The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 6

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Chapter 6. Demon Worshipper (2)
“At last…I’ve cast off these shackles!!!”
Park Chang-seok, a B-rank mage.
He rose into the sky above Yeouido Plaza, his robes billowing around him.
Everyone stared upward in shock, their eyes fixed on the mage suspended in the air, and each began activating [World_NET] to record the scene.
Many had switched on SNS livestreams as well.
“Insane—has another transcendent emerged in South Korea?”
Even high-rank hunters rarely wielded their power outside the Gates.
Crossing the world’s barrier to affect Earth itself was a feat so impossibly difficult it defied comprehension.
Yet a select few had succeeded in doing so.
They were called transcendents.
But….
Whoooooooosh———.
“Lowly creatures―.”
Park Chang-seok was merely B-rank.
And yet he flaunted his magical power in this world.
“Wow―. An actual mage in reality.”
“Who is that person? I thought there were only a handful of S-rank and above….”
At first, everyone watched his display with fascination.
“Will he show off something as cool as Patriot?”
Anticipation filled the air.
They assumed it would merely be a ‘show’—just like when SSS-rank hunter Patriot had first demonstrated his power.
But….
“Wh-what…what is that?”
Crash———.
The towering buildings of Yeouido.
Windows shattered helplessly before the razor wind.
Beyond that, the magic Park Chang-seok unleashed sliced clean through the top floors of the buildings.
“Is he seriously that insane?”
Someone muttered as much.
Considering the mental state of a natural Awakener, they had simply dismissed it as reckless behavior.
That misunderstanding crumbled in an instant.
Slice.
A blade of wind severed his neck.
The cleanly decapitated head of a middle-aged man rolled across the center of Yeouido Plaza.
“Huh?”
The citizens froze in confusion.
A human head rolling across the ground.
It was a sight rarely witnessed outside of a Gate Break.
It took several seconds for reality to sink in.
Everyone was seized by terror.
“Kyaaaaaahhhhh!!!”
“R-Run!!!”
The citizens in the center of Yeouido Plaza began scattering in all directions.
Hehehehe―.
Park Chang-seok smiled coldly as he watched them.
To the mage suspended in the sky, the inferior beings scurrying across the ground were nothing but targets.
However, Park Chang-seok soon lost interest in them.
“I shall execute the abominable inferior beings who oppressed us within the Gate―.”
The Yeouido Management Bureau, located near his home.
He intended to judge the soldiers guarding the Gate entrance and the bureaucrats who dared to evaluate him despite being inferior beings.
The reason was simple.
—Kill those who ruled over you.
Because endless whispers echoed ceaselessly within his mind.
Was there any moment more humiliating than having unawakened trash evaluate and manage Awakeners?
Whoooosh———.
Scattering the wind, Park Chang-seok headed toward Yeouido Station Exit 4.
He had set his sights on the Awakener Management Agency located on the main road in front of the exit.
‘Patriot is inside the Gate right now.’
Park Chang-seok had planned a rather meticulous crime.
Patriot, an SSS-rank natural Awakener and fellow superior being, was an odd creature who sheltered the lowly inferior beings.
That is why he seized this opportunity while he was absent to commit this atrocity.
“Haindra Wintro….”
Park Chang-seok chanted the incantation while gazing at the Awakener Management Agency.
He was preparing the greatest magic a 6-Circle mage could unleash.
The casting time was approximately 10 minutes.
Quite a lengthy duration.
“Target confirmed!!!”
Naturally, the soldiers defending the Yeouido vicinity rushed toward Park Chang-seok.
They were elite forces stationed permanently to counter Gate Breaks.
Yet before Park Chang-seok, now wielding power, they were nothing but insects.
‘Inferior beings who believe a single bullet can suppress an Awakener.’
That was Park Chang-seok’s assessment of soldiers.
“All units, open fire!”
And the soldiers did not hesitate.
Innocent civilians died.
It was inevitable.
Bang! Rat-a-tat-tat———.
Special bullets capable of killing even monsters that crossed the Gate were aimed at Park Chang-seok.
A torrent of gunfire engulfed the skies above Yeouido.
And then….
Ting! Tidi-di-ding———.
All of it struck against a translucent barrier surrounding Park Chang-seok.
The power of the protective spell [Mana Barrier].
“…Damn it, how did such a lunatic―.”
The soldiers stared blankly into empty air.
These were special bullets that even the Gate’s monsters took damage from.
And they were blocked.
“The power displayed by a B-rank Hunter….”
Even a B-rank Hunter was formidable military strength within a Gate.
This was something mere soldiers couldn’t handle.
“Wave——.”
Park Chang-seok proved it himself.
Pwoosh!!!
Those soldiers were all bisected and killed by the wind blades Park Chang-seok unleashed.
His incantation had been completed without anyone noticing.
Whoooosh——.
The 6-Circle magic that had slaughtered the soldiers now targeted the Awakener Management Agency.
The moment the attack connected, a strange wave rippled through the air above the Agency.
Zing―.
It was the protective measure of [Mystery] surrounding the Awakener Management Agency.
However, a 6-Circle spell completed after ten minutes of casting was formidable.
A barrier that could only block weak monsters stood no chance.
Crash!!!
And so the protective barrier of the Yeouido Management Bureau was breached.
* * *
“S-Siwoo….”
Kang Seol-ah looked at me with a terrified expression.
I was equally shocked.
‘He really was a lunatic.’
Park Chang-seok, the B-rank Hunter who had guided me through the first Gate.
He’d given me a [Tower Entrance Ticket] as an apology, so I thought he’d just gone a bit overboard….
‘He was garbage.’
In just one day, he had fallen.
And thus became a monster wielding power against the outside world.
This was a serious problem.
Crash-crash―crash-crash.
The protective barrier surrounding the Agency shattered helplessly.
“W-What, what do we do!!!”
Kang Seol-ah panicked in confusion.
Even as I did, I drew the emergency pistol from my waist.
We’re currently on the rooftop.
From here, the carnage below is starkly visible.
‘He slaughtered them all.’
Soldiers and civilians alike—he spared no one.
Park Chang-seok is no mere deranged natural Awakener.
He’s a vicious, corrupted terrorist.
【Sword Master, what are your orders?】
Even in such circumstances, I remained unnaturally composed.
My blade, Reinhardt Euclid, was equally so.
In a certain sense….
‘Is my sister calm too?’
Kang Seol-ah was aiming her pistol skyward with unwavering resolve.
Though her hands remained steady, tension was plainly etched across her face.
“Father will send the Special Forces. Just give it a moment….”
“Sister, that toy won’t accomplish anything.”
I thrust my hand into empty air.
Swish—.
The invisible [scabbard] that always accompanies me.
After visiting the Tower, I could perceive it with absolute clarity.
With a soft tap, my fingers grasped the [infant blade].
Yet it refused to be drawn forth.
‘It’s a matter of rank.’
The infant blade cannot yet manifest beside me.
Like [First Blade, Reinhardt Euclid], it must transcend its rank to materialize in this world.
‘Then how did that B-rank Hunter manage to project power externally?’
For the first time in ages, curiosity stirred within me—something beyond [blade cultivation].
All of this took mere seconds.
CRASH!!!!
Park Chang-seok burst through the wall and ascended above the ten-story Management Bureau building.
He gazed down at me and spoke.
“I have no desire to kill one of my own superior species.”
Kang Seol-ah beside me, gun trained on him, was treated as though she didn’t exist.
‘His eyes have lost all reason.’
The whites and pupils of his eyes had inverted precisely.
The fate of the corrupted ones I’d often witnessed in [blade cultivation].
I threw a blunt question directly at him.
“Where exactly did you meet a demon worshipper?”
His white pupils rolled about frantically.
Had he not anticipated such a question from me?
“Heh… I wondered why you were so strong for a natural-born Awakener. So you’ve received their revelation too.”
Park Chang-seok, who had been pondering for a while, seemed to believe I was also one of the demon worshippers.
“Let’s talk later.”
Park Chang-seok was the kind of vile criminal who deserved to be cut down without hesitation.
His gaze turned toward Kang Seol-ah for the first time.
“This isn’t a conversation a lowly inferior species should be hearing. If she’s even recording this, we’ll have a problem.”
Park Chang-seok regarded Kang Seol-ah as something that needed to be eliminated.
His hand reached toward her.
Dragging out time and waiting for the special forces to arrive seemed like the wrong approach.
‘I need to step in.’
With a soft whisper, I drew my blade.
I didn’t unsheathe it completely, only revealing the hilt.
Then I spoke.
“That won’t work, since she’s someone close to me.”
Park Chang-seok laughed with a sinister edge.
“Haven’t you received their revelation yet? Once you deepen your connection with them, you’ll understand. This world is filled with the lies of inferior species―.”
A violent gust of wind erupted.
“You have talent, but you’re still weak. With that pathetic blade, you won’t accomplish anything.”
Park Chang-seok intensified the wind further.
His sinister sneer suggested he wanted me to feel my own helplessness.
Yet to my eyes, the flow of that wind was crystal clear.
And for good reason.
[Sword 1, Reinhardt Euclid, has been equipped.]
What now tore through the empty air wasn’t my small, precious [Baby Sword].
‘I’ve never killed a person before―.’
But my will, honed alongside the blade, speaks.
That I can kill anything.
[Baby Sword] still lacks significant experience.
However, the [Reinhardt] I now wielded was a blade that had killed nearly everything in this world.
Keeeeng————.
With a resonant ring, a colossal greatsword rose, tearing through the air itself.
Its azure blade gleamed brilliantly.
The noble, restrained hilt felt weighty in my grip.
The jewel affixed to its pommel pulsed with light.
‘Ahhh….’
I felt an exhilaration far greater than when I first grasped this blade.
As though I had accepted the sword’s entire existence and achieved mastery over all things.
It felt as though I could accomplish anything with this blade.
It feels as though I’ve accepted the entire lifetime of a sword and achieved mastery over all things.
It seems like I could accomplish anything with a sword.
Of course, it wasn’t my turn to step forward.
‘There was someone far more suited for this.’
Now it was Reinhardt Euclid’s turn.
If he wielded his power as he had in the Tower, everything would end.
I waited calmly.
Then Reinhardt murmured.
【My power….】
A soul bound within a blade could exert no power whatsoever.
It seemed that when exercising strength from outside, some kind of restriction took hold.
But that was fine.
‘I think I can do it too.’
The technique of Reinhardt Euclid that I had witnessed in the Tower.
The ultimate essence of the sword—born from my blade and his effort.
I was now at a similar level to Reinhardt Euclid back then.
I felt it instinctively.
‘One second.’
Considering that this entire sequence had transpired in a mere instant, it was an undeniable fact.
My perception had approached that of a transcendent being.
The raging tempest of blades froze, as if suspended in the surrounding air.
The flow of mana pouring toward Kang Seol-ah became vividly apparent.
Whoosh——.
I raised my blade and aimed it at Park Chang-seok, suspended in the sky.
Thus, I recreated the beautiful meteor shower of swords I had witnessed in the Tower.
‘Sword Intent.’
To imbue will within the blade.
A realm I had attained.
‘Heart Sword.’
To sever with the mind alone what one wishes to cut.
A realm I had attained.
‘Manifestation.’
To wield the sword of the heart, infused with my will.
To reveal it in this world.
All these revelations became vividly clear the moment I grasped Reinhardt Euclid.
Shhhhhhhhh—————.
Azure blades erupted across the sky above Yeouido.
A number too vast to count.
All of them cascaded down upon Park Chang-seok and his surroundings.
It resembled a meteor shower.
【Sword Intent, a meteor shower achieved in a single attempt….】
The jewel affixed to the pommel of the blade gleamed brilliantly.
Reinhardt seemed astounded by the miracle I had wrought.
I don’t understand why this is possible either.
It simply works.
Pwoooosh——!!!
A meteor shower of blades pierced through Park Chang-seok’s entire body.
I severed the flow of mana he had created.
Even the remnants of his flesh were cleanly obliterated.
Whoooosh.
The world fell silent.
As if nothing had ever happened.
Three seconds had elapsed.
On the fourth second, the blade vanished from my hand.
And then―.
“W-what on earth is….”
Kang Seol-ah was staring at me with eyes wide as saucers.
It seemed I would need to offer some explanation.
* * *
Crackle crackle crackle―.
Suddenly, the air split open before Yeouido Station Exit 4, and a massive gate emerged from within.
A nameplate inscribed with [Hyunmu].
This signified the arrival of South Korea’s special forces unit, [Hyunmu].
“The target is Park Chang-seok, a B-rank Hunter.”
“Is it possible for a B-rank Hunter to wield power like a Transcendent?”
“I don’t know. But since it’s happening, that’s why we’re mobilizing with a Gate, isn’t it?”
Screeeech―.
The massive gate opened, and from within emerged oddly-dressed men and women.
They were Hyunmu Team 7, the Awakeners of South Korea’s special forces unit protecting the nation.
Thanks to Deputy Prosecutor Kang Mu-jin providing intelligence on the terror attack, they were able to respond swiftly.
“B-rank confirmed.”
A mage hovering in the sky as if ascending.
Based on the flow and potency of mana, they didn’t appear particularly formidable.
It would be simple to dispatch them and return.
But then….
“W-what are those blades?”
An anomaly had occurred.
A bizarre phenomenon absolutely impossible for a mere B-rank mage.
A meteor shower of blades filling the entire sky.
Each and every blade was imbued with tremendous power.
“We must summon the Patriot at once!!”
“The Patriot is at the Gate….”
The Hyunmu operative’s words caught in his throat.
“…W-what in the world is happening―.”
In merely two seconds, the skies above Yeouido had become saturated with blades.
And at the third second.
Splurch———!!!
Park Chang-seok, a B-rank mage suspended in the heavens, transformed into a handful of blood.
Even that blood was consumed by the other blades and vanished.
A fleeting instant incomprehensible to the citizens below.
Yet the Hyunmu operative perceived the phenomenon with absolute clarity.
‘Ten thousand blades covered the sky in a single second, and all of them annihilated their target in one more.’
No―obliterated.
Park Chang-seok and every trace of the magical power he had wielded vanished without a shred of evidence.
What was the source of all this?
‘I don’t know.’
The blades had appeared without warning, without the slightest premonition, and killed Park Chang-seok.
“C-could it be the Patriot….”
The Patriot?
If it were him, such a feat would be possible.
But the complete absence of any aura or sign made no sense.
Which meant a monster capable of intercepting a target with ten thousand blades in three seconds―without warning, without premonition―had just wielded power in this world.
“A new SSS-rank transcendent may have emerged.”
Whether this entity would prove favorable to us remained unknown.
On this day, South Korea was placed on high alert.

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