The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1281 "What?" Raon frowned as he looked at the Bear Fire Demon. "What kind of nonsense is that?" He could agree with the idea that the Silent Serpent Swordsman might be dangerous. After all, he was a Transcendent who moved in directions he couldn't predict. But he couldn't feel any reality in the claim that the world would be destroyed if the Silent Serpent Swordsman died. Exaggeration. No, he only thought it was completely impossible. -To casually say that the world will be destroyed like that... Wrath let out a hollow laugh as if he found it absurd. -It seems that bear, not you, has consumed the Authority of Pride! He shook his head back and forth, mocking the Bear Fire Demon's words. "Haah..." Burren sighed and held his head as if he was tired from experiencing various things. "Just because you're with us. Did you forget you were from Eden?" Martha snorted and approached the Bear Fire Demon. "Stop talking nonsense and get lost!" She told him to back off and pushed the Bear Fire Demon. "Destruction..." Runaan also looked at him intently with cold eyes as if she couldn't believe the Bear Fire Demon's words. "U-um..." Dorian swallowed dry saliva and raised his hand. "Still, how about we listen to the story? If he's talking about d-destruction, who knows what might happen!" He trembled with his legs shaking as if the word destruction had stuck in his mind. "...Fine." Raon slowly nodded his head. "The sun hasn't risen yet, so go ahead and speak." He looked down at the Bear Fire Demon who was kneeling with his arms crossed. "How exactly is the Silent Serpent Swordsman supposed to destroy the world?" Even demon kings like Wrath and Pride, or those considered the strongest on the continent like the Heavenly Demon and Derus Robert, couldn't casually talk about destroying this world. Even after listening to the other Swordsmen's conversation and thinking again, he couldn't understand why the Silent Serpent Swordsman's death would be connected to the world's destruction. "Th-the Silent Serpent Swordsman. No, the Golden Mask Swordsman, Red Demon Swordsman, Blue Serpent Swordsman, Green Serpent, and the Silent Serpent Swordsman are all..." The Bear Fire Demon trembled his jaw as he recited one by one the Eden Swordsmen wearing serpent helmets he had encountered so far. "They are my children!" He said he was the father of all of them and raised his head. His eyes, shaking like a puddle hit by rain, seemed to show that his words were true. "Five sons?" Evelyn's eyes widened in surprise. "Did you have them one after another each year?" She tilted her head as if she was more curious about the order in which the sons were born than the world's destruction. "N-no. They were all born as twins at once. And then there's one youngest who was born after..." The Bear Fire Demon blinked his eyes as if flustered but still answered Evelyn's question. "Not quadruplets, but quintuplets? And you had one more? That's crazy!" Evelyn burst out with an intense exclamation. "Raon! We could do it too, right?" She shook Raon, telling him to cheer up. "Haah..." Runaan turned her cold energy toward Evelyn and showed a chilly light in her eyes. "She's really not in her right mind..." Martha also tightly closed her eyes as if she couldn't handle Evelyn. "Ah..." Even the Bear Fire Demon, who had been sobbing, lost his words with his mouth wide open while looking at Evelyn. "Don't mind that girl..." Raon shook his head while pressing his forehead. "Continue speaking. Are you saying that all the serpent helmet Swordsmen we've met so far are your sons?" He looked at the Bear Fire Demon while recalling the Golden Mask Swordsman he first met when he was kidnapped by Evelyn during her days as Merlin. "Y-yes. Those children are all my sons, and they were all born with the talent for possession and were kidnapped by Eden in their childhood..." As the Bear Fire Demon spoke, he bit his lips until they bled as if remembering the time when they were kidnapped. "I was also found to have talent in magic and was dragged away together with my sons." He lowered his voice, which was tinged with moisture, as he said he was kidnapped by Eden together with his sons. "Not being able to do anything while watching the children suffer..." The Bear Fire Demon trembled all over as if he still couldn't forget the resentment and pain from that time. "It was no different from hell." * * * Nothing can be seen. Nothing can be felt. But there is one thing that can be heard. "D-dad!" "Aaaaah!" "Save me!" "Dad!" The sound of children calling for me. Only the sound of them crying out for help to me, their father, could be heard. My children, more precious than my own life, were coughing up blood and crying out to be saved, but there was nothing I could do. As I repeatedly tensed and relaxed my sensation-numbed body through feeling alone, at some point my fingertips began to move. As I burned my will to save my sons even stronger and moved my hands, the moment sensation returned to my arms, something was placed on my head. It was Eden's mask that made the invisible world even darker. "Daddddd!" I fell into a bizarre world while hearing my sons' voices desperately calling for me. A massive monster appeared. A monster larger than a mountain. It was a monster called Bearwolf with a bear's face and a werewolf's body. And it wasn't an ordinary one, but a Bearwolf Shaman capable of wielding ancient magic. Without looking back, I ran away. The Bearwolf Shaman seemed to regard me as a toy it could crush at any time, throwing stones, stabbing with swords, and raining down magic while mocking me. But even as I was hit by stones, stabbed by swords, and struck by the rain of magic, I never gave in. Countless pains worse than death came endlessly, but I endured to the end while remembering my sons' voices asking for help. However, the Bearwolf Shaman was persistent and strong. It attacked even my mind with unknown illusions and eventually made my spirit collapse. Eventually, when I was about to kneel and be devoured by the Bearwolf Shaman, a Swordsman wearing a black goat helmet entered the mental world. "I thought it might be so, and you did well to come." The Evil Goat Demon, Syria Sullion. The Swordsman called the continent's greatest scoundrel smiled slyly and cut down the Bearwolf Shaman that was trying to devour me with a single strike. (E/N: When did Syria get this title) "Eat it." Syria Sullion nodded his chin, telling me to eat the soul of the Bearwolf Shaman that was dying and scattering. "If you want to save your sons, you'll have to eat that hideous soul." He curled his lips with a chilling coldness, saying that was the only way to save his sons. "Graaagh!" I swept into my mouth every last bit of the Bearwolf Shaman's soul that flowed across the floor like filth. My stomach felt like it would burst and my head felt like it would shatter, but I could do even more than that to save my sons. Along with the pain of thousands of worms digging through my head, magical techniques and methods I didn't know came to mind. They seemed to be the magic that the Bearwolf Shaman had possessed. "As expected, you're useful. Come out." Syria Sullion left the mental world saying they should meet outside, and when he disappeared, I was also able to escape that bizarre world. "Haah..." I unconsciously sighed and opened my eyes, and contrary to my confused mind, I could see the blue sky. "Congratulations. You've awakened after twenty years." Syria Sullion grinned and raised two fingers. "T-twenty years?" I couldn't understand those words at first and asked back. The time I actually felt was much shorter than that. "Actually, it was longer." Syria Sullion stroked his chin, saying that even more time had passed. "Th-then my children are..." "Dead." He shrugged his shoulders, saying that four of the five twin sons were dead. "They died at the hands of someone called Raon Zieghart." Syria Sullion raised two fingers again. "My children are dead..." I had endured the desperate fight with the Bearwolf Shaman to save my children. When I heard that my children, who I considered the pillars of my soul, were dead, my whole body collapsed on its own. I just wanted to die like this. No, I didn't want to believe it. "N-no, absolutely not..." "Four died wearing serpent helmets. Two are still alive." Syria Sullion raised two fingers as if he had been waiting for my reaction. "However, the fifth one currently wearing a mask will die soon. And the youngest will become a monster that destroys this world." He bared his white teeth, saying that even his fifth son would die and his sixth son, the youngest, would become a monster. "We must save him before that. If you help me, I'll help you too." Syria Sullion curled his lips, saying that if the Bear Fire Demon helped him with his magic, he would save the remaining two sons. "Two are alive..." I bit my lips while thinking of the fifth and youngest sons. When I thought they were all dead, I didn't want to believe it, but now that he said two were alive, I wanted to believe it. Moreover, after eating the Bearwolf Shaman's soul, I learned about Eden through the knowledge that seeped in, so Syria Sullion's story became a bit more credible. "I-I'll help you. However..." I said I would unconditionally follow what Syria Sullion said and clenched my fist with trembling hands. "Where are the fifth and youngest now? What masks are they wearing!" More than anything else, I was curious about the children's whereabouts and condition, so I grabbed Syria Sullion's sleeve and pulled it. "Your fifth son is playing around wearing a black serpent helmet, and the youngest is confined in a secret place at Eden's main base." Syria Sullion answered without hesitation, as if he had already tracked the children's whereabouts before saving me. "Serpent helmet? You said the dead children also wore serpent helmets..." I couldn't understand Syria Sullion's words and tilted my head. "Aren't you curious why they wore the same helmets? It's because all your sons wore helmets for a single monster. The name of that monster, which contains despair, is..." Syria Sullion twisted his lips as if enjoying my hardening expression and engraved the monster's name in my mind. "Hydra. The Serpent of Despair, Hydra." * * * "Hydra..." As soon as Raon heard the name Hydra, he felt chilling goosebumps rise all over his body. 'They got stronger each time they appeared wearing different helmets, so I had a suspicion...' I never thought it would really be Hydra. Hydra was a mythical monster that plunged the world into despair in the era before the Dragon of Destruction appeared. It was a nine-headed serpent with each head possessing different attributes, and when one head was cut off, the remaining heads would become much stronger. Due to this characteristic, fighting Hydra was inevitably extremely difficult. It's said that when only the last head remains, Hydra's power would be enough to destroy the world. If that Hydra's power was perfectly accepted, the serpent mask that appears after the Silent Serpent Swordsman might possess martial prowess on the level of the Heavenly Demon or Glenn Zieghart. -Hydra! Wrath let out a short exclamation. -If it's really Hydra, that would be interesting! That thing is the real deal when it comes to strength! He rarely acknowledged a continental existence and twisted his lips. 'You know about it too?' Raon swallowed dry saliva as he looked at Wrath. -I haven't seen it directly myself. However... Wrath narrowed his eyes thin as thread. -The aura of despair spread so much across this continent that it nearly reached the point of a new demon king being born, so I wanted to see it once. He smacked his lips, saying he was curious about the existence called Hydra. 'If what he said is really true...' Raon bit his lips deeply while looking at the Bear Fire Demon. 'The war with Eden might be much more difficult than expected.' Even if he placed Hydra's martial prowess just below Glenn or the Heavenly Demon, it would be difficult for him to face. His current self had barely stabilized the Absolute realm, so it would be too much to face Hydra, who would certainly stand above the Absolute. 'As expected, I can't be satisfied with my current realm.' He had gained great enlightenment both martially and mentally through meeting Pride and the Heavenly Demon. This was satisfying enough, but for the future of Zieghart, it seemed he shouldn't stop here. 'As quickly as possible...' Raon placed his hand on Heavenly Drive and looked down at the red thorn bracelet that Pride had made. 'I need to awaken <Pride>.'