Way of Overlord
Chapter 239: The Work of A Chief

Chapter 239: The Work of A Chief

Chagai tribe

The dawn breaks in the Chagai tribe like any other day. The night darkness before turns into a canvas painted with hues of purples, pinks, and oranges.

The first light of day would gently kiss the rolling hills, revealing the silhouette of the tents dotting the landscape.

Those who sees the dawn breaking in the Great Steppe would feel a lot different if they see the dawn at someone else.

There is this kind of beauty that one would not see at anywhere else.

But the dawn is not the beginning of work.

There is hunters that would ride their horses long before the dawn breaks. One of the characteristics of the Steppe people is their great eyesight.

Some of them could even see in the dark.

Hence, why the Western Zhou soldiers fear the night attack of the Great Steppe people.

(This world is the same as Earth but not quite. There is people with innate strength and there are races with ability. Though the ability would not be that exaggerated)

The wind of winter is not so cold now.

The air around the settlements of the Chagai tribe is crisp.

It carries the scent of grass and there is still the lingering embers of last night campfire all around the settlement.

The Chagai tribe is no longer that small.

After the alliance was signed between the three tribes.

Many warriors near the Chagai tribe joins them and at the same time those unaffiliated clans also joins the Chagai tribe.

Chadha accepted them all and at the same time uses these new warriors to take down a few small tribes in the region of Chagai and take their resources.

At the same time, just a few days before, they traded with the Ultar and Nergui tribe.

And they also trade with the merchant of the Brolgadhr. It seems that the tribe of Brolgadhr has many foods resources

And what the Brolgadhr wanted the most is slaves and people.

So, he sold around one hundred men and women to get a lot of food and with it this tribe resource problem for the winter is solved.

These men and women is the war prisoners he had caught before when he is fighting against the tribes that settle around the area of his region.

The settlement is growing and there is thousands of warriors and thousands of men and women that is now under Chagai tribe.

In the chilly stillness of the morning, the sounds of awakening—the lowing of livestock, the soft nickers of horses, and the distant murmurs of fellow tribespeople—permeate the air signalling the beginning of the morning.

The first light touched the horizon and people began coming out from their tent.

Hunters, hunt, farmers farm, merchants ready themselves with their carriage and load up their goods to trade the things that they have with other tribes

The warriors , some of them are training and some of them decided to patrol the area.

The commoner of these warrior all have their own training method.

The entire settlement went alive.

And in the tent of the chief, there is Chadha. Chadha is five feet tall Nd his body is quite bulky.

One would imagine someone like that is energetic. Especially considering his reputation when he is young

But people change

Just because he appears strong doesn’t always means he likes to be strong all the time.

Or it could be said that the years had blunt his edges.

But the edges is still there. Only recently that blunt edge become sharp again.

And with that Chadha also had to do things he had long given up to do.

And he did not like it all.

Usually, he would not rise from his sleep this early in the morning.

He would take his time, leisurely and without rush.

He is old now and even though at times he would wake up early, for the past few years, he always got up after dawn.

In the case that he would get up early, he would resume back his sleep

His focus for the last few years was mostly training the next generation of the Chagai tribe.

He would look at his sons and look at the warriors of the tribe, training them for the future and survey his people.

He would sometime go out of the settlements, and greets the clans that passes through his regions and entertain great warriors that someone passes through his lands.

At some other times, he would ride to the nearby tribes and cultivate relationship with them

There is a lot of work for a chief.

They may not always hunt game like the other warriors and it might seem like they did not do much.

But that is the routine of Chadha all of those years before.

Chagai tribe remains peaceful because of that, preserving their strength and making sure their people could survive the winter

When someone stole their horses , their Tayak and sheep, then they have to fight.

Chagai did not have that much of an ambition. It is not like when he is young. He is old and he sees the difficulty of having a high ambition.

The situation did not allow it.

And he was content with it.

As long as nothing changes, he would die someday, Earth Mother would claim him and Skyfather would judge him

But things change. And he had to change to.

He doesn’t want to but if he didn’t change than the future he envisioned for his children, for his tribe would probably be nothing but a dream

Aeryon small act create a ripple.

Aeryon himself probably did not know how far that ripples have gone.

Breaking the balance, means breaking the old order.

The old order crumbles and suddenly before they know it, the Southern Great Steppe now has become a place of great competition between all the chiefs.

In all of the four corners of the Great Steppe, the Southern Great Steppe did not have that many changes or any large-scale war between tribes

It is most accurate to say that sot battle between tribes in the Southern Great Steppe is just a few battles and skirmishes.

But since Aeryon began his campaign, battle in the Great Steppes is now approaching the war level.

Before only dozens of people would participate in this battle between tribes.

It could be settled after the champion of each tribe fight against each other. And sometimes, this fight did no lead to death.

Chadha remembers a time where he battle another small tribe. They were arguing about whose Tayak belongs to whom.

That tribe bring a dozen of his warriors and Chadha brought a dozen of his.

They decided to settle the matter with a single duel. The champion of his tribe fight against the champion of that tribe

The victory begins to Chagai and the matter is settled, that tribe retreated and leave the Tayak to the Chagai tribe.

A few injuries and wounds but no death. Not like today. Every part of the Southern Great Steppe is now full of tribe battling each other

Now, there is thousands and ten thousand of warriors fighting when a battle is waged. So many deaths and so many fights and battles.

These kind of scale of battle made Chadha remembers that in his youth, the Ashana would tell him stories about the glory of the Ancient Empire of the Steppe.

Long before the Yan became an empire.

It was an Age where monsters and gods and deities roams the world.

There were wizards that could wave their hands and summons hurricanes and warriors that could use their sword to cut off mountains and hills.

Before Aeryon rise, all over the Southern Great Steppe, all of the chief that usually laze around of maintain only diplomatic relations now begins looking at their neighbours with covetous eyes.

All over the Southern Great Steppe, each tribe is arming itself, recruiting warriors, entertaining heroes hoping that they would join their tribes and training warriors to fight

Any tribes that feel that they have a winning chance would attack the tribe beside them to quickly expand.

Only by expanding that these tribes feel that they would be a little bit safe.

The Southern Great Steppe right now is already a keg that is blowing up.

All over, every day, one could hear stories of old tribes being destroyed, subjugated and new tribes rises

New alliances, new partnership, borders redrawn, new warriors emerging in great numbers

A great era of contention begins and everyone knows that the only way that this would end is when someone could claim the Southern Great Steppe.

Because now, the Southern Great Steppe is being driven forward by these ambitious men

Even if the old chief wanted to stop this madness that is begin spreading all over the Steppe, they could not do it. Because the most ambition men among them would not stop

The ambition of one me poured oil and the other warlords ignite the fire.

One action of a young man changes the world. That is what Aeryon had did. And the consequences of that action ripple through the entire Southern Great Steppe.

And that is why Chadha could no longer wake up after dawn.

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