The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1524 "Heh!" Martha snorted and shook her head. "We're going to win whether you say that or not!" She answered curtly, but the hand gripping her sword trembled faintly, as if Runaan's words had excited her. "The time to break through the wall, huh…." Burren swallowed hard and turned his gaze. "Is that light we're seeing right now related to that?" He lowered his chin, silently asking for an answer. "Hey! We don't have time, so hurry up and tell us!" Martha bit her lip slightly as she watched the Light Wind Palace swordsmen being pushed back by Six-Headed Scourge's mighty shockwave. "Those are seams..." Sensing there was no time either, Runaan spoke faster than usual. "Seams...?" Burren clicked his tongue, wanting her to explain further. "It's a gap where you can cut through Six-Headed Scourge's powerful energy with less force than it holds…." Runaan swept her sword downward, as if cutting through Six-Headed Scourge's shockwave. "A gap!" Martha's eyes widened, as if she'd finally grasped the meaning of Runaan's words. "Nice! That means we can stab him easily!" She stamped her foot, ready to fight right away. "However…." Runaan drew a short breath. "Not all of those are real gaps…. Some are fake ones Six-Headed Scourge made on purpose, mixed in among them…." She shook her head, saying that not all the seams were real. "And the seams appear and disappear in an instant…." Runaan let out a short breath as she watched the gaps that disappeared and reappeared. "Catching it is hard enough, but stabbing it is even harder…." She closed and then opened her eyes, saying that stabbing the seams was harder than it seemed. "So that's why that damn masked bastard said you were different!" Martha clicked her tongue, saying she now understood why Six-Headed Scourge had praised only Runaan. "Then what's the meaning of overcoming the wall and seeing the seams?" Burren narrowed his eyes as he looked at the newly formed seams. "That's not even worth asking!" Martha spoke up in Runaan's place. "It means that if you can stab the real gaps, not the fake ones, you can overcome the wall!" She snorted, saying it was obvious. "That's right…." Runaan slowly parted her lips. "If you can do that, you'll naturally be able to break through the wall…." She nodded, saying Burren and Martha were already standing atop the wall of transcendence, and all they had to do was leap down. "But stabbing the seams is dangerous... My gaps are no different from what is shown..." Runaan let out a heavy breath, saying it was something that required staking your life. "I'm always staking my life." Martha shook her head firmly, as if to say there was nothing to worry about. "Let's give it a try!" She let out a roar, gripping her sword tightly with both hands as if confident. "…That's right." Burren calmly lowered his chin. "Because a swordsman of Zieghart always stands on the edge of a blade." He, thinking the same as Martha, wore a smile rather than fear. "By the way… hmm, never mind." Burren was about to ask Runaan something but closed his mouth. "What? How anticlimactic." Martha wrinkled her nose. "There's no time. Later." Burren frowned as he watched the Light Wind Palace swordsmen and Mark Goetun being flung away like sheets of paper by Six-Headed Scourge's terrifying power. "Follow me…." Runaan let out a low breath and stepped her right foot forward. "I'll open the way…." With a solemn look, she raised Cold Energy, saying she would create the chance for Burren and Martha to break through the wall. "Why you?" Martha tilted her chin, as if asking why Runaan was stepping forward alone instead of doing it together. "Because I had Raon's help when I broke through my own wall." Runaan said she was simply returning the help she'd received from Raon, then turned her gaze forward again. "Normally I really can't stand you, but…." Martha said, looking at Runaan's back. "Somehow, today I like you." She curled her lips upward, saying this was the first time she'd liked Runaan. "…Let's go." Without any reaction to Martha's words, Runaan charged with all her strength at Six-Headed Scourge, who was cutting down the Light Wind Palace swordsmen. "At least answer me!" Martha gritted her teeth and followed Runaan, working her Footwork at full speed. 'If the shining things from the Six-Headed Scourge are the seams...' Burren narrowed his eyes as he ran, a step behind Martha. 'What is this energy rippling from my sword?' * * * KWAAAANG! When Six-Headed Scourge lightly stamped his foot, the swordsmen at the front lost their balance and collapsed, and when he clapped his hands, those barely holding on coughed up blood and rolled across the ground. "Crawling on the ground suits you well! Vermin!" Six-Headed Scourge twisted his lips upward, as if satisfied with the Martial Prowess he'd gained from the Black Darkness, watching the Light Wind Palace swordsmen collapse. "Hup!" "Over here too!" Mark Goetun and Trevin surged in from behind the fallen swordsmen, aiming for Six-Headed Scourge's neck and heart. "I know." Six-Headed Scourge lowered his brows as he watched Mark Goetun and Trevin rush in like lightning. "To me, you're just the same kind of insect." He sneered, as if Mark Goetun and Trevin were no different from the other swordsmen, and stretched out his hands to unleash flame and cold energy. KWAAAANG! Mark Goetun's blade and Trevin's sword were blocked by the flame and cold energy Six-Headed Scourge unleashed, unable even to reach him. "Ngh!" "Guh…." Mark Goetun and Trevin tried to push back Six-Headed Scourge's energy, but were instead overpowered and flung backward, wrapped in flame and Frost. "You can't even reach me." Six-Headed Scourge twisted his lips as if it were already over, and unleashed a shockwave laced with poison. Just as the pitch-black energy he'd released was about to crush the Light Wind Palace, Mark Goetun, and Trevin— SHWAAAAAK! The poison-laced shockwave Six-Headed Scourge had created split apart as easily as an old tree branch. The person emerging from between the halved poison energy was Runaan. FWOOOOSH! As if intent on fighting alone, Runaan moved her Footwork without hesitation, slipping into range of Six-Headed Scourge. "They said you had wings, but you're just an insect too!" Six-Headed Scourge stretched out his hand toward the swiftly approaching Runaan, raising a mighty tidal wave of flame. "Hoo…." Runaan broke into a cold sweat but did not retreat. She waited until the flame touched her skin before swinging Snow Flower. HWAAAAAAK! The Cold Energy blooming from Snow Flower split through the massive flame Six-Headed Scourge had unleashed, creating mist-like steam in the air. SSWAAANG! Even after cutting through Six-Headed Scourge's flame, Runaan didn't stop, pressing further forward and thrusting her sword toward his neck. "How foolish." Six-Headed Scourge twisted his lips as he watched Runaan's approaching sword. "Did you think the same trick would work more than once?" He pushed back Runaan's sword with his Fighting Spirit and stretched both hands out to the left and right. PAAAAANG! A mighty Cold Energy burst from Six-Headed Scourge's grip, sweeping over Burren and Martha, who had been hiding behind the mist to launch an attack. "Ugh!" "Ngh!" Burren and Martha wrapped themselves in Aura and avoided being frozen solid, but the impact seemed to force them to their knees, grinding their teeth. "Do you think I'm just some brute with nothing but strength?" Six-Headed Scourge tilted his chin, as if warning them not to underestimate him. "I'm not underestimating you…." Runaan slowly shook her head. "I just believe the Light Wind Palace can win…." As she said the Light Wind Palace would win and twisted her wrist, Cold Energy spun along Snow Flower's blade tip, which had been blocked by his Fighting Spirit. PAAAAAK! Runaan pierced through the Fighting Spirit with the spinning Cold Energy, carving a deep wound into Six-Headed Scourge's chest. "How dare you!" Six-Headed Scourge, his pride seemingly wounded that Runaan's sword had pierced his Fighting Spirit, gritted his teeth and threw a fist charged with Fighting Spirit. KWAAAAAANG! A terrifying shockwave laced with flame exploded, and Runaan coughed up blood as she was slammed into the ground. "Runaan!" "Hey!" Burren and Martha, eyes wide, called out to Runaan as she rolled across the ground. "I'm fine…." Runaan steadied her ragged breath and pulled herself up. "I blocked it…." She raised Snow Flower with a trembling hand, saying she'd blocked Six-Headed Scourge's attack with her sword. "Th-that doesn't look like you blocked it at all!" Martha's chin trembled as she watched Runaan casually shake off the blood. "Runaan…." Burren bit his lip too, as if he understood the resolve with which Runaan stood at the front. "Again…." Runaan straightened her back and raised Snow Flower, as if to say they'd keep going. "W-we'll back you up!" "We have to see this through to the end!" Dorian and Krein led the other Light Wind Palace swordsmen, saying they'd form the sword formation again to lend their strength to Burren, Martha, and Runaan. "I can still do this too!" "As long as my blade doesn't break, I'll keep fighting." Trevin and Mark Goetun stepped forward as well, declaring they'd keep fighting. "…." For the first time, Runaan drew a faint smile as she watched the Light Wind Palace swordsmen, not one of whom retreated or fled. "Let's go." With a smile blooming like a flower, she surged toward Six-Headed Scourge even faster, and the Light Wind Palace followed behind her, like a finely honed blade. "Fine! I'll take you all on! And then…." Six-Headed Scourge's eyes flashed with a cold, murderous light as he watched the Light Wind Palace swordsmen charge as one. "I'll kill every last one of you!" * * * "Ugh…." Martha gritted her teeth as she barely dodged Six-Headed Scourge's bone-chilling Fighting Spirit. 'This is harder than I thought….' She could still clearly see the faint light blooming from the Six-Headed Scourge's offensive. But approaching that space and stabbing the seam was a completely different matter. A single mistake could send her entire body flying, so she couldn't recklessly enter and swing her sword. "Tch…." Burren clicked his tongue as he pulled back from trying to stab Six-Headed Scourge's waist. 'It's just like Runaan said.' Even when he could see the gaps, he couldn't cut it. Runaan had said that stabbing the seam wasn't easy, but experiencing it firsthand, it was more than that. The sudden appearance of the seams made his head spin, making it difficult to even defend properly, let alone attack. 'Should I just strike normally instead?' Just as Burren was thinking it might be better to ignore the seams and just stab the Six-Headed Scourge like before. "G-go on ahead!" "We'll handle this Cold Energy!" "Please kill him!" The Light Wind Palace swordsmen took the Cold Energy Six-Headed Scourge fired off with their swords and bodies, shouting for Burren to press forward. 'Right. I can't stop after seeing that.' Burren vowed to break through the wall for the swordsmen sacrificing themselves for them, and tore through the cold energy, sprinting toward Six-Headed Scourge. "Ngaah!" Just as Martha, like Burren, was thinking of giving up on stabbing the seams, she saw Runaan step forward. 'That girl….' Honestly, she didn't like Runaan all that much. She couldn't tell what was going on in her head, it was infuriating that she'd caused trouble by not trusting her comrades, and it was irritating how openly she liked Raon. 'But today, I can feel it so clearly.' What that girl Runaan was thinking. Runaan was leading them with her back and her sword. Martha could strongly feel her resolve to repay, even at the cost of her life, what she'd received from Raon and everything she was grateful for from them. 'If I retreat after seeing that, I'm no swordsman of Zieghart!' Martha swore to Runaan's back that she'd never give up, and stamped her Footwork forcefully. FWOOOOOSH! Burren and Martha felt a new gap emerge from the Six-Headed Scourge who was facing Runaan, and kicked off the ground even faster. Just as the two of them, with extreme focus, were about to pierce through the Six-Headed Scourge's Fighting Spirit and cut the newly bloomed seam. "Hmph!" Six-Headed Scourge sneered as he watched Martha and Burren close in like lightning. "Like the insects you are, walking right into the trap I set on purpose." He raised his chin, as if he'd known all along what Burren and Martha were aiming for, and stretched out both hands. HWAAAAAAAK! Six-Headed Scourge unleashed a shockwave laced with poison energy to be certain of killing Martha and Burren. But his attack never reached Martha and Burren. KUGUGUGUGUGU! Runaan took Six-Headed Scourge's Fighting Spirit head-on with her body, raising massive walls of ice to the left and right, blocking the poison energy and shockwave. CRRRRRACK! Burren and Martha burst out from behind the ice walls that were crumbling like sandcastles from the shockwave's impact. The two of them swung their swords with eyes burning brightly, as if their extreme focus hadn't broken. "It's useless!" Six-Headed Scourge ground his teeth and unleashed a massive burst of Fighting Spirit at Burren and Martha once more. SHWAAAAAK! Martha and Burren's swords moved with a mesmerizing, fluid grace. The two swordsmen poured even the strength of their breathing into their blades, cutting through Six-Headed Scourge's shockwave, which approached at the speed of light, as easily as sheets of paper. KUUUUUNG! The Six-Headed Scourge broke into a cold sweat and urgently stomped his foot, creating a shockwave that collapsed the ground, but Burren and Martha even cut through the seams of the Fighting Spirit that exploded at a terrifying speed. GWOOOOOOO! Above the magnificent swordsmanship Burren and Martha wove, the willpower they had built up until now burned like a faint flame. Willpower made manifest in reality. It was the flickering proof of swordsmen who had ascended into the realm of transcendence. "Y-you brats!" Six-Headed Scourge's chin trembled as an alarm rang in his mind. Sensing that Martha and Burren had fallen into the State of Enlightenment as they broke through the wall, he unleashed every last bit of Fighting Spirit swirling through his body. PIAAAANG! Just as the terrifying Fighting Spirit Six-Headed Scourge held was about to burst forth in an instant, three streaks of sword strikes fell upon it. Runaan, Martha, and Burren had simultaneously split the seam of the Six-Headed Scourge's Fighting Spirit. The three of them were in perfect sync, even without meeting each other's gaze. "Th-this is…." Six-Headed Scourge recoiled in shock and stumbled backward, but it was already too late. Because the swords of Burren, Martha, and Runaan had pierced clean through his once-unyielding body. SHWAAAAAAK!