The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1300 Rumble rumble rumble! The weight was different from the nobles who had come to find the sage Doraen so far. People swallowed nervously and stepped back from the massive intimidating presence created by the King of Winten Kingdom and the royal guards following him. "I heard that a fraud who bewitches the people of Winten is staying here!" A white-haired middle-aged man who appeared to be the Knight Commander stomped his feet and raised his voice. The heavy shock he unleashed made the ground where countless people stood tremble. "The heaven of Winten has personally descended to save the people bewitched by demons, so frauds, kneel!" The Knight Commander drew the sword at his waist as if he had no intention of having a conversation. His blade caught the midday sun and emitted brilliant light. "Uuugh..." "That's the Knight Commander!" "I can't breathe..." Both the people who came to meet the sage Doraen and those who already received his grace and followed him all knelt on the ground and bowed their heads. Whoooooosh! As countless people knelt and bent their backs, a middle-aged man wearing a golden crown and red cloak walked out from behind the Knight Commander. Though he wasn't very fat, he was so large and heavy that he looked like a giant moving. "Bring the fraud cult leader before me." The King of Winten barked to bring the fraud immediately and jerked his chin. "Yes!" The Knight Commander bowed and turned around. It was when he was about to advance down the path where the people knelt, wrapping his body in vivid mana as if to faithfully follow the royal command. "Uuuugh!" "N-no!" "Stop! We must stop this!" "We cannot let them harm that person!" The people who couldn't lift their heads before the king overcame the knights' aura and stood up. "T-the sage is not a fraud!" "He is the one who erased our pain and suffering!" "Please do not speak carelessly!" "He is my god!" The people who received the grace of the sage Doraen bit their lips as if they would never back down and blocked the royal knights. "These, these crazy bastards!" "What are you doing! Stand aside!" "We are following a royal command!" The royal knights, seemingly flustered by the sight of the people they always regarded as insects rising up, widened their eyes and created even stronger pressure. "W-we cannot step aside!" "That person is absolutely not a demon! He stayed awake and took care of us!" "Please have mercy!" The people endured in place without backing down, even while coughing up blood from the royal knights' pressure. "Uh..." "Hmm!" The royal knights became even more flustered and let out low groans upon seeing that the people's eyes weren't vacant, but shining more intelligently than ever. "What are you all doing!" The king was picking his ear with his finger as if bored, then stomped his foot loudly. "They're already bewitched by the fraud! Kill them all and bring that bastard before me!" He waved his hand covered in earwax around wildly, telling them to move quickly. "Yes, yes!" The Knight Commander bit his lips as if he had no choice and raised his sword. "From now on, if there are any people defending the fraud, I'll cut them down too!" He bit his lips, saying he would kill anyone who stood in their way. "Uugh!" "We absolutely cannot back down!" "Protect the sage!" But the people didn't back down even before the knights' blue blades, enduring with their hands clasped together. "Kill them!" The Knight Commander felt the king's gaze watching from behind and raised his sword. Just as he and the royal knights were gritting their teeth and about to strike down with their swords, blue light burst out from among the people. Claaang! It wasn't Burren or Martha. The nobles and martial artists who received grace from the sage Doraen moved on their own to block the royal knights' swords. "Count Asak?" The Knight Commander gaped at Count Asak who had blocked his sword. "Why are you!" He trembled his jaw, saying he didn't understand why Count Asak had stepped forward. "That person is not a fraud." Count Asak pushed away the Knight Commander's sword while nodding his head. "He is the one who instantly removed the inner demons I've carried my entire life." He firmly shook his head, saying the sage Doraen was not fake. "Asak! You've gone mad!" The King of Winten Kingdom also recognized Count Asak's face and gnashed his teeth. "This is treason! Everyone here is a traitor! Cut off all their heads!" He shouted angrily to show no more mercy and cut down every human in this place. "Ugh..." The Knight Commander bit his lips deeply while looking at Count Asak. "Asak. You shouldn't have stepped forward." He closed his eyes tightly, then opened them and added more force to his sword. "Kill them all!" It was the moment when the Knight Commander gave the order to massacre and was about to cut down even Count Asak. "Stop." A low voice was heard through the screams of people and the clash of weapons. It was small and quiet, but that sound pierced through everything and settled in people's ears. Whoooosh. The sage Doraen who had been solving people's problems wearing only a robe without even a tent. No, Raon Zieghart stood up. As he walked, seeming as if he hadn't even existed before, the dark clouds lifted, the sandstorm subsided, and the people knelt and bowed their heads as if meeting their true king. Raon calmly accepted all of this and walked toward the King of Winten Kingdom. Step. Every time Raon's footsteps were heard, the people's heads bowed deeper, and the knights' swords and breathing naturally lowered. Everyone was overwhelmed by the magnificent presence that stopped the fight with just footsteps. "Th-that is..." The Knight Commander was flustered by the strange human presence he was seeing for the first time in his life and swallowed nervously. "That person is neither a god nor a sage. He is simply..." Count Asak barely withstood the Knight Commander's sword and opened his mouth. "A human who embraces those who are in pain like me!" He nodded, saying he was able to grow a little more after meeting the sage Doraen. "Even so, the moment the king ordered punishment, that person becomes evil!" The Knight Commander struck Count Asak, saying that as a noble of this kingdom, he couldn't refuse the royal command. "I will kill him!" He rushed forward to Raon and swung down his brilliantly glowing sword. But the Knight Commander's sword didn't reach Raon. Whoosh! The Knight Commander was trembling with his sword stopped above Raon's head. "What, what are you doing! Split that bastard's head right now!" The King of Winten screamed at him to swing the sword down quickly. "Th-this is..." The Knight Commander bit his lips as if to say it wasn't his intention to stop the sword himself, but couldn't move his hand to the end. "Your Sword Aura is decent." Raon nodded to the Knight Commander and then gently passed by him. "Ah..." The Knight Commander collapsed on the spot, gasping for breath even though he wasn't attacked by Raon. "Your sword is sharp, so it would be better to sleep for a while." As Raon walked with a gentle smile, the royal knights who had tried to kill people collapsed one by one like crumbling structures. Judging by their breathing, they weren't dead or injured, but simply unconscious. "Are you the King of Winten?" Raon approached the King of Winten Kingdom who stood at the end after putting all the royal knights to sleep. "D-don't come! You demon!" The King of Winten Kingdom was afraid of Raon, but fell backward as if his legs had given out and he couldn't escape. He seemed like a completely different person from when he first appeared and displayed intimidation toward the people. "A demon..." Raon curled his lips as he stood before the King of Winten Kingdom. "You're the one bewitched by a demon." Though he wasn't caught by Aura Perception, the King of Winten Kingdom was not moving by his own will right now. He was clearly following someone else's instructions or commands. 'So his soul is captured like this.' Was it because he had focused on Soul Sword training and read other people's souls? He could feel a foreign presence that shouldn't originally exist within the Winten king's soul. 'Is it Sariel's divine power?' As expected, it seemed the King of Winten Kingdom had appeared here to kill him, bewitched by Archangel Sariel. -That's not it. The divine power's presence is too weak to say he was affected by Sariel. Wrath shook his head as if that wasn't it. -That guy seems to be bewitched not by Sariel, but by Sariel's slave! He snorted, saying it was certain that the King of Winten Kingdom was bewitched by a slave controlled by Sariel, not by Sariel himself. 'A slave's slave?' Raon chuckled. 'As you said, he's quite cautious.' Seeing that he sent not his own slave, but a slave's slave, it certainly seemed he was cautious as Wrath said. 'Then I should provoke his pride instead.' Sariel was surely watching this situation right now. He had to provoke him to make him reveal himself directly next time. -Provoke his pride? How? Wrath widened his eyes as if curious about the method. 'Sariel probably thinks of humans only as slaves or livestock. If such a human...' Raon curled his lips while looking at the King of Winten Kingdom who was filled with fear. 'If his slave is stolen from him, his pride will inevitably crack.' -Is that possible? Wrath let out a hollow breath. 'I just need to cut away Sariel's divine power within the Winten king's soul.' Raon calmly shook his head as if it was nothing. -Crazy... Wrath trembled his jaw as if dumbfounded. -Sariel's divine power is extremely small and constantly moving! Cutting it out from that human's soul is no different from finding a needle on a wave-swept sandy beach! He shook his head vigorously, saying it was impossible. 'Normally it would be impossible.' Raon operated the Ring of Fire and took another step closer to the Winten king. 'But the current me can do it.' Ring of Fire, Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation, Glacier, and even his Mental Image had all reached their peak. With his current focus on Soul Sword training, he could cut away even Sariel's divine power that moved like a single tadpole swimming in the ocean. Whooooom! Raon raised a tiny dagger forged from his soul and pushed it into the Winten king's soul. Swoooosh! He captured Sariel's divine power swimming leisurely within the Winten king's soul at once, then struck down with his sharply raised sword. Craaash! *** "Gasp!" Sariel shot up from his golden throne. "What the..." He had been watching the human called the sage through the Winten king's eyes, but suddenly the signal with his slave was cut off. He had no idea what had happened. He tried to enter the Winten king's soul again, but there was no response. It meant the slave had broken free from the leash he had placed and escaped. 'How did he do it?' The human called the sage had clearly just reached out his hand, but he couldn't understand how the connection between himself and his slave was severed. No, setting everything aside, it made no sense for a human to break through his divine power. "Does he have some tricks up his sleeve?" Sariel let out a cold sneer and kicked the King of Sarion Kingdom who was kneeling on all fours. "Fine. I'll step forward myself. Like those insects..." He arrogantly raised his chin while looking at the royalty and nobles who were panting with their tongues out like dogs. "I'll make you crawl at my feet for the rest of your life."