The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 867

Chapter 867

What a flurry of colours!

Rath eyed the golden dragon, his mouth watering.

-It must taste like beaded ice cream.

He wished they had a cool blue dragon, too, he muttered to himself.

‘Not like the other lizards.

Raon frowned at the powerful aura emanating from the Gold Dragon.

‘I don’t know if I can beat him in this state.

The blond man in front of him was far superior to the Black Dragon he had fought earlier.

Even with his full strength, he couldn’t guarantee victory, so his chest heaved with tension.

Goooooooo.

As Raon adjusted his breathing and pulled himself together, Sterin, who had crashed into Sephiroth, approached.

“I’m sorry….”

Sterin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and let out a ragged breath.

“I knew it was time to go, but my body wouldn’t cooperate.”

He mumbled an apology, unable to lift his head.

“You saved Sephiroth’s life, and I’m sorry that I….”

“It’s okay.”

Raon looked back at him and shook his head calmly.

“If I cut you down here, that’s it.”

He spoke with more authority, not just to Sterin, but to deceive even his own emotions.

“Right. Let’s end it here.”

Sterin balled his fists into fists, his knuckles reddening as if empowered by his words.

“His name is Mathirus, and he is the strongest dragon of the Gold Clan, save for the current Lord.”

Sterin’s hand trembled in his grip on the bow as he spoke of the most dangerous of all dragons.

His whole body was stained with blood, and it was clear that he had fought to the death.

“From now on, I will fight in the front, and you can help me from behind.”

“Raon….”

Sterin bit his lip as he watched Raon step in front of Mathirus with a smile.

“You.

Raon said, not to fight, but to help.

It was a gesture to show that he considered this war his, and not to burden himself with it.

It warmed her heart to know that he was thinking of her first, even though fighting two great dragons and that snake-masked man must have taken a lot of strength and stamina.

“Onya, I’ll watch your back!”

Sterin accepted Raon’s gesture and raised his bow with a flourish.

The pain of torn muscle and torn flesh was no longer felt.

Only the will to protect his grandson’s apprentice, even at the cost of his own life, remained.

“After all you’ve been through, you still don’t know the subject.”

Matirus snorted and shook his head.

“No matter what you do, today the World Tree and Seifia will disappear.”

He snapped his fingers, and black flames erupted around the World Tree. It was the flames of the High Magic Hell.

Woof, woof, woof!

Matirus didn’t just erect a wall of flame, he also summoned a large monster from the subspace to press down on the elves at the World Tree.

“Aaaaahhh!”

“Mo, monsters here too!”

Seeing the monsters that suddenly appeared, the elves cowered in fear.

There were only a few combatants, so everyone was pushed back by the flames and monsters.

“Matirus!”

Sterin screamed as the flames began to consume the roots of the World Tree.

“Why are you doing this!”

“It began with you. Is it not strange to destroy the seed of a race that will become our enemies?”

Matirus shook his head, as if asking the obvious question.

“The World Tree does not belong to the elves alone, you know full well that it affects the entire continent!”

“To rid the world of the worms that ruin it. It’s a small price to pay.”

He shook his head, not the least bit ashamed.

“Matirus….”

Sterin gritted his white teeth in a shudder.

-These lizardmen are getting cheekier by the minute!

Rath rolled his eyes, wanting to leap out and rip out Matirus’s teeth himself.

“Ah, you mean….”

Raon jerked his chin at Matirus.

“So you’re burning the World Tree to get under Omar’s skin, you so-called arbiter of the world?”

He scoffed and waved his hand up and down.

“The next time you see a dragon and call it an arbiter or an orchestrator, I’m going to have to pull my tongue out, because all I see is a shallow manipulator.”

Raon raised one eyebrow, as if to say that he was worse than a lizard crawling on the ground.

“…I’m going to have to get him to close that muzzle.”

Matirus steepled his fingers, the tendons on his forehead erect. The light from his fingertips coalesced into a golden bolt of light, flying at invisible speed.

Zzzzzzzzzz!

Raon formed a wall of prayer beads with his celestial sword, blocking the bolt of light from Matirus.

‘Heavy.

It was so heavy that his fingers trembled even as he activated it. It was a thin, small beam of light, but its power seemed unstoppable, even against the swords of the Transcendents.

“And so it begins.”

Matirus said in greeting, and then he generated more bolts of light from the one he had just fired.

Despite their increased numbers, their power and speed seemed to grow stronger, not deader.

“We have to stop them.

Raon gritted his teeth as he watched the bolts of light hurtle towards the source. It would be a loss to stop it, but he couldn’t avoid it to protect Sterin, whose mobility had been slowed.

Zing, zing, zing!

Raon struck back at the bolt of light that Mathirus had unleashed with his broadsword and snowy blade.

His tired shoulders and forearms ached, but he bit his tongue and cut down all the light.

“A chance.”

Nolansa nodded thinly, then disappeared into the dark clouds. He appeared soundlessly to Raon’s left and plunged his blade into the condensed wind.

“….”

Raon didn’t react when he realised Nolansa had moved, concentrating on erasing Matirus’s glow.

“End.”

Just as Nolansa’s blade was about to plunge into his back, an arrow of blue light flew from behind him.

Kaaaaaah!

Sterin’s arrow not only deflected Nolansa’s blade, but it also pierced a bolt of light from the right.

“Don’t you dare.”

Sterin lowered his eyebrows in a no-no.

“Good luck with your future endeavours.”

Raon nodded without looking back.

“Nolansa. You take the old elf. I’ll kill this human.”

Matirus entrusted Sterin to Nolansa and moulded a golden orb over his right hand. An orb of light. The device that brought the mages’ fantasies to life.

“That will do for now.”

Nolansa nodded and stepped back, the wind whipping him out of sight.

“Raon. Don’t worry about me, focus on Mathirus.”

Sterin drew his bowstring in silence, knowing he could beat the helmeted brat.

“Of course.”

Raon said he would count on it, and then drew a frost streak towards Matirus.

The blade of frost that shot out from the front of the blade fell towards Matirus’ neck.

Kyaaaaah!

Just as Frost’s blade and the Heavenly Sword were about to slash at Matirus’s throat, a golden flash of light emanated from the orb he had created, blocking both of Frost’s blades at once.

“Crude.”

Matirus snorted, and the light that had blocked the blows split into dozens of beams, falling back to his own supply. It was faster and more powerful than the first bolt of light.

“You brought this upon yourself, there will be no room to dodge.”

He was right, there were too many of them, too fast, and it would be hard to block them all.

“Then….”

Raon twisted his mouth into a grimace, raising his Heavenly Sword.

“I’ll just wipe them all out.”

A barrier of flame formed around the blade of the Celestial Sword. The flames sliced through the air, engulfing Matirus’ light.

A cartoon ball of fire.

Goldless.

The darkness-devouring silk of flame devoured the light of the Fallen Arranger, causing a powerful explosion.

Kuwaaaaaaah!

Raon took advantage of the explosion and charged towards Matirus.

He was exhausted, both physically and mentally, so he had to make this fight as quick as possible.

Bullfight!

He stepped on Taihuaibo out of thin air and plunged Limer’s sword into Matirus’ square.

“I knew it was coming.”

Matirus shook his head, unfazed, as if he’d been expecting it.

“You humans always pounce like boars.”

He snapped his fingers, and the orb condensed into a tiny ball, then unfurled, creating a tsunami of light.

It was a terrifying wave of light that made the skies of Sepia look like a sea of gold.

Chirrrrrrr!

Laon struck down like a thunderbolt with his Heavenly Sword and Limerick Sword at an angle. Manga Ball Salt Sea Integrity. A wave of flame and frost cut through the tidal wave of light, drawing the Silver Sword Dream.

Hwaaaaaaah!

The dreamlike, dishevelled red blade sliced through Mathirus’s throat.

But no blood spurted. He had already stepped back, his light alter ego still standing.

“Huh!”

Matirus raised his right hand above his head, and the orb snapped open to reveal a blade of brilliant light.

“The Flaming Sword.”

He brought the two-handed lightsaber down in a straight line. It wasn’t a sword, but its power was no less than that of a Transcendent.

Chiiyiyiying!

Raon slashed at the cascading beam of light.

Grip, grip, grip!

Sparks exploded into the sky as the flame sword and the light sword clashed.

‘Endless mana condensation.

Raon’s eyes narrowed as he watched the Blade of Light withstand the onslaught of mana.

“We can use this as an opportunity.

With a flick of his left wrist, which held Remer’s sword, he drew the polar opposites of the sword and the blade.

A wave of white that erased the gold. It was a counterattack that erased the opponent’s martial arts.

Chaaaaaah!

The moment the white wave erased the sword of light that Marius had raised, it added explosive power to the red wave and aimed for Marius’s heart.

Crackle!

The Red Island’s flames were about to slice into the Gold Berserker’s chest, but the scattered light formed a shield to block the blow.

Matirus blocked the blow again, this time with a massive barrage of Aurors.

If nothing else, the amount of mana at their disposal was overwhelming.

“No, it’s not just that.

It’s not the amount of mana, it’s not their magic, it’s their experience.

Matirus had far more battle experience than the Black Dragon and Red Dragon they had faced earlier.

Even if Sterin was exhausted, he could see why he was losing.

“You certainly have the skills to kill them.”

Matirus nodded in approval.

“Not that it matters much, though.”

He signalled that he was done playing and produced a new orb of light in his left hand.

“I wonder how long you can hold out.”

“Hold out?”

Raon’s mouth twisted up in a smile as he stared at the glowing orb.

“It would be quick to calculate how long your neck will last.”

* * *

“It’s black fire, the flames of hell!”

“And monsters!”

“Dude, there’s no room to run….”

The elves who had entered the holy grounds were frightened by the slowly advancing infernal flames and monsters, and quickly retreated.

“We have no choice but to die.”

“Someone will protect the World Tree.”

Some of the elves cowered in place as if they had already given up on life and waited for the coming death.

Pow!

When none of them were able to step forward and give up, Shi Yan threw off the quilt and stepped forward.

Woof!

From her fingertips, a water supreme spirit in the form of a unicorn and a wind supreme spirit in the form of a butterfly came out.

Kaaaaaaaah!

The spirits read her mind and slashed at the monsters with their wind blades, pushing back the black flames in a blue shower.

“Shi Yan?”

“What are you doing!”

Shi Yan spun around without acknowledging the thanks, and for the first time, she looked at her kin with fury in her eyes.

“This is Seifia, and it’s a holy place!”

Shi Yan clenched her teeth and pointed to the sky.

“Why do you seek out the Guardian, why do you give up your life, when people from the outside are risking theirs! Do you think the World Tree will be happy if you just wait to die?”

She stamped her foot, trying to get him to come to his senses.

“We are the only ones who can protect our land!”

Shi Yan’s eyes glowed with determination as he shouted for her to move.

“Ha, but we can only summon low-level spirits.”

“I can only shoot ordinary archery too….”

“I can’t fight even if I wanted to….”

“That’s not an excuse.”

Shi Yan shook his head resolutely.

“Since we’ve been driven this far, we have to fight, no matter if it’s a lowly spirit or a stone thrower!”

She leapt into the oncoming horde of monsters, shouting for them to fight for their lives.

Koo-koo-koo-koo!

The third Earth Elemental she summoned cracked the ground and sank the monsters.

“Hehe….”

Shi Yan let out a harsh breath and held his head. He was still fending off the poisonous energy from all of Seifia, but the constant summoning of the spirits had stretched his mental strength to the limit.

He felt dizzy, like he was about to collapse.

“Until the end!”

As she bit her lip and tried to stand up, the younger elves stepped forward and summoned a small water elemental.

Paah!

The spirits, as young as children, sprayed water like piss.

One was of little consequence, but a wave of them together pushed back the flames a little.

“Mmm….”

Seeing this, the elves bit their lips and stepped forward, summoning their spirits one by one to fight the monsters.

There was fear, but no one gave up or backed down.

“Don’t worry. I won’t let anyone die before me!”

Shi Yan raised his head as he called for everyone to fight together.

“You’re a good talker. Princess!”

Marta leapt out of the flames and slit the throat of an ogre that was approaching the World Tree.

“Others may help, but they must defend their own home!”

She nodded, liking the idea.

“You’re not the princess, you’re the next guardian. This is not a kingdom!”

Beren shook his head as he slashed at a horde of orcs advancing from the right.

“Yep. Shiyan. Well done.”

Lunan patted Shi Yan on the head, his black flames burning through the frost, even when wet.

“Cha, you’re the next guardian, don’t be spoilt!”

Buren’s lips trembled in embarrassment at Lu Nan’s behaviour.

“Hmph, it’s rougher here….”

Dorian shook his head, muttering that Seifia was more hellish.

“No, it isn’t. It’s safer where the High Lord is.”

Crane grunted as he watched Raon fight in the sky.

“Everyone, stop chattering and focus.”

Beren stared for a moment at the True Soul Sword resting at the base of the World Tree, then shook his head.

“We can’t let Master’s hometown disappear!”

“Gaaaaaah!”

Marta shouted, and the clown’s counterattack began.

* * *

Chirp, chirp, chirp!

Raon bit his lip as he blocked the relentless bombardment of light.

“No gap.

Seeing that the swordsman didn’t give him a chance to get close, as he had initially expected, Matirus had more experience and combat sense.

‘No, I know he’s experienced, but….

My movements are strange.

My body feels heavy, more than mentally or physically exhausted. Even though I can see it, it’s not easy to cut or block the light magic.

Kyaaaaah!

Raon narrowed his eyes at the waves of light that rolled in like clouds.

‘Wait, now that I think about it….

Sterin also said that his own physical condition was much worse than usual, making it difficult for him to deal with Matthirus.

It was strange for a Transcendent to say such a thing, even if he was exhausted from dueling with himself.

“Shall we check it out?

After a lifetime of cultivation, he knew his own body better than anyone else. I decided to see if I was really tired or if it was an external problem.

Whoosh!

Dozens of beams of light shot out from the orb that Matthilus had created, targeting his entire body.

Thud!

Raon stomped to the left. His body felt heavy and slow for a moment as he tried to escape the net of light.

Kaaaaaah!

He thought he had enough time to escape, but his heaviness made him unable to dodge and he was forced to block the net of light.

“Hehe….”

Raon wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shook his head.

“What did you do to me?”

A moment ago, ever so slightly, the movement of flesh and auror had slowed.

It was clear the action had been external, not internal.

“You felt it.”

Matthirus blurted out in surprise.

“Certainly not like that old elf.”

He nodded, as if in admiration.

“Don’t ramble, answer the question. Lizard.”

“No reason for me to know.”

Matirus wrinkled the bridge of his nose in annoyance, then snapped his fingers.

The orb in the air spun furiously, sending shards of light into the heavens. It was as if all the stars in the night sky were being blasted away.

Kaaaaaaaaaah!

Raon swung the swords in both hands in time. He was about to use the twin swords he had learnt from Cheryl to blast away all the incoming lights.

“Not again.

The light magic he’d thought he had enough of a reach for a moment ago travelled faster than his blade and pierced his side. More than the pain, he remembered the method.

Chiiiiing!

Manga Gong and Glacia were polarised. A blast of heat and cold erased all the light around them, and they looked up.

“I see it now.”

Raon narrowed his eyes at Matirus, who stood there, almost touching the edge of the sky.

“Gravity.”

At first, Raon thought he was cursing his own flesh, but he wasn’t.

Matirus had tampered with the gravity of the space he stood in, slowing his body and the auror’s movements.

Oddly enough, he didn’t manipulate gravity with mana, so it took him a while to figure it out.

“Good sense.”

Matirus nodded in meek approval.

“Certainly, the ability to subtly control gravity is impressive, but it doesn’t mean anything now that I know.”

Raon looked at Matirus, his mouth twisting.

“Is that so?”

Matirus sneered, and his body was enveloped in a magnificent glow.

Koo-koo-koo-koo!

A massive body that created shadows in the sky. The great dragon that he had seen when he first entered the Great Forest was looking down at him from the sky.

[We’ve had our fun, let’s end it].

As soon as he heard Matirus’s calm voice, his body spun out of control and plummeted to the ground.

Koo-koo-koo!

Not a subtle gravity manipulation, but a transcendentally strong gravity manipulation. He couldn’t move his body.

Kwaaaaaah!

Raon coughed up blood as he finally plummeted to the ground on Seifia, just as Sterin had fallen the first time.

“Kkkkk!”

Sterin, who had been fighting with Nolansa, was also unable to overcome gravity and fell to Raon’s side, rolling on the ground.

[You’re making a big mistake].

Matirus let out a long sneer.

[Gravity manipulation is an ability I acquired when I became a High Dragon. That’s why I don’t use mana to manipulate it. It’s rather easy to generate great power when you can manipulate it so finely].

He shook his head, saying he was just trying to see how humans struggled.

[Light has no mass, but it does affect gravity, and I’ll kill you without lifting a finger].

Matirus shook his head as the gravitational field around the World Tree descended.

“Turn it off….”

“Man, I can’t stand up!”

“Cow, you can’t move your hands or feet….”

The clownish swordsmen and elves, who had been gaining the upper hand, were also frozen in place, unable to do anything.

“Cough….”

Sterin coughed up black blood as if his strength was gone. He was suffering more than the others from the recoil of his dying body.

“So this is how it ends.”

Nolansa, bleeding from the wound on Sterin’s shoulder, grinned.

Gooooooo!

The Matyrus slammed down on them all with gravity and opened its massive gaping maw.

A golden glow began to emanate from its black throat. Breath. It seemed like he’d gathered all the breath he could use in a day.

Koo-koo-koo-koo!

Raon bit his lip as he watched the golden breath gather in the sky.

“What should I do?

The increased gravity made it difficult for him to lift his hand holding his sword, much less raise his auror.

I don’t know how to stop this Breath, which is stronger than the Breaths of the Black and Red Dragons.

‘Who can help me….’

Raon looked at Rath.

-Well, there’s nothing you can do, King Bone will help you.

Rath nodded, not hesitating to help, even though his spirit body was not yet fully recovered.

‘Rath. Are you….’

Raon bit his lip and looked at Rath.

Whoosh!

The leaves of the World Tree, their branches snapping under the weight of gravity, emitted a greenish glow as if they had come back to life.

The wind rose from the True Soul Sword in the light and touched his shoulders and back.

“Ah….”

Raon bit his lip, smelling the wind’s nostalgic scent, and felt Remer’s hand on his shoulder, as if he could do it.

-We cannot descend at this time. The Bone King will give you a boost of energy….

“It’s okay.

Raon shook his head at Rath.

-What? What’s that….

‘I’ll do it.’

He drew up his knees, heavy as a thousand muscles, and stretched his back.

‘It’s time for me to do it.

I’ve always had help.

Survived by Remer.

Rescued by Glenn.

Rath descended and saved the day.

I’ve been helped by so many others, and it’s made me who I am today.

To be unable to protect her people, to wait for others to help her, would be to abandon her values and her future to the ground.

Today and now, it was time to walk on her own feet and hands.

Kuwaaaaaaaaah!

Matirus blasted a breath of holy light at the World Tree, full of life.

The sky was torn apart by the enormity of the breach, and the earth floated away, untouched and shattered.

Raon gazed at Bresse, who seemed to fill the world before his eyes, and he sheathed his Heavenly Sword and Limerick.

Woof, woof, woof!

With a polarising swing of his fire ring, he opened the realm of transcendence.

‘Nature’s Aurors are not the only ones I’ve learnt from my ascent to Transcendence.

It was human emotion that brought him to the Transcendence at the last moment.

He realised both joy and pain, and captured the sensations of being human and becoming something beyond humanity in his two swords.

Koooooong!

He stomped his foot like an earthquake. The blade of Limerre contained the flame of the cartoon ball, and the sword of Heaven contained the coldness of Glacia.

The auror rising from the blade’s sleek tip, a golden dawn heralded a new era.

The Swordborn.

Opening.

Golden waves of air, rising like wildfire, clashed with the gravitationally charged breath of the Holy Light.

Kuwaaaaaaah