Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad

“You’re a hero? Eh!?”

“Uh…that’s…”

Scary.

It was truly frightening.

If it weren’t for the title ‘the strongest man in the world’ he might have wet himself already.

As he hesitated, the bullhead monster’s face twisted even more violently.

“You stupid wretch! You’re a hero and you can’t even speak without stuttering!?”

At that moment, he widened his eyes.

His mind rumbled!

It was as if it was struck by a bolt of lightning.

A lightbulb appeared above his head.

‘That’s right! I’m a hero!’

What is a hero?

The main character of the story that survives to the end and defeats the Demon King.

The world’s strongest!

Absolutely invincible!

That’s the hero.

‘So this is a practice exchange. It’s the same as a tutorial…’

The bullhead monster in front of him should be something like a quest to test oneself.

In fact, looking at this monster’s appearance, it was clear that it was all noise but would crumble like a piece of rice paper.

If he defeats this monster in a cool way here the real adventure will begin.

‘Choi Hyun-seok! Be confident!’

His eyes became firm.

Earth’s martial arts heavyweight champion.

The strongest man on Earth.

And now he even has the title of hero in this world.

Yet, to be scared by a monster found in a simple tutorial, how could he venture out into this harsh world!?

“Don’t mess with me.”

“What…?

The bullhead doubted his ears at the moment.

He cupped his hand against his ear and slowly extended his head towards Choi Hyun-seok.

“Say that again. What did you just say?”

“Don’t mess with me. You bastard!”

With a thunderous roar, Choi Hyun-seok exploded with a head kick.

He had met so many strong men in the ring.

And, no one had been able to withstand this kick.

‘It’s a perfect hit.’

Thanks to it lowering its head like an idiot, the kick was perfect.

As he was about to confidently smile from the hit.

“What are you doing?”

The bullhead monster looked down at Choi Hyun-seok with its eyes widened as the thick muscles protruding from its log-like neck wriggled.

His eyes shook and became chaotic.

“…”

“It’s not even funny.”

The bullhead monster grabbed Choi Hyun-seok’s ankle.

At the same time, he felt tremendous pressure.

The pain he felt from his ankle getting crushed made him wince.

“Keuau!”

“I certainly heard you calling yourself a hero.”

“Ah…wait, hold on…”

“It would be funny if that was true.”

“Keuau!”

This was really dangerous.

He felt like his entire ankle was going to break.

“Hero…heroes. Our fortress has truly been blessed these days. I really want to know where all these crazy heroes are pouring in from.”

“Ugh…!”

Despite the pain he desperately wracked his head.

He has to get out of this situation somehow.

‘Maybe change the position and try the triangle choke…’

“You’ll come to your senses after a nap. Self-proclaimed hero.”

A big red fist was approaching.

‘Ah…fuck.’

Choi Hyun-seok lost consciousness.

* * *

Crimson Nightmare Reidrun.

Commanding officer of the 2nd Slave Division, and under the command of the 3rd Legion of the demon army.

Although he governed thousands of human slaves, the reason he was called Crimson Nightmare was simple.

Because his whole body was red as blood.

And rumor has it that a river of blood flows in his wake wherever he goes on the battlefield.

“H-hiik…! Reidrun sir!”

“Thank you for your efforts!”

Everyone here, including the 2nd Slave Division’s soldiers, all feared Reidrun.

And it wasn’t just because of the terrifying rumor about the river of blood.

“Good job.”

“T-thank you!”

The pressure that emanates from Reidrun.

The magic and aura unique to a high ranking demon were dreadful.

To know how powerful this was, many humans even kneeled down wetting their pants just by standing in front of Reidrun.

As a result, he was followed in fear by all of his troops, even if he hadn’t done anything to them.

A top predator who seems to have no worries.

The same Crimson Nightmare Reidrun was sighing with a sunken face.

It was because of the incidents these days that have been troubling him.

“Sigh…I don’t know where all these crazy people are coming from.”

In fact, the incidents themselves weren’t really a big deal.

It’s just that many crazy humans have begun showing up in the fortress.

“Where the hell are they coming from? It’s like they fell from the sky…”

And these humans, who are all dressed in strange clothing, have a screw loose somewhere.

[I am a hero!]

‘Hero’ was the default option.

[Come, Demon King!]

Fools who mistook him for the Demon King.

[If you don’t give me gold, silver, and women now, I’ll strike you down in the name of justice!]

Even a crazy human who doesn’t seem to know what a hero is.

He was sure they were just crazy people who saw him and said weird things out of fear.

“It’s common for people to call themselves heroes on this continent, but who doesn’t even know what’s going on?”

He wasn’t worried about the heroes.

There were countless idiots on this continent who called themselves heroes anyway.

Not only that, dozens of self-proclaimed heroes have died at his hands.

However, there was one thing that worried Reidrun.

He wondered if there was a problem with the defense of the fortress.

“We’ll have to quickly finish the fortress.”

The 2nd Slave Division was currently in the middle of repairing this damaged fortress called Hemor.

This place is near the battlefield.

It was a distance close enough for spies from the human forces to come and go.

“Hu…I don’t know.”

He shook his head to shake off the trivial thoughts.

All he could do now was quickly complete the fortress.

‘By the way, that guy…’

Choi Hyun-seok, a hero, came to his mind.

‘He was unlike the other idiots.’

For a human, he had a very well tempered body.

His quick movements caught him off guard.

And the blow was powerful enough to the point of dizzying him for a moment even though he didn’t show it in front of Choi Hyun-seok.

‘Maybe he can be used as a slave.’

He thought Choi Hyun-seok would be quite useful if he used him well.

Even though he was a crazy human.

* * *

That night.

Choi Hyun-seok, who was in prison, repeatedly shook the iron bars.

“Hey!”

Rattle! Rattle! Rattle!

“Unlock this! Unlock it you bastards!”

It was a natural response for him.

He was sure he was fighting a huge demon, but then he suddenly lost consciousness.

And when he opened his eyes he was lying on a hard stone floor that reeked of something.

“You think I’m going to back down? Get the bullhead! Let’s go again!”

Completely forgetting that he had been knocked out by Reidrun, he screamed.

Maybe something was wrong with his head after he got hit in the head at that time.

“Who’s making all that noise!?”

It was then.

A stout monster walked towards Choi Hyun-seok.

It was about 150cm tall from the looks of it.

Scanty muscles hung pitifully on a thin figure.

“Human. Do you want to die? Eh!?”

It was as if a child was threatening him.

He could barely hold in his laughter.

But he didn’t laugh.

It had a sharp sword in its hand that’s about 1 meter long.

It knocked on the iron bars with the sword.

“Do you want to die!?”

A giant sword he had never seen before.

There was dried up blood and flesh on it.

“If you shout one more time, I’ll have boiled pork with your thighs. Do you understand, human!?”

He nodded with his mouth closed.

Tuk, tuk…

After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief as the footsteps drifted away.

“Sigh, what the hell is this…”

It’s a situation that he just can’t understand.

He was certain he was dead, and then a pretty angel named Rachel made him a hero.

[Wealth, honor, beauty!]

Of course, he didn’t expect to meet the naive village chief from the beginning and his innocent daughter.

But to be honest, he thought it definitely would have been nice.

‘I thought I was going to have a great adventure.’

All he wanted was to go on an adventure.

Unlike his previous life, he wanted to wander the world freely.

A strange world where no one knows him.

He wanted to start a new life again.

“The fucking hero… Shouldn’t she have at least given me a sword!?’

He came completely empty.

He was confident that he would not lose to anyone on Earth with just a strong body, but this world is different.

His strong body was of no use in the presence of an excessively muscular monster over 2.5 meters tall or a giant sword.

‘Where the hell did it go wrong?’

The night was long as he cursed the angel called Rachel who said she would make him a hero.

Then someone spoke in the adjacent room.

“Hey, you. Are you new?”

“W-who…?”

“My name is Park Tae-soo.”

“Are you Korean?”

“Yes.”

To his surprise, the person in the adjacent room was Korean just like him.

Choi Hyun-seok, who has only heard an unknown language since he fell into the world, was very surprised and glad to hear another Korean.

But, this is not the time for warm greetings.

“What the hell is going on here? Please explain it to me!”

Choi Hyun-seok knocked the adjacent room and continued.

“I’m sure I died, but I came to this world because I was told I would be a hero. But what the hell…”

“Kukuku…”

Listening to Choi Hyun-seok’s words, Park Tae-soo snickered as if he found it funny.

“Hero… hero…That’s funny. I’m a hero too.”

Choi Hyun-seok’s face hardened at the playful response.

“It’s not funny. I’m not in the mood for jokes right now, so please tell me straight.”

“Do you think I’m joking? Although I’m an old man now, I was fairly great back in the days. There was no one who didn’t know about Park Tae-soo, the king’s fist of Myeong-dong.”

Park Tae-soo said in a very serious tone.

Choi Hyun-seok did not believe it at all.

Scratching his head, Choi Hyun-seok asked.

“So you’re a hero?”

“Of course! I’m over fifty this year, but I’m still in great shape!”

Naturally, it’s a secret that he collapsed and died of a heart attack.

“That’s enough…stop messing around!”

The moment when Choi Hyun-seok was about to lose his temper.

“I’m a hero too!”

“I’m a hero too!”

“I’m a hero too?”

All around the prison those who call themselves heroes emerged.

“Kukuku. I’m a hero too. You thought you were the only hero?”

“Hahahaha!”

“Hahaha!”

Laughter filled the prison.

Choi Hyun-seok looked around with a puzzled look on his face.

“What’s going on here?”

“It’s exactly as you see…”

Park Tae-soo said so with a detached smile.

“There are over 100 self-proclaimed heroes in this fortress.”

“What the…”

Choi Hyun-seok didn’t know what to say.

Park Tae-soo grinned at the shocked Choi Hyun-seok.

“Now, new guy. Do you still think you’re a hero?”

* * *

Park Tae-soo is said to be the first hero to fall here.

Thanks to him, Choi Hyun-seok was able to gather a lot of information.

This place is using humans as slaves to build the fortress.

The bullhead monster that Choi Hyun-seok met is called Reidrun, and he is the leader of this place.

The guard he met earlier is a goblin named Jacques, and he’s a terrible monster so he has to be careful.

All of this was so disturbing that it felt unrealistic, but the most disturbing thing was something else.

“It’s all because of that bitch Rachel.”

“What?”

Choi Hyun-seok widened his eyes at the sudden bombshell.

Park Tae-soo continued swearing with no regard.

“That damn bitch sent us to the wrong place!”

“Rachel! Damn that Rachel!”

“Next time I see you, I’ll XX and XX and XX and XX and then I’ll kill you!”

“Rachel XXXX XXXX XXX!”

As soon as the name Rachel came out, the self-proclaimed heroes all around began shouting.

The very same self-proclaimed heroes who were foaming at the mouth and yelling gibberish.

It seemed doubtful whether they were truly heroes.

Choi Hyun-seok clenched his fists.

“Mister Tae-soo…Are you sure about that?”

“What do you mean?”

“That Rachel sent us to the wrong place…”

“I’m pretty sure. I’ve talked to a hero who was taken from somewhere else.”

Choi Hyun-seok widened his eyes at Park Tae-soo’s words.

“Somewhere else…!”

“Yes. His start as a hero was normal.”

“How about other people?”

“I hear there’s an area where heroes start. Most of them start in busy cities, but sometimes quiet rural villages.”

“…”

“In fact, most of us will live a normal life because we’re too weak to be heroes, but no hero has ever started their journey in the middle of a demon army.”

Choi Hyun-seok felt unbearable anger rising.

Then why did he have to fall into this damn hell?

His fists shook with anger.

“Why…why…!”

“There is no reason why. But I do know this.”

With a deep sigh, Park Tae-soo continued.

“We’re all fucked now.”