The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1061

 Chapter 1061

 

Chiaaaang!

In a world of high speed so detailed that Raon could feel the grains of mana touching his skin, he swung Heavenly  Drive down toward Denier's heart.

The flames blazing along the sword’s edge spun fiercely and cascaded downward.

“Ugh!”

Denier could no longer evade with ease as before, he forcibly twisted his body and deflected the strike. He still seemed unable to believe that he had entered the same realm.

“The later you accept it, the harder it will be.”

Raon let out a faint smile as he slipped into Denier’s left side, unfolding the Silver Cyclone of the Blizzard Sword Art with Heavenly Drive and raising the Flawless Sea of Fire with the Blade of Requiem.

Fwoooosh!

From the sky fell winds of freezing frost, and from the earth surged waves of flame that swallowed Denier.

“I will aim straight for your throat.”

Sensing his escape route was blocked, Denier instead charged at him. His judgment was swift, and his movements were lightning-quick.

Tuuuuung!

Denier’s swordsmanship, rushing straight at him, accelerated further. It seemed that what he had shown until now had not been his full strength.

Kyaaaaang!

Raon frowned as he struck away Denier’s sword flying for his neck with Heavenly Drive.

“Speed alone cannot defeat me.”

Though Denier remained fast enough to be invisible to the eye, his movements had been etched into Raon’s mind as vividly as a burn scar.

Having fully grasped his martial arts and habits, blocking or evading Denier’s sword was not that difficult.

“Don’t spout nonsense.”

Denier ground his teeth as if the calm lake of his heart had shattered, slashing upward at Raon’s legs.

His swordsmanship grew sharper and swifter, yet since his composure had collapsed, it became easier to read his trajectory.

Kyaaaaang!

Raon spread the Firewall with Heavenly Drive to block Denier’s sword strike, then thrust the Blade of Requiem.

Chwaaak!

The grudge dwelling in the blade tore through the thick bloody energy and cleaved Denier’s waist.

Piiiiik!

His uniform split apart, and his waist was slashed open, spouting white blood.

“Kh…!”

Though Denier’s bloody energy was so immense that the wound closed immediately, his eyes narrowed deeply as if he was seized by pain and rage.

“You heard it too, didn’t you? The grudge residing in this dagger is deeper and darker than the sea.”

Raon flicked away Denier’s white blood flowing on the Blade of Requiem and lifted his chin.

“I will never lose to your crude bloody energy.”

With the grudge of the Blade of Requiem, he vowed to burn away everything of the White Blood Religion, and used the   Supreme Harmony Steps.

“The grudges of the dead hold no value.”

As if declaring he would never die, Denier stomped the ground heavily and thrust his sword. The strike he sent stretched long like a spear, piercing toward Raon’s chest.

‘Did he bind his swordsmanship and footwork with the principle of extreme swiftness?’

Because of the sheer speed of his sword and footwork, his sword seemed to extend endlessly like a horizon.

‘I’ve learned another thing.’

Raon thought he should use it when creating new sword techniques and spread the Frost Pond as he watched Denier’s sword crash down toward his heart.

Jjeoooong!

He knocked aside Denier’s sword with the line of frost and silver blade that joined into one, then struck back by tearing at Denier’s shoulder with the Blade of Requiem.

“Khugh!”

Denier grabbed his shoulder where flesh had been torn off and staggered backward, his pupils trembling as if in confusion.

“How can this….”

“You mean you don’t know why you’re losing despite being faster?”

Raon nodded lightly as if he understood it all.

“The answer is simple. It’s because I can read all your movements.”

Perhaps because the lives of so many people were on the line, a level of focus that surprised even myself was being exerted, allowing me to grasp all of Denier’s swordsmanship and movements.

Since I had almost completely caught up with the principles of sharp sword and swift sword, there was now no part in which I fell behind him.

‘It must be because the Clear Mirror, Still Water has been activated.’

Most people, when thrust into a desperate life or death moment, grow tense, make mistakes, and their bodies stiffen. But thanks to the trait of Clear Mirror, Still Water, the more dangerous the situation, the calmer and more composed I became.

“Impossible….”

Denier’s jaw trembled as if he could not believe that everything about him had been read.

He may be a traitor, but that despairing feeling he can understand.

Wrath let out a hollow laugh, saying he knew what Denier must feel.

You bastard are becoming a true monster.

He nodded, saying that Raon, even if only a little, was becoming someone he could acknowledge in terms of strength.

“Now, to end…”

Raon was about to bring down Heavenly Drive on Denier when a fierce tearing sound came from the right, drawing his gaze.

Kugugugugu!

The Transcenders of the Five Kings stood with their legs planted against the bloody energy of the White Blood Religion’s leader.

“Hold! Hold even if it kills you!”

“Y-yes, I know….”

Lecross, his mouth spilling black blood, clenched it shut and swung his sword, while Larian, looking once again like a shut-in mage, raised a trembling, blood-soaked hand to build a wall of mana with the six daggers she had left.

“Haaah….”

“Just a little more….”

Aris slashed through space with a hand that had lost all strength, and Chamber, as if her internal injuries had returned, shed blood from her eyes as she wove a spell.

The two of them could no longer attack, they were forced to focus only on dodging and defending.

“Ugh! They’re all dying! All of them are dying!”

Evelyn activated dozens of magic circles in staggered intervals, twisting the weapons of Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish that rained down on the Transcenders of the Five Kings. Without her help, they would all already be dead.

“Futile resistance!”

The White Blood Religion’s leader clasped her hands together and chanted a sorcery spell at a speed that blurred her lips from sight.

The ground beneath her feet boiled like lava, and a massive tidal wave of blood rose as if to touch the sky.

Kugugugugu!

At the sight of the slowly tilting wave toward the Transcenders of the Five Kings, a chilling dread rose up as though witnessing the very moment of the world’s destruction.

“You like playing in the water, huh!”

“This kind of wave, you’ve got to ride it!”

Lecross and Chamber, as if daring it to come, raised their trembling hands, swinging their sword and unleashing magic.

Aris and Larian also stood beside those two, unleashing space-slashing swords and magic that erased bloody energy.

“Of all people, I had to meet a man who keeps me busiest!”

Evelyn spread her mana wide, erecting a magical wall to block the wave of bloody energy itself.

But the White Blood Religion’s leader’s bloody energy was far too strong, the wall she made cracked with dozens of fractures in just seconds.

Kwaaagwagwagwa!

The Transcenders of the Five Kings exhaled thread-thin breaths, barely holding on, but their situation was so dire that it would not be strange if they died any moment.

“If you’ve nothing more to show….”

Raon pressed his lips tightly and turned his gaze back to Denier.

“Let’s finish this.”

Using the principle of swift sword he had awakened, he stepped with the Supreme Harmony Steps. He closed in on the retreating Denier, slashing down with Heavenly Drive and thrusting out the Blade of Requiem.

Kyaaaang!

Denier slashed diagonally to block Heavenly Drive but could not evade the Blade of Requiem, which pierced his chest and sent him rolling across the ground.

“Ghhk!”

He retreated leftward, using bloody energy to heal the wounds in his shoulder and chest.

Fwaaaah!

Raon unleashed the Flame Spirit at Denier, who was focusing only on fleeing.

On the glowing red sword edge bloomed a garden of fire, scattering thousands of petals.

The fragments of fire dancing in the air became a storm of flames that engulfed Denier.

“Tch!”

Denier used his bloody energy wide, wrapping it around his whole body like a long jacket, in order to withstand the fiery storm.

Chwaaaak!

Raon didn’t miss the moment his steps halted, rushing in to slice Denier’s back wide open with Heavenly Drive. Thick blood spilled from the split wound.

“Ghhhk!”

Denier let out a murky groan. Just as he tried to break through the Flame Spirit with his body, Raon detonated over a thousand fragments of flame at once.

Kuwaaaang!

The massive shockwave erupted, shaking the ground and sending black smoke surging into the sky. The White Blood Religion’s headquarters began tilting further into the ocean.

Fwoooosh!

Denier regenerated the wound on his back as he fled to the right. It seemed the effect of the White Soul Elixir had greatly waned, as his healing had slowed remarkably.

“Were you a thief, not a swordsman? You’re good at one thing, running away.”

Raon used the Azure Sky Sword and the Heavenly Lightning Cultivation, blocked Denier’s escape route, and thrust down a sword strike like a crimson lightning bolt over his head.

Kuwaaaang!

The flesh of Denier’s waist and thighs was crushed and torn away, revealing wounds deep enough to show bone.

“Gyaaaagh!”

Even as he screamed in pain, he forced the wounds to heal and fled once more.

“You’ve reached your limit.”

Denier’s movements slowed as though his bloody energy had run dry, and white blood spurted from his nose and mouth. It seemed he had reached the bodily limit the White Blood Religion’s leader had spoken of.

“Don’t drag this out, die alre—”

That was when Raon tried to sever Denier’s neck with the Dancing Sword.

Kuwaaaang!

An enormous burst of bloody energy erupted from the White Blood Religion’s leader, smashing the Transcenders of the Five Kings and Evelyn flat into the ground.

“This game ends here.”

As though declaring she would finish it now, she unleashed both her own bloody energy and the weapons of Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish at once.

Kuwaaaaaang!

The energy was so immense that the heavens and earth shook as if they were overturning.

“Damn it….”

Raon abandoned his attack on Denier and turned his body, dashing toward the Transcenders of the Five Kings.

‘Those five cannot withstand that.’

Normally, Larian, Chamber, and Lecross could handle it, but right now the three of them had reached their limits even more than Denier had. Evelyn too, exhausted from assisting the Transcenders, seemed unable to do anything more.

“Ra, Raon!”

“It’s dangerous!”

Chamber and Lecross waved quickly, telling him to come behind them.

“You came to help me? I knew it!”

Evelyn instead smiled brightly, saying she had been waiting.

“I’ll block it in front, so please help me!”

Raon did not declare he would handle it alone, but shouted for aid as he stood before them all.

Toward the bloody energy of the White Blood Religion’s leader and the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish surging in while breaking the ground, he simultaneously blasted the most powerful Flame Dragon Art and Heavenly Heavy Cannon.

Kuwaaang!

From the sword edges of Heavenly Drive and the   Blade of Requiem burst the breath of a fire dragon and a blue flash, colliding head-on with the White Blood Religion’s leader’s bloody energy.

Aura and blood energy clashed violently, and a black fissure as though tearing the world apart stretched from sky to ground.

‘Feels like my arms are about to rip off….’

I clenched my jaw so hard my teeth nearly shattered. Barely one second had passed, and already I felt pressure as if my bones and muscles were about to be crushed. My insides shriveled, and a fountain of blood spurted from my mouth.

‘How do I withstand this… ah!’

As he thought he didn’t know how to endure it, the magic and aura of the Five Kings’ Transcendents surged up from behind him, pushing the blood energy back. He could finally breathe.

‘I can’t just keep blocking. I have to attack.’

After launching the Wooden Ring Sword with the Dancing Sword, he unleashed the Chilly Wind against the surging bloody energy.

Fwoooong!

The Wooden Ring Sword imbued with green wind pierced through space and shot forth, appearing before the White Blood Religion’s leader’s throat.

“Hmph!”

She withdrew quickly, unwilling to be struck the same way twice, but the Chilly Wind, harmonized with the principle of extreme swiftness, pursued her movement and sliced across the edge of her neck.

Paaaak!

Nearly a third of her neck was torn open, and clear blood spurted out like a fountain.

Her focus was broken, and the bloody energy that had been about to erase Raon subsided.

“Khhuuk….”

Grinding her teeth so hard it made a grating sound, the White Blood Religion’s leader erased the wound on her neck.

“You insect!”

Wrinkles like tree bark formed upon her forehead as if she were truly enraged.

“Huff… huff….”

Raon exhaled ragged breaths and moved the Wooden Ring Sword again.

‘I have to kill Denier now.’

Thanks to the leaders of the Five Kings enduring, the White Blood Religion’s leader no longer had the invincible bloody energy she had when she first drank the White Soul Elixir.

If Denier interfered here, the situation would collapse. He had to be dealt with first.

‘Where is he… huh?’

When Raon turned his gaze to find Denier, he sucked in a breath of cold air.

‘What the hell is that!’

Denier had not fled far. Kneeling beside a collapsed building, he was scooping up and drinking the blood pooled on the ground with both hands.

‘That pool of blood….’

That pool was formed from the torrent of blood that had poured from Lecross’ back. Denier was madly consuming the mixture of dirt and Lecross’ blood.

No, not just Lecross’ blood. He was shoving down his throat the blood shed by himself and the other heads of the Five Kings, mixed with dust. It wasn’t to gain strength to become stronger, it was an act of desperation, done only to somehow survive.

‘Insane….’

The hair of his entire body stood on end. At Denier’s fanatical obsession with life, a chilly sensation, like stepping barefoot on ice, brushed along his spine.

W-was that bastard always like this?

Even Wrath furrowed his brows, saying this was not like Denier.

‘I have to kill him!’

In his head, a warning bell of danger rang.

Not knowing what Denier would do, Raon launched the Wooden Ring Sword with the Dancing Sword.

“Khhuuk!”

But Denier dodged the Dancing Sword even while rolling on the ground, then licked up more blood pooled elsewhere with his tongue.

“Yes. Survive like that if you must.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader nodded as if approving, then brought down the weapons held by Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish, infusing them with blood energy.

Kugugugugu!

Raon unleashed the Heavenly Lightning of the Azure Sky and the Golden Void Infusion to block the onslaught of the White Blood Religion’s leader.

Jijijijik!

Even with the heads of the Five Kings supporting from behind, and Evelyn casting defensive spells, his feet began to sink into the ground.

‘I have to endure!’

My body and mind were on the verge of collapse, but thanks to Denier, my strength and soul had grown, and I barely managed to hold on.

If I hadn’t grown here, I would have burst apart into a lump of red blood under the White Blood Religion’s leader’s very first attack.

‘No chance to aim at Denier.’

I wanted to finish Denier for sure, but the White Blood Religion’s leader gave no chance. I had no choice but to focus solely on the monster before my eyes.

‘Soon the White Blood Religion’s leader will weaken too.’

Just as Denier had lost his strength, she too would suffer the backlash of the White Soul Elixir. Even if it meant pouring out every last shred of soul, I had to hold on until then.

“Khhuu….”

But unlike Denier, the White Blood Religion leader’s strength did not subside easily. Each time Raon blocked her attack, his flesh was torn away and internal injuries deepened.

Just like the other heads of the Five Kings, black dead blood splattered from his mouth.

“You endure well, like a cockroach!”

Veins bulged on the White Blood Religion’s leader’s forehead, as though annoyed the situation was not going as she wished.

“Fine. No point in holding back, I’ll crush you completely!”

As she brought her hands together and chanted sorcery at high speed, white bloody energy began to rise like fireballs, shimmering with heat haze.

Gooooooh!

The sphere of bloody energy swelled endlessly as if it would become a new sun, rising into the sky.

Kugugugugu!

Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish too, as though inheriting the White Blood Religion’s leader’s fury, changed the red blood flowing from its eyes into white blood and raised dozens of weapons at once.

From the arms and weapons bent at different angles, a powerful energy wave that seemed to constrict the soul emanated.

Uuuuuuuung!

The white sun blazing with blood energy and the dozens of weapons moving with the profundity of a master in harmony, together they exuded a grandeur that seemed impossible for anyone to withstand.

“Ha!”

Chamber dropped the lollipop she had been holding in her mouth and let out a hollow laugh.

“She still had such power hidden….”

Lecross exhaled a deep sigh, as if to say that would be too difficult.

“Ah, there’s still so much I have to research, and the ocean spirit too….”

Larian, as if she could now see death, mumbled about the experiments she hadn’t finished.

“Damn it! I should’ve honed my sword more!”

Aris clenched her molars, regretting not training harder.

“Compared to what Raon and I went through, this is nothing.”

Evelyn smiled, saying they could surely overcome this.

“It’s not over yet.”

Raon grasped the Blade of Requiem with both hands and walked toward the slowly descending sun of bloody energy.

‘I wanted to save it, but there’s no choice.’

If I don’t use my last resort now, I and all the humans here will die. I had to use the sword field I had saved until the end.

Kuuung!

Stepping on the ground as if to shatter the earth, he thrust out the Blade of Requiem blazing with flames of resentment.

Sword Field Creation.

Genesis.

From the crimson blade of the Blade of Requiem, golden radiance surged endlessly upward.

That brilliant light erased the vile blood energy, like the morning sun driving out the night, releasing a warmth and grandeur that shone mightily.

“When a brat goes that far, I can’t just stand by!”

“……”

Chamber, coughing blood, used dimensional magic, and Lecross, saving even the strength to speak, swung down a sword burning with dark light.

“Hhhngh….”

“Kraaaaah!”

Larian poured all remaining mana into her broken staff and daggers and hurled them, while Aris, shouting a battle cry as if pouring out her soul, thrust in her space-cutting sword.

“As expected, I really did meet the best man!”

Evelyn, muttering she had no time to be bored, rained down a magical bombardment rivaling the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish’s weapons.

Kuwaaaaang!

As the White Blood Religion’s leader’s full power clashed with the combined force of Raon, Evelyn, and the heads of the Five Kings, a tremendous shockwave burst forth, boring a black hole into the sky and shattering the White Blood Religion’s headquarters into dozens of fragments.

Kugugugugugu!

When the gray smoke of aura and bloody energy competing and spreading through heaven and earth subsided, the battlefield came into view.

“Kuhhuk!”

Raon, kneeling, vomited dead blood, the Transcenders of the Five Kings lay collapsed as if dead, and Evelyn too had fallen backward, her breath faint and thin.

“So it finally ends.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader smiled a ghastly smile and reached out her hand.

“Your life, I’ll take it myself,  Kuhhuk!”

As she tried to unleash bloody energy at Raon, she coughed up white blood and bent over.

“Th-this….”

Blood flowed from the pores of the White Blood Religion’s leader, and her arms and legs began to tremble as though intoxicated by poison.

‘Th-the limit! She’s reached her limit!’

Raon, looking at the faltering White Blood Religion’s leader, put strength in his grip. The limit had finally come for the White Blood Religion’s leader as well. And it seemed to be on a much stronger level than Denier’s.

“De-Denier!”

The White Blood Religion’s leader, spitting blood in succession, called to Denier in desperation.

“Bring it! Now!”

She waved her hand violently, ordering him to bring something.

“Yes… understood.”

Denier wiped the blood and dirt from his lips, then turned back. But instead of approaching her directly, he darted toward Balder, who was standing at a distance, watching cautiously.

“G-get away!”

Balder hurled Martha behind him and unleashed his full strength in a continuous sword technique, but Denier slipped past with swift footwork and bored a hole straight through Balder’s abdomen.

“Kuhhuk….”

Balder spewed blood from his stomach and toppled backward.

Chiaaaang!

As Denier reached to seize Martha who had fallen to the ground, the swordsmen of Light Wind Palace, having finished the battle at the fortress wall, stood in his way.

“You shall not pass….”

“Formation!”

Runaan and Burren, with the Light Wind swordsmen, spread their formation, refusing to let Martha be taken.

“Hhhup!”

Without even wiping the blood dripping from his nose, Denier charged at them.

“Strike!”

At Burren’s fierce cry, the swordsmen’s hearts united, unleashing powerful yet swift sword strikes.

“Krrrk!”

Denier took the swords with his body and rushed toward Martha. Strangely, he didn’t attack the swordsmen, but only dodged and ran.

“You can’t go!”

“No!”

“This is as far as you go!”

Burren, Runaan, and Mark Goetten stood before Denier, each unleashing their ultimate techniques.

“Get lost….”

For the first time, Denier swung his sword. His strike, both swift and sharp, sent the three Light Wind Palace executives flying, scattering blood.

“……”

Cutting down the swordsmen that hindered him, Denier stood before Martha.

“N-no….”

Runaan, as if refusing to ever let her be taken, crawled along the ground and grabbed Denier’s ankle.

Bbaaaak!

Denier kicked Runaan away with the tip of his foot, then lifted Martha into his arms.

“You…. I’m going to kill you too!”

Martha, seeing Runaan reaching out while bleeding, could no longer hold back and shouted at Denier that she would kill him.

“If you can….”

Denier accepted Martha’s resentful gaze as it was, then turned toward the White Blood Religion’s leader.

‘I have to stop this….’

The White Blood Religion’s leader was clearly planning to abandon her ruined body and seize Martha’s instead.

I had to stop her no matter what, but my body wouldn't move because I had overexerted myself using the sword field.

“Well done….”

The White Blood Religion’s leader reached her hand to Denier, who had brought Martha.

“Now guard my front. Most of the attacks will be blocked by the Goddes of Blood Devouring Anguish, but just in case.”

She nodded, commanding him to protect her with his very life.

“It will take long, perhaps you should relocate to another place….”

Denier’s eyes darted as he said this place was dangerous.

“I gained an enlightenment about the soul before this battle began. I haven't fully awakened it, but it will not take long.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader exhaled a murky breath, saying it would not take much time before she could take Martha’s body.

“Khhuuuk!”

Raon forced strength into his hollowed body and rose to his feet.

Wuuuuuuuuung!

Resonating with the trembling Ring of Fire, Raon drew in all the authorities of the Demon Kings.

‘I have to fight.’

Since his body and mind had reached their limit, pain so great it made him want to die surged in, but he unleashed Ascara’s Combative Energy and Iron Will and endured it.

“Give Martha back!”

To save Martha, he charged at the White Blood Religion’s leader, but the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish brought down its sword and axe toward him.

Kuuuuung!

Normally, dodging would not have been difficult, but with his body and mind at their limit, all he could do was block.

“Good! Come! I’ll devour that wretched soul of yours myself!”

Martha glared into the White Blood Religion’s leader’s black eyes, daring her to try.

“That will not happen.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader cut her own finger and shoved it into Martha’s mouth.

“The moment you drink my blood, your soul will sink so deep it can never awaken again.”

Saying it was now all over, she forced her blood down Martha’s throat.

“Aaagh….”

Martha tried to resist by moving her tongue, but the moment the White Blood Religion’s leader’s blood slid down her throat, her eyes turned gray like those of the dead.

“Martha!”

After knocking away the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish’s weapons, Raon gripped the Blade of Requiem in reverse and aimed it at his abdomen.

Raon!

‘Yes. There’s no other choice now.’

He was about to drive the Blade of Requiem into his stomach to use the Demon King’s Advent when it happened.

“……”

Denier, who had been pointing his sword at Raon, turned his back and walked toward the White Blood Religion’s leader.

“Mother. It’s time to stop.”

Denier spoke calmly as he thrust his sword toward the White Blood Religion’s leader’s heart.

Ppeoeeoeeok!

Because her soul was already linked with Martha, the White Blood Religion’s leader could not move a single finger as Denier’s blade pierced her chest.

“Wh-why would you….”

The White Blood Religion’s leader lifted her trembling eyes, spitting blood in disbelief.

“We are….”

Denier softly stroked the head of lifeless-eyed Martha and drew a faint smile.

“…monsters that should not exist in this world.”

 

 

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