The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman

p>“Tsk.”

Martha turned around and left the training ground after the sun had completely set.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“Mhm.”

Her butler Camel, who was waiting for her next to the door, bowed to her.
Since she was out of energy, she just nodded.

“My lady.”

Camel called after her while catching up to her quick steps.

“My lady doesn’t need to be so impatient.”

“What do you mean?”

“It seems everyone forgot because of his recent actions, but the young master Raon has a huge weakness.”

Camel smiled after glancing at the training ground.

“Are you talking about his illness? He is a tough one, so he doesn’t care about pain.”

“That’s not it.”

“Then what is it?”

“The young master Raon has the worst talent in aura.”

“What?”

“My lady must not be aware because it’d happened before my lady was adopted.
But the young master Raon’s mana perception was determined to be the worst during the Judgment Ceremony.”

Camel smiled while pointing at the energy center.

“Isn’t the young master Raon the only person who still hasn’t managed to acquire an aura in the fifth training ground?”

“That’s true.”

Martha nodded.
The trainees who’d started learning the Rinden cultivation technique two months ago had already accumulated aura in their energy center.

Just like Camel said, Raon was the only person among the trainees who hadn’t acquired an aura.

“A cultivation technique obtained with a bronze tablet would be a middle tier, or middle-upper tier.
It would only be slightly better than Rinden.
However, considering that he still hasn’t managed to acquire an aura, his talent in mana must be the worst—just like the Judgment Ceremony determined.”

“Ah!”

“Even if he is talented in swordsmanship and fist techniques, he can’t become a proper warrior if his talent in aura is so miniscule.”

Camel shook his head while giving off a kind-looking smile.

“I see.”

Martha nodded her head, the corners of her lips curling up into a smile.

‘So, he didn’t have any talent in aura.’

She’d forgotten about it because Raon’s talent in martial arts was so outstanding, but he still hadn’t managed to acquire an aura.

It was said that a warrior with a weak talent in aura was a deficient one.
Raon Zieghart was just a deficient warrior whose talents were all focused on martial arts.

“Hehe.”

She couldn’t stop herself from smiling.
The anxiety that she’d been feeling disappeared all at once.

“I was worried for nothing.
I unnecessarily paid attention to somebody who wasn’t worthy.”

Martha headed towards the direct line training ground with light steps, as if she’d gotten rid of a lump of steel, and Camel followed her while smiling faintly with a mysterious air about him.

 

***

 

Raon didn’t stop training for a single moment.
Constantly moving, he engraved the principle and the flow of ‘Thundering Fist’ in his body and mind.

His back was drenched in cold sweat, and his mouth was breathing out steam.
He was clearly tired, but his expression was as bright as facing the sun.

“Haa.”

Raon smiled slightly as he moistened his dry lips.

‘This is getting more and more interesting.’

The movement that the instructor had shown him was engraved in his brain with a margin of error smaller than 1mm, and its flow and form was reproduced through his body.

He’d never realized learning martial arts could be so fun.

‘I guess that’s obvious.’

In his previous life, he’d only learned how to survive and kill.
He’d only gotten better at killing people through that.

He did increase his aura and trained with killing swordsmanship.
But that wasn’t for the sake of improving himself.
It was only of use in finishing off his enemies.

He kept engraving the killing methods in his body and mind until his body was crushed and shattered.

However, it was different now.

The ‘Seven Shaped Fist’, the ‘Advanced Rising Fist’, and the ‘Thundering Fist’ were all basic fist techniques, but his heart was filled with excitement just from learning them.

‘Because I’m improving for my sake.’

It wasn’t for the sake of killing someone else or following someone else’s orders.
Since it was for his own sake, he could only smile despite it being difficult.

‘And the pain is bearable.’

The pain was actually greater in his current life than in his previous life because of the ice in his mana circuit.
However, he couldn’t stop moving his body because of the exaltation that came from his improvement.

The ‘Ring of Fire’ rotated violently to grasp the flow of martial arts and enhanced his body.

Since he could feel his body and mind improving on top of his fist technique, his training was simply enjoyable.

What are you going to do with those basic movements? If you offer your body, the King of Essence will make you the best in the continent immediately.

‘It’s pointless if it isn’t by my own will.’

He’d had enough of pointlessly following somebody else’s order in his previous life.
Becoming the strongest by offering up his body was useless to him.

How foolish.
A weakling like you can never be…

‘Hmph.’

Since he was feeling refreshed, he could laugh off Wrath’s nonsense.

 

Pang!

 

Raon performed the different postures of the ‘Thundering Fist’, using Wrath’s voice as the rhythm.
He seemed to be learning the emotion of joy through his training.

 

Whoosh! Whoosh!

 

While he was catching his breath after swinging his fist with full force, one of the trainees approached him and bowed to him.

“E-excuse me, Mr.
Top Student.
May I ask a question?”

“What is it?”

“I’m having trouble with the last posture of the ‘Advanced Rising Fist’…”

“Move your right foot out a bit further.
Your stance isn’t balanced.”

Raon figured out the problem as soon as he saw the trainee’s posture.

“Ah! Thank you!”

The trainee bowed and stepped back.
He looked like he understood it at once, since he managed to get the correct posture by fixing what Raon had commented on.

“Wow, it’s fixed at once!”

“He is a genius of the fist technique!”

“I think he has better eyes than the instructors.”

The trainees looked up to Raon with admiration after checking each other’s posture.

Raon didn’t care whether the trainees were surprised or not.
After training fist technique until the sun set, he returned to the dormitory.

After finishing his simple dinner, he returned to his room and prepared to cultivate aura.

The ‘Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’ wasn’t progressing as well as the fist technique, which he was quickly improving at, but Raon stayed composed.

‘I already knew this was going to take a while.’

He’d realized after checking through all the ‘Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’ in his brain.

The ‘Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’ was a legendary cultivation technique, at the same level as the ‘Ring of Fire’.

If he could learn it properly, he was going to acquire an aura so powerful that it’d be difficult to find a match.
Therefore, it was normal that it’d take a long time to acquire it.

‘And I’m also absorbing the ice.’

Raon was controlling the ice inside his mana circuit alongside the heat from the ‘Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’.

Since he was circulating two conflicting energies at once, it would’ve been weird if they were easily accumulated in his energy center.

‘I don’t need to worry.’

It was true that his progress was slow for now.

However, since he knew that the reward for acquiring the ‘Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’ and absorbing all the ice would be tremendous, he didn’t feel anxious at all.

‘I’m looking forward to the blossoming of the first flower.’

Imagining the single flower created from the flame of the ‘Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’, Raon closed his eyes and focused on cultivating.

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