AN: Sorry for taking too long to update this. Life got me.

Disclaimer: RotSH is not mine.

{{ Hero of the Wand }}

{{ Story Start }}

"The monsters here are no good huh."

"Guee~"

Yuuki let his thoughts wander towards the events of these past few days while he waits for Sakura to finish her meal, a freshly killed Lv.15 Giant Usapill

Right after buying the egg, Yuuki went right back to his usual routine of farming and experimenting in the mornings, resting and going over the results, and checking his inventory before he sleeps.

Of course, Yuuki made sure to take all of the ink used for the monster tamer seal. Since it has his blood in it, he would rather not think about what the guy who could cast subjugation seals would do to it.

Luckily the ink unlocked something good for him.

Requirements met: [ Beast Tamer's Scepter I

( 0/30 C ) ] Unlocked.

Base Stat: [ 1 ]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Monster Growth UP (Small) ]

[Monster Growth UP (Small) ] – Increases a Monster Party Member's EXP Gain (20)

One day later, the egg hatched.

A light pink Filorial chick came out, chirped happily at him, before running straight to the top of his head, treating it like some sort of nest. He didn't really mind.

His party registered her as a Lv.1 Filorial (Female) so that solved the problem of identifying the gender and now, he can decide for a proper name. As for the name….

He named her Sakura.

Because her light pink feathers reminded him of Sakura petals, he named her Sakura.

Then, he fed the eggshells to his wand as an experiment.

Requirements met: [ Beast Tamer's Scepter II

( 0/30 C ) ] Unlocked.

Base Stat: [ 1 ]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Monster Status UP (Small) ]

[ Monster Status UP (Small) ] – Increases the stat gain of a Monster Party Member (20%)

Three days later and Sakura is already around 3 feet tall, which is totally absurd in Yuuki's opinion. But, new problems also rose from it.

First: Sakura is such a big damned eater. Yuuki can already imagine his funds quite literally being eaten by Sakura. Thankfully, his money was saved by the stock of monster meat inside his inventory. At the very least, for now, he won't be spending anything on her food expenses. That and her rapid growth causes her to shed quite a lot of her feathers, which he all fed to the wand. It also unlocked another tier of the [Beast Tamer] Series.

Requirements met: [ Beast Tamer's Scepter III

( 0/30 C ) ] Unlocked.

Base Stat: [ 1 ]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Monster Growth UP (Medium) ]

[Monster Growth UP (Medium) ] – Increases a Monster Party Member's EXP Gain (40%)

Still, despite her size, Sakura's incredibly fast and strong, probably due to the [Beast Tamer] series. At level 10, she's clearing the area of monsters faster than Yuuki, who is a Ranged AoE magician with high Magic Attack stat.

A quick check at her stats revealed that Sakura's highest stat is agility, which is his lowest stat. What that meant is her speed is absurd and she's amazing in hit and run tactics.

Overall, Sakura covered his melee and speed disadvantages.

And these birds are supposed to pull carts like horses?

The Shopkeeper wasn't kidding when he said these birds are strong. Granted, the area they are in only has low level monsters so Yuuki has yet to see how she fares with something on her level.

Sakura is definitely more powerful than normal Filorials thanks to the [ Beast Tamer's Scepter ]

Second: Working alone is way different than working with another person, or in his case, a Bird. He may have theoretical experience on this due to all the games he played but that is different to a live battle scenario. Yuuki had to take friendly fire into account, watching where and when Sakura will attack before he can attack or waiting for Sakura to back off a bit from a monster before firing a skill at the enemy.

Friendly fire on itself is a unique problem simply because Yuuki doesn't know if his attacks would just pass through his allies like some games does ( a very valid concern since this world runs partly on video game logic ) or actually harm them so Yuuki simply assumed the latter just to be on the safe side.

Luckily for him, the solution for this is simple: get used to it.

Third: Yuuki…. Is starting to become a weapon of mass destruction.

On these last three days, Yuuki accidentally discovered, out of boredom, that contrary to his assumptions that he could only feed anything with value to his wand, he could also feed mundane and things with no value to his wand. Like a simple rock.

He was actually resting at the time, waiting for his MP to recover on it's own rather than use a potion, which he decided he was going to use only in certain situations, when he got bored, picked a rock and out of curiosity, fed it to the wand.

He really didn't expect the result.

Requirements met: [ Rock Wand ( 0/30 C ) ] Unlocked.

Base Stat: [ Matk 1 ] [ Earth Affinity 2 ]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Pebble Strike ] [2 Earth Affinity]

The rock wand as the name implies, looks like a wand carved from a rock, and totally looked like it would break if he ever dropped it. And with that discovery, Yuuki went on and tried different things to see what forms he would unlock.

Requirements met: [ Leaf Wand ( 0/30 C ) ] Unlocked.

Base Stat: [ Matk 1 ]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Collection skill 1 ] [ Plant Quality Up (Small) ]

The leaf wand is a simple green wand with a leaf design on the tip. On the middle of the leaf is the purple jewel of the wand.

Requirements met: [ Lumberjack Scepter ( 0/30 C ) ] noUnlocked.

Base Stat: [ Atk 1 ]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Woodcutting 1 ]

This particular form baffled Yuuki. It looks like a normal scepter carved out of wood…. But then, someone decided to have fun and attach the head of an axe on it, making it an axe/scepter hybrid.

Yuuki made a note for the future: get the alchemy/transmutation skill or use any crafting skill and try and make Hybrid weapons, then use weapon copy on it.

There are many other forms Yuuki unlocked using mundane stuff, bringing all his weapon forms up to around 110, which also unlocked a skill

The [ One Hundred Wands ] skill

The skill allows Yuuki to create one hundred ethereal copies of whatever form his weapon currently is at the time of catsing. Then he can choose one skill that all those wands will fire at Yuuki's will…..

All. At. Once. At the cost of a single use of that one single spell.

For example, casting [ One Hundred Wands ] will cost him some SP for the activation and casting [ Holy Light ] with it will reduce his SP with the appropriate amount for a single use …. Except the effect of [ One Hundred Wands ] will make that one [ Holy Light ] into one hundred,carpet bombing the entire field.

All of these AoE skills are giving him trouble fighting in a party. And this is just with only Sakura. Majority of his skills are AoE. He may have defensive, supportive and crafting skills but AoE offensive skills outnumber them by a lot.

This made it clear to Yuuki that his role is mainly Crowd Control/ Burst Damage Type of Mage.

Yuuki's definitely looking forward to using [ One Hundred Wands ] on the oncoming wave.

And all of that is just the start.

Which brings him to the fourth problem he faced.

What is the enhancement method of the wand?

It was one of the most important questions he had since he found the main difference in the novel and here. ( Mainly the Wand itself )

Each legendary weapon has it's own enhancement method and thanks to the novel, which reminds him of the fact that there's a huge difference here and The Story of the Four Cardinal Heroes which means his knowledge about the events may or may not be mostly worthless.

And he's getting distracted again.

The fact that he doesn't know the Legendary Wand's own upgrading system bothered him so he searched the entire help menu once more, this time, making sure to not miss anything.

And he found what he wanted.

It was a status modifier. A very straightforward method for something related to Magic.

At every level, Yuuki gets 5 points to upgrade one of his basic stats ( Attack, Magic attack, Defense, Magic defense, Strength, Agility ) or other stats ( Max HP/MP/SP, HP/MP/SP recovery rate, CD reduction, SP/MP cost reduction, Magic penetration etc. ) Or raise his elemental affinities.

At his current level of 21, that was 105 points.

Yuuki decided to put 20 pts in the slot for Cooldown reduction, reducing it by 1% per point, ( 20% in total ) which told him that the rise in stat goes by percentage. 20 pts agility since that's his lowest stat and in in hopes of helping him dodge attacks, ( 20% AGI ) another 20 in Max HP (20% Max HP) to reduce his squishiness and yet another 20 for Max SP and yet another 20 for SP recovery. (20% Max SP regen )

At Lv. 100, that would be 500 pts. Which would, theoretically, if he were to put all of it in magic attack, his damage output will rise by 500%

Considering the fact that he has five enhancement methods on him, the potential scares and assures him at the same time. Scared because the saying 'with great power comes great responsibility' now applies to him, which brings the question, will his own power corrupt him or not?

Power corrupts. That is a well known phrase for a reason.

Absolute power Absolutely corrupts.

At the same time, he was assured by his absurd rise in power because that means he will survive this whole wave mess. Yuuki assumes that this absurd growth in power is why the Legendary Heroes are considered as gods.

(What he is worried about is the fact that certain people who are easily deceived also have access to this absurd growth, something Yuuki will never say out loud…. ..for now)

"Guee~"

Sakura tugged at his sleeve, snapping Yuuki out of his thoughts. "Oh, you're done huh." He patted her head absentmindedly, something Sakura seemed to like.

"Guee~~~"

Today is the fourth day since Sakura hatched. Now, she's 4 feet in height and looks like a pink ostrich. Yuuki had been holding back on using his skills so that Sakura could level up faster, taking the kill bonus with her. Something she can't do if Yuuki uses his any of his offensive skills, he'll Instantly kill anything on this field. Now though, even his own basic attacks on his lowest attribute stat can kill anything on this field in s single hit.

Still, the exp was still split between the two of them, which made grinding a even more tedious than usual regardless of how far he went from the capital, mainly due to the low level of monsters around the castle town, which had Yuuki thinking of moving to another area, or better yet, another town.

Yuuki sighed.

'Destination is another problem. I don't want to accidentally stumble into a higher leveled grinding area.' It was a very valid and important concern. Different areas tend to have monsters of varying levels. And because Yuuki's knowledge of this world came from a book ( Albeit a game themed one ) rather than a game, he lacks the information regarding the monster levels of these areas, making traveling quite risky for him and Sakura.

'I have to take that gamble don't I?' Yuuki sighed. 'I need traveling supplies first, then a map. Maybe a wagon too, if Sakura can handle the weight.'

And then Yuuki realized something.

He facepalmed.

'I have this ultra convenient inventory! I don't need the fucking wagon!'

Not needing the wagon means he can save on money, Food isn't a problem anymore with all the pikyu-pikyu and usapill meats he collected, something that should feed him and Sakura for a week. He also doesn't need any fire starting tools for camping out because of his magic and all that's left for him to worry about is the tent he'll have to use for camping out.

He also had stock of numerous Health and Mana potions along with some low level gear, all from the monster drops. While Yuuki is already familiar with the concept of monster drops, it still baffled and amused him at the same time when he'll get a drop notification of a weapon when it's clear the monsters aren't carrying anything with them.

"Let's go back, Sakura."

"Guee~"

He put aside the thoughts of preparations. For now, Yuuki needs to find a suitable location for them to level up efficiently. The waves won't wait for them to grow stronger.

'I guess I really have to find the guild now'

For now, Yuuki would set aside his wariness of authority for information. The king is already keeping an eye on the Legendary Heroes, and if he's right in his speculations, the Three Heroes Church most likely does too, for different reasons. Adding the guild to the list of 'Stalkers' he has won't hurt him….. hopefully.

{{ Hero of the Wand }}

Finding the Melcromarc Adventurer's Guild wasn't difficult.

His own beginner adventurer armor set helped him in putting the image of a young aspiring adventurer and for extra measure, he switched to a more mundane looking wand he gained from abusing the weapon copy system, making it easy to hide the short wand.

This made it easy for him to just ask people for directions without the fuss of being instantly recognized as the hero of the wand.

Using the fame of being a Legendary Hero may be the easier way, but the people's awed gazes irks him.

He wasn't a hero. He was just fortunate or unfortunate (He's still not sure) to be summoned as one.

A few minutes later, he's finally at the guild, and after leaving Sakura at the stables (Yuuki: don't worry, she won't eat the horses….probably), he's now trying to fill out the papers.

Emphasis on try.

"….Fuck" was the only thing Yuuki can say right now. 'Of course. Another world, another language. We may be able to speak and understand them through the Legendary Weapon's perks, but reading and writing is not included in the translation perk. What a half assed perk."

And so, that was how Yuuki ended up not joining the guild.

But…. He got the information he needs.

By taking inspiration from numerous spy fiction, he listened to the adventurers talking with the guild staff, getting the information he needs with a little bit of difficulty.

It is a bit noisy in the guild. That makes things a little bit troublesome for Yuuki.

Now he knew where the most recent locations of those quests are.

Lute village and the mines. Monsters made themselves at home in the mines, preventing the local miners to do their job.

Dragon Hill village and the Dragon's territory. There was something about a dragon subjugation quest…..

Helping a village on the south with their Famine problems. That doesn't look related to monster hunting quests but famine means the monsters there would either leave the area or attack nearby villages or worse, attack the village itself. As for how Yuuki knows this? That kind of behavior is something very common in wild animals and humans do it too to a certain extent.

Basically, no food here? Let's go somewhere else!

And something about a helping a rebellion up north?

The common thing about all of these are the levels of adventurers taking these quests. All are Lv. 20-30, which Yuuki thinks is insane in the case of one quest.

Sending people with that kind of levels in a dragon slaying quest? Granted he doesn't know the difficulty level of it but still…

Stupidity of it all aside, Yuuki now has choices, although not entirely sure of everything. Dragon subjugation is out due to severe lack of information about the dragon's threat level and the rebellion is out simply because Yuuki has no desire to mess with a complicated situation like that. Joining one side might end up with assassins on his back.

It may not be the heroic thing, turning away from conflict, but Yuuki won't risk his chances of survival on a rebellion he has no reason to stop.

That leaves him with the mines of lute and solving the famine in the south.

The problem with the south is that with the famine, monsters might be moving away in search for prey, something that's a big red flag for Yuuki since what he needs is a place for him to level up, but at the same time, if he does solve the famine problem, That's a major boost to his reputation.

The thing is, He's not after Glory, Honor, or anything like that.

Yuuki just wants to survive.

That leaves him with the mine turned monster nest of lute. He doesn't know any specific details like the area's average monster levels, the recommended level requirement or any relevant info but judging by the average level of the adventurer's taking the quest, it must be at least around Lv.20 and Lv.25 At the most, he assumed.

'Ok. Mines it is. But before that…I need mining tools. Lots of it.'

Mining tools are a must, as he might end up finding some valuable ore. Plus, absorbing them into his Legendary Weapon will definitely unlock the mining skill and another plus is the small rise in his stats from mastery.

Yuuki left the guild, satisfied with his impromptu spy escapade.

But he was in for a surprise. As he passed by a glass window, he saw his reflection and was baffled at what he saw.

His eyes. They are now purple.

'What the fuck?!...' Yuuki blinked once, twice, thrice. Yep. Not seeing things. 'My eyes are blue, not purple, so why the fuck are they Purple!?...this is the wand's fault, isn't it? This is definitely the wand's fault!.'

He then remembered the eye color of the other heroes. Blue, Yellow, Red and Green. The same color of their jewels. 'Yep. Definitely the wand's fault.'

Yuuki decided to ignore the changes lest he bring himself a new headache. For now, he has to get Sakura out of the stable before she decides to eat the other horses there.

{{ Hero of the Wand }}

After getting Sakura, who was thankfully sleeping instead of trying to eat the horses like he imagined out of the stable, Yuuki went on a shopping spree of epic proportions. All sorts of kitchenware/Cooking tools, Blacksmithing equipment, Mining tools, Camping equipment, sewing equipment, Compounding sets, …

Then fed it all to the legendary wand.

As expected. All of those unlocked all sorts of bizarre weapon forms, like the Ladle wand but one form stood out for him.

[ Explosive Staff ( 0/30 C ) ] Unlocked.

Base Stat: [ Matk 10 ] [ Atk 10]

Proficiency: [ 0% ] Mastery: [ 0% ]

Equip bonus: [ Explosion ]

[ Explosion ] – deal Fire type damage on all enemies on a specified area

Yuuki's first thoughts upon seeing this form?

Well…..

Fuhahahahaha! Exploooosion!

Yuuki can't help but imagine a certain chuuni laughing madly while an explosion goes off behind her.

Back to the main topic, the reason for this shopping spree was to try to unlock more weapon forms with skills related to crafting. So far, yuuki has [Cooking], [Blacksmith, [Carpentry, [Mining, [Compounding, [Dismantling, [Woodcutting] and [Sewing] skills.

[Dismantling, [Mining] and [Woodcutting] are all for gathering and potentially raising the quality of raw materials.

[Cooking] covers up Yuuki's food expenses while having the [Blacksmith] and [Sewing] skill means he doesn't need to buy new and better armor or clothes. The [Compounding] skill makes it so he doesn't really need to buy potions, he can just make it. [Carpentry] is also good but Yuuki doesn't have the knowledge to put it to proper use.

All of these means Yuuki is now self sufficient. Almost. Shelter is the last thing on the list of things he needs and he can't help but think of the RV and if he could make something similar to it. Maybe he can turn a wagon/cart into one?

Yuuki had been saving money just in case he unlock something similar to a Pay to win function or if the skill can be enhanced through buying related items. Case in point, [Cooking] enhanced through absorbing kitchenware and unlocking weapon forms with [Cooking] skill.

Another thing he need is a party member who can read and write. However, Naofumi's situation brought up a very real risk considering what he knew. Melcromarc's religion, the Three Heroes Faith, hails the Sword, Spear, and Bow heroes as the closest thing to a god while the Shield hero was considered as a demon of sorts. That raises a question, what is their opinion of the Wand Hero? Yuuki can't help but think that this religion is a big part of how and why people believe the so called crime the Shield hero did. Add the fact that people, especially common folk in general think heroes are powerful at the start … yeah. The tales of the power of heroes backfired a lot.

This meant that basically, depending on the views of their faith, the people might avoid or mooch then backstab him.

What he needs is someone incapable of defying him …

Yuuki sighed. That left him with one option.

Slaves.

Yuuki had been aware of slavery in this country. He had seen them in this town alone on so many occasions. The thought of freeing them crossed his mind but decided against it. For now. What he needs is power if he wants people to listen to his demands, reasonable or not.

And so, despite feeling bad about what he is about to do, Yuuki decided to seek the round man of the shady circus tent. He had a feeling that if someone's going to sell slaves here, it's going to be him. That round guy with subjugation magic just seems to be the type for it.

{{ Hero of the Wand }}

{{ End }}