Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 159

Staggering, Choi Hyun-seok knelt on the ground.

He raised his head to check where the Fighting Spirit had passed and cursed.

“Shit…”

Kiaran was alive.

The final blow, on which he had bet everything, had missed.

“Hero! Are you okay!?”
“I can’t move at all…”

He couldn’t move his body.

Even though he still had about half of his magic power and Demonic energy left, his body had reached its limit.

It was because he had used too much output at once.

Generally, when using Fighting Spirit, about 3% of the total magic power is used.

But Choi Hyun-seok had poured in nearly half of it.

Moreover, in a state where he forcibly fused Demonic energy and magic power.

There was no way his body and mind could withstand it.

It felt like his head was burning white, and his blood vessels were bursting all over his body.

If he didn’t get treatment immediately, his life would be cut short before long.

“Choi Hyun-seok! Get a hold of yourself!”

“Kuaaang!”

Abelson and Bobo’s voices could be heard.

They had come running to save him.

“I have to fight too…”

A battle broke out.

Rachel was constantly casting spells.

Abelson used magic to protect Choi Hyun-seok while simultaneously wielding her mace to stop the enemies.

“Kuaaang!”

Bobo was, as always, the most outstanding.

He attacked with all sorts of means, such as swinging his front paws, swallowing, and knocking them away with his tail.

Since there were enemies everywhere anyway, anyone hit by a swing would just get hit.

However, despite everyone’s efforts, the situation was far too unfavorable.

‘At this rate… it’s over.’

The enemies were strong and overwhelmingly numerous.

Gradually, the party’s bodies began to accumulate wounds.

It was clear that they were quickly getting exhausted from fighting so many opponents.

“Keuheuk…!”

Abelson groaned as he was stabbed by a sword.

At the same time, the protective magic that had been guarding Choi Hyun-seok disappeared.

“Abelson!”
“I’m fine! Please, get stable!”

“Keueuk…!”

Choi Hyun-seok clenched his fist tightly.

He couldn’t give up here.

He had to fight somehow.

“Kkeuaaaaa-!”

Choi Hyun-seok screamed and stood up.

His legs were wobbly because he couldn’t put any strength into them.

The fist he swung was as heavy as wet cotton.

Still, he had to fight.

If he had to, he would bite the enemies with his teeth and fight.

“Euaaa!”

His spirit was good, but battles couldn’t be fought with spirit alone.

Choi Hyun-seok, already battered, couldn’t fight properly.

Squeak-!

A sword he couldn’t dodge grazed his skin.

Flash!

A sharp spear pierced his leg, and blood splattered.

Crack!

A blunt weapon crushed his shoulder.

Choi Hyun-seok was being butchered alive.

Rachel teared up as she watched him.

“Eek…! Get away from the Hero!”

At that moment, the enemies suddenly began to retreat.

“Eueong…?”

Rachel looked around in confusion.

Not only the enemies around her but all the enemies were retreating.

They gathered near Kiaran and began to reform their formation.

She didn’t know what was going on, but she had bought some time.

The party gathered around Choi Hyun-seok.

“Euaaaang! Hero!”
“Choi Hyun-seok! Are you okay!?”

“Yes…”

“I’ll heal you now.”
“Abelson first, rather than me…”

Abelson was also covered in wounds.

The clothes she was wearing were torn and stained with blood, making it embarrassing to even call them clothes.

“No. I’m fine.”

However, she poured divine power into healing Choi Hyun-seok.

“Suddenly… why did those guys… retreat…”

“Don’t talk.”

Choi Hyun-seok forced his heavy eyelids open.

He could see the masked men gathering to form a formation and gathering magic power.

He didn’t know exactly, but it seemed like they were preparing some kind of large-scale magic.

‘What is it? Are they trying to finish us off? But, there’s no need to go to such lengths…’

If the battle had continued a little longer, the party wouldn’t have been able to hold out.

There was no need to go to such trouble.

‘By the way, it’s hot…’

Choi Hyun-seok suddenly felt hot.

Come to think of it, it was unusually bright around him.

He raised his head and looked at the sky.

“What is that…?”

Since when had it been there?

A huge fireball was falling from the sky.

The slowly approaching fireball soon collided with the barrier.

Kwagagagagak…!

The ground shook with a strange noise.

A brief power struggle ensued.

Chaeaeeng-!

The barrier broke, and the fireball fell again.

It was in the direction where the enemies were gathered.

At that moment, the magic of the Heroes who had been forming the formation was completed.

A giant magic formed by hundreds of octagonal barriers.

It collided with the fireball, and a roar erupted.

Kwaaaaa-!

In the end, the two magics, having exhausted their power, disappeared simultaneously.

“What the hell is going on…?”

Choi Hyun-seok was dumbfounded.

He couldn’t understand what was happening at all.

“Hey. Long time no see.”

Then, a familiar voice was heard.

Turning around, he saw a woman looking down at him, Park Hyun-ah.

“C, Commander…?”

“It’s been a while since I quit the commander business, you little punk.”

Park Hyun-ah grinned.

“Call me Noona [older sister or female friend].”

***

Kiaran’s eyes shook wildly.

His condition was panic itself.

‘Park Hyun-ah… Why is Park Hyun-ah here!?’

A Hero who single-handedly turned the Holy Empire of Gatrein upside down a few years ago.

Park Hyun-ah, who has been the top priority target for elimination for years.

When Park Hyun-ah took refuge in the Demon King’s army, the Pope and the Demon King’s war of nerves intensified, and the secret agreement that had been going on for over a hundred years was almost broken.

That’s how huge Park Hyun-ah’s presence was.

‘Why is the bitch who should be stuck in the Demon King’s army here!? Why the hell!?’

No matter how much he struggled, reality would not change.

What was in front of him was Park Hyun-ah, no matter who looked at her.

Kiaran calmed down his excitement by taking a breath.

‘I have to run away. No matter how many Heroes gather, they can’t beat Park Hyun-ah.’

When looking at individual martial power alone, the Demon King Army Commanders are usually evaluated to be one level above human legends.

Park Hyun-ah is a person who rose to such a Demon King Army Commander.

In other words, it means she is stronger than most legends.

No matter how great the forces gathered here, they would not be a match.

A legend is an existence outside the norm.

You can only lure them into a battlefield with full preparation, or face them with the same legend.

“Damn it! Adding ashes to a done meal [ruining something that was already going well]!”

Kiaran couldn’t contain his anger at the fact that he had to let go of Choi Hyun-seok, who he had almost caught, and shouted.

Then Park Hyun-ah turned to look at him.

“Hey, you cripple.”

“…”

“Stay there. I have a lot of things to ask you.”

Kiaran’s breathing became rough again.

He shouted like he was having a seizure.

“Attack! Attack! Buy time somehow!”

The Heroes ran out.

In the meantime, Kiaran began to run away with the support of the remaining Heroes.

‘I’ll live first. Anyway, this is not my fault. It’s an act of God! The Pope will forgive me too. If I just survive…!’

As he was continuing his thoughts frantically, he heard an explosion from behind.

Kwaaaaaaaaang!

The ground shook from the aftermath of the explosion, and a strong wind blew.

“Euaaa!”

Kiaran and the Heroes tumbled helplessly to the floor.

Kiaran, who barely managed to regain his composure and turned around, couldn’t help but be surprised.

He could see a huge crater with a diameter of about 100 meters on the ground.

“What is that…”

The Heroes in that crater must have been annihilated without leaving a trace.

“Eua! My body isn’t fully recovered yet, but I still have to move, right?”

Park Hyun-ah stretched once and drew her sword.

And a massacre broke out.

Chwaaaak!

Dozens of body parts, such as arms and legs, flew into the sky.

The blood gushing from the cut surfaces soaked the surroundings.

Park Hyun-ah’s movements were so fast that they could not be seen properly.

It could only be guessed that she wielded her sword in an orgy of slaughter that rivaled a slasher movie.

Kiaran blankly watched the dancing blood and flesh.

He realized that he could no longer run away.

Before the time it took to drink a cup of tea had passed, all the Heroes were dead.

“Wow! These guys are complete event mobs! Why do they give so much experience?”

Park Hyun-ah smiled brightly.

She was very excited because her level had risen after a long time.

“Now that I’ve roughly cleaned up the surroundings, shall we start the story?”

Park Hyun-ah, who had already killed all her subordinates, was approaching him.

Looking at her, Kiaran bit the medicine he had hidden in his mouth.

Crunch-!

The medicine broke, and the spell inscribed in his body was activated.

“Park Hyun-ah…”

“Hey hey! What are you doing!? No!”

Park Hyun-ah, who rushed over urgently, cast a healing spell, but it was already too late.

A spell that had been activated once could not be stopped.

“First, go… and wait…”

Kiaran dropped his head.

His heart had completely stopped.

“Haa, that’s why I hate Gatrein bastards.”

Park Hyun-ah scratched her head nervously.

She hates all the vested interests of humans, but there was a reason why she particularly hated Gatrein.

***

Park Hyun-ah used space movement magic to move the party.

The place they arrived at was a log cabin located on an unknown mountain.

This was one of the safe houses she used when she was fighting the Empire in the past.

“Hoo… Thank you.”

Choi Hyun-seok, who had recovered thanks to Abelson’s treatment, bowed 90 degrees.

“I lived thanks to you.”

Park Hyun-ah waved her hand as if telling him not to worry about it.

“The greeting is enough. I lived thanks to you too. We exchanged it once.”

“Yes?”

“You said it. Be careful above your head and below your feet.”

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes widened.

To be honest, he had completely forgotten about it after saying it.

Only when she spoke did he remember exchanging communications with Raidrun after the Necromancy incident.

“Come to think of it, those bastards were preparing to bury me. But thanks to you telling me, I urgently executed the plan.”

A plan to catch Park Hyun-ah was being prepared within the 4th Corps headquarters.

In the meantime, Choi Hyun-seok informed Raidrun of the crisis.

The enemy, who was eavesdropping on the communication, had no choice but to urgently execute the incomplete plan.

“If I had been a little later, I would have been screwed.”

If Choi Hyun-seok hadn’t told her.

So, if time had passed and the plan had been completely completed, Park Hyun-ah would have been caught without even putting up a proper resistance.

“Wait a minute. Then isn’t Raidrun in danger too!?”

“What are you talking about?”

“If they eavesdropped on the communication, wouldn’t the guys have heard Raidrun’s voice too!?”

Anyway, it was Raidrun who conveyed Choi Hyun-seok’s words to Park Hyun-ah.

They might harm Raidrun for interfering with the plan.

However, Park Hyun-ah’s reaction was calm.

“Even if they know, what are they going to do?”

“Yes?”

“What charges are you going to apply to the Cow Head [Raidrun]?”

Park Hyun-ah clicked her tongue.

“Don’t you know? In the first place, it’s the Demon King who’s shady. Anyway, I was a formal Corps Commander. The Demon King was trying to stab such a Corps Commander in the back. If this is revealed, it’s the Demon King who will be in trouble.”

“But… If they know that Raidrun talked to me, won’t that be a problem?”

“This punk is subtly overconscious.”

Park Hyun-ah smirked.

“Hey. You’re just a deserter. Nothing more, nothing less.”

“…”

“It’s not like you’re colluding with the enemy, what are they going to do if the Division Commander contacted just one deserter?”

“Ah…”

Because he had been chased for too long, he was mistaken that the Demon King’s army would chase him too.

In fact, no one is interested in Choi Hyun-seok except for the Holy Empire right now.

“And the Cow Head has a good back [strong support].”

“What is back…?”

“He has a strong backing. The 5th Corps Commander Ozges is also a Cow Head. He was probably an uncle? Anyway, the two are very close.”

“Aha.”

That the 5th Corps Commander and Raidrun were relatives.

That was something he didn’t know.

“Anyway, you don’t have to worry about the Cow Head. Even now, the Mouth and I are missing, so there’s a gap in the force. The Demon King won’t create more conflict at times like this, and he’ll just quietly cover it up.”

In fact, Park Hyun-ah, who is speaking so calmly now, had similar worries to Choi Hyun-seok.

Before she left the 8th Division where Raidrun was.

She was worried that there would be a problem because he protected her, so she just repeated what Raidrun had said.

“The Cow Head story is over.”

Park Hyun-ah took out a cigarette and lit it.

“How have you been? Looking at your appearance, it seems like incidents are still happening wherever you go.”
“The story will be a bit long, is that okay?”
“Speak comfortably. Now that I have time left, what.”

“I understand.”

Choi Hyun-seok explained what had happened in the meantime step by step.

The story about Abelson and how he became entangled with the Holy Empire of Gatrein.

Leaving the Demon King’s army and witnessing Necromancy.

From Gatrein to brainwashing Heroes to create an army.

As he explained his journey one by one, quite some time passed.

“Hmm, have I been living too buried in the meantime…”

Park Hyun-ah nodded after listening to all the stories.

“If those guys were Heroes, then that project seems to be entering the final stage. They’ve been doing that for a long time.”

“Was that so?”

“Yeah. It was before I fought Gatrein, and those bastards were coaxing me to make me like that too.”
“So what did you do?”
“I noticed it right away and fucked them up.”

“Ah…”

In a way, that incident could be said to be the catalyst for the relationship between Park Hyun-ah and the Holy Empire to go wrong in earnest.

“Anyway, I paid off the debt I owed you with this.”

Park Hyun-ah got up from her seat.

Choi Hyun-seok called her in a panic at the sight of her leaving.

“That… Park Hyun-ah…?”
“This punk is going to die. I told you to call me Noona [older sister or female friend].”
“I look older than you.”
“Baby. I’ve been rolling around in this shitty land for at least fifteen years.”

“… Let’s compromise with Nuna.”

“Tsk, whatever.”

Nuna somehow made her look old, so she didn’t like it, but it wasn’t exactly wrong, so she just let it go.

Her outward appearance was in her mid-20s, but her actual age was much older.

“Hey, Nuna. Can I ask you for a favor?”

“What favor?”

Choi Hyun-seok swallowed once and continued.

“Would you be my teacher?”

“Huh?”

Park Hyun-ah made a surprised expression for the first time.