The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 234

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 233

Veronica (3)

The Sword Soul Expedition.

Their method of honing skills involved intense battles against each other.

Individuals of similar skill levels would clash, refining each other like rough stones being shaped into beautiful jewels.

Even a simple sword fight between masters could devastate the surroundings…

There was no training method as effective as that. They learned new swordsmanship from each other’s blades and raised their levels.

“Hoo……”

Having finished stretching, Yoo Seong-woo drew Ilsaeng [His personal sword].

Veronica, seeing the green greatsword that looked like it was made of peridot, exclaimed.

“Ah! That’s my sword! Jamyeong! Captain had it?!”

“Yeah. It’s the sword you gave me. Use this. You won’t be able to withstand it with that greatsword.”

Yoo Seong-woo had received Samjeong from Veronica.

As she died, Veronica handed her greatsword to Yoo Seong-woo.

Her fading yet intense will permeated the greatsword, embedding itself in Yoo Seong-woo’s soul, unable to be extracted.

That was the true meaning of ‘Sword Soul’.

As Yoo Seong-woo handed Samjeong to Veronica, it felt like Samjeong was rejoicing.

Was it happy to reunite with its longtime master?

“Our Jamyeong! You’ve been well?!”

Veronica rubbed her face against Samjeong’s blade and blew kisses.

She was so overwhelmed with emotion at meeting her beloved weapon after so long.

‘So that was its original name.’

Yoo Seong-woo had named it Samjeong (三精) [Three Essences], but its original name was Jamyeongyungeom (紫明尹劍) [Purple Brightness Yin Sword].

The purple sword that governed the battlefield.

As if to prove it, the color of Samjeong in Veronica’s hand changed from peridot to amethyst.

Samjeong, dyed in purple, trembled and exuded a new aura.

No, perhaps it was its original aura.

Yoo Seong-woo drew Ilsaeng to face Veronica.

The red blade cried out, revealing its ominousness, and Veronica nodded, saying.

“A normal sword certainly wouldn’t withstand Captain’s Ilsaeng.”

Veronica swung Samjeong a few times to regain her feel and then grinned as she continued.

“I’ll be the first to check if Captain’s skills have rusted! Here I come!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she kicked off the ground.

Accelerating from zero speed in an instant, she reached Yoo Seong-woo’s vicinity and swung her greatsword.

The divers watching the scene widened their eyes.

It was much faster than any speed Veronica had shown so far.

Did that mean she hadn’t been fighting with all her might until now?

It was an unbelievable level.

However, Yoo Seong-woo reacted to Veronica’s speed without delay.

He dodged Veronica’s sword simply by slightly bending his back and kicked the greatsword away with his foot.

Veronica, pushed far back, took a long breath and clenched her teeth.

“Captain, no hard feelings even if we get hurt like in the old days, okay?”

“Have I ever been hurt?”

“You’ll get hurt today!”

Purple aura surged from Veronica, and she swung her greatsword with even greater speed and power than before.

It seemed impossible to dodge with just a slight movement this time, so Yoo Seong-woo swung Ilsaeng to meet her attack.

The greatsword and the much thinner sword collided.

A massive shockwave of aura erupted around them, starting to devastate the surroundings.

A clash between masters.

The ground cracked and shattered around them as if a meteor had fallen, sending stone fragments flying.

The shock was even transmitted to those inside the barrier.

“How can simply clashing swords do this……!”

Yoo Ji-woo frowned in surprise. But their clash didn’t stop there.

The two swords moved at speeds invisible to the eye, colliding repeatedly.

Baek Woo-hyun, Hong Seo-hwa, and Choi Ah-yeon, all renowned swordsmen.

None of them could follow the movements of the two swords.

Each time they swung their swords, a storm raged, tearing the earth apart.

The traces were clearly left behind, but how could they not see the swords being wielded?

“You’ve improved a lot.”

“So have you, Captain…!”

Veronica’s greatsword was swung incessantly.

Drawing purple afterimages in the air, filling the canvas.

And dominating the space entirely dyed in purple, she unleashed it all at once, but a blood-red blade pierced through the small gaps and shattered it.

Veronica gritted her teeth and thrust her sword in response.

Yoo Seong-woo, more leisurely than her, thrust his sword a beat slower, deflecting the greatsword to the side.

If Veronica’s sword was a forceful strike, Yoo Seong-woo’s was a yielding sword.

He guided the direction of the force while keeping his sword attached to Veronica’s.

In response to the instantaneous guidance of direction, Veronica used the greatsword that hit the ground as a pivot and extended her leg.

Yoo Seong-woo reached out and grabbed her ankle at the kick aimed at his chest.

And then threw her straight into the forest, slamming her into a tree.

Koo-oong─!!

Veronica, who quickly got up, swung her greatsword wildly, felling all the surrounding trees at their waists.

Then, she smiled and muttered.

“You never go easy on me……”

Yoo Seong-woo rested Ilsaeng on his shoulder and beckoned with his finger.

At the provocation to come at him, Veronica clenched her teeth again and kicked off the ground.

She firmly gripped Samjeong, Jamyeongyungeom, with both hands and began to swing.

Until now, she had been swinging with one hand, but from the moment she held it with both hands, the weight and speed doubled.

Added to that was a terrifying rotational force. The most frightening thing about Veronica’s greatsword technique was the increasing speed and power of her continuous attacks.

The flowing continuous attacks she had shown when defeating Beyu rushed in without regard for direction.

Yoo Seong-woo’s hands and feet also quickened in response to her swordsmanship that seemed to pour out everything she had.

“Heuaaaaaaaaah─!!”

Clang, kaang! Clang, clang!

The sound of metal echoed in succession.

Veronica spun like a top, tearing through space.

The rotational force continued to increase, and when the speed reached its peak, a sonic boom erupted each time the sword was swung.

If it weren’t for Yoo Seong-woo, others would have already been covered in blood from being slashed all over their bodies just by being nearby.

But Yoo Seong-woo reacted to every technique Veronica showed.

As if to prove that he hadn’t easily obtained the position of leader of the Sword Soul Expedition, he countered all of Veronica’s techniques.

Yoo Seong-woo caught Veronica’s slightest opening and thrust his sword, and she blocked it with the face of her greatsword, sliding far back and creating a long trail.

Yoo Seong-woo swung his sword once and said.

“Veronica, you know very well that I know you well. To surpass me, you’ll have to show me something new.”

At his words, Veronica nodded, breathing heavily.

Veronica and Yoo Seong-woo knew each other too well.

He was the one who had taught her, and during the Sword Soul Expedition, they had honed their skills by sparring hundreds, even thousands of times.

From each other’s speed and sense of rhythm to even the most trivial habits, they knew everything.

That’s why all of Veronica’s unchanged attacks were blocked by Yoo Seong-woo.

Until now, she had been in the process of retracing the past.

To create a different framework, she had to go beyond chasing the past and reach a new realm.

“…Then I’ll do this as the last one. Captain. Try to receive it.”

“Alright.”

From Veronica, who stood holding the greatsword with both hands, a tidal wave of purple aura explosively surged, then converged into a single point.

Into the Jamyeongyungeom in her hands.

A clearer purple color densely gathered in the sword, trembling, and then Veronica unleashed the aura as she slashed the sword diagonally.

Explosion and convergence, release of density.

Pushing the wild aura into one point and colliding it inside the sword to create an even greater repulsion.

The densely packed powerful aura soon became a single, enormous sword that divided the world.

The released aura dyed the vision purple, and the storm caused by the sword raged.

The ultimate of Veronica’s greatsword technique, concentrating the enlightenment of her past and present lives.

The horizon of sword energy she newly created.

Jamyeongyungeom (紫明尹劍) [Purple Brightness Yin Sword]

Jamyeongcheonchung (紫明天充) [Purple Brightness Heaven Fulfilling]

A massive sword energy covering the sky with a purple sword poured down on one person.

Yoo Seong-woo saw the sword Veronica had unfolded in a fleeting moment.

The ultimate of the sword unfolded as Jamyeongyungeom, not Samjeong, was so meticulously dense that there was not a single gap to pierce.

If she had unfolded such a sword in her past life, perhaps Veronica might not have died, or so he thought.

How long had it been since he had thought a sword of another was beautiful while looking at it?

However, Yoo Seong-woo’s body, separately from that, began preparations to break Veronica’s sword.

“Here I come, Veronica.”

He took the stance of drawing his sword.

A series of processes to unfold the ultimate of drawing the sword, containing the mystery of taking the initiative after the opponent moves, smoothly continued.

Stepping forward with his right foot, he leaned his body extremely forward.

He accelerated the aura in a posture that seemed to be crouching.

He condensed the aura that ran quickly, using the blood vessels of his entire body as a circuit, at the tip of the sword.

The sword Veronica unfolded was a heavy sword membrane (劍膜) [Sword Barrier].

To pierce through it, a sharp spear would be needed.

He reinterpreted and unfolded ‘Yongagwanthonghaegeok,’ unfolded with Owol and Yonggwang, with the mystery of drawing the sword.

Ilsaeng (一生) [One Life]

Gwancheonjeokgyeok (貫天赤擊) [Piercing Heaven Red Strike]

As Yoo Seong-woo drew his sword, a red line soared.

A phenomenon that occurred as the condensed aura was released at once.

A straight red light drawn in the world covered in purple.

Soon, the red light that touched the purple sword membrane pierced through it and soared even higher, reaching the sky.

The clouds parted, reaching the boundary of the Abyss beyond the clouds, shaking the entire Abyss.

And the purple sword energy scattered in all directions, fluttering like snow.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had withdrawn Ilsaeng, approached Veronica, who had exhausted all her strength and collapsed on the floor, and extended his hand.

“How is it? Veronica.”

If Veronica had newly shown what she hadn’t shown, Yoo Seong-woo had also organized his enlightenment and showed it as a sword.

Showing where he was now.

It was also to illuminate the new path Veronica would follow with a lamp.

Veronica, who grabbed Yoo Seong-woo’s outstretched hand, struggled to get up.

“What? You want Samjeong.”

“Kuek.”

Yoo Seong-woo let go of Veronica’s hand, picked up Samjeong next to her, and injected aura into it.

Then the purple Samjeong returned to its greenish color and soon scattered into a cluster of light.

Veronica, who collapsed back on the floor, shed tears and muttered.

“C, Captain is too much……”

“It’s always been like this, why are you acting like it’s new.”

Yoo Seong-woo plopped down next to her and continued.

“The last move was good. It seems you haven’t completed your unique world yet……”

“…I knew you’d say that. I’m still a bit embarrassed to show it.”

“Embarrassed?”

“Yeah.”

What kind of unique world could it be that she’s embarrassed about…

Yoo Seong-woo erased the thought from his mind and turned his head.

He gestured to those who had set up a barrier far away to avoid the aftermath of the battle and were watching.

“Everyone, come over here.”

He had thoroughly grilled Veronica.

Now it was time to grill the rest.