Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 70
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“Ugh… It’s disgusting…”
Rachel’s expression was deeply wrinkled as she spoke.
Choi Hyun-seok also watched ahead with a furrowed brow, as if agreeing.
“Was it called Almasen? It’s really disgusting seeing it in person.”
“It’s a magic beast that stores magical energy. It’s not naturally occurring, but was created through experiments.”
“Whatever it is, it looks truly horrible.”
Almasen.
This artificially created magic beast had an extremely grotesque appearance.
A spherical body like a ball.
Its massive size easily exceeded 5m in diameter.
The skin, covered in bulging blood vessels, pulsated like a heart, repeatedly expanding and contracting.
From what appeared to be its snout, a long tube extended out, with a seal-like demon stuck at its end.
“Now I understand why everyone was having fits about not wanting to receive the Endurance Punishment.”
“This is my first time seeing it in person too, and it’s really unbearable to look at…”
Endurance Punishment.
It’s a punishment that forcibly extracts demonic energy from demons’ bodies.
As declared, Hemis imposed the Endurance Punishment on demons who didn’t pass the competition.
“This is unfair! What did I do wrong to deserve the Endurance Punishment!?”
Actually, when the competition had just ended, everyone thought the punishment wouldn’t be carried out.
After all, out of 100 demons, 76 of them.
And they were all powerful beings with battalion commander-level strength.
In human terms, this was equivalent to collectively torturing high-ranking nobles.
All because they lost in a tournament.
But Hemis was a corps commander who followed through with her words.
The morning after the competition ended.
She mercilessly carried out the punishment.
“No…! Remove these disgusting tentacles right now!”
The method of executing the Endurance Punishment is simple.
A tentacle extending from the magic beast Almasen pierces the body and sucks out demonic energy like a mosquito.
However, this time, those receiving punishment were quite capable individuals, so it wasn’t easy.
They resisted to avoid having their demonic energy stolen.
Creak…!
The magic beast Almasen tried to forcefully suck in demonic energy with its tentacles, but as if blocked by something, the demonic energy wouldn’t come out.
Since it wasn’t originally created as a combat-type magic beast, forcibly taking demonic energy from battalion commander-level beings was too much.
Watching this scene, Hemis sighed and moved.
“I told you it would be harder if you resist. Why won’t you listen?”
“C-Corps Commander…”
“I clearly said I would execute the punishment myself, so why waste unnecessary energy?”
“T-That…”
The demonic energy flowing from Hemis constricted their entire body.
The seal demon sweated profusely as if caught in rain.
“I-I’m sorry! Please just spare my life!”
They begged desperately.
Of course, it was futile.
Hemis placed her hand on the seal demon’s shoulder.
Simultaneously, their eyes bulged, and an enormous amount of demonic energy began leaving their body.
Gulp, gulp!
Almasen pulsated vigorously to accommodate the suddenly rushing demonic energy.
It was quite a struggle as several times more than its normal capacity was flowing in at once.
“Kuheork…!”
The seal demon’s eyes had rolled back, and foam was flowing from their mouth.
Shortly after.
They collapsed to the ground, completely twisted like a mummy.
Seeing this, Choi Hyun-seok and Rachel trembled.
“That one’s dead, right…?”
“Yes… They’re dead…”
They really did die.
It was essentially equivalent to executing a death sentence.
Hemis grinned while looking at the seal demon’s shell and raised her head.
“From now on, anyone who causes trouble will end up like this, so don’t resist and quietly accept it. Understand?”
After that, everything went smoothly.
The demons offered no resistance.
Some demons even pushed themselves toward Almasen, urging it to take their demonic energy.
Having demonic energy drained to the limit was terribly painful, and it took quite a while to recover, but.
It was better than dying.
Watching this entire process, Choi Hyun-seok could renew his determination.
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‘Final top 10. I must get in somehow.’
Hemis’s words about sending him to the research lab.
He had thought it might just be an empty threat but… No.
If he doesn’t make it into the top 10, he will truly be sent to the research lab.
“If my limbs start stretching, my future wife wouldn’t like that, right?”
“Even an unprejudiced woman would find it hard to date a man with 8 limbs.”
“That’s true…”
“Having two heads would be troublesome too.”
“Yeah.”
“And down there, multiple…”
“Stop, stop!!!”
“Just how crazy is this crazy angel?”
After glaring at Rachel for a moment, Choi Hyun-seok withdrew his gaze and fell back into thought.
‘To achieve my dream, I absolutely cannot go to the research lab.’
Marriage to a blonde noble lady.
Five rabbit-like children.
Watching grandchildren playing at a mansion in his old age.
For all of this to happen, he needed to date first.
However, if he went to the research lab, dating would probably be out of the question.
Instead of a blonde noble lady, he might end up with an unprejudiced demon woman with about 10 limbs as his wife.
But that wasn’t what Choi Hyun-seok wanted.
“Since it’s over, let’s go back. Need to train quickly.”
“Yes!”
The Endurance Punishment execution had already ended.
On the way back to Bobo’s house.
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes were shining even brighter than usual.
***
After returning home.
Choi Hyun-seok thoroughly checked his status for the first time in a while.
What he currently had and what he lacked.
He felt the need to reorganize what he would need going forward.
“Let’s check the status window first.”
Choi Hyun-seok opened his status window and carefully examined it.
▫Name: Choi Hyun-seok
▫Title: Hero Candidate
▫Level: 466
▫Hero Points: 1300
▫Abilities: Pickaxe Usage(C), Leadership(C), Cooking(D), Magic Power Control(C), Demonic Energy Control(D)
▫Skills: Reidrun-style Fighting Technique, Reidrun-style Fighting Technique Modified Strength, Plomot, Nobilrace
The most noticeable changes were in abilities and skills.
The grades of ‘Magic Power Control’ and ‘Demonic Energy Control’ had risen considerably.
This was a natural result of focusing on handling magic power and demonic energy.
He planned to consistently train these two as they were crucial for becoming stronger.
“Leadership went up one too?”
‘Leadership,’ which had stayed stagnant for quite a while, also rose one level to C-grade in this battle.
Choi Hyun-seok checked the detailed description of Leadership.
□ Leadership
‧ Grade: C
‧ Description: Increases efficiency when commanding others.
‧ Effects:
– Increases probability of subordinates following commander’s orders.
– Increases probability of subordinates understanding commander’s orders.
– Increases performance ability when subordinates execute commander’s orders.
After checking the description, Choi Hyun-seok let out a small exclamation.
“Oh, was the last phrase newly added when the grade went up?”
– Increases performance ability when subordinates execute commander’s orders.
This was an effect that wasn’t there before.
It seemed to be newly added with the grade increase.
“I’m not sure how much the efficiency will actually increase, but it’s better than nothing.”
He had a feeling he would be fighting alongside others more and more in the future.
Leadership would shine even more during those times.
Moreover, Leadership was linked with the hidden stat, Charisma.
As Charisma increased, Leadership efficiency increased as well.
In summary, it was an ability that showed more promise for the future than the present.
“Nobilrace, newly added to skills. I should complete this quickly too.”
The martial technique ‘Nobilrace’ created with Reidrun.
This was still an incomplete martial technique.
As it involved handling both magical energy and demonic energy, it required extremely high proficiency.
It seemed he would need to invest a lot of time in increasing proficiency and refining Nobilrace during the remaining ten days.
After organizing everything to some extent.
Finally, Choi Hyun-seok looked at the center of his status window.
▫Hero Points: 1300
“Hero Points… What should I do with these?”
He hadn’t used much since obtaining a large amount of Hero Points last time.
All he bought was the 150-point Combat Power Meter.
Choi Hyun-seok pondered where to spend the remaining Hero Points.
“It seems wasteful to just keep holding onto them…”
“Just use them all!”
“On what?”
“Well, couldn’t you buy abilities or items?”
Choi Hyun-seok shook his head at Rachel’s words.
“Then I might not be able to use them when I really need to.”
Until now, Choi Hyun-seok had kept Hero Points as a kind of insurance.
When he couldn’t see a way forward, he often found solutions in the Hero Shop.
“Then just keep them!”
“Isn’t it a bit wasteful to just leave them when we could buy useful abilities and develop them?”
“Eek…!”
Rachel’s cheeks puffed up.
Dissatisfied either way.
She seemed unwilling to accept whatever he said.
At this point, wasn’t her main purpose just to tease him?
“If you’re going to decide on your own anyway, why did you ask!?”
“I’m not deciding, I’m asking for opinions.”
“You don’t listen anyway!”
“Hmm, I wonder if there’s something immediately helpful, reasonably priced, and with good growth potential.”
As Choi Hyun-seok was muttering, a rather familiar female voice came from behind him.
“Hey. Isn’t that too much of a thief’s mindset?”
Choi Hyun-seok turned around with a disbelieving look.
There stood the woman he had met in front of Hemis’s office.
Park Hyun-a, commander of the 4th Corps of the Demon King’s Army, was looking at him.
***
If he had to define his first impression of Park Hyun-a in one sentence, it would be this,
A real crazy woman.
He could still vividly remember her causing trouble by headbutting his chest at their first meeting.
‘No, not just a crazy woman. Since she’s a corps commander, she must be incredibly strong.’
Even the Combat Power Meter that could measure up to 200,000 showed ‘measurement impossible’ for her.
She’s strong enough to hold a corps commander position in the Demon King’s Army despite being a hero.
So she’s not just a crazy woman.
‘A real powerful, real crazy woman.’
She was troublesome in many ways.
Being really crazy was problematic enough, but being really powerful made it hopeless.
Choi Hyun-seok raised his hand while trying to gather his scattered thoughts.
“Uh… Hell…O?”
When Choi Hyun-seok awkwardly greeted her like a broken robot, Park Hyun-a’s face crumpled.
“What’s with that idiotic greeting? Did you eat something wrong?”
“Uh… Yes.”
“Never mind that. I heard you have some Hero Points left? How many?”
“I currently have 1,300 points.”
“What’s your shop grade?”
“Intermediate.”
“Not much use then.”
Park Hyun-a said cynically while sitting on a rock.
Hyun-seok carefully watched her.
‘Thankfully, she doesn’t seem to be here to pick a fight.’
If she wasn’t here to pick a fight, Park Hyun-a’s appearance was quite welcome.
Although she’s now with the Demon King’s Army, Park Hyun-a had walked the path of a hero long before Choi Hyun-seok.
Maybe he could get some help from her.
“Wouldn’t it be good to buy useful abilities in advance?”
“Small stuff won’t help much. Fighting techniques are decent, but you’re already learning several, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Then don’t waste points on useless things, just save them and buy something like a spatial storage later. That’s definitely worth it.”
“Ah…”
Spatial storage.
Probably something like an inventory in RPG games.
Choi Hyun-seok thought he should look into it later.
Then Park Hyun-a turned to Choi Hyun-seok and spoke.
“Hey. You’re a hero, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then why are you in the Demon King’s Army?”
“Corps Commander… Aren’t you also in the Demon King’s Army?”
“That’s true.”
Unexpectedly, Park Hyun-a readily admitted it.
Well, that’s not what’s important – she muttered while seeming to think about something.
After a brief silence.
Park Hyun-a continued speaking.
“How do you use magical energy and demonic energy together?”
“It just happened somehow.”
“Just happened?”
“Yes. It really just happened somehow…”
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-a’s gazes met.
After quietly studying Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes, Park Hyun-a nodded.
“Right. Just happened. That could be. Just happened to use magical energy, use demonic energy, and a hero could just happen to be in the Demon King’s Army. Anything can happen just somehow. Right? Everything in life just flows that way somehow. Sure, sure.”
“…”
“Want to die?”
“I’m sorry.”
Her glaring gaze was piercing.
Choi Hyun-seok quietly turned his eyes away.
He looked at distant mountains, praying for this hellish time to end.
“Hey.”
“Yes.”
“Want to come under my command?”
“What?”
“No, just come under my command.”
“…”
Choi Hyun-seok stared at Park Hyun-a with widened eyes.
His surprised eyes trembled endlessly.
“What? Don’t want to?”
“Ah… It’s not that I don’t want to, but…”
“Want to die?”
Choi Hyun-seok ended up closing his eyes.
‘Damn. At least the lip monster could communicate. This is just hopeless…’
How could he navigate through this difficulty?
Although Choi Hyun-seok’s mind usually worked well in these situations, this opponent was too powerful.
He couldn’t see any solution at all.
‘Ah… I miss mom.’
It was a day when he particularly missed his always-gentle mother.
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