The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1128

 Chapter 1128

 

Fwhoooosh!

The massive explosion caused by the divine sword and the demonic sword shook the very space itself.

With a shock that felt as though the sky were splitting apart and the earth collapsing, gray dust swallowed the surroundings.

“Don't tell me...”

Raon frowned as he looked at Heavenly Drive and the Wooden Ring Sword returning to their original forms.

‘Did it not pierce properly?’

Since I had activated the Red-Blue Invincible Sword after driving both the divine and demonic swords into Ramiel’s chest, it wouldn’t have been strange if the bastard had died on the spot.

However, within the black smoke rising like thick clouds, Ramiel’s energy wave was burning even more fiercely than before.

No, it pierced him properly.

Wrath calmly shook his head.

‘Then why?’

Raon turned his eyes toward Wrath, asking the question silently.

The King of Essence told you from the beginning. Ramiel is weakened, but things change when he uses his vitality.

Wrath lightly tapped his own head, telling Raon to recall what he had said earlier.

‘Then that means….’

Indeed. That bastard Ramiel has just released the vitality he has accumulated until now.

As Wrath lifted his hand, bright yellow lightning bloomed within the smoky clouds, devouring both flame and frost.

Pajijijijijik!

Ramiel’s lightning, as though it meant to engulf the entire world, tore through the sky and earth with terrifying destructive power.

‘Vitality, you say…’

Raon kept his eyes fixed on Ramiel as he asked.

Just as it sounds. It’s the vitality a being accumulates as a living creature. Aura, divine power, or demonic energy can be lost and regained, but vitality, except by very rare means, cannot be regenerated once it’s spent.

Wrath tilted his chin, saying Ramiel was now releasing that vitality.

Ramiel is an archangel who has lived for thousands of years. Normally, the moment he released his vitality, his lightning alone could have blown you apart instantly.

Wrath let out a snort as he watched Ramiel’s lightning spread in all directions.

However, because your sword strike earlier delivered a great shock to his heart, even after releasing his vitality, he cannot use his full power.

He shook his head, saying that even this lightning, which could make one’s flesh tremble, was far from Ramiel’s full power.

He's stupid, and arrogant. If he had used his vitality from the beginning, he would’ve crushed you easily.

Wrath let out a sneer, saying Ramiel ended up like this because he underestimated Raon, thinking he could defeat him easily.

“Melt away!”

From within the black smoke came Ramiel’s roar, and lightning following his will fired toward Raon and the people behind him.

Chaaaaaaaaa!

To block the lightning aimed at Rector, Lawrence, and Mustan, Raon unleashed the forms of Fangs of Insanity and Blizzard Sword Art.

‘This is definitely different from before.’

Even when swinging both swords with all my strength, it wasn’t easy to deflect and cut the lightning.

Whether it was because of the vitality or because Ramiel was unleashing his full strength, the heat and weight of the lightning felt twice as intense as before. The tips of my fingers gripping the swords ached.

Rumbleeeeeee!

From behind the split lightning, the figure of archangel Ramiel appeared. He spread his eight wings like a giant roc, his chilling eyes gleaming with murderous light.

But there was a gaping hole in his chest the size of a man’s head, from which black blood was dripping.

‘That wound….’

Raon clenched his fingers as he saw the wound that hadn’t healed even after Ramiel used his vitality.

‘Did I widen the wound grandfather inflicted?’

The Red-Blue Invincible Sword hadn’t vanished in vain, it had expanded the wound that Rector had inflicted on Ramiel, clearly dealing great damage to both his body and mind.

‘With a wound like that, it’s no wonder he can’t exert his full power even after using vitality.’

If he had such a massive hole in his chest and a half-shattered heart yet could still use his true power, he wouldn’t be an archangel, he’d be a god.

“Even if all I have built up disappears…”

Ramiel gritted his teeth as he glared at Raon.

“I’ll still grind you bastards into dust!”

Ramiel, as if his pride had been hurt, glared at Raon with eyes thick with killing intent, while his entire body was wrapped in lightning energy.

“You're not the only one who's pissed off.”

Raon lifted his chin toward him.

“Before the Red-Blue Invincible Sword, you have to die to complete the picture. I don’t know why you’re struggling so desperately.”

Saying he would end him for sure this time, Raon raised Heavenly Drive and Wooden Ring Sword.

“Insolent wretch….”

Whether because true rage had overtaken him, Ramiel stomped heavily, his body covered in an even darker surge of lightning. It didn’t seem like he would summon lightning to strike anymore,he was going to charge in himself.

“I’ll tear your flesh and bones apart, and burn everything!”

With a roar, Ramiel stamped his foot and vanished from sight.

Pajijijijijik!

Raon twisted his body to the right. Ramiel had already appeared there, thrusting his fist forward. Despite his injuries, his punch was much faster and fiercer, as though his wounds didn’t exist.

Whoooosh!

Raon’s sword drew a graceful curve through the air, raising a crimson veil that wrapped around Ramiel’s entire strike. Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation – Golden Void Infusion. A sword technique meant to erase evil power, completely erased the angel’s lightning energy.

“You resort only to filthy sorcery!”

Ramiel gnashed his teeth as if he couldn’t believe that the striking blow he had unleashed with all his strength had vanished without even leaving a small impact.

“That only means you’re that evil.”

Raon let out a faint laugh, shaking his chin.

“This veil absorbs evil energy much more easily.”

The Golden Void Infusion erases evil power more effectively than ordinary aura.

Judging from how easily Ramiel’s lightning melted away, it seemed the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation regarded divine power as something as wicked as demonic energy.

“Calling the celestials wicked? Don’t make me laugh, humans have no right to say that!”

Ramiel’s roar shook the air, and the lightning swirling around him flooded back into his body with blinding brilliance.

Rumbleeeeeee!

Veins bulged across his entire body, and his pupils flashed with the same yellow light as the lightning itself.

His energy wave rose so sharply it made the skin crawl. The lightning that had covered sky and earth seemed to take on human form.

“I’ll kill you.”

Before the sound could be heard, Ramiel circled to Raon's left and threw a punch.

Even though the lightning didn't spread out, the power contained in his fist was overwhelmingly fast and strong, beyond comparison to before.

Kuwaaaaaaa!

However, Raon did not back down from such a mighty punch from Ramiel, and instead unleashed Firewall in front of him.

Kuuuuuuuung!

Ramiel’s fist slid off the Firewall and smashed into the ground, carving it apart like it had been struck by a massive chisel.

“What the….”

Ramiel’s eyes trembled as if he could not believe his strike had been deflected. He moved to the right again and brought down a palm strike.

A blade-like hand faster and more powerful than the strikes of high level Transcenders fell toward Raon’s neck.

Zeeeeeeeen!

Once again, Raon didn’t falter before Ramiel’s attack. Controlling the Wooden Ring Sword through the Dancing Sword, he unleashed a form of the Azure Sky Sword and achieved a flawless defense.

“W-what….”

Ramiel staggered back, his jaw trembling.

“What the hell is this?!”

“I told you already.”

Unlike the bewildered Ramiel, Raon nodded calmly.

“I learned the sword from the true master of lightning.”

He had seen Glenn's sword and lightning countless times, and had even learned the ultimate martial arts, Azure Sky Sword and Heavenly Lightning Cultivation, from him. Ramiel's lightning, which was merely holy and powerful, posed no threat to him.

“Bluffs don't work on me!”

Roaring, Ramiel charged again, faster than before, seemingly drawing out even more of his vitality.

‘Right side.’

Reading the flow of Ramiel’s attack, Raon diverted the fist imbued with tremendous power with a form of the Heavenly Lightning Cultivation.

‘This time, behind.’

Next, he parried Ramiel’s fingertips, which were digging in aiming for his back, with the two blades of Frost Pond, and even counterattacked with the Wooden Ring Sword. A thin slice of flesh fell from Ramiel’s shoulder.

Huh….

Wrath widened his eyes in astonishment.

Even earlier was one thing, but you’re winning even though Ramiel used his life vitality?

He clicked his tongue, not understanding what had happened.

‘I can read the flow of Ramiel’s martial art.’

Ramiel was, without a doubt, superior to me in both martial technique and physical strength—

But all of Ramiel’s techniques moved following the flow of the lightning.

In other words, since I learned the Heavenly Lightning Cultivation from Glenn and accepted lightning into myself, Ramiel’s movements are completely visible to me.

Kuuuuuuuung!

Feeling the desperation in Ramiel’s fist, Raon absorbed it with the Golden Void Infusion and drew the Sword’s Silvery Dream.

Shwaaaaak!

A silvery blade, wavering like a dream, grazed Ramiel’s neck.

“Gkh—hh!”

Ramiel staggered back clutching his red-split neck.

Ziiiiiiiiing!

Raon lowered Heavenly Drive and roughly scraped the tip of the scabbard with the blade.

Raon Zighart Style Swordplay.

Fourth Form, Blue Rain.

The sword-song that numbs the opponent’s hearing struck the archangel’s eardrums.

“Aaaaaaah!”

Because Ramiel’s whole body’s senses had been heightened by the lightning, Blue Rain dealt a heavy shock, he clutched his head and bled from his ears.

“Consider it your misfortune that you came here.”

Raon charged at Ramiel, twisting the corner of his mouth up.

“I am your natural enemy.”

*   *   *

“Huh…”

Rector exhaled a white breath as he watched Raon facing Ramiel.

‘How could this be…’

Ramiel’s body was lightly flung back by Raon’s sword strike.

Even after absorbing the lightning and releasing his vitality, cold sweat streamed down his body as if he were being pushed back by Raon.

‘Raon hasn’t even reached my level yet.’

It was true that Raon had become much stronger than before, but he wasn't yet at the level of the heads of the Five Kings and Three Demons.

Even if Ramiel had weakened because his heart had burst, Rector never thought Raon would be able to overwhelm him like this.

‘He’s reading all of Ramiel’s attacks.’

Raon wasn’t merely forcing Ramiel back with strength, he read his attacks perfectly and delivered counters that would inflict the greatest shock.

Looking at him now, it didn’t seem like a battle between an archangel and a human, but rather like an instructor teaching a trainee.

‘Raon… you brat…’

When Raon first appeared to save me, I felt both joy and overwhelming despair.

There was no way my grandson could defeat that monster I couldn’t handle myself.

I was terrified that I would have to watch my beloved grandson die right before my eyes.

But Raon, just as he had asked me to trust him, was fighting the archangel Ramiel without yielding an inch, and now, he was even overpowering him.

Tears streamed down my face, tears that hadn’t fallen even when I accepted my own death, now flowing out of pride for my grandson.

“Raon.”

Rector called his grandson’s name, his eyes filled with trust and affection.

His voice barely came out, but it didn’t matter. Raon would understand his heart.

“Win.”

*   *   *

“Of course.”

Raon nodded as he sliced across Ramiel’s waist with Heavenly Drive and the Wooden Ring Sword.

“I will win.”

Wrapping Rector’s encouragement with his will and pouring it into his blades, he deeply cut into Ramiel’s shoulder and chest.

“Kghaaaaa!”

Ramiel coughed up blood and quickly retreated.

His terrified eyes showed that he realized he stood no chance in close combat.

“As I said, you can’t defeat me with lightning.”

Raon tilted his chin with eyes full of certainty.

“Shut up. Shut up. Shut up!”

Ramiel’s face twisted like that of a demon, as though his pride had been crushed along with his pain.

Thick veins bulged on his forehead and jaw.

“If you can read my attacks, then I’ll erase this entire world!”

Ramiel raised both hands, and the lightning scattered across sky and earth began to gather above his head. The thin threads of lightning condensed in an instant into a massive sphere as large as a mountain.

Huuuuh!

Like a new sun rising in the sky, a bright yellow sphere of lightning completed itself and cast a black shadow over the land.

“Hah…”

Raon exhaled as he looked at the sphere of Ramiel’s lightning, which had reached the size of a castle.

“Disappear!”

With murderous intent thick in his voice, Ramiel hurled the sphere downward, not just to destroy Raon, but to erase the entire land itself.

Kugugugugugugug!

The sphere, despite its size, descended like a flash and was coming straight toward him.

“No matter how huge, vast or powerful, lightning is still lightning.”

Raon clenched Heavenly Drive tightly and leapt toward the descending sphere of lightning. He opened his mental world, pouring every principle and will he had cultivated since taking up the sword into this strike.

“Sword Field Creation.”

From the mental world that opened for the second time, thousands of swords rose and layering themselves atop the blade Heavenly Drive. In that moment, his will became one with his sword.

“Genesis.”

A soft golden light bloomed along the blade. Gentle yet deep, warm yet cold, the sword met the lightning sphere that sought to engulf the world.

Even as the sword field and the lightning sphere collided, no sound or shock followed, only the result of the lightning sphere being split in two.

Jjjjeeeeaaakk!

The mountain-sized lightning mass was cleaved apart by a single sword, and behind it, Ramiel, so sure of his victory, had his chest and neck torn away.

“If cutting your throat and bursting your heart won’t kill you…”

Raon looked at Ramiel, who was falling while scattering blood like burnt feathers, and lifted his chin.

“I’ll cut them both.”

 

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