The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1399 Goooooooo! Archangel Gabriel was beautiful. With eight wings spread wide containing sacred light, surrounded by a golden halo that seemed made by melting the sun, wearing a brilliantly shining cross crown, her appearance was noble as if she didn't exist in this world. If Archangel Sariel was a beauty of devastating beauty with a rose-like gorgeous appearance, Archangel Gabriel reminded one of a pure and noble saintess like a white lotus that had bloomed beautifully. "Ugh..." Dorian trembled his lips as he looked at Gabriel's clear face that seemed unable to kill even a single bug. 'Th-that's not like an Archangel at all.' Gabriel had the noble and pure face of a saintess yet emanated terrible killing intent as she tried to kill him. If Gluttony hadn't blocked it, he would have died with his entire body exploding from the first divine power Gabriel shot out. 'I don't even want to face her, let alone fight.' Gabriel hated humans including himself. The killing intent blooming from that hatred made his skin tingle, and just making eye contact with her felt like his heart would sink. "Y-you saw it too, demon king." Dorian gulped down dry saliva as he looked at Gluttony. "That's a monster!" Gluttony had launched multiple attacks on Gabriel within the dimension of gluttony she had created, but nothing could pierce through the light she possessed. No matter how much of a demon king she was, it seemed she couldn't face Archangel Gabriel in the middle realm. "It's okay..." Gluttony shook her head calmly. "We can do it..." She nodded slowly, saying Dorian would be able to fight sufficiently. "I-I'm not okay!" Dorian cried out that he wasn't okay, dropping tears. "Even the demon king's attacks didn't work, so how am I supposed to fight!" He shook his head frantically, asking how he could face Gabriel when even Gluttony's attacks hadn't worked. "We can do it together..." Gluttony reached out her hand to Dorian as if she absolutely believed they could win. "Huuugh..." Dorian trembled his chin as he looked at Gluttony's hand, which was much smaller and more delicate than his own. "D-damn it!" He looked at Raon's golden flames swaying in the sky, then helplessly took Gluttony's hand. "...No." Gluttony blinked her red eyes as she looked at Dorian. "Give me bead ice cream. Chocolate flavor..." She let go of Dorian's hand, saying that wasn't what she meant. "Ah..." Dorian gaped as he looked at Gluttony whose stomach was making sounds. "Wh-why are you really giving me such trials!" He looked at Raon fighting Uriel in the sky again and shed chicken droppings-like tears. "H-here it is..." Dorian resented Raon and shed tears, but still put his hand into his pouch and took out the bead ice cream Gluttony had requested. "I-it's an essential item, so I have it." "Thank you..." Gluttony nodded and immediately put the bead ice cream she received from Dorian into her mouth. "To put such filthy things in your mouth even in this situation..." Gabriel curled up the corners of her mouth as she watched Gluttony swallow the bead ice cream in one bite. "Truly a sight befitting the Monarch of Gluttony." She was smiling, but it seemed like she was sneering, yet also seemed to be genuinely laughing pleasantly. "Because I'm the Monarch of Gluttony..." Gluttony tilted her chin as if asking why she was stating the obvious. "I'm being sarcastic, meaning you're a glutton." Gabriel lowered her beautifully curved eyebrows as if asking whether Gluttony didn't even understand sarcasm. "..." Gluttony paid no attention to Gabriel's mockery and focused on eating her ice cream. "Human." Gabriel turned her eyes burning with divine power toward Dorian, who was next to Gluttony. "Hieek!" Dorian trembled all over as if he got goosebumps just from Gabriel's gaze reaching him. "What a fearful child." She let out a gentle laugh as if she had grasped his psychological state just by looking into Dorian's eyes. "You're afraid. Those are the eyes of someone who doesn't know what's going on or why I'm here." Gabriel nodded gently as if she could feel Dorian's emotions. "I know everything. This battlefield is not a place that suits you." She gave a pure eye-smile as if there was a separate place that suited Dorian. "Run away." Gabriel waved her hand at Dorian. "I won't chase you." She lowered her hand, telling Dorian to run away since she would only kill Gluttony. "Uh..." Dorian gulped and turned his eyes toward Gluttony. "..." Gluttony said nothing as if it was fine to do whatever he wanted, and was just eating the bead ice cream she had received from him. 'Sh-should I run away?' Dorian panted as he looked around. 'Honestly, there's nothing I can do here!' Thanks to Raon, he had barely broken through the wall of Grandmaster, but he was absolutely not at a level that could help in the battle between Archangel Gabriel and Monarch of Gluttony Gluttony. Unless he reached Transcendence, at his current level he would only be a hindrance. 'She's not lying, is she?' Dorian opened his Mind's Eye and looked at Archangel Gabriel. She had tried to kill him before. 'No! The Archangel's words telling me to run away are sincere!' Gabriel maintained a peaceful mind as if she really wouldn't chase him even if he ran away. 'Right. Let's run away.' The more he looked at Gabriel, the more he felt he had no chance. It seemed like joining the Light Wind Palace to fight would make the overall battle situation better. "It seems you've finished making your decision." Gabriel let out a subtle smile as if she knew all his thoughts. Every time he looked at her, his chest felt ticklish and he didn't want to face her. Only the thought of wanting to run away filled his mind. "Yes. Go." Gabriel nodded, telling him to hurry and run away since he had made his decision. "Um, excuse me..." It was when Dorian was turning his head to say he would withdraw. "..." Gluttony reached out her hand to Dorian again. "Ah, I understand." Dorian took out two boxes of bead ice cream and handed them to Gluttony. "This is the last ice cream..." "No..." Gluttony shook her head as she looked at the box of bead ice cream in her hand. "Give me your hand..." She blinked her red eyes, saying this time she didn't want bead ice cream. "I'll eat this well for now..." Gluttony swallowed the bead ice cream in one bite, then reached out her hand to Dorian again. "Yes? Uh..." Dorian took Gluttony's hand with slightly trembling lips. Her hand was small like a child's, but warmer than an adult's. "That one..." Gluttony narrowed her eyes as she looked at Gabriel. "She's trying to send you away because you're in the way..." She nodded, saying Dorian's existence was bothering Gabriel. "The reason she targeted you first from the beginning is also for that reason..." Gluttony chewed the last remaining bead ice cream, saying that was also the reason Gabriel had directly targeted Dorian in her dimension. "Gabriel is an Archangel who conveys God's words... Her ability to read opponents' minds and dig into their weaknesses is the best in the heavenly realm..." Perhaps because she liked Dorian, she gave a rare lengthy explanation. "Ah..." As Dorian heard Gluttony's words, his mind that had been burning hot cooled down coldly as if cold water had been poured over him. 'What I should look at with Mind's Eye isn't Gabriel...' He opened his Mind's Eye to contemplate his own mind. 'It was me!' It was true that he was cowardly. But he had never abandoned his given role and run away. The reason he was now thinking of running away wasn't his own will, but because of the power of Gabriel's words. "I-I'll fight too!" Dorian steadied his mind that seemed like it would collapse and straightened his body that had been leaning backward. With the thought that Raon, who was fighting Archangel Uriel one-on-one in the sky, was watching this way, he raised his sword toward Gabriel. "Tsk." Gabriel clicked her tongue briefly. From her eyes that had only seemed benevolent and pure, killing intent so eerie it was chilling bloomed. "Despite giving you a chance, you made a stupid choice." Gabriel shook her head as if frustrated that he couldn't grasp the choice to live even though she had given it to him. "What I showed you was nothing at all." She said she hadn't even started fighting yet and stepped forward with her hands behind her back. [Kneel.] Gabriel's red lips opened, and words imbued with holiness flowed out from her mouth that was dark like an abyss. Though it was the same as human language, what was contained within was divine language that God conveyed to humans. Kuuuuung! As soon as Dorian heard Gabriel's words, he knelt on the spot and bowed his head. "Th-this is..." He trembled his chin as he looked at his knees and head that were directed toward the ground regardless of his own will. "I am one who conveys God's words. Lowly beings cannot defy my words." Gabriel nodded, saying she had come down to this land to punish humans with God's words. "Mmm..." Dorian felt that Gabriel really hadn't shown any of her abilities at all, and his eyes trembled. [Shatter.] As Gabriel uttered the divine word to shatter, Dorian's shoulder was destroyed and twisted. Peooooong! Gluttony also seemed unable to avoid Gabriel's divine words as a massive shock fell on the earth and her body shook as if it would be blown away. "Aaaaaahhh!" Dorian screamed as he looked at his right shoulder that was crushed like twisted laundry. He trembled all over as if he had already been terrified by Gabriel's fear before even starting a proper fight. "Ahh... Huh?" Dorian was panting from the pain blooming from his shoulder when he blinked his eyes. Just a moment ago he had felt pain from his crushed shoulder that made him want to die, but now he felt nothing. "Wh-what?" When Dorian sniffled and looked at his shoulder, the shoulder that had been squeezed like dried squid had returned to its original form, and Gluttony's hand was placed on top of it. "Gasp! H-how is this..." "I ate it..." Gluttony lowered the hand she had placed on Dorian's shoulder as if it was nothing. "A-ate it?" Dorian looked at Gluttony with eyes that showed no understanding at all. "I ate the result created by Gabriel's divine words..." Gluttony nodded, saying she had eaten Gabriel's divine words and reversed the result she had created to nothing. "Ha! To use a massive amount of Authority to save an insect..." Gabriel snorted as she looked at Gluttony. "How absurd. Today will be the last day for the Monarch of Gluttony as well." She smiled brightly, saying today seemed like it would be the day the Monarch of Gluttony disappears. "Uh..." Dorian blinked his eyes with an expression that showed he didn't understand Gluttony's words at all. However, he could tell that Gluttony had used a lot of power to save him. Apart from Gabriel's words, sweat was flowing from her forehead for the first time. 'Not just a monster...' Dorian chewed his lips as he looked at Gabriel. 'A real monster!' To create power that could kill a person and more with just one word, Archangel Gabriel was an existence he could hardly imagine. When he thought he could die from just one word from her, unbearable fear revived and swept up his spine. "Um, I'm grateful that you saved me, but..." Dorian bit his lip as he looked at Gluttony. "But can I really be of help? I can't even fight at all..." Fear that he might hinder Gluttony washed over him even more than his fear of Gabriel. It wasn't fighting that was scary, but being a hindrance was much more frightening. "It's okay..." Gluttony shook her head, saying it was okay just like at the beginning. "Even when your shoulder was twisted, you didn't let go of your sword..." She said she saw him not letting go of the sword from his hand even though his shoulder was crushed from receiving Gabriel's divine words, closing her eyes briefly then opening them. "Ah..." Dorian bit his lip as he looked at the sword he received as a gift from Raon and cherished more than anything. As Gluttony said, he hadn't let go of this sword even in the moment his shoulder was twisted and burst. It meant his will to fight remained. "If it's me and you..." Gluttony looked at Dorian and the pouch attached to his stomach. "We can win..." She nodded calmly as if she truly believed they could defeat Gabriel. Kuuuuuk! Dorian looked into Gluttony's calm eyes and gripped his sword so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh. "...I'll try."