Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad

The collapsing cave was complete chaos.

House-sized boulders were falling down.

The dust rising from all directions made it impossible to see ahead.

In the midst of this, Choi Hyun-seok was suffering from constant noise pollution.

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The level up alerts kept piercing his ears non-stop.

“Shut up when I can’t think straight!”

Right now, level ups weren’t what mattered.

‘Somehow I need to get out of here.’

For that, he needed to escape the collapsing cave.

[Level Up!]

Along with the incoming alert, Choi Hyun-seok shouted.

“Rachel, buff!”

“Got it!”

Now just the word ‘buff’ was enough to know what to do.

Rachel cast buffs that increased Choi Hyun-seok’s physical abilities.

‘I’ll charge straight through!’

He planned to pass by the queen visible ahead and get out of the cave.

“Kieeeeeeek!”

At that moment, the queen Talas charged toward where Choi Hyun-seok was.

‘Is it trying to get revenge now!?’

Choi Hyun-seok’s mind raced quickly.

‘No. The queen’s target is the eggs!’

The eggs remaining behind him.

The queen was clearly charging to protect the eggs from the collapsing cave.

There was solid evidence for his thinking.

Because there was another crazy person trying to protect eggs even in this emergency.

“De-delicious things must be protected!”

Chef Kulkan snatched up one egg and ran.

The queen’s gaze quickly shifted following him.

‘Then I’ll break through like this!’

[Level Up!]

Along with the level up sound, Choi Hyun-seok charged forward.

The queen was charging head-on from the front, but it didn’t matter.

‘The queen’s aggro is already drawn to the egg and Kulkan anyway!’

Of course, he knew this was like gambling.

But right now was truly a situation where even a 1-second difference could determine life or death.

In such an urgent moment, he couldn’t waste time trying to go around the massive queen.

Thump thump thump thump thump thump!

The approaching queen and Choi Hyun-seok confronted each other.

Choi Hyun-seok dove between the queen’s legs.

[Level Up!]

Along with the level up alert, Choi Hyun-seok cheered.

The queen had ignored him and passed by.

Running under the queen’s belly, Choi Hyun-seok looked up.

‘It’s huge.’

Time seemed to flow slowly.

The queen’s massive belly passed through his field of vision like slow motion.

Finally, the queen and Choi Hyun-seok completely crossed paths.

[Level Up!]

Time returned to normal flow.

Kuung, kuung! Kung!

Dirt and rocks started falling from the sky again.

Kwaaang!

A house-sized boulder fell right in front of him.

The ground shook and he almost fell, but barely maintained balance.

Passing by the boulder, he looked outside.

‘I can make it.’

Light was visible through the dust.

The distance to the outside was about 200 meters.

He could definitely do it.

“Kieeeeek!”

At that moment, a Talas blocked his path.

A sharp leg flew at him.

“No time! Get out of the way!”

He twisted his head to dodge the leg.

He countered with a kick.

Kwajik!

He struck its head precisely.

“Kieek…!”

The monster only staggered briefly and didn’t seem to have taken much damage.

However.

Kuung!

It couldn’t dodge the falling rocks in time.

The Talas crushed under the rocks turned into a bloody mess.

[Level Up!]

Choi Hyun-seok ran again.

‘This won’t do. I need to raise my stats as I go.’

Even now, Talas kept dying under the rocks.

Thanks to that, the level up alerts kept coming without pause.

He had to use whatever he could to reach his destination.

▫Name: Choi Hyun-seok

▫Title: Hero Candidate

▫Level: 179

• Strength: 56
• Agility: 53
• Stamina: 55
• Magic Power: 53
• Charisma: 27
• Bonus Points: 71

▫Hero Points: 150

▫Abilities: Pickaxe Usage(C), Leadership(E), Cooking(F)

▫Skills: –

The bonus points had accumulated to 71 before he knew it.

Choi Hyun-seok invested in his stats at an incredible speed.

[Level Up!]

Right then, he cleanly reached level 180 with the level up.

Choi Hyun-seok invested all his points without leaving any.

[Combat Power has reached the target]

[Hero Quest completed]

[Acquired 300 Hero Points]

It seemed his Combat Power had exceeded 3000 with the point investment.

However, there was no time to leisurely celebrate.

“Kieeee!”

Another Talas blocked his path.

Swoosh!

A leg flew in quickly.

Choi Hyun-seok instead dove into the monster’s embrace.

Blood droplets sprayed as the leg grazed his skin.

“Heeyah!”

He threw his fist with all his might.

Crack!

The Talas’s head cracked and fluid leaked out.

But it wasn’t dead.

The monster was still breathing.

[Level Up!]

Another alert sound.

Choi Hyun-seok quickly invested his bonus points in strength.

Then he kicked the staggering Talas.

“Die!”

His heel precisely struck the already cracked shell.

Thud!

The Talas’s head was completely shattered.

[Level Up!]

Choi Hyun-seok was certain.

There was no need to run away anymore.

‘I’ll crush anything that blocks my path.’

The goal was to escape the cave.

Until then, he just had to keep running forward.

“Kieeeeek!”

“Get out of my way!”

Choi Hyun-seok kicked off the ground and jumped.

It was jumping power that far transcended human limits.

Landing above the Talas’s head in one bound, Choi Hyun-seok brought his fist down.

Crack, crack! Bang!

He struck the same spot repeatedly in one breath.

The Talas’s outer shell shattered instantly.

Green fluid sprayed everywhere.

[Level Up!]

Choi Hyun-seok ran again.

Kuung! Kung! Kwaaaa!

Rocks and mounds of dirt came pouring down like crazy.

The dust made it difficult to even keep his eyes open.

The cave was now on the verge of complete collapse.

▫Name: Choi Hyun-seok

▫Title: Hero Candidate

▫Level: 198

• Strength: 80
• Agility: 77
• Stamina: 79
• Magic Power: 77
• Charisma: 27
• Bonus Points: 0

▫Hero Points: 450

▫Abilities: Mining(C), Leadership(E), Cooking(F)

▫Skills: –

Choi Hyun-seok kept investing in his stats without rest.

He was already at level 198.

It seemed he would reach 200 soon.

[Level Up!]

Another alert sounded.

‘Almost there!’

The cave exit was right in front of him now.

As the dust cleared, the light began to brighten.

Rumble rumble rumble…!

The cave was completely collapsing.

The ceiling had come down right above his head.

‘The final…!’

Choi Hyun-seok ran with all his might.

Kwaaaaaaa…!

As the cave ceiling came down, dust spread in all directions.

It was like the shockwave of multiple bombs going off at once.

[Level Up!]

The final level up alert sounded.

Choi Hyun-seok slumped down on the ground.

“Huff, hah…!”

He was covered in wounds and looked unrecognizable.

“I’m alive…”

But Choi Hyun-seok had survived.

***

Rumble!

The ground shook as if there was an earthquake.

Choi Hyun-seok was completely covered in dirt, looking like a clay figure.

“Ptui, ptui!”

Choi Hyun-seok spat out the dirt in his mouth.

“Damn. A hero’s life is truly spectacular.”

“Hero! You’re alive! You’re alive!”

“I know.”

“You came out alive from that hell! Can you believe it!?”

Rachel bounced around excitedly.

“I knew you could do it!? As expected of the SSS-rank potential genius hero Choi Hyun-seok!”

“I get it. Just do verse one.”

“Hero hero hero!!!”

“I said I get it!”

“Hero!”

Rachel slapped Choi Hyun-seok’s cheek.

Slap!

Choi Hyun-seok turned around in surprise.

“Damn! What’s that all of a sudden!?”

“Look over there!”

“Huh?”

Choi Hyun-seok looked where Rachel was pointing.

“Something’s moving…?”

The rocks were shifting.

Choi Hyun-seok tensed his body.

Though he didn’t want to move a finger, if it was an enemy, he couldn’t miss the opportunity.

Bang!

Finally, the rocks flew away and what appeared was…

“I protected the egg!”

It was Head Chef Kulkan.

Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t help but laugh in disbelief.

“You really are amazing in many ways…”

Perhaps this was befitting of someone with 35,000 Combat Power?

The fact that he managed to protect the egg from breaking during all that was truly unbelievable.

“Sir Kulkan!”

Just then, Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes widened.

“Oh, Choi Hyun-seok, you’re alive? You’re quite tough too.”

“Sir Kulkan! Behind! Look behind you!”

“Hm? What’s behind…”

Kulkan couldn’t finish his words as he turned around.

Crack!

The queen’s leg that had suddenly flown in pierced right through Kulkan’s head.

Thud…

Kulkan died while holding the egg he had so desperately wanted to protect.

Rumble…

The rocks and dirt piles shifted.

The queen that had been buried underneath revealed herself.

“Haa… Please, really…”

Choi Hyun-seok let out a deep sigh.

The fully risen queen shook her head as if shaking off dirt.

Then she looked at her belly.

She seemed to be checking if the egg she had been carrying was safe.

“Kieeek…”

Below was nothing but green fluid.

The queen had held the egg to protect it, but that had turned out to be poison instead.

Unable to bear the weight of the falling rock, it ended up bursting the egg.

The lower abdomen was soaked with sticky green bodily fluid.

The queen raised her head and looked at Choi Hyun-seok.

Choi Hyun-seok made a troubled expression.

“Hey, humanely speaking, you can’t blame that on me, right?”

Rachel nodded repeatedly at Choi Hyun-seok’s words.

“Right. That’s fair! But hero.”

“What?”

“Aren’t you going to run?”

“I want to run too.”

“Then why are you standing still?”

“Because I feel like I’ll die the moment I move.”

“Ah…!”

The queen’s size is enormously large.

However, her movements were anything but slow.

Just a moment ago, Kulkan’s head was taken off before he could even react.

From the start, the queen’s speed wasn’t something that could be outrun.

“So what do we do now?”

“Let’s see what she does first.”

Just as Choi Hyun-seok finished speaking.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeee!”

The queen started charging with a horrific scream.

Choi Hyun-seok ran straight towards her.

The queen’s leg brushed right past him.

Swoooosh!

A thunderous sound like a fighter jet passing by rang out.

‘To survive, I need to grab the egg!’

There’s no use in just running away anyway.

Kulkan’s legacy.

The last remaining egg.

That’s the only hope.

“Got it!”

The moment Choi Hyun-seok tried to snatch the egg.

Whoosh!

The egg disappeared before his eyes.

The queen had been one step faster.

The queen picked up the egg and safely placed it on her back.

“Kieeek! Kiek!”

Choi Hyun-seok somehow thought the queen was laughing.

“Hero, what do we do now…?”

“Good question.”

Choi Hyun-seok blankly stared at the queen.

‘Hah… I really thought I’d made it.’

This is how it ends up.

As he smiled bitterly, Choi Hyun-seok suddenly clenched his fist.

‘No. I can’t die like this.’

How had he endured until now?

He had desperately survived by putting on all kinds of flattery.

He had survived by rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling!

‘There’s still a way.’

The last method remaining to him.

The hero points earned from completing this hero quest.

▫Hero Points: 450

‘While running away, I’ll somehow look for something useful in the hero shop.’

There must be some item that could help.

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes gleamed.

‘I’ll dodge according to the queen’s movement timing.’

Running creates limitations in movement.

It was better to accurately observe her movements and dodge.

‘Now!’

As the queen’s leg lifted, Choi Hyun-seok threw his body.

Kwaaaa!

A thunderous sound rang out as the queen’s leg pierced the ground.

Her legs continued to strike down.

Choi Hyun-seok dodged the legs with reflexes that surprised even himself.

But it’s too early to celebrate.

‘I don’t have time to look through the hero shop!’

Focusing all his energy on escaping each moment, he had no capacity to check the hero shop.

‘I’m out of stamina too…’

Choi Hyun-seok’s stamina was already at its limit.

Though he was forcing his leg muscles to keep going, how much longer could he last?

Tak!

At that moment, his foot caught on a stone on the ground.

Choi Hyun-seok fell flat on the ground.

Swoooooosh!

The queen’s leg came flying, not missing the opportunity.

The queen’s leg gets closer in real-time.

‘No…!’

Choi Hyun-seok tightly shut his eyes.

Kuung…!

A heavy noise is heard.

‘Am I alive?’

For some reason, Choi Hyun-seok wasn’t dead.

He slightly opened his eyes.

“Ah…”

A red skin, muscular broad back comes into view.

“Lord Reidrun…”

Bull-head Reidrun was blocking the queen’s leg.

“I knew you’d be alive, Choi Hyun-seok.”

Reidrun spoke without looking back.

Choi Hyun-seok felt like he was about to cry.

“I’ll handle what’s behind.”

Flames began to surge from Reidrun’s horns.

He lifted the queen’s leg with tremendous strength.

‘That, that can be lifted…!?’

Reidrun grabbed the queen’s leg and knocked her over.

Kuuung!

The ground shook as the queen’s massive body fell.

Reidrun didn’t stop and charged forward.

Kwajik! Kwajik! Kwang!

Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t properly see what was happening.

He could only tell Reidrun was attacking from the queen’s screams.

“Heup!”

Suddenly, black light poured out from Reidrun’s body.

He threw his final punch.

Pueong!

The queen’s head exploded.

Warm blood and entrails rained down from the sky.

Taking those remnants, Choi Hyun-seok smiled dumbfoundedly.

“This is seriously fucking cool…”

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