The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1435 The Zieghart swordsmen's steps were quick. They moved their feet ceaselessly as if war was about to break out again, running toward their house. It was natural that they were tired, and many swordsmen had suffered severe injuries, but no one uttered a single word of weakness. Supporting each other, they ran day and night without a single dropout, and everyone arrived at the house. And they lost their words. The proud white walls and gates that protected House Zieghart were nowhere to be seen. The gates were the beginning, the end, and the pride of the house. That pride, which had withstood even the breath of Ancient Dragons, no longer existed. All that remained was blackened ash. The Zieghart swordsmen raised their trembling heads. They looked behind the walls with a small hope and despaired once more. Whoooosh! The buildings of Zieghart that existed behind the walls had also evaporated. Not only the main building that had soared high into the sky, but also the bustling districts where countless people traveled, and even the vassal families that were far from the main building had disappeared without a trace, and North Grave Mountain that had supported Zieghart's back no longer existed. "Ahhh!" "I-it was real..." "Our house! Zieghart!" "Even North Grave Mountain has disappeared..." "No... This can't be!" "Is this reality..." The swordsmen of House Zieghart who had run here with hope fell to their knees in despair. Exhausted to the limit and even injured, seeing the thing they least wanted to see become reality, their bodies and minds began to collapse. "Damn it!" Martha screamed and struck the ruins of the wall with her fist. Black burned ash smeared onto the back of her hand. "Derus Robert..." Burren seemed to have lost his words, biting his lips until they might burst and trembling at his fingertips. If Derus Robert were in front of him right now, killing intent bloomed as if he would charge even if it meant death. "Mom... Dad..." Runaan looked toward the direction where the Sullion family was and held her sword in her arms. Though she appeared to have shallow emotions on the surface, she dropped the tears she had been holding back because her love for family was deeper than anyone's. "Haah..." Evelyn let out a deep sigh as if recalling the past from 500 years ago while looking at Zieghart that had all turned to ash. She too seemed to have nothing to say this time, closing her mouth and clasping her trembling hands together. "Zieghart has been completely erased. Completely disappeared!" Krein groaned low like a scream and knelt in the ash. He buried even his head and let out a cry. "..." Karoon was someone who loved Zieghart more than anyone else here, but he was rather calm. However, that wasn't because he wasn't angry, but because he was forcibly suppressing his rage. His violently shaking eyes proved that. "Aaaaaahhhhh!" Unlike Karoon, Balder revealed his anger directly and stomped the ground with his foot filled with aura. The debris of the walls that had barely maintained their shape crumbled into ash from the vibrations he created. "I didn't like this damn house that much, but..." Alice swept up her hair that was fluttering in the wind and let out a low breath. "I never thought it would really be ruined..." She too seemed to find it hard to endure the current situation and squeezed her eyes shut. "Young Master!" Dorian shed tears mixed with ash as he approached Raon. "You said people would be alive. This is..." He didn't say the words that followed, but everyone could understand their meaning. Annihilation. Everyone thought of the annihilation of the people who had remained in Zieghart. "Please say something!" Dorian cried out for him to say anything and grabbed Raon's feet. "Please..." He asked Raon to give him hope and scratched the ground with trembling hands. "..." Raon looked past the wailing Dorian toward the Zieghart swordsmen. They were still looking at him with a thread-like hope. -They're looking at you like that! Wrath bit his lips as if finding it hard to watch the swordsmen's gazes. -Say something! The guy hit his back, telling him that as the head of house, he shouldn't keep his mouth shut and should speak. "..." Raon didn't react particularly and moved his steps to climb onto the ruins of the walls. He lowered his gaze and slowly swept over the walls that had turned to ash. "There aren't any." Raon looked not only at the walls, but also at the main road leading to the main building behind them and the buildings around the outer castle in turn, and nodded. "Head of House...?" "What do you mean there aren't any?" Burren and Martha looked at Raon and tilted their chins sideways. Both of them had expressions showing they couldn't understand what Raon was saying at all. "There are no corpses." Raon picked up with his fingers the ash that had been the walls. "The family's walls had many martial artists from the outer castle positioned there. But nowhere are their corpses to be found." He said there were only the ruins of the walls and things that had turned to ash, but no human corpses, and scattered the ash he held in his fingers. "If it was hot enough to turn the walls to ash, human corpses would have burned up completely and more!" Krein shook his head saying of course no corpses would remain. "That's right. If it was enough to not leave the walls remaining, human bones and skin wouldn't leave any traces at all." Martha frowned as if agreeing with Krein's words. "That might be so. However, not a single person died here." Raon brushed off his ash-covered fingers and stood up. "<Death> isn't reacting." He possessed Derus Robert's &lt;Death Aura&gt;. Since nothing was being caught by that sense which could feel death itself, no one had died in this place. "And..." Raon stepped onto the blackened main road past the gates. "I don't sense 'death' from this side either." He shook his head, saying he couldn't sense death aura even from inside Zieghart. "I-is that really true?" Dorian swallowed dry saliva and crawled over on his knees. "Let's go and see for now." Raon said let's enter Zieghart and walked first on the road that had turned to ash. All the buildings and facilities visible while walking toward the main building had either collapsed or melted from fire. The Demonic Dragon of Destruction seemed to have the power to destroy Zieghart, the strongest among the Five Kings, just by reviving. "In this situation, could other people really be alive...?" Krein chewed his lips anxiously as if feeling the hope he barely held was disappearing. "We'll know when we go." Raon moved toward the main building while saving his words. He could speak here, but he also wanted to reveal the facts after knowing a bit more for certain. Whoooosh! Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked at the main building that had sunk into blackness. 'Everything really has disappeared.' The Zieghart main building, which had been larger than a royal castle, had all turned to black ash and collapsed, and in its center was a massive hole whose end could not be seen. It seemed the Demonic Dragon had been sealed directly beneath the main building. However, even from this hole that brought despair just by looking at it and the entire main building, death was not felt. "There's no death here either." Raon calmly shook his head. "Then..." "Of course, it's not that there's no death at all." He let out a low breath with his eyes lowered. "I can sense faint death from a distant place. But even that isn't very significant." He could sense the aura of those who died in a place far from here, but it was definitely not the extent of mass slaughter. It was clear that only a few had died. "Then..." "Everyone is alive, right?" "Please tell us that's right!" "You prepared something, right?" The Zieghart swordsmen knelt before Raon, pleading for him to tell them that their families were alive. "That is..." It was when Raon was about to open his lips to give an answer. Paaaaang! The ground of the main building that had turned to ash stirred, and a red flash burst out. Claaaaang! Raon drew Heavenly Drive without the slightest panic and deflected the red sword strike that came faster than sound. "Ha!" A masked person covered in ash all over their body let out an exclamation and stepped back. "As expected, you're amazing!" A clear female voice. She laughed and lowered her sword. "I could sense your presence." Raon nodded calmly as if he had anticipated the surprise attack. "You're no fun at all." The woman smiled mischievously and removed her mask. A gorgeous appearance and refreshing smile. It was Blade Queen Siera. "Didn't I tell you it wouldn't work anyway?" From behind the Blade Queen, a tall man with a cold impression walked out. It was Warlord Yuber. "Blade Queen! Warlord!" Krein's jaw trembled at the sudden appearance of the Blade Queen and Warlord. "I thought you weren't visible on the battlefield, but you were here?" Burren also widened his eyes as if he couldn't have imagined the two would be in Zieghart. "I wanted to go too. However..." Blade Queen Siera shouldered her sword and pointed at Raon. "Our thorough master asked us. To stay because something might happen to Zieghart." She smiled mischievously, saying she had remained in Zieghart because of Raon. "Honestly, I thought it would be boring and was a bit disappointed in our master..." Siera scratched her ash-covered hair and smiled, showing her teeth. "I never thought I'd get a chance to fight such a monster directly!" She raised her fist as if she had fought the Demonic Dragon of Destruction, albeit briefly. "That wasn't a fight." Warlord Yuber sighed and shook his head. "It was just buying time." He frowned, saying no one could fight the Demonic Dragon of Destruction. "I can put on a bit of a show. You're always being a wet blanket." Siera elbowed Yuber in the side. "Lord Yuber. Lady Siera." Raon calmly regulated his breathing and called to Yuber and Siera. "Please give me your report." He sensed the outcome, but it seemed his mind would only be at ease after hearing it directly from those two. "Warlord Yuber." Yuber approached Raon and knelt down. "Blade Queen Siera." Siera also went beside Yuber and bowed her head to Raon. "Following our master's orders. We have protected all the people of Zieghart." The two said they had saved the people of Zieghart from the Demonic Dragon's destruction according to Raon's orders, and drew deep smiles. "Then..." Martha couldn't hold back and stepped forward. "Perhaps..." Runaan also bit her lips with tears glistening. "Yes." Siera nodded refreshingly toward Martha and Runaan, whom she regarded like disciples. "Everyone in Zieghart, including your mothers, is alive."