The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 347

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 346

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully 346

For Peace (2)

The deeper they ventured into the cave, the more overpowering the stench of blood became.

It felt as though their sense of smell was being overwhelmed.

In the darkness, the flashes of their skills and the crimson spray were all they could make out.

Guided by the small light conjured by Yoo Ji-woo, they pressed onward.

The number of cultists increased with their progress, and the monsters grew stronger.

Just as they were growing accustomed to the bizarre creatures they had never encountered before,

a powerful surge of magical energy pulsed from the depths of the cave.

“Kugh!”

“What kind of magical reaction is this…?!”

“They said there was a bishop-level one; it must be true! This is getting interesting!”

The immense magical power momentarily froze everyone in place.

But only for a moment, before they resumed their advance. They had come too far to turn back, and this was somewhat expected.

“Seven monsters in the front! Six humans! Baek Woo-hyun and Hong Seo-hwa, take on the monsters! The other two, handle the humans!”

Baek Woo-hyun and Hong Seo-hwa, whose swordsmanship was particularly effective against monsters, took the lead, while Choi A-yeon and Yoo Ji-woo provided backup and assassinated key targets.

Veronica took overall command. The enemies were still too weak to warrant her direct intervention.

Reaching what appeared to be the cave’s center, they discovered a ritual of the Blood God Cult in progress.

Dozens of Blood God Cult priests and hundreds of monsters covered in gruesome bite marks were present.

Scattered bones and corpses littered the ground around them.

Everyone gasped at the horrific sight.

Despite their experience, the scene before them was utterly appalling, almost surreal.

Was this the kind of scene Yoo Seong-woo had witnessed?

And the things they had done.

Veronica muttered.

“Looks like we’re a little late. The summoning ritual is already underway…”

“Do we retreat?”

“No. We stop them here! It’s more dangerous to let that thing out!”

The priests of the Blood God Cult offered their bodies as the final component of the ritual.

They sliced open their chests with daggers, tore out their hearts, and threw them into the flames at the center of the magic circle.

As their hearts burned, the bishop of the Blood God Cult, who was presiding over the ritual, shouted with a grotesque laugh.

“Ah, come! Come! Servant of the God Batus! Become one with me!”

The magic circle emitted an ominous light, and the circle, drawn with the blood of humans and monsters, spun rapidly, spewing out a bizarre form.

Soon, the entity that emerged from the magic circle was something that should not exist in this world.

Dozens of eyes and limbs.

The massive mouth seemed capable of swallowing mountains.

It devoured the bishop in one gulp and spoke in a bizarre voice.

“Still… insufficient.”

And its eyes turned to those who were still standing.

“I’m… hungry.”

The massive body moved.

Simultaneously, numerous arms stretched out, moving at great speed to seize the five of them.

“Hold it back! I’ll take care of it!”

A worthy opponent having appeared, Veronica smiled and launched herself forward.

Reaching the ceiling of the cave in an instant, she planted both feet firmly.

“Now!”

At Veronica’s shout, the four of them rushed in unison, striking at the arms of the servant summoned by the Blood God Cult.

In the cave filled with lightning, flames, magic, and shadows, Veronica emitted a brilliant aura.

“Dieeeeeeeeeee─!!”

Kicking off the ceiling, she slashed her sword.

A strike of purple aura descended upon the servant.

However, Veronica’s attack failed to pierce it. Hundreds of hardened hands had converged to defend it.

She had intended to finish it in one blow, but it was blocked as if mocking her. Veronica clicked her tongue and examined its form after landing on the ground.

“If it’s a servant of the Blood God, it’s equivalent to a demigod! One of the seven servants of the Blood God, Batus! Judging by its form, it’s the fourth, Adoras! Watch out for the movement of its arms and its magic eyes!”

“What kind of magic eyes are they?!”

“Records say it shoots light…!”

No sooner had Veronica spoken than Batus’s servant, Adoras, indiscriminately fired beams from hundreds of eyes.

High-temperature heat rays that melted even rocks raced through the cave.

“Th, this is crazy!”

“What is this!”

Everyone was busy defending.

In this illusion that even reproduced the attacks of a demigod, getting hit by such attacks would not end with just a few holes in their bodies.

Veronica blocked the ray with the flat of her sword, saw the scorch marks, and said.

“Crap! I borrowed this!”

“It’s an illusion, so it doesn’t matter! Just do something about that thing!”

“Ah! That’s right!”

“What do you mean, ‘Ah! That’s right!’?!”

Veronica rushed in again.

Adoras, standing before her, was an existence that even the Yoo Seong-woo of the modern era would have difficulty facing.

The servant of an evil god summoned by the bishop of the Blood God Cult through numerous human sacrifices.

Veronica had to defeat the being that even the Yoo Seong-woo of the past had struggled to defeat, right here and now.

To prove her growth.

And for the sake of others.

That’s why Yoo Seong-woo must have called her here.

It was time for proof.

“Hoo-eup─!”

Veronica took a deep breath, gripped her sword firmly with both hands, and kicked off the ground again.

Dodging the rays pouring down like rain, she advanced towards Adoras.

Spinning her body in the air, she knocked away the hands that came with the rays, and then ran across them.

“Focus on defense! I’ll take care of the attack myself!”

For the four of them, all they could do was hold Adoras back.

Judging that, Veronica unleashed her aura from her entire body and swung her sword at Adoras.

The purple sword energy cut through the air and struck Adoras’s body.

But even the sword energy made of aura only made it falter for a moment, not stopping it.

“Hungry, hungry, I’m hungry─!!”

“Shut up! You pig bastard!”

Veronica retorted to Adoras’s mumbling, which seemed to shake her mind, and was already standing on top of its head.

“Heuaaaaaaaaaaa─!!”

And then came a powerful strike.

The purple sword, raised high above her head, fell in a straight line.

Like a shooting star.

With a roar that shook the entire cave, dust soared, and Adoras’s rays were fired again.

The red heat rays scraped across the entire cave, melting everything, and it began to shake as if it would collapse soon.

“Get out of here now─!!”

Veronica shouted urgently and ran, along with the four others, back the way they had come.

It was easy to get out because it was a single path, and as Veronica was the last to jump out of the cave, it completely collapsed.

Everyone was panting and staring at the collapsed cave, probably because they had run at full speed for several kilometers.

“Hu, huff, huff……”

“I, is it over with this? Did it die with the collapse?”

“No way! I’ve caught some of those other things, and they don’t die easily.”

Veronica said with a bright smile. Contrary to her expression, the others looked like they were about to die.

They were definitely learning a lot in this world, but at this rate, they were really going to die.

Veronica, who had been smiling, erased her smile and looked in the direction of the cave.

“It’s coming.”

With her muttering, the cliff burst open.

The cave they were in collapsed, and a monster rose from the rubble and flesh, swinging its limbs.

It was Batus’s servant, Adoras.

Its form was even larger than before, and it rolled its eyes, swinging its limbs.

It chewed on the collapsed cliff with its huge mouth, searching for the small humans that had been hitting it.

“There you are.”

“Persistent bastard.”

Veronica muttered lowly and said to the four.

“Get away. You’ll get caught up in it.”

A voice different from usual.

With a murderous voice, Veronica glared at Adoras and slowly began to gather her energy.

This was a familiar battlefield.

The highlands near the camp.

A land of death where humans did not live and only monsters thrived.

A cold wind blew.

Adoras, seen under the bright sky rather than in the dark cave, looked even more threatening.

“Can you do it?”

No, you have to.

This was also an opportunity. As Yoo Seong-woo always said, there might come a time when she would have to face a god alone.

If she couldn’t handle that demigod, a real god was out of the question.

Due to Adoras’s rampage, monsters from the area were popping out from everywhere.

Adoras stretched out hundreds of hands, grabbed the monsters, and threw them all into its mouth.

Adoras was a servant of the evil god Batus, symbolizing ‘gluttony,’ devouring everything.

Devouring everything to make it its driving force, blood energy.

If it kept eating like that, an uncontrollable monster would be born.

The Blood God Cult must have put a lot of effort into summoning it for a long time.

They were too late.

“Those church bastards, if only they had found them sooner and dealt with them.”

This was a real cleanup.

The church bastards wanted her to handle what they couldn’t catch, so they wouldn’t be listed as religious achievements.

The expedition team had done quite a few of those things.

Later on, they would just cut down anything that blocked their path, regardless of achievements.

“Hoo……”

Veronica took a long breath, and her eyes turned a deep purple.

The aura she had unleashed was gathered back into her body, condensed tightly, and increased the degree of strengthening of her body.

Convergence and divergence.

The method of operating aura that she had learned from Yoo Seong-woo.

But that alone was not enough to defeat that monster, so it was time to use her own method of operation.

“Hoo, hoo, hoo.”

She was panting from operating a large amount of aura.

But on the contrary, her mind became clearer, and strength began to overflow from her entire body.

Full-body aura enhancement technique.

An enhanced version of the aura armor that Yoo Seong-woo occasionally showed, a clue for Veronica to move further forward.

The aura raced through the blood vessels of her entire body at a rapid pace.

The moment all her senses were amplified, Veronica staggered for a moment at the feeling she was experiencing for the first time and muttered.

“Still not enough……”

Not enough.

It was far from enough.

It was not enough to defeat that monster with this, and it was far from enough to cut down a god.

Then, she had to take a step further from the general full-body aura enhancement technique.

As she slowly closed her eyes, only she remained in her world.

In the world where she was alone, she fiddled with the form of the aura, and soon reached one form that came to mind.

The monster she had faced countless times.

Standing at the pinnacle of life, born stronger than any other species and reigning supreme.

She recalled the form that was considered closer to God than anyone else, and her aura fluctuated and changed its form.

The purple aura that had simply been surrounding her body became a form befitting her history and experience.

Long horns extending from her temples, small wings of skin, and a tail.

The imitation of living things did not stop there. The reason they were strong started from separate organs.

And soon, she completed the form.

The purple heart throbbing in her chest perfectly reproduced the hearts of dragons.

Her pupils, which slowly opened, were torn vertically, revealing that they were dragon eyes.

She, who had reproduced the form of a dragon with aura, took a long breath and.

“Hua……”

Muttered quietly.

“You’ve waited a long time. Let’s start again.”

I won’t lose this time.