Gunther felt like he was falling, the Demi-Human starting to feel dizzy as he fell down through the light that surrounded him. Soon enough he stopped falling and fell flat on the ground. As the Demi-Human groaned he heard many gasps of shock and a few quiet prayers. "A Demon!? No...a Demi-Human?"

Gunther quickly rose to his feet while still holding onto the book he was reading and held in a scream when he saw the hooded priests in front of him. Every one of the priests looked at him with shock as he started to feel uncomfortable with the stares.

Soon the head of the group snapped out of his shock to speak. "Well, this is, unheard of. But none the less the summoning worked!" Gunther held his book tightly in fear while trying to calm down, idly feeling something on his left arm.

"Please brave heroes, our world in grave danger, please help us save it form pure evil!" Gunther for his part was now even more worried, heroes, pure evil, the world is in danger. All these thoughts flowed in and out of his mind before hearing different voices groan as well.

With the turn of his head, Gunther saw three humans in strange clothing who were just as surprised as he was. But what caught his attention was their weapons. They had in order, a spear, a sword, and a bow.

Gunther soon slowly started to realize what was going on but refused to believe it. Taking a quick look at his wrist he froze when he saw a small shield with a green gem in its center.

The poor Demi-Human started to panic, he couldn't be the Shield hero that his people adored, could he? Dismissing the clearly distressed Demi-Human the Priest continued with his focus on the other three heroes who were looking at Gunther with wide eyes, mostly at his horns.

"Please brave heroes, our world is in dire need saving from a threat we alone can not face." This was all starting to become too much for Gunther and felt that his nervousness might get the better of him.

"Is this real?" One of the heroes asked, unsure themselves of what is happening right while staring at the horned Demi-Human. The Bow hero tugged on his bowstring idly before looking towards the priest. "What do you mean that the world needs saving?"

The Priest gave a smile at the Bow hero, the other three heroes having turned their attention to them. "Gladly, while the tale of our plight is long and complicated I assure you that all will be explained in due time."

"For now, all you need to know is that you thre-four have been summoned using an ancient ritual as the four cardinal heroes." The Priest said before bowing. "It is an honor to meet you, brave heroes."

As the four let this sink in Gunther looked down and saw the summoning circle glowing with magical power. "Our world is in a most fragile state, and it teeters on the brink of destruction, so we beg of you, brave heroes, will you please lend us your aid?"

Gunther stood there completely unsure of what to do or say, he always wanted to be a hero but, he would be lying if he said he wasn't fearful about all of this.

The Spear hero noticed Gunther's head was down casted and was shaking slightly. With a sigh, the man placed a hand of the young goat's shoulder making them stop shaking and look up in surprise. "Well, I don't know about these three, but the least I could do is hear you guys out." The Spear hero said with a shrug.

Gunther did not understand why the hero was doing this, but somehow he felt calmer with the man standing by his side and lessened the death grip he had on his book.

"Forget it." The Sword Hero said suddenly making everyone stare them in surprise. The Bow hero then spoke out in agreement with the black haired boy.

"I also refuse." The Priest seemed to start stuttering as Gunther began sliding his hand across his shield nervously.

The Sword hero raised up his blade pointed at the priests. "You brought the four of us here with our consent," The hero said in slight anger. "don't you even feel the least bit guilty about it?"

The Bow hero spoke next "Not to mention if you throw us out as soon as we restore peace, we would have done all that work nothing." The Bow hero said with concern in voice.

The Spear hero seemed to take a moment to think. "Are you able to send us back home?" The Spear hero asked, "If not, then how willing are you to accommodate our requests, depending on your answer, may end up as your enemies instead of your allies."

Gunther noticed that was a threat and was unsure how to feel about them making demands without even knowing what's fully going on, the young goat had an idea what was happing but was too skittish to talk openly right now.

"Please good sirs before I say anymore we'd like you to have an audience with the king of Melromarc," The priest said walking over to them, giving Gunther a harsh glance that made him shrink inward slightly. You can negotiate your rewards with him directly, so please...trust us."

After what felt like an eternity, the Sword hero lowed his blade stepping forward. "Fine then, we'll go." The Bow hero followed suit while rubbing his chin. "I suppose considering their offer is in our best interests."

The Spear hero smiled as he let go of the now relived Gunther and walked with his fellow heroes. "Works for me, still does not change our demands tho." Gunther felt a little out of place as the heroes walked off. Why were they taking all this so easily, he wished he had their cool headedness right now.

"Well, are you going to follow, Demi-Human?" Gunther heard that disdain it that and looked up to see the priests giving him look of distrust making the boy stay silent. The other heroes noticed this and glanced at each other briefly as the Spear gave Gunther smile. "Hey, don't act so scared alright and come one!" The Spear hero said trying to encourage him.

With the blink of his eyes, Gunther gave a small soft smile and gave a nod before joining them. As much as he was out of place amongst these humans and frightened, the kindness being shown to him kept Gunther going.

As they descended up the stairs Gunther stopped and looked outside the tower window in awe. Right outside was what he knew was the set of power for the whole kingdom, tall buildings, and trees as far as his eye can see with mountains off in the distance. Hell, he could even see the great library owned by the church, if only he was allowed to step inside its walls.

"Looks like this world really is different from ours huh?" the Bow hero said as the four heroes took the time to take in the sight before them. Gunther smiled for a moment before feeling sad at the prospect of not being able to read in the city's library. Never the less the view was breathtaking.

"It's part of the world I call home...now I have to protect it..." The young goat stared at his hand shield hand and small cinders briefly rose up from it before he closed it snuffing them out. As Gunther thought to himself the Sword hero held up his hand to his chin. "Must be a Mediterranean climate, judging by the wind it seems to be mild at most"

Gunther lowered his hand and blinked "Huh?" All three heroes glanced at Gunther for a moment, as that was the first real sound the Demi-human has made. "The Mediterranean is a sea in our world, you wouldn't know about it." The Bow hero said as Gunther made an O shape with his mouth.

They were interrupted by one of the priest's who coughed into his hand. "Oh sorry, we'll get going." Said the Spear hero on everyone's behalf as they all started walking up the stairs again.

"So, you're a Demi-Human right, goat right?" The Spear hero asked the meek young goat while pointing at his horns who nodded. The Spear hero hummed to himself in thought before smiling "So that means there are different types of Demi-Humans then?"

Gunther was unsure where the man was going with this, their tone had change it is was weird. Finding his voice Gunther spoke quietly. "Y-Yes, there's a lot of types of Demi-Humans from tigers to wolves and Lizards..why do you ask?"

"Oh no no reason, was just curious that all." The Spear hero gave a slightly worrying chuckle while looking very please, whispering something as he stared at the ceiling. Gunther could barely hear what the man was saying, but a part of him told him that he wouldn't want to know so thought it best not to ask.

After what seemed like forever four heroes finally made it to the courtyard, and just in time to, they were starting to think the stairs never ended. Before they could keep going Gunther felt the fur on his ears stand on end and soon heard a not so friendly voice.

"I can smell it you know." Everyone stopped as they turned to see what looked like a Paladin glaring at Gunther as someone watch from above in their room. "Do you know want lurks in your blood boy, or are you simply unaware of your heritage?" The Paladin said while eyeing the slave ring on Gunther's wrist making the Demi-human try and hide it.

The other three heroes were getting bad vibes from this Paladin, most of all Gunther, who felt like everyone part of him was telling him to start running. "Either way I am not surprised that a Demi-Human like you has the devils shield." The Four heroes were not confused for different reasons, with Gunther wondering what the heck the Paladin was talking about with his heritage.

"Quite convenient for you to be a goat Demi-Human then huh?" The Paladin then started to take his leave, but not before saying one last thing. "Hope you play nice alright...hate to hurt someone who clearly has such a kind heart." Gunther gulped as the Paladin left leaving the four heroes dumbfounded.

"Okay , who was that and what's with the 'devils shield'?" The Spear hero asked as Gunther realized they would have no idea of Melromarc's religion. One Priest seemed to whisper a curse under their breath. "That is a Paladin by the name Brogun, while his service the Church cannot be understated...he is known to be quite zealous."

Gunther twitched at the word, zealous, he really does not like what that entails about that man has done. "As for the devil's shield..." The Priest seemed to think for a moment before shaking his head. "Just forget about it, we're already late and I don't wish to make the king impatient."

The three heroes found that a little pause was a little suspicious, but none the less agreed to keep going and meet the king, even if everything was very odd to them. Gunther for his part was still trying to figure out what Brogun meant about not knowing his heritage. "I wont think about it." Gunther thought, feeling it was safer not to look into it, at least for now.

The group left the courtyard a Women with red hair bit her lip from within her room, things had just gotten a whole lot more complicated now.

After some more walking, they ended up at the door to the throne room, the Guards opening the door and saluting three of four heroes while giving Gunther dirty looks. The Demi-Human did their best to ignore them, but as the four of them made their way the to the king Gunther could not help but feel like the guards are just waiting for an excuse to skewer with their weapons.

Taking a deep breath and trying to remember the servant training he had as a slave and hoped that he won't make anyone angry at him. Once they stopped a good ways away from the king Gunther could already feel the man's eyes start judging everything about him and had an air of uncertainty about him, as if he was unsure how to respond to the Demi-human shield hero.

Everyone else who was present had clearly already made up their minds about him, he was a Demi-human, nothing more nothing less. And being the shield hero did not help matters at all.

The King then removed his sharp gaze from Gunther who sighed in relief as the King spoke.

"I Welcome you, cardinal heroes of ancient legend, This is the Kingdom Melromarc and I am her King, Aultcray Melromarc XXXII. "Please, Identify yourselves." Asked Aultcray in a voice that demanded respect.

The first to speak was the Sword hero "Ren Amaki, I'm a high school student and I'm 16 years old."

The next was Spear hero "Motoyasu Kitamura, a college student of 21 years of age."

After that was the Bow hero Who smiled "Itsuki Kawasumi, I'm still in high school and I'm 17"

Gunther stayed silent, feeling afraid to talk at all, the Glances the King was giving him only made his anxiety worse. Thus he was thankful when the Aultcray addressed the heroes, the three giving Gunther brief looks of concern before paying attention. "Now, I suppose I need to explain as to why we brought you here."

"Yes please do so." Said Ren as the others nodded. What Gunther confirmed his worries. Aultcray spoke of an ancient prophecy that detailed a series of invasions destructive forces that have been called waves. Should this calamity not be stopped the waves will end up ending the whole world. The counties can tell when a wave starts do to each having an ancient dragon hourglass. With this, the Kingdom had been able to predict and prepare by gathering as many knights and traveling adventures in order to hold off the wave, beating it. Sadly they can't hope to do this again, as every wave will only bring with it stronger foes, and the next one will come in but a months time.

Sighing Aultcray looked at the three of them "We have underestimated the potency of the waves, having experienced the first we realized we could barely survive another one. Thus our only hope lay with the four cardinal Heroes, who with their power could counter them. So we followed the Legend and summoned you, but now we have no time to lose."

As Gunther digested this he soon came upon realization, how had he not heard of this happening. Shelving that for later Gunther looked at the three Heroes who seemed to be thinking hard about this, occasionally glancing back at him.

The three heroes looked at each other and nodded having come to a silent agreement and with a swing of his sword Ren gave his answer "Okay then I think we get the gist of it, anyway I'm sure you didn't bring us here thinking we'd save the world for free." Gunther for a moment thought the world had frozen over as he leaned over baffled, that's the most important thing to them right now? Then again if they're going to be risking their lives to fight the waves then yeah a reward would be nice but to straight up asking for one seemed a little exploitative.

A tall gray haired man smiled. "Of course not, once you repel all the waves I can assure you we shall reward you most handsomely." The look the man gave Gunther told him he was most likely going to be left out of that. Motoyasu looked slightly mad at the way Gunther was being treated but smiled confidently none the less. "Well, given we're stuck here we might as well have no other choice than to take your word for it."

Ren simply held his calm steely demeanor, tho he too seemed fed up with the treatment the Demi-Human was getting. "Long as you don't renege we'll work for you, but don't think for a moment that you can tame us."

That right there got Gunther to smile openly. "Exactly, we won't put up with you looking down on us." The Bow hero said before looking at Gunther with a grin. "Any of us." That right they're raised more than a few eyebrows.

For his part, Gunther just kept quiet, but silently thanked Itsuki. While these three heroes might be a little smug for those who are to save the world from doom, they're stuck with them so why not make the best of it.

The King hummed to himself quietly " So we have reached an agreeable arrangement then. Now, I would ask you to check your statuses." Gunther blinked before remember hearing about Statuses before, Status magic it was called, he had no idea how to use it. Ren looked at the others next to him who were still confused. "You guys dense, it should have been the first thing you saw when you got here"

Motoyasu rolled his eyes "Oh out a sock in it, stop acting like you know everything" Ren, however, calmly told them to look at the bottom left of their vision. The heroes looked at their own space and looked surprised, all the while Gunther trying to get his status to work and was starting to get a little annoyed. "Level one huh, that fairly disconcerting isn't it" Itsuki said as the spear hero moved a hand up to his chin "Yeah no kidding, wonder tell if we can even fight like this."

Gunther just kept on searching before letting out a sigh of defeat. The Gray haired man noticed this and scoffed. "You know, I at least expected a Demi-human let alone a hero to know status magic, very disappointing." The three heroes all looked at the now discouraged Gunther, sensing a tense atmosphere around him which now concerned him

"Right...So where do we go, what's the first step?"Asked Motoyasu as he leaned over to Gunther. "We'll talk this later, sound good?" Motoyasu whispered to the Demi-human, making them look up at them with a nod. It was not the reaction the Spear hero was looking for, but it will due.

The King responded to the Spear heroes question. "You are to set out on an adventure to develop and upgrade the legendary weapons you have been equipped with." Looking down at his shield Gunther sighed, the world just had to make things hard on him, didn't it?

"Oh don't worry, I'm sure we can wield other weapons until these are usable," Motoyasu said spinning it around. "Ehhhhhh..." the other three heroes looked at Gunther when he made that sound.

"Is something wrong?" Ren asked as Gunther took a moment to find his voice again. "Y-You see, the holy weapons are bonded to their wielder, thus were unable to fight with any other weapon besides the ones were already equipped with." The young goat said quickly.

There was a short silence after that as everyone stared at Gunther as for most of them that was the first time he spoke, his voice was quite young to for that matter. The Demi-human slowly but surely started to feel himself become uncomfortable at being the center of attention again.

"...Regardless it looks like we have a lot of training ahead of us." Ren said breaking the silence. "We will have to level up hard and fast." Itsuki said while Gunther sighed, he felt like he knows more than the other three, but still had so much more to understand. "Oh cheer up, once we're ready, we can group up into an unstoppable team!"

Gunther quite liked that idea, sadly what they were told next made those hopes wash away, seems that grouping up will cause the weapons to repeal each other, something he did not read in the book that brought him here. The same book he was still holding onto. So working together is not a good idea and might hinder their chances of success.

While this made Gunther frowned at this, everything would be so much easier if they were able to form a team. "But when has anything been easy for me?" The Demi-Human thought pessimistically as the Aultcray start speaking. "The sun is about to set, rest here and begin your quest tomorrow." He told them, the King giving Gunther another quick look. "In the meantime, we'll gather the best of the best to form your party's"

Soon a young woman walked up to them politely. "We have quarters prepared for you all, please, right this way sirs." The Four heroes all looked at each other and started following the woman, but not before Gunther turned back around and bowed down to the King. "T-Thank you for having my l-lord. I bid you goodnight."

Aultcray was surprised by that and felt amused, the shield hero of all people was bowing and giving him respect. Holding back a grin the King dismissed Gunther with a wave of his hand and the Demi-human happily obliged before leaving the throne room to catch up with the others.

So far things have been, stressful, but Gunther would not have expected anything less. But really, all he wanted to do was get some sleep.

And im back, god writers block is a bitch to deal with, especially when you already have an idea of what you want to write but can't physically do it. But now here it is and I have added some things as you might have noticed. The plot for Gunther this time around will be hopefully executed properly and Im ready to get it done. Also why Aultcray was acting so calm around Gunther, one word, politics. Hope someone can help me get that mess of a plot point untangled as I can already hear the political powder keg being handled with care and angry shouting from Siltvelt over here. Th Queen wont be happy with this mess I tell yay.

Have a nice day.

Ps, if any of you want to help me with trowing ideas around in a pm for this story then you may ask.