The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 64

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Chapter 64. A Reversal (4)
Damn, I’m terrified.
My hands and feet won’t stop trembling.
Standing amid hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers, my heart feels like it’s about to burst.
Patriot was afraid.
‘God, my whole body’s shaking.’
What was the source of this fear?
Being surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers?
‘These bastards are damn numerous.’
I was Patriot, who had annihilated China countless times in the trials.
Wasn’t I the one who had fought head-to-head against hundreds of millions of Chinese soldiers?
There was no reason to fear a mere few hundred thousand.
‘Ugh….’
Well, I’ll admit the sheer numbers were somewhat overwhelming.
But that wasn’t the real reason.
‘Why are these bastards so… ordinary?’
North Korea had been hell.
A demonic wasteland devoid of people, teeming with death and corrupted monsters.
Yet the Chinese who created that living nightmare appeared so peaceful and intact?
That disconnect terrified me.
‘What kind of pattern is this supposed to be?’
An unprecedented anomaly in China.
Patriot shoved my trembling hands into my pockets and shouted.
First, I’d talk.
“Hey, you Chinese bastards. Send out your representative!”
Then a Chinese Military officer with stars on her chest stepped forward.
I could feel tremendous power radiating from this Transcendent.
Yet she was unmistakably a pure human being.
“We are the China Border Defense Force. We have merely eliminated corrupted monsters and protected our national territory. Why do you launch a surprise attack on us without a declaration of war?”
That cheap, stilted manner of speech confirmed she was Chinese.
Defective through and through.
And her words were equally absurd.
‘Protecting their country from the corrupted monsters they created?’
That’s insane nonsense!
It was nothing but a pretext for invading Korea.
“I’ve heard that Patriot is a psychopath who publicly executes tens of thousands of his own citizens in the name of patriotism. You truly have lost your mind.”
More than anything, she knew who I was.
That alone was reason enough to be vigilant.
‘She’s even investigated me.’
Trembling―.
My fingertips trembled.
No matter how I looked at it, she seemed like an ordinary person….
But—.
‘Chinese.’
I could never compromise.
How many times had we perished through compromise?
Hadn’t I been assassinated by those Chinese bastards masquerading as negotiators well over a hundred times?
‘They’ll pretend to talk and then ambush. It’s obvious.’
Patriot laughed bitterly.
Holding absolute conviction that they would never change.
Patriot swung his hand.
Death.
Patriot unleashed Death.
The Chinese Officer’s head before me exploded.
Boom—.
Patriot’s hand trembled violently.
Then he smiled with exultation.
Crunch—.
The obliterated head.
Yet above the neck, a new head began to regenerate.
With only the jaw reconstructed so far, the Chinese Officer moved her mouth freely.
“We are correcting things. It is unjust.”
So humans could speak even without a brain.
Patriot nodded while focusing on that grotesque regenerative power.
‘The culprit who annihilated North Korea.’
Those who trampled my homeland tens of thousands of times.
Those nameless ancient kings bowed before them, and they enslaved our people and offered them as tribute.
Die!!!
Patriot unleashed Death even more powerfully.
Clenching fists and driving them down, stomping with heels.
Killing again and again.
They were war criminals who had slaughtered tens of millions of potential South Korean citizens.
They could never be allowed to live.
‘Protect South Korea absolutely!’
Patriot’s strength grew ever stronger.
[Patriotic Spirit reaches its peak.]
Patriot in the midst of the Chinese Military.
His title and the power he possessed granted overwhelming strength.
Yet Patriot’s hands still trembled violently.
“It would be better for your health to stop the self-destruction and retreat immediately.”
Fear is fear, no matter how terrifying it is.
Every time it bursts, it regenerates and keeps talking.
A Chinese with only a jaw left speaking was as eerie as a contamination monster.
“It’s a ship that can’t be destroyed anyway.”
Yet it kept striking down Yi Sun-sin’s Aircraft Carrier.
‘How dare it insult Yi Sun-sin’s Aircraft Carrier?’
There was no need for further conversation.
“Stop? You think you can halt the self-destructing Aircraft Carrier of the great Admiral Yi Sun-sin just by flapping your mouth?”
The self-destructing Aircraft Carrier suspended in midair.
Patriot possessed the authority to transform the world.
Though it came with terribly difficult conditions—.
Click.
[For the protection of Korea.]
Just now.
Those conditions were met.
‘It’s going to hurt like hell, but….’
Patriot squeezed his eyes shut and roared.
“Let’s see if it regenerates after taking this hit!”
Flutter——!!
The Taegeuk flag flutters.
I dedicate myself for my homeland!
And so, the world answered to Patriot’s will.
[Do not let my death be known to the enemy.]
‘Explosion is the most painful way to die, damn it.’
The gleaming Aircraft Carrier descends toward him.
Under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t have resorted to such a measure from the start—.
‘Shin Si-woo.’
He trusts him.
The new transcendent who reclaimed half of South Korea alongside me.
‘China may look fine, but it’s absolutely not fine.’
Patriot looked at Shin Si-woo.
Shin Si-woo, eyes wide with shock.
“Hey, junior.”
Patriot flashed a brilliant smile.
“Never trust China!”
With those words.
The Aircraft Carrier fell toward Patriot.
* * *
Kaboom————!!!
It was overwhelming destruction.
A power that pushes back the earth, erases terrain and geography, and returns everything in the world to nothingness.
The Patriot Carrier Fleet that Patriot detonated harbored an enormous force.
Kuguguguong——.
The ground trembles.
A massive burst of light spread in all directions from where Patriot had been.
Even if a nuclear weapon detonated before my eyes, it could never display such destructive power.
‘He’ll resurrect, won’t he?’
Of course, Patriot at the center of the explosion was caught up in the blast as well.
Wrapped in the South Korean flag, he vanished gloriously with the explosion.
My Eye clearly perceived all of it.
Whoosh!
[Eye—Synchronization 5%]
Was it resonating with that overwhelming destruction?
I merely watched, yet the Eye’s synchronization progressed.
I witnessed it.
Ssssshhhhh————.
The devastation created by the aircraft carrier’s self-destruction.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese Military soldiers vanished without leaving a single trace of their forms.
Was this truly the right choice?
Regardless of anything else….
‘Patriot’s choice was correct.’
Grrrrrr———.
The explosion annihilated everything.
Not only corpses, but not even scraps of clothing remained.
Despite projecting such widespread firepower, Patriot’s aircraft carrier self-destruction never crossed the ‘border’.
It meant there was no damage whatsoever on the North Korean side where I stood.
This too was certainly part of his authority.
And yet—.
Grrrr. Grrr.
A portion of the Chinese Military began to regenerate.
Even worse than the Corrupted Beasts.
Despite no form remaining, bodies materialized from thin air.
Yes, it wasn’t regeneration but ‘creation’.
The humans being created for the first time were none other than—China’s Transcendent Unit.
‘Hundreds of Transcendents possessed the same ability.’
An eerie sight unfolded as roughly a hundred Transcendents vanished and were recreated.
I was left utterly speechless.
Among those Transcendents was an Awakened Guide who had ‘stopped’ the aircraft carrier.
Which meant….
‘China possessed Transcendents with multiple Awakened abilities.’
Even if those transcendents die, they regenerate.
How is that even possible?
They may appear ordinary, but they are absolutely not human like us.
The moment I grasped the gravity of this—.
“Hey, junior. That’s China!”
Before my eyes.
Patriot’s body materialized on the flight deck of the Patriot Carrier Fleet’s flagship.
With a brilliant flash.
“Even Jesus couldn’t resurrect himself like this.”
I gazed intently at Patriot.
The power of Eye observed him.
Merely 5% synchronization.
Yet what I perceived changed entirely.
[Pain Mitigation 99.999,999%]
Information about the ‘buff’ enveloping Patriot appeared first.
Then I understood the cause of his resurrection.
Whoosh!
[Patriotism has been proven.]
[Martyrs for the Nation—33,153,651 times.]
Through me, Patriot’s patriotism was verified.
The count of martyrs likely meant….
‘Relentless.’
It clearly represented the number of times Patriot had made choices like the one he made now.
This was the tally of how many times he’d proven the ambitions that China and Japan harbored to people like me.
‘Over thirty million times.’
Wasn’t that the choice of an absolutely mad man?
So as I fell into contemplation.
“Junior, you understand, right? Those bastards are never what they appear to be. Remember this always—always. If I’m ever not around, you’ll have to protect the nation!”
Patriot pointed to where the Chinese Military had been.
That barren plain where all of nature had been obliterated into nothingness.
But….
“Indeed, you’re right,”
A truly horrifying sight unfolded.
⦗Can those… can those truly be called human?⦘
Even the Swords observing through me were aghast at the spectacle.
It was far too bizarre and grotesque.
‘An entire army regenerating itself.’
I couldn’t fathom how all of them could be complete people untainted by any evil or demon.
“Muratan.”
So I verified once more.
My sword, most versed in the nature of humanity itself, spoke thus.
⦗One hundred percent pure human. They all appear to have Awakened or carry that factor within them. I’ll need to tap a few to discern the details!⦘
Regardless, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese Military that vanish and resurrect are ‘human.’
I had never witnessed anything like this, even in Sword Raising.
‘Perhaps they are merely human in form and composition alone….’
You know how it goes.
A monster wearing a human mask acting human.
But then.
Boom——.
That monster rushes toward me.
A being with only its lower half materialized hurtles at tremendous speed toward the Aircraft Carrier hovering above Mount Baekdu.
Rumble—.
Even as it flies, its upper body sprouts forth, and military garb materializes atop it.
How could that possibly be human?
‘A monster.’
I concede the point.
Patriot’s ideology was correct.
If that isn’t a monster, then what in the world is it?
The Chinese Transcendent, having reclaimed her complete form, spoke to me.
“Eh? W-why is this happening?”
She glanced around, then tilted her head as she watched the Chinese Military slowly reclaiming human form.
Had she truly not anticipated that Patriot would detonate the Aircraft Carrier?
“Patriotic humans are truly insane. They resort to violence without negotiation. Where has he disappeared to?”
Patriot had slipped inside the Aircraft Carrier during that brief opening when she leaped upward.
At least against the regenerating Chinese Transcendent before me, I held the advantage over Patriot, so I made no move to restrain him.
Yes, the infinitely regenerating Chinese Military.
That is my true opponent.
“What exactly are you?”
No matter how I look at it, she appears merely human.
Yet that cannot possibly be called ‘human.’
“I am Ling Ling, a Transcendent of China. I am immortal.”
Could that truly be her real identity?
I cannot be certain.
Regardless, I sensed an instinctive premonition that prolonged conversation with her would be unwise.
I swung my sword by pure instinct.
Slash———.
I severed the Chinese Transcendent’s neck.
She regenerated immediately.
“A human who loves swords. All Korean Transcendents have lost their minds. Ling Ling is immortal. If you wish to kill me, do as you please.”
Even now, the Chinese Military continued to regenerate in their entirety.
Their physical bodies reformed, their military uniforms reconstituted, and every piece of equipment they wore returned to its original state.
Their representative spoke.
“As long as we don’t cross the border, we won’t fight.”
A Chinese transcendent wielding the same abilities as the Contaminated Beasts.
An unidentified army numbering in the tens of millions that vanished and regenerated.
Could their words truly be trusted?
“Are you satisfied with the power you obtained from North Korea?”
I leveled the Swords at her.
I posed the question with weighty deliberation.
She tilted her head slightly as if considering, then smiled at me.
A smile so eerie and vivid it seemed to split her face in two.
“It is thanks to their assistance. The immortal nation of China is being completed. We are simply correcting the errors that arose in that process.”
Indeed, it was China.
Her words were nonsensical drivel, but I understood her meaning perfectly well.
The insane claim that China’s immortal nation was being completed thanks to North Korea’s experiments.
And now, as a flimsy excuse, they were supposedly cleaning up the mess they’d created.
“Ling Ling does not die. Our two billion Chinese will not die. In any case, that is how it is.”
Two billion Chinese.
Another ominous statement reached my ears.
While every other nation’s population was being decimated, had China somehow reversed course and exploded in growth?
“Ling Ling does not wish to fight. China does not meddle with weak nations. We are a magnanimous great power.”
After what they’d done to North Korea, they dared say that?
‘Not fighting?’
That was never an option in my dictionary.
I aimed the Aga Sword and asked.
“You said immortal, did you not?”
Immortality.
A term for beings that do not die.
Yet to my Swords, immortality was merely a ‘phenomenon that could be overcome.’
I knew the easiest and fastest way to dispose of the immortal.
The Demon.
Let’s see if they resurrect even after being devoured by the Demon.

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