The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 219

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 223

Guild Training (5)

Having gathered all the students, Hong Seo-hwa slowly advanced towards the exit, as confirmed by the reconnaissance team.

It seemed they would be able to escape without much harm, joining up with the rescue team along the way.

“What? Why are you here?”

“Unfortunately, I was the closest.”

It was Baek Woo-hyun who had joined the rescue team. After returning to Korea from China, he had been resting nearby.

He had joined the rescue team due to the sudden Abyss expansion.

“Where is Master?”

“Probably in the boss room……?!”

While bickering with Baek Woo-hyun, Hong Seo-hwa suddenly shouted, crouching down as the Abyss began to shake.

“The area ahead is clear, so run! Get out quickly!”

Baek Woo-hyun followed her shout, rushing to the very back of the student group to prepare for any possible attacks.

The students ran towards the exit under the control of the divers.

After all the students had left, Hong Seo-hwa and Baek Woo-hyun were the last to escape the Abyss.

“What about Master?!”

“He’ll get out on his own!”

He was the kind of person who could fall into hell alone, slice everything up, and then leisurely return.

At least, that’s who Yoo Seong-woo had been in their eyes so far.

Since they weren’t capable of worrying about Yoo Seong-woo, they first checked on the students.

And after a while, a strange phenomenon began to occur.

“…What is this.”

The Abyss began to vibrate.

The Abyss, which had been only a level 4, expanded once, growing even larger, and then even more gigantic.

From within the increasingly gigantic Abyss, one person emerged.

It was Yoo Seong-woo, holding a crown in one hand.

He frowned and shouted.

“Everyone, step back! Quickly!”

At his cry, those who had been resting in front of the Abyss rose from their seats and retreated.

But Yoo Seong-woo wasn’t satisfied with that, and said.

“Further! Further back! Clear this entire area!”

Having shouted that, Yoo Seong-woo jumped up and thrust his Ilsaeng [his signature sword] into the Abyss.

Something was about to burst out of the Abyss, but it was blocked by Yoo Seong-woo’s attack.

“Kugh!”

“What?!”

However, just from the shockwave created as the two collided, they could tell what Yoo Seong-woo was facing.

It seemed like just a light collision, but the shockwave turned the area upside down.

Parked cars flipped over, and people rolled across the ground in the raging storm.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had retreated once from the Abyss, took a long breath and muttered.

“Crazy bastard… I had a bad feeling, what a damn thing to do…….”

The moment he killed the Orc Shaman, a large-scale ritual unfolded around the Orc Shaman.

The madman had engraved a ritual on his entire body that would activate upon his death.

Even if he wasn’t a bishop-level member of the Ascendant Church, he had a hidden card.

“Master, what’s going on?!”

Baek Woo-hyun approached Yoo Seong-woo and asked.

Yoo Seong-woo couldn’t give a clear answer as to what was happening.

Except for one thing.

“A god of unknown origin has descended. Go and bring all the mages here immediately!”

“Understood!”

Yoo Seong-woo, having ordered Baek Woo-hyun, jumped up again and swung his sword at the Abyss.

What was about to burst out of the Abyss was blocked by Yoo Seong-woo’s sword.

The ensuing shockwave once again turned the battlefield upside down.

“…This is bullshit.”

Yoo Seong-woo muttered a curse under his breath and took a long breath.

At the same time, the energy flowing from him amplified.

As if trying to bring the area into his domain, he unleashed explosive energy and lightly gripped Ilsaeng.

“This damn pig bastard, trying to set foot in whose territory…….”

The opponent was clearly a god.

Even though Yoo Seong-woo had boldly declared this was his land, it was trying to set foot here.

‘Damn it, it would be nice to have a mage who can analyze the situation.’

He had experienced many battles, victories and defeats, but he had few records of fighting gods.

Moreover, he had never seen this type of descent before, so he only knew fragmentary information.

If there was a mage who could analyze, he could respond more flexibly, but…….

‘If so, I’ll do what I can.’

Just cut it down.

Whatever comes out, it will be resolved by cutting it down like a swordsman.

Kuooh──

A strange sound echoes from the Abyss. It had the power to intimidate people just by listening to it.

Yoo Seong-woo swung his sword greatly.

From the swung Ilsaeng, a giant sword energy connecting the sky and the earth was fired, striking the Abyss.

‘Even though I brought out the core, there are no signs of the Abyss closing. It’s being forcibly maintained.’

He shocked the Abyss to try to close it by force, but the guy trying to come out was drawing on divine power to maintain the torn space.

Before coming out of the Abyss, Yoo Seong-woo recalled the last scene.

After defeating Azaha and dealing with the Orc Shaman, he tried to come out of the Abyss with the crown.

But after killing the Orc Shaman, magic power swirled and a hole connecting to another dimension appeared inside the Abyss.

A sudden ritual that he couldn’t stop.

The Orc Shaman had used his death as a trigger, sacrificing the magic power of Azaha and the Abyss that he had summoned to create a hole connecting to another dimension.

At first, it was a small hole. A small hole that only one person could pass through.

Yoo Seong-woo met the gaze of bright yellow eyes peering into this side from the hole.

At that moment, Yoo Seong-woo unleashed a strike, but the divine power flowing from the hole blocked the strike and even pushed it back.

It seemed like it would be okay if he went outside the Abyss, but.

‘Rather, it’s using the Abyss itself as a passage to cross over!’

He wondered what kind of power one would have to possess to make this possible.

Distorting dimensions requires that much knowledge and power, so it was safe to say that he was a leader-level member of the Ascendant Church who could open Abyss at will.

And the power felt from beyond the dimension was clearly more than Dalgi.

A presence that only a being born as a god, not a mortal who became a god by taking power, could possess.

“…Can I reach it now?”

No, that’s not it.

Not ‘Can I reach it?’ but.

‘I must reach it.’

Otherwise, there was no telling what would happen to this area.

“Master! I’ve brought them!”

Baek Woo-hyun, who had become a streak of lightning, set Jeanne and Bathory down next to him.

He must have rushed to get them in a hurry.

Yoo Seong-woo glanced at the two and briefly explained the situation.

“…Wait, so what do you want us to do?”

“Aren’t you mages supposed to be able to do something?”

“Are you thinking of mages as some kind of omnipotent tool? This is beyond our capabilities, no matter how hard we try! Have you ever considered our position, being suddenly called to stop a god?”

“Can I go home? I feel the same way as Jeanne.”

“I was an idiot to expect anything from you…….”

“Then can we go back……?”

“Do you think you can? We’ll all die here together. If you don’t want that, come up with a plan somehow.”

Despair settled on their faces at Yoo Seong-woo’s words.

He raised an overwhelming spirit from his whole body again, as if there was not a shred of falsehood in his words.

“Baek Woo-hyun, hurry up and evacuate the surroundings. This place will soon become a mess.”

“Understood!”

“Tell the others too. Don’t approach unnecessarily. Unless they don’t value their lives.”

Baek Woo-hyun ran out again like lightning, and the two archmages who wanted to live began to put their heads together to come up with a plan.

Meanwhile, Yoo Seong-woo stared at the giant Abyss with a sword in his hand.

‘…It reminds me of the old days.’

The memory of rushing at an opponent with only a sword, an opponent who seemed impossible to defeat, suddenly came to mind.

What kind of heart did he rush at the enemy with back then?

He swung his sword while anticipating his own death…….

‘I don’t even remember if I won or lost. I must have won, or I wouldn’t be standing here like this, right?’

Surely that must be the case.

Yoo Seong-woo jumped up and wrapped Ilsaeng in Aura.

Surrounded by red Aura, the enlarged Ilsaeng struck the Abyss, but this time it was blocked by an intangible barrier surrounding the Abyss.

Having been disturbed from coming out several times, it had put up a barrier.

“This damn bastard!”

Shouting that, the moment he landed on the ground, something burst out of the giant Abyss.

It was a giant hand of immeasurable size.

Two crude, giant green hands covered in all sorts of tattoos and adorned with accessories burst out and grabbed the edge of the Abyss.

A chilling energy that seemed to freeze the whole body at the moment of witnessing it flowed out of the Abyss along with it.

The two archmages, who had been racking their brains in this place, realized it the moment they saw the hand.

That this was something that could not be dealt with by human power.

That it was clearly a powerful divine being.

Rather, because they had accumulated so much knowledge, they realized the difference in class.

That which was trying to cross over into this world was a power that should not exist in the mortal realm…….

While the two were making blank expressions, Yoo Seong-woo stepped on Jingeok [a martial arts technique], awakening the two with a shockwave.

“Get a hold of yourselves. The true body hasn’t completely crossed over yet!”

“Heh.”

“T, that’s right.”

Since the true body of the god of unknown origin had not completely crossed over, it was still at a manageable level.

Yoo Seong-woo instinctively realized this and unleashed a strike again.

One sword connecting from the sky to the earth.

The strike that would split even the sky struck the barrier, creating cracks.

Jeanne, who saw the sight, said.

“…Even though you’ve created a path connecting to another dimension, the connection seems unstable. Well, that’s usually the case… But even so, the fact that it’s emitting this much power means it’s that much of a higher divine being.”

“So?”

“If we reduce the size of the dimensional passage, the Abyss, the power of that thing will naturally weaken, and we’ll be able to drive it out! The size of the Abyss is the total amount of causality that thing can interfere with in the mortal realm!”

“What needs to be done?”

“The only thing we can do is to consume as much of that thing’s power as possible! If that thing wields causality here, it will be easier to interfere from this side, so we should try to keep it in check as much as possible…….”

“I see…….”

At Jeanne’s words, Yoo Seong-woo took a deep breath and firmly gripped Ilsaeng.

His hair turned red, and his momentum amplified even more.

It was an intensity that he had never shown before, to the point that even the mages standing next to him flinched.

“While Yoo Seong-woo keeps it in check, we will accelerate the closure of the Abyss.”

Yoo Seong-woo nodded at her words and took a stance to break the barrier when another pair of hands burst out of the Abyss.

The hands opened wide up and down, then clapped, smack.

Just that alone caused a shockwave and resonance of magic power that could not be ignored, sweeping away everything around them.

Yoo Seong-woo swung his sword to offset the shockwave, but that thing’s purpose was not the shockwave.

Another Abyss appeared next to the Abyss from which that thing’s hands had emerged.

Its size was small, but what was coming out of it were armed Orcs.

Not ordinary Orcs, but those belonging to the higher species.