39. The Spring and Autumn Period of Martial Arts

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“Really… are you following that guy?”

 

In a situation where she was alone with Yeo Serin, Suhyun asked with a displeased face.

Even though she had mixed bodies with Yoo-eun… even though he was her first man, all she felt after learning his true nature was disgust, not affection.

How could she serve such a human as her master?

 

 

Serin smiled at her expression.

 

 

“Disappointed in his true nature?”

“…It’s beyond disappointment.”

“This mistress is even worse than him, so is this mistress okay?”

“Gungju-nim is…”

 

 

Suhyun couldn’t continue her words.

 

 

Serin was one of the most notorious villainesses in the Jianghu.

Knowing this herself, she constantly tested Suhyun’s loyalty, fearing betrayal.

But her loyalty was always steadfast. It never wavered.

 

“This mistress was also quite surprised when I first learned of his true nature. But what can I do? This is also fate.”

“…”

 

Serin sighed, saying something incomprehensible.

 

“I thought the Jianghu was wide, but I never knew it would be this wide.”

“Yes?”

“It’s nothing. Just talking to myself. More importantly, I heard you crossed swords with that bitch, Woo Surin?”

“Ah…”

 

 

While on a week-long trip in Hangzhou with Yoo-eun, they encountered the Bota Sect and fought.

And that incident led to her eventually handing Yoo-eun over to the elders.

 

 

Looking back now, it seemed like a script Yoo-eun, a super-strong pervert, wanted, but at the time, she was really doing her best to protect him.

 

 

“Seeing that you were pushed back even after taking the Elixir, that bitch must be quite strong.”

“…I’m sorry.”

“I’m not blaming you. You’re a strategist, aren’t you? That’s enough.”

“…Yes.”

“More than that, adapting to this place is urgent now. For now, you can just follow this mistress around.”

 

Suhyun nodded, letting out a deep sigh that came out naturally.

It seemed that Serin was deeply in love with him.

 

 

At first, she thought it was love, but now it felt a little different.

 

 

‘Is he really… that strong?’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Harem Palace, commanded by Yoo-eun, began its full-scale activities.

In Ningbo, they mobilized the people to build a palace, while sending out executives in all directions.

 

 

The first one to move was Lucrecia. She had to break through the siege of Ningbo to continue her mission.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Archers, to your positions!!!”

“Archers, to your positions!!!”

 

 

Kkiiik.

 

 

As the soldiers, moving in a flurry, drew their bows and formed a line, an eerie sound echoed.

The bowstrings were drawn taut.

And the arrowheads looked as if they could pierce through anything at any moment.

 

 

 

A woman facing hundreds of government troops was unfazed by the chilling sight.

 

 

 

“Fire!!!”

 

With the commander’s order, the bowstrings were released.

A rough yet sharp sound of air being torn apart rushed towards Lucrecia.

If this continued, she would be pierced by countless arrows and die.

 

 

 

 

“Scatter, Manbonzakura.”

 

 

 

But she was unfazed.

Believing in the scattering sword body, she calmly looked at the arrows.

Even though it was a fleeting moment, it felt like an eternity to her.

The sword, which had scattered into flower petals in all directions, surrounded her in layers, creating a giant flower.

 

 

And around that time, the rain of arrows arrived.

Those arrows, which had been emitting a fierce momentum, were ground into countless dust particles and disappeared as soon as they touched the giant flower.

 

 

It was as if it was sucking in the arrows.

Since it was ground into dust from the point of contact, projectiles like arrows could not exert any force.

 

 

 

“Wh-What…?!”

 

 

The commander was flustered by the martial art he was seeing for the first time in his life.

Skilled warriors often deflected or dodged arrows, but they never dealt with them with such bizarre techniques.

Just who is that woman???

 

 

 

 

“How boring.”

 

 

 

 

A short sentence.

The giant flower momentarily turned into dust and scattered, then gathered towards Lucrecia’s hand as if sucked into a black hole, forming its original shape.

 

“I am Lucrecia, the 13th General Commander of Justice and the leader of the 1st Division. By order of the Emperor of the Galactic Empire, I will slaughter you all.”

 

She, who had uttered fierce words, disappeared this time without using Manbonzakura.

Unlike Seo-hyun and the other maids, the floor was not broken, nor was dust scattered. Only the roar generated by the extreme compression of air struck all directions.

 

“Attack!! All troops-! Forㅡ,”

 

The commander tried to quickly shout after grasping the situation, but when his lips opened, his neck was already cracked, and after a few syllables, he was falling diagonally over his neck along with the gushing blood.

 

 

“ㅡward…”

 

Tuk.

 

The commander’s head fell and rolled away helplessly.

Lucrecia looked down with disappointed eyes.

 

“For a commander to fall before his soldiers, how pathetic.”

 

 

Pu Hwaak!

 

 

As soon as she finished speaking, blood gushed from the bodies of the frozen soldiers and scattered in all directions.

And then, hundreds of corpses fell powerlessly.

 

She had massacred hundreds of people in less than a second, but Lucrecia indifferently put her sword back into its sheath, getting splattered with the pouring blood.

 

 

When the rain of blood stopped, she blasted her Qi to blow away the bloodstains on her body and clothes, and moved towards the next target.

The order given to her was to deal with the government troops surrounding Ningbo.

She had only just started, but she thought it would probably be completed in about 1 gak (15 minutes).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lucrecia annihilated the government troops surrounding Ningbo in less than 1 gak.

As it was an emergency situation, the government troops dispatched to Ningbo exceeded half of the entire government troops of Zhejiang Province, which meant that she alone had cut down half of Zhejiang Province’s forces. And that too, in just 1 gak.

 

 

This unprecedented situation had not yet been reported to the Governor of Zhejiang, but if it were, it would be an incident that would turn not only Zhejiang but the entire Ming Dynasty upside down. Thousands of government troops were massacred by just one person.

 

 

But the tragedy did not end here.

Rather, it was just the beginning.

 

 

Zhejiang has a large plain area including Hangzhou, and naturally has a large population, so the number of cities, towns, and villages was also considerable.

Yoo-eun primarily wanted to pacify all of these places and bring them under his command.

Of course, including the sects as well.

 

 

The famous sects in Zhejiang are largely four, with the most famous being the Ewha Palace, followed by the Bota Sect, the Zhejiang Black Road Sect, and the Seven Wheel Fort.

 

 

 

Yoo-eun dispatched the women as instructed in advance, and he himself headed to the Bota Sect with only Seiko, Haruna, and Karen, the sex toys.

It was quite a troublesome journey as he had to take a boat from Hangzhou, but it was worth the investment.

 

 

 

 

“Master-nim, it is said that about 15% of Zhejiang has been secured.”

 

 

Seiko, who received a radio message on the floating boat, reported, and Yoo-eun hummed and pondered.

 

 

“15%… It’s taking longer than I thought.”

“Well… it’s a big place after all.”

“I guess so. It’s about the size of South Korea, so it seems a bit difficult to occupy it with just elites.”

 

 

At first, he thought of occupation very easily. After all, his combat power was insurmountable.

But once he started, he realized it was more difficult than he thought.

 

 

Occupying and holding was not difficult at all, but it was only valuable if it continued in the long term. In order to achieve the effect of a proper occupation, it was necessary to manage the people, collect taxes, and dispatch administrators to deliver and implement the orders of the central government.

Of course, the current Harem Palace had very few such forces, and even occupying Zhejiang as a whole was suffering from a labor shortage.

 

 

He couldn’t forcibly conscript the people and use them because their expertise and combat power would be low, and the Ewha Palace warriors were the better option, but even they were far inferior in combat power to the maids and secretaries belonging to the Galactic Empire, so they couldn’t be used as strategic weapons for one-man-army tactics.

 

 

In other words, the advantage of the Harem Palace, ‘the deployment of a small number of absolute elites,’ would disappear.

Come to think of it, Yoo-eun had never properly engaged in an occupation war in modern times or in another world. At best, he would just drop off Seo-hyun and the other maids.

 

When he occupied China, he conquered it by blowing up Bojinia, and in the case of Japan, he threatened the leadership, forced them to sign a treaty, and swallowed it whole.

He had never fought while occupying each piece of land one by one.

 

 

“I kind of understand why Goguryeo didn’t conquer more widely.”

“?”

 

The three former Japanese women tilted their heads.

 

“What’s the point of expanding the land? There are no administrators to dispatch. Zhejiang alone is like this, but to eat the entire China… do I really have to use Bojinia? I don’t see any other answer. Or bring a bunch of stats.”

 

Yoo-eun was seriously considering the two options, but he couldn’t easily make a decision because neither of them was in the Martial World.

In the meantime, the ship he was on reached the island where the Bota Sect was located, and he was able to meet the Bota Sect warriors who had come out after hearing the news.

 

 

At the very front was Woo Surin, staring at Yoo-eun and the others with a stern face.

 

 

 

 

“Well, okay. Let’s think about that later for now.”

 

Yoo-eun took off his pants and got off the boat.