The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 249

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 248

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully 248

The Tomb of the Warrior (4)

Yoo Seong-woo, having entered the Tomb of the Warrior, looked around.

The scene was more vivid than what he had seen in the hologram. The three of them stood in the center of the Colosseum, and the stands were filled with pale, ghostly figures.

The sky was a pitch-black darkness, but torches placed throughout illuminated the entire Colosseum.

“Brings back some old memories.”

“Doesn’t it, Chief! This place is like that place! The arena! You worked as a gladiator for a while, didn’t you!”

“There was that too.”

Yoo Seong-woo reminisced.

He had worked undercover as a gladiator to take down a noble who ran the arena.

He had even risen to the rank of special-grade gladiator back then….

“I was special-grade, and you were only first-grade. Memories are flooding back.”

“D, did you have to say that?!”

Veronica jumped up and down, shouting, and Yoo Seong-woo pressed down on the top of her head to calm her down.

Shua-nel didn’t care about any of that; she just wanted to go home.

-A new challenger has appeared─!!

A loud voice echoed through the Colosseum.

Yoo Seong-woo turned his head to identify the source of the voice, and a place that seemed to be prepared for VIPs in the audience caught his eye.

A large specter there was shouting with its arms wide open.

-Proud, proud! I pay homage to your courage and allow the challenge─!!

-What do you seek by stepping into the land of warriors? How much blood and sweat will you shed!

-From now on, your challenge begins, prove yourselves─!!

As soon as it finished speaking, the closed iron bars of the Colosseum opened.

The first stage had begun.

“Oh, Chief. Look at that! A lion! A lion! Awesome!”

“Never seen a lion before?”

“Never seen a lion that big before!”

As Veronica said, a giant lion was walking out of the iron bars, drooling.

A lion with a shoulder height of over 3 meters, an insane size.

It looked like it could easily tear a human into thirds with a single swipe of its paw.

“So that’s why you’re first-grade.”

A lion of that size could easily tear apart two or three B-grade divers [rank of dungeon explorer].

However, it was nothing to the three of them.

“Veronica.”

As Yoo Seong-woo spoke, Veronica drew the greatsword from her back and leaped forward.

Then, spinning in the air, she swung down at the lion with all her weight.

The lion couldn’t even dodge.

By the time it recognized Veronica’s movement, the tip of her sword was already touching its forehead.

Veronica’s greatsword split the lion in half.

As black liquid spurted from the severed section of the lion, a fanfare rang out.

-The challengers have passed the first stage─!! Then the choice is, continuous challenge or to step down from the stage!

“Challenge, of course.”

Without another word at Yoo Seong-woo’s words, the iron bars opened immediately.

This time, two giant lions walked out.

“Veronica.”

As Yoo Seong-woo spoke again, the heads of the two lions fell off with a thud.

It had happened in less than 3 seconds.

-T, the challengers have passed the second stage?! That’s fast!

It seemed quite taken aback.

It seemed that no one had ever cleared it at this speed before.

Did they have to hear this every time they passed a stage?

Yoo Seong-woo, who was getting a little annoyed, said.

“Don’t be a bother, let’s just go non-stop to stage 20.”

***

While Yoo Seong-woo and his party were in America, Knox was left alone.

Seo Yeon-jung came to see her every day, so there was nothing uncomfortable, but it was still lonely to be alone in the large house.

A little scary too.

Knox, sitting alone in the quiet house, turned on the television.

The television was full of stories about Yoo Seong-woo.

News about the contract that Sword Soul had signed with Italy was constantly being broadcast.

It must be a big deal. It was a guild-versus-nation contract that no one had ever done before.

“…Uncle.”

Knox pouted, looking at Yoo Seong-woo’s face on the television.

If she had known this would happen, she would have gone with him. Even if she had to beg.

‘He even trained me…….’

Why didn’t he take her?

Knox was secretly sad, feeling like she was being left out.

As Knox watched television with her knees hugged, a pale figure appeared in front of her.

It was taking the form of a woman. A long horn protruded from her head.

A long, thick, scaly tail protruded from the area where the tailbone was.

A familiar form, one she seemed to have seen somewhere before. And a form she had longed for even in her dreams.

An instinctive attraction.

Knox, getting off the sofa, reached out towards the pale figure.

“How dare you, a mere wraith…….”

But there was someone blocking Knox’s path.

It was Seo Yeon-jung, without her glasses.

No, she couldn’t be called Seo Yeon-jung now.

The light blazing from her eyes blew away the pale figure that was trying to approach Knox, and she let out a deep sigh.

“All sorts of things are getting tangled up…….”

Turning around, Knox was slumped on the sofa, fast asleep.

Hugging Knox, Seo Yeon-jung, or rather, the being sleeping inside her, recalled the being that had just tried to infiltrate Knox’s mind.

It was a wraith [ghostly image of someone, typically seen shortly before or after their death].

Something close to a wandering obsession was trying to take Knox away.

She didn’t know who was behind this, but it seemed like a pretty annoying guy had gotten involved.

“I have to earn my keep…….”

Seo Yeon-jung flicked Knox’s forehead with her finger and moved her body to the bed.

Carefully laying Knox down on the bed, Seo Yeon-jung sat on the edge of the bed and closed her eyes.

She was protecting Knox for the sake of her trust with Yoo Seong-woo.

A being that could be a threat to herself and those around her, he trusted her and let her go.

She remembered a conversation she had with Yoo Seong-woo in the past. That she was just a being who wanted to live quietly.

That’s why she had begged for her life, asking him not to kill her.

Yoo Seong-woo had accepted it and left Seo Yeon-jung alone.

Now, she was fulfilling her repayment of that trust.

“…You better come back soon. Yoo Seong-woo.”

Because she won’t be able to last long like this.

***

“I still can’t get warmed up…….”

-…….

Yoo Seong-woo and his party were attacking the Tomb of the Warrior at a terrifying speed.

The speed was so terrifying that the narrator’s words disappeared and were filled with sighs.

Veronica did it alone up to stage 10. Most of them had their heads chopped off.

From stage 11, Veronica and Shua-nel did it together.

The two were working together for the first time, but Shua-nel volunteered to assist and showed a pretty good combination.

And stage 15, stage 16.

They reached the highest stage that American divers had reached.

The monster that appeared breaking through the iron bars in stage 16 was an angel with two pairs of wings.

It wasn’t a real angel, it seemed to be a kind of monster, a pseudo-angel.

Because Shua-nel didn’t feel any divinity from it.

This was the first time Yoo Seong-woo stepped in.

He beheaded the guy that S-class divers struggled with and killed several people to defeat, with a single slash.

Yoo Seong-woo turned his head and asked.

“What was the highest stage of the guys who have challenged so far?”

The specter who seemed to be the supervisor opened his mouth.

-It was stage 35. It was someone who wielded various cold weapons like limbs. What was his name, yes, Cheonma! It was a guy called Cheonma!

“Chief, something’s weird? America said it was stage 16. The highest stage.”

“The prediction that it would be at least stage 20 was also way off.”

Anyway, Cheonma.

He must be talking about Cheonma (天魔) [Heavenly Demon, a powerful martial artist or demon-like being].

Not the Cheonma who is recuperating in China now, but a Cheonma from another dimension.

The prediction was somewhat correct. Shua-nel wasn’t just playing while Veronica was fighting.

She was racking her brain to interpret the dimension they were standing in, and she succeeded to some extent.

The result was that the Tomb of the Warrior was a kind of mobile dimension.

A dimension that attracts warriors by wandering around this dimension and that dimension.

But she didn’t know what the purpose was yet.

“Stage 35…….”

How many stages are there?

He had asked earlier, but the answer he got was, ‘Challenge it yourself and find out!’

Then the only way is to really challenge it and find out.

And, stage 17 began.

Two pseudo-angels appeared again, breaking through the iron bars.

The guys were holding a spear in each hand, a total of four spears.

But before they could do anything, Yoo Seong-woo moved first.

The heads of the two pseudo-angels fall.

Again, it happened in an instant. Nevertheless, he wasn’t even warmed up yet.

What stage would he have to reach to find an opponent worth fighting?

“Let’s break a record today.”

Isn’t it fun to break the highest score in these kinds of games?

As Yoo Seong-woo declared, Veronica smiled brightly and swung her greatsword around.

“Good! Good! That’s like the Chief!”

“…Send me home.”

And Shua-nel wanted to go home. Forget the game competition.

She gave up everything.

***

Yoo Seong-woo attacked the Tomb of the Warrior with unstoppable momentum.

Sometimes sending out Veronica and Shua-nel, sometimes stepping in himself.

In an instant, he surpassed stage 16, which was the forefront of humanity, and reached stage 32, which was twice that.

Around that time, guys who didn’t die in one hit started to appear.

“Is this… a demon?”

What he faced in stage 32 was a muscular demon.

The red-haired demon, about 5 meters tall, walked out from behind the iron bars with a double-edged ax in both hands.

The lower body and head were those of a goat.

Flames burst out every time he breathed.

-This opponent will not be easy even for you! It is the Axe Demon who reigned over the sixth hell of the eight hells!

“Chief, what is he saying? Rabbit demon? He doesn’t look like a rabbit.”

-Axe Demon!

Yoo Seong-woo faced the Axe Demon and gripped his sword.

As he said, this guy had a different atmosphere from the monsters that had appeared so far.

The aspect of an absolute ruler who reigned over a world.

Yoo Seong-woo had to be a little serious to win.

“Pururung!”

The Axe Demon, who spewed flames, stepped forward and scattered magic circles in all directions.

The number of magic circles constructed in an instant was dozens. Lasers of enormous heat poured down from there.

“Crazy goat bastard!”

Shua-nel was startled and unfolded a shield to protect Veronica and herself.

Yoo Seong-woo was left abandoned, but neither of them worried.

Because Yoo Seong-woo wouldn’t fall with just this much.

And Yoo Seong-woo did not betray their expectations.

In the laser, he unfolded a sword light that was even more brilliant than the laser, cutting through the air and sprinting.

The Swordmaster of the Flashing Light who cuts illusions.

As befitting that title, he cut down the lasers pouring down on him with his sword and advanced.

The demon swung the ax he was holding with both hands violently at him, but he scratched the ax with the tip of his sword with a light movement and leaped.

And the following sharp sword strike immediately knocked the demon’s head to the ground.

He was a guy named Axe Demon, but in the end, he couldn’t even use his ax properly and his heavy body collapsed.

Yoo Seong-woo landed lightly on the floor and said.

“Next.”