The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32. Transcendents (1)
The world maintains its order.
Or so it appears.
In this present age where Gates rupture and all manner of phenomena unfold, one might question whether such a statement holds any merit—yet.
[January 3rd, 2023. Unidentified ability users emerge—designated as Awakened.]
—The majority of Awakened display signs of mental disturbance. Resembles schizophrenia.
—Faint traces of supernatural abilities detected in some Awakened.
—Chinese government covertly transported Awakened to hospitals. Ostensibly for contagion investigation, but suspected to be human experimentation.
[January 4th, 2023. Unidentified crimson dimensional portal emerges—designated as Gate.]
—The interior of Gates proves extremely hostile to human life.
—Ordinary civilians who venture inside face 100% mortality rate; numerous monsters immune to conventional firearms discovered.
—When Awakened enter Gates, they manifest magic or transcendent physical abilities.
—The “Trials” experienced by Awakened confirmed to be genuine phenomena.
Awakened wielding supernatural power within Gates.
Yet 99% of Awakened remain ordinary humans outside those Gates.
From the perspective of those in power, wasn’t this the perfect arrangement for exploitation?
However, the United States chose a different path than China.
[January 5th, 2023. U.S. government declares preferential treatment of Awakened as specialized Gate crisis personnel.]
—U.S. government officially implements close protection for all confirmed Awakened.
—Free medical support program activated for Awakened whose minds collapsed from Trials.
—Benefits provided according to Awakened classification.
Because the world’s strongest nation implemented such measures from the outset.
Because they chose to support and coexist with Awakened rather than imprison them for dubious experimentation—.
【With Jesus’s compassionate heart, we shall embrace all humanity, permitting no discrimination or contempt among people.】
The Transcendents who later emerged similarly chose to respect them and coexist together.
The Transcendents’ words established order, and other Hunters intoxicated with Awakened supremacy dared not speak.
【Even Awakened committing serious crimes shall face public execution!!! If you wish to live, refrain from committing crimes recklessly.】
Our South Korea’s Patriot was among such individuals.
Among vicious criminals publicly executed in Korea, many were Awakened.
The Patriot even executed ex-convicts who had Awakened.
[Kim Hyun-sik, released after completing an 18-year sentence, determined to be A-rank Hunter.]
When an ex-convict contacted the media seeking recognition as an Awakened.
The Patriot realized a troubling fact: ex-convicts who had completed their sentences existed among heinous criminals.
【A child sexual offender awakens and expects preferential treatment? Does crime disappear upon release?】
The law determined their debt to society.
This reasoning held no validity for the Patriot.
【Why are so many heinous criminals walking free? Murderers serving life sentences in prison—it’s absurd. Why keep them alive? In times when even rice is precious.】
The Patriot executed every heinous criminal who had completed their sentence and been released.
Life-sentence prisoners in jail faced the same fate.
【South Korea is a crime-free nation!!!】
Of course, not every nation resembles South Korea or the United States.
Everything depends on the circumstances, after all.
There are quite a few countries that collapsed due to hunter coups.
[North Korea: Government collapse following temporary transcendent rebellion.]
North Korea, now absorbed into China.
Awakened ones’ betrayal played a significant role in their downfall.
North Korea’s leader, who had gained considerable fame as the Rocket Boy, was assassinated along with his entire clan during the coup.
Pseudo-transcendents who could wield power in reality, however briefly, seized the opportunity and recklessly squandered their awakened abilities.
Cases like this abound far beyond North Korea alone.
[India: New caste system established.]
SSS-rank hunters—Brahmins
SS to A-rank hunters—Kshatriyas
B to F-rank hunters—Vaishyas
Induced awakened ones—Shudras
Dalits/Untouchables—Non-awakened ones.
In India, non-awakened individuals possess no concept of human rights.
One can kill non-awakened people for amusement without facing punishment.
Though not to India’s extreme, many nations regard awakened ones as a superior species and enslave non-awakened ones as a servile class.
Yet South Korea.
Japan, the United States, and several other great powers.
Maintain peace and order.
[Transcendent Shin Si-woo normalizes Mount Fuji region in Japan!]
[South Korea’s Red Sea confirmed completely eliminated.]
[Property values skyrocket in Goyang City and adjacent areas including Mapo District and Eunpyeong District.]
The reason is remarkably simple.
Just as India’s transcendent created a caste system, our transcendent has safeguarded peace, equality, and democracy.
And now it is my turn to become that transcendent and step into the spotlight.
—Ep. 12 Transcendent
Voices from across the world flood in relentlessly.
These days are truly bountiful.
It reminds me of the era when Jesus built churches and recklessly remade the world.
‘I’m losing my mind.’
I looked around with a bewildered expression.
According to WorldNet, an unprecedented surge in property values—something that shouldn’t exist since the Patriot’s era—is unfolding in South Korea.
Real estate near the Red Sea in Seoul is skyrocketing by hundreds of millions, far exceeding the surge in Seocho District when Ghost Cry was eliminated?
Still, I had no capacity to concern myself with that matter at present.
Whoosh—
The ground where we stood was flat terrain.
The atmosphere twisted with an eerie undulation.
Due to my clash with the British Doctor, an entire section of the Japanese Prime Minister’s Official Residence had vanished.
Muratan’s power obliterates all impurities except iron itself.
Even such a transcendent phenomenon was merely—.
“A new species….”
Everyone’s consciousness scattered at the world’s voice.
Not only the Japanese Prime Minister, but even the transcendents guarding him stared into empty space with vacant expressions.
“God… Kami—. Kami-sama Si-woo.”
The Japanese Prime Minister muttered vacantly.
‘My surname doesn’t actually mean god….’
He was an ordinary person, after all, so it seemed his mind had taken damage.
Muratan’s Blacksmith’s Forge wasn’t exactly human-friendly, after all.
Still, the awakened ones appeared relatively unscathed.
‘Ordinary people seem to suffer worse aftereffects.’
The Japanese Prime Minister drooling and muttering about Kami—what a sight.
Suddenly, I worried whether Seol-ah noona had been affected as well.
So I looked toward her—.
“Wait, you didn’t actually create some kind of sword human, did you?”
Noona asked me with a completely composed expression, her brow furrowed.
I told her it wasn’t like that and made light of it.
‘Though I haven’t confirmed it myself yet….’
The world within the sword.
Something new had been born there too, in Muratan’s forge.
I don’t know what it is yet either.
Still, I’m certain it’s not something like a sword human.
I’m curious, but there’s something more important to handle first.
Shhk—.
I drew the Aga Sword.
My Aga Sword, gleaming and radiating presence, sang its blade song as if delighted.
The Aga Sword, having obtained the [Scabbard], manifested in this world without requiring mystical assistance.
Why did I draw the sword?
“I need to finish what’s left.”
I gently stroked the blade’s edge and approached the British Doctor.
Ending that creature was the immediate priority.
“Kehehehe―. Creating a species? Testing the power of Jesus!”
The British Doctor, thoroughly pounded by Muratan, thrashed on the ground and screamed toward me.
A bloody sneer hung at the corners of his mouth.
Despite losing the abilities of [Inevitable Life and Inevitable Death] and the authority called [Surgical Chamber], he seemed to have something to rely on.
Did he think Jesus would be displeased with my actions?
“If Jesus believes in creationism, wouldn’t he gladly accept my creation of a species?”
“There exists a power that even that Jesus cannot escape.”
Was it because I’d cornered him to the brink of decapitation?
He was talking too much.
“Kehehehe, if you kill me, the Queen will declare war!!!”
Regardless of what he believed, I would sever the British Doctor’s life here.
The British Doctor had clearly crossed the line.
The Japanese Prime Minister’s scheming?
The attempt to brainwash me?
Since the purpose was a Korea-Japan alliance, it wasn’t a sin grave enough to warrant killing him outright.
It was a power that wouldn’t have worked on me anyway.
Reasonable compensation would have sufficed for forgiveness.
Such magnanimity was possible precisely because the power I possessed was immeasurable.
‘Besides, I’m not the type to commit murder indiscriminately.’
I didn’t have the capacity to execute everyone like the Patriot did.
But the British Doctor was different.
An SS-rank Hunter—a candidate transcendent who could save the world. That’s what his fate showed.
The British Doctor had utterly crushed those who could have become the world’s hope.
A thought suddenly occurred to me.
‘What exactly is the Great Britain Empire?’
After Awakeners appeared and Gates emerged, Britain proclaimed the revival of the Great Britain Empire.
Despite such a momentous event, the world’s reaction was lukewarm.
—Yeah, it’s the Great Britain Empire, but they can’t leave the island, right?
—So what?
It was because of the anomaly surrounding Britain—the barrier.
Yet despite that, the British Doctor wandered foreign lands alone, systematically destroying every SS-rank Awakener he encountered.
‘In truth, no one knows what’s happening inside Britain.’
Britain, China, India, and so forth.
Nations difficult to verify through WorldNet.
It meant those nations had expended vast mystical resources to block and isolate their own information.
‘It seems those British bastards shouldn’t leave the island.’
Judging by how he rambled about “my Queen” and such, it wasn’t a sane nation.
Perhaps they maintained something like India’s Awakener caste system, treating ordinary people as less than livestock?
The fact that the doctor referred to himself as a Duke of the Great Britain Empire suggested as much.
Shing—.
With such thoughts, I cleanly severed the British Doctor’s neck.
Perhaps it was because I swung the blade so calmly?
The British Doctor, who had been rambling about the Queen, died with his eyes wide open.
And his death was not clean.
Ssssssshhhhh————.
From the severed edge of his neck, black smoke poured forth instead of blood.
I was deeply perplexed.
‘Why is this coming out?’
I know exactly what this is.
Black smoke is the symbol of defilement.
When the fallen—those who had accumulated considerable power—met their end, such defilement would manifest.
But the British Doctor is not a fallen Demon Worshipper.
‘No, he simply hasn’t fallen yet, but there’s a possibility he could be a Demon Worshipper.’
The moment that thought crossed my mind.
A soft rustling sound.
The British Doctor’s eyes, wide open in death, began to change.
The inversion of white and black—sclera and iris reversed.
His already-dead body was beginning to fall.
This was it.
‘A stigma.’
Within [Sword Cultivation], it was the mark of corruption that higher-ranking Demon Worshippers placed upon lesser beings.
In exchange for claiming everything he had accomplished after death, the stigma granted its target immense power.
This black smoke was the phenomenon of that power flowing back to the stigma’s owner.
However, that smoke would never reach its destination.
⦗Ahhhhh——.⦘
My sword responded to that defilement.
My blade, nourished by consuming all the demonic forces in the world.
Iris Ruzbella herself.
⦗——Come now, become my sustenance.⦘
The Aga Sword trembled of its own accord, then vomited forth crimson light.
The blade was dyed in a red aura.
A sensation entirely different from when I had manifested the sword.
‘Is she using the Aga Sword as a conduit?’
Was this not the kind of defiled power that tasted far more delicious to Iris than even elves?
All the black smoke flowing from the British Doctor was absorbed entirely by Iris.
And thus—.
Crack!
[You have absorbed a fragment of defilement.]
[Confirmed: A scale of the Great Britain Empire.]
[World Quest preparing….]
A message appeared that no one on Earth could decipher.
Yet I alone could grasp its meaning.
‘Britain….’
The Great Britain Empire is not a nation of humans.
Britain, trapped within the Ring, has transformed into a stronghold of Demon Worshippers.
And the Ring surrounding Britain has been maintained for approximately ten years now….
Which means.
‘Britain was already the land of Demon Worshippers before I even awakened.’
It was truly shocking news.
* * *
A brilliant chime rang out.
A cross materialized in the empty air, wreathed in radiant golden light.
It was Jesus who had sent the British Doctor to this place.
After all the turmoil had concluded, he came to find me.
“The Great Britain Empire is….”
Jesus, who appeared within the cross, still cut a ridiculous figure.
Adorned with a pink crown of thorns and sporting twin-tailed hair—such was his appearance.
Yet his tone and expression were utterly transformed from his usual demeanor.
“…What exactly have I helped you accomplish?”
Jesus posed the question to me.
Though I was no god, I found myself compelled to answer a god’s inquiry.

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