Way of Overlord
Chapter 390: The King Must Not Die

Chapter 390: The King Must Not Die

He close his eyes and then after only a few minutes of closing his eyes he opened back his eyes and sighed

Today, he had seen many great warriors.

He never expected the resistance of such a small tribe would be so fierce that it almost buried him and even threaten to kill Belarion.

He was impressed by the Wustkazan.

It is a pity Yanlan was born at the wrong time and he is not brave enough in the past to take initiative.

"Cahya, Chulun, Xiwanu, Lughan and even that spear wielding warrior" he remembered these great warriors.

Aeryon wanted them all.

Aeryon has always appreciate talents and he wanted to collect them all like he is playing a card game and collect all the powerful cards.

Those five warriors are all warriors that he could use.

Their talents could not truly blossom under Yanlan because Yanlan did not have a big stage for these warriors to show their talents.

But can he persuade these people?

From what he gathers, these five people all retreated.

Since they could not retreat toward the settlement, they must retreat to the east or the west.

They might even gather the warriors there to mount a counterattack

"These five warriors are powerful. If they are united in heart and mind, they could pose a threat.

Other than him and Belarion these five people if they gathered together could defeat even Murong and Tabyak.

They might be able to defeat Murong and Tbayak in commanding the army but that does not mean they could not win

In one-on-one battle, Murong Long and Tabyak would not be the opponent of these five people.

If there is a general under him that could restrain these five people it would be Burchu.

As for Mukhulai, Aeryon did not yet know his performance in the army.

But then he smiles

"Great warriors have great pride" Aeryon did not know these five great warriors but he could at least make some educated guess.

They are all warrior and leaders of their unit under Yanlan. They could obey Yanlan because Yanlan is of Kazan leader but why would they listen to their fellow colleague words.

So, they could never unite themselves. And if they could not unite themselves, then even Murong and Tabyak is enough to deal with such a separate forces.

He might not be able to guess the hearts of the people like Mayeux, but this did not mean that Aeryon could not guess such things.

At the same time, Aeryon is also thinking about Tabyak and Murong.

"these two makes me reluctant" he mutters before sighing

Tabyak when he heard of his predicament chooses to save him and Murong decided to pursue the chief.

Because of Murong, the settlement could not be occupied by the defenders.

Because of Tabyak, even after Aeryon is exhausted after killing Yanlan, he is quickly protected.

Merit and demerit it is hard to determine it.

"I did not expect that using that technique would consume so much energy"

When he cut Yanlan head, he felt like there is nothing in this world he could not cut.

But the moment he make that slash, he felt drained.

It is almost like he uses all of his strength to make that strike.

There is something magical when he uses that strike to slice off Yanlan head.

He did not really know how to explain it but in that moment when he slices Yanlan had, he could feel like everything around him slowed down and the only thing that exist is his sword and the target he wanted to cut using the sword

In that moment, he felt like everything is under his control.

But when the moment passes, when he realized he already cut Yanlan head, he felt like every part of his energy leaves his body.

"Huh" he sighed

"I must not use such method again without preparing myself" Aeryon himself has the strength of twenty two men and his stamina is almost endless.

At least he thought it was endless.

It wasn’t until today he learned that when using such powerful technique, all of his stamina was almost drained.

But fortunately, he has done what he promised Mayeux he would do.

Using five thousand men to defeat ten thousand men and he only lost around one thousand fie hundred men. Instead, he got around five thousand men to surrender.

In just a brief moment, his men killed three thousand men and when Aeryon kill Yanlan, the battle was over and the rest of the soldiers of Wustkazan follows the great warriors of the tribe.

If not, the soldiers that surrendered might reach seven thousand men

Today is a great victory for him.

A forward area to attack the north. Now, he just only need to wait for the news from the west

Aeryon smiles and he close his eyes as he takes his nap.

....

Aeryon opens his eyes and it was already evening. The report came and Tabyak and Murong did not disappoint him

Murong Long come to him and express that he was disobedient and ask for punishment.

When Aeryon heard this, he could not help but think that Murong Long is really affected by the methods of the Yan people.

This idea of asking for punishment is not the etiquette of the people of the grasslands. It is like the generals of Yan who always said such hypocritical words

Tabyak on the other hand did not say anything. He did not ask for merit and only reported what should be reported.

Stoic and knowing when to stop. He did not gloat nor did he be overly humble

The men of Steppe does like to boast but they should also know when to boast and when to shut their mouth.

But this did not mean they have to be overly humble.

This is not the way of the Steppe.

A man of the Steppe dares do what they say and they should accept failure and also be proud of victory.

Tabyak might not won a great victory but he projected him, the Kan.

He might not won a victory but he did meritorious deeds.

But precisely because of that his reaction is very appropriate. Since he did not win any victory, he should not be too proud.

Since he did not lose, there is no need to be overly humble

But Murong is like those Yan people.

Maybe it is because he is affected by the original feeling of this body, Aryon feel a little bit disgusted at seeing Murong like this.

Yan people treated the Xianbei people like a slave.

How could Aeryon who have the heart to unite the people of the Steppe would allow those small Yan people treated these people like this

When one day he is powerful enough, he would bring the entire power of the great Steppe to the south and he would repay them in kind.

When you treated people like dogs, don’t forget they could bite you.

Tabyak and Murong both came from the Xianbei tribes. But one still have the bravery of the Steppe people, while Murong has the cunningness and greedy nature of Yan people

He could guess why Murong choose to pursue Yanlan. And it is not because he sees the bigger picture.

This person probably just want merit and increase his contribution

Tabyak is the one that see the true big picture.

Tabyak and Murong.

When these two got the news of his whereabout, one wanted to fulfil the objective of the battle, the other one believe that the life of the Kan is more important and that is putting the cart above the horse.

Aeryon would like it if people really move according to the mission objective.

However, one look at Murong Aeryon believe that this young man did not really think about the mission objective.

He thinks about gains and losses and wanted to establish his presence in his tribe

there is something that Aeryon has understood when he was dealing with the tribes.

For this tribe to conquer the whole of Steppe, loyalty towards him must be unquestioned.

Aeryon simply punished Murong Long to be caned and whipped and demote him to a leader of ten men.

But the bounty that they got form Wustkazan would still be his.

What should be rewarded must be rewarded , what should be punished must be punished.

If everyone is like Murong and only think of the mission and not the grand objective, then his tribe would collapse.

Yes, in that situation if not for Murong blocking the way out how could Yanlan would decide to have a decisive battle with him.

He would not.

But if Aeryon dies, Aeryon would bet that his tribe would disintegrated back into the original small tribe before his conquest.

It would not be weird for the conquered tribe to split up and all carve their own territory and area.

Aeryon is sure of this because this kind of thing happens many times before when a powerful chief dies, there is always this kind of things happening

It is like playing chess. The first thing you must remember, is to protect the king. Once the king dies, the game is over

He could not help but sighed

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