The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1088

 Chapter 1088

 

‘It’s over.’

Raon barely held back the laughter threatening to burst out as he looked at the Sword Sovereign and the War King, who were biting their lips with desperate expressions.

‘I was so tense, but this turned out way too easy.’

The nicknames Sword Sovereign and War King still remained at the peak of the continent.

No, after their retirement, those names shone even brighter.

Because they were such extraordinary warriors, I had prepared five different plans with the intent to persuade rather than fight. Yet everything had ended with the very first one, without needing to use the remaining four.

‘It worked perfectly.’

Seeing the solemn look in the Sword Sovereign and the War King’s eyes, it seemed they would agree to any request I made.

“Speak.”

The War King lowered his saber and gave a firm nod.

“What is it you want us to do?”

He clenched his fist, saying he wanted to make compensation for the damage no matter what.

“Really, you can say everything!”

The Sword Sovereign drove her extinguished flaming sword into the glacier.

“I swear I’ll do anything! On the name of the Sword Sovereign!”

She stomped the ground forcefully, saying she would even stake her nickname, the Sword Sovereign.

It’s over….

Wrath let out a deep sigh, as if there was nothing more to see.

He just threw a single hook without even proper bait, and two carps got hooked at the same time. How can this be?

He ground his teeth, saying the Sword Sovereign and the War King’s doormat level was on par with the demon kings.

‘…You’re right.’

Raon let out a faint smile as he looked at Raon cast a thin smile at Lars, who actually had the highest doormat level of them all.

[Do, do I have to as well?]

The golden dragon shifted his golden, gleaming eyes sideways.

“Of course you have to! You’re the one who set the coordinates there!”

The Sword Sovereign pulled her sword from the ice and pointed it at the golden dragon.

“Yes. You said that since no one was there, nothing would happen.”

The War King also glared heavily at the golden dragon, nodding as if recalling it.

[There really wasn’t anyone….]

The golden dragon scratched his forehead with a claw.

[Ah, I get it, so stop glaring at me like that!]

He let out a long sigh and turned toward Raon.

[In the name of the golden tribe’s Paratheus, I promise this: I will do my utmost to compensate you and the other humans for the harm I have caused.]

Paratheus placed a vow, in dragon words, that he would compensate for the damages.

Th-that lizard too?

Wrath gaped, unable to believe the golden dragon would step in as well.

‘This, I didn’t expect either….’
I had only intended to bind the Sword Sovereign and the War King, yet the golden dragon had gone and bit the hook on his own. Surprised, but also pleased.

‘Parateus, was it?’

No matter how I look at it, that’s an ancient dragon. It’s like a rice cake just rolled straight into my mouth.

Judging by that massive body, those wings, and the dense presence of mana, it was an ancient dragon. And what’s more, without a doubt, an ancient dragon of high standing.

‘Sword Sovereign, War King, and now even an ancient dragon.’

This was no ordinary gain.

Raon forced down the corners of his lips that wanted to rise as he approached the Sword Sovereign, the War King, and the golden dragon.

“The truth is, we had intended to use this place to build up strength for the coming war. My friends were controlling the monsters, while in Habun Castle, we were conducting personal training. But all those plans were ruined, and now I don’t know how to resolve this problem.”

Without directly saying he wanted them to join the war, he simply muttered that a huge problem had arisen, letting out a sigh.

“War? What war?”

The Sword Sovereign lifted her chin, asking for at least that much to be explained.

“You know that Derus Robert betrayed the Five Kings, don’t you?”

Raon brought up Derus’ name with a murky look in his eyes.

“I am aware.”

The War King exhaled briefly.

“That a swordsman with the nickname of Sky Sword Saint would choose such a path, I never expected.”

He tightened his grip, saying if he hadn’t retired, he would’ve gone to confront Derus himself.

“I was going to go. If this man hadn’t stopped me, I would have already met him.”

The Sword Sovereign snorted at the War King, who radiated a cold aura.

“But since you’ve mentioned Derus’ name….”

“That’s right.”

After a pause, Raon finally spoke.

“Derus Robert and Eden are plotting to overthrow this continent. For that, Derus is in the process of summoning archangels, and Eden is trying to resurrect a demonic dragon that was slain a thousand years ago. We’ve been preparing for war in various ways to stop them.”

It wasn’t the truth, but neither was it a complete lie. After all, it was true I had come here to make Sloth participate in the war.

“Ah, then….”

The Sword Sovereign clicked her tongue and rotated her wrist.

“So, we just need to take part in the war in place of your friends and the knights of Habun Castle, right?”

She followed the line of reasoning she had already paved and arrived at the exact conclusion.

“They’re villains, and they’re planning to turn the continent into a sea of fire. Even if we’re retired, of course we should return to fight! Don’t you agree?”

She shrugged toward the War King.

“……”

The War King kept his eyes closed and remained silent.

“Just once.”

Only after a long time did he raise his eyelids and hold up a finger.

“Just once. I’ll participate in the war where everything is at stake.”

The War King revealed an icy gaze as he declared that he would fight with all his strength in the final war.

“That’s how it should be!”

The Sword Sovereign smacked his back with her palm, praising his decision.

“Hey. What are you doing? You need to say it too!”

She jerked her chin at the golden dragon.

[Uh….]

The golden dragon lowered his gaze uncomfortably.

[In that war, our race might end up siding with the other side….]

He stroked his brow, as though he might be the only one among his kind to stand with the humans.

“So you won’t do it?”

The Sword Sovereign furrowed her brow deeply at the golden dragon.

[Ah, it’s not that I won’t! I’m just saying it could be awkward! I’ll do it. I will!]

The golden dragon nodded his long jaw, declaring he would join the war on the Five Kings’ side.

Just what weakness of that lizard has been seized?

‘That’s the thing I’m most curious about too.’

I was extremely curious about the stories behind the Sword Sovereign, the War King, and the gold dragon, but there were still things I had to extract from them first.

“Thank you. But there’s one more problem.”

Raon let out another long sigh.

“What problem?”

The War King tilted his chin, urging him to speak.

“The top-grade artifacts we had made to control the monsters were destroyed, and the gates and walls of Habun Castle also collapsed because of them. To repair those, it’ll take quite a lot of money, but we’ve already used up most of our funds….”

He fiddled with his fingers, saying they had no money left because of the war preparations.

“Hey! What are you doing! Take it out already!”

The Sword Sovereign tapped the golden dragon’s belly.

[Ah, seriously….]

When the golden dragon brought his hands together, massive gold ingots began pouring down before Raon’s eyes.

Kugugugugu!

The gold ingots piled into a small hill, their golden light reflecting across Raon’s face.

[This should be enough, right?]

“Y-yes, it’s enough.”

Raon nodded with a dazed look in his eyes.

‘Not just enough, this is way too much.’

I had only intended to take a little, but I hadn’t expected to receive such a massive amount of gold ingots. Since all of them had been crafted by dwarves, their value would be even higher.

“Huuuh….”

Raon sighed again as he looked at the gold ingots.

“What now? Not enough gold?”

The Sword Sovereign grabbed his shoulder, as if telling him to say so if he needed more.

“No. With this much gold, we can buy artifacts and rebuild the castle walls and gates. But….”

Raon furrowed his brows deeply.

“Since we lost the weapons and armors of master craftsmen, things that cannot be bought even with money, I am troubled over how we should make up for it.”

“Hm.”

“Hmm….”

The War King and the Sword Sovereign narrowed their eyes at Raon.

You fool!

Wrath clapped his hands as if saying Raon had gotten caught.

You went too far! Those guys aren’t idiots, did you really think they’d be fooled to that point? You got too greedy!

He chuckled, saying Raon was about to lose everything by trying to get weapons as well.

But the opposite of what Wrath expected happened.

“Hey. We’ve got weapons and armor stored away, right? Take them all out.”

The Sword Sovereign crooked her finger at the golden dragon.

“There should be a few artifacts too, so bring those out as well.”

Instead of stopping it, the War King even nodded, telling him to bring out more.

Wh-what! What is going on here!

Wrath’s eyes bulged in disbelief.

‘I don’t just throw things out at random.’

Raon shook his head with a smile.

‘I trusted in the title I got from you.’

I had the title <The Tongue that Mocks the Dimensions>.

It caused mental confusion when conversing with the strong, so right now the Sword Sovereign and the War King must be in a daze, like they were drunk.

Aaaargh!

Wrath gasped, realizing it only now.

[Understood.]

The golden dragon opened a dimension and took out the equipment and artifacts the Sword Sovereign and the War King had mentioned.

“They’re useless to us anyway. Take them.”

The Sword Sovereign laughed, saying it was actually better to be rid of such baggage.

“They were spoils we had no choice but to obtain while dealing with villains. If they’re put to good use, that’s all the better.”

The War King opened and closed his eyes, agreeing.

“Thank you. Truly….”

Raon bowed deeply to the Sword Sovereign and the War King, wetting his lips.

‘Maybe I can squeeze a little more out of them…?’

Stop it! You madman!

*   *   *

“Well then, since this matter is settled….”

The Sword Sovereign smacked her lips and looked at the War King.

“Let’s have a proper fight here and settle this before we leave.”

Without needing to send their auras elsewhere, she raised the Crimson Wave Sword, saying they should fight here and put an end to the long, bitter feud between their sects.

“Not bad.”

The War King nodded in agreement.

“It’s about time we moved on anyway.”

He raised the Saber of Austerity toward the Sword Sovereign’s neck.

[I don’t know anymore…]

The golden dragon shook his head and leapt away from the glacier.

[Raon Zieghart. You should step aside too. Not only this glacier, but the entire surrounding sea will be overturned.]

He jerked his chin, warning him to get far away because it could be dangerous.

“It’s fine.”

Raon gave a faint smile and stepped back only five steps.

“I will protect the glacier so the two of you can fight here.”

In truth, he wanted to observe the Sword Sovereign’s and the War King’s martial arts up close, and since there were also things he needed to confirm, he didn’t want to leave.

“Are you sure you’ll be alright?”

The Sword Sovereign furrowed her brows, sounding worried.

“He’s the one who bears the nickname Sword Emperor. Our concern is unnecessary.”

The War King didn’t even glance at Raon, as if trusting him.

“Then watch closely. See how I bring this cold-blooded man to his knees.”

The Sword Sovereign declared she would defeat the War King today, extending her left hand forward and pulling her sword hand back behind her shoulder.

“Your sword will break before you bring me down.”

The War King lifted his saber with both hands above his head, releasing a bone-chillingly cold energy wave.

Goooooooooo!

At the moment the surging waves, heightened by the mighty energy blooming from the sword and the saber, shook the glacier, the Sword Sovereign and the War King stomped the ground simultaneously.

Kuwaaaaaaang!

The burning sword and the blue-glowing saber collided head-on, splitting the dark northern sky and sea in half.

Kugugugugugu!

But the glacier at the center did not shake at all. Raon was channeling both the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and Glacier to protect the glacier itself.

“Perfect!”

“Now we can fight with full strength.”

The Sword Sovereign and the War King nodded, satisfied, and unleashed even stronger, more profound martial arts. The north sea itself twisted black as countless fissures erupted.

‘Insane….’

Raon swallowed dryly as he observed their martial arts.

‘Both sword techniques and saber techniques are perfected. They’re the pinnacle of warriors who have walked only a single path.’

Exhilaration bloomed throughout my entire body at the duel between the Sword Sovereign and the War King, perfected in form and filled with desperate earnestness. Just watching made it feel as if my proficiency of the versatile sword was climbing higher.

‘This is a gold mine.’

Raon did not blink once as he carved every detail of the Sword Sovereign and the War King’s martial arts into his mind.

‘But….’

No matter how I look at it, they’re similar, aren’t they?

Beneath the Sword Sovereign’s flames and the War King’s frost, both were channeling the earth’s aura to support their aura and protect their bodies.

The earth aura they used was different, yet strangely had many similarities to the earth aura I had received from the Sword and Saber Sovereign.

‘Should I call it a somewhat degraded version of the Sword and Saber Sovereign’s aura?’

The earth aura the Sword Sovereign used lacked firmness, and the one the War King used was not heavy but light.

Though they were clearly different martial arts, they gave off a peculiar scent similar to the Sword and Saber Sovereign’s earth’s aura.

‘Let’s see….’

Raon drew back the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and Glacier a little, bringing to the forefront the earth aura he had obtained from the Sword and Saber Sovereign.

Wooooooong!

From beneath his feet, yellow aura flared up and began to protect the trembling glacier, reinforcing it with even greater solidity and weight, as if to keep it from shattering.

‘So this is another way to use earth aura.’

I’ve learned something new.

As Raon smiled and nodded—

“Huh…?”

“Heh!”

The Sword Sovereign and the War King lowered their weapons at the same time and turned toward Raon.

In their eyes surged emotions fiercer than anything they had shown before.

“Th-that’s it, isn’t it? I didn’t sense it wrong, did I?”

“…It’s certain. Our aura is bowing on its own.”

The Sword Sovereign and the War King’s jaws trembled as they approached Raon.

“No wonder it felt like fate…”

“To think we’d end up meeting like this.”

The two of them stood before Raon, pressing their lips tightly together.

“W-why are you doing this?”

Raon swallowed dryly as he looked at the Sword Sovereign, whose eyes welled with tears, and the War King, whose jaw was trembling.

“The descendant of the Sword Sect, Sieran …”

“The descendant of the Saber Sect, Yuber …”

The Sword Sovereign and the War King knelt at the same time.

“We pay our respects to the descendant of the Sword and Saber Sovereign!”

 

 

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