The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1247 "I will do what I must do as temporary head of house." Raon nodded his head while placing the remaining documents on the desk in front of the throne. "You thought well!" Evelyn nodded her head with a bright smile. "Those kids should also try living by their own strength now!" She clapped her hands repeatedly, saying Raon's judgment was correct. -This crazy bastard! Wrath let out a shriek. -Those guys are still severely lacking! Especially the Bead Ice Cream girl is under a spell, isn't she! It might be different normally, but in such dangerous times, you should help them! The guy grabbed his collar and shook it, telling him to go help Runaan immediately. "Hmm..." Sheryl let out a low groan while stroking her sharp chin. "I'm a bit worried..." After hearing Evelyn's words, she frowned, saying she was worried about Runaan. "I agree with the temporary head of house's opinion." Roenn swept back his silver hair and chuckled. "Humans can only grow by experiencing crises. This will surely be a good opportunity for them as well." Despite his gentle face, he nodded saying that the Light Wind Palace should also take the test. Currently, even among those in the audience chamber excluding Raon, opinions were split fifty-fifty. This meant it was not an easy matter to judge and decide. "I have already made my decision." Raon spoke without taking his eyes off the documents. "What's most important right now is qualifying as temporary head of house." If he said he wasn't worried about the Light Wind Palace, it would naturally be a lie, and his true feelings were to chase after them right now. However, this time he wanted to trust in their martial prowess, experience, and the power of the bonds they had built with each other. "If I had at least the minimum qualifications, it might be different, but not now. I will focus on my work, so please each of you do what you need to do." Raon said he had no intention of changing his decision and buried his face in the documents again. However, the white documents in his hands trembled as if blown by wind. -Tsk! Wrath clicked his tongue as if annoyed. -Anyway, this stubborn bastard! The guy shook his head, saying he never changes at all. "If you say so, there's nothing we can do." Sheryl shrugged her shoulders and stood behind Raon. "I will also do my role as the temporary head of house's guard." She bowed her waist, saying she would follow Raon's opinion. "Heh heh heh." Roenn also let out a hearty laugh and approached Raon's left side. "You made a difficult decision as soon as you became temporary head of house. This experience will surely be of great help to both the temporary head of house and the swordsmen of the Light Wind Palace." He stroked his chin as if thinking it was a good decision and gathered the documents Raon had processed in his arms. "......" Raon showed no reaction and concentrated on processing documents and reading materials. "Telling me to do my work?" Evelyn looked up at Raon on the platform and smacked her lips. "I understand. If you say so..." She confirmed that Raon's fingertips were trembling and turned around. "I guess I'll have to do what I want." Evelyn left those words and disappeared from the audience chamber with a blue light. * * * "This is Birdnew Village." The Shadow Agents investigator pointed downward with his finger after crossing over a high hill. Below his finger, land full of black burns could be seen. The outer walls protecting the village had all collapsed, the half-destroyed buildings were covered with someone's blood, and it was a place difficult to breathe due to the acrid smoke and smell filling the air. "Village...?" Burren let out an empty breath while standing beside the investigator. "To call this a village..." He gulped down dry saliva while looking at the ruins that could no longer be called a village. "I don't want to believe it either, but this is Birdnew Village." The Shadow Agents squad leader let out a deep sigh. "As you may have heard before, there are no survivors. The corpses were all burned by fire, and the living people burned to death along with them." He held his head, saying that although he had been to many scenes, such a terrible scene was extremely rare. "Vicious bastards!" Martha spat out curses while looking at the blackened earth of Birdnew Village. "Even if we burn them to death the same way, I don't think it would ease my anger!" She ground her teeth audibly as if the scene of the terrible massacre was being drawn before her. "Eden has always been like this." Krein also trembled his shoulders as if it was hard to contain his anger. "Ghost bastards who don't see humans as humans!" He stamped his feet with the momentum to beat them to death immediately if Eden were right in front of him. "Ugh..." Dorian bent his waist and panted as if feeling both nausea and sadness at the unpleasant and foul smell of burned corpses. "Eden..." Runaan crossed her arms and slightly raised her eyes. She moved her pupils quickly, unlike usual, as if she wanted to examine the state of Birdnew Village in detail. "Damn it!" "Th-this is much worse than expected?" "Even battlefields aren't this bad." "They're not sane. How could they do this to ordinary people..." The Light Wind Palace swordsmen also bit their lips until they bled, as if feeling deep anger toward Eden. "Then we will begin the investigation." The Shadow Agents squad leader bowed his head to Burren, asking for escort, then went down to Birdnew Village. The Shadow Agents investigators also took out their respective equipment and followed behind him. "Light Wind Palace shall escort the Shadow Agents investigators." Burren quickly regained his composure and gave orders to the swordsmen who were horrified by the tragedy of Birdnew Village. (E/N: I would think after everything they went through they wouldn't be 'horrified' by this much...but hey...) "Yes!" The Light Wind Palace swordsmen followed Burren's orders and scattered by groups, staying behind the Shadow Agents operatives investigating Birdnew Village and moving together with them. "I'm going too." Martha wrinkled her nose and turned her shoulder. "Just watching from here makes me feel so frustrated I could die." She let out a turbid breath, saying she felt she could only release this anger by moving her body. "Wait." Burren raised his hand to Martha without taking his eyes off the scene. "There's something you need to do." He turned his gaze, saying Martha had something separate to do. "What is it? I'm pissed off right now, so just get to the point." Martha stopped her steps that were about to go down, telling him to speak. "Behind Birdnew Village is our Zieghart's boundary. Check how the swordsmen guarding that place died." Burren told her to confirm the death of the Zieghart swordsmen while narrowing his eyes. "In terms of both martial prowess and the situation, you're the right person for this." He nodded his chin, saying Martha was the only person who could move now. "The boundary..." Martha didn't immediately respond to Burren's orders and turned her gaze to Runaan on the right. "......" Runaan stood silently with her hand on her sword, but white frost was forming like petals around her as if she were greatly angered, freezing the ground. "We definitely need to check that side too." Martha nodded as if there was nothing she could do, though she was worried about Runaan. "Got it. I'll be back soon. But..." She didn't finish her words and looked at Runaan again. "Don't worry." Burren waved his hand lightly. "I'll be watching to make sure there are no problems even without you." He lowered his chin heavily as if confident. "You've changed a bit too." Martha chuckled and nodded her head. "Then I'll be back." She quickly waved her hand and entered the forest behind. "Haa..." Martha sighed and shook her head. "It's not easy inside or outside." Eden's attack was expected from the outside, and inside they didn't know when Runaan might explode, so she was worried in many ways. She wanted to finish the investigation and return as quickly as possible. Paaaaang! Martha ran at full speed using her footwork toward Zieghart's boundary. Since she had been to this area several times for boundary duties, it wasn't difficult to find the way. (E/N: When???) "It should definitely be around here... Hm?" It was when she stopped at what she thought was the barrier and looked around. The pungent smell of rotting corpses hit her nose and she felt nauseous for a moment. "Ugh..." Martha bit her lips and walked toward the place with the rotting smell, then widened her eyes. "What the hell!" The swordsmen wearing Zieghart uniforms lay dead with their flesh melted away as if they had become zombies. "Does this make any sense...?" Martha bit her lips while looking at the rotting corpses swarming with maggots. "It's only been three days since Eden's attack!" The Light Wind Palace had departed for this place the day after hearing news of Eden's attack on Birdnew Village. While it wasn't an immediate response, the dispatch of the investigation team wasn't late either, yet for the corpses to rot this much was impossible. "Necromancy or magic?" Martha tensed her fingertips at the stench rising from the corpses of the dead swordsmen. "Filthy bastards anyway." If they were going to kill, they should have cut their necks cleanly with one stroke - seeing them humiliate people in this way, her anger toward Eden blazed even more fiercely. If those bastards were in front of her, she would have torn them apart without leaving a single piece of flesh. "Haa..." Martha sighed and calmed her boiling anger. "Let's do the investigation properly first." The corpses remaining at the scene were only the two in front of her. She would need to properly examine at least these two people's deaths to identify those bastards' true nature. "Where are the wounds... Huh?" Martha let out an empty breath while turning over the sticky corpses of the swordsmen. "Wait. They were stabbed from behind? And..." There are no traces of resistance. "Does this make sense?" The people lying dead before her now were Zieghart's elite. If an enemy had stabbed them from behind, there should naturally be traces of resistance, but looking at the wounds, it seemed they had died without any counterattack after being stabbed from behind. 'This person is the same.' The person next to him was also stabbed from behind, but seemed to have died without being able to resist at all. "That's why..." Martha bit her lips while turning the corpse over again. "They couldn't sound the alarm." The swordsmen standing guard keep alarm devices ready to alert Zieghart and the surrounding area in case of enemy attacks. She had thought it was strange that they died without being able to sound it, and it seemed they had been ambushed from behind. By someone special. 'There are three possibilities.' Martha brushed away the maggots insulting the dead and lowered her finger. 'First, a supreme master who could make them unable to resist came. But if it were such a person, they would have completely severed their necks.' It wouldn't be too difficult for Eden's elites to subdue these two. But it was strange for such a person to stab the chest, and it didn't seem like they would just return after massacring Birdnew Village. 'Then second, they were hit by a weapon mixed with magic and couldn't resist at all? This is most likely. The corpses are actually rotting enough to smell foul.' Martha frowned while looking at the corpses again. 'But it seems too manipulated to look that way.' Unlike the annihilation of Birdnew Village, showing the corpses so openly like this gave her a feeling like it was a trap. 'Then the last one. The person who ambushed them was...' It was when Martha was folding her fingers and sighing. Whoooosh! The resonance of mana burst out from near Birdnew Village where she had come from. Boom! Martha ground her molars and roughly got up. "It's an attack!"