The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1392

 Chapter 1392

 

[Aaaaaaaah!]

The red-haired celestial, whose hair looked as though it had been melted from fragments of the sun, placed a hand over her chest and parted her pink lips. A voice even more beautiful than her lovely face flowed along the melody, becoming a heavenly song that filled the heart with warmth.

Whoooooosh!

Celestials in the form of young children played small harps, trumpets, drums, and other instruments, creating music that brought peace to the heart merely by listening to it. Their performance blended perfectly with the song of the red-haired celestial.

“It’s the goddess’s song!”

“Lady Sandalphon is delivering God’s word through her song!”

“Destroy the humans according to heaven’s command!”

“It is time to purify the defiled earth!”

As though drawing strength from Sandalphon’s song and the accompanying music, the celestials entered the battle with their divine power burning even more intensely. The song seemed to be granting them courage and strength.

The humans, however, reacted in the exact opposite way.

“Aaaaaagh!”

“W-What is that song….”

“My ears. No, my chest. My heart hurts!”

“S-Save me….”

“Please, stop that song….”

The warriors of the Five Kings Alliance dropped their weapons and clutched their heads, as though merely hearing Sandalphon’s song and the celestials’ music inflicted a mental shock upon them. Strangely, those with greater might appeared to be affected even more severely than the weaker ones, to the point that they could barely move.

[Aaaaaaaaaah!]

Sandalphon and the celestials holding the instruments seemed to draw even greater strength from the reactions of their delighted kin and the suffering humans, pouring even greater divine power into their song.

“Now!”

“Kill every last human!”

“As long as Lady Sandalphon is here, those insects cannot move!”

“Follow the song of victory!”

Empowered by Sandalphon’s song, the celestials began slaughtering the humans who had frozen like statues. As though certain of their victory, they disregarded their formation and charged forward, thrusting spears blazing with divine power.

“Aaaaaaaaagh!”

“I-I want to die! Kill me!”

Even without being struck by the celestials, the humans of the Five Kings Alliance who fell under the influence of Sandalphon’s song and the music played by the celestials accompanying her died while harming themselves, stabbing their own ears with swords or crushing their own heads. It truly seemed as though her song carried God’s will to annihilate humanity.

“W-What is that….”

“They’re dying just from hearing the song? That doesn’t make any sense!”

“F-Fall back! There’s no way to deal with that!”

“Let’s withdraw for now and leave this to the heads of the Five Kings—”

Just as the warriors of the Five Kings Alliance recoiled in horror and tried to retreat—

[Aaaaaaaah!]

A song carrying a freshness and purity entirely different from Sandalphon’s rang out from the center of the Five Kings Alliance. Unlike the celestials, it had not a single instrument accompanying it, yet the song rode the beat of the battlefield’s drums and spread across the entire Cameloon Plain.

Whoooooom!

The people who had been retreating in fear of the celestials’ song parted, and through the opening walked a beautiful woman with graceful steps, like a flower blooming with drops of morning dew upon its petals. Her rose-colored hair, similar to Sandalphon’s but deeper in shade, was tied into twin tails, and a faint smile rested on her lips. She was beauty and elegance given human form.

[Aaaaaaaaaah!]

The girl who had possessed her greatest talent in singing and music since childhood had brought that talent into full bloom, opening a bud of music that refused to yield even to the song of a high-ranking celestial.

“Maintain the formation so Yua’s song can spread farther.”

While continuing to protect Yua, Burren altered the shape of the formation so her voice could carry across a wider area.

With the Light Wind Palace supporting Yua, her song gained the strength to ride upon the wind and began pushing back the song of Sandalphon, the high-ranking angel.

“My head… doesn’t hurt anymore.”

“That song saved us!”

“A-A goddess! She’s a real goddess!”

“It’s time to get revenge on those damned Celestials!”

The warriors of the Five Kings Alliance gritted their teeth and charged at the celestials, as though enraged at having fallen prey to Sandalphon’s trick.

[Aaaaaaaaaah!]

Having received vitality and fighting spirit through Yua’s song, the warriors of the Five Kings Alliance displayed overwhelming force against the celestials empowered by the song of the high-ranking angel Sandalphon.

“Light Wind Palace, advance.”

Burren did not miss the moment the celestials faltered and moved the Light Wind swordsmen forward. After protecting Yua, the swordsmen leaped into the battlefield and began slaughtering the celestials who had broken formation to charge at them.

“Hah?”

The high-ranking angel Sandalphon furrowed her brow as she looked at Yua, whose song possessed enough strength not to yield to her own.

“An insect dares!”

An evil light flashed in her eyes despite a face that seemed to embody the very word purity.

“Change the tune. Play the Death Song.”

Sandalphon ordered the celestials behind her to change the tune.

“B-But….”

“Our own kind will die too if we play that!”

“I-It’s too dangerous….”

The celestials holding the instruments swallowed dryly as they looked at Sandalphon’s furious eyes.

“It does not matter. The humans will die first.”

Sandalphon let out a rough breath, saying that there would be no problem as long as they killed the human who was singing first.

“Hurry.”

She radiated killing intent as though she would kill the celestials first if they refused to obey.

“Y-Yes.”

Breathing heavily, the celestials took up their instruments again. The instruments in their hands gleamed with white light and released a mysterious yet somber melody.

[Aaaaaaaah!]

Following the celestials’ performance, Sandalphon began singing a new song. Unlike before, her song held neither beauty nor elegance. Rather than a song, it sounded more like the carefully honed scream of a demon. The hot air of the battlefield grew cold, and the melody flowing along their eardrums was as sharp as a blade made of ice.

“Aaaah….”

“H-Hngh….”

“It’s me! It’s all my fault.”

“I have to die….”

The warriors of the Five Kings Alliance, who had been driving back the celestials, drove their swords into their own stomachs and died the moment they heard Sandalphon’s Death Song. Rather than a Death Song, it seemed more like a requiem for their own deaths.

Its effects, however, were not limited to humans.

“I-Isn’t that the Death Song?”

“Run! Anyone who hears that is guaranteed to die!”

“Lady Sandalphon! Why all of a sudden!”

The celestials also seemed unable to withstand the effects created by Sandalphon’s Death Song, and pierced their own throats with spears blazing with divine power.

“Ugh….”

Yua also seemed unable to completely escape Sandalphon’s influence, as dark, dead blood trickled past her lips. Thanks to her continuing to sing, the Light Wind swordsmen and those behind them remained free from the effects of the Death Song, but it did not seem as though they could endure for much longer.

“This is the true song of an angel.”

As though she had expected exactly this outcome, the high-ranking angel Sandalphon looked down at Yua and sneered.

“An insect should die crying like an insect.”

She snorted and raised her voice as she continued the Death Song.

[Aaaaaaaaaah!]

Yua raised her own voice as though refusing to lose, but she trembled all over and gasped for breath, unable to overcome the full power of a high-ranking angel.

“Hmm….”

Burren chewed hard on his lip as he looked at Yua, who was drenched in cold sweat.

“Fall back.”

Just as Burren was about to give up on taking down Sandalphon and order a retreat—

“No!”

Yulius shook his head firmly.

“Please trust Yua!”

Having spent his childhood together with Yua, he lowered his brows and insisted that it was not yet time to give up.

“She hasn’t given up yet!”

Yulius clenched his fist as he told Burren to look into Yua’s eyes.

“….”

Burren placed a hand on his scabbard as he looked at Yua and Yulius, who wore the same expression.

“Fine. But I cannot wait long.”

As the commander of the Light Wind Palace, he nodded, saying that he could not give her much time.

“Yua! Stay strong!”

“We’re counting on you!”

“If you’re part of the Light Wind Palace, you have to beat a witch like that!”

“The palace master is listening to your song too!”

The Light Wind swordsmen also remained rooted in place as though their feet had been nailed to the ground, showing their trust in Yua, who was like the mascot of the fifth training ground. They looked ready to stay even had Burren refused.

[Aaaaaaaah!]

As though drawing strength from the faith Burren, Yulius, and her comrades in the Light Wind Palace placed in her, Yua sang in a sweet yet deeply stirring voice and, for a brief moment, accomplished the remarkable feat of pushing back Sandalphon’s Death Song.

“How dare you….”

Sandalphon ground her teeth, growing even more irritated at the sight of Yua enduring despite her struggle.

“I’ll show you that the trust of humans is nothing but garbage!”

Declaring that she would make everyone flee and leave Yua behind alone, she burned her soul and divine power as she sang the Death Song.

[Wooooooooooong!]

As the chilling melody created by the Death Song spread higher and farther, it was not the humans protected by Yua who began dying first, but the celestials.

“Hnnngh….”

Yua now seemed unable to endure any longer, bending at the waist as she coughed up a clot of blood. Even then, she did not stop singing.

“You struggled quite a bit, but this is the end.”

Just as Sandalphon snorted and prepared to sing the refrain of the Death Song—

Slaaaaaash!

A clean slicing sound rang across the battlefield, as though cutting her chilling song itself out of this world.

[Aaaaah… ah?]

The Death Song that had gone on without end suddenly stopped, and a red line appeared across Sandalphon’s neck.

“W-What….”

Her beautiful head dropped away with shock still etched across her face, and her headless body also crashed to the ground, twisting grotesquely.

“Phew.”

An old man with a kindly face descended over the corpse of the angel who had pronounced death upon both humans and celestials and let out a short breath.

“You really did well.”

Zieghart’s hidden blade, the only man from the previous generation to the present to bear the chilling yet lofty title of Assassin King. Roenn gave a genial chuckle and waved to Yua.

“Thanks to you holding out, Lady Yua, an opening was created for me to kill this monster.”

Roenn gently bowed his head, saying that it was thanks to Yua that he had been able to kill the high-ranking angel.

“Huff….”

Yua seemed to lack even the strength to speak, lowering her head as she gave a strained smile.

“I-It’s because you taught me, grandpa.”

She raised a hand, saying that because Roenn had taught her music, she had been able to stand against an angel.

“I don’t think there is anything left for me to teach you now.”

Roenn approached Yua and supported her.

“It seems I should be the one learning from you instead.”

His eyes reddened slightly, seemingly moved by the fact that the little girl who had once followed along holding Raon’s hand had now grown enough to fight alongside him.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Burren bowed his head to Roenn.

“It would have been nice if you had told me beforehand.”

He smacked his lips in disappointment.

“My apologies.”

Roenn bowed his head back to Burren.

“Still, there is a saying that to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive your allies.”

He lowered his eyes, saying that since they did not know what kind of abilities their opponent possessed, there had been no other choice.

“That is true.”

Burren caught his breath and nodded.

“With this celestial taken care of, we’ve more or less dealt with the dangerous ones…”

He swallowed dryly as he looked at the Archangel Ramiel, who was raining down countless bolts of lightning, and Sloth, the Monarch of Sloth, who erased every last one of them.

“Now we’ll have to wait for the battle between those monsters to end.”

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