The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 866

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Chapter 866

I turned around silently, then my eyes widened. Behind the Black Dragon’s corpse, a man wearing a green snake-helmet was walking out.

“You…”

I had sensed someone approaching from behind moments ago, but I never imagined it would be Eden—and certainly not the Snake-Helmeted Man.

-That snake-helmet bastard. Isn’t this the fourth time?

Wrath furrowed his brow, wondering why the creature kept surviving.

‘That’s right. The color changes each time, but…’

After Geummyeonsa, the Red Ghost Knight, and the Blue Time Envoy, now a green snake? I couldn’t fathom where this was heading. Absurdly enough, I was actually becoming curious about what color would come next.
It was absurd, but now I found myself curious about what color would come next.

“What’s even funnier is…”

It’s getting stronger and stronger.

His level was lower than mine, but he had clearly broken through the Wall and ascended.
Though their level was lower than his own, it was clear they had broken through the wall and risen up.

How strange. They’re clearly different people with dissimilar temperaments, yet I get the feeling they’re the same person.

Wrath shook his head, saying that his very existence was strange.

“Yeah. There’s definitely something there.”

According to what that guy said, everyone who wore the snake helmet before is dead, and the green snake helmet in front of us now belongs to someone else.

This led me to suspect they were either the same individual, or they shared a common consciousness.
So I suspected that those guys were either the same person, or they shared the same mind.

“Is it green this time?”

I narrowed my eyes as I observed the Snake-Helmeted Man in green.

“You recognize me immediately.”

The Snake-Helmeted Man adjusted his helmet and let out a thin laugh.

“Who exactly are you?”

I tilted my jaw while keeping the Heavenly Sword pointed at him.

“For now, you can call me Greenwave Envoy.”

The Snake-Helmeted Man referred to himself as Greenwave Envoy and flicked the back of his hand. He seemed less frivolous than the one I’d seen before.

“That’s not what I’m asking about.”
“Then what are you curious about?”

Greenwave Envoy tilted his head awkwardly, as if inviting me to speak.

“I’m asking what your true identity is.”

I lifted my gaze, sharp and piercing as an awl.

“A moment ago, you said that each time we meet, I change in ways that satisfy you. That means we’ve encountered each other repeatedly, but this is the first time I’ve seen you.”

I let my cold voice fall as I twisted my lips.

“Though that ugly helmet is the fourth one.”
“A question you’ve asked before.”

Greenwave Envoy nodded lightly.

“The answer is simple. Think of it however you wish. You can believe we’re the same person, or you can believe we’re not.”

He shrugged as if telling me to think freely. He seemed unwilling to provide a real answer.

“More importantly….”

Greenwave Envoy licked his lips as he gazed at the Black Dragon’s corpse.

“Even if Zera Piret only recently became an Ancient Dragon, I never expected him to die so easily. Should I have handled things more quickly?”

He let out a hollow laugh, as if unable to believe the Black Dragon’s death.

“Handle things? What are you plotting by joining hands with a dragon?”

Raon threw out a question laden with killing intent.

“It’s simple, isn’t it? I’ll merely burn this place down.”

The Green-haired Queen brushed his hands clean as if the answer were obvious.

“The World Tree?”
“It’s something I couldn’t do because you got in my way.”

He smacked his lips, recalling the time when he and Hongryeom-gwi had attacked Sepia as Red Ghost Soldiers.

Indeed, throughout the Grand Forest right now, not just monsters but the auras of Eden Ghosts were converging.
Those outside seemed destined for a harder battle.

“Do you really share consciousness with the dead?”

Raon furrowed his brow as he looked at the Green-haired Queen.

“Not share. My consciousness remains entirely my own. Of course, the next one will be different….”

The Green-haired Queen muttered something incomprehensible in a calm tone. His personality was definitely different from the previous ones.

“Hmm.”

Raon was about to speak to the Green-haired Queen when he turned his gaze northward.
Sterin’s aura had diminished considerably. He was being pushed back significantly.

‘And on top of that….’

That bastard, the Green-haired Queen. He’s hiding something.

Given that he said he’d handled things, he must have either taken something from Sepia or planted something there.
The right move was to cut down this bastard as quickly as possible and rush to help Sterin.

“I have many questions, but there’s no time. Let’s cut through quickly and move on.”

I aimed the Divine Sword, wreathed in killing intent, toward the Green-haired Queen.

“I thought I had the advantage this time, but I didn’t expect you to be ahead again.”

The Green-haired Queen flicked her fingers lightly, and a massive Red Dragon rose into the sky above Sepia, surrounded by crimson flames.

“It was good that I asked Matirus to send one more.”

She nodded, as if her judgment had been correct.

“With two against one, stopping you won’t be impossible.”
“A Red Dragon….”

I bit my lip as I gazed at the Red Dragon hovering in the sky.

‘It’s lived a long time, but it’s not an ancient dragon.’

Judging by the Red Dragon’s size and the mana it possessed, it was at the peak of a mature dragon, but fortunately not yet at the ancient dragon level.

‘Of course, the fact that it’s a Red Dragon is a problem.’

The Red Dragons possessed the most formidable combat power among all dragon species, and this place was a forest—the perfect battlefield for it to display its full strength. My tension rose.

-Oh! Two lizard skewers! And they taste different too!

Wrath even clapped his hands in delight. Despite the dangerous situation, I couldn’t help but let out a hollow laugh.

[Foolishly caught off guard.]

The Red Dragon’s eyes narrowed with irritation at being bested by a human, more than anger at its kin’s death. It opened its massive maw wide.
Above the pitch-black throat, like a bottomless abyss, crimson flames began to condense.

[Still, I’ll have my revenge!]

The Red Dragon detonated the inferno it had condensed within its jaws.
The breath of flames—the mightiest among all dragon species—poured down upon me like a thunderbolt.

Kuguguguguguguuu!

Unlike the Black Dragon, the pressure wasn’t dispersed across a wide area but compressed into a single point, making it absolutely devastating.
My feet instinctively dug into the earth, and my hand trembled as I gripped my sword.

“Try to block it for now.”

Hongryeom-gwi withdrew several steps back, apparently deciding to hold back his power. His movement technique was so swift he vanished from sight in an instant—it seemed as though he were riding the wind itself.

Whoooooosh!

I narrowed my eyes as I watched the breath of flames flowing down like molten lava.

‘The heat is absolutely vicious.’

Despite my fire resistance, my skin felt as though it were being seared by the breath’s temperature. Without the Ring of Flame, I wouldn’t have been able to remain in this place at all.
If it weren’t for the Ring of Fire, I don’t think we could have stayed in this place.

Whoooosh!

Raon clenched his molars and leaped into the breath of flames. He resonated the ring of fire with fervor and unfolded the Great Flame in the Middle Heaven with the demonic sword that shimmered in silver light.

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Water vapor rose in all directions—the sky became a hell of heat, while the earth below was blanketed in pristine white snow.
Steam rose in all directions, with a hellish heat blazing in the sky and a pristine Snowy Plain spread across the Battlefield.

Crackle crackle crackle!

But the clash between heat and cold did not last long.

CRASH!

Blue icicles that had frozen the breath of flames rose up from the earth of the Grand Forest.
Blue icicles rose over the Grand Forest’s land, freezing the breath of flames.

“That’s, that’s a lie!”

The Red Dragon’s pupils trembled as if he couldn’t believe his breath of flames, unleashed with all his might, had been blocked.

[How could I freeze the breath of flames…]
“Run along and play somewhere else, brat.”

I stepped onto the frozen breath of flames and ascended toward the sky. Before the Red Dragon could react in panic, I drew the Silver Sword Dream toward its neck.

Craaaaaash!

The fiery blade of the divine sword pierced through the Red Dragon’s scales, and just as I was about to shatter its dragon heart, a wind-laden green blade surged upward.

Claaaaaaang!

The Green Wind Ghost. The one who had vanished from the ground now appeared, blocking my sword.

“I can’t let you kill this one. I’ll have to withdraw from here.”

As the Green Wind Ghost lowered its chin, an intense wind swept forth, pushing me back.

“What if I refuse?”

I endured the Green Wind Ghost’s wind with the will of transcendence and pressed the Demon Sword down upon the divine blade.

Craaaaaash!

I couldn’t shatter the Red Dragon’s heart, but I carved a fatal wound across its neck before retreating.

[Screeeeeeeech!]

The Red Dragon writhed in agony, its massive body convulsing as it shrieked, suffering from nothing more than torn flesh.

“Persistent. I didn’t expect you to push further.”

The Green Wind Ghost narrowed its eyes, calling me a wild boar.

“Still, you’re not afraid of a human, are you?”

It flicked its hand backward, as if taunting the dragon.

[Of course not! I’ll kill that insect with my own claws!]

The Red Dragon revealed fierce, murderous eyes as it healed its wounds with restorative magic.

Uuuuuuung!

High-tier spells materialized in succession around the creature, and thanks to its Red Dragon lineage, the power of those spells seemed comparable to the Black Dragon I had slain moments before.

“This is an unfavorable battle, but I’ll endure it.”

The Green-haired Queen also seemed intent on committing her full strength now, condensing wind that shimmered with green light onto her blade.

“I don’t like the quality of that wind.”

I furrowed my brow deeply as I observed the wind clinging to the Green-haired Queen’s sword.

“I’ll shatter it immediately.”

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“Sigh…”

Siyan lowered her hand with a long exhale.

‘This is exhausting.’

Even though I had cleared most of the poison, I couldn’t block the toxins carried on the wind.

Summoning four supreme-tier spirits simultaneously to protect all of Sepia was draining my mental energy, leaving my head spinning.

‘But I can’t rest.’

I narrowed my eyes as I watched Raon, the Red Dragon, and the Green-haired Queen battling in the sky.

‘If I remain here, Raon won’t be able to unleash his full power.’

Sepia had many Elves and children who couldn’t fight.
If I displayed my true strength and something unexpected happened, I couldn’t afford to remain here.

“Everyone, move to the Holy Ground!”

Siyan opened the passage to the Holy Ground she had created to protect the World Tree and called out to the Elves remaining in the village.

“But if we’re the reason the World Tree becomes endangered….”
“It’s fine! I’ll protect it even if it costs me my life!”

She shook her head firmly at the hesitant Elves. She seemed like a completely different person from when she had been trembling before me.

“Ah, understood.”
“Everyone, enter the passage to the Holy Ground! The children first!”

The Elves, emboldened by Siyan’s words, moved their reluctant feet toward the path leading to the Holy Ground.

“Raon.”

Siyan clasped her hands together as she watched me extinguish the Red Dragon’s flames.

‘Please.’

She asked me to protect those remaining here, then entered the Holy Ground one last time.

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‘Good.’

I nodded as I watched the Elves enter the Holy Ground.
I had been struggling to control my magic and sword strikes so they wouldn’t fall on Sepia, but now I could fight without hesitation.

“Where are you looking?”

The Red Ghost Knight lowered his brow and swung his sword. With just one slash, hundreds of wind blades surged toward my vital points.

[Burst forth!]

The Red Dragon unleashed Inferno Blossom, a high-tier flame magic, riding the wind conjured by the Green Wind Envoy.
Though inherently powerful, the slow spell pierced through like arrows of light, carried by the gale.

Crash!

I unfurled both the Flame Bead Wall and the White Flame Island simultaneously, blocking both the wind blade and the Inferno Blossom at once.
Yet the impact was too great—I couldn’t prevent myself from being driven backward.

“So a two-against-one is too much for you, is it?”

The Green Wind Envoy condensed the atmosphere into a blade. A colossal wind blade, as if forged by a giant, rose above his head.

[This time, there’s no way to block it.]

The Red Dragon, seeing an opportunity, gathered another breath of flame. The air around him shimmered and warped from the tremendous heat.

“The end? I like how this ends.”

I kicked off the void with deliberate force, as if I’d truly been driven back, and surged toward the Red Dragon and the Green Wind Envoy.
I drew the Divine Sword over my shoulder and the Demonic Sword behind my waist, stepping into the Extreme Resonance Stance.

Screech!

Like a dying star’s final explosion, magnificent flames and frost erupted above the dimming Divine and Demonic Swords, covering the heavens.

Raon Zigheart-style Sword Technique, Sixth Form
Divine-Demonic Harmony Linkage—Azure-Crimson Undefeated Sword.

The transcendent extremity of the Sword Realm manifested into the world through the blades of the Divine and Demonic Swords.

Roar!

The flame and frost, which should have been in opposition, achieved an anomalous harmony and became a single slash, cleaving the Red Dragon’s breath and the Green Wind Envoy’s wind blade in two.

Whoosh!

The blackened sky split from the tremendous surge of mana, and a black tornado erupted across heaven and earth.

However, the Red Dragon and the Green-haired Queen had also exhausted their full strength, so the Heavenly Sword couldn’t cut through them either and faded away anticlimactically.

[How is this possible? A mere human….]

The Red Dragon exhaled a weary breath, unable to believe in Raon Zigheart’s power.

“My hands are trembling.”

The Green-haired Queen also shook out her numbed hands, drained of strength.

“Still, we’re fortunate. Now that his Sword Realm has ended, he can’t produce the same power as before… Huh?”

He was speaking to the Red Dragon when his eyes widened.

“The sword!”

Raon Zigheart’s hand, which should have been gripping the sword, was empty. The moment he realized this, a sharp cutting sound pierced the air from the right.

Piaaaaaang!

It was the Heavenly Sword tearing through space as it came.

“Krgh!”

The Green-haired Queen urgently gathered wind and struck down the Heavenly Sword rushing toward her.

Zzzzzzzzang!

She managed to block it, but the power contained in the Heavenly Sword was so overwhelming that she couldn’t avoid internal injuries. Black blood spurted from her mouth.

“Ugh, help me… What?”

The Green-haired Queen turned around to call for aid, only to see a leaf-shaped blade gleaming with a pale blue light embedded in the Red Dragon’s throat.

“Insane….”

Raon Zigheart had launched two Heavenly Swords from the very beginning, and unlike himself, the dragon had failed to evade—his throat had been claimed.

[Guuuuh….]

For a dragon, the heart is a vital point similar to a human’s heart. The Red Dragon, its heart destroyed, plummeted to the Battlefield unable to control its body.

Kuuuuuuung!

The Red Dragon and Zera Piret, whom it had dismissed as insignificant humans, both expired with eyes rolled back.

“It hasn’t been long since transcending, yet this is absurd….”

The Green-haired Queen trembled, her lips stained with blood as she gazed upon the corpse of the Red Dragon and the Black Dragon lying beside it.

“Huff.”

I exhaled a breath tinged with the scent of blood, my waist bent slightly forward.

‘Fortunately, it worked.’

The moment the Divine Demon Harmony Seal shattered, I desperately raised the Heavenly Sword and targeted both of them simultaneously—thankfully, I managed to strike one. I would have preferred if the Green-haired Queen had fallen instead, but at least eliminating a dragon was a relief.
I’m relieved we at least dealt with the Dragon, even if it would have been better if the Green Wolf had died instead.

“Of course I’m tired too, but…”

My body felt heavy as if waterlogged, and my aura consumption had been severe, yet I revealed no sign of it—only calm, composed eyes.
His body felt heavy as if it had absorbed water, and his aura was severely depleted, but he didn’t show it and revealed calm eyes.

“Your favorable situation has come to an end.”

Raon grasped the returned Heavenly Sword and Rimer’s sword, shaking his head.

“Without further ado, let’s end this…”

It was right when they were about to attack Nok Rang Temple.

Crash!

Something that flew in from the Northern Region pierced through the heart of Sepia.

“Ugh…”

I turned my gaze, and through the dust cloud, I could see Sterin staggering.
At that same moment, a golden-haired man with an air of nobility appeared beside the Green-haired Queen.

“Are the preparations complete?”

The golden-haired man tilted his chin toward the Green-haired Queen.

“Of course they are.”

The Green-haired Queen nodded, running her tongue across her lips.

“Then….”

As the golden-haired man snapped his fingers, Sepia crumpled like paper clutched in a fist, then erupted in a tremendous explosion.

Kwaaaaaang!

With a golden radiance, space tore open, and the barrier of the Holy Ground that had concealed the World Tree shattered.

“What…”
“The—the barrier!”
“Someone has broken the gates of the Holy Ground!”

Siyan and the Elves standing guard over the World Tree widened their eyes at the sudden turn of events.

“Are you Raon Zigheart?”

The golden-haired man, who appeared to be a Dragon, lifted his chin with arrogance.

“To slay two of your own kind in such a brief span—you must surely die.”

He tilted his head, his quiet eyes kindling with murderous intent.

“So I find myself in another unfavorable battle?”

Nok Rang-sa wielded the sword he held in his hand with a scornful smile on his face.

“This is a losing battle…”

Raon curled his lips into a smile as he gazed at the Heavenly Sword and Rimer’s blade.

“I’ve done that more than fifty times already.”

Golden flames erupted above the Heavenly Sword and Rimer’s blade as he sneered.

“Let me show you what the swordsmen of Zigheart truly are.”

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