Solo Swordmaster

#285. If you are a swordsman, it is possible.

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[Where are the scary sister and the team leader?]

“I want to know that too.”

Carrying a box on your back.

With Yuna-kyung in her arms.

Li Qingyu was running.

in the thick jungle.

without an exact destination.

Like a mouse searching for cheese hidden in a maze.

It was unavoidable.

In order to find the two unknown whereabouts in the Amazon where the protection of the ancient spirit dwells, I had no choice but to step out on my own.

That is why Li Qingyu was acting separately from the other search parties.

No matter how good the green dragon clan is in operating in the forest, she is the Black Dragon Princess.

He was a superman who, if he did his best, could search alone in an hour where other search teams would have to search for half a day.

The problem is that Amazon is wide without an answer.

It’s even harder to find Limon and Maia if they’re secretly hiding.

At this rate, I couldn’t even imagine how many days it would take to find the two of them.

But is it fortunate

or bad luck

Li Qingyu’s aimless search soon came to an end.

Boo woo woo!

[Eh? Why are the bugs like this?]

“Well… I don’t know about that, but I think it would be good to follow along.”

[…does it have anything to do with the team leader?]

“I can’t be sure.”

It’s like being led by something.

A swarm of numerous bugs, each flying, leaping, or crawling in one direction, forming a cloud of gears.

Li Qingyu followed him without hesitation.

There was no reason to ignore such a conspicuous anomaly when there was no other clue anyway.

Did the factors that attracted you stop?

Or did it suddenly disappear?

There was a situation where the swarming bugs were scattered along the way, but Li Qingyu did not stop.

It just went in the direction the bugs were heading.

It was thanks to that.

Aaaaaaaang!

With a roar that rips through the sky.

The ground shakes like an earthquake.

It was the fact that I could see the sight of countless trees being uprooted and blown away by the tremendous shock that came from the other side of the jungle.

[Princess sister! This is…!]

“Yes, let’s go.”

The moment I arrived at the epicenter in shock after stepping on a branch in such a hurry and running.

Li Qingyu stood tall.

Yuna-kyung opened her eyes wide.

A crater where everything in a radius of several hundred meters was destroyed.

In the middle of it, Maia stretched out her hand in the shape of a half-man, half-dragon.

And it was because he saw a young man standing tall with his heart pierced by her hand.

Kurrureung!

Could it be because the aftermath of the shock reached the sky?

Thin raindrops began to fall from the dark clouds that filled the night sky with the sound of thunder that rang out just in time.

thump.

a drop.

and another drop.

it rides through the hair

It runs down the cheeks and down to the tip of the chin.

Until you wet the hole in Limon’s chest.

It was shortly thereafter that the death-like silence that had been prevalent in this area was broken.

As if pushed by the weight of raindrops.

Maia collapses.

It was when he saw Limon naturally take Maia’s body with his hand on her stomach.

“Swordsmith!”

“Don’t come, it’s dangerous.”

Right after I was about to approach you inadvertently.

Hearing Limon’s restraint, Li Qingyu stopped.

Maia collapses unconscious.

It was only later that he realized that the ground around him was melting in the terrifying miasma that flowed from her.

[Team Manager! Are you okay?]

“I’m fine.”

[…That kind of thing?]

Yuna-kyung was stunned.

A limp right arm, as if all the bones had been torn to pieces.

Blood dripping from a punctured chest.

Bruises and wounds all over the body.

It was the first time in my life that Limon looked so miserable.

“You haven’t been through for a while.”

But Limon didn’t care.

If he hadn’t even sacrificed his right arm to delay the attack.

If I hadn’t blown Maia’s consciousness at once with the counter she threw with her left arm in that gap.

Above all, right before piercing himself.

She paused momentarily.

It was because he knew better than anyone else that if he had

n’t barely escaped a vital point thanks to that, he might have been the one who collapsed.

It wasn’t just because the representation of the sword was incomplete.

It’s because the voluptuous Maia was so strong and threatening.

I’m glad I’m the Green Dragon Princess.

If it had been the Red Dragon Princess of Destruction or the all-powerful Gold Dragon Princess, she wouldn’t have even made a gamble like this.

In that sense, Limon had won the gamble brilliantly, but he was neither happy nor satisfied.

He just looked at Maia bitterly.

“It’s not me who’s not okay, it’s the master’s side.”

[Yes?]

Yuna-kyung is confused.

Unlike her, Li Qingyu immediately took on a dark expression when he saw Maia in Limon’s arms.

“…Yonghwa is not resolved.”

“okay.”

As it was, she should have lost consciousness and returned to her original form at the same time.

But only the carapace is gone.

Maia’s horns and wings showed no signs of disappearing.

My body was just getting cold.

This phenomenon meant only one thing.

“I am too late.”

…That she is already dying.

Limon wasn’t late.

Because from the moment she evolved, she probably didn’t even have the life force left to dispel it.

Just as the sunset before sunset burns most beautifully.

She burned her last life to kill Diego and fight Limon.

Since there was a risk like this from the beginning, most of the princesses of the Seven Dragons did not consider Yonghwa even as a last resort.

Knowing this, Li Qingyu could not hide his surprise.

“Were Maia’s injuries that serious?”

“Injury is also an injury, but the master didn’t have a few years left to live in the first place.”

“Is your lifespan over? Are you Maia?”

It seems that there is no way.

Limon said bitterly to Li Qingyu, who rarely gave a puzzled expression.

“No matter what I do, in the end, all of this is because I couldn’t protect my master properly.”

“It’s not the swordsman’s fault.”

“No, it’s my fault.”

Diego had to stop breathing before he could use black magic.

No, he shouldn’t have brought Maia out of the cave in the first place.

Of course, it was a meaningless assumption.

If Maia had been left alone, Diego would have tried to secure her first.

Even if he was hiding in a cave, he would have evolved if he felt the energy of black magic.

Above all, Diego was not a formidable opponent, even if he was holding a sword, he could easily kill him.

Because he had an intuition for that fact, even though he ambush the Limondo executive, he couldn’t aim for Diego right away.

But even knowing that fact, Limon lamented.

“Because I swore by the sword to protect my master.”

“…”

No matter how impossible the situation.

whatever happened along the way.

If you made an oath, you must keep it.

If you can’t do that, you shouldn’t swear in the first place.

Because that’s what a sword master swears by his sword.

Even so, as long as he couldn’t keep his oath, all the responsibility was on him.

Limon, who spoke as if he was helping himself, quietly added a word.

“And what happens from now on is my responsibility.”

[What will happen from now on?]

Unlike Yu Na-kyung, who was confused, Li Qing-yu understood what he was saying.

Maia has no posterity.

In other words, her death means the end of the green dragon princess line.

What if the green dragon clan knew about this?

Will I just end up despairing?

This vengeful clan that poisoned the entire South American continent with drugs just because they lost their princess?

Absolutely not.

They will try to annihilate everyone involved in this without leaving a single bloodline behind.

The enemy himself, of course.

The enemy’s family or collaborators.

An in-law’s second cousin or a friend’s friend.

Even the country of the enemy.

‘…Ainsha, your prophecy meant this.’

Li Qingyu realized again.

Prophecies that Brazil will perish.

The cause was not the Gullah or the Liberation Brigade.

It meant that, no matter who the culprit was, if Maia went wrong in the end, the green dragon clan would destroy Brazil.

Restraint is impossible.

That revenge is beyond logic.

It would be close to a collective suicide that will not stop until the last person dies.

To the Seven Dragons, their princess was like that.

‘It was for this moment from the beginning.’

So she understood.

He said that he had to help Maia and the green dragon clan.

That he didn’t tell himself that he wanted Limon to tell him.

The fact that the target she tried to convey the prophecy from the beginning was herself, not Limon.

‘…I thought it was too early.’

There was hesitation.

This is a double-edged sword.

Everything could collapse if I didn’t do it, but even if it didn’t, it would have been a huge change.

That’s why I wanted to postpone it if possible, and I’ve been putting it off.

However, Maia’s body cooled down under the pouring raindrops.

And the look of Li Mon, who was immersed in lamentation while holding her, made Li Qingyu make a choice.

“Finally, the time has come.”

[Princess sister?]

She put down the confused Yuna-kyung from her arms.

Li Qingyu moved on.

In a space where only Maia and Limon lived, where everything was engulfed by miasma.

Chi profit.

Is it because of too much poison?

Although it was only a few steps.

Just by being hit by raindrops soaked in poisonous air, the clothing corroded and a huge amount of poisonous air invaded the body.

But Li Qingyu did not stop.

Using her strong body and powerful psionics as a princess, she endured the miasma and approached right in front of Limon.

“Princess, what are you doing?”

“I want to tell you that the swordsman is wrong.”

“Wrong?”

“You are too late.”

Li Qingyu said calmly to Li Mon, who frowned at the words he didn’t know the meaning of.

“There is still a way to save Maia.”

“…don’t say nonsense. It is impossible to heal the master in this condition, no matter how great a healer or doctor is.”

“Yes, of course.”

Either bring the divine lord.

Whether using the green dragon clan’s elixir.

Maia cannot be cured.

Of course, the effect is limited in the first place.

Because I will reject all medicinal effects and abilities outside of the psionics that are rampaging more violently before death.

“But if you are a swordsman, it is possible. No, only the swordsman can save Maia.”

What are Psionics?

It is difficult even for a master of the Seven Dragons to explain it.

Because it was a high-dimensional and mysterious power that went beyond simple matter or energy.

However, if you ask when they will be able to handle psionics, all the Seven Dragons’ masters will give the same answer.

know about psionics.

I believe it is inside.

It’s the moment you understand that you can handle it.

However, even though he knew about psionics, he had never imagined that he would have them.

That’s why the moment when Li Qing-yu revealed the secret he had been hiding to Limon, who couldn’t wake him up even though he had the purest psionics.

“Because the swordsmith has the eighth dragon psionic.”

One wall is crumbling.

The first embers are lit in a furnace that has been frozen for nearly a thousand years.

A strange scent that only Maia and Li Qingyu could smell began to flow explosively from Limon.

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That moment.

Li Qingyu was taken aback.

Ordinary enough to be sweet.

It’s subtle to be clear.

Soft to strong.

Even so, it wasn’t just because of the scent that made me want to take a step closer.

The fact that as soon as he revealed about the eighth dragon psionic, he began to feel its scent.

Limon’s eyes as calm as water looking at him.

Above all, one voice.

made her shake

“Is it like that too?”

“Did you know…?”

“I didn’t know.”

Li Mon shook his head slightly at Li Ching-yu, who asked, agitated by the unexpectedly cool nod.

And he spoke calmly.

“I was only vaguely feeling it.”

There were signs from the beginning.

The attitude of Li Qingyu, who had a secret but couldn’t hide it at all unlike the Black Dragon Princess.

The choice of Ainsha, who proposed to marry her even though she knew her identity, even risking her share of Tiamat.

Rose’s behavior when she left London, even though she had a lot to say.

It was because he was a sharp sword master and an experienced Noh Kang-ho, so he couldn’t feel anything strange.

Just because I felt that there was no malice towards them.

More than anything, I decided to trust Li Qingyu.

I didn’t bother trying to dig up the secret, I just decided to bury it myself.

So it must have been.

To the extent that Limon himself was unexpected.

He calmly accepted Li Qingyu’s confession.

The fact that he was not surprised by the unfamiliar yet familiar energy that began to move inside him.

“…This must be what I dwelled in when I was covered in the blood of your ancestors.”

“According to my guess.”

Like Noh Kang-ho, who has lived for a long time, Limon immediately realized many things.

The origin and circumstances of this power.

The reason why Li Qingyu hid it.

And how to save Maia.

Limon closed his eyes to confirm that fact.

And I calmly contemplated my body and its inner side.

The first thing I feel is the sword.

Thirteen wills that were forged even harder and sharper, even though they were worn out over a long period of time.

It has been built up one after another over hundreds of years, standing upright like a tower at the center of the body and mind, supporting everything.

The next thing I feel is a star.

Ten bright and dark lights created by slashing the constellation and absorbing its fragments.

Originally heterogeneous, but now permeated naturally, it reflects his inner side from all sides as if it had been a part of him from the beginning.

and the last one.

What had been buried and frozen under the Tower of Swords until now.

Feeling the pulsating flow like lava even though it was just starting to move.

Limon muttered to himself.

‘Is this dragon psionic?’