Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 19

“Everyone, scatter!”

Choi Hyun-seok shouted at the top of his lungs.

As if his shout was the starting gun, the cooks began to run.

“Aaaaargh!”

“It’s a monster!!!”

Like cockroaches scattering when the lights are turned on in a living room, the cooks scattered in all directions.

Of course, Queen Thalas wasn’t just watching.

The queen’s legs, over ten meters long, shot out like arrows.

Thwack! Thwack!

The cooks began to be skewered on her legs like kebabs.

“Kelton! I’m sorry! I’ll make sure your corpse is turned into boiled pork!”

“G-Get lost…!”

The cooks fled, leaving their dying comrade behind.

Since they never had any camaraderie to begin with, there was no guilt.

“Krrr…!”

The queen growled lowly as she watched the cooks fleeing.

She had to kill all of them to avenge her offspring.

But she couldn’t do it alone.

Realizing this, the queen let out a shriek.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeee-!”

The entire forest trembled at the queen’s cry.

Some of the cooks collapsed to the ground from the magic-filled scream.

Choi Hyun-seok also staggered, grabbing onto a tree.

“How can her voice be so loud?”

As he looked at the queen in bewilderment, he heard rustling sounds all around.

Shashashasha…!

The sound of grass rustling could be heard from all directions.

Choi Hyun-seok looked around with uneasy eyes.

“This isn’t good…”

Shashashashashashasha!

The noise grew louder and louder.

The trees and grass all around shook madly.

It was as if the entire forest was moving.

“Kieeeek…!!!”

Soon, the source of the noise was revealed.

“What the hell!”

Hundreds of Thalas!

And not the young ones he had hunted earlier, but fully grown adults.

They weren’t as large as the queen, who was bigger than an elephant, but they were still the size of a decent car.

Hundreds of them were rushing in from all directions, and his vision went dark.

“V-Valiant! What do we do now!?”

Rachel was making a fuss.

“Kulkhan! We have to find Kulkhan!”

Choi Hyun-seok gritted his teeth.

The Thalas he could see now had an average combat power of around 8,000.

In contrast, Kulkhan’s combat power was over 30,000.

He would definitely be able to break through.

“Kieeee!”

Just then, a Thalas swung its leg at him.

Choi Hyun-seok quickly threw himself backward.

Whoosh!

The sharp foreleg brushed past his eyes.

The Thalas didn’t stop its attack.

Swoosh! Whoosh!

The sharp forelegs flew at him.

If he got stabbed, he would definitely become a human kebab.

Choi Hyun-seok narrowly avoided the attacks, his eyes gleaming.

‘The difference in combat power is significant, but… maybe I can do it!’

He was the one who knocked out Golbakhm with a single blow.

Maybe he could handle the Thalas too.

Tatt, tatt!

Choi Hyun-seok dodged and weaved, looking for an opportunity.

‘Now!’

The moment the monster’s leg passed in front of him.

He swung the kitchen knife at its leg.

Clang!

A noise like striking metal rang out.

Choi Hyun-seok trembled as if electricity was running through his body.

“Ugh…”

The hand gripping the kitchen knife almost tore apart.

He definitely attacked, but it felt like he was the one who had been attacked.

“I can’t do this! Let’s run!”

That was enough to assess the situation.

Choi Hyun-seok turned around immediately.

“Where the hell is Kulkhan!?”

The only answer was to find Kulkhan.

He frantically looked around.

Kaboom!

“There!”

Fortunately, he was able to find Kulkhan, who was making a commotion not far away.

Boom!

Although he was the first to run away, Kulkhan was still the head chef.

The Thalas that was hit by Kulkhan’s fist exploded.

He was on a different level of strength than the other cooks.

Kulkhan was smashing the Thalas with his incredible strength as he moved forward.

“As expected, a combat power of 35,000 doesn’t come for free!”

Choi Hyun-seok hurried towards Kulkhan.

He planned to escape in the direction Kulkhan opened up.

However, Choi Hyun-seok wasn’t the only one who had that idea.

“C-Chef Kulkhan! Please save me!” “Aaaaargh! Chef!”

The cooks were also running towards Kulkhan.

Some of them were strong enough to fight and win against the Thalas, but none of them even thought about fighting.

The number of enemies was too great, and the queen possessed a strength that they couldn’t dare to approach.

In this situation, their only hope was their leader.

“T-This is…!”

Kulkhan was startled to see his subordinates running towards him.

“Don’t come! The queen is coming this way!” “Chef! Save me!”

“Aaaaargh! Get lost!”

Kulkhan began to clear the way even more frantically.

Choi Hyun-seok quickly followed behind Kulkhan.

“Kieeeeeeeeeee!”

The queen was also approaching this place where the most cooks were gathered.

Thump thump thump thump thump!

The sight of a spider as big as a commercial building running towards them was a horror in itself.

The queen quickly caught up to the cooks and began to stab them one by one.

“Kueeeek!”

“Kkeuaaaang!”

The screams of the cooks pierced by the queen’s legs echoed.

Choi Hyun-seok’s heart grew impatient.

‘At this rate, everyone will die.’

Now that the queen had caught up, Kulkhan’s back was no longer safe.

Choi Hyun-seok frantically looked around.

‘Somewhere to hide…’

At that moment, something caught Choi Hyun-seok’s eye.

‘A cave!’

A fairly large cave could be seen through the bushes.

It was a cave large enough for an adult Thalas to pass through.

‘The queen will never be able to enter.’

It would be a disaster if an adult Thalas followed him, but it would be better than the queen following him.

He couldn’t just run away and die, so he was going to take a gamble.

‘It’s worth a try.’

Everyone was running away in a frenzy, so no one would notice him leaving the group.

“Aaaaargh! Get out of here, all of you!”

Moreover, the Thalas’s attention was fixed on the rampaging Kulkhan.

It was the perfect situation to sneak away.

Shashak!

Choi Hyun-seok secretly changed direction.

No one followed him.

“Huk, huk…”

Choi Hyun-seok, who had entered the cave in an instant, gasped for breath.

“Did I shake them off…?”

Choi Hyun-seok carefully looked outside the cave.

“Kkeuaaaaaaaa!”

“Kieeeek!”

“Stop following me! You bastards!”

The outside was still chaotic.

Fortunately, no one was paying attention to this place.

It seemed that no one had found it because it was hidden by the bushes.

“Haa… I’m alive…”

Choi Hyun-seok let out a sigh of relief.

He wanted to sit down and rest right away.

‘But I have to move.’

But there was no time to rest.

He had to escape quickly in case another cook or Thalas came here.

“Valiant. Are you going in here?”

“I have to.”

“How do you know what’s inside?” “Then should we go outside?”

At Choi Hyun-seok’s question, Rachel looked outside.

“Kkeuaaaaaaaa!”

“Kieeee!”

Another cook became a kebab.

“Let’s go inside!”

“Okay.”

It was a very quick agreement.

***

“How far do we have to go?”

“I don’t know…”

Choi Hyun-seok slowly entered the cave.

He didn’t know what was inside, so every step was very cautious.

“But it’s a relief. It doesn’t seem like anyone is chasing us.”

A considerable amount of time had passed since they entered the cave.

Now, even the noise outside was only faintly audible.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem like any other visitors had entered this place.

“Valiant. What if there’s a very strong monster living in here?” “What are you talking about all of a sudden?” “It’s strange that no one has entered when there’s a cave right here.” “Everyone was in a hurry. And it wasn’t just sitting there. I was lucky to find it too.” “Hmm… But what if there’s actually a very strong monster living here, so no one comes in…?” “Tsk! Are you going to keep saying unlucky things?”

Choi Hyun-seok frowned and looked at her.

Rachel pouted and turned her head.

“I was just saying it because I was worried…”

He understood Rachel’s feelings.

Choi Hyun-seok had become stronger in a short period of time, but he was still a newbie.

This forest was full of monsters that even the cooks couldn’t handle alone, so it would be stranger if she wasn’t worried.

“What is this…?”

Choi Hyun-seok stopped.

Because a huge open space appeared in front of him.

“It doesn’t seem like an ordinary cave…”

The size of the open space looked as big as a soccer field at a glance.

A space of unknown origin.

“I’ll go take a look.” Rachel went into the open space first and looked around.

“Can you see anything?”

“No. It’s just an empty space with nothing in it.”

“Really?”

Choi Hyun-seok looked around and slowly entered the open space.

“It’s really wide.”

“It is.”

The height alone was enormous.

“A space this big would allow even Queen Thalas to pass through.”

“I guess so…”

It was a space where even Queen Thalas, who had an enormous body, could move without difficulty.

Choi Hyun-seok was curious about the identity of this space.

At the same time, he was very uneasy.

“I can’t do this. Let’s go back.” “Huh? Why all of a sudden?”

“I don’t think such a big cave could have just formed. And this sticky stuff too…”

Choi Hyun-seok ran his hand over the cave wall.

Squeak…!

Something of unknown origin stuck to it.

It was a very unpleasant sensation.

“I think I saw something similar on the way here… Anyway, there’s this stuff everywhere, so there’s definitely something…”

Choi Hyun-seok was talking when he heard an ominous sound from behind.

“Kiek, kiek…!”

Choi Hyun-seok turned around and was startled.

“What the hell!”

“Kieeeeeeeee!”

An adult Thalas, which had appeared unnoticed, screamed and charged at them.

“Valiant! Run away!”

“I know!”

There was no option to fight.

He had already realized it when he swung his knife at the Thalas a little while ago.

He could never win in a head-on fight.

Choi Hyun-seok ran away with all his might.

‘Why is my valiant life like this!’

He was the best martial arts fighter, so he naturally thought he would become the best valiant [a brave hero].

But the reality was Slave A who had fallen into the Demon King’s army.

Then, he suddenly became a slave owner, and at some point, he joined the Demon King’s army and became a dog breeder(?).

Recently, he hunted monsters with the Demon King’s army cooks.

Now, he was in a situation where he was running away from monsters.

All of this happened in less than 2 months.

‘If I had known that this was what it was like to be a valiant, I would have never done it!’

Dreams and hopes.

A blonde noble lady.

He dreamed of marrying a noble lady and having a large mansion in his old age.

But the reality was endlessly miserable.

“Uh…?”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was running away, suddenly stopped.

“Haa… Shit…”

It was a dead end.

He kept running and arrived at a room, but it was a dead end.

“What is this again?”

There were round, unidentified objects scattered haphazardly on the floor.

They were probably Thalas eggs.

“To think that the place I ran away to was a Thalas nest, and the place I ran away from there was a dead-end hatchery…”

How could he be so unlucky?

“I’m really unlucky as hell.”

Unlike the depressed Choi Hyun-seok, the Thalas seemed very happy.

“Kieeeeeee!”

It seemed to know that Choi Hyun-seok had nowhere else to run.

Choi Hyun-seok gritted his teeth.

“I’m so sick of this shit, I can’t take it anymore!”

“Kieeeeeee!”

Did it understand Choi Hyun-seok’s words?

The Thalas charged quickly.

‘What should I do!? Think fast!’

Choi Hyun-seok frantically racked his brain.

He shouted bravely, but he didn’t want to die.

He hadn’t met a beautiful blonde noble lady yet.

He hadn’t seen rabbit-like children either.

He absolutely didn’t want to end this life as an old bachelor.

In the meantime, the Thalas, which had approached within striking distance, slammed its legs down at an incredible speed.

“Ugh!?”

Thwack! Thwack!

Every time the sharp legs slammed down on the floor, a chilling sound was heard.

Choi Hyun-seok rolled around on the floor, frantically dodging.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

The legs were slammed down in succession.

Cold sweat ran down his body from the terrifying momentum.

‘I’m really going to die like this! I have to do something!’

Just before becoming a spider leg kebab.

Choi Hyun-seok noticed something strange.

‘Its movements are unnatural?’

The Thalas was a little strange.

The monster, which had been slamming its legs down like crazy until now, was suddenly swinging its legs unnaturally.

Choi Hyun-seok stepped back and narrowed his eyes.

‘What’s wrong? Why is it suddenly acting like that?’

It was swinging its legs, but the Thalas was hesitating as if it was flustered.

At that moment, something caught Choi Hyun-seok’s eye.

‘Could it be…?’

His gaze was fixed on the eggs on the floor.

As soon as he quickly picked up an egg, the Thalas stopped as if it had frozen.

“You. Are you worried about this?”

A wicked smile appeared on Choi Hyun-seok’s face.