The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 56

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Chapter 56. Let’s Go North! (2)
“Thank goodness we didn’t have to use you as a meat shield.”
“Tell me about it.”
SSS-rank Yaksha.
SSS-rank half-elf Yuki.
Two Japanese Transcendents had arrived on Korean soil in response to Shin Si-woo’s call.
They had joined the South Korean Military at the Front Lines.
“Yuki, we will stand alongside the Korean Military here.”
“As Shin Si-woo commands, should the situation demand it, I will evacuate all personnel from the Front Lines via portal.”
Their role was to support the Korean Military stationed here.
Should a monster appear that the military could not handle, Yaksha would step forward.
If even that proved insufficient, Yuki’s spirits would bind the corrupted beast’s legs while the soldiers evacuated.
“It’s beginning.”
A tremendous force was felt descending from the sky.
That intensity was familiar….
“B-bombers.”
Yuki and Yaksha both sensed the disturbance in the heavens.
Those things that often visited Japan.
Those that fired bombs in stealth mode and vanished.
Those….
Whiiiiiiiiii———.
They filled the sky beyond all reckoning.
Because they were Transcendents themselves, and because Patriot possessed no less peculiar power than Shin Si-woo, they could sense it.
“S-sugoi!!!”
Yaksha gasped thoughtlessly, but Yuki’s mind wandered elsewhere.
‘That is….’
Whether those bombers had nearly headed toward Japan, or whether such a monster becoming an ally was reassuring.
That was not the direction of her thoughts.
Yuki’s entire attention was seized by a certain fragrance wafting intensely through the air.
‘Mother’s phytoncide!!!’
Bombers filling the sky and an aircraft carrier existing somewhere.
And to both Shin Si-woo and Patriot crossing into North Korea from the ground, the intense fragrance of the World Tree wafted.
‘Surely, last time it only came from Patriot alone….’
From Patriot, who had slaughtered the World Tree and elves countless times within the Black Gate, a rich fragrance emanated.
Yet from Shin Si-woo, she sensed something faint but deeper—something primordial.
It was a reaction to the World Tree seed that Shin Si-woo possessed.
‘As if I were seeing the World Tree itself directly….’
That was when it happened.
“Yuki, they’re coming!”
Yaksha cried out.
Yuki hurriedly gazed toward the Front Lines, toward the darkness of the North.
The sky split open, and the obstructed view became perfectly clear.
Whiiiiiiii——.
What appeared through that gap was orderly descending artillery shells.
And intense flames erupting, tearing through the darkness.
Booooooom——!!
It was overwhelming violence.
The firepower bursting forth as if to devour everything made the surroundings flicker with light, and a violent earthquake followed from the ground.
A tremor so intense it surpassed the Great East Japan Earthquake.
It was as if the earth itself was raging.
Shrieeeeek——!
A chilling sound suddenly rang out.
Though the world still blazed brightly from the aftermath of the bombardment, following the sound, a massive form pierced through the explosion’s light and appeared.
It was something extraordinarily colossal, resembling geographical features.
A monster wrapped in pitch-black darkness, taking on a human form.
Dozens of such gigantic monsters.
And below them—.
“A tidal wave rising from the earth….”
“Yuki, it’s not a tidal wave.”
A black wave poured forth.
But their true nature was densely swarming ‘Corrupted Beasts’.
Tangled together, crushing each other, monsters intermingling as they transformed into a horrifying tidal wave.
“I’ll take the lead.”
Yaksha made his decision.
I could handle that much.
Behind me, the Korean Military’s bombardment had begun, and all I had to manage were those massive Corrupted Beasts.
However, one question nagged at me….
‘There’s no way that Shin Si-woo let this slip through.’
The Demon that devours all things.
The brilliant azure blade that obliterated Mount Fuji entirely.
Or the holy sword that moved Jesus, and the blunt cudgel that beat the British Doctor to death?
Yet that Shin Si-woo took no countermeasures.
‘If something like this could get through, what in the world is inside that place?’
Suddenly, such a question arose.
* * *
Since the Gate Incident.
Or perhaps even before that.
I had become the first Korean to set foot on North Korean soil.
Our divided territory had transformed into a realm of supernatural horrors.
“What in the world….”
A desolate wasteland stretched across North Korea.
Nothing human remained—only terrible destruction filled every corner.
Near the 38th Parallel, where mines and nature once coexisted, everything had turned a sickly black.
Like the contaminated soldiers of the Korean Military, both earth and nature had transformed into a horrifying black ichor.
The only traces of human presence were ruins of buildings that had become nothing more than rubble.
“That destruction was my doing!”
Patriot shouted with pride.
To be honest….
I felt genuine gratitude for Patriot’s patriotic spirit.
‘If he hadn’t bombed, who knows what would have happened to Korea.’
Patriot’s bombardment hadn’t always been this devastating.
It was the result of relentlessly dumping bombs on North Korea at regular intervals even before I awakened.
The spaces between destroyed buildings were filled with corpses of contaminated monsters.
The same was true now.
“These bastards actually developed resistance.”
Of course, I hadn’t anticipated that these dead monster corpses would resurrect.
Screeeeeeeee———.
Blackened creatures filled every direction.
They had indeed developed resistance to bombardment.
Moreover….
“Regeneration—it’s that Chinese bastard’s ability.”
China periodically disclosed its hunter strength metrics to WorldNet, and those numbers were abnormally high.
The regenerating Transcendent they’d revealed recently was an Awakener who could regrow even after having his head blown clean off.
Some of the contaminated monsters pulped by bombardment began regenerating.
Just like the SSS-rank Hunter China had recently unveiled.
I suspected the source was somewhere in there.
‘First, I need to see what we’re dealing with to solve this.’
Both Patriot and I were Transcendents.
Moreover, Swordmaster Cheok Jun-kyung possessed formidable power as a member of the Constellations.
We pushed past the trivial threats and drove deeper into North Korea.
Booooooom————!!!
Bombardment poured down ahead of my advance in rapid succession.
The air support was absolutely flawless.
“Junior, what about cleanup?”
“Yulgok Yi I is here, and with the Korean Military plus Japanese Transcendents, we can leave that to them.”
I had no time to worry about every trivial detail.
Once we launched this invasion, it became a race against time.
That’s why I still hadn’t drawn my sword.
‘A hundred thousand troops are handling the Front Lines and domestic issues, and Japanese Transcendents have arrived, so it should be fine.’
We didn’t form this alliance for nothing.
I continued forward without hesitation.
⦗Sword Emperor, it’s that way.⦘
The Evil God, Necribas—the natural enemy I sought.
Reinhardt Euclid, watching over me from the Sword World, sensed its presence and guided my path.
It wasn’t as far as I’d expected.
Slightly north of Paju, somewhere that used to be Kaesong.
‘If I go straight from here….’
Pyongyang.
Where North Korea’s capital once stood.
The Evil God’s vessel—Necribas’s true form—was likely hidden there.
The reason I was so certain was simple.
“Grrrrgh——.”
Because of the entity that came to greet us.
A monster with crimson skin, scattering eerie blood in its wake.
Its form bore considerable resemblance to the descended Necribas I’d encountered before, yet the power it radiated was far deeper and more ancient.
‘A fragment.’
The creature seemed startled by our sudden appearance.
So it had sent a fragment created from a portion of its origin from the very beginning.
“Krrrrgh——.”
A fragment that couldn’t speak human language.
Yet it possessed ten percent of the main body’s combat power.
Whoosh—!
The crimson monster that had been distant suddenly materialized before me.
That meant the main body definitely existed, and the Evil God had embedded its ‘origin’ into Earth.
Crackle—.
The space around the crimson monster warped and twisted.
A sinister, grotesque, and eerie aura.
The power of the Evil God that had grown fat on blood, despair, and death.
Patriot asked as he observed that overwhelming presence.
“What about the junior?”
I understood well.
When a creature like the Evil God—one that gains strength from others’ deaths—tears off a portion of its origin, it meant….
‘This is a genuinely dangerous situation.’
So the Sword Emperor held back.
Pyongyang was still quite a distance away.
* * *
‘That crazy bastard! Why is he holding back against a monster like that?’
Patriot was furious at the solo battle.
He too was a Transcendent who had endured trials alongside the Constellations for ‘centuries’.
Shin Si-woo still had tremendous power dormant within him, and he could unleash it whenever he wished.
As a Transcendent, I can be 100% certain of this.
‘If I just summoned that Demon alone, I could sweep through everything….’
They’d been so frightened by talk of Evil Gods and whatnot.
A monster had appeared that we could defeat if I and the Constellations all rushed in together for a coordinated assault.
“That was merely the beginning. I’m reserving my true power for the real opponent.”
Was there perhaps a time limit on summoning Swords?
Even as Patriot entertained such thoughts, he wondered if this might be a form of ‘deception’.
Or perhaps, if he summoned Swords recklessly, he’d end up transforming the world like Jesus had, so he was holding back.
In any case….
“Cheok Jun-kyung, I’m fine, so clear out the monsters around us first!”
Cheok Jun-kyung was Patriot’s shadow.
If he, the master of the Constellations, died, the Constellations would also vanish, so protecting him was the absolute priority.
However, only when Patriot spoke like this could he too move toward the battlefield.
In that brief moment, Shin Si-woo’s and Cheok Jun-kyung’s eyes met.
Snap!
Both moved without a word.
Two figures sprinting in different directions simultaneously.
Boom———!!!
Shin Si-woo charged toward where the crimson monster had been, while Cheok Jun-kyung swung his blade against the corrupted beasts pouring down across the area.
Slice—.
Cheok Jun-kyung’s essence was that of a martial master; before SS-rank Hunter Sword Emperor vanished, they had shared the blade together.
He was both a Sword Master and a supreme expert of the Creation Realm, unmatched throughout history.
Therefore—.
‘Truly, technique bordering on the divine.’
Even from the corner of his eye, he could perceive how wondrous Shin Si-woo’s swordsmanship was.
It was a kind of perfected art.
Perfected, flawless swordsmanship intertwined in six layers, or perhaps in forms far deeper and more intricate.
‘It’s like someone who mastered the Heavenly Demon’s Sovereign Technique wielding the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Plum Blossom Sword Method.’
All his power was extraordinary.
Yet his physical level and fundamental application fell far short of the caliber his swordsmanship demanded.
‘Is the blade weak?’
Perhaps he hadn’t yet recovered the ‘perfect’ body he’d obtained from the trial.
Just as Jesus needed time to become fully divine, just as Patriot needed time to summon three Constellations simultaneously.
He too might be undergoing such a process.
Merely a month since awakening.
‘Truly deserving of the title EX—.’
Even as Cheok Jun-kyung thought this, he disposed of the corrupted beasts engulfing the surroundings.
No matter how countless they were, handling trash mobs was effortless for him, so he continued to absorb every detail of Shin Si-woo’s blade work.
Splurt—.
Blood cascaded down.
Yet the red monster’s body instantly reverted to its original state.
Muscles carved like sculpture.
Viscous crimson blood flowing endlessly across them.
‘If Shin Si-woo unleashed his true power, he could kill it in an instant.’
However, Shin Si-woo was still restraining his strength as he faced the monster.
Even in that restrained state, his intensity was such that one of the red monster’s arms suddenly flew off with a sharp sound.
Seeing this as an opportunity, Shin Si-woo moved like an arrow, closing in behind the Evil God.
What he felt then was an overwhelming aura.
Ziiiiing—————.
It was different from the aura when summoning the Demon and drawing the azure blade that pierced the heavens.
If those blades had made one feel the strength of the ‘inhuman’, the blade Shin Si-woo displayed now emanated an intensity that inspired awe toward ‘humanity’.
It was….
‘Humanity at its apex.’
Cheok Jun-kyung instinctively retreated backward.
And at that moment—.
* * *
Crack!
[Natural Enemy (天敵)—Advantageous matchup established.]
[The Evil God Necribas’s powers are restricted.]
[The azure aura that pierces the heavens drives away the demonic.]
The enemy is merely a fragment of the Evil God.
I faced the Evil God’s fragment with only my own strength and the Aga Sword.
To speak plainly, I myself right now—.
‘am strong.’
The enlightenment of the blades dwelling within me.
And the thirty-three Forms I obtained in the Tower.
Reinhardt Euclid’s swordsmanship is an ability forged through extreme training, transforming fundamentals into transcendent techniques.
I have embodied it.
Thus, I gained the advantage against the Evil God’s fragment.
Now it is time to end this.
‘I will drive it all forward in one strike.’
Thirty-three Forms.
Yet one thread remains as a skill.
I swung my blade while contemplating my strategy ahead.
[One Annihilation, Cleaving the Heavens.]
A slash rising from below upward.
It was a stance where tremendous power was difficult to achieve.
Yet, the result?
Crash————!!!
The Evil God’s fragment, losing its balance.
The creature’s body was torn vertically in half.
The sword’s trajectory, drawn upward from below, extended all the way to the distant sky.
Though my blade had not truly transcended in the absolute sense, it tore through the darkness that shrouded even beyond the heavens in an instant.
“Grrrrgh——.”
A monster bereft of language cast a gaze filled with hatred toward me.
A fragment—a creature containing 10% of the source.
Yet now, weakened by the natural predator penalty and with its regeneration slowed.
I used the power of Aga Sword to seal the creature’s ‘spacetime’.
Its wounds would regenerate more slowly, and its severed body would reconnect more sluggishly.
Now came the hour of the Demons.
Not Iris’s power, but the ten Demons bound to my Aga Sword.
And the Saengsagwi that Muratan had created.
“Devour it.”
Ten Demons rushed toward the slowly regenerating creature.
Fragments of the Evil God—Necribas—who seized endless life through blood and death.
The Saengsagwi consumed the ‘life’ itself, forcing death upon it.
Thus I killed the crimson creature.
Whoooosh————.
The world consumed by darkness, collapsing.
Sunlight descended upon North Korean soil.
Not entirely, but the land touched by the influence of Heaven’s Severance where I stood—the surrounding landscape transformed as it normally would.
The bow of an aircraft carrier floating through the sky with the sun at its back came into view.
‘Can you see it?’
The aircraft carrier’s stealth was deactivated.
Likely, a formidable opponent had appeared above as well.
Still, it was fine.
‘Patriot is far stronger than I anticipated.’
I witnessed the true power of Patriot for the first time.
Fighting alongside him, I became certain.
To command such a vast front while maintaining continuous firepower for twenty-four hours straight—that itself is what it means to be a ‘Transcendent’.
And now I had to prepare for something beyond that.
“Purification.”
I activated the Purification skill across the surrounding area.
The blackened, colorless landscape regained its proper hues and returned.
The land defiled by the venom of the Pollution Beast was purified, revealing its original form and appearance.
And upon this land—.
“I, Jesus Christ, command it. Let there be light.”
—a gaze descended.
The sole deity of living humanity.
Jesus began to observe all things upon this land.
With this, the condition was fulfilled.
【Omen of the War Against the Evil God confirmed.】
The world whispered.

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