The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1212 Swoooosh. Raon approached the tower of the man called Kurrk with his hands clasped behind his back. 'It'll be over soon now.' Thanks to Priest Srude, the speed of establishing a foundation in Heaven was much faster than expected. If he could devour this last tower visible before his eyes, he would reach the sky and finally meet the Archangel. -Is it finally over? Wrath rubbed his hands together. -The food here wasn't bad, but I missed home cooking. And... The guy flashed a cold glare and bared his teeth. -I'm curious which one of those Archangels will show up and act cocky! If this King were in his prime, they wouldn't even dare show their shadows! Wrath licked his lips at length while naming each Archangel one by one. "It's, it's Zilfen!" "Don't tell me he's going to challenge Kurrk?" "That's right! The only thing over there is Kurrk's tower!" "Finally, a fight between monsters who have never been defeated!" "The winner of that fight will earn the glory of meeting the Archangel." The people sensed through Raon's movements that a war between Tower Masters would break out, and followed behind him. "We have to see this! It'll be the biggest fight since Heaven opened!" "Haah, I'm jealous. If only I had such an opportunity..." "There were plenty of opportunities. We just couldn't seize them." "Zilfen burned himself like a moth and took on challenges. That's why he climbed to such a position." "Whether on earth or in Heaven, you can only gain something by taking challenges. The beginning is always the hardest..." "That's why I hope Zilfen wins. Looking at him reminds me of my childhood." "Zilfen! Since it's come to this, you absolutely must win!" "That's right! You devour all the towers and become a Transcendent!" "Just don't pretend you don't know us later!" The residents of Heaven who had watched Zilfen's journey now waved their hands enthusiastically as if they had become his followers. "Woah..." Charlie looked around at the people cheering for Raon and let out an empty sigh. "Why are they like that? They really hated us before." He blinked his eyes as if he couldn't understand the people's change. "It is certainly strange." Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked to the right. "Usually they would be jealous like that." The people standing on the right were cursing him with flames of envy lit in their eyes. In fact, considering the concept of this Heaven, reacting like that was more appropriate. "Then why are they cheering?" Charlie tilted his head, saying he didn't know the reason. "This is also because they're human." Raon chuckled. "People always want to create someone they can depend on. Even though they came here wanting to fulfill their desires, they're looking for someone to achieve their dreams for them." The people who seemed to follow him were hoping he would achieve dreams they couldn't accomplish themselves. They were getting vicarious satisfaction for their own goals through him. -How pathetic. Wrath clicked his tongue loudly. -To seek satisfaction through others even in a place where dreams can be fulfilled! The guy pounded his chest as if the people were frustrating. 'That's not it.' Raon calmly waved his hand. 'This place may seem like somewhere you can achieve everything you want at first glance, but in reality it's nothing more than a pig pen with a slightly higher ceiling.' He frowned deeply as he recalled Derus Robert's unpleasant smile. 'These people lived being trampled by the powerful from the outside, so they would have instinctively felt the ominousness of this Heaven.' At first, he had the same thoughts as Wrath. He thought people who wanted desires but didn't take challenges were pathetic, but his thoughts changed a lot while fighting tower death matches. The people in this Heaven were always victims, so they're quick to read situations. Through that intuition, they instinctively recognized the ugliness and limitations of this place and essentially gave up. 'Because this guy exists.' Raon curled his lips as he looked at the tower that rose highest in Heaven. 'Everyone gave up on bursting their desires because of this ceiling that blocks humans like a wailing wall.' Priest Srude said people don't engage in tower death matches because they don't want to lose their desires, but the reality was different. No matter what they did, they couldn't beat Kurrk, the owner of the highest tower, and feeling they would end up offering their desires to him, they gave up on death matches and lived pursuing only small desires. They were literally no different from livestock being raised. "Then..." Raon raised his foot in a familiar stance. "That's enough." Just as he was about to kick and shake the tower as always, a thick voice came from behind. "You don't need to kick. I'm already out." When he turned around, there stood a beautiful young man with short stature but skin so white it practically gleamed, naturally drawing the eye, with his arms crossed. "Keu, Kurrk!" "Kurrk and Zilfen meeting..." "That person is Kurrk? He's completely a kid?" "You'll be in big trouble if you underestimate him? They say if you have a death match with that monster, you won't be able to get up for a month." "Yeah, Zilfen is amazing too, but I don't even want to encounter Kurrk." Just the sight of Kirk made the people tense, swallowing dryly. 'As expected...' Raon narrowed his eyes thin as thread while looking at Kurrk's transparently bright skin. 'That guy isn't human.' He had never seen Kurrk directly before, but as soon as he heard that he was the strongest person in this Heaven, he was certain. 'Kurrk is definitely an Angel.' A sinister guy like Derus would never really give just any human the chance to fulfill their wishes. From the beginning, he must have planned to create an absolutely unreachable ceiling to make everyone who aimed upward fall. 'As expected, that guy is...' An Angel. Other people might not know, but he could sense it immediately. Kurrk was the exact same kind of Angel as Vayph, who had brought him to this Heaven. -Just as you said! Wrath wrinkled his nose bridge as if displeased. -That bastard is indeed an Angel! Those Angel bastards worse than vermin! The guy gritted his teeth as if angry at the Angels who toy with humans. 'The person rumored to have built towers, fulfilled wishes, and left Heaven is probably also actually an Angel.' The person Vayph and Charlie mentioned who met the Archangel and fulfilled their wish was surely also an Angel disguised as human. "Here we are." Priest Srude pushed through the people and came forward. "I heard that believers Kurrk and Zilfen were going to have a death match, so I came out to watch as well." He smiled broadly, saying he couldn't miss the death match between the two. "Hey, if I break that guy, I can make a wish to the sky, right?" Raon lowered his eyebrows and pointed at Kurrk's tower. "Hmm..." Priest Srude looked at Raon and Kurrk's tower in turn and nodded his head. "Believer Zilfen has the additional benefits I gave him, so it should be sufficient." He drew a subtle smile, saying that if he just beat Kurrk, he could immediately make a wish to the Archangel. It felt like he was declaring that he absolutely couldn't win. "If you came to challenge, let's start right away." Kurrk looked at Raon and spread both arms. "I hate wasting time." He jerked his chin, saying not to have pointless staring contests and to start the tower death match right away. "Starting right away without any conversation?" "That's Kurrk alright. Still so straightforward." "Come to think of it, I've never heard of Kurrk refusing a challenge either." "Wh, who will win?" The people swallowed their dry saliva while looking at Kurrk and Raon facing each other. "I agree." Raon chuckled and clapped his hands lightly. "I don't like pointless chatter either." He nodded his chin arrogantly, saying let's start right away. "Hmph." Kurrk let out a sneer as if certain of his victory and released his desire. Swoooosh. His desire took a mist-like form and touched his soul. 'This isn't desire, it's divine power.' The energy Kurrk released was divine power disguised as desire. "You seem to know what desire is." Kurrk twisted his lips upward, putting on airs that it wouldn't be boring despite not even using desire. "Right. I know what desire is. But..." Raon accepted Kurrk's death match and let out the same sneer as him. "You don't seem to know anything though?" He revealed a cold gaze while saying words that were sure to sting. "How dare you!" Kurrk seemed to think he had been insulted by a human and wrinkled his brow while releasing divine power disguised as desire toward him. Kugugugugugu! Energy of a different caliber from the Tower Masters he had fought so far pressed in as if to crush his soul. He could understand why people who fought Kurrk had been bedridden. 'I'd like to tear him apart with aura if I could...' It's not time yet. He absolutely must not reveal his identity until meeting Derus Robert and the Archangel. Right now, with Priest Srude and other Angels watching, he had to fight with desire alone. Swoooosh! Raon revealed the emotions of the demon kings sleeping within his soul. Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Envy, and Wrath. Though human emotions, the energy of the Devildom monarchs that far exceeded their level clashed with Kurrk's divine power. Kuwaaaaang! The inaudible screams of souls could be heard. The demon kings' energy instantly erased Kurrk's clumsily disguised divine power and tried to devour it entirely. "Wh, what is this!" Kurrk panicked and released all the divine power he possessed without even thinking of disguising it. It seemed like an outburst of pride that he absolutely could not lose to a human. "Tsk." Priest Srude raised his hand and generated blue energy. He created an illusion so that Kurrk's divine power wouldn't be detected by others. 'Even so, it's meaningless.' The demon kings' emotions have extreme compatibility against divine power. In this land full of ugly desires, there was no need to hide this specific power, so he freely revealed that wicked Authority and devoured all of Kurrk's divine power. “Th-this is impossible….” Kurrk trembled his pale blue lips in shock that he couldn't beat Raon even after openly revealing his divine power. "You said you hate wasting time, right?" Raon looked down at Kurrk with the same sneer as before. "N, no! Wait!" "Let's end this right away without wasting time." Kurrk waved his hands as if asking him to wait, but he ignored it and shot out the desire that had devoured divine power. Raon's desire coiled around Kurrk's entire body like a coiled snake and sucked out all the desire and divine power dwelling in his soul. "Keuheuk!" Kurrk was an Angel, so the shock of having his energy including desire absorbed seemed greater as he vomited blood and collapsed. It was a too pathetic end for the Tower Master who held the highest tower in Heaven. "Hueok!" "Keu, Kurrk lost?" "I didn't expect Zilfen to win..." "Who would have thought this result would come out." "I, I also naturally thought Kurrk would win and fulfill his wish." "I can't believe a human possesses such desire." Most of the people watching the death match seemed to have predicted Kurrk's victory, as they gasped in shock at his defeat and clicked their tongues. "......" Priest Srude also seemed not to have expected such a result, as he bit his yellowed lips and couldn't take his eyes off the fallen Kurrk. "Hey." Raon tapped Kurrk's tower with his palm and called Priest Srude. "I'd like you to build my tower now?" He flirtatiously jerked his chin while looking at Priest Srude, who couldn't hide his bewilderment. "I want to make my wish right away, after all."