The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 1249

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Chapter 1249

Whoooosh!

Lunan pursued the robed Strange Being, unleashing a sword strike wreathed in silvery frost.

Crash!

The robed Eden Executive arched his back like a bow to evade Lunan’s blade, then used the recoil to flee even faster.

“Ha…”

Lunan bit her lip deeply and leaned her upper body forward. White frost bloomed from her feet as she closed the distance to the robed Strange Being in an instant.

Swoooosh!

Rather than unleash another sword strike, Lunan pressed directly behind the robed Strange Being and brought her blade down toward his back. The killing intent blazed—if he kept dodging her strikes, she would pierce him through.

“Hah!”

The robed Strange Being gasped sharply, alarmed by Lunan’s footwork, and twisted his ankles and waist. He evaded her blade by the thinnest margin and retreated urgently.

“This will… be different…”

Lunan pressed her lips together with absolute resolve not to let him escape, unleashing a flurry of sword techniques.
Pure white frost erupted from her beloved blade Seolhwa, surging upward to block every path the robed Strange Being could take.

“Ugh!”

The robed Strange Being swallowed hard, tense as the frost fragments threatened to freeze bone and flesh upon contact. He made a decision and descended from the air, rolling across the ground.

Boom!

As the robed Strange Being stamped the earth, stones and soil embedded in the ground erupted skyward, colliding with the frost Lunan had conjured.

Crash!

He didn’t miss the fleeting gap as the wall of frost created by Lunan shattered, and he widened the distance by moving with footwork as elusive as shadow itself.

“Tch….”

Lunan’s brow furrowed thinly as annoyance flickered across her face, and she swung her blade faster and with greater force.
The frost imbued with her fury advanced as if alive, targeting the Robe Organization’s entire body.

“Hiss!”

The Robe Organization’s creature didn’t sustain a single scratch even amid Lunan’s relentless assault, somehow finding gaps in space to escape through.
While the footwork itself was swift, what truly stood out was the creativity displayed in each fleeting moment.

“Whoosh! Whoosh!”

After evading all of Lunan’s storm-like offensive, the Robe Organization’s creature gasped heavily for breath. Without even considering a counterattack, it completely fled Budnew Village and began running toward the Zigheart Boundary.

“Where do you think you’re—”

Lunan’s eyes narrowed as she chased the Robe Organization’s creature beyond Zigheart’s boundary. Even as she moved, she unleashed consecutive blade strikes, yet the creature evaded them all as if it had eyes in the back of its head.

“Fight….”

Lunan bit her lip anxiously, her footwork accelerating to full speed. She tried to cut off its escape by striking from the left, determined to leave it nowhere to run.

But the Robe Organization’s creature read her movements and slipped to the right the moment she approached, maintaining its distance. Its movements in retreat and evasion were flawless enough to seem almost supernatural.

“Stop… and fight me….”

Lunan continued to press the attack, but the Robe Organization’s creature seemed focused solely on escape, never once clashing blades and only retreating further.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

The two of them focused entirely on offense and evasion, and before long they crossed beyond Zigheart’s boundary into an increasingly dense forest.

“Never….”

Lunan didn’t spare a glance at the rotting corpses of Zigheart’s swordsmen scattered about, her white teeth bared in determination.

“I won’t… let you escape….”

She advanced into the darkness, her pale violet eyes burning with intense heat.

* * *

“What on earth is that…?”

Martha exhaled sharply as she watched the robed Strange Being evade Lunan’s blade.

“Dodging Sleepy’s Frost Sword like that?”

Lunan’s swordsmanship right now was terrifyingly cold and sharp. Even Martha couldn’t deflect attacks with such perfect precision, so she couldn’t fathom how such evasion was possible.

“Lunan’s swordsmanship hasn’t reached transcendence yet, but its power and range have already reached transcendent-class levels.”

Burren ran behind Martha, his eyes narrowing to thin slits.

“In other words, the Eden Executive fleeing before us possesses transcendent-class footwork and evasion abilities as well.”

He exhaled sharply, as if exasperated.

“With that level of combat power…”

Martha’s brow furrowed deeply.

“They could have just fought instead of running away?”

The robed Eden Strange Being evaded Lunan’s relentless assault perfectly without even looking back properly.
With footwork and judgment of that caliber, the three of them—Martha, Burren, and Lunan—wouldn’t lose even in a combined assault, so she couldn’t understand why they were only fleeing.

“That’s true.”

Burren nodded slightly.

“If they truly possess combat power at that level of footwork and evasion…”

He let out a short, knowing laugh as if he could see through the entire situation.

“What do you mean?”

Martha widened her eyes and turned to look at Burren.

“Look at the feet of that Robe Strange Being.”

Burren pointed with his finger at the Robe Strange Being evading Lunan’s sword.

“Its feet only move in the opposite direction from Lunan’s, and there’s no attempt to close the distance at all.”

He raised his eyebrows as if asking whether this wasn’t strange.

“Even if an ordinary martial artist is running away, the instinct from learning martial arts means they won’t just keep their distance. There’s always that hesitation—should I try to close in and counterattack if an opening appears? But that thing….”

Burren nodded, putting force into the tip of his finger.

“It doesn’t have that instinct at all. Even when an opening appears for Lunan, it focuses solely on increasing distance without the slightest hesitation.”

He placed his hand on his sword, telling her to observe for herself.

“The instinct to close in?”

Martha steadied her breathing and focused her gaze on the battle before her.

“Ah? Now that I’m looking properly, it really is….”

When she focused only on the Robe Strange Being’s feet and movements, she could indeed see something different from when she tried to grasp the entire situation.
Just as Burren said, the Robe Strange Being showed no signs of attempting to close in or counterattack.
All its attention was devoted solely to evasion, like an ordinary person who had never learned martial arts at all.

“Its footwork seems to consist only of evasive techniques.”

The Robe Strange Being’s footwork appeared to be supreme martial arts, yet strangely, it contained no offensive techniques whatsoever. It was like watching a prey animal focused solely on fleeing rather than a monster—the movements of a creature built for escape.

“Right. It feels like chasing a rabbit or a Purple-eyed Squirrel.”

Burren nodded, apparently sharing the same thought.

“How did you even notice that?”

Martha shook her head in disbelief.

“I’ve recently been training with Father and have honed my observation skills.”

Burren Zigheart mentioned that he had been training with Karun, snapping his fingers.

“No, actually I was just lucky. I discovered it without even realizing it.”

He scratched his head, seeming embarrassed about training with his father now, attributing it to fortune.

“As expected of the young master! It was worth bringing you along!”

Martha patted Burren Zigheart’s back, praising him.

“If our suspicions are correct….”

I bit my lip hard, looking back at Lunan and the robed Strange Being.

“That means that creature is luring Lunan?”

Martha clenched her fists as the situation finally became clear to her.

“That’s right. There’s no other explanation.”

Burren Zigheart nodded, saying he wasn’t sure if it was luring Lunan, but it was definitely trying to draw in the Gwangpung Corps.

“My instinct was correct.”

Martha wrinkled her nose and took a sharp breath.

“The moment I saw that creature, I felt disgusted.”

The instant I saw Lunan chasing after that robed Strange Being, my heart sank with a heavy thud.
My emotions were becoming too intense, so I hastily called Burren Zigheart and pursued them, and it seemed that was the best decision I could have made.

“We have to stop it.”

Martha nodded toward Burren Zigheart.

“So that fool can’t follow all the way to the end!”
“Alone, it won’t be easy, but….”

Burren drew a smile with the same gleam in his eyes as Martha.

“With the two of us, we can do it!”

* * *

I was seated upon the Jade Throne in the Audience Chamber, reviewing the few remaining documents.

Whoooosh!

The Audience Chamber doors burst open violently, and Chad of the Bi-Yeon Society came rushing in.

“Head of House!”

Chad waved a dirt-smudged envelope as he addressed me by my title.

“I’m the temporary Head of House, not the Head of House.”

I sighed and waved my hand dismissively. Everyone else properly called me the temporary Head of House, yet Chad inexplicably insisted on calling me simply the Head of House every time. It hardly seemed like a mistake.

“Well, you’re the Head of House either way, aren’t you?”

Chad chuckled and scratched his head sheepishly.

“So what is this matter?”

I narrowed my eyes, studying the envelope in Chad’s hand.

“Ah! A report has arrived from the Bi-Yeon Society agents dispatched to Budnew Village!”

Chad opened the envelope and withdrew a white letter.

“As expected, Eden launched an attack during the investigation, but the Gwangpung Corps suppressed them without a single casualty. Additionally, the swordsmen killed at the Zigheart Boundary were stabbed from behind, and their entire bodies were rotting as if they had been cursed.”

He recounted the events that had unfolded there in meticulous detail, as if he had personally visited Budnew Village himself.

“Furthermore, one of Eden’s executives fled toward the Zigheart Boundary, and Lunan, Burren, and Martha are currently in pursuit.”

Chad grinned, confident that those three would be more than capable of subduing or eliminating the target.

“I see.”

I listened to Chad’s final words and tapped my fingers against the armrest of the Jade Throne.

‘So he’s made his move after all.’

There was no way Lunan, Burren, and Martha could fail to capture a single fleeing Eden Executive.
The fact that this had reached the Treasury meant the man I suspected was definitely luring Lunan.

-The True Demon King has been saying this all along!

Wrath rushed forward before my eyes, grinding his teeth.

-The ice cream girl is in danger!

He shook his clenched fists, insisting I should rush out immediately.

-A true king must think of his unseen subordinates before the documents before his eyes!

Wrath’s piercing gaze bore into me as he lectured that a true king must observe both the great and the small.

“So he’s luring her.”

Roen released a deep sigh.

“Calling upon her after witnessing the Gwangpung Hall’s military strength doesn’t seem like a favorable situation.”

Having heard the circumstances from Evelyn, he too seemed concerned about Lunan, his brows furrowing deeply.

“I shall attend to it.”

Sheryl nodded, indicating she would prepare for immediate departure.

“I’ve already contacted the Magic Tower as a precaution, so it shouldn’t take long.”

She smacked her lips, noting she had made preparations beforehand since she couldn’t predict what decision I might make.

Both of them had served Glen for so long that their handling of matters was flawless.

Whoosh.

I lowered my hand calmly as though I hadn’t heard anything, and picked up the last remaining document.

-This, this bastard! Are you insane!
‘They say a true king observes even the smallest details.’

I accepted Wrath’s outburst with composure, read through the document, and finished signing it.

‘That’s true enough, but I see it differently.’
-D, differently?
‘Yes. It’s good to consider and care for the small things, but trust is necessary too.’

I answered Wrath while gathering the signed documents and handing them to Sheryl.

“There may be things I’ve overlooked, so I’d appreciate your review.”
“Ah, yes….”

Sheryl accepted the documents with trembling hands. She swallowed dryly, tensing under the sudden weight of gravity that had settled over me.

“Huh….”

Roen also stopped laughing and blinked his eyes in bewilderment at the magnificent energy wave blooming from Raon’s very soul.

“Uuu….”

Chad trembled throughout his entire body, head bowed as though he’d done something wrong, letting out a low groan.

-Whether you think differently or not! Just move already!

Wrath shrieked, begging me to do something, anything.

-If we delay any longer, everyone could die! What’s the point of arriving late!

He shook his head vigorously, insisting I stop being ambiguous.

“Ambiguous, he says….”

I rested my chin in my hand and gazed into the empty space to my right, as though I had become Glen from the Northern Destruction King era.

‘You don’t need to worry about that.’

This time, it will end for certain.

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