The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 174

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 174

Unique World (3)

It’s just twenty times the gravity.

But seeing them struggle this much, I couldn’t help but think they have a long way to go.

I told them not to use magic, but it’s just for a few steps…

Moving in this environment would be great for physical training.

Especially Shua-nel, who took one step and fell forward, unable to get up.

She looked like dried squid.

“First, you guys need to adapt to the gravity. The real training starts next time.”

Yu Seong-wu moved calmly, but those following him were dying.

Each step was so heavy. Their legs creaked, and their whole body felt like their bones would break. It felt like carrying a mountain on their backs.

How could Yu Seong-wu move so freely in this gravity?

He told them not to use magic, but was he using it himself?

That’s what they thought, but after observing, they realized Yu Seong-wu was moving without using magic.

After walking a certain distance, Yu Seong-wu swung his sword to flatten a suitable spot and said,

“Alright, let’s start with basic physical training. A thousand push-ups and a thousand sit-ups each. Leave the counting to your conscience.”

“A-Aren’t we going to die?!”

“You won’t die.”

The ones dragged here were Yu Ji-u, Baek Wu-hyeon, Choi A-yeon, Hong Seo-hwa… and Yuwol, Shua-nel, and Bathory.

Sword Soul’s A-class divers.

Dragon Nocks couldn’t come because he had to go to school.

Hetris was… too weak to move even one step.

“Tsk.”

Yu Seong-wu clicked his tongue and went back the way he came, picked up Shua-nel, who was still lying there, and headed inside.

“J-Joints! My joints are creaking! I’m hearing sounds I shouldn’t be hearing!”

“Your lips are moving just fine. Is it still hard?”

“…Huh?”

Shua-nel was puzzled, feeling that the gravity that had been pressing down on her body was gone.

Why suddenly?

What was the difference? Yu Seong-wu hadn’t particularly moved his magic.

Shua-nel, who had been watching quietly, realized what he was doing.

He was reading the flow of magic and walking through it.

The reason why the gravity was twenty times stronger was due to the abnormal flow of magic.

Yu Seong-wu was reading such abnormal flows of magic and walking through the gaps.

It was theoretically understandable, but executing it with the body was another matter.

Accurately capturing the gaps in magic and walking through them was like threading an elephant through the eye of a needle.

The flow was already abnormal, twisting dozens, hundreds of times per second.

How smart would you have to be to read all of that and move forward?

“How are you doing that?”

“It’s a feeling.”

…He wasn’t smart.

Yu Seong-wu was walking through the gaps in magic with experience and terrifying intuition.

It was a technique that Shua-nel couldn’t even imitate.

He arrived at a suitable place and put Shua-nel down.

As soon as she got away from Yu Seong-wu, she fell to the ground again due to the gravity pressing down on her body.

Yu Seong-wu squatted in front of her and said.

“If you’re a mage, show some guts. Unless you plan to remain a leeching low elf forever.”

“……”

Yu Seong-wu looked at the others.

The most tenacious were Baek Wu-hyeon and Choi A-yeon.

They had already adapted to the gravity and started doing push-ups.

Baek Wu-hyeon had a solid foundation from training since he was young, and Choi A-yeon had a soldier’s mentality of doing whatever she was told.

They were two of Yu Seong-wu’s favorite types.

When he taught his disciples in the past, he liked those who listened well.

He beat the ones who didn’t listen to death.

Anyway.

After some time, the remaining ones also adapted to the gravity and began to train with difficulty.

Bathory also started, but Shua-nel was still lying face down.

“Isn’t it hard to breathe?”

“……”

“Well, you must be fine if you’re lying like that. If you don’t meet your quota, you can’t go home.”

Yu Seong-wu, who spat out terrible words, looked around at the others and continued.

“Some of you may have heard, but I’ll tell those who haven’t. The purpose of this training is to move one step further. A little won’t do. You also have to enter the realm of transcendence. You know how to handle magic, so now you must be able to contain Aura.”

Everyone was overflowing with talent, so they would eventually reach that realm if they moved slowly, but when would they reach it if they only took small steps?

A good rough stone becomes an even sharper blade when pushed.

Yu Seong-wu took out Ilsaeng [his sword] and injected Aura [magical energy].

Crimson Aura overflowed on the sword and entered everyone’s eyes.

“Can you see it, Aura? The realm you must reach.”

The manifestation of Aura was proof of a Swordmaster in name and reality.

It was the realm that those under him had to aim for the most right now.

As Yu Seong-wu slowly swung his sword, the afterimage of Aura remained in the air.

“Aura is proof of power in itself. It proves how delicately you can handle magic. If you don’t have the skill, you can compress overwhelming magic to create it, but it’s not very efficient. And you don’t have that much magic anyway.”

The sword swung horizontally, then moved vertically.

The Aura, which left a cross-shaped afterimage in the air, soon scattered and spread in all directions.

“My past comrades all knew how to use Aura. That alone didn’t mean they could all be called Swordmasters, but at least one of them had the power of an S-class or higher.”

“What happened to your comrades?”

Hong Seo-hwa, who was doing push-ups while listening to the story, asked out of curiosity.

Yu Seong-wu paused for a moment, then said.

“They all died. I was the only one who survived the last battle. We fought against those called demons, and they opened the way to the leader for me.”

“……”

“It was an honorable death. Even if we started from the bottom, we were the ones who saved the world in the end. Even if no one remembers us, I alone remember everyone.”

Yu Seong-wu engraved the names of his comrades and disciples in his heart again.

He recalled the fading names and firmly embedded them in his mind so as not to forget them.

There was only one thing he wanted to say.

“I don’t want you to meet such an end. Survive. Survive to the end. An era will come when it’s important to survive even if you lose a limb. To do that, you must become stronger. My comrades disappeared like that, and at your current level, you’ll be swept away in an instant.”

It wasn’t wrong.

If one god descends now, they won’t be able to stop it at their level.

The only reason they were able to hunt Hraesvelgr [a giant eagle in Norse mythology] was because he was injured, and Yu Seong-wu had drawn all the aggro [aggression].

They could buy time, but the result would return in the form of death.

Yu Seong-wu intended to push them even harder, hoping that the Grim Reaper’s scythe would not take their souls.

“Because you’re the only ones who can protect yourselves in an emergency. That’s why I will help you complete Aura and your Unique Worlds. Unique World is a realm beyond Swordmaster…”

Unique World. One’s own ‘domain’ that only those who have reached a certain level can unfold.

The world that represents the inner will gives the owner a sense of omnipotence.

For a swordsman, it is to build his own world to wield the sword, and for a mage, it is great magic in itself.

And, to borrow the words of the Witch Council.

“It is a stepping stone to becoming a god. To unfold one’s own world is creation, a power that only gods can do. I have never seen anyone who has reached it, but I think there is a ‘divine realm’ beyond the Unique World.”

Yu Seong-wu recalled the battle with the Demon God. Yu Seong-wu, who had unfolded his Unique World, struggled, but the Demon God’s world contained a deeper will than his own.

No, the land that humans called the Demon Realm itself must have been the Demon God’s Unique World.

“I don’t quite understand… are you talking about what you showed us last time?”

Baek Wu-hyeon asked.

Yu Seong-wu nodded and stuck Ilsaeng into the ground.

“It’ll be fastest to show you rather than explain it.”

Yu Seong-wu, who muttered that, took a long breath and spread his Aura throughout his body, gradually eroding reality.

The people stopped breathing at the strange power that instantly covered their surroundings.

Then, the scenery slowly changed.

They were in a cave, but Yu Seong-wu’s will distorted the world and covered reality.

From the center of Ilsaeng that Yu Seong-wu had stuck in, the scenery changed.

The area around Ilsaeng turned into grass instead of stone, and soon it gradually increased in size and devoured the cave.

After some time, the gravity-filled cave, which had been filled with dim light, became a red prairie.

It was a blood-red sun that disappeared beyond the ridge, dyeing the world red.

In the world that directly depicted his will, countless swords coexisted.

Broken swords and cracked swords.

Swords that could not be wielded by humans, vaguely visible beyond the ridge, and the swords that Yu Seong-wu had wielded several times also came into view.

The world of swords made by hammering iron.

The countless swords expressed the path Yu Seong-wu had taken, and the burning red sun was his state of mind.

This scenery, encompassing the past, present, and future, was a world that only Yu Seong-wu could create.

Those who experienced the Unique World for the first time often looked around with wide eyes.

Not only had the scenery changed, but even the gravity that had been pressing down on their bodies had disappeared.

However, a different sense of pressure weighed on their bodies.

They were paying the price for stepping into someone else’s world.

“…You’re saying even this isn’t complete.”

Bathory muttered as if it didn’t make sense.

Yu Seong-wu’s world was desolate, lonely, and beautiful at the same time.

But Yu Seong-wu said that it was incomplete.

It didn’t seem to be inferior even when compared to Chepesh’s Unique World.

As if reading Bathory’s thoughts, Yu Seong-wu picked up Ilsaeng, which he had stuck in the ground, and said.

“The completion of the Unique World is a representation of will. Its completeness varies depending on how much you reveal yourself. What kind of past you had, what kind of present you are living, what kind of future you are drawing.”

Yu Seong-wu’s Unique World had the past and the present.

But the future did not exist.

The future he desired was clearly a peaceful daily life, but if such a future were mixed into the world, the burning fighting spirit would be diluted and the red sun would completely set.

Yu Seong-wu, wary of that, did not mix a mediocre future into his world.

The world that must be confronted must not be weak.

It had to show solidity and not collapse no matter what world it collided with, and it had to have the sharpness to penetrate any world.

That’s why Yu Seong-wu.

He was going to push himself even harder. Because that would be the only right answer to complete this world.

He turned Ilsaeng, which he had picked up, once and stuck it back in, then said.

“…Since I’ve opened the Unique World, let’s try it once. Everyone attack me. Clash all of your worlds, wills, and mental images against me.”