The Reimagining of the Bow Hero by Alexanderctn Ch 16-17

It was a large building, covering a great deal of land. There was a large dome, and the clock tower where we got our hourglass sand from protruded into the sky.

Our party had just arrived here after eating a hearty meal at the tavern, to enjoy ourselves before the incoming wave. Our earlier day trip into the forest greatly helped Indigo improve his halberd skills.

As we approached the main entrance, a few nuns trotted out and respectfully led us deeper into the church. Motoyasu was already standing beside the giant, 7-foot-tall dragon hourglass, with his entourage of women. The sand in the hourglass was blood red, clearly indicating that the wave was about to strike. A small timer appeared in my field of vision.

20:21

We had a little less than a day before the wave would hit.

Motoyasu walked up to me and waved friendlily.

"Hey, Satoshi! How's it been?"

"It's been quite good for me. I grinded up a ton, got a new, powerful party member, and powered up a ton!"

We chatted for a bit more, discussing our battleplan until Naofumi suddenly walked through the doorway. Motoyasu' s congenial attitude suddenly changed.

"Woah, is that Naofumi?" Motoyasu sneered.

"Satoshi, how are you doing?" Naofumi said as he completely ignored Motoyasu. "Are you ready for the wave?"

"Yeah, I've been working my butt off to prepare myself. I'm confident that we will decimate any monster that comes upon our path."

Myne, clearly annoyed that Naofumi was ignoring them, butted into our conversation.

"Mr. Motoyasu here is speaking to you. Listen to him."

Naofumi' s eyes were fuming as he stared at her icily.

Before the situation could escalate any further, Ren walked into the room with his five party members. He said absolutely nothing as he walked past the lot of us, his party members following closely behind.

Not knowing what to do, Motoyasu swept his eyes across the room. They stopped once they hit Raphtalia.

He waltzed over to Raphtalia in a gentlemanly manner and introduced himself.

"Pleased to meet you, milady. I am one of the four legendary heroes summoned to this kingdom, and my name is Motoyasu. I am honored to make your acquaintance."

"U-Uh, my name is Raphtalia. I-I am Naofumi' s sword."

"Why are you fighting alongside Naofumi? Did he steal you?"

"N-No, he didn't!"

Motoyasu got closer to Raphtalia, making her clearly uncomfortable.

Indigo looked angry and suddenly drew his weapon. With the speed of a rocket reaching escape velocity, he bolted in front of Raphtalia and stuck the butt of his halberd against Motoyasu' s chin. Motoyasu fell on his rear and smacked his head against the floor.

"Since we are all allies for this fight, I would ask of the honorable Spear Hero to not harass the Shield Hero's party members."

Seeing this handsome young man disarm Motoyasu so easily, towering above Motoyasu in a commanding manner, the ladies were gawking and squealing.

"Oh my god! He's so handsome!"

"Is he taken?"

Motoyasu embarrassedly backed off from Indigo, upset that his party members were more interested in the angelic-looking stud instead of himself. He obviously prided himself in his good looks, but they were clearly overshadowed by the purple-haired halberdier.

He shot Indigo a dirty look.

"Fine. I won't question any further."

Thus, in an unceremonious manner, Motoyasu' s party promptly left the clock tower. Seeing no further reason to remain, Ren' s party followed suit.

Soon, only Naofumi' s party and my party remained.

"Those two." Raphtalia questioned. "Are they legendary heroes like you and Satoshi?"

"Yes. They are the spear and sword hero."

"What happened between you all?"

Naofumi was quite nervous to answer Raphtalia' s question. I decided to step in and give the simplest answer possible.

"Raphtalia," I walked up and whispered in her ear, not wanting anyone else to hear what I was going to say. "Naofumi was accused of a crime he didn't commit, and therefore the whole kingdom, the Church and the rest of the heroes loathe him. I am one of the only ones who believe in his innocence, because of the overwhelming evidence supporting his argument."

"Then, why didn't you defend him?"

Umm… This would be hard to answer.

"I did defend Naofumi to the best of my ability, but this country is ruled directly by the king, and I couldn't do much more than a simple protest without everybody getting into deeper trouble."

Raphtalia' s face suddenly brightened up.

"Thanks for helping Naofumi when he needed it the most!"

"No problem. He is my friend, after all."

Saying that, I gathered my party and walked out of the church, with Naofumi and Raphtalia following close after. We parted ways soon after.

While strolling down the street, I came to a realization. A month ago, I was given a task by the Adventurer's Guild to save the kingdom in the north. I have been getting stronger in order to defeat the king, since a low-leveled hero wouldn't stand a chance, but I never thought of what would happen to the kingdom after the revolution was complete. How would it be run? How would it survive? How would the citizens survive?

Equally as important, what would be the best way to run the country? Democracy, constitutional monarchy, or just replacing the ruling dynasty?

It was time to draft a constitution, but I didn't know how to write in the local language. Thankfully, I had an excellent affinity for learning languages, as I could fluently speak 6 languages in my original world.

"Sorry, Indigo, Rojeel, Welst, Eda, but I have something I have to do. Please wait for me at the inn."

Saying that, I sprinted towards the castle, and frantically asked them where the royal library was.

"It's on the second floor, and you'll find it easy enough. Just look for the room with a lot of books."

I headed towards the second floor, and as the guard said, it was quite obvious where it was. There was nobody inside, so I creaked open the door and started flipping through one of the books.

It was hopeless. There was no way I could learn this. There were just scribbly, wonky hieroglyphics everywhere, and without a proper teacher I could never get a hang of this.

Sighing, I left the castle with my hopes down. Guess I'd have to ask someone to write a constitution. For now, I would just rest and prepare for the wave.

Before returning to the inn, I swung by the pharmacy to grab some healing medicine before the wave and bought other essentials from travelling merchants such as water canteens and a compass. By the time I returned to the inn, it was almost midnight.

I fell asleep right away. This would be our fir

st wave, and I needed all the rest I could get.

00:00

Boom!

A thundering sound erupted, and my party and I were transported into a completely different location.

There were blood-red cracks littering the sky. All sorts of monsters were pouring out of the cracks, and they were wreaking havoc con the town.

I looked around to better grasp my situation, and I found Ren, Motoyasu and Naofumi' s parties standing next to me.

"We are near Riyute!" Raphtalia suddenly shouted.

"This is a farming village." Naofumi said. "There are a lot of people here!"

"Yeah, I have a plan on what we should do." I chimed in. "Ren and Motoyasu will aggro the boss, while- "

Before I could finish, the two of them started bolting towards the source of the wave. Their party members followed closely, and only my party and Naofumi' s remained.

The village had obviously not been evacuated, since the waves occurred randomly and in random locations. Thus, I had two choices. Either evacuate the village first, and fight the boss later, or do the reverse.

Ren and Motoyasu were rather strong, telling from their shiny armor and fancy equipment, so they should be able to handle the boss for now. Rescuing the citizenry would be the main goal. If they couldn't take down the boss for themselves, I'd arrive after the evacuation and help them out.

"Naofumi. Let's save the village first. Indigo. Lead Rojeel, Eda and Welst to the source of the waves and help the other heroes. I will be with you shortly after."

"Yes, boss!"

Indigo and the rest of my party quickly ran off in the direction of the other heroes.

"Now, Naofumi. Are you ready to save the day!"

"You bet!"

I drew the bow I'd acquired from the Sky Blue Wings, the "Sky Blue Bow". It was an extremely versatile bow, with good stats to boot.

Sky Blue Bow

Shoots one arrow which splits into three after firing, with each side arrow dealing less than half the damage of the regular arrow.

We arrived at the village, as the monsters were pursuing the villagers and trying to cut them down. Knights and adventurers were holding out in defensive positions, struggling to defend against the staggering number of enemies.

"Raphtalia!" I cried. "Evacuate the villagers. Naofumi, go help the adventurers. I'll climb to the rooftops and provide support."

"Right on it!"

I immediately sprinted to the tallest building in the city, kicked down the door, and began scaling the stairs. I broke a hole through the roof and perched myself along the edge.

Then I drew my bowstring.

Before they knew what hit them, waves and waves of arrows mowed down the weaker monsters, with the stronger and more fearsome ones flinching in shock. They realized where I was and began charging me in fury.

"Prison Shield!" Naofumi screamed, trapping quite a few of them.

This turn of events greatly inspired the defenders.

"CHARGE!"

The previously demoralized defenders mustered all their remaining courage and charged at the monsters, who were heading in my direction. The sudden flanking maneuver caught the monsters off guard, causing heavy casualties among them.

During all of this, I kept raining down a hail of arrows over the monsters, careful not to hit any civilians. Raphtalia started slashing at the monsters after successfully evacuating most of the village.

The monsters stood no chance. How is this plan going so well?

Just then, the locusts tried to pull a sneak attack on me and mounted an aerial assault. Lamentably for them, that is exactly the reason I equipped this bow.

The triple shots mowed through their ranks, cutting them down by the dozens. The remaining monsters fled, still being fired at by my bow as they retreated.

This left only one adversary left. The giant zombie.

"Naofumi! Raphtalia!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. "Aggro the zombie! Knights and adventurers, do the same!"

"What?"

"Just block his attacks and constantly slash at him! If we deal enough damage fast enough, he'll die!"

They nodded in agreement as they headed off on their duties. Soon, Raphtalia slashed at the zombie's legs while Naofumi blocked his attacks.

This was my time to shine. I must carry the team on my back.

As fast as I possibly could, I rained down a countless number of arrows upon the zombie, which was still too preoccupied with Naofumi. This wasn't a glorious way of killing an enemy, but it worked, and that's all that matters.

"RARRRGGHHHH!" The zombie cried in pain as we whittled his health down, almost to zero.

Just before I could land my finishing blow, a rain of fire fell upon us, setting numerous houses alight. Many of them hit the zombie, causing it to fall over and perish. The few monsters that I had not annihilated quickly caught ablaze and burnt to death.

The building I was standing on caught on fire as well, and I descended it as soon as I could. Right before I reached Naofumi and the defenders of the village, I saw the knights heckling the group.

They were forming a circle around Raphtalia, bombarding her with questions.

This was an awful waste of time, considering there was still a wave boss to fight. I had to step in and do something.

"Greetings, knights. May I ask who you swear allegiance to?"

"Gladly." Their leader replied, the men leaving Raphtalia there and walking up to me. "We are the castle knights of Melromarc, swearing allegiance to Her Majesty Mirellia Q. Melromarc and His Majesty Aultcray Melromarc XXXII.

"Pleasure to meet you, fine men. I am Satoshi Sera, the Bow Hero. I believe we have important matters to tend to, such as that wave boss in the distance. I would kindly request that you assist me in defeating this foe."

"You are correct, Bow Hero. Men! Let's head off at once!"

We left Riyute village and Naofumi in the distance, the latter and Raphtalia tending to the wounded. With much haste, we bolted towards where the other two heroes and their parties, and Indigo were fighting the wave boss. As soon as I saw the creature, I immediately fired a volley of arrows at it.

To my surprise, it died immediately.

"Way to steal our kill, Satoshi." Ren quipped.