven Sins (Awakened) 0/0 UR (Dispelled after his defeat)	experiencing all of the "new" Seven Deadly Sins	Equipment bonus Gene Modification Human Experimentation Social Injustice = Slave Labor Ability Increase Curse of Poverty Prosperity of Excess Depravity Narcotic Compounding Taboo Alchemy Technique Forbidden Sorcery Study of Seals Cooking of Seals Sleep Mechanical Engineering Core of Magical Science	Bio-Custom 「Logic of Life Dragon Pulse Control Magic Up」Emergency Convening Alchemic Correction Harvesting Limit Breakthrough Rapid Growth Supplement Pharmacy Skill Increase Alchemy Skill Increase Ore Creation Magic Gem Production MP Recovery (Extra Large) SP Recovery (Extra Large) EP Recovery (Extra Large) Cooking Skill Increase
Raph Shield 0/20 C Proficiency 0	Absorbing hair/fur from Raph	Raph Species Growth Correction (Small) Raph Species Attack Designation 1 (Limited Time Offer) Raphtalia's Ability Correction (Small)
Shield of Compassion	Absorbing Atla	Change Shield (Attack) Iron Maiden Meteor Wall	Benevolent Temptation Enchant Blessing All Resist Spell Support

Miscellaneous Shield Sets

Series	Requirements
Balloon Series	Absorbing Balloon Remnants
Poison Series	Absorbing Poison Monsters' Remnants
Chimera Series	Absorbing Chimera Remnants
Wood Series	Absorbing various types of wood/Trees
Weapon Copy Shields	Placing the Legendary Weapon against other weapons
Shark Series	Absorbing Demon Shark remains
Raph Series	Absorbing hair/fur from Raph
Dragon Series	Absorbing Dragon remains or the Dragon Emperor's Core
Spirit Tortoise Series	Absorbing Spirit Tortoise's Remnants