The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1393

 Chapter 1393

 

Kuwaaaaaaaaang!

A golden pillar rose, connecting the sky and the earth.

The golden lightning that fell from Archangel Ramiel’s fingertips looked like a colossal pillar splitting the battlefield in two.

The Archangel’s lightning seemed to exist on an entirely different level from natural thunder. The ground vaporized into white mist, and even the acrid smell of scorched air filled the surroundings. All that remained where the lightning had swept through was sand hardened like glass.

Pajijijijik!

Archangel Ramiel descended to the ground, melting even what little sand remained. Clad in armor that flashed like lightning and spreading his eight wings grandly, he looked like the very god of lightning from myth.

However, unlike his magnificent appearance, Ramiel frowned as though something displeased him and stared at the figure standing across from him.

“Why….”

Ramiel lowered his chin with a frown.

“Why can’t I reach you?”

He glared at his opponent, who stood there blankly, unable to understand what was happening.

“Because you’re slow….”

Sloth, the Monarch of Sloth, answered.

“Your lightning is slower than me….”

Sloth shook his head so slowly that even watching him felt tedious. His appearance was completely at odds with the grand title of monarch of the devildom.

His enormous form, as massive as a great mountain, was hazy like mist, and his long hair swayed as though it were melting. His body, which looked as though it had been woven from strands of shadow, was similarly faint and subdued, as though even existing were too much trouble.

Among all of Sloth’s unusual features, his eyes stood out the most. His half-closed eyes held such profound lethargy that it was hard to believe he was facing an Archangel. He looked less like he was standing there fighting and more like he was dozing off while leaning against a wall.

“Slow…?”

Ramiel let out a hollow laugh in disbelief.

“I am the fastest being in Heaven! How dare someone slower than a crawling grub say that to me!”

He unleashed intense killing intent toward Sloth for calling him slow and brought down the largest bolt of lightning yet.

Pajijijijik!

Even as the bolt of lightning came crashing down, burning through the air, Sloth neither panicked nor retreated. He simply raised his hand with the ease of someone reaching out to grasp a cloud.

Wooooooong!

The lightning that had been falling with enough force to split the ground could no longer advance once it reached Sloth’s hand. It slowed more and more until it finally froze in place like a statue.

Tuuuuung!

When Sloth slowly lowered his hand, the frozen lightning gradually began to disappear like foam.

“You’re right….”

Runaan walked out from behind Sloth.

“It is slow….”

She gave a small nod, saying that Ramiel’s lightning was slower than Sloth.

“You damned insects!”

Ramiel bit deeply into his lip and stretched a hand toward the sky. As his fury intensified, the sky seemed to answer him by sending down a sphere of deep-blue lightning energy.

However, despite Sloth raising his hand, the enormous bolt of lightning was not headed for the Monarch of Sloth, but for the ground beneath Archangel Ramiel.

Kuwaaaaaaaaang!

As Ramiel received the magnificent lightning descending from the sky with both body and soul, his eyes flashed with blue lightning.

“Haaaa!”

After taking all of the lightning, which had been larger than a mountain, into his body, Ramiel let out an exclamation as though refreshed.

“Hmm….”

Runaan narrowed her eyes as she watched Ramiel, lightning now running even through his breath.

‘He’s changed.’

The Archangel Ramiel from before had been dazzling and sacred, as though a depiction of an Archangel from myth had been brought directly to life.

But his current appearance was completely different.

His hair stood sharply on end, his eyes flashed blue like those of a wild beast, and even his once-beautiful pure-white wings blazed as though they were made not of feathers, but of lightning itself.

“Uhhh….”

“I-Is that Lord Ramiel?”

“There’s something unsettling about him….”

“He really looks like he’s turned into lightning itself.”

Even the celestials swallowed dryly and backed away from Ramiel, whose appearance resembled not an Archangel, but a Demon King of lightning descending upon the world.

“Now….”

Ramiel nodded as he looked at Sloth, as though nothing else mattered to him anymore.

“You will be the slow one.”

The moment he took a step forward after declaring that Sloth would become slow—

Peeeeeeok!

A deep-blue flash burst before Sloth’s eyes, and a chunk of his shoulder was gouged out like a scoop taken from ice cream.

Yet no blood burst from the wound. The lightning attack had been so fast that the wound had been burned and cauterized.

“How is that?”

Ramiel sneered as he waved the hand that held the lightning.

“Am I still slow?”

He raised his chin, demanding an answer.

“Hmm….”

Sloth narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the wound in his shoulder, which had been torn away as though gouged out with a shovel.

‘He has clearly become faster….’

He let out a heavy breath, seemingly surprised by Ramiel’s speed, which even the authority of sloth was struggling to restrain.

Piaaaaaak!

Sloth stabbed into the torn wound in his shoulder with his hand, drawing out black blood.

“What… are you doing…?”

Runaan stared at Sloth with incomprehension in her eyes.

“Not bleeding from a wound… is not always a good thing….”

Sloth closed his eyes and opened them again as he watched the wound on his shoulder slowly heal.

“Because if the lightning remains inside my body… my blood will evaporate, and I’ll eventually die….”

He nodded as he watched Ramiel’s lightning pour out of the wound along with his blood.

“You’re not completely stupid.”

Ramiel scoffed as he watched Sloth slow the flow of blood around the wound to stop the bleeding.

“But you are already too late.”

He bent his knees and lowered his body as though preparing to leap.

“Now that I have taken this form, the only thing awaiting you is death!”

The moment Ramiel ground his teeth and thrust out his left foot, he disappeared once again.

Peeeeeeok!

Sloth registered the pain before he could even track Ramiel’s movement. Something scorching brushed past his thigh, followed by the excruciating pain of his flesh being gouged away.

He thrust out a hand imbued with the authority of sloth toward Ramiel, but all it touched was empty air.

As he tried to attack again, a powerful blow slammed into his back.

Kuuuuuung!

Before Sloth could steady his swaying body and rise, Ramiel, appearing to have become lightning itself, rushed in once more.

Pajijijijik!

Ramiel tore across Sloth’s entire body while leaving what looked like ten afterimages, as though he had created clones of himself.

But they were not actually Ramiel’s afterimages. He was moving so fast that he appeared to exist in ten places at once.

Peeeeeeok!

In the end, Sloth could no longer withstand Ramiel’s lightning-clad blows and dropped to one knee. The ground shook violently as his enormous body came down.

“Slow. You’re far too slow!”

Ramiel’s mocking voice echoed through the air. It was impossible to tell where he was. At that speed, it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that he was everywhere at once.

“The authority of sloth? A monarch of devildom? Before my lightning, they are nothing more than meaningless power and an empty title.”

Ramiel let out an arrogant sneer as though he had already won his battle against Sloth.

“….”

Sloth said nothing as he looked at Ramiel floating in the air like a god of lightning.

“You’re still young….”

He slowly closed his eyes and opened them again, as though Ramiel’s arrogance was pathetic.

“W-What did you say?”

Ramiel furrowed his brow in disbelief.

“You cannot even follow the tips of my feet with your eyes!”

As though determined to show Sloth his true power, he thrust out a hand coursing with lightning and ripped away a chunk of Sloth’s side.

Peeeeeeok!

A portion of Sloth’s waist was gouged out, and sparks erupted around the wound, tearing it open even further.

“You’re calling me young?”

Ramiel twisted his lips as he burned the piece of Sloth’s flesh in his hand with lightning.

“Thanks to Sir Uriel, this body has been granted the power of the sky and lightning! I am stronger than the previous Ramiel!”

Declaring himself far stronger than the Ramiel who had been defeated by Raon, he brought down a bolt of lightning that pierced through heaven and earth.

“Haa….”

Despite his deep wounds, Sloth calmly regulated his breathing as though he felt no pain.

"The authority is a bit lacking...."

He gave a small nod, unable to draw out the full extent of his own power. Judging from his expression alone, no one would have thought he was being driven into a corner.

“I….”

Runaan approached while cutting away the lightning rising from Sloth’s wounds with frost.

“Is there anything… I can do to help…?”

She gave a small nod, saying that she wanted to help if she could.

“Kahahahahaha!”

Ramiel burst into wild laughter as he looked down at Runaan.

“Help him? An insect like you has no place interfering in a battle between a god and a demon king!”

He arrogantly waved his hand, saying that she would only get in the way.

“….”

Sloth quietly gazed at Runaan, whose eyes looked exactly like his own.

“Only you….”

He nodded as though Runaan alone could help him.

“Only me….”

Runaan nodded, apparently understanding Sloth’s meaning even from his unfinished words.

“Nonsense!”

Ramiel turned his right hand into lightning.

“Unlike that slow Demon King, an insect like you will be finished in a single blow!”

As though intending to kill Runaan first, he kicked off the air and vanished.

Peeeeeeok!

Just before Ramiel’s lightning could tear away Runaan’s neck, a massive arm shot out and blocked his attack. Sloth had saved her.

Jijijijik!

Ramiel tore away Sloth’s forearm instead of Runaan’s neck, then rose back into the air.

“Is that human more important to you than your right hand?”

He let out a hollow laugh in disbelief.

“….”

Sloth did not answer Ramiel. He merely turned his eyes toward Runaan beside him.

“The authority of <Sloth>… into your sword….”

Even in such a dangerous situation, Sloth was too lazy to explain everything and left out the important part. It was just like the Monarch of Sloth.

“…I understand.”

Runaan stared blankly at Sloth for a moment before nodding.

“I’ll try….”

As though she had immediately understood Sloth’s meaning because they shared the same nature, she tightened her grip on her sword.

Sssssss.

Runaan held her sword upright and closed her eyes to focus.

“Hmph! Even if a slow Demon King and an insect join forces, it changes nothing.”

Already convinced of his victory, Ramiel snorted and charged straight toward Sloth without hesitation.

Peobeobeobeobeok!

Each time lightning flashed through the air, chunks of Sloth’s flesh were gouged away and his bones were ripped out.

Jijijijik!

Even for a Demon King with such a sturdy body, Sloth now looked unable to endure much longer. He had to protect not only himself from Ramiel, but Runaan as well, so even he seemed to be reaching his limit. Strangely, however, his expression still looked as bored and sleepy as ever.

“….”

Runaan did not open her eyes, gripping her sword as though focusing entirely on drawing out the authority of <Sloth>. Only when Sloth’s kneecap was torn away did she finally let out a small breath and lower her sword.

However, that was not a sign that the authority of <Sloth> had awakened.

“Prrrrrr….”

Runaan let out a quiet snore, as though she had fallen asleep in the middle of this desperate situation.

“S-She’s sleeping?”

Ramiel’s eyes widened in disbelief.

“Kahahahahahaha! You truly are insane!”

He burst into mocking laughter, seemingly thinking that Runaan had gone mad with fear and fallen asleep.

“Fine! I will grant death to an insect paralyzed by fear!”

Just as Ramiel formed the sharpest and largest lightning spear he had created so far, intending to kill Sloth and Runaan at the same time—

“Good….”

Sloth slowly nodded as he looked at the sleeping Runaan.

“Now….”

He raised the corner of his mouth slightly as he looked at Ramiel, who seemed to have become a god of lightning.

“Now… I can kill that little fly….”

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