The Swordsman Genius Returnee Even Swallows Immortality

15

An icy forest with dense ice trees.

Habell was walking into it.

The path he was taking.

Frozen Meteor Knights were visible.

The last sight of them swinging their swords fully expressed their unwillingness to die.

However, Havel did not feel a single shred of pity for them.

Havel had already discarded the emotion called sympathy a long time ago.

After all, he had survived by trampling over his comrade’s death in the Demon World.

‘It’s not just sympathy.’

He has already lost many human emotions.

He had spent 100 years in the Demon World.

It was the Demon World where only slaughter existed.

His emotions had already been worn away a long time ago.

The only emotions he still had were two.

Guilt and regret.

How much he regretted entering the Demon World.

And how much he was tormented by guilt over being the only one who survived.

Havel, who had passed by all the knights of the Falling Star Knights, raised his head.

Then he saw the back of an ice skeleton.

A skeleton with an ice-carved snake on its head.

That bastard was the one who froze the Falling Star Knights.

He had heard it directly from a member of the Grazia family.

That ice skeleton had never been found on the 4th floor.

That meant that the skeleton was the trial given by the Tower.

One of the trials on the 4th floor.

Ice Jade Skeleton.

That was its identity.

Clack—

The sound of ice teeth clashing rang out.

Hiss, hiss!

At the same time, the ice snakes on the Ice Jade Skeleton’s head hissed.

The moment the Ice Jade Skeleton’s neck slowly turned to the other side.

Havel and the Ice Jade Skeleton made eye contact.

The Ice Jade Skeleton’s eyes were empty.

However, the coldness flowing from them was different.

Freezing Eyes that freeze everything they met.

The Falling Star Knights had all been hit by its Freezing Eyes.

Snap!

At that moment, the sound of Havel’s fingers freezing rang out.

Even for Havel, the Freezing Eyes were effective.

Havel looked down at his freezing arm.

“I had a friend I was close to before the Demon World.”

Havel suddenly spoke.

He looked at his freezing arm as if reminiscing about the past.

“He was a great guy. Banpelioni had a foundation, but he raised a ruined family all by himself without any foundation.”

A long memory forgotten surfaced in his eyes.

During the war for unification.

His friend who had always been by his side.

And also the one who saved him, telling him to live on in the Demon Palace.

They remained in Habel’s memory.

“But now, even their faces are blurry.”

Habel’s friend died in the Demon Palace.

Without even leaving a body behind.

That was why Habel could not see his friend’s face even after returning.

Because the point he returned to was after his friend’s death.

“But still, there is one thing that I can clearly recall.”

Thud!

At that moment, a sound rang out on Habel’s frozen arm.

It was a chill.

A chill stronger than the Jade Sea Serpent.

The Jade Sea Serpent’s snakes paused.

It was because they sensed an unusual aura from Habel.

Swish!

They instinctively cried out.

It was a reaction made by creatures when they felt threatened.

“Whenever that guy fought, he always had this chilly aura.”

Crack!

At that moment, ice burst from Habel’s frozen arm.

Seeing this, the Jade Sea Serpent clasped its icy bone hands together.

Dozens of ice swords appeared in a circle behind him.

The Jade Sea Serpent extended one hand forward.

The moment his hand was directed at Habel.

All of the ice swords flew towards Habel.

“Can I recall that guy’s face with your chill?”

Along with that question, Habel’s pupils shouted.

Bam!

The sand-covered ground shook violently.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

In that instant, the ice swords shattered in mid-air.

Although Habel’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

The shattering ice swords gradually approached the Jade Sea Serpent.

Clatter!

Sensing the threat, the Jade Sea Serpent extended its other hand.

At that moment, dozens of ice swords shot up through the sand.

Crash!

But all the ice swords turned into ice shards at once.

The flying ice shards reflected the light and shone beautifully.

In the gap between the shards, Byungokhaeju clasped his hands together again.

At that moment, all the ice shards that had broken off and gathered their will.

The shards all aimed in one direction.

Soon, they will all be returned to Havel.

Pababababak!

The ice shards stabbed into Havel.

Taktak!

Byungokhaeju clenched his teeth and became convinced of victory.

You are truly hopelessly lacking.”

But the results were different.

Havel’s body was clearly stabbed by the ice shards.

His torn clothes were proof of that.

However, Havel stood up hale and hearty.

He shook his body once.

Then the sharp ice shards fell off.

The ice shards had failed to pierce his skin.

“At the very least, this much should be enough to make you mad.”

At the moment Havel said that, Byungokhaeju’s snakes screamed in unison.

“Shwiiiik!”

Their necks were all frozen.

And so it was Byungokhaeju.

His legs were soon frozen solid.

Byungokhaeju tried to clasp his hands again.

But his arms were already frozen and he couldn’t move.

Tak, tak―.

Finally, his teeth slowly chattered.

Byungokhaeju’s frozen body turned snow-white.

Just like snow.

Jjak!

At that moment, Byungokhaeju’s body began to split apart.

Kugugugugu!

Soon, his head fell to the ground.

Isiha Ryu Snow Swordsmanship

Snowstorm

A secret technique that freezes the opponent with pure white snow and ice.

And this was the secret technique of the Ice family, one of the three great families, and Havel’s friend.

‘I just got a little nostalgic and recited it on a whim.

The ice-crystal whale’s eyes resembled Esiah’s swordsmanship, so it inadvertently started to babble.

It’s a memory we can no longer share.

However, there was a problem.

The words indicate that the trial had not yet occurred.

Ku-gu-gu-gu-gu-gung!

At that moment, the entire forest began to vibrate.

“Ah, that’s right, you were still here.”

Habell already knew about this vibration.

Habell, who had gathered aura in his legs, got into position.

And then, the moment he kicked off into the sky—

Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!

Along with the ground crumbling, a gigantic white whale shot up.

The ice-snow white whale opened its mouth wide and swallowed the ice-crystal whale and the forest.

Then it swung its giant tail toward Habell.

Kwang!

However, the whale’s tail was deflected in the opposite direction.

Habell, who had approached the whale’s face, had blocked it with his fist.

Booooooo!

The ice-snow white whale’s cry echoed in pain.

Then, it immediately turned around and entered the snowdrift.

Habell realized what it was thinking.

“Are you trying to run away?”

He had no intention of letting it do that.

Habell turned his body in the air.

Then, he aimed his sword toward the ground.

“You live in a cold place, so let’s see how long you can endure this.”

Habell plummeted to the ground.

A chill of a different dimension from before surged into Habell’s sword.

And when his sword touched the ground—

The snowdrift shook violently.

A brief moment of silence passed.

Jjeok.

A very short freezing sound rang out from the tip of the sword.

Soon, that sound spread throughout the snowdrift.

Inside the snowdrift—

The ice-snow white whale, which had swallowed the ice-crystal whale, was trying to escape, felt the chill.

The moment it looked back—

The entire snowdrift was frozen solid.

This snowdrift was clearly its territory.

However, Havell’s chill had invaded even this snowdrift.

The floundering ice whale accelerated.

But the cold was faster.

Crack!

First, its tail began to freeze.

Then its body, soon followed by its head.

The Ice Whale finally came to a stop.

“Gotcha.”

And Habel, who had noticed this fact, raised his fist.

“You ran away, didn’t you?”

Soon, Habel slammed his fist into the ground.

Kaboom!

Frozen snow and sand shattered and soared into the air.

The Ice Whale also bounced up into the air from the impact.

Booooooom!

A scream erupted from the Ice Whale’s mouth.

Meanwhile, Habel took a stance to throw his sword in reverse.

Sparks flew across the blade.

“This is for your downstairs neighbor. He said the noise pollution was too much.”

At that moment, he threw his sword.

Ziiiiiiing!

A beam of light followed the exploding sparks.

The sword pierced the Ice Whale’s belly.

Soon, it came out from the other side after tearing through its intestines.

Thud!

The Ice Whale, which was instantly killed by the blow, rolled over the snow and sand.

As Habel watched, letters appeared before him.

[The Tower is furious with you.]

[You have passed the trial in the Eternal Ice Zone.]

[The achievement ‘He Who Angered the Tower’ has been registered.]

[The debuff of the ‘Tower’s 4th Trial’ seeps into your body.]

– Strength has increased by 43.

– Agility has increased by 44.

– Stamina has increased by 40.

– Aptitude has increased by 45.

– Technique has increased by 41.

– Debuff has increased by 48.

More letters continued to appear.

Habel clenched and unclenched his fists, then began to walk.

He had gotten used to this by now.

As the debuff increased, he could feel its power coursing through his body once again.

Havel forcibly suppressed it.

This was because he judged that it was a power that he didn’t need to use yet.

‘The might of the brain that I tried out was this much.’

If he goes up the tower, he will definitely gain more.

He didn’t know how strong he would become by then.

The moment Havel pulled out the sword he had thrown.

He could see many people running in the distance.

They were none other than the Knights of the Blazing Star.

They were also a higher order than the 4th Knights.

‘They’re finally here.’

Havel smiled slowly.

“They’re crawling into the tiger’s mouth on their own.”

Then he should enjoy the banquet.

Havel turned around.

It was the first step to destroying Glacies.

“Mr. Havel!”

As Havel turned around, Dante approached him.

In Havel’s eyes, he could see members of the Grazia family and Dratin.

The members of the Grazia family had stiffened.

It was definitely quite a distance.

Nevertheless, he felt Havel’s threat strongly.

He felt like his blood was flowing in reverse.

‘Is he the same person?’

He couldn’t think of any words to describe Havel.

Dangerous.

It wasn’t the time to help Banpelion destroy Glacies or whatever.

A real monster appeared in the tower.

This was an emergency.

The only one who could stop him was Amseong, the master of Grazia.

‘I need to tell the lord right away.’

An emergency ran in his head.

“Grazia.”

At that moment, Havel called him.

At the moment he unconsciously swallowed his breath and hadl spoke.

“There’s only one thing you can tell.”

Havel spoke while looking at him.

With that alone, he couldn’t do anything.

“Banpelion has returned. Just pass that on.”

If he didn’t, he would kill him on the spot.

He felt the meaning clearly.

“…Yes.”

He had no choice.

If he couldn’t return, he wouldn’t be able to pass on the information.

“Drathain.”

“Hic, eek!?”

Drathain flinched with a scream at the call.

He saw Havel, who had single-handedly destroyed the Ice Jade Lord and the Ice White Whale.

He already considered having a monster worse than the Calamity Beast.

“Your family is here.”

Havel said, looking back across the forest.

“Greet them well.”

That way, there would be a point where his life would stagnate.