The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 37

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 37

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace 37

Sword Demon (3)

There was a man who trained with the sword.

The man, who had been improving his skills with steady diligence, suddenly ran into a wall.

He felt like he could advance to a higher level, but he couldn’t.

He needed to take one step forward, but he couldn’t.

“Why, why! Why!”

He resented his lack of talent.

He resented that he didn’t have the talent to take just one step forward, that he didn’t have the strength to take even a single step.

As he resented and resented, a sword appeared before him.

The form of the sword, which suddenly appeared, was strange.

It was long, but it had no guard [the part of the hilt that protects the hand], and the blade had countless cracks.

It looked as if it would break at any moment, but it was a sword that looked more solid than anything else.

The sword whispered.

To grab me.

To grab its hilt and cut down everything that stood in the way.

The man couldn’t resist the temptation and eventually grabbed the sword.

After that, it was a series of victories. He surpassed the wall and gained the skill and power to be called a Swordmaster.

He cut down everything that stood in his way.

At first, he enjoyed his improved skills and increased power, but soon they turned into murderous intent.

If there was anything blocking his path, he would cut it down, no matter what it was.

A demonic sword is like that.

It gives you great power, but it steals the user’s reason.

It leads the user down the path of corruption with all sorts of temptations.

And so, the man slowly became addicted to the demonic sword and transformed into a walking disaster.

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“……Hoo.”

Yoosungwoo took a long breath and looked down at the burned earth.

The black, burned ground was still hot, and steam was rising in places.

“There are so many damn bastards in the world…… don’t you think?”

“That’s right.”

“Some of them don’t listen. There’s something I hate the most, and the first is kids who don’t listen.”

“That’s not me. I’m not a kid, for one thing.”

“The second is women with rabbit ears.”

“Shall I cut them off?”

“Are you crazy? Don’t cut them off.”

Standing next to Yoosungwoo was Yuwol.

As he ordered, she took everyone out of the fortress, sent them to Earth, and then returned.

Guarding the entrance to the Abyss were about ten Towol warriors.

The entrance to the Abyss was at the very rear, so unless Yoosungwoo was pushed back from the front lines, they wouldn’t be attacked by monsters.

“Doesn’t your moon say anything? You’d think she’d say something at this point.”

“I haven’t heard from her for a few days. I’m keeping it a secret from the others, but something might have happened to Luna.”

“Come to think of it, the moon hasn’t been up for a few days. Is that related?”

“Probably. There’s no way the moon wouldn’t be visible through astronomical observation, so did they do something over there?”

“I guess so. If you’ve avoided a few disasters using the Moon Door, which is close to precognition [ability to see the future]…… it’s likely to have been analyzed.”

It was questionable how a demonic sword with a self could do that much.

Yoosungwoo figured that there were all sorts of things in the world, so he decided to let it go.

After all, if he told anyone that he had made a deal with a goddess to return to Earth, they would say it didn’t make sense.

“You’ve taken precautions against mental attacks, right? That’s the minimum requirement to deal with a demonic sword.”

“Of course. I am a proud, noble Towol priestess. Luna protects me, so I won’t be easily corrupted.”

Yoosungwoo couldn’t feel anything but anxiety, but he decided to let her do as she pleased since she was so confident.

“It’s a bit late, but what are you good at? Front or back, which do you prefer?”

“Excuse me?”

“What.”

“……I’ll take the rear. I’m second to none in the Towol clan when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, so I won’t be a hindrance.”

“That’s what I was going to do anyway. You’re not good enough to take the front.”

‘Why did he ask?’

The two, each with different questions, jumped down below the fortress walls.

Then, they walked leisurely across the charred earth, looking ahead.

The monsters are coming.

As Yoosungwoo thought, the Sword Demon decided to launch an all-out war, and all sorts of monsters with blades for hands were approaching Wolseong.

“It’s a spectacle.”

“It’s a wave of disaster.”

“You’ll soon see the wave being split. You will.”

Yoosungwoo spat out the words and slowly extended his sword.

A sword that cuts through the void from left to right unfolds.

From the side, it looked like a straight and graceful curve, but the result was that it split the space in half.

The sword strike, filled with energy throughout his life until the monsters reached this place, shattered the monsters’ front lines in one fell swoop.

It doesn’t matter how many monsters were cut down with one sword.

Yoosungwoo’s sword energy shattered the monsters’ front lines, and the remaining energy stopped the monsters from advancing.

Unbelievable power.

“Hoo…….”

Yoosungwoo, who took a long breath and kicked off the ground, left a long afterimage.

The moment he arrived at the shattered front lines and began to swing his sword, the monsters’ heads rolled on the floor in twos or threes.

Yuwol, fully armed, ran after him, confirming the kills of the monsters that flowed out to Yoosungwoo’s side.

The two were mindlessly defeating the monsters.

Yuwol used everything she could get her hands on as a weapon, grabbing one monster and using it to cut the neck of another.

Yoosungwoo weaved through the chaotic monsters, knocking their heads to the ground with minimal movement.

The monsters were falling one by one without even being able to clash swords once due to the incredible speed.

“Yuwol! Be careful!”

Even in the midst of all this, he warned Yuwol.

Yuwol perked up her ears at his voice and spun around, extending her leg.

A metallic sound rang out.

Yuwol frowned as she felt a tingling sensation spreading through her foot.

An indescribable unpleasantness.

Was this the influence of the ‘demonic sword’ that Yoosungwoo had mentioned?

The greatsword monster that Yuwol had just blocked possessed a fragment of the demonic sword.

“Tear, tear! I’ll teeeear you apart!”

The monsters, spewing unrefined language, were simply swinging their swords according to their instincts.

But because it was a reckless attack, she gradually retreated, solidifying her defense.

Besides, there were still an enormous number of monsters around, so she couldn’t focus her attacks on the one in front of her.

Glancing in the direction of Yoosungwoo, she saw that he was simultaneously fighting three monsters with fragments of the demonic sword.

Realizing that he couldn’t afford to pay attention to her, she took a deep breath and activated her hidden card.

‘Simplified, Moon Door.’

Simplified, Moon Door.

Her ears perked up.

Although she had used the Moon Door at night when the moon was completely obscured by clouds, it was possible to use the Moon Door through the faint moon that appeared during the day.

Of course, the connection was so weak that all she could hear was movement on a scale of seconds, not events in the distant future.

However, that alone gave her a huge advantage.

Yuwol, who used the Towol clan’s unique hand-to-hand combat techniques, continuously read the future a few seconds ahead and led the flow of battle to her side.

Her large ears perked up dozens of times, listening to the future.

She calculated the enemy’s sword paths through her innate, natural senses, and created space by inserting her fist.

And finally, Yuwol beat down the monster with the fragment, finally knocking it down and breathing heavily.

Listening to the future demands a great price.

Her internal magic power dropped to less than half in an instant, and she took a deep breath and continued the battle.

Before she knew it, Yoosungwoo, who had swept through the surroundings, approached her and killed the greatsword monster, which she thought had fallen, as it tried to get up again.

Then, black fragments soared into the sky.

“Is it manageable?”

“I can do it all day.”

“Really? Then I’ll leave you here.”

“Please save me.”

“Just kidding.”

Yoosungwoo chuckled and shook the blood off his sword.

Yuwol looked at Yoosungwoo, unable to believe that he was the same person who had been dancing with a sword in the middle of the battlefield until just now.

Although parts of his clothes were wet with the monsters’ fluids, his breathing was still steady and he didn’t seem to have lost any stamina.

Yoosungwoo lifted Yuwol with one hand. Then, as he had once lifted Nox, he tucked her under his arm and swung his sword greatly.

Then, the ground turned over and soared up around Yoosungwoo, creating a large earthen wall.

“Ma, magic?”

“It’s a trick.”

“What kind of trick is this…….”

Yuwol couldn’t finish her sentence.

Looking down while dangling, the number of monsters that had been so numerous had been greatly reduced.

While she had struggled to catch a few, Yoosungwoo had defeated countless numbers.

The traps he had set up in various places had also helped, but the fact was that Yoosungwoo had killed more of them.

“Look over there. He’s coming.”

Yoosungwoo pointed to the horizon in the distance with the tip of his sword.

There, a black sky was rushing in.

The dark black clouds, covering even the sun, were spreading slowly with lightning, just like the land of the Towol clan.

The closed land of the Towol clan, which had been slowly eaten away by the Sword Demon.

The Sword Demon was expressing it in the sky and slowly approaching this way.

“The Sword Demon is coming.”

At the end of the horizon, a figure appears, once again leading countless monsters.

No, it was too gruesome to call it a human.

Black blades fused with both hands, and no features remained on its head.

Only red hair, wrapped in chains like a laurel wreath, remained.

The situation below the head was similar. It didn’t look like human skin, and everything was reddish or black, a visual that would only appear in horror novels.

“……That’s the Sword Demon.”

“Judging by the energy, it’s definitely a demonic sword. Did you say you don’t know where the Sword Demon came from?”

“Yes. It suddenly appeared.”

“Hmm, then this is also…….”

Yoosungwoo thought that the Sword Demon’s work and Nox’s work were similar.

Nox said that he didn’t seem to originally live in the dimension where Azaha was.

He was artificially moved to Azaha’s dimension by someone.

And it seemed like the same was true for that Sword Demon.

The land of the Towol clan is a kind of isolated dimension, cut off from the outside world, and there is no way to move to other places.

But the sudden appearance of the Sword Demon meant that a passage connecting dimensions, like the Abyss, had opened in the direction the Sword Demon came from, he could only guess.

“……It’ll be fun to beat him up.”

“Excuse me? Me?”

“Are you crazy? It seems like your job is done, so go back to the fortress.”

“……Can’t I watch from here? I really want to see the end of the Sword Demon…….”

“Whatever.”

Yoosungwoo put Yuwol down on the earthen wall and patted her back hard once.

The tingling sensation left on her back washed away the anxiety that had been rushing in with the appearance of the Sword Demon in an instant.

Yoosungwoo, who had been looking down at the hand that had patted Yuwol’s back, muttered a word.

“Nice and firm.”

“Excuse me?”

“It’s nothing.”