The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 83

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 83

Grand Lotus (8)

Seijak’s chest was wide open.

Baek Woo-hyun replayed the scene in his head, trying to figure out what Yoo Seong-woo had done.

‘…He shattered the center.’

Seijak’s swordsmanship had a form.

It was fluid and elegant, with a consistent trajectory that his sword followed.

Yoo Seong-woo, with just a few clashes, had grasped the core of Seijak’s sword path.

By piercing the very heart of his overlapping trajectories, he stopped Seijak’s fierce onslaught.

And for Seijak, with his chest wide open, only death awaited.

With Yoo Seong-woo’s speed, he could have pierced his heart eighteen times over in that opening.

However, he didn’t stab Seijak’s heart with his sword, but instead took two steps back and said,

“Try harder.”

“…You bastard!”

Seijak charged again.

His face was flushed with shame.

Even though Yoo Seong-woo could have killed him just now, he didn’t.

Seijak vowed to make him regret it and swung his sword.

His offensive became even more fierce.

The sword path changed even more erratically, and the spirits danced, assisting him.

Now, it was a sword that Baek Woo-hyun couldn’t follow.

The level was too high, too fast, and too powerful.

All he could see was the afterimage of green aura.

Seijak displayed swordsmanship befitting the name ‘Swordmaster.’

Could any Diver withstand that? His own power was strong, but the spirits that followed him were also powerful, making him a walking disaster.

And all that destructive power was being unleashed to kill a single person.

White ash soared into the sky and poured down like a waterfall.

In the white world, only green and red afterimages danced and intertwined erratically.

Baek Woo-hyun captured the scene with his camera and in his eyes.

Beautiful, it was undoubtedly a beautiful sight.

Yoo Seong-woo could have killed that elf, but he deliberately didn’t to give him a lesson.

He took two steps back, giving him more time to appreciate his sword, and deliberately adjusted his level to show Baek Woo-hyun everything.

Seijak was a Swordmaster, but Yoo Seong-woo was an even stronger Swordmaster.

He was clearly demonstrating that not all Swordmasters are the same.

And the approximately two-minute-long battle ended with Seijak’s chest being pierced.

Seijak wanted to unleash everything he knew and move on to the next level, but he ultimately failed and was defeated.

It could be said to be the end of an elf who abandoned his roots.

Yoo Seong-woo’s red sword pierced Seijak’s chest and protruded out the other side.

Red blood dripped from the red sword, forming droplets as it flowed down.

When Yoo Seong-woo pulled out his sword, the Swordmaster’s red bloodstains scattered in the white world, creating a morbid painting.

All sorts of spirits mourned his death and hovered around, but soon fled from the energy that Yoo Seong-woo emitted.

All the affection they had shared for so long was futile when there was someone even scarier.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had scattered even the blood of his life on the floor, said.

“Let’s go.”

* * *

How many minutes had it been since Yoo Seong-woo entered the Abyss?

The reporters took out their phones to check the time.

About 20 minutes.

The time they had claimed was 1 hour, so now about a third of the promised time had passed.

“Shall we make a bet? Whether he comes out before 1 hour or not.”

“Is that even possible? I think they know it’s impossible too. What do you mean by 1 hour? Isn’t it more like he’ll come out after 2 hours and say, ‘This is pretty good, isn’t it?’ I think that’s what’s going to happen.”

“Okay, then I’ll say one hour, and you’ll say two hours?”

“Deal.”

The reporters were bored of just waiting, so they were even making bets.

However, their bet was soon broken.

The dark abyss of the Abyss rippled and then spat out two figures.

Yoo Seong-woo, with white ash smeared on his black pants, and Baek Woo-hyun, holding a camera.

“What? Why are they already out?”

“Did they run away, by any chance?”

The reporters looked at them with puzzled expressions.

They had heard that he would clear it within an hour, but it hadn’t even been half an hour, only 20 minutes.

People thought Yoo Seong-woo had run away.

No matter how you looked at it, clearing a level 2 Abyss in 20 minutes was absurd.

Especially against the infamous ‘White Forest.’

“I knew it.”

“He did so much media play, he’s going to get roasted. What about the other S-ranks? He’s going to lose so much face and get so much hate?”

The reporters laughed among themselves.

Yoo Seong-woo ran away because he was afraid of the White Forest.

However, the S-ranks who were sitting down began to applaud him.

The S-ranks’ applause echoed loudly, and then the A-ranks also cheered.

The dark hole behind Yoo Seong-woo began to shrink and then disappeared.

22 minutes and 21.12 seconds.

That was the time it took him to clear the level 2 Abyss alone.

It was no wonder that everyone in this place had shock on their faces.

* * *

“There was an unfortunate incident during the clearing, but it has been resolved.”

Baek Woo-hyun said.

Behind him, the staff were busy connecting the camera to a large screen.

To dispel questions such as whether someone helped him inside or whether the inside of the Abyss was cleared in advance, they were immediately releasing the 20-minute clearing video.

After a while, the screen and camera were connected, and the vivid scenes he had filmed inside were revealed.

-Hello everyone, this is Baek Woo-hyun, an S-rank Diver from the National Swordsmanship Association.

-What are you doing?

-I thought there should be some kind of greeting….

-What a load of crap….

Baek Woo-hyun’s cringeworthy behavior was revealed.

Perhaps feeling a bit embarrassed after thinking about it again, Baek Woo-hyun briefly wiped his flushed face.

He glanced at his teacher, Seong Un-ryong, who was sending him a cold gaze.

He desperately ignored the gaze and watched the video being played.

‘Even when I see it again…’

It’s terrifying.

The camera’s frame couldn’t capture all of Yoo Seong-woo’s movements.

Perhaps even a high-speed camera wouldn’t be able to capture every scene.

Yoo Seong-woo’s sword was faster than a bullet, and it was impossible to understand with the eyes.

Therefore, ordinary people who were not Divers could only stare at the bizarre events unfolding with their mouths open.

It seemed like he just swung his sword lightly, but the heads of the white ghouls hiding behind the trees fell to the floor and rolled.

That alone was shocking, but similar things happened several times.

To people, it looked like the ghouls were offering their heads to Yoo Seong-woo as a sign of reverence.

And the highlight was approaching.

Baek Woo-hyun and Yoo Seong-woo’s positions changed, and the camera began to show the back.

What was captured on the camera’s screen was Yoo Seong-woo’s back and a group of attackers rushing in, robes fluttering.

“What? Are those monsters too?”

“They look like people, though….”

While people were confused, Yoo Seong-woo’s posture lowered.

The camera showed those beyond his back, not his back.

The face of the person at the front was slightly revealed, and at the same time, the world was dyed red.

When the screen suddenly turned bright red, people thought it was some kind of error, like a connection failure.

But they realized it wasn’t an error when the screen began to regain its color.

When the screen returned to the white world, ash snow was falling from the sky.

And of the dozen or so approaching people, only one remained, standing on the ground.

“That, that!”

“It’s an elf!”

The hood of the robe flew off in the wind, revealing a blonde elf’s face.

The blonde elf made a troubled expression and then attacked Yoo Seong-woo with violent language.

Swinging his sword, summoning spirits, and using any means to kill him.

However, Yoo Seong-woo thwarted them all and easily killed the elf.

It may have looked like he was struggling to the eyes of ordinary people, but Seong Un-ryong, who knew the sword, could see that he was deliberately holding back [adjusting his level of power].

Seijak’s level was also amazing.

It was a level that even he, an elder of the National Swordsmanship Association, could not keep up with.

But Yoo Seong-woo’s sword, which was even more amazing than that, seemed to have transcended humanity.

‘Ah, so, so that’s why Woo-hyun, you….’

Could he not help but be fascinated by his sword? He seemed to be going somewhere frequently these days, and if he thought that he was with Yoo Seong-woo, he could understand.

And the subsequent clearing of the Abyss.

There was no danger that could be called danger for him.

The white ghouls hiding in the trees had their heads cut off before they could even approach, and the white ghoul that appeared to be a boss-level monster lying on the floor disguised as a wide open space was cut in half while lying down.

Yoo Seong-woo pulled out the white heart, the core of the Abyss, from the monster and returned with Baek Woo-hyun.

As announced in advance, Baek Woo-hyun did not draw his sword even once and was only dedicated to filming.

To capture even a little more of Yoo Seong-woo’s skills on camera.

The level 2 Abyss was cleared with a rather anticlimactic ending.

People wanted a more desperate scene, a scene of him grappling with monsters alone, but Yoo Seong-woo came out unscathed.

After the video ended, Yoo Seong-woo grabbed the microphone.

“I was attacked by an elf in the Abyss. It seems they felt I was a threat.”

He had declared at the press conference that he would catch and kill all the pro-Japanese bastards, so that was why.

Yoo Seong-woo said so.

Considering that, the elves moved very quickly, but he continued to speak without giving them time to refute.

“How long are you going to let those damn pointy-eared bastards hole up in our forest? Thanks to those bastards breaking the transmission tower, we were in a very difficult situation.”

To be exact, Shua-nel was furious.

She even uttered violent words that she would kill all the elf bastards.

Yoo Seong-woo didn’t care much, but now he had to pretend to care violently about such things.

“Do you know how many people are in trouble when the electricity is cut off? A guy playing a ranked game suddenly gets disconnected and demoted, and a novelist’s unsaved manuscript is lost in an instant.”

It was really a difficult thing.

Even the high elf, who was not very interested in worldly affairs, immediately jumped out and grabbed their collars.

People sympathized with Yoo Seong-woo’s words, which seemed strangely like a personal experience.

It was thanks to one of the common pains that can occur in everyday life.

“I can no longer tolerate such behavior, so I am standing here. And those who don’t like it sent assassins to kill me.”

Something seems to be twisted here and there, but that was not a very important fact.

Because now Yoo Seong-woo was a hermit who stood up for the country, a patriotic martyr, and a traitor slayer.

He declared with strength in his voice for the last time.

“You pointy-eared bastards holed up in the forest, come out with your swords if you have the confidence. I’ll deal with you as much as you want. But if you don’t come out….”

I’m going to invade.”