Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 271

Ah, I can’t get any stronger.

The first time I had this thought was around when I surpassed 1 million combat power.

It was also the point when my average stats exceeded 600.

At that time, Choi Hyun-seok thought.

Getting stronger from here is meaningless.

Even if I level up and raise points, it won’t bring meaningful results.

Because I was already overwhelmingly strong.

Additionally, reaching the limit of power I could control was also a reason.

Then Choi Hyun-seok instinctively sensed.

‘To get stronger from here, I need to become something completely new, different from until now.’

I don’t know why I thought that way.

It was just intuition.

And Choi Hyun-seok was certain.

‘I can do it.’

If he believed in himself, he could reach that new something.

A turning point.

If I could break this invisible wall that clearly blocked the way forward, I could reach it in one go.

But, that was the end.

Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t go further.

More precisely, he stopped himself.

‘Now is not the time to cling to such abstract things.’

There wasn’t even a moment to rest to stop the rushing crowds of fanatics.

Moreover, the final battle would be soon.

When it’s unclear when I might reach it.

It’s not the time to cling to a mirage whose very existence is uncertain. -that’s what I thought but.

In my honest feelings, I knew.

“I was running away.”

Choi Hyun-seok was too exhausted.

The continuous battles with fanatics.

No, should we call it a massacre?

The physical fatigue was considerable, but what was really serious was the mental fatigue.

The self-loathing and guilt that built up while killing numerous people with his own hands was unbearable.

And then feeling this new realm, or whatever it was.

If I reached it, what would happen after?

Choi Hyun-seok was anxious.

If I really ascended to that new realm.

It felt like I would truly abandon being human then.

It seemed like I would remain just a killing machine with superior performance.

So he ran away.

Deliberately tried not to acknowledge it by looking away.

“There’s nowhere left to run.”

His head burns white-hot as he experiences an illusion of time slowing down due to excessive concentration.

Mana began to rotate fiercely.

The mana that kept increasing its speed soon fused with the body.

Choi Hyun-seok grinned while looking at the Pope.

“The reason you’re incomplete. That’s actually natural.”

“… What do you mean.”

“Your goal is a realm that can’t be reached with holy power in the first place.”

Actually, the moment he saw the Pope in the imperial palace, he felt it.

That the Pope had touched that new realm, that something he had thought about.

However, it’s incomplete.

The reason is that the Pope’s foundation is holy power.

“Mana is the origin of everything.”

Magic power, demonic energy, holy power.

All are merely branches of mana.

Everything in the world is made of mana.

A cycle that starts with mana and ends with mana.

“Transcending reality… Means becoming one with mana, the origin.”

This is only possible because it’s Choi Hyun-seok.

He uniquely handles mana and has a body with overwhelmingly high mana affinity.

A phenomenon never found in other humans.

At some point, his body had finished preparing.

All that remained was his own will.

A thought crossed his mind that perhaps Hemis might have known this fact.

Whoosh-!

Mana swirls around Choi Hyun-seok.

He wants to move.

As soon as he thought that, the mana moved naturally as if it had become a part of his body.

The power was so strong that for a moment, he had the illusion that the surrounding space was distorting.

“H-how…”

The Pope stared at that sight with a dumbfounded expression.

Bewilderment. Confusion. Jealousy. Fear.

All sorts of thoughts and emotions float around in his head.

“I cannot accept this… I…!”

All those emotions merged into one to create.

“I cannot accept this!!!”

Intense rage.

***

Holy power scatters.

The white crystals that had settled across Gratiam whirled up and created a storm.

“Oh God!”

“God is angry!”

“Receive divine punishment! Kahaha!”

The fanatics on the ground spread their arms to welcome the raging storm.

“How did I get this far…! Do you think I’ll collapse like this!”

The Pope gave himself over to intense rage.

The efforts he had made for over a hundred years.

He couldn’t accept the reality that this was the ending to that story.

He couldn’t accept that a rookie who had only been in this world for a few years had surpassed him.

And the fact that he felt fear towards that rookie.

So he raged.

“I don’t care what you’ve become! I’ll kill you here and become a being that transcends everything!”

Whoosh-!

The swirling holy power crystals began to gather together.

A size that was on a completely different level from anything seen before.

The diameter alone seemed to be several hundred meters.

The energy emitted by the crystal taking the form of a massive sphere made the air tremble.

“Shit! What’s going on!?”

Park Hyun-a’s eyes widened as she watched from the ground.

And for good reason – the energy contained in that sphere was enough to completely annihilate all of Gratiam and then some.

Like the old saying about shrimp getting crushed in a fight between whales.

If they weren’t careful, they might get caught up in it just standing there.

“Don’t stand there like an idiot, step back. Our role is finished.”

Park Hyun-a and Hemis.

And all the legends including Kinley Fusel withdrew from the battlefield.

They instinctively knew there was nothing more they could do on this battlefield.

“Die!!!!!”

At last, the massive sphere moves.

Choi Hyun-seok stood in place and watched the approaching mass of holy power.

He could dodge if he wanted to, but if he did, it would fall on the city.

It was crystal clear that the people in the city would die.

“But there’s no need to dodge in the first place.”

Choi Hyun-seok lightly kicked the air.

Crack!

The space he stepped on distorted.

Shot like light, he was suddenly standing in front of the massive sphere.

Without hesitation, Choi Hyun-seok lifted his leg toward the sphere.

Paang-!

The sphere that was falling toward the ground changes direction 180 degrees and flies toward the sky.

The sphere that was rapidly gaining altitude soon caused a massive explosion.

Kwaaaaaa-!

The world is dyed white.

The light was so strong it was hard to keep my eyes open.

As the tremendous energy dispersed, a blast of high-temperature wind rushed in.

Choi Hyun-seok raised his hand and spread mana widely to block the aftermath of the explosion.

“More dangerous than I thought.”

Choi Hyun-seok was secretly surprised by the power that was stronger than expected.

What would have happened if he hadn’t blocked the sphere?

At least all living things within a radius of several kilometers would have died.

“I’ll have to kill you quickly.”

Choi Hyun-seok kicked the air again.

The Pope raised his arms to protect his head, almost instinctively.

Boom!

With a heavy noise, the Pope’s body is shot backward.

Choi Hyun-seok followed him and continued throwing punches and kicks.

Whoosh! Bang! Crack!

With each shockwave, the Pope flew back and forth through the air.

He couldn’t respond at all.

Choi Hyun-seok’s speed was on a different dimension.

An incredible speed where he couldn’t even recognize where the attacks were coming from.

Even while being repeatedly hit and losing his mind, the Pope’s rage didn’t subside.

“I, I am! Everything I’ve done!!!”

“You’re persistent. Didn’t you say earlier that the longer the resistance, the greater the pain? I’ll return those words to you. Just give up.”

The difference in their power was overwhelming.

Just as the Pope had overwhelmed Choi Hyun-seok before.

Choi Hyun-seok was now overwhelming the Pope even more than that.

The Pope, who had become a mess in just a few minutes, suddenly released holy power.

“Kuaaaaaaah!”

Holy power bursts out in all directions along with light.

“I won’t disappear like this! If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it! No, I’ll make sure no one on this land survives!”

Once again, crystals swirled around the Pope.

But it was different from before.

The swirling crystals began to cover the Pope’s body.

Swoosh!

The mass of holy power rotated fiercely and grew in volume.

Within it, the Pope became the center point of the massive crystal himself.

“A self-destruction strategy?”

For the first time, confusion appeared on Choi Hyun-seok’s face.

The crystal’s size grew unimaginably fast.

The crystal’s diameter exceeded several kilometers in the blink of an eye.

“Uh… This could be dangerous?”

Just earlier, the one with a diameter of several hundred meters had enough power to annihilate this city.

But now it was a super-massive crystal of several kilometers.

The energy contained within it wasn’t something that could be simply described as a lot.

Everything within tens of kilometers of the explosion point would be completely annihilated, and half the continent might turn into a land of death.

[Di… die… die…] 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The Pope’s final struggle began.

The mass of crystal falling from the sky.

Rumble rumble rumble…!

Choi Hyun-seok raised his head and quietly watched the sight.

Is this what it would feel like if a pure white meteor fell?

It was spectacular if you could call it that.

“I think I can do it.”

Choi Hyun-seok clenched his fist.

Confidence welled up that he could do anything right now.

The surrounding mana swirled and gathered into his fist.

Whoosh!

Fiercely rotating mana.

Choi Hyun-seok stretched out his hand and struck the edge of the crystal that had come right up to his nose.

Crack, crack-!

Cracks appear in the massive crystal.

The quickly spreading cracks instantly covered the entire crystal.

Crack crack crack crack!

The mass of crystal shook precariously as countless hairline cracks formed.

Then it split apart.

Ching!

The crystal shattered into pieces with a clear sound.

Split and split until it divided into hundreds of millions of tiny crystals.

Whoosh!

A fierce wind blew a moment later.

The shattered crystals scattered across the entire continent.

Looking at the crystal fragments glittering in the reflected sunlight, Choi Hyun-seok calmly said.

“… Looks like it’s going to snow.”

***

Draxel, the capital of the Drason Empire.

An unprecedented large-scale war was taking place on the great plains before it.

Many people were tangled in battle, blood and flesh scattering.

Screams and laughter never ceased.

“Block them! If this line breaks, it’s over!”

“Hehehe! God watches over you!”

“Peace and rest! That is death!”

Fanatics with smiles spread across their faces.

People and demons fighting against them with all their might.

At first, some were awkward or displeased with the alliance between humans and demons.

But now, such thoughts had long since disappeared.

The group of fanatics was a disaster that devoured everything.

What meaning was there in discussing whether they were human or demon when facing them?

Those faced with the common task of survival inevitably had to band together.

“Mage! When is the support magic coming!?”

“We’re out of magic power! We need to wait a bit longer!”

“How long have we been fighting that you’re already out of magic power!?”

A chaotic battlefield.

Looking down at it, Duke Orlaben Grimier of the Empire bit his lip.

“Kahaha! For peace!”

“God guides us!”

Before they knew it, the group of fanatics had appeared even here at the rear battle line.

The outcome of the war was already decided.

No, this was a fight whose outcome was determined from the start.

Disaster wasn’t something you could face with just spirit and will alone.

“Your Majesty. You must retreat even now.”

Orlaben Grimier urgently sought the Emperor.

Lambert, Emperor of Drason.

He shook his head.

“If we run away, what remains after that?”

“This isn’t the time for such words…”

“Duke, raise your head and look.”

The Emperor gazed at the battlefield with calm eyes.

“Everyone has put their lives on the line. Can you turn your back after seeing this?”

“Your Majesty must survive to unite those who remain!”

“If it’s just to preserve life pitifully, I choose death.”

“Live on even if pitifully! That’s the only way there’s a future!”

Emperor Lambert didn’t answer.

He just gripped his sword firmly.

He too had trained with the sword since childhood.

Though past forty and approaching fifty, he was still enough to serve as a knight.

“Hehe! Death to the unbelievers…”

Slash-

Lambert, who cut down the rushing fanatic’s neck, raised the corner of his mouth.

“You fall back to the castle walls. They’ll need you more than me.”

“Your Majesty!”

“The Empire’s Emperor died gloriously fighting proudly. Spread that word and it might ignite even a bit more will.”

“You can’t! Your Majesty!”

Before Orlaben Grimier could stop him.

The Emperor charged into the battlefield with his Imperial Guard Knights.

“Let’s go! Show these ignorant fanatics what the Empire’s spirit is!”

“Yes!”

Emperor Lambert moved his feet with all his might.

Soon after, a fanatic with wild eyes blocked his path.

“Rest!!!”

“Very well! I grant you rest!”

Just before the sharp sword passed through the fanatic’s neck.

Thud-

Suddenly the fanatic collapsed.

That wasn’t the end.

Like dominoes falling, all the fanatics on the battlefield lost their strength and collapsed one after another.

“…”

Silence descended on the battlefield for a moment.

All that could be heard were the sounds of panting breaths and the groans of the wounded.

Everyone looked with wavering eyes at the fanatics collapsing before them.

It was then that a warm white crystal touched the Emperor’s hand.

“This is…?”

Looking up at the sky, the Emperor unconsciously opened his mouth.

“… Is this, snow?”

Under the scorching hot sun.

Pure white snow was falling, glittering in the sunlight.

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