The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1211 "Hmm." The Tower Master who was being pressured by Raon let out a low groan as if he was troubled. "Damn it..." He rolled his eyes left and right, calculating the gains and losses of engaging in a life-and-death duel. "Hey! Varikh!" A tall middle-aged man called out the Tower Master's name and waved his hand. "Double the reward, double! Are you really not going to do it?" He sneered, asking why he was so cowardly. "Your tower will become three times higher than it is now, so why are you hesitating!" "And your opponent is a newcomer who hasn't even been in Heaven for a week!" "You don't need to worry about fraud either. If Priest Srude guarantees it, it's absolute." "There's no coward like that coward." "Newcomer! Leave that guy and duel with me instead!" Other people also mocked Varikh as a coward, twisting their lips as if asking why he lived so pathetically. "Hmm." Raon nodded slightly as he watched the people criticizing Varikh. 'They're moving exactly as expected.' He deliberately shouted so everyone could hear that engaging in a life-and-death duel with him would bring double rewards, and the people around created an atmosphere where Varikh had no choice but to fight, just as he intended. If Varikh fled without fighting, he would become such an ugly coward that he wouldn't be able to set foot in Heaven anymore. 'Charlie did well.' Charlie intervened at just the right moment and mentioned that Priest Srude guaranteed the life-and-death duel. Thanks to that, an even more perfect trap was created. "Hey! How long are you going to stall for time!" "Leave that coward alone and duel with me instead!" "To think he can't even seize such a good opportunity, what an idiot!" "If you're not going to do it, just get lost!" The people got a taste for mocking Varikh and poured scathing criticism on him. "Damn it!" Varikh grabbed his head and stomped his feet roughly. "I'll do it! I said I'll do it!" Realizing he was cornered with no way to escape or avoid it, he frantically shouted that he would engage in the life-and-death duel. "That's a wise choice." Raon calmly nodded as he watched Varikh grinding his teeth fiercely. "Let's start right away." He said he was fully prepared and lightly dusted off his hands. "Wow, judging by confidence alone, it seems like Varikh is the challenger and that guy is the Tower Master?" "The newcomer's boldness is no joke." "That's right! That's the guy! The monster who devoured all the newcomer killers!" "He's already challenging a Tower Master? That's amazing!" Even though Varikh had accepted the challenge, people poured praise and amazement only on Raon, not on him. "Damn it..." Even though he had accepted the challenge, Varikh felt that his image had been ruined and frowned deeply. "Stop wasting time and just start!" He directed that resentment toward Raon and emanated thick killing intent. "You should start first." Raon said he should go first and flicked his finger. "I'll kill you!" Varikh extracted all the desires dwelling in his tower and shot them toward Raon. Massive desires poured out, and black currents rose around them like a waterspout. "I'll take you on anytime." Raon flicked his finger as if to say 'come at me' and brought forth the desires from his own tower, wrapping them around his entire body like armor. Crash! The mighty desires that formed the towers collided with each other, creating a thunderous roar like hammers striking against each other. 'Hmm!' Raon let out a small exclamation as he felt the intense power contained in Varikh's desires. 'Tower Masters are definitely different.' Heavy desires like an axe pressed down on his entire body. Unlike the amateurs he had faced so far, Varikh's desires were well-refined to unleash their true power. 'I understand why they don't engage in life-and-death duels with their towers at stake.' Since they could lose all this well-cultivated power in an instant, he could somewhat understand why Tower Masters hadn't engaged in life-and-death duels with their towers at stake until now. -Stop pretending to be impressed! Wrath frowned as if annoyed. -You could crush him in an instant, so stop talking nonsense! He snorted, asking why Raon was pretending to be surprised when he had the power to crush Varikh's desires in one blow. 'That's true, but...' Raon frowned deeply at Varikh's strong offensive. 'Being surprised is also true. I honestly completely ignored them.' He had thought that most people in this Heaven, whether Tower Masters or priests, were human scum, but now he saw that although different from martial artists, they had honed their own power in their own way. 'Of course...' Raon drew a thin smile. 'It's also true that I can win easily.' As Wrath said, it would be simple to break Varikh just by condensing his own desires and thrusting them in. -Then crush him right now, why are you leaving him be? Wrath tilted his head as if questioning. 'If I don't act...' Raon bit the inside of his lips as he looked back at the people watching his duel with Varikh with interest. 'All the customers will run away.' Tower Masters are quick-witted unlike other amateurs. If he clumsily pretended to be weak or simply won, there wouldn't be anyone left to accept his challenges in the future, so it was best to engage in close combat with Varikh and pretend to barely win. "You fool!" Varikh seemed to think he had gained the upper hand, curling his lips and releasing even more fierce desires. "If you had stayed quiet, you could have at least lived being called a Tower Master!" Even though he knew that murder was forbidden in Heaven, he heightened his killing intent and shot out heavy desires. "Haa..." Raon broke out in cold sweat as if very exhausted and breathed roughly. "Is it Varikh's victory?" "A newcomer is still a newcomer after all!" "He wasn't bad for a newcomer, but the difference in experience can't be helped." "With this, Varikh will become a mid-level Tower Master too? He struck it lucky." People also predicted Varikh's victory and looked at him with envious eyes. "Where did all that earlier bravado go?" Varikh snorted as if he thought the life-and-death duel had ended in his victory. "Die!" He shouted that this was the end and unleashed the largest desires he had ever released. 'Now would be good.' Due to his excitement about victory and rewards, Varikh only poured out massive desires without properly focusing that power. Pierce! Raon didn't miss that opportunity and sharpened his remaining desires like an awl to pierce through Varikh's massive desires. "Th-this... Kugh!" Since Varikh had already poured out all his desires, he couldn't block Raon's final attack, and his soul was pierced through. "Graaaah!" Varikh tried to endure somehow, but Raon's desires didn't let go of his soul and twisted and squeezed it. "Th-this isn't right..." Eventually Varikh collapsed unconscious, and the victor and loser were naturally decided. Rumble! Varikh's tower that had risen behind him crumbled like a sandcastle hit by waves, and all the desires dwelling within it were sucked into Raon. "V-Varikh lost?" "Varikh was clearly dominating though?" "How did this happen?" "Stupid Varikh let his guard down at the end, and the newcomer didn't miss that opening. He was lucky." "It's not luck, but skill. Fighting until the very end is also one of the important qualities." "Either way, an unexpected result came out." The people who had been anticipating Varikh's victory looked at Raon with eyes blazing, as if flustered by the unexpected result. 'It's definitely an enormous amount.' Raon trembled with the sense of fulfillment from obtaining a greater amount than all the desires he had gained since coming to Heaven at once. But this wasn't everything he needed to obtain. "I didn't expect you to engage in a tower life-and-death duel right away, but you're truly remarkable." From among the surprised people, Priest Srude with his blue hair fluttering walked out. "I'm not an idiot who misses good opportunities." Raon said to quickly keep his promise and flicked his chin. "Of course I must keep it." As Priest Srude drew a gentle smile and clasped his hands together, white wings bloomed behind Raon's back. "This is..." Raon felt the desires he had just obtained from defeating Varikh double, and gulped down dry saliva. So much desire rushed in at once that it was hard to keep his composure. "Since there are too many desires contained in your body, I'll add them to your tower as you wished." Priest Srude looked at Raon and snapped his fingers. Snap! With the crisp sound of fingers hitting together, Raon's tower built from desires rapidly rose like a snake's head seeing prey, soaring to three times its original height. "D-did he really give double rewards?" "Crazy! To become a mid-level Tower Master in an instant!" "N-now we can't even call him a newcomer?" "That stupid Varikh! To think he couldn't seize such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" People looked at Raon with envious eyes while simultaneously pouring criticism and ridicule on Varikh for not seizing this opportunity. "Not bad." Raon nodded satisfactorily as he looked at his tower that had become three times higher in an instant. 'But it's still far from reaching the sky.' The tower had become quite high, but since it was originally at a low position, even tripled it was still far from the sky. "Please continue to treat me well in the future." Priest Srude politely bowed to Raon as if asking him to continue engaging in life-and-death duels in the future, then returned to the temple. "Wh-what! This wasn't just a one-time thing?" "If you duel with that guy, the rewards are always double?" "Crazy! What kind of special treatment is this!" "I heard that he was the only one among Tower Masters who wanted to engage in life-and-death duels with towers at stake?" "So that's why he gets such rewards? His boldness is amazing." "Hey! Newcomer! How about dueling with me next time?" People looked at Raon with envious eyes while simultaneously revealing their desire to plunder his desires. 'No.' Raon curled his lips as he looked at the people blooming with desires and the towers of desire they had built. 'I might reach the sky much faster than expected.' *** "Hmm!" Priest Srude lifted his teacup and let out a satisfied smile. "The fragrance is good." He wasn't talking about the tea's fragrance, but curled his lips long as if the current situation was very good. "You look pleased." Vayph drew a faint smile while standing behind Priest Srude. "I can't help but be pleased." Priest Srude quietly put down his teacup and calmly lowered his chin. "Thanks to the pig you brought, life-and-death duels with towers at stake have rapidly increased." He nodded, saying that thanks to Raon, tower life-and-death duels that hadn't occurred once in months were now happening frequently. "I didn't know things would flow that way either." Vayph placed his hand on his forehead. "I thought people would only flock to Zilfen, but they're also engaging in life-and-death duels among themselves." He sighed, saying it was an unexpected development for him too. "The desire to grow again has been ignited. It seems even the trash had some fire in them." Priest Srude mocked all the humans existing in Heaven and flicked his chin. "Well, thanks to that, desires are accumulating faster than expected. The more desires wagered in life-and-death duels, the stronger the energy stored in this land becomes." He clasped his hands together, saying that more desires than Heaven's original quota were being gathered. "However..." Vayph approached Srude's side and slightly narrowed his eyes. "That Zilfen guy's tower is much higher than expected. If he engages in one more life-and-death duel with an opponent of the same level, he might really reach the sky." He coughed as if asking whether that would really be okay. "It certainly has gotten higher." Priest Srude lowered his eyebrows as he looked at Raon's tower, which had grown so high that it could no longer be fully observed through the temple's windows. "As you said, if he engages in one more life-and-death duel, he might reach that sky. However, that won't happen. His final opponent is..." He let out a sinister laugh and waved his finger. "Not an ordinary human." *** "Is this the first tower built in Heaven?" Raon stood in front of the golden glittering tower and raised his head. "It's high." Thanks to continuously fighting and winning since engaging in tower life-and-death duels, his own tower was now the second highest in Heaven. However, the first highest tower before his eyes was much higher than his own, seeming to block out the sky. If he engaged in a life-and-death duel with this tower's owner and obtained his desires as well, it seemed like it would really be possible to pierce the sky with his tower. "Then for the final challenge..." Just as Raon was about to challenge the owner of the first tower built in Heaven. "H-here really won't do!" Charlie grabbed Raon's ankle and shook his head vigorously. "The owner of that tower, Kurrk, was the first to come to Heaven and is a monster who has never been defeated! You'd be better off taking other people's towers instead!" He screamed that he couldn't let him go this time. "Monster?" Raon looked at Kurrk's tower again and narrowed his eyes. "You saw well. That is indeed a monster." It's not a simple monster. The owner of this tower wasn't human, but an Angel. "Still, don't worry. The one who always hunts monsters is..." Raon clenched his fist as if grasping the tower and curled his lips. "A human."