Nightmare Fuel / Ambition of the Red Princess

• The previous Shield Hero, Mikage, was known as the King of Rape for the atrocities he committed. Multiple sources confirm that not only did he allow demihumans to rape human women on their wedding night, but he also used the Battle Formation to age his children overnight from infants to adults, with his sons added to the army and his daughters added to his harem.
  • Worse is the implication that he only became this after an incident that killed him and brought him back to life, as it was noted that before it he was cynical but still at least had some form of decency and care for human lives.
• The Waves from the perspective of ordinary villagers. What most of the Heroes see as a challenge and a good way to gain experience is an unstoppable horde of death for the common folk, with even the older children having to fight in hopes of buying enough time for the Heroes to kill the boss monster.
• The sheer power of a Dragon Emperor. Gaelion was effectively causing trouble to the town of Trumpet, enough that they put up a quest to slay him... And not only he didn't even notice, he was steering clear to avoid causing them trouble.
• This story's take on the mutated Life Root. As soon as it mutated, Zlyden had everyone attack it immediately... Because regrouping would make it far stronger and smarter, and it was already powerful enough that a full release of its mana would be the equivalent of a salted nuke. And the battle shows it most clearly when Malty, crossing the Godzilla Threshold, hits it with a fireball the size of a castle... And it doesn't kill it, it just kills its resurrected monsters, damages the connection to the Endless Ether that was empowering it, and severs one of the core roots... The latter of which soon starts attacking Malty.
  • What Malty ends up doing it when she accidentally enters the proper state of mind to see its mana: she casts the spell Mana Burn fueling it with the Root's own mana, snaps her finger... And the Life Root is instantly burned to ashes by its own mana.
• In an odd way, Firo. Her habit of kicking people she dislikes initially seems comical, but she keeps doing it even after becoming strong enough to easily kill someone. After putting on what Malty describes as "over fifty stone of solid muscle", her first act is to try to kick Malty for literally no reason. It's to the point that multiple characters have suggest Naofumi have Firo put down due to her viciousness.
  • Made worse later on when she gets her human form, as she audibly shows no care in others aside from Naofumi, up to the point where she considers the death of Eclair's last knight to be ''boring''.
• The Third Wave has more than a few moments:
  • The exploding flying exploding fishes that turn an easy battle in a far harder one.
  • Malty and Naofumi finding themselves up in the air and falling while a Leviathan tries to kill them specifically.
  • Among Melromarc's host there's the best warriors of the Loptis cult... Who happen to be people possessed by the ghosts of the cult's best warriors at its founding.
  • In the end the Wave Boss is defeated, the Wave is ending... And then Lautrec returns to the scene and summons his goddess, ''Raphtalia from the original web novel'', who came in the world with the only goal of killing Malty, believing her a one note monster as her counterpart from the web novel. And while she only wants Malty dead and instructs Lautrec not to kill anyone, she still casually knocks out anyone in her path and seals Naofumi's Legendary Shield, and doesn't show her usual mercy to Pope Balmus as she believes him too to be the same as his web novel counterpart.
• The identity of the Chief God: Naofumi from the Web Novel. Who rose to the place after killing his predecessor Medea, leaving around only a few fragments such as Malty.
  • The fact the catastrophes under the previous Chief God happened because Medea was bored and completely uncaring.

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