The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1354

 Chapter 1354

 

Wooooooosh!

Against a pitch-black backdrop that rippled as gracefully as black silk, countless stars shimmered. The mystical sight, as though a cloudless night sky had unfolded right before his eyes, made Raon's eyes widen on their own.

The cosmos. It was as though that mysterious realm, still beyond humanity's reach, had unfolded before Raon's eyes.

But something even more astonishing than that breathtaking sight awaited him.

"Hey! Get out here this instant!"

Chamber, the guardian deity of the Balkar Kingdom and the absolute master of space magic, whom the world had bestowed with the title of Archmage of Eternal Flame, shouted at the top of her lungs.

“I told you that spell wouldn't work!”

Complaining that the spell she had spent so long preparing had been completely ruined, she yanked at the Magic Tower master's hair sticking out from beneath a thick blanket.

"B-But…."

Larian, the Magic Tower master and the greatest magical genius on the continent, who had mastered all four elements and united the four great magic towers, shook her head with tears welling in her eyes.

"You won't know unless you try…."

To keep Chamber from stealing her blanket, she shoved Chamber's cheek away with a sock full of holes.

“You don't have to try to know! It won't work!”

"Y-You have to fail before you can succeed!"

"We don't have time!"

"That's exactly when you have to take risks…."

"Then you go take risks by yourself!"

“T-Then Lady Chamber, please go home!”

The two great mages were tangled together like children, pinching and even biting each other. Rather than mages, they looked like little kids running around with snot dripping from their noses.

“How does it make any sense to turn enemies into stuffed rabbits on a battlefield?!”

"B-But they're cute!"

“I said let's go with mass slaughter! Work with me on space magic that splits heaven and earth apart!”

"T-That's far too cruel…."

“Cruel? We'll drop dead at this rate!”

Completely oblivious to Raon's arrival, Chamber and Larian continued grabbing each other's hair and fighting.

"Come out here! You need a proper beating!"

"S-Stop pulling... Agh!"

Chamber finally lost her temper and completely ripped away the blanket Larian had wrapped around herself.

"Mass slaughter...?"

Larian's eyes changed.

“Mass slaughter sounds good! Let's go with mass slaughter! Magic needs to be grand and flashy in the first place!”

She twisted her lips into a grin, madness gleaming in her eyes.

T-That....

Wrath's jaw trembled as he stared into Larian's shining eyes.

Is it a split personality?

He frowned, asking whether there were two people sharing one body, just like the Queen of Swords Brigit and her older sister Briana.

‘No. It's just her personality that changes.’

Raon let out a short sigh. Normally, Larian was kind and timid, but once she threw off that blanket, she became a mage consumed by madness.

"T-The two of you?"

The Ironclad Yuria stepped into the room, trying to break up the fight.

"Sir Raon has arrived... Uwaaagh!"

He never reached Chamber or Larian, instead plunging beneath the cosmos. That pitch-black space wasn't merely beautiful to look at, it truly stretched on endlessly like the cosmos itself.

"Then let's do it properly! Magic so powerful it shatters this space and brings the tower crashing down!"

Larian smacked her lips, declaring that if they were going to do it, they should do it right and create a large-scale magic that wipes out everyone regardless of whether they are friend or foe.

“N-No. Not that far.”

Chamber looked flustered instead. Her jaw trembled as she asked why Larian wanted to wipe out their own allies too.

"Actually, I was a little disappointed when we fought the White Blood Religion. I used up all my mana drawing out their main headquarters."

Moistening her red lips, Larian declared that this time she would personally step in and sweep away everything before her.

“I said leave our allies alone! There are plenty of kids in the Five Kings who have no resistance to magic!”

It seemed Chamber had come to her senses instead because of Larian's madness, frantically waving both hands.

"Ha…."

Raon let out a short sigh and shook his head.

'I should go in myself.'

If he waited for Chamber and Larian to finish their conversation, the war would begin first. Naturally, simply walking in would send him falling beneath the cosmos like Yuria, so he had to cut through this space to reach the two of them.

Ssssss.

Raon drew Heavenly Drive. The moment the sword left its scabbard, space rippled, and the mana composing the Magic Tower began to boil like molten lava.

Chwaaaaak

Relaxing his hand and arm as though performing a basic sword technique, Raon slowly swept Heavenly Drive through the air. Yet the result produced by Heavenly Drive was nothing like the lightness of that swing.

Craaaaaack!

The cosmic space Chamber and Larian had created together split apart like a sheet of paper before the impossibly thin edge of Heavenly Drive.

“What…?”

“What?!”

As mages, Chamber and Larian had poured everything they had into creating that space. Feeling it split apart so effortlessly, both of them stared in utter disbelief.

"Raon?"

"Master of the Light Wind Palace!"

Only then did the two of them notice Raon, their jaws dropping in stunned disbelief.

"The two of you were so focused that I had no choice but to come in first."

Raon apologized with a slight bow.

“I did not destroy the space, however.”

As he walked toward Chamber and Larian, he raised Heavenly Drive he had lowered.

Wooooooong!

Following Raon's hand, the space that had been split apart before Heavenly Drive was restored, once again forming a cosmos filled with starlight.

"Hah...?"

“No way....”

Chamber and Larian swallowed dryly at the same time. They knew restoring space was far more difficult than cutting it apart, so they couldn't hide their shock.

“It has been a long time.”

Saying his greeting was overdue, Raon greeted Chamber and Larian once again.

“Ah, ah....”

“N-Nice to see you....”

The two still could not take their eyes off Heavenly Drive, as though they were still stunned by Raon's swordsmanship.

"S-So the title Sword Immortal really isn't just for show?"

Chamber let out a hollow laugh, unable to believe what she had just witnessed.

"You really should've become a mage...."

Larian bit her lip as though regretting Raon's magical talent going to waste.

"I prefer the sword."

Raon waved his hand, saying he had little talent for magic.

“True. A sword suits you. You even cast magic through your sword.”

Chamber shook her head at Larian, telling her to stop talking nonsense.

"Then again, compared to your swordsmanship now, even magic seems insignificant."

Larian spoke as though even magic paled in comparison, seemingly overwhelmed by what she had seen from Raon today. It was the first time she had done so since becoming the Magic Tower master.

“So, what brings you here? Is there something you need to tell us?”

Chamber tilted her head as though asking why he had come in person instead of contacting them.

“No. I simply came to pay you a visit.”

As he said he had come to pay them a visit, Raon raised Heavenly Drive and leveled it between Chamber and Larian.

“Does... that really count as paying us a visit?”

Larian blinked in disbelief.

"So that's your invitation."

Chamber immediately understood what Raon meant and smacked her lips.

"Who goes first?"

"Looking at those eyes, I think he's telling us to come at him together."

Larian chuckled softly, seeing Raon's sword stop precisely between the two of them.

"......"

Without saying a word, Raon merely gave the tip of his sword a slight flick.

“Then again, if you're capable of cutting through this space and walking in, taking on the two of us at once should be no problem.”

"I've been wanting to test that anyway. This works out perfectly."

Far from taking offense at Raon's challenge, Chamber and Larian immediately began casting their magic.

Wooooooong!

An immense surge of mana powerful enough to shake the cosmos gathered at Chamber's fingertips, while the orb Larian had summoned blazed with dazzling, multicolored light. Their magic seemed to be amplifying one another.

Kuwaaaaaaaah!

Bearing the title of Archmage, the two mages unleashed magic imbued with absolute power, showing not the slightest intention of holding back.

Fwaaaaaaa!

Facing Chamber's magic that went beyond merely tearing space apart and erased it outright, along with Larian's magic that carried the overwhelming presence of an entire world contained within it, Raon curled his lips into a smile.

'Lady Chamber has recovered considerably. Lady Larian's control over her magic has become much smoother as well.'

Chamber, whose upper energy center had once collapsed, had regained the power she possessed in her prime, while Larian was wielding magic far more suited to real combat than she had during the war against the White Blood Religion. Both of them had clearly grown tremendously.

“In the war....”

Raon raised Heavenly Drive.

“I look forward to fighting alongside you.”

In stark contrast to his polite words, he unleashed a razor-sharp slash, sharp enough to send chills down Chamber's and Larian's spines.

Craaaaaack!

A sliver of his sword's power, capable of cleaving the world itself, split apart the magic and the cosmos that housed it.

*   *   *

“He's insane. Completely insane....”

Chamber shook her head repeatedly in disbelief.

“I knew he'd grown stronger, but I had no idea he'd become this strong!”

Her jaw trembled as she spoke of the impossible sword she had just witnessed.

“Uuuuugh....”

Wrapped in two thick blankets, Larian trembled from head to toe.

“S-Swordsmen are scary....”

She had always taken pride in magic, yet Raon's sword had left her so stunned that her eyes turned red.

“As expected of Sir Raon!”

Despite falling into the space between spaces and exhausting all his mana, Yuria still wore a smile.

“Raon! Raon! Raon! Raon! Raon!”

Like the fan he was, Yuria raised both hands and shouted Raon's name despite his exhaustion.

“Sword Immortal! Sword Immortal! Swor....”

“Shut up!”

When Yuria tried to keep shouting 'Sword Immortal,' Chamber smacked him across the head.

“Want to hear something interesting?”

Letting out a dry laugh, Chamber turned around.

“Raon cut through our magic and the space we created, but he didn't touch anything else.”

She bit her lip as she looked around Larian's study, now restored to its original state. Raon had split apart the two archmages' ultimate magic and the cosmos formed by their barrier, yet he had not so much as nicked anything else in the room.

“That means his control was flawless.”

Biting her lip, Chamber said it was obvious Raon had held back.

“D-Doesn't that mean we'd win the war by sending only the Light Wind Palace master and Mr. Destructive King of the North...?”

Larian let out a shaky breath, saying they should just send those two to the war.

“It feels like he's saying we'd only get in the way, so we should stay behind and rest....”

She swallowed dryly, saying Raon had made her afraid of going to war.

“No, it's the opposite. Raon is....”

Chamber shook her head firmly.

“He's saying, 'I'm this strong, so trust me, and follow me!'”

A smile tugged at her lips as she recalled the confident smile Raon had worn while cutting through their magic.

“He's gotten awfully cocky... and downright brazen!”

Despite her words, Chamber smiled with unmistakable pride as she pulled out a lollipop and bit into it.

Crunch!

*   *   *

Leaving the Magic Tower behind, Raon headed for the last of the Five Kings, the Owen Kingdom. As he was about to pass through the towering gate befitting a kingdom devoted to the pinnacle of swordsmanship, a banner hanging from the ramparts caught his eye. It bore the image of a blue lion roaring toward a crimson sky, rendered with such vivid realism that it seemed alive.

“That's....”

Realizing the meaning behind the black flag Owen had raised, Raon swallowed dryly.

 

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