The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 633

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Chapter 633

Delphos peered into the crystal sphere reflecting Raon’s image, his brow furrowing deeply.

“Surely he’s not taking the Phoenix with him as well?”
“It… appears that he is.”

The Sabi Commander grasped his temples, unable to fathom that Raon would actually drag the Phoenix along.

“Sigh… this man is truly beyond management.”

Delphos exhaled deeply. The thought of seizing the leash of the gatekeeper guarding the floor and taking it with him—it was an absurd notion that even he had not anticipated.

“…Everything is prepared, yes?”

He turned his gaze toward the Sabi Commander, irritation etched above his brows.

“Of course.”

The Sabi Commander nodded with confidence.

“Whichever direction they advance, they will encounter formations, traps, and waves of monsters.”
“Good. They won’t escape easily this time.”

Delphos nodded again, gazing at the crystal sphere.

He had no intention of killing Raon in the Maze. The other floors were merely appetizers for the final floor, so for now, it was sufficient to grind away their stamina and aura.

“Foolish wretch.”

Delphos let out a scoff, watching Raon attempt to breach the Maze’s wall. That barrier was a wall of will that even Transcendents could not guarantee breaking. Witnessing his futile effort, the irritation that had been boiling within him cooled slightly.
That Wall is a barrier of will that even Transcendents cannot guarantee they could break. Seeing that bastard’s futile struggle, my boiling anger cooled down a bit.

“So it’s finally begun. I wonder what kind of expression they’ll make… Hmm?”

Delphos watched Raon inside the crystal sphere, his lips trembling slightly.

“W-what in the world is that….”

Rather than continuing through the maze, I pressed my hand against the wall on impulse.

Curious about my intentions, they remained silent—until suddenly, a gate of flames inscribed with mysterious runes materialized above the wall and swung open.

But only one gate had opened. At the far end of the 3rd Floor Maze, an identical passage had been revealed in the wall.

In other words, the flaming passage I had opened connected directly to the end of the maze.

“What is that?!”
“I-I’m not entirely sure either.”

The Sabi Commander clicked his teeth together, as if he had never witnessed such a passage before.

“Could it be….”

Delphos clenched his fist as he stared at the Phoenix, Kaiyan, struggling in my grip.

“Did that Phoenix bastard reveal a hidden passage?”

After subduing the Phoenix and manipulating his mind, he had mentioned a dimensional gate that could bypass the maze.
It appeared I had opened that very dimensional gate.

“Even he couldn’t accomplish this….”

Derus Robert had opened a similar gate before, but he had not reached the maze’s end in a single attempt.
It took three tries to finally arrive at the end, yet I had opened a passage to the maze’s terminus in just one. It was inconceivable.

“Stop him.”
“Sir?”
“Stop him, I said!”

Delphos raised his fist and brought it down upon the table where the teacup sat. The pristine white table shattered into powder as though it had never existed from the beginning.

‘I absolutely cannot let him escape.’

If I allowed him to slip away now, all the traps and monsters prepared within the maze would become utterly useless. The losses would be beyond imagination.

“Ah, that won’t work.”

The Sabi Commander manipulated mana with his fingertips before shaking his head.

“I’ve been trying to seal that corridor since it first appeared, but my manipulation ability doesn’t affect it. It seems….”

He bit his lip and lowered his gaze.

“…it must be a unique ability of whoever created this place.”
“How did that bastard manage to….”

Delphos clenched his fist so hard it crackled audibly. I hadn’t even known this tomb existed until this situation erupted.
I couldn’t fathom how he’d opened that corridor.

“Are there any Oma members still in the Maze?”
“Seol Goehu is nearby. Despite having the opportunity, he deliberately chose not to descend, instead exploring the Maze.”
“Send her down there.”
“Pardon?”

The Sabi Commander’s eyes widened as if questioning the order.

“If Seol Goehu encounters Raon Zigheart, wouldn’t he die?”

Unlike Raon, Seol Goehu was a supreme master whose reputation had spread long ago.
No matter how much Raon Zigheart had ascended to Grand Master, defeating Seol Goehu now was impossible.

“Losing control is a bigger problem at this point.”

Delphos shook his head with a grim expression.

“A corpse can be manipulated easily enough. One body like his is well within my reach.”
“…Understood, sir.”
“And.”

He steadied his breathing and raised his finger.

“Prepare the 4th Floor in advance.”

Delphos twisted his face like a malevolent spirit, biting his lip.

“Make sure they don’t survive!”

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I narrowed my eyes as I observed the demons standing behind Seol Goehu.

‘They’ve grown stronger.’

Their aura felt sharper and more menacing than when we were outside. It seemed the demons had grown somewhat even as we passed through the First and Second Layers.

“What? These are Black Tower bastards.”

Martha, who had come through the corridor of fire, let out a scoff upon seeing the Black Tower demons.

“The trash came on their own.”

She raised a fierce momentum and rotated her wrists.

“Lucky timing.”

Burren also curled his lips upward as if fortune had smiled upon us.

“Test subjects.”

Lunan nodded with vacant eyes, eager to test the power he had cultivated while passing through the First and Second Layers.

“Compared to the Phoenix, these are nothing.”
“I haven’t forgotten what Orgos did.”
“Since their very existence is a blight, no one will complain if we eliminate them.”

The Gwangpung Unit also fixed their gaze upon the Black Tower demons with eyes burning with confidence.
Many of the swordsmen were kindling their thirst for vengeance, recalling the deeds of the Flame Demon Army.

“Insolent bastards!”
“How dare these whelps….”
“Give us the order! We’ll rip their heads off this instant!”

The Black Tower’s demons, enraged by the Gwangpung Unit’s audacity, bowed their heads to Seol Goehu, begging for his command.

“Ha, they take after their master? These dogs are getting cocky.”

Seol Goehu snorted dismissively.

“What mad dog sits idle when it sees prey?”

I raised my finger, my eyes gleaming with a touch of madness.

“Mad dogs.”

I twisted my lips as I pointed at the demons standing behind Seol Goehu.

“Tear them to shreds.”
“We hear and obey!”

The Gwangpung Unit drew their blades and charged toward the demons. The same wild gleam that burned in my eyes ignited in theirs.

“Wait! We’re not mad dogs…!”
“Please don’t call us dogs!”
“I like puppies.”

Martha, Burren, and Lunan each spoke a word as they moved into position.

Boom!

Martha’s ferocious blade shattered the wall of demonic energy the demons had conjured.
Burren’s precise and razor-sharp edge seized the opening, slicing through the demons’ throats.

Lunan walked between Martha and Burren, thrusting Seolhwa forward. Delicate frost scattered like cherry blossoms from the blade’s tip, severing the demons’ vital points.

“Forward!”

The Gwangpung Unit advanced through the path the three squad leaders had carved open, clashing blades with the demons head-on.

Kuwaaaaang!

Dozens of auras and demonic energies exploded at once, sending sand from the maze floor spiraling upward like a tempest.

“Ugh….”
“What, what kind of monsters are these!”
“I heard he’d only just come of age, so how….”

It was the demons who were being pushed back by the descending storm.
The Gwangpung Corps condensed their aura like a single swordsman, crushing the demons’ demonic energy beneath their collective might. The momentum itself was on a different level.

“Not a shred of charm among them.”

Seol Goehu flicked her head dismissively, not even bothering to acknowledge the dying demons.

“I’ll show you the difference in power. Both of you, come at me.”

She beckoned toward Raon and Rimer with a curl of her fingers.

“Can you handle it?”

Raon glanced at Rimer and let out a soft chuckle.

“A one-armed man and a young brat? We can manage that easily enough.”

Seol Goehu nodded with confidence.

“Don’t underestimate someone just because they look young.”

Rimer crossed his arms and offered a faint smile.

“That old crone reached Grand Master before you were even born. She’s earned the right to talk like that. If you peeled back her face, you’d find wrinkles as deep as crevasses on a grandmother….”
“Shut your mouth!”

Seol Goehu glared at Rimer, her finger raised. She seemed particularly enraged by the word grandmother.

“I have some unpleasant memories regarding the Black Tower.”

Raon lowered the Heavenly Sword, looking down at Seol Goehu.

“Consider yourself unlucky.”
“I told you to shut up!””

Seol Goehu couldn’t contain his rage, letting out a fierce cry as he stamped his foot.

Boom!

I seized the moment when Seol Goehu’s emotions flared, stepping directly into the Taewhabo without any preparatory movement. I detonated my aura at the ball of my left foot as I took my second step.

A speed that could only be called extreme. The edges of my vision seemed to darken.

“Fool.”

As I charged toward Seol Goehu to draw the Jeokseom, her lips curled into a long smile.

Seol Goehu calmed her excitement as if she hadn’t been angry at all, extending her left hand.
Condensed black frost gathered in her palm, shooting toward me like a dagger. It was a nearly perfect counterattack.

I bit my lips thinly as I watched Seol Goehu’s demonic energy crashing toward my heart.

‘I had a suspicion, and it was right.’

My opponent was a Grand Master—one of the supreme experts who had made a name for herself long ago. I suspected that her apparent excitement was itself a trap, and my intuition proved correct.

Crack!

Just before Seol Goehu’s frost pierced my heart, I switched from Taewhabo to Sambo.
Softness flowing from speed. My body slid as if it had lost all strength, evading Seol Goehu’s assault by the thinnest margin.

“What is this!”

Seol Goehu’s eyes widened, as if she hadn’t expected such a rapid transition in footwork.

‘This is genuine.’

Unlike the excitement she had displayed earlier, the surprise she showed now was a true emotion.

I exploited the momentary opening revealed by her confusion, driving toward her left side. I thrust the Heavenly Sword, which I had bent to the right, forward like an awl.

Craaaaaack!

A sword strike wreathed in crimson radiance grazed past Seol Goehu’s shoulder.

“Tsk.”

I retreated and clicked my tongue. My true target had been Seol Goehu’s neck, but true to her Grand Master status, she had twisted her body in that brief instant to evade the blade’s trajectory.

“This wretch….”

Seol Goehu gazed at the wound on her shoulder, her brow furrowing. As she summoned her demonic energy, the blood trickling from her shoulder ceased, and the wound vanished as though time itself had been reversed. It was a regenerative power that transcended human limits.

“You fall short of your reputation. Your will is weak, and your aura is ordinary.”
“Smooth out that expression before you speak such things.”

I smiled thinly as I observed Seol Goehu’s face, twisted like a demon’s visage.

“Wrinkles are starting to show.”
“Silence!”

Seol Goehu shrieked and extended her hand. Following the motion of her grip, a black chill as though night itself had been summoned spread outward in all directions.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

In the span of a single blink, Seol Goehu’s demonic energy began to dominate the space.
Even when the Manhwagong’s flames spread forth, the chill did not easily yield. The quantity and density of her demonic energy were staggering.

“W-wait a moment!”
“Aaaaaaahhh!”
“P-please, save us!”

The legs of the demons exposed to Seol Goehu’s chill froze pitch black. The demons cried out for salvation, but Seol Goehu did not even glance their way, instead summoning an even thicker and darker chill.

I drew Seol Goehu’s attention to prevent the Gwangpung Corps from taking damage, retreating to a corner. I spread the Manhwagong’s flames to block the floor and walls, intercepting Seol Goehu’s demonic energy.

“It’s futile. My frost cannot be stopped by flames, nor by cold itself.”

Just as Seol Goehu said, her demonic energy did not melt even against the Manhwagong’s flames.

‘Come to think of it….’

The scenes I had witnessed in the desert and forest before entering this tomb came flooding back.
Even as I was engulfed in fierce flames and lightning, that black chill had never dissipated.

“I knew you would retreat into that corner.”
“What?”
“Now there is no escape. All you can do is kneel before me!”

The moment Seol Goehu confirmed that I was cornered, he opened his palm wide.
The chill that had been wrapping around all sides rose up simultaneously, forming a colossal tidal wave. It seemed he intended to pour out all the condensed cold energy at once and end this in a single stroke.

I steadied my gaze as I watched the torrent of demonic energy crash down.

‘This is the moment.’

I had known from the moment Seol Goehu began spreading that chill around us that he would attack in this manner.

Perhaps it was a fatal technique he had never failed with, but that very confidence would be his undoing.

I did not retreat. Instead, I advanced toward the wave of chill and drew the Heavenly Sword back over my shoulder.

“What are you doing! You cannot reach from there!”

Hearing Seol Goehu’s mockery, I summoned the chill of Glaceia wrapped in intent.

‘Beneath the twilight of gathering dusk, the blade shall not waver even before the waves.’

I recited a single incantation to myself and thrust the Heavenly Sword forward.
The blade of the Heavenly Sword, flickering with blue light, pierced through the frost wave that Seol Goehu had summoned and split the silver space asunder.

Screeeeeech!

Not even a small hole appeared in the frost tsunami that seemed to touch the maze walls.

But behind it, a dark hole had been pierced through Seol Goehu’s left chest.

“Cough….”

Seol Goehu coughed up blood and collapsed. She tried to seal the hole in her chest with her mana, but the black wound refused to close, as if it were rejecting her power entirely.

“Why… why is this happening?”
“You told me yourself. Your frost and my frost are different.”

I shook my head as I looked at Seol Goehu.

“It’s not so much a difference in power as it is like water and oil refusing to mix. If your own chill is embedded in your chest, of course your mana can’t seal it, can it?”

Seol Goehu had said that neither chill nor flame could block her own mana.
If my frost couldn’t be affected by hers, then her frost couldn’t affect me either. In a sense, we were each other’s natural counters.

“Ah…”

Seol Goehu’s lips trembled as she finally grasped what had happened.

“Your mouth was your downfall.”

I swung the Heavenly Sword and stepped toward Seol Goehu.

“Wait, just wait! I haven’t even used my full power yet! This isn’t over!”

She was right. Seol Goehu hadn’t revealed her true strength. To defeat her in a direct confrontation, I would have needed to use Sword Realm Manifestation.

If I had fought with everything I had, I could have grown more, but since I didn’t know Derus’s true intentions, I had to conserve my strength for now.

“Only fools give their enemies time to recover.”

I brought down the Heavenly Sword, mirroring the contemptuous smile Seol Goehu had worn at the start.

Kuwaaaaaa!

Holy golden flames devoured the black mana, consuming Seol Goehu’s entire body.

“I’ll… I’ll kill you! I will kill you! I’ll never forgive you!”
“Feel free to try.”

I let out a cold laugh and slit Seol Goehu’s throat.

Krraaaaaagh!

Unable to accept her own death, she lost the light in her eyes without ever closing them.

Raon lifted his gaze after severing Seol Goehu’s life.

“What… how did he catch a Grand Master so quickly…?”
“Does this even make sense?”
“And not just any demon, but Seol Goehu…?”

The Gwangpung Unit and the demons had ceased their fighting, their eyes fixed on me.

The demons could only gape in shock, unable to form words.

“If this isn’t finished within five minutes, I’m staying here to train.”

As I snapped my fingers, madness ignited once more in the dulled eyes of the Gwangpung Unit.

“Kill them!”
“Crush them all!”
“Destroy everything!”

I closed my eyes, listening to the refreshing sound of the Gwangpung Unit’s sword strikes flowing freely.

‘I’ve come one step closer.’

By creating a single incantation of my own, I pierced through space and drew one step nearer to a sword strike that ignored all defense.

‘I received unexpected assistance.’

I chuckled softly while gazing at the ceiling of the maze.

‘You’re waiting there, aren’t you?’

It made no sense for Seol Goehu to appear by coincidence the moment I reached the end of the maze. Derus Robert’s subordinates had clearly orchestrated this.

‘Wait for me.’

Whatever it is, I’ll destroy it all.

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