The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 337

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 336

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully 336

Samjeong (4)

The elf’s experience didn’t feel sped up. It felt like more than ten years had passed…

This meant that the memories with this elf were very important to Samjeong.

Time flows. As the years pass, the elf grows, and the man ages.

Perhaps he was already old, but even though he had reached the realm of Swordmaster, wrinkles deepened on his face, and his energy waned with each passing day.

After several more years, the man was confined to his bed.

His lifespan had run its course. If Yoo Seong-woo hadn’t obtained divinity, he would have faced a similar end.

Watching the end that he might have faced, Yoo Seong-woo felt a strange pang of bitterness.

-Dad, Dad…!

-…Our daughter, [name obscured]… I’m sorry for not being able to spend more time with you.

-Dad, don’t go! Don’t leave me! How am I supposed to live alone without you!

-Daughter… I have already passed everything on to you. When I breathe my last, go to the place I told you about before.

-…….

The elf shed tears and buried her face against the man’s body.

As if she couldn’t bear to see him go, as if she didn’t want him to say any more.

It is very difficult to say goodbye to a loved one, a family member who raised you.

Yoo Seong-woo knew this very well, so he watched without saying a word.

The man then said ‘I love you’ several times before taking his last breath.

In front of the man’s corpse, the elf wept for hours, pouring out her emotions.

After crying for a long time, she finally pulled herself together and began to do what needed to be done.

She buried the man next to the cabin.

The elf buried the man in a sunny spot and spent several days alone in the cabin, then packed her bags to leave.

It would have been okay to live in the forest for the rest of her life, but the man had a will.

His will was that she would one day leave this narrow forest and see more of the world.

The elf’s lifespan is dozens of times that of a human.

He thought it would be a waste to spend that long life in the forest.

She packs her bags. It’s very simple. A few clothes, food, and Samjeong on her back.

She planted the man’s sword in the grave instead of a tombstone.

And so, the elf girl set out on a journey. Her destination was the nearest village.

Yoo Seong-woo moved along as a bystander to the elf’s journey.

***

The Geomgye’s [Sword World’s] battle was slowly coming to an end.

The fully descended deity was neutralized by Medea’s curse, and the other avatars were gradually subdued.

As the center of gravity disappeared, the weak avatars alone could not break through the Divers [fighters] who had trained by drinking Nectar and Elixir like water.

Medea, who was sitting on the captured avatar as if it were a chair, muttered.

“…Hmm, it’s a minor Saint Divinity Temple with nothing much to plunder. It seems like the trouble of going there would be greater.”

Medea tortured the avatar and found out where they came from.

They were relatively unknown avatars from Brazil.

A Saint Divinity Temple based on various legends of the Amazon River.

She didn’t know where they heard the rumors and came in droves, but it seemed they thought they could conquer the Geomgye with their power.

“How ridiculous. How did you think you could take over the Geomgye with such firepower? The master of the Geomgye fought the great hero Heracles [also known as Hercules] one-on-one and defeated him.”

Medea smiled slyly.

Thinking about it again, it seemed like she had really grabbed the right line [made the right choice].

“It seems like the other places have been taken care of, so I don’t need you anymore.”

Medea’s dagger moved swiftly, and at the same time, bugs crawled out of the avatar’s neck and instantly took its life.

Even the remaining avatars lost their will to fight at the gruesome sight and began to retreat.

But Medea and Yowol were not so easy to let go of prey caught in a trap.

“Well, shall we clean up now?”

***

The elf girl’s journey was truly eventful.

Even getting to the nearby village, she encountered dozens of monsters in the forest.

Using the greatsword skills she learned from the man, she slaughtered those monsters and moved forward for several days. Finally, the girl reached a nearby village and entered with a confident stride, chewing on jerky.

Elves were rare, so she received a lot of attention from people, but she had received common sense education from the man, so she was able to look around the village without any problems.

-There are so many amazing things!

Having lived in the forest her whole life, the amazing things she saw in the village for the first time were enough to stimulate her curiosity.

After asking about this and that until she was tired of it, she remembered her original purpose and went straight to the Adventurer’s Guild to get an ID.

“She’s doing well, following the standard procedure.”

Yoo Seong-woo nodded as he watched.

It was like seeing himself in the past. He was a little more desperate… but wouldn’t everyone feel the same excitement of their first adventure?

Anyway, after obtaining an ID from the Adventurer’s Guild, the elf began to work more actively.

Based on her excellent greatsword skills, she quickly gained a foothold in the guild.

She single-handedly defeated monsters that others had to deal with in groups of several people dozens of times.

The elf, who had become a rising star among adventurers, continued her adventures.

She went to other villages on escort missions and searched for people according to the man’s will.

-Are you Dad’s friend, ma’am?

-…I’m not a ma’am, I’m an older sister. I wondered what he was thinking when he sent the letter…

The woman, who appeared to be a mage, treated the elf like her own daughter.

Perhaps she was a longtime friend of the dead man; the mage taught the elf many things that the man had not taught her.

The elf also became very fond of the mage, and soon the two became an inseparable family.

Time flows.

The life of the two, which seemed like it would be happy forever, collapses again.

The elf was a race that lived for hundreds of years, and the mage was a human.

She had lived for over a hundred years with the power of magic, but she could no longer extend her natural lifespan.

The elf once again had the experience of parting with a loved one.

Yoo Seong-woo watched the elf’s life for decades after that.

The first owner of Samjeong died too quickly, and the second owner lived a long life.

The story of the small elf swordswoman carrying a greatsword became widely known, and although the era changed, only the elf did not change.

“Hmm.”

The elf steadily gained experience and reached the realm of Swordmaster, and based on what he had seen, it seemed like she would not die if things continued this way.

So how did Samjeong end up in the Dragon Slayer family, and how did it end up with Veronica?

He still couldn’t grasp it.

The elf’s adventure continued.

Yoo Seong-woo leisurely watched the elf’s long life.

-Aaaaaah─!!

And when the elf went to deal with a monster that attacked the village, she encountered them there.

The same race as the ones who attacked and destroyed her village, dragons.

A burning village, a crying child.

In front of them was a red dragon spewing flames.

The moment she saw the dragon, the elf jumped in without hesitation, rescued the child, and shouted.

-…I remember! My soul remembers you!

The moment she saw the dragon, the anger engraved in her soul surged.

The ones who burned her village.

The emotions of the elf, who had never shown anger before, reacted to Samjeong and dyed it a vivid green.

Although she was too young to speak, the emotions of that time remained deep inside.

It’s them.

She instinctively knew that they were the ones who burned down the village she lived in and killed everyone, including her parents.

The elf challenges the dragon alone.

The power of the World Tree contained in Samjeong does not exist, and all she can use is her own body and the swordsmanship she learned from her father.

She emits a green aura and displays the skills of a Swordmaster.

The dragon fought back by spewing magic and breath at the elf, and their fierce battle continued for hours.

And in the end, it was the elf who claimed victory.

Although she suffered several injuries to her body, the elf beheaded the dragon.

-Hwaaaaaaaa─!!

At the same time as the elf, intoxicated with the joy of victory, let out a roar, rain fell from the sky.

After cooling her head in the rain, she looked around the extinguished village and realized that the child she had saved was looking at her, and approached.

-…….

The child stared up at the elf in the rain.

The elf looked down at the child and felt a sense of kinship.

It’s a child like herself.

She lost everything to the dragon and now has nowhere to turn.

She only vaguely remembers it because it was so long ago, but this child is not even ten years old yet.

-I came here at the request of the guild, but I didn’t know there would be a dragon…

And she ended up in the same situation as herself.

The elf knelt down on one knee, lowered her gaze, and held out her hand to the child.

-If you have nowhere to go, come with me. Like my father did…

The child took the hand that the elf held out.

The child became the elf’s adopted daughter.

Like her father did, the elf passed on everything she knew to the child.

The talented child absorbed the elf’s swordsmanship like a sponge and grew, and soon became a swordswoman who made a name for herself along with the elf.

She was also a swordswoman specializing in ‘Dragon Hunting’.

The elf and the child both had a great grudge against dragons.

Although there was a huge difference in generations, both of their villages were destroyed by dragons, and their families died.

There was enough justification to focus on dragon hunting.

Time flows.

The child became an adult, and the elf took in a few more disciples.

The disciples hunted dragons together and developed their skills, and they soon became known as the Dragon Slayer family.

Because most of them were children with no ties, they used the elf’s name as their family name.

“The Dragon Slayer family was born like this.”

The disciples married each other and had children, and some died while hunting dragons.

Birth and death continued, but only the elf lived firmly at the center with Samjeong.

-…Mother, thank you for everything so far. Thanks to you, I was able to live like a human being.

And again, it’s farewell.

The child became an old woman and could no longer hold a sword, but the elf had not changed at all from the past.

The elf smiled through her tears.

She, who was saying goodbye to her loved one for the third time, said.

-It was very fun thanks to you. My daughter. I will continue to take care of the children.

-…Thank you. Please, take good care of… the children.

The old woman closed her eyes, and the elf held a funeral for her, shedding tears.

After that, the elf came to the cabin where she used to live with her father, wondering what she was thinking.

The cabin had all rotted and collapsed, but the grave next to the cabin was fine except for some overgrown grass.

Kneeling in front of the grave, she muttered to the air.

-Father, am I really doing well? I don’t want to… I don’t want to say goodbye to my loved ones anymore.

Is this really okay?