Way of Overlord

Chapter 683: A Guest In the Night

Aeryon sighed.

"if Chadha is not dead, who knows how many of my men would die even more" he thought to himself.

But he shakes his head

He still could not let it go.

Talents like Chadha is rare.

And if they could help him, that would be the best.

Those who have strategic vision and the ability to execute things like the things Chadha had done is something scarce in the Southern Great Steppe.

If he is to fight the entire Steppe, he needs talents like this.

In Yan, there is many talents.

Knowledge is hoarded but the aristocratic families there do have abilities.

Abilities to govern the people.

In the Steppe, there is many who could be general and warriors but not many who could govern

Aeryon knows with the power of the Steppe, as long as he could unite it, he could conquer the world.

Yes, the world. Genghis Khan did it. And he could do it too.

With all advantages poured into him, it would be weird if he could not do it.

But governing it?

He did not want to use the Yan people talent.

There are words in the books and history annals.

But none of it could represent the truth.

Because history always likes to whitewash certain things.

And history is a story, a version of the truth by the winner.

It is not the absolute truth. It is the truth of the winner.

And it is the truth of the rulers.

It is not the truth of the people, and it is not the truth of those who died and that was sacrificed.

It is easy for the rulers to sacrifice the people and they use the words "for the future"

Yet, those who sacrifice the present for the future is short sighted.

So, there is this feeling of schadenfreude when he is thinking about Chadha death.

"But I must make do with what I have" he mutters to himself.

He knows from the very beginning that if Chadha had died, this alliance would fall.

But Chadha is not an easy man to kill.

And even if he could kill him, Aeryon would rather kill him face to face.

Poisoning is still dishonourable act.

And he did not need to poison Chadha.

He is confident, if he could have defeated Chagai tribe, he could debate with Chadha and convince that old fox to join him.

He appreciates heroes like this and if Chadha could join him, he would have a capable advisor.

The fact that he could think of such method of separating the western and eastern regime, shows this is a persons who also have the world in his mind

It is a pity he had died. But at the same time, Aeryon understood if Chadha did not die, his entry into the west would not have been easy.

When Chadha was alive, even though they advanced, each advance cost them thousands of men.

People from all the west attack them from bands of mercenaries, to lone warriors and to some hidden clans and hidden tribes all over the west.

All of them acted by the orders of Chadha.

The moment he died, it was like the west lost their backbones and their resistance lessened.

He had defeated the allied forces of the Cha Ner Ul Alliance. And in that process, he has suffered considerable losses.

The wounded and the horses that he had lost, these needs to be replenished.

Even though there are many tribes that are now relying on the Brolgadhr tribe and there are many tributes that is given to him, it would still take some time.

"The East is also consolidating their power."

The North...I just hoped that Nogai chief could be steadfast, he thought to himself.

Aeryon bathed for a more minutes before he came out from the bath. He then wears his clothes and then he went to his tent.

The soldiers are all in standby and they were ready to attack.

But for the past few days there is not night raid.

The new chief of Chagai is different from his father.

But in a certain way, this son of his is even more troublesome

Aeryon has his own judgement of people.

And his own standard.

Chadha is a hero and he is a genius but a genius and a hero has a trace

Aeryon like to communicate with such people.

The kind of son that Chadha had chosen is different for him yet also the most troublesome for Aeryon to encounter

Of course, he needs to confirm this first by meeting with that chief.

Aeryon then went out of his tent.

He went to the stable, fetch one of his horse and goes to the grounds to see the preparations of his men.

A few dozen miles are the host of many western tribes that is supporting Chagai tribe.

And there are tens of thousands of men on the other side.

They were also not moving.

For a few days now, there are like this.

Aeryon is sitting on the back of his horse as he looks at the host of soldiers on the other side and he could not help but sighed

"This would take a year or two to recuperate" one or two year is not the optimal time. But this is the only time that the east would give them.

Even if Aeryon wanted to recuperate longer, it is not like those other tribes would just allow him. The advantage of time lies with him. The longer he is at peace, the more solid his standing would be and the stronger his foundation would be

Any wise enemies would not let that kind of thing to happen.

Winning the west does not exactly means he wins many things.

Instead, it would invite the attack of every tribes in the Southern Great Steppe.

However, the benefits outweigh the cost.

Taking the west and holding it is the most important.

Aeryon was always confident that he could take the west.

The one thing he is not confident on was holding the west.

In the history of the Southern Great Steppe, there were many times when an overlord would appear in the Southern Great Steppe.

And there are many stories of such overlords taking the west.

And Aeryon would not be the first overlord that attack the west. But he was among the few that succeeded in attacking and occupying the land of the west and forcing these western border tribes to succumb to his power.

But the many overlords that have managed to conquer the west always run to the same problem. Holding it. Holding the west is not an easy task.

It was not easy before and it would be even harder today.

The unity of the western border tribe is unmatched. Those who share the same pain should understand each other.

Of course, Yan people is the exception to this.

But for the western border tribe, since they share the same pain, their unity is the strongest. If not for their tribalism, these western border tribe could create a confederation or a country for themselves spanning all over the western border

Instead of horizontal, they would be able to create a defensive and offensive line vertical from north to south instead of having for direction to defend, they would only have to defend against the east and west.

But that is a different story.

Holding the west has always been the challenge for any overlords and almost all overlords that managed to conquer the wets had to give it up later.

The reason is simple.

The west would keep harassing your borders.

Either from the north or the west or any other place they could use to attack you.

In other words, the western border tribes would come down and attack you until you are harassed constantly.

And most overlord could not stand it and had to release the west.

Aeryon was always worried about this the moment he found out about the dynamic of the western border tribes.

But then Khagai tribe become allies.

Valgrun shares his dream.

No, to be more accurate he has his own dreams.

But the dreams he has and the dreams that Aeryon had does not conflict with each other

With Khagai he believes he could secure the west

Aeryon shakes his head and he patrols the area. He said patrolling but it is mostly just him greeting his commander

He then went to the training grounds.

He fought and spar with the soldiers and then hears the reports of his people about food and supplies that they have.

Aeryon did not need to do a war meeting

The strategy had already been decided.

Wait

Just wait.

Until the changes come.

Aeryon is waiting for the moves that the chief of Chagai would do.

When he found out that Ultar and Nergui could not send anyone to him, what would he do.

Would he choose a decisive battle? Or would he as Aeryon had deduced, choose the most stable thing to do

He waited and then that night as he goes to his war tent and was ready to go to sleep, someone announce themselves in front of his tents

The person enters and relay to him something that shocked him

Then he laughs and nodded

"Let him meet me. I would be interested to hear what he has to say"

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