The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 827

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Chapter 827

“What are the Bishops doing!”

Blood Ghosts revealing their faces at the 2nd Apostle’s call stepped forward.
Their blood energy was incomparable to the common followers. They were Archbishops and Bishops with blood lines inscribed upon their robes.

“Kill the brats!”

At her gesture, the Archbishop and Bishops’ eyes gleamed coldly as they stomped the ground.

Uuuuuuung!

Blood sorceries blooming from the Archbishop and Bishops’ hands became flash-like attacks that poured down upon the Gwangpung Corps’ heads.

Shhhhhhh!

Three Sub-layer Mages from the Black Tower stepped forward and brought their hands together.
The eerie magic energy rising behind them became a black wave that crashed down toward the Gwangpung Corps.

“How dare you!”

Rimer stood before the Gwangpung Corps with a refreshing smile.

Swoooosh!

The pale green wind blooming from his sword shattered all the blood sorceries pouring toward the Gwangpung Corps.

“You cannot pass.”

Rabawin stepped forward with heavy strides and raised his sword. A thunderous roar split the heavens as the black wave attempting to dismantle the Gwangpung Formation crumbled.

“It seems I need not intervene.”

Rabawin took a step back to protect the relatively weaker sailors.

“Sweep them all away!”

Martha had already forgotten the fact that she’d nearly been killed by the 2nd Apostle moments before, stepping forward once more to sever the neck of a White Blood Cult member.

“These are unnecessary beings for the salvation of all creation! Do not spare your hands!”

Burren Zigheart encouraged the Gwangpung Corps while staying close behind Martha to maintain their sword formation and prevent her from becoming isolated.

“Focus on defense rather than offense….”

Lunan Slion maintained the center of the Gwangpung Formation in place of Martha and Burren Zigheart, who had surged forward, protecting the swordsmen caught in dangerous positions.

Kugugugugugu!

The Gwangpung Corps also unleashed sharp energy waves, cutting down the White Blood Cult members and demons without hesitation.

“Grraaahhh!”
“Aaahhh!”
“W-what are these young ones….”

The White Blood Cult members and demons, overwhelmed by the momentum of the Gwangpung Corps charging forward like buffalo, could only retreat without even attempting a counterattack.
The gap in combat power was significant, but the difference in momentum was even greater.

“How far do you intend to advance! The Apostle is right beside us!”

A red-haired blood ghost who appeared to be an Archbishop screamed in a cracked voice.
He seemed flustered that the Gwangpung Corps showed no fear despite the 2nd Apostle being right in front of them.

“There’s someone protecting my back, so what is there to fear!”

Martha spoke of her trust in Raon, pressing the White Blood Cult members even more fiercely.

“I-I am a bit scared…. No, very scared, but I trust that the Lord will protect us.”

Dorian glanced back at Raon and gave a brief nod.

“Indeed.”

Raon observed the 2nd Apostle’s trembling eyes and tilted his chin slightly.

“I say this again: your opponent is me. Do not look elsewhere.”

I pointed the Heavenly Sword at the 2nd Apostle’s brow, urging her to come at me.

“Haaaa….”

The 2nd Apostle exhaled a pale breath, her arms hanging loosely at her sides.

“How revolting these insects are, flaunting their pathetic power.”

From beneath her feet, a pale crimson aura bloomed, and goosebumps crawled up my spine. Just witnessing it made my heart feel as though it were being squeezed.

‘So this is the real thing.’

Raon exhaled a low breath, his smile fading.

‘I’ve heard her power fluctuates, but judging by the aura alone, she surpasses even Lawrence.’

It would be accurate to regard her as a Transcendent.

Though the 2nd Apostle herself denied it, the epithet that followed her was “the Witch of Fluctuation”—a peculiar title earned because her combat prowess varied from Grand Master level to Transcendent depending on her physical condition that day.

In truth, no matter how much her power fluctuated, it was impossible for a Grand Master to exhibit Transcendent-level strength.

Therefore, it seemed more accurate to accept that the 2nd Apostle was a Transcendent, but one whose power occasionally weakened.

“As you wish, I’ll take your head first.”

The 2nd Apostle clenched her fist and vanished into white smoke.

‘Where—’

Before I could even turn my gaze, her fist strike came hurtling from my right.

Whoosh!

I pivoted on my left foot and raised the Heavenly Sword. The Manhwagong Flame Barrier—a wall of blazing fire that intercepted the 2nd Apostle’s punch.

Crash!

A violent shockwave erupted, and I was driven back five steps, while the 2nd Apostle retreated three steps and bent her knees slightly.

“What?”

The 2nd Apostle exhaled sharply, as if unable to believe she had been pushed back.

“How could a mere Grand Master…?”

She furrowed her brow in surprise at Raon, who had not only blocked her attack but countered it.

“It would be troublesome if you’re already shocked.”

I drew the Soul Reaper Sword with my left hand, twisting my lips into a grin.

“I still have much to show you.”

I planted the Soul Reaper Sword and the Heavenly Sword into the Battlefield, opening the Mental World.

Sword Realm Divine Manifestation—Divine Demon Harmony Fusion.

Grasping the divine blade that shaped the sun and the demonic blade bound to the moon in both hands, I tilted my chin.

“Petty tricks are meaningless.”

The 2nd Apostle’s eyes blazed crimson, and white blood energy wings sprouted from her back like an angel’s.

“Let me show you what transcendence truly is!”

As she unfurled her blood energy wings, she vanished without leaving even an afterimage.

Whoosh!

I furrowed my brow, tracking the 2nd Apostle’s presence as she disappeared.

‘Even in Sword Realm state, she’s difficult to pin down.’

Despite resonating the Ring of Fire and utilizing Seolhwa’s senses, I couldn’t locate her position. The 2nd Apostle now existed in a realm far faster than my own.

Whoosh!

As I spread my aura in all directions, the 2nd Apostle’s fist pierced through space itself, boring into my left chest like it would shatter my heart and ribs together.

‘If I can’t block it, attacking is better!’

Raon abandoned his defense and drew the Manhwagong Hoecheon at close range toward the 2nd Apostle’s fist that was rushing at him.

Whoooosh!

The rotating flames, spinning like a wagon wheel, collided head-on with the 2nd Apostle’s fist.

Boom!

Orange sparks erupted where the flames and blood energy melted together, spreading in all directions as both I and the 2nd Apostle stumbled back three steps.

‘The power is formidable, but….’

I clicked my tongue while observing the faintly trembling Soul Reaper Sword.

‘Speed is a different matter.’

In terms of pure destructive power, I surpassed her since I opened the Sword Realm.

But even going all out, I couldn’t match the 2nd Apostle’s speed.

‘Is that speed her true ability?’

From what others told me, the 2nd Apostle had the temperament of a warrior who overwhelmed opponents through sheer strength, but this was completely different.

With her absolute speed and the way she maneuvered without recklessly committing, she seemed less like a warrior and more like a strategist.

‘If I can’t catch her, then drawing her in is….’

As I pondered how to face the 2nd Apostle, I felt a tremendous blood energy from behind.

‘Tch!’

I tried to turn around urgently, but the 2nd Apostle’s fist strike was already approaching.

‘I can’t block this.’

I thrust my elbow backward, channeling Seolhwa’s dragon scales to intercept the 2nd Apostle’s strike.

Cough! Cough! Cough!

My body lurched forward as a sharp pain shot through my arm as if it were being torn away. Fortunately, the bone hadn’t fractured, but the impact reverberated all the way to my head.

Whoosh!

I extended my left foot forward to regain my stance, but a snow-white fist came flying at my face. The 2nd Apostle had already closed the distance and unleashed a punch.

Crash!

Raon thrust the Demon Sword downward, deflecting the 2nd Apostle’s fist.

Screech!

The fist wrapped in blood energy was so close that the shockwave tore away flesh from my cheek.

Ring!

The moment Raon suppressed the pain and thrust the Divine Sword forward, the 2nd Apostle had already retreated and was mocking me with a yawn.

‘She seems even faster than before…?’

I could pride myself on having superior adaptability thanks to the Ring of Fire, yet somehow I couldn’t track the 2nd Apostle’s movements.
She appeared to be moving faster than at the beginning.

-You perceived it correctly.

Wrath nodded calmly.

That blood-sucking wench is getting faster and faster.

He frowned, saying that the guy still didn’t seem to be going all out.

“Then it can’t be caught even with a demon-slaying sword.”

The Sword of Overcoming was certainly fast, but his inexperienced level made it impossible to pursue the 2nd Apostle.

“Then it would be better to keep it hidden.”

The White Blood Cult and Magic Tower had no knowledge that I could wield the Ego Sword.

It was the right decision to save it for the final moment rather than use it clumsily and raise their guard.

“Where did my initial composure go?”

The 2nd Apostle swept her hair back and twisted her jaw to the side.

“It’s too late to regret now.”

She drew a cold smile as if the outcome had already been decided.

“You won’t even see my face before you die.”

The 2nd Apostle unfurled her blood-tinged wings and charged forward. The moment I caught sight of the pale afterimage, her fist was already hurtling toward my abdomen.

‘Certainly fast enough that it’s difficult for me to handle….’

I lowered my stance and twisted my lips upward.

‘Yet strangely, I don’t feel like I’ll lose.’

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“Hmph.”

The 2nd Apostle scoffed as she watched me narrow my body to reduce the striking surface.

‘To think he’d challenge me on a night like this—he truly has no luck.’

The Blood Ghosts of the White Blood Cult could display greater power at night than during the day, but she was special among them.

On nights when the full moon rose like tonight, she could draw forth her peak power, and at this moment, she felt as though she could not lose to anyone.

Moreover, the opponent was merely a fledgling beneath him.
While the sheer power of the swordsmanship could be called transcendent, the vast difference in speed made it as effortless as eating cold porridge.

Whoosh!

The 2nd Apostle drew a dark smile across her face as she lashed out at Raon’s waist. He reacted belatedly, swinging his blade, but she had already retreated backward.

‘I’ll make sure you can’t move at all!’

This time, she feinted toward his left shoulder before pivoting right to target his thigh.

Crack!

His body was too firm to topple, but the impact was severe enough that Raon’s complexion turned ashen.

‘Now it’s finished.’

The 2nd Apostle drove her fist toward Raon’s throat to end this decisively. Just as her knuckles were about to pierce his neck, he seemed to have anticipated it, smoothly rotating his body to deflect her strike.
Just as he was about to drive his fist through Raon’s neck, Raon naturally twisted his body as if he had anticipated it and swatted his fist away.

Wow!

The 2nd Apostle was knocked backward like a stone kicked by a foot.

“Huh?”

The 2nd Apostle’s jaw trembled as she watched Raon slowly take his stance.

“You’ve seen this?”

I moved faster than ever before, and I couldn’t believe my attack was blocked.

“No, it’s just a coincidence. You wouldn’t even be able to see it, so how could you stop it!”

Thinking it was just luck, she thrust her fist toward Raon’s vital point again.

Ding!

However, Raon perfectly blocked the fist strike coming at his solar plexus by holding the Demonic Sword at an angle.

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

The 2nd Apostle retreated backward, leaving deep footprints in the sand. Her pupils trembled as if struck by waves.

“What is this…?”

The 2nd Apostle stared at Raon while grinding her teeth.

“How on earth!”
“I told you.”

Raon tilted his head while keeping the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword upright.

“I still have much more to show.”
“Shut that mouth of yours!”

The 2nd Apostle’s eyes flashed with an eerie gleam as she kicked off the battlefield where her footprints remained and charged forward.

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Clang!

Raon blocked the 2nd Apostle’s fist as she drove an uppercut from the lower left, twisting his blade. Manhwagong Red Flame. A single line of fire traced through the air, grazing the 2nd Apostle’s shoulder.

“Ugh…”

The 2nd Apostle urgently retreated, clutching her shoulder as pale blood streamed down.

“That’s where it begins.”

Raon pointed to the 2nd Apostle’s shoulder, a faint smile playing at his lips.

‘She has no choice but to be bewildered.’

My ability to predict the 2nd Apostle’s movements came from the insight I had learned at the Holy Sword Association.

While I couldn’t read my opponent’s psychology the way Dorian could, fighting the 2nd Apostle had allowed me to gradually grasp her movements.

“It shouldn’t be visible, so how…?”

The 2nd Apostle’s lips trembled as if she still couldn’t believe it.

“There are ways to fight even without seeing. And…”

I revealed my vivid crimson eyes and let out a scoff.

“I’m starting to get used to it now.”

The Ring of Fire and Wrath’s Eye of Destruction possessed adaptability that transcended human limitations, so the 2nd Apostle’s movements were gradually becoming familiar to me.

If just a bit more time passed, I felt I could definitely bring her down.

“…Fine.”

The 2nd Apostle looked up at the full moon hanging in the sky and bit her lip.

“From now on, you won’t even be able to see my shadow!”

She stamped a true strike that shook the entire island and vanished.

‘Her shoulder!’

The 2nd Apostle came at my right shoulder. I thrust the Heavenly Sword forward to counterattack, but she had already left that position.

Crash!

The 2nd Apostle knocked the Heavenly Sword aside from the left and whipped her waist toward me.
With increased speed came increased power. The heavy impact sent my body sliding across the gravel.

“You still have a long way to go!”

True to her word, the 2nd Apostle displayed even faster movements, pressing her assault from all angles. As she exceeded the speed I had grown accustomed to, tracking her movements became difficult once more.

Whoosh!

I predicted the 2nd Apostle’s trajectory and swung my sword, but she could perceive even late movements and respond faster, executing both evasion and attack simultaneously.

Thwack!

I took a direct hit to my chest from the 2nd Apostle and was sent flying backward into the seawater.

Whoosh.

I brushed my wet hair back and gazed at the 2nd Apostle.

‘Her entire body is covered in blood vessels. Is she overexerting herself?’

Pale blue veins were bulging across the 2nd Apostle’s face and entire body.
Judging from how she was moving with such strain on both body and mind, she wouldn’t last much longer either—but it seemed I would collapse first.

‘Then I need to set a trap.’

Even if the 2nd Apostle was moving at speeds beyond my perception, the fundamental trajectory of her fist strikes hadn’t changed significantly.

If I couldn’t keep up, the right approach was to bait the hook and wait.

Whoooosh!

I raised my Demonic Sword to block the 2nd Apostle’s fist as it burrowed toward my face.

Clang!

But unable to withstand the 2nd Apostle’s punch with its angle twisted, my Demonic Sword was knocked away and embedded itself in the sand beach.

“So that’s all you had to show?”

The 2nd Apostle let out a mocking laugh and began striking my entire body at increasingly faster speeds.

Thud thud thud thud!

I operated both the Rosary Wall and Seolhwa’s Demonic Armor simultaneously while tracking the 2nd Apostle’s movements.
I minimized the areas where her fists connected and continuously resonated the endless rings of fire.

“Where did that momentum from before go? Move! Come on, you little turtle!”

Even as wounds multiplied across my body and blood welled up from within, I kept my entire focus locked on the 2nd Apostle’s movements.

‘Now I can feel it.’

After perfectly grasping the 2nd Apostle’s patterns, I wielded the Ego Sword to lift the demonic blade that had fallen onto the sand beach.

Whoooosh!

The 2nd Apostle couldn’t possibly miss the blade flying through the air, so she layered the essence of spatial swordsmanship onto the rising demonic sword.

‘This is the final moment.’

I feigned exhaustion and deliberately exposed a gap in my defense. This was the last stage—dangling the bait to make the fish bite.

“It’s over!”

The instant the 2nd Apostle stepped back into the empty space to my left to cut off my breath, the demonic blade that had split through space suddenly burst forth.

Shhhhrrip!

Before the 2nd Apostle could even mount a defense, the blue blade of the demonic sword pierced through her back, tearing through bone and flesh.

“Ugh!”

The 2nd Apostle screamed in pain and shock, her body convulsing.

“What—what is this?!”

As she gasped in horror and tried to pull out the demonic blade, a crimson shadow fell across her vision.

My divine blade, which had risen into the air, descended like cleaving through a massive full moon.

Craaaaaash!

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