The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman

he was hiding.

‘Moreover, he hasn’t used any aura nor stamina.’

Unlike the Red Wolf Demon, the Black Winged Demon, and the Blood Raving Demon, he hadn’t even spent the slightest bit of power yet.
Back in the village, he was just playing around while setting places on fire, and he didn’t interfere at all in the fight inside the forest.
He was at full power.

Even though Raon seemed to have advanced another step after his awakening, it doesn’t return the aura he’d consumed, nor remove the injuries he’d received.
No matter how he thought about it, it seemed impossible for Raon to defeat the Evil Goat Demon.

However, Raon wasn’t wavering in the slightest.

Even though he was aware how powerful the Evil Goat Demon was, and how bad his body’s condition was, he was still raising his sword even more confidently than in the beginning.

‘I see…’

That power wasn’t coming from his might, but from the level of his human soul.
Raon’s soul had reached an unimaginably high level.

“Sir Saint.”

He looked down at hearing Yulius’s excited voice.

“Does that mean we can finally return?”

His eyes were filled with hope as he stared at Raon.

“Yes, we shall be able to.”

Federick grabbed Yulius’s shoulder with a gentle smile, hiding his thoughts.

“We shall.”

He nodded, without realizing that he was unconsciously strengthening his grip.

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Raon chewed his lips while looking at the Evil Goat Demon.

‘I think this guy is even stronger than I thought…’

He could see his might because he’d reached Master level.
He seemed even stronger than the Red Wolf Demon and the Black Winged Demon combined.

Did you only realize that now?

Wrath giggled, soaring on the bracelet.

Your awakening was unexpected, but he’s on a different level.
He was already strong by himself, but he became even stronger thanks to that weird armor.

His smile deepened as he examined the Evil Goat Demon’s entire body.

It’s impossible for you to defeat him, even if you got your stamina and aura back.

‘Is that why you accepted the bet? Asking me to make all three of them disappear?’

Of course.
You shouldn’t believe that the King of Essence would lose over and over.
The King of Essence wins this time!

Wrath confidently harrumphed, touching his nonexistent nose.

Just give up and give me your body now.
There’s no hope for yo…

‘I won’t know until I try.’

Raon didn’t lower his sword, resonating the Ring of Fire and circulating the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation.

‘It’s true that I’m in bad shape.
However, I’ve also gained a lot.’

The sensation of a cold rope tightly squeezing him had disappeared, and his middle energy center around his solar plexus had opened.
His aura was quickly recovering, and his internal injury was also slowly healing.

It was possible he would get an opportunity to win as long as he lasted and analyzed just like he did against the Red Wolf Demon and the Black Winged Demon.

“Hmm.”

The Evil Goat Demon nodded slightly, unfolding his arms.

‘Is he making his move?’

As Raon tightened his grip of Heavenly Drive from the nervousness, a clapping sound could be heard.

Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!

It was the Evil Goat Demon.
He was causing the dull clapping sound while still leaning his back against the tree.

“That was amazing.
It was a really interesting sight.”

The Evil Goat Demon smiled while looking at the Red Wolf Demon and the Black Winged Demon’s corpses as if he were completely unrelated to them.

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

Raon frowned.

“What are you trying to achieve?”

“I told you before.”

The Evil Goat Demon leisurely shrugged his shoulders.

“My mission is to block this path.
I’m just doing my job.”

He still wasn’t taking his back off the tree, as if he still wasn’t planning on moving.
His carefree attitude made Raon feel like he was talking to a kid.

“That means… Are you not going to act as long as I don’t go in that direction?”

“Well, indeed.”

The Evil Goat Demon nodded while scratching his chin.

“What the hell.”

Raon narrowed his eyes.
He’d managed to understand most people’s psychology from his two lives, but he couldn’t understand him at all.
He couldn’t read anything about him, as if a thick fog were blocking him.

‘However…’

It was a bit curious that his temperament didn’t feel completely unfamiliar.
He was trying to figure out where he had seen someone like him before, but he couldn’t remember.

“There’s nothing too strange about this.”

The Evil Goat Demon raised one of his fingers.

“You guys in Zieghart aren’t completely united either.”

“What?”

“Not everyone in Zieghart agrees with each other.
Some people want to make the house grow even further, some want to maintain the current state, and some might even want to ruin the house.”

“Are you talking about the factions?”

Raon narrowed his eyes while looking at the Evil Goat Demon, who was slowly raising his fingers.
According to what he said, Eden must’ve had different factions.

“Correct.
I knew you were smart.”

The Evil Goat Demon gave him a big nod.
His goat horns were swaying as if they were alive.

“My opinion differs from those two and the mad woman out there.”

He pointed at the dead Red Wolf Demon, Black Winged Demon, and Merlin outside the forest, one after the other.

“Which means, can we really return now?”

“Of course.
It’s not fun fighting someone who is already exhausted, after all… is what I would like to say, but…”

The Evil Goat Demon separated from the tree for the first time.
He raised his chin and slowly walked towards Raon.

“I might get criticized a lot if I don’t do anything in this situation, so…”

He raised his hand in the air and a jet-black greatsword emerged from the distorted space.

Creak!

The Evil Goat Demon smiled cheerfully while grasping the hilt.

“Let’s have a single-strike match.”

“Single strike?”

“Yes, the winner will be decided after a single strike.
I’ll let you go if you manage to survive, along with the two others behind you.”

He pointed at Federick and the boy behind Raon.

“Be ready.”

The moment the Evil Goat Demon raised his sword to point it at Raon, the evil energy soared while engulfing the land to reach the end of the sky.

Rumble!

Raon unconsciously swallowed nervously from the tremendous amount of energy that even surpassed his perception’s range.

Arrgh!

Wrath popped up from the bracelet and ground his teeth.

What is that idiot saying right now? Use that sword right now to attack him!

He was freaking out and trembling his entire body from witnessing a situation that was different from his expectations.

‘Calm down a bit.
The bet isn’t over yet.’

He pushed away Wrath, who was floundering his arms like a kid throwing a tantrum, and slowly inhaled.

‘A single strike.’

Raon closed his eyes.
He thought about his body’s condition and his remaining aura.
If it was a single strike… If it was just a single strike, he felt like he could survive that tremendous amount of power.

“Raon!”

Federick’s voice could be heard from behind him.
Although his voice was the same as before, a different emotion could be heard in it.

“Don’t worry.
I have a plan.”

Raon smiled faintly at Federick and the boy.
He waved at them to reassure them before standing in front of the Evil Goat Demon.

‘This is insane.’

Raon could completely feel his might once he stood in front of him.
He felt like the vicious pressure that matched too well with his atrocious greatsword was stabbing through his skin.

Even though he wasn’t even clad in armor, like the Blood Raving Demon, he was clearly at a higher stage of Master than Raon.
Since he was even capable of using advanced magic on top of that, he was literally a monster.

“Be ready.”

The Evil Goat Demon raised his greatsword over his head.
He must not have been lying about going all-out in a single strike, since an unimaginable amount of power could be felt from his greatsword.

“Haa…”

Raon caught his breath, then gathered the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation.
The energy hardened after passing through the lower and middle part of his body, clustering together to create the astral energy of a raging flame on his blade.

‘I need to incorporate the enlightenment I had just now.’

The Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation was a martial art that became stronger with its user.
That was the enlightenment he needed to incorporate into his blade.

“We will start once this falls to the ground.”

“Alright.”

Raon nodded, and the Evil Goat Demon threw the leaf he was holding in his left hand into the air.

As the leaf that was floating on the night wind slowly fell down, a crimson light was reflected in Raon’s eyes.

He incorporated the enlightenment of the Ten Thousand Fames Cultivation that he got as he reached Master into Heavenly Drive.

Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation, Hundred Flames.

The ten flames flourishing on the silver trajectory spread around like shadows to blossom into a hundred flowers.

The dazzling crimson light distorting the blade was discharged towards the black greatsword, crumbling the sky.

Claang!

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