The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman

m I supposed to believe that you are a priest of the God of Wrath?]

“Are you really suspecting me when I opened this secret passage and am currently watching you?”

[Th-That’s…]

“I’ll show you then.”

Raon chuckled, spreading out the wrath inside his soul, which he got from Wrath, and Glacier at the same time.

Whir!

Lohengreen’s lips parted upon witnessing the flame of wrath slowly rising from his shoulders.

[Gasp! That blue wrath is the same as his!]

“Do you finally understand?”

[This lowly servant is pleased to meet the priest!]

Lohengreen knelt in the air and bowed to Raon.

‘I knew this would work on him.’

A small amount of truth, an elaborate lie, and casual acting are necessary in order to deceive a target, and Raon had all of those.
There was no way he wouldn’t be deceived.

“Considering you turned into a remnant of mind, you must have a lot of lingering attachments to the world.”

[You noticed in a single glance.
You are truly the priest, Sir!]

Lohengreen nodded his head in admiration.

Y-You are just repeating what the King of Essence said! You bastaaard! You heatless fiend!

Wrath screamed as he charged at Raon.

‘Just think about it.’

Raon calmly stopped him.

‘Your servant turned into a ghost like that because of lingering attachments, right?’

Yes! And you are trying to take advantage of him…

‘And I’m the only person who can solve his problem, right?’

I-I guess?

Wrath murmured that since other people couldn’t see him…

‘And I’m currently above, while people who entered the dungeon before me should be below me, along with Lohengreen’s legacy.’

S-So what?

‘If I don’t obtain the legacy, do you truly believe that I will properly resolve his problem? Don’t you think that I would start doing something strange because I’ll be so sad that I didn’t get the legacy? Ah, I don’t even know anymore.’

Uhh…

Wrath’s jaw dropped.

‘Th-That’s totally possible.’

He was totally going to do that!

The Raon Zieghart he’d been watching was a heartless demon that did anything for his objective.
He might even try to bind Lohenyellow in the world of living forever.

‘That’s unacceptable.’

Even though it was his whim or generosity that took Lohenyellow as his servant, he couldn’t allow his servant to stay in that wretched state forever.

Damn it…

Raon smiled faintly while watching Wrath agonize over the decision.

‘He must really believe that I’m a demon.’

Raon was planning to get rid of Lohengreen’s lingering attachments regardless of the legacy.
He just wanted to explore the dungeon faster and more easily since he happened to meet him.

“What are your lingering attachments?”

[Can I tell you about them from downstairs? I’ll guide you.]

Lohengreen bowed apologetically.

“Pfft.”

Uuugh!

Raon grinned as he averted his gaze, and Wrath hung his head, filled with despair.

“Please guide me.”

[Yes.]

Lohengreen told him to follow, going through the passage created inside the cave.

“Let’s go.”

Raon bobbed his hand towards Dorian and followed Lohengreen.

“But…”

Dorian swallowed nervously while watching Raon’s back.

“Wh-What are you doing right now? Why are you talking to yourself in a way that I can’t even hear, and why do you keep looking into the air?”

He clasped his hands together with a trembling chin.

“I’m afraid of this kind of thing! Tell me now if there are ghosts! Tell me! Hey!”

* * *

“Huff! Huff!”

Krein looked back, wiping his sweat flowing down his forehead.
The teammates who were running towards him were completely pale, and the way their limbs were limping looked like the smallest impact would make them collapse.

‘This is a natural result.’

It was only natural that everyone’s minds and bodies were exhausted, as they’d abandoned their horses and had been using their footwork as fast as they could for almost an entire day.

“T-Team leader.”

Krein called out to Burren, who was running at the very front.
Burren glanced at him without responding.

“W-We should rest for a moment.
Everyone’s going to collapse at this rate.”

“Hmm…”

Burren’s steps came to a halt as he saw his members’ crumpled faces and heard their heavy breaths.

“Let’s rest for ten minutes.”

“Uhaa!”

“Hoo!”

“I-I’m dying…”

As soon as he gave the order to rest, the swordsmen sank to the ground and gasped for breath.

“Erm, team leader.
I mean, Sir Burren.”

Krein came up next to Burren after catching his breath.

“Shouldn’t we be moving more slowly? I know that it’s an urgent matter, but everyone’s going to collapse at this rate.”

Using footwork to move quickly and using footwork to move as fast as they could generated a completely different amount of exhaustion.

If they maintained their current speed, everyone was going to run out of aura and collapse.
The other swordsmen must’ve agreed with him, since they were staring at Burren with exhausted eyes.

“I’m fully aware that it’s difficult for you guys.”

Burren sighed and turned his head around.

“But the squad leader fell in that state because he strained himself too much for our sake, and Raon went to a dungeon in order to save the squad leader, taking only a single person with him.”

“Ah…”

“Considering that even the South-North Union heard about the dungeon’s rumors, the Six Kings, Five Demons, and even the other big factions must be inside.”

Raon must’ve been struggling to fight against the other competitors on top of the magician Lohengreen’s traps, barriers, and monsters.

‘And he must be in a hurry because he’s late.’

Considering when Raptor told him about the rumor of the dungeon and Raon’s personality, it was obvious that he would be overexerting himself to break through the dungeon.

“Raon isn’t going to withdraw no matter who he encounters inside the dungeon.
He will reach the end of the dungeon at all costs, whether he can find an elixir or not.
That’s why we also need to run, even if we end up collapsing from exhaustion!”

“Hmm…”

“Haa, you are right.”

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“The vice squad leader would totally do that.”

As soon as Burren finished his speech, the third team of the Light Wind raised themselves up.
They were still exhausted, but a light of determination was glowing from their tired eyes.

“You guys…”

“We’ve finished resting.”

“Yes, strength returned to our bodies once we thought about the squad leader and the vice squad leader.”

“They must be suffering way more than us right now.”

“Let’s go!”

The Light Wind members turned their ankles with smiles on their faces.

“Alright.”

Burren nodded while facing their bright eyes.

“Let’s go again! We won’t stop until we reach the branch!”

“Yes!”

The Light Wind’s third team looked even more energetic than when they first left as they advanced.

* * *

After going through the secret passage, Raon continued going down the dungeon through a regular route.

[That steppingstone is a trap.
Once someone steps on it, it will freeze their body as soon as they take off their step just like a mine.]

[That space is a barrier that I named ‘Frozen Hell’.
Spheres with dozens of ice spikes are scattered throughout the barrier.]

[Ah, that passage leads to the top.
The other side is a long and difficult passage.
The middle one is the fastest route with the smallest number of traps.]

Lohengreen stayed next to Raon to tell him about the locations of traps and barriers, and even told him which way was faster and easier.

‘I gained a lot of time.’

Since the route he was taking was personally given to him by the magician who created the dungeon, he was advancing far faster than those who came before him.
Considering the fact that the traces were clearer than before, he guessed that he could catch up to them soon enough.

‘And there’s even more of an advantage.’

Raon smiled faintly, pointing at the trap that Lohengreen had warned him about a moment ago.

“How did you make this one?”

[Ah, I used the coldness to create a sphere, and incorporated the explosion as an image and configured it in a way that the spikes would be created upon finding an enem…]

As expected of a magician, Lohengreen kept giving him detailed answers whenever Raon asked him about how the traps and barriers were made.
Thanks to him, Raon got some ideas about how to apply the magic’s mental image into his martial art.

[The ground over there is the last trap of the third floor.
We should reach the fourth cavern soon.]

“I see.”

Raon nodded, effortlessly jumping over the trap on the ground.

‘This is so easy.’

He almost felt drowsy because it was too easy, on top of being fast and safe.
And it went without saying that it was thanks to Wrath that he got himself such a guide.
He was truly the giving Wrath who gave him everything, whenever and wherever.

‘Thank you.’

Argh!

Raon grinned at Wrath, and his shoulders trembled in irritation.

‘It should be fine to ask him about the legacy now.’

He had been suppressing his urge in order to avoid any suspicion, but he figured it wasn’t strange to ask him about it by then.

“I have a question.”

[I’m listening.]

“Is there any relic in here that can recover a broken energy center or mana circuits?”

[Hmm…]

Lohengreen pondered for a moment before he slowly lowered his gaze.

[There should be two of them.]

“Two of them.”

Raon nodded while hiding his excitement.

“The God of Wrath wants both of them.”

You bastard!

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