Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 170

The given period is one week.

The group gathered around.

Park Hyun-ah’s strategy briefing began.

“The first few days are for reconnaissance. We’ll slowly chip away at them, figuring out their strength.”
“So, hit-and-run tactics?”

“Exactly!”

Park Hyun-ah unfolded a map.

Her finger pointed to a vast desert area at the top of the map.

“Currently, the Undead Legion is in the Icilius Desert here.”
“Near the Odria Federation?”
“Yeah. It’s abandoned land now, but they say there used to be a great nation in this desert.”

“Oho…”

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes lit up with interest.

A nation in the middle of nowhere desert.

He figured the terrain might have changed after a very long time.

“Don’t tell me our enemy this time is the ghost of that fallen nation?”
“Correct. I don’t know how those guys who died a thousand years ago crawled out.”
“That’s a bit strange.”

“What is?”
“I don’t know much, but shouldn’t bodies decompose completely after a thousand years? There should be some traces left for necromancy to be possible.”

Necromancy, which raises the dead, obviously requires a corpse.

Even a bone fragment must remain to create something.

“Well, the demons must have used some trick. Anyway, the important thing is that a horde of corpses has already risen and is wandering around, increasing in number.”

Park Hyun-ah drew two circles on the map and connected them with a line.

“Currently, they are moving towards Honken, the nearest city. Undead are slow, so it will take them four days to arrive. We will reduce their forces during that time and deal with them just before they reach the city.”

Choi Hyun-seok crossed his arms and frowned.

“What if we fail? Then the city of Honken behind us…”
“Don’t worry. The Odria Federation has already established an evacuation plan.”
“That’s a relief.”

Choi Hyun-seok nodded.

Even so, his gaze remained fixed on the map.

“Why? Got any more questions?”
“Guerrilla warfare. It’s good, but how are we going to hit and run? There are so many of them that we might get surrounded.”
“There are endless ways. First of all…”

A deep smile appeared on Park Hyun-ah’s face as she explained the plan.

***

Sarah Dunphy.

A legendary figure known as the Mother of Magic, who laid the foundation for the current magic system.

She was also the first monarch who founded the ‘Ballington Kingdom,’ which once flourished as a magical nation.

“Praise the gods…!”

Sarah Dunphy lived for over 400 years, and after her death, the Ballington Kingdom created a huge tomb.

It was a kind of temple that worshiped Sarah Dunphy as a god.

The tomb was filled with numerous gold and silver treasures and rare magical tools that only the Ballington Kingdom possessed.

However, the glory of the Ballington Kingdom did not last long.

After Sarah Dunphy died.

The Ballington Kingdom rapidly declined due to internal strife caused by her disciples.

Eventually, the kingdom collapsed.

And the tomb of Sarah Dunphy, who was worshiped as a god, was also looted.

“Is this the temple?”
“Temple, my ass! It’s a tomb made by idiots.”

Over the next hundreds of years, countless tomb raiders sought Sarah Dunphy’s tomb.

Valuables and magical tools filled the tomb.

Even the building materials used to construct the tomb were taken away if they could be sold for money.

Only the corpses remained in the tomb.

The bodies of Sarah Dunphy, treated to prevent decay, and her founding contributors, forlornly guarded the tomb.

More than a thousand years passed like that.

An era when Sarah Dunphy’s name and her tomb were completely forgotten in everyone’s minds.

Sarah Dunphy reopened her eyes through the necromancy of the demons.

It was exactly 1,121 years after her death.

“The wind is nice.”

Sarah Dunphy muttered.

Despite being undead, she used magic to recreate her youthful body, looking the same as when she was alive.

Smooth, bronze skin.

Various jewels dangled from it.

They were jewels looted from nearby villages and cities.

Clatter…! Clatter…!

Thump-! Thump-!

Sarah Dunphy sat proudly on the throne, guarded by an undead legion of tens of thousands.

The palanquin she rode on was so huge that it took as many as five hundred skeletons to move it.

“The sunlight in this desert is still the same, no matter how much time has passed.”

Sarah looked up at the sky.

The desert is hot during the day.

Because there is only sand and rock here, there is no shade, so you have to face the scorching sun as it is.

“Your Majesty, if the sun is too hot, I will cover it.”

Liam, one of Ballington’s founding contributors, the bravest warrior, said.

“No. The sunlight is good. I like this sunlight that hasn’t changed even after more than a thousand years.”

Sarah gave a self-deprecating smile.

“Compared to that, how insignificant we humans are. My kingdom. My people. Everyone has crumbled in history without even leaving a name.”
“Your Majesty, the kingdom can be rebuilt. Ballington can regain its past glory.”
“No. We are already dead.”

She looked around.

-Groaaaaar!

-Kieeee!

Tens of thousands of undead.

The flesh is rotting and smells bad, and the screams spewed out by the evil spirits echo.

“We are the ghosts of the past. All that remains is the boiling carnal desire. For us to pursue the glory of the past… it won’t work.”

Sarah Dunphy leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes.

“In this era, we only leave behind fear.”

Clatter clatter clatter-!

The skulls decorating the chair rattled as if agreeing.

“Hmm?”

Sarah Dunphy opened her eyes.

The sunlight that had been pouring down had disappeared.

When she raised her head, something pure white was covering the sky.

“Is that… magic power [mana]?”

It felt similar to magic power, but something different.

Its identity was divine power.

Since the power of divinity itself did not exist when she was active, it was the first time she had seen it.

“It seems to be a newly born power, like this magic that I have now.”
“Your Majesty, it’s dangerous!”

“It’s okay.”

Sarah reached out her hand upwards.

At the same time, rain containing powerful divine power began to pour from the sky.

-Gaaaaaah!

-Kyaaaa!

Thousands and tens of thousands of undead writhed in pain.

However, Sarah’s surroundings were quiet.

The rain of divine power did not reach the space about 500m in radius around her.

The corners of Sarah Dunphy’s lips curled up.

“I don’t know who it is, but they’re pretty good.”
“I’ll find them right away.”

Just as the warrior Liam was about to move.

The rain of divine power stopped and a hot heat was felt from the sky.

It wasn’t that the sun had risen again.

No matter how scorching the desert sun is, it is not this hot.

Something much hotter and more intense than the desert sun.

It was a huge fireball.

“Hoo. Were there two wizards?”

Sarah stared intently at the falling fireball.

“The structure isn’t complicated. The magic power itself is strong, but it’s just focused on inflating it. If you increase the volume like this…”

Intense magic power was fired from her fingertips.

“It’s easy to break.”

A single stream of magic power was fired.

It looked like dust compared to the falling fireball.

However, the moment the magic power touched the fireball.

Kwaaaa-!

The fireball exploded.

Thanks to this, a rain of fire poured down on the ground, but Sarah didn’t care.

The flames could not penetrate the barrier surrounding her and disappeared.

-Groaaaaar!

-Kieeeeeee!

Of course, only her surroundings were protected.

Again, countless undead outside the barrier were burned.

“How dare these arrogant bastards…!”

Just as the warrior Liam grabbed his sword and was about to rush out.

Sarah stopped him.

“Stop. It’s already too late.”

She pointed to a rocky mountain about 5km away.

“They escaped by teleportation. It seems to be around there.”

The warrior Liam knelt down and bowed his head.

“I’m sorry. It’s my fault for not checking in advance.”
“No, Lord Liam didn’t do anything wrong. It’s just that the enemy’s wizard prepared well.”

She smiled with an intriguing expression.

‘This time it will be quite fun.’

The human warrior who came a few days ago.

The fight with him was quite fun, but it was a warrior’s fight, so there was nothing she could do.

However, this fight is for wizards.

She had a feeling it would be more fun than last time.

“Let’s wait for the next one. Either way, the attack won’t end with just one.”

***

“Hoo… that bitch is not ordinary.”

Park Hyun-ah, who escaped with magic, wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Choi Hyun-seok next to her had a puzzled expression.

“Is the enemy that strong? It seems like our victory to me.”

Abelson and Park Hyun-ah’s magic caused quite a bit of damage.

Park Hyun-ah’s magic was destroyed in the middle, but thanks to that, it hit a wide range, so it seemed like a profit.

“You can’t just think that way.”

Park Hyun-ah sat down on the floor and continued.

“Do you know how much magic power went into the magic I just cast?”
“Uh… I don’t know.”
“Abelson used about 50,000 mana. I used 100,000 mana.”

“Is that a lot?”

Choi Hyun-seok heard about ‘mana’ for the first time from Park Hyun-ah.

He knew nothing except that it was a unit for counting magic power.

“The magic I used to blow away the pig orc [Cardlock] last time was about 80,000. The 100,000 I used today is a 25% increase in magic power in simple numbers, but the actual power is almost 1.5 times stronger.”
“Was it that strong!?”

He didn’t know at all.

The magic used to kill the pig orc Cardlock was already powerful, but it was 1.5 times stronger than that.

‘I felt like the sphere got a little bigger…’

It was too far away, so I didn’t feel any different from before.

Besides, it was destroyed in the middle, so I just thought I used so-so magic.

“On the other hand, the magic that lich used was at most 20,000 to 30,000 mana, the level of an upper-level hero’s magic. She broke my magic with just that. What does that mean?”
“I don’t know.”

“That’s…”

Park Hyun-ah said with a serious expression.

“I don’t know either.”

“Yes?”

“I don’t know either, damn it! How did that bitch do it!?”

The magic power that went in was half of half.

In terms of power, it’s less than 1/10th of the power.

How could she break her magic with such magic?

It’s not just offsetting it.

She cut off something of the magic from the inside and completely destroyed it.

“Even that lich used to use magic power!”

Magic appeared 500 years ago with the appearance of demons.

Divinity appeared 300 years ago with the appearance of gods and heroes.

According to the literature, the magic kingdom of Ballington was destroyed about 1,000 years ago.

Sarah Dunphy, the beginning of Ballington, is a person from about 1,500 years ago.

She couldn’t have been exposed to magic and divinity.

“Obviously, a bitch who used to use magic power wakes up and finds only magic [mana] flowing through her body. What do you think will happen then?”
“I guess it would be difficult to use magic…”

Choi Hyun-seok recalled the undead ‘Lopar Dozer’ he had fought before.

The reason why Choi Hyun-seok and his party were able to defeat him, who had even reached the legend in his lifetime.

One of the reasons was the magic flowing through Lopar Dozer’s body.

Lopar Dozer, who was originally human, used magic power in his lifetime.

Of course, he had no choice but to be unskilled in handling magic.

Thanks to that, the group was able to properly attack the gaps.

“Even if it’s a similar power, magic and magic power are clearly different. But that bitch used magic without any problems.”

High-level magic control and unfamiliar magic that even Park Hyun-ah, who had been through many battlefields, had not seen.

It felt like something different from the root.

Park Hyun-ah muttered with a serious expression.

“This might be surprisingly incompatible.”

To be honest, before facing it directly, I thought there would be nothing difficult.

That’s because I thought it was a lich that mainly summons.

For Park Hyun-ah, whose specialty is magic, a lich who pushes with numbers was an easy prey, so I thought all that was left was to go and sweep up experience points.

However, when I opened the lid directly, the result was completely different.

“Damn it! The information is wrong!”

Park Hyun-ah kicked the dirt with her foot irritably.

“In the end, that lich bitch is the core power. It’s better to leave this to a close combat expert than to me…”
“Then what do we do?”

“What do you mean what do we do? We have to try whether it’s death or rice [succeed or fail].”

There is no one to help.

Somehow, the group must overcome the difficulties with their own strength.

Park Hyun-ah clenched her fist tightly.

“First, reduce the number. I’ll pour it out day and night!”