The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 1269

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Chapter 1269

“Ha!”

Sageomryeong let out a hollow laugh tinged with disbelief and cold disdain.

“You speak such nonsense after succeeding with merely a single sword strike. So the Sword Emperor is more impulsive than I’ve heard.”

She brushed away the blood with the back of her hand, as though the wound on her shoulder were beneath her notice.

“The battle has only just begun.”

As Sageomryeong snarled, a crimson aura began to shimmer and dance beneath her feet.

Kuguguguguguuu!

Sageomryeong unleashed an aura of an entirely different caliber than before, as though what had transpired until now was merely reconnaissance. The overwhelming energy radiating from her distorted the very space around her.

“Now begins….”

Sageomryeong hunched her upper body forward like a beast, drawing her sword back over her shoulder.
It was the same predatory stance as before, yet the killing intent and aura emanating from her were on an entirely different plane.

Uuuuuuuung!

As a massive crimson aura erupted from her back like wings of flame, the Gwangpung Hall swordsmen who had been barely holding their ground began to buckle, their knees striking the earth.

“Such an aura….”
“Damn it!”

Burren Zigheart clenched his teeth, straining to keep his trembling legs steady, while Martha furrowed her brow with stubborn defiance, yet even she could not help but lower her body against the force of Sageomryeong’s aura.

“Ugh….”

Lunan Slion, befitting a transcendent, managed to hold her ground, though she bit her lips until they bled, struggling against the pressure.

“Lord… Spirit King…!”
“Gahhhhh!”
“I can’t… breathe…!”

The Eden Executives couldn’t withstand Sageomryeong’s aura either, their faces drained of color as they bent their bodies in submission.

“Certainly different.”

Raon nodded, exhaling in admiration at the aura Sageomryeong had unleashed with genuine intent.

“But the outcome remains unchanged.”

Unlike Sageomryeong, who emanated a terrifying aura like a volcano, I maintained a serene energy wave and curved my lips upward in a smile.

“That smile…!”

Sageomryeong stretched her waist like rubber, her eyes narrowing to razor-sharp slits.

“I’ll show you how far this goes!”

She cried out that she would create a different outcome, shattering the ground beneath her as she hurtled forward.

Clang!

Before Raon could exhale even half a breath, a black blade flashed before his eyes. Sageomryeong attacked at twice the speed of their first collision.

Whoooosh!

Raon abandoned any attempt to block Sageomryeong’s blade and instead pivoted on his ankle, rotating his entire body to slip beneath the descending black sword before stepping back to the right.
I twisted my ankle. I twisted my entire body to let the curved black sword slide past me, then stepped back to the right.

“Hmph!”

Sageomryeong rotated her body in midair as if she had anticipated this. Like a bird of prey changing direction to chase a fleeing rabbit, she shifted her entire body’s momentum to pursue Raon.

“The speed…”

Raon furrowed his brows as he watched Sageomryeong persistently pursue him and thrust her sword forward.

‘It’s not slowing down. If anything, it’s gotten faster.’

Normally, changing direction would reduce speed, but Sageomryeong pursued me even faster than her initial charge. It was a movement that made absolutely no sense by conventional standards.

Clang!

Raon brought down the Heavenly Sword, which was filled with fierce flames, in a diagonal slash. The sparks spun like a windmill as he deflected Sageomryeong’s bloodlust-filled thrust toward the Manhwa Palace’s rotating ceiling.

‘Heavy.’

It wasn’t just the speed—the power was abnormal too.

Sageomryeong’s blade had not only increased in speed but also in weight and force. Even the ground beneath my feet seemed to cry out from the power contained in her sword strikes.

Whoosh!

Sageomryeong retreated a step from the flames of the windmill, then thrust her black blade forward at an even faster speed. She moved through the air with the grace of a circus acrobat on a tightrope, targeting my vital points from countless angles.
She moved freely through the air like a circus performer on a tightrope, targeting Raon’s vital points from numerous directions.

Hahaha, whatever!

Raon fluidly twirled the Heavenly Sword, which gleamed with golden light, and deflected all of Sageomryeong’s storm-like sword strikes.

“That method…”

That looks pretty useful, doesn’t it?

If I could master her footwork, far more liberated combat would become possible.
If he could master her footwork, it seemed like much more flexible combat would be possible.

Hahahaha!

Raon drew a flexible sword path as smooth as silk, accepting Sageomryeong’s sword strike while capturing her footwork with his blazing red eyes.

“I see it now. The secret was the abnormal flexibility in the ankles.”

Without flexibility, the body cannot assume optimal positions, and even if one maintains speed briefly, injury becomes inevitable.
If your body isn’t flexible, you can’t achieve optimal posture, and even if you can maintain a fast pace for a short while, you’ll inevitably end up getting injured.

Right now, Sageomryeong was displaying movements impossible for a human body, utilizing her bizarrely flexible ankles as she thrust at my entire form in rapid succession.

‘Excellent.’

I observed Sageomryeong’s ankles once more, then nodded slowly.

‘I can replicate movements at that level.’

The Ring of Fire had cultivated my body to be optimal for deploying martial techniques since its earliest stages.
In my current physical condition, mimicking Sageomryeong’s movements presented no particular difficulty.

“Hah.”

I was about to execute footwork that moved freely through empty space like Sageomryeong, striking at the air with her grace.

Whoooosh!

Sageomryeong’s black sword snarled ferociously, aiming for my head.

Screech!

I widened my eyes as I drew a semicircle with the Heavenly Sword, imbued with softness and flexibility as before, to block Sageomryeong’s black sword.

Crackle!

Sageomryeong’s black sword pierced through the Heavenly Sword’s defense and descended sharply toward my head.

‘What!’

With eyes wide open, I twisted the Heavenly Sword’s hilt to knock away the black sword’s blade.

Screech!

But Sageomryeong, as if refusing to miss this opportunity, thrust a ghostly indistinct blade that pushed the Heavenly Sword aside and drove her sword toward my throat.

Clang!

As my crimson eyes gleamed, the Mokryun Sword sheathed at my right hip suddenly rose of its own accord, deflecting Sageomryeong’s black sword that rushed toward my neck.

“Indeed.
.
I heard the Sword Emperor wielded two blades….”

Sageomryeong retreated sharply and let out a cold laugh.

“So you’re finally revealing your true strength?”

She twisted her lips upward, clearly offended that Raon had only used a single blade until now.

“….”

Raon gazed at the Mokyul Sword floating to his left with serene eyes.

‘That was dangerous.’

Sageomryeong had pierced through his defense with a chilling resolve—a willingness to kill him even if it meant taking a wound herself.
Had he not drawn the Mokyul Sword, his
chest or throat might have been slashed open.

-Arrogant fool, look at the mess you’ve made!

Wrath scoffed as if he’d expected this all along.

-Just as you observed that woman, she observed you! That’s why your defense crumbled at the end!

He waved his hand dismissively.

‘I wasn’t being arrogant. I knew that much.

Raon shook his head calmly.

‘I just didn’t expect her to break through my defense so quickly.’

He had known Sageomryeong was observing him, but he hadn’t anticipated her piercing his defensive flow with such speed.
Her talent and martial prowess were exceptional enough that the title of Cheonma’s Disciple suited her perfectly, just as he’d initially assessed.

“Ha.”

Sageomryeong’s nose wrinkled as she observed Raon’s composed expression.

“Do you lack the capacity to feel panic?”

Despite standing at death’s threshold, she bit her lip in disbelief at Raon’s unshakeable calm.

“No, I was genuinely surprised.”

Raon shook his head without the slightest change in expression.

“I hadn’t intended to reveal this, but you’ve earned the right to witness it.”

I exhaled slowly and grasped the Heavenly Sword and Mok Ryun Sword in reverse grip.

Fwooooosh!

As I drove both blades into the blackened, fractured earth,
I wielded Manhwagong and Glacsia with supreme mastery.

“Sword Realm Incarnation.”

The moment I released the hilts of the Heavenly Sword and Mok Ryun Sword and rose to my feet, a golden sun and silver moon materialized behind my back.

“Divine Demon Harmony Union.”

The divine blade forged from the sun and the demonic blade melted from the moon manifested in my hands, while flames and frost erupted behind me like the forms of an angel and demon intertwined.
A form that embodied the very concept of peerlessness—transcendent sword energy that seemed capable of severing all existence while simultaneously protecting everything under heaven. Everyone present held their breath, suspended in the presence of such overwhelming power.

“Magnificent….”

Sageomryeong’s jaw trembled in awe at the sword energy radiating from me as I opened the Sword Realm, her lips twisting with exhilaration.

“Then I shall stake everything I possess!”

As she stomped her foot, crimson energy surged like molten lava toward the heavens, dyeing the entirety of Eden’s Headquarters in scarlet light.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble!

The space where Sageomryeong stood began to look as though it were burning, engulfed in crimson killing intent.
Eden’s Headquarters trembled and shook as if it would crumble, as though fearful of her very existence.

“….”

Raon did not emit the terrifying killing intent that Sageomryeong unleashed, nor did he shake the air. He simply held the softly glowing Divine Sword and Demonic Sword gently in his grasp.

“Haaaaaah….”

The tremendous killing intent that Sageomryeong unleashed poured forth across heaven and earth, and behind her back, it formed a shape as demonic as a devil itself. With her crimson laurel crown, she appeared to be none other than a sword spirit that summoned death itself.
Merely swinging the black sword burning with crimson killing intent seemed as though all life existing on this land would vanish.

“Ugh!”
“Damn it! I can barely breathe!”

Burren Zigheart and Martha, overwhelmed by the wave of energy Sageomryeong unleashed, clutched at their throats. Even these two, who approached transcendence, struggled to endure it, gasping for breath on their knees.

“Ugh….”

Lunan Slion tried to draw upon her full power to protect Gwangpung Hall, but the disparity in strength with Sageomryeong was so severe that she seemed barely able to protect herself.
Yet, trembling throughout her entire body, she radiated her energy in a circular pattern, prioritizing Gwangpung Hall’s protection over her own.

“Huff!”
“Aah….”
“What… what kind of monster is that….”

Not only Gwangpung Hall, but the Eden Executives as well began to lose consciousness, foaming at the mouth as they succumbed to the absolute killing intent pouring forth from Sageomryeong.

“I shall sever your life here.”

Sageomryeong tore at the ground beneath her feet as she moved with her footwork technique. She charged forward, her blade infused with a chilling murderous intent so sharp it raised goosebumps.
Her form was beautiful as a sword demon punishing humans, yet also magnificent and grand.

“Yes.”

Raon nodded calmly and raised the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword in a cross formation.

“Let us end this.”

Unlike Sageomryeong, who pierced through light itself, I advanced naturally, treading the footwork of movement.

Fwooooooosh!

Sageomryeong brought down her crimson-blazing black sword, slicing through space as if confident in her victory.
I could feel the lethal intent behind her strike—a determination to shred me even if she took damage in return.

Whoooosh!

I raised my Divine Sword toward Sageomryeong’s descending black blade, madness burning in my eyes.
My sword strike, wreathed in serene golden flames, collided with her blade, which radiated a chilling killing intent.

Yet the tremendous shockwave everyone anticipated never materialized.

Craaaaaash!

The softly gleaming blade of my Divine Sword not only pushed back her sword strike—it incinerated her fighting spirit itself.

“What… what is this!”

Sageomryeong tried to press her black sword forward, but sensing she couldn’t overcome my strength, she swung it wildly and attempted to retreat.

Shhhhink!

I unleashed the Demonic Sword held in my left hand, refusing to let Sageomryeong escape.

“Hmph!”

Sageomryeong scoffed and began treading the footwork of movement to strike empty space and flee, just as before.

Piercing shriek!

The Demonic Sword advanced as if leaping across space, piercing through Sageomryeong’s chest. It was no longer a matter of speed, power, or swordsmanship. There was only one result: the blade advanced, and the enemy fell.

“Ah…”

Sageomryeong’s eyes trembled as she stared at the sword embedded in her chest, unable to believe what had befallen her.

“You said you would reveal the Heavenly Demon’s location as you died.”

I gazed down at Sageomryeong’s skin freezing where it was embedded in the Demonic Sword, my eyes growing colder still.

“This is the result I spoke of.”

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