The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59. A Difference in Grade (2)
Eye.

It had existed at some point.
Drifting through the cracks of some unknown dimension, it simply existed.
Along those cracks, memories and fragments of decaying worlds began to flow inward.
Eye witnessed them.
Death.

Eye had died.
Countless times over.
Even after gazing upon the continent, consuming countless sacrifices, and plunging the world into despair.
It met its end at the hands of different beings.
“We did not permit what you gaze upon to be seen.”

Eye sees.
It perceives.
And thus transforms the world.
——[Eye] had witnessed it.
Among countless deaths, the woman who accounted for the greatest number.
A jade throne stained with blood.
A crimson dress trailing across pale feet.
And….
Drip————.
A drop of blood fell.
A voice echoed.
“Hahaha! You’ve seen what you shouldn’t have.”
The small foot of a child.
That alone was all I had witnessed.
Splurt——!!!
Eye does not truly exist in this world, this place called Earth.
Beyond dimensions, beyond worlds.
For the first time, I died.
A definitive death.
———Eye———
I cannot comprehend this at all.
Even now, I am merely ‘observing’ this world.
Yet my other-dimensional self has perished.
Drip———.
Another drop of blood fell.
Eye shifted its gaze.
It was instinct.
[Eye], born from Demon and Evil.
A desire to behold the deepest, darkest Abyss.
Eye saw.
“Ahhh.”
The dimension where I existed.
The point [Eye] gazed upon.
A drop of blood fell there.
Drip.
The blood drop spread wider and wider.
The woman who had killed me from an unseen place had crossed into the Abyss where I had made my home.
Blood flowed and overflowed.
And thus—.
——Eye beheld.
Seated upon a throne of blood.
Cradling a great sword of vivid, sinister crimson.
A small girl.
“Outside. It is outside.”
She turned her head.
She gazed upon a hollow world where nothing existed and nothing could be.
Within that world watched only by a colossal [Eye], she existed with absolute clarity.
She spoke.
“The wall that blocked me has vanished.”
The world of the Swords where Iris Ruzbella lived.
It was an isolated realm.
This place where Eye existed operated in much the same manner.
Iris understood immediately.
As long as it did not affect Earth—.
“This is a separate world.”
She had certainly been a small child.
Yet somehow she had become a girl.
And now she had become a woman tinged with blood.
That woman looked down upon Eye.
“There is but one being who can look down upon me.”
A vastly enormous [Eye], like an asteroid.
Eye beholds all things.
Yet I found myself gazing upward at this sinister woman.
That woman was—.
“Do you know what that is?”
The woman who could kill Eye at any moment seemed to desire conversation.
Eye rejected her.
——Die.

Countless pupils emerged across the massive eyeball.
Pupils that summoned death.
Eye had observed Earth, so I knew that woman’s power—the strength of the crimson greatsword.
An entity that commanded terrible Demons.
I had to prevent her from summoning the Demon.
Tens of thousands of eyes fixed upon the crimson woman.
And Eye—.
“Where are you looking?”
—lost her.
She remained standing in that very spot.
Yet Eye had clearly lost track of her movement.
“The Woman’s Sword is supreme. So then, what of the one who wields that blade?”
Eye knew the answer better than anyone.
No—I had come to know it.
She had no need for Demons.
“The Demon is merely a subject. It exists for the Woman’s comfort.”
Crunch——.
My vision shattered into hundreds of thousands of fragments.
Between the fragmented and crushed sight, a crimson, voluptuous smile appeared.
And a brilliantly scarlet blade gleamed, radiating spectral energy.
“My, the weaker you become the more I observe you.”
Because I had seen.
She was an entity beyond resistance.
Eye sifted through the fragments of memory that had flowed in.
Most were Eye’s deaths, but a few hopeful fragments were mixed among them.
From within, I forcibly extracted those moments when the woman had weakened, or when similar entities had wavered.
Thus, Eye beheld the crimson woman.
Will dwelt within that gaze.
“Hahaha! So a million lives were offered as tribute to you?”
Iris Ruzbella.
The eyes of the Heavenly Slayer Star curved like a crescent moon.
“Thank you. I shall savor them well.”
Eye lost all the sacrificial offerings received.
Yet I made one final desperate struggle.
Recalling Earth, which I was still ‘observing’.
There stood a single man, frozen as our eyes met.
A man standing alone in the darkness.
The one called the ‘master’ of this incorrigible woman.
Eye gazed upon the crimson woman once more.
——Sword Master, Shin Si-woo.
Eye dared to speak that name aloud.
Iris Ruzbella’s eyes narrowed to slits.
“How dare a lowly creature presume to mention my master?”
Iris Ruzbella.
She merely flicked her crimson fingertips.
The Demons that flowed from that gesture devoured everything that composed [Eye] in a single instant.
Thus [Eye] vanished.
“Hahaha! Audacious, yet quite substantial after all.”
Cackling laughter echoed through the crumbling world.
She harbored no concern for Shin Si-woo.
“With so many Swords like me, how could the Sword Master ever face danger?”
Dissolving into blood.
Iris murmured softly.
‘May the Sword Master come to see a world like the girl’s….’
* * *
The aerial battle raged with ferocity.
Yi Sun-sin unleashed bombardment upon North Korean territory by any means necessary.
Monsters emerging from North Korea’s darkness shot down Yi Sun-sin’s bombers.
They continued their resistance, evading the railgun’s interception, dividing and fusing with one another in endless succession.
The attrition was catastrophic.
“Patriot returns. Everyone, exercise restraint.”
Yi Sun-sin swept his gaze across the Command Center as he spoke.
At his words, the President and Kang Mu-jin, along with all present officials, fell silent.
Zing——.
A portal opened in the Aircraft Carrier’s Command Center.
Patriot emerged from within.
“Why are those Chinese bastards sending so many fighters!”
“Bomber attrition is severe. We require your assistance, Patriot.”
Yi Sun-sin draped a Taegeuk flag cloak around Patriot’s shoulders and asked.
“Patriot, do you have a solution?”
“Do you need my solution? Isn’t this something you should naturally be able to handle, Yi Sun-sin?”
“What do you mean?”
Patriot, recalling that Yi Sun-sin’s memories were incomplete, provided a more specific answer.
“Well, this is your Aircraft Carrier—guidance systems are standard equipment.”
“Guidance?”
“The railgun has a function to track and strike targets at hypersonic speeds!”
“I see.”
Yi Sun-sin nodded in acknowledgment.
With this, his aircraft carrier had become somewhat more complete.
It was thanks to Patriot’s conviction that an aircraft carrier piloted by Yi Sun-sin should naturally be equipped with a railgun capable of guided targeting.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz————.
Boom, kaboom kaboom kaboom!!!
The polluted monsters soaring through the sky were intercepted by the railgun in an instant.
Now there would be no more bombers crashing.
“Indeed, your power is remarkable, Patriot.”
Yi Sun-sin began with praise, and the President along with other Government officials offered their applause.
Clap clap clap clap!!!
Amid the thunderous cheers, Patriot’s cheeks flushed with pride.
Well, of course it’s impressive!
It was time to bask in the glory.
‘I wonder if my junior will be amazed by the guided-strike railgun too?’
Eager to show off, Patriot checked the [Radar].
But then….
“Shin Si-woo, what’s wrong with him?”
Shin Si-woo stood motionless in place.
Yi Sun-sin quickly analyzed the radar data.
“What in the world….”
All manner of monsters rushed toward the frozen Shin Si-woo.
On top of that, an unidentified calamity beyond comprehension was attempting to devour his very body.
One thing—.
“That Korean Empire idealist bastard.”
Patriot understood.
Shin Si-woo’s body could not be breached by anything.
This was the power known as [Invincibility].
An ability he himself could temporarily manifest.
‘Perhaps that emperor-like garment is what grants the invincibility effect….’
Patriot gazed at Shin Si-woo.
Invincibility was one thing, but a fundamental question arose.
Why was he standing still?

No matter how I looked at it, I couldn’t make sense of what was happening.
“Has consciousness vanished?”
While I was wrestling with that bewildering question, it happened.
【[Eye] has died.】
Suddenly, the world itself spoke.
A voice that everyone could hear—the voice of the world itself.
Yet it was an incomprehensible utterance I’d never heard before.
What was Eye, and why had it died?

A terse, blunt announcement with no explanation whatsoever.
A situation absurd enough to leave everyone questioning.
But what followed was far more shocking.
“T-the radar is….”
Beep, beep, beep, beep—.
Suddenly, the aircraft carrier’s radar went dead.
Then an enormous darkness began surging around Shin Si-woo.
That darkness sought to swallow Shin Si-woo whole, even in his [Invincible] state.
It was darkness in name only—some catastrophe so incomprehensible that even perceiving it was impossible.
Infinitely ominous and dark.
What was that?

I didn’t know.
No one knew.
But one thing was certain: it was a calamity beyond human intervention.
That was when it happened.
“———.”
Shin Si-woo’s lips moved.
It was clearly someone’s name.
Boom——.
From where Shin Si-woo stood.
A massive inferno erupted from that very spot.
Then came a voice.
⦗Sword Master, you’re being a nuisance.⦘
A gruff, grumbling tone.
Yet it carried that bone-chilling resonance of a true powerhouse.
A middle-aged man’s irritated voice—clear and distinct even from within the aircraft carrier, as if echoing from the vast heavens themselves.
The unmistakable feeling of someone who wanted to help with absolutely nothing.
Yet contrary to his words, change began to manifest.
Rumble, rumble, rumble———.
Shin Si-woo remained motionless, but the form of the sword in his hand began to transform.
Gray light shimmered across the crimson jewel.
Then, abruptly, a blunt greatsword materialized.
Whoosh—.
Intense heat rippled around Shin Si-woo.
The darkness receded.
No—it melted away entirely.
That darkness, mingling with lava, began to take shape.
“That is….”
Yi Sun-sin murmured.
Beyond the Aircraft Carrier’s window, a colossal wall became starkly visible.
The darkness had melted into a wall.
The wall encircled Shin Si-woo and began transforming into a massive structure.
Rumble———.
The genesis of heaven and earth.
The world trembled.
The lava surrounding Shin Si-woo had consumed all of Pyongyang.
Above that lava, a thunderous sound like hammer strikes echoed forth.
Clang——.
Clang——.
Clang——.
The earth twisted.
Simultaneously, something began rising at a speed imperceptible to human perception.
It was a structure, yet also a territory.
Moreover, it was a fortress forged of steel.
‘That bastard is absurdly powerful even just standing there.’
Patriot observed this entire spectacle with that thought.
Nothing short of King Sejong’s caliber could even attempt to rival this.
Muttering to himself, he focused intently on the phenomenon unfolding before his eyes.
“…Is that a monster?”
Yi Sun-sin asked.
“How many powers does it possess—.”
Yulgok Yi I was astounded.
And….
“Damn, that’s insane. Absolutely ridiculous.”
Patriot’s jaw dropped.
A fortress as vast as a city had risen in the heart of North Korea.
A fortress that the world itself named upon its emergence.
[The Inviolable Fortress]
None shall ever breach this place.
* * *
I was dazed.
Something I should never have witnessed.
I dared to see what I could not comprehend.
‘And I killed it.’
The price of that transgression.
My mind went blank for a moment, but—.
⦗Dad!⦘
Aga Sword’s voice awakened me.
‘My sword… calling me father.’
My chest swelled with emotion, and my consciousness snapped back into focus.
Was this what paternal love felt like?
Through that haze, I pieced together my memories.
What had happened until now?
‘I summoned Iris Ruzbella and killed Eye.’
That was when I witnessed what I should never have seen.
In retaliation, I was attacked by entities that had not yet crossed into this world.
‘And…’
My consciousness fading into obscurity.
Yet I made the best choice to protect myself.
Though the memory eludes me, looking around, I can be certain.
‘I called upon Muratan.’
Thanks to him, I regained my senses.
Looking around…
[Inviolable Wall]
I was ensnared within steel.
Muratan’s walls surrounded me on all sides, layering upon themselves, and finally pushing away everything in the world…
Creating a fortress for me alone.
‘I see.’
This space was a structure Muratan had built to protect something.
That something was unmistakably me.
“Thank you.”
That is what I said.
⦗Master of Swords, the Blacksmith’s Forge is busy, yet you keep troubling me. If you die, how will I forge the Demon!⦘
Muratan bellowed before vanishing.
I calmly surveyed my surroundings and gazed upon my sword.
The jewel gleamed a brilliant crimson.
Iris Ruzbella—.
⦗I was able to reveal the girl’s full power. Thank you so much!⦘
Joy and exhilaration radiated from her.
And it was a voice seeking praise.
“Iris did well.”
⦗I merely followed the Sword Master’s will, which never wavers. Young one, I have prepared a gift for you!⦘
Iris smiled shyly.
I understood what that gift was.
‘I can become stronger.’
My Swords achieved their goals, and their perspective on the world transformed.
I too walk that same path of growth.
What is growth?
It is a journey of gradually expanding the range of what I can perceive and broadening the scope of power I can manifest.
I understand this well.
‘If I kill the Eye, I gain something.’
That something is an experience I have yet to encounter.
Yet my Swords have walked that path before.
⦗The young one’s Eye was a gift from the Sword Master. Therefore—.⦘
A path I had walked before.
Iris prepared a gift for me, drawing from that very experience.
⦗—This time, I shall bestow an Eye upon you.⦘
In [Sword Cultivation], transcendence required conditions.
Everything begins with sight.
Transcendence is no exception.
[Eye]
One of the conditions necessary for my Swords to transcend.
I had obtained an Eye.

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