The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 225

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 200

Heavenly Alliance Fortress (8)

With Seo Mun-je, both arms severed, in his grasp, Yoo Seong-woo landed before the warriors, the shockwave knocking everyone who was fighting off their feet.

Yoo Seong-woo strode through the fallen, placing Seo Mun-je before Seo Mun-yeong.

“As you commanded, I have brought Seo Mun-je, Milady.”

“…Well done.”

Seo Mun-yeong blinked blankly for a moment, then crouched before Seo Mun-je, gazing at his pathetic state.

Was this the end of the man who had abandoned her mother and herself?

The head of the Seo Mun Clan, one of the great pillars of the Heavenly Alliance Fortress… was utterly pathetic in the face of death.

Both arms were gone, and he had lost consciousness.

His hair was disheveled, and his once imposing frame seemed shrunken like a deflated balloon.

“Father, you never expected this, did you? That the daughter you cast out into the Sea District would return like this…”

She remembered that all of this was thanks to Hyeon-wol, Yong-wol, Yoo Seong-woo, and Yoo-wol.

She could never repay this debt, not even in a lifetime.

Standing up, she said,

“Dispose of Seo Mun-je as you see fit. And kill anyone who opposes my ascension to the position of Clan Head.”

She steeled her heart.

She had a vague realization.

The plan of the two men helping her would not end here.

They were looking even further ahead, so the only thing she could do was cooperate as much as possible for their sake.

Yoo Seong-woo raised his iron sword as she finished speaking.

“Did you hear that? Only those who want to die should keep fighting. Or surrender.”

It was a time for purging.

***

The Seo Mun Clan was seized by Seo Mun-yeong in a single day.

Seo Mun-je, his wife, concubines, and children were all killed.

They had not surrendered, and they cursed and spat venom until the very end, calling her a mere woman.

Several elders surrendered, bowing their heads before Seo Mun-yeong, and most of the warriors also swore allegiance.

Seo Mun-yeong inherited the position of Clan Head of the Seo Mun Clan and entered the Clan Head Hall, a place only the Clan Head could enter, which had been devastated by the battle between Yoo Seong-woo and Seo Mun-je.

Setting up a fallen chair, she sat down and turned it to look out the window.

The wind blew strongly, mercilessly tossing her hair, as it was a high-rise building.

The scenery was so different from when she was in the Sea District that she took a deep breath and then began to cry.

The emotions she had suppressed until now gathered and erupted in a strange direction.

It was something she had never felt in her life, so she was quite taken aback.

“Mom, Mom…”

She had finally reached this position.

From a worker doing odd jobs in the Sea District to the top of the Seo Mun Clan….

She had killed all those who had driven her and her mother to the Sea District to die, and she had also taken revenge on Seo Mun-je.

From now on, she would have to lead the Seo Mun Clan, but….

Hyeon-wol had said.

‘I can’t be by your side forever, so you must prepare to stand alone. Or… you can abandon everything and follow me.’

There was no time to worry about what was a lie and what was the truth.

He and his brother would leave someday… and she would remain here to take care of her mother and rebuild the clan.

Abandoning everything and running away wouldn’t be so bad, but now there were thousands of people under her command.

“Haa.”

Having shed a lot of tears, she wiped her red eyes with her sleeve and exhaled a long breath.

Then, she was startled and fell backward as a black figure came through the broken window.

“Kyaaaaak?!”

“You fall over with quite a commotion.”

It was Yoo Seong-woo who had come through the window.

Seo Mun-yeong knew him as Hyeon-wol.

But what was unusual was that he was holding two people in his hands.

Seo Mun-yeong pointed at the people with her finger and asked.

“Wh, who are those people?”

“I don’t know. They were suspiciously sneaking around, so I killed them and brought them here. Probably assassins.”

“Probably assassins… Why assassins?”

“Usually, those guys in black clothes who suspiciously loiter around when it gets dark are all assassins. There’s no way a daring guy would come to steal in a place like this.”

It was a reasonable logic in its own way.

Yoo Seong-woo put down the two guys he was holding and said.

“It seems the Murim Alliance has moved.”

“Are you saying those two are assassins from the Murim Alliance?”

“Yes. Their target seemed to be you. And killing me along the way.”

“…Why would the Murim Alliance do that?”

“They devoured the Wudang and Mount Hua Sects, and now they have the Tang Clan and the Seo Mun Clan on their backs, so they must have judged you as a threat.”

It was an extremely simple deduction.

They crush anything that seems like a threat before it grows completely.

That was the way the vested interests took to protect their own interests.

They were kicking away the ladder in a very flashy way.

“More are coming.”

The two guys Yoo Seong-woo caught were loitering near the Clan Head Hall.

They hid their presence very well, but unless it was a magic circle prepared by Seo Mun-je, there was no way he wouldn’t be able to detect their presence.

And ten more are coming.

Hiding their figures in the shadows, they run at a rapid pace.

Probably assassins who came to deal with ‘Hyeon-wol,’ who would be exhausted from fighting Seo Mun-je.

“I’ll be back.”

Yoo Seong-woo jumped out of the open window as he was.

Seo Mun-yeong approached the window and looked down.

But he had already disappeared in an instant.

He would probably kill all the assassins hiding in the clan and come back.

She began to think about him again in a new light.

Where did he come from, and where was he going?

“…He wouldn’t be Uncle’s man, would he.”

According to him, Seo Mun-yeop had died in an internal clan struggle.

Why did he die?

Why did he lose, even though he had such formidable warriors as Hyeon-wol and Yong-wol as his men…….

Seo Mun-yeong stopped thinking. Even if she thought deeply, it would be something she shouldn’t know.

She turned away from the window and moved to do what she had to do.

***

Tang Young-jup watched as countless flowers withered.

They were flowers connected to the assassins she had sent to the Seo Mun Clan, a structure in which the flowers withered when something went wrong with their lives.

“…….”

She narrowed her brows as she looked at the flowers that had withered in an instant.

The children she had sent to the Seo Mun Clan had died in an instant.

The children she sent this time were an assassination squad called ‘Shadow Clan(영중(影衆)).’ [A group specializing in stealth and assassination].

They were children who specialized in stealth, were quick on their feet, and had thoroughly mastered assassination techniques, but they were all caught without exception.

Judging from the fact that the flowers withered all at once, it must not have taken long for them all to die.

“…It seems that even mutual destruction has failed.”

This meant that they had been overwhelmingly defeated, and there was a possibility that Hyeon-wol had not even been stabbed by a single knife.

Tang Young-jup felt a sense of déjà vu [a feeling of having already experienced the present situation].

Hadn’t this happened once before?

When she sent poison flowers to kill Yoo Seong-woo.

‘…Hyeon-wol and Yoo Seong-woo are not the same being.’

She shook her head and erased the possibility that had come to her mind.

The movements of Yoo Seong-woo and Hyeon-wol were so different.

Like water and oil, there was nothing in common except that they both used swords.

She had gathered information about the name ‘Hyeon-wol’ in her own way, but there was not much to be gained.

It was registered in the Heavenly Alliance Fortress’s database, but no peculiarities could be found.

“The poison flower is dead, and the Shadow Clan has returned to the shadows…….”

Tang Young-jup turned her head and looked outside.

Her gaze was directed towards the building of the Seo Mun Clan.

The Seo Mun Clan, which was in a mess even from a distance, was busy cleaning up.

There would also be the bodies of the assassins she had sent.

Tang Young-jup’s eyes darkened.

The night of the Heavenly Alliance Fortress was coming.

***

Several days after Seo Mun-yeong took over as Clan Head of the Seo Mun Clan, after the reorganization was completed.

She united the forces she had devoured so far, such as the Seo Mun Clan, the Wudang Sect, the Mount Hua Sect, and the Tang Clan, under the name of the ‘Pacheon Clan’ [Overlord Clan].

By announcing this, another huge force appeared within the Heavenly Alliance Fortress, besides the Murim Alliance [Martial Arts Alliance].

And the first thing the Pacheon Clan did was declare war on the Murim Alliance.

“It’s all the Murim Alliance’s fault that you can’t make a proper living!”

“It’s all the Murim Alliance’s fault that wages aren’t being paid properly!”

“How can the environment change when you’re holding onto vested interests in the name of a nominal clan!”

And then all sorts of instigations began.

What the Pacheon Clan attracted were the forces in the Sea District and the Earth District.

What was in the Heaven District of the Heavenly Alliance Fortress was nothing more than exploitation, so it wasn’t exactly a false instigation.

The Pacheon Clan demanded the improvement of the Murim Alliance and spread it in writing.

It contained the meaning that they would not hesitate to go to war if they did not listen.

And.

“The Demonic Cult has established a base near the Heavenly Alliance Fortress.”

“The Evil Alliance led by the Mukcheon Clan and the Lightning Sword Clan, too…….”

The Murim Alliance’s misfortunes began to pile up.

In order to complete the picture Yoo Seong-woo had drawn, only one thing remained: the finishing touch.

As the news of misfortune continued to pour in, the Murim Alliance Leader, Cheon Woo-gong, sighed deeply.

“…The plan has gone awry. Do we have to start over?”

It was only a little further.

If only there was a little more, the Heavenly Alliance Fortress could have enjoyed eternal wealth and power.

A single loach [a small, slippery fish] had stirred up all the clear water.

“But it’s too much of a waste to start over with what we’ve built up.”

“Alliance Leader.”

Tang Young-jup approached the murmuring Alliance Leader.

Everyone who had been reporting by his side had already stepped down.

She sat next to Cheon Woo-gong and opened her mouth.

“You haven’t forgotten the promise, have you? The promise to make me a god of the Heavenly Alliance Fortress.”

“…Of course, I haven’t forgotten. Young-jup. All of this is for you.”

“Now is the time. The preparations are complete, so all that remains is the decision. It may be a little lacking… but we can fill the rest with the corpses of those guys.”

At Tang Young-jup’s words, Cheon Woo-gong nodded slightly.

‘Yes, there was only one way to go anyway…….’

If you try to deviate from the path presented in a straight line, all that exists in front of you is a cliff.

An inescapable Avici Hell [the deepest level of hell in Buddhist cosmology] if you fall.

Cheon Woo-gong closed his eyes.

He had blinded himself.

***

“Very commendable. You brought him just as I said.”

“I’ve put in a lot of effort.”

“He’s gotten a little stronger, too… It seems he’s realized something while beating up the weak.”

“There aren’t only weak guys. I almost died a few times.”

In the dead of night, Yoo Seong-woo slipped out of the Heavenly Alliance Fortress and headed to the Evil Alliance.

It was because there was something to discuss with Baek Woo-hyeon, the head of the Mukcheon Clan, and Young-myung.

Since they were going to destroy the Heavenly Alliance Fortress together, he was going to have a meeting before proceeding with the work.

Baek Woo-hyeon took Yoo Seong-woo to a luxurious tent.

As he entered the tent, Young-myung, who had been waiting in advance, looked at Yoo Seong-woo and opened his mouth.

“Are you the owner of the Lightning Sword Clan Lord?”

Yoo Seong-woo chuckled at his question, pulled back the hood he was wearing, and replied.

“Yeah, old man, are you the Mukcheon Clan Lord? Our Woo-hyeon has been in your care.”