The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 1211

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Chapter 1211

“Hmm.”

The Tower Master, pressed by Raon, let out a low groan as if caught in deliberation.

“Damn it….”

He rolled his eyes left and right, weighing the gains and losses from the life-or-death duel.

“Hey! Barih!”

A tall, middle-aged man called out the Tower Master’s name, waving his hand.

“Double the reward, I said! Double! You’re really not going to do it?”

He let out a mocking laugh, as if questioning why Barih was being so cowardly.

“Your tower will become three times taller than it is now—why are you hesitating!”
“And the opponent is just a newcomer who hasn’t even been in the Celestial Realm for a week!”
“You don’t even need to worry about fraud. With the Strude Priest’s guarantee, it’s absolute.”
“I’ve never seen a coward quite like this.”
“Newcomer! Forget about that guy and fight me instead!”

Others also mocked Barih as a coward, twisting their mouths upward as if questioning why he lived so pathetically.

“Hmm.”

I nodded slightly as I observed the people condemning Barih.

‘Just as expected. They’re moving exactly as planned.’

I had deliberately announced loud enough for everyone to hear that I would receive double the reward for fighting a life-or-death duel, and the surrounding crowd was creating an atmosphere that left Barih no choice but to fight.

If Barih refused to fight and fled, he would become so utterly disgraced that he could never set foot in the Celestial Realm again.

‘Charlie did well.’

Charlie had interjected at precisely the right moment, mentioning that the Strude Priest would guarantee a life-or-death duel. Thanks to him, an even more perfect snare had been woven.

“Hey! How much longer are you going to waste our time!”
“Forget that coward and fight me instead!”
“What a fool, unable to seize such a golden opportunity!”
“If you won’t do it, just get out of here!”

The crowd had developed a taste for mocking Barih, hurling caustic insults at him without restraint.

“Damn it!”

Barih clutched his head and stomped his feet with raw frustration.

“Fine! I’ll do it!”

Realizing he had been cornered with no escape or way to evade, he cried out in a frenzy that he would accept the life-or-death duel.

“A wise choice.”

I observed Barih grinding his teeth savagely and nodded calmly.

“Let’s begin at once.”

I brushed my hands lightly, indicating I was fully prepared.

“Looking at that confidence alone, you’d think Barih was the challenger and that one was the Tower Master!”
“The newcomer’s audacity is no joke.”
“That’s right! The monster who devoured all those rookie killers!”
“Already challenging the Tower Master? Impressive!”

Even though Barih had accepted the challenge, the crowd showered only me with praise and astonishment, ignoring him entirely.

“Damn it….”

Despite accepting the challenge, Barih felt his image crumbling and furrowed his brow deeply.

“Stop wasting time and let’s start!”

He redirected his resentment toward me, emanating a thick, murderous aura.

“You should start first.”

I flicked my finger, indicating that he should make the opening move.

“I’ll kill you!”

Barih extracted every trace of desire dwelling within the Tower and unleashed it toward me. Colossal waves of desire erupted outward, and pitch-black currents spiraled upward like a waterspout.

“Bring it on.”

I flicked my finger in invitation, drawing the desire embedded within my own Tower and wrapping it around my entire body like armor.

BOOM!

The immense desires that formed the Tower collided with one another, producing a deafening crash as if sledgehammers had struck.

‘Hmm!’

I exhaled softly, sensing the intense power contained within Barih’s desire.

‘The Tower Master truly is different.’

An axe-like heaviness of desire pressed down upon my entire body. Unlike the inexperienced fools I had faced before, Barih’s desire was meticulously refined to unleash the full strength of his true self.

‘Now I understand why Tower Masters don’t wager their Towers in life-or-death duels.’

With such carefully cultivated power, one could lose everything in a single moment. I was beginning to grasp why Tower Masters had refrained from gambling their Towers in mortal combat until now.

-Stop pretending to be impressed!

Wrath furrowed his brow in irritation.

-You could crush that bastard in an instant, so quit spouting nonsense!

He snorted, questioning why I was feigning surprise when I possessed the power to obliterate Barih’s desire in a heartbeat.

‘That’s true, but…’

I furrowed my brows deeply as I faced Barih’s relentless assault.

I was indeed surprised. To be honest, I had completely dismissed them.

I had assumed that most people in this Celestial Realm—whether Tower Masters or High Priests—were the dregs of humanity. But now I could see they were different from martial artists; they had each honed their own strength in their own way.

Of course…

A thin smile crossed my lips.

It was also true that I could defeat them with ease.

Just as Wrath had said, it would be simple to crush Barih by merely concentrating my desire and driving it forward.

-Then why don’t you crush him right now? Why are you holding back?

Wrath’s question made me tilt my head in confusion.

‘If I don’t put on a show…’

I bit the inside of my lip as I observed the spectators who were watching my duel with Barih with such fascination.

‘All the guests will flee.’

Tower Masters were far more perceptive than these other fools. If I feigned weakness clumsily or simply won outright, there would be no one left willing to accept my challenges in the future. The best approach was to engage Barih in a fierce battle and barely emerge victorious.

“You fool!”

Barih, believing he had seized the advantage, curled his lips into a sneer and unleashed an even more ferocious wave of desire.

“If you had just stayed quiet, you could have lived hearing yourself called a Tower Master!”

Despite knowing that murder was forbidden in the Celestial Realm, he raised his killing intent and hurled a heavy surge of desire toward me.

“Hah…”

I let out a heavy breath, perspiration beading on my brow as I gasped for air as though utterly exhausted.

“So Barih has won.”
“As expected, a newcomer is still a newcomer!”
“For a newcomer, he wasn’t bad, but the difference in experience is unavoidable.”
“With this, Barih will become an intermediate Tower Master too? He’s struck gold.”

The spectators nodded in agreement with Barih’s victory, regarding him with envious eyes.

“Where did that earlier bravado go?”

Barih let out a scoff, convinced that the life-or-death duel had ended in his victory.

“Die!”

He cried out that this was the end, unleashing the most colossal wave of desire he had summoned yet.

‘This is perfect.’

Barih, intoxicated by the thrill of victory and the promise of rewards, poured forth a torrent of desire without properly concentrating its power.

BOOM!

I seized the opening without hesitation, honing the remaining desire into a needle-sharp point and piercing through Barih’s massive wave of desire.

“Th-This… Cough!”

Having already expended all his desire, Barih could not defend against my final assault, and his soul was pierced clean through.

“Ugh!”

Barih struggled desperately to endure, but my desire would not release his soul—it twisted and crushed it mercilessly.

“This… this wasn’t supposed to happen…”

At last, Barih lost consciousness and collapsed, and victor and vanquished were naturally determined.

CRUMBLE!

His tower, which had loomed behind Barih, crumbled like a sandcastle swept by waves, and all the desires dwelling within it were drawn into me.

“B-Barih lost?”
“Barih was clearly dominating, wasn’t he?”
“How did this happen?”
“The fool Barih grew careless at the end, and the newcomer didn’t miss that opening. He got lucky.”
“It wasn’t luck—it was skill. The ability to fight until the very end is one of the most important qualities.”
“Regardless, the result was unexpected.”

Those who had anticipated Barih’s victory and smacked their lips in satisfaction now stared at Raon with wide eyes, bewildered by the outcome that defied their expectations.

‘An absolutely tremendous amount, indeed.’

I trembled with the overwhelming satisfaction of obtaining a far greater quantity of desire in a single moment than I had accumulated since arriving in the Celestial Realm.

Yet what I needed to acquire was far from complete.

“I never expected you would engage in a life-or-death duel for the Tower. Truly impressive.”

The Strude Priest with flowing blue hair stepped forward from among the astonished crowd.

“I’m not foolish enough to let a good opportunity slip away.”

I gestured with my chin, urging him to honor the promise without delay.

“Of course I must fulfill it.”

The Strude Priest smiled softly and brought his hands together, whereupon white wings blossomed behind my back.

“This is….”

Raon felt his desire doubling as he had just overwhelmed Barih, and he swallowed hard. So much desire rushed in at once that it was difficult for him to keep his senses.

“Since there are so many desires contained within the flesh, I will add them to the Tower as you wished.”

The Strude Priest snapped his fingers at Raon.

Bang!

With the crisp sound of finger meeting finger, the Tower that Raon had built with desire shot up sharply like a snake’s head spotting prey, soaring to three times its original height.

“Wait, you really are doubling the rewards?”
“Insane! Becoming a mid-tier Tower Master in an instant!”
“I-I can’t even call him a newcomer anymore, can I?”
“Stupid Barih! Missing such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”

The crowd gazed upon me with envious eyes while simultaneously heaping scorn and ridicule upon Barih for failing to seize this chance.

“Not bad.”

I nodded in satisfaction as I observed the Tower, which had tripled in height in a single moment.

‘But I still have far to go before reaching the Sky.’

Though the Tower had grown considerably, its original position had been so low that even tripling its height left a vast distance between it and the Sky.

“I look forward to your continued cooperation.”

The Strude Priest bowed respectfully before me, as if requesting that I continue to engage in life-or-death duels, then returned to the Temple.

“W-What! This wasn’t just once?”
“Every time we duel with him, we get double rewards?”
“Insane! What kind of special treatment is this!”
“I heard that he’s the only Tower Master who wanted to stake his Tower in a life-or-death duel.”
“Is that why he’s receiving such rewards? His boldness is remarkable.”
“Hey! Newcomer! How about facing me next time?”

The crowd gazed upon me with envious eyes while simultaneously revealing their desire to seize my fortune for themselves.

‘No.’

I curled my lips upward as I observed the people overflowing with desire and the Tower of Greed they had constructed.

‘I might reach the Sky far faster than I expected.’

* * *

“Hmm!”

The Strude Priest lifted his teacup and smiled with satisfaction.

“The aroma is quite pleasant.”

He curled his lips into a long smile, not referring to the scent of tea, but rather expressing how much he was enjoying the current situation.

“You seem to be in good spirits, sir.”

Baife stood behind the Strude Priest, his expression carrying a faint smile.

“How could I not be?”

The Strude Priest set down his teacup quietly and nodded with composure.

“Thanks to the pig you brought, the Tower’s life-and-death matches have increased dramatically.”

He nodded, noting that thanks to Raon, the Tower’s life-and-death matches—which hadn’t occurred even once in several months—were now happening frequently.

“I didn’t anticipate things would unfold this way either.”

Baife placed a hand to his forehead.

“I thought people would only flock to Jilpen, but they’ve been holding life-and-death matches among themselves as well.”

He exhaled softly, admitting this was something he hadn’t foreseen.

“The desire to grow again has been ignited. Even trash has some backbone, it seems.”

The Strude Priest scoffed at all the humans existing in the Celestial Realm and tilted his chin.

“Well, thanks to that, desires are accumulating faster than expected. The more desires wagered in life-and-death matches, the stronger the energy stored in this land becomes.”

He clasped his hands together, noting that desires far exceeding the Celestial Realm’s original quota were gathering.

“However….”

Baife approached Strude’s side and narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Jilpen’s Tower is far higher than anticipated. If he faces an opponent of equal rank in one more life-and-death match, it truly might reach the heavens.”

He let out a subtle cough, as if questioning whether this was really acceptable.

“It certainly has grown taller.”

The Strude Priest narrowed his brows as he gazed at my Tower, which had risen so high that it could no longer be fully observed through the Temple’s windows.

“As you said, if we were to have one more life-or-death battle, it might even touch the sky. However, that won’t happen. The last opponent he must face is….”

He let out a thin smile and shook his finger.

“Not an ordinary human.”

* * *

“Is this the first Tower ever built in the Celestial Realm?”

I stood before the Tower that gleamed with golden light and lifted my head.

“It’s tall.”

After engaging in life-or-death battles with the Tower and continuing to win, my Tower had now become the second tallest in the Celestial Realm.

However, the first tallest Tower before my eyes was considerably higher than mine, appearing almost as if it blocked out the sky itself.

If I were to have a life-or-death battle with the master of this Tower and obtain his desires as well, it truly seemed possible to pierce the sky with my Tower.

“Then, for the final challenge….”

I was about to lick my lips in anticipation of challenging the master of the Tower that was built first in the Celestial Realm.

“N-No, absolutely not!”

Charlie grabbed my ankle and shook his head vigorously.

“Kurk, the master of that Tower, was the first to arrive in the Celestial Realm and is a monster who has never suffered a single defeat! Please, take the Towers of others instead!”

He cried out as if he couldn’t let me go this time.

“A monster?”

I looked at Kurk’s Tower again and narrowed my eyes.

“You saw it clearly enough. That thing is definitely a Monster.”

But it was no ordinary Monster. The Tower’s master was not human—it was a being of the Celestial Race.

“Still, don’t worry. Hunting Monsters is something I’ve always done….”

I clenched my fist with the intensity of one grasping the Tower itself, my lips curling into a determined smile.

“As a human.”

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