The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 314

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – 313 (314/390)

The Holy Star Palace (23)

Yuseongwu and Medea arrived in the underworld without incident.

A place for the dead, also known as the land of the dead.

Yuseongwu and Medea were once again enjoying tea time there.

A pleasant tea time with Persephone.

Persephone put down her teacup and asked Yuseongwu.

“So, what brings you here this time? It’s not like you’re asking me to help someone escape from the Holy Star Palace like before.”

“I’m going to Olympus. Can you open a path to Olympus for me?”

“Olympus? What for?”

“To save a comrade. The three sisters of fate, the Moirae [also known as the Fates], are holding a witch from the Sword Realm captive.”

“Oh, the story I heard was a bit different. I heard that the Sword Realm entrusted her to them directly to avoid a deadly fate…”

“Do you believe such nonsense? The Moirae demanded it themselves. They told me to hand over Jeremiah, saying it was to avoid death.”

“So?”

“How could a small Holy Star Palace like ours defy a large Holy Star Palace like Olympus? So, we handed her over for now, but they haven’t even told us when they’ll return her. So, I’ve come to find her myself.”

“But you don’t know the way to Olympus, so you’re asking me to open a path for you.”

“That’s right.”

“…But that doesn’t seem to be your only purpose, does it? Seeing that you’ve brought a face I haven’t seen in a while.”

Persephone looked at Medea and smiled brightly.

Medea is a witch from Greece. The granddaughter of Helios, the famous sun god, and a demigod.

She is also the niece of Circe, the goddess of magic. Although she doesn’t have a major role in Greek mythology, she is mentioned to some extent.

“The Medea in Greek mythology was so obsessed with a man that she murdered her own younger brother, right?”

“That’s because she was struck by Eros’s arrow…”

Yuseongwu felt a slight chill at the fact that she didn’t deny it.

In any case, Greek mythology was full of crazy people.

It wasn’t for nothing that they were all made into constellations.

“…Persephone, let me tell you this. I plan to hunt the Moirae. I have secured evidence that they are constantly attempting soul interference with our witch, so there is sufficient justification. It’s not just to save her, but to deal with them. And that means striking at the core of another Holy Star Palace.”

“That doesn’t seem quite enough, does it? The three Moirae sisters are deity-class beings who have lived for a long time. Olympus won’t stand by and watch you hunt them.”

If Yuseongwu tried to hunt them, another deity-class being would step in to protect the Moirae.

Yuseongwu knows that too.

That’s why he was trying to put forward as much justification as possible to have a fair fight with the Moirae.

Fighting the entire Olympus would definitely lead to defeat.

“Of course, that’s not all. This will be a just revenge. The Moirae have been periodically kidnapping members of our witch’s clan, the same clan as the witch who was taken this time.”

Medea tried her best not to show any emotion at Yuseongwu’s words.

The way he stated uncertain information as if it were certain.

But that alone changed Persephone’s reaction.

The conviction in Yuseongwu’s voice changed her mind, even if only a little.

“…Is that certain information?”

“Yes. There are quite a few restrictions on deities interfering with Earth. But the Moirae ignored the restrictions and kidnapped humans from Earth several times. Isn’t that a rule that you shouldn’t break?”

Yuseongwu argued about the justification for striking the Moirae, citing the rules. After pondering for a moment, Persephone smiled and said.

“I’ll have Olympus’s underworld faction support you. I’m also curious to see how far you can go. But I think I should receive a suitable price for it…”

“Isn’t this enough?”

Yuseongwu took out a small box he had prepared from his pocket and handed it to Persephone.

It was an item Hermes had received from the Moirae in exchange for handing over Jeremiah.

Persephone opened the box slightly and her eyes widened.

“This is more than enough. It might be too much. Where did you get this?”

“From the Moirae.”

“Didn’t you hand over the witch in exchange for receiving this?”

“That’s right. But it’s not a gift, it’s a loan. I have to get it back.”

It’s just wordplay.

However, the act of putting it into words makes it more than just wordplay for a being called ‘god’.

Persephone opened the item she had received again and said.

“I never thought I would receive the ‘thread of fate’ from the Moirae sisters’ spinning wheel.”

What Yuseongwu received from Hermes and handed over to Persephone was the ‘thread of fate’ created by the three Moirae sisters.

The Moirae, who weave the past, present, and future, have a spinning wheel.

A spinning wheel that creates the ‘thread of fate’ that determines a person’s destiny.

The thread of fate, completed with the Moirae’s immense divine power, has tremendous value.

It is one of the top five items produced in Olympus.

“So, will you open the way to Olympus?”

“That would be fine, but… have you considered gathering more comrades?”

“Comrades?”

“Olympus is divided into several factions internally. The representative faction is the ‘Underworld’, to which my husband [Hades] and I belong. The ‘Great Sea’, with Poseidon as its core. Finally, the largest faction, the ‘Sky’, led by Zeus. The Moirae belong to the Sky, so let’s gather those who can oppose them and divert their attention.”

“I’m afraid that stirring up Olympus that much will cause lightning to strike.”

I don’t want to know which is more painful, Zeus’s lightning or Thor’s lightning.

Persephone joked that her Olympus overthrow plan had failed and continued.

“I will take you to Olympus in the name of the Underworld. Medea, you too. Do you know how sad Hecate was when she lost you? This is a good opportunity to catch up.”

“…Thank you for your consideration, Persephone. But I don’t think I can do that easily because of the many things I’ve done.”

“It’s something you have to face sooner or later. That’s fate.”

“……”

Even Medea, who is always high-spirited, tucked her tail in front of the real Greek god. Yuseongwu smiled at the sight.

“…Persephone, can I ask you a few more questions?”

“I’ll listen until this tea gets cold.”

Yuseongwu used his aura to make the tea in Persephone’s cup boil.

Persephone smiled, and Yuseongwu opened his mouth.

“Then let’s talk until the tea gets cold.”

***

“Please don’t forget that you are visiting Olympus as guests of the Underworld. We are also responsible if you cause an accident.”

“That means you’ll cover up most accidents.”

Medea thought for a moment at Yuseongwu’s words.

His way of thinking is unique. Is this what it takes to become a deity-class being?

But Persephone nodded in agreement to his words.

Are all deity-class beings like this?

Medea didn’t know.

“You brought us decades’ worth of divine power consumed by the Underworld, so we have to do this much.”

Persephone put her hands together and then spread them out to the side, and a tree vine soared up and created a door.

When the door opened, immense divine power flowed out from within.

The Holy Star Palace, Olympus, revealed itself before their eyes.

The world of the sky placed above the clouds.

The place where the divine beings of the ‘Sky’, the main faction of Olympus, reside.

Giant temples built everywhere and various beings flying in the sky.

There is nothing strange about calling this beautiful place ‘heaven’.

But for Yuseongwu, this place is close to a death trap.

It is because the god who created the Holy Star Palace is visiting another Holy Star Palace with impure intentions.

Persephone steps in first, and Yuseongwu and Medea step inside.

Then, the first one to fly down from the sky like an arrow and block their path was a tall goddess. The goddess with a bow and quiver on her back and long hair, with a fierce expression, glanced at Persephone and said.

“The Queen of the Underworld has come up to Olympus after a long time. What brings you here?”

“The guests of the Underworld said they wanted to see Olympus. What is the Moon Goddess’s business?”

“As always, patrolling Olympus. May I have a word with the guests for a moment?”

“Of course.”

As Persephone stepped aside, the goddess approached Yuseongwu.

As expected of a child of the Titans, the Moon Goddess Artemis, who had a higher gaze than him, frowned as she looked down at him.

“You are under that person’s protection. Nameless guest.”

“Well, yes. It wasn’t exactly what I wanted, but it turned out that way.”

“Just because you are under that person’s protection doesn’t mean I will show favoritism. I hope you return from Olympus without any problems.”

It was a completely different reaction from Tsukuyomi, who was full of goodwill.

Tsukuyomi smiled and told me to build a Holy Star Palace as soon as he saw me.

Artemis, unlike him, had a very threatening attitude.

An attitude that only keeps the minimum courtesy.

Yuseongwu, who didn’t want to get involved with this side, nodded lightly.

“And you are…”

Artemis’s gaze turned to Medea this time.

Then she let out a hollow laugh as if she was dumbfounded.

“Huh, what do you think this place is that you’re crawling into?”

“……”

“You should have some shame. No, you threw it all away the moment you went crazy for a man and chopped up your own brother and killed him.”

Medea shut her mouth tightly.

She knows very well that there are many things she wants to say, but she shouldn’t say them.

She can’t ruin things because of herself.

It would be difficult to fix things if something happened even if she lashed out at Artemis.

Her divine power was infinitely low, and Artemis was a powerful divine being.

She was afraid of what she would hear from Yuseongwu if she caused an accident and he had to clean up the mess.

She is used to enduring.

She has been enduring for hundreds, thousands of years. So, she will just endure this time too.

Because she is used to it.

“I thought you would never set your dirty feet in Olympus again. What are you going to throw away now that you haven’t even kept your virginity? What else are you going to defile?”

Harsh words continue. Artemis is the goddess of merciless hunters.

It also means she is good at hunting people.

She was a god who caught people with a tongue that was a little longer than three inches, even without drawing a bow and arrow.

Yuseongwu listened to Artemis’s story, checked Medea’s complexion, and couldn’t help but spit it out.

“You talk too much. You shot Orion’s head with an arrow after being deceived by Apollo…”

“What did you just say…”

“I mean, don’t pick a fight with my party and get lost, Artemis.”