The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 168

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 168

Vlad Tepes (5)

Yuseongwu had fought vampires a lot. More times than he could count on his fingers and toes.

He nearly went crazy dealing with a vampire family.

He tried to show his strength and drive them away, but the numerous followers weren’t afraid of death.

Just when he thought he could rest during the day, that wasn’t the case.

High-ranking vampires who could withstand sunlight attacked, and some even used magic to block the sun.

He couldn’t rest day or night, and they tried to bury their claws and magic into him until he was exhausted.

He fought for over a week.

At night, he had to endure the relentless attacks of low-level vampires, and during the day, he had to break through the struggles of high-level vampires.

They were truly damned bastards.

And it wasn’t just one family, but seven in total.

Seven high-ranking vampires called Progenitors [original vampires].

And tens of thousands of followers under them.

Fortunately, he didn’t have to fight all seven, so he didn’t have to cut down tens of thousands of followers.

Yuseongwu’s war with the vampires ended only after two families were annihilated.

“The vampires I know were all insane.”

Splash.

That was the sound he heard as he entered the steel door.

As soon as Schuel recognized the sound, she jumped and clung to Yuseongwu’s back before it could reach her feet.

She clung on desperately, as if she didn’t want to touch it at all.

Inside the steel door was a large room. It was a room that seemed to stretch endlessly, as if it had been expanded with magic.

“This one’s insane too.”

“…Am I included among the insane ones?”

“Riding around on a crazy broom already makes you one.”

“Oh, dear…”

Batory looked around the interior with a gloomy expression.

What touched their feet was a splashing, thick liquid.

Dark red blood.

A tremendous amount of blood that soaked their feet was spread throughout the room.

Anyone with a weak stomach would have already started vomiting.

Batory frowned and muttered in a low voice.

“What is this, some kind of old trick?”

“Batory, a coffin.”

Yuseongwu saw through the blood to the coffin in the center of the room.

The place where the bundle of gray lines began.

The place where he thought Chepesh’s main body would be.

No particular movement was felt inside the coffin.

It was midday outside, so she might be asleep.

Or she might be quiet because she was possessing and controlling another follower.

“Are you going to open it?”

“…We have to open it.”

Batory made it obvious that she didn’t want to open it. But she had no choice if she wanted to confirm.

Schuel spat out.

“There’s a barrier.”

“I know that.”

“Hmph.”

Schuel, still clinging to Yuseongwu’s back, waved her hand, and the magic power flowing from her revealed the hidden barrier.

Dozens of layers of barriers were placed around the coffin.

Interconnected magic circles rotated, creating a powerful defensive wall.

Batory could tell how powerful the magic was.

She had lived a long time as a witch and a mage.

She had seen and heard so much.

That’s why she could guess how advanced the magic that was spread around the coffin was.

‘Was Chepesh’s magic this strong?’

The barrier, which could be mistaken for one created by a great mage, was meticulously thorough.

From her knowledge, she could identify alarms, physical barriers, and traps.

It was filled with barrier magic that was not easily accessible, so Yuseongwu could only frown as he looked at it.

“Schuel, is it impossible to dismantle it?”

“Is there a need to dismantle it?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Isn’t it enough to just break through the barrier magic and open the coffin, like you did before?”

Fortunately, there was no special magic on the coffin itself.

Perhaps it was because they blindly trusted the barrier around the coffin.

That’s why Schuel asked if they couldn’t just do what they did to open the steel door.

If they just opened the coffin, observing the inside wouldn’t be difficult.

It wasn’t a bad suggestion.

However, Yuseongwu wondered if that would be possible this time.

The magic on the steel door had some gaps, but the barrier in front of him was dense.

It was like trying to fit an elephant through a needle hole.

In other words, it was impossible, but Yuseongwu thought differently.

‘If I can’t put an elephant through the hole, I can just make the hole bigger.’

It was his first time trying it, so he might fail, but this was a much faster way than the two mages struggling to dismantle the barrier for days.

For him to succeed in one go.

As Yuseongwu raised his Lifesword, Batory was horrified.

This crazy swordmaster was really trying to break through that barrier and just open the coffin.

The difficulty was hundreds of times greater than the steel door from before!

But she couldn’t stop him. The atmosphere he exuded overwhelmed the space.

Yuseongwu concentrated.

If he wavered even once, the barrier would react, and Chepesh would awaken.

If he were to act according to his nature, it would be easier to just ambush and kill her while she was sleeping.

But he had accepted a request from the Witch Council.

“Hoo…”

He took a short breath and slowly extended his Lifesword.

Then, a strange thing began to happen.

The slowly drawn Lifesword squeezed into a very small gap in the barrier, and then gently shook left and right, forcibly opening the gap.

In the process, he didn’t damage the barrier. It was as if he was stretching a rubber band, creating a large hole in the gap of the barrier.

Those who knew swordsmanship and magic would faint if they saw how amazing that was.

Transcending magic and swordsmanship with a single sword.

Batory, who had witnessed a technique that transcended humanity, could only watch the divine skill he performed with her mouth wide open.

Yuseongwu, focusing intently, dripped a bead of sweat from his forehead and took a step forward.

Then, the aura that extended from the sword touched the coffin, and the heavy lid opened, revealing the inside.

As soon as the coffin opened, Batory unleashed the magic she had been preparing.

Her refraction magic illuminated the inside of the coffin.

A beautiful woman was lying in the coffin.

Batory gnashed her teeth at the sight.

“What’s wrong?”

“…No, it’s nothing.”

She bit her lip but calmly examined the inside of the coffin.

The coffin was also filled with blood. The woman’s body was half-submerged in the blood, sloshing around, making it gruesome.

And floating on top of it were jewel-studded accessories.

They were all artifacts [magical items].

Batory frowned as she examined the artifacts.

Their goal was to confirm whether Chepesh had colluded with Chaos.

And the artifacts floating next to Chepesh showed signs of Chaos’s handiwork.

Loki, who belonged to the Chaos forces, was not only an excellent mage but also skilled in creating various artifacts.

The artifacts they produced were all powerful but caused chaos.

The Witch Council had acquired some of them and memorized specific magic patterns.

Batory sighed deeply.

“Get ready. It seems Chepesh has joined hands with Chaos.”

“Hmm, does it have to be that way? Maybe she just received them as a gift.”

“Why are you suddenly like this? You were acting like you couldn’t kill her fast enough.”

Yuseongwu said at Batory’s irritable words.

“The location isn’t very good. If we’re buried in this underground, there’s no answer. It would be a disaster if it collapsed.”

He meant that if they were going to do it, they should do it outside.

Batory agreed with that. It was very dangerous to fight in this underground.

If the enraged Chepesh were to collapse the underground, they would be buried alive.

Yuseongwu was confident that he could survive alone, but he couldn’t guarantee the other two.

After a moment of thought, he said.

“…Batory, Schuel, is teleportation possible? We just need to get to the surface.”

“The space is twisted, so it’ll take some time to calculate the coordinates, but it’s possible. And you know that casting a big spell will immediately alert them, right?”

“Yeah. Prepare immediately.”

“What are you going to do…?”

At his words, Batory and Schuel, the two great mages, immediately began preparing for teleportation, calculating spatial coordinates.

Yuseongwu gripped his Lifesword and began to gather his energy.

Chepesh had not yet awakened.

If he was worried that the opponent would collapse the underground…

‘I can just destroy it first.’

What was terrible for him was terrible for others.

The two great mages had excellent skills, so they completed the magic quickly.

“It’s done!”

“Then I’ll destroy it.”

“What?!”

Why was she asking the obvious?

“The underground.”

Yuseongwu swung the Lifesword in his hand greatly.

The aura that had been gathered while the teleportation magic was being completed overflowed from the Lifesword, showing its power.

Sky Cleaver – Mid Stance

A technique that forcibly unfolds the upper stance, slashing down from above, into the mid stance.

The aura, like a fierce wave, spread out.

Yuseongwu’s goal was the collapse of the space.

Since it was a space expanded with magic, his intention was to insert a strong aura and physically and magically destroy it all.

“Now! Activate it!”

As Yuseongwu shouted, the teleportation magic circle unfolded by the two great mages was activated.

At the same time as Yuseongwu’s aura covered the basement with a roar, the figures of the three were enveloped in a cloud of light and disappeared.

And the place where the three appeared was the sky above Bran Castle.

Instead of thoroughly investigating the spatial coordinates of the vicinity, they had designated the coordinates to the empty sky.

…It was just a bit too high.

The sky where Bran Castle looked very small.

Batory immediately took out a bench… no, a broom, and levitated, and at the same time, Bran Castle began to collapse.

It was an old castle anyway, and even though it had been reinforced with magic, Yuseongwu’s sword was powerful enough to destroy it all.

Miscellaenous magic was nothing.

It was natural for a swordmaster’s strike to grind them all away.

A large cloud of dust rose.

Watching a large castle collapse in the air was another kind of fun.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen a castle collapse.”

“You sound like you’ve destroyed quite a few castles.”

“I have.”

Yuseongwu could pride himself on being an expert in castle demolition.

Whether it was a large castle or a small castle.

He knew well where to destroy it to make it collapse effectively.

In this case, he had simply destroyed all the magic and pillars that seemed to be the supporting base.

The three looked down at Bran Castle, which used to be a castle.

The castle, which had functioned as a tourist attraction for a long time, became a ruin of the past.

Yuseongwu sent one castle to the back of history like this and narrowed his eyes.

“I wish Chepesh had been buried alive like this.”

“……”

Yuseongwu almost slapped Batory’s lips.

She was chanting a resurrection spell.

Was this okay as a mage?

Even when he was in another world, there were always people like Batory who said something, and he had to fight a second round more than once or twice.

“Well, I didn’t think it would end that easily.”

Many of Chepesh’s followers who were guarding the interior of Bran Castle died as it collapsed.

However, Chepesh did not die even in that deep underground.

Rather, she emitted intense bloodlust and magic power, raising a second cloud of dust from Bran Castle.

-Who is it─!!!!!!!!!!!