Way of Overlord
Chapter 404: Recruit

Chapter 404: Recruit

The fact that their background is also quite similar endear him to Lu Xiao.

They also share the same hatred toward the Yan people.

The killer of his mother is a Yan person.

Who is also his father.

When he was only six years old, he run from the house.

And then he returned back when he was fifteen.

He cut his father feet, and then his hands, cut his tongue, and gouge out his eyes and then he let this person body to be put in the middle of the jungle.

He wanted his father to feel how helpless he was when he could not prevent the death of his mother.

When the people of the Steppe broke into Nurshira and he saw the fire burning the scholars of Yan and the people of Yan who had always discriminated against him,, he did not feel sad for this oppressor and thieves of the land

Lu Xiao associated more toward the Great Steppe, toward the Hu, Qiang, Di and other barbarian tribes.

Why?

Because Yan people never treats them like Yan people.

Instead, they treated him like a barbarian tribe.

Since you deny his Yan heritage, he would not want it. Since you Yan look down on people of barbarian tribe, then I would look down on you.

You think I want to learn your language, learn your bullshit culture and learn your etiquette? Etiquette is for the strong and rich, not for the poor and weak.

It is easy to maintain etiquette when you are rich on the backs of their slave.

Lu Xiao hated the Yan immensely.

To him Yan people is the one that kills his mother.

His father is just the symptom of this cause.

The people of Yan deceive the gentle people of Nurshira, takes their lands and then act surprised when the people of Qiang, Hu and all the tribes that lives there suddenly become angry and attack them

They labelled these people as marauders, invaders and all kinds of names, saying that these barbarian steppe people are terrorizing these lands.

The people of Yan did not treat the people of other races like humans at all.

Since you don’t treat them like human beings, then it is only reasonable that we will kill Yan people like we slaughter pigs and sheep

And Jayeux shares the same sentiment.

And he is even more extreme than him.

He wanted to burn Yan to the ground

This is a large ambition.

The Yan dynasty is nearly four hundred years old.

How could it so easily be toppled?

But this did not mean it would last forever and there is wise man everywhere in the world that could see what he could see.

There is no dynasty that last forever, and everything is subject to change. And nothing changes more frequently than human hearts

Human power changes because human power is derived from human hearts.

And human hearts are a fickle things and as such power is also a fickle thing

Jayeux is a person with talent but in Yan his talent could only be buried. Because of his birth.

And the way he was treated has make him a little extreme. No, not a little extreme but very extreme

This is the difference between him and Mayeux.

Mayeux might be a half blood like him but unlike him, he was accepted into the tribe once he contributes. No one stop him from contributing.

In Yan, even if Jayeux wanted to contribute he could not.

No one thought of him as a kid. But as a monster. Because he was born from Hu people, Qiang people, Xianbei people. To the Yan it is all the same

Since that is the case the future calamity that will befall Yan is the reaping of past Karma

As for Lu Xiao, this person is a person who bet his life and future to follow Jayeux

Lu Xiao recognize that Jayeux is a young kid with great ambitions.

then he heard that Jayeux deserted the tribe.

When Lu Xiao first heard that Jayeux deserted the tribe, he expected the Kan to send warriors to kill him.

It is different if one leaving the tribe and deserting the tribe.

If everyone could leave the tribe whenever they wanted to, then when winter comes how would they survived.

The tribe could not survive without the people and the people could not survive without the tribe.

That is how the tribe started in the beginning

However, leaving the tribe when the tribe is weak is understandable.

We huddled together for warmth and safety and if that could not be achieved why bother holding to people.

That would only breed more resentment

But no one would desert a strong tribe unless one wanted to be a traitor and harm the old tribe. The definition depends on the heart of the ruler.

If the Kan had decided that Jayeux is a traitor, warriors would ride their horses and take Jayeux head for the Kan.

But the Kan did not define Jayeux as a traitor and Mayeux did not cut his ties and even send some help and aid toward Jayeux.

Lu Xiao knows this because he was the one that send these aid ordered by Mayeux himself. It is at this time when Lu Xiao met Jayeux and ask him of his ambition

Jayeux convince him by saying

"if you want to fulfill you dreams you could follow me. If you want to rise into a ten thousand men leader in the span of three years, you could not do it in the Kan army. But you could do it under me. If you want to leave your name in history, you follow me and I will give you all of this"

Jayeux needed Lu Xiao because he needed a guard and powerful person.

Lu Xiao wanted Jayeux because Jayeux could give him a shortcut.

Ione wanted to recruit and the other one wanted to be recruited. It is a match made in heaven

He has his own plans and Jayeux did not hide this plan from him. He needed someone with military abilities to achieve some of the things he needed in the initial plan.

Jayeux did not say that Lu Xiao needed him.

Jayeux was quite honest saying that even if he stays in the Brolgadhr tribe, even though it would take some time, as long as Lu Xiao shows his talent, at most it would take him five years to be promoted to a ten thousand men leader.

The rate of which he could become a ten thousand leader depends on how fast the Kan could take lands and subdue the people.

The faster the Kan succeed, the faster the rate of promotion.

for him to truly be trusted by the Kan and become on of the inner circle of the Kan that would probably take more than a few years unless he knows how to catch the attention of the Kan.

Jayeux also said, that one should know one own abilities.

Jayeux asked him even if he could become a ten thousand leader could he really enters into the Kan inner circle?

Because just look at the people inside the Kan inner circle.

All of them have extraordinary talents and appreciated personally by the Kan.

With military merit and outstanding survive, Jayeux said to him that being a ten thousand leader would not be hard

It is not because his talent is earth-shaking but because at that time, the Kan probably have to many region to control and govern and as long as you make outstanding service in the military, the Kan would reward you.

But if you did not show any extraordinary things, you would only be just one of the officers and generals of the Kan.

But with him, you could become one of the first to follow.

Just like how Belarion was the first one that follow the Kan that he reached his current status and fame all over the Southern Great Steppe.

Lu Xiao was shocked by his honesty.

When he returns back to the tribe, he examine himself and he knows he is more biased toward Jayeux

And there is another thing that attracts him toward Jayeux

Like Jayeux he has an axe to grind against Yan. So, when he wanted to follow Jayeux.

He expressed his intention and then Jayeux send a message to him telling him how he could leave.

He ask to leave the tribe to follow Jayeux and Mayeux simply allows him to leave. It isn’t until when he met Jayeux that Jayeux tell him that he and the Military Advisor has reach an agreement

Lu xiao then think to himself, this pair of teacher and disciple really knows how to play with people.

At that time, he was even ready to be punished by Mayeux.

Turns out, Mayeux knows it since the beginning.

Jayeux even told him that Mayeux knew what he was planning and the Kan also knows what he is planning.

But even if they knew what he was planning, they did not want to stop it

Because they wanted to take a gamble.

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