The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 128

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – 128

Black Bear

“Nox, what are you drawing?”

“A dragon!”

Yeonam Private Elementary School, art class.

When told to draw their favorite animal, Nox confidently started drawing a dragon.

While other students drew dogs or cats, Nox was the first to draw a dragon.

“Dragons are scary monsters! How can you like such a monster?”

One student said to Nox, who was diligently drawing a dragon.

Nox shook her head at the student’s words.

“Dragons aren’t scary monsters. They’re strong and kind beings.”

“That’s a lie! My mom said so. Many people died because of dragons!”

Nox pouted at the student’s words.

The voice of her mother that she remembered was nothing but kind.

However, in this world, she was the only dragon.

Since she couldn’t reveal her true identity, she couldn’t tell them that dragons were inherently kind beings.

The only dragon people remembered was the one that appeared 10 years ago, destroyed the city, and killed countless people.

Nox, who didn’t want to answer, shut her mouth, and the student chattering next to her shouted.

“Teacher! Nox is drawing a monster!”

That was the final blow.

Eventually, Nox, unable to hold back, jumped up from her seat and shouted.

“It’s not a monster!”

“Yes, it is! Liking something like that, Nox is weird!”

“I said it’s not a monster!”

* * *

The news that Yoo Seong-woo was heading to Seosan to deal with a Class 1 Abyss this time stirred up South Korea.

A Class 1 Abyss was a great threat just by its existence, so when a Class 1 Abyss appeared, people living nearby had no choice but to be driven out of their hometowns and relocate.

So, in other words, Yoo Seong-woo’s attack on a Class 1 Abyss was no different from saying he would reclaim their hometowns for them.

Perhaps because of this atmosphere, the public opinion criticizing Yoo Seong-woo completely subsided.

Somehow, information was leaked, and the story of the Sword Soul’s commission fee was also posted in an article, but it was quickly buried.

This was thanks to the news that Yoo Seong-woo, who had earned tens of billions of won with just a few attacks, was directly establishing a foundation and donating.

“Well, there’s not much to use it for anyway.”

Now, even if he spent a few billion, it wouldn’t even make a dent.

He wasn’t the type to spend money anywhere, and it was also something recommended by the professional manager dispatched from Meteor Industries.

And the day Yoo Seong-woo headed to the Class 1 Abyss approached.

Before entering, Yoo Seong-woo checked the Abyss data one last time.

Class 1 Abyss, Desperate Scenery (絶境) [a place with no hope or escape].

As the name Abyss suggests, Desperate Scenery was a desperate environment.

What unfolded when entering through the entrance was a small village.

A deserted village where no people lived.

If you go a little further from there, there is a large hole.

The pitch-black hole, tens of kilometers in diameter, was truly a hole leading to the abyss.

According to the information from the divers [individuals who explore Abysses] who had previously explored Desperate Scenery, the stronger the gravity acted as they went down the hole, and the end could not be confirmed.

It was expected that the boss monster would be at the end of the hole.

‘What to watch out for are not only monsters but also various poisonous plants… It’s a neighborhood where nothing is safe.’

Yoo Seong-woo, who had briefly summarized it, looked at the pitch-black hole in front of him, buzzing and whispering, beckoning him to come in.

Not only the ominousness emanating from the Abyss but also the heterogeneous energy was felt, so as he expected, someone seemed to have intervened.

However, Yoo Seong-woo did not hesitate and stepped into the Abyss.

His body was soon swallowed by darkness, and his vision changed.

What you see when you close and open your eyes is a blue sky and a vast ocean where nothing is visible.

And if you turn your gaze to the center of the island, you can vaguely see a black hole.

The place where he was standing was somewhere on a large island.

“The atmosphere is no joke.”

Muttering so, he walked a little from the entrance, and a deserted village appeared.

The deserted village, with some traces of the previous expedition, was built in a style that could not be seen on Earth.

A gloomy place full of unreadable words and traces of something.

It was a scene where a ghost could appear at any moment, but despite such eeriness, Yoo Seong-woo entered the deserted village.

He had even been to a graveyard where the undead popped out in the middle of the night, so he wasn’t one to be intimidated by this.

‘There’s not much useful here.’

Class 1 Abyss, Desperate Scenery, was a neglected place.

The inside is dangerous, but the monsters don’t try to come out of the hole, so there’s no need for periodic cleaning.

However, for the sake of one in a million, all the nearby residents had no choice but to relocate.

There were plenty of Abysses that suddenly became active.

“Shall we go fishing?”

There was no need to attack quickly this time.

The curtain of the play rises when all the actors are gathered.

He decided to wait for them leisurely.

He carved a suitable tree branch to make a fishing rod and roughly caught the bugs crawling on the floor as bait.

For the fishing line, he used a rope that seemed to have been used and left behind by the expedition team in the past.

After finishing the preparations appropriately, he went to the end of the island, sat on the cliff, and cast his fishing rod.

The fishing hook was made of aura.

‘It would be nice if something edible was caught.’

He had brought plenty of food, but there was no harm in having more.

* * *

Black Bear invested a lot of manpower for this task.

The opponent is Yoo Seong-woo.

Since he was a monster who could attack a Class 1 Abyss alone, he brought the maximum power that could be drawn from Black Bear.

Three S-class [the highest rank for divers], many A-class [a high rank for divers].

All of them were skilled in assassination, and the A-class divers surpassed the S-class divers in terms of instantaneous firepower.

Enough power to wipe out two or three S-class divers in an instant.

However, Yoo Seok-hyung could not rest assured even though he had brought that much power.

He was an enemy of a type he had never faced before.

“Entering.”

A full day after Yoo Seong-woo entered.

It was the best time, determined through the information received from the Ascension Church, at the dead of night when even the people guarding the entrance were nodding off.

They judged that even Yoo Seong-woo would not be able to attack Desperate Scenery in a day and that they would enter when he had descended the hole to some extent.

The people of the Ascension Church said they were already waiting inside, so they would enter at the right time and then cooperate with them to kill Yoo Seong-woo.

The Black Bear assassins used magic on those guarding the entrance.

The secretly unfolded magic completely lulled those who were nodding off, and they were able to enter the entrance without any commotion.

The black hole swallowed people and led them to another dimension.

They also knew about the Class 1 Abyss in advance, so they moved quickly.

No, they were about to move.

However, their movement soon stopped.

“W, what the hell is this?”

Someone unknowingly made a sound out of their mouth.

The others barely managed to hold back the words that were about to come out.

That’s because, as soon as they entered, what they faced was a giant octopus.

A large octopus that was not yet dead was lying near the entrance of the Abyss.

As soon as it found them, it moved its legs and tried to tie them up.

“…It’s a trap! He dug a trap! But, where did this monster come from!”

There were no cephalopods among the monsters in the hole they knew.

Most of them are mammals.

“M, maybe it came up from the sea!”

“Are you saying that an octopus crawled up from the sea on its own! Talk some sense!”

“Maybe it wanted to become takoyaki [Japanese snack made of battered octopus]……!”

“You crazy bastard!”

Black Bear shouted so but also busily started fighting.

Since the size of the octopus was so large that it was not easy to escape, they intended to deal with it quickly.

The first ordeal of the Black Bear began.

* * *

“Tsk, this is not very edible. They say giant squid is not very tasty either, and the same goes for octopus.”

Tap, tap.

Yoo Seong-woo grilled and ate the legs of the giant octopus he had caught and then spat it out.

He was going to give the body as a gift to the guys who would follow him soon, and he only cut off a few legs.

The taste of the octopus was not good.

The foul smell stings the nose, and it’s so chewy that it can’t be chewed properly.

Even if he made something like sliced raw octopus, he wouldn’t be able to eat it.

“Hmm, so they came.”

The entrance was a bit noisy.

It was already late at night outside, but the Abyss was still midday.

A place where time does not flow, where the sun is still fixed in the middle of the sky.

However, it was time to move his steps into the giant hole that swallowed even that sunlight.

Yoo Seong-woo stood at the end of the cliff leading to the hole and looked down.

Even with his eyesight, he couldn’t see the end of the hole.

‘…There’s something there.’

Still, he definitely felt that there was something inside.

The chilling wind blowing from the inside was terrible.

He recalled the information about Desperate Scenery in his head.

It was said that jumping directly into the hole was not recommended.

Unless you want to be torn to death by the gravity that suddenly crushes your body and the monsters flying in the air.

But on the contrary.

‘It means that jumping in, not the normal route, is the fastest way.’

It’s like jumping out of the window instead of the elevator on a high floor because you want to go fast.

Yoo Seong-woo had the physical ability to be fine even if he jumped out of the window.

That’s why he ran from the cliff and threw his body as close to the center as possible.

Not a one-chance dive for the next life, but a sky freediving for this life.

The sound of wind brushed past his ears.

A fierce cold wind swept past his ears, sounding like a shriek from the black hole.

“Hoo.”

He took a small breath and stopped breathing, rolling his eyes.

The more he went down, the more strain was put on his body.

His body became heavier and heavier, and his speed increased even more.

But the bottom was not yet visible, so he would have to fall for a long time.

Kkaeeeeeeeeeeek-!!

While falling, a cry that sounded like a scream was heard.

Turning his head, a strange bird was flapping its wings and approaching.

A long beak, unevenly grown feathers, and four rolling eyes.

Sharp claws grew long and were threatening.

The expedition team that came here first gave those guys the name ‘Corpse-Eating Omen’.

It was a bird that constantly flew in the sky, searching for prey.

The prey was the corpses of dead animals.

However, because they were territorial animals, they were birds that tried to hunt down everything that entered their territory.

Yoo Seong-woo reached out his hand towards the approaching Omen.

After placing his hand on the beak of the guy who opened his mouth wide, he gave strength and rotated it once.

Then, he landed on top of the guy’s head and 박아 넣었다 [rammed it in].

Then, the Omen, who had lost consciousness, stopped flapping its wings and began to fall down.

But there was not just one Omen. While dealing with one, dozens of them gathered around.

Kkaeeeeeeeeeeek-!!

Kkaeeeeeeeeeeeeek-!!

Kkaeeek-!!

The shrieks of the Omens echoed from all directions.

Yoo Seong-woo took a long breath and muttered at the cries of the guys who seemed to fill the hole.

“…Looking at birds like this makes me want to eat chicken.”