The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 260

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 259

Nox (2)

It’s a deep darkness.

A darkness that pulls you into an even deeper swamp the more you move.

Nox wandered alone in that darkness.

In the pitch-black where not a single ray of light existed, the girl slowly took a step.

Despite being in a world without light, Nox instinctively knew where to walk.

You must not stop walking.

You must not fall into the swamp.

The moment you stop even for a moment, the pitch-black darkness will grab your ankles and drag you into the swamp.

‘Mom, Sister, Uncle…’

Recalling the faces of those she loved, those who were so precious to her, the girl takes another step.

Only recognizing the direction she must go, very slowly, sluggishly…

So as not to fall into the swamp…

***

“She hasn’t woken up for three days now…”

“That’s right. She suddenly collapsed as if falling asleep and hasn’t been able to wake up. We’ve tried various methods to wake her, but all have failed.”

“You wouldn’t have been able to show her to a doctor…”

Seo Yeon-jung brought Hetris and Kali, who were left in Korea, to show them Nox’s condition.

However, neither of them could offer any advice on Nox’s condition.

There were no traces of magical attacks, and her magic power was stable while she slept.

The conclusion they reached was that it was Nox’s own problem.

“The two of you have used various methods to try to wake her up by force, but she still hasn’t woken up.”

“Why didn’t you contact me right away?”

“I didn’t want to interfere with your work overseas, so I didn’t contact you on my own. I’m sorry.”

Yoo Seong-woo tried to say something but shook his head.

Seo Yeon-jung’s judgment was correct.

She had been working with Yoo Seong-woo for a long time and understood his tendencies.

Unable to scold Seo Yeon-jung, Yoo Seong-woo slumped down next to Nox and muttered.

“What on earth is going on…”

Shua-nel was also a little flustered and couldn’t leave Nox’s side, stamping her feet.

“Nox, Nox…”

She usually seemed a bit annoyed when Nox clung to her, but now that Nox wasn’t waking up, she seemed anxious.

Yoo Seong-woo looked down at Nox and then shifted his gaze to Seo Yeon-jung.

She would know best what had happened.

Not Seo Yeon-jung herself, but the one sleeping inside her…

As he left the main room without a word and entered his room, Seo Yeon-jung followed him and entered the room.

“What happened?”

Yoo Seong-woo raised his aura to block the sound from the room.

He was the only one who knew about the being sleeping inside Seo Yeon-jung.

At his question, Seo Yeon-jung’s atmosphere changed.

The divine energy flowing from her, who had taken off her glasses.

The divinity sleeping inside Seo Yeon-jung was revealed, and Seo Yeon-jung’s hair fluttered as if in the wind.

Even though it was a space where not a single breeze entered.

“The divinity has begun to manifest. I don’t think it was like this before.”

“…There’s only one thing I can think of. The Holy Church directly revealed itself, and its influence has become stronger, so the divinity has also risen.”

“I see. So, what happened to Nox?”

The nameless god.

The divinity that had been quietly sleeping inside Seo Yeon-jung. If she had been watching everything that had happened so far from within Seo Yeon-jung.

She would understand the situation better than anyone else.

“…Strange things started to gather. No matter how much I changed her appearance, I couldn’t deceive the eyes of the gods. The Dragon race is a delicious existence.”

“Hmm…”

Dragons, the Dragon race, are born with the ability to wield magic and possess an enormous amount of magical power.

However, they were also a race inevitably destined for extinction.

They are the progenitors of magic and stand at the pinnacle of their species from birth, so no one dares to oppose them.

But because they are born perfect, they are also a lazy race that does not develop.

That is why they are even more delicious.

A perfect race to brainwash and use as messengers or apostles.

Nox was still a hatchling, making it even easier to lure her out.

“So there are guys eyeing Nox. They have good eyes.”

He thought he had been hiding her well until now, but it seemed his defenses were lacking.

She continued.

“When I heard the child say that her mother was in front of her, it seems like she’s seeing illusions. I’m worried that they’re using the memories engraved in her soul to start brainwashing her…”

“They’re doing something quite complicated. I don’t know if the Holy Church is doing the work?”

“I couldn’t tell. I managed to fend off most of the guys trying to interfere with the child, but seeing how she ended up like this with just a slight trace, it might be a pretty big divinity…”

The nameless god lowered her head. A sense of guilt that she couldn’t stop Nox from ending up like this, even though she was there.

However, it wasn’t something to be blamed for.

Seo Yeon-jung and the nameless divinity had done their jobs.

But the enemies had done even more than that.

“Originally, the thief is the bad guy, not the homeowner who didn’t have enough security. You locked the door well, so what…”

What he needed to think about now was not blame but a solution.

How to wake Nox up and how to find and kill the guys who did this.

“…That guy might know something.”

The time seemed to have come to contact the demon again.

***

Yoo Seong-woo headed to the National Central Library, which he had visited once in the past.

He met Dantalion there and made a contract to receive information continuously.

This time, it seemed like receiving information in writing would not be enough, so he revisited the National Central Library to contact her.

As he went down to the basement as he had done before and sat in the chair in front of the candlelit table, darkness gathered, and Dantalion’s figure turning the pages of a book came into view.

A scene too girlish for a demon.

Yoo Seong-woo took a short breath and said.

“You know why I came, Dantalion.”

“You’ve come to tell a story that the books I gave you weren’t enough for.”

He nodded.

He had received information through the books Dantalion had given him when he needed it, but the story he was about to tell now was not enough for just books.

He needed her knowledge, who knew more than anyone about the Holy Church and the Ascendant Church.

“Have you come to consult about your child collapsing and not being able to wake up?”

“You already know. And I’m quite bothered by the expression ‘your child’.”

“Hmm, then what would be a better way to say it? I can’t think of a good idea, so I’ll call her a young dragon.”

“Okay.”

As Yoo Seong-woo nodded, Dantalion turned the pages of the book and continued.

“This is not as serious as you think. It’s like puberty that all young children go through. She’s grown up enough now…”

“Puberty? What kind of bullshit is that?”

“It’s as it sounds. You can see it as a young dragon finding her identity. And there are guys who interfered with that, that’s all.”

“So there’s definitely someone who needs to be killed.”

At Yoo Seong-woo’s words, Dantalion chuckled and closed the book.

Then, she rested her chin on her hands and stared at him intently.

“If you have done your job well as a parent so far, the young dragon will wake up without any problems.”

“You mean she’s bedridden due to mental trauma? If she overcomes it, she’ll wake up, and if she doesn’t overcome it?”

“She’ll become someone’s apostle as those guys wanted.”

“So it depends on Nox’s mental strength…”

Then he wasn’t too worried. He didn’t know if he had done well as a parent.

But he didn’t raise her weakly.

He sometimes took her to the Abyss and drove her to fight…

“Then she’ll wake up on her own without me doing anything. I’ll just have to sing her a lullaby sometimes.”

“A lullaby sung by you… Wouldn’t that have the opposite effect?”

As Yoo Seong-woo raised his hand, Dantalion hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands.

Since they were talking through projection magic, he wouldn’t be able to hit her, but somehow it felt like Yoo Seong-woo would skip the space and hit the top of her head.

Her useless mouth was always the problem.

Yoo Seong-woo lowered his raised hand, crossed his arms, and said.

“Still, I don’t think I can stand the fact that they touched her, so make a list.”

“A list of what?”

“The Holy Church or gods who might have laid hands on that child. It would be even better if they were from the Ascendant Church.”

“Let me tell you in advance, it won’t be the Holy Church in the Korean Peninsula where you are. Those guys don’t have a good compatibility with ‘dragons’. There are so many related legends. They should be worried about being eaten instead.”

Yoo Seong-woo quickly realized what Dantalion was saying.

There were many legends about ‘dragons’ in the Korean Peninsula. But most of them deified dragons.

Dragons were worshiped as water gods who ruled the water, and they also symbolized ‘kings’ or ’emperors’.

Within the Korean Peninsula, ‘Dragon God Belief’ has a deep and long history, so the not-so-old divinities of the Holy Church in the Korean Peninsula would rather fear Nox if she gained divinity as a ‘dragon’.

“Then, you can see that the guys with the legends that can definitely defeat the dragon are aiming for Nox.”

“The story is going well! The authority of the ‘dragon’ is high in the East and low in the West. In the West, such as Europe, there are many legends of dragon slayers, and in many cases, they are simply described as greedy and vicious monsters who live hidden in deep places.”

“It’s not for nothing that dragons appear as combat power measuring devices in fantasy novels.”

“Oh, by the way, have you read that? It’s a web novel titled ‘Surviving as a Dragon in the Academy’ by Yeonam…”

“Is that fun? If you get caught being a dragon, you’ll be dissected, what kind of ridiculous setting is that…”

Anyway.

Dantalion said.

“In my opinion, I think it’s most likely Japan, where the closest Holy Church is located. China also has a strong Dragon God belief, and South America is far away, and there is also a large Dragon God belief left there.”

Dantalion said that and summoned a piece of paper and a quill and wrote a list in crooked Korean.

“Japan has dragon slaying myths left, and they have been trying to swallow the Korean Peninsula since ancient times.”

The list that Dantalion wrote was the names of the divinities related to dragon slaying myths.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had obtained Dantalion’s hit list, looked at the names and frowned.

“…Why are there so many?”

“In Japan, there are YaoYorozu (八百万) [eight million gods], which means there are over eight million indigenous gods. So there can only be many.”

“Are each of these gods? It’ll be hard to catch and kill them all.”

“That’s why Japan is very sensitive to faith. The more believers you have, the more directly your influence appears in the island country.”

Dantalion added various other explanations.

That Japan was one of the countries that contributed to her becoming like this due to the gathered ideological power.

And even the gods to be careful of.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had heard all the explanations, got up from his seat and said.

“An Abyss will soon appear on the rooftop of the Sword Soul Guild Tower. Go there if you have time. There will be records of warriors gathered from all over the world. If you tell the spirit there that I sent you, they will tell you everything.”

“……! Ehehehe, to give such honey information…”

Dantalion’s face bloomed with a smile at the words the records of warriors she had never encountered.

Yoo Seong-woo turned off the candle and left the room.

He hadn’t been back from the United States for long, but he was about to go on an expedition to Japan.

“I’ll have to receive General Yi Sun-sin’s power before I leave…”