Chapter 018 : Another Legacy
Ding-ding-ding-ding!
Horse bandit Jang Yeong-heuk was flustered by the suddenly ringing bell sound.
This booming sound was definitely the sound that appeared when an intruder occurred.
And the intruder invading the horse bandits' base at this point.
"It seems to be the Ice Palace bastards!"
"Confirm quickly how many there are!!"
"Th-that is... it's two!"
Two?
According to what he heard then, the ones who came out of the Ice Palace were six.
‘Why is it two?’
No, before that, they pressed on with a raid with only two people?
Do they want to die?
Unable to believe it at all, the moment Jang Yeong-heuk went outside!
Whoosh!
The Great Grasslands began to be engulfed in fire.
"What is this……."
"W-what on earth is happening!"
He saw Vice Boss Sa Ma-geon running out.
"Wh-who set fire like that!"
"It is intruders."
Furthermore, the place where the disturbance arose and the place where the fire started were in opposite directions.
‘They caused a disturbance and set fire from behind.’
In this state, confusion would begin to arise on whether to extinguish the fire or deal with the intruders.
"Boss, please choose whether to deal with the intruders or extinguish the fire!"
Jang Yeong-heuk pushed all choices to the Boss.
That was understandable because the moment a wrong choice was made here, he didn't know if the horse bandits might really be annihilated.
"D-deal with the intruders first! You guys can put out a fire like that quickly!"
All horse bandits began to follow Sa Ma-geon's command.
The sight of horse bandits flocking to deal with the intruders.
Confirming that scene, I began to grow the flames even more.
Whoosh-
"The flames seem to be growing bigger and bigger!"
"The enemies are merely two!"
Watching the flames spreading in an instant, Jang Yeong-heuk called Sa Ma-geon.
"It seems we need to catch these flames first right now, not defeat the enemies!!"
"R-right! Extinguish the fire quickly!"
Jang Yeong-heuk realized.
It might be different normally, but in the current situation, trusting the Boss was a reckless act.
‘Whether the guy burns to death or not, it's none of my business.’
Jang Yeong-heuk moved to catch the flames in order to find a way to live on his own.
At that moment.
"I didn't know there would be a horse bandit with a proper mind."
A man walked out from within the flames.
Jang Yeong-heuk could notice at once that that guy was the one who set this fire.
"You are the ringleader……."
"Exactly, who told you to mess with the Ice Palace?"
Shing-
As the man drew his sword, the atmosphere changed.
If the atmosphere before drawing the sword was infinitely warm.
After drawing the sword, an energy that felt like it would melt upon touch shot out towards Jang Yeong-heuk.
"This flame. Surely, Blood Wolf was also by you……."
"Seeing this, it seems I came to the right place."
I muttered while grinning.
"Burn."
Fire Art Sword Third Form, Flame Butterfly.
Flutter-
A butterfly of rising flames landed on Jang Yeong-heuk's shoulder.
Jang Yeong-heuk clearly watched the butterfly touching his shoulder, but he could not dodge.
"Damn it."
Leaving that one word, Jang Yeong-heuk.
Whoosh!
Was completely incinerated just like that.
***
The horse bandits' Vice Boss, Sa Ma-geon, moved personally to cut down the two people who intruded into the horse bandits' base.
Because he thought he had to show prominence in the situation where the Boss, Blood Wolf Gwak Do-han, died to be recognized as the complete Boss of the horse bandits.
"Who are you guys!"
As the Black Leopard burst into a shout.
Baek Mu-yong and Tae Un-seo looked back at Sa Ma-geon.
"Squad Leader. I am hungry."
"Even though it smells like burning like this?"
"I think it would be really delicious if we cooked meat over there."
"It does seem like it, but."
Despite being in the middle of enemy territory, Baek Mu-yong and Tae Un-seo were relaxed.
The reason the Ice Palace considered horse bandits bothersome.
It was because of the enormous number of people and the nature of persistently clinging on even if killed and killed again.
However.
‘If we burn them all, the story is different.’
As of today, the base of the horse bandits inhabiting the south of the North Sea Ice Palace will all burn and disappear.
Impossible?
Such a thing did not exist for me.
"Let's deal with them quickly and eat."
"Sounds good."
Boom!
Tae Un-seo, flashing a ferocious glint in his eyes, rushed at Sa Ma-geon.
Clang!
The kitchen knife was blocked by Sa Ma-geon's axe.
"Mm?"
As soon as he saw that, Tae Un-seo shouted to Baek Mu-yong.
"Squad Leader, this guy is strong!"
"I know!"
Baek Mu-yong began a joint attack with Tae Un-seo.
If it were the Central Plains, it was a situation where they would be criticized for two people jointly attacking one opponent.
But this battlefield right now is a battlefield where life and death are at stake.
In a place where battles of killing each other were rampant, there was no one to talk about cowardice and unfairness.
"What are you doing, help!"
As Baek Mu-yong and Tae Un-seo began a joint attack to kill the enemy commander.
Black Leopard Sa Ma-geon also shouted to his subordinates.
"For many to persecute one person, horse bandits are indeed low-class."
Crack-
The movements of the horse bandits rushing towards Baek Mu-yong and Tae Un-seo halted.
No, to speak accurately, it would be correct to say they froze.
"Y-Young Palace Head."
To support Baek Mu-yong and Tae Un-seo, the Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin, moved.
"Th-the Ice Palace's Young Palace Head."
Only Sa Ma-geon was able to not freeze.
Amidst the fiercely rising flames, Sa Ma-geon's expression stiffened at the surrounding air that had turned cold.
The situation was reversed.
One against three.
It became a situation where he had to deal with three alone.
"If, if many persecuted people are low-class……."
Sa Ma-geon, who was trying to shout that you guys, who are the majority in this situation, are also low-class, realized that his mouth would not open any further.
"Geez, he is a person with many words."
Crack.
Seeing Sa Ma-geon, who completely froze from his toes to the top of his head and became an ice statue, Seol Ye-rin muttered.
"Now, let's go help the Third Young Master."
"Yes!"
"Understood!"
Having witnessed the spectacle of dozens of horse bandits being turned into ice statues without blinking an eye, Baek Mu-yong and Tae Un-seo began to follow Seol Ye-rin's words without complaint.
***
Horse bandits standing no longer exist.
Looking at the vigorously burning Great Grasslands, I could realize that I had dealt with most of the horse bandits who bothered the Ice Palace.
"It burns well."
"Ji-yeong chose the ignition point well."
Wi Ji-yeong discovered a place where garbage was piled up, starting with firewood.
Lighting a fire from there and even fanning the burning house, it spread here and there in no time.
"But... Captain. Is it possible to extinguish this?"
"Uh, I intend to extinguish it when everything burns."
Of course, extinguishing it was not my responsibility.
"It is the first time I am operating Extreme Yin Qi with the intention of extinguishing such a widespread fire."
"You will be able to do it."
I roughly knew how much Extreme Yin Qi existed in the body of the Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin.
As Seol Ye-rin said, since extinguishing a fire that spreads into such a large fire consumes a lot of energy, it might be a little difficult.
However, in my opinion, the Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin, possessed the ability to extinguish any fire no matter how big.
‘How can you block an Absolute Zero user?’
Temperature is related to the average kinetic energy of the particles constituting matter.
Absolute Zero is making this kinetic energy into a minimum state where it can no longer decrease.
In other words, atoms and molecules become a state close to stopping, and everything freezes.
This was the characteristic of the Extreme Yin Body possessed by Seol Ye-rin that I grasped through magical knowledge and scientific knowledge known throughout my past lives.
‘I can grasp others like this, but.’
I still don't know well about the characteristics of the Extreme Yang Body.
If I were to give it a name, would it be about the Absolute Heat Body.
‘I melted the Extreme Yin Qi, but I couldn't melt it completely.’
Just as Seol Ye-rin recovered her health by melting the Extreme Yin Qi that was making her body freeze.
If I also absorb Extreme Yin Qi into my body which is Extreme Yang, my body starts to achieve harmony.
-Heh heh, do not abuse the Yang energy you possess too much.
The Sword Venerable spoke as if worried, and I nodded my head.
I also knew well that too much is as bad as too little and abuse is not good.
"Then, Miss Seol. It seems most of it has burned. It would be good if you extinguished the fire."
"Understood."
Seol Ye-rin began to raise the intensity of the cold energy she was emitting little by little to the maximum.
Then,
Whoosh!
The flames began to be caught in an instant.
The grasslands that were burning red turned black, and pure white ice began to cover over them again.
"Really... it is unbelievable."
Wi Ji-yeong burst into admiration.
Seol Ye-rin was freezing even with the acrid smoke.
It felt to the extent that the North Sea had occupied the Great Grasslands, the land of the horse bandits.
"I agree."
"Thank you for restoring the Young Palace Head's health, Captain."
Baek Mu-yong also thanked me while looking at the spectacle created by the Young Palace Head.
If it weren't for me, the healthy appearance of the Young Palace Head.
And the spectacle of the healthy Young Palace Head sweeping horse bandits like this, they wouldn't have been able to see either.
"Mm? But if it becomes like this... rumor might spread that the Young Palace Head swept the horse bandits, not the Captain."
"It doesn't matter. Since the result is what's important."
I don't know if there is anyone who witnessed the vigorously burning flames or not.
At this point, I was an existence who shouldn't receive attention.
‘The Demonic Cult must be still watching me.’
Before Hyeokryeon Geuk came to find me, I still had to establish a foundation to some extent.
"Huff, huff."
At the appearance of the Young Palace Head gasping for breath after catching all the flames, I approached Seol Ye-rin and conveyed warm warmth to her.
"You worked hard. Rest a little."
"Th, thank……."
Slide-
Eun Bin flinched at the appearance of the Young Palace Head closing her eyes.
"It's okay, she fell asleep."
Exhausting the Extreme Yin Qi once like this will actually be good for Seol Ye-rin's body.
Since the Extreme Yin Qi trying to freeze her has decreased.
"Now, then since we safely solved the test the Palace Head gave, shall we go back?"
I looked forward to what kind of expression my father-in-law would make if he heard the news that merely six people dealt with the horse bandits of the Great Grasslands and returned.
Just as we were about to return to the Ice Palace like that,
-Mm? Wait.
The Sword Venerable began to move somewhere as if he felt something.
"Everyone halt."
"Mm? Why is that?"
"Vice Captain, I entrust Miss Seol to you."
"Yes? Understood."
"Ji-yeong, prepare for the bivouac with Tae Un-seo."
"Yes?!"
"A place I have to go to briefly has arisen, wait."
"C-Captain!"
Making Baek Mu-yong's shout pointless, I began to unfold my movement technique following the Sword Venerable.
There must definitely be a reason for the Sword Venerable to move urgently like that.
-This way!
As I moved following the Sword Venerable swimming in the air as if telling me to follow him.
At the end of the land, Seol Ye-rin was covered with ice.
Crack-
Something was splitting and revealing a gap.
-Extreme Yin energy is leaking from here. It seems to be energy comparable to This Seat.......
"It seems, I found another one."
Another legacy of a North Sea Martial God sleeping in the south.