The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 380

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – 379

Turning Point (3)

Disaster strikes without warning.

An earthquake without warning signs.

A flood pouring as if the sky had a hole.

In the sea, never-before-seen monsters swarming, and a tsunami engulfing coastal cities.

The barrier separating gods and humans is lifted, and gods arrive on Earth.

Unlike when the Holy Temples revealed themselves, real gods were setting foot on the ground.

The whole world began to burn with all sorts of disasters. The gods of Olympus revealed themselves, and the Valkyries of Norse mythology fluttered their wings and arrived.

Asia, Europe… in every land where mythology remained, disaster in the name of mythology arrived.

The gods wanted the heads of countries at their feet, and those who had no power to overcome the gods submitted.

The world’s leaders knelt before the gods. A strength that ordinary Divers [those with special abilities] could not overcome.

Literally, ‘gods.’

A strength that forces submission.

The only place not affected was the Korean Peninsula, already dominated by the Sword Palace.

Originally, the Jade Emperor’s Palace [a powerful Taoist organization] was supposed to rule the Korean Peninsula, but they were defeated by the Sword Palace and retreated.

Thanks to that, while news of various disasters was heard from other countries, South Korea was safe.

In other countries, cities were devastated by the arrival of destruction gods, or in small countries, most of the humans were turned into livestock.

The people of South Korea praised Yoo Seong-woo for the news from other countries, saying that they were not suffering such a fate because of him.

Yoo Seong-woo was not very pleased with such praise.

“Support requests are continuously coming in from various countries. What should we do?”

“Ignore them. I clearly warned them, and it’s their problem for not listening.”

Yoo Seong-woo warned each country before the barrier was lifted. To prepare for the coming disaster.

Some seemed to know that the barrier was being lifted, but they didn’t seem to know that things would turn out this way.

Those who had properly prepared were the Cheonma Shin-gyo [a powerful martial arts sect] or the Murim Alliance [another martial arts alliance] in China… and perhaps the Japanese archipelago and the United States.

Black Serpent, who had become a Demon God, seemed to have joined hands with the Murim Alliance and negotiated with the Classic of Mountains and Seas [a collection of Chinese myths and legends], and in Japan, Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi [major Shinto deities] seemed to have a firm grip.

Besides, Japan was originally a country with strong faith, so apart from the rampant miscellaneous gods, there didn’t seem to be much damage.

The United States was fine because it originally had no significant mythology. A country less than a thousand years old was too short a time to talk about mythology.

“It’s good that the country is surrounded by the sea on three sides in times like these.”

Yoo Seong-woo ignored the various requests and smiled bitterly.

If he had been attached to another landmass, he would be fighting the gods who were invading by now.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas would be fighting among themselves in China’s vast land.

They wouldn’t have time to care about a small land on the outskirts.

“……”

Yoo Seong-woo sat with his legs crossed and expanded his senses.

The barrier that had surrounded the Earth, separating gods and humans, was completely lifted and disappeared.

The gods, who had finally arrived after the barrier that had been gradually weakening for thousands of years was completely lifted, covered the Earth with chaos.

And finally.

The messenger of the Ascension Church arrived at the Sword Palace. He was sitting quietly at the Sword Palace’s checkpoint, drinking tea.

The priest of the Ascension Church who visited the Sword Palace was none other than an angel. A halo above his head and wings behind his back.

Yoo Seong-woo, sitting across from a race he was seeing for the first time, frowned and stared intently.

“Hey, Dantalian. Do you know him?”

At the word angel, Yoo Seong-woo brought Dantalian to the checkpoint.

Usually, demons are born from fallen angels. But Dantalian shook his head.

“I don’t know him.”

“I see. Well, I didn’t expect you to anyway.”

The angel across from them smiled softly at their conversation.

The angel with three pairs of wings stood up from his seat and bowed his head.

“The tea is delicious. Thank you for the hospitality. I am Michael, the Seraph who serves the Lord of the Ascension Church. Dantalian, do you really not know me?”

“Michael? You?”

Dantalian stared at Michael with a deeply furrowed brow. Angels are beings that are symmetrical to demons, yet their principles and foundations are infinitely close.

“Yes. Weren’t we once fellow lower-ranked angels? You fell as a demon, but I reached the position of Seraph through hard work. I am deeply moved. To see you again, whom I thought I would never see.”

“I don’t remember.”

“That’s… unfortunate. Well, some things can’t be helped. I am a Seraph, and you are a fallen demon.”

“This bastard is picking a fight, right?”

Dantalian said, looking at Yoo Seong-woo. He nodded and opened his mouth.

“So? What’s the reason for coming to the Sword Palace? I can guess, though.”

“Yes. The time has finally come. Our Lord has invited you, the master of the Sword Palace.”

The barrier has been lifted.

And, the Lord of the Ascension Church has invited him.

From these two facts, Yoo Seong-woo could confirm several things.

About why the Lord of the Ascension Church had not come directly until now, and about his identity.

When things started to go wrong due to Yoo Seong-woo, the Lord of the Ascension Church could have stepped in directly and dealt with him.

But the Lord of the Ascension Church did not do so, even though he had the powerful ability to cross dimensions and tear space.

Yoo Seong-woo was convinced that the Lord of the Ascension Church was under some kind of restriction, and he pondered his identity.

And, it became clear when Michael visited just now.

The story of humans he heard from Zeus.

And the Lord of the Ascension Church. These two are the same person, yet not the same person at the same time.

The one who created the barrier separating the divine realm and the human realm was the Lord of the Ascension Church who was human, and the one who is now in conflict with him is the Lord of the Ascension Church who has become a god.

Because of the barrier he created, he himself was bound by restrictions and could not wield power on the ground.

That is why he tried to increase his influence by sending agents called bishops.

Demons, Andromalius… that clown.

Dalgi too.

If they had not been stopped by Yoo Seong-woo and had accomplished their goals, South Korea would have fallen to the Ascension Church, and China would have fallen into Dalgi’s hands.

The tower masters of the Magic Tower would have all been killed by the clown, causing chaos.

While Yoo Seong-woo was pondering, Michael praised the Ascension Church as he pleased, and then spoke with a refined gesture.

“Now, then, let us go to the world of ascension……”

“I’m not going.”

“Excuse me?”

“I said I’m not going, you bastard. Do you think I’m someone who has to go just because you tell me to? You’re mistaken.”

Yoo Seong-woo said bluntly, crossing his legs. Then, he narrowed his brows and slowly raised his energy.

Michael in front of him was an angel who had reached the level of a divine being as his name suggested, but to Yoo Seong-woo now, he was just a small obstacle.

As a powerful energy emanated from him, Michael gritted his teeth at the tremendous pressure.

In the meantime, Dantalian next to him had a calm face, so he unintentionally learned how well he controlled his energy.

Yoo Seong-woo stood up from his seat, approached Michael, who couldn’t move, and poked him on the forehead with his finger.

“Tell the Lord of the Ascension Church to come himself. Now that the barrier is lifted, there’s no reason why he can’t come unless he has no legs.”

As Yoo Seong-woo said that and turned his body, releasing his energy, Michael collapsed to the floor as if his legs had given way.

Still, his body trembled, perhaps because the fear that stimulated his instincts was still there.

It clearly showed that there was a difference in class even among divine beings.

“Dantalian, let’s go.”

“Oh, sure.”

As Yoo Seong-woo turned and left the checkpoint, Dantalian looked at Michael and chuckled as he followed.

Michael, left alone in the room, gritted his teeth as Yoo Seong-woo disappeared from his sight.

The benevolent angel, filled with anger, opened the returning dimension gate.

To report all of this to the Lord of the Ascension Church.

* * *

Yoo Seong-woo, who returned to the Sword Palace from the checkpoint, first gathered the people.

The people who gathered at his call were those who knew something about the Holy Temples.

Dantalian, Dowa, and a few elder witches from the Witchcraft Society.

“I summoned you because I have some questions.”

“What are you so curious about? I heard the story that a messenger from the Ascension Church came and went……”

“…Hmm, well, let me ask you first. It’s about Christianity and Islam. Before the Abyss was created, the two religions almost divided the world.”

“That’s right. But when it was revealed that the gods of the two religions didn’t exist, they almost went bankrupt… Ah, sorry.”

Medeia, who was speaking sharply, closed her mouth, noticing Jeanne’s expression.

Joan of Arc. She was a devout Catholic.

“It’s okay. I’m used to it.”

She used to change her expression every time she heard that Jesus and God didn’t exist, but she had already shaken it off a long time ago.

All that remained was a slight regret.

Yoo Seong-woo asked her.

“But Jeanne, you clearly showed the appearance of drawing on the power of God. What is the basis of that power?”

“…Sigh, are you asking about that first? I believed it was the power of God at first, but not anymore. It’s magic that draws out the potential of the body based on self-suggestion. I realized it after hearing that God doesn’t exist……”

“I don’t need the details… The question I have is one. The one who came to the checkpoint today as a messenger of the Lord of the Ascension Church was Michael, a Seraph. A being from heaven in the Bible. If Christianity really doesn’t exist, then heaven and hell shouldn’t exist either, right?”

What Yoo Seong-woo was sure of after seeing Michael was that the existence of the Seraph Michael meant that angels and heaven existed.

If so, then the opposite, hell, should also exist.

Furthermore, didn’t Michael say that he was a colleague from his days as a lower-ranked angel when he saw Dantalian?

“Dantalian, do you remember your days as an angel?”

“I don’t remember. All angels are reborn as new beings the moment they fall and become demons. During that process, memories are erased, and only instincts remain. In my case, it’s the desire to collect records.”

“It’s certain that you fell.”

“That’s right. Even if I’ve forgotten everything else, the memory of the fall remains. The feeling of having my wings torn off and my mental world turned upside down. The whispers of demons seeking freedom from restrictions……”

“If you remember that time, then it must be true. Hmm, Dowa, does another hell exist on the Korean Peninsula?”

“I don’t know!”

“I didn’t expect you to. The hell that appears in the Bible wouldn’t be on the Korean Peninsula. Then, Medeia, if the concept of heaven and hell exists, and it exists as a Holy Temple, what is the probability that the monotheistic god of Christianity or Islam exists as a separate concept?”

“It’s close to zero. Since it’s a being born from the story called the Bible, at least the heaven and hell of Christianity, and the existence of the main god that is the basis of it is essential… Wait, could it be that you.”

Medeia’s eyebrows twitched as if she knew what Yoo Seong-woo was saying. Jeanne also seemed to have caught on, covering her mouth with her hand and gaping.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had been silent for a while, finally put his guess into words.

“…The Lord of the Ascension Church seems to be the god of Christianity. Maybe he’s the god of Islam.”