The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 865

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Chapter 865

Whoooosh!

Raon wrapped the winds of Garunua around the tip of the Black Dragon’s claws, ascending toward the Black Dragon like an incarnation of wind itself.

[How dare you!]

The Black Dragon, befitting an ancient wyrm, shed his momentary shock and summoned ten spears that rippled with darkness.
Colossal black spears, massive as the pillars of the Patriarch’s Hall, rained down like beams of light.

-Those are Venom Spears, I see.

Wrath narrowed his eyes as he watched the black spears plummet like lightning.

-Those spears are coated with extreme poison that melts away vitality upon contact. If you’re caught by their sheer size, you’ll perish.

He lowered his voice, saying it was dangerous even to deflect them with a sword.

‘Then I’ll just burn them away.’

Raon didn’t retreat even after hearing Wrath’s warning. Instead, he accelerated further and ignited the Divine Sword’s flames toward the Venom Spears.

Manhwagong Heavenly Flame.
Flame Dragon Technique.

The flames dwelling at the blade’s edge of the Divine Sword split like the end of a gorge before rising in the form of a dragon.
The heat of Manhwagong, whose power surged even higher upon transcendence, consumed the black spears.

Roooaaarrr!

The high-level poison magic, the Venom Spears, never managed to unleash their poison even once before becoming fuel for the flame dragon and dissipating.

‘Now I can do it.’

Raon watched the poison dissolve within the Manhwagong flames and licked his lips with satisfaction.

‘I can definitely fight that ancient dragon.’

Glen Zigheart and Wrath demonstrated their prowess by severing the formidable offensives imbued with the will of transcendents, or displaying the mysterious art of freezing.

At the time, I couldn’t understand how it was possible, but now I see. It was a technique exclusive to transcendents who could harness the mana of nature itself.

[W-What is this…?]

The Black Dragon let out a pained groan. His eyes trembled as if he had never imagined that even high-level magic could vanish so easily.

Whiiiing!

I kicked off the empty air and leaped up to stand at the same height as the Black Dragon. I pointed my magic sword at him and wielded Glacial to its fullest potential.

Whoooosh!

The Frost World Tree sprouted above the blue blade of the magic sword, blooming thousands of flowers.

Manhwagong Heavenly Flame.
Flower Spirit.

The cluster of flowers from the Flower Spirit, unfolded by Glacial’s chill, adorned the entire sky. It was a magnificent sight, as if a constellation of frost flowers had unfurled.

Boooooom!

The Black Dragon narrowed his diamond-shaped eyes and unleashed high-level magic to protect himself—the Veil of Poison Annihilation that blocked enemy approach with deadly toxin, and the Shield of Heavenly Wheels that deflected enemy attacks with lightning.

As I tilted my magic sword, the fragments of frost filling the sky poured down toward the Black Dragon.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The aura wave generated by the Flower Spirit was graceful yet fierce, but the two shields created by the Black Dragon did not shatter—they merely froze white.

[Raon Zigheart. You’re more dangerous than I heard.]

The Black Dragon exhaled fury and began to mold a sphere of deadly poison that shimmered with a green glow.
The toxic energy it possessed was stronger than the Poison Spear of the Poison King, and even from a distance, my head throbbed.

“Now isn’t the time to prepare an attack, is it?”

Raon twisted his lips into a fierce grin as he charged directly at the Black Dragon, unleashing both the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword simultaneously, wrapped in the winds of the Gwangpung Style.

Raon Zigheart Style Swordsmanship.
Second Form: Junmujeonju Overlap.

The Junmujeonju activated simultaneously from both blades, pulling the Black Dragon’s massive body with a gravitational force as dark as a black hole.

[What is this!]

As the Black Dragon panicked and tried to spread its wings, I released the waves of heat and cold that had been condensed at the tips of both blades.

Kuwaaaaang!

The frozen Veil of Annihilation and the Shield of Transmigration shattered simultaneously, and blades of flame and frost embedded themselves in both of the Black Dragon’s wings.

[Krrrrgh!]

The Black Dragon, startled by the sudden pain, carelessly released the sphere of toxic energy it had been constructing.

“This isn’t over yet.”

Raon seized the opening without hesitation, raising the Divine Sword above and lowering the Demonic Sword below, drawing a diagonal path of blades.
Manhwagong Flame Sea Unbroken. Waves of flame and frost surged upward into the sky, engulfing the Black Dragon’s entire body.

[D-Defend!]

The Black Dragon had no time to deploy defensive magic and desperately chanted a dragon incantation. Mana from the surroundings converged around it, forming five shields.

Pazzzzzick!

Though devoid of toxic energy, the shields did not break even against the blades of flame and frost. The defensive power of dragon incantation magic was truly exceptional.

“Let’s see how long you can hold out.”

Raon gritted his teeth, drawing all his body’s muscles and aura to their maximum, and brought his blades down upon the Black Dragon’s shields.

Kuwaaaaang!

The sword strike, infused with a body and aura that had grown stronger upon reaching transcendence, along with the power of the Myriad Swords, shattered all the mana shields the Black Dragon had summoned with its dragon incantation.

[Stop it!]

The Black Dragon erected a new mana shield to prevent his neck from being severed, but the force of my assault overwhelmed him, twisting his wings as he plummeted toward the ground.

[Shield! Shield!]

The Black Dragon continued regenerating shields in a desperate attempt to endure, but he couldn’t withstand my power that transcended human limitations.

[Roooaaarrr!]

He finally plummeted into the Western Great Forest with only a thin shield wrapped around him.

Boom!

As the colossal dragon crashed down with his body, the earth itself twisted, the entire forest convulsed, and a massive cloud of brown dust rose into the sky.

-Barbaric brute.

Wrath furrowed his brow in exasperation.

-Can’t you do anything with a bit of finesse?
‘For a lizard like that, brute force is the answer.’

I clicked my tongue briefly and approached where the Black Dragon had fallen.

‘There’s no reason to let him live.’

The Black Dragon had unleashed a breath of deadly poison toward Sepia without any warning.
Since he intended to slaughter every human and elf in this place, there was no reason for me to spare him.

-Now you’re calling him a lizard too.

Wrath chuckled as if pleased.

-Well, after witnessing the filthy true nature of these lizard bastards, it’s only natural. Still, beat him moderately. If you hit him too much, the meat gets tough.

He was still smacking his lips, apparently thinking of dragon meat.

‘Now I need to finish this…hmm!’

As Raon approached where the Black Dragon had fallen, black particles burst forth from the swirling brown dust. They were small, but their venom was so potent it could sear flesh from bone.

“Of course.”

I scoffed and erected a Prayer Bead Wall. The shield blazing with flames incinerated every poisonous particle that came near.

“A lizard that’s lived for thousands of years wouldn’t fall to something like that.”

I nodded and lowered my hand, and a blue wind swept through, scattering the whirlwind of dust away.

[Krrrrgh.]

The Black Dragon was scorched, its frost-bitten wings broken and bent, blood dripping from its maw.
Despite using draconic magic to absorb the impact, it hadn’t managed to withstand the full force—it was wounded.

[Raon Zigheart. I hadn’t heard you were this formidable….]

The Black Dragon trembled its massive snout, genuinely taken aback.

“Better late than never to learn. Of course….”

I stepped forward with the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword raised, treading the Taehwa Steps.

“Though it’s far too late.”

As I advanced to sever the Black Dragon’s neck in one stroke, its jaws opened wide.

[Capacity Suppression!]

The Black Dragon chanted an unknown spell using draconic magic. It was unusual—dragons could create magic simply by reciting basic draconic words.
Yet this felt different.

‘Is there something else?’

I sensed something ominous and halted my steps. As I lowered my stance to assess the situation, a blue aura emanated from near the Black Dragon’s throat. It was thin as thread, yet unlike before, it carried no killing intent whatsoever.
The aura was thin as silk, but unlike anything before—it bore no murderous presence.

Whoooooosh!

I brought the Divine Blade down toward the azure aura rushing at me, but the Black Dragon’s magic didn’t burn in the flames—it surged forward even faster.

‘What is this?’

The fact that it didn’t burn in the flames suggested it wasn’t physical magic.
I made a swift judgment and retreated backward using the Taewhasa technique.

-Even the True Demon King doesn’t understand it. Since it’s unaffected by blade strikes, it might be spiritual magic.

Wrath furrowed his brow, saying he’d never seen visible spiritual magic before.

‘Then I should just avoid it and—wait?’

I tried to keep fleeing, but the Black Dragon’s magic rushed faster than I could move, eventually seeping into my shoulder.

I exhaled slowly.

I examined my entire body carefully.

‘Nothing seems wrong?’

Despite being struck by the ancient dragon’s magic, I felt no impact, and nothing felt different about my body.

“What did you do to me?”

I gripped the Divine Blade and the Demonic Blade tighter, glaring at the Black Dragon.

[Kehehehe….]

The Black Dragon laughed, black blood dripping from the corners of its mouth. Its body was so massive that even its laughter made the forest tremble.

[Now you are finished.]
“What? What do you mean—”
[Twist!]

Just as I was about to ask again, the Black Dragon unleashed the most powerful draconic word it had spoken yet.

Krraaaaaaagh!

My vision went black as if struck on the crown of my head by a hammer, then brightened again.

“What just happened….”

As I exhaled in confusion, a black sphere shot from the Black Dragon’s claws streaked toward my chest.

“That won’t work on me….”

I tried to incinerate it by swinging the Divine Sword, but instead of my shoulders and arms responding, my toes and ankles twisted.

Pwoooosh!

I rolled across the ground, struck directly by the venomous sphere.

“What… what is this….”

As I clenched my jaw in disbelief, a blade of virulent poison summoned by the Black Dragon fell toward my shoulder.

I tried to dodge by pushing off the ground with my legs, but this time my elbows and wrists twisted instead.

“Kugh!”

I was struck repeatedly by the toxic spheres and coughed up crimson blood onto the darkened earth.

“This is….”
[Have you finally figured it out?]

The Black Dragon drew a long, mocking smile.

“My senses….”

I glared at the Black Dragon, my brow furrowing.

“You’ve distorted them?”

When I tried to move my arm, my leg moved instead. When I tried to move my leg, my wrist twisted. My entire body’s sensations were grotesquely inverted.

[Correct.]

The Black Dragon nodded with a deep, resonant laugh.

[Humans. Especially sword wielders like you rely far too heavily on sensation. Sense Reversal is an absolute spell created to counter those who have touched transcendence.]

He smacked his lips with satisfaction, saying all his preparation had been worthwhile.

“…A spell like this shouldn’t just be possible, should it?”

Raon bit his lip as he stared at the Black Dragon.

‘An inescapable mental spell. And one that distorts sensation at that….’

Was this the ancient dragon’s special ability that Junmujeonju had mentioned?

Such an absolute spell couldn’t possibly work without constraints. It must have been created by imposing restrictions through a domain obtained upon reaching transcendence.

[You speak truly. This spell can only be used on one person, and the target whose senses are distorted is not just you.]
“Not just one person? Then….”
[Correct. My senses are twisted along with yours.]

The Black Dragon explained Sense Reversal with irritating detail, as if he already believed victory was his.

-A tedious spell. Just the sort of underhanded tactic a petty black lizard would devise.

Wrath furrowed his brow in annoyance.

‘I need to buy time and study these altered sensations.’

Just as the lizard said, warriors relied heavily on sensation.
Even transcendents couldn’t escape this dependency, so I had to identify the changes to my body as quickly as possible.

“Why develop a spell specifically to kill people?”

I spoke to the Black Dragon while mentally cataloging each distorted sensation coursing through my body.

[Because you humans are no different from cockroaches infesting this world.]

The Black Dragon’s eyes narrowed as he spewed his contempt for humanity.

“Did humans do something to you? From our perspective, it only looks like you’re the ones picking a fight first.”

Raon exhaled wearily, lifting only his gaze.

[Do you show consideration even to ants crushed beneath your feet?]

The Black Dragon twisted his lips, dismissing humans as mere insects.

[And wasting time won’t help. There’s no way a human could break through my capacity seal!]

He unleashed weapons forged from deadly venom as if he already knew everything.

“Hmph!”

Raon stepped back. While engaging the Black Dragon in conversation, I had already grasped most of his patterns.

‘First, I need to escape from here—wait?’

I tried to step on the Tae Hwa Seal to completely avoid the space where venom was pouring out, but this time the aura in my dantian wouldn’t move.

Crack!

The moment my body stiffened from the pain of my mana circuits snapping, a spear of venom slashed across my waist and thigh.

“Surely not…”

I stared at the Black Dragon, my lips darkened with blood trembling.

“My mana circuits too?”
[Correct.]

The Black Dragon nodded with a sneer.

[I’ve twisted your mana circuits as well. It’ll take days to find the answer.]

He chuckled, saying I could only find that answer through extreme agony.

[This isn’t revenge for that foolish Kaibar, but I’ll make sure you die as miserably as possible!]

The Black Dragon spoke of killing me in agony as he summoned weapons forged from poison in rapid succession.

Hwaaaaaa!

Black weapons rained down upon me, their murderous intent dripping like venom.

Kyaaaang!

I deflected the surging waves of deadly poison magic using only the flames of the Divine Sword and the chill of the Demonic Sword.

‘This is infuriating.’

With my aura unable to flow through the Upper Dantian, there were limits to how much natural mana I could draw forth.
It seemed I couldn’t escape this deluge of deadly poison without finding the sensation of my twisted mana circuits.

For now, my only option was to parry the Black Dragon’s magic with the Divine Sword, the Demonic Sword, and my swordsmanship alone while searching for the sensation of my mana circuits.

Chiriririing!

I parried the incoming blades of deadly poison while sharpening my concentration further.
Each time I failed to locate my mana circuits, the pain that surged through me became a stimulant to heighten my focus instead.

Kugugugugu!

I resonated with the ring of fire at maximum intensity and raised both the Divine Sword and the Demonic Sword.

‘Endurance is something I’m more confident in than anyone.’

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[This is meaningless!]

The Black Dragon, as if the outcome were already decided, unleashed increasingly massive waves of deadly poison to pressure me further.

Chichichichick!

Black spots erupted across Raon’s skin, and his arms and legs began trembling like those of a drunkard.
It was the typical manifestation of deadly poison coursing through his veins. Though he showed no outward sign, the agony consuming him from within must have been excruciating.

[I commend you for enduring dozens of poisons without screaming. But now, it ends.]

As the Black Dragon extended his hand and declared this the final blow, a colossal sphere of venom materialized above Raon’s head, threatening to engulf Sepia entirely.

[I shall melt you and the Elves’ Holy Ground to nothing.]

The Black Dragon muttered that he would show the depths of hell itself as he unleashed a high-level incantation—the Poison Realm—upon Raon.

Crackle!

In the instant the massive sphere of poison was about to consume Sepia, a crimson radiance ignited within Raon’s eyes.

Screeeech!

Simultaneously, the flames of the Divine Sword and the frost of the Demonic Sword erupted upward, shattering the Poison Realm that had been descending to crush Sepia into dozens of fragments.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The shards of deadly venom burned in the flames and froze in the chill as they plummeted to the ground.

[What… what is this?!]

The Black Dragon’s massive maw gaped wide, as though he had never imagined such a thing could occur.

Boom!

Raon seized the moment of the Black Dragon’s shock and stepped upon Taehwa’s footwork.

[Grrgh! Begone!]

The Black Dragon attempted to repel Raon using dragon language, but Raon shattered the incantation with natural mana and pressed forward.

[Screee!]

He severed the wall of poison and the absolute shield the Black Dragon had desperately conjured, then struck the ground with even greater speed.

[Krraaaaahhh!]

The Black Dragon gathered its venomous breath for one final, desperate assault. Even without full power, it unleashed the torrent of poison.

“It’s already too late.”

I thrust the blades of both the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword directly into the onrushing wave of venomous breath.

Kwaaaaaahhh!

A sword strike harmoniously blending gold and silver light tore through the venomous breath and ripped apart the Black Dragon’s scales.

Kughhhhhh!

The Black Dragon’s neck twisted as if it might snap clean off, and its massive body, drained of strength, plummeted to the battlefield.

[Ughhhh…]

The Black Dragon trembled violently, releasing a deep groan.

[H-how… how did you break through my magic?]

It shook its head in disbelief.

“I didn’t break your magic.”

I shook my head calmly.

[What? Then how…?]
“I memorized it.”

I explained that I had memorized every transformation of its body and every shift within its mana circuits, shaking my head.

[T-thousands of variations? You memorized all of them in this short time?]

The Black Dragon groaned as if that made even less sense.

“It wasn’t difficult.”

Raon nodded and raised the Divine Sword.

“I have no interest in toying with my enemies. I’ll end this quickly.”
[Wait, just a moment! Let me detoxify the poison coursing through you! Without me, you’ll die as well! If you spare my life, I swear I’ll never appear before humans again….]
“I won’t die from a lizard’s venom.”

I let out a cold laugh and extended the Divine Sword’s flames in a long arc.

[Spatial transfer—gaaahhh!]

The Black Dragon attempted to teleport, but I twisted the flow of mana and slashed across its throat.

[I, I’m being killed by a mere human….]

The Black Dragon’s jaw trembled as if it still couldn’t believe its own death, and the light faded from its eyes.

“Phew….”

I lowered the Divine Sword and the Demonic Sword, exhaling a long breath.

‘Fortunately, it worked.’

As the Black Dragon had said, it would have been impossible to memorize all the changes in sensation within such a short time.
So I used the clarity of mind to enter the Mental World, meticulously committed every change in my body and mana circuits to memory, and then emerged back out.

To the outside world, it was merely an instant, but inside, I spent considerable time.
However, due to the strain, my mind wasn’t entirely sound. I wanted to collapse and sleep immediately.

-That was honestly insane.

Wrath shook his head in disbelief.

-I have much to say, but first, deal with the poison. For a high dragon, it’s no ordinary toxin.
‘That’s fine.’

I shook my head and lowered my hand. The traces of poison that had stained my entire body slowly began to fade.

‘I have poison resistance, and the ring handles it automatically.’

The Ring of Fire, which had reached completion, purged all harmful energy from my body without requiring any action on my part. There was no need to consume an antidote.

—Damn this ring! Another ring!

Wrath ground his teeth in exasperation, as if memories of the past when his rage had proven ineffective were surfacing.

“Well then, next we should—”

As I moved to assist Sterin, the sound of applause echoed from behind me.

“As expected of Raon Zigheart. You grow more impressive with each encounter.”

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