The Northern Sea Ice Palace’s Martial God Son-in-Law Chapter 14 : Chapter 14

Chapter 014 : Assignnt

Elder Gwak Tae-san stared at , the scoundrel of the Demonic Cult scheduled to beco the live-in son-in-law of the North Sea Ice Palace.

'Talking back like a true scoundrel.'

To think a re scoundrel dared to throw down a gauntlet to him.

Even if I had the Extre Yang Body, I was a guy who had barely reached the age of twenty.

With what confidence was such a guy challenging him?

He thought he needed to show the bitter taste of the North Sea.

"I don't know what you're trusting to blabber like that, but co at . Let's remove our ranks and have a go!"

"You definitely agreed to remove ranks?"

A thick smile hung on my lips.

-Hoho, the descendants have grown up without manners.

If it were before eting the Sword Venerable, I wouldn't have thrown such a gamble.

No matter how outstanding my martial arts were.

They wouldn't be superior to an Elder of the Ice Palace.

However.

'It's a different story with the Sword Venerable.'

I drew the Extre Snow.

-Do you rember the sword forms of the Snow Wind Sword?

The soul of the Sword Venerable asked while floating in the air.

As long as I was with the Extre Snow, the Sword Venerable was always with too.

'I can't show the Sword Venerable's sword here.'

Whoosh!

Flas soared up.

The Fire Art Sword flew toward Gwak Tae-san.

"I already know you use fire!"

Gwak Tae-san pulled out short spears from his waist.

Soon, several short spears combined to beco a long spear.

"Snow Wind Spear Art Second Form, Strong Wind Snow Explosion."

Whirrr!

As Elder Gwak Tae-san spun the spear, a trendous snow wind arose.

The flas were blocked by the snow wind.

"Is a senior not even going to yield three moves to a junior?"

"Where is the senior and junior when we removed ranks!"

A smile was hanging on the lips of Gwak Tae-san who shouted that before anyone knew it.

I raised the Extre Yang Qi again to counter him and swung the sword.

Fla wind began to blow against the snow wind.

'He was an Elder who liked dueling.'

At first, he seed to have co to establish discipline, but the more we exchanged moves, the more visible it was that Elder Gwak Tae-san was enjoying himself.

It was like the feeling of unfolding martial arts after a long ti.

-It's the distance. If you can pierce through that long spear and dig inside, it is your victory.

I knew even without the Sword Venerable telling .

Thinking about it now, I possess various talents.

The batting eye and patience cultivated while playing baseball in my first life.

A batter needs the patience to wait until the ball enters the strike zone.

The prediction ability I could obtain because I always conducted research through imagination as I couldn't handle mana in my second life.

The observational skill to observe how the opponent would move was also one of the talents I possessed.

The spear shoots forward.

'Wait.'

Not yet, not yet.

Swish!

Having dodged Elder Gwak Tae-san's spear strike by a hair's breadth, I dug into Elder Gwak Tae-san's embrace following the retrieving spear shaft.

"How dare you!"

Elder Gwak Tae-san is not soone who wouldn't have predicted this.

Clang!

In an instant, the long spear separated and the short spears wrapped around like chains.

'I predicted it.'

From the mont he made a long spear with short spears at first, I predicted he might operate the spear in this manner.

-I will borrow this for a bit.

I put Extre Yang Qi into the sword form of the Snow Wind Sword Venerable, Baek Un-han.

"Fla Wind Explosive Flash."

The flas that blood from the Extre Snow soared into the sky like a storm.

"What?!"

The mont the short spears soared into the sky!

Swish!

The Extre Snow stopped right at Elder Gwak Tae-san's Adam's apple.

"If this was Our Cult... you would be dead, Elder."

***

Gulp-

Elder Gwak Tae-san couldn't move.

It was because it felt like that blazing red sword would pounce on him if he moved even a little.

It was then.

"Third Young Master?"

The voice of the Ice Palace's Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin, was heard.

I retrieved the sword.

"With this, I hope you won't interfere in the matters of us two, Elder Gwak Tae-San. I would appreciate it if you conveyed my thoughts to the Council of Elders as well."

Since I won in a bout where we removed ranks, Gwak Tae-san had no choice but to listen to my words.

"...What is this situation right now? Did the Elder persecute the Third Young Master?"

Flinch-

A cold chill began to cover Gwak Tae-san.

It might be different for others, but the weight of the Young Palace Head's single word was different.

Because there was no one in the Ice Palace who didn't know the Palace Lord was a daughter-fool.

"He just ca to find because he was curious. Since he said he would convey good stories about to the Council of Elders, you don't have to worry too much."

"Ah, is that so? Then the duel just now..."

"The Elder gave a teaching."

"Ah, yes, that is correct."

At my words, the chill disappeared as if washed away.

Gwak Tae-san looked back for a mont at , who made the Young Palace Head smile with a single word, then turned around and disappeared.

"Did you use honorifics because it was in front of the Elder?"

As soon as Elder Gwak Tae-san disappeared, Seol Ye-rin asked as if fascinated.

"Well, yes. Since I need to care about my reputation here and there to be acknowledged as a live-in son-in-law."

"Hmm, that's unexpected."

"What is?"

"I thought the Third Young Master wouldn't care about such things."

I looked back at Seol Ye-rin.

There was sothing that had been bothering since earlier.

"You called Gaga confidently in front of my father-in-law, but have you decided to call Third Young Master again?"

"T-That is!"

At the sight of Seol Ye-rin's face turning red, I smirked.

"Well, we can improve the title gradually, but are you okay right now?"

It was about the Sword Venerable.

At my words, Seol Ye-rin asked carefully.

"I-Is he still nearby?"

-Kukuku, to be afraid of while possessing such energy in her body. A descendant with a weak gall.

I couldn't possibly say that the Sword Venerable was chattering right next to Seol Ye-rin.

I grabbed Seol Ye-rin's wrist to deliberately change the topic.

"Ah!"

"In that ti, it seems a lot of Yang energy has been depleted again."

"Eh?"

"Since I have to go outside the Ice Palace to sweep the horse bandits, I think there is a need to replenish so Yang energy before that?"

At my remark, Seol Ye-rin began to panic, flustering about.

"I-I think it is still sufficient!"

Clatter clatter!

Watching Seol Ye-rin dash back to her room, I turned around.

It was because Baek Mu-yong, who was waiting in front of the accommodation as if monitoring , was staring at with eyes saying he saw an unbelievable scene.

"Don't look like that and tell the Vice Captain and Ji-yeong to prepare to go out tomorrow too."

"Where do you intend to go again?"

"I have to handle the horse bandits who attacked the Ice Palace and return."

I hadn't solved the assignnt the Palace Lord gave yet.

Since I confird the horse bandits had the guts to attack the Ice Palace.

It was my turn to return the favor this ti.

"...Just the four of us?"

"It's enough."

To the horse bandits living in the grasslands, I would be no different from a disaster.

"I just have to burn them all."

***

"General Manager."

North Sea Ice Palace, General Manager's Office.

General Manager Seol Su-hyeok looked back at the subordinate who visited late at night.

"What is the matter?"

"Just a while ago, it is said that Elder Gwak Tae-san of the Council of Elders and Young Master Hyeokryeon had a duel at the Young Palace Head's Hall."

"A duel? Who won?"

He was thinking the Elders would step up, but they moved faster than expected.

If it's Elder Gwak Tae-san, he is a martial artist who achieved complete mastery with the spear in the North Sea.

If such a person moved, no matter if it's Hyeokryeon Yeom...

"They say Young Master Hyeokryeon won."

"What?"

When he heard he subdued Eun Bin, he thought he was quite capable, but.

He didn't know he was Elder-class.

"Did he have an enlightennt or sothing while treating the Young Palace Head?"

He did feel that sothing seed to have changed after Hyeokryeon Yeom, who was full of hot Yang energy all over his body, treated the Young Palace Head.

If the two people complented each other the more they were together.

'The Palace Lord's choice might have been excellent.'

Seol Su-hyeok asked the subordinate.

"The condition of Elder Gwak?"

"They say both were not injured."

"Really?"

It is a strange thing.

Considering Elder Gwak's martial arts handling the spear, the duel should have ended only when soone was definitely injured.

"And after that?"

"Perhaps because the Young Palace Head diated, Elder Gwak Tae-san returned to the Council of Elders, and Young Master Hyeokryeon seems to intend to go outside the Ice Palace again tomorrow."

"He said he went to the north today, right?"

"Yes, that is correct."

It is a mystery why he went to the north when sweeping horse bandits.

"I wonder when he intends to do the horse bandit sweep?"

"For now, the personnel of the Small Snow Squad is only four including the maid Young Master Hyeokryeon brought."

He wouldn't be able to move to sweep horse bandits with only four.

"Should I replenish more personnel?"

The Ice Palace Lord didn't say it, but he viewed Hyeokryeon Yeom, who treated the Young Palace Head, very favorably.

Perhaps, even if he didn't know for sure, the order to sweep the horse bandits was likely an order given in anticipation that his position in the North Sea would rise if Hyeokryeon Yeom really swept the horse bandits.

'Since he needs so achievents to be acknowledged as a live-in son-in-law.'

There were still many forces in the North Sea just watching Hyeokryeon Yeom's movents.

"I hope friction doesn't arise with the Snow Tiger Squad due to this matter."

"Um... General Manager. How about this thod?"

"What thod?"

"Sending the problem children of the Snow Tiger Squad to Young Master Hyeokryeon."

The Snow Tiger Squad was a squad with many problems.

The Captain, Danmok Ho, only took care of his own people and ostracized those unnecessary to the group.

People called those guys ostracized like that, the problem children of the Snow Tiger Squad.

"Do you think Hyeokryeon Yeom can bring those guys to heel?"

"I do not know. But if he does bring them to heel, we solve the Snow Tiger Squad's problem, and replenish the Small Snow Squad's manpower, so wouldn't it be killing two birds with one stone? And Vice Captain Eun Bin or Squad Leader Baek of the Small Snow Squad also need guys to command, don't they?"

Certainly, the subordinate's words were right.

"Tomorrow morning. Before Young Master Hyeokryeon leaves, convey this story to Captain Danmok and Young Master Hyeokryeon."

"Yes, General Manager!"

Watching the adjutant running out hurriedly, General Manager Seol Su-hyeok realized once again the necessity of a capable adjutant who would beco his hands and feet.

***

The next day.

Baek Mu-yong looked back at , the Captain of the Snow Tiger Squad, Danmok Ho, and Elder Gwak Tae-san with an expression of not knowing what the situation was.

"Squad Leader Baek. Just what happened yesterday?"

Beside him, Eun Bin was also asking Baek Mu-yong as if it was difficult to understand this situation.

"Weren't we departing early in the morning?"

Even Wi Ji-yeong, who packed a bundle full as if she even packed als, added a word.

Furthermore,

"What is this situation right now?"

A situation where even the Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin, appeared with an expression that she would definitely follow along today.

In the midst of confusion.

"So, you an the mbers of the Snow Tiger Squad were transferred to the Small Snow Squad from above?"

"It is the General Manager's order."

Danmok Ho spoke while looking at Gwak Tae-san's reaction.

Showing an attitude different from usual seed to be because of Gwak Tae-san.

"Captain Danmok is a concerned party so let's leave it at that, but for what matter did the Elder co?"

"Whether an old man in the back room goes sowhere or not is my freedom."

"...It sounds like you an to follow right now?"

"Why is that not allowed?"

Did this old man eat sothing wrong?

-Kuhaha! I rembered. That guy is a descendant of the Gwak clan.

At that mont, the Sword Venerable's laughter was heard.

'Who is the Gwak clan?'

-A guy who kept acting up saying the spear is superior to the sword. So I smashed him once, and he was a guy who chased around acting annoyingly after that and he looks just like that guy.

No, you are a person from three hundred years ago, aren't you?

I looked at Gwak Tae-san again.

If he survived in the Ice Palace with just a spear for three hundred years, that was impressive in its own way.

"It seems we keep sidetracking. So are you going to accept it or not?"

"What happens if I don't accept?"

"Well, since they were stripped of their Snow Tiger Squad status, they would be kicked out of the Ice Palace."

In a situation where his own subordinates might be kicked out of the Ice Palace, I felt strange at Danmok Ho's nonchalant appearance.

"It seems Captain Danmok doesn't care much?"

"Words like that won't co out when you et those guys."

"...?"

Replenishing troops was sothing to welco from my standpoint.

"Vice Captain, Squad Leader Baek. What do you think?"

Eun Bin and Baek Mu-yong contemplated for a mont at my question.

The two people roughly guessed who the mbers to be assigned from the Snow Tiger Squad to the Small Snow Squad were.

For a mont, the two people's gazes entangled with each other.

"I approve!!"

It's decided.

"They say so. Where are they, those people?"

The accommodation of the Snow Tiger Squad arrived under Danmok Ho's guidance.

"Assignnt... has been issued?"

I could et a dangerous-looking man holding a kitchen knife.