The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1482 Raon sent a signal behind him and flipped over the earth's surface. Without a moment's hesitation, with the force of one who would push back the darkness, he thrust the Heavenly Drive that flickered with red light. Fwoooooosh! The tip of the Heavenly Drive naturally aimed at Derus Robert. The blade, from which heat bloomed, extended at the speed of light as if it would pierce through the enemy commander's throat in a single strike. "Ha!" Derus Robert's pupils trembled faintly. It was not the crisis of the oncoming sword that was greater, but rather his bewilderment at the situation. The thoughts 'Where did he come from?', 'Why didn't I sense him?', 'Has he created another new magic?' were plainly visible in his gaze. Claaaaaang! True to his nature as a being who had reached the absolute peak, Derus Robert suppressed his flustered emotions and quickly drew his sword to block Raon's sword strike. "Slow, compared to the scheme you prepared." It was the moment Derus Robert successfully completed a perfect defense and twisted the corner of his lips. "You should already know, shouldn't you?" Raon, in turn, curled his lips upward. "My sword is not just one." With those words, a red lightning bolt fell from the dark sky. Shaaaaaaash! Derus Robert quickly twisted his torso, but the second sword had already sliced through his shoulder and passed. Piaaaaaak! Black blood surged over Derus Robert's smiling face and wet his cheek. "Raon Zieghart!" Derus Robert paid no attention to the wound on his shoulder and glared at Raon. "You again…." He ground his teeth as if he was fed up with Raon constantly interfering. "Not 'you.'" Raon calmly shook his head. "What?" "It's 'all of you.'" It was the moment he corrected Derus Robert's words and shrugged his shoulders. Kugugugugugugu! The sky and ground where Derus Robert and his followers stood flipped upside down. From beneath the overturned earth, the powerful warriors of the Continent that Raon had summoned burst forth, exploding with tremendous Aura waves. "It finally begins!" The first to move was Beast King Ogram. With both fists emanating fierce Aura, he smashed the Eden executive standing before him in half. "I like that big guy's physique! A Martial Artist should always be like that!" Blade Queen Siera stepped over the blood of the fallen toward Ogram and tore apart the neck of an Angel along with its wings. "Stay calm. This is a long battle." Warlord Yuber cut down the Angels that had been targeting Siera from behind and let out a sigh. "This darkness is just perfect for burying trash." Rector swung his sword, colder than his voice, and cut down the Revenants whose eyes flashed with dark crimson light. "I love how straightforward these teammates are!" Alice, though they hadn't coordinated at all, remarked that it felt like a perfect team had formed, and unleashed a slashing strike that cleaved through space. Claaaang! The sword of space sliced through the undead that Derus Robert had awakened from death without resistance, then bounced back as if hitting a wall. Chiiiiik! The one who blocked the Spatial Sword was a man whose pupils were dyed black. As if a monster who had risen to the upper echelons even among Transcendents, he appeared unharmed even after blocking Alice's sword strike. "Ah…." The man with black pupils started to advance toward Alice but abruptly stopped in his tracks. His lips trembled slightly, and then his head fell off. Sssss. From behind the man who had suddenly been decapitated and killed, Killing King Roenn walked out. "Heheheh." Roenn nodded with a hollow laugh as if to say he had killed a strong enemy thanks to Alice, then disappeared back into the darkness. "Everything is for Zieghart." Karoon Zieghart, with flawless swordsmanship that left not even a sliver of an opening, reduced everyone standing beside him to bloody shreds. "We were always on the receiving end of ambushes, but pulling one off ourselves feels so much easier, doesn't it?" Queen of Swords Brigitte swept through the battlefield like a swallow, cutting down everyone who came within reach of her sword. "They say I'm devious, but…." Thespian Emperor Ariel killed dozens of Ghosts of Eden with a flick of her fingertips and turned her gaze away. "Not as much as that person." She let out a hollow laugh as she looked at Raon facing off against Derus Robert. "So he formed a surprise assault force from the Five Kings' Transcendents." Derus Robert narrowed his eyes as he watched the Transcendents massacring his forces. "Clever thinking, indeed." He flashed cold eyes as if he sensed that everything had been Raon's plan. "I thought you'd hate it." Raon twisted the corner of his lips upward, saying it was a plan he had prepared just for Derus Robert. "Indeed. I hate you so much I want to spill your blood across the entire world." Derus Robert's pupils began to blaze with black death. "Good thing you like the gift." Raon snorted and lifted his chin. "But they are not all of the gift." It was the moment he gave a slight nod. Fwoooong! The sky and earth twisted once more as a fierce wind blew in. "Carve the terror of a raging wind into the enemies!" "We don't have to wait anymore, right?" "Let's go…." Burren, Martha, and Runaan charged toward the enemies who couldn't come to their senses, and the swordsmen of Light Wind Palace followed behind the three with cold eyes. "I am the one and only Krein!" "M-move aside!" Krein shouted his own name and slashed the enemy's throat, while Dorian, despite his shaking hands, cut off the enemy's breath with a sword strike sharper than anything else. "It's because of you lot that we suffered so much!" "If we don't want Focus training, we have to cut down every one of these bastards here!" "Then we just need to kill them all!" "Sweep them away!" The swordsmen of Light Wind Palace also roared and pushed hard as if they would massacre the enemies. Yet unlike the rage and hatred they spewed with their mouths, their gazes and movements were coolly composed. "Those guys followed along too." Raon gestured with his shoulder toward the swordsmen who were bringing a raging storm to the battlefield. "Since you gave me a gift, I should take one myself." As Raon extended his left hand, the Wooden Ring Sword that had been floating in the sky flew to him and was caught in his hand. "I will take your head." Raon pushed aside Derus Robert's sword with the Heavenly Drive and unleashed Frost Snap with the Wooden Ring Sword in his left hand. Fwhaaaaaaak! Frost Snap had originally been a sword technique created from the essence of ultimate speed, but with the Aura of Crimson Peak dwelling within it, it now extended as dozens of streaks of light. However, the blade that would mercilessly split even light was blocked by dense darkness and could advance no further. Sssssss! Derus Robert spread the death aura dwelling in his sword wide, blocking not only the Heavenly Drive but the Wooden Ring Sword as well. Fwoooong! Raon twisted the Wooden Ring Sword as if he had anticipated this. The Crimson Peak energy dwelling in the Wooden Ring Sword created a gravitational pull that absorbed the death aura, creating an opening in Derus Robert. Pshaaaaang! Raon did not miss that opening and thrust the Heavenly Drive in during that split second. Peoooooook! The blade of the Heavenly Drive, imbued with Crimson Peak energy, pierced through Derus Robert's abdomen and spewed forth fierce flames like a raging fire. "Krgh…!" Even Derus Robert could not endure the heat of Crimson Peak, and a groan escaped him as he failed to suppress the pain. "It is you who is being devious!" With his pupils dyed red, he swung his sword, from which an even denser death burned. Fwooong! Raon dodged Derus Robert's sword strike by a paper-thin margin and stepped back. "This has actually worked out well." Derus Robert erased the wounds on his shoulder and abdomen with death and curled his lips upward. "I will end this war right here." He raised his sword as if to say that if he killed everyone here, there would be no need to wage war at all. Fwoooong! As Derus Robert raised his death-burning sword, the darkened sky parted and a dark crimson sun surged upward. Gooooooo! No, that was not a sun. A sight he was seeing for the second time already. The pupil of the Demonic Dragon of Destruction. The creature pushed back the darkness and revealed its magnificent form. Goooooooo! The Demonic Dragon had, as if prepared in advance, concentrated dark crimson flames around its enormous mouth. "You have fallen into the trap of your own making." Following Derus Robert's sword, the breath of destruction poured down from above the sky. The dark crimson flames spread while radiating terrifying heat as if they would melt everyone on the ground without exception. "Die!" Derus Robert curled his lips upward in return. He had clearly ordered the Demonic Dragon to prepare a breath in advance, confident that Raon would come. "Gasp!" "Th-the Demonic Dragon's breath…." "I-I already can't breathe…." A dark crimson shadow fell over the faces of the Five Kings' warriors. However, there was no fear in their expressions. "As expected, nothing ordinary. I didn't anticipate he would prepare the breath in advance." Raon exhaled a sigh as he looked at the sky where the darkness had been erased by the dark crimson flames. "I cannot keep being on the receiving end from you." Derus Robert let out a sneer. "Your subordinates will die too, won't they?" Raon pointed at Derus Robert's subordinates who were beneath the breath of destruction. "They are nothing but bodies to fill the count anyway. And…." Derus Robert clicked his tongue briefly. "If I kill all of you, the war becomes meaningless anyway." He exhaled a cold breath as if to say he intended to end the war itself right here. "You might be able to escape, but the others will absolutely not survive." Derus Robert wore a smile filled with conviction, as if certain that everyone present would melt before the flames of destruction. "You said you would show me hell? The one going to that hell is you." "Are you certain about that?" Raon smiled back at Derus Robert's grin. "What…?" Derus Robert narrowed his eyes looking at Raon. He was taken aback by Raon's reaction, so different from what he had expected, and his jaw trembled. "You said everyone dies except me. Are you certain?" It was the moment Raon nonchalantly nodded his chin. Fwoooooong! Blue Magic Circles rose on the bodies of Raon and the strike teams that had ambushed Derus Robert's forces. "Is it already over?" "The answer is obviously to avoid that breath." "We killed plenty of enemies too." "And we gained quite a bit of information." "Withdrawing here is the right call." The strike teams composed of Transcendents and Light Wind Palace members showed not even a hint of fear despite the flames of destruction descending. "What?" Derus Robert also finally sensed something was off and rapidly shifted his gaze. "Then…." Raon placed his hand on the blue Magic Circle that had risen over his body and gave Derus Robert a parting nod. "See you later." With those words as the last, the Five Kings' strike teams that had appeared alongside Raon turned to blue light and vanished. "What the—!" The moment Derus Robert's jaw dropped in shock at the impossible sight, the breath of destruction fell upon them. Kuwaaaaaaaang! The flames that fell while scattering terrifying heat melted his own allies without leaving a single speck of dust, instead of the enemies originally targeted. "What is this…." Derus Robert swallowed dryly as he looked at the spot where Raon and the Five Kings' strike teams had stood, having disappeared while ignoring the destruction and death. 'Raon Zieghart might be understandable, but how could all of them….' Because he had seen Raon Zieghart disappear while pushing back the Authority of Destruction and death aura, he had thought that one could escape. But he had not anticipated that all of them would vanish simultaneously, so shock beyond mere bewilderment crashed over him. "H-how did this happen?" "They were right beside us — how could they all disappear!" "Just what kind of magic did they use!" Derus Robert's forces also appeared to be shocked by the impossible movement magic, clutching their heads as their eyes trembled. "What on earth did they do…." Derus Robert gripped his death-burning sword so tightly it seemed it might shatter, and ground his teeth. "Raon Zieghart!" * * * "Nice sound." Raon sank his back deep into a chair that looked comfortable just to look at, watching Derus Robert through the blue screen. "Tastes great too." He popped bead ice cream into his mouth and nodded with satisfaction. "I'm so happy! I've never fought like this before!" "I was scared when the breath came down, but our Magicians never disappoint!" "Right. The timing of that perfect magic was perfect!" "I only want to fight wars like this." "Exactly! This is totally a cheat mode!" It wasn't just Raon. Every member of the strike team that had ambushed Derus Robert was resting comfortably and eating snacks. -This King also finds it delightful! Wrath cackled with laughter, saying it was refreshing to see Derus Robert furious, and that the bead ice cream was wonderful. "Don't get too relaxed." Raon ate the last bead ice cream and sat up straight in his chair. "We need to go in for another ambush in one hour." He placed his hand on the Heavenly Drive, saying they would strike Derus Robert again after one hour of rest. "One hour?" "Understood!" "Isn't that too long? We can go right now!" The swordsmen, feeling that they were safe, raised their hands as if they wanted to fight immediately. "My body is all fired up right now too — I want to fight immediately." "Same here! It feels like drinking flat beer!" Beast King Ogram and Blade Queen Siera also nodded their chins as if they wanted to go right away. "No. On the contrary, giving them time to think can put greater pressure on the enemy." Raon said one hour from now was appropriate and lowered his hand. "Well, you have experience with that kind of psychological warfare more than anyone." Krein even applauded, saying that no one could match Raon when it came to this kind of psychological warfare. "True. He was doing it even before we became Light Wind Palace…." Dorian shook his head repeatedly as if just thinking about it was exhausting. "I said I would show you hell." Raon watched the shaken Derus Robert and drew a sharp, cold smile. "It hasn't even started yet, so stretch your neck out and wait."