The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1234

 Chapter 1234

 

Gooooooo—!

Above the underground training ground, which had been lit only by dim lights, the sun and the moon rose into the air.

They were things that should never have existed beneath the earth, yet as if to force their presence upon the world, they radiated gold and silver light far more brilliant than the real thing.

Hoooo—!

Raon rose to his feet, gripping a divine sword and a demonic sword forged from sunlight and moonlight, one in each hand. His red eyes gleamed gold, as if influenced by the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and the Ring of Fire.

“So it’s the Sword Field Creation—Divine and Demonic Harmony.”

Glenn narrowed his eyes as he looked at the divine sword and demonic sword in Raon’s hands.

“Even in Zieghart’s long history, it’s a sword field that stands among the very best. Its power and duration are both outstanding, calling it an all-purpose sword field wouldn’t be an exaggeration.”

He nodded calmly, as if he had fully grasped every aspect of Raon’s sword field.

“However, it won’t mean much here.”

Glenn chuckled softly as he looked at the heat and cold flaring from the two swords.

"You're right."

Raon bit his lip, his hands trembling slightly as he gripped the swords.

‘So increasing my might with the sword field only makes the pressure heavier.’

He had planned to spar with Glenn at full strength by using Divine and Demonic Harmony, but the moment his might increased, the pressure from the training ground intensified as well.

It seemed the pressure here adjusted in real time.

“To go through the trouble of activating your sword field, only for nothing to change. What a shame.”

Glenn casually waved the hand holding Heavenly Tremor, clearly teasing him.

“It’s fine.”

Raon shook his head faintly.

“I’ll have to adapt sooner or later anyway. Better to take the pain early.”

It wasn’t said out of stubborn pride. Since he had the chance to train in such a remarkable place, it was better to experience as much as possible.

“And power and duration are not the only strengths of this sword field.”

When I used it, my affinity with both swords increased, greatly increasing my proficiency with the Dancing Sword. Even if my might was suppressed, it was still far better than not using it at all.

“That much is true.”

Glenn nodded, unable to deny it.

"Then come at me again."

As he spoke, he brought Heavenly Tremor down.

Chiaaaang!

For a split second, Raon’s vision flashed, and Glenn’s sword strike was already in front of his shoulder.

“Ghk!”

Raon kicked off the ground and retreated. Buying himself a split second, he brought the divine sword down, knocking aside the strike that would have sliced into his shoulder.

Jjeeeeoong!

Glenn’s sword wasn’t merely fast. Even swinging the divine sword with all his strength, Raon was overpowered and forced back five full steps.

“Hmm….”

Raon lifted his head, his hand trembling around the divine sword, just in time to see a red bolt of lightning crash down from above. Glenn had no intention of giving him a moment to breathe.

“Hah!”

Raon sucked in a sharp breath and thrust the demonic sword upward into the falling lightning. Blue frost collided with the bolt, scattering violet sparks in every direction.

Pajijijijik!

Raon stomped heavily on the sparking ground and looked up at Glenn.

"You told me to come at you, yet you attack first? That’s cheap."

He shook his head, clearly asking why Glenn would say that when he had no intention of giving the initiative.

"I told you, this is real combat."

Glenn shrugged, as if that explained everything.

“You’re free to use every trick you have.”

He spread his arms wide, inviting him to try.

“Hmm….”

Raon bit his lip lightly as he looked at Glenn, who remained utterly relaxed.

Ho!

Wrath stroked his chin and let out an impressed sound.

He never thought that geezer had this side to him. The King of Essence thought he always fought fair and square.

Clearly amused, he smacked his lips.

‘He’s probably doing this to push me, to force me to grow.’

It felt like he was deliberately fighting this way to broaden my experience.

‘But there’s something even grandfather doesn’t know.’

Raon grinned faintly and loosened his grip on the divine and demonic swords.

‘This kind of thing is my specialty.’

He stomped the ground hard enough to echo. Activating the Supreme Harmony Steps at extreme speed, he imbued the movement with the principles of illusion sword and variable sword. His feet moved mysteriously as he rushed toward Glenn’s left side.

Huuuuugh!

As if he had used a clone technique, his body split into five, each one moving differently as they closed in on Glenn from all sides.

“So there was another use to Supreme Harmony Steps that I didn’t know about.”

Glenn exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the five Raons.

“But it’s still incomplete. It’s obvious to the eye.”

Smiling faintly, he swung Heavenly Tremor, lightning flashing along its blade. His confidence made it clear, he knew exactly where the real Raon was.

Pajijijijik!

Lightning from Heavenly Tremor swept through Raon’s five clones like an eraser, wiping them out in an instant before surging straight toward the real Raon charging in from behind.

Jjeeeeoong!

Raon failed to evade the counterattack that cut back toward him. Abandoning his strike on Glenn’s back, he twisted the divine sword from offense into defense.

“Urgh….”

Grinding his teeth, Raon watched as the flames on the divine sword were snuffed out, the lightning energy from Heavenly Tremor pressing in relentlessly.

“It’s still rough, but with a little more refinement, it could become a decent martial art—hmm?”

As Glenn began to offer advice, his eyes widened when he noticed Raon’s hand.

Huuuuugh!

The instant Glenn realized what was happening and lifted his gaze slightly, the demonic sword, which had left Raon’s hand, shot up from beneath Glenn's feet.

Bbeeeok!

With superhuman reflexes, Glenn stepped back and kicked away the demonic sword as it tore through the ground.

Chiiiiik!

The demonic sword released a silvery frost, as if lamenting the missed opportunity, before drifting back to Raon’s side.

“Gave you a chill down your spine, didn’t it?”

Raon caught the demonic sword in midair, smiling as he looked at Glenn, who had retreated for the first time.

“I know that footwork is crude. But it can be used like this.”

He shrugged, as if telling Glenn not to let his guard down.

"I was wondering why you stomped so hard when you charged..."

Glenn let out a hollow chuckle as he looked at the spot where Raon had struck the floor.

"It was to hide the sound of you burying the demonic sword in the ground."

He rubbed his chin lightly, clearly impressed.

“Even a Transcender could fall for a strange trick like that. I can tell, you’ve been through an unusual amount of real combat for your age.”

Glenn smacked his lips, looking genuinely pleased, as if struck by how extraordinary Raon’s experience was for someone his age.

“It’s not over yet.”

Raon released both the divine sword and the demonic sword. Freed from his hands, the two swords blazed with even fiercer flames and colder frost as they soared into the sky.

Hoooooong!

Like divine dragons swimming through the sky, the two swords flew freely through the training ground’s sky, where red lightning flashed.

Gooooooo—!

Watching their flight, Raon pushed the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and Glacier to their limits.

“It’s still a work in progress, but….”

He raised his right hand like a blade, spread his left wide, and drew in a deep breath.

“Try facing four swords.”

With the divine sword and demonic sword overhead, shattering red lightning as they flew, and two swords formed by his hands raised and ready, Raon advanced on Glenn.

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Kwaaaang!

Glenn internally gasped as he blocked Raon’s sword strikes, which possessed Transcendence destructive power.

‘Terrifying.’

Even under the crushing pressure, Raon’s might far exceeded my expectations.

A low-level Transcender wouldn’t even be able to block a single one of his swords, their head would fly off, or their body would simply explode.

‘To think he’s grown this much.’

Raon when he slew the archangel Raphael with a single strike, Raon when he faced Derus Robert, and Raon after cutting down Derus and returning to the house, each of them was different.

I had seen him fight, had fought alongside him, but even so, I hadn’t expected him to display such might and level now.

It was unbelievable, yet it truly seemed that he grew by leaps and bounds every time he fought.

‘He really might become the greatest of all time.’

Considering his terrifying rate of growth, it wasn’t impossible that he would surpass me before even reaching middle age and claim the title of the greatest in history.

‘And he isn’t bound by the pressure of the heavens, either.’

He even has the backing of the Demon King he calls a friend, so unlike me, he isn’t directly bound by the heavens’ suppressive pressure.

Unlike me, Raon could ascend to even higher realms without ever leaving the continent.

‘Enviable… no, that’s not the right word.’

Glenn calmly shook his head as he deflected all four of Raon’s swords.

‘Everything he has, he earned himself.’

As a child, Raon had been mocked as having the worst possible talent for swordsmanship.

It wasn’t just that people said he’d never become a proper warrior, they even told him he wouldn’t live long.

Yet he had overcome his illness through sheer will and effort, revealing the talent that had been buried within him.

Honestly, it was something even I could not have accomplished. Rather than envy, applause was what he deserved.

"It is just as you said."

Glenn lifted his chin, batting away the divine sword, the demonic sword, and the two swords formed by Raon’s hands in a single motion.

“You’re still far too unrefined. You’d be better off fighting with a single sword.”

He scoffed lightly as he easily pushed back the four sword technique Raon was using.

“Gradually…”

Raon bit down on his lip as if enduring intense pain from the shockwave created by Heavenly Tremor, then lifted his head.

“I’ll get better.”

He spread his hand-blade again, refusing to give up on the four sword technique. “Confidence is good.”

Glenn said, narrowing his eyes as he motioned for Raon to come at him again.

‘What I can give Raon as a gift…’

Was a victory against the Heavenly Demon.

No matter how exceptional Raon’s growth was, reaching the Heavenly Demon within a few years would be nearly impossible. Defeating the Heavenly Demon on the promised day, and then disappearing, was the best thing I could do for the grandson who had risen from being called talentless to being hailed as a genius.

“I’m coming.”

From Raon’s hands poured forth a lofty sky and a torrent of destructive lightning. The divine sword and demonic sword descending from above shone as though they were burning their very existence away.

Kugugugugugu!

He unleashed his strongest move at once, linking the Heavenly Lightning of the Azure Sky with the Divine and Demonic Harmony’s Combination Technique. Red-Blue Invincible Sword.

“It’s certainly a powerful strike. However…”

Glenn calmly shook his head as he looked at Raon’s sword attack that seemed to swallow his entire field of vision.

"The connection between the sword techniques is flawed."

He raised Heavenly Tremor and split apart Raon’s strike, which had failed to achieve perfect harmony.

Chiaaaaaang!

By cutting through the gap where the Heavenly Lightning of the Azure Sky and Red-Blue Invincible Sword failed to link seamlessly, Glenn erased the fearsome strike without exerting much effort.

“Haa…!”

Raon bent at the waist, gasping for breath as if he had poured everything he had into that single attack.

"Fighting like this won't be of much help to me."

Glenn shook his head as he looked at Raon’s exhausted face.

"Increase the perfection of all your sword techniques and movements. No matter how strong a sword is, if it is clumsy, even this tiny bolt of lightning can pierce it."

He narrowed his eyes, raising a bolt of lightning no larger than a fingernail atop the blade of Heavenly Tremor.

“I understand.”

Raon gnawed at his lip, clearly shaken by the gap between them, greater than he had expected.

‘Maybe I should give him one more shock.’

In truth, there was a secret to the pressure this training ground created. He wanted to tell Raon to give him a stronger dose of shock therapy.

“There’s actually a secret to the pressure in this training ground.”

Glenn stepped toward Raon and lifted Heavenly Tremor.

“Inside this place, everyone is brought to the same level of might. In other words…”

He brushed off the spotless blade and curled his lips into a faint smile.

“Right now, you and I possess the exact same strength. Which means you lost to me without being able to do anything, despite having equal power.”

Glenn lowered his gaze, expecting Raon’s expression to crumple even further.

But his grandson’s reaction was completely different from what he’d imagined.

“Is that really true?”

Raon’s chin trembled as if he truly hadn’t known, but a grin slowly spread across his face.

“Then, to be of help to you, grandfather…”

His eyes gleamed with a desire so intense it sent a chill down the spine, like an adventurer who had just found a treasure map.

“I’ll cling to you until I catch up, no matter what it costs me.”

Glenn felt a chill for the first time as he met the sword-hungry gaze in his grandson’s eyes. His lips quivered before he finally replied,

“…V-very well.”

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