Way of Overlord

In the entire eastern region, there are passes and there is narrow valley route that connected Yindu and the Great Steppe but there is not a route or road to field large armies

Not to mention because there is no feud and no reason.

Both Yindu and the Great Steppe did not have such animosity and instead most of their interaction between these two civilization is mostly trading

But that is not the same relationship that the Steppe people have with Yan, Zhou and Roma.

These three empires and the kingdoms and states that is between them and these empires all have deadly feud.

Yan had always massacre the people different from them.

Roma is arrogant and the same as Yan. The Zhou are the losers of the central plains and manage to establish tehri kingdom in a different region but they still have that arrogance even though that arrogance itself is more of a mask trying to gain some legitimacy for their dynasty

There is blood spilled and there is many treachery that is remembered by all of the people of the Steppe

The people of Steppe learns when these outsider came and promise riches, they broke the promise

The reason is simply because they are "barbarians"

And when they swear an oath, they break it. To them, oaths to barbarians are invalid. After countless of time being deceived by these race of faithless and oathbreakers, the Steppe people, the so called Hu people learned

These people are not to be trusted, less than a snake and whereover collaborate them are the highest traitor of the Steppe.

Some great heroes of the Steppe gain that status by killing enemies but some rose to that position and title simply because of executing traitor to the Steppe

And it in such environment that those outsiders is scrutinized and become the common unifying point for all of the Steppe people

Hence, since then even if they wanted to make a foothold in the Steppe, they would not last a month. They could massacre a few dozen tribe and they could conquer a few regions here and there but they could envy hold it.

When the Steppe is facing external invasion, everywhere is a home and the laws of hospitality is observed very strictly

At this time, in the face of external invasion, any chief that refuse shelter for tribes that are being massacred and killed would face the condemnation of the entire Steppe

The Ashana, the Pencerita, the Wizancai all of them would speak of this chief and this condemnation is not just words.

There were many cases in the past where such chief would be punished after the external invasion is pacified.

The chief would hold a coalition attack on that traitorous chief and the riches and the people of that tribe would be divided between those tribes that attack it.

But Aeryon is different.

He is not an outsider.

When outsider do it, it is called an invasion.

But when Aeryon does it, he is doing it under the most righteous banner.

The unification of the Southern Great Steppe.

Aeryon is not yet confident to say that he would unify the Great Steppe to the world

This ambition of his remains a secret.

Because the tallest tree caught the most wind.

Aeryon knows before he have the power, it best to hide some of his edges.

When he has the power, then what he would say would no longer seem like some tall dream or some irresponsible dreams.

At that time, they would know that it is possible.

It is because of this Aeryon could easily take the south faster than he think. Simply because the tribes could not unite with each other

And even the north, the strongest tribal confederations only unite with each other when there is an external threat

Once Aeryon understood these, he understood that as long as he could unite even one region of the Steppe and consolidate the power and unify the people there, he could then take down these region one by one.

Later generation would find it hard because by that time, the people would have learned and knows that to control the Steppe they could not let one tribe to unify the regions.

The Yan, Western Zhou and Roma knows this and so they have always made sure to try to separate and divide the people of the Steppe

But the tribes still did not understand this.

"No, it is not quite accurate to say that they did not understand this logic. It is not that they don’t understand. It is that they are limited by their circumstances"

"People are always like this. As long as the danger did not yet come to their doorstep, they are always thinking optimistically. They always thought that it would not reach tehri doorstep. But once it reached their doorstep it would be too late"

And Aeryon suddenly smiles

The tribes could not unite with each other also because of the machinations of the empires around them

The way they incite feud among the tribes also made the tribes could not trust each other

Even if they know that being divided is bad in the end, the human heart is the most fearful thing. It is not that they do not know that only by uniting could they stop him but because everyone could not trust the other

Trusting other tribes to watch their back especially if that tribe has some feud with them would make them unable to sleep at night

Because of this....Aeryon knows even if there are chief with wise vision and knows that they must stop him before he could unite the Southern Great Steppe, none of them could persuade the tribes around them to trust them

Because everyone held the mentality that it is better to trust the blade on their hands than to trust that the other would protect you with the blade on their hands

Right now, in the Southern Great Steppe, only Esbizuk is worthy of his worries.

Utgard is just another small tribe in Aeryon eyes. In the eyes of the small tribe, Utgard is still a large tribe.

But this is based on position.

With Aeryon position right now, controlling most of the lower central south and the west, Brolgadhr tribe could look down at Utgard tribe like it is a small tribe.

The only reason that it is troublesome is because Utgard tribe has legacy and it is his wife tribe and they bordered the Esbizuk tribe

Ogura is not like his father and he would not submit to the Esbizuk. But he would also not submit to him knowing exactly what would happen to him if he does submit.

The north once had Vihur tribe. That is one of the tribes that Aeryon had been worried about since he started his conquest.

Who would have thought that it was like heaven was helping him?

That chief of Vihur die of a cold and his sons are fighting each other for his seat.

He did not need to know so much now that he knows that the north is in chaos.

He could simply rely on his spy on the north and his secret ally there

Esbizuk tribe....that is the problem. Dama is not only someone with a vision he also has the ability to carry this vision into fruition

And thinking of this Aeryon could not help but sigh

Aeryon then look at the grassland in front of him

It is spring already. The wind blew northward along the tips of the gras and the green expanse resembled endless waves

Aeryon then kick the side of his horse and he led his horse to race around the grassland, the wind whipping his face.

He went to the barracks and the stables and watches his men. Some trained , some rested and some revel in glory.

The war is over and winter is coming and they need to recuperate.

As he rides his horse and sees thousands upon thousands of grassland cavalry appear on the horizon, Aeryon could not help but smile

He himself would never have imagined that even though he wanted to see this scene, he undoubtedly manage to fulfil it.

In the past, seeing such a magnificent scene he could not have helped but take a deep breath in amazement

Now, he only looks at it with calmness in his heart

He had grown up in the grassland.

This is Aeryon memories.

But as for his memories, he did not even know whether the memory of that world he had seen was his real memory or it was something else

He heard there great river in the far south in the Yan dynasty

He yearned to see it and let his horse drinks its water.

When he opens his eyes for the first time in this world, he is a poor young man, exiled to beyond the pass, and were to enter Nurshira and to suffer.

Now, here he is again, on this land of his people and as he sees the grassland, green as far as the eyes could see, he now held the reins of tens of thousands of horses and men

With one order he could command the heroes of the world and the sound of his whip shakes the heart of all the chiefs in the Southern Great Steppe

Aeryon laughed

"there is many problems. But I have achieved much and even if I die now, my achievement could not be erased"

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