The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 56

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 56

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace Episode 56

Iron Mountain

“Hey, use this.”

A joyful training day with the S-class [the highest rank for Divers] amidst a meteor shower.

He tossed the sword from his waist to Baek Woo-hyun, who was sweating while holding his sword.

“Why are you giving this to me?”

“You said you didn’t have a decent sword. It’s for you.”

After much deliberation, Baek Woo-hyun chose a sword over a saber.

From now on, he would be known as the Jeoncheon Swordsman, not the Jeoncheon Wanderer.

However, he didn’t yet have a sword that suited his nature, so he had been training with an ordinary iron sword.

He looked down at the sword Yoo Seong-woo gave him, a look of deep emotion on his face.

Could he really accept this? He looked at the sword and Yoo Seong-woo with the expression of a hamster who had received a pile of sunflower seeds.

With a face full of anticipation, he drew the sword from its leather scabbard.

A blue blade reminiscent of the deep sea.

The straight sword, not leaning to either side, was so beautiful that it made him lose his mind the moment he saw it.

But the moment Baek Woo-hyun saw the sword, he felt a sense of unease.

Like he had seen it somewhere before…….

“Isn’t this the Azure Sword? The one belonging to Min Cheong-un, the guild master of Tangcheon…….”

“Yeah, so? Is there a problem?”

“……I think there are many. Min Cheong-un is currently missing, so if I go out with this sword.”

“He’s dead anyway.”

“Min Cheong-un is dead?”

“Min Cheong-un is dead, you say?”

“Didn’t I tell you?”

At his words, Hong Seo-hwa approached and asked.

She had been secretly anticipating Min Cheong-un’s death upon hearing that he was missing, but there was nothing as certain as hearing it directly from the person involved.

Yoo Seong-woo told them roughly what had happened.

It wasn’t like they were the type to go around spreading rumors.

‘If he doesn’t want to die, he’ll have to handle himself well.’

“No, how could such a thing happen.”

“So, this means it’s stolen goods? And it was used by a monster? This sword?”

“He wasn’t a monster back then.”

Rather, he was a legend admired for his beauty and skill.

Yoo Seong-woo swallowed the rest of his words.

Then, he snatched the Azure Sword from Baek Woo-hyun’s hand and tapped the blade with his finger.

A clear, ringing sound echoed.

The sound alone was enough to tell that it was a masterpiece.

“It’s a sword that a god held, even if only for a moment. It has a faint divine power, so it will be a great help in increasing your power.”

“……A sword that a god held?”

“Yeah. It’s stolen goods, but well…… if you don’t want to use it, I can’t help it. I’ll have to find someone else.”

“I’ll use it. Please, let me use it.”

As expected, giving and then taking away works best.

Yoo Seong-woo handed the Azure Sword back to Baek Woo-hyun and continued.

“The Azure Sword is basically a sword full of water energy. I heard that it was made by refining iron that had been sleeping under a large waterfall for over a hundred years…… whether that’s true or not, it has the characteristic of amplifying power when using water-related abilities.”

That’s why, in the end, when Maynard wielded the Azure Sword, he used Water Burst.

Its power was terrifying.

Didn’t the surrounding waterfall and river water rage like dragons, trying to tear him apart?

He was weaker than the defeated Demon God, but if Maynard had been just a little stronger, it might have been an unwinnable fight.

Baek Woo-hyun tilted his head and said after hearing Yoo Seong-woo’s words.

“But I use lightning, not water…….”

“Do you think lightning and water are incompatible?”

“Isn’t that usually the case? Even in the sense of the Five Elements [a traditional Chinese philosophy concept].”

“Well, you’re not wrong, but what do you think will happen if you put lightning in water?”

“……Are you saying it will spread the current through the water? Does this sword have that kind of function?”

“If it had that kind of function, it wouldn’t be a masterpiece, but a divine sword. The sword will help to some extent, but you’ll have to do the detailed adjustments. So, in other words, from now on, you…….”

Yoo Seong-woo paused as if choosing his words, then spat them out.

“Aim to be an excellent electric eel. Burn them all to a crisp.”

“An electric eel, you say?”

“Why, would you rather be Pikachu [a popular electric-type Pokémon]?”

“……No. I’ll aim to be an electric eel.”

“Good. The National Sword Technique is an excellent sword technique that doesn’t have any particular weaknesses, so try to integrate it well.”

“Master, Master. Don’t you have anything to give me? Like a fire-emitting sword.”

Hong Seo-hwa stood next to him and stared with sparkling eyes, perhaps a little bothered that only Baek Woo-hyun had received a sword.

It was clear she wanted something too, so Yoo Seong-woo pondered for a moment whether to poke her in the eye, then pushed her forehead with his finger and said.

“I’ll give you something if I find something good later. It seems like that sword is enough for you right now.”

With those words, he looked at the sword in Hong Seo-hwa’s hand.

It was a straight sword with a faint red hue, though not as strong as his Ilseong.

It was clear that it contained fire energy.

‘Looking at it gives me a strange feeling. A bit unsettling, you could say.’

What was it made of?

“Give me that sword for a moment.”

Suddenly curious, Yoo Seong-woo took the sword from Hong Seo-hwa.

As he held the sword up to the sunlight, she explained the sword to him.

“I didn’t get it from the Abyss; it was made on Earth. The materials used were molten ore and a dragon’s scale.”

“Molten ore?”

“There’s a volcanic zone in the ‘Burning Land,’ a first-class Abyss [a dangerous alternate dimension] in China, where you can rarely find that ore.”

“And a dragon’s scale, you say.”

“Yes, it’s a scale that the Red Dragon dropped when it appeared on Earth during the Great Disaster.”

“That must have been a lot of expensive stuff.”

Yoo Seong-woo tapped the blade with his finger.

Then, unlike the Azure Sword, a somewhat dull yet calm sound struck his eardrums.

“Is it an incomplete sword?”

“Excuse me? Incomplete?”

“It’s a good sword, but the level of completion is a bit disappointing. I feel sorry for the craftsman who made the sword, but it’s a real shame that it’s only this good with those materials.”

Hong Seo-hwa’s sword was called ‘Red Dragon Sword,’ and it was a custom-made sword.

A masterpiece created with great care by an A-class Diver [a skilled explorer of the Abyss] and craftsman to maximize her power.

But Yoo Seong-woo was calling such a sword incomplete.

“Th-Then, is there anything we can do to make it a better sword? I’ve been using it for quite a while, and I’ve grown attached to it.”

“Hmm.”

A way to make the sword better?

Yoo Seong-woo thought for a moment.

There was a way to melt down the already completed sword and make it anew, and there was also a way to add something to it.

But looking at the state of the sword, melting it down and remaking it was likely to cause imbalance.

“The best thing would be to soak it in dragon’s blood and take it out. Red Dragon’s blood, that is.”

“Soak it in blood and…… take it out?”

“Yeah. The reason this sword is incomplete is because it contains a dragon’s scale.”

Yoo Seong-woo had seen many swords in the Otherworld.

When he was in a hurry, he had used whatever he could get his hands on, and he had broken a lot of them.

Among them were masterpieces, demon swords, and those called divine swords.

Based on that experience, Hong Seo-hwa’s Red Dragon Sword was immature.

The swordsman was immature, and the sword was immature.

“Dragons have strong egos, so even if only one scale is included, it’s quite a nuisance. It feels like, ‘How dare you try to use me?'”

“Now that I think about it…… I think I sometimes felt resistance when I swung the sword.”

“It’s a miracle you’ve been using it well until now. So, you soak it in Red Dragon’s blood, which is full of magic power, to strengthen it and at the same time, ‘I killed this bastard, so listen to me,’ and subdue the sword.”

Sometimes there are swords like that.

A sword with a strong ego.

Zeron, who was a demon sword, was like that, and all the swords with names like divine swords were like that.

They were all pains in the ass…….

Especially swords made with materials like dragons.

“It would be even better if you killed the dragon yourself.”

“……That’s a bit much.”

“That’s the least you have to do to become a swordsman who can do their part.”

Hong Seo-hwa squeezed her eyes shut at Yoo Seong-woo’s words.

In his standards, a swordsman who can do their part…… means they have to be able to kill a dragon. Isn’t that a strict condition?

Yoo Seong-woo chuckled at Baek Woo-hyun and Hong Seo-hwa, who looked slightly unwell.

And lastly.

“Oppa, don’t you have anything to give me?”

Yoo Ji-woo said, confidently holding out her hand.

It was a grumble demanding that he give her something for working so hard this time.

At his sister’s grumbling, Yoo Seong-woo pondered for a moment and said.

“I’ll give you something good when I find it next time. The best one. Or should I go into a first-class Abyss and get some materials?”

“……Yeah. I wish you would.”

“What?”

“There’s a special Abyss expedition that Meteor Industries is participating in this time. I’d like you to participate as a guard for the mining team.”

Yoo Seong-woo realized that he had dug his own grave.

* * *

A few days later, Yoo Seong-woo headed to the special Abyss as Yoo Ji-woo had requested.

It was an expedition jointly organized by several guilds, with the aim of extracting resources from within the Abyss.

The special Abyss boasted an enormous size from the entrance.

Cheonan, not far from Sehyun City.

The entrance to the special Abyss that entered from Korea was located there.

“Haa.”

Yoo Seong-woo yawned softly and looked around the inside of the Abyss.

The expedition team was headed to Iron Mountain.

A special terrain where the entire mountain was made of minerals.

A dangerous place where your skull could be shattered if you slipped and fell.

Therefore, all the personnel who came for mining were wearing protective gear on their heads.

The internal environment of places classified as special Abyss was very large.

Typical lower-level Abyss are closed spaces such as caves.

Medium or high-level Abyss are about the size of a small mountain or island.

If you try to go out into a larger space, you will somehow return to the place you left, but the special level was endless.

Geographers and others speculated that the special level was large enough to be called a continent.

Entrances to the special Abyss were located all over the Earth, and traces of unknown races remaining in each region told of their lives.

However, similar characteristics were found in places that were thought to be different.

From this point, it was determined that the place reached through the entrance of the special Abyss was one continent.

“It’s damn wide.”

When he spread out his senses to check the distance, he couldn’t see the end no matter how much he expanded his senses.

It was a place that boasted a size that was definitely different from the Abyss he had visited so far.

Besides, other people didn’t seem to know, but something terrifying seemed to be sleeping there.

‘I won’t have to step in.’

“Excuse me, aren’t you wearing a gas mask?”

“I’m fine.”

“Ah, okay…….”

The special Abyss, ‘Iron Mountain’ area, was a harsh environment.

The entire mountain was made of minerals, making it easy to slip, so iron shoes had to be worn.

Normal breathing was impossible due to the iron dust floating in the air.

Therefore, if you don’t wear a gas mask or oxygen tank, you will have problems with your eyes and respiratory system in no time.

But Yoo Seong-woo didn’t need any of that and was calmly walking up Iron Mountain.

‘Who is that person? I’ve never seen him before.’

‘He’s a Diver that the CEO brought. His rank is a secret.’

‘That’s amazing…… isn’t he going to suddenly collapse like that?’

Thanks to that appearance, the mining team buzzed.

Moreover, there were only three people, including Yoo Seong-woo, who came as escorts for Meteor Industries this time.

The identities of the other two were also unknown like Yoo Seong-woo.

Yoo Seong-woo glanced at the two people following behind him while guarding his surroundings and opened his mouth.

“Let’s do well?”