Fang Zheng is extremely depressed now.

Although his own strength, in this world, is almost a breakthrough. Just like what he said to the idiot king before, if he is angered, he can easily destroy the country before the wave.

But the problem is that it’s not him who is upgraded, but the shield in his hand!

Not only that, after some experiments, Fang Zheng was speechless to find that there were only two ways to gain experience points.

Either use the shield to smash the opponent to death, or let Raphtalia and Lifana go up and beat the opponent to death. Because after the latter was bought by me, it seemed that a team system was activated, and then the three of them could get experience by teaming up.

So what is upgraded is not the level of the Founder itself, but the level of the shield...

In other words, this is actually a game of developing equipment, and the player's own attributes have no meaning at all...

If Fang Zheng used magic or the King's Treasure to kill the monsters, then of course he could kill them, but he wouldn't get any experience points...

This is disgusting, okay.

This broken shield needs to be upgraded, but I don’t know how long it will take!

Although it is also possible to fight with bare hands, but cosplaying as Kyo Kusanagi once is enough, it will be boring if you do it more than once. As for Yasha... I can only say that Fang Zheng is already past that age.

This kind of setting was originally for team building, and it was obvious that the three brave teachers had deliberately not let the four of them be together... But it didn't matter, Fang Zheng was too lazy to mess around with these three middle school brats. It was better not to have teammates who were like pigs.

But wait...using a shield...it seems like there is a solution.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng's eyes lit up.

"Raphtalia, Lifana, let's go back to the city first."

"Yes, Master."

Although they didn't know what had happened, Raphtalia and Lifana still followed Fang Zheng obediently and returned to the royal city. Then Fang Zheng brought the two little girls to the bald uncle's weapon shop again.

"Welcome... Hey, little brother, why are you back? Is there anything else?"

"Boss, do you have any axes? The higher the quality, the better. One with a long handle."

"Of course I have, but... you can't use weapons, little brother."

The bald boss obviously also knew that as the Shield Hero, Fang Zheng could not use any other weapons.

"It's okay. I'm just doing an experiment. I'll pay you."

"I know. Wait."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the bald boss turned around, rummaged around in the warehouse for a while, and took out a huge battle axe.

"This is the best weapon we have here. It's a battle axe made of meteorite iron. It costs thirty gold coins. Because it's too expensive, no one has ever bought it."

"Have you ever thought about discounting the price?"

"You must be kidding. This is a masterpiece by a famous master. If you lower the price arbitrarily, it will ruin its reputation."

"All right."

Since the bargaining failed, Fang Zheng didn't care. He just shrugged his shoulders and stretched out his hand again...

“Snap!”

Sure enough, it bounced off before I could grasp the long handle.

"Boss, can you please help me and insert this axe here?"

As he spoke, Fang Zheng pointed to the emerald in the middle of the shield on his arm. Although the boss didn't know what Fang Zheng wanted to do, he nodded, then picked up the battle axe and stabbed it at the emerald in the center of the shield.

However……

“Pah.”

It bounced back again.

“Is it really still impossible to use it?”

Fang Zheng didn't care about this. He just waved his hand and sat down next to him.

"Wait me a moment."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng opened his personal terminal. Soon, the screen popped up, and he quickly reached out and typed. A series of characters and codes appeared on the personal terminal, and then...

“Beep!”

Along with the warning sound, a red message box popped up.

【Connection refused】

"Haha, I knew it."

Looking at the [Connection Refused] message in front of him, Fang Zheng sneered. He had thought of it before. This shield uses a skill book similar to the one used to upgrade in online games, which means that this shield must have its own system. Putting aside the three idiot players, he is the planner. If he can't figure out the system, the first thing he will think of is to hack into the code and change it!

But now...you don't give me face?

“Beep!”

【Connection refused】

“Beep, beep, beep!!”

【Connection refused】

"hehe."

Looking at the bright red warning in front of him, Fang Zheng sneered again, then he raised his left hand, and soon, the bright red first fire appeared in Fang Zheng's hand.

Then, Fang Zheng looked at the shield in his hand.

"I'll give you one chance. You should know that even without your broken shield, it's still easy for me to save or destroy the world. If you don't want to obey me, I'll just burn you into firewood. To me, you're useless and annoying. If you don't obey me, you might as well be burned by me as soon as possible!"

"bite."

【Connection successful】

If you don't accept the toast, you will be punished by drinking the wine.

Looking at the light green connection prompt in front of him, Fang Zheng hummed softly, then began to type on the keyboard while humming a song.

So, there are some things that you can't treat with kindness, otherwise they will really think they are something important.

"that……"

Seeing Fang Zheng communicating with the shield in his hand, Raphtalia and Lifana were also quite surprised, and then Raphtalia asked curiously.

"Excuse me... who is the master?"

Although Fang Zheng's dress made him look like a noble, he was completely different from the nobles Raphtalia had met before. Moreover, both of them had seen what had happened before, and it was obvious that the man in front of them was not an ordinary person.

"Huh? Didn't you tell them, little brother?"

"It's not a good reputation anyway, it doesn't matter whether I say it or not."

Fang Zheng spoke casually while typing on the keyboard.

"In this world, I am the Shield Hero...at least for now."

"well?!"

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Raphtalia and Lifana widened their eyes in surprise.

"Master Shield Hero?"

"Um?"

There was no coldness or disgust in the two's voices. Instead, they seemed very excited. Fang Zheng glanced at them and then remembered what the bald store manager had said before. The previous generation of the Shield Hero was the savior who protected the demi-humans. Compared with the fact that his reputation among humans was greatly reduced, his reputation among demi-humans was also greatly increased.

However, he was currently in the critical stage of modifying the code, so he did not say much. He just shrugged his shoulders and focused on his work again.

Just like in SAO, Fang Zheng did not modify the core features of the "Shield" system for the sake of caution. He only transformed some of the features, added some of the weapon's performance to modify it, and then added his own modeling...

In short, the shield is still a shield, and the attack method will not change at all, but Fang Zheng has specially added another transformation skill for it.

This is just like the gun Fang Zheng made in the SAO world. Although it looks and performs no differently from a real gun, it can be identified as a "non-flying item" in the system.

In short, this is also a way to exploit system loopholes without triggering bugs.

"Done."

Fang Zheng pressed the Enter key, then quickly closed the interface and stood up.

"Boss, please give me a low-grade battle axe."

"Eh? Did you switch to the lowest level this time?"

"No choice, let's try it first."

It was very difficult to compromise with the system, although Fang Zheng had tried to completely remove the level blockade. However, the shield system was very tough in this regard, with the attitude of "You can kill but not humiliate me, you can have my body but not my heart", and finally Fang Zheng had no choice but to give up.

The end result is that the shield can only absorb changes in weapons of the same level, but cannot absorb changes in weapons of higher levels.

But for Fang Zheng, this is enough.

"Here it comes, this is the lowest-level black iron battle axe."

"Let's do it again."

"OK."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the bald boss nodded, then picked up the battle axe and thrust it towards the emerald in the center of the shield again.

Then... the battle axe disappeared silently as if it had fallen into the water.

Then, the shield in Fang Zheng's hand suddenly flashed with light, and then instantly became much larger. The originally small shield now became almost the size of an ordinary shield, with an extra handle on it.

"Let's try it."

Fang Zheng moved the shield to the back of his left hand, then stretched out his hand, gripped the handle tightly, and swung it forward with force!

"Super solution!!"

With Fang Zheng's roar, a long handle suddenly emerged from the shield, and then the entire shield suddenly expanded and grew larger, smashing heavily on the ground like a huge axe.

“Wow!”

Seeing this scene, the bald boss couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

"Is this okay?"

"Even if it's a shield, it would still hurt if it hits your face."

"Of course."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, the bald boss nodded repeatedly.

"Some shields are heavy enough to kill people."

Not only that, after the super-release, the edge of the shield also became extremely sharp, just like a real blade. Of course, with the physical strength of an average person, it would be difficult to swing it, but for Fang Zheng, he could easily swing it around with one hand.

"Sure enough, it's more comfortable to have a big one on hand."

Fang Zheng waved the shield axe in his hand and nodded with satisfaction. After all, he was used to holding a big sword, and it would be a bit awkward if he didn't use something to chop people anytime and anywhere.

"Then let us go."

After transforming his weapon back into shield form, Fang Zheng stood up and prepared to leave.

However, at this moment, Lifana suddenly ran to Fang Zheng's side.

"My dear hero! My master! Please, please let me fight with you!"

"well?"

Faced with Lifana's sudden request, Fang Zheng was stunned, and then he looked at the little white tiger in front of him.

"You don't need to fight at all?"

"But, I, I want to become the companion of the Shield Hero!"

"Me too……"

At this moment, Raphtalia also raised her hand timidly.

"It's not easy to become my companion..."

Faced with the two people's requests, Fang Zheng pondered for a moment.

"Okay, then... I'll let you try it first."