Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 245

Choi Hyun-seok, stepping out of the temple, exclaimed in mild awe.

“Whoa, you really didn’t have to go to such lengths to welcome me.”

He had expected the enemy to be gathered to some extent, but he hadn’t anticipated such a welcoming crowd waiting for him.

Probably thousands, maybe even over ten thousand.

Every single one of them was brandishing a blade, their eyes filled with murderous intent.

Priests and paladins. Mages were mixed in here and there as well.

“I told you to come out quickly, didn’t I?””Ahem, a few seconds wouldn’t have made much of a difference anyway.”

“Easy for you to say.”

In truth, he wasn’t wrong.

Even if Choi Hyun-seok had come out immediately without dawdling, the enemy would have been gathered in much the same way as they were now.

Park Hyun-ah scratched her head irritably.

“We’re breaking through quickly. We can’t kill them all anyway. More reinforcements will keep coming, so it’s not good to stay here for long.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“You lead the way.”

Choi Hyun-seok stepped forward without complaint.

Even though being at the front was dangerous, for some reason, he was beaming.

‘Sis is finally acknowledging that I’m stronger now,’ Choi Hyun-seok thought.

It’s only natural for the stronger person to lead the way!

Park Hyun-ah telling him to lead the way was clearly based on this thought.

At least in terms of close combat ability, she definitely acknowledged that he was superior.

“Hehehe…”

“Is he really crazy? Why is he grinning creepily in this situation…?”

Choi Hyun-seok was smirking, and Park Hyun-ah, seeing Choi Hyun-seok like that, wore a slightly frightened expression.

It was then that two men approached.

“You bastards! Where is the Cardinal!?””Release the Lord!”

One was a paladin using divine power, the other a knight using magic power.

Both of them exuded an aura belonging to the upper ranks of heroes, and seemed to be representatives of each group.

Instead of Choi Hyun-seok, who was still smirking, Park Hyun-ah answered the question.

“Cardinal and Lord?”

“Yes! If you release them now, we will forgive your sins….”

“They’re already dead.”

“What…?”

“He killed them.”

Choi Hyun-seok doubted his ears.

‘He killed them’?

Turning around, he saw Park Hyun-ah wearing a mischievous smile.

“Sis? What is this…?”

“You should lead the way, right?”

Park Hyun-ah reached out and pushed Choi Hyun-seok’s chest, who was standing defenselessly.

Thud-

“Ah?”

Choi Hyun-seok, sent flying, landed like a ghost in front of the two heroes.

The two heroes glared at Choi Hyun-seok with fire in their eyes.

“You fiend!!!”

“How dare you!”

“Listen. It’s true that I killed that old geezer, but the pot-bellied baldy was killed by that witch over there… Ah, did I kill the baldy too? I guess I did.”

Thinking about it again, he had killed them both.

“Hey! The rest wasn’t done by me, but…””Atone with your death!”

Swords flew in from both sides.

Just looking at the swordsmanship, one could tell.

These guys were top-tier heroes.

However, Choi Hyun-seok was already top-tier within the realm of legends.

An insurmountable wall existed between them.

Clang! Clang-!

He raised his arms and blocked the two swords.

The sword strikes, which could cut through steel like tofu, only managed to leave scratches on his skin.

The two knights’ eyes widened, and soon Choi Hyun-seok’s counterattack came crashing down.

Thwack! Pow!

The two knights, struck by his fists, fell away in unison.

They weren’t dead, but they staggered, showing the great impact they had sustained.

Realizing the situation, they shouted urgently.

“The enemy is a legend! Attack! All-out attack!””Initiate anti-legend combat tactics!””Cast binding magic! Weaken him with debuff magic!””Priests, use blessings!””Strengthen the barrier! It can’t stop a legend at its current level!”

The enemy’s response was quite impressive.

A sudden battle unfolded.

The ‘Deusis Church’ and the ‘Doismann Kingdom,’ two different groups, were united.

Despite this, they hastily formed ranks and launched magic at Choi Hyun-seok.

It seemed they had been training to some extent in preparation for such a situation.

‘My body is heavy.’

Hundreds of spells flew in from all directions.

Various debuff spells that weakened the body were stacked, and his stamina rapidly decreased.

Even if he released mana to dispel the magic, it was reapplied in the blink of an eye, making little difference.

At this rate, he wouldn’t last long.

Choi Hyun-seok, who initially intended to move forward while only looking ahead, changed his mind.

‘Even if it’s a bit much, I’ll shake the enemy with one big hit.’

Choi Hyun-seok instantly gathered mana.

The mana gathered to the point that both hands trembled.

Even during that time, the surrounding attacks continued, but he ignored them.

After all, ordinary attacks couldn’t even leave a scratch on his skin.

‘Now!’

The purple light gathered in both hands shone as if it would explode at any moment.

Choi Hyun-seok swung his hands towards the ground, releasing all the mana he had gathered.

Nobilis

Seventh Form – Wrath of the King

Both hands touched the ground, and purple light burst forth.

KWAH-AH-AH-ANG-!

With the explosion, the ground shook.

Hundreds of soldiers were sent flying by the shockwave.

A huge crater, dozens of meters in diameter, was created around him.

It was an incredible result, but Choi Hyun-seok clicked his tongue inwardly, as if he wasn’t satisfied.

‘I guess the original power isn’t coming out.’

In fact, ‘Wrath of the King’ was twice as strong as this.

Currently, the power was weakened due to the extreme interference from the surrounding debuff magic and other disturbances.

‘At least I can catch my breath now, so that’s a relief. I’ll break through as much as possible now!’

The soldiers’ agitation deepened due to the aftermath of the large technique.

In this gap, Choi Hyun-seok charged forward.

Clang! Bang!

“Kuh-ah-ah-ah!”

“It’s the sky! The sky!”

Explosions occurred one after another nearby.

As a result, the frequency of magic flying towards Choi Hyun-seok greatly decreased.

It seemed that Park Hyun-ah was mainly dealing with the priests and mages.

“Run! Just a little further and it’s over!”

“Yes!”

How far had they cut through the forest of soldiers?

Finally, a point with no people in sight began to appear.

“No! Stop them!”

“Support! When is support coming!?””Don’t let them pass…! Keuk!”

He kicked off the head of a knight who seemed to be a commander and soared into the air.

Park Hyun-ah, who had approached sometime ago, took her place next to him.

“You see the barrier? We’ll hit it at the same time!”

“Let’s go on three!”

Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah pulled back their fists as if they had made a promise.

“”One. Two. Three!””

Kwa-jjang-!

The barrier shattered, and a sharp noise echoed.

Now there was nothing blocking the two of them.

Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah sprinted with all their might.

The enemy desperately pursued, but once they had escaped the encirclement, the outcome was as good as decided.

In an instant, the two escaped the city and disappeared leisurely into the forest.

***

The group, having finished their work, returned straight to their hideout.

It wasn’t the previous forest cabin, but an old abandoned house.

Judging by the fact that there were several similar abandoned houses nearby, it seemed to be a village where shifting cultivators [nomadic farmers] had lived before leaving.

“It ended more anticlimactically than I thought,” Choi Hyun-seok said, sitting down on a wooden chair.

The chair creaked uneasily, as if its condition was not good.

“We were lucky. The high-ranking nobles died off completely, so the command system didn’t work properly.”

“The response seemed pretty good for that.”

“It’s probably because of me. I’ve been acting up so much that they must have distributed something like a response manual to the entire army.”

Park Hyun-ah’s guess was accurate.

She and Gatren had been fighting each other for a long time.

Gatren, whose pride was hurt by the fact that the empire had been toyed with by one person at the time, had steadily researched tactics.

Then, the two’s war, which had started again three months ago.

Gatren, as if he had been waiting for this day, showcased various tactics he had researched in the meantime.

Thanks to that, even though she had become stronger than before, Park Hyun-ah’s movements were more restricted.

In the end, she ended up fighting only by launching large-scale magic from afar and running away.

“Can’t we just blow this place away with magic too?””I told you, the magic defenses of large cities are not easy to deal with. The Cardinal and priests’ defense magic are also a problem.”

Suddenly, Park Hyun-ah nudged Choi Hyun-seok’s shoulder.

“And you, man. What happens to the people living there if you blow up the city with magic? Are you going to screw over thousands of innocent people living in the city just to catch one Cardinal? We’re heroes, even if it doesn’t look like it.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

“The same goes for why I couldn’t enter the city alone. If I had moved alone, we wouldn’t have been able to break through so cleanly like this. The whole city would probably have turned into a sea of fire.”

Park Hyun-ah’s abilities are mainly focused on magical things.

Especially fire magic among them.

When she fights, the range of damage inevitably widens.

It was inevitable that the entire city would be damaged.

“That’s unexpected. I didn’t know you were living with such humanitarian thoughts, sis.”

“Hearing that from you makes me twice as annoyed.”

Park Hyun-ah made a truly dumbfounded expression and shuddered.

Choi Hyun-seok was emotionally hurt by the unexpected violent reaction.

“What do you think of people as, anyway?”

“A sociopath?”

“I’m a hero. A legendary one at that.”

“Then you’re a sociopathic hero.”

“The legendary part is missing.”

“Is that what’s important to you right now…?”

Park Hyun-ah, who was about to continue to argue, sighed deeply.

“That’s enough. Let’s stop.”

It seemed like it would only make her head hurt more if they talked more.

Choi Hyun-seok leaned back against the backrest and closed his eyes, as if he agreed.

The unstable chair creaked once again.

“What are we going to do from now on?”

“We need to focus on hunting Cardinals for a while.”

“Like before, focusing on Cardinals outside the Gatren Empire?”

“That’s right. There’s no other way to effectively reduce Gatren’s influence like this.”

From the perspective of a small kingdom.

The existence of a Cardinal was enough to make them tremble just by hearing the name.

Leaving aside the backing of Gatren or the Deusis Church.

Just looking at the scale of the army that could be mobilized, the Cardinal was more powerful than the king of a small country.

Therefore, if a Cardinal settled down under the pretext of religious activities, the entire kingdom would inevitably be gradually taken over by the Deusis Church.

Even knowing that, the existence of the Cardinal was something that could not be rejected.

“The King of Doismann is probably taking off his pants and screaming right now. He’s finally been freed from the hands of that tiresome old man.”

“I see.”

Choi Hyun-seok, who roughly understood the situation, nodded.

“But doesn’t something feel strange?”

“Strange? What?”

“It feels strangely empty…”

Choi Hyun-seok stroked his chin and pondered.

Park Hyun-ah looked bewildered, as if she didn’t know at all.

After pondering for a long time like that.

Choi Hyun-seok was able to figure out what felt empty.

“Rachel! Rachel is gone!”

“She’s over there.”

“Yes?”

Park Hyun-ah pointed to one corner of the abandoned house.

When he shifted his gaze, he saw Rachel huddled in a corner, burying her face in her knees.

“She’s been like that ever since she came here?”

“Ah…”

Choi Hyun-seok, feeling somewhat guilty, slowly approached Rachel.

The closer he got, the more he could hear Rachel muttering softly.

“I’m finished now… I’m tainted… Between pork and anchovy broth… Slimy… No…!”

“Rachel?”

“I have to die! I’d rather die!”

Rachel jumped up.

Holding a splinter smaller than a toothpick, he didn’t know where she picked it up.

“Eeee…!”

She squeezed her eyes shut and brought the piece of iron to her neck.

Choi Hyun-seok sighed deeply as he watched Rachel trembling.

“I’m going to commit suicide! I’m going to die! I’m tainted!””Rachel. You’ll get tetanus if you play around with that kind of thing.”

“I’m really going to die! I’m going to die!”

“Ugh…”

He couldn’t stand to see her tearfully shaking the piece of iron any longer.

Even if he left her alone, it didn’t seem like she would ever die, but Choi Hyun-seok decided to play along.

Anyway, it was true that he had thrown Rachel into that hell.

“I’m sorry.”

“I’m going to die! Die! Apologies can’t save me!””Okay. Okay. I’ll buy you macarons too.”

“Die…! Macarons?”

Rachel’s eyes twinkled for a moment.

“How many are you going to buy me… I’m telling you in advance, don’t even think about wiping my mouth with one or two… My death isn’t that light…”

“I’ll buy you ten.”

“Twenty.”

“You can’t even eat them all anyway.”

“Twenty!”

“Okay. Twenty.”

“Yes!”

Rachel clenched her fist and cheered.

All she needed to come back to life was just macarons.

Twenty.

The weight of death was lighter than he thought.