Chapter 15
Chapter 15
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 15
Chapter Title: Alone Again?
----------------------------------------------------------------- ◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ [Story mode] ⚙ STORY MODE ⚙ The half-demon Water Ghost Captain, its head pierced through. That fish head thrashed violently as Story mode activated. "Oh no, this can't be. I haven't even gathered a hundred concubines yet. How can I die so pathetically!"
Desperately spilling out the female bodies stored inside its body,
the half-demon struggled to survive in any way it could.
Even with its brain half-destroyed, it shook off Hae Eung-eung and
refused to abandon resistance.
'How vulgar.'
A body no longer ruled by the brain but by the half-demon's blood,
with only instincts remaining.
Its final resistance had begun. ⚙ PLAYER MODE ⚙ Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The half-demon began a full-power sprint toward the surface.
Realizing the futility of clashing with Hae Eung-eung in the dim underground prison,
it was an instinctive bid to leverage its superior size.
She realized it too.
'If this monster reaches the surface, even I won't be able to handle it easily.'
A half-demon that wouldn't die even with its brain destroyed,
able to freely swallow and release countless female bodies.
Even in the jianghu, famed for bizarre happenings,
such an outlier was exceedingly rare.
This third phase.
To end it, she had to settle things before it escaped the underground prison entirely.
'Do you know? That where there's a high tide, there's also an ebb tide.'
Unlike the half-demon's half-baked assault—powerful strikes but no subtlety in withdrawal—
the Haenam Sect's Haenam Sword Technique encompassed both advance and retreat.
Each form
unfailingly embodied two subtleties.
'White Wave Piercing Wave Reverse Motion White ??? ? Motion ??.'
Like a thief concealed in blue waves, akin to white foam,
the natural ambush pierced the unguarded foe.
In dire straits, recklessly defying the natural order.
The half-demon's blind charge toward the surface,
inviting its own peril like a foe courting crisis.
Clang!
Lanterns installed at intervals along the pitch-black passages.
Oil from the shattered lantern coated the half-demon's body.
As the charge pressed on,
the second, third, and fourth lanterns midway shattered in turn.
"Please stop!!!!"
"I'm so scared!!!!"
"We'll all die like this!!!"
The spoils, belatedly grasping the situation,
The viewers screamed in unison.
💬 Comments
— Viewer: “Please stop!!”
— Viewer: “We’re freaking scared too!!”
— Viewer: “Why keep splitting open the half-demon’s body to hide inside or clinging to the running half-demon? This is insane!!!”
⭐ Top Comment
— Viewer: “True first-person-only Silent Swordmaster view—no casuals can see this.”
— Viewer: “Horror movies got nothing on this Unnie please
The viewers wailed in unison with the spoils.
The heartless Hae Eung-eung, without a single reaction,
leapt from the half-demon's body
and dashed swiftly to the stairwell entrance. — Viewer Finally running!! — Viewer Whoa, even Silent Swordmaster's running away — Viewer Silent Swordmaster, you're expelled from the real man's club — Viewer No real man could cling to that;; — Viewer For real, real men are human too — Viewer Oh oh it's chasing 📰 Sponsor Dongbang Bakery donated 10,000 won — Viewer Chase!!! Run!!! A bio-whip lashed out urgently toward her as she climbed the stairs.
Hae Eung-eung, hanging upside down from the stairwell ceiling entrance, peered down at the whip heading beyond to the surface.
In her hand was already a torch from the stairwell.
Roar!
Flames ignited along the oil, spreading across the half-demon's entire arm.
The agonized screams didn't stop at one.
The wails of countless women echoed, battering her eardrums repeatedly.
"Gaaahhh!!!"
"Kieeehh!!!"
"Aaaahhh!!!"
Hell on earth unfolded before her eyes.
The massive arm composed of female bodies burned away in the blaze.
The half-demon, its fish-like upper body scrambling desperately up to the surface,
thrashed in torment.
Just a little further.
A bit more and it would reach the waterway inside the sluice.
If it could immerse its body, it could extinguish this hellish fire.
Such hope.
Such thrashing.
Such futility.
Hae Eung-eung gazed down coldly and raised her sword.
Squelch!
"Nooooooo!"
The half-demon's body pinned to the ground.
Its desperate death throes, salvation within reach, finally ceased only when its breath stopped. — Viewer Water Ghost Sweep 3-round battle packed to boss phase 3 ⭐ Top Comment — Viewer Can toss MK2 Silent Swordmaster, MK1 doesn't lose at all — Viewer On other difficulties this is basically final boss level right? — Viewer Agreed — Viewer I've cleared easy mode but Water Ghost Captain looks stronger than final boss ffs lol The viewers raised toasts,
but one task
remained unfinished. ◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ 2. ⚙ STORY MODE ⚙ The half-demon is dead. Yet a survivor remained in the underground prison.
The corridor, gouged long and flipped by the suddenly enlarged half-demon's rush.
From beyond the dented and splayed prison bars, a woman pleaded for help.
"Save me."
"I don't want to die like this."
"Please."
The woman's legs were pinned under collapsed debris,
her elbow twisted in an unnatural direction. 📜 INTERACTION CHOICES 📜 To the woman's rescue request, you... 1. Feed her the half-demon's blood. (Woman survives)
2. Who are you? (True name reveal)
3. (Grant mercy in death.) The underground passage where fire had spread to the filth on the floor.
Amid thick smoke,
even the pillars and ceiling groaned ominously.
No way to escape carrying the woman. — Viewer Hidden NPC must be saved no matter what — Viewer Feed blood = turns into yokai eyes? — Viewer Does dick grow too? — Viewer The deranged dick worship cult is back lol — Viewer True name reveal shows backstory — Viewer ↳ Reply Didn't do Executioner true name, gonna do this one? — Viewer Clearing so hard just to kill her is crossing the line — Viewer For real, who else but Silent Swordmaster reaches here — Viewer No one sees without room leader watching Regardless of the viewers' clamor,
Hae Eung-eung had to decide.
Let the woman live as a half-demon.
Or die as a human.
'Even the Poison King's rejects required such resolve.'
Women who lost innate qi, health ruined,
poisoned and disfigured.
Feeling that solemn mood again,
Hae Eung-eung made the same choice. 📜 CHOICE SELECTED 📜 ▶ (Grant mercy in death.) The woman's eyes trembled greatly as the sword pointed at her.
Hesitation lasted but a moment.
Beyond a single tear, resolute will settled in.
"At least send me off without pain."
The woman's wish was granted.
"……."
After severing the neck, something came into view.
The leg pinned under debris.
A thin, umbilical-cord-like line extending from it.
That line connected to the Water Ghost Captain on the surface.
'Wasn't human anymore.'
The Water Ghost Captain that had claimed countless women as its own.
Yet never loved by any.
Its secret
was the woman imprisoned in the cell.
Did it corrupt an originally human being?
Or craft its ideal form from the spoils it corrupted?
Or was the Water Ghost Captain born from the woman who became a half-demon?
The truth was unknowable.
She had erased the chance to learn it with her own hand.
'All that happened, yet alone again.'
Hae Eung-eung felt solitude.
The chat she couldn't see blazed solidly like the underground prison.
But what value lay in the unseen?
Still, it wasn't entirely futile.
At least no more water ghosts or spoil-women would suffer in the Blood Pool Sluice. ⚔ ACHIEVEMENTS ⚔ [Field Boss Water Ghost Captain Subjugated] [Subjugate boss before higher water ghost evolves. (Achieved)] [Complete sweep and subjugation in one challenge. (Achieved)] [Sweep Rank SSS] [Subjugation Rank SSS] [Challenge Rank SS] [Total Rank 8★/3★ (+500%)] [MORE THAN PERFECT] [Next field base difficulty rises one step.] The time that had been harder on the mind than the body ended.
The woman who resolutely accepted death.
The half-demon that rampaged to the end even with its brain destroyed.
'Now I can understand the resolve of the tutorial field boss Executioner.'
If yokai blood
could spawn such cruel tragedy,
such ominous blood
had no right to exist in this world.
At this moment.
She vowed for the first time.
To kill every yokai in this game.
And liberate all the cursed spawn that received that blood
through death. — Viewer Please let us see the story together!! — Viewer No, if you're making a grave don't kill her to begin with!! — Viewer You killed her, you murderer! — Viewer How not save even one — Viewer So cold... — Viewer Feels like first bangsong déjà vu, just my imagination right? In place of the incinerated corpses,
a grave fashioned from her sheath, filled with ashes.
Silently gazing at the grave for about five minutes. — Viewer RIP — Viewer Press X to pay respects — Viewer xxxxxxxxxx — Viewer (Not paused) ⭐ Top Comment — Viewer Spam-clicking X lol — Viewer Screen won't advance, how to hold back spam-clicking — Viewer Please next field please next field please next field — Viewer (Exploding emote)(Exploding emote)(Exploding emote) — Viewer (Flame emote)(Flame emote)(Flame emote) — Viewer (Snore emote)(Snore emote)(Snore emote) — Viewer I get it. Public cert popup so installing that. Nothing else makes sense — Viewer Oh — Viewer Coming my ass lol One evil deed was enough.
The viewers desperately masked their anxiety, thinking she wouldn't pull the same stunt twice.
Silent Swordmaster answered their patience and prayers. ▶ Ending game. ▶ Silent Swordmaster has ended the broadcast. By hurling 3,800 viewers into vast space in place of the ashen Blood Pool Sluice. — Viewer Gonna lose my mind gonna lose my mind gonna lose my mind — Viewer Stream end timing ffs this is too much — Viewer Hey you evil bastard!!! — Viewer Holding breath til room leader opens door *inhale* — Viewer See that floating corpse? Guy from first stream who held breath — Viewer — Viewer Really pisses me off — Viewer Other streams at least change ES settings, space again lol — Viewer #1 most infuriating field boss ending space — Viewer Someone email how to change settings ffs — Viewer Applied for chat manager 3 days ago via email, still unread... — Viewer Teacher's Silent Swordmaster not Illiterate Swordmaster, please read emails ⭐ Top Comment — Viewer Our teacher's not Silent Swordmaster but Massacre Swordmaster, speak right — Viewer Massacre Swordmaster lololol — Viewer lmao — Viewer Lol but mad — Viewer Ignore reads ok just click the damn email!! The viewers' frustrated cries
once again lacked the strength to reach Silent Swordmaster today. ◇◇◇◆◇◇◇