Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 22

“Is everyone mentally prepared?”

Choi Hyun-seok spoke with a grim expression.

Before him stood Kulkhan and about ten cooks.

“Remember! From now on, you must never stop!”

Choi Hyun-seok explained the plan as quickly and concisely as possible.

‘They’re all idiots anyway, so this is better than explaining it in detail.’

In the meantime, Choi Hyun-seok had completely grasped the situation with the Demon King’s army.

“We’re going to run without stopping until we escape this cave! Go!”

“Uwaaaaa!”

Choi Hyun-seok and the cooks shouted and started running.

They were carrying large eggs in their arms.

They had brought all the eggs from the hatchery.

‘I don’t know if it will work. But it’s better than just staying here and dying.’

Choi Hyun-seok’s plan was simple.

To escape this nest by using the eggs as hostages.

Judging from the battle a little while ago, Talas cherishes the eggs very much.

So, if they have the eggs, it will definitely restrict their actions.

“Kieeeeeek!”

“Kyaaak!”

As they exited the narrow passage, giant spiders swarmed from all directions.

The screams of dozens, hundreds of Talas filled the entire giant cave.

“Chief Cook! The path is blocked!” “What should we do now!?”

The group was quickly surrounded.

Spiders were everywhere they looked.

Even when they held out the eggs and threatened them, the spiders only hesitated.

They never opened the way.

“Get ready!”

Choi Hyun-seok shouted.

He picked up an egg.

‘I expected this from the start.’

From the beginning, Choi Hyun-seok had anticipated this situation.

There was no way they could escape this cave just by holding the eggs hostage.

That’s why he prepared the next plan.

“Huuu…!”

Choi Hyun-seok inhaled and tensed his body.

The muscles throughout his body tightened.

It was like a shot putter’s stance.

“Go!”

The tightened muscles released explosively.

Shoooong!

The egg flew like it was shot.

The flying egg quickly approached the cave ceiling.

Thwack!

The egg crashed into the cave wall and broke.

The fluid inside the eggshell burst out.

At the same time, Choi Hyun-seok shouted.

“Now!”

Flames shot out from Kulkhan’s hand as if he had been waiting.

Whoosh!

The egg that touched the flame caused a huge explosion.

The cave shook from the impact, and flames spread in all directions.

‘This is the completion of the plan.’

The encyclopedia stated that Talas’ bodily fluids are highly flammable.

In particular, the eggs are highly flammable liquids, practically bombs.

Choi Hyun-seok decided to use this.

‘Collapse the cave.’

Talas digs into areas with weak ground to create huge caves.

Originally, it would be impossible to create such a huge cave in a place with weak ground.

However, Talas has the ability to make this possible.

It’s Talas’ saliva.

Talas’ saliva, imbued with magic, surrounds the entire cave, supporting it.

And Talas’ saliva, like the bodily fluids, is highly flammable.

“Going again!”

Choi Hyun-seok threw another egg.

The cave shook with the explosion.

The spreading flames melted the Talas’ saliva applied throughout the cave.

Talas’ saliva was the device that maintained the cave with its weak foundation.

As it began to melt, the cave shook, and soil and rocks fell.

Crumble…

The entire cave was becoming unstable.

“Kieeeeeek!”

The Talas were running around the cave in a frenzy.

It was to repair the cave by applying saliva to the cave walls.

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes gleamed.

‘As expected, they can’t focus.’

Talas must protect the eggs.

But they must also prevent the cave from collapsing.

If the cave collapses, not only their lives but also all the other eggs remaining in various places will be destroyed.

“Don’t stop! Run!”

Choi Hyun-seok used Talas’ eggs like bombs, further increasing the chaos.

‘We have to escape this place before we use up all the eggs.’

The eggs are so large that the amount they can carry at once is limited.

The group currently has about 30 eggs.

Before using up all these eggs, they had to find another hatchery or find an exit.

Kaboom!

Another huge explosion occurred.

The cave shook as if there was an earthquake, and piles of dirt poured down from the ceiling.

The Talas were frantically crawling on the ceiling, trying to repair the collapsing cave.

“Kieeeek!”

Of course, some of them stubbornly blocked the group’s path.

It couldn’t be helped because there were so many of them.

“Kulkhan! Please!”

“I understand!”

Kulkhan stepped forward to crush the enemies blocking the way.

Even though he was a cook, Kulkhan possessed overwhelming combat power.

With the enemies’ attention diverted, it was more than enough to face ordinary Talas, not the queen.

“Uwaaaa!”

Kulkhan swung his arms and legs like crazy, clearing the way.

Choi Hyun-seok and the cooks closely followed behind him.

“Kkeuaaaak!”

“Arm, my arm…!”

In the meantime, some cooks were injured.

From the start, it was impossible for the cooks to avoid any damage.

The more eggs they threw, the fewer eggs the cooks held.

As the means to restrain the enemies disappeared, they were exposed to threats.

The enemies attacked the cooks who used the eggs first.

“Don’t fight! Avoid them as much as possible!”

Choi Hyun-seok shouted, throwing another egg.

‘How many are left now?’

Choi Hyun-seok looked back.

‘Twelve…!?’

Before he knew it, there were only 12 eggs left.

He had to find the exit before throwing all those eggs.

‘Can we do it?’

He had been running for a long time, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.

In addition, this cave was intertwined like a maze around a huge cavity.

Choi Hyun-seok and the cooks must have entered through some passage, but everyone was in a daze.

There was no way they could remember the path of the cave they had entered as if they were running away.

“There! Light is coming from that way!”

At that time, a cook shouted.

When he looked closely, he could see light seeping out.

Choi Hyun-seok and the cooks ran towards the direction of the light without delay.

‘Just a little, just a little more…!’

In the meantime, Choi Hyun-seok’s body also had many minor injuries.

Some cooks had already fallen behind and were being eaten alive.

Crumble!

The cave shook more and more precariously due to the continuous explosive attacks.

‘At this rate, the cave will collapse before all the eggs are gone.’

If the cave collapses, then it’s over.

He had to escape before that happened.

‘Almost there!’

The light gradually brightened.

If they ran a little further, they would be able to escape.

Choi Hyun-seok prayed earnestly.

‘Just a little more…!’

At that moment, Kulkhan, who was at the head, stopped.

“Kulkhan? Why are you stopping….”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was speaking, stopped talking.

He realized why Kulkhan had stopped.

“Queen Talas…”

The queen was waiting, blocking the entrance with her huge body.

***

The queen was furious.

Those pig-dog-like creatures who dared to kill her precious babies!

She intended to tear them all apart and kill them.

“Kieeeeeeeek!”

The queen gathered all the adults in the nest and formed a siege.

The ugly creatures ran away in a frenzy.

But they would never be able to survive.

“Kkueeeeek!”

“J, just one bite of meat before I die…”

The creatures died one by one.

Those who were skewered like skewers and had their limbs torn off were pathetic until the very end.

In any case, the queen succeeded in eliminating most of the escapees.

With a lighter heart, she returned to the nest.

However, upon returning to the nest, the queen couldn’t help but be shocked.

“Uwaaaah! Save me!”

“There! Light is coming from over there!”

The cockroach-like creatures had stubbornly survived and infiltrated the nest.

The audacious creatures were holding her precious eggs hostage.

“Don’t come closer, or I’ll blow them up! Huh!?”

The adults were repeatedly forced to retreat, unable to approach properly due to the creatures’ threats.

This hostage situation alone was enough to make her blood boil.

But there was something that surpassed even this…

Something so infuriating that it felt like her brain was buzzing.

An atrocity she couldn’t even bring herself to speak of.

It was the act of blowing up the eggs like bombs.

Puh-uh-uh-ung!

The creatures threw the eggs and set them on fire.

Talas’s outer shell is very resistant to fire.

However, the inside burns very easily.

In particular, the fluid that makes up the egg is so flammable that it could almost be called oil.

So, when the surface of the egg is broken and the fluid flows out,

if it comes into contact with a flame, a huge explosion occurs.

Puh-uh-uh-ung!

The adults, startled by the explosion, scattered in panic.

The queen felt like she was losing her mind.

The cave she had worked so hard to create was shaking precariously.

Numerous eggs were shattered.

Her mind was going blank.

But even so, she had to maintain her composure.

She had to protect the remaining eggs at least.

There might be a future queen among them, so she had to defend the eggs no matter what.

The queen resolved.

She would protect the eggs at all costs.

And she would never let those trashy creatures leave alive.

***

Queen Talas roared.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-!”

The volume was on a different level from other Talas.

It felt like her eardrums were tearing, and the magic contained in her scream made her whole body tingle.

Kugugugu…!

Even the cave was shaking precariously.

It was impossible to even guess how much power was contained in that scream.

“It’s over… we’re all dead now…”

“I’m okay. At least I ate a Talas egg before I died, right?”

“That’s true.”

The cooks had already half given up.

Kulkhan cautiously opened his mouth.

“Choi Hyun-seok, what should we do now?”

“Please gather the remaining eggs in one place.”

At Choi Hyun-seok’s words, the cooks gathered all the eggs.

“Ten…”

Thanks to throwing them diligently while coming here, only 10 eggs remained.

‘I’ll use these to bargain,’ Choi Hyun-seok thought.

Choi Hyun-seok took one of the eggs and stepped forward.

“Get out of the way! If you don’t, I’ll break all the remaining eggs!”

At Choi Hyun-seok’s words, the queen shrieked.

“Kieeeeeeeee!”

Kugugugu…!

The cave shook once again from the impact, and piles of dirt poured down.

Choi Hyun-seok screamed desperately, getting hit by the falling dirt.

“Get out of the way! Do you want to see the remaining eggs explode too!? Huh!?”

“Kieeeeek!”

“Kill them!? Kill your babies!?”

“Kieeeeeeeeeek!”

“Damn it! Just get out of the way!”

The Talas, who had gathered in the meantime, had completely surrounded the group.

“Haa…”

Choi Hyun-seok sighed.

No matter how much he threatened with the eggs, the queen didn’t budge.

‘Judging from the situation, the queen does understand the threat.’

It was clear that the queen was wary of the eggs being broken.

Otherwise, she would have rushed in and torn him apart immediately.

But at this rate, they wouldn’t be able to get out of the cave.

From the start, Choi Hyun-seok’s scenario didn’t include the queen blocking the exit.

After pondering, Choi Hyun-seok clenched his fist tightly.

‘Since it has come to this, it’s all or nothing.’

Choi Hyun-seok placed the egg he was holding on the ground.

Then, he stuck a leg taken from a Talas corpse into the egg.

Pook!

The sharp Talas leg pierced the egg.

“Kieeeeeeeee!”

The queen was horrified at the sight.

But Choi Hyun-seok didn’t stop there.

“Kulkhan, please light this on fire.”

“Huh?”

“Just make this leg burn like a candle.”

“I understand.”

Kulkhan used magic.

A flame began to ignite at the end of the Talas leg stuck in the egg.

Cheeeee…

The Talas leg slowly burned down.

The moment it all burned and touched the egg, an explosion would occur.

Choi Hyun-seok threw the egg that had become a bomb onto the other eggs.

“Do you see this!? Everyone dies if this explodes!”

Even one egg had quite a strong explosive power.

What would happen if 10 eggs exploded at once?

At least one thing was certain.

‘This cave will collapse.’

It wouldn’t be strange if it collapsed right now.

If the eggs exploded simultaneously, the cave would definitely not be able to withstand it.

‘Then everyone dies.’

If this cave collapses, not only himself and the cooks, but also the Talas and the remaining eggs would all be buried alive.

“So! Get out of the way, you bastard!”

Choi Hyun-seok screamed desperately.

As if responding to that, the queen also screamed desperately.

“If you don’t come out, everyone dies! Come out!”

“Kieeeeek!”

“Come out!”

“Kieeeeek!”

The monster and the human screamed and shouted at each other.

Neither side would budge an inch.

“Please, come out!”

Just as Choi Hyun-seok’s voice was gradually becoming hoarse,

Kulkhan shouted.

“Choi Hyun-seok! There’s no time! It’s about to explode!”

The fuse of the bomb…

No, the leg stuck in the egg was almost completely burned.

In a few seconds, everything would be over when the flame touched the egg.

Perhaps Queen Talas also knew that fact?

The creature screamed again.

Then, the Talas surrounding the group began to move.

Tada dada dada!

Hundreds of Talas rushed in from all directions.

Cheeeee…!

The fuse of the bomb was almost completely burned.

Krrrrrrrr!

The cave was in a situation where it could collapse at any moment.

Enemies were rushing in from all directions.

“Choi Hyun-seoook!”

Kulkhan shouted, looking back.

Choi Hyun-seok gritted his teeth.

“Damn it! I don’t know anymore!”

Choi Hyun-seok picked up the bomb and threw it towards the ceiling.

At the same time, the fuse of the bomb burned out…

Kwaaaang!

A huge explosion occurred.

Urrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

The cave began to collapse.

Not like before, where dirt and rocks were falling little by little, but the entire ceiling was collapsing as it was.

“Kkeuaaaa!”

“Kieeek!”

A scene of hell unfolded.

The cooks and the Talas trembled in fear, scattering in panic.

“Kieeee!”

In the midst of all this, a Talas rushed at Choi Hyun-seok.

‘This is bad!’

The moment Choi Hyun-seok tried to step back,

Koo-oong!

A rock falling from the ceiling crushed the Talas as it was.

[Level Up!]

The system alarm rang in Choi Hyun-seok’s ears.

“Huh?”

Choi Hyun-seok was taken aback by the sudden level-up alarm.

However, before he could even grasp the situation, his head began to ring uncontrollably.

[LeLeLeLeLeLeBeBeBeBeBeBeBeBeLeBeBeBeLeBeBeBeEoEoEoEoEoEop!]

A crazy level-up.

The beginning of explosive leveling.