The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 135

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 135

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully 135

The Ascension Church Priest Andro (2)

From ancient times, numerous beings have dwelled on Earth.

In ancient myths, there were gods, the masters of mythology, and later, the inhabitants of fantasy that bloomed from within those myths.

Witches and heroes, angels and demons, yokai [supernatural demons in Japanese folklore] and hermits, and so on…….

If you were to ask which among them has the closest relationship with humans, I would answer, ‘demons.’

Demons have revealed themselves under various names since the past, bewitching people.

Sometimes corrupting them, sometimes leading them to destruction.

Among the demons with numerous names, a famous one would be the 72 demons of Solomon.

The 72 demons that the great King Solomon is said to have sealed.

The lords of hell have been moving to expand their influence on the ground since ancient times, and they did not hesitate to corrupt various virtuous people.

As time passed, they seemed to be gradually forgotten, but after the Great Catastrophe, the names of the demons began to spread again.

Andro was a magician who inherited the names of such demons.

His true name is Andromalius.

A demon lord belonging to the 72nd rank among Solomon’s 72 demons.

He is not Andromalius himself from the old stories.

However, there was no doubt that he was an existence equivalent to a demon, inheriting Andromalius’s name, knowledge, and power.

“Open, O lock. At the end of the revolving spiral, to destroy the one who holds sin…….”

Andro muttered something in an ancient language.

It was a demonic language that even the meteor shower’s translation artifact could not understand.

“Where does one born of impurity go? Heading to hell, they shall leap into the flames…….”

“He’s lost it.”

Andro’s body was engulfed in flames, and its form changed.

He didn’t turn into a beetle like Gregor Samsa [protagonist of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’], but he was no longer human.

What do demons living in hell look like?

Let’s think about it.

To withstand the scorching hellfire, they would have thick skin that can withstand high temperatures…….

Being strong enough to make a name for themselves among demons, they would be full of traces of a lord.

They would adorn themselves with their symbol and display their authority.

The appearance of Andromalius, born from such considerations, had a snake wrapped around one hand, and his eyes were bloodshot.

His entire body was made of thick red leather, as if it had been tempered in hellfire, and goat horns protruded symmetrically from the center of his forehead.

Seeing that figure, Yoosung Kim uttered the word that immediately came to mind.

“A demon.”

“The power that goes against the past will not be forgiven, but right now, you alone are enough…….”

So said Andro, putting strength into his legs and soaring into the sky.

Breaking through the ceiling and soaring to the ground, he reached out to the worshipers in the chapel.

Then, the worshipers instantly dried up and collapsed to the floor like mummies.

“Rejoice that you can be a sacrifice for ascension…….”

And he tried to soar even higher to exert his influence over the entire Suwon, but he had no choice but to stop.

Because a barrier had already been erected, centered on the Suwon branch of the Ascension Church.

A barrier that completely prohibited entry and exit, whether inside or outside.

It was clear that the one who had erected the barrier in Suwon was skilled, so Andro gnashed his teeth and gathered magic power in his fist and swung it.

Kooong-

A dull sound spread from the fist that Andro swung.

A ripple formed on the barrier, and it seemed to shake for a moment, but it did not break.

As he frowned at the barrier, which was incredibly sturdy for something erected in such a short time, a voice was heard from afar.

-That’s a bulletproof barrier! You moronic bastard!

A shrill voice.

It was clear that it was the elf who had erected the barrier.

“I need to make her stop gaming… she’s only getting worse with her language…….”

Yoosung Kim, who had leisurely come up through the hole Andro had created, muttered that and looked up at the sky.

Andro, floating in the air, looked down at him and gnashed his teeth again.

Even in the face of him wielding the power of a demon, he was incredibly relaxed.

“Then, I will kill you, destroy the barrier, and destroy everything you love.”

Anger surged.

He felt emotions he had never felt before towards Yoosung Kim, and various emotions welled up.

As complex emotions that were difficult to describe filled his chest, the red magic power gathering in his hand also shook 불안하게 [uneasily] and became even more ferocious.

Andro added a formula to such magic power. According to his will, the magic power turned into magic and rotated violently.

“Demonic magic that advocates ancient violence… I wonder how much you can endure?”

He put suppressed anger into the magic.

A demon, especially the well-known Andromalius, was 준했다 [compared] to a lower deity.

Compared to those called archdemons, it was only a insignificant deity, but deity is literally ‘absoluteness’.

If Yoosung Kim knew how to handle deity, he also had to confront him with deity.

“You will die here. More miserably than anyone else.”

The snake wrapped around Andro’s arm slithered and began to strangle his neck.

Along with that, Andro’s magic was amplified, and it descended as a sphere of light.

The red light, like the sun revealed in the dark dawn, brightly illuminated the area, and Yoosung Kim looked at the rising mass of magic power and gripped Ilseong [his sword].

“How shallow…….”

He muttered quietly and slowly extended Ilseong.

After being able to control even a little of the inherent deity, he also realized how to see the ‘flow.’

Deity also had a certain flow, like magic power or aura.

It was the power to rewrite causality, so providence, fate, absoluteness…….

The flow of deity, which was a mixture of such things, was very complex.

Therefore, there was no room for aura and magic power to intervene, and only deity could interfere.

That’s why Yoosung Kim 담았다 [contained] a very small amount of deity in Ilseong.

He didn’t need a big technique, he read the flow contained in the magic that the guy had created and slowly raised his sword.

“You only know how to spew it out ignorantly, you don’t know how to control it.”

The magic, like the sun that had fallen, collided with the tip of Yoosung Kim’s sword.

Andro did not doubt that his magic would tear Yoosung Kim apart.

What could he do with just one sword in the face of this overwhelming and primitive violence?

It was not ordinary magic, but ancient magic completed with deity.

Demonic magic is vicious.

It decomposes the opponent just by touching them and subjugates them with overwhelming violence.

That was the magic of the age of mythology, full of barbarism.

However, contrary to Andro’s thoughts, the magic that touched the tip of Yoosung Kim’s sword was no longer the sun.

It unravelled like a thread from the point of contact and scattered like dandelion seeds.

In a place where sparks flew like snow, Yoosung Kim lowered Ilseong and looked at Andro.

With indifferent eyes, as if to say, is that all you’ve got.

“H-How did you do that!”

Andro, who made eye contact with him, waved both hands and poured out masses of magic power.

Yoosung Kim responded by lightly swinging his sword at the violent magic power pouring down like rain from the sky.

Every time he swung his sword, Andro’s magic scattered.

The things that were pouring down gradually decreased, and later, none were pouring down.

Andro took a breath and went straight down, reaching out his hand.

The snake wrapped around his arm moved and ensnared Yoosung Kim.

Following that, he swung his fist containing magic power and divine power, aiming for Yoosung Kim’s face, but.

“What are you doing?”

Yoosung Kim rather took it with his forehead and didn’t budge.

For a magician to engage in close combat with a swordmaster.

Wasn’t that the most foolish thing to do?

The snake that had grabbed his body burst from the aura emanating from him, and Andro was 머리에 들이받혀 [headbutted] by Yoosung Kim and flew backwards.

He rolled several times on the floor, and in his panic, he didn’t even think of teleporting.

“Hu, huh, huh…….”

He gasped for breath and raised his head.

Yoosung Kim was walking slowly.

With that gait and that speed, just like he had seen in the basement.

It was a glimpse of his will that no matter how much you struggle, I will consistently kill you.

With each step he took, Andro retreated with his butt on the floor.

A long mark 새긴 [etched] by his body remained on the floor.

However, Andro’s retreat was slower than Yoosung Kim’s steps, so the distance was quickly narrowed.

Yoosung Kim, who stood right in front of him, looked down and opened his mouth.

“It seems that even deity depends on who’s handling it. You tried hard to 분발 [rally] with insignificant power.”

“I, insignificant?”

“Yeah. If I had that kind of power, I would have used it more efficiently. Not with such a 병신 같은 [retarded] usage.”

“…You, what do you know to say such things! What hardships I’ve been through…!”

“I don’t think it’s any of my business. You’re the 새끼 [bastard] who just sucked up people’s souls…….”

Yoosung Kim narrowed his brows and made it obvious that he was disgusted.

Towards him, Andro reached out his hand and 펼쳤다 [unleashed] magic, and the next moment, his wrist was cut off.

Yoosung Kim’s Ilseong was 휘둘러지며 [brandished] again, cutting off Andro’s opposite hand and his legs so that he could no longer move.

Even though it was the thickened skin of a demon, it was cut like tofu by Yoosung Kim’s sword.

“Keueueup…….”

Andro, who barely suppressed his scream, glared at Yoosung Kim with bloodshot eyes.

Then, he opened his mouth and spat out a voice mixed with 울분 [resentment].

“Ah, ah, ah… 교주님 [cult leader], 교주님 [cult leader], please save me, your faithful demon is about to depart on a long journey to hell…….”

“…….”

“Cover my eyes to eliminate fear, and grab the neck of the legless and lead me…….”

It was an unknown prayer.

Who it was being offered to, what meaning it had.

Andro began to 지껄여대기 [babble] not only in human language but also in demonic language.

“Knowing that your power is endless, allow me to become a part of you.”

“Soak my body in the flowing blood so that I can obtain a new body in hell…….”

Yoosung Kim, who was listening to Andro’s story in the hope of gaining some information, clicked his tongue and raised Ilseong high.

Andro raised his head and looked at Yoosung Kim.

What was reflected in his eyes, which now had nothing but 처절함 [desperation], was a bright red sunrise.

Already, the dawn’s 여명 [twilight] had passed, and the red sun was rising centered on Yoosung Kim.

He looked like a swordsman who controlled the sun.

Not the 어정쩡한 [awkward] sun of magic that he controlled, but a swordsman who controlled the true… great deity, the sun.

Soon, Ilseong fell along with Yoosung Kim’s flashing red eyes, and Andro’s body was split in half.

Under the sunlight, the split body of the demon soon turned to ashes and scattered, and Yoosung Kim stood alone and took a long breath.

‘To think he was a demon.’

If so, wouldn’t the other priests of the Ascension Church be similar beings?

A deeper question arose.

Demons are selfish monsters.

What kind of person is the 교주 [cult leader] of the Ascension Church who has taken them under his command?

I don’t know now, but.

One thing was certain.

‘He’s definitely not someone I can easily cut down.’