The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman

e carefree as he’d gotten stronger.

“What brought you here?”

“I managed to tempt my big bros into going to the village downstream because I heard something interesting happened there.
But what was happening here was even more interesting.”

He grinned while pointing at the White Spear.

‘So he didn’t know what happened here before he came.’

Roman and Raptor apparently just happened to pass by Rable River and came to them after noticing the trouble on the White Spear.

“We’ve also met each other before, haven’t we?”

Raptor licked his lips while looking at Rimmer.

“It was a nice decision to run away back then.
I didn’t know you were the Sword of Light.”

“Indeed.
It’s been a while.”

Rimmer nodded at Raptor.

“So, did this ship’s owner die?”

“Yes.”

“That’s rather troublesome…”

Raptor tilted his head before snapping his fingers.

Rumble!

As soon as that sound spread out, a large number of bandits and pirates jumped down from the Misfortune.
Every single one of them were powerful warriors at the Expert level, capable of controlling their pressures.

“Why did you kill him?”

Roman’s serious gaze turned towards them.
The fact that he was asking that question implied that he had the intention of talking it out.

“That’s…”

“I’ll tell them about it.”

As Rimmer was about to respond, Raon stepped forward.
Since he was the most involved in the incident, he felt like he needed to tell them personally.

“This incident was a result of Tyler’s greed…”

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[Translator – Kyangi]

[Proofreader – Harley]

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Raptor licked his lips, while watching Raon tell the story of the incident that happened on the Gazel River.

‘That idiot hasn’t changed.’

Tyler had always been obsessed with small gains instead of looking at the big picture.
The reason he lost to the fifth disciple despite being the fourth disciple of the leader was because he didn’t realize his own shortcomings.

Raptor thought that Tyler had finally learned his lesson when he heard he was bringing multiple rivers and villages into submission, but he ended up dying to Zieghart’s rising star after causing brainless problems.
He could only laugh because it was a death befitting an idiot like him.

‘Good riddance.’

Even though Tyler was a successor candidate, there was pretty much no chance at all that he would become the next leader of the Union.
Since he wasn’t in his faction, and he would only bring harm to the union, Raptor was actually glad that Tyler ended up dying so quickly.

‘Although, he shall be enraged…’

Tyler’s grandfather was a senator that contributed the most to making him into the leader’s disciple.
He would be enraged upon hearing the news, but it was none of Raptor’s business.

‘Rather than that…’

Raptor smiled after examining Raon’s body as he calmly explained the situation.

‘He grew up nicely.’

His prowess was already surpassing his age back then, and the level he’d attained now was incomparable to before.
An eighteen-year-old Master.
Moreover, he was powerful enough to slay Tyler, who was almost at the intermediate level, which was almost difficult to believe.

‘I made the correct decision by not killing him back then.’

The threat from Rimmer from the top of a tree was one of the reasons, but the reason he even gave him the blessing of South-North Union was because he was curious about how far the genius would go.
Of course, he hadn’t even begun to imagine that he would grow up so splendidly.

‘And he has more than that excellent might.’

The way he was calmly telling the tale despite the powerful pressure spreading from Roman revealed how mature his mind was.
He almost looked like a warrior that had gone through countless battles.

‘I’m a bit jealous.
I should’ve taken him with me at all costs back then.’

The might of the leader and the number of powerhouses was important for an armed organization, but the talent of the rising star was almost as important.

Raon Zieghart had become a Master at the age of eighteen to slay two executives of Eden.
Now that he had even managed to defeat Tyler, his fame was bound to soar to reach the sky.

‘Well, that’s only going to happen if he manages to survive here.’

Considering Roman’s personality, Raptor guessed that he would try to erase all of the Ziegharts in front of his eyes regardless of Tyler’s sins.

Raptor smiled while leaning his back against the handrail.

“I wonder what’s going to happen.”

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“…That’s how I ended up beheading Tyler.”

Raon told Roman and the pirates what had happened up to their arrival.

“Hmm…”

“Did he give up on being human?”

“I thought it was strange that I kept hearing good things about him.”

Even the warriors from the South-North Warriors frowned, disgusted by Tyler’s fiendish behavior by toying with the lives of an entire tribe.

“So what?”

However, Roman’s expression didn’t change at all.
His apathetic attitude almost felt like he already knew what happened.

“Which part of your story justifies the killing of a successor?”

He turned his jaw, telling him that it wasn’t a good enough reason.

“He targeted Zieghart’s domain, he attacked the Blue Lughs—who were living peacefully—by taking their children as hostages and forcing them to attack people, and he even tried to kill me to keep it a secret as soon as he was caught red-handed.
Shall I continue, since there are many more reasons?”

Raon raised his fingers one by one to tell him the reasons.

Huh? But you attacked him first.

‘Shut up.’

All of the witnesses were dead anyway.
The important part was creating a believable reason and justification for his action.

“Those are nothing special.”

Roman shook his head, implying that it was meaningless for him to continue.
He looked like he was even looking down on Zieghart’s name, but it matched him because of his powerful pressure.

“So you had no intention of listening from the beginning.”

He must’ve had no intention of letting them go from the moment he’d reached the area.

“A successor of the South-North Union has died.
I don’t care about the reason.
The South-North Union’s rules state that blood shall be repaid with blood.”

“Wow, are you sure you don’t need to unclog your ears?”

Rimmer stepped forward while picking his ears.

“Your successor attacked first, and fucking died from a counterattack.
Are you incapable of understanding that?”

“Zieghart’s Sword of Light.
Do you have a death wish?”

“Can you even do it?”

“Stop bluffing.
The rumor about your energy center breaking and rendering you disabled has spread all the way to the Rable River.”

“Then, shall we make a bet?”

“Bet?”

“Since you told me about the South-North Union’s rule, I’ll tell you about a legend on the Rable River.”

He grinned and pointed at the fluctuating waves.

“You must know about the legend that states that three strikes of the Rable River’s waves can turn any kind of boat upside down.
Don’t you?”

“I do.”

“I’ll fend off three hits from you, just like the legend.
You can do whatever you want with us if you manage to defeat me.
However, if I manage to withstand the three hits, then you will withdraw.”

Rimmer’s lips curved into a smile to provoke Roman.

“Why aren’t you answering? No way, are you too afraid that you can’t defeat me in three strikes, even though my energy center is broken?”

“You’ve definitely gotten better at taunting.”

Roman slowly closed his eyes before opening them again and stretching out his shoulders.

“Fine.
I’ll yield to your provocation.”

He raised the red axe that was crushing the ground.
The mere wielding of a weapon made his heaviness increase exponentially.

Rumble!

Roman’s energy wave was weighing down on the entire deck, as if he were the only person existing in that space.

“Squad leader…”

“Hey! Don’t try to interfere in a fight between adults.”

Rimmer shook his hand towards Raon when he tried to approach him.

“Watch me properly from behind.”

“But…”

“You should trust me sometimes.”

He smiled cheerfully like always before standing in front of Roman.

“You guys should also step back.”

Raptor also made the pirates and bandits withdraw, since they’d come over to the White Spear.

“Let’s get started.”

Roman held his favorite weapon, the Red Dragon Axe, with two hands and raised it above his head.
The wind stopped blowing on the river, and the clouds in the sky were crushed in half.
It felt like the energy from all over the world was gathering towards him.

“I won’t even need three strikes.
I’ll finish you off in a single strike.”

“That will prove difficult.”

Rimmer raised his sword around his waist.
Green light gathered to dapple his white blade.

“Because I haven’t just been playing around either.”

“Interesting.”

Roman stomped the ground, striking down his axe.
The pitch-black astral energy was blazing on the red axe.

Swaa!

It felt like the sky was collapsing as the tremendous amount of energy poured down, straight onto Rimmer.

Even though Rimmer was facing the powerful axe strike that was even distorting the space, he didn’t step back.
He pointed his blade at the sky and pointed his hand towards the river.

“Sword Field Creation.”

His sedate voice resounded in all directions to change the flow of the world.

“Eye of the Storm.”

A green storm soared towards the collapsing sky.

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