The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 1248

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Chapter 1248

“Damn it!”

Martha bit her lip firmly as she sprinted toward Budnew Village.

‘Of all times for me to be absent! Did they attack precisely because they saw I was gone?’

Gwangpung Hall was considered the strongest military force in all of Zigheart, but eighty percent of that reputation stemmed from the existence of a monster named Raon.
Without Raon,
Gwangpung Hall alone would still struggle against transcendent masters, so she had to reach them as quickly as possible.

Crack!

Martha bit her lip until blood flowed.

‘Why am I so slow!’

Her current martial power had reached the pinnacle of Grand Master. After suffering an overwhelming defeat at Lunan’s hands, she had trained without sleep alongside Evelyn’s Mother, drawing one step closer to the Wall of Transcendence, yet today her footwork felt as sluggish as a snail crawling across the earth.

‘Just a little faster.’

Martha gritted her teeth inwardly and passed through the dense forest, entering the Forest Path where Budnew Village came into view.

‘If I just keep running like this… wait?’

It was the moment she was about to detonate her Titan Aura and launch herself forward at full power.

Boom!

The figures in crimson robes—who appeared to be Eden Ghosts—were literally exploding apart. The Red Ghost Soldiers in green garments likewise sank into the blackened earth with their torsos cleaved in half.

Overwhelming power. The Gwangpung Hall swordsmen remaining in Budnew Village were trampling the incoming Eden Ghosts with an even more refined Gale Wind Formation deployed.

“Hah…”

Martha calmed the surging aura within her and walked slowly into Budnew Village.

Crash!

Despite the Eden Ghosts and Red Ghost Soldiers outnumbering them several times over, they couldn’t even leave a scratch on Gwangpung Hall’s sword formation, swept away like receding tides. They resembled moths hurling themselves into crimson flames.

“…Did I come for nothing?”

Martha scratched the back of her head and turned away.

“I should continue investigating there… no, wait. Since I don’t know where that bastard is!”

The specter that stabbed the swordsmen standing guard from behind and corrupted them—its identity remained unknown. It was right to hurry forward and relay this information.

‘Besides, these are just cannon fodder.’

The truly dangerous ones in Eden weren’t the basic soldiers—the Red Ghost Soldiers or Eden Ghosts—but the officers wearing Monster masks and helmets.
Even if the Red Ghost Soldiers and Eden Ghosts handled the dirty work, the helmeted officers commanded most of the military force, so there was no room for complacency yet.

“Huff!”

Martha exhaled deeply and, rather than heading toward the center of Budnew Village where Gwangpung Hall maintained its sword formation, moved toward the outer edges teeming with Red Ghost Soldiers and Eden Ghosts.

“Ugh!”
“Grr!”

The Red Ghost Soldiers and Eden Ghosts spotted her, let out small cries of alarm, then immediately tried to thrust their blades at her.

“Too slow!”

Martha sneered and brought her sword crashing down. A terrifying aura erupted across the entire blade, obliterating not just those directly before her but the Red Ghost Soldiers and Eden Ghosts surrounding her as well.

Boom!

Yet the Red Ghost Soldiers and Eden Ghosts, as if fear had been carved from their very beings, charged at Martha without hesitation as she wrought slaughter.

“I love how insane they are!”

Martha ignited her Titan Aura and tore through the Red Ghost Soldiers and Eden Ghosts charging like wild boars, advancing toward the center of Budnew Village where Gwangpung Hall stood.

“Quite the dramatic entrance.”

Burren, who maintained the center of the formation, let out a soft chuckle as he observed Martha drenched in blood.

“You’re always like that.”

Martha shrugged her shoulders, asking if he was suggesting she wasn’t usually this way.

“So, what are the results?”

Burren tilted his chin, prompting her to share what the investigation had revealed.

“The swordsmen standing guard were stabbed from behind. Even after being stabbed, there were no signs of resistance. Most of the corpses are decomposed, so I can’t yet determine whether the enemy was too strong for them to react, or if it was due to sorcery.”

Martha nodded as she recounted what she had witnessed firsthand.

“I see. Stabbed from behind, then…”

Burren’s eyes narrowed as he contemplated the various possibilities.

“But where is that fool?”

Martha furrowed her brow upon noticing that Lunan was nowhere to be found within the Gwangpung formation.

“Over there.”

Burren pointed to the right with his finger.

A deafening rumble erupted.

From the right side, teeming with Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers, a colossal mountain of ice rose skyward. Within the pristine frost that formed, the Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers had become the very material of the mountain, frozen solid within it.

A bitter cold wind swept across the battlefield.

The tremendous frigid aura emanating from the ice mountain froze the legs of the Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers in its vicinity, rendering them immobile. They perished in a ghastly state, their entire bodies torn asunder by the cold—a fate they might have considered fortunate compared to the spirits trapped within the ice mountain itself.

“Phew.”

A silver-haired beauty descended gracefully upon the corpses of the Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers, not a single drop of blood upon her. Her elegant form resembled a celestial maiden descending from the heavens, yet she appeared equally like a malevolent specter rising from the frozen depths of hell.

“Hmm.”

Martha trembled as she felt the vicious cold swirling from Lunan’s blade.

‘This is absolutely ridiculous….’

She had grown stronger again.

Lunan had yet to cross the Wall of Transcendence, yet impossibly, she was radiating aura and power that rivaled those who had. In all her experience, only Raon had ever displayed such a phenomenon—it defied all conventional understanding.

‘What kind of curse is this?’

Evelyn had only mentioned that Lunan was afflicted by a terrible curse. Martha couldn’t fathom who had cast it or how it granted such overwhelming power.

The ground shattered beneath her feet.

Lunan crushed the corpses of Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers beneath her boots, then advanced toward the remaining spirits in the north.

“Ugh!”
“Uhhh….”

The Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers should have felt no fear, yet they recoiled with low groans, overwhelmed by Lunan’s absolute aura and killing intent.

The blade sang through the air.

Lunan swung her sword with cold precision, freezing the retreating Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers white as snow before shattering them to pieces.

“Eden….”

Her fury still unsated, she advanced toward the remaining spirits with an eerie aura that made the air itself shudder.

The ground froze beneath her steps.

As Lunan was about to move across the silvered battlefield—

An explosion erupted from the thicket.

From within the blood-soaked bushes, masked figures wearing Monster helmets burst forth. They were Eden’s executives who commanded the Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers. Seeing the situation slipping away, they could wait no longer and revealed themselves.

A grotesque sound echoed across the field.

The executives of Eden advanced with such overwhelming aura that the very ground trembled, attacking the swordsmen of Gwangpung Hall who maintained their formation.

“They’re Eden’s executives!”
“Focus your concentration!”
“Tighten the formation!”

The swordsmen of Gwangpung Hall remained vigilant, reinforcing their formation to repel the onslaught of Red Ghost Soldiers, Green Ghost Soldiers, and the executives’ assault.

Clang!

Eden’s executives were distinctly different from the lesser spirits. Even the swordsmen of Gwangpung Hall, who had been slaughtering the Red and Green Ghost Soldiers with ease, struggled to defend against their martial techniques and sorcery, their brows furrowing in frustration.

In truth, if Gwangpung Hall pressed forward with full force, they could easily annihilate Eden’s executives and the lesser spirits. However, their current mission was not massacre—it was to protect the Bi-Yeon Society investigation team. They could not abandon their position to safeguard those in the center.

“Lunan!”

Martha raised her hand, calling out to Lunan.

“This isn’t the time for that! Go back and maintain the formation!”

She stamped her foot, ordering Lunan to return to her proper position.

“….”

Lunan lowered the blade she had been wielding ferociously and turned around. She glanced briefly toward Gwangpung Hall before launching her sword at the enemy before her.

Splatter!

The orc’s helmet struck by Lunan’s blade and the Red Ghost Soldiers behind it simultaneously burst into blood. She continued focusing solely on slaying enemies, showing no intention of participating in the formation.

“Damn it!”

Martha gritted her teeth and rushed forward, taking Lunan’s place in the Gwangpung formation.

“Why won’t she listen!”

She ground her teeth while blocking the assault of the approaching troll-masked enemy.

“This is infuriating!”

I stamped my foot and drove my blade downward, shattering the chest of the troll-masked creature that had been about to bring its axe crashing down.

“You’ve always done the same thing, though?”

Burren Zigheart chuckled softly as he watched Martha’s irritation.

“I, I never—!”

Martha turned to face Burren Zigheart, her jaw trembling.

“Even when Raon told you to stay still, you’d charge forward every single day and swing your sword around. Surely you’re not going to pretend you don’t remember?”

Burren Zigheart shrugged, as if to say why he was feigning ignorance when he knew everything.

“Ugh….”

Martha had nothing to say, so she bit her lip firmly.

“For now, it’s fine to rampage. They’re not that strong.”

Burren Zigheart narrowed his eyes to slits as he observed the Eden executives and ghosts who could only tap against the Gale Wind formation without breaking through it.

“But I don’t understand why they keep attacking when they know they can’t win.”

He bit his lip, uneasy despite Eden attacking as expected—their numbers and military strength were lower than anticipated, which troubled him.

“There might be some other scheme at play.”

Martha severed the necks of four Red Ghost Soldiers simultaneously and smacked her lips.

“Either way, we just need to do our part.”

She nodded, saying they should only protect the Bi-Yeon Society’s investigation team according to the mission that came down from the Patriarch’s Hall.

“For you to say such a thing—the sun will rise in the west tomorrow.”

Burren Zigheart laughed lightly, feigning surprise at Martha’s words.

“It feels like your personality and Lunan’s have switched places.”

He furrowed his brow as he watched Lunan slaughter Eden’s executives and malevolent spirits.

“Lunan has grown stronger again. Her progress is absurdly remarkable.”

Burren Zigheart shuddered, his shoulders trembling at the sheer magnitude of Lunan’s power.

“Indeed. Annoyingly strong.”

Martha bit her lip slightly.

“But I’m not envious of it.”

Her personality has changed entirely.

Originally, when Lunan deployed the Gwangpung Formation, she would wield frost like wind to block powerful enemies’ attacks and support the swordsmen’s movements. She herself seemed to take the most satisfaction in that role, but now her very nature had transformed completely.

Crash—crash—crash—crash!

Lunan unleashed a massive torrent of frost, burying every enemy before her beneath a blanket of white ice. She focused solely on slaughtering her foes, indifferent to whether the swordsmen behind her fought or not.

‘I have to stop her. But…’

Martha reached into her pocket, touching the serpent bracelet she had received from Evelyn, and pressed her lips together firmly.

‘Can I do it?’

With the gap in actual power widening, even with the aid of Evelyn’s artifact imbued with magical power, she couldn’t be certain she could stop Lunan.

‘No, I have to try anyway.’

Martha shook her head and clenched her fists.

‘Just as Raon helped me.’

Raon had not forgotten the promise he made with me in childhood, and without asking for anything in return, he defeated the White Blood Cult Master and saved my mother. I too wanted nothing but to save Lunan, just as he had done.

Rumble—rumble—rumble!

As Martha steeled her resolve alone, the Eden Ghosts that had flooded into Budnew Village began to retreat in terror, as if they had struck an overwhelming wall.

“Fall back, fall back now!”
“Everyone retreat! We can’t break through that!”

With barely three executives of Eden remaining, they realized they couldn’t inflict even a scratch on Gwangpung Hall or the Bi-Yeon Society, so they ordered a retreat and fell back.

“Everyone pull back….”

Just as Eden’s executives were attempting to flee in different directions to save at least their own lives.

Whoooooosh!

Pure white frost flowers descended from the sky above Budnew Village. The delicate petals, the moment they touched the ground, transformed the surroundings into a pristine ice field, and when they touched a person, they froze not just the skin but the very marrow of their bones.

“Gahhhhh!”
“Ugghhh!”

The Eden executives and Red Ghost Soldiers and Green Ghost Soldiers attempting to flee Budnew Village were trapped within the mysterious martial technique Lunan had unleashed, their bodies freezing solid into blocks of ice. They became white statues, their eyes still holding the terror of the frost, before crumbling to dust.

“Eden will….”

Lunan only lowered her sword after eliminating every last one of Eden’s ghosts that had attacked Budnew Village.

“I’ll kill them all….”

She released a chilling aura of killing intent, as if she were venting the fear and shock she had received from Siria Slion onto Eden instead.

“Hmm….”
“L-Lunan?”
“I knew she was strong, but this is more than I expected….”

The swordsmen of Gwangpung Hall and the intelligence agents of the Bi-Yeon Society trembled, their eyes widening in shock at Lunan’s overwhelming power and ruthless execution.

“I-I’ll report this to headquarters first.”

The leader of the Bi-Yeon Society investigation team watched Lunan’s expression carefully as he unfolded a piece of paper. He took out a pen, realizing he needed to inform the clan that an actual attack had occurred.

“Hey!”

Martha approached Lunan with her brow furrowed.

“Why are you really doing this! That’s not even your position!”

Gwangpung Hall had specific positions and duties assigned to each member during combat. Today, Lunan had ignored that entire system and acted recklessly on her own, so I had to address it.

“Is it because I can’t do it? Right now our mission is….”
“They were weak….”

Lunan shook her head, her eyes dark and narrowed.

“So weak that not even a fingertip could reach Gwangpung Hall… They were pathetic….”

She tilted her chin, as if saying that because they were weak, she moved as she pleased.

“That’s not the point! There could be Transcendents or vicious sorcerers hiding among the enemy, so we always need to be prepared….”

It was the moment Martha, unusually unlike herself, grabbed Lunan’s shoulder and spoke reason.

“Let go….”

Lunan brushed Martha’s hand away and cast an eerie gaze behind her.

“There’s still one left….”

She sensed the presence of a hidden Eden operative and immediately kicked off the ground, launching forward.

Crash!

The Eden executive hiding his body was startled by Lunan’s charge and immediately leaped onto a tree. Though I could see he wore a helmet, the hood pulled over his head made it impossible to discern what form of creature he was.

“Die….”

Lunan extended her blade as if she would kill him whether he fled or not, but the Eden executive moved his body in an odd manner, deflecting all her attacks before fleeing westward.

“Hah….”

Lunan exhaled a cold aura of blade energy and stepped into pursuit, determined to catch the Eden executive.

“….”

Martha alternated her gaze between the excited Lunan and the Eden executive who had evaded her relentless assault, her lips pressed firmly together.

‘This doesn’t feel right.’

Lunan’s bizarre state, the Eden executive whose identity remained unknown, and the dizzying situations she had witnessed thus far flashed through her mind, sending a chill down her spine.

“Burren!”

Martha pulled the Titan’s aura to its maximum and gestured sharply toward Burren.

“We’re going too!”

She gestured toward Lunan’s fading silhouette and bit her lip.

“To look after Raon’s sister!”

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