The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 131

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 131

Black Bear (4)

“CEO, the head of the Black Bear hasn’t shown his face for days. It seems he really did head to Seosan.”

“…The Scenic Site, you mean.”

“Yes. The more we investigate this matter, the more suspicious it becomes.”

Yoo Ji-woo nodded at Seo Yeon-jung’s report.

Yoo Seong-woo hadn’t told her it was a trap to avoid worrying her, but she had figured it out with her own intelligence network.

The position of CEO of Meteor Industries wasn’t something you won with a game of rock-paper-scissors.

“So, right now, the Black Bear’s operations are practically unguarded?”

“That seems to be the case. We haven’t been able to track down CEO Yoo Seok-hyung or many of the A-ranks either.”

“They must have invested quite a bit to catch my brother. Those bastards… As his sister, I can’t just sit back and watch, can I, sis?”

“I agree.”

“There were rumors that Yoo Seok-hyung was doing favors for Dagwan Group, and it seems to be true. If their base is empty, we should raid it. How much can we take with our current forces?”

“We can probably take over more than half of the Black Bear’s businesses, including those related to the Abyss [a dangerous, monster-filled dimension]. All the preliminary work is done, so we just need your approval.”

“You’re so efficient. The Black Bear will be dismantled within the year. My brother won’t let those guys live.”

Yoo Ji-woo said, wearing the expression of a cold-blooded businesswoman.

Yoo Seong-woo was headed to a Grade 1 Abyss, the Land of Despair, which had never been conquered before.

However, she didn’t doubt for a moment that Yoo Seong-woo would finish the job and return safely.

“Let’s leave that to my brother and focus on our own work. We’ll bleed the Black Bear dry….”

We’ll build our own castle, making it so strong that no guild or company can touch it.

We’ll build a huge castle in Sehyun City.

She didn’t want a small company like this, but an impregnable fortress that wouldn’t be shaken.

According to the trends, the world’s situation would continue to become more unstable.

She needed an impregnable fortress that could withstand such trends and not be swept away.

“I wonder what kind of expression Yoo Seok-hyung will make when he returns.”

* * *

The Black Bear members, who were struggling to descend the Scenic Site, realized that everything blocking their path had suddenly disappeared.

And they felt a faint vibration.

They quickly descended, feeling as if the entire Scenic Site was shaking.

What would have originally taken weeks was reduced to just a few hours.

Their bodies were getting heavier, but thanks to the artifacts [magical items], running wasn’t a problem.

They quickly arrived at the entrance of the joint Abyss, which was filled with an ominous feeling.

“…Enter quietly.”

Following Yoo Seok-hyung’s orders, the Black Bear’s divers [fighters specializing in Abyss exploration] scouted the inside of the joint Abyss as they entered.

What they saw was a chaotic scene, dimly lit by dangling lights.

A massive creature that looked like a monster was lying on the ground, and next to it stood a human in a disheveled state.

Torn and burned clothes.

However, there were almost no injuries on his body, and the blood-red sword in his hand inspired terror.

The moment Yoo Seok-hyung saw him, he remembered what Min Jong-ho had told him.

Just stall for time.

Neither the Black Bear nor Min Jong-ho thought they could kill him; they just needed to stall for time.

So he immediately shouted.

“Kill him!”

He must be exhausted from defeating that monster.

Besides, he didn’t seem to be wearing an artifact that alleviated gravity.

Yoo Seok-hyung kicked off the ground and ran forward, and the Black Bear’s divers also moved forward.

Yoo Seong-woo frowned as he saw the people running toward him.

“Did they already come? I thought it would take longer, and I was going to kill them all on the way up….”

“You’re the one who’s going to die!”

“Where did you guys come from? You don’t seem to be from the Ascension Church… A private guild?”

Yoo Seong-woo reached out and grabbed the assassin who had silently approached him from behind by the collar, then threw him forward.

The diver who was running head-on collided with the assassin and tumbled to the ground.

Yoo Seok-hyung left those divers behind, clenched daggers in both hands, and swung them like flashes of light toward Yoo Seong-woo.

The daggers, swung at his maximum speed, slashed at Yoo Seong-woo dozens of times.

‘There’s no feeling!’

However, Yoo Seok-hyung realized he felt nothing and retreated.

Then Yoo Seong-woo’s figure scattered, and he appeared on top of the prone dragon’s body.

“Koreans… Judging by your faces, you all look like gangsters.”

Yoo Seok-hyung swallowed the words that he looked the most like a gangster.

“Gangsters, gangsters… So, I think I heard a story about gangsters forming a guild. Are you the Black… Black Bear or something?”

“It’s Black Bear!”

“Right, Black Bear. Thanks for letting me know. Then I can’t kill… well, I can’t kill you.”

Yoo Seong-woo realized that the foothold was vibrating slightly and immediately jumped into the air.

He grabbed onto the dangling lights on the ceiling of the joint Abyss and looked down.

The Annihilation Dragon, which had been lying down, began to rise.

“…As expected of an ancient dragon. It doesn’t die in one hit.”

One of Yoo Seong-woo’s techniques, ‘Life or Death,’ was a technique that interfered with the opponent’s soul with Aura [a type of spiritual energy].

It was mainly used against enemies who were difficult to inflict external wounds on.

Most couldn’t withstand it and collapsed, but beings like ancient dragons had extremely high spiritual levels.

One use of Life or Death wasn’t enough to shatter their souls.

Yoo Seong-woo frowned and slowly raised his body, looking at the Annihilation Dragon, who had regained reason and anger in its eyes.

“Ascension Church, Ascension Church, Ascension Church! Those damn humans have deceived me! To dare use me, this Annihilation Dragon, as a tool to stall for time!”

The Annihilation Dragon opened its mouth wide and shouted with a voice full of resentment.

“All fall─!!”

With the Annihilation Dragon’s cry, the entire joint Abyss shook greatly.

The Black Bear’s divers couldn’t withstand it and knelt on the floor, and Yoo Seong-woo narrowed his brows while still dangling from the lights.

Seeing that, the Annihilation Dragon shouted.

“Why aren’t you falling?!”

“Idiot… You’re a dragon, but you don’t seem to know how draconic words work.”

Yoo Seong-woo had faced dragons several times.

They also used draconic words like the Annihilation Dragon, and each time, Yoo Seong-woo deliberately didn’t resist the draconic words and took the hit.

Draconic words were a type of ‘magic wave’ that overlaid the will of the world.

It wasn’t a technique that could never be analyzed, so Yoo Seong-woo analyzed the magic pattern emitted by the draconic words and offset it with Aura.

A way to maximize efficiency with minimal Aura.

The analysis of the Annihilation Dragon’s magic pattern was complete, so its draconic words no longer worked.

But the Annihilation Dragon, unaware of this fact, continued to shout draconic words, but Yoo Seong-woo didn’t budge.

Only the Black Bear’s divers, flattened on the floor, were suffering.

“Then…!”

The Annihilation Dragon took a deep breath.

It was planning to unleash its breath at Yoo Seong-woo.

But he wasn’t going to let the Annihilation Dragon just spew its breath.

He jumped off the lights and descended, entrusting his life to the fall.

He summoned the Samjeong Sword beneath his feet to use as a foothold and accelerated in the air, becoming a streak of red light as he fell.

The Annihilation Dragon instantly erected dozens of layers of barriers to stop him.

It was trying to stop him even a little and buy time to unleash its breath.

However, Yoo Seong-woo’s speed didn’t decrease at all.

Rather, he became even faster, leading with his sword, breaking through all of the Annihilation Dragon’s barriers, and plunging his sword into the Annihilation Dragon’s forehead.

With a resounding clang, the Annihilation Dragon’s body staggered and crashed to the ground again.

The Annihilation Dragon, which had crashed to the ground and bounced up like a basketball, tumbled again with a loud noise from Yoo Seong-woo’s swinging sword.

However, perhaps it had become somewhat accustomed to the physical impact, the Annihilation Dragon rolled on the ground and immediately raised its head, firing magic wildly.

Yoo Seong-woo spun in the air, deflecting the magic, and used the recoil to climb to the ceiling and set foot on it.

Hanging upside down from the ceiling using Aura, he clicked his tongue and looked at the Annihilation Dragon.

Its condition was strange.

A black hole was thickly spread on the floor like a swamp, and black hands were wriggling out of it.

In between, dragon heads were raised toward the ceiling.

“Die─!!”

Hate-filled draconic words echoed, and dozens of black rays were emitted from the dragon heads.

It seemed to be a technique that mixed draconic words and magic.

Yoo Seong-woo saw all the black rays flying toward him and took out the Samjeong Sword to use as a shield.

He felt a little sorry for using it as a shield every time, but there was no shield… no, sword as wide and sturdy as the Samjeong Sword.

-Y, y, you crazy bastard─!! Am I a shield! Am I a shield─!!

He seemed to faintly hear the Samjeong Sword’s screams, but….

The Samjeong Sword did its job.

However, since the black rays showed no sign of stopping, he jumped off the ceiling with the Samjeong Sword in front.

And he entrusted his body to gravity.

At the lowest level of the Scenic Site, the gravity exerted on the body was dozens of tons.

An overwhelming weight that even a dragon couldn’t just withstand.

Yoo Seong-woo added even more weight to it through Aura and fell directly on the Annihilation Dragon’s head.

The Annihilation Dragon, which was maintaining the magic, gritted its teeth and headbutted Yoo Seong-woo.

It seemed to be trying to endure somehow to maintain the magic, but it was impossible.

The Annihilation Dragon’s body shook greatly, and the magic collapsed.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had landed on the ground, swung his life again and flipped the Annihilation Dragon’s body over.

“Kuaaaaaak─!!”

As the Annihilation Dragon rolled on the ground, Yoo Seong-woo landed on the ground and immediately swung his life.

He cut down one of the Black Bear’s divers who had approached him and shouted.

“Don’t interfere! You trash!”

The divers flinched at his murderous shout, and several stepped back.

They had also lived by killing people for quite some time, but Yoo Seong-woo’s murderous intent was beyond their comparison.

“Don’t be afraid! Kill him somehow! It’ll be over soon!”

“U, uaaaaaaaah─!!”

Yoo Seok-hyung roused his energy and ran toward Yoo Seong-woo from the front.

His daggers flashed, and his figure soon melted into the darkness.

Following him, the Black Bear’s divers rushed in, and Yoo Seong-woo plunged his life into the ground and injected plenty of Aura.

Cracks appeared on the floor, and red light leaked out, and explosions erupted in all directions, pushing them away.

‘I got him─!’

At that moment, Yoo Seok-hyung, who had quickly reached Yoo Seong-woo’s back, swung his dagger down.

But somehow, Yoo Seong-woo raised his sword behind his back and blocked his twin daggers.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had deflected the daggers, lightly swung around and cut off one of Yoo Seok-hyung’s legs, then lowered his body.

The rays spewed out by the Annihilation Dragon swept past the spot where he had been.

“Tsk!”

Yoo Seong-woo, clicking his tongue, kicked the one-legged Yoo Seok-hyung far away and raised Aura all over his body.

It was time to end it.

The analysis of the ancient dragon’s draconic word pattern was complete, and it was now battered.

It would no longer have the strength to deploy barriers.

A dragon’s heart emitted infinite magic, but that was when it had time.

It didn’t have the power to draw out magic in a short time.

The Annihilation Dragon looked at Yoo Seong-woo and roared for a long time, then said.

“K, kek… Foolish human. How unfortunate. I understood my fate, but you have not yet understood your fate…….”

“…What are you talking about?”

“You will die here. Not by me, but by another.”

At the same time as the Annihilation Dragon muttered with blood dripping from its mouth, the entire Scenic Site began to shake greatly.

And the light in the Annihilation Dragon’s eyes gradually faded.