The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1554 Wooooooom! The magic circle, connected by Evelyn's mana and reinforced by Runaan and Martha's Mental Images, rose into the air, drawing shining stars at its six corners. "Finally!" Evelyn let out a cry of exclamation as she watched the magic circle soar as if it would pierce through the sky and ascend. "It's infuriating, but it seems my willpower to see Raon again simply wasn't enough." She despaired that her own longing to find Raon alone couldn't bring the spell to fruition, yet she chewed on her lips with anticipation at the thought of seeing Raon again. "I-it actually worked? That garbage incantation?" Rather than being pleased that Evelyn's spell had succeeded, Martha gaped in disbelief instead. "If a spell like this actually works, is the heavenly realm even okay?" She shook her head as if worried about the heavenly realm. "Raon…." Runaan gazed steadily at the magic circle rising into the sky, as if she'd already erased the cringeworthy incantation from her mind. "I wish I could at least say hello…." She clenched her small hands into fists, regretting that she hadn't properly expressed her gratitude to Raon. "Go!" Evelyn, seemingly excited as well, swung her mana-infused fist hard as if to shatter the sky. As she wished, the magic circle advanced through the endless sky, as if following Raon's soul toward the heavenly realm. "Turns out she's about as good at magic as she is at stalking." "Amazing…." It was while Martha and Runaan, harboring anticipation like Evelyn, watched the magic circle piercing through the sky. Thud. Evelyn's magic circle, which had been heading toward the heavenly realm beyond the edge of the sky, suddenly stopped moving. No, it wasn't just that it stopped—it began falling back toward the ground. "It's falling again…." Runaan narrowed her eyes as she watched the magic circle descending toward the ground. "Hey! You expected that too, right?" Martha tilted her chin, assuming Evelyn must have of course anticipated this. "W-what is that!" Evelyn's mouth fell open. "Why is it suddenly falling!" She screamed as if this was completely unexpected. "Huh…?" "Do something!" Runaan blinked blankly, while Martha stamped her foot, demanding Evelyn do something, anything. "I know that already!" Evelyn waved her hand as if annoyed by the noise and poured mana into the magic circle. Pfffffshh! But contrary to its master's will, the magic circle plummeted even faster than it had risen and slammed into the ground. Ssssssh! The search spell Evelyn had made to find Raon burrowed into the ground as if he were buried underground rather than in the sky, and then disappeared. "Why…." Evelyn's lips trembled as if she couldn't understand it at all. "I knew this would happen." Martha sighed, her brow furrowed. "Did you really think a spell could find Raon in the heavenly realm!" She clicked her tongue, saying the spell had been impossible from the start. "I…." Runaan licked her lips briefly. "I'll get to the heavenly realm by my own strength…." She bowed her head, saying she would stick to her original plan of ascending through cultivation to meet Raon. "Again!" Evelyn shouted with a ghastly expression, as if she'd reverted to the days she was called Merlin. "T-this is way too strange! We have to do it again!" She forcibly grabbed Runaan and Martha's hands, insisting they try the spell again. "Um…." "Ugh!" Runaan and Martha nodded their heads reflexively upon facing Evelyn's eyes, twisted as if she'd devoured a demon. "Let's do it!" Evelyn shouted that it would definitely succeed this time and operated the spell to find Raon once more. But nothing changed. The magic circle Evelyn drew with Martha and Runaan's help shot upward as if to pierce the sky, then fell even faster, sank into the ground, and disappeared somewhere. "To think this doesn't work…." "I need to go…." "Again! Even if I die here, I'm going to keep going!" Evelyn cut off Runaan and Martha's words, her violet eyes flashing fiercely. She blazed with the fierce resolve to overpower the strength of two Transcendence-level Swordsmen through sheer will, and operated the spell a third time. "Until the end!" * * * "Haah! Haah! Khh…." Evelyn panted with her back bent, and eventually coughed up blood. "Before we even find Raon…." Runaan shook her head, wiping away the sweat streaming down her forehead like rain. "You're going to collapse first…." She shook off Evelyn's hand as if telling her to stop now. "T-that's a whopping 100 times." Martha frowned, her hands resting on her knees. "You've failed 100 times in a row! Just admit it!" She shrieked, demanding Evelyn admit the spell was flawed. "I-I just used up all my mana, that's all." Evelyn roughly spat out the blood pooling in her mouth. "It's nothing serious." Even after vomiting blood, she reached out her hand again as if nothing had happened. "I can do it again as many times as it takes… ugh!" Evelyn tried to operate the spell again, but collapsed to her knees. "W-why is my body…." Her lips trembled in bewilderment at her body that wouldn't move as she wished. "What do you mean why! You're exhausted, obviously!" Martha let out a hollow laugh, as if at a loss for words. "It's not just your mana that's drained… your stamina and mental strength are gone too…." Runaan shook her head, saying Evelyn's stamina, mana, and mental strength had all reached their limits. "Ah…." As the world spun and her vision blurred, Evelyn realized that Martha and Runaan were right. "Finding Raon is all well and good, but you shouldn't take it so lightly." Martha said this was something that required a long-term view, then disappeared toward the True Martial Palace. "Call me again next time…." Runaan bowed her head as if to say she'd help again next time, then left in the opposite direction from Martha. "Haah…." Evelyn bit her lip deeply, her hands braced against the ground. "There was definitely no error in my calculations, so why!" She shook her head vigorously, as if still convinced there was nothing wrong with her spell. "Why does it plunge into the ground instead of the sky and burrow underground… huh?" Evelyn exclaimed that she couldn't understand it, then her eyes went wide. "It plunges into the ground and burrows underground?" She repeated her own words to herself, narrowing her eyes. "Now that I think about it, that's strange, isn't it?" It was possible for her spell to fail, not find Raon, and have the magic circle plunge into the ground. But rather than staying on the surface, burrowing underground was bizarre. "Don't tell me…." Evelyn's lips trembled as she stared steadily at the ground between her two hands. "Is he right below here? Raon?" For the first time, she murmured Raon's name while looking at the ground instead of the sky. "Below the mortal realm is the Devildom." Evelyn curled her weakened hands into fists. "That sly demon king is right beside Raon! Because of him, Raon's Ascension might have been blocked, and he could've fallen into the Devildom!" She nodded her chin fiercely, considering the possibility that Raon had fallen into the Devildom. "If Raon really did go to the Devildom, I'll be able to find him much more easily!" Evelyn muttered that it would be fully possible with just a slight modification to the spell, and pressed her hands together. But since her mana was completely spent, nothing more happened. If anything, her condition worsened as her emotions flared up. "F-for now…." Feeling her vision blur, Evelyn lay down on the ground. "Let's sleep on it and think it over…." * * * "Strange…." Evelyn chewed on her lip as she examined her own mana, which kept falling as if digging a tunnel and then vanishing. "Why isn't it working?" Without forgetting her assumption that Raon had fallen into the Devildom, she modified and operated the tracking spell the moment she regained her senses, but the magic circle still couldn't find him and just kept digging a tunnel. "It does seem certain he didn't go to the heavenly realm…." Evelyn looked up at the sky and licked her lips. "Then is it not the Devildom either?" She repeatedly clenched and unclenched her fist, as if curious where exactly Raon had fallen. "No! Raon is definitely in the Devildom! Spell or no spell, my instincts and soul—which have followed Raon my whole life—are screaming that it's the Devildom!" Evelyn nodded vigorously, convinced of Raon's location by adding her own instincts to the magic circle's movements. "Then I guess I have no choice but to use that method." She nodded as if there was a way to find Raon besides her own spell, then moved to a northern beach far from Zieghart. Crack. Evelyn put strength into her toes as she watched the pitch-black waves of the North Sea surging. 'No, this might actually be a much better method.' In fact, it seemed like if she had used a method like this from the start instead of developing a Devildom detection spell, she might have found Raon long ago. "Hhhff." Evelyn took a deep breath that swelled her chest, bending her back all the way backward. "It's Wrath! Wrath, the Monarch of Wrath, has appeared!" Standing at the edge of the beach, she amplified her mana enough to be heard across the whole world, and shouted not Raon's name, but the name of Wrath, the Monarch of Wrath. "Wrath, the Monarch of Wrath, has descended into the present world!" Evelyn kept shouting toward the empty North Sea that Wrath had appeared. Of course, she wasn't just shouting for the sake of it. She thought of someone not present in this world, strongly stirring up emotions sunk deep within her soul. "Wrath, the Monarch of Wrath, has found a new love!" It was the moment Evelyn called out Wrath's name for the third time, shouting that he had found a new love. Shhhhhaaaa! The North Sea, which had been roiling pitch-black like ink, began to be dyed a pink like cherry blossoms. Fwoooosh! The North Sea, soaking in a brilliant pink, split in half, and from the gap walked out a woman so stunningly beautiful it sent chills down one's spine. When the woman of peerless beauty opened her eyes, her pink irises—as if capturing the sea itself—flashed with an alluring light. "Where." The beauty whose looks could topple a kingdom parted her clear, glistening lips. "Where is he! Where is Wrath!" Contrary to her flawless looks and bird-like voice, she let out a shrill shriek in a shallow tone. "And who's the bitch! Which bitch dares touch Wrath!" The pink-haired woman rolled her eyes, blooming with killing intent, as if she would beat even a goddess to death for touching Wrath. "I knew she'd show up." Evelyn smirked as she watched the woman tearing through the sea. "The Monarch of Lust." The one Evelyn had summoned was Lust, the Monarch of Lust, residing in the Devildom. Obsessed with Wrath to the point of madness, yet able to move freely through the Devildom, she was the ideal person to find Raon. "Evelyn?" Lust frowned at the sight of Evelyn smiling. "Where is Wrath? And where's the bitch who came onto him!" She drew her sword as if ready to tear in half whoever had come onto Wrath. "No one came onto Wrath. And as for Wrath." Evelyn shrugged calmly. "He's probably in the Devildom right now. Together with Raon." Since Lust now also knew that Wrath and Raon were together, Evelyn explained to her the situation she herself had come to understand. "Let's find Raon and Wrath together." Evelyn reached out her hand to Lust, suggesting they go to the Devildom together to find Raon and Wrath. "…." Despite Wrath's name having come up, Lust looked at Evelyn's hand with eyes that had instead grown subdued. "You've got it completely wrong." She shook her head as if Evelyn were entirely mistaken. "What do you mean by that?" Evelyn narrowed her eyes, as if demanding a proper explanation. "I also thought Wrath had separated from him after Raon's Ascension, so I've been searching through the entire Devildom up until now." Lust nodded heavily, saying she had been roaming the Devildom with thoughts similar to Evelyn's. "But he's nowhere. Not in the deepest pit, not on the highest mountain, not in any other demon king's dwelling…." She frowned, saying she hadn't found a trace of Wrath anywhere. "Ah…." Evelyn's jaw trembled at Lust's completely unexpected answer. "I'll say this clearly…." Lust exhaled a heavy breath and bit her lip deeply. "Right now, neither Raon nor Wrath are in the Devildom." (E/N: And that's the end)