The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 54

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – 54

Maynard (3)

Maynard was strong.

Even in her current state, her sharpness remained, and her strength was amplified even further.

Each time our swords clashed, her arm muscles visibly strained.

I couldn’t help but wonder how she could generate such power with a body that seemed so lean, like that of an old tree.

Sword meets sword at the center of where the river once flowed.

Each impact sends stone fragments flying in all directions, and the stone floor cracks under the force of the blows.

As our swords locked, memories of the past began to surface.

‘Hey, Seong-woo. Nero, she’s really like a cat, you know? When I sit down, she suddenly comes and sits on my lap. She even asks to be petted.’

I thought he was out of his mind.

I wondered if he was actually lying about being married and secretly thought he was married to a black cat.

‘She’s probably waiting for me at home right now, right? I want to go see her soon.’

I remembered him talking like that, exhausted after cutting down hordes of monsters.

Every clash of our swords brought back memories of the battlefields I had shared with Maynard.

‘You think you can kill me with a sword like that? It was the same back then. Do you think a sword swung relying on instinct, abandoning all your skills, will work against me!’

For some reason, my emotions surged.

Feeling the cold emotions boiling, I realized I was still lacking.

The two swords intertwined in the air, creating intense waves of power.

Min Cheong-un, who was watching the battle from a distance, shook his head in disbelief.

The speed of Yoo Seong-woo and Maynard continued to increase as if it was still not enough, to the point where it was impossible to follow with the eyes.

‘You, you! You don’t know my heart! You don’t know what I’ve been through!’

A voice filled with resentment burst from Maynard’s mouth.

In her deeply sunken eye sockets, a faint green light flickered.

The lost reason was faintly returning.

‘Why do you think I don’t know!’

‘Kugh!’

Maynard staggered back, leaving a long trail, from Yoo Seong-woo’s powerful swing.

He took a deep breath, holding his life in his hands, and continued.

‘I heard your story. Nero, the person you married, was brutally murdered by the villagers.’

There was no way Yoo Seong-woo wouldn’t know about it.

Even though the time he spent with Maynard wasn’t that long, they had fought together.

Even if Maynard suddenly started killing people and became a demon, he thought there must be a reason.

After investigating, he was able to find out why Maynard had become like that.

‘I understand. Your heart. That feeling.’

Maynard stopped moving at Yoo Seong-woo’s words.

‘Do you think I’ve never been betrayed by humans? It was a daily occurrence for me. Betrayed, betrayed, betrayed.’

It’s hard to count the number.

It’s painful to even talk about how many guys tried to stab me in the back.

After being betrayed, I lost many friends, and even those I could call precious died.

Of course, I took revenge for sure.

I caught and killed all the related bastards and eradicated the roots so that the same thing wouldn’t happen again.

‘But you did more than that. You killed innocent humans and sided with the demons.’

‘Those, those humans all deserve to die. If only I could see Nero again…….’

‘Is that your wish? You should give up after failing once, instead of going against the natural order…….’

So, you should meet your dead wife in the afterlife.

Stop thinking about meeting her alive.

Yoo Seong-woo said sternly and took a deep breath.

‘How many more people did you kill to maintain that body as an Ascender [a being who has transcended human limitations through spiritual or physical means]?’

Yoo Seong-woo knew that periodic slaughter was necessary to maintain that demon’s body.

The demon’s body would collapse if it didn’t periodically consume the essence of humans, which is concentrated in the brain or heart.

Considering Min Cheong-un’s achievement with the Explosion Subduing Sword, it seems like quite some time has passed.

At least, he must have chewed and swallowed the hearts of dozens of people.

‘It’s just a waste of breath to talk more. A swordsman is right if he wins.’

‘……Yes, that’s right. A swordsman proves it with his sword.’

As if no more words were needed, Maynard and Yoo Seong-woo simultaneously took their stances again.

And then, the clash continued.

Now, only stone fragments and flames were flying in the place where water had passed.

Maynard slashed diagonally from above, and Yoo Seong-woo thrust upwards from below.

Then, with a clear metallic sound, Maynard’s chest opened up.

Yoo Seong-woo aimed for that spot and thrust his sword, but she twisted her body at the last moment, resulting in only a graze on her side.

‘Your senses are still sharp!’

Even after dying twice.

He forcefully swung again, pushing Maynard back, and then imbued his sword with intense energy.

Following that, he swung greatly once more, causing a red aura to surge forward.

Maynard judged that she couldn’t avoid the rapidly approaching aura and only managed to deflect it sideways with her sword.

But in exchange, a handful of flesh was torn away.

‘Crazy bastard. You got even stronger there? You’re out of your mind. You crazy bastard. You son of a bitch, you should just die…….’

All sorts of curses burst from Maynard’s mouth in desperation.

It was because Yoo Seong-woo had become stronger than the last time she remembered him.

She knew he would become stronger than her.

But the pressure she felt just now exceeded her imagination.

‘Humans are animals that grow. Blame yourself for abandoning humanity and choosing a race that doesn’t grow.’

‘There’s a limit to growth, you crazy bastard!’

Maynard shouted and swung her sword greatly.

At the same time, a tremendous windstorm raged.

It was a storm of blades.

A large blade that could easily tear a person apart.

However, Yoo Seong-woo didn’t run away, but rather stepped inside and swung his sword, splitting the storm in half.

‘What kind of crazy technique is this again? You’re nothing without the Explosion Subduing Sword.’

‘Don’t you dare!’

Yoo Seong-woo, who had split the storm, pushed forward.

After swinging his sword several times and pushing forward, the sword he was holding broke in half and flew away.

The broken blade spun in the sky and then plunged into the ground, causing Maynard to let out a small laugh in disbelief.

‘……I wouldn’t have even thought about coming if you were in your dimension.’

‘You shouldn’t go to other dimensions either. The dead return to the earth. They don’t come back to life.’

Saying that, Yoo Seong-woo raised his sword to end the fight.

The red blade flashed and vibrated, emitting an intense aura.

Seeing that, Maynard felt a shiver run down her already dead senses.

‘……Die-!!’

And in the meantime, Min Cheong-un, who was far away, had approached and swung the Azure Sky Sword.

However, Min Cheong-un’s sword didn’t reach Yoo Seong-woo.

No, he couldn’t.

Because Maynard threw the broken sword and pierced Min Cheong-un’s forehead.

Yoo Seong-woo withdrew the sword he was about to swing and looked at Maynard.

Then, as she reached out her hand, the Azure Sky Sword held in Min Cheong-un’s hand was drawn to her and grasped in her hand.

Yoo Seong-woo chuckled at the sight of it as if it had found its owner, and Maynard also took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

‘I admit it. In this form, I can’t beat you even if I die and come back to life a hundred times.’

‘Not even a thousand, ten thousand times.’

‘……You son of a bitch, until the end.’

Maynard said that and tapped the messed-up stone floor with the Azure Sky Sword.

Then, the world changed.

Suddenly, a fierce stream of water began to pour down from the cliff, sweeping away all the stone fragments and dust.

Water began to flow in the place where water had passed, and a waterfall and a small river were completed in an instant.

Yoo Seong-woo looked at Maynard at the ankle-deep water level.

Seeing her regain her past appearance, he burst into a hollow laugh.

‘You had a hidden card.’

‘It’s a power I didn’t originally intend to use. But if I’m up against you, I can’t do it without full power.’

Yoo Seong-woo thought he had felt Maynard’s energy somewhere before.

Recently, too.

‘Divinity.’

A powerful force that seemed to gush out like a fountain.

All the waterfall and river water flowing in front of Yoo Seong-woo now originated from Maynard.

She used all her power to temporarily enhance herself.

As a result, a temporary divinity was formed.

At least in this space, she was an existence no different from a god.

‘……That’s what it looks like after finishing the Ascension. I heard it’s preparation for obtaining divinity.’

The monstrous appearance was nowhere to be seen, and Maynard’s shimmering light green hair and deep green eyes stared at Yoo Seong-woo.

There was no sensation of being pierced through like Luna, but just facing her made me feel uncomfortable.

‘How about it, have you ever cut down a god? Yoo Seong-woo.’

‘…….’

Maynard’s Azure Sky Sword shone blue, and her light green hair fluttered.

Subtle particles of light floated around her, doubling her divinity.

‘There’s a reason why I didn’t use the Explosion Subduing Sword after becoming a demon. The nature of the demon and the nature of the Explosion Subduing Sword didn’t mesh.’

‘Your nasty personality is the same, though.’

‘Sing a song about wanting to die [an idiom meaning to complain or express suffering].’

Maynard took a stance.

In response to her stance, the surrounding waterways began to ripple.

The basic stance of the Explosion Subduing Sword.

Yoo Seong-woo raised his energy to counter that momentum and took a deep breath.

‘You asked if I’ve ever cut down a god…….’

Isn’t it an obvious question?

He muttered quietly and gripped his Life with both hands.

The red blade of Life shone even more ominously.

‘I’m standing here because I cut them down. To take care of guys like you.’

Yoo Seong-woo and Maynard simultaneously swung their swords.

Explosion Subduing Sword Secret Art – Waterfall Reversal

One Sword – Space Tear

The two swords collided, creating intense energy waves.

A whirlwind arose, the ground overturned, and the things around them could not withstand the energy waves and were shattered.

Min Cheong-un’s corpse had somehow been broken down and could not be found at all.

The vortex of energy created by the two swordsmen soared as if to tear the sky apart.

In the vortex, the two people swung their swords incessantly.

Maynard poured out everything from her Explosion Subduing Sword, and Yoo Seong-woo received or deflected all of them.

The sight of the two people moving in the vortex as if dancing a sword dance was like two sword gods fighting.

Waterfall water fell and then surged, and the flowing river water scattered in all directions and rained down.

Soon, when all the waterfall and river water calmed down to form a small lake.

Yoo Seong-woo was looking down at Maynard, who was lying down.

‘……Maynard, the next time we meet, we’ll be meeting in hell after I die.’

‘It’ll be a dirty reunion…….’

‘Don’t wait. It’ll take quite a while.’

‘I won’t wait, you son of a bitch…….’

‘When that time comes…… let’s have a drink together again.’

‘Of course. We have to drink and die…… then.’

Maynard’s body gradually fades away from her fingertips.

Yoo Seong-woo stared blankly at the sight and turned his body.

She was left alone and muttered quietly.

‘Ah, Nero…… I’m finally going to see you.’

Maynard’s body soon disappeared into dust.

Yoo Seong-woo cut down the second god.