The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 377

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 376

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace Episode 376

War (8)

The war between the Jade Emperor Palace and the Sword Clan concluded almost instantaneously, like a mere formality.

The turning point was, of course, Dangun’s defeat.

The moment Dangun, the supreme god of the Jade Emperor Palace, lost his divine power, the momentum of the gods fighting for victory faltered.

Dangun was the pillar of the Jade Emperor Palace and a divine figure integral to the Sacred Star Hall [a celestial palace or domain of gods].

As Dangun was a symbol of the Jade Emperor Palace, his downfall significantly diminished the divine power of the Palace itself.

Furthermore, two divine figures dispatched from the Jade Emperor Palace were also annihilated. Maegu was beheaded by Yoo Seong-woo’s meteor shower.

Ho Wang was also fatally wounded, and Yoo Seong-woo finished him off.

It seemed like he only swooped in to steal the final blow after all the groundwork had been laid, but Veronica and Medea were already at their limits.

If Yoo Seong-woo had arrived even a little later, the two of them might have ended up in Ho Wang’s jaws.

Thus, after dealing with the three divine figures who had descended upon the Sword Clan, they either killed or accepted the surrender of the divine figures isolated within the barrier.

And there was one individual who achieved remarkable results within the barrier.

“Those so-called gods… they’re nothing special. Hehehe.”

It was Heuk Sahyang, who was covered in wounds and emitting a sinister laugh.

As a Heavenly Demon who had seized the divine power of a Martial God, she faced the divine figures of the Jade Emperor Palace one-on-one within the barrier.

Most of them were lower-level divine figures, but Heuk Sahyang was a novice who had just ascended to divinity.

Nevertheless, she achieved the feat of defeating as many as three divine figures.

As a result, she was battered and bruised, but she had gained quite a bit as well.

By competing with more than three divine figures, her ability to handle divine power and her martial arts skills had also improved immensely.

Besides Heuk Sahyang, many others had also grown significantly. Where else would they get to experience large-scale battles with gods?

The witches and Sword Soul guild members were running around the battlefield providing support.

The Divers affiliated with the Sword Clan supported from afar, experiencing the power of the gods and absorbing their energy remaining in the atmosphere into their bodies.

And, most importantly, there was one thing left to do: deal with the gods who had rebelled from within.

The divine figures and gods who fought against Pungbaek, Unsa, and Usa.

Yoo Seong-woo did not punish them either. If they had not participated in the war, the end of this war would have been nothing but tragic.

It was because they had joined that Yoo Seong-woo could foresee a chance of victory.

Unfortunately, Pungbaek, Unsa, and Usa were not annihilated. Although the divine figures clashed with each other, the fighting was not intense, and only a sluggish power struggle continued.

The power of the Three Masters was degraded by Dangun’s annihilation and they were quickly pushed back, but they did not disappear completely.

Perhaps they would be imprisoned in the Jade Emperor Palace’s Geumok [a type of prison or confinement area], where Ho Wang and Maegu had been confined.

“It was an honor to fight alongside you. General, and Jumong.”

After the war ended, Yoo Seong-woo visited the divine figures of the Jade Emperor Palace who were cleaning up the aftermath and greeted them.

Only Yi Sun-sin and Jumong were present.

Bari was the first to leave, and only two remained to gather the remaining divine figures.

Yi Sun-sin said to Yoo Seong-woo with a slightly bitter expression.

“It’s a bit of a shame that I didn’t get to see his magnificence in person. Moreover, with this incident, it will be difficult for the Jade Emperor Palace to show its face for hundreds… or perhaps thousands of years.”

As if he had shaken something off, Yi Sun-sin spoke to Yoo Seong-woo in a much more relaxed tone.

The Jade Emperor Palace had consumed enormous divine power to manifest and crash into the Sword Clan, but in the end, it gained nothing.

They would have to lock the doors of the Sacred Star Hall and wait a long time for its power to recover.

During that time, they would not be able to exert influence on the ground, so it would be a long period of endurance.

“But I think all of that is self-inflicted. It’s the karma for something that everyone has been turning a blind eye to for a long time.”

Gods need faith to maintain their power. No god in this world is exempt from this.

When humans and gods lived on the same land, the gods had nothing to fear.

Omniscient and omnipotent, they wielded powers impossible for humans, using their fear and faith as nourishment.

That was the era when the gods were stronger than ever, the age of mythology.

A human from the past spread a barrier separating humans and gods across the world, marking the beginning of the human era.

The end of the mythological era was the death of the gods. As a result, the gods who lost faith disappeared into history, and the gods were left with nothing to do but confine themselves in the Sacred Star Hall in the otherworld, observing the world.

The gods with strong faith could squeeze through the cracks in the barrier and exert a little influence on the ground, but those who did not could only hope that the humans on the ground would remember them.

And the most effective and valid means for the divine figures to maintain their faith was ‘fear.’

Causing disasters on the ground.

In the name of natural disasters, they brought tsunamis and caused floods. They dropped lightning and shook the earth.

The more humans were engulfed in fear, the more they sought gods, and the gods used their fear as faith to regain their strength.

I don’t know how many times this vicious cycle has turned over thousands of years.

“I’m saying this now, but Jumong and I are also accomplices and bystanders. The dead should rightfully disappear into the sky….”

“Hahaha! If you say that, it sounds like we should all disappear.”

Jumong said with a laugh, but Yi Sun-sin only gave a bitter smile, as if that was his true feeling.

Jumong’s laughter subsided at the sight of his smile, and he soon closed his mouth.

Feeling that the atmosphere had become strange, Yoo Seong-woo bowed to the two again and expressed his gratitude.

In any case, they were people who had helped the Sword Clan and people he admired.

“Please give my regards to Bari.”

“I understand. And one thing… I’m saying this out of concern, but don’t trust Bari.”

Yi Sun-sin patted Yoo Seong-woo on the shoulder and said.

He nodded. In the first place, she was a divine figure who should not be trusted the most.

Bari was a shamanic god. She was also the god who held the largest stake in the Osaek Mudanghoe [Five Colors Shaman Association], a guild of shamans.

The Osaek Mudanghoe refused Yoo Seong-woo’s subjugation, and eventually manipulated shamans to create corpse bombs and detonate them.

Perhaps it was difficult to pay attention to the Osaek Mudanghoe in this war, so they did not participate in the war after all…….

It has not yet been revealed whether Bari is involved in their circumstances. It simply means that she is not someone who can be blindly trusted just because she stood on this side in the war.

Yi Sun-sin and Jumong, who had finished cleaning up to some extent, also left for the Jade Emperor Palace.

The size of the Jade Emperor Palace, which had been shattered by Yoo Seong-woo’s rampage, seemed much smaller than before.

The Jade Emperor Palace floated into the air. Retracing the trajectory it had crashed into the Sword Clan, it disappeared beyond the otherworld.

After that, Yoo Seong-woo moved busily. He sent the Oni [demons or spirits] back and closed the gates of hell.

Although the preparations had been perfect, there were still casualties.

More than a dozen Divers and Oni.

Some goblins and witches also died. One of the elders of the Witch Society sacrificed herself to protect the witches.

Two of the Sword Soul’s Divers also died. They were subordinates that Choi Ah-yeon had brought.

“…….”

Yoo Seong-woo listened to Yoo-wol’s damage report with a calm face, and then toured the battlefield himself.

He didn’t think that there would be no damage at all…….

“I feel a bit shitty.”

Was this the first time this had happened?

When he was a mercenary, it was always the case. Mercenaries who lacked ability died. Most of the mercenaries who participated in the war died that way.

To the nobles, mercenaries were just expendable items that could be used if they paid money, and the mercenaries accepted that situation.

The commander’s incompetence also played a part, but it was natural for people to die in war.

Somewhere in his heart, did he believe that he was different from those people?

Did he believe that he could win the war without killing a single person…….

“Hahahaha…….”

Yoo Seong-woo let out a self-deprecating laugh, feeling absurd at himself.

He had definitely prepared. He had completed the most perfect preparation possible, and after a hard fight, he had repelled the Jade Emperor Palace.

He gained a lot, but he also lost a lot. Yoo Seong-woo weighed them and then erased them from his mind.

All that comes back from weighing human life and profit is self-blame.

Now was the time to move rather than be swept up in such things.

Apologize directly to the bereaved families and compensate them. He also had to restore the destroyed Sword Clan and call back the refugees.

The aftermath of the war had far more to do than the preparation.

It was a great relief that this war did not last for several days.

* * *

“…Hmph.”

Dantalian quietly closed the book.

In Yoo Seong-woo’s office on the top floor of the empty Sword Soul Guild, she opened a subspace, threw the closed book in, and took out a new book.

This time, she wasn’t reading a book. She took out a luxurious fountain pen from the subspace and began to write something down.

What she was writing was Yoo Seong-woo’s story. Yoo Seong-woo told her his story as agreed, and Dantalian gladly wrote it down.

Yoo Seong-woo gave her more than the contracted amount of stories. Perhaps he wanted to tell someone, he told her many stories.

She wrote Yoo Seong-woo’s biography. It was something she did because she wanted to, not because anyone wanted her to.

That writing work continued for quite a while. Because Yoo Seong-woo’s story did not stop.

“…I can’t guess how far it will go.”

Dantalian thought so, but she vaguely thought that the end would not come soon.

The Jade Emperor Palace was a fairly well-known Sacred Star Hall among the Sacred Star Halls.

It’s not comparable to the Greek Olympus or the Norse Asgard… but it’s not a level that can be ignored.

Nevertheless, Yoo Seong-woo led the Sword Clan, a divine Sacred Star Hall, and defeated the Jade Emperor Palace. He used every method that could not be used in other Sacred Star Halls to defeat them and announced his victory.

It wasn’t a victory without scars, but those scars were nothing compared to the damage the Jade Emperor Palace had suffered.

“…I don’t know if it will be a masterpiece, a well-made work, or a failure.”

What will be the ending of this biography? Dantalian was very curious about it. So much so that she wanted to peek into the future if possible.

However, she did not have the power to twist causality and foresee the future.

All she can do now is write his story like this and imagine the rest.

Besides, the last climax remains. The Seungcheon Church will come soon. I don’t know what they’re trying to do with Yoo Seong-woo…….

Perhaps that is the end of the story.

“Hoo.”

Dantalian closed the book and threw it into the subspace along with the fountain pen.

The day she stops writing this is the day Yoo Seong-woo’s journey ends.