The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1060

 Chapter 1060

 

“Evelyn?”

Raon widened his eyes and shouted Evelyn’s name.

“How are you here….”

Evelyn had been playing the role of clearing away the White Blood Religion’s white fog at the beach. Since he had never once thought she would come all the way here to support them, his mind went blank.

“I did well, right?”

Evelyn came down next to him with a bright smile. In contrast to the unbelievable feat she had accomplished in such a short time, it was a smile as pure as a child’s.

“It’ll be fine now. Don’t worry.”

Evelyn stopped the bleeding on Martha’s neck and stroked her head.

“Ggghh….”

Normally, Martha would have yelled at her asking what she was doing, taking advantage of her paralyzed body, but right now, having suffered a great shock, she bit her lips and squeezed her eyes shut.

“Martha….”

The vitality and anger that had been rising in Martha’s eyes had sunk into emptiness and sadness. Seeing her like that, it felt like my own insides were collapsing, so I turned my gaze away.

“Evelyn. What about the fog?”

Raon gestured to Evelyn while looking up at the sky above the White Blood Religion’s headquarters.

“Blocking it with mana barriers made my arm hurt. So….”

Evelyn rotated her right shoulder as if she had been struggling until now.

“I developed a spell that automatically pushes the fog away.”

She brushed off her hands, saying it was thanks to having observed the sorcery of the white fog so many times.

“Even if there’s a problem with the spell, I can handle it from here. It’ll be fine.”

Evelyn lifted her chin with confidence, saying she had also recovered some mana.

“Amazing….”

Raon gave a hollow laugh as he looked at Evelyn.

‘That Evelyn would go this far.’

Evelyn said it as if it were nothing difficult, but for most mages, it was absolutely impossible. I once again realized just how great her magical skill and talent were.

He hates to admit it, but that madwoman is a little helpful….

Wrath also blinked his eyes, as if surprised by Evelyn’s performance, and acknowledged her.

“It’s a shame, but undoing the paralysis here will be difficult.”

Evelyn narrowed her eyes, saying Martha was under a kind of sorcery she had never seen before.

“Instead….”

She raised a glass bottle toward Denier, who was gnashing his teeth.

“I can break this.”

Evelyn shook the glass bottle roughly as if she were about to smash it on the ground. The red liquid inside thrashed as though hit by waves.

“Hand it over.”

Denier wrinkled his forehead and reached his hand toward Evelyn.

“It’s not something you can handle.”

He gnashed his teeth savagely, as though he had lost the composure he had first shown. He seemed furious that his original plan had been ruined.

“Seeing as you say we can't handle it, it seems to be blood.”

Evelyn brought the bottle’s lid to her nose and snorted.

“Well, you’re the only ones who would drink such a thing.”

Her brows furrowed deeply as if it were disgusting.

“I told you to hand it over.”

Denier leaned his upper body forward as though about to charge at Evelyn.

“If you take even one step from there….”

As Raon was about to step forward to protect Evelyn, she shook the bottle from behind his shoulder.

“I’ll break this, you know?”

Evelyn’s voice dripped with mockery as she threatened to break the bottle, perhaps having seen how Denier had taken Martha hostage.

“Ugh….”

Denier only bit his lip, not daring to move, as though he did not want to lose the bottle.

“Hrrhm!”

Evelyn tossed the bottle into the air as if teasing him and was about to catch it again when—

Kuwaaaaaang!

The White Blood Religion’s leader unleashed tremendous bloody energy, pushing back the Transcenders of the Five Kings all at once.

“Hahk! Haaahk….”

Larian, who had taken charge of defense at the front, bent her waist, gasping as if her heart might burst, unable even to speak.

“What a monster.”

Lecross wiped the black blood flowing from his mouth with the back of his hand and gave a hollow laugh, as if his wounds had flared up again.

“If the White Blood Religion’s leader were in her perfect condition, I would already be dead.”

Aris nodded heavily, saying it was only thanks to the White Blood Religion’s leader’s injuries that she could barely keep fighting.

“It’s the same for us! Don’t lose to her pressure!”

Chamber snorted, saying that if she were in perfect condition, she could have taken down the White Blood Religion’s leader one-on-one. Even though she must have been the most exhausted of all, she raised her voice louder than anyone to encourage everyone.

“Calm yourself!”

The White Blood Religion’s leader shouted at the Thirteenth Apostle, whose eyes were like those of a beast. In the face of life or death situation, she continued the battle with cold composure, unlike her usual self, a conduct befitting a head of the Four Demons.

“That accursed thing that always interferes, I will deal with her.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader’s chilling gaze turned toward Evelyn. She raised a murderous intent and moved the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish. The hands of the Blood God, holding spears and daggers, stretched out like lightning.

Jjeooooooong!

Raon raised Heavenly Drive and the Blade of Requiem, blocking the weapons of the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish that sought to tear Evelyn apart.

‘Disgustingly heavy.’

Even though I had raised two layers of the Firewall, I felt a pain like my arms were being torn off and my waist was about to break.

The martial art imbued in the weapons, and the bloody energy blazing atop them, carried terrifying power.

‘It’s certainly a threatening attack, but….’

He smacked his lips as he pushed back the weapons of the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish with the flames of Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and the frost of Glacier.

‘It’s certain that her strength is weakening.’

If the White Blood Religion’s leader had attacked with her full strength, I would have died or taken grave injuries. But seeing how my insides only shook without suffering internal wounds like before, it was clear her strength was waning.

“It’s far from over!”

The White Blood Religion’s leader moved all of the hands of the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish at once, as if to kill Evelyn and Raon together.

Kugugugugugu!

Weapons and hands, large enough to cover the sky, fell all at once.

“Looks like you still have plenty of strength.”

“You’re not even a squid, why are you so tough!”

Lecross and Larian, spitting blood as if gravely injured, still rushed forward to block the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish’s offensive.

“Do you not see us here?”

“Don’t go after the kids, let’s play among adults!”

Aris and Chamber, shielded by Lecross and Larian, wielded dimensional magic and space sword, slashing long across both shoulders of the White Blood Religion’s leader.

“I told you to get lost already!”

The White Blood Religion’s leader let out a monstrous scream and raised a radiance formed of bloody energy, and the Transcenders of the Five Kings mustered all their strength to raise a wall to block that light.

Kuwaaaaaaang!

The two lights, carrying immense power, collided, twisting the ground itself as the White Blood Religion’s headquarters began to tilt toward the ocean.

“As I thought, Raon is the only one who thinks of me.”

Evelyn, seemingly uninterested in the battle between the White Blood Religion’s leader and the Five Kings’ Transcenders, softly grasped her own shoulder and thanked him.

“Stay back.”

“No, it's okay.”

She shook her head calmly.

“I let my guard down a little while ago, that’s all. I’ll support you from behind.”

Evelyn, as if to show she would not play around anymore, threw the glass bottle she had taken from Denier to the ground and shattered it.

Kyaaaang!

The red liquid spilling among the shards of glass writhed grotesquely as though screaming, then dissipated into smoke.

“Krhh….”

Denier gnashed his teeth as he looked at the ground where the red liquid had vanished.

He seemed as though he wanted to kill Evelyn right this instant, but because of the White Blood Religion’s leader’s advice to calm himself, he was barely managing to hold onto composure.

“No need to hold back. Because I'm coming for you.”

Raon charged at Denier and thrust the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation Ultimate Point.

Tuuung!

Denier stepped back with footwork to evade the Ultimate Point, and the moment his toes touched the ground, he used that recoil to surge back in. By the time Raon sensed his movement, Denier’s sword was already at his neck.

‘It’s true that Denier is faster than me. But….’

In swordsmanship, I’m above him.

A fight between swordsmen is not decided by speed and strength alone. If the realms are similar, the most decisive factor is who has gone through more experience and overcome more hardships.

Chiaaaang!

Raon tilted the blade of the Blade of Requiem and deflected Denier’s sword that was stabbing for his neck. Denier’s sword struck the ground instead of Raon’s neck.

Chwaaaak!

Raon slashed the Revolving Sky toward Denier’s chest, but he pushed off the ground with only his big toe and escaped beyond the reach of Raon’s strike.

Piiiiiik!

But it seemed he hadn’t completely avoided it, as a scorched sword mark appeared across his chest and blood burst out.

“Hurmf….”

Denier frowned at the wound on his chest, as though he hadn’t thought he would be cut.

“You cannot be faster than me.”

He twisted his eyes as if refusing to acknowledge it and charged in again at an even faster speed.

“I’ll acknowledge your speed. But in return….”

Raon used the Mind’s Eye of the Azure Flower to its extreme and raised Heavenly Drive toward the trajectory of Denier’s incoming sword.

“This war, we will take.”

As he swore he would never lose, he struck away Denier’s sword that was driving toward his heart.

Kuwaaaaaang!

The bloody energy of the White Blood Religion’s leader and the magic and aura of the Transcenders of the Five Kings exploded, erupting in a deafening roar and shockwaves that shook heaven and earth.

“Kuhhk….”

The White Blood Religion’s leader now seemed to have reached her limit, spitting transparent blood and trembling at her fingertips. For the first time, it seemed she had taken damage.

The Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish also began to fade, as if it was hard to maintain.

“Haaaah….”

“Disgustingly exhausting.”

Larian and Lecross bent at the waist, clutching their knees, faces pale as if they truly might die.

“But it looks like the end is in sight, right?”

“Yeah. She’s not even regenerating her wounds anymore.”

Larian and Chamber, seeing the White Blood Religion’s leader leaving her wounds unattended without healing them, curled their trembling lips into a faint smile.

Paaaak!

The Thirteenth Apostle too was driven back under Raon’s fierce offensive, chest slashed, retreating beside the White Blood Religion’s leader. He chewed his lips, as if unable to find a way to defeat Raon.

“Damn it….”

The White Blood Religion’s leader clenched her molars, as if she had never thought she and Denier would be driven back like this.

“I have no choice.”

When she snapped her fingers, the air twisted like a torrent of a valley stream and a white dimension opened.

Taaak.

The White Blood Religion’s leader reached her hand into the dimension and pulled out two glass bottles that looked empty. No, not empty. Inside the bottles, a transparent liquid like water was rippling.

“Take it.”

She tossed one of the bottles to Denier beside her.

“It’s White Soul Elixir, more effective than the Red Blood Elixir you had. But if you exceed the time limit, you must be prepared to abandon that body.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader let out a turbid breath, saying that much poisonous energy was contained within.

“Understood.”

Denier simply nodded in obedience and caught the bottle with the White Soul Elixir.

“S-stop them!”

“I don’t know what that is, but stop it right now!”

Lecross and Chamber, as if instinctively sensing danger, charged at the White Blood Religion’s leader without even a moment to catch their breath.

“Damn it!”

Raon too stepped forward with footwork and unleashed the Frost Pond with  extreme swiftness toward Denier, who was about to drink the White Soul Elixir.

“Begone!”

The White Blood Religion’s leader shouted not to interfere, exploding the bloody energy imbued in the weapons of the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish, unleashing a force so overwhelming that the Transcenders of the Five Kings could not approach.

“Break through it!”

“Damn it!”

Raon, Lecross, and Aris led the charge with sword strikes, and Chamber and Larian backed them with magic, but they could not erase the vast bloody energy of the White Blood Religion’s leader at once.

Kyaaaang!

Not giving up, they pressed forward with sword and magic, and only when they barely managed to erase the bloody energy did the sound of glass shattering ring out.

Fwoooosh!

As the white fog was driven back and Raon raised his gaze, he saw the White Blood Religion’s leader and the Thirteenth Apostle with white droplets at their lips.

Even after drinking all the liquid in the bottles, the two extended their tongues and licked the moisture from their mouths as if unsatisfied.

“Haaaah….”

The wounds carved into the White Blood Religion’s leader’s body exhaled white currents and regenerated. She wasn’t using sorcery. It was an immeasurable bloody energy that was healing her wounds by itself.

Kugugugugugu!

The Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish, which had been fading, also seemed to be empowered by her bloody energy, radiating a brilliance more dazzling and immense than before, dripping crimson blood from its eyes. Just looking at that grotesque sight made Raon’s spine go cold.

“Hoo.”

The Thirteenth Apostle too erased without a trace the sword wounds he had received, and his entire body began to blaze with bloody energy so immense Raon could barely withstand it.

The sharp energy flows, as if grinding flesh, made Raon’s fingertips tremble as he gripped Heavenly Drive and the Blade of Requiem.

“Damn it!”

Larian lowered the staff in his hand, as though it was all over, staring at the White Blood Religion’s leader and the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish who had regained their vitality.

“This certainly makes one lose all strength….”

King Lecross too let out a sigh heavy enough to collapse the ground, saying he had never expected such an elixir to exist.

“C-continue! It’s not over yet!”

Aris shouted not to give up, raising her trembling hand to lift her sword.

“Yeah, we must go to the end.”

Chamber said to fight until the end, but her voice sank emptily, unlike before.

“You are right.”

Raon nodded with a short breath.

“The end of the war is approaching.”

Looking at the White Blood Religion’s leader and Denier, who were releasing bloody energy so immense it seemed to reach the sky, he calmly closed his eyes and opened them again.

“N-nephew? Are you really saying this is the end?”

Balder, who had been quiet until now, twirled a finger at his temple as if asking if he was in his right mind.

“Raon….”

The Transcenders of the Five Kings also furrowed their brows as if they could not understand his words.

“The White Blood Religion’s leader told Denier to accept the white blood and be prepared to abandon his body. That means it’s an elixir with enormous backlash. No, it means it’s a poison.”

If such an elixir that could summon this kind of bloody energy had no backlash, they would have drunk it long ago and massacred us.

The fact that they only brought it out in a crisis situation proved it was something that inflicted great harm on the ones who consumed it.

“Indeed….”

“That’s right.”

Chamber and Larian clapped their hands, looking at him. The two nodded, saying it was something they hadn’t thought of in such a desperate situation.

“Then if we keep fighting, the answer will come, right?”

“Even in death, I’ll endure.”

Aris and Lecross also raised their swords again with strength, saying they would fight once more.

“Correct.”

The White Blood Religion’s leader snorted and tilted her chin.

“You're really disgustingly quick on the uptake.”

She wrinkled the bridge of her nose as if she disliked it.

“What's with you, readily admitting it for once?”

Raon let out a mocking laugh, saying it wasn’t fitting for a cult leader.

“Because I am confident that I will kill you bastards for sure.

The White Blood Religion’s leader spread both hands, saying it was useless even if they knew.

“Of course, you will be dealt with by that child.”

She turned her gaze, saying Denier would be the one to kill him.

“Evelyn.”

Raon raised a finger and pointed toward the Transcenders of the Five Kings.

“Help them.”

“And you?”

Evelyn frowned, as if more worried about him.

“I’m fine. I can win alone.”

If Evelyn helped, it would be easier to defeat Denier, but for now, they had to stop the White Blood Religion’s leader first.

If it was the five Transcenders, even if they couldn’t win, they could at least buy time.

“…Alright.”

Evelyn nodded, saying she would trust him, handed Martha over to Balder, and stood behind Chamber.

“Now you really look like nothing more than insects!”

As the White Blood Religion’s leader sneered and clasped her hands together, the Goddess of Blood Devouring Anguish moved with the smoothness of a living human and swung the weapons it held.

The weapons’ power and speed had more than doubled, and they fell imbued with the refined principles of martial arts, as if multiple Transcenders were attacking together.

Kuwaaaaaang!

Chamber and Aris abandoned offense and focused on defense.

Even with Evelyn supporting them with a Trancendence magic circle, and Larian and Lecross simultaneously deploying a defensive formation, they could not completely block the White Blood Religion’s leader’s offensive and were pushed back, all of them coughing blood.

“Now it’s your turn.”

Denier stomped the ground violently, as if not intending to give Raon any time. Even with the Mind’s Eye of the Azure Flower, not even his afterimage could be seen, only with perception could his movement barely be sensed.

Chiaaang!

Raon struck away Denier’s sword twisting in toward his neck by the thickness of a sheet of paper and bit his lip.

‘Barely… ngh!’

The moment Raon thought he had managed to block it, Denier retreated and slashed his thigh. Blood spurted from the leg pierced by a sword of bloody energy.

“You’re slow.”

Denier narrowed his eyes at Raon as if he were pathetic and rushed in again. Denier’s sword, faster than light, fell toward his heart

Kyaaaang!

He raised Heavenly Drive to block, then tried to counter with the Blade of Requiem, but Denier was already behind him.

Chiaaang!

As Denier attempted to drive his sword into Raon’s back, he floated the Wooden Ring Sword with the Dancing Sword and used the Golden Void Infusion.

Wuuuuung!

A crimson cloth wrapped in flames devoured the white bloody energy and melted it away.

Tuuuung!

Even though his attack had failed, Denier was not disappointed. He stamped once more, moved to Raon’s left side, slashed his waist, and vanished.

“Are you just trying to peel my skin off and make it into clothing? If you want to kill me, then come in for real!”

Even in such a dangerous situation, Raon did not retreat or run away, but instead stepped forward to confront Denier.

Though his whole body gathered more wounds as Denier grew faster and stronger than before, he never turned his eyes away.

“That fighting spirit of yours will in the end be drowned in blood.”

Denier moved at a speed beyond human perception, sweeping across Raon’s entire body.

The flesh beneath Raon’s eyes was dug deep, the chest beside his heart was torn away, and the flesh of his calf was cut off.

It was becoming more and more dangerous, but with the Ring of Fire and the Mind’s Eye of the Azure Flower, he chased only Denier’s movements.

‘How can he be that fast?’

Supreme Harmony Steps is the highest level footwork Glenn created in his later years. No matter how great the footwork Denier learned is, there shouldn't be a big difference, so it was strange that the speed gap had widened this much.

‘Think….’

He broke down Denier’s movements, which were tearing him apart, frame by frame and engraved them in his mind. Denier’s movements unfolded like a kaleidoscope, beginning to be compared against his.

‘Breathing, the angle of the ankle, the degree the foot steps down, the balance of the upper body, and even the harmony with swordsmanship.’

Not just the principle of swift sword, each and every small difference was creating the speed gap between me and Denier.

‘Let’s try it.’

Raon activated the Supreme Harmony Steps, imbuing his body with what he had seen and felt from Denier's movements.

Kuuung!

The moment he stomped the ground, simultaneously unleashing wrath and aura, his upper energy center opened, as if the vast ocean had spread open before his eyes, and he entered a new domain of speed.

Fwoooong!

The world of supersonic speed, faster than sound. He plunged into the extreme realm where Denier was.

“What is this!”

Denier, as if astonished by Raon’s growth, thrust his sword at an even faster speed, his eyes wide open.

Kyaaaang!

Now that he had entered the same world, Denier’s sword was only slightly faster than his. He reversed his grip on the Blade of Requiem and struck Denier’s sword aside.

“So, such a world existed.”

Originally, my plan had been to kill Denier as quickly as possible and then join the fight against the White Blood Religion’s leader.

But with them drinking the white blood, that plan to finish quickly had collapsed.

The fastest path now, no, the only way to win this war, was to absorb Denier’s ability, learn it, and become stronger myself.

‘I have to go further.’

My sword grew lighter, and my body advanced as though it had sprouted wings.

The swift sword and sharp sword, which I had thought reached their limit through endless training since childhood, shed their old shell and began to take flight in a new evolution.

Not only swift sword and sharp sword, like trees and flowers thriving together, the versatile sword itself was blooming broader and higher.

“With what I’ve learned from you….”

Raon, at last clashing swords at the same speed as Denier, raised eyes blazing with red lightning.

“I will go to cut down your master.”

 

 

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