The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 203

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 205

Cheon Woo-gong

Yu Seong-woo, moving swiftly through the rooms like a meteor, first sought out his own people.

He saw many who had died along the way.

He saw members of the Murim Alliance dead, and he saw members of the Demonic Cult dead.

This Abyss devoured everything indiscriminately, so his priority was to find and protect his own people.

“You’re safe! Everyone!”

Seo Moon-youngil popped out from behind Yu Seong-woo at the door.

This Abyss was an extremely dangerous place for her, who wasn’t even A-grade.

She had almost been killed by a fox when Yu Seong-woo happened to pass by and rescued her.

“Master!”

Baek Woo-hyun and two others rushed towards Yu Seong-woo.

Before dealing with them, Yu Seong-woo unleashed a sword strike at the fox, instantly disintegrating it.

Yu Seong-woo took down a creature that three S-grades could barely manage with a single strike, making the three newly aware of the gap between them.

“How… did you get here? We keep returning to the original room even when we go through the doors.”

“It’s a barrier. No matter where you go, it’s designed to return you to the original room.”

“So, Master, you broke through the barrier to get here?”

“Well… you could say that. I’ll teach you how to get through.”

Yu Seong-woo said this and had the three of them hold hands.

The three stood side by side, with Yoo-wol, who was skilled in mana manipulation, at the center, looking bewildered.

“What is this…?”

“Draw out your mana as it is. You three will resonate your mana to trick the barrier into thinking it’s the mana of one person.”

Even for Yu Seong-woo, it was difficult to imbue all four of them with his aura to cross the barrier.

The aura consumption would be considerable.

But if it were three S-grades, they would have a considerable amount of mana, enough to deceive the barrier.

“Resonate mana… how do we do that?”

“Just try it. You guys will catch on quickly.”

At his words, the three of them drew up their mana and attempted to resonate it.

At first, it didn’t work properly.

Resonating with another’s mana was not an easy task.

However, as S-grades, they possessed great mana and the corresponding ability to manipulate it.

The initially unstable resonance of mana gradually stabilized and became assimilated enough to deceive the barrier.

Yu Seong-woo led the three, maintaining their assimilated mana, through the door.

This time, they didn’t return to the original room but were able to move to the next room.

As he thought, the assimilated mana was enough to deceive the barrier.

“Hah, hah…”

“Hoo, ahh…”

However, as a price, the three of them consumed a vast amount of mana and suffered mental fatigue, collapsing to the floor.

It seemed impossible to cross the barrier again in quick succession.

Yu Seong-woo, who was watching them, sighed.

“…It would be impossible to bring you guys along. You should just wait here. I’ll search more and come back.”

“Come to think of it, I remember the Lord of the Silent Heavens and the Demonic Cult Leader went with you, Oppa.”

“…Tch, those two will manage on their own. They’re not weaklings. They’ll be fine.”

Black Viper and Young-myung were the strongest in their respective factions.

They wouldn’t die from getting lost in this maze.

…Probably.

“Watch the kid here. You guys. Don’t make too much noise. I’ll bring the others too.”

“Come back safely, Master.”

“We’ll be waiting, Guild Leader.”

Yu Seong-woo tossed Seo Moon-youngil to Yoo-wol and left the room, seeing off Baek Woo-hyun and Choi Ah-yeon.

Except for Yu Seong-woo, the others couldn’t freely move between rooms.

‘How many rooms are there?’

He kept moving between rooms and trying to figure it out, but there was a limit to the map he could draw in his head.

He doubted whether he could reach the end of the infinitely expanding square rooms.

“……Tch.”

Yu Seong-woo thought Seo Moon-youngil was really lucky.

The energy felt in the Abyss was Grade 1 or higher.

Moreover, it was a space filled with malice, so if one wasn’t lucky, they might die the moment they entered.

It would be a dog’s death for divers [those who explore dangerous areas like the Abyss] of that grade.

Unable to escape anywhere, they would be burned to death or bitten to death by foxes made of illusions.

A futile death for someone called a diver who set foot in the abyss.

And how many times had he seen such deaths so far?

Yu Seong-woo was killing the foxes as he saw them, but there were many of them, and Yu Seong-woo was alone.

“Sometimes, I wish I had two bodies.”

No, it would be even better to have four.

Then he could deal with this one and that one at the same time.

Four times faster subjugation would bring peace to the world.

As Yu Seong-woo was idly thinking and crossing rooms, he discovered a corpse that had been attacked by a fox.

It was a familiar face.

It was Je Gal-cheonhwa, who had worked hard with Yoo-wol to overthrow the Murim Alliance [a martial arts alliance].

Whether she had been attacked by a fox, there were large bite marks from her chest to her lower body.

She was quite a skilled diver, but it seemed difficult for her to deal with the fox alone.

“A dog’s death……”

Yu Seong-woo sat down heavily in front of her corpse and closed her open eyes with a nonchalant face.

“I don’t need to hear why you’re here.”

She had been reading the situation from the rear and commanding.

Collecting and analyzing information was her strength, so he had her move in a direction that maximized that.

He even went through measuring the dimensional waves of the area to prevent the Abyss from occurring while fighting.

‘Cheon Woo-gong must have measured the dimensional waves of the Abyss he opened and come to warn them, only to be dragged in.’

The intense dimensional waves emitted when the Abyss appeared paralyzed the surrounding electronic devices.

Communication would have been impossible, so she would have rushed to warn them, but what was the result?

The pit of the abyss, which unfolded so suddenly, devoured everyone.

And it created a tragic result.

Yu Seong-woo closed his eyes.

This wasn’t the first time he had sent someone away like this.

As long as one was alive, as long as one stood on the battlefield, one would die.

From illness, or stabbed by a blind spear or sword.

He had experienced it many times, so he was already desensitized. That’s why he wasn’t particularly sad.

Je Gal-cheonhwa was someone whose life he held, rather than a colleague, and a slave… or something similar, who had agreed to follow him in exchange for that.

But it would be a lie to say that there was no camaraderie at all.

Je Gal-cheonhwa had solved problems with all her heart.

And more than anything.

‘Je Gal-cheonhwa was a life I was supposed to take.’

Her life and death were in his hands.

That was the guarantee, so Yu Seong-woo had taken in Je Gal-cheonhwa.

“Who dares to lay a hand on what is mine?”

There’s nothing more unpleasant than the life he was supposed to take falling into someone else’s hands.

Yu Seong-woo took out a bottle of alcohol from his subspace pocket.

It was medicinal liquor from the Murim Alliance’s warehouse.

He opened the lid with his finger, took a sip, and poured the rest all over Je Gal-cheonhwa’s corpse.

Then he stood up and used his aura to set it on fire.

Je Gal-cheonhwa’s corpse began to burn fiercely.

This was the mercenaries’ method of mourning.

How could they mourn each and every one who died on the battlefield?

All they could do was pour cheap, strong alcohol and set it on fire to prevent them from being reborn as undead.

He stared at her as she began to turn into ashes, then turned away.

Since it’s come to this, he would have to fulfill Je Gal-cheonhwa’s wish.

To plunge the fools who didn’t recognize the genius of the century into the abyss.

Coincidentally, it was the same as Yu Seong-woo’s goal.

“It wasn’t the time to hesitate.”

Yu Seong-woo threw away the black robe he was wearing and put the artifact that was changing his appearance into his bag.

Then his appearance returned from ‘Hyeon-wol’ to ‘Yu Seong-woo,’ and his aura also changed.

“Samjeong, come to me.”

He abandoned the broken sword and called for Samjeong. A greatsword of green light, as if made of peridot, was placed in his hand.

“Burn everything.”

And what he ignited was the verdant flame of the Samjeong Sword.

Three Swords – Cleansing Fire (三劍-切不淨火) [a powerful sword technique]

The purifying flame, burning with malice as fuel, bloomed from the center of Samjeong and began to burn everything.

The fire spread more and more.

It burned the floor, burned the walls, and burned the ceiling.

Not only that, but it also burned through the paper door and into the next room.

The intent contained in the flame was to burn away malice.

Even the barrier was burned away, gradually expanding its domain.

“Even in a unique world, there are things that don’t go as you please.”

The burned barrier revealed the other side. Yu Seong-woo slowly moved his steps and headed deeper inside.

To the depths where he could feel the guy’s energy.

***

“Um, I’m just asking now, but what is your relationship with Hyeon-wol?”

Seo Moon-youngil asked the three people sitting around her.

The titles they used to call Hyeon-wol were all different.

Moreover, one of them was the leader of the Lightning Sword Sect, the rising star of the Demonic Faction, wasn’t he?

“I had somewhat expected that Hyeon-wol and Yong-wol were not Uncle’s subordinates……”

“Ah.”

At her words, Baek Woo-hyun and Choi Ah-yeon realized they had made a mistake.

They had called him by the title they usually used out of joy.

The two glanced at Yoo-wol.

Seeing their expression asking him to finish it, Yoo-wol sighed.

“Well, shouldn’t it be okay to tell her now? After all, it’s all been reported to the outside world as an internal conflict within the Cheonmaeng Fortress [Heavenly Demon Alliance Fortress].”

“That means……”

“Young-il, everything I’m about to tell you is a secret, okay? It’s something that must not leak out anywhere.”

“…Of course. I swear on my life.”

“We are divers from Korea. To be exact, we are divers belonging to the Sword Soul of Korea.”

“…Korea? Koreans? Huh?”

“The translation is done through artifacts. I’m sorry to say this, but I’ve never even met your uncle.”

As shocking facts popped out one after another, Seo Moon-youngil’s eyes widened like lanterns.

But she quickly regained her composure.

She had expected it to some extent, and even if she knew the truth, it was true that she had received help.

“I didn’t know you were from Korea. Moreover, if it’s Sword Soul… I think I’ve heard of it in the news.”

“As a result, we ended up using you… do you want an apology?”

“No, it’s okay. Even if I was used, I owe you a lot. My mother is also receiving treatment.”

“Then… what are you going to do after we leave?”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Seo Moon-youngil smiled awkwardly.

Until recently, she was an uneducated child barely living in the Hae District.

But now she was the head of the Seo Moon Family and even held the title of Lord of the Demonic Cult…….

She licked her lips and said.

“The Murim Alliance has collapsed, and even the Cheon District has collapsed, so I’ll try to rebuild it, but if it doesn’t work out, I’ll go to Korea too.”

“To Korea?”

“Yes, Hyeon-wol… nim, you’re the Guild Leader of Sword Soul, right? So, your name is, Yu Seong-woo, was it?”

“Yes.”

“He told me to throw everything away and follow him if it doesn’t work out. He said he would create a foundation for me to settle down.”

When did he say that again?

Yoo-wol smiled slightly and nodded.

“That’s not a bad idea.”

“And if possible, also with him……”

Seo Moon-youngil, who had said that far, blushed and shook her head.

A sense of foreboding swept through Yoo-wol’s neck.