The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1256 As Runaan raised her sword before her eyes like when she activated her Sword Domain, the frost petals that had been swirling around her rose into the air. The frost fragments that maintained their pure white despite drinking Syria Sullion's blood rose to the mountain where they originally existed and returned to the form of eternal snow that boasted noble status. However, there was one difference from the beginning. Aaaaaaaa! Syria Sullion's soul was howling within the endless eternal snow. Just as Runaan had said, he seemed to continue suffering even in death, screaming with cries that would tear his throat apart. It was natural since frost fragments that caused terrible pain with just one embedded now covered his entire soul. Syria Sullion's soul burst out with such an eerie cry that it would shake mountain peaks, begging to be freed from this pain. "You made another wrong choice..." Runaan shook her head calmly. "You shouldn't have asked to be freed from pain... You should have begged that you were wrong, that you were sorry to me and others. Of course..." She looked down at Syria Sullion's soul with ice-cold eyes. "I still wouldn't have let you go though..." As Runaan coldly lowered her sword, more frost poured over Syria Sullion's soul and even his screams were buried in the snow. "Haah..." As Runaan exhaled a tired breath and sheathed her sword, the ten snow mountains that had risen behind her melted away like snow, revealing the original field. Syria Sullion was lying dead with his eyes rolled back beneath the black field he had created. Of course, his pain would not end here but would continue for eternity as Runaan had prophesied. "Ugh!" Runaan bent at the waist and trembled all over as if she had been stabbed by a sword. Following the sudden awakening, the backlash from using her Sword Domain came and it felt like her entire body was going numb. "Martha..." However, despite feeling terrible pain and trembling, Runaan forced her body to move and immediately ran to Martha. "Haah..." Martha was breathing with the scent of blood mixed in while her eyes were closed. She seemed to have fainted from the shock of losing too much blood. "The wound is too deep, it's dangerous... Hmm?" Runaan opened her eyes wide while examining Martha's condition. 'What?' Since her memory had returned, she knew that she had stabbed Martha. The wound was too deep and too much time had passed, so she thought it would definitely be dangerous, but now Martha wasn't particularly in a critical situation. "Why is she fine...?" Runaan opened her eyes wide as she examined Martha's wound and entire body. She thought she had definitely stabbed a vital point, but looking now, she had pierced a place with no organs by the difference of a sheet of paper. She had bled a lot, but thanks to recovery medicine, it seemed like she would heal completely with just a little rest. "Why! Why is Martha!" Burren trembled as he forced his body up. "Fine..." Runaan blinked as she laid Martha back down. "Huh? Huh! Uh..." Burren also seemed to have the same thought as Runaan as he showed various reactions and opened his mouth wide. "Sh-she's really okay, right?" "Yes. She'll be fine like this..." "I don't know what it is, but that's fortunate." He let out a sigh of relief and laid his body back down on the ground. "But what is your Sword Domain?" Burren looked at Runaan again and let out a hollow laugh. "It's practically invincible." He burst out in continuous exclamations, saying he couldn't believe it even seeing it with his own eyes. "Syria Sullion had martial prowess that easily surpassed transcendence. To break him so easily like that, I thought I was looking at Raon. What kind of Sword Domain is it?" Burren's eyes shone even while injured as he asked Runaan to tell him what her Sword Domain was. "It works for attack and defense, and the power and speed are all insane. With your Sword Domain, you wouldn't lose to anyone, would you?" He nodded vigorously, saying he saw no gaps in Runaan's Sword Domain. "Like that..." Runaan blinked as if tired. "It's not omnipotent..." She could tell because she had directly operated her Sword Domain. Her Sword Domain didn't possess invincible power as Burren thought. "What are you talking about! Such Sword Domains hardly exist!" Burren swallowed dryly, saying it was comparable even to Raon's Sword Domain. "I can't use this power against just anyone." Runaan shook her head calmly. "The power of this Sword Domain changes depending on how much pain they caused me. Syria Sullion..." She bit her lip slightly while looking at Syria Sullion's miserably dead corpse. "Because he gave me enough pain that it wouldn't be strange if I took my own life, I gained the power to crush everything about him." Her Sword Domain was certainly omnipotent in that it could be used for both offense and defense, but its power and speed changed depending on the enemy's condition. If the enemy hadn't caused her great pain, the power wouldn't become that much stronger, but if they had caused great pain like Syria Sullion, it would grant power that could reach the heavens and more. "So that's how it was..." Burren let out a short sigh. "Too bad. I wanted to have a Sword Domain like that too. So there really is no power that's perfect in everything." He wanted to see hope through Runaan, but clicked his tongue in disappointment. "But that's a little different..." Runaan looked at Burren and narrowed her eyes slightly. "Hmm, what did you say?" Burren didn't catch Runaan's small voice and raised his head. "It's nothing..." Runaan mumbled and then shook her head. 'There's no need to say that.' The power of her Sword Domain, Eternity, certainly changed depending on what kind of pain the enemy had caused her. But when protecting allies with Eternity, the defensive power changed depending on how she thought of them. Seeing how she blocked Syria Sullion's great sword swung with full power using just one frost fragment, her feelings toward the Light Wind Palace were incomparably high compared to anyone else. Of course, it was too embarrassing to say that, so she kept her mouth shut. "Anyway, we managed to accomplish something on our own without Raon." Burren curled up the corners of his mouth while looking at the thin moon floating in the dark sky. "I feel like we've finally earned our keep." Despite having gone through hardships that could have killed him, he nodded, saying he was quite satisfied. "Of course, we had quite a bit of luck on our side." Burren rubbed his palms together lightly. He smiled, saying they were lucky in many ways, seeing how Syria Sullion's sword and Bear Fire Demon's magic luckily missed, and Martha's wound also avoided vital points. "That's right..." Runaan nodded calmly. "I'm glad no one died..." She had made such a huge mistake that if someone had died today, she would never have been able to forgive herself. She still had her faults remaining so she needed to ask everyone for forgiveness. But it was truly fortunate that no one died. "I'm really sorry..." Runaan approached Burren and bowed her head. "I knew you were trying to help me somehow all this time, but I couldn't come back... I'm really sorry..." Instead of asking for forgiveness, she just repeated that she was sorry. "Vice Palace Master is originally that kind of position. You get hit from above and pushed around from below." Burren waved his hand calmly, saying it was the Vice Palace Master's job, so it was fine. "But this one won't be fine." He pointed at Martha lying beside him and chuckled. "You'll have to beg very thoroughly. You might even get beaten up." Burren grinned, telling her to prepare well. "Yeah..." Runaan nodded heavily while looking at Martha sleeping and scratching her stomach. "I'm prepared to kneel down and take a sword blow..." Knowing how Martha truly felt about her, her feelings of guilt toward her were even stronger. She clenched her hands with the resolve to not even frown once even if she got stabbed in the stomach like Martha. "If you had come to your senses just a little faster, we wouldn't have gone through this hardship. No, since it ended up with you achieving transcendence and gaining a Sword Domain, it might not be a complete loss." (E/N: So she reached transcendence? Like that?) Burren shook his head, saying it wasn't a bad trade. "Oh, and Syria Sullion died too. Then it's a huge gain! He's definitely dead this time, right?" He trembled his shoulders as if scared that Syria Sullion might come back again. "Yeah... He can't come back this time..." Runaan nodded, saying Syria Sullion was definitely dead. "That's a relief... Huh?" Burren was laughing when he turned his head to the left. "Runaan! That guy!" He pointed at the child with the Forest Rabbit Helmet collapsed on the left side. "I think he's alive! I just heard very faint breathing sounds!" Burren bit his lips, saying the child who wore the Forest Rabbit Helmet and lured Runaan here was alive. "No way..." Runaan approached the child with trembling hands. "Ah!" As Burren had said, the child wasn't dead and was breathing very faintly. Of course, he was in a state where it wouldn't be strange if he died, but it seemed like he could recover with proper care. "Kill him..." Burren frowned and raised his finger. "Even though he's young, he's someone who follows Syria Sullion. It's right to kill him." He bit his lips firmly, saying it was unfortunate but he had to be killed. "No..." Runaan shook her head, recalling the children she had seen in the dream. "This child is just like me." At the time, she was under the spell so she didn't notice, but Ruzel and the other children had been threatened by Syria Sullion just like her. Since it was due to Bear Fire Demon's magic and they weren't devoured by the ghosts in the helmets, she wanted to save Ruzel and everyone else. "Really..." Runaan gently caressed Ruzel's wounds and raised her head. "We were lucky..." *** "Lucky my ass!" Evelyn snorted from the forest behind the field. "These idiots would have all died long ago if it weren't for Raon!" She frowned, saying there should be limits to how lucky one could be. "Right?" Evelyn gestured to the back, telling someone to say something. A handsome man with golden hair and red eyes, as if painted with a brush, walked out from the dark tree shadows. A gentle light swirled around him as if even the darkness of night could not encroach upon him. "It would have worked out fine even without me." Raon waved his hand calmly, saying he hadn't done anything. "Huh? What are you talking about!" Evelyn shook her head vigorously, saying absolutely not. "You prevented the helmeted kid from dying, you prevented that rude brat girl from dying, you prevented that self-important Vice Palace Master from dying, you prevented Evil Goat Demon and Bear Fire Demon from acting up! You prevented that stupid snow woman from dying! You just did everything!" She raised both hands as she recounted all the support Raon had provided from behind. "The god of salvation who kills those who should die and saves those who should live! God! Ra! On!" Evelyn even clapped her hands, saying that the current Raon possessed god-like abilities. "P-please stop..." Raon shook his head with a reddened face. He knew Evelyn had that kind of personality, but today was too much and his cheeks heated up. -Well, it's not entirely wrong. Wrath clicked his tongue briefly. -I didn't know you could extend your recovery abilities from long distance either. He shook his head in surprise at how Raon had healed people with Divinity Born from Darkness. 'I'm amazed too.' Raon curled up the corners of his mouth as he gathered Divinity Born from Darkness at his fingertips. 'I tried it just in case and it worked.' Divinity Born from Darkness was originally an ability that could only heal by touching wounds, but using the principles of Sword Control and Soul Sword, he became able to heal allies from a distance. It was a small discovery, but the results seemed like they would come back greatly. -What kind of monster are you becoming... Wrath wrinkled his nose bridge deeply, saying he was now sick of Raon's abilities. 'Wrath.' Raon looked at Wrath and narrowed his eyes thinly. 'You said that if you're a Monarch, you should prioritize your subordinates over the paperwork in front of you and unconditionally rush to save them. Of course, that's not wrong. But...' He drew a gentle smile as he looked at Runaan who had achieved transcendence, Burren who seemed to have found a great goal, and Martha who had thrown everything of herself to save her comrades. The three of them would become stronger and their relationship would become closer. 'I think if you're a King, it's also important to trust your subordinates from behind.' (E/N: His definition of trust and my definition of trust are very different) Raon shook his head gently, saying he didn't want to rob the Light Wind Palace of opportunities to grow like this. -Hmph! Someone who couldn't endure and grabbed that crazy woman to plead is putting on airs! Wrath glared at Raon as if displeased. -Well, I'll acknowledge that your words were right this time too. He nodded, saying he would accept it just this once. -Let's go back now! I'm hungry! Wrath patted his stomach, saying it was past time to eat. 'Wait a moment.' Raon looked not at Runaan and Burren who were leaving the field carrying Martha and the child, but at Bear Fire Demon lying collapsed behind them, and curled up the corners of his mouth. 'Because I think a better opportunity will arise.'