The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12. Red Sea (2)
“Your Majesty, a malevolent death star has risen above the empire. And it appears directly beneath your own star….”
A Heavenly Death Star was born within the Ruzbella Empire.
Even if such a fate appeared in a mere orphan, it would be fitting to dispatch the Executioners and end their life—a most ominous destiny.
Yet it manifested in none other than the Emperor’s youngest daughter.
“Confine the imperial princess eternally.”
Iris Ruzbella was abandoned in the most desolate corner of the imperial palace itself.
The palace was guarded by the Five Star Knights of the imperial household.
The nursemaid assigned to her in childhood took her own life when Iris turned four.
‘How could they all abandon me?’
After the nursemaid’s death, necessary provisions arrived in a small cart.
Even that ceased once she surpassed eight years of age.
‘I’m so hungry.’
In the desolate palace devoid of any soul, the imperial princess Iris trembled with loneliness.
No one could pass the knights to enter the princess’s quarters.
‘I must hunt for myself….’
For some reason, monsters began appearing within the castle.
She pulled a candlestick embedded in the wall and wielded it like a sword.
She roamed the castle alone, securing her own provisions.
No one had taught her swordsmanship, yet she achieved mastery in an instant.
When this was discovered, she was ultimately abandoned in the Abyss.
【I shall grant your dreams. Lonely girl, seize me.】
There she met the Sword—no, the Sword Master.
‘Is there truly a being who needs me?’
Though the entire world had abandoned her, only the Sword Master protected me.
When all the world sought my death, the Sword Master alone supported and sheltered me.
I overcame my loneliness with the sword as my companion.
“The girl despises everything in this world.”
The sword understood my will.
It granted me the power to achieve my dreams.
And thus, I became the final empress who brought ruin to the entire continent―.
“We gazed upon the world’s end together… why do you abandon me now?”
Iris lamented desperately within the Sword World.
One day, this eternal space connected with the Sword Master’s world.
I made every effort.
At last, I overcame the interference of that detestable old sword and earned the right to converse with the Sword Master.
Yet the Sword Master remained silent.
‘Does the Sword Master not see me because I’ve become too small?’
From our first meeting, the Sword Master had always prioritized my nutritional state and growth.
Perhaps he dislikes my childish appearance.
‘So in this diminished form, I fail to meet his expectations. How can I grow my body—? If I absorbed the other swords by destroying them….’
Despair had consumed me entirely.
Whoooosh————.
The thick, coppery stench of blood wafted through the air.
It was vivid enough to reach even into the Sword World.
“Ah, yes! The Master did not ignore me after all!!!”
Iris Ruzbella understood.
She had not been abandoned.
“A blood feast for me….”
The Sword Master was sharing in a crimson banquet with Iris Ruzbella, celebrating our reunion with joy!
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A massive crimson blade tore through the void and surged upward.
A lustrous violet edge.
A hilt emanating an eerie presence.
To any observer, it was a sword so terrifying it seemed the very source of all malevolence.
Yet….
Thump———!!!
My heart trembled violently.
This was the sword that had witnessed the world’s end with me in childhood.
How could my hands not shake, holding it directly for the first time?
My own sword trembled equally.
【The Blood Lord commanding a million demons, the continent’s final empress. Iris Ruzbella, I have answered the Sword Master’s call.】
She spoke.
Her voice quivered subtly.
I nodded impassively and surveyed my surroundings.
The Red Sea already painted everything crimson, and the scarlet aura surging from the blade dyed the world an even deeper red.
I extended my vision far outward.
Whoooooosh———.
Within the slowed world, crimson waves undulated hazily.
From within them, the monsters of the Red Sea rose up.
“Run——.”
“The sea——!!!”
In the slowed world, I saw people fleeing with their backs to the waves.
All of this unfolded in an instant, yet my vast perception grasped and organized every detail in a heartbeat.
【I have never forgotten the grace of fulfilling the girl’s deepest wish. Now it is my turn to repay you. Please use my power freely.】
Iris Ruzbella whispered.
Sweet as a demon’s temptation.
I gladly accepted her seduction.
Whoosh—.
Suppressing my surging exhilaration as much as I could.
I aimed the Second Sword, Iris Ruzbella, toward the vast sea.
My enemy is pseudo-nature itself.
Towering waves that would swallow the vicinity of Goyang City and submerge Seoul beneath their depths.
Yet I feel no fear.
‘I can kill all things.’
I feel it.
How to wield the power dwelling within this blade.
The countless authorities and memories I gained through cultivating the sword.
And layered upon that, the enlightenment obtained upon becoming a [Sword Master]—it flashed through my mind in a single brilliant instant.
‘I will kill the sea. I will kill the Red Sea.’
The crimson blood dwelling in this blade is my power.
The vengeful spirits slumbering within are demons I command.
Moving them requires but a single word from me.
“Devour—.”
Just a simple utterance.
And my blade swings forth.
Whoosh——.
The crimson greatsword carved through the waves.
Not merely a swing.
[Annihilation Slash, Horizontal Severance]
The first transcendent technique Reinhardt Euclid had awakened was now manifested through the crimson greatsword.
Originally, a technique that blazed with brilliant azure light.
Now it is different.
An eerie crimson has taken its place.
A thick, viscous crimson sword aura poured forth toward the waves.
Fissures tore open in the very air.
Crack—crack.
The atmosphere shattered along the blade’s trajectory.
From the cracks, blood-red fluid gushed forth.
Thus did I manifest the million demons slumbering within the blade upon this land.
Kiiiiiii—————.
Blood-red fluid.
They became demons.
The demons were grotesque monsters bearing massive heads, their bald scalps crowned with crude single eyes, their entire faces split horizontally in bizarre fashion.
They multiplied by the tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten-thousands, hurling themselves toward the Red Sea.
Crunch—.
The demons opened their maws.
Teeth resembling massive human molars devoured the strange creatures of the Red Sea.
They multiplied until their numbers reached a million, charging relentlessly toward the sea.
‘Power—.’
The demons swallowed the Red Sea whole, their bodies swelling with each gulp.
The Red Sea was blood.
They had consumed it.
An indescribable exhilaration surged through my entire being.
Thump!!!
My heart convulsed violently.
I felt blood rushing into some void within me in real time.
Yet paradoxically, an intense thirst consumed me.
But that thirst was quenched as the demons devoured the Red Sea.
‘Lord of Blood.’
The authority I had obtained from Iris Ruzbella.
It meant this power was now manifesting within my very flesh.
Something hollow within me overflowed with fullness.
I cannot discern the specific changes yet.
‘For now, I am omnipotent.’
Sword and wielder are one.
This is the truth of [Cultivating the Sword].
Therefore, I now stand at the same level as Iris Ruzbella, the Fifth Sword.
A state approaching omnipotence.
‘I will understand the changes only after the sword’s summoning is complete.’
Even as these thoughts crossed my mind, the demons continued to swell, draining the Red Sea dry.
The demons’ true identity was subjects.
The sole subjects who followed the final Empress who had destroyed the continent.
They regarded me as their lord and devoured all things according to my will.
‘Consume only the Red Sea—.’
A power that annihilated the world.
They desired to devour everything without exception.
But I am the master.
As the sword’s master, I restrained them.
The demons, obedient to their master’s will, absorbed the blood that composed the Red Sea at tremendous speed.
‘An absurd power.’
Before long, the sea fell silent.
I stared in shock at the phenomenon I had wrought.
Whoooosh——.
The Red Sea had vanished.
Every wave that had surged from the Gate’s flooding, every drop that had submerged Goyang City—all of it, gone.
Seeing the land exposed in Goyang City for the first time in a decade, one might think I had become a savior—but….
Crackle—.
A million demons, now as colossal as the Red Sea’s waves, filled the entire area.
They demanded more to consume, their single gleaming eyes rolling with hunger.
And I stand at the center of this catastrophe as its protagonist.
【Ah, the young lady has grown somewhat. She must be eagerly awaiting reunion with the Sword Master.】
Up to this point, four seconds.
With Iris Ruzbella’s farewell, the world trembled.
A deafening boom echoed across the expanse.
Colossal demons transformed into crimson mist in an instant, vanishing into the blade.
The massive crimson greatsword in my hand also returned to its invisible scabbard.
And then….
‘My body has transformed.’
I had absorbed the vast ocean of blood.
Through the [Blood Lord] trait, everything within me evolved to a higher plane.
My sense of smell sharpened dramatically.
My vision became crystalline.
I felt every subtle movement of my muscles, and a sensation of complete mastery over my entire body washed over me.
The moment I recognized this change, another transformation occurred.
A brilliant flash erupted.
[The Infant Sword has accumulated vast indirect experience.]
[Please select a new trait!]
My small, precious ‘Infant Sword’ had grown.
Now I could choose a sword lineage and construct a concrete build.
Another brilliant flash erupted.
[Countless observers have witnessed the feats of the Sword Master, Shin Si-woo.]
[The world sends its acclaim for this great Achievement.]
[You have resolved most of the Incomprehensible.]
[You are granted 1 kilogram of Mystery ingot.]
[World Quest triggered!]
[Find and resolve the source of the Red Sea.]
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‘One kilogram of Mystery… and a World Quest on top of that?’
My mind was consumed by the cascade of messages and the astronomical rewards.
‘Hmm?’
An odd scent drifted from behind me.
I turned my head slightly.
“W-what on earth is happening!!!”
The father of Seol-ah noona, who had been standing behind me.
Chief Prosecutor Kang Mu-jin collapsed backward with a heavy thud.
‘So much happened in just four seconds—it’s no wonder he’s shocked.’
I assumed he was startled by the blade erasing the Red Sea—.
“D-don’t come near me!!!”
He stared at me with an expression of sheer terror.
Their eyes were brimming with terror.
I glanced around discreetly, and everyone wore the same expression.
I’d apparently made quite the spectacle of myself.
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—What the hell did we just witness?
—Is that even something a human can do?
—If that’s possible, then they’re a Transcendent….
The Red Sea had vanished.
Yet martial law remained in effect.
Under normal circumstances, the citizens would have protested—.
—Watch the 0.1x speed video. Isn’t that world-ending level?
Through WorldNet, my power was revealed to the entire world.
The atmosphere grew unsettling when a correspondent broadcasting live updates collapsed, bleeding profusely.
—They all lost control lol
Whether Hunters or ordinary citizens, everyone in the footage had soiled themselves.
—Isn’t it strange if you didn’t lose control there?
Erasing the sea was one thing, but then it was swallowed, and grotesque monsters as vast as the sea itself emerged.
At this point, South Korea’s citizens recalled a certain hero.
—Ah, Kang Mu-jin. He is merely light.
—There must be a profound reason why he’s been concealing the Transcendent….
—Those vile media hacks!!! I’m posting the names of journalists who wrote malicious articles on the Patriot petition board!
The righteous prosecutor Kang Mu-jin.
He had been shouldering such a colossal and terrifying burden alone for the people.
Everyone understood it that way.
My display of power was overwhelming, and even more threatening than that.
As if—.
—Doesn’t seem stronger than the Patriot?
—What if they deploy bombers from an aircraft carrier?
—Just summon Sword Master Cheok Jun-kyung to handle the demons and bomb the main body, problem solved?
The Patriot’s zealous fans had a meltdown.
Yet deep down, they too questioned who was stronger.
—So the Patriot could clear the Red Sea in 4 seconds?
The Patriot had driven back the Red Sea through sheer firepower.
And barely managed to push it only as far as Goyang City.
In the end, the Patriot’s zealous fans backed down.
—But honestly, seeing Kang Mu-jin attached to him, he doesn’t seem like a bad Hunter. Do we really need to fight among ourselves?
—That’s true.
Shin Si-woo is a Hunter of South Korea.
His power is just terrifying….
In reality, he is a great hero who resolved a threat to the nation.
—Think about it: in Yeouido, he unleashed a magnificent, towering blue sword in a carpet bombardment. Surely not an evil entity?
—But here he summoned a world-ending catastrophe monster?
—Guess he’s both.
Public opinion moved swiftly, grounded in facts.
—He’s definitely a savior.
—With this many people watching, the Achievement rewards must be astronomical?
People began focusing on the true nature of what Shin Si-woo had accomplished.
—But if he erased the Red Sea, isn’t he stronger than Jesus?
—Comparing him to Jesus crosses the line.
Jesus, America’s strongest Hunter.
A madman who converted the entire Grand Canyon into a [Church].
He is the world’s only EX-rank Hunter.
Not a pseudo-Red Sea emerging from a Gate, but Jesus literally split the Atlantic Ocean in half.
—Moreover, he eliminated disability entirely across all of America; his Achievement is incomparable from the start.
There are no disabled people left in America.
Because Jesus’s blessing descended, perfectly healing even mental illness.
“Oh, God damn!!!”
Even Jesus himself was gasping in shock at the feat Shin Si-woo had wrought.
“Such a vicious and horrifying monster appearing in this world….”
Inside the Church in the Grand Canyon.
A Black man with his hair braided into two sections muttered to himself.
“The Gate isn’t the problem right now.”
Initially, he’d been monitoring the Korean situation because a forced Gate Break had occurred.
But then….
Something far more sinister appeared—something that made the Red Sea seem trivial.
“A―men.”
Jesus clutched the cross hanging from his neck and muttered something under his breath.
Moments later―.
Screech.
[SATAN, DEVIL, DEMON, EVIL, POWERS OF DARKNESS.]
Above the cross, a crimson sword and a description of Shin Si-woo appeared.
“Good heavens―.”
It meant a devil deserving of immediate annihilation.
That eerie crimson greatsword.
The demons summoned from it.
Those are genuine forces of evil.
“I must find that demon immediately. Summon President Bill!!!”
Jesus commanded.

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