The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 779
Chapter 779
A forest comes into view.
However, it wasn’t a forest thick with lush greenery, but rather a forest that was blackened and dying.
As if it had been swept by a fire demon, the trees were charred black, and the bushes had turned into ash, scattered without leaving a single stem.
What adorned the ground instead of leaves were thousands—no, more than ten thousand—corpses of monsters.
It was not a forest, but a land so eerie that it wouldn’t be strange to call it a graveyard. At its center, the king of the black orcs stood alone.
Like the orc helmet Sia was wearing, two horns protruded from his forehead, and his eyes, as big as a human fist, flashed a blood-red glow as if squeezing out blood.
His black body, as if coated with ink, was more robust than an ogre and looked harder than steel.
Lastly, the massive stone sword he held in his hand was heavy enough to collapse a city wall in an instant.
‘Is that the king's soul?’
Raon furrowed his brows as he looked at the Green King, the master of this mental world.
‘I expected him to be strong enough to transcend his race, but….’
To think it would be to this extent.
He had thought, at best, the Green King would be at intermediate Grandmaster level, but seeing him in person, the Green King was wrapped in an energy wave that wasn’t inferior even to his own.
An imposing presence that made one's skin crawl. A monster who was truly fitting of the title Orc Lord and Green King.
‘Hmm…’
As Raon scanned over the Green King, he shifted his gaze.
‘Another soul’s presence?’
A moment ago, he had sensed the presence of another soul, not the Green King, somewhere in this world. It was undoubtedly his sister, Sia.
‘She’s alive! But….’
Where is she? I can feel her presence, but I can’t see her.
There was definitely the sensation of a soul stirring somewhere in this mental world, but he couldn’t pinpoint its exact location.
What met his eyes were only corpses, the fire-scorched forest, and the Green King.
'In the end, do I have to fight?'
Raon sighed and approached the Green King.
“…….”
The Green King, perhaps aware of his presence, slowly flashed his red eyes.
“You are….”
Just as Raon was about to place his hand on the sword hilt to be ready to draw Heavenly Drive at any moment, the Green King’s mouth opened.
"The human who blocked me outside."
With his gaze lowered, the Green King spoke in the continent’s common language. The words and pronunciation were archaic, but not difficult to understand.
“You can speak?”
Raon lowered the hand that had been about to grip Heavenly Drive and looked into the Green King’s eyes.
‘Now that I think about it….’
His eyes are clear.
Unlike the fiery, glowing eyes he had seen inside the helmet in reality, the Green King's eyes appeared calm and intelligent.
It felt more like looking at a sage who had accumulated wisdom and soul rather than an orc.
“If it’s the human language, I’ve learned it. After fighting for so long, I naturally picked it up.”
Though his pronunciation was slightly strange, the Green King nodded as if to say it wasn’t hard to understand.
“How much time has passed since I died?”
He let out a low sigh as he looked around the forest where ashes were flying.
“Sorry, but I don’t know either.”
Raon sighed and shook his head.
“Up until recently, I didn’t even know you existed.”
“I see.”
The Green King muttered that he had expected as much, lowering his hand.
“Judging from your pronunciation and fragmented scenes, it seems like it’s been more than a few hundred years.”
He looked around the ashen forest with eyes filled with emptiness and anger.
"However, human greed seems to be the same as ever. No, it has become even more vicious."
The Green King curled his lips as if mocking humans through Raon.
"They went so far as to revive me from the dead just to use me."
“Did you die fighting humans?”
Raon furrowed his brow as he looked at the pile of corpses behind the Green King.
Just as he had sensed when he first saw it, this forest, the monsters, and the Green King seemed to have died at the hands of humans.
“Yes, it was war. A war that I didn’t want.”
The Green King nodded heavily, as if recalling his life from his past.
“Because of the greed of humans, we lost the forest, our kin, and everything. In order to survive, we had no choice but to wage war.”
He looked at the blackened corpses and bit his lips until they bled.
“But the humans framed us, claiming we were the ones who first raided their villages, and then gathered armies from across the continent. In the end, my kin and I sank into the flames with this forest.”
The Green King closed the eyes of a small orc’s corpse, which looked like a child, and exhaled a trembling breath.
“So you joined hands with Eden to get revenge?”
Raon swallowed dryly as he looked at the Green King. If his story were true, it seemed like he was resurrected to exact revenge on humans.
“I didn’t choose this.”
But the Green King shook his head firmly.
"What? If you didn't choose, you wouldn't have been able to resurrect."
As far as he knew, creating a monster’s helmet or mask required contact with its soul and obtaining its consent.
It was unbelievable that he was resurrected without consenting.
"There was someone who spoke to me, but I was already exhausted, so I refused. However..."
The Green King frowned as if he couldn't understand.
"When I opened my eyes, I found myself inside this body."
He shook his head, saying he had no choice but to be trapped here without being able to control his own soul.
“Ah!”
Raon clapped his hands lightly.
‘Was that why?’
Since the real Green King’s soul hadn’t willingly followed Eden, the Green King outside appeared like a wild beast, controlled by the Two-Headed Demon.
‘The Fallen….’
Just how far are you planning to go?
Not only destroying the souls of the living, but also mocking the souls of the pitifully dead monsters—it wouldn’t be strange to call him a devil on par with Derus.
I regretted not hitting him harder.
'Still, in this state, we can have a bit of a conversation.'
Although the Green King wasn’t friendly, Raon didn’t sense any malice from him.
He was definitely cautious, but it seemed like Raon could gather information about Sia.
“There’s something I want to ask.”
Raon took a step closer to the Green King and raised his finger.
“Where is the soul that was in this body?”
“That, I cannot tell you.”
The Green King shook his head with eyes now filled with vigilance, unlike before.
“Why?”
“…….”
Without answering, he closed his mouth completely.
“Does that mean you won’t talk?”
Raon narrowed his gaze, placing his hand on the hilt of Heavenly Drive.
“Then I’ll have to ask the hard way.”
“Even so, I cannot tell you.”
The Green King, with conviction in his eyes, pulled the stone sword from the ground.
Just by swinging it, a menacing atmosphere filled the space, as if it could be crushed at any moment.
“It’s your choice, so be prepared for the consequences.”
Raon rushed toward the Green King, drawing Heavenly Drive. Using quick-draw, the blade imbued with Glacier’s cold energy extended toward the Green King’s heart.
Pchiiiick!
The Green King twisted the stone sword upward, blocking the swift trajectory of Heavenly Drive.
Craaaang!
The frost imbued in Heavenly Drive and the combative energy concentrated in the stone sword clashed head-on, and blue sparks flew.
'It's heavy.'
Raon bit his lip as he pushed back the stone sword of the Green King, which was pressing down with weight.
‘That must mean his mental strength is tremendous.’
In this mental world, victory is not determined by actual physical power, but by mental strength.
Feeling the Green King's energy wave directly, it seemed that he possessed mental strength beyond that of a Grandmaster.
'But it's the same for me.'
Confident that he wouldn't lose to anyone in terms of mental strength, he resonated with the Ring of Fire and deflected the Green King's stone sword.
"Ugh..."
The Green King widened his eyes, as if he couldn't believe that he was being overpowered in strength.
Not wanting to lose in terms of pressure, he raised his combative energy even more and swung the stone sword horizontally.
Chiiing!
With the will to cut the stone sword, Raon slashed with the Crimson Slash. The blade blazing with flames pressed down on the stone sword and etched a line of sword wound on the Green King's chest.
Huuuuung!
The Green King, as if he didn't care about injuries, without even looking at the wound, stabbed down with the stone sword toward Raon's head.
Fwaaaah!
Raon raised a shield of flames on the blade of Heavenly Drive. It was the defensive technique of Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation, FireWall.
Jjeeeong!
The moment FireWall and the stone sword clashed, a curse slipped out.
‘Damn it…’
It was such a heavy sword strike that the FlameWall was deeply dented, and the blade of Heavenly Drive bent. The Green King's mental strength seemed to be more solid than he had anticipated.
"Humans may have killed me, but my soul has never been broken."
The Green King, pressing down with the stone sword, lifted his chin.
"Do not underestimate me."
"I have never underestimated you."
Raon activated the Heavenly Heavy Cannon on the blade of Heavenly Drive. A wave of heavy sword, not a sword strike, was fired from the sword blade toward the Green King.
Kuwaaaah!
The Green King drove the stone sword into the ground. It was a good decision that allowed him to protect his vital points without being pushed back.
But bright red blood spurted from the arms and legs, which the stone sword could not protect.
"Now, are you willing to talk?"
Raon lowered Heavenly Drive as he looked at the bleeding Green King.
"......"
The Green King, without any intention of talking, raised the stone sword once again.
"I figured as much."
He nodded, thinking that it would be even more ridiculous for a being with that level of mental strength to succumb to mere injuries.
"Sorry, but I'm in a hurry too."
Raon let out a rough breath. He didn't want to see Sylvia's tears anymore and wanted to bring his family together, so he couldn't back down either.
Stepping his left foot at a right angle, he stabbed down with the Fangs of Insanity, filled with the principle of the heavy sword.
Kuwaaang!
Despite the heavy strike that seemed to crush bone and flesh poured down, the Green King blocked the attack head-on without letting out even a groan.
Tsk.
Raon clicked his tongue and moved behind the Green King.
Whoooosh!
As if expecting it, the Green King swung his greatsword in the direction Raon was rushing toward. For a moment, an enormous wind pressure pressed down on Raon’s entire body, making him difficult to move.
'Was he holding back his strength?'
Raon lightly stepped forward with his right foot and used the Light Wind Flow. The blue wind rising from his feet relieved the pressure created by the Green King as he drew Frost Pond.
Chiiing!
The silver sword strike and the blue light sword strike connected like waves and shot toward the Green King's chest and waist.
Kuuung!
The Green King didn’t dodge, instead, He blocked the Frost Pond with the earth surface that rose due to the impact of the greatsword, he then thrust the greatsword toward Raon’s head.
Kuwaaaa!
Toward the Green King's stone sword that was thrusting heavily, Raon unleashed the Flame Dragon Art. The flames imbued in the sword took the form of a dragon and swept over the Green King.
Huuuuk!
After the firepower that could burn even the mental world had passed, the figure of the Green King was revealed. He endured the Flame Dragon Art without retreating, standing firm in the same place.
'Could it be... is he unable to move from that spot?'
The Green King, who fought without moving, was strangely peculiar.
'No, that's not what's important right now.'
Because he had entered this world right after the war without rest, his mental strength had reached its limit. If he couldn't quickly defeat the Green King, he would be the one to fall first.
Hoo.
Raon steadied his breath and tightened his grip on Heavenly Drive.
'Finish this as quickly as possible.'
He aimed at the sky with Heavenly Drive imbued with fire.
Fwaaaah!
On top of the red tree that had taken root on the blade, a thousand petals bloomed.
The fragments of flame scattered by the autumn wind became a storm of fire that enveloped the Green King.
"Graaaaah!"
The Green King swung down the stone sword roughly to erase the flames enveloping him. He seemed to dislike being enveloped in flames because of memories from his previous life.
'Then, I'll take advantage of that.'
Raon advanced on the ashen ground, raising the tilted Heavenly Drive.
Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation, Thousand Flames.
Flawless Sea of Fire.
He drew back the flames that were extinguished by the Green King's stone sword and raised a wave of fire that seemed to touch the sky.
Kwaaaaah!
The combative energy that the Green King had raised was mercilessly crushed by the Flawless Sea of Fire.
"Kkuuuu..."
The Green King, who hadn’t even groaned when he was slashed or when his flesh was torn apart, couldn't endure the flames. His face twisted in pain, and a low moan escaped his lips.
"Where is the soul of this body?"
"...I cannot tell you."
The Green King did not back down, as if he was saying he couldn't tell even in death.
"Why on earth..."
Just as Raon furrowed his brow, a black hole appeared in the sky, and something like a blue cloud began to ripple inside.
'Is it Wrath?'
It seemed Wrath had arrived late, just like when Raon had worn the draconian Loctar’s helmet. It seemed best to finish this quickly before that guy did anything unnecessary.
Grit.
Raon clenched his teeth and grasped Heavenly Drive with both hands.
Crack.
The Green King, as if determined not to die, raised the greatsword above his head, gathering all his combative energy.
The combative energy blazing above his head shone like a red sun.
"Graaah!"
The Green King swung the greatsword, filled with desperate will. For a moment, the world seemed to darken under the immense wave of combative energy.
Chiiing!
Raon did not retreat but instead stepped forward and raised Heavenly Drive.
Sword Field Creation, Genesis.
In his exhausted mind, a new level of his sword field emerged.
The sword strike burning with golden light erased the red combative energy and caused a magnificent radiance in the mental world.
Puuuuck!
The Green King's greatsword shattered in half, and a large hole was pierced through his chest.
But even with black blood pouring from his chest and mouth, the Green King did not fall, standing firm in place.
"This is the last time. Speak."
"......"
The Green King shook his head while lifting the broken greatsword. Again, he didn't seem to intend to speak even in death.
'I don't have time anymore.'
His vision blurred, and his head throbbed. Somehow, he had to settle this here.
"Don't blame me..."
Just as Raon raised Heavenly Drive to sever the Green King's neck.
Poong!
With a pleasant sound as if a blocked hole had been opened, a huge cotton candy popped out from the hole in the sky.
"You mustn't kill him! Cough!"
Wrath looked down at him, frowning.
"A human soul is contained within that orc's soul."
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