The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 286

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – 285

Susanoo-no-Mikoto (4)

What is the god Susanoo made of?

From the beginning, he was a god of Takamagahara [the High Celestial Plain, the realm of the gods in Japanese mythology], a military deity with excellent martial prowess who governed the sea.

Along with that, he was falsely accused of being a god created for political reasons, but in modern society, his divinity was genuine.

The sun, the moon, and the sea.

Since Japan is an island nation, the existence of the sea is no different from the sun or the moon.

So, Yu Seong-woo was essentially dealing with nature itself.

A human fighting against nature.

“Kuaaaaaah!”

With Yu Seong-woo’s powerful shout, Ilseong [his sword] falls vertically.

A massive red aura erupts from the sword, cleaving the world.

From the sky to the earth.

From head to toe.

The sword strike that bisects the world vertically shatters Susanoo’s storm.

As if proving that such a mere tempest could not stop him.

As the storm splits in half, taking the space with it, Susanoo summons another storm.

With the force to blow away an entire island.

But Yu Seong-woo wields his sword repeatedly, splitting the storm.

He shows his will, not backing down an inch, declaring that his sword will not be broken by such a storm.

“A mere human who hasn’t even fully achieved divinity! How dare you try to match me, one of the Three Great Calamities!”

Yu Seong-woo does not answer, silently wielding his sword.

He pours all his focus into wielding the sword.

Even though he absorbed the divinity of Yamata no Orochi [an eight-headed serpent in Japanese mythology], he didn’t absorb it all, and the total amount of divinity is still small.

For him, facing Susanoo head-on is akin to a precarious tightrope walk.

A thrilling tightrope walk where his head could be blown off with a single mistake.

But it was something he had always done.

“Hoo-eup!”

He takes a short breath, splitting the approaching storm into several streams.

The split storms do not stop but fly towards Yu Seong-woo on different trajectories.

Yu Seong-woo steps forward.

Fearlessly entering the storm, he squeezes his body into a tiny gap.

Then, he extends his sword.

He plunges his sword into the storm, guiding the storm’s flow to make it his own.

Susanoo tries to take back the storm that had its control stolen, but Yu Seong-woo instead pulls the storm further towards him, increasing its size.

Repeating the rotation, he soon controls all the storms with his sword and unleashes it towards Susanoo.

Exploding Storm Torrent Sword.

A sword technique that manipulates storms.

A sword technique that can only be used in special environments, but Susanoo has created a very suitable environment.

The storm gathered by Yu Seong-woo becomes an even more intense storm than the one Susanoo unleashed, tearing through the air as it heads towards Susanoo.

Susanoo, engulfed in the storm-formed blade, scatters blood from his entire body and flies backward.

“Keuhuk!”

He even hears a scream for the first time.

His face, buried in the ground and rolling over a few times, is filled with anger. Embarrassment and shame at being pushed back in his specialty.

Those things surface, distorting his face.

Yu Seong-woo glances at Susanoo and sneers.

“The god of storms, you say… I seem to handle it better.”

At his mockery, steam rises from Susanoo’s entire body.

The numerous wounds heal in an instant, and he grits his teeth, saying.

“I shouldn’t have held back. It’s a waste to use it on the likes of you…”

As Susanoo says that, he raises his right hand high, and a beam of light falls from the sky.

What fell in front of him and stuck in the ground was a sword.

The sword, with divinity rising like a heat haze, possessed tremendous power in itself.

‘Is that the Ame-no-Habakiri [a divine sword in Japanese mythology] that Shuten-doji [a mythical oni or demon leader] mentioned?’

The divine sword that Izanagi [a creator deity in Japanese mythology], the father of Japanese gods, gave to Susanoo.

It is said that Susanoo used this sword to behead and kill Yamata no Orochi.

A god-slaying sword containing enough divinity to kill a god.

In a way, it is a weapon equivalent to the Mistilteinn [the mistletoe arrow that killed Baldr in Norse mythology] from Norse mythology or the Spear of Longinus [the spear that pierced Jesus Christ in Christian tradition] that killed Jesus.

“I like that sword.”

As Yu Seong-woo muttered and Susanoo drew his sword, his divinity amplified in an instant.

The amplified divinity instantly distorts space, rewriting the laws of the world.

Yu Seong-woo looked down at his feet at the splashing sensation.

Seawater was already splashing at his feet.

It’s the same as with Yamata no Orochi.

The only difference is that Yamata no Orochi was river water, and Susanoo is seawater.

The moment the sea god and military deity, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, decided to reveal his full power.

“I’ll kill you!”

With Susanoo’s cry, the shallow sea surged, and waves crashed.

The sharp waves, cutting down trees as they approached, swallowed the earth.

Yu Seong-woo wields his sword to split the waves and blocks Susanoo’s sword, which stabs through the waves.

“Keuk!”

The tremendous gap that can be felt just by blocking.

Susanoo without the divine sword and Susanoo with the divine sword were completely different gods.

“That damn item!”

Yu Seong-woo frowned, hastily retreating and checking his tingling wrist.

Is his compatibility with the sword good?

It’s exceeding the range he expected.

He had been simulating, assuming that the guy would have become stronger over the millennia.

‘…But it’s not entirely unhelpful.’

The way he held and wielded the sword, which he saw in the battle with Yamata no Orochi.

The steps and minor habits have not changed.

It’s good even if only his strength has become stronger.

The approaching Susanoo wields his sword. As befitting a military deity, he has learned some swordsmanship.

The flowing curve of the sword, as fierce and graceful as a wave, approaches, drawing through the air.

But Yu Seong-woo could clearly see his sword path.

If he is a god who governs the sea, storms, and armies.

Yu Seong-woo was a human who reached divinity solely through achievements in swordsmanship.

Susanoo’s swordsmanship that he saw in the battle with Yamata no Orochi.

Yu Seong-woo knows them all inside and out. The moment his eyes turn, he takes a step.

“Here.”

The only step that can break away from Susanoo’s sword path and penetrate.

Ame-no-Habakiri scrapes against Ilseong’s sword and deflects it.

And then Yu Seong-woo’s strike follows.

Compressing his aura to the extreme, a single move that slashes upwards from below.

However, Yu Seong-woo’s sword only scratches Susanoo’s skin and cuts through the air.

The moment the sword was swung, Susanoo pulled himself away with the seawater, creating distance.

“You bastard!”

“Too bad.”

Yu Seong-woo takes two steps back, grabs Ilseong with both hands, and takes a stance.

Susanoo grits his teeth, clenching the hand holding the sword.

“Hoo.”

Yu Seong-woo, who took a short breath, launched an offensive this time.

Kicking off the seawater that had risen to his knees, he reaches out his hand.

He scoops up the seawater with Ilseong to obscure his vision and cuts down Susanoo beyond the scooped-up seawater.

But what was there was only a water-formed figure of Susanoo.

The real one was falling from above.

Sea God Style

Lower Wave

A sharp wave falling from above.

Yu Seong-woo jumped back to avoid it, but Susanoo’s swordsmanship continued.

Sea God Style

Left Wave

The tip of Ame-no-Habakiri chases Yu Seong-woo.

The wave unnaturally bends and swirls. The artificial ferocity of nature created to kill him.

Susanoo smiled, thinking that Yu Seong-woo would not be able to block it.

Yu Seong-woo presented his swordsmanship, stepping forward and thrusting his sword forward as soon as he landed.

Someday, in the past.

He unfolds the ‘Moonlit Sea Sword’ that he taught to his younger brother, Yu Ji-woo.

A gentle sword that is both noble and unwavering, like the moon floating on the sea.

He strikes Susanoo’s wave with the end of Ilseong, drawing a soft circle.

So that the seawater can flow as he intends.

Even if Susanoo is superior in divinity and power, extreme softness can control brute force.

‘My technique is superior.’

As if saying that, Yu Seong-woo effortlessly deflects Susanoo’s swordsmanship and slams Ilseong into the ground.

Then, the seawater rippled in all directions before becoming calm.

The moon rises.

A noble moon rises above the sea.

Sea fog and moon jellyfish reveal themselves, taking control of the area and seizing control of the sea.

Yu Seong-woo, standing in the center of the sea he had taken from Susanoo, drew Ilseong again and took a stance.

“Try again. Whether your wave can penetrate my sword.”

“You son of a bitch! I am the Sea God! Do you think you can handle the storm of the deep sea with such a shallow sea!”

“Whether I am shallow or you are shallow. We’ll have to see.”

Susanoo, reaching the end of his anger, gathers his divinity and creates a tsunami.

Covered by the tsunami that surged from behind him, he reveals a large body made of water.

Susanoo, far exceeding the size of a building, wields his sword.

The sword was also close to the size of an average building. Too huge to be called a sword.

“So, you’re coming out like that.”

Yu Seong-woo smirked and put strength into his legs.

He lifts his sea with the rotational force reaching from the force gathered from the soles of his feet to his knees, from his knees to his pelvis, waist, shoulders, and arms.

As Ilseong scrapes the shallow sea and slashes it up into the sky, a reverse tornado rises along the tip of the sword.

Moonlit Sea Sword

Tornado – Reverse

The sharp tip of the cone-shaped vortex stops Susanoo’s sword.

-As if!

However, Susanoo’s heavy sword easily shatters the tornado.

But that was exactly what Yu Seong-woo was aiming for.

The moment Susanoo’s gaze was focused on the tornado, he lightly stepped on the water droplets filling the area and leaped.

Escaping from Susanoo’s gaze, he headed higher than the guy’s head and grabbed his sword.

Susanoo’s head was lifted a beat late.

He quickly tried to lift his sword upwards, but it was slow because of its huge size.

In the air, Yu Seong-woo fell straight down and swung his sword.

Moonlit Sea Sword

Falling Moon

The large full moon hanging on the end of his sword falls.

The Ilseong, which slashed down in a gentle curve, touches Susanoo’s sword.

At that moment, Susanoo’s sword exploded, and seawater scattered in all directions.

“Not yet!”

Yu Seong-woo rotated once more.

Along with his movement, the full moon rotated in a curve with the end of the sword to break Susanoo’s head.

At the same time as the full moon burst Susanoo’s head, a small body popped out from inside and crashed to the ground.

But as if that wasn’t enough, he immediately got up and raised his sword.

“I will definitely, definitely kill you…!”

However, Susanoo couldn’t continue his words and fell backward as he was, not getting up.

Yu Seong-woo muttered involuntarily as he looked at the scene.

“Did I get him?”

There’s no way.