Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 78

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Choi Hyun-seok looked at the sky with tired eyes.

He slightly squinted at the sunlight coming through the leaves.

‘Ah… I really feel like I’m dying.’

It wasn’t just a figure of speech – he really felt like he was dying.

The use of Plomot had ended, and the horns on his head had disappeared.

Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t move a finger due to the overwhelming exhaustion.

Rachel approached and placed her hand on Choi Hyun-seok’s forehead.

“Hero, are you alright?”

“No…”

“Just wait a moment! I’ll heal you!”

Rachel didn’t joke around as usual.

Knowing Choi Hyun-seok’s condition was serious, she immediately began healing.

Woong…

Bright light emanated from her hands.

Choi Hyun-seok’s wounds began closing and healing on their own.

However, the wounds soon reopened and blood burst out.

“Not enough magical power…”

Rachel and Choi Hyun-seok share magical power.

This means that when Choi Hyun-seok’s magic runs out, Rachel can’t do anything either.

Choi Hyun-seok’s magical power was almost depleted from the consecutive battles.

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes widened when he saw the item’s price.

“F-five hundred points!? Was what I just drank?”

“Yes. There were exactly two of them. Drink that one quickly too.”

“How can I drink something so expensive…”

“You’re about to die and you’re worried about mere Hero Points!?”

“Ah, you’re right.”

Choi Hyun-seok gulped down the potion.

Knowing it was 500 points somehow made it taste more premium.

The strawberry cough syrup taste had somehow transformed into premium strawberry ice cream flavor.

Indeed, everything depends on how you think about it.

“Ahh…! They say good medicine tastes good for a reason!”

Maybe it was because he drank two 500-point potions.

He could already feel the effects.

Choi Hyun-seok put down the empty bottle with noticeably easier breathing.

“Rachel. Where did you get these?”

“I found them on the dead heroes.”

“Dead heroes?”

“Yes. Seems like some of them had inventories.”

Inventory.

It was an ability Park Hyun-a had recommended buying from the hero shop.

Choi Hyun-seok didn’t have it yet, but apparently some enemies did.

“Ah, come to think of it, sometimes things did drop when they died.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. Looks like the system makes them disgorge all items in their inventory when they die.”

He had noticed things dropping occasionally during battle, but didn’t know it was from inventories.

Choi Hyun-seok slowly looked around.

He could see quite a few items piled up near some of the heroes’ corpses.

“This hero system. It’s really cruel.”

“Why?”

“Well, you level up from killing fellow heroes, and even get items like this. It feels like it’s encouraging us to kill each other.”

“Hmm, when you put it that way…”

Rachel stroked her chin as if thinking about something.

At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok stood up, trembling.

“Phew, now that I feel a bit better, I should move.”

Choi Hyun-seok walked toward the corpses.

Rachel watched him with a worried face.

‘Hero. Could he be suffering from guilt over killing people…?’

Choi Hyun-seok had killed many people this time.

While he had killed many magical beasts and demons before, this was essentially his first time directly killing humans.

‘Maybe he’s trying to make graves for them.’

To think he would try to make graves when he’s not even well himself.

Rachel wiped her eyes, feeling heartbroken.

“Hero. Please stop. They were villains anyway.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

“You don’t need to try so hard.”

Choi Hyun-seok frowned at Rachel’s words.

“Hey. Even if they’re villains, we still need to collect their items.”

“What?”

“Shouldn’t we take all these precious things!”

“…”

“While we’re at it, let’s strip their armor and take all their weapons too. Their equipment was no joke!”

Rachel made a dumbfounded expression.

“Hero. Weren’t you just wearing a serious expression talking about how cruel the system was?”

“That’s that, and this is this.”

“…”

She felt embarrassed that she had worried even for a moment about this demon wearing a hero’s mask.

To think about collecting equipment and items while nearly dying.

Maybe the truly cruel one isn’t the system but the hero himself.

Looking at Rachel standing still, Choi Hyun-seok urged her.

“Rachel. Why are you standing there blankly? Aren’t you going to collect the equipment?”

Rachel jumped up.

“Of course not! Let’s scrape up everything without leaving even a single ring!”

“Good. Let’s pack everything!”

In truth, Rachel didn’t care from the beginning.

Who cares if other heroes die!

As long as Choi Hyun-seok is alive, that’s all that matters.

She was just briefly worried that Choi Hyun-seok might feel mental anguish.

“Oh ho, Hero! Look at this! This ring looks really good!?”

Rachel, who pulled a ring from the corpse, smiled brightly.

***

It took longer than expected to gather the items.

After stripping all the heroes’ equipment and scraping up every item that fell from their inventories, it made a small hill.

“Whew~ We collected quite a lot.”

“Yeah. That guy Toilet or whatever was the best.”

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“Right. That guy was basically a treasure chest?”

Taylor Andrew, befitting the strongest hero, had an incredible number of items.

Nearly half of all items came from his inventory alone.

“Well, most of it seems like junk items… But still better than nothing.”

Choi Hyun-seok said while roughly sorting through the items.

“Right! But Hero.”

“What?”

“How are we going to move all this? You don’t have an inventory.”

Choi Hyun-seok doesn’t have an inventory.

In other words, there’s no way to move all these items.

Rachel’s questions continued.

“Should we buy one now? Don’t they sell inventories at the hero shop?”

“I looked but couldn’t find any, seems like we need to upgrade once more.”

“Hmm, then what should we do?”

“It’s fine. We have this.”

Choi Hyun-seok held out a dark backpack.

“This is…?”

“I kept it separate earlier thinking we might need it.”

□ Superior Magic Backpack

Description: A magical backpack that expands internal volume 100 times and reduces the weight of contents to 1/10.

Ability: Volume expanded 100 times, weight reduced to 1/10.

Required Hero Points: 500

“Ah, with a space expansion backpack we can probably fit almost everything.”

Rachel immediately recognized what the backpack was.

They had received three magic backpacks from the heroes.

This should be enough to carry most things around.

“But if we have this bag, don’t we not need an inventory?”

“What?”

“If this bag is 500 points, wouldn’t an inventory be much more expensive?”

“That’s right. It probably costs several thousand points, don’t you think?”

“Then is there any need to spend expensive points to buy one? We can just use the backpack.”

“No no no. Inventory is on a different level! The space is incredibly vast, you don’t feel the weight at all, and it even has permanent preservation function!”

Rachel passionately explained the functions of the inventory.

“Besides, if this bag gets stolen, we lose everything. Compared to that, you can keep your inventory with you until the day you die.”

“Hmm, when you put it that way.”

After hearing the explanation, it seemed like they would need an inventory for various reasons.

Come to think of it, it made sense that Park Hyun-a, who had lived as a hero for a long time, recommended the inventory first.

“Phew, finished.”

“Good work.”

A moment later.

Choi Hyun-seok and Rachel were able to pack all items into three backpacks.

As it seemed the organizing was finished, Roiger, who had been waiting nearby, approached.

“Looks good.”

“Yes. It feels reassuring! Haha.”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was in a good mood after collecting lots of items, smiled brightly.

“Are you okay?”

“These friends gifted us expensive potions, so I can manage somehow.”

To be honest, he’s not in good condition even now.

It’s at a level where he absolutely needs Abelson’s treatment when he returns to the Black Giant Star.

While picking up items, he felt okay probably because of the endorphins rushing, but now that the organizing was done, the death-like pain came rushing back.

‘It doesn’t matter since I’ll be returning to the Black Giant Star soon.’

Choi Hyun-seok decided to endure.

He would be able to receive treatment from Abelson soon.

“Anyway, thank you for waiting.”

“It’s nothing. Rather, I’m sorry I couldn’t help.”

Roiger was focused on recovering from the side effects of Plomot.

That’s why he couldn’t help Choi Hyun-seok organize the items.

‘Even so, there’s no real reason for him to apologize…’

Honestly, Choi Hyun-seok was grateful that Roiger didn’t claim ownership of these items.

After all, Roiger was his superior too.

Yet he apologized first, which was a bit surprising.

It was communication unlike what you’d expect from the Demon King’s Army.

Feeling strange, Choi Hyun-seok cleared his throat and changed the subject.

“Ahem, anyway, I think we can go back now.”

“Go back?”

“We need to go to the Black Giant Star, don’t we?”

Choi Hyun-seok asked as if it was obvious.

“We can’t go back.”

“What?”

“The gate is broken, isn’t it.”

“Ah, then perhaps we need to walk…?”

“The distance from here to the Black Giant Star is over 500km. Even if we run all day, it would take at least three days.”

Choi Hyun-seok shut his mouth.

He feels like dying just standing still, and now he has to run over 500km?

Moreover, there’s no guarantee there won’t be battles along the way.

This was basically telling them to die.

“Um… Isn’t there some way?”

“No.”

Roiger cut him off immediately.

“Then shouldn’t we wait here for support from the Black Giant Star…”

“The enemy might arrive faster than support from the Black Giant Star.”

“Then what should we do?”

“We have to go to the Black Giant Star. Running.”

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes trembled uncontrollably.

‘I thought I had barely survived, but is this how I die?’

It’s absolutely impossible.

In his current condition, forget 500km, even 50km would be difficult.

At that moment when Choi Hyun-seok was falling into despair.

Far away, a sandstorm began to rise.

Choi Hyun-seok and Roiger narrowed their eyes and looked at the sandstorm rising in the distance.

“Can you see that?”

“Yes.”

“Doesn’t it seem like it’s getting closer?”

“It appears so.”

The sandstorm gets closer and closer.

Soon, a faint noise began to be heard too.

Boom…! Boom! Boom!

The approaching sandstorm.

The volume of the noise grows louder.

“Uh, what is that!?”

“Whatever it is, we better prepare for battle.”

Something unidentified is approaching at a terrifying speed.

Sensing something ominous, Choi Hyun-seok looked at Roiger.

“Commander. Shouldn’t we run away while we still can?”

“We can’t run away. Even if I run at full speed, that speed is impossible to outrun.”

“Then…?”

“Let’s pray that’s on our side.”

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