Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 202

Sarah Dunphy continued to watch the forest.

Only after confirming that Martin Luther and the warriors had completely left did she descend to the ground.

Choi Hyun-seok bowed his head as he saw Sarah Dunphy approaching.

“Thank you for coming.”

For some reason, Sarah Dunphy wore a slightly bitter expression.

“It’s nothing. I’m just fulfilling my promise to you. Rather, I’m sorry it seems I was too late.”

After a brief greeting, she immediately examined Park Hyun-ah.

“Fortunately, her life doesn’t seem to be in immediate danger. You treated her well.”

Park Hyun-ah’s complexion had improved significantly.

This was thanks to Rachel, who had spared no expensive potions and had done her best to heal her.

“Ugh…”

At that moment, Park Hyun-ah groaned and opened her eyes.

“Sister! Are you awake!?”

“Shut up… I’ve been awake for a while, you idiot.”

In fact, Park Hyun-ah had only briefly lost consciousness and had quickly regained it.

She had watched Sarah Dunphy confront Martin Luther.

However, she didn’t have the strength to move or speak, so she had simply remained still.

“You bastard. What are you doing, pouring potions in like that? I almost suffocated to death.”

“I’m sorry.”

Choi Hyun-seok scratched the back of his head with an awkward smile.

He had been so hasty that he had apparently poured a bit too much of the potion.

“How did you get here?”

Park Hyun-ah asked, looking at Sarah Dunphy.

“I previously gave Choi Hyun-seok magic power imbued with a homing property.”

The marble that Sarah Dunphy had given contained magic power that had undergone special magical treatment.

It was designed to quickly return to the user, carrying the location information of the designated place.

“You tracked it back?”

“That’s right.”

Sarah Dunphy was able to come here based on the information within that magic power.

There was a barrier preventing teleportation nearby, so it took her some time to travel from a distance.

“By the way, I didn’t know you were the type to be so full of it,” Park Hyun-ah said suddenly, a grin spreading across her face.

“I couldn’t fool your eyes, after all.”

Sarah Dunphy smiled back.

Choi Hyun-seok tilted his head, unable to understand the context of their conversation.

“Bluff? What are you talking about?”

“That magic. It’s fake.”

Park Hyun-ah gestured with her eyes towards the sky.

Looking up, he could see black clouds made of magic power.

The dark clouds filling the sky, writhing as if they were about to unleash something at any moment, made him feel intimidated just by looking at them.

“That’s fake?”

The magic power emanating from the clouds alone was enough to make his skin crawl.

But that magic is fake?

Sarah Dunphy answered the question.

“It’s like an animal puffing up its body. It looks like it’s going to do something, but it’s not actually a threat.”

“Ah…”

“It’s not something that an average magician would notice, but it was a gamble for me as well.”

The reason Sarah Dunphy used such a trick was simple.

She couldn’t guarantee how things would go when she actually faced the enemy.

“Their linked magic is very threatening.”

Sarah Dunphy had fought the warriors before.

Although she had won without much difficulty at the time, there were only 200 enemies.

This time, there were ten times that number: 2,000.

Even if their strength had been reduced by fighting Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah, it was still an overwhelming number.

“Dolls that move mechanically without any emotion. They have no fear, and their linked magic is perfect without a single error. At the same time, each individual’s martial power is also outstanding.”

Sarah Dunphy let out a light breath.

“To be honest, I couldn’t guarantee victory either.”

Frankly, she didn’t think she would actually lose, not with Liam here with her, and the enemy exhausted from battle.

“But Park Hyun-ah here would have certainly died. Perhaps Choi Hyun-seok, you as well.”

“…”

“So I tried a little trick, and fortunately, it worked.”

Sarah Dunphy smiled brightly.

Choi Hyun-seok felt that her smile was somehow more wonderful than usual.

‘That must be what age and experience are like,’ he thought.

It’s not just about fighting and winning.

Sarah Dunphy had more power than anyone else, yet she got everything she wanted without fighting.

An even clearer victory than what she would have gained through battle.

Choi Hyun-seok felt that he had a lot to learn from her.

“By the way…”

Sarah Dunphy took a step closer to Park Hyun-ah.

“You have overloaded your magic power. And for some reason, your magic power has increased to an unmanageable level.”

“I had no choice. There was no other way.”

“Hmm, the damaged circuits will heal naturally… but the problem is the vessel.”

Sarah Dunphy’s expression became serious.

“If this continues, the vessel that holds the magic power will break.”

“What will happen then?”

“There are two possibilities. You will either never be able to use magic power again, or you will lose your life.”

It was the same thing Rachel had said a little while ago.

Choi Hyun-seok hurriedly opened the Warrior Shop [a system interface that allows him to purchase items and abilities].

“Should I use more potions? Or healing magic?”

He thought that the injury hadn’t healed because the treatment was insufficient.

Sarah Dunphy shook her head.

“It’s not something that can be solved by treating external wounds. In fact, most of the external wounds have already healed.”

“Then…”

“As I said, the biggest problem is that you have gained magic power that exceeds your limits.”

Choi Hyun-seok frowned.

Magic power that exceeds the limit.

He had a feeling that something would be a problem, but he didn’t know exactly how it would cause problems.

Then Sarah Dunphy opened her mouth.

“Think of it as a water balloon.”

“A water balloon…?”

Suddenly, she’s telling him to think of a water balloon.

Choi Hyun-seok didn’t understand, but rather than asking questions, he quietly waited for the next explanation.

“What happens if you keep putting water into a water balloon that’s already full?”

“Wouldn’t it burst? Tear, or… get a hole in it.”

“That’s right.”

Sarah Dunphy nodded and looked at Park Hyun-ah with a serious expression.

“Here, the balloon is the vessel that holds the magic power, and the water is the magic power.”

“In that case…”

“It would be fortunate if it only tore or got a hole. You would only end up not being able to use magic power anymore.”

Choi Hyun-seok swallowed hard and asked.

“If the magic power balloon bursts… will she die?”

“Yes.”

“Is there no way to solve it?”

“The easiest way is to break the vessel that holds the magic power in advance.”

“Excuse me?”

Choi Hyun-seok blinked.

She had just said that if the vessel breaks, she would die, and now she’s telling him to break the vessel.

However, this was Choi Hyun-seok’s misunderstanding.

“It’s about making a wound in advance before it bursts at the limit point. As I said, it’s like tearing a water-filled balloon. Then you won’t be able to use magic power anymore, but it won’t affect your life.”

Before it reaches the critical point and causes an explosion, the idea was to make a wound in advance so that magic power could leak out.

“Then can you recover it later?”

“It is generally accepted that once a broken vessel can never be recovered.”

“Hmm…”

In other words, she will never be able to use magic power again.

Without magic power, she will not be able to use aura or magic, and it will not even be possible to simply strengthen her body.

That’s not to say that Park Hyun-ah’s monstrous physical abilities will disappear, but it should be seen as her not being able to exert even half of her original power.

‘It’s better than dying, but…’

Choi Hyun-seok’s expression darkened.

Is there really no other way? A way to protect both life and magic power.

“Don’t make such a gloomy face. I was prepared for this anyway.”

Park Hyun-ah said, closing her eyes.

“I was already tired of fighting anyway, so I was thinking of going to a tourist city with the money I’ve saved up and acting like a nouveau riche [a person who has recently acquired wealth and is seen as ostentatious or lacking in taste].”

“What about me? Are you just going to leave me to suffer!?”

“Shut up. How many years have I been rolling around…”

“Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but…”

Suddenly, Sarah Dunphy intervened between the two.

“It is generally accepted that the vessel cannot be recovered, but I know a method that others do not know.”

***

Pope Orban IV burst into a hearty laugh.

“Haha, so it failed again… I really didn’t expect it to fail this time either.”

The Hound Unit Commander led all the members himself.

Not trusting that enough, even the warrior unit led by Martin Luther was mobilized.

But it is said to have failed again.

“And the damage is considerable.”

It’s not just that the plan failed.

More than half of the Hounds died, and 154 warriors were disposed of.

Even if it seems like nothing compared to the overall scale, it is a force that can devastate any country.

Even if the Holy Empire of Gathren is a great power, such damage is bound to be fatal if it accumulates.

Then the man who was reporting continued the explanation.

“Fortunately, it is said that there is a high possibility that Park Hyun-ah will no longer be able to recover.”

“A high possibility means it’s not certain.”

“… I’m sorry.”

The Pope shook his head.

“Why should you be sorry? You are just conveying what happened.”

The man in front of him is just a mere contact.

The Pope was not so foolish as to lose his reason in anger and vent his anger on the man in front of him.

“What happened to Ultimum Fes?”

The man’s expression brightened at the word Ultimum Fes.

This case was a definite success.

“Ultimum Fes has been completely annihilated. The leader, Carebe Cowell, was beheaded, and all the key executives were killed.”

“What about the damage on our side?”

“There is no other damage other than the deaths of soldiers and knights.”

The Pope smiled slightly.

Finally, satisfactory content has come out.

Then the person who was reporting carefully opened his mouth.

“Your Holiness, what should we do with the informant?”

The informant.

He was referring to one of the executives of Ultimum Fes.

He had been acting as a spy for Gathren for a long time, and it was not someone who ordered him, but he himself who chose to do so.

He came on his own and volunteered to be a spy, asking for a guarantee of wealth and status in the Empire in the future.

Gathren accepted his proposal, but only received information periodically and took no action.

It was kept dormant until the right time came.

“You said he was one of the executives there?”

“Yes. He is a hero from the Hegel Kingdom. He has not reached the level of a legend, but he is in the top tier among heroes.”

“Dispose of him. A person who has betrayed once may betray again at any time.”

“I understand.”

He may have done this dreaming of success, but the Pope had no intention of treating him specially.

Gathren is not so weak that it has to hold hands with such a bat-like person.

So, when the value of use disappears, he will simply be disposed of.

“And… Martin Luther’s report contains information about the person who interfered with this matter.”

“Oh, I’d like to hear that in detail.”

“Circumstantially, it seems to be the same person as the necromancer who used magic power in the Mariot Kingdom.”

Curiosity arose on the Pope’s face.

He had been looking for information on a newly emerging figure of interest, but there had been no results.

“The gender is female, she uses magic power but does not appear to be a demon, and she identified herself as Sarah Dunphy.”

“Sarah Dunphy… Sarah Dunphy… Currently, no one knows that name, so the information department has been assigned to the task.”

At that moment, the Pope’s eyes lit up as he stroked his chin.

“Look for historical records of countries that disappeared in the past. Perhaps there is a name Sarah Dunphy there.”