The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1507 One minute before the Bear Fire Demon died at the hands of, the Six-Headed Scourge. "Are you really sure?" Archmage Chamber of Eternal Flame descended to the Bear Fire Demon's right, her brow furrowing slightly. "You can still choose a different path, even now." Despite having spent much of her strength fighting the Black Tower Master, she lifted a piece of candy with a hand still charged with mana, as if she had power to spare. "Sister's right." Evelyn stood across from Chamber and nodded. "You don't necessarily have to sacrifice yourself." She waved a hand, faintly trembling from exhaustion, as if urging him to reconsider. "…I feel the same way." Mage Tower Master Larian approached from behind the Bear Fire Demon and let out a heavy sigh. "You have someone to protect now, don't you?" She looked at Natsu, the Bear Fire Demon's son standing right beside him, and lowered her brows. "Because there's a child I have to protect…." The Bear Fire Demon clenched his trembling hand into a fist. "That's why I made this choice." He bit his lip until it bled, as if to show he wouldn't change his decision. "That thing is a monster." The Bear Fire Demon gritted his teeth, looking at the Six-Headed Scourge laughing as it trampled over the blood of hundreds. "Its physical power alone is enough to tear a Dragon apart, and it can wield flame, cold energy, metal, poison, and even darkness. Right now, it's merely toying with us." He let out a heavy breath, saying the Six-Headed Scourge was only testing its powers one by one, like a child who'd just received a new toy. "I know the three of you are powerful, but even combining your strength won't be enough to stop that monster." The Bear Fire Demon shook his head firmly, saying that no one here but Raon could stop the Six-Headed Scourge. "And things over there are dangerous too." He tilted his chin toward the Blade Queen and the Warlord, who were barely holding Michael back. "Right now, this is the only way." He clasped his hands together, saying that only the method he had prepared could stop the Six-Headed Scourge, who wielded the power of the worst of monsters, Hydra. "And even after regaining my original memories, I committed countless sins." The Bear Fire Demon bit his lip, admitting that to save his sons Natsu and Naru, he had followed Eden, killing and using the innocent. "I'm a bastard who deserves to die. I saved my son, but honestly, I don't even have the right to hold him." He turned to look at Natsu and drew a sorrowful smile. "I ask this of you." The Bear Fire Demon smiled as if asking them to trust him, looking at Chamber, Larian, and Evelyn. "Tch, I really don't like this method." Chamber clicked her tongue, the candy still in her mouth, clearly displeased. "But since Raon told us to leave it to you, there's no helping it." As if accepting it, she chewed her candy and sent Mana to the Bear Fire Demon. "I trust you too, since Raon trusts you." Evelyn said it wasn't the Bear Fire Demon she trusted but Raon, and passed her Mana to him. "If you're going to do it, do it in style." She nodded, telling him to do well, and stepped back. "I don't believe in that Magic." Larian said something befitting a Mage Tower Master, closing her eyes and opening them again. "But I do want to believe in you." She handed her mana to the Bear Fire Demon and gave a solemn nod. "Getting a little bored, aren't we?" The Six-Headed Scourge yawned, its brow furrowing. "My patience for this body's father ends here." It began walking again, resuming the steps it had paused. Kuuung! It merely moved lightly, yet intense shockwaves spread through the earth and air, as if the six-headed monster Hydra itself were moving. "Then, please go." As the Six-Headed Scourge began to move, the Bear Fire Demon nodded to Chamber, Larian, and Evelyn, as if to say it was enough now. "I'm counting on you." "Don't worry about the child." "Leave what's behind you to us." Chamber, Evelyn, and Larian gazed for a moment into the Bear Fire Demon's steadfast eyes, then, leaving their final farewell, stepped back with Natsu. "The son who stands on two feet, the crimson crow, the blue flame, the anguished lion…." The Bear Fire Demon glared at the Six-Headed Scourge as it drew near, slow but certain, and chanted a spell in a chilling rhythm. "I don't know what you've prepared, but…." The Six-Headed Scourge stood before the Bear Fire Demon, curling its lips upward. "Before this power, everything else is meaningless." It reached out its hand, showing confidence in its own Martial Prowess, as if it didn't matter what the Bear Fire Demon had prepared. "…A father who sold his soul." The moment the Bear Fire Demon finished chanting his spell with a clear smile, he could not withstand the shockwave surging from the Six-Headed Scourge's hand and burst apart into blood on the spot. Pfshhk. The faint sound of the Bearwolf Shaman's mask falling onto the pool of blood the Bear Fire Demon had turned into echoed distantly across the battlefield. "What?" The Six-Headed Scourge tilted its head, gripping its helm as if in disbelief. "I waited a whole minute, and this is all?" It burst out laughing, saying it had sensed the presence of Magic, but that it was so feeble it had simply burst apart. "Absurd." The Six-Headed Scourge clicked its tongue at the waste of time and stomped on the Bearwolf Shaman's mask floating in the pool of blood, shattering it. Kyaaaang! It was just as it, having confirmed the Bear Fire Demon's mask was shattered to pieces, tried to move back toward the battlefield. Screeech! The Six-Headed Scourge's leg, trying to step out, would not pull free from the pool of blood. "Hm…?" The Six-Headed Scourge looked back, its eyes narrowing. "What. Is this…." The pool of blood, soaked with the Bear Fire Demon's mask, had turned as sticky as a swamp, gripping its leg. "Even in death, you're stalling for time!" The Six-Headed Scourge, brow furrowed, kicked its leg out with even greater force. Kuwaaaang! A tremendous force exploded, enough to shatter the earth, but its leg still could not escape the Bear Fire Demon's pool of blood. "Ha?" The Six-Headed Scourge let out a hollow laugh, as if at a loss. "So this isn't ordinary Magic? Fine." It twisted its lips and gathered enough power to make the air tremble, thrusting its leg forward. Kugugugugugugu! As the Six-Headed Scourge unleashed its power, the earth cracked apart like a spider's web and collapsed, and even the Martial Artists far away were sent flying, coughing blood, like leaves scattered in an autumn wind. Scrreeech! Even as a shockwave burst that split the sky and overturned the earth, the Bear Fire Demon's pool of blood would not release the Six-Headed Scourge's leg. No, it wasn't just refusing to let go—it had climbed up the leg and, before it knew it, had clamped onto the Six-Headed Scourge's waist. "What is this?!" The Six-Headed Scourge stamped its foot again and again, its voice thick with irritation. Kung! Kung! Kung! The ground's surface overturned and shocks strong enough to shake the entire battlefield continued, yet the Bear Fire Demon's pool of blood neither fell away nor receded. Instead, its level kept rising, and before long it had reached up to its chest. "Damn it all!" As the Six-Headed Scourge screamed and stamped its foot, blazing red flames began to burn around it. Just as the Bear Fire Demon had said, having inherited Hydra's power, it seemed the Six-Headed Scourge could wield even fire. Scrreeech! As the Six-Headed Scourge's flames surged upward, the space around it began to blaze and boil as if it had become a Lava Zone. Solid stone, the swords dropped by dying Swordsmen, and even the armor of Knights could not withstand the heat and melted away. But even within the Six-Headed Scourge's hellish flames, the Bear Fire Demon's blood never disappeared. Instead, it clung on even faster, rising past its neck. "Kraaaaaargh!" The Six-Headed Scourge let out a roar and unleashed Cold Energy and poison as well, but the Bear Fire Demon's blood never fell away, seeping completely into its entire body before burrowing even into its helm. At that moment, a small reverberation sounded from within the blood. "From now on, I'll be taking your power." It was the Bear Fire Demon's voice. It was the moment he declared he would take the Six-Headed Scourge's power. Kwaaaaaaaaaa! The Bear Fire Demon's blood, which had covered the Six-Headed Scourge's entire body, transformed into the shape of iron chains and began to tighten around its arms, legs, torso, and neck. "A thing like this!" The Six-Headed Scourge gritted its teeth and unleashed its full Aura in an explosion, as if trying to shatter the Bear Fire Demon's Curse itself through sheer Martial Prowess. Kuwaaaaaaaang! The sky roared, the earth trembled, and a terrifying storm of Aura surged upward. But the shockwave was no greater than the one from when the Six-Headed Scourge had first appeared and taken its first step. No one was sent flying, no one coughed blood, and no one fled in terror. "Ha…?" The Six-Headed Scourge seemed to sense it too, its jaw trembling. "W-what is this. Why is my power…." It stared at its own hand, eyes narrowing as if startled by its markedly diminished Martial Prowess. "Why, you ask." At that moment, the Bear Fire Demon's voice sounded again. "Because, as I said, I've taken your power." He let out a mocking laugh, as if to ask whether it hadn't been listening. "Shut up!" The Six-Headed Scourge swept its hand, unleashing not only shockwaves but flame, Cold Energy, and poisonous miasma, but no one was affected by the aftermath. "T-this doesn't make sense!" The Six-Headed Scourge ground its teeth as it grabbed at the chains of blood clinging to its flesh. "How can something as shabby as this Magic possibly reach into my domain?!" It stamped its foot, calling it a Magic that defied all reason. "Just as you said." The Bear Fire Demon chuckled. "I'm a shabby Shaman, and you're a monster who has reached the absolute peak. But…." He continued, his words carrying a mocking laugh. "That body belongs to my son. The Magic I used is the Bond of Father and Son—a Magic carrying the meaning of a father's love for his son, and a son's reverence for his father." The Bear Fire Demon steadied his breath, explaining that he had created this Magic using his son Naru's body to block the Six-Headed Scourge's power. "Since I cast it with even the Archmages' Mana poured in, it was bound to work, no matter how vile a monster you are." His tone was calm, as though he had been preparing this plan from the very start. "Ah…." The Six-Headed Scourge, only now realizing why its power had been blocked, began to tremble in its eyes. "The price for the Bond of Father and Son is the father's death, but it doesn't matter. I'd rather die together than leave my son's body to a bastard like you!" The Bear Fire Demon cried out that he would not let Naru go alone, burrowing even more forcefully into the Six-Headed Scourge's body. Screeech! As the blood chains infused with Magic dug into its flesh, the Six-Headed Scourge finally felt pain, its face twisting. "Now!" As the Bear Fire Demon suppressed the Six-Headed Scourge's power even more forcefully and gave the signal, the Martial Artists of Light Wind Palace and the Continental Alliance moved out, as though they had been waiting for this very moment. "You vermin!" The Six-Headed Scourge screamed and unleashed shockwaves, but even as the mighty waves sent the Martial Artists flying, they rose again and charged at it. "You saw that?" Raon gritted his molars as he drove the Divine Sword into Derus Robert's chest. "That's the power of a father." "Kkeugh…." Derus Robert, seemingly unable to imagine the Six-Headed Scourge being stopped this way, coughed blood but could not tear his eyes away from him. "Everything you've prepared ends here." Without even giving Derus Robert the chance to draw out his full power, Raon moved the Demonic Sword floating in the air. Wrapped in a storm of Cold Energy, the Demonic Sword tore through space and fell toward Derus Robert's neck. Pfshhhk!