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Choi Hyun-seok looked at the sky with tired eyes.
He slightly squinted at the sunlight coming through the leaves.
‘Ah… I really feel like I’m dying.’
It wasn’t just a figure of speech – he really felt like he was dying.
The use of Plomot had ended, and the horns on his head had disappeared.
Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t move a finger due to the overwhelming exhaustion.
Rachel approached and placed her hand on Choi Hyun-seok’s forehead.
“Hero, are you alright?”
“No…”
“Just wait a mont! I’ll heal you!”
Rachel didn’t joke around as usual.
Knowing Choi Hyun-seok’s condition was serious, she imdiately began healing.
Woong…
Bright light emanated from her hands.
Choi Hyun-seok’s wounds began closing and healing on their own.
However, the wounds soon reopened and blood burst out.
“Not enough magical power…”
Rachel and Choi Hyun-seok share magical power.
This ans that when Choi Hyun-seok’s magic runs out, Rachel can’t do anything either.
Choi Hyun-seok’s magical power was almost depleted from the consecutive battles.
Naturally, there wasn’t nearly enough magical power to heal him.
Rachel looked at Choi Hyun-seok with an urgent expression.
“Hero, what should we do…?”
“It’s fine. Even if we had magical power, healing would have been difficult.”
Choi Hyun-seok shook his head with difficulty.
He knew his condition better than anyone.
‘This isn’t sothing that can be fixed with healing.’
All the organs in his body were ruptured.
Even if Rachel healed him, it would only be a temporary fix.
To heal wounds of this magnitude, they would need Abelson.
‘The gate is destroyed anyway. Since Miss. Abelson won’t be coming here, I guess I’m going to die…’
Choi Hyun-seok looked at the sky with empty eyes.
‘I don’t want to go like this…’
His consciousness gradually beca faint.
His eyes lost focus.
Just before his mind slipped away completely.
“Hero! Wake up!”
Whack!
Rachel struck the bridge of Choi Hyun-seok’s nose.
“Shit! What are you doing!?”
“Never mind that. Just drink this!”
Rachel thrust sothing like a glass bottle at him.
As she forcefully put it to his mouth, Choi Hyun-seok had no choice but to swallow the incoming liquid.
‘Ugh, this tastes awful.’
It tasted like the strawberry-flavored cough syrup he used to take as a child.
Choi Hyun-seok forcibly emptied one bottle and wiped his mouth.
“Ugh…! What is this nasty thing?”
“It’s a potion!”
“Potion? That healing dicine from gas?”
“Yes! Here’s another bottle, drink this too.”
Rachel handed him another bottle.
Taking it in confusion, Choi Hyun-seok checked its detailed information.
□ Advanced Healing Potion
Description: A potion rumored to revive even the dead with one bottle. While it can’t actually revive the dead, it has quite remarkable effects.
Ability: Heals wounds and recovers a small amount of magical power.
Required Hero Points: 500
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes widened when he saw the item’s price.
“F-five hundred points!? Was what I just drank?”
“Yes. There were exactly two of them. Drink that one quickly too.”
“How can I drink sothing so expensive…”
“You’re about to die and you’re worried about re Hero Points!?”
“Ah, you’re right.”
Choi Hyun-seok gulped down the potion.
Knowing it was 500 points sohow made it taste more premium.
The strawberry cough syrup taste had sohow transford into premium strawberry ice cream flavor.
Indeed, everything depends on how you think about it.
“Ahh…! They say good dicine tastes good for a reason!”
Maybe it was because he drank two 500-point potions.
He could already feel the effects.
Choi Hyun-seok put down the empty bottle with noticeably easier breathing.
“Rachel. Where did you get these?”
“I found them on the dead heroes.”
“Dead heroes?”
“Yes. Seems like so of them had inventories.”
Inventory.
It was an ability Park Hyun-a had recomnded buying from the hero shop.
Choi Hyun-seok didn’t have it yet, but apparently so enemies did.
“Ah, co to think of it, sotis things did drop when they died.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. Looks like the system makes them disgorge all items in their inventory when they die.”
He had noticed things dropping occasionally during battle, but didn’t know it was from inventories.
Choi Hyun-seok slowly looked around.
He could see quite a few items piled up near so of the heroes’ corpses.
“This hero system. It’s really cruel.”
“Why?”
“Well, you level up from killing fellow heroes, and even get items like this. It feels like it’s encouraging us to kill each other.”
“Hmm, when you put it that way…”
Rachel stroked her chin as if thinking about sothing.
At that mont, Choi Hyun-seok stood up, trembling.
“Phew, now that I feel a bit better, I should move.”
Choi Hyun-seok walked toward the corpses.
Rachel watched him with a worried face.
‘Hero. Could he be suffering from guilt over killing people…?’
Choi Hyun-seok had killed many people this ti.
While he had killed many magical beasts and demons before, this was essentially his first ti directly killing humans.
‘Maybe he’s trying to make graves for them.’
To think he would try to make graves when he’s not even well himself.
Rachel wiped her eyes, feeling heartbroken.
“Hero. Please stop. They were villains anyway.”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
“You don’t need to try so hard.”
Choi Hyun-seok frowned at Rachel’s words.
“Hey. Even if they’re villains, we still need to collect their items.”
“What?”
“Shouldn’t we take all these precious things!”
“…”
“While we’re at it, let’s strip their armor and take all their weapons too. Their equipnt was no joke!”
Rachel made a dumbfounded expression.
“Hero. Weren’t you just wearing a serious expression talking about how cruel the system was?”
“That’s that, and this is this.”
“…”
She felt embarrassed that she had worried even for a mont about this demon wearing a hero’s mask.
To think about collecting equipnt and items while nearly dying.
Maybe the truly cruel one isn’t the system but the hero himself.
Looking at Rachel standing still, Choi Hyun-seok urged her.
“Rachel. Why are you standing there blankly? Aren’t you going to collect the equipnt?”
Rachel jumped up.
“Of course not! Let’s scrape up everything without leaving even a single ring!”
“Good. Let’s pack everything!”
In truth, Rachel didn’t care from the beginning.
Who cares if other heroes die!
As long as Choi Hyun-seok is alive, that’s all that matters.
She was just briefly worried that Choi Hyun-seok might feel ntal anguish.
“Oh ho, Hero! Look at this! This ring looks really good!?”
Rachel, who pulled a ring from the corpse, smiled brightly.
***
It took longer than expected to gather the items.
After stripping all the heroes’ equipnt and scraping up every item that fell from their inventories, it made a small hill.
“Whew~ We collected quite a lot.”
“Yeah. That guy Toilet or whatever was the best.”
“Right. That guy was basically a treasure chest?”
Taylor Andrew, befitting the strongest hero, had an incredible number of items.
Nearly half of all items ca from his inventory alone.
“Well, most of it seems like junk items… But still better than nothing.”
Choi Hyun-seok said while roughly sorting through the items.
“Right! But Hero.”
“What?”
“How are we going to move all this? You don’t have an inventory.”
Choi Hyun-seok doesn’t have an inventory.
In other words, there’s no way to move all these items.
Rachel’s questions continued.
“Should we buy one now? Don’t they sell inventories at the hero shop?”
“I looked but couldn’t find any, seems like we need to upgrade once more.”
“Hmm, then what should we do?”
“It’s fine. We have this.”
Choi Hyun-seok held out a dark backpack.
“This is…?”
“I kept it separate earlier thinking we might need it.”
□ Superior Magic Backpack
Description: A magical backpack that expands internal volu 100 tis and reduces the weight of contents to 1/10.
Ability: Volu expanded 100 tis, weight reduced to 1/10.
Required Hero Points: 500
“Ah, with a space expansion backpack we can probably fit almost everything.”
Rachel imdiately recognized what the backpack was.
They had received three magic backpacks from the heroes.
This should be enough to carry most things around.
“But if we have this bag, don’t we not need an inventory?”
“What?”
“If this bag is 500 points, wouldn’t an inventory be much more expensive?”
“That’s right. It probably costs several thousand points, don’t you think?”
“Then is there any need to spend expensive points to buy one? We can just use the backpack.”
“No no no. Inventory is on a different level! The space is incredibly vast, you don’t feel the weight at all, and it even has permanent preservation function!”
Rachel passionately explained the functions of the inventory.
“Besides, if this bag gets stolen, we lose everything. Compared to that, you can keep your inventory with you until the day you die.”
“Hmm, when you put it that way.”
After hearing the explanation, it seed like they would need an inventory for various reasons.
Co to think of it, it made sense that Park Hyun-a, who had lived as a hero for a long ti, recomnded the inventory first.
“Phew, finished.”
“Good work.”
A mont later.
Choi Hyun-seok and Rachel were able to pack all items into three backpacks.
As it seed the organizing was finished, Roiger, who had been waiting nearby, approached.
“Looks good.”
“Yes. It feels reassuring! Haha.”
Choi Hyun-seok, who was in a good mood after collecting lots of items, smiled brightly.
“Are you okay?”
“These friends gifted us expensive potions, so I can manage sohow.”
To be honest, he’s not in good condition even now.
It’s at a level where he absolutely needs Abelson’s treatnt when he returns to the Black Giant Star.
While picking up items, he felt okay probably because of the endorphins rushing, but now that the organizing was done, the death-like pain ca rushing back.
‘It doesn’t matter since I’ll be returning to the Black Giant Star soon.’
Choi Hyun-seok decided to endure.
He would be able to receive treatnt from Abelson soon.
“Anyway, thank you for waiting.”
“It’s nothing. Rather, I’m sorry I couldn’t help.”
Roiger was focused on recovering from the side effects of Plomot.
That’s why he couldn’t help Choi Hyun-seok organize the items.
‘Even so, there’s no real reason for him to apologize…’
Honestly, Choi Hyun-seok was grateful that Roiger didn’t claim ownership of these items.
After all, Roiger was his superior too.
Yet he apologized first, which was a bit surprising.
It was communication unlike what you’d expect from the Demon King’s Army.
Feeling strange, Choi Hyun-seok cleared his throat and changed the subject.
“Ahem, anyway, I think we can go back now.”
“Go back?”
“We need to go to the Black Giant Star, don’t we?”
Choi Hyun-seok asked as if it was obvious.
“We can’t go back.”
“What?”
“The gate is broken, isn’t it.”
“Ah, then perhaps we need to walk…?”
“The distance from here to the Black Giant Star is over 500km. Even if we run all day, it would take at least three days.”
Choi Hyun-seok shut his mouth.
He feels like dying just standing still, and now he has to run over 500km?
Moreover, there’s no guarantee there won’t be battles along the way.
This was basically telling them to die.
“Um… Isn’t there so way?”
“No.”
Roiger cut him off imdiately.
“Then shouldn’t we wait here for support from the Black Giant Star…”
“The enemy might arrive faster than support from the Black Giant Star.”
“Then what should we do?”
“We have to go to the Black Giant Star. Running.”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes trembled uncontrollably.
‘I thought I had barely survived, but is this how I die?’
It’s absolutely impossible.
In his current condition, forget 500km, even 50km would be difficult.
At that mont when Choi Hyun-seok was falling into despair.
Far away, a sandstorm began to rise.
Choi Hyun-seok and Roiger narrowed their eyes and looked at the sandstorm rising in the distance.
“Can you see that?”
“Yes.”
“Doesn’t it seem like it’s getting closer?”
“It appears so.”
The sandstorm gets closer and closer.
Soon, a faint noise began to be heard too.
Boom…! Boom! Boom!
The approaching sandstorm.
The volu of the noise grows louder.
“Uh, what is that!?”
“Whatever it is, we better prepare for battle.”
Sothing unidentified is approaching at a terrifying speed.
Sensing sothing ominous, Choi Hyun-seok looked at Roiger.
“Commander. Shouldn’t we run away while we still can?”
“We can’t run away. Even if I run at full speed, that speed is impossible to outrun.”
“Then…?”
“Let’s pray that’s on our side.”
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