The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 87

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 87

Grand Lotus (12)

Yuseongwoo walked directly towards the mountain fortress that stood before him.

Elves peeked out from the fortress, aiming their bows.

Countless arrows rained down through the air.

The cleverly designed trajectories of the arrows aimed to kill him, leaving no room to evade.

However,

Yuseongwoo simply swung his sword a few times, knocking down all the arrows in flight, and then extended his sword.

A surging red aura crashed forward like a wave, engulfing the fortress walls where the elves were hiding.

The fortress walls, unable to withstand the immense impact, crumbled instantly, and the elves were swept away, becoming one with the earth and sand.

Yuseongwoo, moving to avoid the debris, narrowed his eyes and shifted his body.

Then came a sharp crack and the acrid smell of gunpowder mixed with the scent of rain.

Bang!

The sound, echoing belatedly, was clearly a gunshot.

Yuseongwoo frowned and looked in the direction of the shot.

An elf was holding a rifle. Where had they gotten it?

Without time to dwell on it, gunshots rang out from all directions.

Now, instead of arrows, lead bullets began to rain down, threatening to pierce Yuseongwoo’s body.

Bang! Bang bang! Bang!

Guns were excellent weapons that had remained in use even after the emergence of monsters.

Because Korea still maintained strict gun control, ordinary people couldn’t carry them for self-defense.

But they provided enough firepower to kill the monsters that emerged from the lower-level Abyss [a term for a dangerous, monster-filled dimension].

Monsters from high-level Abyss protected their bodies with magic and possessed thick hides, rendering most gunpowder weapons ineffective.

But that wasn’t the case with humans.

Guns were still the most lethal weapons when aimed at humans rather than monsters.

Low-level Divers [individuals who explore and fight in the Abyss] couldn’t use their powers against guns, and even B-ranks would suffer grievous wounds from a barrage of hot lead bullets.

An A-rank or S-rank could protect their body with magic, but they remained vulnerable to long-range snipers.

If their head was pierced before they could unleash their magic, they would die.

Yuseongwoo, who hadn’t expected them to possess such weapons, wore a surprised expression and quickly moved to dodge.

But elves were naturally talented marksmen.

They possessed amazing dynamic visual acuity and the strength to draw a bow with incredible power.

When elves with such talents wielded rifles, they became excellent, first-class shooters.

If they had joined the military, they would have consistently scored perfect marks.

‘…Judging by the fact that they only brought them out now, they must not have many.’

He counted the number of gunshots he heard.

Bullets flew continuously, but the sound of eighteen guns came from various directions.

So, in other words, Yuseongwoo was dodging lead bullets fired from eighteen rifles.

Yuseongwoo wondered if he had ever faced a similar situation.

The magic of wizards was slower than guns, and magic of comparable speed was weak.

So, this was a new type of battle he had never experienced before.

There were pistol-shaped weapons that wizards used while chanting ‘Manafor,’ but their destructive power was insignificant compared to rifles.

He was reminded of the saying that highly developed science is indistinguishable from magic.

“You have no pride….”

To abandon their identity as archers and spirits and choose guns.

As he muttered, he frowned, deflecting a bullet aimed at his side with his sword.

“You only abandoned half of it?”

The bullet just now contained the power of a spirit.

He wondered why the trajectories of the bullets were subtly curved.

The spirits were still aiding the elves, aiming for Yuseongwoo’s life.

The area where the fortress walls had collapsed was an open space with few trees, offering little cover.

‘I’ve never been shot before, so I don’t know if I can withstand it.’

So, for now, he was trying to resolve the situation by deflecting as many bullets as possible.

The barrage covering him was growing denser.

It was because the elves were gradually adapting to the guns, handling them as if they were extensions of their own bodies.

“Tsk.”

He clicked his tongue softly, deflected a few more bullets, and took a deep breath.

The aura contained in the sword gradually deepened, turning black as it became intensely red.

“You crazy bastards.”

Then he saw a large projectile hurtling towards him.

An RPG [Rocket-Propelled Grenade]. The warhead of a terrifying anti-tank rocket was coming his way.

Ignoring where they had obtained such a weapon, Yuseongwoo intercepted the warhead with the tip of his sword.

Then he gently drew a circle.

From top to bottom, and then from bottom to top again.

With delicate force control, he redirected the warhead back towards the side that had fired it.

The returned warhead caused a massive explosion, spewing dirt and dust into the rain. The debris would soon be washed away by the raindrops, but the explosion and smoke would linger for a while.

“Keep shooting!”

Bullets poured down again.

The relentless barrage tightly constricted his life, but Yuseongwoo was now generating aura all over his body.

Thwoom, thwoom, thwoom…….

This time he didn’t dodge the bullets. He stood still and took them all.

And the result was that all the bullets bounced off and rolled on the ground.

The red aura emanating from Yuseongwoo’s entire body prevented the bullets from penetrating, gently deflecting them.

“I never thought I’d use Aura Armor to block bullets…….”

Aura Armor.

A technique of compressing swirling aura into the form of armor and wearing it on the body.

Because it was a technique that only the most skilled Swordmasters could use, as far as he knew, there were only two or three Masters who could use Aura Armor.

One of them was himself.

He didn’t want to use it if possible because the consumption of aura was rapid, but this was the only way to break through the increasingly dense barrage in a short time.

He moved with aura enveloping his body.

A long red afterimage remained on the ground, as he knocked down an elf holding a gun.

Yuseongwoo grabbed the rifle with one hand and unleashed a hail of bullets upon the elves.

He quickly grasped the knack of shooting a gun with one hand.

He aimed the tip of the gun at the elves, drawing upon the feeling he had when playing games with Schuel.

When his gun was pointed at them, the elves quickly abandoned their positions or tried to take cover.

But Yuseongwoo didn’t miss them.

There was a reason why he had been banned from the game for using hacks [unauthorized modifications to gain an unfair advantage].

He remembered Schuel shouting, ‘Why are you the only one getting banned?’ in his head.

Of course, games and reality were different, but Yuseongwoo’s physical abilities were far superior to those of game characters.

That allowed him to replicate the same movements as in the game.

A divine skill that would be impossible in reality, holding a rifle with one hand and hitting every target.

“Damn it!”

The moment one of the elves was hit by a bullet, he fired a bullet at Yuseongwoo, but Yuseongwoo even managed to shoot the bullet fired by the elf, causing it to ricochet.

Yuseongwoo, dumbfounded even though he had done it himself, licked his lips.

‘Should I change my job to Gunmaster?’

After confirming that the rifle was out of bullets, he threw it away and surveyed the remaining elves around him.

He had shot and killed all the elves holding guns. The elves who weren’t armed had taken the opportunity to retreat.

There was no sign of anyone nearby.

In the end, it meant he had to venture further inside.

‘Bayorgan, it seems like he’s planning something.’

Because he hadn’t shown his face on the battlefield even once so far.

He must be preparing to kill him in the deep valley of Bukhansan [a mountain in South Korea].

Yuseongwoo smiled absurdly at the thought. And then he laughed loudly. The sound echoed loudly, reverberating through Bukhansanseong [Bukhansan Fortress].

“Kahahahahahahahaha-!!”

Covered in the blood of elves, surrounded by corpses, drenched in rain, laughing while exuding a red aura.

He was sure to look like a madman who had been driven insane by the relentless rain.

His laughter echoed off the steep walls of the valley.

The echo transformed into a ghostly cry emanating from a place shrouded in rain.

He, who had fully unleashed the mad laughter of a madman, moved forward with an indifferent expression.

It wouldn’t be long before he cut down all the elf bastards.

* * *

-Kyahahahahahaha…….

The sound of laughter carried from afar. It was a sound that made all the hairs on his body stand on end the moment he heard it.

Bayorgan could identify the owner of the ominous laughter the moment he heard it.

“This crazy bastard…….”

How could he laugh like that after killing so many elves?

Only now did he realize that he had provoked something he shouldn’t have.

That bastard was insane.

He knew how to hunt enemies and possessed the power to do so.

The madness emanating from his laughter clearly indicated that he had done this more than once or twice.

It was a confident laughter that only someone familiar with this one-sided slaughter could produce.

“Go and finish preparing the magic activation! We must complete it before he arrives! That’s the only way we can kill him!”

His voice echoed loudly outside the tent.

Those who heard Bayorgan’s voice began to move busily and in an orderly manner.

“Hurry! Faster!”

Bayorgan also jumped out of the tent and began to direct the operation himself.

No matter how strong Yuseongwoo was, he would be helpless if this magic was completed.

-Bayorgan, Bayorgan! Since you guys aren’t coming out, I’m coming myself! Come out right now, come out! Come out and let me stab my sword into that heart!

Yuseongwoo’s voice echoed from afar.

Bayorgan gritted his teeth and poured magic power into the large magic circle drawn on the floor.

-Elder, Elder of the Elves, why are you trying to live alone, abandoning your subordinates behind…….

-Ah, I can hear it, I can hear it very well, I keep hearing the song that the elf youths are singing…… Ah, elves are a long-lived species, so they’re not youths, they’re all old people! Haha!

-They’re begging me to save them, they’re kneeling before me, begging me not to die…….

-Tears are coming out, tears are coming out…… I’m crying because I feel so sorry for the elves who have a fucking, parricidal bastard like you as their elder…… You son of a bitch.

An annoying voice continued to be heard from afar.

It was the voice carried by the spirits of the wind that had been spread out for surveillance.

The ramblings of a madman grated on the ears of the elves.

And soon, a real voice, not the sound of spirits, was clearly audible.

“You pointy-eared bastards, how long are you going to stay holed up here like hikikomoris [Japanese term for shut-ins]? Why don’t you jump outside?”

“Block him!”

At Bayorgan’s cry, a few elves jumped out, and those in the back held rifles and fired.

A loud gunshot echoed through the rain.

But the next moment, a red light flashed, and the elves who had rushed in were turned into minced meat.

The flying bullets returned as they were, knocking down the shooters.

He had now reached the point where he could not only deflect bullets but also return them with equal force.

The elves fell in vain.

But in that short time, Bayorgan finally completed the magic.

The magic circle spread out on the floor began to emit a pure white light.

The geometric magic circle floated into the air and soon took on a three-dimensional form.

He, having completed the magic, shouted with a triumphant smile.

“Be overturned, heaven and earth! Space shall be twisted according to the will of God!”

Magic power spread in all directions, beginning to manipulate space.

The world was being turned upside down. The sensation was palpable.

The Great Magic revealed its presence to the world.

A magic from the mythical era that no human could ever withstand had arrived.