The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman - Chapter 955

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Chapter 955

I descended the Sand Mountain while opening my right palm.

Whoooosh.

As I activated Manhwagong, a deeper golden flame ignited above my hand.

‘Does the flame’s color become more golden as Manhwagong grows?’

I recalled the First Patriarch’s flame from when I first glimpsed his memories in the Judgment Formula—it had been a deep golden hue.

‘That must be the perfected form of the technique.’

The First Patriarch had clearly completed both Manhwagong and the Ring of Fire, transcending even transcendence itself.

‘When will I ever reach that level? Or can I even get close?’

From what I could sense, neither Wrath nor Glen Zigheart had reached the First Patriarch’s realm. The difference lay not in martial technique but in the very essence of their existence.

For me, who hadn’t even matched the transcendents of the Five Emperors Five Demons, ascending to the First Patriarch’s level seemed impossibly distant.

‘Come to think of it…’

I extinguished the flame dancing above my palm and clicked my tongue.

‘The balance between Manhwagong and Glacial has collapsed.’

Except for when I first obtained Glacial from Wrath, I had always maintained equal mastery between Manhwagong and Glacial.

I had been careful because Manhwagong’s heat and Glacial’s cold were fundamentally opposed, yet for the first time in ages, that equilibrium had shifted.

‘I might struggle to control the flames for a while.’

Manhwagong had reached 10-Star while Glacial hadn’t even reached the peak of 9-Star. Controlling such formidable heat would require considerable effort.

‘Hmm?’

I widened my eyes as I contemplated my approach to the battles ahead.

‘The sand no longer causes me pain.’

Unlike when ascending the Sand Mountain, the golden sand posed no obstacle on the descent—it merely caused my feet to sink with each step.

‘Then moving swiftly would be ideal.’

Since the trials of stamina and mental fortitude had concluded, there was no need to linger on this Sand Mountain. I descended rapidly, employing my movement technique.

‘I need to catch up with Wrath.’

Even from atop the towering mountain, I could not see the far shore of the Blue Sea that Wrath had crossed.

If I were to follow Wrath, it would take considerable time, so haste seemed prudent.

Whoooosh.

I glided down the Sand Mountain toward the dark ground where I had lain when first entering the Chamber of Self.

Uuuuuung!

The moment my feet touched the black earth, the ground—dark as if shrouded in shadow—began to shimmer with golden light.

‘Is something happening again?’

Yet no matter how long I waited, nothing occurred beyond the change in the ground’s color.

‘This must be Wrath’s doing as well.’

By my reasoning, this place served as both entrance and exit to the Chamber of Self, but Wrath’s interference seemed to have sealed the passage.

‘I’m uncertain whether this situation will prove beneficial or detrimental.’

I chuckled softly as I gazed toward the Blue Sea.

‘Even if it doesn’t help me, I hope it aids Wrath.’

Wrath constantly complains—”You drain me dry,” “You’ve bent my spine,” “There’s nothing left but bones”—yet whenever I or Gale Wind Hall face danger, he unleashes his power without a moment’s hesitation.

Among all the people he had seen, Raon was the most virtuous and compassionate, so I hoped he might gain even a small amount of strength in this place.

‘Of course, if he gains a lot, I’ll partake in some of it too.’

I recalled Raon’s voice crying out “Why are you the one eating it!” at Wrath as I rose above the Blue Sea.

‘Refreshing.’

Perhaps because I had endured the scorching heat of the sand and the oppressive warmth that made breathing difficult, the biting cold emanating from the sea felt welcoming.

‘Wait. This isn’t just refreshing… Could it be…?’

An extraordinarily familiar sensation emanated from the surface of the Blue Sea. Glacial’s coldness. The energy spreading through this sea was Wrath’s frost.

‘That cotton candy bastard. What did he do while flying over the sea?’

I couldn’t fathom what he had done to tint this entire sea with his cold aura.

‘Still as careless as ever.’

I chuckled softly and walked across the sea’s surface before coming to an abrupt halt.

‘A sea of coldness…’

If this entire sea was saturated with Glacial’s coldness, it seemed possible to absorb that energy while moving through it.

‘It’s definitely possible. In fact, I should.’

The coldness embedded in the sea itself wasn’t particularly strong.
However, since it was spread throughout this vast sea, absorbing the cold aura while traversing it would significantly elevate Glacial’s attainment.

Uuuuuung.

I calmed the heat of Manhwagong that had accumulated throughout my body and drew out Glacial’s frost that had been hidden deep within my core.

Whoooosh.

As I activated Glacial, the coldness flowing through the sea seeped into my feet and began circulating through my entire mana circuits.

‘This should work just fine.’

The chill permeating my body and the cold spreading across this sea both belonged to Wrath, so manipulating them posed no difficulty.

‘As expected….’

I gazed down at the sea bearing the same hue as Wrath and smirked.

‘Wrath really is a walking treasure trove.’

Raon advanced calmly across the sea, already contemplating how he might tease Wrath about this.

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Roooooar!

A black-haired, black-eyed man descended from the World Tree, treading the empty air as though it were a staircase.

His movements possessed the grace of a seasoned dancer’s choreography, yet radiated the savage ferocity of a beast starved for days.

“Is this frozen tree the manifestation of your soul?”

The black-haired, black-eyed man surveyed the blue World Tree with his hands clasped behind his back.

“Beautiful and noble. It suits you well. Of course….”

He nodded calmly and placed his hand upon the base of the World Tree.

Crackle, crackle, crackle.

Where the black-haired man’s hand touched the World Tree’s base, it crumbled into gray dust as if a thousand years had passed in an instant.

“Your insides must be just as blackened. Befitting a trash king who abandoned those who walked beside him since childhood and rose to this position.”

He gazed at the Center of World Tree dissolving into gray and let slip a cold laugh.

“Shut that mouth of yours.”

Wrath’s fists clenched so tightly that veins bulged across his knuckles. He knew this man was merely a phantom conjured by the Chamber of Self, yet restraining himself proved nearly impossible.

“Rageji.”

The black-haired, black-eyed man’s name was Rageji—an ancient Demon who had once occupied the Jade Throne before me.

“For the current Demon Lord to call upon this wretched one’s name… what an honor.”

Rageji murmured his genuine gratitude and bowed deeply.

“You look well. Did you perhaps offer your new subordinates as sacrifices for your own growth?”

He twisted his lips into a mocking sneer.

“I told you to shut your mouth!”

Wrath unleashed a furious roar and charged at Rageji, an eerie chill radiating from his brilliantly gleaming hands.

“Still so quick to anger, I see.”

Rageji laughed as though he had expected this, raising his hand. A gray aura bloomed from his palm, colliding head-on with Wrath’s frigid energy.

BOOM!

Blue and gray light crashed violently together, grinding the snowflakes across the Snowy Plain to dust while the frozen branches of the World Tree shattered and fell.

“That suits you well enough. For a king who abandoned his followers to claim the Jade Throne.”

Rageji nodded, saying that the name Wrath fit him far too perfectly.

“All of it… all of it is because of you!”

Wrath gnashed his teeth and swung his open palm to strike Rageji across the face.

BOOM!

I amplified the faint chill at my fingertips, freezing Rageji’s entire body solid.
He couldn’t move a single finger, trapped within an ice pillar that soared toward the heavens.

“Hmm….”

Rageji let out a thin laugh even as he lay buried in the ice.

“You’ve certainly grown stronger than when you fought me. But not as much as I expected. Did you perhaps play the fool somewhere else?”

As he frowned with disappointment, a gray aura bloomed and shattered the ice pillar.

‘Breaking unbreakable ice—that absurd power remains unchanged.’

I narrowed my eyes, observing the gray luminescence radiating from Rageji’s vicinity.

‘The Authority of Collapse.’

Just as I possessed the chill that froze all things, Rageji wielded the power of collapse that destroyed everything. If his gray aura touched me, even I would shatter.
If she touches his gray aura, she herself will shatter.

“I had hoped to face the Lord of Wrath rather than some trash of a king, but you’ve proven disappointing.”

Rageji gazed at empty space with regret, smacking his lips before suddenly vanishing from sight.

Kuwaaaaang!

In an instant, he burrowed behind me while I was off guard, unleashing his collapse aura to end this.

“I anticipated as much.”

I turned my body, my nose already wrinkling. I scattered Glacia’s chill toward the onrushing aura of Rageji.

Kuwaaaaaaaang!

The frost spreading like an umbrella and the collapse surging like a spear collided, unleashing a terrifying shockwave.

The ground fractured in a spiderweb pattern, and black cracks appeared across the silver sky.

“The very chill that killed me!”

Rageji twisted his lips into a distorted smile as he drew forth a tremendous aura of collapse from behind his back.

“This time, I will kill you and claim that body for myself.”
“A corpse doesn’t go anywhere, you fool! I don’t know who told you this, but….”

Wrath unleashed a piercing chill and pushed back the aura of collapse that Rageji had unleashed.

“I’ll kill you again. No, even if I killed you dozens, hundreds of times, it wouldn’t be enough!”

I released the power I had always kept suppressed. The wrath of the Blue Demon King. I drew forth the authority that condensed all the rage of this world into my two hands.

“Your current strength is insufficient!”

Rageji let out a thin laugh as he condensed the aura of collapse. The grey energy rotated in a circle, taking the form of an orb.

Booooooom!

A beam of grey light erupted from the orb Rageji had summoned, obliterating everything that existed in the vicinity.

Crack, crack, crack!

The frozen World Tree snapped with pitch-black holes torn through it, and the heavens and earth containing that tree trembled violently.
The authority of collapse that Rageji possessed held the power to destroy this space itself.

“You speak truly—I have grown weak. But because of that, I have gained something as well!”

I drew forth a silver demon sword from the blackened void, honed as if by moonlight.

“Did I act foolishly? No, I merely invested in the future.”

Thinking of Raon, who was enduring hardships beyond my own, I brought the demon sword down in a sweeping arc.

Cliiiiing!

The silver chill that extended from the demon sword froze even the destructive power of collapse into a pristine white.

“I will return. For I have much to repay to that accursed one!”
“Where do you think you’re going! Your grave is right here in this garbage heap!”

Wrath and Rageji struck the ground simultaneously, each unleashing the power they possessed.

The accumulated fury of the previous Demon Lord and the current Demon Lord collided, dyeing the pristine white world in deep blue light.

Kuuuuuuuaaaang!

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I advanced across the endless sea, curling my lips into a slight smile.

‘Is this really okay?’

It felt far too easy.

When I climbed the Sand Mountain on foot, I felt the limits of my stamina and mental fortitude. During my sparring match with the First Patriarch, I experienced dizziness from the sheer complexity of the questions posed. When I fought a life-or-death battle against Anima Parrel, my heart nearly stopped from the overwhelming dread.

And when I endured the sun’s scorching heat, I couldn’t breathe properly, and the pain of my skin and bones melting away made me truly prepared for death.

‘Compared to that…’

Now I was raising Glacsia’s achievement simply by running across the sea. The power came so easily that I questioned whether this was even acceptable.

‘I probably won’t be able to break through the wall of the 10th star with this, but I might be able to get close.’

Since I could raise Glacsia’s achievement just by walking on the sea, it didn’t seem like a bad idea to continue like this until I left the Chamber of Self.

‘Hmm?

As I advanced across the sea with a satisfied smile, I spotted a gray land beyond the horizon that looked as though everything had burned away.

‘Is that the end of the sea?’

Sensing Wrath’s aura strongly, it seemed he was on that island.

Tak.

I drew a reluctant smile as I emerged from the sea and descended onto the gray earth of the island.

‘Wrath’s aura is… coming from that mountain.’

I sensed Wrath’s presence emanating from the gray mountain rising at the island’s center. It seemed he hadn’t arrived here long ago.

‘At this rate, I’ll meet him faster than expected.’

I smacked my lips briefly and walked toward the mountain where I could sense Wrath’s aura.

‘It’s quite large. Though it looks completely burned out.’

The massive mountain had already exhausted its life, settling into a gray hue as if only ash remained.

Fortunately, Wrath’s presence came not from the mountain itself, but from the pitch-black Cave beneath it.

‘Where is he….’

I brushed the ash from my hands and stood before the Cave’s entrance. It was a peculiar place so dark that I couldn’t see inside clearly.

‘Walking in with my vision blocked is… wait?’

But after taking just a few steps inside, a soft light began to bloom around me like an amethyst Cave.

‘This light is….’

It feels like Wrath’s cold aura.

The particles of light floating within the Cave shimmered with a blue hue, carrying a frost energy far denser than the sea’s chill.

‘Could it be possible here too?’

Just as I had absorbed the cold aura in the sea, it seemed I could elevate Glacial here as well.

‘That bastard leaks his aura everywhere. Wait, it’s not leaking—is this place naturally like this?’

No matter how foolish Wrath was, he wouldn’t carelessly leak his aura like this. Since this was the Chamber of Self, there was a high possibility this place was naturally like this from the beginning.

‘This guy lived pretty comfortably.’

I furrowed my brow slightly as I stepped into the Cave, where the blue light grew increasingly dense.

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Sensing the Cave growing progressively narrower, I slowly opened my eyes.

Whoooosh.

Walking while concentrating on Glacsia, I lost all sense of how much time had passed. It was nothing but an endless cycle of walking, absorbing the chill, walking again, absorbing more.

‘Tedious as it is, Glacsia’s achievement has skyrocketed because of it.’

Not just from the Sea, but from continuously absorbing the chill in this Cave as well, Glacsia’s achievement had grown tremendously. It wasn’t enough to surpass the tenth star stage, but it would be invaluable when balancing against Manhwagong.
It wasn’t enough to surpass the stages of the 10th Castle, but it will be of great help when balancing with the Manhwagong.

“As expected, if you follow the Tree that gives so generously, even a single fruit will fall for you.”

Raon continued forward through the cave with a smile on his face when something suddenly gleamed before his eyes.

“Mirror?”

The full-length mirror that Dun had seen when he first entered the Chamber of Self was now standing before his eyes.

“Why is this here? Could this be the exit?”

He was about to reach toward the mirror when he felt a presence from the right and turned his gaze. A blue orb was floating above the ground, which was slightly sunken as if a small child had collapsed there.

“What is this?”

I didn’t feel any malevolent energy, so I reached out toward the orb. The moment my hand touched the blue sphere, an intense cold began surging through my fingertips.

Cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo!

The cold energy that was suddenly absorbed flowed naturally to Glacea’s dantian, following her flow as if it were her own power from the beginning.

“Ha….”

I let out a hollow laugh as I felt Glacsia’s frigid energy circulating through me like lightning.

‘What is this! Why does everything have to be so easy!’

Unlike me, who had descended after grueling trials, Wrath’s test had been nothing but tedious—so simple that even a child could pass it. My eyebrows rose involuntarily in bewilderment.

“He just sucked all the honey. Well, I can’t help myself then.”

I gazed at the mirror reflecting cotton candy Wrath and clicked my tongue at length.

“I’ll be fair about it. I should only take eighty percent.”

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