The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 152

Hraesvelgr (5)

The people clinging to Hraesvelgr’s body were in a precarious situation.

Although the shaking was minimal due to Hraesvelgr’s immense size, relentless gusts of wind buffeted them.

The fierce winds, as if trying to shake off insects clinging to its back, made it difficult even to stand. They used prepared wires and hooks to secure their feet to the creature’s hide.

“You son of a bitch… die!”

“Flame Strike-!!”

“Just attack-!!”

The divers unleashed their most powerful moves.

Choi A-yeon knelt and repeatedly stabbed with poisoned daggers.

Yoo Ji-woo poured all her mana into casting spells.

The Hae Wol Sword wasn’t suitable for this situation, so she converted all her magic power into spells.

The effects of Yu Seong-wu’s meteor shower were definitely showing. [Yu Seong-wu’s meteor shower refers to a powerful attack he previously used, weakening Hraesvelgr.]

Even if the individual attacks were insignificant, their combined effort was a different story.

The attacks synergized, demonstrating even greater power.

Yoo Ji-woo’s magic amplified the wounds inflicted by Choi A-yeon, causing damage deeper inside.

“The hide is disgustingly tough!”

“The feathers are almost steel!”

Voices erupted from all over as they attacked.

It was expected.

Still, they were glad they could break through those defenses and inflict even a little damage.

That, too, would have been impossible without Yu Seong-wu, who was drawing all the aggro [aggro is a gaming term for drawing the enemy’s attention] in front.

“Throw everything you have at it! Ugh, damn it, where did Baek Woo-hyun go at a time like this!”

Yoo Ji-woo shouted, and at that moment, lightning struck from the sky.

With a rumble of thunder, their eyes flashed as blue lightning struck Hraesvelgr’s head.

“I’m late!”

The source of the lightning was, of course, Baek Woo-hyun.

Jeanne slowly descended behind him, and without a moment to celebrate their reunion, the attack resumed.

Hraesvelgr’s storm continued.

It stirred up the wind to knock them off, but after Jeanne joined, the situation changed even more.

“Leave the wind to me!”

Jeanne deployed a shield to push back the wind.

Thanks to this, they could deal damage more consistently.

Lightning continuously poured from Baek Woo-hyun’s Namcheong Sword. [Namcheong Sword is Baek Woo-hyun’s signature weapon.]

He had been training repeatedly, but he had never used his full power.

Always holding back 30% of his full power, as per Yu Seong-wu’s advice.

But now there was no reason to hold back.

He unleashed his ability to the maximum and continuously struck with lightning.

After several large lightning strikes flashed, Hraesvelgr reacted.

Perhaps it had memories of being struck by Thor and Odin’s lightning in Ragnarok, the final battle of Norse mythology. [Ragnarok is the end of the world in Norse mythology.]

Hraesvelgr screamed and went berserk.

However, it soon shut its mouth after being hit by Yu Seong-wu. Judging that it couldn’t just leave the pests stuck on its head alone, it summoned its offspring.

From all directions, large, grotesque birds flew in and attacked the Sword Soul divers.

Hraesvelgr’s offspring.

The monsters that had been tormenting them relentlessly from the beginning.

The creatures used their claws and beaks to break Jeanne’s shield, but Jeanne’s shield was not so easily broken.

Her faith, which had protected so many comrades until now, was unwavering.

Inside the sturdy shield, they poured all possible skills and magic onto Hraesvelgr.

After some time, Yu Seong-wu’s voice pierced their ears.

-Move to the back.

It was a warning to move to avoid getting caught in the violent head swing.

It meant that Yu Seong-wu was going to deliver a big blow.

They moved, taking out the potions they had put in their pockets and drinking them.

Heteris’ special recovery potions and doping potions.

The exhausted bodies recovered instantly, and the consumed mana rapidly filled up.

At the same time, a roar struck their ears.

Whatever Yu Seong-wu had done, a sound like an exploding bomb was heard from the creature’s head.

For the first time, a storm blew that wasn’t created by Hraesvelgr.

Hraesvelgr’s head shook violently.

“Hold on tight-!!”

Yoo Ji-woo shouted, and the divers used wires to secure their bodies as before, then poured out their skills and magic again.

A blast erupted, and mana scattered chaotically.

They trusted Jeanne’s shield and Yu Seong-wu’s aggro, and relentlessly unleashed everything they had.

To kill the god in front of them.

* * *

“It’s better than I thought.”

Yu Seong-wu watched the people rampaging on Hraesvelgr’s head and assessed them.

They were fighting better than he thought.

Jeanne firmly blocked the attacks of the grotesque birds, and they were hitting their attacks surely and steadily.

The number of times Yu Seong-wu, floating in the air, had swung his sword in attacks so far was three.

The rest were all swords swung for defense.

Hraesvelgr poured all its resources into him, instead of focusing solely on the humans on its head.

Beams of light flew from all directions.

Steel-like feathers became spears and aimed for his heart.

Hraesvelgr’s magic became chains and tried to bind him.

“This is a bit annoying…….”

It was powerful magic.

Because it possessed magic as immense as its body, even the binding force was enormous.

Once properly tied up, he wouldn’t be able to move for a few seconds.

“Tch!”

Clicking his tongue, he twisted his body in the air, flicking the approaching chains with the tip of his sword and deflecting them.

He didn’t forget to kick away the approaching feather spear.

Acrobatics performed in the air.

If he made a wrong decision even for a moment, it would lead to disaster.

Yu Seong-wu had been doing this kind of acrobatics for a very long time, and a ‘master’ does not make mistakes; that’s why he is a master.

If he swung his sword a thousand times and swung it wrong once, he would not be qualified to be called a master.

That’s why Yu Seong-wu put meaning into every single movement.

He reduced unnecessary movements to the point of completely eliminating them, and the sword filled with conviction followed him like his own limbs.

“Then, let’s get started.”

Kwaaang, a roar erupted again from above Hraesvelgr’s head.

As soon as Yu Seong-wu heard the roar, he spun his body violently, repelling the approaching objects, and summoned Samjeong to use as a stepping stone. [Samjeong is Yu Seong-wu’s sword.]

Then, he put strength in his legs and rushed towards Hraesvelgr.

Still holding Ilsaeng tightly in his hand, he gathered his aura. [Ilsaeng is Yu Seong-wu’s sword.]

‘The Life and Death Authority won’t work.’

It was a huge body.

As such, the fortitude of the soul that maintained its form would also be enormous.

“…Then.”

Bashing it head-on would be the answer.

Unless the creature’s body had immunity to blunt force, it was a sure fact that it would die if it got hit enough.

The refined aura from Ilsaeng in his hand was emitted for a long time.

Yu Seong-wu, who seemed twice as large due to the aura, put strength into his acceleration.

The sword was swung from bottom to top.

The fierce sword strike, in which even the sound of cutting through the air could not be heard, struck Hraesvelgr’s beak head-on.

But it didn’t stop there.

Yu Seong-wu divided one second into dozens of parts, and in that time, he struck the sword several times.

Only in the same place.

As his time, which had struck dozens of sword strikes at once in the slowed time, began to flow quickly, Hraesvelgr’s chin was lifted once.

With a faint sound of….

But that was just the beginning.

The sounds of… continued in succession.

The interval gradually shortened.

Tung, tung, tung, tung…

Tttttttttung-!!

As if drumming.

The continuous sound echoed.

Hraesvelgr’s head was gradually lifted upwards, and soon a roar that slammed in the final blow made not the head, but the feet lift up.

“…Thousandfold Slash.”

A ridiculously crude technique that delivers a thousand sword strikes per second.

“Finally, it took its feet off the perch.”

While someone was doing this crazy thing in the air, he didn’t like the sight of someone sticking to the ground.

“You fly too, you bastard.”

Hraesvelgr’s body was about to fall backwards.

However, it adjusted the intense wind to maintain its balance, then opened its mouth wide and gathered magic power.

A common breath pattern for large monsters.

As if to prove it, blue magic power gathered in Hraesvelgr’s mouth full of teeth.

If it was released, it was a magic power that could easily blow away several mountains.

The magic power that touched the skin made even Yu Seong-wu’s skin tremble.

It was the first time he had seen a being that could handle this much magic power at once.

In terms of simple magic power density, it was a sight that none of the gods he had defeated so far had shown.

“This is a bit much.”

Muttering quietly, he summoned Samjeong again and used it as a stepping stone.

He floated Samjeong with aura, then held Ilsaeng with both hands on top of it.

Red aura was emitted from Ilsaeng held in both hands, and soon it concentrated and changed the color of Ilsaeng to crimson.

‘I have no choice but to cut it.’

Pulling the sword towards him, he focused his soul.

The godhood engraved in his soul reacted to it and dwelled in the sword.

Ilsaeng resonated slightly and vibrated the atmosphere.

-Die-!!

It seemed like Hraesvelgr’s last struggle.

A beam of intense magic power, incomparable to anything so far, stretched out from the creature’s mouth.

Yu Seong-wu simply raised Ilsaeng high in front of the magic beam.

And then struck it down.

A sword of conviction imbued with the will to cut it down without fail.

The moment the sword was struck down, a red light that split the world spread out.

The red light, which momentarily made the dark sky with dark clouds and storms flash, split the blue magic beam in half and continued forward.

The people on Hraesvelgr’s body experienced the illusion that the world was being split in half.

Yu Seong-wu’s single sword split Hraesvelgr’s magic power, and even split the sky above it and the ground below it.

A long, vertical scar was engraved in the center of Hraesvelgr’s head.

One Sword, Sky Split.

The name of the technique Yu Seong-wu unleashed.

He had unleashed it several times so far, but the one unleashed by Yu Seong-wu, who had taken another step forward, was clearly beyond the realm of humans.

Yu Seong-wu, who had unleashed such a sword, jumped lightly from Samjeong and landed on Hraesvelgr’s head, which was writhing in pain.

Then, he returned Ilsaeng, summoned Samjeong again, and stabbed it straight into the place where the eyeballs were.

“Burn.”

Three Swords, Purification of the Corrupt.

The green flames that burned the corrupt beautifully bloomed, using Hraesvelgr’s body and magic power as firewood.

The flames that started from inside Hraesvelgr’s eyeballs penetrated inside.

A flame that has no answer once it starts to rise from the inside.

Hraesvelgr also realized this and tried to gather magic power to catch the flames.

‘If we go into a magic power battle, there will be no end.’

Even if Purification of the Corrupt was a flame that burned the opponent as firewood.

If he extinguished the fire with an overwhelming magic power that surpassed it, he would have to consume that much more aura to increase its size again.

It was clear that he would lose if he went into a chicken game [a situation where both parties are unwilling to back down, even if it leads to a negative outcome] of magic power and aura.

The creature was a mythical being that had accumulated magic power for a long time.

He was just a human who hadn’t even been around for a hundred years.

That’s why Yu Seong-wu pulled Samjeong out of the creature’s eyeballs and fell straight from its head.

Then, he returned Samjeong and held Ilsaeng in his hand again.

At the same time, Hraesvelgr began to flap its wings and fly.

In terms of boss battles.

“Phase 3 is starting.”