The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1176

 Chapter 1176

 

Kuuuuuuuuung!

Red and blue sword strikes collided with golden flashes of light, and a crimson tide spread across the entire space.

A colossal storm of light swept through, painting the whole world as if it were drenched in sunset.

Puhhhhhng!

Raon’s sword and the Dragon Lord’s light, clashing with their full power, failed to give either side the upper hand, and the collision of their overwhelming forces flung them each toward opposite ends of the universe.

Chiiiiiiiik!

Raon narrowed his eyes as he watched the white currents rising from the divine sword and the demonic sword.

‘So I am being pushed back after all.’

Just moments ago, his full power and the Dragon Lord’s full power had collided, and on the surface, they might have seemed evenly matched.

But if one examined it closely, Raon had suffered greater losses, while the Dragon Lord remained completely unscathed. Even if slight, it meant that a definite gap existed between them.

‘Still, that’s fine.’

A fight isn’t decided by level alone.

From the moment I first saw the Dragon Lord in this black dimension, I had already sensed that the bastard stood on a higher level than me.

What mattered now wasn’t the fact that I had been pushed back, but how to close that gap.

Good mindset!

Wrath let out a low exclamation.

That willpower of yours is better than that of the other Demon Kings, at least.

He nodded, as if saying that with composure like this, Raon stood a real chance even against the Dragon Lord.

‘I know.’

Raon nodded and looked toward the Dragon Lord, who shone alone at the far edge of the universe.

Kugugugugugugu!

The Dragon Lord’s massive body vanished, then reappeared in an instant above Raon’s head.

When he spread his palm, golden meteors surged forth from the empty universe and fell like a meteor shower.

‘Damn, those are huge!’

The Dragon Lord created meteors as massive as his own body. Raon had kept visualizing the battle against him in his head, but a hollow laugh escaped at the sheer size and pressure that exceeded his expectations.

‘Even so…’

I can cut them.

Raon drew two arcs with the divine sword and the demonic sword. Two sword trajectories that slipped free of the flow of the universe spread out into a vast net.

Heavenly Lightning of the Azure Sky, Applied Form.

The Heavenly Net spreads wide, yet lets nothing escape.

The net of heaven spread so wide it looked loose, yet there was nothing it failed to capture.

True to its meaning, the aura he unleashed with his sword shot forth like flashes of light, blocking the countless meteors raining down from the Dragon Lord.

Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!

Sword strikes and meteors collided in succession, and shockwaves that felt as if they might tear the black dimension apart spread in all directions.

Wooooooong!

White cracks opened above Raon’s head, and from beneath his feet, bizarre arms and legs rose as if climbing up from hell. Since this was a dimension temporarily created by the Dragon Lord, it seemed that beings from other worlds were trying to invade through the gaps while the space was unstable.

However, the invaders from other dimensions could not withstand the impact of Raon and the Dragon Lord’s clashing powers and melted into dust. Even Transcenders were nothing more than dust before the might of these two absolute beings.

Kuuuuuuuuung!

Raon exhaled a sharp breath after blocking all the meteors the Dragon Lord had brought down.

‘It feels like my hands are about to be torn apart.’

The meteors summoned by the Dragon Lord were different from ordinary meteor magic.

Each one carried rotating mana beyond the Transcendence level, and merely blocking them made every bone in his body ring. Ever since he had reached true Transcendence, this was the first time he had felt such an impact.

‘But I can’t just endure the pain.’

Defending alone would never allow me to defeat the Dragon Lord.

Raon stepped forward using the Supreme Harmony Steps toward the Dragon Lord. The moment he placed his foot forward, no, the moment he formed the intent to advance, his body was already standing before the Dragon Lord.

[Raon Zieghart!]

The instant the Dragon Lord frowned upon seeing him, Raon unleashed Frost Pond.

Chiaaaang!

The two swift sword strikes that had originally been designed to exploit a deliberate time gap now multiplied into five, targeting the Dragon Lord’s entire body.

Kugugugugugugu!

The Dragon Lord deployed an absolute barrier, preventing the blades from cutting into his flesh, but his massive body swayed as if about to fall, shaken by the impact.

[Be crushed!]

Dragon words imbued with the Dragon Lord’s will pressed down on Raon’s body, trying to flatten and drive Raon’s body back.

‘Kgh!’

Pressure like something crushing his soul burrowed through his entire body. Power capable of destroying a body beyond Transcendence. The Dragon Lord’s dragon words could hardly be called mere magic, it would not be an exaggeration to call it authority.

‘I can’t be pushed back here.’

Raon endured the Dragon Lord’s crushing pressure with sheer willpower and gripped the divine sword and the demonic sword even tighter.

‘He’s not in perfect condition either.’

The hole in the Dragon Lord’s neck had yet to close, and his mana was still unstable. It would be best to end this quickly before the wounds fully recovered.

‘The Heart Sword won’t work.’

Though my Heart Sword had grown rapidly, it still couldn’t cut a colossal soul like the Dragon Lord’s. Killing the body was far more efficient right now.

Wooooooong!

Amid the terrifying pressure exerted by the Dragon Lord’s dragon words, Raon raised both hands. He did not swing the two swords, he simply let go.

Raon Zieghart Style Swordplay.

Seventh Form, Void Severance.

Eighth Form, Gentle Breeze.

The peerless martial art he had personally created rose along the blades of the divine sword and the demonic sword, advancing toward the Dragon Lord’s head and heart.

‘No matter if it’s the Dragon Lord…’

Raon bit his lip as he watched the red and blue blades shooting toward the Dragon Lord.

‘If you see this for the first time, you can’t help but be hit.’

Void Severance and Gentle Breeze differed in form, but both were sword techniques that leapt across space to cut down the enemy.

If the Dragon Lord were a swordsman, it might be different, but as a mage, no matter how strong he was, he wouldn’t be able to block both at the same time.

[Hmph!]

Just as the Dragon Lord snorted and tried to strike away the sharply flying divine sword and demonic sword—

Wooooooong!

The flames of the divine sword that had unfolded Void Severance vanished, then surged up directly before the Dragon Lord’s neck, while the demonic sword became Gentle Breeze itself and descended toward his heart.

[Are they swords that cut space?]

As if he recognized Void Severance and Gentle Breeze, the Dragon Lord muttered calmly and narrowed his eyes, and golden blades surged up over his scales.

Jjeooooooong!

The flames of Void Severance and the demonic sword cloaked in Gentle Breeze easily shattered the golden blades, but the Dragon Lord’s light swords sprouted in countless numbers like spring buds.

Jijijijijik!

In the end, the Void Severance and Gentle Breeze unleashed by the divine sword and demonic sword failed to pierce the Dragon Lord’s mana and returned to Raon.

Kuuuuuuung!

But it was not only the divine sword and the demonic sword that returned. The light swords the dragon lord had summoned for defense followed them like magnets.

Jjeojeojeojeojeong!

Raon was counterattacked by the Dragon Lord’s light swords and was pushed back once more toward the edge of the universe.

‘Every single one is a Transcender-level strike.’

Perhaps because the Dragon Lord’s will was infused into the light magic, blocking even a single sword was not easy. Just defending left his back soaked with sweat, and his insides ached to the point of nausea.

[Raon Zieghart.]

The Dragon Lord arrogantly lifted his chin.

[It was I who raised you to the highest danger classification. Did you think someone like me wouldn’t know your sword?]

He bared his massive teeth as if telling Raon not to look down on him.

“…My apologies.”

Raon let out a rough breath as he looked at the Dragon Lord.

“It seems I underestimated you.”

Even knowing how devious the Dragon Lord was, a part of him had been trying to end this fight too quickly. Etching deep reflection into his heart, he gripped the divine sword and demonic sword so tightly they felt as though they might break.

“In exchange, I will stake my life from now on.”

He drew out the alien power sunk deep within his soul. As he pulled forth the authority of the demon king, white vapor spilled from his mouth.

Hooooooh.

Raon opened <Wrath>, causing a light of blue frost to rise over his red pupils.

“I’ll show you what kind of result comes from the existence you hate so much, human and demon king.”

* * *

Raon bit down hard on his lips as he felt the cold <Wrath> spreading throughout his entire body.

‘It’s been a long time.’

The emotions and authority of the Demon Kings were far too extreme, so I had restrained myself from drawing them out as much as possible until I gained human emotions.

But now, I came to understand more deeply what kind of difference existed between human emotions and the authority of a Demon King.

Unlike before, there was no sense of my mind going numb as I was swallowed by Wrath’s authority. If it were now, I felt I could draw out the power held by the Demon Kings’ authority far more properly.

[As I thought….]

The Dragon Lord revealed deep malice over his golden eyes.

[So you were connected to a Demon King.]

He nodded, as if his judgment had been correct.

“So what?”

Raon curled his lips upward as he felt a chilling sensation, as though <Wrath> were flowing through his veins instead of blood.

“Compared to a devious schemer like you, a useless glutton Demon King is a hundred times better!”

A hundred times?! Even ten thousand times wouldn’t be enough!

Wrath raised his hand high, saying Raon had spoken well.

You’re finally using <Wrath> properly! Come on, show me! Show me what you can do!

He smacked his lips for a long moment, as if genuinely looking forward to it.

“Haa.”

Raon took a deep breath and put strength into his toes.

Hoooooook!

Space vanished, and time slowed.

The moment he realized he had moved, his body was already standing before the Dragon Lord.

The speed itself was no different from before, but there was something clearly different.

[What—!]

The Dragon Lord had failed to perceive Raon’s movement.

Chiaaaang!

Raon brought the divine sword down before the Dragon Lord could even prepare his defense.

Jjeooooooeok!

The blazing blade pierced through the Dragon Lord’s scales and charred his flesh pitch-black.

[Krooooooar!]

The Dragon Lord staggered back with a scream, as though the pain were even greater than when his neck had been pierced.

[Be gone! Stop! Tear apart!]

As if his eyes had rolled back, he spat out dragon words in succession, consuming a great deal of mental power.

Kugugugugugugu!

The dragon words poured out with the Dragon Lord’s full strength pressed down on Raon's body and soul. However, perhaps because of the <Wrath> he had drawn out with all his might, he didn't feel the same massive pressure as before.

‘I can endure this.’

Raon shattered the invisible chains of dragon words through sheer might and stepped once more with the Supreme Harmony Steps.

Puhhhhhng!

Speed as if tearing through dimensions. He nearly overshot and flew past the Dragon Lord by mistake.

Chiaaaang!

Raon twisted his body sharply and aimed the demonic sword at the Dragon Lord’s back, which rose like a mountain.

[Kghhhh!]

True to his status as the king of the dragons, the Lord sensed Raon’s speed and rapidly summoned blades of light behind himself.

It seemed he intended to block the sword strike by erecting a wall of mana, just as he had when stopping the Gentle Breeze.

‘This could be dangerous.’

Raon pressed his lips together as he looked at the countless blades of light. Unlike before, their bodies were close together, if the attack failed, he could suffer a fatal wound.

‘But I have to keep going.’

Trusting his body, his willpower, and the <Wrath> boiling within his veins, Raon brought the demonic sword down to the very end.

Hwaaaaaaaah!

Frost blooming from the demonic sword spread like the aurora of the northern sea, beginning to freeze everything the blue blade touched.

Kyagyagyagyagyagyagyang!

The thousands, no, tens of thousands, of light swords the Dragon Lord had summoned froze solid in white and shattered like shards of glass.

The demonic sword, now wrapped in <Wrath>, seemed to have finally found its true master as it released terrifying cold and tore through the Dragon Lord’s back.

Jjeojeojeojeojeok!

The Dragon Lord’s back, larger than a mountain, split open and froze solid. As the demon king’s cold seeped into the wound, the ice began to turn red.

[Kraaaaaaaagh!]

As if experiencing such pain for the first time since his birth, the Dragon Lord trembled violently and let out a scream powerful enough to shake the dimension itself.

Ppeooooeok!

Raon raised his foot and slammed it down into the Dragon Lord’s torso as he roared in agony.

Kwaaaaaaang!

The Dragon Lord was hurled toward the edge of the black dimension, vomiting not light, but red blood from his massive maw.

“You shouldn’t be hurting already.”

Raon twisted his lips upward as he looked at the flames of the divine sword burning ever more fiercely and the frost of the demonic sword growing ever colder.

“I haven’t even started yet.”

 

 

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