The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1417 "In the end..." Raon ground his teeth hard enough to break them. "So it was you in the end." At first, he didn't know. He simply poured Divinity Born from Darkness with the sole thought of somehow healing the serious wound that had appeared on Glenn's lower abdomen. But as he continued healing, the black aura emanating from the wound felt strangely familiar. An aura that remained in his own soul as well. The death aura that only Derus Robert could use in this world was devouring Glenn's body and soul. Only after sensing the death aura did he realize. That bastard. The worst human he hated most and who was most harmful to this world had returned. "Derus Robert!" Raon roared, spitting out the resentment burning from his soul. "Don't show me such an affectionate expression." Derus Robert expressed Raon's twisted face as affectionate and drew a sinister smile. "Because I want to kill you right now." He trembled his fingertips as if barely holding back his killing intent toward Raon. "Derus Robert." The Heavenly Demon opened his blood-soaked lips while holding his severed arm's shoulder. "How can you be alive?" He also seemed unaware that Derus Robert was alive, widening his eyes inside his Demonic Dragon helmet. 'He's right...' Raon also glared at Derus Robert while listening to the Heavenly Demon's words. 'That bastard definitely didn't exist in this world.' He had mobilized all the intelligence of the Five Kings and the Black Market, and even went to the Thespian Emperor who could read heaven's flow to ask about Derus Robert's existence. In conclusion, that bastard had not existed on this Continent. He couldn't understand how he had returned to this land in such a perfectly fine state. "The answer is simple." Derus Robert calmly waved his hand toward the Heavenly Demon. "Because I didn't die." He drew a subtle smile, saying he hadn't died from the beginning. "Thanks to my cherished subordinate, I almost died, but rather that situation became a blessing in disguise." Derus Robert slightly turned his chin while looking at Raon's face twisted like an evil spirit. "A blessing in disguise?" Raon bit his lips while looking at Derus Robert. "Yes. While struggling desperately to overcome death where body and soul were separated, I discovered a new path." Derus Robert lowered his two eyes that shone like constellations, as if thinking of when he was cut by Raon's sword. "It's the path to unite soul and body as one." He nodded with his eyes closed, saying he survived thanks to uniting body and soul as one. "Body and soul are not originally one. Even if body and soul connect as one through reaching the extreme of Martial Will, they ultimately cannot become one. The unity of body, energy, and spirit also connects body and soul through energy." Derus Robert slowly lifted his eyelids, saying that soul and body cannot originally become one. "Do you know the word adhesion?" His blue eyes shone chillingly clear. "Adhesion is a word used when body tissues or organs abnormally stick together." "Don't tell me..." Raon realized what Derus Robert was trying to say and his lips trembled. "Yes. To survive death, I stuck together my split body and torn soul. So-called adhesion of body and soul!" Derus Robert raised his voice while spreading both arms as if proud of himself. "Stop talking nonsense!" Dark Night Sword God Darkan pointed his finger at Derus Robert. "Body and soul are completely different realms! How do you combine them!" He ground his teeth, demanding a proper reason instead of bullshit. "It's thanks to you. Dark Night Sword God Darkan." Derus Robert looked at Darkan with elegantly shining eyes. "What...?" Darkan furrowed his brow as if he couldn't understand. "Thanks to you teaching me Soul Sword..." Derus Robert loosened his neatly fastened martial robe. Above the wound split by Raon's sword strike, a cosmic-like black aura was undulating. "I was able to connect the wounds of body and soul." He curled up the corners of his mouth, saying he connected the wounds of body and soul with Soul Sword to prevent death. "What is that..." Raon swallowed dry saliva while looking at the darkness undulating from Derus Robert's wound. Just seeing it sent chilling goosebumps up his spine. -E-Even this king is seeing such a thing for the first time. Wrath's voice sank deeply. -How can such a bastard exist. He had seen many people over a long time, but this was his first time encountering an existence like Derus Robert, letting out a low groan. "Then why didn't you show yourself all this time?" Raon shook his head while asking Derus Robert another question. 'I need to buy time.' In fact, he wasn't curious about Derus Robert's circumstances at all. The reason he kept throwing questions now was to buy time for Glenn's wounds to recover and for the Heavenly Demon to revive his Fighting Spirit. "That won't do." Derus Robert grinned as if he knew everything. "I should have taught you not to use tricks that are obviously visible to your opponent's eyes." He lowered his eyebrows as if asking whether it had been so long that he'd forgotten everything. "Shut up and just answer the question!" Raon ground his teeth while shaking his head. Derus Robert's words were correct, but right now his mind wasn't working well enough to think of other things. "Fine. Since we have deep ties." Derus said he would give an answer while pointing to the sky with his index finger. "Don't tell me..." Raon bit his lips while saying the answer he didn't want to think about. "Yes. The heavenly realm." Derus Robert let out a subtle smile. "I went to the heavenly realm with the help of the Archangels. It would have been impossible before, but it was possible because my soul and body were in an adhered state." He said he went up to the heavenly realm thanks to the wound Raon left, and fastened his martial robe again. "No matter how much I went to the heavenly realm, I couldn't undo the adhesion of soul and body. The moment this is undone, death would come again." Derus Robert grinned while caressing his chest where the wound remained. "Moreover, the divine power of the heavenly realm is a force that conflicts with the death aura I possess. Just being there brought terrible pain." He shuddered as if the very thought was horrible. "However, I also thought it was rather an opportunity. So I began cultivation using the heavenly realm's mighty divine power." Derus nodded, saying he became stronger by cultivating in the heavenly realm that conflicted with him. "Thanks to enduring the heavenly realm's divine power with the sole will to survive like an insect, my body and soul could become even stronger." He clenched his fist, saying he had become incomparably stronger than when he was defeated by Raon. "Now I can look down upon even that great Glenn Zieghart and the Heavenly Demon from beneath my feet." Derus Robert let out a sneer as if now even Glenn and the Heavenly Demon couldn't defeat him. "Bullshit!" Raon screamed angrily. "If you hadn't ambushed him, grandfather wouldn't have been hurt!" He wanted to maintain his rationality somehow, but hearing Derus Robert's words made unbearable anger boil over. -Calm down! Wrath instead pressed down on his shoulder. -This isn't a situation you can overcome through anger right now! He waved both hands, saying this was the most dangerous situation of all the crises they had faced so far. 'I know. But...' Raon bit his lips while looking down at Glenn, whom he was supporting with both hands. 'I can't hold back.' Perhaps because he had exploded the Authority of Wrath while fighting Uriel, it was rather difficult to control his anger. "No, I could have won even fighting formally." Derus Robert grinned while lowering his hand. "I just used the convenient method. I should have taught you this too, right? That it's enough to kill them by any means necessary." He shrugged, saying whether you win by fighting formally or kill by ambush, isn't it the same result. "Derus Robert!" The Heavenly Demon also seemed filled with anger at Derus Robert's words and let out an enraged roar. "Do you really want to die!" Even though his Fighting Spirit hadn't recovered yet, he gritted his teeth as if ready to fight Derus Robert. "Since the peak of the Continent is looking at me like that, it's frightening." Derus Robert clicked his tongue with an expression that wasn't frightened in the slightest. "I'll kill you..." Darkan also raised his dark sword, saying he would kill Derus Robert. "I can never forgive you." Raon also floated the Wooden Ring Sword with Sword Control as if he would attack Derus Robert immediately. "If you can..." Derus Robert spread both hands without even drawing his sword. "By all means." He calmly nodded as if it was fine to attack anytime. Gooooooo! The Heavenly Demon, Darkan, and Raon were gathering their aura to launch a joint attack on Derus Robert. "Stop..." Glenn barely moved his parched lips while shaking his head. "Fighting now will result in certain defeat." He trembled his lips as if the three of them couldn't defeat Derus Robert even with a joint attack. "As expected, the Destructive King of the North understands well." Derus Robert applauded, saying he had no choice but to acknowledge Glenn at least. "That's why I targeted you first. If you were unharmed, there could be disruptions to my plan." He grinned, saying he cut Glenn first before the Heavenly Demon, inflicting serious wounds that made him unable to move. "Thanks for the compliment." Even though Glenn was feeling terrible pain because his wounds weren't healing, he calmly nodded. It was befitting the demeanor of the head of the great house of Zieghart. "Sky Sword Saint." He called Derus Robert by his former title of Sky Sword Saint while lowering his hand. "Hmm..." Upon hearing the title Sky Sword Saint, Derus Robert's smile disappeared for the first time. "G-Grandfather! You mustn't move!" Raon held back Glenn who was trying to move his body. "Your wounds are still..." "It's fine." Glenn smiled faintly while pushing Raon away. "Thanks to you, I can move now." He lifted Heavenly Tremor with his weakened hand as if he too could fight. "Destructive King of the North, Heavenly Demon, Dark Night Sword God, and Sword Sage." Derus Robert curled up his lips while scanning Glenn, the Heavenly Demon, Darkan, and Raon who were surrounding him in turn. "A joint attack by four people called the strongest on the Continent." He tensed his fingertips as if looking forward to it. "It's the honor of a lifetime." Contrary to his words about honor, Derus Robert wiggled his finger while holding a dark smile. "Don't look down on me!" The Heavenly Demon moved first. He soared above Derus and poured down the Fighting Spirit concentrated in his left hand like a meteor shower. "I'll kill you!" Darkan burned even greater willpower than when fighting Glenn and the Heavenly Demon while slashing up his magnificently shining dark sword. Uuuuuuung! Raon was about to unfold Sword Control with his upper dantian that ached as if it would shatter. "Raon..." Glenn called Raon while exhaling breath mixed with the scent of blood. "Right now, you must watch carefully." He drew a strained smile as if there was still something left while grasping Raon's hand. "Because you're next."