The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 841

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Chapter 841

I narrowed my eyes as I watched Bardiel unfurl his pristine white wings.

‘He’s definitely grown stronger.’

Just as Wrath had said, the moment Bardiel deployed his wings, the aura he wielded surged dramatically. It was an even more colossal presence than what I’d initially sensed from the 2nd Apostle.
It was an even more colossal presence than what I had felt from the 2nd Apostle at first.

“On the other hand…”

Raon licked his lips as he swept his gaze across the ceiling and walls of the Barrier.

The Barrier has weakened.

As Bardiel grew stronger, the power that formed the Barrier itself weakened.
-But….

Wrath shook his head heavily.

-If we don’t cut down that accursed celestial bastard, we won’t be able to escape this barrier.

He clenched his fists, insisting that even with the barrier weakened, dealing with Bardiel had to come first.

‘That’s true.’

With Bardiel’s eyes blazing like that, breaking through the barrier was impossible. I had to take that celestial’s head first.

‘And I need to do it as efficiently as possible, while conserving my strength.’

If my predictions were correct, the moment I stepped outside this barrier, I’d immediately clash with Seif. To fight that traitor, I needed to preserve as much stamina and aura as I could.

‘Which means I’ll need to rely on swordsmanship as much as possible.’

“In other words, I need to make the most of my swordsmanship.”

I suppressed the rising anxiety in my mind and stepped into the Heavenly Step.
Moving with the lightness of wind itself, I drove toward Bardiel’s left flank.

Ching!

Before Bardiel could react, I brought down the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword, infused with the exquisite technique of Extreme Speed.

Whoosh!

The slashes of flame and frost shot forward first, followed by the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword trailing like shadows.
A double frost chain with an infinitesimal time gap between them.

Boom!

Bardiel brought his hands together like a prayer toward the frost chains rushing at his neck and heart.
White light burst from his fingertips, forming a shield inscribed with strange patterns.

Crash!

The four frost chains could not penetrate the shield of light Bardiel had created and bounced away roughly, striking the ground.

“Your blades cannot reach me.”

When Bardiel flicked his fingers, the shield with strange patterns split and multiplied into six, spinning around him to form a wall of light.
It seemed impossible to break through from any angle.

“Die where you stand.”

As Bardiel extended his hand with cold eyes, pure white clouds bloomed, and he began pouring down hail of light.

Boom!

I twisted my ankle sharply. Heavenly Step. By extending only my left foot, I escaped the space where the hail of light was falling.
Behind me, the thunderous sound of hail lashing the battlefield echoed.

“Running will do you no good.”

Yet Bardiel, as if dominating this space itself, turned the direction of the clouds toward where I fled and relentlessly poured down hail of light.

—So you’re planning to hide behind your shield and only attack from a distance.

Wrath scoffed with disdain, his eyes narrowing as he spoke in a manner befitting the Celestial Clan.

‘That man doesn’t seem to be a true warrior.’

I narrowed my eyes and pushed off the ground with the tips of my toes.
I closed the distance I’d retreated at a speed more than double what I’d moved before, thrusting both the Heavenly Sword and the Demonic Sword toward Bardiel’s shield.

Crash!

I aimed for the gap between the shields, but Bardiel reinforced the rotational force of his shields and deflected both blades.
Now there was no opening whatsoever.

“It seems you only know how to charge forward like a mindless ape.”

Bardiel let out a cold laugh and raised his hand. A hail of light poured down in an even wider range. The space to evade continued to shrink.

‘Learning the shield’s movements won’t help.’

No matter how quickly I thrust my blades, it was impossible to pierce through the shield’s rotation and strike Bardiel down.

—Even if you use a spatial slash, he’ll pull the shield inward to block it. In the end, you’ll have no choice but to break it.

Wrath shook his head, saying that the only way to draw out this coward was to shatter the shield of light.

—Of course, the aura consumption will be severe, but there’s no other way now. Use all your strength and break it.

Since he couldn’t assist me with power as he usually did, he offered advice instead. It felt encouraging, like having a friend cheering me on from the sidelines.

‘Thank you.’
—Th-that kind of talk isn’t necessary!

Wrath’s face flushed as he barked at me to focus on the battle.

—Just break that bastard’s shield already!
‘There’s no need to break the shield.’
—What?
‘If he won’t come out from behind it, I’ll just cut him down from inside.’

Raon pointed the Heavenly Sword toward Bardiel.

“A spatial blade? I’ve already seen it.”

Bardiel infused his shield with even stronger light, insisting that such techniques no longer worked against him.

“That’s right. A spatial blade.”

I nodded readily, acknowledging his words.

“But what you’re about to see will be a little different.”

I rotated my shoulders and infused the essence of spatial swordsmanship into the descending Heavenly Sword.
The flames that had been billowing through the air tore through space itself, erupting from within Bardiel’s shield.

Screeeech!

The blade of fire, undulating like a serpent’s tongue, carved a crimson wound across Bardiel’s chest before he could even react.

Gaaahhh!

Bardiel’s eyes widened as he watched blood gush from his chest, clearly unprepared for the spatial blade’s execution speed.

“…It wasn’t this fast before?”

His jaw trembled with disbelief as blood droplets scattered across his chin.

-He’s right, isn’t he!

Wrath exhaled in astonishment.

-Why has the speed increased so dramatically!
‘I’ve awakened to it.’

When I severed Bardiel with the Void Slash before he could unfurl his wings, I was able to deepen my understanding of the spatial blade’s essence.

‘Just as Aunt said.’

Aris had told me that the growth of the Spatial Sword occurred in stages.
Even if it seemed stagnant and showed no progress, she said that with consistent effort, the fruits of that labor would eventually manifest—and she was right.

Thanks to the insight I gained while striking down Bardiel, the distance and speed at which I could pierce through space with my blade had advanced to a degree incomparable to before.
Though not quite at Aris’s level, I seemed to have closed the gap considerably.

“Grraahhh!”

Bardiel raised both hands. The white clouds swelled to more than double their size, and an immeasurable torrent of luminous hail poured down.
He seemed intent on unleashing an unrelenting barrage that would leave no opening for me to employ the Spatial Sword.

‘He’s retreating.’

I raised the Demonic Sword and twisted my lips into a smirk.

Whoooosh!

I extended the Demonic Sword like unfurling blue silk, ensnaring the luminous hail within its arc.
The Manhwagong Technique of Serene Tranquility—a swordsmanship born to suppress the celestial aura—seemed to understand the situation perfectly, even erasing the light of the heavenly beings.

“Not yet!”

Bardiel generated an even greater number of hailstones, as though everything before had been mere play.
He appeared to be buying time to recover from his wounds.

‘As I thought, that one is no warrior.’

A true warrior would have charged forward without hesitation, but Bardiel retreated without a moment’s consideration.
I’d sensed it from the moment he deployed the Barrier—this one had not seen much combat.

“Mere tricks!”

As Bardiel furrowed his brow and raised his hand edge, the spherical hailstones transformed into the shapes of blades and spears.
They carried a vicious aura that would tear flesh upon contact and rend bone from sinew.

Whoosh!

I stepped through the Taewhwa Three Steps amid the starlike cascade of luminous hail. The Taewhwa Three Steps was the softest and most fluid of all the Taewhwa footwork techniques.
Just as water cannot be cut by blade or spear, the weapons forged of light could not touch even the hem of my garment, embedding themselves in the earth instead.

“What is this…?”

Bardiel let out a murky groan as if the situation made no sense.

‘His movements are crude.’

I thrust the Heavenly Sword through the hail’s ripples and drew down the Demonic Blade.
The crimson-burning blade exhaled the breath of a fire dragon, while the Demonic Blade wrapped in blue frost scattered like a dream.

Cliiiiing!

The extreme flame dragon technique and the extreme frost silver dream—two incompatible sword styles harmonized through the subtlety of spatial swordsmanship and burst forth from within Bardiel’s shield.

Kuwaaaaang!

A tremendous explosion erupted from inside Bardiel’s shield, and brilliant red flames and silver frost fragments sprayed in all directions.

The impact was so violent that the entire barrier trembled, and the flames and frost enveloping Bardiel burned endlessly as if they would never extinguish.

“I anticipated this.”

As I lowered the Heavenly Sword and Demonic Blade slightly, Bardiel’s voice echoed from within the flames and frost.

Whoooosh!

A tremendous light burst forth as if shedding the shell of flames and frost, and Bardiel emerged.
Within the light shield circling around him, a new shield charred black was visible.

“Now that spatial swordsmanship no longer works.”

He had created another shield within the light shield to block both the flame dragon technique and the silver dream.

“I shall show you all a fitting end.”

Bardiel, believing he no longer needed to retreat, created clouds that filled the entire barrier instead.
As the clouds descended slowly, massive spheres of light burst forth. It seemed he intended to simply detonate them and kill us all since he couldn’t hit us directly.

“Die, all of you.”

Bardiel stood in place, confident that his offense and defense were flawless, and brought down the massive sphere of light.
I could feel his intent to kill not just me, but the entire Gwangpung Corps.

‘As expected, he moves that way.’

I filled my entire body with the heat of Manhwagong and the chill of Glacia, then stepped forward with my right foot.
Taewhayibo—advancing with the extreme speed footwork that pierces light, I erected the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword before Bardiel.

Crash!

Operating the subtleties of the Spatial Sword at maximum intensity to avoid being blocked by Bardiel’s sorcery, I unleashed a torrent of flame and frost through the interior of his second shield.

“Didn’t I say I anticipated this?”

Bardiel sneered as if he knew everything.

“Your sword no longer works on me.”

He shifted his second shield inward, blocking the Spatial Sword.

Ring!

I twisted the blades of the Divine and Demonic Swords, ignoring Bardiel entirely.

Whooom!

The slash that tore through space collided with Bardiel’s second shield.
But the blade didn’t dissipate—instead, it erupted with intense flames and frost, pushing the shield outward.

Screech!

Gyeokhaemoo—the martial art of the Demon King Ogram that ignores the enemy’s defense and strikes the interior—pierced through Bardiel’s shield and carved deeply into his chest.

Burst!

A thunderous sound like a massive tree falling echoed out, and Bardiel’s chest exploded outward.

“Gaaahhh!”

Bardiel let out a blood-curdling scream and staggered backward.

“This… this can’t be happening…”

Even through the excruciating pain, his eyes trembled with disbelief.

Tsk.

I clicked my tongue sharply. I’d intended to kill him outright, but it seemed the Heavenly Clan’s bodies were far more resilient than expected.
To finish this decisively, I summoned denser flames and frost, advancing toward Bardiel.

Roooaaar!

As I walked forward with blood-stained Divine and Demonic blades tilted at angles, my black dragon robe billowing behind me, I appeared to Bardiel as both the Grim Reaper and an absolute demon incarnate.

“Ugh…”

Bardiel coughed blood and retreated, but he didn’t get far before his back slammed against the Barrier’s wall.

“D-don’t come any closer!”

He let out a terrified shriek before vanishing directly through the Barrier’s wall.

“Did he escape?”

I narrowed my eyes, staring at the Barrier wall where Bardiel had disappeared.

-That’s exactly it! That’s the true nature of the Heavenly Clan!

Wrath gnashed his teeth, cursing that fleeing rather than fighting to the end was the Heavenly Clan’s defining characteristic.

“Hah… is it over?”

Martha lowered her sword and released a long breath.

“The light beings have stopped moving, so it seems we’ve settled things for now.”

Burren straightened his posture and nodded.

“Yes. The puppets are disappearing….”

Lunan lowered his chin slightly as he watched the luminous figures slowly sink away.

“Damn it….”

Crain bit his lip and scraped his foot roughly against the ground.

“Dorian’s gone! That idiot….”

His hand trembled as he gripped his sword, suspecting that Dorian had remained above.

“It’s alright….”

Lunan shook his head as he looked at Crain.

“The Unit Commander will save him.”

She clenched Seolhwa tightly, certain that Dorian and Rimer were together.

‘The Unit Commander….’

I turned back and bit my lip. At first I hadn’t realized it, but when those luminous figures erupted, I understood that Dorian and Rimer were missing.

I trusted that Rimer would protect Dorian and Aris, but because our opponent was a Transcendent, my chest ached with worry.

“We’re leaving immediately. There could be an ambush, so be ready.”

I issued orders to the Gwangpung Corps and approached the barrier wall through which Bardiel had escaped.

Whoosh.

After taking a slow, steady breath, she drew the enemy island downward toward the barrier’s wall.

Screeeeeech!

Perhaps because Bardiel had vanished, the barrier cracked despite my not applying much force, and a dimensional rift opened for us to escape through.

“Let’s go.”

I entered the darkly opened dimension, utilizing Seolhwa’s senses.

When I closed and reopened my eyes, Bardiel came into view—his complexion drained of all color.

“Grraahhh!”

Bardiel glared at me with eyes filled with rage and terror.

“I didn’t expect you to break through Bardiel so quickly. You truly are Raon Zigheart.”

Seif’s voice echoed from behind me.

“But you’re a little too late.”

I ignored Seif’s mocking tone and turned around. I was about to rush at him, but when I saw the situation before my eyes, my legs refused to move.

“No….”

Seif stood with a cruel smile, his black sword piercing through Rimer’s left chest.

“It’s all over now.”

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