The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 185

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 185

Yu Hyun-wol

Delivering an item.

It was a simple task, but it was also a kind of test for the Haeun Bureau.

A simple test to see if I was skilled enough to work at the Bureau.

“Number 22 is said to be a particularly dangerous place…”

Just entering the street, gazes poured out from everywhere.

Murderous eyes looking to rob anyone who passed by.

Even though the area was known for its poor security, they saw everyone entering the street as moving wallets.

Realizing once again how much the Abyss had changed the world, Yoo Seong-woo lightly deflected a small dagger that flew from somewhere with his iron sword.

At the same time, figures leaped out from the darkness and rushed towards Yoo Seong-woo and Yu-wol.

They tried to kill them outright without even warning them to leave their belongings.

Yoo Seong-woo, who was planning to adjust his strength appropriately, said,

“You take the two on the right. I’ll take the three on the left.”

“Yes.”

Yoo Seong-woo strode forward, wielding his iron sword, and Yu-wol began to swing her fists, wearing iron knuckles on both hands.

Dealing with five attackers didn’t take long.

It was partly because their skills were lacking, but also because the attackers weren’t very skilled either.

At best, they were C-grade Divers [individuals with awakened abilities].

“They don’t seem to know much. They’re not from any organization either.”

Yoo Seong-woo, having extracted information from one survivor, roughly broke his limbs and threw him into the back alley.

If he had earned someone’s resentment, he would die; if he had lived virtuously, he would be attacked and killed by bad guys.

Yoo Seong-woo confirmed that the gazes watching him had decreased.

There were countless hidden thugs in Number 22, but after seeing the recent fight, they decided they couldn’t handle him and retreated.

Yoo Seong-woo sent a sneer to the cowardly bastards and entered the building with 22-5 scribbled on it.

He walked up the stairs of the shabby building and knocked on the door of room 507.

“Hmm.”

But there was no answer from inside.

He could sense someone inside, but since there was no response, he kicked the front door, slightly annoyed.

With a cracking sound, the hinges bent backward and the door opened.

He strode into the room, littered with all sorts of things.

“Wh-What the hell?! Who are you?!”

A man with a tired expression jumped out from the inner room, swearing.

He picked up a sword that seemed to be for self-defense, and Yoo Seong-woo, seeing it, took out a small box from his pocket and threw it.

“I’m from Haeun Bureau. The delivery is complete, so give me the receipt.”

“Are you crazy? You just broke down the front door and…”

“Then you should have come out right away when I knocked. Give it to me.”

The man grumbled but handed over the delivery confirmation.

It seemed pointless to talk to Yoo Seong-woo, who seemed like a madman.

Receiving the confirmation, Yoo Seong-woo immediately returned to the Haeun Bureau with Yu-wol and handed the confirmation to the bartender.

The bartender looked at them suspiciously, surprised that they had quickly resolved the matter and returned, even though they hadn’t left for Number 22 long ago.

Occasionally, there were martial artists from the Thousand Zone or Earth Zone who came to the Sea Zone to become wandering mercenaries to test their skills.

They all died or quit before long, but if such people died in the Bureau’s charge, things became very troublesome.

The bartender smacked his lips and asked them,

“What are your names?”

“Hyun-wol. This is Yong-wol.”

“Hyun-wol, Yong-wol. I’ll register you as mercenaries of the Haeun Bureau. This is your commission.”

The bartender took out a wad of bills and handed it over.

It was currency that could be used within the Thousand League Fortress, enough to stay at a nearby inn for a few nights.

Yoo Seong-woo took the bills and tried to leave the Bureau with Yu-wol.

Then, a giant blocked his path.

“You’ve received your first commission, shouldn’t you treat your seniors here? If you want to do well in the Bureau in the future.”

At his words, Yoo Seong-woo sighed deeply and took out the bills from his pocket.

Then, he pulled out a few and scattered them on the floor, and took advantage of the distraction to slip away.

Then Yu-wol said to him,

“Brother, you’re resolving things peacefully? I thought you’d chop off their heads.”

“It’s a place I’ll have to go in and out of in the future. I restrained myself because I didn’t want to be known as a crazy bastard who cuts off heads if things go wrong.”

“That would be dangerous. Then tonight…”

“It’s information gathering. The Thousand League Fortress was built on the solidarity of clans and sects, but now it’s not the same as it used to be.”

The two continued to talk as they moved towards a nearby inn.

Behind them, they heard a shout of ‘Who are you calling beggars!’, but they ignored it.

“The ultimate goal is to dismantle them. Or to replace the Martial Alliance with our people.”

“So you mean to help the forces that are dissatisfied with the current system and reorganize the Martial Alliance.”

“You understand well.”

Build up achievements under the names of Hyun-wol and Yong-wol, and enter the inner district.

And approach the clans or ancient factions that are dissatisfied with the current Martial Alliance to plan a coup.

“By the way, you’re very skilled. Have you done this kind of thing often?”

“In many ways. To live alone in another world, you needed multiple identities.”

In the first place, the name ‘Yoo Seong-woo’ was almost taboo in that world.

A foreigner with a name that didn’t exist in that world. That alone was enough to receive a lot of persecution.

His real name was only known to the members of the expedition team or those he acknowledged.

“Anyway, this is the inn we’ll be staying at for a few days.”

As they talked quietly, they arrived in front of the inn.

The inn they arrived at was relatively safe and clean in the Sea Zone.

The biggest advantage was that there were no idiots who openly committed crimes because it was located on a street full of neon signs.

Yoo Seong-woo took a room with bunk beds, unpacked his luggage, opened the window, and looked outside.

The Thousand League Fortress didn’t have much wind.

Was it because of the high walls?

He checked the feel of the iron sword at his waist and said, pulling his hood down deeply.

“This isn’t a neighborhood without pickpockets, so you stay here and guard the luggage. I’ll go out and gather more information.”

“Okay, Brother.”

“You’re completely hooked. Will you stop only when you get a bump on your head?”

“My head is precious, so I’ll stop now. Be careful.”

Yoo Seong-woo jumped out of the window only after seeing Yu-wol cover her head with both hands and shake her head.

Daytime was Hyun-wol’s time, and nighttime was Yoo Seong-woo’s time.

***

The place Yoo Seong-woo headed after leaving the inn was the gate to the Earth Zone.

High walls were also erected on the border dividing the Earth Zone and the Sea Zone.

What Yoo Seong-woo wanted to check was whether he could enter the Earth Zone through physical means.

‘The gate closes as it gets closer to midnight. Then…’

Yoo Seong-woo hid in the shadows and looked up at the high walls.

The walls were dozens of meters high, but with Yoo Seong-woo’s physical abilities, crossing them was nothing.

However, the reason he didn’t easily think of crossing them was probably because of the Chinese characters engraved all over the walls.

‘Is it a kind of magic circle?’

Perhaps to prevent physically crossing the walls, a strong protective barrier was in place.

Probably, if he started to cross the walls, he would be attacked or an alarm would sound.

‘The range is wide. It’s impossible to dig into the ground or go higher into the air.’

Yoo Seong-woo, having roughly grasped the specifications of the walls, walked along the walls and explored the Sea Zone.

The Sea Zone was more serious than he had heard in the texts.

There were vagrants everywhere, and it was full of people addicted to drugs and alcohol.

The downtown area was relatively intact, but the environment for those living in places where light didn’t reach was terrible.

It was proven that even minimal management was not being done.

Divers belonging to the Martial Alliance, wearing consistent uniforms, seemed to be managing the security, but that was only in the downtown area where restaurants were located.

“The morality of the Jianghu [the martial arts world] has fallen to the ground, no, it has fallen to the bottom and become filth.”

Yoo Seong-woo smirked and hid himself back in the back alley.

What he wanted this night were walking wallets.

Of course, not good wallets, but bad wallets holding swords.

To live abundantly in the Thousand League Fortress, what was needed above all was money and skill.

Yoo Seong-woo had the skill, so he needed money.

He had plenty of money, but if he brought external funds into the Thousand League Fortress, traces would remain, so he was thinking of raising it locally.

“There are many wallets walking around.”

Sitting on the roof of a building, watching the back alley and looking for wallets, he smiled slightly, knowing that there were many satisfactory wallets.

So, which wallet should I rob?

Tattoo wallet, drug addict wallet, thug wallet…….

There were so many wallets to rob, so he decided to rob them all.

As he was cleaning up the trash and robbing about eight wallets, he discovered some guys loitering around who were different from the others.

‘Oh.’

Clearly refined energy, different from the average people rolling around on the streets.

They seemed to be trying to hide it, but they couldn’t escape Yoo Seong-woo’s eyes.

Hiding in the shadows, they were sending their gaze somewhere.

Following their gaze and rolling his eyes, he saw a woman holding something tightly in her arms.

Was she in her late teens?

Considering it was the Sea Zone, she might be older.

“Hmm.”

His 고민 [worry/deliberation] was short.

Yoo Seong-woo immediately jumped in silently and held a knife to the neck of the guy who was chasing the woman.

The guy, unable to scream at the approaching blade without a sound, collapsed as he was.

‘From the fact that he was chasing a child with murderous intent in the middle of the night, he wasn’t a proper guy. Besides, it’s the Sea Zone.’

This is also part of cleaning up the trash.

Then, out of curiosity, Yoo Seong-woo followed the woman, suppressing his presence.

The reason was that the woman’s appearance didn’t seem like someone who would be in the Sea Zone.

Besides, he could feel a pure energy.

She had a decent Qi path [energy pathway], whether she had learned martial arts while awakening as a Diver.

The woman looked around and entered a shabby mansion.

Then, she opened the door of a house and approached a sickly-looking woman lying on the bed and handed her what she was holding.

‘It’s herbal medicine.’

“Mother, I got the medicine. Try it. You’ll feel better.”

“Where did you get this……”

“I got it with difficulty, so hurry up.”

The sickly woman, called mother, raised herself up and drank the herbal medicine.

She frowned quite a bit because it was bitter, but she safely swallowed the herbal medicine and lay back on the bed.

Then, she murmured in a weak voice.

“I’m sorry, I’m really sorry……”

“Don’t say that.”

“If I, if I wasn’t of lowly status, you, Young, would have grown up as a young lady of the Seomun family……”

“……”

Yoo Seong-woo, who was quietly listening to the voice next to her, twisted his lips.

I see.

It seemed like he had found the first piece to destroy the Thousand League Fortress.