The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 115

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 115

Thomas de Torquemada (4)

Yuseong-u remembered how Shua-nel had been using the phrase ‘That’s so like a strong woman’ for a while, and he was getting sick of it.

She used it to justify everything, to the point where he was developing a complex about it.

But now that he was using it himself, he realized it wasn’t so bad.

“Typical weak man, gets easily triggered.”

Yuseong-u muttered, floating into the air as he watched Thomas unleash a barrage of light.

Whether he was triggered by the ‘weak man’ comment or not, Thomas emitted intense divinity and light.

The light Thomas emitted was like a powerful heat ray.

Everywhere the light touched melted instantly, so even blocking it with Aura would be costly.

He tried to gauge Thomas’s power by dodging as much as possible and only intercepting what he couldn’t avoid with his sword.

“Typical weak man, makes his subordinates fight and then tries to land the final blow.”

For some reason, this tone was becoming addictive.

Yuseong-u muttered a few times, deflecting the light coming at him by swinging his Aura-clad sword.

“Hmm.”

First, he needed to bring Thomas down to the ground.

It wasn’t impossible to fight him in the air, but having a solid footing made a definite difference.

Spinning once in the air to dodge another ray of light, he gripped Ilsaeng [his sword] tightly and manipulated the ground.

Several rocks shot into the air.

Yuseong-u floated higher and used the rocks as stepping stones.

With light, quick movements, he instantly reached Thomas and thrust Ilsaeng forward.

However, his sword was blocked by the faint golden light surrounding Thomas’s entire body.

“Do you think human skill can reach God? At this moment, I have become a true God.”

“You’re delusional. I heard that if you gather all the guys who claim to be Jesus, they stop claiming to be Jesus after a while.”

Yuseong-u thought he should gather all the guys who claim to be God and lock them in a room together.

As the light surrounding Thomas intensified, Yuseong-u was repelled by the force.

Landing on the ground, he immediately jumped to another spot, dodging the outstretched beam of light.

The speed of the light beam was so fast that it was difficult to avoid unless he predicted it in advance.

If anyone other than him had been standing there, their body would have been pierced several times over.

“Ah, ah… Cardinal Thomas, please, please save us…….”

“Cardinal Thomas… release us from our suffering…….”

The Holy Knights, awakened from their stupor, offered prayers of salvation to Thomas in the sky.

Thomas saved them in a slightly different way.

“Yes, there will be no more suffering. My lambs…….”

Thomas said, raising both hands high.

Then, all sorts of light gathered into his hands.

It was the light of life flowing out of the Holy Knights and the people in the Vatican, the divinity he had given them.

“Oh… typical weak man, takes back what he gave.”

Yuseong-u clicked his tongue, watching the people wither away like mummies as they were deprived of their divinity and life force.

Then, he turned and sent a red sword aura towards Thomas.

“Do not interfere with my work.”

Thomas emitted golden light to block his sword aura.

But thanks to that, the monster’s movement to absorb people’s life force stopped.

Yuseong-u seized the opportunity and shouted.

“Jeanne! Are you ready yet!”

His voice, laden with Aura, spread far and wide through the air.

Jeanne’s reply, who was preparing to break the Holy Ground [a sacred area protected by divine power] far away, returned shortly after.

-Give me two more minutes!

Two minutes.

That was easy enough.

Thomas’s head turned towards Jeanne’s direction.

Now realizing what Jeanne was doing, he tried to move towards her.

Yuseong-u jumped into the air again, blocking his path and swinging his sword.

A brief moment of air time.

In a time of less than a few seconds, Yuseong-u swung his sword dozens of times.

Thomas’s golden barrier blocked the sword, but it couldn’t block it completely.

Gaps appeared here and there, and red lines were drawn on the monster’s body.

“Typical strong man, uses up everything he’s been saving at once.”

Blood spurted from Thomas’s body.

But as if rewinding time, they flowed back into his body, and the wounds were neatly healed.

“You fool.”

“Oh, shit.”

This was the problem with priests who possessed divinity.

Most of them knew how to self-heal, so even if they were injured, they would heal themselves unless it was a fatal wound.

Thomas, who had recovered from his wounds in an instant, emitted light from his entire body.

Yuseong-u swung forward with Ilsaeng almost simultaneously, but he couldn’t block everything.

Several beams of light pierced through his body, creating small holes.

Landing on the ground, he checked his wounds and clicked his tongue.

‘I avoided all the fatal wounds, but it will take some time to recover. Is it because it’s light containing divinity?’

It was a similar pattern when fighting the Demon God.

Recovery is slower when hit by an attack containing divinity.

Even the regenerative power of the dragon, obtained by defeating several dragons, does not recover easily.

“There will be divine punishment for those who block my path. The only place for heretics who help witches is hell.”

Thomas said, now raining down light.

Having recovered all the divinity he had given to the Holy Knights, his divinity had doubled.

Yuseong-u, wondering who had given such power to such a guy, clicked his tongue and formed an Aura Armor.

As expected, the consumption rate of Aura was no joke.

But, it’s almost time.

-I’ll start.

Two minutes were up.

As soon as the time Jeanne had mentioned passed, the sky, which had been full of light, suddenly began to darken, and dark clouds began to swirl.

With a rumble, red lightning flashed. And what slowly revealed itself from within the dark clouds was…

A huge nail.

The black nail, surpassing the size of most high-rise buildings, slowly descended with its tip pointing forward.

“What a sight.”

The giant nail soon touched the outer skin of the barrier surrounding the entire Vatican.

Golden sparks flew incessantly from the barrier that collided with the nail.

The barrier was meant to block, and the nail was meant to penetrate.

Thomas began to reinforce the barrier in real time, and Yuseong-u watched, recovering the Aura he had consumed in the two battles.

And before long, he realized which side was winning.

It was the giant nail that the witches had created.

It wasn’t just a nail.

If it was just a huge nail, it wouldn’t have appeared from the sky, and it wouldn’t have been able to break through the barrier.

The nail was made of the witches’ hatred.

A nail forged from the hatred of witches who had been oppressed for a long time—hundreds, thousands of years.

A great hatred that cannot be stopped by the madness of a single person.

Yuseong-u saw the dark clouds swirling behind the nail as a witch wearing a robe.

Raising a slender yet calloused hand, she presses down on the nail with her finger.

Then, the tip of the nail slowly tore through the barrier and entered, creating a large hole.

Thomas tried to restore it, but the nail seemed to have been magically treated, and it proceeded to erode the barrier from the hole that had been pierced.

Before long, a large crack formed in the entire barrier, and it shattered and poured down like rain.

It was as if sparkling stardust was pouring down.

‘Is this the end of the promised operation?’

Before entering the Vatican, the Witch Council and Yuseong-u had devised a plan.

The Witch Council asked for something different according to the operation, in addition to the requirements Yuseong-u wanted.

Yuseong-u agreed to it.

The witches’ plan was to infiltrate the barrier, create a ‘path’ connecting the Witch Council’s base and the Vatican, and break the Holy Ground.

Meanwhile, Yuseong-u’s main operation was to run wild in front and attract the attention of the monsters.

There were several reasons for breaking the Holy Ground, but the biggest reason was for the commoners.

They said that those who were not Divers but just ordinary people were likely to have been brainwashed by the divinity, so it was a generous decision by the witches to save the innocent.

First, break the Holy Ground and cut off their connection with Thomas.

If they tried to kill Thomas first, there was a possibility that he would kill everyone in the Vatican through the connected passage.

That was the outline of the first operation, and the second operation that would follow…….

Koo-oong…….

The witches’ nail was erected like a pillar in the Vatican, the holy land of Catholicism, creating a shadow.

Thomas was still emitting light in the shadow.

He did not lose his power even after losing the Holy Ground.

It was merely the disappearance of his domain.

Yuseong-u, who had finished recovering, muttered in a small voice.

“Typical strong man, always leaves enough power to kill one guy.”

Is this a weak man?

I don’t know.

Yuseong-u gripped Ilsaeng tightly and melted into the shadows.

Like when he hunted the elves before, he melted into the shadows created by the nail.

Behind the place where the light is strongest, there is always a deep shadow.

Thomas turned his gaze to find Yuseong-u, but he could not find his figure, which had merged with the shadows.

When he couldn’t see his figure, Thomas frowned and revealed a small gap.

A very small gap revealed to deploy magic to find him.

Yuseong-u did not miss that moment and jumped out of the shadows, moving like a snake.

Without making a sound, he stepped on the debris floating here and there and jumped up, approaching Thomas from behind and slashing his neck with Ilsaeng.

There was a small sound of ‘squeak,’ and light poured out of Thomas’s body.

Yuseong-u, who was bounced back by the force, landed on the ground and clicked his tongue.

‘Was it a little shallow?’

However, it was definitely a fatal attack. Thomas’s neck was half cut off, revealing white bone, and dark red blood gushed out.

“You, you heretic…….”

“I didn’t say it, but I’m a 3rd dan in Hapkido [a Korean martial art]. I’m not a heretic.”

Golden light continued to pour out of Thomas’s body.

The enormous divinity returned Thomas’s body, which was approaching death, to its original state.

The neck, which had been half cut off and dangling, reattached to his body, and the wound healed.

Thomas, who had returned from death, shouted, scattering divinity in all directions.

“I will definitely kill you! With this divine power! I will send down divine punishment and drop you into hell!”

“I’ve heard that so many times, but seeing that I’m still alive, I don’t think I’m destined to go to hell. Typical strong man, doesn’t go to hell.”

When Thomas spread out his hands, a sword made of light was held in one hand, and a shield was held in the other.

Thomas, holding two weapons, came down to the ground and began to swing his sword.

It was a very good situation for Yuseong-u. The monster who had been floating in the air came down to the ground on his own.

The movement of Thomas swinging his sword came clearly into view.

It is difficult to predict the attack of a monster that scatters light from the sky, but from the moment he holds a weapon, it was Yuseong-u’s specialty.

Identify the distance and read the sword path.

Quite a skilled movement.

However, in front of the Swordmaster, it was nothing more than a trivial skill.

He seemed to be pulling the shield to his chest to block the counter.

“I can see everything.”

Yuseong-u deflected Thomas’s light sword with his sword’s body and dug inside.

And he stretches out his sword towards the gap in the empty shield.

His Ilsaeng, the sword he had honed throughout his life, pierced through the divinity and cut through his chest, and red blood spurted into the air.