The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1486 "What on earth…." Derus Robert bared his white teeth as he watched the meteors falling while burning through the darkness. "Just how far did you prepare?" He let out a hollow laugh in disbelief, as if he had never imagined that Raon would have prepared to return the calamities as well. "You know this too." Raon leisurely tilted his head down and looked at Derus Robert. "That I have a personality where I must return what I've received." He stepped slightly back from the meteors falling from the sky, saying he would return the calamities he had received in Cameloon exactly as they were. "Good…." Derus Robert gnashed his teeth and raised his sword, which blazed with death aura. "No matter what you have prepared, I will take it all." He drew a white smile and unleashed a sword strike toward the falling meteors. -Ha…. Wrath gaped his mouth open as he watched Derus Robert's sword slash collide with the meteors. -When on earth did you prepare something like this? He blinked blankly, saying he had known nothing of this. 'From when I was preparing this plan.' Raon smiled brightly and nodded. 'As I said before, I have to return more than what I received.' That was why the meteors falling now were greater in number and size than during the first horn that called for destruction. -Then don't tell me this too…. 'That's right.' Raon raised his finger and pointed to the sky. 'It's a calamity the magicians prepared.' He tilted his chin, asking if he hadn't seen the expressions on Larian's and Chamber's faces before coming here. -Preparing was fine, but…. It was the moment Wrath briefly licked his lips. Jjeojeojeojeojeok! The meteors that had been falling as if to shatter the earth began to be destroyed one after another, pierced through by a dark Aura in the shape of chains. "Hmph." As expected, it was Derus Robert. He let out a cold laugh amidst the collapsing meteors and looked at Raon. -Someone at that one's level could break the meteors without too much difficulty. Wrath furrowed his brow as if asking whether this was a meaningless action. 'It's not meaningless.' Raon maintained his smile and looked at those standing behind Derus. "M-Meteors!" "Is calamity coming to us as well?" "Why do things like this keep happening…?" "Ra-Raon Zieghart isn't human—could he be some kind of god?" "S-Something seems to have gone wrong…." Unlike the Revenants who followed Derus Robert and the Demonic Dragon of Destruction, the Angels, the Ghosts of Eden, and the remnants of the Five Demons were flustered by the continued ambushes followed by falling meteors and were trembling in their hands and feet with desperate expressions. 'Derus Robert might be fine, but….' Raon scanned those feeling increasingly anxious and twisted the corner of his mouth. 'Not them. Their comrades keep dying, but the enemy doesn't die, so despair will continue to accumulate.' More than two thousand of Derus Robert's forces had died, but they themselves had suffered at most only minor injuries, and those wounds had already healed. From the other side's perspective, every moment could only be desperate. "You destroyed them quite well. But there's still quite a lot left." Raon looked down at Derus Robert and blew the second horn. Kugugugugugugu! This time it was not the sky. With a massive tremor so powerful that the ground where Derus Robert and his forces stood seemed to sink, terrifying waves surged in from the east, west, and south. The second calamity. It was the fury of the sea that would submerge the entire world. "And…." Raon threw the second horn into the air and raised the third horn. "Next was poison, wasn't it?" As he said poison and blew the third horn, red plants with hundreds of stems surged up from beneath the earth where the waves crashed, cracking the ground as they rose. Peoeoeoeoeoong! The red plants spewed purple mist from the countless nodes of their innumerable stems. It was an extreme poison that would melt one's organs with just a small inhale. "Po-Poison!" "Get away from those plants!" "Don't breathe at all, and seal all the pores on your body!" "Qu-Quickly… Huk!" "W-Wait, I can't move back…." As soon as Derus Robert's forces saw the plants spewing poison, they tried to retreat, but they couldn't. Kugugugugugugu! Because the massive waves that had already reached right before them were crashing down over their heads. Kuwaaaaaaaa! The tsunami that had surged up as if to touch the sky crashed down in one breath and swallowed Derus Robert and his forces. Huuuuung! Most of Derus Robert's followers had the Martial Prowess to escape from waves of this level with ease, but as if it were not ordinary water, they were trapped within the waves and couldn't move at all. "How foolish." Derus Robert floated up into the air without a single drop of water on his robes. "If you spread poison and then pour water over it, doesn't that make it meaningless?" He scoffed, saying the order in which the calamities were unleashed was wrong. "No." Raon shook his head calmly. "That poison is different from what you all spread." The moment he said it was different, the color of the waves enveloping Derus Robert's forces turned purple, and black spots began to appear on the faces of those trapped within. "Aaah…." "I-I can't breathe…." "Kuheoheoheok!" "S-Save me…." Derus Robert's followers, poisoned by the extreme toxin and seemingly unable to breathe, clutched their throats and vomited black blood. "That's…." Derus Robert furrowed his eyes as he watched his subordinates dying and turning black. "Actually, that poison has little effect in the air. Even ordinary people would just suffer for a few days. However, the story changes when it comes into contact with water." Raon let out a cold laugh. "When that poison comes into contact with water, it creates an extreme toxin that even Masters cannot endure for more than a few minutes. Quite a few managed to escape, but…." He twisted the corner of his mouth as he looked at the enemies swept away by the waves and submerged in water. "Those ones will all die." Raon shrugged his shoulders, saying that most of those Derus Robert had brought along would die here. "Hmm…." Derus Robert hurriedly turned to look behind him. Unlike the Angels whose innate resistance was on a different level from humans, the Revenants resurrected from death, and the undead, the Ghosts of Eden, the monsters, and the remnants of the Five Demons were turning pale yellow in the face as if about to lose their breath at any moment. "The outcome of a battle isn't determined by the number of troops, but…." Raon counted the number of those submerged in water under his breath and licked his lips. "Damage of that level can't help but have an effect." He drew a deep smile as if mocking Derus Robert once again. "The damage is certainly significant." Derus Robert let out a short breath and nodded. "I didn't know you would call upon calamities as well." He openly admitted that he had not anticipated this situation. "It would be troublesome if you're already surprised?" Raon threw away the third horn and took out the fourth horn. "There's still quite a lot left." It was the moment he spread his fingers, saying just as Derus Robert had said, there were still four horns remaining. Hwaaaaaaa! From behind Derus Robert, a darkness even deeper than black night surged up. That darkness spread outward in concentric circles and instantly enveloped all of Derus Robert's forces. Wuuuuuuung! As the ominous darkness grew ever denser, the turbulence of the poison-laden waves diminished, and the faces of those who had been caught in the current and poisoned began to regain their color. "An antidote? No, this is…." Raon's eyes widened as he watched Derus Robert's forces who had been dying from the poison slowly return to their original state. 'It seems the darkness is consuming the poison.' The current process was not detoxification, but rather appeared as if the darkness was absorbing the poison embedded in people's bodies. It seemed more appropriate to call it absorption than detoxification. "This should be fine…." The one draped in ominous Aura like a robe raised a hand toward Derus Robert. "They were too precious to throw away…." He nodded slowly, saying he couldn't help it. "It wasn't bad." Derus Robert turned to look at the one wrapped in ominous Aura and smirked. "Mm, mm." He gave a brief, dry cough and looked at Raon again. "Did you say you could surprise me further?" Derus Robert suddenly shifted to polite speech and tilted his chin. "Why are you suddenly speaking..." Raon's chin trembled slightly as he looked at Derus Robert suddenly shifting to polite speech. "Didn't you say it before? That I only use honorifics when I'm at ease." Derus Robert recited Raon's past words verbatim and nodded. "Because, as those words say, I have gained composure." He smiled cheerfully as if he had composure even in this situation. "Mm!" Raon bit his tongue slightly while facing Derus Robert. Seeing his smile, he was reminded of his death in his Past Life and felt a chill run down his spine. "Come out!" Raon called out the special forces hiding in the dimensional gap and raised the fourth horn. "I would like to spend time with an old subordinate, but…." Derus Robert slowly raised his head. "Since I'm told preparations are complete, I think I should go." He let out a refreshing smile and stepped back one step. "Preparations?" Raon too couldn't understand what Derus Robert had said and furrowed his eyes. "What preparations…." "Begin." Derus Robert ignored Raon's words and raised his finger. "Yes." Kubara, Derus Robert's maid and trusted subordinate, calmly bowed and brought her two hands together. Wuuuung! As Kubara closed her eyes as if in prayer and muttered something, pitch-black light began to rise from the paths that Derus Robert and his forces had traveled up to now. "That's…." Raon swallowed dryly as he watched the dark red light that started from the south and extended to the central regions. 'That's not a simple light.' Aura. It seemed that Derus Robert and his forces had not merely been releasing their Aura, but had been concealing concentrated Aura beneath the earth as they moved. The Aura they had been consuming was so vast that he had not noticed they were hiding another power beneath. "Let's meet again. Not here, but outside." The moment Derus Robert smiled brightly and waved his hand, the dark red light that had extended from the south to here exploded, and the sky and earth twisted. Kuwaaaaaaaaang! It was a shock powerful enough to collapse the fake Continent itself, so black cracks sprouted in all directions, and the space itself twisted, making the entire world appear as if shattered like a kaleidoscope. "Krr…." Raon quickly regained his senses amidst his wavering vision and tried to use movement magic, but it didn't work. It seemed the shock transmitted to the fake Continent was too great, causing everything to go completely unresponsive. "Lady Chamber! Lady Larian! Evelyn! Where is Derus Robert heading right now!" Raon called for the Archmages. However, as if there was a problem with the connection as well, no immediate answer came. "Damn it!" As Raon had no choice but to try to move following Derus Robert's faint Aura, a crackling sound came along with someone's voice. [Derus Robert is moving quickly!] It was Evelyn. She seemed to have received his message first and responded quickly. "He's moving? Where to!" It was when Raon was holding his breath, asking for an immediate answer. [North! However, not the Holy Sword Alliance's Holy Ground….] After saying north, Evelyn answered in an unusually calm tone for her. [It's Zieghart.]