The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 1086

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Chapter 1086

-Your words ring true.

Wrath nodded as he surveyed the area below the mountain.

-A formidable aura, shaped with meticulous precision. These are no ordinary humans.

His eyes narrowed as he observed that the being far surpassed the typical level of a Transcendent.
He narrowed his eyes sharply, saying it far surpassed the level of a transcendent being.

‘Wait.’

Raon clenched his fists as he watched the flames and frost clash as if determined to annihilate one another.

‘The earth’s aura supporting those flames and frost….’

Why did it feel so familiar?

Woven within the violently colliding flames and frost was also the aura of earth, and strangely, it resonated with the martial techniques I had learned from the Sword Saint.

‘Could it be….’
-This is no time to stand idle in thought.

Wrath struck my shoulder with his tail, urging me to descend and investigate properly.

‘That makes sense.’

I nodded and rushed down the mountainside.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The two forces enveloped in flames and frost burned themselves as if facing a mortal enemy, each striving to consume the opposing element.

Yet the flames and frost were perfectly matched, so without leaving even the smallest fragment, they expended all their power and vanished as gray smoke.

“Damn!”

I arrived at the Mountain Slope of the Sturrin Mountains too late, but the flames and frost had already vanished, and the Dimension that had summoned both energies had closed.

-I told you to hurry! Wrath shook his head in frustration.

Wrath shook his head in frustration.

‘At this speed, I wouldn’t have caught them even if I’d reacted immediately.’

It was true that I had spent a moment contemplating the aura of the Battlefield, but that time had been brief. Even if I had descended the moment I saw it, I would have been too late in the end.

“Are you… are you alright?”

Dorian’s voice called out from the Mountain Peak.

“I’m fine, so don’t come down.”

I raised my hand toward Dorian, who appeared as nothing more than a tiny dot.

“I-I’m scared! What if this Demon Lord wakes up!”

Dorian hopped anxiously, desperate to descend.

“He won’t wake up. Probably….”

After shouting reassurances to Dorian, I examined the ground where the flames and frost had collided.

‘A Transcendent. One who matches me, or surpasses me.’

Martial arts of this magnitude were difficult even for Transcendents to create, so this was undoubtedly a master whose name had been etched into history.

‘But this aura….’

I narrowed my eyes as I traced the marks on the ground.

‘I’ve never seen it before.’

Martial arts and aura I had never encountered until now. Not among the Six Emperors Five Demons, nor among the New Rising Powers—there were no such warriors.

‘A reclusive master?’

The history of the Continent was vast and long, so it wasn’t strange that there might be reclusive masters he didn’t know about.

‘The problem is….’

I looked up at the Sturrin Mountains where the tremors were subsiding and clicked my tongue.

‘Why are they fighting? And in a separate space at that.’

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand why they would abandon their own land and transmit their aura to the Mountain Slope of the Sturrin Mountains to awaken Sloth.

‘Do they hold a grudge against Sloth?’

I examined the Mountain Peak where Sloth was sleeping and furrowed my brow.

-That one isn’t the type to accumulate grudges. He’s too patient—the title of Demon Lord doesn’t suit him at all.

Wrath shook his head, saying that wouldn’t happen.

“Hearing that just makes it more confusing.”

I was frowning and letting out a sigh when it happened.

Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!

Two lines of fissures tore open before my eyes, and red and blue auras erupted forth.

Flame and frost surged forward once more, unleashing devastating energy waves to annihilate each other.

Boom-boom-boom-boom!

The aura of flame and the force of frost collided head-on, and a terrifying shockwave rippled outward. The Sturrin Mountains, which had barely stopped trembling, twisted as if they would crumble.

“Ugh….”

I was pushed backward like a piece of paper caught in the wind.

‘As expected.’

Just as I had sensed from a distance, the flame and frost colliding before my eyes were techniques unleashed by transcendents.

‘So flame is swordsmanship, and frost is blade technique.’

The flame and frost each carried different masses of energy. The inferno was precise swordsmanship that pierced the opponent’s vital points, while the frost was a savage blade technique that cleaved enemies in half.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The two energies once again erupted into a tremendous wave, attempting to consume each other before their power exhausted and they dissipated into nothingness.

“Phew….”

I steadied my breathing and nodded slowly.

‘Now I’m starting to understand.’
-Huh? Understand what?

Wrath raised his eyebrows in confusion.

-All I can tell right now is that there are two lunatics here.
‘It’s not precise enough yet. I’ll tell you later.’

I lowered my hand, saying I would explain once I was certain.

-So you understand now—can you resolve this?

Wrath licked his lips, eager to finish this matter and head to Frost’s Branch for a meal.

‘About that….’

I narrowed my eyes.

‘It doesn’t seem possible.’
-What? Didn’t you just say you understood!
‘Understanding and having a solution are different things. I can’t enter that dimension.’

I could roughly guess who was doing this, but I had no answers about where they were or why they were acting this way.

“And I can’t keep blocking these attacks indefinitely either.”

If I used my power, I could send the two forces far away or erase them entirely without Sloth being destroyed.

However, that was only a temporary measure, so Sloth would rampage again eventually.

“How am I supposed to handle this…?”

I exhaled a long sigh as I gazed at the melted eyes and ice.

“Want me to take care of it?”

A squirrel doll burst from my chest, accompanied by a cheerful voice.

Poof!

The squirrel doll transformed with a small burst of sparkles into Evelyn, draped elegantly in a purple robe.

“Wait, how did you…?”

I stared at Merlin with my mouth agape as she grinned mischievously.

“I left the squirrel doll at the Annex Building, didn’t I?”

Evelyn had insisted I carry it with me, but I’d been too frightened and left the squirrel doll at the Annex Building instead. I had no idea why it was now in my inner pocket.

“I cast a blessing of union upon the squirrel doll and you, so you could always be together.”

Evelyn clasped her hands together in prayer, saying that even if I left it at home, it would eventually stick to me anyway.

“A… a blessing of union…?”

My fingertips trembled as I heard the magic whose power I could already anticipate from its name alone.

-That’s not a blessing, you fool! That’s a curse! A vicious one at that!

Wrath shrieked in disbelief.

“Anyway…”

Evelyn drew a deep smile as she thrust her pale, almost ghostly white face forward.

“Our promised place and time aren’t here, are they?”

She shot him a glare burning with fierce heat, demanding why he had departed first.

“I… well…”

Raon swallowed hard and slowly retreated backward.

“It’s fine though. I saw everything anyway.”

Evelyn remarked that he had grown considerably stronger and brushed his shoulder.

“Mm…”

Raon’s eyelids trembled at Evelyn’s gesture.

-Now is not the time for you to look after Sloth, you fool!

Wrath shook his head vigorously, as if asking what he was doing.

-Escaping from that Mad Woman comes first! Hurry!

He screamed, but his feet remained planted on the ground.

‘It’s already too late…’

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“So…”

Evelyn smacked her lips while gazing at the mountain where snow and ice had melted away.

“You’re saying the traces left here and the aura that caused the noise between floors were the work of warriors?”
“Exactly. However…”

Raon spoke, his back leaning against a shattered rock fragment.

“The problem is that those swordsmen are transcendents. Monsters who’ve reached the highest echelon, at that.”

I furrowed my brow, acknowledging they might be as strong as me—or even stronger.

“So we just need to find those troublemakers, then?”

Evelyn smiled faintly, as if it weren’t particularly difficult.

“Right. But finding them won’t be easy. Given they’re using dimensional magic, they’re likely far from this location.”

I clicked my tongue while examining the traces of aura.

“Don’t worry. Dimensional and spatial magic are my specialty.”
“Specialty?”
“Yes. I had some excellent mentors.”

Evelyn had always been skilled, but she’d learned higher-dimensional magic from Chamber and Larian, bumping her fists together with pride.

“Though there is one problem.”

She wiggled her fingers and stepped closer to my side.

“I think I’ll need to see it with my own eyes to pinpoint their location.”

Evelyn shook her head, explaining that the impact of the overwhelming aura prevented her from detecting intact mana traces.

“Don’t worry about that.”

I smiled and lowered my hand.

“Wait a bit, and they’ll show themselves.”

Given that aura had erupted twice the moment Sloth fell asleep, there was no need to wait—it would burst forth immediately.

“Is that so? Then let’s wait.”

Evelyn brought her hands together and scattered mana, unfurling a blue barrier around the Sturrin Mountains. It resembled a boundary designed to track whoever opened a dimensional gate.

Yet even two hours after Evelyn cast the barrier, no dimensional gate opened again.

“So I really just need to wait a little longer, right?”

Evelyn regarded me with narrowed eyes.

“You came right away when I was there….”

I apologized and scratched the back of my head sheepishly.

“If it’s too hard, you can drop the barrier. Let’s rest a bit and try again.”

Since this wasn’t a fixed installation but rather something Evelyn was maintaining directly, I had no excuse to offer.

“That’s not the issue….”

Evelyn smacked her lips and stepped closer, her warmth radiating gently from where our shoulders brushed.

“It’s a bit cold. Want to talk while we’re close?”

She pressed even closer, her breathing audible as she spoke.

“Y-you can hear me fine from over there, can’t you?”

I laughed awkwardly and stepped back from Evelyn.

“My hearing’s a bit off, you see.”

Evelyn smiled more brightly and stepped closer again.

“Then we should get that treated. I’ll call the Saint when we get back.”

My jaw trembled as I stepped further away.

“Never mind. Being close to you seems to be the cure.”

Evelyn murmured in protest and pressed right up against me.

“I’m… I’m just a bit warm….”
“It’s fine. My body is cold.”
“That’s not cold at all….”
“This is cold enough.”

Raon and Evelyn spun in circles like a windmill, endlessly circling the flattened mountain.

-Is… is this compatibility? The Continent’s greatest madwoman can’t move an inch….

Wrath exhaled sharply, saying that even Raon couldn’t defeat the Mad Woman.

Whoooosh whoooosh whoooosh.

The two of them and one Demon Lord waged a silent war as they spent the night awake.

Uuuuuuuuung!

As the sun rose, two dimensions opened, and from within them, the aura of flames and the energy of frost burst forth explosively.

“Evelyn!”

Raon stopped his sideways movement and called to Evelyn.

“I need to confirm the dimensional coordinates! Keep those energies from exploding!”

Evelyn ground her teeth, saying the aura’s power was far stronger than expected, making it impossible to properly observe the dimension.

“Understood.”

Raon nodded and drew the Heavenly Sword and the Mokryun Sword.
He awakened Manhwagong and Glacsia above the two blades and drove between the flames and frost that sought to collide with each other.

Whoooaaaa!

He blocked the flames with Manhwagong to prevent the impact from spreading, and wrapped the frost with Glacsia.

Kuuuuuung!

Raon clenched the Heavenly Sword and Mokryun Sword as if to break them, biting his lip.

‘The aura is far heavier than I anticipated.’

It was a formidable force that required me to activate the Divine Demon Harmony Seal just to match its strength. Merely blocking it left my back drenched in sweat.

‘I cannot use the Divine Demon Harmony Seal again….’

I opened my Will.

I had already consumed considerable Will and the powers of the Demon Lords, but there was no other way.

Kuuuoong!

I stomped down fiercely and wielded Manhwagong and Glacsia with maximum intensity.

Gooooooooh!

Upon the surging flames and frost-edged blades, I infused my formidable Will and power, then brought down the aura that burst forth from the dimension.

Kuwaaaaaaaang!

At last, gaining the advantage, the flames and frost began to slowly fade as they were overwhelmed by Manhwagong and Glacsia.

Huuuuuuuk!

I ultimately overcame the auras of the two seals that had pierced through the dimension with my strength alone, then collapsed where I stood.

“Haaah….”

The moment the dimension closed, turbid breath poured out. Following the duel with Sloth, blocking the auras of two Transcendents left me so drained that convulsions wracked my entire body.

“Evelyn. What happened?”

I gazed at Evelyn’s back with trembling eyes.

“I found it thanks to you.”

Evelyn turned around with a slight smile.

“It is not far from here.”

She nodded, saying that while walking was difficult, she could construct a teleportation magic circle.

“Where is it?”

Raon pushed himself upright, gathering strength in his trembling grip.

“Over there….”

Evelyn tilted her chin toward the north, beyond even the Sturrin Mountains.

“It’s above the Northern Sea.”

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“Um, couldn’t I go too?”

Dorian clasped his hands together, watching Sloth sink into deep slumber.

“I’ve brought everything I could possibly need!”

He fell to his knees, pleading to be taken along.

“It could be dangerous there. This place is the safest.”

Raon pressed down on Dorian’s shoulder, telling him to stay with Sloth.

“B-but he’s a Demon Lord!”
“He’s fine. Just think of him as Lunan Slion.”

Sloth and Lunan Slion shook their heads, saying it was merely a matter of preference.

“Huh…?”

Dorian blinked blankly.

-That’s impossible! You crazy bastard!

Wrath shook his head in disbelief.

‘Either way, where we’re going now is definitely more dangerous.’

I shook my head coldly.

‘A fight could break out the moment we enter.’

Taking Dorian with us was impossible since combat could erupt the instant we opened the Dimensional Gate.

“But why won’t it open again?”

Evelyn furrowed her brow, staring at the ground where the dimension had opened.

“I blocked the auras of both of them.”

I clenched my fist, releasing the hand I had extended.

“They must have sensed the interference on their end.”

Even after a full day passed since I blocked the flames and frost, the dimension hadn’t opened. It seemed they had noticed something was wrong with this place and stopped fighting.

“Should we just move then?”

Evelyn licked her lips, having already calculated the formula for a teleportation spell.

“No, let’s wait a bit longer. Catching them in the act is the most….”

It was as I shook my head.

Uuuuuuung!

I felt a massive aura burst through the dimension from the opposite mountainside.
Sensing the interference here, they seemed to have changed locations.

“Evelyn. Now!”

Raon placed his hands on the Heavenly Sword and the Mok Ryun Sword, calling out to Evelyn.

“Already on it!”

Evelyn quickly brought her hands together as if to say there was nothing to worry about. A shimmering, unnervingly dense mana gathered above her palms before a blue Dimensional Gate opened.

“Just go through!”
“Thanks.”

Before I could finish expressing my gratitude, I stepped through the Dimensional Gate Evelyn had opened.

Whoooosh!

The moment I entered the dimension, warm air rushed toward me. I’d heard we were above the Northern Sea, yet I couldn’t fathom why such a balmy breeze was blowing.

Boom.

I quickly executed a footwork technique to exit the dimension.

Brilliant light blazed and faded.

What came into view was a cold-faced man gripping a stern saber and a kind-looking woman with a sword wreathed in flames planted before her.

And behind them, a Gold Dragon was submerged in the Northern Sea.

[Stop it already!]

The Dragon roared at the saber-wielding man and the sword-wielding woman.

[How much longer are you two going to keep bickering like a married couple!]

“Huh…?”

My eyes, which had been focused solely on combat, went blank.

‘A married couple’s quarrel?’
-…Are these people insane too?

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