The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 77

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – 77

Grand Lotus (2)

Yuseongwu, wanting to inform Baek Uhyeon, Hong Seohwa, and Yu Jiwoo about the elves and the Ascension Church, called the three together after a long time.

This time, they gathered in a lower-level Abyss, appropriately spacious, rather than a special-grade one.

Baek Uhyeon, Hong Seohwa, and Yu Jiwoo stood around Yuseongwu, each holding their cherished sword.

The swords gleamed in the sunlight.

“Do it seriously. Well, even if you three come at me with all you’ve got, it would be quite something if you managed to leave even a scratch on me……”

The time had come to test their progress.

Yuseongwu decided to face all three of them at once, rather than one at a time.

Dealing with them individually would be a waste of time, and Yuseongwu himself had something he wanted to test.

The three held their swords, while Yuseongwu was empty-handed.

“……Are you really okay with being empty-handed?”

“Do you think you can cut me with a real sword?”

“No, then what else would we cut you with? Are you crazy, Oppa [term of endearment used by a younger woman to an older brother or male friend]?”

“Calling your teacher crazy!”

“He’s my brother before he’s your teacher, okay? Are you the crazy one?”

“Both of you, please stop.”

Baek Uhyeon intervened as Yu Jiwoo and Hong Seohwa started bickering.

These three were always like this.

Sometimes Hong Seohwa and Baek Uhyeon would argue, with Yu Jiwoo trying to mediate.

Yuseongwu waved his hand, telling them to start quickly, and then took a long breath.

Red breath escaped from his lips.

Following that, red vapor rose from Yuseongwu’s body, enveloping his entire form.

The aura, the proof of a Swordmaster, materialized into flickering flames, surrounding him and spreading formidable power in all directions.

The mere feeling of facing it made their entire bodies tingle.

The three holding swords immediately discarded their earlier laxity.

Yuseongwu facing three S-class individuals wielding real swords with his bare hands meant something.

It came from a confidence that it was truly possible.

The first to attack was Hong Seohwa.

Holding a red sword, she kicked off the ground and began to dance, enveloping her sword in seductive flames.

What she had mastered was the Red Dragon Flame Dance Sword.

The flames, worthy of being called Flame Dragon (炎龍) [Enryu, literally “Flame Dragon” in Japanese] rather than Red Dragon (赤龍) [Sekiryu, literally “Red Dragon” in Japanese], spread as if to devour everything around them.

However, Yuseongwu softly reached out his hand, as if ignoring the red sword and flames approaching him.

Yuseongwu’s right hand received the sword, then flicked it aside with a tap of his palm.

Hong Seohwa, her balance broken, bit her lip with an expression of disbelief and regained her stance.

She frantically moved her joints to somehow redirect her sword towards Yuseongwu.

“Not bad.”

Yuseongwu said briefly.

However, that was not all Hong Seohwa was aiming for.

While he was focused on her sword, the other two were not idle.

From different directions, they were genuinely thrusting their swords to stab Yuseongwu.

However, the three had to witness another unbelievable sight.

Yuseongwu grabbed the blade of Baek Uhyeon’s Namcheong Sword, which was rushing in, with his left hand and pulled it towards him.

The immense force instantly pulled Baek Uhyeon in, and his Namcheong Sword collided with the tip of Yu Jiwoo’s sword, which was approaching from the opposite side, causing both of them to bounce back.

Meanwhile, his right hand deflected and pushed away Hong Seohwa’s sword.

The three, back where they started the battle, struggled to understand what had just happened.

A Swordmaster is completed by wielding a sword.

However, just because a Swordmaster doesn’t wield a sword doesn’t mean they aren’t superhuman.

The body, reinforced by the surrounding aura, cannot be pierced by ordinary swords.

“Again.”

Yuseongwu, still clad in surging red aura, demanded that the three attack him again.

The three S-class individuals looked at each other and nodded.

Having fought haphazardly, the three instinctively realized that they couldn’t even face Yuseongwu with their individual abilities, and they coordinated.

Baek Uhyeon surrounded himself with lightning, and Hong Seohwa was engulfed in flames.

Yu Jiwoo, amidst the calmness, awakened the Hae Wol Sword (海月劍) [Sea Moon Sword] that she had been taught by Yuseongwu.

The momentum had changed.

The S-class individuals were originally strong, but they had become even stronger by receiving teachings from Yuseongwu, the Swordmaster.

Yuseongwu didn’t know for sure, but if he lined up all the S-class individuals in the world, these three would probably be in the upper-middle ranks.

Even Min Cheongun, who was said to be the strongest in Korea, was killed by Maynard with a single blow.

These three seemed like they could withstand one or two exchanges.

“Here I go!”

This time, Baek Uhyeon was the first to attack.

His body, clad in lightning, was truly swift, closing the distance in an instant as he thrust his sword at Yuseongwu several times.

However, Yuseongwu’s eyes followed the tip of his sword.

Yuseongwu’s hands moved in sync with the speed of Baek Uhyeon’s sword, deflecting the light-speed attacks.

At the same time, Hong Seohwa, who had rushed in from behind, joined the attack.

A sword thrust towards the back of his head.

However, Yuseongwu dodged it as if he had eyes on the back of his head, simply tilting his head slightly, then leaping backward and pressing his back against Hong Seohwa’s chest.

Hong Seohwa, suddenly pressed close, moved her hands to shake him off, but Yuseongwu was faster.

He forcefully struck her side with his right elbow, pushing her away, then ducked down and uppercutted Baek Uhyeon’s chin, who had followed closely.

Yu Jiwoo aimed for Yuseongwu’s side and swung her sword, but her sword didn’t even touch his body and was deflected by the aura.

From that sight, the three realized that Yuseongwu was dodging and deflecting swords that he didn’t even need to avoid.

The thought that simultaneously crossed the minds of the three.

Monster.

One word was enough.

Yu Jiwoo thought it was fortunate that he was her brother, and the other two were relieved that he wasn’t their enemy.

In the Abyss, humanoid monsters often emerged.

If Yuseongwu had appeared as a monster from the Abyss, rather than someone’s family, it was easy to imagine that the country he appeared in would have collapsed.

How could they stop a monster that even three S-class individuals couldn’t handle?

Yuseongwu spoke again.

“Again.”

The three S-class individuals charged again.

However, the situation did not change.

As the three’s coordination began to flow more smoothly, Yuseongwu countered by moving even faster.

How many times had the word “again” been drilled into their ears?

The battle ended when the three S-class individuals were completely exhausted and panting.

Yet, Yuseongwu had barely broken a sweat.

Even though he had fought dozens of times with his entire body covered in aura.

“Hoo.”

He let out a short breath and withdrew the aura that covered his entire body.

As the chilling energy subsided, the atmosphere that had seemed to overwhelm the surroundings also disappeared.

The realm of freely manipulating energy.

The three who had collapsed on the floor looked at Yuseongwu and once again engraved awe into their bodies.

“You’ve improved a lot. At this rate, you won’t get beaten up anywhere you go.”

S-class individuals are usually the ones who go around beating others up.

“Jiwoo, you should train the Hae Wol Sword (海月劍) [Sea Moon Sword] more deeply. The depth of the water’s surface is shallow. Too shallow.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Think and realize it yourself. And you, the red one, move more grandly. Flames are not delicate. They must be dazzling and lofty for people to look up to.”

“Yes, Master!”

“You, the blue one, are the opposite. The Bon Guk Swordplay (本國劍法) [National Sword Method] and your lightning are not a bad match. Focus only on byeoncho (變招) [changing move], not heocho (虛招) [feint move]. It’s not a phantom sword (幻劍) [illusionary sword]. The more you land every attack, the more its power will double.”

“Thank you for your teachings!”

After fighting the three and giving brief feedback, he moved his body here and there, which had been moderately warmed up, making cracking sounds, and then picked up a sword.

What he held in his hand was the blunt, green sword that only Yu Jiwoo had ever seen, Samjeong, Yuseongwu’s third sword, which seemed to be carved from peridot.

Seeing that, an ominous thought crossed the minds of the three.

And their ominous feeling soon became a reality.

“Stand up. We’re doing it again.”

* * *

“I, I’m really going to die if I do it again……”

“……”

“I’d rather just die. I’m not doing it, just kill me.”

Soon, the three were sprawled on the floor.

They had been thoroughly beaten by Yuseongwu.

Moreover, this time he didn’t use aura, but a strange power.

Flames erupted from the sword instead of aura, or a sudden gust of wind blew to assist Yuseongwu.

Yu Jiwoo vaguely knew that it was the power of spirits, but the two who were experiencing it for the first time were helpless.

Only after knocking down all three of them several times did Yuseongwu give brief feedback again and continue speaking.

“Listen in that state. It seems we’ve detected circumstances where the elves and the Ascension Church in the country are plotting something together.”

“……?”

“……?”

“……Huh?”

“At the level 3 Abyss that opened in Gangnam, Seoul, I met an elf. That bastard corrupted a tree spirit and moved it. If I had left it alone, the spirits would have gone outside the Abyss and caused a bloody incident.”

Yu Jiwoo, who had heard some hints, nodded calmly, and the other two blinked as if they had never heard of it before.

Yuseongwu stuck Samjeong into the ground and leaned against it for support.

“And I also found out from that elf that the elder of the elves who occupied the forests in the country, a guy named Beyorgan, ordered it.”

“But why is the Ascension Church suddenly coming up?”

“Because those narrow-minded bastards like elves can’t possibly plan something like that. In the first place, the government was stupid to listen to their demands……”

Yuseongwu’s basis for judgment was experience.

The elves he knew were reclusive bastards.

They didn’t try to interact with the outside world and treated humans as an uncivilized race, outdated fools.

Whether their ears are pointed or their beauty is extraordinary, they’re made of flesh and blood when you strip them naked.

Based on that experience, he judged that it wasn’t something the elves had planned alone, but that someone was behind them.

If there was no one, the elves would have been holed up somewhere like the elves in Russia, only having minimal interactions.

It was strange from the start that those guys, who didn’t even have many numbers, wanted the entire forest of Korea, not just one forest somewhere.

The government that listened to that was even stranger.

Perhaps the hands of unknown bastards had spread even to the government.

That could be an ‘Ascended One’ or someone who had been influenced by an ‘Ascended One.’

In the first place, the disgustingly suspicious religion called the Ascension Church was going around…….

“As a result, we got surveillance camera photos that seemed to show the elves contacting those guys at the Ascension Church’s proselytizing rooms.”

“That would be solid evidence.”

Yuseongwu nodded at Baek Uhyeon’s words.

However, they couldn’t attack those guys with just one piece of evidence.

This wasn’t a lawless zone like the Otherworld.

Moreover, the elves were scattered throughout the forests of Korea, so unless they gathered those guys in one place and dealt with them, things would get bigger.

Yuseongwu, who had been pondering for a moment, parted his lips.

“Prepare to fight. I should go meet the elder of the elves one more time.”

He felt like he needed to shake out what was in that damn old man’s head.

Not respect for the elderly, but attacking the elderly.