The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 84

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 84

Grand Lotus (9)

Yoo Seong-woo reaffirmed that the elves were incredibly stubborn.

They heard a lot through their big ears, but filtered everything, and all they could do was sulk in their rooms like middle schoolers who were upset with their moms.

What I mean is, those guys started a sit-in, using Bukhansan Mountain as their base.

When the top assassins they sent didn’t return, they built a massive wall around Bukhansan.

It was a barrier made of trees and earth, using spirits.

It deflected most attacks, and its height was dozens of meters, making it difficult to enter from the air.

Military helicopters could get over it, but the government wouldn’t cooperate.

The reason was to maintain the stance that this was an incident caused by a single Diver [a person with supernatural abilities], and the government had nothing to do with it.

Choosing between turning against the elves or turning against the Divers, they indirectly sided with the elves.

Both sides were being petty.

The Divers who followed Yoo Seong-woo would remember this.

But Yoo Seong-woo wasn’t discouraged.

He wouldn’t be disappointed if he didn’t expect anything in the first place.

He was already convinced that there were people in the government who had joined hands with them.

HighElfShuaNel: Wow, Yoo Seong-woo is a legend;; Won’t they add him as a new character in the game? Game company, are you watching?

└VipexLegend: Is the game company a joke? Are you brainless? If you add something like that, it’ll break the balance ^^ㅣba

└HighElfShuaNel: Your head is more unbalanced, lol

Let’sPlayNonggu: Who is that guy above? Why do you keep looking for Yoo Seong-woo here?

└GameIsLife: ShuaNel is a famous Yoo Seong-woo fangirl;;

└HighElfShuaNel: Do you want to die? You little shit, call him Yoo Seong-woo-nim [Nim is an honorific suffix in Korean]

└GameIsLife: Does Yoo Seong-woo give you something for writing these posts? Is it some kind of comment job? This crazy bitch

“This X-rated bastard……”

In the meantime, ShuaNel was pouring out posts praising Yoo Seong-woo on the internet.

Even while matching games, she would go in and write posts whenever she was bored.

It was thanks to Yoo Seong-woo’s cash injections that she got three game melee weapons worth 500,000 won [~375 USD] each.

She thought it would be just one, but Yoo Seong-woo generously gave her three.

“What do you guys know? What do you know, you bastards……”

She was doing it voluntarily, not because Yoo Seong-woo told her to.

Of course, without Yoo Seong-woo’s knowledge.

ShuaNel, who was becoming even more of a shut-in, stared intently at the monitor and wrote that Yoo Seong-woo was the real savior of this era.

And she got banned.

It was a natural course of events.

If you keep posting posts that don’t fit the bulletin board, you’ll naturally get banned.

But ShuaNel couldn’t accept that and went to other bulletin boards to cause a ruckus, and was banned in succession.

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“Sly elf bastards.”

Yoo Seong-woo muttered, looking up at the towering barrier.

He never thought they would mobilize all the spirits to build such a barrier.

He knew these guys would be holed up in the forest.

‘That elder’s spiritism is more powerful than I thought.’

I know that the elves’ spiritism has been declining since they abandoned the parent tree.

But Beyorgan’s spiritism was still strong.

I could guess that he was maintaining his power with some kind of force.

Perhaps the ‘Ascension Church’ was involved.

“But……”

Yoo Seong-woo had also planted allies inside Bukhansan.

After the meeting with Cheonshin, Cheonun Seonnyeo [a celestial maiden] began to treat him very politely, so she promised to cooperate in this matter as well.

Cheonun Seonnyeo, Kim Yun-joo, mainly tells fortunes, but she is an A-class Diver.

Moreover, she can summon various gods into her body and cause various phenomena…….

‘Elf bastards…….’

If you ask me if I like or dislike elves, I’m a little on the dislike side.

I didn’t hate them from the beginning.

Rather, he initially liked elves.

Beautiful appearance and mysterious atmosphere.

On Earth, they are characters who mainly appear as companions of the protagonist in fantasy novels, aren’t they?

Therefore, Yoo Seong-woo, who remembered that, also felt affection for the elves, but that affection was shattered before long.

-Are you human? Die!

-Die, human!

-Take those guys as food!

These crazy cannibal bastards…….

As the continent became desolate, the elves in the forest crawled out.

They somehow managed to grow plants with the power of spirits, but they couldn’t get meat, so they came out.

Of course, not even ShuaNel or the elves I saw in Russia were cannibals.

It was just that the elves in Yoo Seong-woo’s world were unique, but the memories of that time remained so strong that he developed a prejudice.

A tendency to be overly obsessed with something…… Looking at ShuaNel, I also think that it’s not really a prejudice.

“What are you going to do? This huge barrier.”

While he was briefly immersed in old thoughts, Hong Seo-hwa, who had approached him, asked.

“Shall I burn it all down? Master? Shall I just make it all a glorious roast…….”

“That tree is watered, so it won’t catch fire. It keeps drawing moisture into the tree itself, and it’s even solid because it’s mixed with other spirits.”

“My fire is useless.”

“That’s right.”

Others would be similar.

As of now, there aren’t many ways to break through this huge barrier.

The easiest way would be to go to the sky, but the elves must have prepared anti-air operations.

“Can’t even Master break through it?”

“Me? I can break through it.”

“Then, if Master makes an entrance, can’t we go in and kill them all?”

“Are the elves’ heads empty?”

Yoo Seong-woo stared at Hong Seo-hwa with narrowed eyes.

I thought she used to use tactics and had a good head as a guild master, but why is she like this these days?

‘Did I push her too hard?’

There were sometimes kids like that.

In cases where kids who were good at using their heads were replaced with kids who were good at using their bodies, even their heads became muscles.

It was a rare case…… I wonder if Hong Seo-hwa has become like that.

Just in case, Yoo Seong-woo asked.

“Recite the multiplication table, the 8th grade.”

“Yes? Eight times one is eight, eight times two is sixteen, eight times three is twenty-six?”

“Okay. Keep up the good work in the future.”

“Ah, eight times three is twenty-four! I just forgot for a moment because it’s been a while!”

“Okay…….”

Yoo Seong-woo gave Hong Seo-hwa a look of pity for a moment.

Hong Seo-hwa waved her hand, telling him not to look at her like that.

Anyway, Yoo Seong-woo moved his body here and there to loosen up.

It was something he had caused.

So, he had to finish it himself.

‘No, did I start it?’

When I think about it carefully, it seems like ShuaNel started it, but this guy is holed up at home playing games.

He seemed to be having a great time because he was a little busy right now.

Of course, if you look at it in more detail, the elf on that side started it first.

Didn’t he knock down the transmission tower and incur ShuaNel’s wrath?

Reaching that point, Yoo Seong-woo twitched his eyebrows and muttered.

“No, damn it, now that I think about it, I’m getting angry? Maggot-like bastards…….”

Saying that, Yoo Seong-woo looked at Hong Seo-hwa next to him and said.

“Move as I said.”

“Yes! Master!”

The number of people participating in this operation was small.

Since the Divers were acting independently, the manpower that could be mobilized was also limited…….

It would be fortunate if no one interfered.

“You can’t come in here!”

“Hey, do you know who I am! Get out of the way! Move!”

A voice was heard from behind.

When I turned around to see who it was, there was a middle-aged man in a suit.

Yoo Seong-woo looked at Hong Seo-hwa to ask who he was, but she shrugged her shoulders as if she didn’t know either.

“Looks like a member of the National Assembly? He’s wearing a badge. A Mugunghwa [Rose of Sharon, the national flower of Korea] badge.”

The middle-aged man strode towards Yoo Seong-woo and held out his hand.

When he looked down at his hand with a sullen expression, the middle-aged man coughed, ahem, and sent a look as if to say, hurry up and grab it.

Yoo Seong-woo had experienced this several times.

He was very similar to the powerful people who knew he was a wandering Swordmaster and tried to make connections.

He knew very well that getting involved with nobles or powerful people would be a hassle.

The fact that he came here in this situation meant that this middle-aged man was probably thinking of using this opportunity.

He had declared that he would catch all the traitors and kill them, so he wanted to build a relationship with him first and try to get something out of it. His intentions were written all over his face.

“What?”

Yoo Seong-woo blurted out half instinctively.

Because his personality, which had been harassing nobles in another world, hadn’t gone anywhere, similar words popped out to this man, who was a similar type.

“What?”

The middle-aged man seemed not to expect such words to come out, so he repeated Yoo Seong-woo’s words and coughed again, ahem. There was a cameraman attached to his side.

“You said you were a returnee? Then you might not know. Nice to meet you, I’m Woo Jung-oh, the head of Eunpyeong-gu District, affiliated with the Diver Management Committee.”

“Ah.”

Hong Seo-hwa, who heard the name Woo Jung-oh, whispered softly in Yoo Seong-woo’s ear.

“He works under Min Cheong-un’s father. He’s a lackey of the Diver Management Department.”

Divers usually didn’t have a good relationship with the Diver Management Department.

Even if those guys did their job well, it was just annoying things from the Diver’s point of view.

Since there were many cases of nitpicking about this and that, Hong Seo-hwa didn’t have a good view of Woo Jung-oh.

If there was no one around, she would have turned him into ashes.

It was a shame that she couldn’t do that because he was a member of the National Assembly and was accompanied by a Diver bodyguard 24 hours a day.

Then, what was the reason for the National Assembly member of the Diver Management Department to come all the way here?

The government did not support this matter.

Therefore, I thought there would be no reason for politicians to get involved.

‘Then he must have come to interfere.’

The fact that the government didn’t officially announce it and sent a politician like this meant that they wanted to handle it quietly.

There was a cameraman next to him, but if a picture was taken, it seemed like it would be used for political performance.

“So what?”

Yoo Seong-woo remained consistent with the same attitude. He didn’t think he should change his attitude just because he was a politician or anything.

“This friend’s way of speaking…… How old are you?”

“I’m over seventy, you bastard. What kind of manners are those to an elder? You should be bowing your head and calling me hyung [older brother or respectful term for an older male] right now.”

Since they brought up age over there, they brought up age over here too.

Over 20 years on Earth, over 40 years in another world. I didn’t count in detail, but I was definitely over seventy.

I just regretted not being able to have a seventieth birthday party.

Woo Jung-oh looked embarrassed at the words that he was over seventy.

He had dealt with many Divers so far, but Yoo Seong-woo was the first Diver of his type.

It was natural to try to look good if he was a National Assembly member in charge of Diver management, and at least he tried not to be disliked.

He brought up age to push through because he had no manners.

He looked like he was in his late 20s on the outside.

But Yoo Seong-woo was seventy years old and showed an attitude that he didn’t care whether he was disliked or not, and glared at Woo Jung-oh.

“Cough, cough. Age isn’t that important.”

“Really? Hey, Seo-hwa. This bastard doesn’t care much about age.”

“Really? Bald ajusshi [middle-aged man], what did you come here for?”

Hong Seo-hwa said that and giggled.

Yoo Seong-woo flicked her forehead and said.

“Kuak!”

“You can talk informally, but you shouldn’t make personal attacks. How sad would the bald guy be listening to that?”

He wasn’t sad.

He was just pissed off.