The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 256

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 255

The Remains (11)

In the end, Paille had no choice but to hand over all authority of the Tomb of the Warrior to Yoo Seong-woo.

All that remained for Paille was the formality and the right to relay information.

Yoo Seong-woo became the true owner of the Tomb of the Warrior.

“Hmm.”

Yoo Seong-woo, who had re-established the contract, stared at the treasure chest that popped up in front of him.

It seemed that Paille’s last bit of authority had been used to defeat the monster, and defeating Odium was certified as clearing the 41st floor.

Yoo Seong-woo kicked the treasure chest open.

‘Last time, they gave me the hilt, so this time, are they going to give me the body?’

Thinking that, he looked at what popped out of the treasure chest.

It was a bone.

Yoo Seong-woo frowned as he looked at the bone in his hand.

“A bone?”

Judging by the shape, it was a rib.

Fortunately, this rib didn’t seem to have any inherent power.

It was a bone with a scar in the middle, as if it had been pierced by a spear.

As Yoo Seong-woo stared at it, Jeanne ran up to him from afar and clung to him.

“T, this! Did this just come out of the treasure chest?!”

“Yeah. Do you know what it is?”

“This, this is it! A saint’s remains! It’s a real saint’s remains!”

“Is that faint feeling divinity? Hmm.”

When he handed it over to Jeanne for a closer look, she examined the bone and gaped.

“A genuine article among genuine articles, and this trace…….”

“A trace like being pierced by a spear. If it’s a saint’s remains with a spear mark…….”

“A mark left on the rib, then there’s only one thing it could be! Longinus!” [Referring to the Spear of Longinus, the spear that pierced Jesus Christ’s side].

It was the real deal.

It was proof that a saint existed in the past.

Yoo Seong-woo snatched the rib from Jeanne’s hand and shoved it roughly into his pocket.

“…Let’s go.”

He was getting tired now.

He couldn’t think of anything but going back and sleeping.

Yoo Seong-woo used the authority he had received from Paille to create a gate back to Earth.

And before leaving, he said to Paille, who was sitting in despair in the collapsed Colosseum.

“Restore it before I come next time. If you don’t, I’ll kill you.”

***

“Did you find out how many stages they cleared? It’s a good opportunity to find out how strong Sword Soul is.”

“…That is, we can’t enter the Abyss anymore.”

As soon as Yoo Seong-woo and his party returned looking worse for wear, the U.S. government guided them to a hotel and sent divers into the Abyss for power analysis.

But the divers couldn’t enter the Abyss.

When they tried to enter the Abyss, they were blocked by something like a transparent barrier.

The director of the U.S. intelligence agency frowned at the news that they couldn’t enter the Abyss.

The 1st-class Abyss, ‘Tomb of the Warrior,’ was like a lifeline for American divers.

They could challenge it multiple times, and the rewards were pretty good.

Some died, but it was like an artifact mine where a kind of mining was possible.

“If we can’t enter the Tomb of the Warrior, the losses will be huge. Have you asked Sword Soul why this happened?”

“Yes. We asked, but they said they didn’t know. They didn’t seem like they would tell us, so we had no choice but to back down.”

“…I see.”

The director of intelligence twirled the pen in his hand and thought.

There were two cases where you couldn’t enter the Abyss.

Either the Abyss was cleared, or the Abyss’s core monster had intelligence and prohibited entry.

But the Abyss hadn’t been cleared, so the latter was more likely.

But until now, the Tomb of the Warrior had never been closed.

It was too unnatural for it to suddenly close, so it seemed like something had happened to Yoo Seong-woo and his party.

“…What on earth did they do in the Abyss?”

The director of intelligence had no way of knowing.

That Yoo Seong-woo had taken away the authority of the Abyss and taken the position of owner.

***

“Then what happens to the Tomb of the Warrior?”

“When the Abyss is completely restored, it will move its location. The energy that maintains the Abyss seems to absorb the earth’s ley lines or the magic power in the atmosphere…….”

“Move its location? Is that possible?”

Yoo Seong-woo nodded at Yoo Ji-woo’s question.

The Abyss exists in another dimension.

A gap between dimensions, using that as a base dimension to create a ‘door’ to Earth.

Therefore, you can move the entrance anywhere.

“The Wraith will take care of it. The location is the rooftop of the Sword Soul Guild Tower.”

“The Tomb of the Warrior to the rooftop of the Sword Soul Guild Tower……?”

The Tomb of the Warrior was America’s Abyss, and even then, you couldn’t enter without paying a huge fee.

If that golden land, no, the Abyss, was built on top of the Sword Soul Guild…….

“Oh, how much money are you planning to make?! Are you trying to buy a country with money?!”

Yoo Ji-woo couldn’t believe it. The speed at which Yoo Seong-woo was making money!

She had worked her butt off for several years to start a company, but Yoo Seong-woo had earned a national budget in just a few months after returning.

Is it true that wealth gathers to those who are capable?

“Hmm, maybe?”

Yoo Seong-woo’s total assets far exceeded the national budget.

Not only did he absorb the wealth accumulated by the Towel Tribe and the Elves, but the fees he received for clearing various Abyss were also considerable.

And since those are still growing in real-time under Yoo-wol’s leadership, if you ranked the world’s people by wealth, he would probably be in the top five.

Maybe even more than that.

“Just kidding.”

Yoo Seong-woo chuckled at Yoo Ji-woo’s dumbfounded face.

“Then is the next step the recovery of the remains?”

They hadn’t left the United States yet. One of the purposes of their visit to the United States was to recover the saint’s remains at the request of the Empire Magic Tower.

Jesus’ tooth, which would remain in the imaginary dimension with the remains of Sharon, who was the master of the magic tower.

Of course, they had no intention of handing it over to the United States as it was.

Hetris said that it was necessary to complete the Philosopher’s Stone, so he was going to take it somehow.

“Jesus’ tooth… Then, how many remains are scattered on Earth?”

“There are more than three hundred human bones, so there probably aren’t that many, right?”

They had also discussed this with the witches.

They said that if there were that many remains, Christianity would have dominated the current world long ago.

They concluded that there were less than ten remains left in the modern era.

“If we secure two remains, it will definitely be helpful.”

One will be ground up for the Philosopher’s Stone…….

If Hetris completes the Philosopher’s Stone at the end of the wish, the saint’s remains will be nothing, so it’s not a bad investment.

There were two days left until they went to recover the remains.

That was the time it took to specify the coordinates to go to the imaginary dimension from the Empire Tower and open the door.

They could open the door, but there was no way to go to the imaginary dimension and return alive safely.

To move smoothly in the imaginary dimension, you had to have great power or a deep understanding of dimensional magic.

The people who met those conditions were Clock Tower Master Bertrand and Namsan Tower Master Seong Cheon-gyeon.

But they couldn’t let them know about the saint’s remains, and when they picked someone who could move freely in the imaginary dimension, Yoo Seong-woo was the only one left by elimination.

Of course, Yoo Seong-woo was also a very unreliable opponent, but it was judged that it would be much better than entrusting it to the same magic towers.

However, they didn’t know.

“Stealing the saint’s remains, that sounds fun.”

That Yoo Seong-woo was the one who would steal the saint’s remains more than anyone else.

***

“I will now open the door to the imaginary dimension.”

Said Vice Tower Master, Mackenzie.

The total number of people heading to the imaginary dimension was three.

Yoo Seong-woo, as well as Shua-nel and Bathory, who could handle space magic to some extent.

“As I’ve already briefed you, I’ll explain it again. What I’m asking you to do is to recover the saint’s remains. If possible, I hope you can also recover Sharon’s remains, but… please prioritize the saint’s remains.”

“Okay.”

After Mackenzie finished speaking, he raised his magic power and poured it onto the prepared magic circle.

As he poured in magic power, blue light poured out from the magic circle, and blue light intertwined on top of it to create a small door.

Bathory, who saw this, said.

“Witch’s magic. To implement the witch’s magic of connecting spaces by borrowing the power of spirits into a formula. Whoever it is, their skills are amazing.”

“This magic is a formula devised by the former tower master, Sharon. It’s still incomplete, so it’s impossible to connect to a specific space existing in the material world, but it has become possible to connect to the imaginary dimension, which has little magical resistance.”

“How did you specify the coordinates of the saint’s remains?”

“Because it’s such a precious item, we engraved a coordinate formula on the remains. This is the compass to find the remains.”

Mackenzie finally handed the compass to Yoo Seong-woo and wished him good luck.

Yoo Seong-woo glanced at Bathory as he entered the door.

She nodded. It was a sign that she could solve the formula engraved on the remains.

“Okay. Let’s go.”

He said briefly and grabbed Bathory and Shua-nel by the back of the neck and entered the door.

The two, who were suddenly dragged away, had a calm expression as if they were used to it now.

As they entered the door, their vision changed. Just like when they passed through the entrance of the Abyss, the space distorted and then returned to its place.

And where they, no, Yoo Seong-woo arrived was.

“……?”

A bright blue meadow.

A vast sky and long grass swaying in a pleasant breeze.

In the center of such a meadow was a white gazebo that looked suspicious at first glance.

A tea time table in the garden of nobles that would only appear in romance fantasy novels.

There, a woman in luxurious green clothes was sitting and drinking tea.

Yoo Seong-woo immediately took out his life [his weapon] and approached the gazebo with tension.

He had clearly taken a portal from the United States to the imaginary dimension.

But the fact that he had fallen into a strange place meant that she had the ability to distort the arrival coordinates in an instant.

And really, Yoo Seong-woo couldn’t gauge the woman’s skills in front of him.

He couldn’t feel even a trace of magic power, but his intuition was ringing alarm bells that it was dangerous.

As he approached with great tension, the woman sitting in the gazebo smiled and said.

“You there, won’t you spare just a moment to have a cup of tea?”

“…What happened to the others?”

“Don’t worry, they’re all safe. This is just a fleeting moment…….”

Saying that, the woman poured black tea into an empty teacup and asked him again.

While emitting bright yellow light from her eyes.

“So, won’t you spare just a moment to have a cup of tea? You won’t regret it.”

It was a threat, not an invitation.