The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 105

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 105

Sports Day (4)

The Abyss that appeared at Yeonam Private Elementary School was classified as a Class 2 dimensional tear.

Moreover, because two Abyss instances appeared simultaneously, it was labeled a ‘Double Gate.’

Two Class 2 Abyss instances.

Under normal circumstances, this would have been a near-disaster scenario.

Sehyun City might have been completely devastated.

However, thanks to the swift response of the Divers present, there were no casualties – a truly miraculous event.

The cores of the Abyss instances were artifacts held by two Master class Orcs.

I’d have to appraise them to know the specifics, but they were quite high-level artifacts.

“…Hmph.”

After clearing all the Abyss instances, Knox stood there forlornly, seemingly disappointed, in a place where cleanup efforts were underway.

She had practiced hard for her talent show performance, but the sports day was ruined because of the Abyss instances.

She had also planned to participate in the relay race after the talent show.

“What are you doing?”

“…I wanted to sing.”

Yoo Seong-woo, who had finished clearing out the remaining Orcs, asked, noticing Knox standing blankly.

Knox pouted and grumbled, clearly disappointed.

“I prepared so hard.”

“Then do it now.”

Yoo Seong-woo said, plopping down on the spot.

He rested his chin on his hand and stared at Knox with indifferent eyes.

Under his gaze, Knox hesitated, then stepped onto the half-destroyed stage and spun around once.

It would have been a talent show that would have received cheers from countless people if the sports day had proceeded as planned.

Knox, standing on the stage, held an imaginary microphone in her hand, cleared her throat, and began to sing without accompaniment.

Yoo Seong-woo had never heard the song before, but her voice was beautiful.

He initially thought it might be a children’s song, befitting her age, but it wasn’t.

He remembered hearing it on television a few times.

‘What’s the title?’

It seemed to be a song by a popular singer these days.

Yoo Seong-woo searched his mind and recalled that the title of the song was ‘With You.’

‘No matter how the world changes, with you, even if the end is near, with you…’

Roughly a song tailored to the Abyss era.

Knox finished the song without accompaniment and smiled brightly with a flushed face.

As if she wanted him to listen to her sing just for him.

Yoo Seong-woo applauded, and others who had gathered around the stage also smiled and clapped.

Knox bowed her head towards the people applauding her and then walked towards Yoo Seong-woo with small steps.

Then, she twisted her body shyly and asked.

“How was it? I practiced hard because I wanted to sing for you, Mister! Secretly!”

“You wanted to sing for me?”

“Yes! Because you always… seem a little tired. Although it seems like Unni [older sister or female friend] does more work.”

“It feels like an unnecessary comment was added.”

“Hehe. So how was it? My song? Everyone said it was good, but I wanted to hear it directly from you, Mister.”

“It was worth listening to.”

“Tch.”

Yoo Seong-woo got up from his seat, stretched, and lightly stroked Knox’s head.

“I feel quite better. I’ve been feeling a bit down lately.”

“I did it!”

“Yeah. You did it.”

Yoo Seong-woo smiled slightly.

Really, he didn’t feel so bad. For the first time in a long time.

* * *

“There are more than one or two strange things about this incident. The fact that two Abyss instances opened simultaneously, and the Orcs inside the Abyss instances seemed to know each other.”

“Orcs from different Abyss instances seemed to know each other?”

“Yeah. The Orc I killed first said to me, ‘Don’t think you can stop even our other comrades.’”

Judging from those words, they clearly seemed to know each other.

As Yoo Seong-woo remembered, the armaments of the two Orc tribes that emerged from different Abyss instances were similar.

It couldn’t be dismissed as a simple coincidence.

“So I chopped them all to pieces, and there really was another Orc outside.”

The moment he saw the Orc outside, Yoo Seong-woo felt a chill.

The aura he felt was that of a Master class.

There was a Swordmaster wielding a greatsword with a green aura.

He wondered if the Orc had been slaughtering people while he was slaughtering Orcs inside.

Was he going to fail to protect and lose everything again?

That thought flashed through his mind for a moment.

For a moment, his head didn’t work properly, and just as he was about to chop everything around him to pieces, he calmed down after seeing the unharmed people.

Anyway.

“There’s a high possibility that the Ascension Church is involved, so find out if this is happening in other countries as well.”

“Okay.”

“Yeah.”

Yoo Wol and Yoo Ji-woo, who were sitting across from him, replied to his words.

Yoo Seong-woo couldn’t just let this incident pass.

If he had been careless, everyone else might have died.

It was fortunate that the Swordmaster Orc wasn’t that strong.

‘…It’s getting harder and harder.’

Yoo Seong-woo had met and talked with Luna, the god of the Towol tribe.

The Earth is currently a game board for the gods.

A very simple game to see who, among the ‘Ascended’ they have chosen, will reach ascension first.

But the chess pieces involved within it were not so simple.

He had to identify which one was the Ascended, and to protect, he had to find and defeat them.

‘It’s been a long time since I’ve felt like I’m being played. I want to kill them all.’

No, he mustn’t just want to kill them. He had to kill them all.

To return this insane Earth to its original state.

‘The Ascension Church must have been created by some god’s chess piece.’

Because it openly proclaims to be a religion for ascension.

It also seemed to have secretly built up its power over a long period.

Judging from its skill in moving through various dimensions and recruiting other races, the person himself must be a formidable figure.

And on Earth, there must be several such beings hiding.

They don’t seem to be openly active, probably because they are testing each other…….

Yoo Seong-woo thought that the leader of the Ascension Church was the one who boldly planted his flag first among such beings.

Yoo Seong-woo stared intently at the two people across from him.

At his gaze, Yoo Wol tilted her head, and Yoo Ji-woo said bluntly.

“What?”

Yoo Seong-woo sighed deeply at her words.

“When will I raise these guys to be useful enough…….”

“Ah, geez!”

“Shua-nel, I know you’re listening too. You come here too and listen to some nagging. You lazy elf.”

Shua-nel, who had come out to the living room to get a drink of water but didn’t go back in because the atmosphere was tense, approached hesitantly and sat on the sofa.

Yoo Seong-woo looked at the three of them alternately and sighed deeply again.

“Why is the lineup like this?”

A rabbit with sealed abilities, a younger sister who is mediocre at both swordsmanship and magic, and a lazy high elf…….

They clearly had good specs, but he felt like they weren’t using them properly.

If you only consider physical abilities, Yoo Wol would be in the ranks of S-class, and Yoo Ji-woo would now be in the upper ranks even among the established S-class.

And Shua-nel was beyond S-class if you only looked at her magical abilities.

No matter which magical Diver you bring from all over the world, they wouldn’t be able to keep up with the innate talent of a high elf.

Not only magic but even spirits – who could stand against her?

Unless a magician like Merlin from mythology comes back to life.

‘…Oh, crazy, is he really alive?’

Jeanne of the Witch Council lived for hundreds of years, so Merlin could be alive too.

Since the Magic Tower exists openly.

If that’s the case, I’ll have to recalculate. Among those who have become the gods’ chess pieces, there must be those who have lived for a long time, like Jeanne.

The leader of the Ascension Church might be one of them too.

Yoo Seong-woo twirled the fork in his hand and then opened his mouth.

“The answer is training.”

“Training?”

“Experience, unconditionally experience. Accumulate experience until you die. Roll to death. No, die once.”

“What kind of crazy talk is that?!”

“Originally, people become stronger after dying and being resurrected once.”

“Usually, you can’t come back to life if you die?”

“Do you think I’m telling you to really die? To my sister?”

Yoo Ji-woo was speechless with absurdity.

What kind of nonsensical and absurd nonsense is this?

She opened her mouth wide and screamed silently before closing her eyes tightly.

She missed her past brother so much… at least the brother who didn’t say such crazy things.

“Shua-nel, you have terribly little experience compared to your abilities. That’s because you only play games all the time. Go out and fight a little.”

“…….”

“What’s with that look? It would be better to become a self-motivated child before I forcibly throw you into the Abyss.”

“Tch.”

Yoo Seong-woo stretched out his finger at Shua-nel, who was clicking her tongue.

Then, the formless aura extending from his finger grabbed the back of Shua-nel’s neck and lifted her up.

Shua-nel struggled at the sudden lift but gave up.

“Another strange technique…….”

“Oh, Oppa [term for older brother], what is that?”

It looked like telekinesis.

The same appearance as ‘telekinesis’ used by Divers who have awakened psychic powers.

Yoo Seong-woo put Shua-nel, who he was holding, back on the sofa and said.

“I don’t know. I suddenly became able to do it.”

“Then, isn’t Oppa awakened as a Diver?”

“Bullshit… how could that be?”

Yoo Seong-woo didn’t know how it happened either.

His skill in handling aura might have increased in the meantime, or there might be some other reason.

As he pondered, Yoo Seong-woo felt that something in his chest, a lingering lump, had disappeared.

He felt as if his indigestion had completely gone down, so he circulated aura throughout his body to check his condition.

Something, an incomparably refreshing feeling.

‘…What is it?’

It felt like it had blown away all the impurities in his body.

Because of that, the use of aura seemed to have become more delicate.

If it was only about blowing away or pulling in the past, now he could manipulate it freely.

Yoo Seong-woo manipulated a piece of snack placed on the table with aura and brought it to his mouth.

He swallowed it in one gulp and licked his lips with his tongue, grinning.

A very good idea came to mind.

If he could control aura so delicately…….

“Ji-woo, don’t you need a new weapon? Your sword is in pretty bad shape.”

“Oppa said he would get me one.”

“So, about that, I’ll make you a new sword.”

“Oppa… is going to make a sword? Do you even know how to be a blacksmith?”

“Blacksmithing is essential for a swordsman.”

No.

“A swordsman should know how to make at least one sword.”

No.

“How can you call someone who doesn’t even know how a sword is made a swordsman? They don’t even deserve to be called a swordsman.”

…That’s not it either.

“So, I’m going to make you a really amazing sword, so let’s raid the warehouse in Meteo Industries just once.”

Yoo Seong-woo said, raising the corners of his mouth and smiling.

“Oppa can really make a sword? I don’t really believe it…….”

“At least I’m much better than those mediocre guys. It would be much better to leave it to me than to entrust it to those guys. Let’s make a masterpiece.”

His face was full of excitement at the thought of doing a side job after a long time.