Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 238

Hot sand brushes against the skin.

Choi Hyun-seok, who arrived at the Isilius Desert, slowly surveyed his surroundings.

“Miss Sara must be somewhere around here…”

After the conversation with Sara Dunphy.

Choi Hyun-seok headed straight to the Isilius Desert.

This was because Sara Dunphy had left a message saying she would wait here.

“Why haven’t you been answering my calls!? No, more importantly, are you alright!? What about Gatren? Did you shake off the pursuit?”

-You’re too hasty. Calm your mind.

Right after the communication connected.

Choi Hyun-seok fired off questions urgently.

Sara Dunphy answered all questions step by step.

-The communication crystal, was broken, found out later. Just fixed it now.

-I am, fine… Don’t worry too much…

-Shook off the pursuit. Hemis helped, don’t know when we’ll be discovered again.

Perhaps because the communication crystal had been broken once, the reception wasn’t good.

Fortunately, there was no problem understanding what she was saying.

-So, I want, to meet right now.

“Where are you? I’ll come right away.”

-Where we, first met. I’ll wait there….

Even before she could finish saying she would wait, the communication cut off.

Afterward, Choi Hyun-seok tried to reconnect several times, but communication was never re-established.

That’s why he came to the Isilius Desert without any particular plan.

“Since we first met in this desert. She must be somewhere around here.”

First meeting with Sara Dunphy.

To be honest, it wasn’t such a good memory.

They met as enemies in the first place.

And Park Hyun-a, who fought alongside Choi Hyun-seok at the time, almost died.

‘Come to think of it, it was strange from back then.’

Choi Hyun-seok recalled the not-so-distant past.

The guerrilla warfare against the undead in the desert.

The final battle that was eventually fought.

The last battle was truly one of the fiercest.

Park Hyun-a defeated the undead army with tremendous magic.

After a desperate struggle, when only the supreme warrior Liam remained.

Suddenly Sara Dunphy appeared and proposed a truce.

‘The reason I’m proposing a truce is to save the kingdom’s supreme warrior Liam. It’s absolutely not because I’m afraid of losing to you.’

At the time, he thought it was just bravado.

Even Choi Hyun-seok, who was about to collapse, was pretending to be composed.

Choi Hyun-seok was so desperate to hide his condition that he had nearly fainted while standing with his eyes open.

So he thought Sara Dunphy was the same, but looking back now, that wasn’t the case.

‘Rather, it’s the opposite. She could have killed me and older sister Park Hyun-a without needing to propose a truce.’

Not just Choi Hyun-seok, but everyone in the party at the time was on the brink of death.

And Sara Dunphy saw right through that fact completely.

Although her condition wasn’t great either, it would have been nothing for her to dispose of a few half-dead people.

Yet Sara Dunphy proposed a truce.

She used the supreme warrior Liam as an excuse, but was that really it?

Thinking about it now, it was strange.

‘No. This isn’t the time to be thinking about such things.’

Choi Hyun-seok shook his head to clear his thoughts.

‘I need to find Miss Sara quickly.’

He needed to hurry to find Sara Dunphy who would be somewhere in this vast desert.

Choi Hyun-seok increased his speed.

***

‘This is strange. I’m sure this is where we first met.’

How much time had passed?

Choi Hyun-seok had been frantically searching the desert.

However, there was no sign of Sara Dunphy.

Because they had encountered each other in so many places due to the guerrilla warfare, it was difficult to know the exact location.

Moreover, the confusion was amplified by the long-distance movements they had made using Park Hyun-a’s spatial transfer magic in between.

In the end, Choi Hyun-seok had to wander the vast desert for a long time.

‘Where? Where are you!?’

No matter how much he walked around, it felt like the same places were repeating.

Even when he asked Rachel, she only said she didn’t know.

He started to become increasingly anxious.

‘Stay calm. Miss Sara definitely said it was where we first met. Where we first met…’

After much contemplation.

Choi Hyun-seok finally arrived at one location.

‘This has to be it.’

Although there were many battlefields, there was only one place that could be considered where Sara Dunphy and Choi Hyun-seok met.

‘Where the final battle took place.’

On the day of the final battle.

Choi Hyun-seok faced Sara Dunphy up close for the first time.

Though brief, they even had a conversation.

So Sara Dunphy must be around here.

“Where could she be…”

Choi Hyun-seok, standing on a high rocky cliff, surveyed his surroundings.

Traces of battle remaining here and there caught his eye.

Actually, this was one of the first places Choi Hyun-seok had searched.

He had left quickly then because he hadn’t found anything, but after thinking about it, this had to be the place, so he came back.

“Hoo…”

Choi Hyun-seok closed his eyes and concentrated.

He focused all his senses to detect even the faintest trace of demonic energy.

Drip- Drip-

Sweat that had run down his forehead falls from his chin.

After a long time passed, Choi Hyun-seok opened his eyes.

“Still nothing…”

Even when concentrating his mind to detect demonic energy, he couldn’t feel anything.

This had to be the right place.

Why couldn’t he see any traces of Sara Dunphy?

Just as Choi Hyun-seok clenched his fist in frustration.

A voice came from behind.

“You found it quickly.”

When he turned around, he saw Hemis wearing a black dress.

Unlike her usual self, she looked at Choi Hyun-seok with a calm expression.

“Later than I expected.”

“I’m sorry…”

It couldn’t be helped.

This was an abandoned desert.

There were no spatial transfer gates, and no one knew the spatial coordinates.

He had to run here on his own two legs.

Even after arriving, he endlessly roamed the desert looking for Sara Dunphy.

He wasn’t sure exactly how much time had passed, but it must have been quite a while.

Even though he had only been running, his mana was almost depleted.

“At the end there. The collapsed part under the rocky mountain. Can you see it?”

“Yes.”

“It’s an illusion magic. There’s a cave when you get close.”

“Ah, thank you!”

He couldn’t find it because it was hidden by illusion magic.

Although he didn’t know why he couldn’t detect it, that wasn’t important right now.

He needed to meet Sara Dunphy quickly.

Just as he was about to run straight there.

Hemis’s voice, tinged with laughter, came from behind.

“You’d better hurry. If you’re any later, you won’t even be able to say goodbye.”

“What? What do you mean…?”

Choi Hyun-seok turned around with a confused expression.

What did she mean by not being able to say goodbye?

However, Hemis had already disappeared.

With an ominous feeling washing over him, Choi Hyun-seok hurriedly kicked off the ground and ran.

***

“This demonic energy…”

Choi Hyun-seok, who entered the cave, was startled.

The entire cave was filled with thick demonic energy.

Clearly, when he was at the entrance, he couldn’t feel anything.

But as soon as he entered, an unimaginable amount of demonic energy rushed at him.

If it was enough to make Choi Hyun-seok feel uncomfortable, an ordinary person’s life would be in danger just by entering.

“Miss Sara! Where are you!?”

Choi Hyun-seok shouted while moving through the cave.

He couldn’t get his bearings due to the colorful magic circles filling the interior and the thick demonic energy.

Even trying to sense by feeling, the search itself was impossible because demonic energy was everywhere.

Just as his steps were quickening in frustration.

“You finally came.”

Sara Dunphy’s voice was heard.

Choi Hyun-seok immediately ran toward the direction of the voice.

“Miss Sara!”

Choi Hyun-seok finally faced Sara Dunphy. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

His eyes widened.

“That appearance…!”

Sara Dunphy’s body was crumbling.

It seemed to be scattering like ash, breaking into tiny pieces.

Although her outward form looked fine, Choi Hyun-seok knew.

That her physical body didn’t have much time left.

What he saw now was just an illusion-created appearance.

Most of her body had already shattered into ash, and even standing must be difficult.

Choi Hyun-seok bit his lip hard.

“… What happened?”

“I’m just returning to where I should be. Following the natural order.”

“Isn’t that just dying?”

Sara Dunphy shook her head.

“I was already a dead body.”

She raised her arm.

The accumulated ash scattered all at once.

Watching this quietly, Sara Dunphy said.

“Does this look like a human death to you?”

Choi Hyun-seok lowered his head.

He didn’t want to give up.

He wanted to save Sara Dunphy somehow.

But there was no way.

Sara Dunphy is dying.

No, she is disappearing.

If she had been an ordinary undead, she would have turned to ash and disappeared long ago.

It was only because she was Sara Dunphy that she could endure this long.

“I prepared a small gift. I made arrangements so you can absorb my demonic energy. Although you’ll have to endure pain for a long time, you’ll be able to do it.”

“This isn’t what I wanted… Why on earth did you…!”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was shouting, closed his mouth.

He couldn’t speak anymore.

Because Sara Dunphy was smiling so brightly.

Why did she fight Gatren alone?

Why didn’t she ask him for help?

He wanted to press her and ask.

But somehow, facing her smile, he couldn’t open his mouth.

“Thank you for everything, Choi Hyun-seok. Thanks to you, I can leave with good memories.”

She spoke while still wearing a happy smile.

“It’s about time. I must go now.”

“… There’s one last thing I’m curious about.”

“What is it?”

“When we first met… Why did you spare me and my companions? If you had wanted to, you could have killed us all.”

Sara Dunphy’s eyes widened.

Then she started laughing loudly.

“Hahaha! I thought you didn’t know, but you did.”

“Actually, I realized it just before arriving here.”

“Hmm, why did I spare you? The reason is…”

Suddenly Sara Dunphy embraced Choi Hyun-seok.

“Huh!?”

As Choi Hyun-seok drew in a surprised breath.

Sara Dunphy’s whisper reached his ear.

“You were….”

A very small whisper.

Choi Hyun-seok’s pupils dilated.

Then Sara Dunphy’s body completely turned to ash and scattered.

“…”

Choi Hyun-seok blankly looked down at his feet.

As if the whispering voice from just moments ago had been a lie.

There was no one there.

Only the scattering ash indicated that Sara Dunphy had been here.

“… I felt the same way.”

Choi Hyun-seok raised his head.

A bright smile had already appeared on his face.

“Miss Sara… Even changed my ideal type from blonde hair and fair skin… You were my type too.”

***

An era more than a thousand years after death.

Sara Dunphy once again made the continent stir with her name.

Gatren searched for Sara Dunphy with all their might but ultimately couldn’t find her.

Perhaps they used too much power, afterward, Gatren withdrew as if catching their breath.

The investigation into the Mariette Kingdom also fizzled out.

Time continued to flow like that.

A week passed.

A month passed.

By the time half a year had passed, even the name Sara Dunphy had almost disappeared from people’s minds.

Instead, a new nightmare arose.

Park Hyun-a.

Once called God’s adversary, and one of Gatren’s most notable enemies in history.

She became active again and made Gatren stir.

“Hah, that rat bitch. She’s really annoying.”

Gatren’s legend Kinley Fusel let out a deep sigh.

It had already been 3 months since she started chasing Park Hyun-a.

For some reason, Park Hyun-a’s power had become much stronger than before, and unless one was legendary-level, even buying time was impossible.

If they could draw her into a prepared battlefield there might be a chance to kill her, but even that wasn’t easy.

Park Hyun-a maintained hit-and-run guerrilla warfare while steadily accumulating damage to the empire.

“Where did she learn such things…”

Gatren had to focus all their efforts on defending major cities while pursuing Park Hyun-a.

Astronomical costs went into putting defensive magic around entire cities, but it couldn’t be helped.

Without doing this, they didn’t know when a city might be blown away.

Because she was throwing magic capable of completely destroying an entire city, by the time a battle started and defensive magic was used, it was already too late.

“The Pope’s pressure is getting stronger too… I really need to show some results now.”

Currently, Kinley is overseeing the pursuit team.

Because her power, position, and influence were so extraordinary.

Even the Pope initially trusted her, saying he would give her full authority.

However, as time passed, his attitude was changing.

Especially in their last conversation, the Pope openly showed his anger.

“Lady Kinley Fusel. I dislike incompetent people.”

Even the Pope couldn’t treat Kinley and her companions carelessly.

They had already outlived more than 10 Popes.

Even for a Pope, she would have been angry if he disrespected her, but Kinley couldn’t say anything.

‘What exactly is his identity…?’

The overwhelming presence that momentarily burst from the Pope.

Though brief, Kinley had been overwhelmed by the Pope’s presence.

“Hah, the more I think about it, the more annoying it gets.”

Kinley roughly messed up her hair.

She is someone who has never experienced failure in her hundreds of years of life.

But in this generation, she had already failed twice.

Sara Dunphy and Park Hyun-a.

With consecutive failures, Kinley’s nerves grew sharper by the day.

“Are you Kinley?”

Just then, an unfamiliar man’s voice came from behind.

Kinley turned around in surprise.

How long had he been there?

A man with a peculiar appearance was grinning.

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