The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 325

Destiny (4)

The world of Meteor Shower had always been incomplete. It was nearly complete, but it lacked one crucial element, leaving it unfinished.

To complete his world, Meteor Shower had been searching for this final piece.

And he finally found it.

Some say that to reach enlightenment, one must abandon worldly desires and shed their mortal form.

Meteor Shower’s process of completing his world was like an ascetic practice to reach enlightenment.

However, he didn’t abandon his obsessions and desires; instead, he amplified them.

Meteor Shower achieved his divinity through the sword. So, what would change if he were to discard the sword now?

‘Do not fixate on form.’

What he needed to focus on was solely what he could do with the sword.

To pierce and to cleave.

‘My world is…’

The world he completed after overcoming all sorts of hardships and adversities is a ‘world of cleaving.’

Even if it is worn and gaunt from obsessing only over cleaving.

His world is one where the sword he wields never misses, surely cleaving the enemy to advance one step further.

Meteor Shower, having completed his world and obsession, muttered before Destiny.

“—Unique World Deployment.”

The powerful divinity flowing from Meteor Shower transforms into a singular world.

Constructing the earth and creating the sky. The dead, red earth, pierced by countless swords, reveals its form, and a blood-red sunset covers the sky.

This is his incomplete world.

Destiny’s eyes narrow as she faces Meteor Shower’s Unique World.

“With a world of this mere level—!”

“It starts now.”

Meteor Shower swings his life.

Then, sword marks are engraved throughout his world.

He cleaves his own world.

He had done this before when facing the ancient divinity, but this time, he cleaves everything.

The earth, the sky, even the sun.

He cleaves the countless swords embedded in the earth, carving everything into pieces.

Destiny showed a hint of bewilderment at that action.

Unreadable.

She cannot read the future of Meteor Shower before her eyes.

Does a future exist for one who carves up his own world?

Everything is cleaved away.

Scattered into cube-shaped fragments, leaving only pitch-black darkness.

Meteor Shower was a lone, shining, ominous star in a dark world where no stars rise.

His long, red hair fluttering, his red eyes gleaming.

The faint red light emanating from him gathers in one direction, soon drawing a circle.

A red circle rises behind Meteor Shower.

Destiny is involuntarily drawn to the red circle.

Unable to take her eyes off the sight of the birth of a new world, so beautiful.

Meteor Shower said, gripping his life in both hands.

“Destiny? It’s all meaningless. The future changes according to one’s will.”

The shape of the circle distorts.

A portion of the light that escaped the circle stretches horizontally, becoming a ring that surrounds the circle.

Seeing that form, Destiny began to draw out all of her divinity.

Not based on a logical judgment that it would be extremely dangerous to allow that to be completed, but ‘instinct’ overwhelmed her mind.

However, her divinity did not move as she wished.

Having already been trapped in Meteor Shower’s world, the laws were on Meteor Shower’s side.

She tried to spew out a prophecy in haste, but her vocal cords would not move.

The backlash from spouting so many prophecies had come at a bad time.

“A human, a mere human, trying to manipulate the laws of the universe, the truth, at will!”

“What does that matter when there’s something to cleave before my eyes?”

The overlapping shape of several circles behind Meteor Shower is completed.

With a keening sound, something rotating, the completed form absorbs even light, a cosmic phenomenon that ignores the laws of spacetime.

A ‘black hole’ existing in a place unreachable by humans.

[Unique World]

[Dark Annihilation Boundary (黑暗滅絶境界)]

Meteor Shower’s world was such.

A foundation for cleaving what he cannot cleave.

The swung sword does not miss, cleaving only what must be cleaved.

Meteor Shower raised his life above his shoulder. His divinity and Destiny’s divinity no longer function.

The black hole behind him was absorbing all of their divinity.

In a world where everything is dyed in darkness and annihilated, only will moves properly.

Since Destiny had not properly settled into Jeremiah’s body yet, the manifestation of will is weak.

If they were to fight in this situation, it would surely be a certain defeat.

Realizing this, Destiny says.

“If you, if you cleave me, this child will die too!”

“…….”

Meteor Shower takes a step without answering.

Life, shining with brilliant red light, falls in an arc.

It is a clear meteor.

A flowing star shining alone in the dark world cruises towards Destiny, towards the Moirai [the Fates], towards Lachesis [one of the three Fates, who determines the length of a person’s life].

Meteor Shower Style Swordsmanship Second Form—

Falling Star (落星)

Life, fallen like a star, cleaves Destiny. The sword that pierced her right shoulder exits her left side.

Destiny sensed the pain as she looked at the sword that had cleaved her, but nothing happened.

Looking down at her body, there was no trace of being cut.

As she was unharmed, she distorted her face and said.

“Ha, haha… In the end, you couldn’t cleave anything!”

As she said that and began to draw up magic power instead of her absent divinity, Meteor Shower said.

“No, I certainly cleaved it.”

Words filled with conviction, without an ounce of wavering.

And, something began to boil from within Destiny.

What bloomed from within Destiny was a small flame.

A tiny green flame that seemed like it would go out with a single breath.

Destiny sensed an ominous feeling.

She concentrated her internal magic power to block it, but the flame—

The flame that could not be extinguished soon blazed fiercely, increasing in size.

Soon, the fire that burned from within incinerated even Destiny’s divinity and soul.

Only then did she realize what Meteor Shower had cleaved.

“How, how…! You cleaved the gap between the body and soul……!”

Unbelievable.

There’s no way that’s possible.

Since the soul had not completely settled into the body yet, he had cleaved all the connections before it could settle.

Because of that, Jeremiah’s remaining consciousness surfaced and began to push out the intruder who had taken over her body.

It’s an absurd divine skill.

Even for someone who achieved divinity through the sword, there’s no way this is possible.

Cleave the gap between the body and soul?

He cleaved a conceptual space that cannot be seen or felt without divinity.

Destiny, cleaved by a miraculous sword strike, screamed, gnashing her teeth.

“I reject, I reject! I reject! Prophecy does not err! You will die tragically, and I will survive……!”

Meteor Shower swings his sword again.

Destiny’s voice is completely erased before his sword.

Meteor Shower, who even cleaved away the last prophecy with his sword, says.

“Future spoilers are no fun.”

Except for lottery numbers, that is.

If you live knowing when you will die, the days would be truly boring.

Soon, Destiny’s body is engulfed in green flames.

Destiny writhed in pain, scratching her face with both hands, and reason was lost from her eyes.

After the green flames swept through her entire body and disappeared, the light returned to the eyes that had lost their light.

“…Ugh.”

Meteor Shower, who caught the staggering Destiny, no, the returned Jeremiah, said.

“Rest.”

Since the soul and body were separated and then reunited, the shock must be immense.

Jeremiah, confirming Meteor Shower’s face, entrusted herself to him and fell asleep, and Meteor Shower hugged her and closed his eyes.

“…Destiny’s divinity, huh.”

It was a distinctly different feeling from the divinities he had absorbed so far.

Their divinity, which judged the past, present, and future, was something built up over a very long time.

Unlike Heracles and Susanoo [a god in Japanese mythology], it seemed to be a divinity focused on wisdom rather than combat.

Living in the present through the past and predicting the future, so it might not be wrong.

Meteor Shower accepted some of Destiny’s divinity and stored the rest in the Eight Stars.

It was an amount that was too much to accept all at once right now.

Then, he looked around his Unique World that he had deployed for the first time and withdrew it with a bitter expression.

After his world disappeared, what appeared was the usual plain.

The chief gods of Olympus, having confirmed the battle results, hid their figures, and Meteor Shower fell backward as he held Jeremiah in his arms.

“I’m going to die.”

Muttering so with a deathly pale face, Meteor Shower soon fell asleep.

***

How long had he slept?

Meteor Shower, who slowly opened his eyes, first checked his physical condition and then looked around.

The place where he was lying was a place with a white ceiling engraved with various patterns.

He closed his eyes to recall what had happened after he fell asleep in the unfamiliar ceiling.

What vaguely came to mind was that someone had moved him and Jeremiah.

Seeing that the ceiling was pure white, it didn’t seem like the underworld, so it must be one of the temples in Olympus.

“Are you awake?”

Opening his eyes again at the voice he heard and turning his head, Medea, who had bandages wrapped all over her body, was there.

On the bed in the direction she was in, Jeremiah was fast asleep.

As Meteor Shower tried to get up, she stopped him.

“Lie down more. They said there’s no place on your body that’s unscathed. It’s a miracle you’ve already woken up.”

“How long have I been lying down, though?”

“About half a day now? Asclepius [the Greek god of medicine] said you wouldn’t be able to get up for two days. It’s an amazing recovery.”

Asclepius.

Wasn’t he the god of medicine who appears in Greek mythology?

The son of Apollo with medical skills that could even revive the dead.

The unfortunate doctor who was struck by Zeus’s lightning and died after listening to Artemis and saving a person.

“Hmm, come to think of it, what happened to Artemis? It seemed like the two of them were fighting hard.”

“I don’t know. I think Zeus took her away? I haven’t seen her since you fell.”

“I see. How long did they say it would take for Jeremiah to wake up?”

“It seems like there’s some damage to her soul, so they say it will take some time. But don’t you ask about my condition?”

“You look perfectly fine at a glance, so what.”

As Meteor Shower said with a smirk, Medea let out a burst of laughter as if she was dumbfounded.

“Yeah, well, if nothing’s wrong…….”

Since things seemed to be resolved, Meteor Shower turned around and tried to go back to sleep.

Medea laughed softly and said to him as he was about to fall asleep again.

“Get plenty of rest. Because once you wake up, you’ll have to go to another brutal fight.”

“…Brutal fight?”

What’s going on again?

It was so hard to cleave Destiny, do I have to fight again as soon as it’s over?

As Meteor Shower turned his body back and stared at Medea, narrowing his eyes, she said with a smile.

“Zeus wants to see you in person.”

Since he had accomplished his goal.

It was time to go see the supreme being of Olympus.