Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 106
“Run away! Retreat!”
“Aaaaagh!”
“P-please! Spare me…., *gack*!”
Screams echoed from all directions.
A scene of hell unfolding.
In the midst of it, Grat smiled.
“Excellent. Absolutely excellent!”
The clueless Allied forces, surrounded by Grat’s unit, were annihilated in an instant.
Not a retreat – annihilation.
Among the more than five thousand enemy soldiers, almost none survived.
“Everything has gone according to plan up until now…”
The Holy Empire had offered up sacrifices as promised.
The Alliance, having taken a major hit, retreated from the 8th Division’s sector.
The withdrawn soldiers will be deployed to frontlines other than the 8th Division’s sector.
As a result, other Demon King’s Army units will have it harder, but that doesn’t matter.
‘As long as it’s not me! If anything, it’s better if the others fall!’
The 8th Division holds the line alone while other divisions are helplessly pushed back.
What a magnificent picture that would be!
In exchange, they handed over Reidrun, Choi Hyun-seok, and Abelson, who was to be the next Holy Maiden.
All of them are thorns on his side.
Rather than having to beg them ‘Please kill them!’ – they’re doing it of their own accord. Nothing could be better.
‘The problem is that Choi Hyun-seok and the Holy Maiden have escaped…’
Whether they were quick-witted or not, Choi Hyun-seok and the Holy Maiden had already left Gardrak Castle.
Given the circumstances, they’re clearly heading to Reidrun.
He had ordered contact with the Holy Empire but hadn’t heard how things had progressed since then.
Grat pulled out a new communication crystal.
It was a crystal connected to Vice Commander Keunraduk.
Woong…!
The crystal lit up as Grat’s demonic energy flowed into it.
Woong… Woong…
But it only emitted light.
No contact was made.
“Stupid Keunraduk! Not carrying your communication crystal at such a crucial time. What are you doing!?”
Grat angrily threw the communication crystal.
Crash!
The crystal shattered instantly.
This explained why communication crystals took up such a large portion of the 8th Division’s budget.
“Commander! We have an emergency!”
“What is it?”
A staff officer came running in, out of breath.
Though not strong in combat, he was quite intelligent and used as a secretary.
“Humans! Human armies are approaching!”
“What!?”
“We can see over 10,000 of them! Enemies are everywhere!”
It wasn’t difficult to understand how the situation had turned out.
The humans had backstabbed them.
“These damn bastards!!!”
***
The stench of blood was overwhelming from the corpses.
Even though his nose should have gotten used to it by now and stopped smelling the blood.
For some reason, the scent of blood only grew stronger as time passed.
Choi Hyun-seok slumped down on a rock and bowed his head.
As he gave off a serious atmosphere, Rachel approached.
“What do we do now…”
“Hero, is something wrong?”
“It’s good that we survived the trap, but we have nowhere to go.”
“Trap? What do you mean by the trap?”
Reidrun approached.
Until now, he had been engaged in battle and didn’t know exactly how the situation had developed.
Choi Hyun-seok explained Grat’s strategy as he understood it.
“I see. So that’s why you escaped from Gardrak Castle and came here…”
“Yes. Though I have no proof, given the circumstances, Commander Grat must have planned this.”
“Hmm…”
Reidrun’s expression grew heavy.
He couldn’t believe Grat would do something like this.
Not only did a Demon King’s Army executive collude with humans, but he also put his fellow Demon King’s Army in danger.
No matter how many times he told himself this couldn’t possibly happen, the situation before his eyes lent weight to Choi Hyun-seok’s words being true.
“Lord Reidrun. Wouldn’t it be dangerous to return to Gardrak Castle as things are?”
“Indeed, going back without Lord Hemis would be reckless.”
“Then what should we do? Your wounds need treatment too, Lord Reidrun…”
Reidrun was truly in tatters.
Honestly, if I had such injuries myself, I wouldn’t even be confident about standing straight.
Yet Reidrun moved as if nothing was wrong.
“I’m fine. Once my demonic energy recovers, I can heal injuries of this level quickly.”
“Ah, is that so…?”
Come to think of it, Reidrun knows healing magic using demonic energy.
Though he nearly died when trying to use it on Choi Hyun-seok, a human.
“Anyway, where to go from here is the problem.”
Reidrun sat on a rock and fell into thought.
After remaining motionless for a while with his eyes closed, he suddenly stood up.
He seemed to have organized his thoughts to some extent.
“We go to the place where Commander Grat is.”
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“Wouldn’t that be dangerous?”
Reidrun shook his head.
“I don’t mean to get close. We’ll keep our distance and observe how Commander Grat’s troops move. We’ll decide our next move based on what we see.”
“Ah, I understand.”
“Then let’s move out now.”
Led by Reidrun, the group started walking again.
‘I’ve already memorized all the terrain near Gardrak Castle, so there won’t be a problem.’
There’s quite a high mountain in Commander Grat’s operation area.
Though climbing it might be a bit troublesome, they should be able to observe the battle situation well enough from its peak.
***
Several hours later.
After moving quickly, the group arrived at an unnamed mountain.
Climbing the steep mountain wasn’t as easy as expected.
“Whew! It’s been a while since I’ve worked up a sweat.”
Rachel said while wiping sweat from her forehead.
Choi Hyun-seok, who was next to her, wore an expression of disbelief.
“What’s so tiring when you can fly?”
“Do you know how exhausting flapping wings is, Hero?”
“It’s not like wing flapping becomes more tiring just because we’re on a mountain?”
“Tsk tsk tsk!”
Rachel wagged her index finger.
“The air is thin in the mountains. How can you not know such basic common sense!”
“You’re talking about common sense? How about finding your conscience first.”
“Tch!”
Rachel clicked her tongue in annoyance.
Just then, Reidrun lowered his stance while clenching his fist.
“Shh. Movement detected.”
The group lowered their stance in unison and waited for what would come next.
Even Bobo lowered his body following the atmosphere.
“Up ahead. Seems like human scouts. Ten in total. Can you handle them without letting any escape?”
“Certainly.”
“Good. Then I’ll take the six on the left, Choi Hyun-seok, you take the four on the right.”
Choi Hyun-seok nodded.
“Let’s go!”
As soon as Reidrun started running, Choi Hyun-seok also kicked the ground.
“What are these?”
“The enemy… Kuheck!”
The scouts appeared to be well-trained elite soldiers, but they were no match against a human hero.
Choi Hyun-seok quickly knocked out four soldiers and gathered them in one place.
“Good. Let’s keep moving.”
The group continued climbing the mountain.
They encountered scouts one more time along the way, but they were able to handle them quickly using the same method.
Finally, they reached the mountain summit.
It was a high ground where the surrounding land could be seen at a glance.
Since Reidrun and Choi Hyun-seok’s eyesight could detect people moving even kilometers away, there was no better place than this high ground for surveying the surroundings.
“Lord Reidrun. Could that be…”
Choi Hyun-seok raised his hand and pointed somewhere.
There, tens of thousands of humans and demons were moving like a swarm of ants.
Reidrun nodded.
“Division Commander Grat’s forces.”
“I’m not sure, but doesn’t it look dangerous?”
“Yes. They’re clearly surrounded by humans.”
Although Choi Hyun-seok didn’t know, Reidrun could observe the battle situation in great detail.
In fact, he could spot exactly where Grat was at a glance.
“Division Commander Grat is being pursued. It seems he’s trying to escape.”
“Escape… Do you have any idea what’s going on?”
“Well…”
Hadn’t Grat joined hands with the humans?
Yet now he was in a situation where he had to flee while surrounded by humans.
Could it be that everything was a human plot and Grat was also a victim?
It was impossible to know how the situation had developed.
That’s when Rachel approached.
“It’s obvious, isn’t it?”
“What’s obvious?”
“He made a deal with humans to backstab us but got backstabbed himself.”
“You mean he tried to use humans but got used instead?”
“That’s right. Because stupid demons can’t win against humans when it comes to cunning.”
“Hmm… It sounds like your fiction, but there’s some strange logic to it.”
Choi Hyun-seok, who had been lost in thought, turned to look at Reidrun.
“Lord Reidrun. Shouldn’t we retreat as well? It seems the 8th Division is practically finished.”
“No. Not yet.”
Reidrun shook his head.
He was staring at something with his eyes wide open, showing incredible concentration.
Choi Hyun-seok looked at Reidrun with a puzzled expression.
“What do you see?”
“Well. You’ll know soon enough too.”
Reidrun’s words were incomprehensible.
It didn’t take long to understand what his words meant.
***
“Argh! The humans keep pouring in endlessly!”
“B-before I die, I want to eat meat… Please, just one bite…”
“You crazy bastard, whose flesh are you trying to eat!”
Crisis.
A major crisis at that.
Everyone was losing their minds as humans were flooding in from all directions.
While everyone was panicking and fumbling around, soldiers were steadily dying.
“Damn it!”
Grat grabbed the head of an approaching human.
Crack!
The skull was crushed by simple grip strength.
Throwing the corpse, Grat shouted.
“Everyone gets it together! We’re making a path!”
There was still hope.
Although the enemy numbers were overwhelming, they were surrounded from all directions.
If they concentrated their force on one side, they could definitely breakthrough.
Grat fought at the very front, massacring humans to open a path.
“Run away! It’s the Division Commander!”
“It’s the 8th Division Commander, Crocodile Grat!”
“Where is the hero!? Where’s the hero!?”
Regular soldiers could never stop a Division Commander.
Only a hero or someone of comparable strength.
Or a knight would be able to face him.
Grat swung his massive claws while laughing boldly.
“Move aside! If you don’t move, I’ll eat you all up. Kuhahaha!”
The soldiers were busy running away from his violent presence.
Instantly, a path opened up before Grat.
“Oh ho, have they finally come to their senses?”
Just as the corners of his mouth were rising slightly.
Grat’s face froze.
This was because three people, two men and a woman, were walking through the open path.
They were people Grat knew well.
“You guys…”
“It’s been a while, crocodile.”
“Coward Grat. Still showing off your strength against regular soldiers?”
“You really can’t get rid of that habit of being strong against the weak and weak against the strong.”
Their identities were heroes of the Allied Nations.
They had clashed with Grat on battlefields over the past few years.
“Why are you here…”
The strange thing was that this would be the first time they had gathered in one place.
Until now, they hadn’t conducted joint operations because they belonged to different kingdoms.
But this time, for whatever reason, they were waiting for Grat as if they had planned it.
“Damn…”
Their gathering meant there had been an internal agreement.
That agreement must have come from the confidence that they could capture Grat.
‘Those damned Imperial bastards!’
It was clearly a plot by the Holy Empire, Gatren.
As Grat hesitated, the three heroes began to approach.
“Let’s end our persistent ill fate now.”
“Surely a Demon King’s Army executive isn’t thinking of running away?”
“Grrrr…”
Grat, who had been growling fiercely, suddenly turned around.
“We’ll see about that!”
Grat running away just like that.
The heroes wore surprised expressions.
They couldn’t even imagine that a high-ranking executive of the Demon King’s Army would flee before even fighting.
‘The battlefield is vast. There’s no reason to break through where heroes are blocking. I’ll escape somewhere else!’
Grat ran relentlessly, pushing aside Demon King’s Army soldiers.
“Move! I said move, you useless ones!”
It wasn’t easy to make a path because there were so many soldiers gathered.
The Allied Nations’ heroes were in hot pursuit.
“You crocodile head! Don’t you have any pride!?”
“How amusing to say such things while three are ganging up against one!”
Grat shouted while deflecting incoming magic and swords.
He pretended to be quite composed, but in reality, Grat was burning up inside.
‘Damn! At this rate, everything is over!’
He couldn’t believe that he, who had reigned over battlefields for over 100 years, would die so futilely.
“I shouldn’t have made such an ambiguous deal with these vicious humans! Damn it! No, if it weren’t for Hemis in the first place, this wouldn’t have…”
Just as Grat was cursing the world.
A black-light fell from the sky.
Swoosh! Boom…!
The black light fell exactly between Grat and the heroes.
For a moment, the battlefield fell silent as everyone’s attention gathered.
Whoosh…
As the dust rose.
From within came an enchanting voice that could make one’s mind dizzy.
“Grat~ Our dear Grat~”
Grat’s face froze upon hearing the voice.
“Where are you rushing off to in such a hurry~?”
Though it had been a while, it was a voice he could never forget.
“Corps Commander…?”
It was Hemis, the 3rd Corps Commander of the Demon King’s Army.
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