The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1422 "Keuhehe...." The seventh Horn of Destruction fell with a thud from Derus Robert's dried lips. But despite the horn's sound shaking heaven and earth, nothing happened. Meteors didn't fall like with the first horn, waves didn't surge like with the second horn, and poisonous flowers didn't bloom to exterminate humans like with the third horn. It was quiet. The world was silent as if the Horn of Destruction's sound that had shaken even the heavens was a lie. Since everyone remaining on Cameloon Plains held their breath and stared only at Derus Robert, it seemed even more as if silence had descended upon the entire world. "Haaa...." Raon exhaled heavily and turned his eyes. "What's happening?" He knew the story that when the seventh Horn of Destruction sounded, the Demonic Dragon that would destroy this world would resurrect. But since it was the human Derus Robert who blew the horn, not an Archangel, he couldn't predict what would happen. "Wh-what's going on?" "I don't know. Why is it quiet?" "Nothing's happening, let alone the Dragon of Destruction?" The martial artists of the Five Kings alliance also swallowed dry saliva in tension while scanning heaven and earth, but still no incident occurred. "...Did it fail?" Burren narrowed his eyes thinly while looking up at the still quiet sky. "Th-that horn is from the heavenly realm! Since the human Derus Robert blew it, isn't it useless?" Krein gulped down dry saliva, asking if only Archangels could blow the horn. "Right! That guy doesn't seem human, but he's still human in the end!" Martha stomped her feet as if agreeing with Krein's words. "......" Runaan said nothing. Unlike the others, she didn't seem to think only positively and gripped Snow Flower more tightly. "Th-then the Dragon of Destruction won't appear, right?" Dorian exhaled urgently as if finally feeling alive. "You can just look, can't you? Into that human's mind!" Krein patted Dorian's back, telling him to read Derus Robert's mind with his Mind's Eye. "Right?" "Read it now!" Burren and Martha also looked at Dorian, telling him to read Derus's thoughts with his Mind's Eye. "I-I can't read it...." Dorian shook his head heavily. "No, it's not just that I can't read it, there are so many thoughts that I h-have no idea what he's saying at all!" He trembled his lips as if just looking at Derus Robert was frightening. "What do you mean by that?" Martha frowned as if she couldn't understand. "D-Derus Robert is clearly one person, but there are tens of thousands of thoughts coming from his head. It's like tens of thousands of people are inside Derus Robert's head...." Dorian clutched his head, saying it was difficult for even him to explain properly. "T-tens of thousands of people?" Krein turned his gaze from Dorian to look at Derus Robert. "What the hell is that human's true identity...." He chewed his lips as if becoming increasingly frightened of Derus Robert. "B-but seeing that nothing is happening right now, it must have failed, right?" Krein smacked his lips briefly, saying that at least the worst situation didn't seem to have occurred. "That's right." "Hmm, since nothing has happened so far." Martha and Burren nodded as if agreeing with Krein's words. "Then we need to end the war quickly!" "Right! There's really not much left now!" "Let's gather our strength!" "Palace Master is also preparing to finish it!" It was when the Light Wind Palace Swordsmen seemed to regain hope and put strength into the hands holding their swords. "No...." Raon firmly shook his head without even looking back at the Light Wind Palace Swordsmen. "Something is happening." Until just a moment ago, he had been thinking the same as the Light Wind Palace Swordsmen. He had speculated that Derus Robert's last move had failed because he was human. But that wasn't the case. Since a moment ago, he could feel chilling goosebumps climbing up his spine as if his vertebrae had been pulled out. He couldn't express it precisely, but something unknown to him was definitely happening. -This king also feels it.... Wrath trembled his jaw while looking at Derus Robert. -A very ominous aura is emerging from somewhere! He nodded, saying that something bad had indeed happened. "Could it be...?" The Heavenly Demon also seemed to feel the same thing and swallowed dry saliva from within the red dragon helmet. He looked at Derus Robert with disbelieving eyes. 'Did the Dragon of Destruction really resurrect?' Raon furrowed his brows deeply. 'But why can't I feel or see its aura?' He would understand if the Dragon of Destruction had resurrected, but nothing was happening, yet he didn't know why his whole body was trembling and goosebumps were rising. Kugugugugugu. Was it because of the frustration of not knowing the situation? The wrath that wrapped around his body and soul felt like it was growing even stronger. Now his entire body seemed to be engulfed in cold wrath and freezing blue. "Derus Robert!" Raon glared at the smiling Derus Robert while grinding his molars. "What the hell did you do!" Since Derus Robert was the only one who could answer the incomprehensible current situation, he shouted at him. "Haaa...." Derus Robert exhaled white breath from his mouth as if smoking tobacco. "Do you want to know?" He nodded slightly as if understanding Raon's curiosity. "What the identity of the fear you're feeling is?" Derus Robert said that Raon was feeling fear about something and smiled slyly. "Stop talking nonsense and just answer!" Raon said he could kill him right now and raised the Wooden Ring Sword burning with the Authority of Wrath. "Good...." Derus Robert raised his blood-soaked hand without even pulling out Heavenly Drive stuck in his neck. "I'll show you what you want." He flicked his finger while letting out a cracked voice. Snap! As Derus Robert sent a signal, a massive image illuminating somewhere appeared in the darkened sky. Bzzzzzzt! The place shown in the image was unmistakable. It was House Zieghart. "Z-Zieghart?" "That's our house!" "Why Zieghart?" The Light Wind Palace Swordsmen blinked at the suddenly appearing image of Zieghart. However, it didn't take long for their curiosity to be resolved. The pure white fortress walls that had blocked all enemies cracked like dried cookies, the main building structures that had held a thousand years of history collapsed with violent tremors, and North Grave Mountain that had protected the house's back was sinking while spewing lava. Horrifyingly massive claws rose from the cracks in the earth created by lava. They were similar to dragon claws but far more gigantic than even the previous Dragon Lord's. No one would have thought such a monster existed in this world. Kugugugugugugugu! Collapsing. Zieghart's fortress walls. Collapsing. Zieghart's main building. Collapsing. Zieghart's mountain. Collapsing. Zieghart's name. Everything that Zieghart had built up over a thousand years was sinking into boiling lava. "Wh-what is that...." "Why Zieghart?" "I-it's a lie, right? It doesn't make sense!" "Don't believe it! It's definitely illusion magic! It's absolutely not true!" Not only Zieghart, but all of the Five Kings shook their heads vigorously as if unable to believe it. But the image wasn't over yet. From Zieghart's collapsing and melting land, a dark red dragon head rose with red breath. Even though it was a screen image, it couldn't fully contain the size as if heaven and earth were connected. That wasn't a dragon, but a calamity. A true calamity that could destroy this world. "Aah...!" "Ugh...." "G-good heavens...." The martial artists of the Five Kings alliance could no longer continue speaking. The only sounds coming from their pale lips were groans filled with despair. "N-no! It's not true!" Martha screamed and rushed at Derus Robert. "Derus Robert!" Burren also burst with fierce anger and struck down his sword at Derus Robert. "Aaaaaaah!" Runaan also gritted her teeth until blood flowed and thrust her sword. However, the three people's slashes couldn't penetrate the wall Derus Robert had created earlier and were blocked midway. "Aaaaaaaaaah!" "You son of a bitch!" "You demon-like bastard!" "What did you do!" Not just Burren, Martha, and Runaan. All of Zieghart disregarded their lives and charged with screams, but they couldn't break through the barrier he had created. "Keueueueuk!" "Haaa...." The image of collapsing Zieghart was reflected in the tears around Karoon's eyes, and Balder's breathing broke off intermittently as if it would stop. Kuuuuung. The Zieghart Swordsmen knelt with faces filled with despair as they watched their house sinking into lava. "Aaa...." Raon was no different from them. However, what reflected in his soul wasn't despair, but wrath. Wrath that he couldn't dare handle was devouring everything of his. 'Mother, father, older sister Sia, everyone in the annex building....' Those who had given him life. People more precious to him than his own life came to mind, making it impossible for him to breathe. -Hey, get a grip! Wrath screamed and grabbed Raon's shoulder, but it was useless. -If you collapse now too, there's absolutely no hope! Now he couldn't even properly hear the voice of his closest companion. Only unfiltered wrath that wanted to end everything filled his mind. "Heueueuek...." He was barely enduring the wrath, but didn't know when he'd break. It felt like he would lose himself if he moved even one finger. "You know about Zieghart's First Patriarch, don't you?" Derus Robert raised his body with a faint smile. "The hero who killed the Dragon of Destruction a thousand years ago and saved the world. But...." He waved his pure white finger with a body that had somehow perfectly recovered. "That's not the truth. He ultimately couldn't kill the Dragon of Destruction." Derus Robert smiled slyly, saying the First Patriarch's story had been spread incorrectly. "Zieghart's First Patriarch couldn't kill the Dragon of Destruction and sealed it instead. And he established his house to guard that seal. That's exactly...." He raised his hand and pointed to Zieghart sinking into lava. "Zieghart's true identity." Derus Robert chuckled, saying Zieghart was a house created to seal the Dragon of Destruction. "But you failed to inherit the First Patriarch's will and caused the Demonic Dragon to resurrect. Now all that's left for you is destruction." He shouted the word destruction and fired a sword strike surging with death toward Raon. Piaaaang! But Derus Robert's target wasn't Raon, but Glenn who was behind him. "Keoheok!" Glenn, who had tried to ambush and kill Derus Robert, collapsed vomiting black blood. He seemed to have lost consciousness and breathed in broken gasps as if about to stop at any moment, blood in his mouth. "Even in this situation, you're targeting me. What a persistent old man." Derus Robert shook his head while expressing admiration toward Glenn. "But with this, it's all over! Indeed, everything was in the palm of my hand!" He burst into maniacal laughter, saying Glenn would no longer be able to stand up. Kuung! Raon looked not at Derus Robert, but at Glenn who had collapsed vomiting blood. The precious times he had shared with Glenn unfolded like a kaleidoscope, dyeing his mind pure white. -Raon! Raon! You can't! If you go berserk now, everything will.... "Aah...." Wrath called out Raon's name for the first time in a very long while, but no sound reached his ears. -D-damn it! Wrath struggled not to be dragged into Raon's body, but the gravitational pull of his anger was too strong, and he too couldn't control his spirit body and was sucked into the body of the one he had called friend. Kuung! Kuung! Kuung! Thuk.... The heart of Raon, whose wrath was running wild, stopped, and a different new heartbeat began. Thung! Thung! Thung! Raon's red eyes flickered with blue light as his surroundings began to freeze pure white. Heaven and earth. Humans and Angels, and even the despair created by Derus Robert froze solid before the Silver Frost. [Aaaaaaaaaah!] Along with the soul's scream that Raon let out, the entire world was dyed in merciless blue light. Twenty hours after the Continental War began. Over Cameloon Plains where despair had taken root, the Devildom's strongest power, the Monarch of Wrath, descended.