The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman V2 - Chapter 835
Chapter 835
“What is your name?”
Raon walked to the right. He stood in front of the unarmed man of the Iron-Blooded who had been subdued by Limer and clicked his tongue.
-Why are you asking for his name instead of getting straight to the point?
ラス raised his eyebrows as if he didn’t understand.
-A name is the most basic and important information about a person. If you make them say their name first, they will feel psychological pressure and are more likely to give up real information.
It is different to give information anonymously and to give information with your name on the line.
Asking the name of a subdued opponent was the most basic element of interrogation.
-You sure know a lot of useless things.
ラス shrugged his shoulders, saying that it was strange.
‘It’s not that special.’
To him, who had lived as an assassin, it was something as basic as breathing, but it seemed to be a strange thing to ラス, who had reigned as the Demon King. The way they lived was too different.
“Gafen….”
The unarmed man of the Iron-Blooded revealed his name with trembling lips.
“Gafen. What was the Iron-Blooded doing in this dungeon?”
“T, training the unarmed and r, researching spells.”
Since Limer kept tickling the soles of his feet, Gafen revealed what the Iron-Blooded had been doing with a painful expression.
“It looks like they were really trying to revive the Iron-Blooded.”
Limer shook his head, saying that they were ridiculous.
“Hey.”
Aris grabbed Gafen by the collar with cold eyes.
“Did you guys kidnap people?”
“…….”
Gafen did not answer, but his silence answered instead.
“Was there a guy named Xif among the people you kidnapped?”
“I, I don’t know. My role was external security, so I don’t know who the hostages are.”
He shook his head, saying that he didn’t know who had been captured.
“Think carefully! The inspection of the body! You couldn’t have not known because he was so strong!”
Aris grabbed Gafen by the neck, telling him to speak quickly.
“I, I haven’t been to this branch for very long. It’s not an area I’m allowed to be in….”
Gafen muttered that he really didn’t know with a pale face.
“This idiot!”
Aris couldn’t stand it anymore and raised his fist and punched Gafen in the face. She must have controlled her strength, but it looked excessive to him.
“Auntie. Calm down for now.”
Raon grabbed Aris’s arm and laid Gafen back on the floor.
“Are you guys working to revive the Iron-Blooded?”
“R, revival? We were alive from the beginning. We are just preparing for revenge!”
Gafen raised his voice as if he was getting angry. He could feel deep anger in his soul.
“You guys started it first! Anyone who hears this will think you were ambushed.”
Limer muttered that it was ridiculous and hit Gafen on the forehead.
“Ugh….”
Gafen gritted his teeth as if he was still angry.
“It seems that the remnants of the Iron-Blooded are not only in this dungeon.”
Judging from what he said about coming to this branch, it seemed that there was a separate headquarters.
Besides, this dungeon was too small for a force that had been destroyed a hundred years ago to talk about revenge.
He didn’t know where the headquarters was, but it must have been a much larger force than this place.
However, right now, it was more important to know what was below this place and who was being held hostage than the headquarters of the Iron-Blooded.
“Why were you hiding here?”
Raon exhaled shortly and looked down at Gafen.
“…So, someone discovered traces of entering the underground headquarters.”
Gafen tried not to speak, but opened his mouth again because of Limer’s tickling torture.
“Ugh!”
Parash grabbed his temple as if he thought it was his fault.
“To send a signal while moving the branch, and to buy time… Cough!”
Gafen stopped talking and grabbed his own neck. His eyes began to turn red as if they were soaked in blood.
“What the hell is this!”
Raon put his hand on Gafen’s chest.
Wooooong!
The magical energy that had been swirling around Gafen’s body suddenly twisted and burst his heart without giving him a chance.
“Ugh….”
Gafen let out a cracking groan and died on the spot.
“This is….”
“A spell.”
Raon shook his head as he removed his hand from Gafen’s chest.
“It uses the flow of magic remaining in Gafen’s body to burst his heart.”
“We used the flow of sorcery remaining in Gafen’s body to burst his heart.”
-Don’t you think that was a bit too much?
Raon’s party has reached the last floor of the dungeon, but they are blocked by a thick wall of sorcery protecting the steel door. Aris uses spatial slash, but only manages to dig up the ground, not opening a path. Tempest tries his swordsmanship, but it’s no use. Aris tries to use the Sword Circle, but Raon says there’s another way. He drops his own blood on the ground, and flames begin to burn the wall of sorcery.
It seemed like they had cast a spell that could remotely burst Gafen’s heart in order to prevent information from leaking when he was captured.
“As expected of Iron-Blooded. That’s vicious.”
Aris bit her lip with an irritated glare.
“That’s not important right now.”
Rimmer frowned as he looked at the dead Gafen.
“Those Iron-Blooded bastards. They’re trying to abandon this dungeon.”
“That’s right.”
Raon nodded as he looked at Rimmer.
“Judging from the fact that they’re trying to abandon the branch as soon as they discover traces of outsiders, they’re more dangerous than we thought.”
The fact that they immediately mobilized guards and tried to abandon the branch upon discovering traces of an unknown person was astonishing.
It seemed like he had figured out why the remnants of the Iron-Blooded had survived until now.
‘We should move as quickly as possible.’
The dark forces often killed all the hostages they had when they abandoned a branch.
They had to break through this dungeon as quickly as possible to save the people the bastards had kidnapped.
“Auntie. Let’s go down right away… Hmm?”
It was when Raon was telling Aris to leave right away.
Kugugugugugu!
The entire dungeon vibrated and collapsed all the paths leading down and the exits leading outside.
Wuuuuuuuuung!
Not only dirt and stones, but also iron that seemed to have sprung up from nowhere began to solidify and block the entrance and exit. It seemed like all of this was sorcery.
“W, what is this!”
Martha bit her lip as she bent her knees.
“A cave-in. No, the entire dungeon is shaking.”
Veren shook his head as if he was nervous.
“Ugh.”
Runa put up pillars of ice in case of an emergency to prevent the ceiling of the cave from collapsing.
“Uwaaaaaaaah! We’re going to be buried! We’re all going to die here!”
Dorian waved his hands around frantically as he urged them to hurry and escape.
“It’s too late.”
Raon shook his head as he looked at the dirt-covered exit.
“They intend to keep us locked up in this dungeon until they can move the branch.”
Not just this cave, but the entire dungeon was moving rapidly.
The bastards were willing to risk a huge consumption of sorcery to block their path.
“Arrogant bastards.”
Aris clenched her fist and stood in front of the door that could lead them to the next floor.
“Do you think sorcery or whatever will be able to stop me?”
Instead of her sword, she punched the wall of sorcery that was blocking their path.
Kuwaaaaaaaaang!
A tremendous shockwave exploded, shattering all the stones and iron that had been solidified by sorcery.
Huuuuuuuk.
Since Aris had unleashed such a powerful force, the path that could originally only fit about two people became so large that even a giant could fit through.
“Just follow me.”
Aris shouted that she would take the lead and went down the dark path.
“As expected of our auntie!”
Martha exclaimed that she was impressed and followed after Aris.
“I don’t like brute force, but it’s true that it’s refreshing.”
Veren nodded and entered the wide entrance.
“Auntie….”
Runa also went down with a twinkle in her eye as if she thought it was cool.
“Hmm….”
Raon didn’t follow right away, and instead put his hand on the ground.
Using the Circle of Fire, he sensed the flow of sorcery that was moving throughout the dungeon.
-Why aren’t you coming down?
ラス seemed to snap his fingers as if urging him to hurry down.
‘I’m looking at the flow of sorcery.’
No matter how transcendent Aris was, she wouldn’t be able to keep using the force she had just displayed.
If he could learn the flow of sorcery here, it would be a great help in the battle that would take place later, so he committed it to his eyes and senses.
-Do you think that’ll work!?
ラス snorted as if it was a waste of effort.
‘Even if it doesn’t work, I’ll still gain something.’
Raon lightly shook off the dirt on his hand and went down to the next floor.
“What is he planning to do again.”
Rimmer let out a small laugh and was the last to leave the cave.
* * *
Swooooooooosh!
Aris’ spatial slash spread out in a semicircle, cleaving the entire gray corridor in half.
Kugugugugugu!
Rocks fell from the empty void, arrows and harpoons snapped in half, and the traps hidden under the fake floor were completely torn out.
Kugugugugugu!
Aris had destroyed the entire room of traps with a single sword strike.
“Let’s move on to the next one right away!”
Aris pointed to the exit that had opened on the right and grinned.
-Hmm….
ラス narrowed his eyes as he looked at Aris’ back.
-That seems pretty reckless.
‘Yeah. I’m using all my power each time to reduce the time wasted.’
Raon exhaled and nodded.
-Even if you’re a transcendent, you won’t be able to last long like that.
‘I know.’
Aris had dealt with everything herself without borrowing anyone else’s power while breaking through the 20 floors.
She was overexerting herself because she had to get to the end of the dungeon before the remnants of the Iron-Blooded Society finished cleaning up the branch office and to take care of the Gale Troop.
Although it was definitely fast, it seemed that Aris would collapse before they reached the end of the dungeon if they continued like this.
“Auntie.”
Raon approached Aris and blocked her path.
“I understand your feelings, but let’s rest for a bit and go. You’ve used too much mana and stamina.”
He shook his head, saying that he would take the lead from now on.
“Yeah. It’s reckless. But do you know why I can be reckless?”
Aris smiled softly at him.
“It’s because you’re here.”
“Yes?”
Raon blinked at Aris.
“I can overexert myself because you’re behind me.”
She said in a gentle voice that she trusted him.
“No, if I become dangerous, won’t you save our precious son?”
Aris clicked her tongue as if telling him to speak.
“…I will save him. No, I have to save him.”
“See.”
Aris grinned and grabbed his shoulder.
“I’ll continue to clear the path. If there’s any problem, please help me.”
She laughed refreshingly, saying that there weren’t many people she would entrust her back to.
“Let’s go, guys!”
Aris shouted for them to follow and went down to the next floor.
“To think she would entrust her back to you, she must really like you.”
Limer smiled at Raon’s side.
“She’s been like that to me from the beginning, so I don’t really know.”
“She’s become much softer now. Lavawin probably hasn’t even heard words like that.”
He shrugged, saying that he seemed to have completely won Aris’ heart.
“It’s a bit burdensome.”
Raon clenched his fist slightly as he watched Aris leading the Gale Troop.
‘Yeah. I’ll trust Auntie and focus on what I have to do.’
The traps in this dungeon were also controlled by magic.
He didn’t understand everything yet, but he felt like he would be able to interpret the principles of the magic itself if he just looked into it a bit more.
Raon went down the dungeon while spinning his ring of fire.
* * *
The dungeon seemed endless.
It seemed like they had gathered all the traps and monsters that were originally scattered randomly, but even after going down 10 more floors, the end of the dungeon was nowhere to be seen.
However, the power of magic had been spread so strongly throughout the dungeon that he could definitely figure out how the Iron-Blooded Society’s magic worked.
Raon narrowed his eyes as he touched the soil that had been imbued with the aura of magic.
‘It wasn’t just using blood.’
The Iron-Blooded Society’s magic mixed the fear and horror contained in the concept of iron and blood into their magic and used it.
Not just any blood, but the blood of the dead. Not just any iron, but iron that killed people. They were strengthening their magic by using negative concepts like this.
“When will this end!”
As Aris went down to the new floor and shouted, steel golems with strange patterns carved on their surface rose from the ground.
There were over thirty of them, and their number was growing.
“Get lost!”
She clicked her tongue and drew her spatial sword.
Clang!
All the golems that had been created, and those that were being created, were split in half with a single swing.
Clatter, clatter, clatter!
Aris had not only dealt with the golems, but it seemed like she had even split the spatial magic that created the golems because the aura of magic in that space was cut off.
“Phew….”
Aris stabbed her sword into the ground and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. Judging by the way her hands were trembling, she seemed to be really tired now.
It was only natural, considering that she had broken through over 30 floors of traps and monsters and had to destroy the steel doors blocking the path each time.
Roar!
Aris smashed the steel door blocking the path this time as well and waved her hand behind her.
“Phew, let’s go!”
She exhaled and went down the path first this time as well.
“Huh?”
Aris opened her eyes wide as she went down the dark passage.
“This is….”
“Th, this is it! This is the end of the dungeon!”
Paras went down first before Aris, as he had been here twice before.
“That’s right. This is the last place.”
Aris nodded, saying that he had finally arrived.
“So this is the end of the dungeon.”
Raon savored the empty cavity, just like the first floor.
“This is it.”
Paras pointed to the floor in the center of the cavity.
“They opened the door to the secret space here!”
He remembered the exact location and took the spot himself.
“Okay. Get out of the way.”
Aris gestured for Paras to get out and raised his sword.
“Break it at once!”
She gritted her teeth and struck the ground with a spatial slash.
Kuwoooooooooooooooooo!
A tremendous explosion erupted, and the cavity, no, the entire dungeon shook.
However, the path that Paras had seen did not open. Only the ground was dug deep.
“It’s blocked by sorcery!”
Aris bit her lip as she looked at the ground that had been dug up by the traces of the spatial slash.
“It seems that the sorcery energy that was spread throughout the dungeon has been gathered here.”
Raon frowned as he felt the strong sorcery energy spread across the floor.
‘Stubborn.’
Unlike the previous floors, there were no monsters or traps on the last floor.
Instead, sorcery had been condensed to block the ground, as if to prevent anyone from entering at all.
It was as if a ball of iron chains of sorcery had been wrapped around and embedded in the ground, so there was no way for Aris to break the sorcery itself.
‘It seems like they’ve spilled the blood of hundreds of people.’
Even if the sorcery had been thickly wrapped, the fact that it had created a hardness that could withstand a spatial slash meant that hundreds, no, more than a thousand people had been killed in this dungeon.
“This little thing! I’ll break it if I have to!”
Aris struck the ground with two more spatial slashes, but since she was exhausted and the ground made of sorcery was too thick, it didn’t dig very deep anymore.
“Damn it! How many people did these bastards kill!?”
Aris cursed and struck the ground. Her complexion, which had always been relaxed, was now pale and hard.
“W, we’ll help too!”
The Whirlwind Party struck the ground with their swords next to Aris. They were still maintaining the Whirlwind Formation, but of course, the ground didn’t dig very deep.
“Dammit! Damn it!”
Aris cursed and struck the ground with her fists instead of her sword. Her fists were bleeding, but she didn’t stop.
‘Shiff.’
Wait for me! I’ll save you soon!
She hadn’t told anyone, but her instincts as a parent told her that Shiff was down here.
That’s why she had come down here, but she felt like she was going to die of frustration because she was blocked by a single wall.
‘I have no choice.’
I have no choice but to use the Sword Realm.
If she used the Sword Realm, she would become empty, and this space itself would collapse, but there was no other way now.
She had to trust Raon and use the Sword Realm. It was the only way.
“Raon.”
Aris exhaled roughly and looked back.
“I’m going to use the Sword Realm. I’ll leave the rest to you.”
She said that this was the only way and reached out to her precious nephew.
“There’s another way.”
Raon shook his head and said that the Sword Realm wouldn’t work.
“We can just dig a long way around. But we don’t have time! We don’t know when they’ll leave!”
“It won’t take that long. No, it’ll be faster than breaking it with the Sword Realm.”
His nephew said that and came next to her.
“Faster? What are you…”
“The interpretation is over.”
Raon cut his finger with the Soul-Reaping Sword and dropped his blood on the floor.
As soon as his blood fell on the ground, carrying bright red flames, all the sorcery energy that had filled the underground began to burn.
Hwaaaaaaaaa!
Aris gulped as she watched Raon’s flames burn even the sorcery.
“What the hell are you…”