The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 88

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 88

The Grand Lotus (13)

“Oof……”

Shua-nel, who was enjoying a game at home, frowned slightly and then relaxed. It wasn’t because she had lost the game.

The cause was the powerful magic that suddenly emanated from a distant place.

Nox, who was sitting next to her watching Shua-nel play, shuddered and got up.

Shua-nel thought Nox must have felt it too and was about to speak to him when—

“Bathroom, bathroom……”

Nox got up and headed to the bathroom.

It wasn’t magic he felt, but the urge to pee.

Shua-nel, momentarily dumbfounded, got up from her chair and approached the window.

Then, blinking, she looked towards Seoul.

“……What is that?”

Powerful magic was pouring down from the sky.

No, on closer inspection, it was surging upwards from the ground.

A waterfall of magic flowing in reverse.

Invisible to ordinary people, but as a High Elf, she could clearly feel it.

It was a disaster in itself.

That waterfall of magic surging from the ley lines [naturally occurring lines of energy] would ferociously tear apart anyone who approached it.

Something unbelievable was happening over there.

With that much magic, it wouldn’t be strange to call it a ‘god.’

It was that terrifying of a power.

It wasn’t enough to absorb all the earth’s energy (地力) [natural energy of the earth], it was even trying to devour the magic of living beings.

The fact that such terrifying magic had revealed itself to the world meant that something unusual must be happening.

“Seong-woo, Yoo Seong-woo, you who have the name of a star falling from the sky… can you defy the heavens? Can you even cut that down? With your red sword.”

Shua-nel unconsciously muttered to herself.

Could that red sword, filled with an eerie feeling, even split apart such a mass of magic?

She had clearly seen him cut down the calamity that had grown by absorbing divinity…….

He’ll probably take care of it on his own.

Yoo Seong-woo hadn’t lived as long as she had, but he had lived a busier life.

He had said that there hadn’t been a day in decades that he hadn’t fought, so even compared to her thousands of years, his life was no less dense.

His life, built on desire, struggle, hope, and victory, would not end in such a dirty place.

Shua-nel firmly believed that, closed her eyes, and muttered.

“Great Mother Tree, a young branch that has left your embrace beseeches you……”

After finishing her short prayer, she opened her eyes and looked ahead again.

In the distance, in the middle of the visible storm of magic, a red light began to bloom.

The sight, which looked like a sharp sword…….

“Guess I didn’t need to pray.”

Shua-nel said that and returned to her seat to start matchmaking again.

That damn Korean server didn’t exist, so matchmaking took forever.

* * *

The ground is shaking.

Almost everyone beyond the barrier felt it at the same time.

“Uh, uh, what is it?!”

“It’s an earthquake!”

The divers who were waiting beyond the barrier to prevent the elves from escaping lowered their stance, trying to keep their balance.

Not long after Yoo Seong-woo entered, a heavy rain suddenly began to fall, followed by an earthquake.

People didn’t know exactly what was happening inside, but they knew that something unusual was going on.

It would be foolish not to feel the strangeness of the continuous booming sounds and earthquakes.

Hong Seo-hwa, holding the end of her raincoat hood, frowned and muttered.

“Wow, damn, what the hell is going on inside?”

“Master must be fighting like crazy.”

“What? Why are you here?”

“……?”

As the earthquake was almost over, Baek Woo-hyun approached her.

Baek Woo-hyun furrowed his brow at Hong Seo-hwa’s words and replied.

“I had orders from headquarters to come here. To reinforce the defense.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? No such order was given. Is there something wrong with your head?”

“……?”

Feeling something was wrong, Baek Woo-hyun took out the radio hanging on his waist and tried to contact them.

“This is Baek Woo-hyun. Was an order issued 15 minutes ago?”

-No. Please maintain your current position.

The one in command was Yoo Seong-woo’s younger sister, Yoo Ji-woo.

She was an S-class with a better head than the two here, so she wouldn’t give pointless instructions.

Baek Woo-hyun sensed something was wrong, and so did Hong Seo-hwa.

An order that was never given.

Baek Woo-hyun moved because of it, creating a hole in the encirclement.

He quickly shouted into the radio.

“Switch me to Ji-woo diver, quickly!”

-What is it?

“About 15 minutes ago, I received an order to move points.”

-No such order was given…… Oh, crap. Return immediately!

Before she could finish speaking, Baek Woo-hyun was already running quickly.

Emitting electricity in all directions.

“Ah, damn it!”

The current that spread through the raindrops struck Hong Seo-hwa.

It was only slightly tingly, but she felt bad.

And quickly arriving at the point he was originally guarding.

There was a large hole in the barrier.

Four meters, no, maybe five meters?

A large hole, silently pierced, was in place.

It was a barrier that divers couldn’t break through even with all their might.

“Damn it……”

Should I chase?

No, no. Yoo Seong-woo also told him how to deal with it in case something like this happened.

There was a possibility that someone might infiltrate from beyond the barrier.

That was, of course, the ‘Ascension Church.’

In that case, Yoo Seong-woo told him not to chase, but to fill the hole.

That’s why Baek Woo-hyun abandoned the thought of chasing.

If there was someone capable of making such a big hole, it would be difficult to deal with them with his own strength alone.

Yoo Seong-woo would have a more difficult fight…….

‘Master can’t lose.’

He couldn’t picture Yoo Seong-woo losing in his head.

Yoo Seong-woo was truly a monster.

Strength, stamina, and skill, all three were endlessly unfolding.

Baek Woo-hyun picked up the radio and said.

“Requesting support at point B-2. The barrier has been breached.”

* * *

“Die! Yoo Seong-woo! Your path will end here! You stupid Swordmaster!”

“They’ve prepared quite a bit……”

Yoo Seong-woo frowned.

After breaking through the elves shooting guns, it’s a grand magic this time.

The pillars of magic rising from the ground reached the sky and pierced through the dark clouds.

He had experienced countless magics, so it wasn’t difficult to identify what kind of magic it was.

Pillars of magic endlessly surging from the ground, from even deeper ley lines.

The three-dimensional magic circle in the shape of a sphere was something he had never seen before, but he read the will entangled with it.

It was a type of distortion field that warped space.

He could feel in real time how it was being distorted.

Pressing down from above.

At the same time, pushing up from below.

Gravity and reverse gravity pushed against each other, trying to turn Yoo Seong-woo into a 3-centimeter-thick piece of meat like a hydraulic press.

“Hehehe, no matter how much you are, you won’t be able to resist this magic.”

Bayorgan gave a bitter smile.

If general space distortion magic presses from above or below, this magic was more violent.

It twists the space itself.

With a powerful force in multiple directions, like squeezing water out of a towel.

The sphere of the magic circle spinning in the air constantly emitted magic, converting it into physical laws in reality.

Each time, Yoo Seong-woo had to grit his teeth.

‘Even my insides are churning.’

He felt like his intestines were twisted by the distortion of space rushing in from all directions.

He felt like he would feel better if he vomited, but if he did, he would soak the floor not with gastric acid, but with blood.

Nevertheless, he had not yet despaired. He had experienced too much to give up on just this magic, and this was mild compared to the demons.

Back then, he fought with dozens of curses on his body.

“Is this…… the end of what you’ve prepared?”

Yoo Seong-woo looked at Bayorgan and asked. Is this the end of what you’ve prepared?

After confidently saying you would kill him, would you end without even killing him?

You stupid pointy-ear, you unfilial bastard who abandoned the Mother Tree, you cowardly son who doesn’t even go to war…….

Provocative words followed Bayorgan.

Bayorgan, intoxicated with his powerful magic and thinking he had taken the lead, scowled and responded to the provocation.

Using his magic as a primer, he drew magic from the ley lines that served as the source of the magic circle.

In the process, the corpses of elves who couldn’t withstand it turned to dust.

A violent space was completed that those without will and power could not endure.

The sphere of the magic circle rotated even faster, tearing apart the space a little more violently.

Yoo Seong-woo emitted aura from his entire body and resisted the magic.

The aura armor not only had strong physical defense, but also came with resistance to magic.

The compressed, rough storm of aura was interfering with the magic’s execution.

When Yoo Seong-woo endured without any problems even in the overwhelming magic, Bayorgan gritted his teeth and raised both hands.

“How dare you, a lowly human, try to stand against a noble elf!”

Two different magics unfolded from each hand.

Double casting.

A large fireball was completed in his right hand, and a sharp, long spear made of earth was completed in his left hand.

Bayorgan, unaffected by the magic, forcefully threw the two magics at Yoo Seong-woo.

The fireball arrived first.

The fireball that touched Yoo Seong-woo exploded, raising the flames greatly.

Smoke and dust scattered at the same time, clouding the vision.

Following behind, a solid spear flew into the dust and pierced him.

Bayorgan was not satisfied with that and threw fireballs and spears in succession.

The flames grew larger and larger.

The tangled magic fire dried up the surrounding area, which had been wet by the rain.

He must be dead by now.

He wouldn’t be able to move in this grand magic, so he must be dead for sure.

Thinking that, Bayorgan looked into the flames, and soon his teeth chattered at the eerie sensation.

In the flames, a pair of eyes, redder than anything else, were glaring at him.

It was clearly the eyes of a demon.

He thought that the demon who had come to him, who had abandoned the Mother Tree, was certain.

“Ah, ah! Don’t look! Don’t look at me with those eyes!”

Bayorgan, overwhelmed with fear, spewed out magic again.

Fireballs flew one after another.

Without knowing how to rest, until his magic was completely depleted…….

Bayorgan gasped and sat down.

Yoo Seong-woo was still glaring at him, engulfed in flames.

“Are you done?”

The cursed words pierced his ears again. Bayorgan didn’t even think about doing anything more.

His mind had turned completely blank due to the depletion of magic.

At least the spirits remained, but no spirit could approach in this storm of magic.

“Looks like it’s over. Then…….”

Yoo Seong-woo moved.

In the blazing red flames, a sword with a darker red light drew a beautiful diagonal line.

It was a perfect arc (元昊) [a perfect circle or origin] that would shock even a layman who didn’t know swords as extremely beautiful.

And.

With the red diagonal line, the sky was split in half.