The Crazy Battle God Has Returned - Chapter 150

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A Mad Swordsman Returns – Chapter 150

The Lord War had ended.
The sworn servants of the Earthquake Devourer still remained, but it was meaningless. They had lost all will to fight.
An unexpected victory—the Woman Who Cuts the Moon had triumphed.

“You remember the terms of our contract, don’t you?”

Now that the war was over, it was time to divide the spoils.
Han Yu-sung met the Woman Who Cuts the Moon by the lake bathed in moonlight.
I could sense the complex emotions swirling in her eyes.

[“I remember. We made a contract, and I have no intention of breaking it. Check for yourself.”]

Han Yu-sung had presented a condition to the Woman Who Cuts the Moon this time.
That he would claim the rewards earned from winning the Lord War.
There were three major rewards.

[You have seized 500,000 coins as a victory reward!]
[You have seized the Difficult Realm possessed by the Earthquake Devourer!]
[You have seized the C-rank Sacred Artifact, Stone Guardian!]

Coins, a Difficult Realm, and a Sacred Artifact.
Of course, these weren’t the only rewards.
But the remaining rewards were things like “temporary armistice,” which I couldn’t claim.
And I didn’t particularly need them anyway.
Most importantly, there was another reward I needed to receive separately.

“I’ll need to take the sworn servants as promised beforehand.”
[“Sigh…”]

The Lord closed her eyes tightly.
Baek Min-jun, Ahn Jung-hyuk, Lee Ye-eun, Song Ji-a, Yang Han-byul.
These five, plus the sworn servants who wished to leave the Woman Who Cuts the Moon.
Han Yu-sung intended to take possession of multiple sworn servants.
In truth, it wasn’t a bad proposal for the Woman Who Cuts the Moon either.

[Hmph, if he’s going to disappear for a while anyway, his sworn servants would be useless to him regardless. Yet seeing him lament like that… I don’t quite understand it.]
‘He must feel like something’s being taken from him.’

The Woman Who Cuts the Moon had emerged victorious from this Lord War.
Yet the tangible rewards had gone to Han Yu-sung, and the damage she’d sustained was so catastrophic that recovery seemed impossible.
All she’d managed to gain were things like temporary truces.
For the foreseeable future, she would be forced into hiding, waiting for an opportunity to make her comeback.
What use could sworn servants possibly serve in such circumstances?

‘In any case, such is the nature of Lords.’

Yet still, she seemed reluctant to surrender her sworn servants.
The Woman Who Cuts the Moon’s eyes narrowed with troubled uncertainty.
But only for a moment.

[“Very well. Since they hold no meaning for me and we’ve already made our agreement… I shall freely release all sworn servants save those you’ve specifically requested. Should any among them wish to contract with your Lord, take them with you.”]

The Woman Who Cuts the Moon reached her decision swiftly.
She had come to understand the futility of it all.

“I like that. What will you do from here on?”
[“I shall settle my affairs and enter seclusion. I have a place prepared elsewhere. The Earthquake Devourer prevented me from moving until now, but…”]
“So now that you’re free to move, you’ll head there.”
[“Indeed. Alone, unknown to anyone. For a very long time.”]

A Lord was a being who lived through vast epochs. For such a creature to speak of “a very long time,” it must mean an incomprehensibly vast span of years.
She had apparently been earning coins recently by deploying her sworn servants across multiple battlefields, so I suspected she’d been preparing capital for exactly this purpose.
Though truthfully, it wasn’t my concern.

“Then, that concludes our business. Perhaps we’ll meet again someday.”
[“Before that—I have one question.”]
“What is it?”

The Woman Who Cuts the Moon recalled the battlefield she had witnessed moments ago.
One particular sight had left a deep impression on her.
It was the moment when the Earthquake Devourer had incinerated his own defensive barrier in a single, devastating strike.
That image had sparked a lingering doubt.

[“Who is your Lord?”]

It was a question that inevitably arose.
Han Yu-sung did not answer. He simply moved forward.
And as he left the Lake, he left behind a cryptic statement.

“Think for yourself. Then you’ll be able to guess who it is.”

Only the Woman Who Cuts the Moon remained at the Lake.
She gazed at the Lake beneath the crescent moon, lost in thought.
There were many rumors circulating about Han Yu-sung’s Lord.

[It couldn’t be the Blood Demon. Then what remains….]

Once, the Blood Demon had been the leading theory.
But due to the Blood Dragon Auction and various contradictions in the circumstances, it was no longer accepted as the official explanation.
Excluding the Blood Demon, which Lord would be most fitting?
A particular Lord suddenly came to mind.

[War.]

That flame which had incinerated the Earthquake Devourer’s barrier.
It was undoubtedly the power of a sacred artifact. If it possessed the potency to burn through a Lord’s barrier, it would certainly be a sacred artifact belonging to a Lord with a title.
The Lord of War must have possessed such an artifact.
And there was one more thing.

‘Han Yu-sung’s belligerent nature….’

It aligned far too perfectly with the title of War.
Lords are fundamentally indifferent to humans. Yet they sometimes take interest in and patronize those whose temperaments align well and who possess talent.
Just like Han Yu-sung.
Though the thought had surfaced abruptly, the more she considered it, the more the pieces fit together.

[But the Lord of War should be dead.]

That was the mystery.
She had heard that he fell and was annihilated after repeated defeats at the hands of the Lord of Justice.
But what if that wasn’t the truth?
What if he hadn’t been annihilated, but had merely hidden his tracks?

‘No, it’s not impossible.’

After all, wasn’t he himself attempting to go into hiding?
Come to think of it, I’d only heard that the Lord of Justice had tracked down the fleeing Lord of War and ultimately pinpointed her location.
I never heard news that the Lord of War had been captured.
After that, no related information reached my ears at all.

[If the Lord of Justice let the Lord of War slip away, if she then went into hiding to gather strength, if she made a contract with this player named Han Yu-sung….]

Everything fits perfectly.
A deep smile bloomed across the Woman Who Cuts the Moon’s lips.

[The Lord of War is about to reveal her existence once more.]

Han Yu-sung showed no intention of concealing his Lord.
It meant he had confidence to handle whatever came next.
It meant he possessed the strength to stand against the Lord of Justice herself.

[Interesting times lie ahead.]

Whatever form they took.
They would be more than enough to dispel the tedium of her secluded life.
With that thought, the Lord who had lost everything made her exit from the stage.
Awaiting the day she would reclaim her power once more.

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Baek Min-jun found himself in profound confusion.
It was because of a message that appeared without any warning.

[‘Woman Who Cuts the Moon’ has terminated her contract with her sworn servants.]
[The Lord has left her final words: I shall abandon everything and retreat into seclusion. I release you—go your own paths.]

The moment the message appeared, the contract dissolved exactly as stated.
The bond connecting them to their Lord vanished. The sworn servants felt an indescribable sense of liberation, yet simultaneously found themselves bewildered by the situation.

“She terminated the contract? Why?”
“She didn’t seem like she had any intention of releasing us…?”
“Wasn’t she planning to use us for coin mining until death?”

I would have been better suited as a Lord who sold off sworn servants to other Lords for coins, yet here I was, releasing them so simply.
I couldn’t help but be bewildered.
And there were others even more bewildered than I was.

“Brother, why aren’t you releasing us?”
“Well, that’s… what? I still feel the contract holding?”
“Same here. I can still feel the bond with the Lord.”
“It seems only these five of us still have active contracts.”

It was Baek Min-jun’s party.
What was going on? Why were only they being denied contract release?
Could it be that the Lord intended to maintain their contracts?
Then, words appeared before Baek Min-jun’s party.

[“Go to the Room connected to the Lake. Someone awaits you there.”]

It was a message from the Woman Who Cuts the Moon.
Baek Min-jun’s party exchanged bewildered glances with one another.
They couldn’t comprehend the situation at all, but going there would surely reveal everything.
They headed toward the Room inside the building.
And the moment they opened the door.

“I was about to come find you, but this works out perfectly.”

Han Yu-sung greeted Baek Min-jun’s party from the empty Room.
Baek Min-jun hurriedly looked around. This Room was connected to the Lake, a space created by the Woman Who Cuts the Moon.
Yet the Lake was nowhere to be seen—only an ordinary Room appeared.

“The Lake… no, Lord… what on earth is happening…?”
“You seem confused, so I’ll be direct. Baek Min-jun. The contracts of those five have been taken over by our Lord.”
“What? No, that means… you transferred the contracts?”

Han Yu-sung nodded in response.

“It was the price for participating as mercenaries in this Lord War. The Woman Who Cuts the Moon said she would go into seclusion for a while to recover her strength.”
“Ah, so that’s why the other sworn servants’ contracts too!”
“Yes. There was no longer any need to maintain them. However, your contracts were transferred to us, so we couldn’t release them.”

Baek Min-jun’s party’s expressions grew complicated.
Joy and relief at escaping the Woman Who Cuts the Moon, yet simultaneously an anxiety and displeasure at finding themselves sold to another Lord without realizing it.
It was an emotion Han Yu-sung had experienced in his previous life as well.
He too had once been exploited by a garbage of a Lord.
And so.

“Before that, I’ll give you a choice.”
“A choice? What exactly do you mean…?”
“Whether to contract with our Lord, or to leave.”

Han Yu-sung presented a proposal.
Baek Min-jun’s party was shocked by the unexpected offer.

‘Is he saying he’ll nullify the contract?’
‘We’ve already taken over the contract, so there’s no reason to do this. Why?’
‘This is bewildering. I never expected to receive such an offer….’

Han Yu-sung had three major reasons for making such a proposal.
The first was to change their mindset.
A contract formed by force and one formed voluntarily inevitably differ in the mindset and attitude people bring to their work.

‘It’s better to conclude this in the form of a voluntary contract.’

And the second reason.
He was certain they wouldn’t refuse the proposal.
Han Yu-sung could be certain because he had experienced it in his previous life.
They would be yearning for freedom more than anyone.

[Then, what is the remaining reason?]
‘You’ll understand once the contract is settled.’
[Hmm…?]

Kakasha tilted his head in confusion.
Han Yu-sung, seated in his chair, watched Baek Min-jun’s party as they deliberated.

“The proposal is so sudden that…. I’m quite flustered. Before we decide, could we know what kind of Lord we’d be contracting with?”
“I can tell you that the Lord bears a True Name.”
“A True Name….”

Baek Min-jun fell into contemplation.
It was something he had already anticipated.
A Lord capable of contracting with Han Yu-sung would naturally possess a True Name, he had reasoned.

“One more thing. My Lord does not engage in unnecessary interference. I can swear this upon my name and my Lord’s True Name.”
“No interference, you say….”
….

As those words concluded, the eyes of Baek Min-jun’s party wavered.
They had shown little reaction to the mention of a Lord possessing a True Name, but their eyes trembled at the promise of non-interference.
It was inevitable.
They were sworn servants who had endured countless hardships beneath the Woman Who Cuts the Moon.

“Is it truly the case that your Lord does not engage in unnecessary interference?”
“Yes. Of course, we would need to participate in Lord Wars and such, but my Lord would never force you into places you wish not to go for the sake of coins.”

This was a significant advantage.
Baek Min-jun assessed it as such. Just as the Woman Who Cuts the Moon had done, Lords viewed players as mere instruments for earning coins.
They did not hesitate to squeeze their sworn servants dry for that purpose.
To be freed from that, even partially, meant everything.

….
….

Baek Min-jun’s party exchanged glances with one another.
For them, contracting with a Lord possessing a True Name would not be difficult.
But finding one among them who did not interfere was another matter entirely.
It was not merely difficult—it was nearly impossible.

‘I’m exhausted from being dragged around by Lords.’
‘Yet operating without a Lord is unthinkable.’
‘If we’re going to refuse, perhaps….’

Wouldn’t a Lord who guaranteed a certain degree of freedom be preferable?
One who possessed a True Name, and moreover, a Lord who commanded the player Han Yu-sung himself?
Whatever else might be said, there would be no room for boredom.
The more they considered it, the more compelling it became.
Baek Min-jun’s party exchanged knowing glances as their thoughts crystallized.

“Han Yu-sung.”

The decision came swiftly.
Without hesitation, Baek Min-jun’s party knelt on one knee in unison.
It was their answer.

“We accept your proposal. Please take us as sworn servants.”

The moment Baek Min-jun’s party ‘willingly’ entered into the contract.
A faint smile crossed Han Yu-sung’s lips.

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