The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 346

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 345

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace 345

For Peace

It was something everyone was curious about.

Before the world changed like this, what were people doing 10 years ago?

After the Great Change [a cataclysmic event that granted people supernatural abilities], those who gained abilities were busy fighting on the front lines.

That was the case for those in this place. Ten years ago, they were ordinary people, but they gained immense power and fought monsters as representatives of Korea.

What were they doing 10 years ago?

“The average age of divers [ability users] in Korea is quite low. Those who awakened 10 years ago were concentrated in their teens to thirties.”

Even if those over 40 had their bodies strengthened, their combat senses deteriorated due to aging, and they died quickly.

Therefore, divers have an average age similar to that of athletes.

In other words, most of them were minors 10 years ago.

“I was a student. A very ordinary high school student. I think everyone else was similar.”

Coincidentally, the three of them were of similar age.

Close to their late twenties.

Baek Woo-hyun was silent for a moment, as if thinking about the past, and then opened his mouth.

“I was a student too. I was in the kendo [Japanese martial art of swordsmanship] club. I even won a few tournaments… Have you ever heard of me?”

“Would we?”

“Nope.”

“No.”

“What’s kendo?”

Baek Woo-hyun was frustrated.

Next, Hong Seo-hwa started talking.

“I wasn’t originally a redhead either. When the Great Change happened, I was a freshman in high school……”

“…A freshman? Then how old are you now?”

“So what?”

An unexpected fact was revealed.

Hong Seo-hwa was the youngest.

“I enlisted in the military right after graduating high school. The Great Change happened right after I was commissioned as a staff sergeant.”

“Wow, so you’re the oldest? I’ll call you ‘unni’ [Korean term for older sister used by females] from now on.”

“Y-you can do that.”

“So, everyone except ‘unni’ was a high school student? That’s amazing. If that hadn’t happened, would we all have become… office workers or something?”

“Wouldn’t we? I would have just been a career soldier.”

“Well, I probably would have been in college……”

If the world hadn’t changed like this.

They wouldn’t be fighting for their lives.

They might have been waging a fierce war in the battlefield called society.

But at least it would have been better than fighting monsters for their lives.

While they were talking about the past and the future they might have had, Yoo Ji-woo quietly said to Veronica, who had been listening silently.

“I want to hear more about Oppa [Korean term for older brother used by females]. How did Oppa… live in this world?”

“I was wondering when you’d ask. You must be curious! About what achievements the continent’s strongest Swordmaster accomplished!”

Veronica started talking excitedly. She had set up a barrier so that no one could hear from the outside, so she talked excitedly all night long.

Yoo Seong-woo’s story didn’t seem to end. That was because Yoo Seong-woo was a Swordmaster who had been active in another world for decades and had cut down countless enemies.

“The Captain was a strange person from the first time I saw him.”

“A strange person?”

“My family was a merchant guild, but we had an accident. My parents all died, and I was left alone when I met the Captain on a mountain path.”

“That’s……”

“I was going to die alone, but the Captain saved me.”

Starting with the story of how she first met Yoo Seong-woo.

“I couldn’t even swing a sword at first. I didn’t even have the strength to hold a sword, but the Captain trained me all day long. Before that, I was a lady who couldn’t lift anything heavier than a spoon.”

“Hey, you’re exaggerating too much.”

“What part of that is a joke?! Where else can you find a frail woman like me!”

There were some minor incidents, but.

“The Captain went around doing something called ‘dojo breaking?’ [challenging and defeating martial arts schools] He traveled around the continent, taking on requests and defeating Swordmasters. He even went after guys who were pretty good.”

“Wow… there are people who actually do that.”

“He caught not only Swordmasters but also Archmages back then. He cuts magic with his sword, you know?”

Veronica’s mouth never stopped.

She had so many stories to tell, having spent over a decade with Yoo Seong-woo.

Yoo Seong-woo was a living legend in the other world, and an existence that all swordsmen admired.

He was a savior who hunted all kinds of monsters, and a hero of the front lines who single-handedly stood against the demon army.

He was even given the title of Demon King Slayer for defeating Demon Kings.

No matter how strong a demon was, they had to back down in the face of the name Yoo Seong-woo.

“As he became so strong, naturally, kids started gathering under him. Those kids formed the expedition team.”

In the early days of the expedition team, Yoo Seong-woo didn’t want to form one.

Because there were so many enemies, he didn’t want others to be harmed because of him.

“The Captain was a surprisingly delicate person……”

Veronica’s expression was reminiscent of a distant past.

And, at that timing, Yoo Seong-woo happened to enter the tent.

He had come to look around to see if there was anything different from his memories.

“…Why aren’t you sleeping? And why is she making such an unpleasant face? It makes me want to hit her.”

“Captain! Let’s sleep together tonight! Let’s look at the stars together! Let’s stick together warmly!”

Veronica, excited, rushed towards Yoo Seong-woo. And soon, everyone was physically put to sleep by Yoo Seong-woo.

***

“The request I’m entrusting to you today is the handling of heretics. I heard that priests of the Blood God Church have set up camp in the highlands east of the camp.”

“The Blood God Church… those crazy bastards! Sounds fun!”

Celine sighed deeply at Veronica’s reaction and said.

“Ollett, I know your skills, but please proceed with the request carefully. There’s information that there’s a bishop-level member of the Blood God Church.”

“A bishop is nothing!”

Veronica, who received the map and information from Celine, was about to leave the tent with the four of them when she met (Old) Veronica’s eyes.

(Old) Veronica growled at her as soon as she saw her, then quickly turned her head and went somewhere else.

(New) Veronica, who was watching her past self, laughed and said.

“Why is she like that? She’s really a weirdo. Just because she lost once.”

The others wanted to ask if she remembered that that was her past self.

“Alright! Let’s go!”

Veronica took the lead and left the camp, and the four followed behind her.

The current Yoo Seong-woo, who remained in the camp, muttered while looking at the past Yoo Seong-woo sitting in the tent.

“The past me was really a terrible guy.”

What was so good about this guy that everyone followed him?

Yoo Seong-woo left the tent and walked around the camp.

He engraved familiar faces in his eyes.

He once again engraved the faces of those who remained deep in his unconscious, in his memories, which he could not recall himself.

“Celine, Kyle, Leo, Belvain……”

Tian, Carlton, Shane, Lorraine…….

Missing names and faces.

After touring the camp, he climbed the watchtower and looked back at the vast plains.

It was a plain that looked so peaceful now, but it would turn into hell in a few days.

That’s why he brought them into this memory.

“I hope you learn a lot this time.”

***

“What is the Blood God Church?”

“Crazy bastards! They sacrifice people and monsters alike to summon something called the Blood God.”

“They’re a cult.”

“I don’t think they’re just any cult, though?”

“A cult is a cult!”

“Yeah! That’s right!”

Veronica and Hong Seo-hwa laughed together. The two, who had similar personalities, got along well, so Yoo Ji-woo could only look at them with worried eyes.

What should she do with these idiots…….

They walked for half a day, crossing the plains and arriving at the highlands.

“It’s a simple request to smash the Blood God Church hiding somewhere here and go back.”

‘Is it really that simple……?’

Yoo Ji-woo looked around and licked her lips.

It seemed that the others didn’t know yet. It seemed that she was the only one who noticed this fact.

This world is a fantasy based on Yoo Seong-woo’s memories.

Then, the request they were given must have been the request that Yoo Seong-woo was originally supposed to do.

If the leader of the expedition team had to move himself, it must have been an incredibly difficult request.

‘It might be a groundless fear, but…….’

For some reason, she instinctively felt that it wouldn’t be easy.

‘Oh well. If it’s really dangerous, Oppa will do something about it.’

Whether he steps in to solve it himself or stops the magic circle from working.

“This way.”

Veronica, who was looking around the highlands, pointed in one direction with her finger.

When Hong Seo-hwa asked how she knew so quickly, she replied.

“There’s always a smell of blood in the direction where the Blood God Church is. And since there are traces of blood leading that way, it seems like they hunted monsters nearby and dragged them away.”

“Monsters… like the monsters that come out of the Abyss?”

“Yeah. They’re monsters born from the magic of the demons.”

Veronica took the lead and moved her steps, chasing the traces of the Blood God Church.

It seemed like they tried to hide the traces, but they couldn’t deceive the keen senses of a Swordmaster.

“It’s here.”

The place where Veronica stopped was a cliff with nothing there.

Veronica stood in front of it and drew the sword she had tied to her back.

It was the sword she had borrowed from Griff yesterday.

She didn’t say when she would return it, so she brought it for today’s request.

Griff would probably say something when he woke up in the morning and saw that his sword was gone, but.

“If you don’t like it, become a Swordmaster!”

Veronica unleashed her aura and swung her sword at the same time.

The sword, swung greatly vertically, left a purple trajectory in the air, splitting the barrier that was spread out on the cliff.

The barrier shattered with a loud noise.

The sound of glass breaking was heard in succession, and a hidden entrance was revealed.

The moment the entrance to the cave was revealed, an intense scent of blood gushed out from the inside.

A terrible, fishy smell of blood that made her frown involuntarily.

Perhaps they noticed that the barrier had been broken, footsteps were heard from inside the cave.

Veronica pointed her sword at the cave and shouted.

“Alright! Everyone, prepare for battle! The goal is annihilation! Sweep away all the guys inside there!”

***

Veronica proceeded with the battle by supporting the four from behind.

Veronica was well aware that the ultimate goal of this was the growth of the four.

Following Veronica’s command, the four faced the cultists and monsters of the Blood God Church that poured out from the inside.

The cultists of the Blood God Church, true to their fanaticism, rushed at them, scattering blood all over their bodies.

“Kill them! Don’t let them interfere with the ritual!”

“We will offer their blood as a sacrifice to Batus!”

“For the God Batus─!!”

It was easier to deal with them thanks to their mindless rush.

Rather, that’s why she felt a sense of déjà vu.

The instincts of those who had experienced the ups and downs of life, though not as much as the expedition team, warned them.

‘Somehow… this is too easy?’

‘It’s too easy, so I’m uneasy.’

Clearly, it should have been difficult since it was a task that required a Swordmaster to be dispatched.

However, this situation was too easy.

As if they were aiming for something. As if they were trying to lure them further inside.

Nevertheless, they couldn’t back down.