The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1000

 Chapter 1000

 

Kuwaaaaaa!

In the form of a Blue Dragon, Loctar exhaled a breath of cold energy, turning the knights charging toward Evelyn, along with the fortress wall,  into massive chunks of ice.

[Uncle.]

Evelyn sent a mana message to Loctar, who had flown high into the sky to avoid spells and sword strikes.

[Please, don’t kill the people of the kingdom unless absolutely necessary.]

It was true that the people of the Roser Kingdom had insulted the Para and thrown stones at them, but they had all simply been deceived by the king and the nobles.

Her goal was not a massacre, it was revenge. She had to aim her blade only at the true culprits, the king, the sage, and the nobles.

[Of course, I already know.]

Loctar gave a slight nod.

[I’ve already told the others not to commit any unnecessary slaughter either, so don’t worry.]

He advised her to focus solely on the battle before her, then crushed the newly approaching knights underfoot.

Crack-crunch!

The knights crushed beneath Loctar’s feet were flattened like crumpled iron and hurled into the corners.

“Erasing the Roser Kingdom, is it….”

The sage let out a dry chuckle as he looked down at the king, now shriveled and on the verge of death.

“I’m sorry, but even if you kill that old man, the Roser Kingdom won’t disappear.”

He shook his head, saying that a kingdom doesn’t vanish so easily.

“The chancellor calling the king an old man, huh….”

Evelyn flicked her chin toward the sage.

“So you’re finally showing your true colors.”

She scoffed, knowing all along that it was the sage who ruled both the king and the kingdom.

“You’re right. A kingdom doesn’t vanish that easily. But…”

With a cold glint in her eyes, Evelyn raised the corner of her lips.

“If the king, you, and the nobles all die, then it will change eventually.”

She declared that she would bring down this kingdom, revealing the wrath she had built up over more than ten years.

“L-Lady Merlin….”

“Why are you doing this!”

“You’re not this kind of person!”

The mages who had been congratulating her just moments ago screamed, their hands trembling.

“Merlin!”

“What have you done!”

“Controlling monsters and dragons? Are you some priestess of the Dragon of Destruction or what!”

The people who had broken through her heart's wall and become her friends shouted for her to come back, shedding tears.

“Damn bitch!”

“So you were one of the Para….”

“You devil! You’ve been hiding your identity all this time just for revenge?”

“Kill her! Kill that wench right now!”

The teachers who had taught her magic at the Mage Tower shown her the life of a noble were now hurling curses at her.

“That’s right.”

Evelyn let out a blatant sneer to hide her wavering emotions.

“I planned it all. I hid my identity for revenge, lived in enemy territory, and built up my power, for the sake of my people who died not knowing a thing!”

She stomped the ground, declaring that she had lived solely for vengeance.

“If you don’t want to die, get out of the way. As the villainess who mocked this kingdom…”

Evelyn steadied her shaking heart and glared at the sage.

“I will kill that monster and bring down this wretched kingdom.”

Thinking of her mother, who had once crushed the sage’s face, she clenched her mana-infused fist.

“You’ve grown up well. It seems the rain called revenge always helps the seed grow strong.”

Even while meeting Evelyn’s cold gaze, the sage calmly curved his lips into a smile.

“But ten years is a short time. No matter how much of a genius you are, not much would have changed.”

With a playful motion, he extended his hand, and a brilliant white light burst forth, shooting across Evelyn’s entire body.

Fwoooooosh!

It was so fast that even elite knights couldn’t react, but Evelyn, already having read it, spread her hand and gathered her mana.

Wuuuuuuung!

The mana blooming from Evelyn’s fingertips raised a shield of fire and frost that swallowed the sage’s light magic whole.

Kuwaaaaaa!

The sage’s magic dissolved into nothingness before it could even touch Evelyn.

“To completely erase the impact through elemental harmony… What an amusing method.”

Nodding with interest, the sage brought his fingers together.

Hwaaaaah!

The power of the sorcery bloomed from beneath the sage’s feet and spread outward in all directions.

Rumble, rumble!

An invisible pressure began to dominate the space, pressing down as if to crush Evelyn’s body.

“Yeah. This was the sorcery you used back then.”

Even as Evelyn was being crushed by the sage’s sorcery pressing down on her entire body, she didn’t lose her smile.

“Not much has changed.”

This sorcery was the same one the sage had used ten years ago when Loctar fled with her. Because she had experienced it once, she remembered it clearly.

“Like my mother, I don’t fall for the same thing twice.”

Evelyn sharpened the mana at her fingertips into an invisible blade that sliced through the flow of the sorcery.

Slaaash!

As the blade of mana slashed sharply, the pressure of the sage’s sorcery vanished in an instant.

“Huh?”

The sage furrowed his brows in disbelief.

“This is how it’s done.”

As Evelyn smiled and brought her hands together, the mana of nature surged violently, forming into invisible chains that wrapped around the sage.

“What is this….”

As the sage widened his eyes in shock, the mana chains thickened and crushed his shoulders and ribs.

Crunch!

His bones and internal organs were completely shattered, and the sage’s body hung limp in midair as if dead.

Jijijijik!

As Evelyn clenched her fist, the sage’s body crumbled like a dried leaf and sank to the blood-soaked ground.

Kuwaaaaa!

In case he might come back to life again, she scattered blue flames over his crushed corpse and burned it to ashes.

“H-Haaah….”

“T-The sage was defeated like that…?”

“No way!”

The knights and nobles screamed at the sight of the sage’s body burning. It seemed they had never imagined that someone called the sage could die so easily.

“Rather than this monster, you’d better worry about yourselves.”

Evelyn scattered the mana she had gathered in her palm into the air. The blue light connected like constellations and pierced through the hearts of the nearby nobles and knights.

“Damn it!”

“B-Block it!”

“Use your aura to defend against the magic!”

The knights tried everything to defend themselves, but the magic, beyond their level—pierced through their aura and shredded their necks and hearts.

“Even if she’s a grand mage, how can she use magic like this….”

“She must’ve borrowed the power of demons! Otherwise, it makes no sense!”

“A-A demon….”

“We should’ve killed off all the Para back then….”

“The Sage was right. Those Para really were demons….”

The knights and nobles died, hurling curses at Evelyn and saying that what happened that day had been right.

“L-Lady Merlin. Even if your people suffered like that, this kind of revenge won’t solve anything!”

“He’s right! This will only lead to endless hell!”

“This is nothing but a massacre! Please stop!”

“Defeat the monsters, not us, you demon!”

The people of the kingdom either bowed their heads, pleading for her to stop, or hurled curses at her.

Disgusting.

When the innocent Para were being slaughtered, these humans ignored it as if it had nothing to do with them, but now that the flames have fallen at their own feet, they scream and beg for their lives. It was so revolting, it made her laugh.

“Just as you all said…”

Evelyn nodded as she stepped over the blood-soaked ground.

“I am a demon. The monsters, and the rioters who came for you, every one of them was brought here by me.”

Until now, she had only killed those involved in the massacre of the Para. Of course, there were surely some among them who were innocent, but once the fight had begun, there was no turning back. So she accepted it, accepted that she was a demon.

“But the ones who brought this demon into the world… are you.”

She sneered and tore through the throats of the nobles who had muttered their double standards.

Squelch!

Meanwhile, the sage had broken through the flames and come back to life, rotating his shoulder.

‘He’s alive again.’

She wasn’t surprised. Even when her mother had smashed the sage’s face, his mana hadn’t diminished, so she had been certain.

“You’ve definitely changed.”

The sage nodded calmly, still composed.

“But in the end, you will fall. Just like your mother.”

With a chilling smile, he brought his fingers together.

Kuwaaaaa!

The sage’s sorcery spread through the ground and summoned a massive plant at the center of the royal capital. Monsters and warriors who had broken through the castle walls were entangled in its vines and turned into lumps of blood.

Wuuuuuuung!

But he didn’t stop there. From the corpses of the dead, he summoned red-skinned creatures to block the monsters’ path.

“Waaaaaah!”

“Sage!”

“Please, save us!”

The citizens of the kingdom ignored the fact that the sage had died and come back to life. They simply praised him, as if they had already chosen him as their new king.

“Honestly, it was a bit annoying…”

The sage lowered his voice so only Evelyn could hear.

“Thanks for taking care of him for me.”

With a flick of his fingertip, a hole opened in the king’s neck behind Evelyn, and a flood of blood poured out.

“Ggh…”

The king reached toward the sage, then collapsed with his breath cut off. It was an end more wretched than anyone else’s, for someone who had so desperately sought youth.

“So you intended to take this kingdom from the beginning.”

Evelyn curled her lips into a sneer as she looked at the dead king.

“But it’s meaningless. Because this kingdom will disappear today.”

As the giant plant’s vine aimed for Loctar in the sky, she completed her spell and brought down a flurry of white snow.

Kwadudududuk!

The moment the thin snowflakes touched the giant vine, the plant, large as the royal palace, froze over in an instant.

“I’ve gained enough favor by now…”

The sage smiled and brought his two fingers together.

“Now, let’s begin properly.”

As if declaring that this was where it truly started, he nodded and opened his mental world.

Jijijijik!

The sky split open, and mythical heroes descended.

Divine Elegance, said to have reached the realm of gods without learning martial arts. Hell King, who crossed into the devildom with a human body. Heavenly Emperor, who shattered the sky with a single staff, all of them, with crimson eyes, raised their weapons toward Evelyn.

Rumble!

From the ground, black fissures split open, and the Seven Demon Kings of the devildom and demonic beasts surged out.

It felt as if all the myths and calamities of the world were pouring into this place.

Wuuuuuuung!

The sage didn’t stop at wielding the highest level of sorcery, he had even prepared the fastest magic that used light. It was a definite expression of his intent to kill Evelyn.

‘They’re fake, and yet… they’re real.’

Evelyn brought her two fingers together and harmonized the mana of her heart with the mana of nature.

The moment her will touched the mana, which stretched out like a single line, the monstrous manifestations of myth and calamity rushing toward her split apart as if a white line had been drawn through them.

Chwaaaaaaak!

Space magic. Originally an improved movement magic that changed one's position, it had evolved into a cutting spell that severed space itself.

Puhhhhkk!

The sage, who had been behind the waves of sorcery, was sliced in half without even realizing what had struck him.

"S-space severance…?"

The sage gasped as he saw not only his body, but the space behind him cut away.

Wuuuuuuung!

However, his body began to return to its original form, as if time itself were rewinding.

“Huh…”

“S-Sage?”

Even the people seemed to finally feel that something was wrong with the sage’s constant resurrection, their chins trembled.

“Don’t worry. I’ll deal with that demon as quickly as possible.”

The sage smiled and raised his hand, but then froze.

“Huh?”

He widened his eyes as he noticed that the pinky on his right hand was gone.

“Looking for this?”

Evelyn rolled what appeared to be the sage’s finger in her palm, the corners of her lips lifting.

“Now I get it. That resurrection trick of yours.”

Right before death, the sage simultaneously activated magic that slowed the time of his own body and sorcery of regeneration, creating a phenomenon similar to resurrection. It looked impressive, but in reality, it wasn't much of an ability.

“You…”

The sage widened his eyes as he looked at his own finger melting away under Evelyn’s magic.

“Yeah. Now you finally drop that disgusting polite speech.”

Evelyn gave a small nod, saying she finally liked him now.

“You used such crude words but kept speaking in honorifics. It disgusted me.”

She let out a mocking laugh and shook her head.

“…I’ll kill you.”

The sage, seemingly enraged, brought his trembling hands together and began drawing spells of both magic and sorcery again.

Kugugugugu!

As the sky opened and the ground began to split, Merlin also brought her hands together and formed her spell.

“That’s…”

Countless magic circles rose behind Evelyn, forming shapes like butterfly wings.

“That’s my line.”

As she flicked her fingers, high-level spells burst forth from the circles and rained down on the sage.

Kuwaaaaaa!

The sage raised a mana shield and built walls of sorcery to block Evelyn’s magical bombardment, but her magic didn’t stop.

Ruuuumble!

In the end, the sage’s defense was breached, and Evelyn’s spells poured down onto his body.

Kwaduduk!

His arms were severed, his legs burst apart, and a pitch-black hole opened in his abdomen.

“Gggggh….”

He tried to regenerate his body, but Evelyn interfered with the mana and prevented the regeneration.

Step.

Evelyn approached the sage, who was writhing on the ground.

“To a monster like you, ten years might be a short time. But for a child who lived with nothing but revenge, ten years was hellishly long.”

She let out a murky breath, pointing her finger at the sage’s head.

“I’d like to make you suffer more… but with someone like you, there’s no telling what you’ll do.”

Just as she prepared to finish him with space severance magic—

Swoosh!

A blonde, red-eyed woman with a gentle scent rose above the fallen sage’s head.

She had vowed not to waver no matter what happened, but her hand dropped before she realized it.

“…Mom?”

The blonde, red-eyed woman who appeared before her was Sella. She was looking at her with the same eyes as when they said their final farewell. This was no illusion created by sorcery or magic, it was truly Sella.

“Mom!”

Evelyn canceled her space severance spell and ran toward Sella. Seeing the person she had longed for even in dreams, she couldn’t think of anything else.

“I-I’ll save you right away!”

Just as Evelyn was about to tear away the mana in Sella that seemed connected to the sage—

[Don’t!]

Before Loctar’s cry could even finish, a pale white hand burst out of Evelyn’s abdomen.

“Ah….”

Evelyn turned her eyes and looked behind her. At some point, the sage had moved behind her, regenerated only his right arm, and pierced through her abdomen.

“Haaah… It was the right choice to keep the shell.”

Letting out a weary breath, the sage muttered that it was a good decision to preserve Sella’s corpse.

“Kh….”

Evelyn bit her lip as she looked at the sage’s hand stabbed into her abdomen.

“You said children follow after their parents, right? So in the end, it’s the same outcome.”

The sage laughed, as if everything was over, and began regenerating his ruined body.

“……”

Sella wrapped her arms around Evelyn, holding her tightly so she couldn’t move. It was clear she was truly a corpse, her embrace was as cold as ice.

But even so, the gentle scent drifting from her hair brought back memories of those happy days.

“Mom…”

Evelyn embraced Sella with both hands and smiled without a wrinkle.
“Thank you. And I’m sorry.”

It seems I won’t be able to keep that last promise.

Wuuuuuuuuung!

A massive surge of mana began to gather over Evelyn’s hands.

“W-Wait! Stop!”

The sage let out a shriek, sensing a flow of mana that even he could not withstand.

“Let’s die together.”

With Evelyn’s final utterance, the entire Roser Kingdom was engulfed in red light.

Kuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!

Evelyn embraced Sella with both arms and smiled without a single crease.

“Thank you. And I’m sorry.”

It seems I won’t be able to keep that last promise.

Vmmmmmmmm!

A massive surge of mana began to gather above Evelyn’s hands.

“W-Wait! Stop!”

The sage screamed, sensing a flow of mana even he couldn’t withstand.

“Let’s die together.”

With Evelyn’s final utterance, the entire Roser Kingdom was engulfed in a crimson light.

Kuwaaaaaaaaaaang!

 

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