The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 350

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 349

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace 349

For Peace (5)

“Where did you learn the Hae Wol Sword? And where did you learn magic?”

Before crossing swords, Yoo Seong-woo asked Yoo Ji-woo.

She pondered what to answer. She learned the Hae Wol Sword from Yoo Seong-woo, and magic from the Magic Tower.

Both were things not easily learned on this continent.

The Hae Wol Sword was a practical swordsmanship known to few, and magic was an advanced skill that only nobles could learn.

Yoo Ji-woo, who had mastered both, was undoubtedly an extremely alien being.

After considering her options, she opened her mouth. She had decided to tell the truth.

“I learned the Hae Wol Sword from my brother, and I taught myself magic.”

“You have a great brother. It doesn’t seem like you’ve been learning the Hae Wol Sword for very long… but your skill is decent.”

“The brother who taught me was very skilled.”

*I trained so much; there was no way my skill wouldn’t improve.*

At least for the Hae Wol Sword, she had trained every single day.

“Then let’s begin. You can use any means necessary. Show me everything you have.”

“……Hoo. Then I’ll go.”

Yoo Ji-woo gathered her magic power.

The opponent is Yoo Seong-woo. Although he is weaker than he will be, there is no doubt that she cannot win even if she gives her all.

So, from the start, with all her power.

Powerful magic swirled around her. The amount of magic power she had increased through training and consuming all sorts of elixirs was comparable to that of a great mage.

“Hoo.”

Yoo Seong-woo smiled slightly at the magic power emanating from Yoo Ji-woo.

He also took a stance, preparing to receive Yoo Ji-woo’s sword.

Like when she had her first sparring match, he created a shallow sea with magic. Ripples formed in the sea of magic around her, and a moon made of magic circles rose.

Yoo Ji-woo, with the rising full moon behind her, slowly drew a curve with her sword.

The beautiful arc drawn in the air with magic was the essence of magic, and the Hae Wol Sword unfolded with the sword.

The sight revealed before Yoo Seong-woo’s eyes was a small moon floating on a small sea.

The magic circle in the shape of the moon unfolded as Yoo Ji-woo’s sword pointed towards him, pouring out countless colorful spells.

“Not bad. But…….”

The swordsmanship that Yoo Seong-woo unfolded against Yoo Ji-woo was the same swordsmanship as hers, the Hae Wol Sword.

However, the Hae Wol Sword he unfolded was very different from Yoo Ji-woo’s.

Her Hae Wol Sword had a calm, shallow sea and a small full moon, but Yoo Seong-woo’s Hae Wol Sword was heavier.

A deep sea where the bottom could not be seen, and what rose was a giant full moon.

The brightly rising moon seemed to swallow the entire world as it looked down upon it.

In his sea, rough waves blew. As if representing his inner world, fierce waves crashed in various places on the surface.

Yoo Ji-woo was momentarily taken aback by the scenery that was so different from the Hae Wol Sword Yoo Seong-woo had first shown her.

Her sword was extended towards Yoo Seong-woo, and the tip of the sword falling with magic moved as if to kill him.

However, as Yoo Seong-woo brandished his sword, everything changed course as if sucked into the sword.

The changed trajectory of her sword strikes and magic was sucked into the wave created by Yoo Seong-woo and disappeared.

It was a divine skill close to the essence of the Hae Wol Sword.

More fierce and powerful than Yoo Ji-woo’s Hae Wol Sword. The vast sea that Yoo Seong-woo unfolded made her sea seem like ‘nothing’.

Yoo Seong-woo’s sword was brandished again. The semicircle he drew first, followed by the semicircle he brandished in reverse, instantly collapsed Yoo Ji-woo’s sea with rough waves.

Different, so different.

The way he taught and the atmosphere itself were too different from when he first taught her.

She was flustered and didn’t know what to do when the technique she unfolded disappeared in an instant.

“Try again. You can’t call that the Hae Wol Sword.”

“큭……!”

At Yoo Seong-woo’s strict words, Yoo Ji-woo unfolded the Hae Wol Sword again.

Her sword tip drew a beautiful arc again, and the moon floated on the sea of magic.

The brightly rising moon emitted a strong light, threatening Yoo Seong-woo’s sea, but his sea was firm as if that was not enough.

Rather, it began to drive out Yoo Ji-woo’s sea with an even brighter light.

Yoo Ji-woo tried to resist with her sea, but she was helplessly swept away by the waves under the moonlight that Yoo Seong-woo created.

Her body fell backward.

She rolled on the floor a few times as if swept away by the waves before she could get up.

“헉, 허억…….”

Her heart is beating fast, and she is out of breath.

Her whole body was drenched in cold sweat as if she had emerged from the deep sea.

However, Yoo Seong-woo did not give her a chance to catch her breath.

“Stand up. With that Hae Wol Sword, you won’t be able to withstand the demon’s [creatures from another dimension] attack. Maybe just once or twice.”

“Jo, just a little rest.”

“Do you think the demons will let you rest on the battlefield? If you can’t stand up, you’re the one who dies. Show some grit.”

At his words, Yoo Ji-woo clenched her teeth and stood up.

Then she grabbed her sword again and unfolded the Hae Wol Sword.

A shallow sea and a moon floated again. Yoo Ji-woo circulated her magic power as quickly as possible, unfolded her magic, and moved her sword.

The magic that unfolded along her sword poured towards Yoo Seong-woo, drawing countless shooting stars on the sea.

Yoo Seong-woo, watching the magic star cluster, took a deep breath and tapped the floor with the tip of his sword.

At the same time, ripples arose around him, and the vast sea swallowed even Yoo Ji-woo’s sea.

Blinking her eyes, it was a sea full of fierce waves.

Yoo Ji-woo, submerged up to her knees, could see Yoo Seong-woo standing nobly alone amidst the raging waves, and she could see the chillingly beautiful full moon rising above him.

Yoo Seong-woo said.

“The Hae Wol Sword… is not just a swordsmanship created by imitating the sea and the moon. Just as the climate of the sea surrounding the continent is different, the seas that people hold within are all different. Your own sea. The Hae Wol Sword is completed by obtaining that.”

“My own sea?”

“Yes. Your own sea. Not just a sea that is only calm, but sometimes fierce, sometimes calm, a sea based on your inner world. By obtaining it, the Hae Wol Sword is completed.”

Yoo Seong-woo tapped the floor again with his sword, and the fiercely raging waves calmed down as if by magic.

Yoo Seong-woo, standing on the sea where only small ripples were, held his sword high, and the full moon rising behind him gradually changed shape and became a crescent moon.

“The strength of the Hae Wol Sword lies in flexibility. Sometimes intense, sometimes calm. The sea is the source and mother of all living things, and a place with countless mysteries. It’s a swordsmanship modeled after such a sea, so it wouldn’t be flexible enough.”

Yoo Seong-woo laid it out in detail, but in the end, it was no different from saying, ‘Your Hae Wol Sword is terrible.’

It looked that way to Yoo Ji-woo too. The difference in size between her sea and his was enormous, and the depth was different.

It wouldn’t be strange if all she could do was a fragment of the Hae Wol Sword. A calm sea and a full moon drawn with a magic circle.

That was all.

“Put meaning into the Hae Wol Sword. What is your sea, what is the rising moon? You have to put will and meaning into the sword, not just imitating it, to move on to the next level.”

Saying that, Yoo Seong-woo took a stance, the stopped waves raged again, and the crescent moon turned into a full moon.

He unfolded the Hae Wol Sword in slow motion and said.

“Let’s continue the lesson. Take your sword. And try to kill me.”

***

Swordsmanship lessons taking place throughout the Sword Spirit Expedition camp.

Lightning and flames soared in various places, and in one place, there was a discussion about human vital points.

Two people were watching Yoo Seong-woo and Yoo Ji-woo soaking the surroundings with their magic power from a distance.

“Captain, can’t I really go again? 이잉 이잉 [sound of whining].”

“How many times do I have to tell you that you can’t? And you used quite a lot of divine power to embody Adoras. If another guy like that comes out, the illusion will be broken.”

“But the things that will happen next are just as big, right? Are you okay?”

“It wasn’t Adoras-level. In my memory.”

Yoo Seong-woo sat on the hill, staring blankly at the camp.

Everyone seemed to be finding a teacher and learning well on their own. Seeing that people who were perfect for each other were attached, do swordsmen with similar tendencies attract each other like magnets?

Veronica, who was lying down, got up and walked over and lay down on Yoo Seong-woo’s thigh.

He tried to push Veronica’s head away, but then chuckled and ruffled her hair.

Then he gently stroked her hair and said.

“How was it facing Adoras? It seems like you realized something.”

“…That level is now a piece of cake.”

“Did you organize what I told you to organize?”

“Ha, I’m doing it! The captain knows how difficult it is to organize swordsmanship, right? It’s something that would take a lifetime.”

That was true for some people.

There were swordsmen who spent their entire lives organizing the swordsmanship they created.

Yoo Seong-woo covered Veronica’s face with his palm and said.

“You were also the intuitive type. A fool type who can’t understand at all if you explain it with theory.”

“우부부부부붑 우부부부부붑 [muffled sounds].”

“Well, I didn’t expect much. Practice so you can use it freely in actual combat. It was a pretty decent technique.”

“에퉤퉤퉤 에퉤퉤퉤 [sound of spitting].”

Veronica, removing Yoo Seong-woo’s hand, jumped up from her seat, and, wanting to express that she was sulking, turned her head and sat on Yoo Seong-woo’s leg.

He was laughing in disbelief, but he placed his chin on top of her crown and continued.

“It’ll start soon. Let’s just watch from here to see how well they navigate it. We won’t be able to see it anyway.”

“Do I have to see that sight again?”

“I’ll let you out if you don’t want to see it.”

“No. I want to be with the captain.”

Veronica said that and snuggled into Yoo Seong-woo’s arms.

And, time flows.

After enough time has passed for the four swordsmen in the camp to have their swordsmanship rapidly increased.

Suddenly, the clear sky began to dye red.

The expedition members who saw the blood-red sky hurriedly shouted something and rang the magic alarm.

땡땡땡땡땡땡─ 땡땡땡땡땡땡─ [sound of alarm]

The alarm sound announcing an emergency.