The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 280

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 279

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully Episode 279

Journey to Heaven (5)

Far from the battlefield, Shuten-doji watched the battle between Yamata no Orochi and Yoo Seong-woo.

He didn’t drink this time. This spectacle was too precious to waste as a drinking snack.

‘An absurd growth rate.’

When he first met him, he was about on par with himself.

But what about now? He wields a greater divinity than himself, confronting his father, Yamata no Orochi.

Against Yamata no Orochi, the great demon and Japan’s only dragon god.

The eight massive heads moved as if writhing, engulfing the exposed Yoo Seong-woo.

His entire body was red with burns, but his movements were clean and precise.

Rather, he unleashed a free-flowing swordsmanship as if he had shed what had been stifling him.

Yoo Seong-woo’s sword split the water controlled by Yamata no Orochi, parrying the waves to create towering pillars of water.

Using the splashing water droplets as stepping stones, he lightly leaped and moved at an incredible speed, colliding his sword with the massive dragon’s body.

Koo-oong!

As Yoo Seong-woo’s sword struck Yamata no Orochi’s body, the massive form shook with a heavy thud.

“You are truly…….”

Shuten-doji was filled with awe at the sight.

Is that the potential of a human?

He watched their battle intently, not wanting to miss a moment, thinking that he would be able to fulfill his wish.

***

It’s hard.

When the sword in his hand grew heavy, Yoo Seong-woo imagined death.

When he could no longer wield the sword, he would die, and those behind him would all die.

He thinks of those people dying particularly tragically.

He imagines the kind of death they will face from the monsters, using it as a driving force to move his weary body.

Kwaaaang!

The massive head of Yamata no Orochi plunged in from the side.

Yoo Seong-woo slammed the Samjeong [a powerful sword] into its head, then climbed on top of it, biting his lip.

He steadied his hazy mind with pain and ran along its neck.

The dragon’s heads rushed after him as he ran.

He increased his speed, cut off the head of Yamata no Orochi coming from the front, and then leaped high into the air, looking down.

‘At this rate, there’s no end.’

Yamata no Orochi’s necks regenerate even when cut off.

Perhaps sharing some of the lore with the Hydra from Greek mythology, new necks sprouted as soon as they were cut off.

Cutting off the necks only buys a little time.

‘To defeat him…….’

In the legends, Susano-o [a Shinto god of storms and sea] fed Yamata no Orochi alcohol to get him drunk, then cut off all his necks to kill him.

The Hydra had its necks cauterized after being cut off to prevent them from regenerating.

Yoo Seong-woo tried it. After cutting off one neck, he tried to cauterize it to prevent regeneration.

But there was no way the neck could withstand the heat of being cauterized when it was spewing out that much heat in its breath.

“It’s getting worse and worse.”

He rotates his body and falls.

He sends the Samjeong back and avoids the heads coming from all directions with his Ilsaeng [another sword], striking the torso.

Yamata no Orochi’s massive body faltered, then returned to its place.

‘It’s not easy to break its balance either.’

He had faced many dragons.

He had faced quite a few enemies whose body length was close to several kilometers.

However, Yamata no Orochi showed none of the weaknesses that those guys had.

Is the only way to break through from the front?

‘No.’

That’s impossible.

No matter how much divinity he has accumulated, he is not an enemy that can be broken through from the front.

He is a fledgling who has obtained divinity for less than a year.

The opponent is Japan’s dragon god who has reigned for thousands of years.

“…You know that too, don’t you.”

He landed, leaving long footprints on the ground, and looked up again.

He looked from below and looked from above.

After carefully examining Yamata no Orochi’s appearance, he soon realized that there was a foreign part.

“A reverse scale, huh.”

The dragon’s weakness, the only scale that protrudes in the opposite direction.

However, that is a misconception. The reverse scale is not a weakness but a kind of trigger button.

If you touch the reverse scale, it goes berserk and chases the person who touched it to the end and kills them.

Yamata no Orochi would be the same.

That’s why Yoo Seong-woo aimed for the reverse scale. He lightly kicked off the ground, wet with rain.

Silently, quietly.

Yet quickly.

Yamata no Orochi, who momentarily missed Yoo Seong-woo’s movement, realized where he was aiming and hurriedly moved his head.

But it was too late.

The end of Yoo Seong-woo’s Ilsaeng touched the reverse scale on Yamata no Orochi’s chest.

-Kuaaaaa!

Yamata no Orochi, pierced through the reverse scale, writhed and shook the ground.

Along with it, divinity spread widely in all directions.

Yoo Seong-woo quickly distanced himself and assessed the situation.

It looked like he was in pain, like having stubbed his little toe on the threshold.

“Is there a nerve concentrated in the reverse scale?”

He smirked and kicked off the ground again. He rushed in an instant and struck Yamata no Orochi’s reverse scale again.

Then, the divinity flowing out of Yamata no Orochi became even greater, distorting the space itself and constructing another world.

Even while out of his mind from being hit in the reverse scale, he constructed his own unique world with divinity.

The powerful shockwave that erupted from him pushed Yoo Seong-woo away, and at the same time, his unique world was completed.

[Unique World]

[Eight Dragon Battle Line River Split]

The place where the night sky had been was filled with thunderous dark clouds, and the earth, which had been a mess as if a storm had swept through, was rearranged and eight waterways were in place.

This world was Yamata no Orochi’s myth.

The myth of Yamata no Orochi, who opposed Susano-o, revealed its true nature, making Yamata no Orochi, who had reigned over the past land, even more complete.

-To make me bring out my divine domain! You will not die peacefully!

“You seem to have lost your mind after touching the reverse scale. You eight-headed lizard bastard.”

Yoo Seong-woo muttered and rushed towards Yamata no Orochi.

His world was complete, but he did not hesitate.

He ran against the waterways, wielding his sword.

The sword energy that spread in all directions blocked the heads’ charge, but it could not cover the tail that was suddenly extended.

Yoo Seong-woo, hit by the tail, flew away and bounced several times on the ground like a skipping stone, rolling around noisily.

-Have you not realized anything yet! You can’t break through with this much! What you have to do!

At Yamata no Orochi’s cry, dozens of water dragons soared from the waterways.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had risen to his feet, had to roll awkwardly on the ground to avoid the merciless water dragons’ charge without even having time to collect himself.

Yoo Seong-woo, completely soaked, took a long breath and blinked his eyes.

His mind is hazy.

He should have collapsed long ago, but it would be strange if he didn’t lose his mind since he was forcibly moving his body.

The moment he blinked his eyes again, the merciless water dragons rushed in from all directions.

“Keuk!”

He tried to avoid them somehow, but he was helplessly swept away.

Yoo Seong-woo, who was sucked into the river like that, took a short break.

Ironically, the place where Yamata no Orochi’s eyes could not reach was right inside the river.

-Get a hold of yourself. Didn’t you have some idea in mind when you brought out that guy’s world?

Ilsaeng said.

Unable to answer, Yoo Seong-woo nodded.

Touching Yamata no Orochi’s reverse scale was to lead the situation more favorably.

Going berserk means losing reason, and it would be difficult to win against an enraged beast.

But he forgot that Yamata no Orochi was not just any dragon.

He was briefly excited, but regained his reason with strong self-control and showed his full strength.

Of course, he still had many hidden things…….

He didn’t want to take them out in the battle with Yamata no Orochi.

Secret weapons only show their true value when they are hidden.

He would use the hidden things to cut off Susano-o’s head, so he wanted to overcome it with his own strength alone.

‘Still…….’

It was still a tough enemy without taking anything out.

After all, it seemed like he would have to take out at least one thing to overcome this huge wave.

Yoo Seong-woo slowly swam towards the surface.

He jumped out of the water, stood on the surface with his aura, and glared at Yamata no Orochi.

-Is all the struggling over?

“…One left.”

Yoo Seong-woo sent Ilsaeng back and summoned Samjeong.

Ilsaeng, Igye, Samjeong, Heuksa, Owol, Yungmang…….

Among the six swords he could use, only one had a story that could face Yamata no Orochi.

That is Samjeong.

The Samjeong, which Veronica originally used, was previously named Jamyungyungeon.

Yoo Seong-woo muttered, planting Samjeong on the ground.

“Before I had Samjeong, the user was Veronica. But even before that, there were those who wielded Samjeong.”

The Samjeong, which greedily devoured Yoo Seong-woo’s aura and divinity, shone.

It scatters green light, dyeing the river where he is standing green.

“Before it passed into Veronica’s hands, Samjeong was an item that one family had used as a heirloom for generations.”

Eventually, the entire family died and the lineage was cut off, but all of their memories and experiences remain in Samjeong.

The sword’s record accumulated over a long period of time. Sword Memory.

Abbreviated as SM.

He didn’t bother to say it out loud. He would become a strange person.

“And that family was a family that specialized in ‘dragon hunting’.”

The entire family were dragon hunters and slayers.

In other words, it meant that they were a family that was good at catching dragons. The Samjeong was completed with the memories of such people.

Veronica also achieved the feat of smashing the heads of huge monsters and dragons with Samjeong.

“That means I don’t even know what will pop out here. Be nervous, Yamata no Orochi.”

Yoo Seong-woo unfolded his second unique world. The green light flowing from Samjeong raced through the river, building a new world within Yamata no Orochi’s world.

As the bright green light poured out as if overflowing from the river, Yoo Seong-woo felt vitality overflowing in his exhausted body.

The strange exhilaration and the unpleasantness that had been creaking all flew away.

And soon, the earth rumbled.

An earthquake occurred, the ground cracked, and all the river water was removed through the cracked gaps, and the ground also began to soar.

Yoo Seong-woo smiled and raised his head. What was unfolding before his eyes now was the terrain that dragon hunters liked the most.

A terrain that limits the direction and movement of the dragon’s escape.

Now Yamata no Orochi and Yoo Seong-woo were standing in a straight line,

And on both sides of them were towering cliffs.

A terrain that could be called a grand canyon imprisoned the two.

It is an arena from which they cannot escape until one of them dies.

[Unique World]

[Dragon Hunt Great Canyon]