Way of Overlord
Chapter 207: The Chains of Righteousness

Chapter 207: The Chains of Righteousness

On the western borders of the Great Steppe, the Western Zhou always uses the tactics of alienation and leveraging the interest of the tribe leader so that the western border always remains disorderly

This also created the Western tribes. These western tribes refer to the tribes that lives around the western border of the Great Steppe.

Because of the harassment of the Western Zhou, these western tribes are very good at fighting and they usually help each other and in an alliance with each other.

Having the approval of the Ashana, they are a group of tribes that could not be attacked easily especially in the Steppe

Any Steppe tribes that try to attack a western tribe without compelling reason would be ganged upon by the other western tribes and any tribes that wanted to win fame

Then there is Yan in the South

Yan in the past also uses such method of alienation and trying to provoke conflicts between tribes, focusing on weakening the tribes relations

They used reconciliatory method and killing methods among the many methods they employed.

Reconciliation methods that they used is simply a precursor to killing method because the Yan people did not view other races as people

But right now, the emperor is weak, there is a rebellion, the eunuch exercise powers, internal and external problem are not pacified, and the Yan empire is in disarray

There is a trend of division, and scholars look at the heroes of the world to find a benevolent lord to serve.

The Great Steppe is divided. But right now, with Brolgadhr spearheading the charge, there is a trend of unification.

And if there is chance for unification, this is the time.

Roma is in internal problem, the Emperors and the military leaders are at odds with each other, the cold winter force the northern tribe to fight against Roma, a migration of the people of the north toward Roma could create a large problem

Western Zhou is weakened by the succession problems, the Emperor of Western Zhou is about to die, his concubines and his Empress is in a fierce harem struggles and his sons all eyes the thrones.

This is internal problem of Western Zhou that is obvious to those who pays attention to Western Zhou current affair

On the external problem, the Yan state governor that borders Western Zhou might want to attack Western Zhou to increase his fame.

Yan has the problem of rebellions and there are ambitious men eyeing the throne.

All three neighbours of the Steppe now have problem.

This is the time.

If they miss this chance and the trend of unification could not be completed, to wait for another chance would take probably a few hundred years more

There is so many tragic stories and grand tales weaves in the history of the Steppe people

Will it be another story that is different? Kaxaru is old

He had seen great tribe rises and falls. And as he got older and look at the young ones, he sometimes think about these kind of things

He wanted to be remembered. To be remembered in stories and folktales, just like the heroes who he had worshipped when he was young

No great things he had done.

No large things he had accomplished.

Just another person in the world that has no impact

And he sighs when he looks at the moon

At night, he wonders whether his life would always be like this

But now, he sees a chance. To unite the Kazan. And in the Brolgadhr, in the Esbizuk, he sees a potential

Heroes of these era. And when he look at his sons, he wonders, whether his sons would be able to leave a name in history.

To be remembered in songs and tales.

"Haish" Kaxaru sighed as he leans back and smiles, his eyes closed as he remembers his father.

Xaru, his father has four sons and he gave the name Kaxaru to his most promising sons. In the name, there is wishes.

This is the tradition of the Marynku. When you gave a name, in that name there is great wishes

But great wishes always comes with great torment. There is many stories in the lore’s of Marynku

When giving a name, do not give a name to strong, too grand, too divine for the gods may envy you and dark spirt might see you

You could only give a grand name if you could bear it.

Most peasant family give their sons and daughters normal names and the nobility of the Steppe is the only kind of people who gave their sons and daughter grand and powerful name with great wishes behind them

Names are very important for the people of the Steppe and even more for the people of Marynku. Names has meaning. And meaning has power. And naming things give things power

It is why they chose names carefully for their sons and daughter and if bad luck follows, they change the name because they fear that the gods envy the name or feel that person having the name is unworthy of the name

Hence, the gods would curse the person with bad luck

It is the same with the name of horses. Wishes and desire is embedded in the names of many sons and daughter of the Steppe

And that is not any different from Kaxaru father.

Xaru gave his son name, Kaxaru

Kaxaru.

To take Ka.

To take Kazan, that is the wish and that is the ambition of Kaxaru that is given to him by his father and his father before him.

There is an obsession, a wish that becomes a desire and a desire that become a lifelong generational obsession

Kaxaru become the chief of Kazan tribe and since his youth, he has been trying to find an opportunity where he could fulfil the ambition of his father and his father before him

But the chance never came

Until the rise of Brolgadhr. A ripple that shake the entire Southern Greta steppe. A young man whose ambition is like a fire that burns the prairie.

Everyone was affected and everyone had to change and with each change came chaos. And chaos is an opportunity for there will be void and void need to be filled up

Utgard moves suddenly, the eastern area of the lower southern Great Steppe is in chaos, ambitions men rises up and the world will be divided between yeh weak and strong

The ambition and intent of these ambitious people shakes the peace of the Southern Great Steppe.

Kaxaru thought of the most obvious one

Aeryon the Son of Rakarys, the current chief of Brolgadhr.

Aeryon, he clearly wanted to emulate past conqueror, and wanting to unify the Southern Great Steppe. Defeating his former tribe enemies, assimilating conquered tribes and marching west and forging alliances, this is a clear sign of a man whose ambition pierces the sky

Dama on the eastern side of the Southern Great Steppe is marching toward the west, taking own any tribes that wanted to stop him , this is also another overlord.

Sordkazan make a move taking down the tribe beside them. The Chagai tribe create da tripartite alliance that shock the north

And now, the opportunity has come.

He sighed

Kaxaru is sitting cross legged in front of the low table. He could not help but sigh. He looks at the map that his father had made in the past and he could not help but sigh again

"It is too hard" he mutters. Right now, outside the tent snows are falling. It is winter and the cold this year is colder than ever before.

Is it just his feeling but he felt like each year the snow becomes even colder?

He shakes his head as he looks at the map on the low table again and uses is reed pens to denotes a change in the map

For almost all of his life, the map that his father gave him did not change much

But in just a few months, Kaxaru had to change many names in the maps. The map changes, because the world changes.

And the world changes because of the people. The people changes, so the world changes.

To survive in such an era full of so many changes, one always has to be vigilant and knows where to stand. It is no longer a time where one could hesitate

Hesitate and there is a chance that you would be blown by this torrent of change

He looks at the map and he could not help but frowns and once again he said

"This is too hard" he mutters again.

The people of Marynku has this habit.

When they emphasize a certain word for the second time, it denotes importance

It is the same when they are angry.

They scold the person the first time. And to emphasize the importance or the urgency, they repeated it. This is the second time where they would repeat the words.

But there would not be the third time

Because the third time should be the action

Words are powerful. But the will to act is probably more important.

Probably this is where the difference of culture between Yan and the Great Steppe

In Yan, there is diplomats between states where they could persuade, cajole and even trick the other state governor to win a city without bloodshed.

They restrained each other with righteousness even if that righteousness is illogical.

And people had to pretend to be righteous even if they are not and that is why cases as killing the son to feed the nephew happens, or letting the family starve while the guest is happy could happen in Yan.

Righteousness and reputation is too important.

They use words as weapons, using the righteousness of the teaching of the Great Teacher to suppress and even defeat their enemies

Words in Yan possess great power to determine life and death

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