39. The Spring and Autumn Period of Martial Arts

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While Namgung Hyeok was spouting nonsense to claim Seo Hyeon at the Murim Alliance and departing for the Namgung Clan, in Ningbo, Zhejiang, the Yieun’s consolidation of power was already complete.

The existing ordinary warriors and the Yihwa Swordmasters of the Yihwa Palace were all turned into maids, and the elders were temporarily incorporated as members of the Righteous 13. Of course, becoming maids was a bonus.

 

 

Of course, these events didn’t proceed smoothly. Naturally, there was resistance, and among them, there were definitely women who rushed in as if to kill.

 

 

But since the Yihwa Palace is basically a den of perverts, they eventually succumbed to Yieun. They were affiliated as maids of the Eunha Empire.

 

 

 

Yeo Serin was the same.

She arrived three days after hearing the news from Sichuan, and as a woman who had sworn allegiance to Yieun, she quickly accepted the situation.

And she accepted the maid transformation without more resistance than anyone else.

 

 

Of course, she still spoke informally….

 

 

 

 

 

“Heo…so that’s what a harem means. I was thinking about it, but you’re quite the womanizer.”

“…Filthy.”

 

A sort of executive meeting.

Yieun explained his goals in a place where he had gathered Lucrecia, the general commander of the Righteous 13 and the commander of Yieun’s personal guard, Im Seo Hyeon, the governor-general of the Mt. Fuji Autonomous Territory and chief of staff, Eun So Ryung, a police captain from the Gangnam Police Station in South Korea, and Yeo Serin and Kim Soo Hyeon, who had become executives from the Yihwa Palace.

 

In the process, the reality of the Harem Palace was revealed!

 

The women who originally belonged to him naturally knew this fact, but Serin and Soo Hyeon, who heard the word ‘harem’ for the first time, looked dumbfounded.

In particular, Soo Hyeon, who had vehemently refused to become a maid but was forcibly made one by her lord, Serin, openly showed a disgusted expression.

 

 

 

She felt this way when she first learned a little about Yieun’s true nature, but now that she had grasped his true nature, he was no less than the women of the Yihwa Palace, but even more so. He was truly the epitome of the scum of humanity she hated.

The thought of having her first experience with such a man made her shudder.

But since Yeo Serin, whom she had sworn to serve with her body and soul for the rest of her life, had become his servant, she had no choice but to follow. It was truly a wretched life.

 

 

“Anyway, that’s roughly the goal.”

“What do you mean ‘that’ when you haven’t explained anything?”

“…Master-nim, why is this bitch here?”

“To keep you in check.”

“What a load of bullshit. What can a bitch like you do? You’re just a maid.”

“Says the one who’s also a maid, how absurd.”

“Hmph. Fighting in front of the master. The discipline is truly lax. As expected, the personal guard should seize power to prevent such things from happening.”

 

 

Just saying one word caused voices to erupt from all directions.

 

“Alright, alright. Calm down. Anyway, you roughly know what my goal is, right?”

“I know you like women. But surely that’s not the whole purpose?”

“What do you mean it’s not? That’s exactly it.”

“Hmm…I don’t know whether to call that manly or unmanly.”

“…Filthy.”

“No, no. I’m going to do it properly now. I also have a purpose and a goal.”

“Yeah right. All you ever do is dick around.”

“…Master-nim, can’t we just lock this bitch in the education area for the rest of her life?”

“No, wait. I said calm down, didn’t I?”

“Tsk tsk tsk. A master who doesn’t command respect like this. I’m worried about the future. Is it really possible to unify the Murim?”

 

It was a complete mess with so few people.

Yieun realized that the problem here was Im Seo Hyeon and Eun So Ryung.

The reason was that the two of them didn’t get along very well.

 

No, it wouldn’t matter if they just didn’t get along, but the big problem was that they were openly showing it.

 

 

 

Kwang!

 

 

 

Yieun slammed the table where the map was spread out.

 

 

“Everyone be quiet! From now on, only I will speak. Everyone be quiet. From now on, anyone who speaks unnecessarily will marry the person they hate the most. Especially Seo Hyeon and Eun So Ryung.”

“….”

 

 

Everyone became silent at the incredibly frightening threat.

Even in the midst of that, Serin was giggling silently as if something was funny, but he generously overlooked that much.

 

 

 

“Okay, first I’ll tell you the immediate task. First, we’ll completely take control of Zhejiang here and immediately advance to Anhui, where the Namgung Clan is located.”

“Hmm.”

 

Seo Hyeon looked like she wanted to say something, but Yieun ignored her and continued speaking.

 

 

“And after we take control of Anhui, we’ll take over Jiangsu Province next to it. And then we’ll make an announcement. It’s called the Harem Alliance!”

“….”

 

 

At the truly amazing naming sense, the women closed their already closed mouths even tighter.

A miraculous name that made them unable to think of anything to say.

 

“It’s a beautiful alliance made up only of female martial artists. The goal is only one. To feminize the entire Murim.”

 

The purpose seems to be getting stranger and stranger.

 

 

“We’re unifying the Murim for this.”

 

Seo Hyeon raised her hand.

She seemed to have something to say.

 

 

“What is it?”

“Could it be that this feminization of the entire Murim involves spreading Bojinia? If that’s the case, even now….”

“No, that’s not martial arts.”

“….”

“We’ll just wipe them all out and castrate all the male martial artists and use them as laborers. Simple, right?”

“….”

 

 

Seo Hyeon’s head was already spinning from calculating the administrative power that would be required to achieve Yieun’s goal.

It would be easier and faster to just kill them all than to castrate them.

 

“Anyway, that’s about it for now. We’ll take over all of Zhejiang, then take over the Namgung Clan, and then clean up Jiangsu Province. And then we’ll officially announce the Harem Alliance.”

 

This time, Serin raised her hand.

 

 

“You seem to have forgotten, but what are you going to do about the government troops currently surrounding Ningbo? It will be difficult if we become enemies with the government.”

“Ah. The government.”

 

 

Perhaps because they considered the group that blew away the Yihwa Palace and occupied the city to be extremely dangerous, the Ningbo Prefecture is currently surrounded by thousands of government troops and four generals. It’s nothing to the Eunha Empire, but it’s a situation that can make the average martial artist quite nervous.

 

 

“It’s okay. We don’t need to pay attention to such riffraff. Ah. Should I bring a princess later?”

“…You’re truly consistent.”

“Anyway, Serin alone can easily crush the Ming Dynasty, right?”

 

She was the one who played with Seo Hyeon. Considering that Seo Hyeon is a woman who can fight against modern countries, Serin is an even greater monster. It doesn’t make sense that she can’t handle the government troops of the Middle Ages.

 

 

“That’s not something you can know. It’s true that I’m the greatest martial artist in the world, but the Central Plains are so vast. You never know when or where a strange person will pop out. The same goes for the government and the imperial family.”

“Heh.”

“There’s no guarantee that there aren’t others as skilled as I am.”

“Is that so.”

 

Serin, who grew up eating and sleeping in the Yihwa Palace, is this strong, so it might be a bit much to assume that she’s the only one this strong.

 

 

‘Then is this place full of monsters?’

 

I had the delusion that this side might win even if they fought against a modern country.

 

“Well, anyway, it’s okay. I’ll win anyway. If there’s such a strong person, I’ll just take care of them all.”

 

Yieun thought simply. After all, this Murim trip is half play. He can ignore the government and everything else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yieun, who had roughly finished the meeting, assigned roles to each person.

First, he gave So Ryung, who was a police officer, 50 Yihwa Swordmasters and had her clean up the vicinity of Ningbo, and he had Lucrecia defeat the government troops surrounding Ningbo. And he divided the remaining personnel into 10 regions of Zhejiang Province and dispatched them.

Although it was only one province, considering that this one province was almost the size of South Korea, it was quite tight even if all the warriors of the existing Yihwa Palace were mobilized.

 

 

“I’ll go to Bota Gate myself. That woman named Woo Soo Rin looks pretty good.”

 

Yieun revealed his lecherous intentions as he recalled the woman he had encountered when he went to Hangzhou.

The women took it for granted and set off to fulfill their respective roles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Uncle-nim, are they really the vanguard of Goryeo?”

“Didn’t you think so too?”

 

On the way back to his family’s Namgung Clan.

Namgung Hyeok told Yooi, who was asking with sparkling eyes, about his delusions as if they were facts.

 

 

“That woman Seo Hyeon is a real fox. She deceived us all with her pitiful act and finally made it happen. There’s a chance that a war between the righteous and the evil factions will break out.”

“…I suspected that too, but I wasn’t sure. If they’re really the vanguard of Goryeo….”

“We just need to stop them. With the hands of the Namgung Clan.”

 

That’s true in theory, but Yooi felt uneasy.

 

Her uncle, Namgung Hyeok, was in such a hurry that he was taking all the members of the Namgung Clan, except for herself, who was about to depart for Xi’an, and a very small number of disciples.

What on earth was he thinking?

 

 

 

 

 

‘If other sects get involved, things will get complicated. Only I can handle Seo Hyeon-sojeo.’

 

 

It wasn’t a particularly great thought.

It was just a misguided desire for monopoly.

 

 

He needs to possess Seo Hyeon, who has powerful martial arts, but it’s difficult with Namgung Hyeok’s own strength alone. It might be difficult even if he takes the elite of the Namgung Clan. However, if he receives help from other sects, he doesn’t know what variables might occur.

 

 

 

 

Then, wouldn’t it be possible to pour in the ‘power’ of the Namgung Clan?

Although he wasn’t the clan leader, if he presented the information he had brought from the Murim Alliance (actually his own delusions), it would be possible to commit all forces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Yooi-ya. This is something that only our Namgung Clan can do. And it’s something we have to do.”

“…? I understand.”