The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 779

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Chapter 779

A Forest came into view.

But it was not a lush, verdant forest—it was a forest dying black.

As if swept by raging flames, the trees were charred pitch-black, and the thickets had been reduced to ash without a single stem remaining, scattering like dust on the wind.

Instead of leaves, what adorned the Battlefield were thousands—no, tens of thousands of Monster corpses.

In the center of that eerie land, which could just as well be called a Tomb rather than a Forest, the Black Oak King stood alone.

Two horns jutted from his forehead like the orc helm that Sia wore, and from eyes the size of a man’s fist blazed a crimson gaze as if blood had been wrung from them.

His body, dark as if drenched in ink, was more massive than any Ogre and appeared harder than steel.
Finally, the colossal stone sword he gripped in his hand was so weighty it could topple a Castle Wall in a single stroke.

‘Is that the King’s soul?’

I narrowed my eyes as I beheld the Green-haired Queen, master of this Mental World.

‘I anticipated strength that transcended species, but….’

I never imagined it would be to this degree.

I had estimated her at mid-tier Grand Master at best, yet the Green-haired Queen before me was wrapped in an aura that rivaled my own.
A presence so overwhelming it made flesh tremble. A monster who bore the name of Orc Lord and Green-haired Queen far too perfectly.

‘Hmm….’

I swept my gaze across the Green-haired Queen, then shifted my eyes.

‘Another soul’s presence?’

Just moments ago, I sensed the presence of another soul somewhere in this world—not the Green-haired Queen, but someone else. It was unmistakably my sister, Sia.

‘She was alive! But….’

Where is it? I can sense its existence, but I can’t see it.

I could feel the soul’s writhing somewhere within the Mental World, but I couldn’t pinpoint its exact location.
All that entered my vision were corpses, a forest charred by flames, and the Green-haired Queen.

‘So I’ll have to fight after all.’

Raon exhaled a sigh and approached the Green-haired Queen.

“….”

The Green-haired Queen, recognizing my presence, slowly flickered her crimson eyes.

“You are….”

Just as I was about to place my hand on the sword hilt to draw the Heavenly Sword at any moment, the Green-haired Queen’s lips parted.

“The human who blocked me from outside.”

The Green-haired Queen spoke in the Continent’s common tongue while keeping her gaze lowered. The words and pronunciation were archaic, but they were not difficult to understand.

“You could speak?”

Raon lowered the hand that had been reaching for the Heavenly Sword and gazed into the Green-haired Queen’s eyes.

‘Now that I think about it….’

Her eyes are clear.

Unlike the gaze I had seen within the helmet in reality, the Green-haired Queen’s eyes revealed a composed and rational light.
It felt like gazing upon a sage who had accumulated wisdom and soul, not an orc.

“I am learning the human language. From fighting so much, I picked it up naturally.”

The Green-haired Queen nodded, her pronunciation slightly off but comprehensible.

“How much time has passed since I died?”

She gazed around the forest where ashes swirled and exhaled a low breath.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t know either.”

I exhaled deeply and shook my head.

“Until recently, I didn’t even know you existed.”
“I see.”

The Green-haired Queen murmured that it made sense and lowered her hand.

“Based on your pronunciation and fragmented memories, it seems more than hundreds of years have passed.”

She gazed at the charred forest with eyes filled with emptiness and rage.

“But it seems humanity’s greed remains unchanged. No—it has only grown more vicious.”

The Green-haired Queen twisted her lips in mockery through me, deriding humanity.

“They would even resurrect the dead to exploit them.”
“Did you die fighting against people?”

I narrowed my eyes as I looked at the corpses piled behind the Green-haired Queen. Just as I had sensed upon first seeing this place, the forest, the Monster, and the Green-haired Queen all appeared to have died by human hands.
Just as I felt when I first saw it, this Forest, the monsters, and the Green-haired Queen all seemed to have died by human hands.

“Yeah, war. And it was a war we didn’t want.”

The Green-haired Queen nodded heavily, as if lost in thought about her past life.

“We lost our forest, our kin, and everything else to human greed. We had no choice but to wage war to survive.”

He bit his lips until they bled as he looked at the charred corpses.

“But the humans falsely accused us of attacking their Village first, then called forth their armies from across the Continent. In the end, my kin and I sank into flames together with this Forest.”

The Green-haired Queen closed the eyes of the small orc corpse that appeared to be a child, then exhaled a trembling breath.

“So you joined hands with Eden to get your revenge?”

Raon swallowed hard as he looked at the Green-haired Queen. Based on his circumstances, it seemed she had been resurrected to take revenge on humans.

“I didn’t choose this.”

But the Green-haired Queen shook her head firmly.

“What? If you didn’t choose it, how could you have been resurrected?”

As far as I knew, creating a Monster’s helmet or mask required contact with that soul and obtaining their consent.
I couldn’t believe she had been resurrected without agreeing to it.

“Someone did reach out to me, but I was already exhausted, so I refused. However….”

The Green-haired Queen furrowed her brow as if confused.

“When I opened my eyes, I found myself trapped in this body.”

She shook her head, saying she had no choice but to remain trapped here, unable to control her own soul.

“Ah!”

Raon clapped his hands softly.

‘So that’s how it was.’

Since the Green-haired Queen’s true soul didn’t obey Eden, it seemed the external Green-haired Queen displayed a bestial appearance and fell under the Twin-Headed Demon’s control.

‘Tacheon….’

How far did he intend to go?

Annihilating the souls of the living and even toying with the souls of the wretched dead Monsters—he deserved to be called a demon rivaling Derus Robert.
I regretted not beating him more thoroughly.

‘Still, in this state, I might be able to communicate.’

I felt no malice from the Green-haired Queen, though not exactly goodwill either.
She was clearly wary, but it seemed I could extract information about Sia from her.

“There’s something I’d like to ask.”

Raon stepped forward toward the Green-haired Queen and raised a finger.

“Where is the soul that was in this body?”
“I cannot tell you that.”

The Green-haired Queen shook her head, her eyes now guarded in a way they hadn’t been before.

“Why not?”
“…”

She closed her mouth without answering at all.

“So you refuse to speak?”

Raon narrowed his gaze while resting his hand on the hilt of the Heavenly Sword.

“Then I’ll have to ask more forcefully.”
“Even so, I cannot speak.”

The Green-haired Queen’s eyes burned with conviction as she drew the stone sword embedded in the ground.
The sheer lethality radiating from it suggested that even a casual swing would shatter this entire space.

“That is your choice. Bear the consequences.”

Raon surged forward toward the Green-haired Queen and unsheathed the Heavenly Sword. The Lightning-Swift Draw—the blade infused with Glacial’s frigid aura extended toward her heart.

Whoooosh!

The Green-haired Queen twisted the stone sword upward and swiftly intercepted the Heavenly Sword’s trajectory.

Clang!

The frost clinging to the Heavenly Sword and the aura condensed in the stone sword collided head-on, scattering brilliant blue sparks.

‘Heavy.’

Raon pushed back the Green-haired Queen’s stone sword as it bore down with crushing weight, biting his lip.

‘Her mental fortitude is extraordinary.’

This Mental World is not determined by actual power, but by spiritual strength.
Feeling the Green-haired Queen’s aura directly, she seemed to possess spiritual strength that transcended even a Grand Master.

‘But I’m no different.’

Confident that I would not lose to anyone in spiritual strength, I resonated the Ring of Fire and deflected the Green-haired Queen’s stone sword.

“Hmm….”

The Green-haired Queen’s eyes widened as if she couldn’t believe she had been overwhelmed in power.
Unwilling to lose momentum, she summoned a denser aura and swung her stone sword horizontally.

Screeeech!

I drew a crimson line with the intent to sever the stone sword. The blade burning with flames pressed down on the stone sword, carving a thin wound across the Green-haired Queen’s chest.

Whoooosh!

The Green-haired Queen paid no mind to the wound, not even glancing at it as she brought her stone sword crashing down toward my head.

Roaaaaar!

Raon raised the Flaming Shield over the sword spirit of the Heavenly Sword. It was the Yeonju Wall, the defensive technique of Manhwagong.

Crash!

The moment the Flame Ring Wall collided with the stone sword, a curse escaped my lips.

‘Insane….’

The Flame Ring Wall was deeply gouged, and the Heavenly Sword’s blade bent from the sheer weight of the strike. The Green-haired Queen’s spiritual strength seemed far more solid than I had anticipated.

“Humans may have killed me, but my spirit was never broken until the very end.”

The Green-haired Queen pressed down with her stone sword, lifting her chin defiantly.

“Do not mock me.”
“I never have.”

I channeled the essence of the Intermediate Sword technique onto the blade of the Heavenly Sword. Not a sword strike, but a wave of intermediate sword power blooming from the blade itself shot toward the Green-haired Queen.

Kuwaaaaah!

The Green-haired Queen drove her stone sword into the battlefield. It was a sound judgment—she could protect her vital points without being pushed backward.

But crimson blood erupted from her arms and legs, which the stone sword could not shield.

“Now are you ready to talk?”

I lowered the Heavenly Sword as I watched the bleeding Green-haired Queen.

“…”

The Green-haired Queen raised her stone sword again, showing no intention whatsoever of yielding.

“I thought as much.”

It would have been more laughable if a being with such mental fortitude surrendered to mere wounds. I nodded in acknowledgment.

“I’m sorry, but I’m in a hurry too.”

I exhaled heavily. I no longer wanted to see Sylvia’s tears, and because I wanted to make my family whole, I could not afford to retreat either.

Stepping at a right angle with my left foot, I brought down the Gwangpung Sword infused with the essence of intermediate sword technique.

Kuwaang!

Despite the massive, crushing slash that seemed to pulverize bone and flesh, the Green-haired Queen blocked the blade strike head-on without uttering a single groan.

Tsk.

I clicked my tongue and shifted to the Green-haired Queen’s rear.

Fuuuuung!

The Green-haired Queen brought her great sword down in the direction of my charge, as if she had been waiting. For an instant, an overwhelming pressure crushed my entire body, making it difficult to move.

‘She was holding back her strength.’

I lifted my right foot lightly and channeled the Gwangpung Style. With the azure wind rising beneath my feet, I dispersed the pressure exerted by the Green-haired Queen and traced a Frostian arc.

Shiiiiing!

Silver and azure blade strikes rippled in succession, shooting toward the Green-haired Queen’s chest and waist.

Booooom!

The Green-haired Queen didn’t evade—instead, she drove her greatsword down toward the Battlefield.
Using the shattered earth erupting from the sword’s impact, she blocked my Frostian arc, then thrust her greatsword toward my head.

Kuwaaaaaa!

I unleashed the Flame Dragon Technique against the Green-haired Queen’s weighty stone blade. The flames dwelling in my blade took the form of a dragon, sweeping across the Orc King.

Whoooosh!

After the inferno—fierce enough to incinerate even the Mental World itself—passed, the Green-haired Queen’s figure emerged. She hadn’t retreated; she had endured the Flame Dragon Technique in place.

‘Could it be… she cannot move from that spot?’

The Green-haired Queen’s refusal to move, fighting only from her fixed position, was profoundly strange.

‘No, that’s not what matters right now.’

I had entered this world without rest after the war, and my mental fortitude had reached its limit. If I couldn’t topple the Green-haired Queen swiftly, I would fall first.

Exhale.

I steadied my breathing and adjusted my grip on the Heavenly Sword.

‘End this as quickly as possible.’

I aimed the Heavenly Sword, cloaked in flames, toward the sky.

Fwaaaack!

A thousand petals bloomed atop the crimson tree rooted in my blade.
Fragments of flame dancing in autumn’s wind became a fiery tempest, engulfing the Green-haired Queen.

“Krraaaaaahhh!”

The Green-haired Queen slashed her stone sword down roughly to extinguish the flames engulfing her. It seemed she despised being consumed by fire due to memories from her past life.

‘Then I’ll use that against her.’

I walked across the ash-covered ground and raised the Heavenly Sword, which I had left tilted.

Manhwagong Heavenly Fire.
Flame Sea Flawless.

The Green-haired Queen’s stone sword drew the flames of Sagrado back, creating a towering wave of fire that seemed to touch the sky.

Kwaaaaaahhh!

The aura the Green-haired Queen unleashed was mercilessly crushed and shriveled by the flames of Flame Sea Flawless.

“Ugh…”

Even the Green-haired Queen, who had not uttered a single groan despite being cut by the blade and having flesh torn away, could not endure the flames, her face contorting as she let out a low cry.

“Where is the soul of this body?”
“…I cannot tell you.”

The Green-haired Queen did not back down, as if she would refuse even in death.

“Why on earth…”

As I furrowed my brow, a Black Hole opened in the void, and from within it, something like blue clouds began to ripple.

‘Is that Wrath?’

Just as when I wore Rocta’s helmet, Wrath had caught up late. I needed to finish this quickly before that fool did something unnecessary.

Crunch.

I clenched my teeth and grasped the Heavenly Sword with both hands.

Whooooooosh!

The Green-haired Queen raised her massive sword overhead, drawing forth every ounce of fighting spirit within her as if declaring she would never fall.
The aura blazing above her head flickered like a crimson sun.

“Krraaaaaaagh!

The Green-haired Queen brought her sword crashing down, her will burning with desperate intensity. For a moment, the world itself seemed to darken beneath the colossal wave of aura.

Screeeech!

I did not retreat. Instead, I stepped forward and raised the Heavenly Sword to meet her.

Sword Realm Incarnate—Genesis.

Within my exhausted spirit, a force that had grown even stronger bloomed into brilliance.

A sword technique burning with golden radiance erased the crimson aura and unleashed a magnificent luminescence across the Mental World.

Splooooorch!

The Green-haired Queen’s massive sword shattered in half, and a gaping hole tore through her chest.

Yet even as black blood poured from her chest and mouth, the Green-haired Queen did not fall. She remained standing in place.

“This is the end. Speak.”
“….”

The Green-haired Queen shook her head, still gripping her broken sword. She showed no intention of speaking, even in death.

‘Time is running out.’

My vision blurred, my head throbbing. I had to end this here, no matter what.

“Do not resent me….”

As I raised the Heavenly Sword to sever the Green-haired Queen’s neck, it happened.

Pop!

With a cheerful sound like a sealed hole bursting open, an enormous cotton candy tumbled out from a rift that had opened in the void.

“You mustn’t kill him, Kellock!”

Wrath glared down at me, his brow furrowing deeply.

“There’s a human soul trapped within that orc’s body!”

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