Way of Overlord
Chapter 357: The Gods

Chapter 357: The Gods

The weak tribe has their own know-how to survive the turbulent period when titans around them fights against each other.

They rely on Bolghar protection and obey Bolghar words because the Bolghar tribe could protect them.

It is not that Bolghar tribe rules then and have no responsibility towards them

The Bolghar responsibility and duty toward the small and weak tribe around them is to protect them

As repayment for that duty, the small tribes would give offering of sheep’s, resources and when war came, their warriors would listen to the orders of the Bolghar.

They are not vassals like in Europe medieval kingdoms but close to it.

Because some tribes could just go up and rides to different part of the Steppe if they wanted to .

Now, that the Bolghar could no longer fulfill their duty, the answer for these weak tribe is simple. Since you are now weak, we will rely on the strong.

Hence, the more Ota and Valgrun forces advances, the easier it is for them and the more tribes that come to gather under Khagai banner.

Valgrun spreads the rumours and crafted a story that those who did not surrender are all killed but those who surrender would be spared and could even join their forces and have a piece of the glory of defeating the Bolghar set and could win bounties and rewards.

The scene is set.

The battle to determine the hegemony of the west would be decided in the Bulghar Hill, near the settlement of the Bolghar tribe.

Near the hill there is a small stream of water, it is not deep and only reach the waist connected to a large river upstream.

This small river divides the line between the forces of Bolghar and the Khagai forces.

The battle that would decide the west has raised its curtain!

The decisive battle is here!

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A few days before the decisive battle in the west

While Ota and Yurmuk was fighting in the west, Aeryon just went out of the city and is riding his horse after thinking about the direction of the tribe

Now that he is out, he looks at the grass and at the blue grass above and the sun that is shining above.

Aeryon never failed to appreciate the beauty of the Steppe.

The green grass swaying and the all you could see green.

It is like a sea of grass.

It is hard to explain this kind of beauty to people.

Even words failed to describe this feeling. Like an unlimited freedom.

It is different from when looking at the sea. When you look at the sea, you see the vastness of the sea and yet at the same time, there is this kind of fear that you have toward the sea.

Aeryon have never seen the sea in this life, but he remember bits and pieces about the sea in his memories.

And the feeling the sea brought him is fear.

Like the vastness of the sea would swallow him whole.

He did not feel such feeling when he looks at the vast grassland.

The grass that sways is like a beckoning call. When you ride yours horses and passes these grass, you smell the scent of the earth, feel the caress of the wind.

Unless you experienced it yourself, it is really hard to explain it.

But the one thing he likes the most about this world is the clean air.

It is like smelling the best kind of air in the world.

If the modern world people come here and suck the air into their lungs, they might think that the way they go about destroying the world with all kinds pollutants might not be the best way to go.

Aeryon is not an environmentalist but when he sees this beauty he could not help but wanted to preserve it.

But then he shakes his head

"humans would make the same choice. Because there is interest and profit to be made. The ephemeral beauty, in the cold hearts of the ruler would not survive the evaluation between progress and nature"

And that is why the world fights back. Storms, rains, flood, quakes

He thought to himself

And he shakes his head.

He rides his horse and ride as far away as he could from his tribe and then he estimated that he had ridden his horse farther than the day before and he smiles.

This is his way of training his horse.

He check how fast he could go on the same track and how fast it would take him to reach the same destination

From what Aeryon could see his horse is becoming faster each day. He halted his horse and let the wind blows his hair and he smiles as he caress his horse neck

"Be patient Aibou. It would not be long before you could gallop with me in battle" Aeryon has been preparing himself, his soldiers, his warriors and his horse since the moment he heard Khagai tribe make a move toward the Bolghar tribe.

He is itching to go into battle. Aeryon had learned something after training for a few months.

And that is he grew faster in a battle. There is just something about putting your life on the line and breaking through desperate situation that draws out his own potential

Aeryon wanted that feeling once again. Yes, he could train in normal way. But that kind of training is slow.

And time is a luxury he didn’t have. The faster he could unify the Steppe, the higher the chances are that the empires around him could be pacified.

From the very beginning, Aeryon had never wanted to live in peace with the empire around them.

Why?

Is it because Aeryon is just warlike?

There is a desire to conquer especially when he has the ability.

But that is not the reason.

Because these empire would not want to live in peace with them. Because to them, the people of the Steppe, these nomads, is an inferior race to them

They fear them, yet at the same time disparage them.

They see themselves higher.

And as such, if a united steppe kingdom is born, then they would want to destroy it.

Because they know how powerful such a nation born in such a harsh place could be.

The Roma empire has fought many of such races of barbarians in their border.

It is the same for Yan.

For the Southern Great Steppe their feud is very deep regarding the people of Yan. For the north, they feud mostly with the Pale White People and the Roma people.

The West fight against the Western Zhou moistly and the East usually fight for the central region of the Steppe or the mountain people that is around them.

When they are united, these empire, these other forces would want to tear them apart, break them apart, divide them again

It is not that Aeryon wanted to fight. It is because there is no other choice other than to fight. If not the people of the Steppe would have to live on their knee.

And Aeryon could not accept that

He would rather die standing on his two feet than living on his knee. Some people could.

But Aeryon could not.

A pride that not many people have.

Precisely because he has some mentality of the future and because the original Aeryon himself was not a submissive man.

A conqueror.

That is his heart.

The heart of a conqueror.

He sighed and mutters to himself

"I heard the north is in chaos right now"

Aeryon send many scouts to the north. Because he heard there is instability in the tribe there.

The north that he send his scout toward is not the north of the boundary of the Southern Great Steppe.

But the furthest North.

The Northern Great Steppe.

There is river, and the river flows to four directions.

To the west, it feeds the camels of the desert. To the east, it provides sustenance’s to the forest area of the Steppe.

To the south, it give cultivation of land. And to the north it provides fishes and thaw the cold.

This is the Empatarah river, the river that flows in the four direction, benefited the four direction and is the Mother of All Rivers in the Steppe.

In the pantheon of the Great Steppe, or to be more accurate the Marynku people, the highest, the High of High is the Skyfather.

He creates Heaven and Earth.

He rules the Heavens and operates the Heavenly Laws.

Then there is the Earth Mother, provides and react to the action of humans according to the Mortal Laws.

Good and evil is something that mortal do.

Heaven and Earth respond.

Skyfather knows everything. But He let his children do whatever they wanted to do.

To choose good or choose evil is their prerogative.

Good, he will reward.

Evil, he would punish.

As for what is good and what is evil, the people decides, but Skyfather standard of good and evil might differ from what certain tribe and culture wanted and desire

But this knowledge is lost.

However, fidelity, loyalty, hospitality, these virtues, kindness, honesty, these are all traits that is not out of vogue.

The Earth Mother is simpler.

Her task is also simpler.

She acts according to what humans did in the world

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